Allsorts and a Birthday :)

Good Morning 

Another quickie post from me i'm afraid as in an hour or so we'll be setting off out for the day for my Sons birthday which includes Cinema, shopping, Frankie and Benny's and Arcades so Me and Ian will be cream Krackered later lol!!

onto my card for this weeks Allsorts challenge which is 

Paper Piecing

This is the cards for Jacks birthday which actually is tomorrow  but thought Saturday was a better day for going out tommorow will be a family day with Just Dance and cake lol!

This a photo from a few years a go when Jack was about 5 I love this photo we were on Holiday in Ibiza and he had fallen and the lovely guy behind the bar of the hotel brought him a cup of warm milk made in the frother of the coffee machine  to help  cheer him up ( we were into our second week and he knew Jack loved warm milk but made it extra frothy for him hence the milk froth moustache and stuck together eyelashes from crying, bless they grow up so fast!!!!)

The image is a new PB stamp I got in Harrogate in September and until now had been uninked (slapped wrist!!!) the papers are MME from the robots collection and all the card is pearlescent and amazing quality from Craftwork Cards a few die cut and embossed stars and of course I paper pieced the kite the body of the cat is also layered but its difficult to see here, last embelishments are the good old faithful, Card candy from CC this is the white one which is pearlescent and I just coloured them to match with alcohol markers .

I'd like to enter this into the Penny Black Saturday Challenge they have a case it challenge 

Have a great weekend whatever you may be doing

cant wait to pop over and see all your paper piecing projects 

My GDT Card for Penny Black and More at Allsorts

Back again this time with my GDT card

for Penny Black and More @ Allsorts

The theme is All Creatures Great and Small

This is one of my new PB stamps from Harrogate and its quite a big image so just some nice papers  and I stamped the sentiment onto acetate (as it was quite large and once i had mounted it would have covered a lot of those pretty papers) and fixed it on with pinflair adding pearls to hide the glue.

The seam binding double bow is so easy and effected I got the idea from the lovely Kath which you can see HERE on her blog.

PBSC its been a while!!!

Justa quickie i've been waist deep in design team makes this week trying to get ahead before christmas but saw the lovely friendship challenge over at Penny Black Saturday Challenge and just had to join in!

heres my card....

Papers - Milton and co (wild rose studio)

Image- Penny Black T for transparent

Sentiment - Lili of the Valley

Coloured with - promarkers

Punch - Martha Stewart Monarch Butterfly

Gems - e.line prima  crystals and pearls

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Penny black Saturday.....

Real quickie post as i'm expecting guests any minute this is the card I have made for the PBSC which is a fab sketch

The stamp is one of the penny Black slapstick stamp and she is a real cutie

Papers are from stash and  unfortunatley have no product name on them....

Have a great weekend!

PENNYBLACK @ Allsorts September challenge...

Its that time again, its time for Septembers http://pennyblackatallsorts.blogspot.com/ challenge this month the theme is

PUNCH AWAY 

We would like to see you using punches on your projects this month boders, flowers,circles its up to you.......

I used a 1"six petal flower punch to make the roses they are lots of fun to make and this way you can co-ordinate with scraps of the same papers you have used on the card...

Keep your eyes peeled if you entered the DT call over at PENNYBLACK at Allsorts to see if you were made part of the team....

We look forward to seeing your Punchy Projects this month.....

****** Edited to add the DT call is now running for a little while longer so to be in with a a chance please come and join us this month.....

PBSC summer loving!

Just a quick post as i'm off to get dressed and enjoy the rest of my Bank Holiday Weekend!

This week the team at PBSC would like the theme 'Summer Loving' on the entries so heres mine....

Have a great weekend....................

Now what to wear lol!!!

Penny Black Saturday Challenge.......

It has been so nice to get in my craft room this afternoon and make a card just because I could!!!

I have been so busy with card orders and cards for the shop that I forgot how nice it is to just chill and relax....

Ian is at cricket and Jack and a friend are playing in the garden so its all quiet here.......can you hear that ........yep not a dickibird!

I have made this card for this weeks PBSC which is the most fabulous sketch.... 

The frame is a chipboard shape that I covered in basic grey paper and the flowers were cut from scraps of paper I used for the background I then embossed the reverse of each flower with my ball tool and layered them up with a flower embelishment to finish, the sentiment stamp was a freebie in a magazine i inked it up with two inks brown and black so it wasnt as harsh, if you click on the pic you might me able to see what I mean.... lastly the image is a stickeroo although Jack has just been in and said 'wow! love the colouring mum' he got very close when I told him it was a stickeroo lol.....

Right I think i'm off to find another challenge so I might be back.........

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Penny Black Saturday challenge.....

This is the card I have made for the Penny Black Saturday Challenge

The theme this wek is a recipie

1 circle

2 Papers

3 Flowers

Great challenge girls thouroughly enjoyed making this one!!!!!!

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Penny Black Saturday

Hope its sunny where you are here is my card for this weeks PBSC

this week they want swirls

Now I dont have a swrl embossing folder but this one has swirly foliage so I hope that counts

The backing paper is Basic grey which I over stamped with a stamp from imaginisce which i bought from the glitter pot and it was a bargain 99p

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Penny Black Saturday/MDP2

I have made this card for this weeks PBSC the theme is In The Gardenand I thought this image would be perfect!

Instead of matting and layering the DP's I went round the edges with a promarker (yep you guessed it POppY!) to give the effect of layering whilst still keeping the designs showing on the paper.............

This card is my entry for Mo DP" challenge the theme is babies but I think this would make a nice childs/baby rememberance card...

this is the first time I have tried to colour the whole of the background and I feel it turned out quite well for my first attempt.....

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Early Bird Penny Black Saturday!

I have been up since half six this morning I blame it on the fact that that is my usual alarm time since my shifts changedat work that and having the windows open and a grand version of the dawn chorus out side my window lol.........

At PBSC this week they are asking for lots of dots which is just perfect as my Polka dots paper stack (Wild Rose studios) came this week in my order from the Glitter Pot.....

The flowers are a mix of Prima e-line and paperroses from wild Orchid crafts,the image as always is coloured with my trusty pro-markers although I have to admit it was an image I had pre-coloured..........

I hope the weather is as gorgeous where you are as it is in Leeds have a fantastic weekend!!!

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Penny Black Saturday Challenge....Yipee!

I was just checking all the lovely challenges to get my teeth into this week when I visited the Penny Black Saturday Challenge and saw that I was a winner in their 100 th post blog hop last week and won A fab prize from Simply create!!!!

I am over the moon..... :)

So to celebrate I got straight on with this weeks Challenge which is flowers

This is a smaller sized card which is approx 4.5 inches square The dp is from a fab K and co pad which I have had for ages from the designer Amy Butler,

The image is a stickeroo this is the first time I have used them and I quite like them.... the flowers are prima e line, finished off with some small diamante gems.

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Penny Black saturday and Whiff of joy......

I'm back with 2 of the commission cards I was making earlier the first one i'm entering in the PBSC and there is a fab blog hop and sketch to follow this week.

This card is for my dad its my Mums birthday on monday and he has always called her Heathcliffe from the song wuthering heights (her name is Cathy so I get that bit but Heathcliffe is the man so i've never really got it but it means stuff to them lol....)

Image is from the in the garden set from penny black flowers are from wild orchid crafts and the papers are from K and co.......

This card is for the WOJ challenge and there is a sketch to follow there too this card is for a party i'm going to this evening the birthday girl has Auburn hair and will be wearing cream and black hence the colour combo of her outfit...........

This time flowers are prima and the random gems on the image are covering a smudge :p

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Penny Black Saturday Challenge.........

Just a quickie today folks as I am up to my eyes in orders and DT stuff but I wanted to join in the PBSC this week their theme is buttons

This card is 4.5" by 4.5" and I just love the sweet image sent to me by someone very kind..... ;) (thank you hunni) The image was coloured with promarkers and cut with nesties the sentiment is from Whiff of joy

Well it was the last day at work for me today going to spend the rest of the easter hols with Ian and Jack and maybe treat ourselves and take ourselves off somewhere nice on Friday.........but first and foremost I made a rather large order at the Glitter Pot and a small one from Joanna Sheen.....(mmmmm new promarkers!!) and my emails suggest they will turn up in the post tommorrow so will be up bright and early to stalk the postman hee hee.......poor thing!!!!

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Penny Black Saturday Challenge....

Great challenge over at PBSC again this week (check it out....use gingham) and a great excuse to get out your gingham papers lol..............

I download my Gingham papers from this free site they have 3 colour groups, brights,pastels and darks with 8 colours in each group in small and large check!!

I coloured this sweeeet image with promarkers and added some rafia to finish sorry about my sentiment its a bit wonky!!!!

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Penny Black Saturday Challenge !!!

Its seems like ages since i've had time to join in the fun at PBSC so yesterday I made time and they have a great easel card challenge.

I havn't made a conventional easel card but rather a twist on the same idea so I hope it still counts?!

The papers I have used are from the DCWV Blossoms and butterflies set which was one of the first pads of DP's I bought when I started crafting and its perfect for spring cards,

I used promarkers to colour the image and the butterflies have been cut from a co-ordinating paper in the same pad...... its been so much fun making this card and joining the challenge at PBSC I think I may pop a little Mothers Day greeting on this and send it to my Mum on Sunday!

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Penny Black Saturday Challenge

This week the challenge at Penny Black Saturday is

Winter Wonderland

They also have a fab Countdown to Christmas blog hop and fab candy giveaway definitely worth a visit.............

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PBSC male christmas card

I have made this card for the Penny Black Saturday Challenge and they challenged us to make a male christmas card......

So I used this oppertunity to make my oh's christmas card

He doesn't really do fussy so I kept it simple

using papers I got from my goody bag in Skipton I scrunched them up (gasp!!!) to give them a bit of texture then inked round the edge with versa colour ink, a few gems and a computer generated sentiment using 'LD going nuts' font (hmm thinking this could have been a bit bigger may need to buy him a magnifying glass to lol!!)

Hope you like it!

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Penny Black Saturday.....white on white

Well I have truly neglected the Penny Black Saturday challenge (slapped wrists)

So I made a card for this weeks challenge, which also fits in with Colour create this week too...

White on White

I used my Fiskers threading water punch on the edges but didnt take it right off the edges thought it made an interesting border to the edges of the card, sweet PB image to finish off ...

thanks another christmas card off the list lol!!!

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Penny Black Sat and Anyone for Anya

Well its very late in the week for me to be posting challenge cards so busy at work and not enough playing time doesnt make Emma a very happy bunny......lol....!

First up is a fab colour challenge at PBSC

PINK,LEMON and CHOCCY!!

I love this duck he is fab but I only had one image of him so I was reluctant to use him lol!! the papers are from my stash but they are digi papers or from a cd if I remember who i'll amend the post the brown card is handmade from Mic and the metal snowflakes have ben coloured using a Henna promarker..........

Anyone for Anya challenge is a fab sketch from Dawny P, still sticking with the christmas cards still otherwise it will be shop bought again this year lol!!!!!

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