ASFOS - A little gem and ATS Spring Things review

ASFOS - a little gem

Here is my card for this weeks ASFOS challenge where the theme is 'little gem'.

I have used this fabulous stamps 'Frog Prince' from Pink Gem and added some gems to his crown, doesn't he look totally cool!!.........or maybe...'toadally cool!!'

Here are the details

• Image: Frog Prince from Pink Gem
• Paper: BG and Coredinations CS
• Medium: Promarkers
• Sentiment: AmyR Love Sentiments from ATS
• Flowers, brads and gems from stash

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Spring Things Review - ATS

Today is the Spring things / hunny bunnies review over on the ATS blog . What fabulous sets these are, if you haven't seen all the gorgeous stamps hop over to the store to take a look.

For my card I have combined stamps from both sets, making this beautiful little spring scene. I will probably add a sentiment later, just ran out of time last night!!!

Here are the details

• Image: Spring Things and Hunny Bunnies from ATS
• Paper: Don't know sorry!!
• Medium: Promarkers
• Ribbon and flowers from stash

Well, off to work for me in an hour or so to see what they have to say about the job situation...boo!!!.....but I'll be back later with another card, so see ya then, have a super sunny day

Has anyone seen my mojo???

Yes that's right, my mojo is MIA.....so if anyone sees it can they send it back to me......I just don't know what's the matter with me but I just don't seem to be able to put a card together without it turning into a 3 hour ordeal...and that's just choosing the papers and the image lol!!.....hopefully things will return to normal next week!!

Luckily I made this card a few days ago which is for ASFOS and I am reasonably happy with it....although I do know that my image is sitting on...well...nothing!

Oh my, this is bad.....I can't even think what to write....my inspiration has well and truly packed it's bags and headed south!!!

Here are the details of my card

• Image: Tilda
• Paper: PM and BG and Coredinations CS
• Medium: Promarkers
• Ribbon, flowers and brads from stash
• Sentiment: Love sentiments by AmyR at ATS

Thanks for stopping by and for any comments you might leave, have a super day

A spoon full of sugar

This week on ASFOS is a wonderful sketch by the gorgeously talented Nikki , just perfect for easing us all into the new year....thanks hun!

I love this sketch cos as Bev kindly pointed out on her blog, we all have single sheets of pp that don't really match with anything else, so it's a great way to use these up.

I have taken more than a little inspiration for my card from the one Camilla made, which you can view here .....isn't it gorgeous.

Here are the details

• Image: Willow with cookies from WOJ
• Paper: No name sorry...and Coredinations CS
• Medium: Promarkers
• Sentiment: AmyR Love sentiments from ATS
• Flowers, ribbon and brads from stash

Thanks for stopping by and for any comments you might leave, have a super day

A spoon full of sugar

Morning everyone,

Something a bit different from me this morning, I picked up this pack of PM paper from the Glitter Pot for only 99p!!! can you believe that....and I think I went a bit crazy with it!!!

I love how it turned out with all the layers, but Tilda's hair seems to be lost in the background.....what do ya think!!!....it was all stuck down before I realised and now I don't know what to do....leave it alone or try to make the hair darker......any advice girls!!!!

So anyway, this is my entry to this weeks ASFOS where the theme is 'thank you'. Just perfect as I need to send a thankyou to someone for some gorgeous candy I received.
Here are the details

• Image: Tilda also from the Glitter Pot
• Paper: PM and Coredinations CS
• Medium: Promarkers
• Sentiment: Studio G
• Flowers and brads from stash

I know all you lovely ladies out there will be able to help me out and tell me what to do.....thanks for stopping by, have a super day

A spoon full of sugar

Morning everyone,

Look at me, posting my card for this weeks ASFOS and it's only Wednesday!!! This week was a fabulous sketch by MichelleO which was so great to work with.....I do love a good sketch!!

So, I thought I'd have a break from the Christmas cards and went for something all girly for a change. I still managed to use one of the new Tilda's (i think she's from the Christmas range) to show that she can be used for other cards too......and she is one of my favs!!

Here are the details

• Image: Tilda (magnolia)
• Paper: MME and Coredinations CS
• Medium: Promarkers
• Ribbon, flowers and brads from stash
• Sentiment: Studio G

Thanks for stopping by, have a lovely day

A spoon full of sugar - Guest DT

Morning everyone,

I was very kindly asked this week to be the guest designer on A Spoon Full Of Sugar and of course I jumped at the chance. I always love to take part in their challenges and the DT cards are always so full of inspiration, so I was extremely honoured to be a part of that..........thankyou so much ladies!

The theme this week is 'Blooming Marvellous' and I went for another Christmas card, using more of those delicious Imaginisce papers, I thought since Christmas is only a few weeks away I better start using them up......I've added some blooms, some little flower gems and I think you can see I also used some flowery dp!!!!

Here are the details

• Images: Tilda and bauble (magnolia) sent to me by my lovely friend Carole
• Paper: Imaginisce and Coredinations CS
• Medium: Promarkers
• Flowers, brads, ribbon and gems from stash

I popped Tilda up on some 3d pads, curled a bit of wire for the bauble hanger and I also added stickles around the edge of the bauble for an extra bit of sparkle, you can see this better on the asfos blog!

That's all for now, thanks for stopping by and for any comments you might leave, have a super day, wherever you are

Sketch n Sparkle

Morning everyone,

I really loved the sketch over at Friday Sketchers this week and couldn't wait to try it out. I've gone with some shiny paper and added some sparkle to enter it also for this weeks A Spoon Full .

Good idea in theory but taking a photo has proved to be a bit more difficult!!! either too much sparkle or not enough!!!

Anyway, here are the details

• Image: Sugar Nellie
• Medium: Promarkers
• Ribbon from stash

Sorry for the short post but I've lots of tidying to do now the kids have gone back to school

Have a super day, thanks for dropping by

3 challenges in 1

Morning everyone,

Here is a card I've been working on for a few days now and just can't seem to get it so that I'm completely happy. I followed the sketch from a spoonfull of sugar which was kindly provided by the incredibly talented Lim. I decided to use a WOJ stamp so that I could combine it with the WOJ challenge and then because of the autumn colours I could also enter it for Cute Card Thursday .

I love the layout of the card and the papers and the ribbon and everything but just struggled with the image part....I originally had Melinda helping Angel on a white background but when I stuck that on it was like WHOOO!...too white, so I tried to distress it a bit....NO! that had to go straight in the bin. So back to the drawing board again, using a different stamp and a coloured cardstock.....like I say, not completely happy, but it's so much better than the first attempt lol!!

Here are the details anyway

• Image: Willow with cookies from WOJ
• Medium: Promarkers
• Paper: hmmm, don't know
• Ribbon and brads from stash

Thanks for looking, have a super Sunday

A spoon full of sugar

Hi everyone,

Hope you all had a fab weekend

I decided to make a card last night to try and take my mind off the excruciating pain from my toothache and went for the a spoonfull of sugar's challenge which this week was Christmas.

I love to enter 'a spoonfull' and try to make a card everyweek, so please excuse my artistic licence as making a Christmas card is especially difficult if you don't have any 'Christmas' things!!
Anyway I am pleased with the results even if it isn't very traditional.

Here are the details

• Image: Honey from Sugar Nellie
• Medium: Promarkers
• Paper: K&Co
• All other embellies from stash

I see also that last night my counter went over 10,000 hits, huge thanks to all my visitors for popping by and leaving such lovely comments and making this whole blog thing worthwhile

As my birthday is fast approaching and I have tipped the 10K I am going to do some blog candy, hopefully in the next few days...just need to get it sorted...so stay tuned

Have a super day, thanks for stopping by

A spoon full of sugar

Hi again everyone,

See I told you I'd be back with another card lol!, here is my entry for this weeks a spoon full of sugar which was a fabulous sketch by my blogging buddy Nikki and I really loved it...I'm sure I will use it again.

While I'm here, Nikki has reached a sensational 20,000 hits and is offering yummy candy, including 2 HH rubber stamps, how fab is that!!

Pop over to Nikki's blog for all the details and join in the celebration, she is a super lovely lady and makes fabulous cards....be prepared to stay a while...... huge congratulations hun!!
Here are the details of my card

• Image: hAngler
• Medium: Promarkers
• Paper:BG
• Lace and ribbon from the local market
• Flower and brad from stash

p.s. I found out today that a shop in town sells Promarkers, they are a bit more expensive, but great if you only want one or two to add to your collection........shhh, don't tell my DH!!

Thanks for looking, have a super day

Not a card

Morning everyone

Yes, its not a card, but it is my first feeble attempt at altering a notebook!

This isn't how it was supposed to look (gosh, I seem to be saying that a lot lately lol!), in my head there was going to be flowers and other embellies, but I couldn't get them to look right, so then I remembered a gorgeous travel wallet which Hanne had showed on her blog and I thought I would add some stamps, well I don't have any stamps, so I just got some images from the net....its not up to much, but it's ok for me!

So, here is my new address book for jotting down the details of all my new lovely blogging friends and since it is not a card I will enter it in this weeks a spoon full of sugar .

Here are the details

• Image: hAngler
• Paper: Crate paper
• Medium: Promarkers

Thanks for stopping by, have a super day

A spoon full of sugar

Morning everyone
Here is my card for this weeks a spoon full which was a gorgeous sketch by Debbie . There is a fabulous prize up for grabs this week including a Whiff of Joy stamp and don't forget you can now use any stamp you like.

I was going to do a completely different card, when I read on Jacqui's blog, the sketch was a good way to use up scraps and then I remembered I had these 2 squares of gorgeous paper somewhere at the bottom of the drawer, thanks Jacqui, for jogging my memory!

I really like the way it all turned out

Here are the details

• Image: Sweet Ebony 'giddy up' from Sugar Nellie
• Medium: Watercolour pens
• Paper: Crate paper (I think!) and the stripe one I don't know (gosh I'm rubbish with the names of papers!!)
• Sentiment: Studio g
• Flowers, brads, button and ribbon from stash

Thanks for looking, I have to work today, so will be back later with a bit of blog catchup

Have a super day

A secret message!

Hi again everyone,

Here is my card I have made for this weeks a spoon full where the theme was 'a secret message'
This card has taken two days to make....no I'm not normally that slow...but as I was putting it together, I ran out of tape!!!....have you ever heard of such a thing....a crafter with no tape!!!
So a quick trip to the shops yesterday and voila!, my new card.

This card is a tribute to my blog candy win, as I have used quite a few things from my goodie box....the image, the ribbon and the flowers.

Here is the secret message (two actually!), inspiration from all sorts of places but mostly from Camilla (although I didn't actually use a toilet roll!)

So here are the details:

• Image: hAngler from my sweet friend Hanne
• Medium: Watercolour pens
• Paper: I really don't know but I think they are fab...perhaps someone can help
• Ribbon, flowers and brad from stash (I can say that now lol!)

Thanks for stopping by, have a super sunny Sunday

2 in 1 challenge with a little help from Marlene

Morning everyone,

Hope you all had a lovely weekend and are fighting fit this Monday morning.

I'm really late this week with my entry for a spoon full as my inspiration had just totally gone AWOL and I couldn't think of anything to use as 'recycle'.

In the end I went for a ribbon which I cut from an old shop bought card, a flower from an artificial flower bunch and the sentiment is cut from a piece of vellum I used for a wedding card, so I actually managed to recycle 3 things, small as they are.

I have based this card on a sketch from the extremely talented Marlene and although I haven't used an oval, I think the foundations are there, it was a super sketch to work with, thanks a bunch Marlene. I used this gorgeous hAngler stamp which fits perfectly with the theme on CCT which is 'the two of us'.

• Image: hAngler and stAngler
• Paper: BG and I don't know
• Medium: Watercolour pens
• Sentiment, ribbon and flower - recycled

Thanks for looking, I'll be back later with a lovely award I received

A spoon full of sugar

Morning everyone,

Phew! Just made it in time for this weeks a spoon full where the theme this week was 'animals'. Well, as you know I don't have any just animal stamps, so this is the best I could do! A nice simple card because the image was so huge!!

• Image: High Hopes (sent to me a while ago by my lovely freind Mandy )
• Medium: Watercolour pens
• Paper: hmm! I don't know
• Ribbons, brads and photo anchors from stash

Thanks for looking, have a lovely day

A spoon full of sugar

Morning everyone,

Here is the card for this weeks a spoon full which was another wonderful sketch by Katharina , it has been so much easier making cards these last few days, using all these wonderful sketches, this lady is so full of talent and her blog is fantastic, hop over and take a look.

Anyway, back to the card. When I was making it I kept saying to myself 'what were you thinking' as it looked like the papers just didn't go together, but I persevered and I actually think now the card is complete it looks ok! I wanted to use this cute image, but couldn't make it into a circle or an oval, hope that's ok!!! I also tried to distress the edges of the image lol!! but it all went wrong and I ended up colour 'washing' the whole image!!
Here are the details

• Image: hAngler
• Medium: Watercolour pens
• Paper: Bazzill and mmmm I don't know
• Rub-on, ribbon, flowers and brads from stash

Hope you like, feel free to leave a comment, have a super sunny day

A spoon full of sugar

Hi everbody,

Here is my card for this weeks challenge over at a spoonfull of sugar where the theme this week was 'one for the girls' following the success of last weeks challenge 'one for the boys'.

I gave myself a time limit to finish this card, cos at the moment, no matter if I sit down with an idea or completely blank it seems to take forever, well, I only went over by 15mins, not bad, I reckon, still gave me time to sit and relax and watch BB before going to bed.

I tried to experiment with a few more layers and cut one of the pieces too small, but I'm still happy with how it turned out

• Image: hAngler
• Medium: Watercolour pens
• Paper: Bazzill and BG
• Flowers and brads from stash

Thanks for looking, have a super day

A spoon full of sugar

Hi Everyone,

Here is my entry for this weeks a spoon full of sugar where the theme was 'one for the boys'. As most of you agree, boy cards are notoriously difficult to make, but with the help of some super stamps I am actually finding it easier and easier, just got to remember not to go over the top with embellishments!

Well, goodness knows how I managed to make a card that I am happy with....my DS had a cold on Mon/Tue which he has very 'kindly' passed to me and now I feel like complete cr*p, so if you don't see me for a few days...I'll be curled up on the sofa feeling sorry for myself!

• Image: hAngler
• Medium: Watercolour pens
• Paper: Bazzill, Basic Grey
• Rub-on sentiment, ribbon and brads from stash

Hope you have a lovely day

2 in 1 again!

Hi everyone,

Here is the card I have made to combine 2 challenges.

The first challenge is a spoon full of sugar which this week was to use 'circles' combined with the second challenge over at friday sketchers which was a wonderful sketch by Carole

I had such fun making this card...the sketch was just fab.....but it took a long time to make as I had to keep stopping to watch the tennis final!...

• Image: Sugar Nellie (sent to me by my friend Rach )
• Medium: Watercolour pens
• Paper: Bazzill, s.e.i.
• Sentiment: studio g
• Flowers and brads from stash

Have a super day

Check this out!

Hi Everyone,

Here is my entry for this weeks a spoon full of sugar which was 'checks galore', so anything so long as it was checked. I actually don't have much check paper so this one was a bit tricky for me...hope you like!

hAngler image sent to me by a friend, 'painted' with watercolour pens, pp by basic grey and rahyer, ribbon, buttons, brads and flower form stash.

Thanks for looking, have a great day