Little Flower....

Good evening everyone.
At last a card to share.....
Unfortunately 2013 hasn't started quite as I had hoped.....but hey~ho never mind.

I've had this little gem stamped up for ages and thought it was about time she had a home. This image is called Mimosa ~ Autumn Walk.....from Bildmalarna although I've coloured her in lovely 'Spring' colours....I coloured with Promarkers and used Kraft and papers from my stash. The flower is WOC (I think)...and I've used various die~cuts from Marianne Creatables for the leaves. The pearls are as always from The Hobby House.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:~

Crafty Catz ~ # 164 ~ Anything Goes

Divas By Design ~ # 66 ~ Anything Goes

Freshly Brewed ~ Anything Goes

I Love Promarkers ~ # 149 ~ Monochrome

Little Miss Muffet ~ # 51 ~ Anything Goes

Inky Impressions ~ # 91 ~ Anything Goes

Thank you for stopping by.

Have a lovely evening.

And We're Off......

 A Very Happy, Healthy, Peaceful  And Of Course Crafty New Year  To All My Blogging Friends.
Good morning everyone.....
I hope that the New Year finds you all well and raring to go.
As it's the 1st of the month it's time for a new challenge over at
Sparkles Christmas Challenges
Our theme for the first challenge of 2013 is
SNOWMEN
And here is my DT card

We are sponsored by 
Di's Digi Downloads

who are kindly giving our winner a $10 voucher to spend online.

For my card I used this lovely snowman image from Great Impressions. I've had this stamp for years and found it tucked at the back of my stamp shelf......I have coloured using Promarkers and the papers are Winter Wonderland from MME. The pearls as always are from The Hobby House and the little snowflake button is from my stash. I have finished off by adding some Stickles for a little sparkle and bling.
Don't forget to pop over to the main challenge blog and take a look at the rest of the DT's 'SNOWMEN' creations.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:~
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas ~ # 105 ~ Anything Goes Forever Friends   # 52 ~ Anything Goes Joanna Sheen ~ With Love At Christmas Milk Coffee Challenge ~ Christmas Or Winter Holiday Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra ~ Anything Goes

Thank you for stopping by.
Have a lovely day.

My Favourite Five Cards Of 2012!

Good morning everyone.
I hope you are all well.
Today I'd like to share 

The fabulously talented DEBBY is asking us to share our favourite five cards of 2012 so as I'd joined in with 'My Five Favourite Christmas Cards Of 2012' I thought I'd join in again and here are my choices.....
First up is this little number which I love......

I made this for my dad for 'Father's Day'
My next pick is.....

I was really thrilled with how the blending turned out as these colours were so far out of my comfort zone....but it worked.....
My third choice of card is.....

I love all things 'Molly Bloom' and this was one of my first attempts using Kraft.
Next up is.....

I loved the papers on this card and I think I remember following a sketch for this one.
Last of my choices is.....

This just came together far better than I had planned and the flowers on the bottom right corner were handmade and they were so easy to make and so effective.
I could have picked a few more cards but 'Five' it says and 'Five' it is.
Thank you so much for stopping by 
and 'Thank You' for all your support and lovely, encouraging comments over the last year.
I hope you have a lovely Sunday.

My Five Favourite Christmas Cards Of 2012

I thought I would take part in Debby's from A Scrapjourney's 

Favourite Five Christmas Cards For 2012.

I did this last year and found it really difficult to choose my favourites and I have to admit to having the same difficulty this time around..

So here are the cards I finally settled upon.
For my first card I have chosen this one.

I love the simplicity of the black and white and I just adore this fabulous stamp.
For my second card I chose this little creation.

I was really pleased with how this turned out and I love all Bugaboo images.
For my third choice I picked this.

Again I think this is such a lovely image from LOTV and the papers were a perfect match especially as I'd coloured the image before picking my papers which I never do.....I always pick papers then colour my images.
For my next choice I picked this card out.

Another LOTV image....I was really pleased with the layout of this card and how it turned out plus it's a boy card and I just don't do many 'boy' cards.
Finally I chose this as my last card of 2012.

This is one of my favourite Penny Black Christmas stamps and I have used it so many times before, I was thrilled with how the hedgehog prickles turned out.
So that's my choice for this year although I could have picked quite a few more but there's always next year.
Thank you for stopping by.
Have a lovely afternoon.

New Beginnings....

Good morning everyone.
I hope you are all well.
Today we have our last challenge for 2012 at
Winter Wonderland
Our theme this week is 
NEW BEGINNINGS
and here is my DT card

We are sponsored by Simon Says Stamp who are offering a $15 voucher to spend in their online shop.

Please pop over to the main challenge blog and take a peek at the rest of the fabulous DT's creations and we look forward to seeing all your wonderful crafty makes.
For my card I used another of my pre~coloured images from LOTV which are great to use when you are running out of time.....which I was after being unwell for the last few weeks or so but thankfully I think things are beginning to improve now........
I would like to say 'Hello' to my new followers and 'Thank you' for joining me on my crafting adventure.
Brogan and I are going to have a pyjama/onesie day today and a catch up with the Christmas TV programmes. 
Thank you for stopping by.
Have a lovely day.

A Snowy Friend

Hello everyone.
I hope you are all well.
We have a new challenge over at 
Chocolate, Coffee & Cards
Our theme this time is 
SNOWMEN
and here is my DT card

Our sponsor for this challenge is

Please pop over to the main challenge blog and take a peek at all the DT's lovely 'Snowmen' themed creations. 
For my card I used this cute snowman image and coloured with Promarkers. The papers are from Kanban and the brads and spacers are from The Hobby House.
Thank you for stopping by.
And I would just like to finish by saying
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR 
TO ALL OF MY LOVELY BLOGGING FRIENDS WHO VISIT ME.
I WANT TO  THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR WONDERFUL COMMENTS AND SUPPORT OVER THE LAST YEAR AND THANK YOU FOR JOINING ME ON MY CRAFTING ADVENTURE.

A Little Christmas Tweet

Good afternoon everyone.
I hope you are all well.
Today it is my turn to share an inspirational piece over at Gems Of Inspiration so as I was getting a little fed up with making Christmas cards I thought I would try my hand at a gift bag.

And here it is.

Front View

Side View

I used this sweet digi image from Pink Gem Designs called Robin With Mistletoe to use on the gift tag. I coloured the image using Promarkers and the papers are from my scraps box. I used my circle and scalloped circle nesties for the tag and the border punch is from Martha Stewart. I finished off by adding some Stickles to the little robin's hat, a pearl for the Mistletoe berry and liquid pearls for the snow flakes.

I found the tutorial for this cute little gift bag here.

I would like to enter my gift bag into the following challenges:~

Di's Digi Designs ~ Christmas Creation/Anything But A Card

Creative Moments ~ Anything Goes/Anything But A Card

Crafting For All Seasons ~ # 42 ~ Green& Red + Glitter & Sparkle

I Love Promarkers ~ # 148 ~ Anything But Square

Creative Inspirations ~ # 194 ~ Anything Goes

Divas By Design ~ # 66 ~ Anything Goes

Created With Love ~ Merry Christmas Blog Hop

Thank you for stopping by today.

Have a lovely day.