Time for another Elisabeth Bell's World Challenge!!

I know I keep saying this but the months sure are flying by!!!! Well it is time for a new challenge at Elisabeth Bell's world but before I tell you all about it, wow did we have gorgeous entires for our last months challenge create a Summer Scene!!! Thank you all for sharing your gorgeous creations and inspiring me!!! I do love hopping around to your blogs and seeing the beautiful creations!!
Our challenge this month is or you to make a Christmas card without using a Christmas Image!!
I actually found this a little challenging!! I knew which image I wanted to use but just couldn't seem to get my card to a place where I really loved it!!
 Our sponsor this month is

Theresa of Crafts and Me Stamps is offering £10 to spend on EB stamps in her online store.

And as always

one  winner will also get their choice of 2 digis from Elisabeth Bell's Digital Collection

 

For my card I used "Fairy Play" which I purchased from Elphine House but I believe it was originally from Belle's n Whistles which is sadly closing down but you can still grab some pretty good bargains!!

I coloured  "Fairy Play" in with tria markers  and lots of glitter!!!":) I inked around the edges of the snowflakes and white cardstock with various inks, I think the green was Tim Holtz summer collection distress ink, the papers are from my scraps, the pearl strands are from Purple Pumpkin and i then added all the rhinestones!
Really not my greatest creation so I apologise!!
Well it is 1.30am here and of course I have left it to the last minute to post this so I am off to bed!! But please head on over to the Elisabeth Bell's World challenge blog to check out the inspiration the rest of the DT have in store for you!!
I'll be back in a few days with another post or two!!

 

 

 

Seems a Little Sketchy - Challenge 20

Wow, where are the weeks going? I read somewhere today it's only 19 weeks till xmas!! it will be here before we know it.. But for now let's just worry about the next chalenge we have for you at Seems a Little Sketchy!! This fortnights challenge is sponsored by My Grafico and we were lucky enough to be able to use the Woodland Animals images!!

I had this cute forest animals paper which I thought was perfect for this challenge but I didn't want to cover it so for one of the layers I used acetate. I also had that tree paper so thought it was also perfect and so that is where my owls are perched.. I coloured them with tria markers and I also coloured the  echidna's with tria markers!! I used the twine and slightly slanted it so it didn't cover the bears headn then added the rhinestones on the tree!! I then just added the buttons with some cotton cos it looked a little bear in that corner!!!
I was really happy with how this turned out!!
Don't forget to go to the SALS blog to see the other gorgeous creations!!
I am entering this card into the following challenges:
* Craft Your Days Away - Anything Goes
* A Gem of a Challenge - Animals or Teddies
* Crafty Catz - Animals
* Little Red Wagon - Dog Days of Summer
* Simon Says Stamp - Animal Antics
* Pile it On - Cuddly Critters

Craft Your Passion - Power of Three challenge

Time for a new challenge over at Craft Your Passion and this week the challenge is the Power of Three!! So we would like to see lots of three on your creation - 3 buttons, 3 images, 3 different papers - you get the idea.
We are being sponsored by Milk Coffee and Crafty Sentiments this challenge!! I got to create with a Crafty sentiments  image - Flora with Flowers and this is what I created:

I decided to go with the pastel colour theme again!! I coloured Flora in with Tria markers and added kindyglitz to her wings and the mushroom!! I used scraps for my background, then I went ahead and added lots of three on my card!! So I added a couple of extra mushrooms to make three and then added 3 flowers with 3 brads. 3 butterfly buttons and 3 rhinestones on each side of the card!! Oh and I added some twine as well!!
That's all I have for you today.. but head on over to the CYP blog to check out the rest of the DT's creations!!
I am entering this into the following challenges:
* Chocolate, Coffee and Cards  - Embossing
* Ruby's Rainbow - Butterflies
* Whimsy Stamps - Lots of Layers
* Ribbon Girl - Colour challenge (pink, lilac, blue, green and tangerine)
* Inky Impressions - Pearls/Bling

Digi Bell's Blog Hop - Introducing Elisabeth Bell's latest Digi

OMG I am so sorry this is late!! I forgot to schedule it and realised at 2am after waking up on the couch :) so go to get on the computer only for it not to work!!! Was going to go to bed but hate letting people down so I've sat up in the hope that my computer would start and here I am only an hour late!! Really sorry to the team and to all our hoppers!!!

Wow, are you excited about Elisabeth Bell's newest digi image? Seeing as I am near the end of the Digi Bell's Hop you have already seen her and I'm sure you have fallen in love with Pumpkin Fairy Ellora. I know I did when I first got her!!! If you have arrived here from the very talented Nikky then you have been dazzled by her creation and you are on the right track!! If you have stumbled across my post then don't miss out on seeing all the gorgeous creations made by the DT, head back to the start at the Digi Bell's Blog
So enough chatting here is my card:

I coloured  Pumpkin Fairy Ellora in with Tria markers, added some rhinestones to her crown, coloured in the stars with glitter pens and added kindyglitz to her wings!! I then coloured in her skirt again so that I could make it stand out a bit so it looked like a skirt!! I started following a sketch from Stamps and Fun = Creativity but then just added bits and pieces!! The papers are from my scrap stash, the flowers and twine are new, then I added the buttons, ribbon and rhinestone.. To finish off the card I found this cute little sentiment in one of my original stamp sets I bought which I thought was perfect!!!
Well that's it from me... time to hop on over to Mette's Blog to see her gorgeous creation!! If you would like to purchase this adorable little image and grab a few more images while you're there head on over to Elisabeth Bell's Digital collection... YOu won't just stop at one.. hehehe!!
Well stop hanging around and hop along :)

Welcome and Thank you!!

It's been awhile since I devoted a post to my followers and thank people for blog candy's that I have won. So while the temp is sitting at 8 degrees here in Sunbury (and snowing 20 mins up the road) i thought it was the perfect time..
So first of all a very warm welcome to my new followers.. I hope that you enjoy reading my blog and looking at my creations!!! Hopefully you will find some inspiration or join in challenges from the DT that I am part of!!! I appreciate you leaving comments, something I'm not great at myself as I follow so many blogs....
It's coming up to my 2nd blogaversary next month so there will be candy on offer soon.. so watch this space!!!
I would also like to thank a few people who have been so generous to offer candy and lucky me has been the winner!!! Now I may have forgotten a couple of people so please forgive me if I have ( I am just very forgetful) :)
I thought I'd share some pictures of what I have won:

I won this fabulous pack of goodies from an Aussie company Purple Pumpkin!! They recently celebrated their 2nd birthday and had four surprise packs on offer for blog candy!! My son has actually claimed this as his because it's a boys pack... there are lot so types of embelleishments, buttons, playing cards, crocheted flowers and doilies, felt shapes, ticckets, ribbon and a few other bits and pieces!! So thank you to the girls at  PURPLE PUMPKIN!!!

Barbara from U Inspire Me held a candy to celebrate reaching 200 followers.. It was a surprise candy so I had no idea what I had won but loved what I received. A stamp set from CTMH which was kindly donated by Barbara's daughter, some crocheted flowers and butterflies, some buttons, ribbon and some little flower stickers!! All my favourite embellishments!!! Thanks BARBARA!!

Last month Jak Heath held 7 days of candy to celebrate having 2 million visitors to her blog.. I only joined in on the very last day and was lucky enough to win a $25 voucher from the Ribbon carousel!! I was so excited to go and choose my own products, so I got a few different ribbons, Tim Holtz summer edition distress inks and some wooden buttons!! So thank you to JAK for running the week long candy and congrats on all those visitors. And thank you to The Ribbon Carousel for the voucher..

I've also won a challenge and another candy this week but will do those thank you's once I've received my prizes and I can the people properly!!!

Be sure to come back in about 12 hours for the Digi Bell's Blog Hop and to see the new digi image Elisabeth Bell has designed.. It is oh so cute, you won't want to miss it!!
Thanks for stopping by!!

Ice Cream or Cake? What's your favourite?

It's time for a new challenge at Craft your Passion Kids and this months theme is Ice Cream and Cake!! Meljen's Designs is sponsoring the challenge this month and the kids were lucky enough to use one of her images!! Logan chose to use Birthday Cupcake!!

Logan coloured the image in with his whisper markers and added some glitter to the sprinkles, on all the accents around the cake!! He added some stars that he found in my craft stash. He stamped Happy Birthday, stuck the star paper down with sticky dots then added the dragonfly Ice creams and the bell that he found in a tin of buttons that my mum gave me awhile ago...
Logan would like to enter this card into the following challenge:
* Little Hands - Anything Goes

Gone Buggy at Craft Your Passion!!

After a morning of doctors, nurses and radiologists for my son, he's now at school and I thought I would get my post done on time this week for CYP...
Our challenge this week is gone buggy so we'd love to see all your creations with bugs on it!! We are being sponsored this week by Bugaboo stamps and I chose to use Girl Ladybug!

I made my own design paper by stamping ladybugs on white cardstock and adding red glitter pen to the middle of all the flowers on them.. Once the card was finished I then added the little red rhinestones!! I coloured ladybug girl in with Tria markers then coloured in the dots on her dress with black glitter pen as well as her antenna's. I then added crystal effects to them so that they stood out a bit more.. I coloured her wings in with Kindyglitz. I then added some twine and some die cut flourishes with the crocheted flower with a button!!
Head on over to the CYP blog to see the other buggy creations from the DT!!
I am entering this card into the following challenges:
* Stampalot - Take Flight
* That Craft Place - Things with Wings
* Sweet Stampin - Things with Wings
* Crafty Catz - Anything Goes
* Jellypark - Summer Bugs
* Scrapbook Sisters - Things with Wings