Arty Girlz Challenge - 2 Flowers

The Arty Girlz said:-
This week's challenge is flowers.
So you could use flower patterened papers, flower die cuts, use flower embellies etc. it's entirely up to you.


Wow that's my sort of challenge lol. Seeing as I was going to make a thank you ATC (I think ATC's lend themselves to thank you notes so well) anyway, I have made one with flowers on.

More Beach Hut Dominos

I have been dominoing again. I've made some more beach huts, I just can't leave the diddy little huts alone lol.



These ones are for sale. If you are interested in buying use the contact me button on the right. These have a different background to the ones I have made before but I think the gloss sits better on these.

CIOD black and white challenge

The challenge on Creative Ideas On Sunday blog is .....

black and white
Show us your work with the fantastic colours of black and
white

YIKES!!

I don't have anything in black and white

I know, I'll draw in black and white

DOUBLE YIKES!


Just the 'Happy Birthday' is printed on the computer.

Alpha Challenge 'M'

ITS NOT A CHRISTMAS CARD :-o

LETTER M
compulsory
(your artwork MUST have something starting with M)
Options
(only here to take the challenge a bit further)
Option 1 : NO stamping.... nope, nothing...just paper and embellishments.... not that easy you'll see...
Option 2 : pink and brown colour combination

that's the alpha challenge

Well the 'M' is the mice & there is no stamping so I have done the challenge with option 1. If I had any sense I would of done brown instead of the blue to fulfill option 2 but there, I don't do sense too often.

Have you noticed I am anticipating being late for someones birthday lol. A handy card to have ready made me thinks!

Oh, and the mice are quickutz reindeers without the antlers :-)

UK Crafty Blogs

330!!!!

330????

I am ranked in the UK Crafty blogs at a measly 330!

Thought I would join to see how many people came to my blog, but I think I was better off in my ignorant bliss

I need chocolate :-(

Halloween Domino Set

Another Halloween-y domino, this time a set. The same stamp but the spider is separate to the web.

Halloween Dominos

Woooooh Halloween. Not wanting to let on opportunity for dominoing to pass I have made a Halloween domino.




It is chalked in purple then stamped. As you can see the stamp is bigger than the domino so had to go around the edge. I quite like the effect though

Caardvarks Challenge

"Make a card using chipboard on your card front" That's what they said over on caardvarks. This is what I did ...



I painted and chalked a chipboard ribbon slide. The tree in the middle is one of those magic pictures that change was you move them. It looks a bit liney in the scan but it just looks like a twinkling tree IRL.

Inching Artists

This is another challenge I have got sort of wrong. The challenge is from inching artists I thought I had to make 3 inchies with the theme of "little wings" but no, it was theme number 3 lol. I really must read properly.

Still, here is my entry .....

It is a dragonfly puzzle inchie!!! (that is my excuse for not getting it all on one, lol) hope you can tell from the photo it is 3 inchies one for each set of wings and one for the body.

Alpha Challenge - The Letter 'L'

Over on the alpha challenge blog the challenge was to make a card containing something with the letter 'L'
here is my card with LIGHTS. Yes it is another christmas card lol

I did notice though when I went to get the link the challenge has changed to m. Sorry I am a bit late then I'll start on 'm' tomorrow

The Challenge on magickdiva blog is

THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE IS TO PRODUCE A HALLOWEEN INCHY. LET'S SEE HOW MUCH SPOOKINESS (!)

I have been wanting to have a go at inchies without the commitment of having to swap so here is my chance

I don't know if you can tell from the photo but the spider is stamped on acetate so is hovering above the web. Spider & web both cherry pie stamps

Daring Card Makers - A Golden Moment

It's challenge time at Daring Card Makers

This time we are giving you just One Word as the inspiration for your card making and that word is GOLDEN You can use the word in any way you like - the word itself doesn't even have to be on the card, for instance you could make a card in golden shades, or maybe inspired by the seasons of Spring or Autumn which both feature lots of golden colours. Or maybe you could make a card to celebrate a Golden Anniversary, and of course Gold is a great colour for Christmas cards.....It's up to you - just go for Gold



That's the challenge & here's my card. I think I should of used a smaller card as it is a bit plain. At least you get to see lots of gold, mind you it's so shiney maybe it could double as a handy mirror, lol.



Can you spot a theme on my challenge cards yet?

Arty girlz Challenge #1 - Stamping

There's me searching for a challenge blog and there is a brand new one right under my nose! The Arty Girlz Challenge blog is looking good & here is my take on their first challenge.

"You can make whatever you like....a card, a scrapbook layout an atc...the choice is yours but your creations must contain stamping"

I am not a stamper but I'll give it a go .....

The stamp is from Tanda (coloured with water colours), the ribbon is from Molly Daydream, the paint is from my purple paper draw lol.

Daring Card Makers 'Word' Challenge

Someone tell me why when I don't have a die cutter do I decide to take up a challenge that needs a cut out word. I know I could of used a sticker or something but you know what it is like, once you have an idea in your head its hard to move on.



Heres the challenge:-


This week I dare you to use a Word as the main focal point to your card. It can be a name, a greeting or just a word that inspires you. You can use other text but only one word as a main embellishment. So dig out your dictionaries, die cutters, alphabet stamps, rubons or download a funky font and show us what you can do! The design team have come up with some fabulous creations to inpsire you.



Here is my take on it -

As you know, the 'Santa' is cut by hand. The stitching & writing is my faithful white gel pen & the ribbon is from my lovely little shop

Aunty's September Challenge

Ok I know this isn't a blog challenge but it is a challenge so I am blogging it lol. Anyway I have nothing better to write about today

The challenge was to create a ...

"Birthday Day for Female Member of the family, can be mother, aunt, sister etc....It can be of any colour must must have flowers on it."

This is what I made

I'm not at all happy with the greeting but I don't have a solution so I've had to let it go. Ho hum.

Magickdiva's Thursday Challenge

A simple challenge from magickdivas blog

The Challenge this week is to produce a card with string on it.

A simple card. It opens out like a pyramid. Hope you like it

Slide Mount Challenge (TMTC)

This is the first time I have taken up one of these challenges so please be gentle with me!

This is an atc for the 'Think Monday - Think Challenge' site. The challenge was "This week it’s all about slide mounts. You can use the original ones, glue paper on them and stamp on them. There are also paper ones available or those made of plastics, they are coloured and monochromic, so just go ahead. No matter if they are original, stamped or punched - show us your slide mounts."
Here is my entry.



It hasn't turned out quite as I planned. the idea was snow (in the slide) + accessories = a snowman.

Beaded Things

I was looking through the pics on my pc & came accros these. They are things I have made for people in the past. Hope you like.A beaded fairy

A beaded butterfly

Camper Van Domino

This domino has certainly been a test. I was asked if I could make a camper van domino and after cutting what seems like millions of bits of paper this is what I made.

If anyone asks if I can make a camper van domino again the answer is NO!!! .... well not at the moment anyway LOL.

Shed Domino

Following unclewilco's comment I set too, to see if i can do normal shed domino's and this is what evolved. What do you reckon unclewilco?

Beach Hut Dominos

I really must get off the subject of dominos before you all think that is all I do!

These are a set of 3 dominos I made for Julie, she seems to like them so I am happy

The hardest bit was cutting out the life belts. I had SO many rejects. Not help by having a 2 year old with a facination for hammers helping me with the eyelet set!

Kim How Could You?

You will have to imagine the music to "our tune" is playing now.

Kim, Julie and I all joined Auntys right at the begining and have been up until the early hours chatting and giggling away. True friends made in cyberspace. We have had some ups and downs but we have always been there for one another. Always including each other in all we did. Never would we forget about one another.
One day Kim decided to leave the UK and set up a new life in sunny Spain but that was going to be OK as we would still be together in cyberspace. Kims visits to the forum (due to connection problems) have been sparse to say the the least so you would think her online time would be spend wisely and more importantly fairly, so ....

Kim, you have some explaining to do. WHY have you signed her blog and not mine ?

Rudolf the red nosed Reindeer ....

........ was stuck upon a dom-i-no
and if you ever saw him you would even say ho ho.


Oh I have been busy with Anitas gloop again. This time Rudolf as been 3D'd He has a tiny gem for a nose.



I have no idea what I am going to do with all these domino's but I am having fun anyway!

How Rude

Last year DH filled a plant pot with compost from the compost heap. Suddenly we had tomato plants growing. These have not been touched just watered and left to get on with it. We are now getting a jug full of cherry tomatoes every day. Yum my fave bit of the salad is the tomato.

Anyway my daughter was delighted to find a tomato with a willy, lol, even more delighted to find she had a "bum tomato" too.

A New Life

Aunty's first baby has been born. Sally gave birth at home with the help of DH Rich to a beautiful baby girl who they have named Violet. You can sneek a peek at the little mite by following the link to Aunties Forum. Be warned she has serious ahhhhhh value

Here is the card I made for them.