Everybody's starry-eyed

Afternoon all!
Guess who is back!?
Ya ha it's me! And I have a card and eveeeeeeerything!

Before I go to that I will apologise for my very long absence, hubby and I have had an awful lot going on... I won't bore you with it but it looks like everything is going to be okay :) suffice to say time was not plentiful and unfortunately I had to quit two of my design teams... *sob*

I hope everyone here is well and I will be having a loooooooong look at all of your blogs again soon!

So that's that!
Now on to shiny card!

This card is for my brother-in-law to be! Paul is red and black and star mad! Hehe so this card is custom built for him!
It was my birthday last week and my wonderful hubby got me this:

** swoooooon ** I have already used and abused it! Star nesties and lots of shiny embossing folders!
So the card!

 

I had so much fun with this card! I followed the awesome sketch at Papercraft Star

The stars were done using my new shiny nesties! 

Here is a couple of close ups

The funky letters were PAINFULLY cut from my awesome letters from Pink Petticoat! (Link below) I use these letters so much! Although my poor printer squeals every time I print them in black! I tried to do a couple of sticks coming out of the stars almost making it look guitar-y! He is a bit Rock 'N' Roll! 

A bit of black bakers twine to tie it all together and I am done! Its very much his style!

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

Papercraft Star: Sketch + Masculine

Fussy and Fancy: Card for a male

Mami Doodles: Card for a man/boy

The Stamp Man: Card for a man/boy

DYSU: Birthday

Stamp Insanity: Masculine

Wags N Whiskers: One for the boys

Ladybug Crafts: All about the men!

AI Factory : New (my shiny new Big Shot)

And lastly, but not least:

Onto the Card Ingredients

Stamps: None!

Inks and things: Black printer ink!
 
Papers: Black and Red card from the Paper Mill Shop

Odds and Sods: Star nesties, Cuttlebug nautical stars embossing folder, Pink Petticoat tiny typed alphas, Black bakers twine from the Ribbon Girls.

Its really good to be back!
Hope you are all enjoying your weekend

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I'm Here

Hi all!

Just a courtesy notice to let you all know I am here!
And Alive! I have lots of news and I'll be back later

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Flowery Fun

Hello again! I am back with another challenge!
I haven't posted anything for my beloved Dream Valley Challenges in a month!!! Shock Horror! But I am back now and we have an AWESOME Challenge for you this week, and its faaaaaaaaaabulously simple too!

Flowers

Yup show us all your blooms! This is a HOT theme at the moment! So they can be handmade embellishments, on your papers, in your images! Any how Any Way!

This week we are sponsored by One Stop Card Craft! You could win a £10 gift voucher to their store! Woo Hooo!

This one was a great challenge for me! I have sooooooooooo many flowery things that I spent a good day deciding what to do hahaha! I settled on using one of my loved Wax Fruit Company stamps. If you've not seen Arielles stuff you should! Its amazing!!

So here is what I created using the beautiful Study of Tulips

 

I love this soooo much! Tulips are my absolute favourite flower so I snapped this one up a while ago but just never got around to using it! 

Its so delicate! Such a sweet stamp!
Here is a close up of those beautiful tulips, and a couple of my errors, try and ignore them hehhee ;)

Ooooo I do love it so much! Arielle you are a very clever lady! hehehe
I based this creation on a Sketch at Sketch and Stash this week their challenge is to choose ANY of their sketches over the back catalogue!

So theres my inspiration for you! Hope it inspires you to join our challenge!
You must head over to our challenge blog and check out my fabulous teamies creations! Such a talented bunch. Dont forget our challenges run for 2 weeks from today, so you have plenty of time to enter :)

Onto the Card Ingredients

Stamps:Study of Tulips by Wax Fruit Company

Inks and things: Watercoloured
 
Papers: Cream and Brown card from the Paper Mill Shop

Odds and Sods:Pink Gems, Sentiment was a freebie, I can't remember where from though :)


Enjoy the rest of your weekend!!
Lots of Love xxxx


Thanks to the following challenges for their inspiration :)

Less Is More: Thank you or Congratulations 
Sketch and Stash: Sketch (Used Sketch 1 and the neglected stash is my tulip stamp!)
Charisma Cardz: April Showers bring May Flowers
Crafty Catz: Congratulations
Crafty Calendar: April Showers bring forth May Flowers

Pinch Punch.....

First of the month!
Ohhhh I feel like a child!

But Happy 1st May to you all! And Its Sunday so you know what that means!? ........
Yaha its another challenge at the awesome I Did It Creations

This week we have another fab challenge for you!! Woo Hooo

Mother's Day!

Now here in the UK we have already celebrated Mothers Day! But don't let that stop you entering our challenge if you are a fellow UKer. How many times do you get to tell your mum you love her!? My mum is still struggling with the recent death of her Dad, my grandad and so I am doing everything I can to cheer her up! And sending her cards is one of my favourite things to do :)

So onto my card! This week we are sponsored by our fantastic leader Robyns Fetish!
Robyn has such an amazing assortment of stamps that you wil be hard pressed not to find something perfect for your occasion!!!

This week I choose to work with one of my favourite images!!!Lucy Valentines Girl.

Click on the link to look at the store

Here is what I cooked up with her :)

Isn't she the cutest little thing!! 

I followed a fabulous sketch from My Favourite Things

Fab sketch isn't it! 

I coloured Lucy with a variety of mediums, infact it took me a few attempts, so I have a few versions of her in the bin! SHOCK HORROR!

So here is a close up of the lovely Lucy :) 

Don't forget to check out the fabulous creations from my teamies! You can check out their blogs from the links on the right hand side! :) 

Remember folks! We have a random draw with every challenge and you might just be the next winner.

Everyone is eligible to win one free digi stamp of their choice from the sponsor of that challenge. Or, if you use one of the sponsor's digi stamps, you could win a $5.00 coupon.

We give a freebie with every challenge also.

Just pick one of the images used by the DT, email Wendy at

wpettifer@gmail.com

IDIC Freebie Request in the subject line with the name of DT member

and she'll send you the digi stamp they used in this challenge.

Lastly of course are those card ingredients:

The card ingredients

Stamp: Lucy Valentines Girl by Robyns Fetish

Inks and things: Whispers Brush markers, Crayons and baby oil, paints.

Papers: Vintage Rose by Pink Petticoat (love, love, love tis set)

Odds and Sods: Sentiment generated in word, Blue gems, brown backing card

Back soon!! xxxxxx

Something cute!

So you know I said earlier I had something cute to show you. Well I do!
But its not a card or a creation... well it is a creation but not by me!
Lemme cast you back 6 months... my little niece was born! And she is just amazing. I wanted to share her with you so here goes :)
Without further ado I present Emily Mary Pearson
And a sneaky one with me too :)
Lots of love
Jennie
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