Surprise! Surprise!

Good Morning crafters!

How are you all today!?
Its another beautiful Sunday and you know what that means!?

We have another fantastic challenge lined up for you this week! You are going to be so so so SURPRISED!

We want to see a surprise somewhere on your card!

Whether thats a pop up or a flap! Just surprise us :D

For this weeks challenge we are sponsored by the Awesome Digis With Attitude! 

I chose to make a Wiper Card using a fab tutorial from Split Coast Stampers!!

 

Here it is before the surprise! Using an awesome stamp from Lia Stampz called Snowman Building 

So are you ready for the surprise! 

 Tis the season to be jolly!!! Fa la la la la la!

Isnt this image just the cutest! And the hidden surprise is a bit of added fun :D

So do pop over and join us you can find the challenge blog HERE. I can't wait to see your creations.

Recipe

Stamps: Snowman Building by Lia Stampz

Inks and things: Coloured using Marvy le plume pens
 
Papers: All card from stash. All designer Paper by Pink Petticoat

Odds and Sods:Gems from stash, Card Candy from Craftwork Cards! Sentiment by Pink Petticoat

Have a wonderful weekend!

Lots of Love

Jennie
xxx

Summer Loving

Hi Everyone!

Hope you are okay!
Sorry I am late with this post! Its the week before Rowenas wedding and I am running around like a loon finishing everything off :)

So yesterday was a new challenge at Dream Valley and our challenge this fortnight Is awesome!
Our sponsor for this fortnight is:

 You could win an awesome voucher for £10 to their store! Wahooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

So onto this weeks challenge! Which Is:

Summer Theme

So anything summery we want to see it!
For my creation this week I decided to create something I have admired for a long time!
PINWHEELS!!! Yippeee

I love how this turned out! Pinwheels always cast me back to the beach! Happy Days :D
I did something a bit different for this card though! I thought to myself.... wouldnt; this make an awesome gift! So yes, I created a take-away part!

So yes! You can actually take the pinwheel off and keep it! On your fridge or magnetic board or car! hehhehehe!!

I wanted to put the magnetic on the card underneath so it didn't show but unfortunately it wouldn't stick! Boo Hiss Booo!

None-the-less the surprise is still there!

I took my pinwheel tutorial from this lovely lady's blog.


I do hope you can come and join us this week! Its such a great prize and I love coming to visit all of your blogs! Don't forget to check out the awesome creations from our DT! They are proper wowser this week!

Recipe

Stamps: None

Inks and things: Printer Ink
 
Papers: Various papers all from Pink Petticoat

Odds and Sods: Button from stash! Magnetic tape from Craft Store

I'll be back with more creations later!

Lots of love

Jennie
xxx

I'm late for a very important date!

Evening All!

I am so sorry this is late! eeek! Been having 'puter problems... but I am back now, if not a little late!
We have a new challenge for you this week, its Sunday and you know what that means!

We had so many awesome entrants into our fathers day/ male challenge last week! Dont forget to check back on the challenge blog to see if you were one of lucky winners!

This fortnight we have an eaaaaaaasy peasy challenge for you!

Use Ribbon

Ya ha! And we have the most AMAZING sponsor and prize!
We are sponsored by Crafty Ribbons and one lucky winner could win this:

How freakin' awesome is that!
So onto my creation for this challenge!
As you may know by now... my sister in law is getting married! Have I mentioned that yet ;)
Anyway... she has a few children coming to the wedding and wanted something to entertain them during the wedding breakfast and the speeches!

I saw a really awesome creation by Crafty Anny here. That is what I based my colouring book creation on!

I created 5 little colouring books to keep the little ones occupied! I used the complete set of Murtle and Shelly set from Digi Stamp Boutique HERE. They were awesome fun to colour, and as my sister in law has two tortoises, Esio and Trot hehe! I couldnt resist using the tortoises :)

I thought the personalization made it more unique to them, rather than just a colouring book! Inside there are 20 images taken from the awesome colouring pages website and they will have a little bucket with some crayons and pencils etc. Really sweet!

Here is the inside of one of them.... I wasnt sure what to put on the inside so decided to leave it blank.... I guess my sister can add something if she wants too!

The packs are tied together with white ribbon, they look so sweet all together!



These were incredibly cheap to make! And so much more fun than just buying a colouring book! Woo Hoo

Anyway I do hope you will join us for our challenge! We all love ribbon, right? You've got 2 weeks to create something ribbony! I can't wait to see what you create :)


Moving on to......

The Card Ingredients

Stamps:Murtle and Shelly collection from Digi Stamp Boutique

Inks and things: Coloured using Marvy le plume pens
 
Papers: All card from stash.

Odds and Sods:Various ribbons from stash

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

Digi Stamp Boutique: June customer creations
Crafty Pad: Bold and Bright or soft pastels (Bold and Bright)
Digis With Attitude: Anything Goes
Prairie Fairy: Wedding (Colouring Books are for the wedding)
Rainbow Lady: Digi Day
Southern Girls: Anything Goes
Divas By Design: Anything But A card
Scrapbook Sisters: Anything Goes
Everybody Art: Anything Goes
Scrap Creations: Animal or jungle

Hope you have all had a wonderful weekend!
Be back soon

Love Jennie
xx

Choo Choo

Good morning crafters!

Hope you are all well on this fine Sunday morning!
And yes it's Sunday! And do you know what Suday brings? A new challenge at Dream Valley!

Fathers Day

In the UK Father's day falls on Sunday 19th! Next Sunday.
So for these two weeks we would like to see your Father's Day creations!
We have TWO prizes up for grabs this week for you lucky people!

Up first is a £10 voucher for One Stop Card Crafts !
AND Karen's Doodles are offering 3 digi stamps of your choice!! WOWZER!!!!!

So It's worth it don't you think!
So here is my card for the DT.

I absolutely adore this stamp by the AWESOME Mo Manning! (See link below) and I coloured it using my new Coloursoft Pencils.... First time using them! Not too bad hehe
Here is a closer picture:

I also used these fabulous tickets that I had in my collection! They are so apt! (Unfortunately I have no idea where I got them from)

I distressed the edges a little bit as I did on the main image too!

I used a great sketch to compile this card from Inkspirations

So do come and join us! You have 2 weeks to join us and I know you must all have some wonderful creations to share with us :)

Onto the Card Ingredients

Stamps:The Engineer by Mo Manning

Inks and things: Coloursoft pencils blended with baby oil and tortillons
 
Papers: Starbrite collection from 2 Peas in a bucket

Odds and Sods:Fathers Day Tickets, Ranger Distress ink pad

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

Inkspirations: Sketch 
C.R.A.F.T: Fathers Day
Craft Us Crazy: Fathers Day/ Masculine
Paper Play: Fathers Day
Crafting For All Seasons: Fathers Day
Sisterhood of Crafters: Special Man In your life/Dad
The Paper Variety: For The Guys
Celebrate the occasion: Fathers Day
Flourishes: Fathers Day
Stamp Scrap and Doodle: Fathers Day
Alphabet Challenge: F For Fathers Day
Delicious Doodles: Fathers Day
Simply Create: All about you Dad
Crazy4challenges: Masculine card/project
Marks Finest Papers: Fathers Day
One Stop Craft Challenge: Fathers Day

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

A mothers love

Afternoon crafters!
Hope you are all well!
A fortnight has passed... geeez how fast is time flying!
We had so many wonderful entrants in our New Beginnings challenge at Dream Valley so thank you very much! Congratulations to the winners! Such beautiful designs.

We have a new challenge coming up! And a very timely one tooo.

Mothers Day

How beautiful! A time to celebrate mum! This week we are sponsored by Digis With Attitude! You could win a $10 Canadian gift certificate to their store! Woo Hooo!

So now on to my creation!! Well well well... once again my imagation went into overdrive and I went non-conventional.. what me... bend the rules.. never!

If you knew my mother you would know how apt this card and bag is for her! but as you dont! (I don't think) you'll just have to take my word for it hehehe! Mummy Irvine this one's for you!!

This gorgeous set is based on the fab set created by Maria Bell HERE
Heres a looksie at the baggie on its own! I'm going to fill it with bags of mini jelly tots!

It used the fantastic One In A Melon kit by Pink Petticoat! Its retiring so if you want to take a look act fast! You can see it HERE its such great value at only £1.99 and Pink Petticoat goodies are always of the highest quality!

The gorgeous paper rosettes gave me an absolute headache! I could not get my design to stick .... until I found this fabulous tutorial by Angie Tieman HERE

So I have a lot of people to thank for this!
So you are all well and truly......

I had so much fun creating this project! I do hope you enjoy it tooo!
Don't forget to check out our challenge!It is running for two weeks from today!

Also check out my fabulous Design Team mates creations. They have done an amazing job!!

Stamps: None

Inks and things: Used the pre-coloured version with some added glamour and coloured pencils for the sentiment
 
Papers: All pink petticoat from the One in a Melon kit along with some pink paper from Paper Mill Shop

Odds and Sods:None

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


Crafty Catz: Mothers Day
Delicious Doodles: Dimensional Project
Fairytale Challenge: Green and Pink
Paper Cutz: Your Choice
The Stamp Man: Mothers Day
Stampin For The Weekend: Mothers Day
Crafty Purple Frog: Going Green!
Crafty Creations: Mothers Day
Craft Your Days Away: For mum or a special lady
Easy Craft Projects: For Mum
Little Claires: Pink and Green

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

A Time For New Beginnings

Wowee!!! Thanks so much for all of your entries in our first challenge at Dream Valley! Don't forget to check back and see if you were one of the lucky winners!

So this week we begin as we mean to go on! Thats right, our first fortnightly challenge! Todays challenge is:

New Beginnings

That's right people New home, new job, new life, new baby, wedding, engagement! Interpret it as you feel free! We would love to see what you come up with!

So here is what I got busy creating...

Now I know you must be thinking... thats a little unusual for a new home card! But I wanted to create something a little different! My friend loves sheep so when i saw this little cutey over at Doodle Pantry I knew it would be perfect for the occasion!

I added some sparkle with my awesome glitter paints which you can see a little clearer in these picture...

 

Glittery bling is always good! Hehehe

Now you have two weeks to enter this challenge and you could win goodies from One Stop Card Crafts and Crafty Ribbons! You lucky people you :) 

Now onto the card ingredients

Stamps: Lucky Sheep by Doodle Pantry

Inks and things: Used the pre-coloured version with some added glitter paint

Papers: The lovely backing paper came with the set! Fabulous eh!

Odds and Sods: Card Candy hehe and the sentiment which I generated on the PC.

I'd like to thank the following challenges for their inspiration for this creation: 

Doodle Pantry: Use a Doodle Pantry Image

Aly's Sunday Challenge: Anything Goes

Card cupids: Anything Goes

Scrappy Frogs: good Luck

CES Challenges: Good Luck

Stamp Something: Digi Day

Charisma Cards: 4 legged friends :)

MelJens: Use an Animal

Creative Belli: Animals

Have a wonderful Sunday all.

Lots of Love

Dreamy News

I am super mega awesomely thrilled to let you all know that I have been selected to be a Design Team member for a brand new Challenge Blog!

This fabulous new challenge blog will tickle your fancy with a range of different challenges and some fabulous sponsors every fortnight!

Our first challenge is this Sunday I do hope you will come and join in!

Check out the rest of the lovely new design team in my sidebar :)

Much love