Celebrate with a touch of vintage - Rainbow Lady's challenge

Hello here I am again late posting my contribution for the challenge over on Rainbow Lady, this week is Cynthia's 200th challenge so we are celebrating and we want you to join in with us. 200 is a great number so to add a bit more interest we want you to add a touch of vintage, for my take on the celebration I have chosen the street party scene from the Faye Whittaker cd by Joanna Sheen, there are some lovely images on this cd and quite a few would have worked but this is such an evocative scene that I couldn't resist.

So not only is it Cynthia's anniversay but she has a wonderful sponsor and prizes so come on over and join us.

CD Sunday - Toybox Treasures

Good morning and a very Happy Easter to you, this is my card for the challenge on

 CD Sunday

  this week. We have chosen 'Toybox Treasures' as our theme and I have used a cute cuddly elephant to represent all the cuddly toys that children get. This is from a dvd called Plush Pals from Ella's Design, there are some lovely animals on it and one of the favourites is the sheep but I'll save that for another day.  I have used a gold holographic card which I think is probably a bit too blingy for my taste but some folks love it so it can go in the box for a later date.

We still have our guest Colleen and she has made us a super card from MCS so do pop over and see what the whole team have done and hopefully you can join in with us. See you there. x

Wedding Wishes

Just thought I'd share a wedding card I've made, not a very good picture but it is late at night. The butterfly paper is from the Ooh La La cd Shoes in Bloom 2, the corners on the white are stamped and embossed with silver pearl embossing powder. Hope you like it.

Rainbow Lady - Happy Easter

Over on Rainbow Lady this week we are wishing you a Happy Easter and hope you can join in with something Easter themed.

For my contribution I have used Joanna Sheen's JNM 11 and this image is from cd2 the small animals chapter.  I have used Craft Artist to make my design, I quite like the stitching and the ability to colour the bows to match the shades in the backing paper. Hope you like it!

CD Sunday - All Sewn Up

Good Sunday morning to you all, up at the crack of dawn again why can't I sleep in at the weekend? Not to worry I can get a bit of crafting done while the rest of the house is asleep.

This week over on CD Sunday we have a fab theme of All Sewn Up, this has come about because we have a wonderful sponsor in Debs from Debbees cd's and she has given us some files from the very pretty cd Stitchin Tails, the team have had a bit of fun using these images.

I have used a backing paper that has little cross stitching on it, it's a lovely colour and it's on the cd. I have used a purple coloured backing paper for my mats and split it into three for a slightly different look, although the card looks square it isn't but I did cut it down from an 8 inch card so it's probably about 7 x7.5. The reason I cut it down was I didn't want the scalloped edge..

I hope you can come over and join in with us and you never know you could win a cd of your choice from Debs and she has some pretty good stuff over on her site.

Rainbow Lady's Challenge - butterflies

This week over at Rainbow Lady the challenge is Butterflies and as it's being sponsored by our very own Caroline then there will be a prize on offer too.  Caroline has supplied us with some digi images to work with and I have to admit that I did go in and change the colour because the ones she gave me didn't go with the card I needed to make but that is the beauty of digi images they can be anything you want them to be.

The backing paper and the image is from RHS cd from Joanna Sheen, I must admit it's not one of my most used cd's but when I found this set I had to use it and have done so more than once, I think it's so pretty and butterflies are the perfect accompaniment.

I have seen the DT samples and they are all stunning so I do hope you can come and join us, it's great to see you.

Hello everyone from a beautiful sunny Wigan, I have been up since the crack of dawn and only just remembered that I didn't schedule my post for CD Sunday this week.

Anyway our theme this week is Spring has Sprung and this was chosen by Jocelyn, you must go and check out the DT ideas there are some great things this week.

For my card I decided to use an idea I had for my craft class, this week I was showing them how to use around the page punches so decided to incorporate my DT card, I have used an image and matching backing paper from JNM 11 by Joanna Sheen, I think of spring when I see yellow as the daffodil is usually the one thing that finally persuades us winter is over and spring is here.

I hope you can come and join us and let us share your ideas for spring.

Rianbow Lady challenge - House and Home

Over on Rainbow Lady's challenge blog this week we have a lovely challenge called house and home.

For my contribution I have used one of the Polkadoodles cd's, this is designed as a shaped card but I have only used the front of the shaped bit and popped it onto a straight back leaving me room to add a sentiment. The front once printed has a tab at the side for joining the pieces together so I put this piece under the pink backing paper. The flowers, door , roof and tree are all layered to give it a bit of interest.

I hope you like it and can come over and join us, I'm sure you will come up with some wonderful ideas just like the rest of the team.

CD Sunday - Spots and Dots

Good morning it's a beautiful bright morning here in Wigan and it's lovely to see the blue sky only trouble is the sun shines into our bedroom so we are wide awake at silly o'clock but it does make a lovely change from the dull damp weather we've had recently.

Over on CD Sunday this week the challenge is to use spots and dots, my spots are on the cat and the dots are on the background and on the piece of green card down the side that I put through the swiss dots embossing folder. The wooden tiles were given to me and have been in a draw for ages so I thought I would get them out and put them to some use.

CD Sunday - From Me to You

good morning to you all and as it's another Sunday it's time for our latest challenge on CD Sunday and this week Christine has chosen From Me to You so plenty of scope for everyone.

I have chosen to use the Faye whittaker cd from Joanna Sheen for my card, there are some gorgeous images on this cd and I was spoilt for choice but settled on this one and the backing paper I have used several times because it seems to go with so many other things.  I embossed the lines one the plain card to give it a bit of interest and added a few gems to the areas where the lines cross.

 I hope you will come over and join us and we will enjoy looking at the things you create, so till the next time bye for now.

Golden Wedding Card

We are going to David's uncle and aunt's golden wedding party tomorrow so this is the card I've made to take with us. I'll be back tomorrow with the CD Sunday challenge.

Rainbow Lady challenge - Brown, cream and red

Over on Rainbow Lady this week our challenge is brown, cream and red, now at first I didn't have a clue and then I remembered that after last weeks challenge one of the entries was a dog from this set and once I'd found them I just had to have them.  My card is an 8inch square and although it looks wonky it is straight, just the angle of the camera.  I have used red mirri card and brown matt card for the layers and the message is stamped in brown pigment ink but not embossed.

I do hope you can mange to join us and share a bit of colour, looking forward to visiting you over the week.

CD Sunday - Imagine

This week over on CD Sunday we want you to use your imagination as the title of our challenge is taken from the title of the cd we have on offer.

This week we are being sponsored by Elegant Inspiration and they have given us a copy of their newest cd to offer as a prize. I have used two of the images to make my card and I do have to appologise for the poor picture but the light was bad yesterday and this was the best I could do. My card is is a dl and when it's folded down will fit into a dl envelope making it fine for posting, I have made quite a few easel cards but a friend made a dl one and I thought how good it looked so decided to have a go, so thanks Judy and I hope you don't mind me using your idea.

Hope you can come and join us and maybe as the saying goes it could be you who wins the cd.

St David's Day - Rainbow Lady

It's St David's Day today so this is the challenge over on Rainbow Lady this week. I have used a picture of some daffs bobbing in the breeze and a photo of a squirrel both taken on the same day at Dumham Massey which is a beautiful National Trust property.
I do hope you can join us and show us something Welsh to help celebrate the day.

Believe it or not today is dog biscuit appreciation day so with this in mind Cynthia has given us the theme of dogs, thank goodness it wasn't the biscuits!

For my page I have used CA and a piture of my boy, Pooka. He is 13 now and still bounces around like a young dog and one of his favourite places is the beach so this is what inspired the page.

I do hope you can join us at Rainbow Lady this week and have a bit of fun, I guess you could add a biscuit of two into what you do if you like.

CD Sunday Challenge - Wings and Legs

This week over on CD Sunday the chosen theme is Wings and Legs, well as I am on the design team for a fairly new company called Elegant Inspiration and this week they have launched a new cd called Imagine I thought what would be better than showcasing the cd in my contribution.

The cd is lovely with some pretty images on it and the book I have chosen to show you is one each of the images on the cd, so there are plenty of wings and legs in selection this week.  sorry for the naff pictures but took them just before sending the samples off for the launch of the cd which was on Create and Craft yesterday and it was a very popular choice, if you like the look of the cd but can't afford to buy it at the moment then keep a lookout on the challenge blog in the next few weeks.

Rainbow Lady - Mardi Gras

Over on Rainbow Lady this week we want you to use the theme Mardi Gras as your guide to doing something incredible. For my contribution I have used Craft Artist and done a page with a kit I bought from Digital Crea.
I'm sorry to be at least 8 hours late posting but I keep forgetting to schedule my post in time and then end up having to do it in the evening.

CD Sunday L is for..................

.Over on CD Sunday this week we have decided that we'll use a letter this week, as it's so close to Valentine's day Wendy chose the letter L. For my card I've chosen to use Faye whittaker's cd from Joanna Sheen and my L is for London.
I hope you can come over and join us and I think you're going to like the design teams cards there are some pretty ones this week.

Rainbow Lady's Challenge - Have a Heart

Over on Rainbow Lady's challenge blog this week the theme is Have a Heart, for my entry I have used a photo from a wedding I went to a couple of years ago and never got around to doing anything with them. The scrapbook page is made in Craft artist and everything is coloured using the backing paper to take the colours from.  The backing paper is one I got from Chocolate Baroque, Glenda was selling what she called a Stash-e-Lope and there was some lovey stash in it.

I do hope you can come on over and join us, there are some lovely samples from the design team. I am a bit late posting this as I usually do my posts in the morning but these days don't have the time but forgot to do this one last night.

CD Sunday - A La Mode

Good morning everyone and yes it's Sunday so we have a new challenge over on CD Sunday, this week it's A La Mode but because we are being sponsored the team have all used an image from the newset cd Shoes in Bloom 2.

The prize this week is any cd from the range at Ooh La La and they have a pretty good range so well worth a look and also entering to see if you could be the winner. We choose the winner by a random draw but also have a top three chosen by one of the DT.

My card is an 8 inch square, no surprises there then, the image and backing papers are printed onto 160 gsm text and graphics paper and mounted onto lilac backing sheets. A few gems, flower and a bit of my precious lace and it's done. I hope you like it.

Rainbow Lady's challenge - Wear red

Over on Rainbow Lady's challenge this week Cynthia wants you to wear red, well not you unless you want to but as it's wear red day it's seems a good idea for a challenge.

For my card I've used some much loved backing paper that I've had for ages and really struggled to use it as I am not sure where I got it from so probably won't be able to get any more. I know it's daft there's no point in having these nice papers if all you do is look at them.

The flowers were in a Kanban kit but they were cream so I coloured them with the two promarkers I used on the hat and dress then stamped thme with a patterened stamp in Versafine. The gems came in my carousel that I bought from Create and Craft last year when it was on special, just the tiniest touch of liquid glue and they are well stuck.
I do hope you can come over and join us this week as we love to see you. x

CD Sunday - Tag You're it!

Good morning and welcome to my little home on the web. This week over on CD Sunday the theme is Tag You're it, now it's not as bad as it sounds, it just means use a tag or make a tag and you'll be there.

For my card I've used the backing paper and tag from an artylicious cd and although you will struggle to see it on the picture the page is floral. I used a friends die and have had it for ages so decided that today I would use it, I had already coloured it blue when I cut it so had to arrange the rest of the card around it. now that was a challenge in itself never mind having to use a tag and a cd but I managed in the end. I picked out the colour of the book for the backing layers and the strip across the front, this was a bargain and I usually miss things like this but for once I was in the right place at the right time. I bought what Glenda from Chocolate Baroque called a stash-a- lope and it was full of 12x12 pages the like I haven't seen before and a couple of packs of rub-ons and this die set from Spellbinders, all for the princely sum of £10.  Glenda has quite a few lines she is clearing and now and again has some used products at fab prices so well worth keeping your eyes open on that site.

Anyway back to the card, the ribbon was white but I used the prussian blue promarker to change it and the I finished the card off with some flowers from Wild Orchid.

I do hope you can come over and join us this week as we love to visit you and see what you are doing.

Rainbow Lady's Challenge - Something Scottish for Burns Night

Over on Rainbow Lady's challenge this week the theme is Burns Night so something Scottish. I decided to go with the one thing I know best and that is dogs and although there are quite a few Scottish breeds the Scottish Terrier and the West Highland White are probably the best known.

I decided to do a simple scrap page with one of the cutest pictures, some people think they are the same breed with just different colouring but they are so very different as you can see in this picture.

I do hope you can join us and show us your thoughts on Scotland, pop over to the blog and see the rest of the teams ideas they are all very different.

CD Sunday - Zodiac

Good morning and as it's Sunday it's another challenge over on CD Sunday, this week the challenge is Zodiac and I decided to use the Enchanted cd from Card Creations + ,  the funny thing is I had started to make it for my mum but chose the wrong image and realised that her birthday doesn't fall within the Aquarius period so it will have to do for  friend in work whose birthday is early next month.
I cut the scalloped circle out on the Cricut and then stuck the decoupage onto that, the backing paper is a faded one which comes on the cd.  Once I'd done the card it looked a bit unfinished and although I don't normally use loads of bling I thought this needed something so went a bit mad with the gems but I think it works ok.

I hope you can come over and join us, it's a little lonely without you all.

CD Sunday - Enchantment

Over on CD Sunday this week we want you to think enchanting thoughts and show us what the word enchantment means to you.  For my card I have used an image from Joanna Sheen's - Country Garden, this image makes me think of an enchanted forest and the children are fascinated by the spider.
I coloured the background of the card with three distress inks and it's not as dark as it looks in the picture, I used spun sugar, scattered straw and one of the new ones iced spruce, before putting the ink on I stamped the swirls and embossed with silver pearl embossing powder.  The flowers were in a Kanban kit I bought from C&C, they were cream but I used the spun sugar ink directly onto the card before rolling them up. I have used a punch for the leaves and I was going to put a sentiment on but it didn't look right so used a few pearls instead.

I do hope you can come on over and join us, you know we love to see your entries as it gives us a chance to have a sneaky peak at all the other things you do.

Less is More - Single layer and Birds

Over on Less is More this week the challenge is single layer with birds, now I'm not sure this picture is very flattering to the card but it's the best I could get in the light I've got.


I spritzed the background with some Glitz Spritz that I've had for years, once it was where I wanted it to be I took a paintbrush and moved the liquid around to give it a dappled finish. I took a pen a went around the inner edge of the spritzed area to give an edge to it. 

The bird stamp is from Chocolate Baroque and is huge, I stamped it in Versafine and coloured the berries and tree edges with promarkers then stamped a sentiment on the bottom. It looks a bit squiffy but it's just the angle of the camera.

Rainbow Lady's challenge - Many faces of women

Good morning all, over on Rainbow Lady's challenge blog this week we want you to think of the many faces of women, I have used a Kanban stamp for my main image and the swirls in the background are from a set I picked up at the Port Sunlight stamp show last year. I have coloured the backround with Distress inks and then used one of the Texture Fragment stamps from Chocolate Baroque to add to the detail.
I have left the main image uncoloured apart from the flowers in her hair which I painted with the same distress ink as the texture stamping.

I hopwe you can come over and join us, I know there are a lot of things that you can do with this challenge, see you there!

CD Sunday - Sea Life

The challenge over on CD Sunday this week is Sea Life so I decided to do a scrapbook page with some photo's I took when I was in Australia, I thought they had been doing nothing for enough years now so I need to make an album with them.

These two photo's were taken in the aquarium at Sydney, I was totally fascinated with the large fish because it looked like it was made out of stone, I used a digi kit that came on one of the cd's that came with the original Craft Artist programme I think it's called dunes.


I do hope you can come and join us this week and you like what the design team have done with the theme.

Over on Rainbow Lady's challenge blog this week we are Travelling in Time to 2012, for my entry I have chosen to use the steampunk stamps from Kanban, I love these stamps and really would love to use them all the time as they stamp so beautifully and are great fun.
I have used a spllbinders die to cut out the backing piece which I have coloured with alcohol inks and used a LOTV stamp for the message.

I do hope you can come and join us and let us see your interpretation of time travel.

CD Sunday - O is for Olympics

Good morning all and a very Happy New Year to you all, this week over on CD Sunday we are being sponsored by the lovely Sharon Duncan with a fab prize of  Embossibilities Elegance and Embossibilities Texture Prints CD with some printable papers and embellishments.

Sharon gave us some files to work with and I used the one with the roses on but changed the colour in Craft Artist to fit in with my theme. I found the main image on the internet and the rest followed on from there.
I do hope you can come and join us and maybe win this great cd, and hopefully you won't have the issues that I have had trying to get these posts done, blogger is driving me daft these last few days, it's taking me hours just to do one little post.

Rainbow Lady's Challenge - Your choice

Over on Rainbow Lady's this week the theme is so easy that you have no excuse not to join us, Cynthia decided to give us a bit of a break and chose the theme of Your Choice.

For my card I used a stamp set from Joanna Sheen, this cat image comes with the flower so I stamped it all over and added a hint of colour with Promarkers making a pretty background, the cat image is coloured with Promarkers and I used a Sakura pen to do the eyes giving them a touch of glitter. I used the Weatered Wood Distress Ink around the edges and stamped the sentiment which also comes on the sheet, added a bit of ribbon and some gems and it's finished.

I do hope you can come over and join us, we love to come visit you. 

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to all my blogland friends. Have a lovely holiday and a very Happy New Year. xx

Rainbow Lady's challenge - White Christmas

Over at Rainbow Lady's this week we want you to dream of a white Christmas, for my card I've used the wonderful Thomas Kinkade cd, printed onto some lovely matt photo paper and plenty of glitter added but that doesn't really show in the picture. The ribbon is coloured with Promarkers and the slider stamped and embossed with WOW glitter embossing powder.

I hope you come over and join us for our final Christmas challenge of the year, there will be one other one before the new year though so hopefully you will find time amongst the madness for a bit of crafty down time.

CD Sunday - Fifties Fun

Good morning everyone, it's two weeks since the last CD Sunday challenge and this time as we are so busy over the christmas period it's another two weeker. The challenge this time is Fifties Fun and judging by the teams efforts this was popular with them so hopefully it will be with you too.
For my card I used My Craft Studio, A Carousel of Classics I don't use these discs very much but knew there would be something on there to fit the bill and I didn't even change the colour.

The trim at the bottom is done with a Martha Stewart punch and what looks like a thin ribbon is a piece of the backing paper.

Please come and join us we love to visit you in return.

Rainbow Lady's Challenge - Angels

Over on Rainbow Lady's this week we want you to think of angels. For my design I used Craft Artist and an image from Joanna Sheen's Angels and Fairies cd which I have had for years.  This is an 8inch square and I have used various digi kits to get the look I wanted, I do hope you can come over and join us.

Things with Whiskers week 2

As we are being sponsored by Elegant Inspiration for two weeks I have made another card to go onto the blog. A fairly simple decoupaged card but time is tight at the moment.

Rainbow Lady's Challenge - Trees and Baubles

What an eventful week I've had, on Sunday my pc died, it was quite old and had had a hard life but it was so sad to see it go. I have been saving for such an event so happily I could afford to go out and buy a new one so was only without for a few days. The only thing is all my favourites and contacts and lots of other things are still stuck in the old one, I do hope my friends lovely hubby can manage to get something sorted for me so I can retrieve the things I need.
Anyway on to this week over on Rainbow Lady's challenge blog, she has asked us to do Trees and Baubles and I decided to use a LOTV image as they are so cute and most of my friends and family are into cuteso this kind of card goes down really well.
The backing paper is from a Polka doodles cd and the the stamped sentiment is also a LOTV embossed with WOW powders.

Hope to see you over on the challenge blog so we can visit and see what you've been up to.

CD Sunday - Things with Whiskers

Good morning all, it's Sunday so another challenge from us over at CD Sunday and this week we are looking at Things with Whiskers.  This being the first Sunday of the month we are once again doing a sponsored challenge and this time we are running the challenge for two weeks so plenty of time to get your brains working and add something to the challenge.  I know some people are still doing Christmas cards and there are so many with mice and rabbits that I'm sure you could come up with something, in fact Santa himself has whiskers, lol.

My card didn't start out as a valentine's card but it sort of evolved into one, I have used an image from Lili of the Valley and the backing paper is from the Faye Whittaker collection from Joanna Sheen. I have used the fleur de lis  die from spellbinders but it wasn't large enough to do what I wanted so I cut out two one white and one red and cut them into four. I then fastened them to the back of the topper so it looks like the are just layered on top of each other. I then cut the corners from the same die set and put some gems on them. Once I'd done all that it looked like a good card for valentines day so I stamped the greeting and used the WOW embossing powders which I'm loving and it was complete.

We are giving away the fab Rachelle Anne Miller cd for this challenge and although the team got a cd each from the very generous Jo they arrived a little late for some of us so we will be showing you some more of the designs on the cd on the challenge blog next week but if you would lilke to see a few things I've done previously you will find them here

Hope to see you over at CD Sunday with some fab projects for us, see you there!

Rainbow Lady's Challenge - Christmas Carol

Over on Rainbow Lady's challenge blog this week we want you to think Christmas Carols, after all it's not too long to go now and I think it's ok to start getting a little excited.
For my card I have used a stamp from Artprints by Hero Arts which I have had for years, I have stamped and embossed in glittery gold powder and matted it onto gold card, the swirly embossed background was done with a mask through the Cuttlebug. A plain and simple card but it works for me. Hope you can come and join us as we are offering a voucher from joanna Sheen again this week.

CD Sunday - On Safari

It's time for another challenge over on CD Sunday and this week the theme is On Safari, I was going to use one of the big cat images on the JNM collections from Joanna Sheen but then I remembered that I had this image on one of the Cupcake cd's, this one is Walk on the Wildside.  I have used JNM for the backing paper which I'm not sure if you can see properly but has zebra's all over. I have used some of my precious tapestry card which I have punched with a deep punch from Martha Stewart.

I am quite pleased with the look of this card as I think it could quite easily be used for male or female birthdays, the sentiment is from a set by Lili of the Valley stamped in black and clear embossed.

Rainbow Lady's Challenge - Cards for Men

Over on Rainbow Lady's this week the theme Cynthia has chosen is cards for men, well we all know that men can be tricky but recently I have been buying some stamps that fit the bill perfectly.

This card is made with a fairly new set of stamps from Chocolate Baroque, I found the check background on the net and used Distress Inks to colour it, I liked the fack that it was already looking a bit grungy. The main image was stamped in black and embossed with clear then the bits of colour were done with more distress ink, I like the bigger chess pieces so wanted to use them so decided to ue them as focal points on the card. 

When I was putting the card together I noticed I had cut the background a tad too short so used a punch to do a border and hope it looks like it was designed that way. 

CD Sunday - Trees

Over on CD Sunday this week we are using trees as our theme for the challenge, I have chosen to use a stamp set from Glenda at Chocolate Baroque for my card. I know my card is a little plain but it is for a man and when I went to get my card candy I only had brown or blue and niether of these colours looked right so I have left it as it is, just the excuse I need to go shopping. The backing paper is from the Artylicious cd Decadent Brocade, I wanted something that would look as if it fitted in with the tree, not sure if it totally works but it's not bad.  The inked background is done with Distress inks, I used Stormy Sky, Scattered Straw and Forest Moss.

I hope you can come over and join us and have a look at the rest of the teams cards, some really nice things this week.

Rainbow Lady's challenge - Thanksgiving

Over on Rainbow Lady's challenge blog this week we are thinking about our american cousins so the theme this week is Thanksgiving. For my sample I used Craft Artist, not sure where I'd be if I didn't have this fab little programme.

I guess if you have no need for a special thanksgiving card then you could just do a thank you, but please join in with us as we love to visit and see your wonderful ideas.

CD Sunday - Paisley Fun

Over at CD Sunday this week the theme is paisley fun, well it may be fun for some but as it's not my favourite design type it wasn't really fun for me. I didn't have a clue what I was going to do so this card is done in a bit of a panic as I only finished it yesterday.

I found the image on the internet by googling paisley images so I don't know who did it originally but I won't try to claim it as my own. I printed the backing paper from Joanna Sheen's Enchanted Dreams and the lace is some I bought earlier in the year and have been using it sparingly, I really need to get some more.  The sentiment is Lily of the Valley and is embossed with Sparkle and Sprinkle in Blueberry.

I do hope you can come and join us and I'm sure you will have far better ideas than I have, just check out the rest of the team.