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!