It's Hip to be square

Good morning all I hope you all had a fab weekend.
I am surrounded by builders' dust, rubbish and holes in the wall. Redesigning the kitchen seemed like a good idea at the time but I'm really fed up now, mainly due to the fact that my new craft room is full of stuff from the kitchen so I can't get to anything.
But I have had some fantastic news to make it all bearable. My best friend's daughter got engaged on Saturday in very romantic circumstances so.......

Congratulations Claire and Rich xxxx

This week's challenge at INCY WINCY is  

Hip To Be Square

Our generous sponsors this week are

Here is my DT card for this week

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The colours are not good in the photograph because of the light..

The pictures are from a gorgeous set called 

Brown Paper Packages - Apple Strudel Paper

By Karen Funk

Obviously they are not brown because I recoloured them didgitally.

The sentument is from Cuddly Buddly 

The flowers are made using a Marianne Die and covered in glimmer mist glitter

The tree is using a do hickey die and again covered in glitter.

The ribbon and bell are from my stash.

I would like to enter this into the following challenge
Fussy and Fancy - Feeling Blue
Crafty Cats - Lets see sparkle
Bunny Zoe's Craft - Winter
Little Claire - Christmas
Victorine Originals  Challenge
Card and scrap 43: make something with Christmas
Crafty blogges network 5: Christmas - anything goes
Sparkles 38: Christmas is coming
Great impressions November: holidays

Have fun with the challenge.

Use Fabric at CRAFT challenge

Good morning everyone,
                                    I trust you are all well. Once again it's Thursday - Christmas looms ever closer on the horizon and I have a house covered in brick dust as the builders demolish my kitchen to make way for a new one. Who ever it was that said having a new kitchen is one of the most stressful things is not wrong!

Today our theme at CRAFT is.........

 Use Fabric

and as always we have an array of generous sponsors.

Trimgym's Digital stamps and images    Scrappers' Delights

Bugaboo   Digital Stamps       Karen's Doodles    

For my DT card this week I chose SB Fancy Winter from Bugaboo

The 'fabric' elements are cheese cloth and a white fabric used to create favours for weddings.
The baby's breath flowers are also made from fabric.
The image is coloured with copics
The papers are from Katie Pertiet sets Jack Frost and December Fades available here 
The flowers are from Wild Orchids and the ribbon is from my stash.
The cute bells are from ebay.
The sentiment is from Cuddly Buddy.

Enjoy the challenge and the rest of your day

Girl Power at INCY WINCY Designs

Good morning everyone, I hope you had a good week end.
                                 On Saturday my best friend and I went to the NEC to the Hobby Crafts show. We had a fantastic day full of laughter and of course spending. We always meet such lovely people there.
                              Yesterday was back down to earth with a bump as Ian and I prepared the house for the return of the builders. This time they are knocking down walls so I spent the day wrapping up precious possessions and protecting all my crafty stash from building dust. Oh I will be so glad to get the house back to normal. In my haste to put together my DT card I realised I had done the card for next week's challenge. Luckily the image and papers were ready for this card so all I had to do was put it together.

Our theme this week at INCY WINCY designs is Girl Power

and the sponsor for this challenge is

Here is my card for this week.

The image  is called  Xmas Shopping

The fab papers are by Karen Funk's Christmas Joy papers which can be found here and

Bearly Mine set Christmas wishes, found here

The ribbon is from Fantastic Ribbons

The flowers are from Wild Orchids

Pearls are from stash

The sentimnet is one of my favourites and can be found here

The edges of the sentiment and the base layers have been glittered using glamour dust as has the fur on the hat, collar, cuffs and boots.

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

Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything goes.

Dream Valley - Anything goes

Ribbon girl - add sparkle

Tanda Stamps Anything Christmas

House of Gilli - Celebrations

Have fun, we are looking forward to visiting your blog.

Feeling Blue

Morning all,

Feeling Blue is the title of today's new challenge chosen by Jenni at

Charisma Cardz.

That's how I feel at this time of year - I really don't like dark nights and cold mornings!

Our sponsors this week are 

The Stamping Boutique         and           Stamp and Create.

For my DT card I chose this cute stamp from the Stamping Boutique.

'Smoochie Baby Girl'

The beautiful papers are from the gorgeous Catana Paper set by Katie Pertiet - available here

The sentiment is from LOTV

The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts

Lace is from our local craft centre.

Please pop over to my fellow team mate's blogs to see their wonderful creations.
I would like to enter this into the following challenges
Little red wagon - colouring
My Mum's craft shop - sentiment
Anything goes - Anything goes
Bearly mine - Anything goes
Through the craft room door - Anything goes
Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge- lots of layers

Enjoy the challenge and the rest of your day.

Inspired by a film

Hello everyone,

Hope you are all well. It's Thursday and time for another challenge at CRAFT.

This week our theme is 

Inspired by a film

Out sponsors this week are

My Hearts Pieces        Stitchy Bear Stamps    Hopejacare     LEJ Designs

I chose to use 'Sam Scarecrow' from Hopejacare

and the film is ...... The Wizard of Oz.

Image is coloured with Promarkers.

The Buttons are from ebay

The papesr are by Lynn Grieveson from her Forecast set.

The sentiment was made on my PC.

Have fun with this challenge, we are all looking forward to visiting your blogs to see your creations.

I am entering this card into the following challenge

Creative Belli Blog - Harvest/ Fruit

Crafty creations - no flowers

Anything goes - Anything goes
Bearly mine - Anything goes
Through the craft room door - Anything goes

Have a great day

Giving Thanks

Good morning Peeps,

It's back to work for me today after a week's holiday so very little crafting time I'm afraid. Still in this economic climate we are lucky to have jobs particularly those we enjoy.

Today at INCY WINCY DESIGNS we have another new challenge and the theme is..... 

Giving Thanks

Our generous sponsor this week is

Saturated Canary

The DT were lucky enough to be given some gorgeous stamps to play with and I chose this one called

Pack Light

sorry about the shadow the lighting was so bad when I took the photograph.

Isn't she stunning - how I love Krista's artwork.

The image is coloured with Promarkers

The flowers, lace and beading are all from Wild Orchid Crafts

The beautiful papers are by Maplebrook Studios from a set called Annelise Patterned Neutral papers and are available here

The sentiment was made on my PC.
I am entering this card into the following challenges


Catch the Bug - Anything goes
ATC - Add a sentiment - Anything goes
Dilly Beans - Anything girl
Fussy and Fancy - pearls and flowers
QKR - giving thanks
Poodles parlour - thank you
Raise the bar anything goes
Digi Makeover - Thanks

Have a great time with this challenge and a great day.

Birthday challenge

Good morning all,
                          Just a quick post from me today as I have to empty my kitchen cupboards in readiness fr the builders return.

Today over at CRAFT we have a new challenge which is  nice and simple.......

Birthday

We have several amazing sponsors this week 

LEJ Designs   The Crafty Pad     Flonz Rubber Stamps   Trimgym's Digi Stamps

Here is my card for this challenge using one of the images from The Crafty Pad.

The delicious papers ( so much prettier than in the photo) are from Designer Digitals

The set is called Chandra Papers and is by Katie Pertiet 

The image is coloured with Promarkers

The ribbons and gems are from stash.

The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges - 
Inky Impressions - Lots of layers
Penny's Papercraft - Birthday
Anything goes - Anything goes
Make it Monday - Always Anything goes
City Crafter - 3 patterned paper + 1 card stock
Digi Makeover - Lots of Layers
Love to create - Lots of Layers
Natalie and Amy - Colour Me Happy

Have a great day