Snow Goddess - Purple and Pom Poms

My daughter is helping me with a major sort out of my room... something that I have been putting off for ages but it needs doing urgently now... anyway, I'm coming across loads of half-finished cards and coloured up images! is it just me who does this? please say no!! LOL 

I found this little lady all coloured-up and ready to go... :-) and saw the  Winter Wonderland - 'Photo Inspiration' Challenge with the colours purple and white... and the Sketch on Sparkle Creations (see below) and I thought... Hmmmm... I should really finish this card.... so managed to squeeze in a little Crafting and here it is... quite a simple design but love the colours and sparkle...

Sparkle Creations - Challenge 46

The image is by Michelle Perkett and is called 'Snow Goddess' - isn't she gorgeous? you might remember I used her on a Hexagonal Card a while back... but she looks very different in these contempary colours...

The gorgeous Papers are Cosmo Cricket 'Mitten Weather' and the scrummy Pom Pom Trim was a gift from lovely Alessandra - thank you hun!!

Flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts and gems are from stash.

I used Promarkers, Flexmarkers and touch of Prisma Pencils... added some Viva Pearl Pen for snow (think it was Silver) ... and some Star Dust Stickles on the Fur Trims... I added the sentiment before printing.

I would like to enter the following Challenges:-

Crafty Sentiments Designs - 'Anything Goes' ends 15th October 2012

Crafts & Me  - Challenge 105 - 'Anything Goes' ends 16th October 2012

Divas by Design - Challenge 56 - 'Anything Goes' ends 16th October 2012 

Christmas Stampin' - Challenge 32 - 'Anything Goes' ends 18th October 2012

Winter Wonderland - 'Photo Inspiration' Purple and White ends 18th October 2012

Sparkle Creations - Challenge 46 - 'Sketch Challenge' ends 20th October 2012

Paper Crafting Journey - 'Add Some Bling' ends 24th October 2012
Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas - Challenge 94 -  'Snowflakes' ends 20th October 2012

Hope you like it...

Wasn't Downton exciting... real nail biting stuff... I won't give away the plot in case you haven't watched it yet... but the storylines are wonderful this series... and really enjoyed Strictly but I'm a bit sad Johnny Ball has left... I would have liked to see him stay in just a little bit longer...

Thank you for all your lovely comments... I really do appreciate you taking the time out to visit my blog!
Take Care
Love and Hugs

Awww... look what I bought!!

I love owls... so I couldn't resist buying three of these cuties when I saw them for sale on Etsy. They are made by the very talented Pat. Aren't they fab? She has also made some beautiful lavender filled hearts, mobile phone covers and bags... she is offering 30% reduction at the moment for her blogging friends!

aren't they adorable!!

I know a couple of people who love owls, so ....

two are going to be Christmas pressies... but I am keeping one for myself... !!! :-))))

and here you can see them hanging up with others that are for sale - they are SO cute... 

so if you would like to buy one of the owls any of the other fab creations.. they are available here! 

Hope you all have a lovely weekend! 

I'm looking forward to Strictly tonight :-))

Love and Hugs

MAWTT - Tag It !!!!!

Morning - hope you are all well this Thursday morning. It's time for a new Challenge over at 

Moving Along With The Times

... and this week it is the lovely Pami who is hosting and she has chosen the wonderful theme of

Tag It!

So we want to see Tags!!! any colour combo, any occasion as long as it's a Tag/s... these were so quick to do and yet I love how they came out... :-)

We are sponsored this week by the fab Stitchy Bear Stamps!! 

who kindly gave us some fab images to play with...

For the Snowman Tag I have used the image 'SnowTrio' and for the Brown Tag I have used an image from a set called 'In The Meadow We Can Build a Snowman'  

For the Brown Tag I have used a Stitchy Bear Stamps image from a set called 'In The Meadow We Can Build a Snowman' - I have taken the pre-coloured image but changed the tone to match my brown theme. The gorgeous paper is by Karen Funk at Design House Digital and is from Brown Paper Packages Set - Apple Strudel. And I will be singing 'Brown Paper Packages tied up with string' all day now!! LOL. I've added a portion of a Memory Box Frosty Border in Mint coloured card... and some brown string elastic for tie... oh and a touch of Cinnamon Stickles on the snowflakes in image which doesn't show up!! 

 For the Snowman Tag I have used the Stitchy Bear Stamp image 'SnowTrio' and coloured with Promarkers. The gorgeous paper and NOEL element are from Design House Digital by Karen Funk and is from set called 'Christmas Joy'. Just added a star gem from stash and some red and green ribbon for tie...

They were really easy to make so might make some more of these when I get the time ... hope you like them!

Hope you can hop on over to MAWTT for more details of this week's Challenge and Prize and also to see my Teamies gorgeous creations... and can't wait to see all your fab entries! 

I would like to enter the following Challenges:-

Cupcake Craft - Challenge 213 - Autumn/Winter ends 14th October 2012

Creative Inspirations - Challenge 184 - Anything Goes ends 16th October 2012

Simon Says - Dies and/or Punches ends 16th October 2012

I would like to say big Thank You to Betka for nominating me for 'I Love Your Blog' Award... it's so kind of you and I'm so sorry that I've not had time to pass it on properly!! 

Thanks for all your lovely comments and good wishes... my dad is now home from hospital and they have started him on some anti-seizure medication... so we're really hoping that it will help... it has been really stressful couple of weeks though.

I did manage to watch Strictly and thought it was fab... a few surprises... thought Lisa was wonderful !! and Syd Owen too... and Fern! and just love the way Jerry Hall says Foxtrot LOL

Will catch up with you all very soon...

Take Care

Love and Hugs

MAWTT - In The Dark!

Morning - hope you are all well this Thursday morning. It's time for a new Challenge over at 

Moving Along With The Times

... and this week it is the lovely Lisa who is hosting and she has chosen the wonderful theme of

In The Dark!

So we want to see your creations using Dark Colours or Things that come out in the Dark!! so it could be witches, cats, vampires, bats... or a Dark Colour Combo... it's up to you... it doesn't have to be a card as long as you follow the theme...

We are sponsored this week by the wonderful Bugaboo!! 

We who gave us some fab images to play with...

I have chosen this wonderful witch... 'JJ Calendar Months - October'

The gorgeous orange Design Paper is from a Freebie 'Halloween' Set from Design House Digital and is available here. The bats were on some other free digital paper that I got with magazine and I cropped them and cut them out... Gems are from stash... Sentiment was made on computer...

Hope you can hop on over to MAWTT for more details of this week's Challenge and Prize and also to see my Teamies gorgeous creations... they are spookylicious this week!! and can't wait to see all your fab entries! 

I would like to enter the following challenges:-

Bearly-Mine - Challenge 55 - 'Halloween' ends 8th October 2012

Papertake Weekly - 'Anything Goes' ends 8th October 2012

Craft Us Crazy - 'Halloween and/or Anything Goes' ends 10th October 2012

Heck of a Challenge - 'Spooktacular' - ends 31st October 2012

I'm sorry that I haven't got around to visit many of you this week but my dad was taken ill on Saturday. So things are a bit hectic ... trying to juggle everyday things with hospital visiting etc. and I am SO tired I look and feel like a zombie at the moment which is very appropriate with Halloween just around the corner!! 

Ah well not long until the weekend... and I think Strictly starts on Saturday!! and that means It Takes Two also... Woo Hoo!!... something to cheer us up now the nights are drawing in... really looking forward to it! 

Hope you all have a fab weekend !!!!!!

Love and Hugs

MAWTT - 'Seeing Red'

Morning... hope you are all well this Thursday morning and Big Hugs to those who are not ... We have a new Challenge over at ...

Moving Along With The Times

... and this week it is the lovely Laurie who is hosting and she has chosen the fab theme of....

'Seeing Red'

So we want to see your creations using Red... it doesn't have to be a card... as long as we can see that you have followed the red theme... 



We are sponsored this week by The Crafty Pad who gave us this sweet image and some gorgeous sentiments to use...

This little chappie is called 'Christmas Ted Posting Letter' and the Sentiment is from a set called 'Christmas Sentiment Tickets'....

With not feeling well... I've gone for a CAS card this week... I cut a strip of the bottom of Kraft Card Blank and used it as centre panel... the scrummy paper is from My Mind's Eye - 'Winter Wonderland' pad. I've used some wavy scissors to go down the sides and on the bottom of the panel to create a bit of texture... don't know why but this card was a real pain to photograph... and I'm still not happy with these photos... but I've taken so many and I'm really sick of tweaking them... so they will have to be ok LOL... 

I've coloured this cute little ted with Promarkers and added some extra snowflakes with Viva Pearl 'White' Pen. Also added Star Dust Stickles for some snow and Christmassy Sparkle...  

Hope you can hop on over to MAWTT for more details of the Challenge and to see my Teamies gorgeous creations... and can't wait to see all your fab entries! 

I would like to enter the following Challenges:-

Allsorts - Challenge 173 - 'Inspired by a Song' ends 28th September 2012

(Thistlehair the Christmas Bear by Alabama)

The Crafty Pad - Challenge 189 - 'Inspired by a Song' ends 29th September 2012

(Thistlehair the Christmas Bear by Alabama)

Less is More - Challenge 86 - 'Take 3 Challenges' ends 29th September 2012

Week 9 (April 2nd) A Touch of Red

Week 45 (Dec 10th) Let it Snow

Week 80 (Aug 11th) Fur or Feathers

Creative Craft Challenges2 - Anything Goes ends 1st October 2012

Simon Says  - 'Anything Goes' ends 2nd October 2012

Ooh Blogger is being a right pain for this post... what I type in Draft is not coming out correct in preview... it's changing the size of font and leaving gaps... I've had to type one paragraph in Largest Font for it to come out at normal size!! Arrggh... it drives me nutty... LOL

Did you see the first episode of The Paradise?  I really enjoyed it - but wasn't too keen on Parade's End  ... Benedict Cucumberpatch just isn't my cup of tea!!  Loving Downton but I'm SO jealous of Mary! LOL - can't wait for the next episode - also thought WDYTYA was fascinating with Bill Roache - and roll on Strictly too - ah I'm in TV Heaven... !!!

Thanks for all your lovely comments... I really do appreciate you taking the time out to visit! 

Love and Hugs

Snow Angel

Not a typical Christmas card I know... but I love how this came out... the lovely lady is from Crafts and Me and is called 'Snow Angel' by Jasmine Becket-Griffith. It was one of those stamps that I just had to have!! I've used the scrummy 'Rosarian' paper by Prima.... available from My Crafty Heart.... I think I'm going to have to get another of this pad... I love it so much!! 

The gorgeous Prima flowers are also from MCH.... Miss Godivas 'Marshmallow'. The sentiment is from Lili of the Valley... Christmas Grungy Messages... they are so scrummy!! Jingle bells and twine are from stash....

I had trouble photographing this... need to get my light box out now that the nights are drawing in... but hope you can see the glitter on the lovely Memory Box 'Frostyville' Border in the above photo.... it looks lovely and twinkly in real life! 

I've coloured her with Promarkers and added Red Stickles to necklace and top of her dress... I've also used a Cuttlebug Snowflake Embossing Folder... as she is a Snow Angel ... I thought I would give her a Snowstorm!! The image is mounted on Nestie...

I'd like to enter my card into the following Challenges:-

Craft your Passion  - Challenge 128 - 'Bingo' ends 23rd September 2012

(Emboss, Pink, Flowers)

Scrap Creations - 'Embossing' ends 24th September 2012

Creative Inspirations - Challenge 181 - 'Christmas in September' ends 25th September 2012

Fab'n Funky - Challenge 139 - 'Things with Wings' ends 25th Sept 2012

Simon Says - 'Emboss It Heat/Dry' ends 25th September 2012

Charisma Cardz - Challenge 37 - 'Things with Wings' ends 26th September 2012

Paper Crafting Journey - 'My Sentiment Exactly' ends 26th September 2012

Creative Craft Challenges2 - 'Anything Goes' ends 1st October 2012

Thank you so much for your tips to fix my printer. I was going to try re-installing the software or driver but it just started working fine the next day ... I honestly think it just has moods!! LOL
I am having a relaxing weekend as my chest is really bad again... on my third lot of antibiotics this month... I really hope this clears it... getting so fed up with it now... ok... off to read some more of my book Winter of the World... it's fab!!
Hope you all have a lovely weekend... the weather has brightened up here - so hope it is for you too! 

Love and Hugs