Best Wishes

Evening everybody,

I finished a card earlier this afternoon that I made inspired by

TOMIC - Photo inspiration and Best Wishes or Get Well card.

I use these challenges to try new things and creep out of my comfort zone, I don't often make circular cards and I love this colour combo :)
I must apologise for the poor picture quality, the light was not the best.

The fab photo inspiration:

I would also love to enter:

Totally Tilda - Stitching

Just Magnolia - Buttons and bows

Supplies:

Go Kreate scalloped circle card die

Magnolia stamp - Tilda catching stars

Tim Holtz weathered clock and elegant flourishes dies

Magnolia DooHickey dies - cloud, scalloped stitched lace border, peony petal

WOC flowers

LOTV sentiment - Wishing You a World full of Joy

SU seam binding and linen thread

Bo Bunny papers

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look, got to go as I've still got to get school stuff ready for the morning..

Hugs,

Allsorts DT Wk 152 Shaker Card

Morning all!

It's my turn to host over at 

Allsorts

 this week and so I chose a theme of

Shaker cards.

I was a bit late starting this card so I was able to take inspiration from Lili's Little fairies sketch this week, I'm enjoying being able to join in with this challenge blog at the moment and I was thrilled when I found out I was lucky enough to win their prize last week! 

For my shaker element, I used hole punched paper, to look like white and milk chocolate buttons.

I know, there seems to be a common pattern emerging with my creations at the minute - all things chocolate! Maybe I'm compensating for the lack of it in my diet lol!

Supplies:

Go Kreate shaped card die

Nitwit papers - Crab apple solids/too

LOTV image - The Chocolate Factory

SU sentiment

WOC flowers

Magnolia DooHickey Scalloped stitch die

Nesties Labels twenty two

As always all the details of the challenge are on the Allsorts blog with the rest of the fab DT inspiration who never disappoint and I'm still honoured to be working with such a wonderful group of ladies!

Thanks for popping by today, your comments are so lovely, I hope to find time to catch up with more of your blogs this week :0)

Hugs,

Blog Candy Winner

Hello to all my lovely followers,

Just a quick post from me today to let you know who won my Thank you candy. I used old Random. Org thingy to keep things fair, I couldn't have chosen as you are all so lovely and if I had enough money I would give you all some stash LOL!

Anywho, without further ado, the winner this time is:

Min: 1

Max: 34

Generate: 15

#15 Lynne from NI

Congrats Lynne, if you can mail me your postal address to: nicolajacklinis@live.co.uk, then I can get your winnings to you. If the prize isn't claimed by next Thursday 3rd May, then I will redraw it.

Thanks to everyone who entered, a huge welcome to my new followers, hopefully you will all continue to enjoy my creations and keep popping back every now and again so I don't feel like I'm alone in blogland, I will be back sooner than you think with more candy!

Hugs,

Thank You Candy

This is a sticky post and will remain at the top of my blog until 24th April please scroll down for newer posts.

Hi everyone, just a quick post to say I have some 

Thank you Candy

 for all my followers as I reached 100 followers a little while ago but was too busy to put any candy on back then. 

Contents:

spring papers (12x12 - double sided)

paper flowers

self adhesive lace

glue stick and glue dots

1 x LOTV stamp

1 x Mini Magnolia stamp

As promised I have a few more things to add to the candy which I thought was an appropriate time to put on as I am doing so well (upto 150 followers) and still have a little way to go before it finishes.......

SU 'on board' press out shapes

Pack of three embossing powders

Pack of five bubble fronts (ideal for shaker cards/extra dimension)

If you are interested in winning:

 Be, or become a follower, I want my candy to go to a loyal follower. (No candy followers please)

Pop a photo of my candy in your side bar, linking back to my blog.

 Please leave your name with Mr Linky below.

Good luck everyone, I will draw the winner by random org. shortly after 24th April

Hugs,

Anyone for cake?

Morning blogging friends,

I had time to make something extra this week, so I'm here to show you it this morning before I start my mountain of jobs: tidying the garden, preparing Jasmine's room for redecorating, washing, and helping the boys with their homework!

I made a piece of cake to compliment the tag I created and am really pleased with how it all came together.

The extra layers of paper lace are still using the Magnolia DooHickey tag. I also used the Heart Swirl Branch DooHickey, a small 'Made with Love' charm and a pale pink feather. The Magnolia Mini is Congratulation Tilda.

I gave my tag an 'inside' too, with a few dusky pink gems, stamped swirl and more lace from bottom of tag detail:

The 'chocolate cake' is brown ultra fine flower soft. Flowers are WOC. The lace around the top is recycled from old clothes, the ribbons are Tim Holtz.

I would like to enter the following challenges:

TOMIC - DooHickeys and Mini Magnolia

Just Magnolia - Pastels

Magnolialicious Highlights - Luscious Lace

Hope you like my creations, thanks for popping by today, scroll down to see yesterday's new Allsorts card.

See you next Saturday with next week's Allsorts DT project, in the mean time have a great week!

Hugs,

Allsorts DT Wk 151 Sketch

Hi everyone,
Peace has broken out in my household now that school's back in and we are all happier in our term time routine, especially as the weather was so bad in the easter hols that we couldn't get out much anyway. Coupled with that our car kept breaking down so that made going anywhere slightly risky, however last weekend we got another car so happy days are here again all round - hooray!

 Today sees the start of a new

Allsorts

challenge! Our lovely Emma has given us a 

sketch

 to work with this week and I must admit I got slightly carried away so I hope you can still see the original sketch in my card :)

I turned the corner over twice and made a tag pocket. I used one piece of double sided SU paper so that it coordinated better at the turned back corner. I must confess that the LOTV image - New Hat didn't colour very well on the water colour paper I used (not my usual) and the red and black dress bled in a few places but I didn't have enough time to do it again and I was pleased with it on the whole so I left it (just don't look too closely lol!)

The only thing that's different from the picture of my card on the Allsorts blog is that I've added a few diamond gems so that I can enter: 

Lili's little Fairies challenge - Diamonds and Pearls

Other supplies used:

Magnolia DooHickey tag and antique lace

Marianne Creatable rolled flowers die

SU photo corner punch

Nesties Lacey square and foliage

This is the sketch to follow over at Allsorts, pop over to the main challenge blog for all the details and the rest of the wonderful DT inspiration.

Thanks for stopping by today, your comments are so appreciated. I hope you find time to join us at Allsorts this week, I will be back tomorrow to show you something extra I had time to make the other day.

Hugs,

Allsorts DT Wk 150 Buttons and Threads

Morning all and welcome to another 

Allsorts

 challenge!

This week our lovely Fleur is hosting and has chosen the fab theme of 

Buttons and Threads.

I decided to make a circular button box, I hope you like it!

As you can see, it has an easel image on the lid, as I can't make anything without an image stuck or hanging from it somewhere!

I did add glossy accents to Tilda's wings and pink stickles to the butterfly, and this photo attempts to show this (poorly!) But it does give a better view of the button centred flower acting as my easel support.

Supplies:

Magnolia Butterfly Dreams - Beautiful Tilda

Nesties Lacey circles

Magnolia Turquoise Heart paper and Doo Hickey Peony petal die

SU Seam binding

Thanks for taking a look, pop over to Allsorts blog for all the details of this week's challenge including prize and more wonderful DT inspiration!

Hugs,