Love and Hearts - GDT Penny Black and more Allsorts

A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR to all my followers!

Wow, the first day of 2012 is nearly over and it almost passed me by completely after a rather enthusiastic Celebratory New Years Eve last night at my brother and sister-in-laws! Ooops, have to admit I had a few too many to drink and have felt under the weather for much of today! But it was a fantastic night and had a really good time so I suppose it was worth it LOL!

Just wanted to share a card with you today that I did for 

Penny Black and more @ Allsorts

 as it was my turn to guest design for them and the theme.....

Love and Hearts,

 gave me a break from the Christmas cards!

Supplies:

Penny Black image- Love Nip

Go Kreate shaped card die

SU DP's

Nesties Lacy Circles

Pink stickles

Whimsey Mini postage stamp sentiment

gems, flower, brad, ribbon and pin from stash

Thanks for popping by to visit me, your comments are always appreciated, and let me take this opportunity to welcome my newest followers, will be hopefully visiting plenty of you this coming week to see what new projects you are all up to. 

Be sure to check out the challenge over at Penny Black and more @ Allsorts for all the details, and the gorgeous inspiration from the fab DT.

Hope your new year is filled with health, craft and happy times!

Love,

New Beginnings - Allsorts DT Wk 135

Wow, it's the last day of the year, doesn't the time fly when you're having fun! That's definitely how I can describe the time I spend crafting and blogging - I have made some fantastic friends and met some extremely talented ladies and I can't bear to think of my life without my blog now as it has introduced me to a whole new world where the people are just amazing. I've been lucky enough to be welcomed on to two fabulous design teams this year, which I never thought would be possible, and I'm loving what I do for those challenge blogs - Thanks Allsorts and Fussy and Fancy for giving me the opportunity to design for you, giving my work direction, and meeting loads more talented crafters along the way!

Anyway, onto the main reason for this post:

Allsorts

are about to see out the old 2011 and welcome in the new 2012 with a brand new challenge

New Beginnings.
Please pop over to the Allsorts challenge blog for all the details and the other amazing DT inspiration!

I chose to make a wedding card as I don't think I've ever made one before! Hope you like it.......

I heat embossed the word 'Bliss' ontowhite cardstock to tuck behind the matted image.

Supplies:

Go Kreate shaped card die

Magnolia Antique lace Doo Hickey and Sweet Rainbow Dark Pink Flowers Paper

Nesties Labels two

LOTV image coloured with TH DI's

SU stitch stamp, Bliss sentiment, Polka dot embossing folder

Flowers, hearts/ring charm, ribbon and bling from stash

Wishing you all a very Happy and Peaceful New Year,

see you tomorrow when I will show you my guest design card for Penny Black and More @ Allsorts.

Love,

Fussy and Fancy DT Challenge number 53 - Happy Birthday to Us/Use animal print

Morning blogland, 

This fortnight's

 Fussy and Fancy

 challenge will see out 2011 and welcome in 2012 with the theme 

Happy Birthday to Us/Use an animal print!

and this is what I created:

The image is LOTV - coloured with TH DI's

 SU photo corner punch, beveled frame (for the sentiment)

Nestie lacy squares

Flowers, gems, buttons, lace all from stash

Paper  - SU and was given the animal print paper so don't know where to get it from :(

Pop along to the Fussy and Fancy challenge blog for all the details and all the fab DT inspiration!

xxxx

I hope you all had a fab Christmas, mine was hectic but lovely - it can't be any other way with three young children who are all professionals in the art of unwrapping things! Anyway, lets just say Father Christmas didn't disappoint and the big day relieved a lot of tense anticipation that had built up in the week leading up to Christmas Day, all that waiting was getting a bit too much for three over excited kids! I must have been a good girl this year as I got this:

which is amazing as it means I now have a crafting station and I won't have to trail all my stash from one room to another and back again! 

I would just like to thank everyone who has supported me this year, I have made some fantastic crafting friends and hope to make many more in 2012!

Enjoy your day and I will be back again tomorrow with my 

Allsorts DT creation.

Love,

Allsorts DT Blue and Brown Wk 134

Morning everyone,

Hope all your christmas plans are going to schedule, I've got what will probably be my last Christmas creation to show you today....I've made a tree decoration for

 Allsorts' new challenge

 which will run for a fortnight over the festive period. Our wonderful hostess, and my best friend Fleur, has come up with a colour challenge of

 Blue and Brown.

I ran out of inspiration for the third side of the 'bauble' as I was trying to work on it late one night, I think I might add a Christmas recipe to it now I've had chance to live with it and decide what it was lacking!

Supplies:

Nestie beaded ovals

TH Swirl Die

Magnolia flag, vintage tag, mini doily dies

Marianne Creatable Flower Die

Magnolia Tilda hiding gift, coloured with DI's

Challenge I would like to enter:

TOMIC - make a Christmas decoration

Please find all the details of this challenge, and prizes to be won, on the Allsorts challenge blog. Check out the other fab DT work for more inspiration!

Thanks for popping by, your comments mean so much and keep me going!

Have a magical Christmas and although I probably wont have anything new to show you for a fortnight I will definately be catching up on a whole heap of comments!

Love,

Monochrome and Sparkle No.52 Fussy and Fancy DT

Morning blogland!

Just listening to sleeps till Santa on the radio - only nine to go! I dont know who's more excited me or the kids, LOL!

This fortnight, 

Fussy and Fancy

 have another fab challenge for you - Monochrome plus sparkle!


I cut an aperture out of the front of the card using a nestie lacey square, tied a tag to the top made using a beaded oval nestie and Tilda with snow heart, coloured using TH DI's.
Blue flowers made using Marianne Creatable Die and swirls are Magnolia's Heart Swirl Branch.

The frame for a personal message was made using the lacey square nestie again. I used Magnolia paper Sweet Flurry blue for the bottom panel and not sure what the name of the embossing folder is.

All the details of the challenge are on the Fussy and Fancy blog. Hope you find time to join us this fortnight - take a look at the other amazing DT work for inspiration : )

I will be back in the morning with my creation for Allsorts......

Love,

Allsorts DT Wk 133 Take Two

Morning everyone,

Welcome to a new

 Allsorts

 challenge, set this week by our lovely Brenda, who would like you to 

Take Two 

colours only for your cards and projects.

I made a box-frame front for my card, using concertina strips of card.

Supplies:

Paper: Magnolia Sweet Rainbow - Dark Pink Foliage

Magnolia Tilda with Winter flowers coloured using TH DI's, sentiment also Magnolia

Doo Hickeys used: Lovely Fence, Spruce tree, antique lace, heart swirl branch

Magnolia White chandelier

Framed Tilda using nesties lacy square

Flowers from stash, and rolled some using Marianne creatable die

A peek at the dimension and inside of my card, where I used more pink Magnolia paper and the reverse frame cut from nesties lacey squares.

Thanks for taking a look, hope it inspires you to have a go at using only two colours, take a look at Allsorts challenge blog for all the details, what you could win, and further inspiration from my fab DT teamies.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Love,

Going Round in Circles - Allsorts DT Wk 132

Happy Saturday everyone,

Back again today,as promised, with another fun 

Allsorts

 challenge. This week Debs is our lovely hostess and she has set the theme

Going Round in Circles!

Lots of scope for this one, I was spoilt for choice, and in the end went for a bauble that I dug out of the Christmas trimmings bag!

It was really quick to make and is already on my tree!

I brayered the background, then overstamped with an SU Christmas sentiment stamp.

Coloured Tilda with Snowheart using DI's, cut her out and mounted her on background with dimensionals. Added ivory flower soft to her hat and inside the bauble loosely to look like snow around her feet, and finished it all off with a big bow and flowers.

Please take a look at the Allsorts challenge blog where you will find all the details of this week's challenge, prize up for grabs and amazing DT inspiration.

Scroll down to see my creation for Fussy and Fancy DT from yesterday.

Thanks for popping by, your comments mean so much. I will be having some candy soon to celebrate over 100 followers, so watch out for that hopefully in the next week or two.

Have a truly fantastic weekend

Love,