C4E Recipe #34 - Christmas!

 Hello everyone :)

I hope you are enjoying your Bank Holiday weekend :)

I thought I'd better post this card for last Friday's C4E Recipe challenge before the next challenge is posted lol!

There is still time to join in this week hop over HERE to enter and see the fabulous DT gallery!

 This week we are asking for Christmas Themed projects. We have 2 fabulous prizes up for grabs digi's from 2 Cute rubber stamps and 5 digi's from The Poodles parlour!

 I have used a cute Angel digi from 2 Cute coloured with Copics.

( E00, E11, E21, RV21, E43, E44, E47, B60, C1, C3, 0)

 I think I've Stickled this card within an inch of it life lol! Well it is Christmas!

For the embellishments I have combined Spellbinders snowflakes with punched snowflakes, Martha Stewart Fond Branch punched leaves, finished with buttons and flat back gems.

The DP's are Nitwit Collection paper which were free with Scrapbook mag last year.

I have finally got my mitts on Tim Holtz Tattered Florals and Sewing dies! Yay! I haven't had chance to play yet as the house needed attention :( hopefully I will get to play this week, fingers crossed!

Thanks for stopping by have fun!

hugs

Michele x

C4E Recipe #33

 Hello everyone :)

I'm back from my little break in Devon, we had a lovely week camping and exploring the Jurassic Coast.

This weeks C4E Challenge is an Embellishment challenge and we are asking you to include at least one tag, flag or ticket on your project.

Our lovely sponsor is Crafty Sentiments Designs who are offering the winner a choice of 4 digital stamps.

As always the DT gallery is full of fabulous inspiration form the very talented DT girls.

Join us HERE for all the details and entry.

 It feels like an ages since I made this card lol! I made it before I left for Devon for one of Mikael's school friends.

 The image is from Kenny K and coloured with Copics.

The DP's are Crate Paper

I still have lots to do for this weekends C4E crop we start our circle journal swap this month and mine is still not finished!

Have a fabulous weekend!

Hugs

Michele x

C4E R#32 - Colour recipe

Hello everyone :)

This weeks C4E recipe is a colour recipe. We would like to see projects inspired by the colours in the photo above. (image source - www.accessorize.co.uk)

As always there is a fabulous DT gallery full of inspiration and a fab prize up for grabs!

I'm taking a little break from C4E to spend some time with the boys so I don't have a project to share today.

I will be back next week with another C4E recipe challenge.

Have a fabulous weekend

Thanks for stopping by

Hugs

Michele x

c4e R#31 - Endless Love

Hello everyone :)

Happy Friday!

Wow it's been a hectic week! I am definitely ready for a break!

This weeks C4E Recipe is a Sketch recipe. If you like layers you'll love this sketch!

The DT gallery is chock full of inspiration including submissions from our 3 new DT girls!

This weeks prize is generously donated by The Poodles Parlour.

After all the male cards I have done recently it was lovely to make a very girly card! I threw everything at it lol!

I've used Kaisercraft Lilac avenue DP's. They are just gorgeous! 

 The image is Endless Love from Delicious Doodles. I've coloured it with pencils for a softer look although the cardstock I printed on wasn't too keen on them :(  and the photo doesn't capture the twinkly Stickles :( 

Gorgeous flowers and lace from Wild orchid Crafts, MS punches (butterflies and Fond branch) and lots of Stickles finish off this card.

Thanks for stopping by

Have a great weekend!

Hugs

Michele x

Treasured Photo

 Hello everyone :)

Last month I entered the UK Scrappers House challenge with this layout.

The challenge was to use a photo that was not perfect, one that you would probably not normally scrap. There was also a sketch to follow which I squished up to fit on to a 8.5 x 11" layout.

 My mum recently bought a fab new gadget. It scans old negatives and slides, they can then be saved as .jpeg images ready for printing. My mum has always been a keen photographer and took lots of pictures of us as we grew up. 

The focus of the layout is about having this opportunity to see these old photos and remember my childhood.

The layout has a very 70's feel with these gorgeous DP's from Crate Paper and My Minds Eye.

I have used the Martha Stewart punch Doily lace, and machine stitched around all the pieces.

I seem to have a thing about butterflies at the moment lol! they keep appearing on all my projects!

I have added lots of Stickles to highlight the fabulous patterns on the paper and of course the butterflies.

And this is the photo my sister and I in the late 70's about 1978. I'm the one at the front ;)

Have a good day thanks for stopping by

Hugs

Michele x

Teacher gifts & cards

Good morning!

You may need some sunglasses for this post lol! These sweetie gifts really were very bright!

I had a few teacher gifts and cards to make for the end of term and although I had made one card I left it far too late to do lots of different cards so one design repeated several times was the simplest solution.

For the sweetie boxes I made a simple open box and filled it with Lemon sherbets and Chocolate lime sweets. I then wrapped some bright yellow and green net around the box.

 For the tags I designed a set of round tags and papers. These were punched and die cut the pieces then attacked them with Stickles lol!

For the cards I used some gorgeous Crate Paper DP.

 I kept to a simple design using different shapes and layers and again lots of Stickles!

Have a great day!

Thanks for stopping by

Hugs

Michele x