Girly but no Pink

It is so windy here today .. boo I hate it when the weather is like this! I hope it will calm down soon... well I'm sure you're not here to hear about the weather in Malta ha ha so onto my card and today I have my DT Card for the new challenge at Sweet Stampin.. The theme for this week is

GIRLY NOT NO PINK

We are this week sponsored by Pollycraft and so all the girls were given one of their cute images to play with. I was so so pleased with mine :D so so cute and sweet, definitely so girly, love it.

I coloured my little fairy and the moon with my promarkers, and then added some glitter on her wings and the moon. The stars are Die Namics and sentiment from my Hero Arts clear stamp set.

Besides Pollycraft, who are giving the lucky winner 5 digi images we also have our monthly sponsor, who this time is Joanna Sheen with a £10 Gift voucher to spend in the store.

     

I am today entering my card in these challenges.

Digital Tuesday 155 - BIRTHDAYS

Flutter By Wednesdays 198 - BIRTHDAY CARD

My Mum's Craft Shop 52 - IT'S A CELEBRATION

Do You Stack Up 67 - GLITTER/ BLING

Thanking you for looking.

Wishing you a lovely weekend.

xx

Punches and Dies

Good morning everyone. Hope you are having a good weekend. I have the usual housework and laundry to do today which unfortunately has to be done in between taking/ picking my boys to football, guitar and tennis, and also a visit to the hairdresser. I don't usually do the taxi driving on the weekends but I have to do it today as hubby is occupied with an activity at the parish church.......... !!

Anyway, I have a Christmas Card today which I am really pleased with and it's my DT Card for this week's new challenge at Sweet Stampin'. The theme for this week is PUNCHES AND DIES and we are sponsored by the lovely Pollycraft digi stamps. 

For my card I got to play with the cute Chester, so you can see why I am so pleased .. .. he is adorable I think. I coloured him with my promarkers, papers from a freebie paper pack in a magazine, gorgeous ribbon from Crafty Ribbons and the snowflakes die, Spellbiners and a small stars punch as well.

Chester comes without the sentiment, so I printed this one for mine and then popped it up as well.

These are my challenges for my card.

Everybody-Art-Challenge 169 - A CHRISTMAS CARD

Bearly-Mine Challenge 24 - MY FAVOURITE THINGS

Papertake Weekly - CHRISTMAS CRACKERS

Fairy tale Challenge 29 - CHRISTMAS

Polka Doodles 47 - ITALIAN CHRISTMAS (red, white, green colours)

The Crafty Pad 148 - RED & GREEN and GOLD or SILVER

Totally Papercrafts 94 - CHRISTMAS

Charisma Cards 46 - SNOWFLAKES

Delightful Sketches - RED AND GREEN

Pollycraft Monday 120 - CHRISTMAS FUN

I have some exciting news now yay 

I just found out I won two challenges this week, winning some fabulous digi images

at the Cardmadfairy's Digi Days Challenge

and also at Christmas Stampin' All Year Long

woo hoo 

Thank you for looking today and a big welcome and thank for following me to my new follower Joey.

Hugs

xx

Daddy Cool

Another long day at work today, so tiring and tomorrow I have to be at the rehearsals at 6.45am!!! Duh.. I usually leave home later than that for work .... hmm I better have an early night or I won't wake up he he 

I thought I would make a quick post today and show you the Father's Day card I did for hubby from the kids... guess what, they already gave it to him  :) 

I used again Maurice from Pollycraft to do my card, so fun and cute this Maurice is, he he  :) 

A very simple card, I coloured Maurice with my promarkers, striped papers........ recycled from a paper bag.... embossing, computer generated sentiment, card candy and that's it! 

I am entering my card in these challenges today

- Pear Tree Designs 53 - FATHER'S DAY

- Cupcake Craft Challenge 146 - BOY OH BOY OH BOY

- Creative Inspirations 115- CARD FOR DAD/MAN IN YOUR LIFE

- C.R.A.F.T. 106 - FATHER'S DAY

- Little Claire's 9 - CARDS FOR MEN

- The Secret Crafter Saturday 138 - A MALE CARD

Thank you for looking today.

Hugs

xxx

Football Fan

Lots of male themed challenges around at the moment, which made me realise I still haven't started my Father's Day cards! This one I did for my FIL, and as you might have guessed he is football crazy. He doesn't look exactly like the guy on my stamp he he :)  in fact he only wears glasses to read, is quite a bit thinner and got some hair as well ..... very different you must be saying, but my son liked this image and it is so funny, so I decided to go for this one. Hope he likes it!

The stamp that I used is Maurice from Pollycraft, and was one of the freebies in the store. I coloured him with my promarkers, and since he likes UK football, went for the red white blue colours. Stars done with my Die Namics die, sentiment computer generated and my lovely MollyBloom flag banner stamp, a magazine freebie woo hoo I love this stamp so much!

I am entering my card in these challenges today-

- Creative Inspirations 61 - FATHER'S DAY

- Creative Inspirations Wednesdays - DAD / MAN 

- Here Come The Boys 3 - FATHER'S DAY

- Lothian Crafts 15 - FOR A MAN

- Lexi's Creations 41 - FATHER'S DAY/ MAN'S CARD

- C.R.A.F.T. 106 - FATHER'S DAY

- Delightful Sketches - FATHER'S DAY

- PaperPlay 23 - FATHER'S DAY

- CES Challenge 39 - CLEAN AND SIMPLE

- One Stop Craft 134 - TEXTURE (for my embossing)

Hey, got some lovely news now .........

Just found out that I did the favourites at Birthday Sundaes

with this card

and won at Cardmadfairy's Digi Days Challenge with this card!

So exciting :) 

PS  Got back my car today, all fixed up and shining. Just as good as new again yay :)  and don't forget to join my candy.

Thank you for looking today.

Hugs

xxx

Just For You

Malta is voting today if we want divorce or not! Having grown up with no divorce, marriage for life thoughts, was really unsure if or what to vote, but anyway, finally I went and voted! So we will see tomorrow what the outcome will be... 

I made this card today for some fun challenges, using some of my new goodies :) For my card today I used one of my Pollycraft digi images, coloured it with my promarkers, papers from a magazine free gift and the Marianne Creatables Doily is one of my new purchase... like?

The sentiment and gorgeous fun ribbon are from Debby... can you see I made sure I didn't hide any part of the ribbon he he, I love it. Thanks again Debby xx

And these flowers I did them using the English Rose die, another of my new purchase. Couldn't get them right immediately and nearly gave up, but then I remembered my quilling tool.. and hey ho... the job was done!

I am entering my card in these challenges today

- Pollycraft Monday Challenge 64 - BINGO (flowers, lace, buttons)

- Bearly-Mine Challenges 11 - DIE CUTS and LACE

- Passion for Promarkers - ALL THE TWOs (butterflies flowers leaves buttons DPs)

- Anything Goes Challenge 41 - BINGO (flowers, lace/ribbon, dies)

- Fab 'n' Funky 74 - CUTE and CUDDLY

- The Sisterhood of Crafters - BUTTONS

- Crafty Catz 84 - PINK and GREEN

- Totally Papercrafts 68 - PINK and GIRLIE
- Bunny Zoes May - LACE

- Stamptacular Sunday 112 - BEARnecessities

Not going out today as hubby wanted to watch football. Was thinking of hopping off to my craftroom again but after yesterday am already starting to feel tired.. so I think I'm off for an early night now.

Thank you for looking

Hugs

xxx

A Cosmic Birthday

When I saw the party and fab bargains in Paula's Critters and Cogs stamps this week, I just went and got me one of the sets and now I did this card.... a tent card!

It's the first time for me that I'm doing one of these cards, wasn't my intention to do it, and in fact had a completely different idea for my card when I started it.. with different colours and lots of embossing, but this is it now and can't say I'm not pleased with the result, in fact I'm thrilled with it he he :) Really love how it turned out.

I coloured my stamp with my promarkers, paper is actually a piece of wrapping paper and I did the sentiment on the computer with a free font that I had.

I am entering my card in these challenges :

- Pollycraft Designs - COLOUR YOUR CRITTER

- Fussy And Fancy - EMBOSSING or PAPER PIECING (for my embossing on the star)

- Passion For Promarkers 88 - ONE FOR THE BOYS

- Stamping Vacation - NO NO FLOWERS

- The Secret Crafter Saturday 122 - FANCY FOLDS

Thanks for looking today and for all your lovely comments. I'll be back later today with some photos and the winner of my candy.

Hugs

xxx

A Funny Card

It's been quite some time since I made a card with one of my Pollycraft stamps and so when I saw this funny guy as this month's freebie, well... I just couldn't help myself and off I went and made this card .... 

For my card I used again my double sided hearts papers, coloured my stamp with my promarkers, some ribbon and three punched hearts ..

and added some googly eyes for the final touch ... yes I'm turning out all my stuff and each time I'm finding something I NEVER used!!!!

This is the sketch I followed today

and I am entering my card in these challenges today.

- Pollycraft Monday Challenge 79 - SKETCH & LOVE

- Critter Sketch Challenge 51 - CRITTERS

- Incy Wincy 80 - LOVE

- Stamping Vacation - NO NO FLOWERS

- Papertake Weekly - HAVE A HEART

- Polka Doodles 6 - THAT'S AMORE

- 2 Sisters Challenge 26 - HEARTS

Thanks for looking today.

Hugs

xxx

Earth Fairy

Hi girls, here is a card I made using this gorgeous Earth Fairy stamp from Pollycraft. Isn't she soooo sweet, I am really getting hooked on these adorable Pollycraft stamps....

So....  as always.... I have coloured stamp with my promarkers and again my papers are from the Cardmaking and Papercraft magazine. The border punch is Martha Stewart and flowers I got those from Michael's. It's the first time I'm using these.. still haven't used all the goodies I got from there.......he he :))

As you can see I tried that distressing again, which I done on my card yesterday. I loved it so much that I wanted to have a go with it again. This time I used a thicker card and I think it came out a bit better... some glitter again, green this time, but have to click on the picture to see it shine!!!!

Hope you like it.

I am entering my card in these challenges today
1 - Pollycraft Challenge 65 - IT'S A FAIRYTALE
2 - Magical Monday Challenge 6 - BACK TO NATURE
3 - Crazy 4 Challenges 58 - BIRTHDAYS
4 - ABC Challenges - F is for FLOWERS
5 - City Crafter Challenge-26 - TAKE FLIGHT
6 - Penny's Challenge No 40 - AS LONG AS IT FLIES

Hugs
Dora
xxx

Kiki with Cakes

Hi there friends, how are you, hope you have been having a good week. I haven't blogged for a while, sorry about that, but I've been experimenting with my new goodies :))) , besides of course, other things I had to do, and just haven't posted anything at all this week!

Today, Sunday, wow already!!! it's the birthday of our friend's daughter who is going to be one year old and we are invited for her party. For inspiration I checked at the challenges on at the moment and I thought cute Kiki with Cakes, which was one of the stamps I had won before I left for holiday last month, was just perfect!

Here is what I did. As always, I coloured stamp with my promarkers and then I used two of my new goodies which I got with me from Orlando this year. They are the Martha Stewart border punch and the 'Happy Birthday' stamp, which was one of the Hero Arts stamps sets I got me :))))



and this is the sketch that I followed.



These are my challenges for today.
1 - Stamp with Fun Challenge No 74 - THE SKETCH
2 - Pollycraft Monday Challenge No 59 - ADD A LITTLE NATURE for my flowers
3 - Stamp Something Challenges - SOMETHING CUTE
4 - Papertake Weekly Challenges - JUST THE ONE for my one paper
5 - Passion for Promarkers Challenge No 67 - TEDDY BEARS PICNIC
6 - Cupcake Craft Challenge No 106 - LET'S GET DIGITAL
7 - Stamping Vacation: No! No! Challenge - NO BRADS OR EYELETS
First time here for me in these two .. and not the last of course :)
8 - Mark's Finest Papers Challenge No 19 - 5 OF SOMETHING and my 5 are the paper, flowers, ribbon, hearts and gems.
9 - Aly's Sunday Challenge No 24 - USE SOME PINK


Well that's all for today, have to go get prepared for the party and before that I want to go visit mum at the Old People's Home..... must hurry :)

Hugs
xxx

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to all the mummies out there :) I decided I just would like to go for a picnic tomorrow, it will be so fun and relaxing. My mother already said she will love it too and it's going to be a sunny day.

For my card today I'm using this adorable freebie from Pollycraft. I only got it yesterday but I wanted immediately to have a go with it and colour it.. with my promarkers of course, he's such a cutie.



I made it for these challenges

1 - Pollycraft Monday Challenge No 42 - HERE COMES THE SUN
2 - Incy Wincy Challenge No 40 - ANYTHING GOES

Thanks for looking.
Hugs
xxx