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Quite a few of us on Sarah’s DT have birthdays in March, me included. It’s Nicky turn to chose the challenge and as Nicky also has a birthday coming up she has chosen the theme for this challenge as: BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS I’ve used papers, embellishments and images all from Sarah’s new Steampunk CD, which I have to say is absolutely fantastic. From someone who isn’t a great fan of the

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Happy Thursday. I’ve got a couple of posts to make to today and I’m packing for a weekend away to celebrate my parents Golden Wedding Anniversary, so I will keep the waffle to a minimum, if I can! It’s time for another challenge at PCJ and this fortnight we are being sponsored by The Paper Shelter. The theme is nice and easy… ANYTHING GOES I’ve used the wonderful image ‘Spring Swing’ which I

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Just a quick post from me as it’s been a long day and my bed is calling. The challenge this week at Less is More is to use scraps. This is perfect for me as since the start of the New Year I’ve been making a conscious effort to use up some of my massive pile of scraps. Anyone who knows me well will tell you I like order and things to have their place so my scraps are actually very well

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I’m just going to make this weeks Less is More challenge by the skin of my teeth. It’s been a very busy, hectic, funny sort of week and as I type this I’m starting to feel a little shivery and below par, add that to the fact I’ve used half a box of Kleenex this afternoon wiping Little One’s nose and I think I may be coming down with something. Oh well, rather get it out the way now before my

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I’m back again! Just popped Little One down for his nap and thought I would get this posted in peace and quiet. He’s been so tired this morning, bless him. I think he’s just worn out from a hectic few days, as he had his birthday party on Saturday, went to a Fun Factory on Sunday and it was his proper birthday yesterday. Anyhoo, if you saw my earlier post you already knew I’m having major

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I won’t bore you with the details but my Laptop is very broken at the moment and my hubby is trying to fix it for me. I feel so very lost without it and I’ve got very behind in keeping up with all the lovely blogs I follow. I can view them all in Google reader on my phone but, it’s too difficult to look at anything for too long on a 3.5 inch screen! So after a very hectic weekend, including my

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This is my second post today, please scroll down for my Paper Crafting Journey post. This is my final post as GDT over at Moving Along with the Times and I just want to say thank you to the MAWTT girls for having me on board and making me feel very welcome. The challenge this week is: GET WELL SOON A few weeks back (before I was GDT ) I was lucky enough to win a challenge at MAWTT and my

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It’s a busy post day for me, so as I will be back later with my final GDT post for Moving Along With the Times and my DT post for Sarah Hurley Challenge Blog I’ll keep the waffle to a minimum and get straight on with things. Our challenge this fortnight over at Paper Crafting Journey is: MAKE IT CUTE We are being sponsored this challenge by Pink Cat Studio and I was lucky enough to be given

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The challenge Chrissie and Mandi have set us this week at LIM is One Layer Stripes. Unusual for me as I have managed to make a card already and not at the last minute like I normally do. The stripes had the grey cells a bit stumped to start with but then I remembered a Hero Arts Set of Ribbon stamps I was given ages ago as Birthday Present. They are Wood Mounted and hidden away in a box so I

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Happy Birthday LIM. Chrissie and Mandi have now been challenging us for a whole year and a whole year of fun it has been too. Now I’m going to apologise in advance for my pictures. I’m not having the best of weeks…a lot of things are breaking and stopping working for me. My camera being one of those things, so I have used my mobile to take these pictures. The LIM challenge this week is Aqua and

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Morning all. Another cold one here, but on the plus side we went and did a second viewing on a house today. It’s one that both Hubby and I like. We don’t usually agree but this one suits us both and I think we are going to put an offer in. It’s all quite exciting and I can’t wait to be in my own home again. Anyhoo, let’s get down to business. I’m here to share my card as guest designer over at

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This week over at Critter Sketch Challenge it’s a colour inspiration challenge. Special thanks to Design-Seeds for our colour palette. So this week you just need to make a project that reflects the colours and feel of this picture and colour palette. I’ve used the colours as inspiration. and used an adorable image from Lili of the Valley. Please pop by the Critter Sketch Challenge Blog

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Posted at 1pm Monday 30th January. This is a sticky post and will remain at the top until Sunday 5th February at 10pm. Over at Critter Sketch Challenge Blog we are celebrating our 100th Challenge and we are having a blog hop to celebrate. There are some wonderful sponsors helping us celebrate and some designers from the sponsors are joining us on the hop. If you have just popped by and want to

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Are you bored of me yet? On second thoughts it’s probably best you don’t answer that. At Sarah Hurley Challenge Blog our new challenge is: LOVE IS ALL AROUND Sarah released a new Digi Kit on Monday especially for Valentine’s day. The kit can be found here and it’s fabulous, so I’ve used it to give you just a hint of what can be made using it. Don’t forget to pop over to the challenge blog as

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Me again! It’s my second post of the day and my second challenge as GDT with the MAWTT girls and I would like to thank them as they have made me feel very welcome.  It’s time for a new challenge and this week it’s: HAVE A HEART The DT were lucky enough to be given some images from the sponsor for this challenge, Stitchy Bear Stamps, to work with and I’ve used two of them on my card LoveUBug

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You are going to get bored of me today. I’ve got two DT posts and a GDT post to share with you. And if I get a few minutes peace and quiet to sneak off to my craft room this afternoon I’ll have one last idea for the LIM challenge to share with you. Anyway back to the matter in hand it’s time for a new challenge over at Paper Crafting Journey and our theme this week is: FAIRIES AND ANGELS   We

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I have made another card this evening for the sketch challenge over at LIM. I’m trying to build up a box of cards for hubby to sell at work and my LIM entries are perfect for this as they are quite quick (and inexpensive) to make. He used to sell them for me a few years back, but since I had Little One it came to a halt. How time flies? Little One is going to be two in a couple of weeks and he’s

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Me again. Still very cold and cold hands make stamping a bit tricky as everything wobbles. Over at LIM this is the sketch: And here’s one of the ideas I had earlier but now it’s finished it’s not quite how I saw it in my head but I quite like it. It’s another One Layer card (go me!!!). I’ve used a Stampin Up set of Petals and Flower centres that I picked up second hand on Ebay last year. I

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It’s so cold here today. We’ve got a little fine snow but none of it is settling, thank goodness.  This isn’t a warm house, even with the heating on full blast. Little One and I are wearing layers and lot’s of them, which is ok for a bit of blogging, but I feel strange trying to do the house work in so many layers of clothes. Anyhoo, enough waffle. This week at LIM Chrissie and Mandi have set a

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Morning everyone just a quick little post as me and Little One are off to my parents for the day. I was lucky enough to be asked to be one of three guest designers at Moving Along With The Times for the next month (whoop whoop) so without further I’m here to share my first GDT card. This challenge the theme is: BLOOMING MARVELLOUS So just make sure there are flowers on your image, your backing

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Afternoon everyone. Just a quick post from me while I have a quick cuppa as I’m knee deep in housework. Moving house/house hunting/Christmas has really upset my routine, I normally just do a little bit of house work each day and I keep on top of things but at the moment everything seems to need doing all at once. And don’t get me started on the dust….our last house was a new build and we didn’t

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I thought I would try out for the GDT Call at Saturated Canary. I don’t think my cards are anywhere near good enough as they are already tons and tons of fantastic cards,  but as they say ‘You have to be in it to win it’. So here is my card made with the gorgeous ‘Becca and Bo’ This image was lovely to colour, not to intricate but a nice balance with just the right amount of detail. And I got

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Just a quick post from me as I’ve got some other things I should be doing. In my earlier post for the ‘Bird’ challenge over on the LIM blog I said I had a card that needed a repair, well I haven’t had time to make the repair, let alone photograph it again so I thought I would post it anyway. It’s only a little gem on the bottom right flower that has slipped slightly so just imagine it’s on the

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It’s all about me is the theme of this fortnights challenge over at Sarah Hurley Challenge blog and this time I made something other than a card. I’ve made a wall hanging showing some of my favourite stamps, styles, techniques and embellishments. Here is each panel in more detail: I have also included another absolute favourite of mine, paper patchwork using cream papers printed

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Well after telling you all about the fence painting I’d be doing today, I didn’t do any…it rained too much! So instead I’ve done some pottering around and sorting things out. My Mum has just taken little one for a bath (the perks of staying with my parents for a few days) so I thought I would share another of my ‘Bird’ cards for the challenge over at LIM. Starting with a square cream card

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Morning all. An early one for me as I have got a day of painting fences ahead of me (I’m helping my parents do some things in their garden). So I’m hoping the weather won’t be as chilly as it has been over the last few days. It’s very difficult trying to paint wearing so many layers of clothes and yesterday my feet were so cold I wore extra socks and that made my Welly boots a little too tight…

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Don’t worry I’ve not gone mad (well no more mad than I have been for years lol) it’s the theme given to us by Chrissie and Mandi over at LIM this week. I have made four cards and to avoid picture overload I will post them separately. I also noticed after photographing them that one of the cards needs a little ‘repair’ before I can post. This is my favourite of the four cards: The gorgeous

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Grrr I’m having problems with blogger, this post was scheduled to be on here at 1pm but I’ve logged on now to find it not posted. Rant over…. I’m here to share my creation for this weeks Critter Sketch challenge where the theme this week is: SKETCH Here’s my card: I have stuck pretty close to the sketch this time Please hop over to Critter Sketch Challenge and see what the rest of the

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I promise this is my last entry to Chrissie and Mandi’s challenge over on the LIM blog. These three cards were part made yesterday but have only just had time to finish them as I have been helping my parents in their garden by doing some fence painting. Thanks for stopping by. Lisa

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I thought I would share these two cards after all. As I said before though I’m not so keen on them but I can’t put my finger on why so your thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks for stopping by Lisa Item’s: Card from stash, various flower die cuts (used for masking), Picket Fence Distress Stain, Ranger Stickles, Pearls from Wild Orchid Crafts, Purple Whispers Brush Marker, Various Purple

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It might be blog post overload from me tonight. I don’t feel like crafting (shock) and I can’t watch TV as Hubby is using it to play Wii. So I thought I would blog some cards I have made recently and schedule some blog posts of upcoming DT cards. Our house hunting is going quite well and we have a shortlist of three houses that tick most boxes for both of us, the exciting thing is they all have

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Boy oh boy, I thought this week would be easier as I love Purple. Chrissie and Mandy you sure have challenged me, but that’s what I love! The LIM Ladies want to see ‘Predominantly Purple’ this week. There is an attempt #1 & #2 which I may share later but am still undecided as to whether I like them so for now here is attempt #3: All purple apart from the tiny white pearls and one layer as

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Just a quick post from me as I’ve been running behind with everything all day and I need to head to bed soon as we have a busy day viewing potential new houses tomorrow. I’m here to share my card for the first challenge of 2012 over at Sarah Hurley Challenge Blog, where the theme this week is: GIVING THANKS/THANK YOU Anyone who knows me knows I love Flutterbies so I immediately fell in love

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Happy New Year. This is my first post of 2012 and the first Critter Sketch Challenge of 2012. The theme this week is: CELEBRATE My card is to celebrate a birthday and even though it’s for a boy I couldn’t resist just a smidge (or two) of glitter. Please hop over to Critter Sketch Challenge and see what the rest of the DT have made and also check out the details of the forthcoming blog up

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Debby, whose cards I’ve admired for a long while now, is doing a round up of 2011 and asking us to share our Top 5 Cards of 2011. Here are mine: 1. I love pink and butterflies, so this one had to make my top 5! 2. This year I started joining in the LIM challenges and this is my favourite, both WoW and CAS! 3. I loved making this card using all Digi Papers, image and sentiment from Pink

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…I’m in print!! Anyone read Papercraft Essentials Magazine? If so have a look at Page 25….. my cards are there. I’m a runner up in their Papercrafter of the Year competition but haven’t been allowed to tell anyone until now. This was Christmas come early for me and I’m still grinning now. I think I’ll offer a little candy in the New Year to celebrate, but for now… Merry Christmas Bye for

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  We are currently having a design team call at Critter Sketch Challenge to add a few new members to the team. If you are interested please click the badge to see all the details. Lisa

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It’s a lovely clear day here and to really get in the Christmas spirit I’ve been doing the housework with some very cheesy early 90’s Christmas movies on the TV (‘m a big kid at heart). I’ve been trying to think of what do for this weeks LIM Challenge where Chrissie and Mandy want us to use the theme of music. I don’t have any music stamps at all so I have taken the other route and made a card

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…and I’ve had a lovely evening. Hubby went out for one of his Christmas Do’s (I say one because he has four in total and wives aren’t invited…hmph). So I’ve been sat here with some chocolate, a glass of fruit cider, watching Twilight Eclipse and wrapping presents. I’ve been quite successful and wrapped everything I’ve bought..so far. I still have a few little bits to get but the main stuff is

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Hello I’m here to share my card for the last challenge of 2011 over at Sarah Hurley Challenge Blog, where the theme this week is: COLOURING We have been sponsored this time by Limited Runs Digi and I’ve used an image of theirs called ‘Little Tree’ and teamed it with some gorgeous papers and embellishments from Sarah’s Tinseltown CD. Please hop over to Sarah Hurley Challenge Blog and see what

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….as I’m supposed to be looking at houses on the internet with hubby, which is actually quite exciting. I’m looking forward to getting back into a house of our own, especially as we are getting used to the area now. I’ve made three cards for this weeks challenge but only this one is completely finished hopefully I get some time to post the others later when my little one is in bed. This is

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Hope everyone is well this cold and wet Monday morning. I’m up early today as I’ve got a lot of things to do and hubby has the afternoon off for us to go shopping for his Christmas present. Waffle over I’m here to share my creation for this weeks Critter Sketch Challenge where the theme this week is: SKETCH I rotated the sketch 90 degrees anti-clockwise and used this gorgeous image from

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I have had one of those days…you know the sort where you wish you never got out of bed! Nothing bad has happened I just feel a bit off and restless.  It hasn’t been helped by the weather, it’s been awful today, I dread to think what it’s been like up in Scotland with all those gale force winds, a good excuse to stay in and make cards me thinks. Enough waffle, I’m here to share my creation for

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Just a very quick post as it’s my my bedtime.  I’ve been trying to sort some things out and I would rather go to bed with them done so I can rest properly that go to bed knowing they have to be done tomorrow. Anyhow I have made a card for this weeks LIM Challenge but I fear I’m going to be on the naughty step as my card has some red on it……ok hands up A LOT of red on it. It’s just that I wanted

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It’s time for another challenge over at Sarah Hurley Challenge Blog where the theme this time is: CHRISTMAS This week we are lucky to be sponsored by Letraset, so hop over to the challenge blog to see what you could win. I've gone digital! I wanted some easy to produce Christmas cards, so on the computer I've layered up some gorgeous backing papers and an embellishment (all from '

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I’m here to share my card for this week’s Critter Sketch Challenge where the theme this week is: DIGITAL DELIGHT WEEK Easy peasy just use one of the fab images available from Digital Delights by Looby Loo. I’ve gone for this adorable little snowman again. I’ve teamed the image with some gorgeous Forever Friends patterned papers and stuck to some very traditional Christmas Colours. I also

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Just a quick little post to share a card I’ve made for this weeks LIM challenge where Chrissie and Mandi what to see us use Silhouettes. I really wanted to have a go at this as I wanted to try out making a snowy background using watercolour with salt salt dropped onto it but thought I was going to have to give it a miss when I couldn’t find a Silhouette stamp anywhere in my stash. Then I

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I’m a little here to share my creation for this weeks Paper Crafting Journey challenge. I have had issues with my camera and not been able to upload my pictures. Well after uninstalling and reinstalling the camera software and also formatting the memory card it looks like the problem might be fixed. So back to the challenge and this week the theme is: ANYTHING GOES Now if you’re cunning

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OMG, what a week. The few who read my blog will know I moved house last weekend. It’s said to be one of the most stressful things someone can do in their lifetime and I’m certainly not going to disagree. And to top it all off my little boy has been quite poorly, but thankfully is now on the mend. We finally got internet access at home today, so I’m here to share my card for this week’s Critter

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No waffle from me, just a quick share of the card I made for this weeks LIM challenge which is ‘Stars’. I’ll edit later with details and items. Night night Lisa

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….I need a break from the packing so I made a quick card for this weeks Less is More challenge, which is to use ‘Polka Dots’ Not my best effort, but I’ve made it so I’ll share it. The square panels are quite pretty IRL. I inked the inside back of an embossing folder so that I ended up with pink debossed polka dots. I then ran a Starlight Black Brilliance Inkpad over the top and embossed. Bye

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Monday again and now the countdown until we move house is only two weeks…OMG! Today I’ve spent all day packing and so far about 90% of my craft room is packed, for now I’ve left some stuff out as there is no way I can miss crafting for too long. Anyhoo. I’m here to share my creation for this weeks Critter Sketch Challenge where this week it’s a recipe: THREE PATTERNED PAPERS What with the

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It’s time for another challenge over at Sarah Hurley Challenge Blog where the theme this week is: MISTING I used a backing paper from Sarah’s Christmas Cheer CD, over stamped with a flourish and embossed in gold and mat and layered onto some brown card stock misted with bronze and orange mica sprays and a cute little teddy bear Santa. Please hop over to Sarah Hurley Challenge Blog to see

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Just catching back up with things this morning, I had another Migraine on Sunday and it’s left me a little drained. I’m quite calm about our house (and area) move but I think subconsciously it may be causing the Migraines as I have had more in the last few weeks than I’ve had for years. And on top of that LO was awake (and ready to play!!) at 4:45am. I feel rather Zombie like so thought I would

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Doh, how silly do I feel? Well the answer is very. If you saw my earlier post I said I was off to the hairdressers. When I got there I found out my appointment is actually next week, turns out I had an old appointment card in my purse. I felt like such a numpty. So to cheer myself I’ve had a another go at this weeks LIM challenge and this time I’ve used my hearts to make butterflies… Hmmm, I

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Just a quick post from me as I’m off out to the hairdressers. I’m a bit sad as this will be my last visit to this hairdresser. At the moment I have the most fabulous hairdresser in the world and once we move I’m really going to miss having him do my hair. I don’t know about you but it takes me ages to find a hairdresser I like, we’ve lived in Swindon for 7 years now and it took me 5 to find my

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It’s quite a nice day here today and when little one and me went to Tumble Tots this morning I didn’t even need a jumper. Anyhoo I’m waffling (again) so I’ll get to the point, I’m here to share my creation for this weeks Paper Crafting Journey challenge where the theme this week is: COLOUR CHALLENGE We’re sponsored by 2 Cute Rubber Stamps who are very kindly offering a prize of one cling

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Monday again already and now less than four weeks till we move house…and we’re moving counties as well, so all getting a bit hectic around here. Thanks goodness for a bit crafting time..lol. Well I’m here to share my creation for this weeks Critter Sketch Challenge challenge where this week it’s a recipe: ONE IMAGE, FOUR BUTTONS AND THE COLOUR PURPLE I’ve gone all CAS for this card and

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Woohoo, after my holiday and a few other bits and pieces going on I sort of lost my LIM Mojo for a while (well my crafting Mojo in general really) but I think it’s coming back…slowly. This week Chrissie and Mandy have set us the challenge to use the colour of our eyes. Mine are green…ish, I say this because my left eye has a brown bit in it (a bit the shape of a wedge in the Trivial Pursuit game

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No rain here but there is quite a chill to the air here today, I think winter is really on the way. Anyhoo, I’m here to share my creation for this weeks Sarah Hurley Challenge Blog where the theme this week is: HALLOWEEN HORRORS I’m not really a Halloween person , so this card was a little tricky for me, but once I started playing with Sarah’s fantastic Halloween kits it got a lot easier

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Firstly a quick hello to my new followers and secondly a card to share for the Lili of the Valley Challenge Blog which this week is ‘Button It’ I’ve been meaning to get this posted all day and just realised the challenge closes at 6pm so better get a wriggle on.  Also Elliot wants his tea so I will pop back later and update with a bit more info. Papertake Weekly – Anything Goes Anything

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Welcome to the World Card Making Day blog hop, the hop runs from 2nd to 6th October and today is day three. There are10 different participants each day and each day is started by the host of the hop…Gill McCall.  If that’s where you started out and you’ve just arrived here from Liz's Blog then you are on the right track. However, if you have arrived here by chance and would like to join in then

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I’m a little late with this post as I’m just getting over a  really bad migraine. My vision is still a little fuzzy and the laptop makes my eyes sore so it’s taking me a while to catch up with a few blog posts, I’ll be back in a while with my post for this weeks Critter Sketch Challenge. Anyhoo, I’m sharing my creation for this weeks Paper Crafting Journey challenge where the theme this week is:

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We are starting to plan a house move so things are starting to get a little hectic round here...thank goodness for crafting to relax me. This is my first challenge as part of Sarah Hurley’s DT and the theme for our challenge is: VINTAGE We have a sponsor for this challenge, Altered Expressions and they have donated three fabulous prizes.  I used one of Altered Expressions wonderful Hummingbird

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Oops , I’m a day late sharing my creation for this week Paper Crafting Journey challenge. I have an excuse I started with a migraine and it’s turned into some sort of icky, cold, flu, sick bug. Anyhoo, back to this weeks Paper Crafting Journey challenge and it’s… HIDDEN MESSAGE So all you have to do is hide a message somewhere on your project, which could be anything from a simple hidden tag

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Finally back at home and time to settle into a routine again after a hectic few weeks.  It’s time for another challenge at Critter Sketch Challenge this week is: PHOTO INSPIRATION So for my card I have used the colours from the photo… I’ve used a cute little image from this months sponsor Stamp and Create and for now have left the card sentiment free as I’m not sure yet who this card is

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I’ve been having another mini holiday (well staying at y Mum and Dads for a week) so have been a little quiet on the blogging front but I should be back to posting a little more over the coming weeks.  It’s time for another challenge over at ATC Challenge Blog and this times theme is: ANYTHING GOES (Optional ‘Something that Represents You’ Theme) I have been having a play with making my own

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I’ve been a little busy of late with crafty and non crafty things plus I’m staying with my parents while my hubby is on a walking holiday in Scotland. He’s nuts to have been out walking this last week in the weather we’ve had here in the UK.  I’ve been a tad worried about him as he’s been staying in a tent and was due to camp again tonight. Fortunately he has seen sense and has booked a hotel

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I can’t believe how cold the weather seems to have got the last couple of days, wouldn’t it be nice to have a nice warm start to September? It’s time for another challenge at PCJ and this week it’s… A SKETCH CHALLENGE We are being sponsored by The Stamping Boutique and the DT were lucky enough to be given some images to work with. This particular image was so cute and magical and

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By the time you read this I should be just about reaching home from my lovely holiday and will be dreading the pile of washing and ironing I will have to do – don’t you just hate that after a holiday? It’s challenge time at ATC Challenge Blog but as I’ve been away I’ve not got an ATC to share. The time the theme is: ANYTHING GOES Pop over to the ATC Challenge Blog to see what the rest of the

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As you are reading this we are spending our last day in Ireland and this evening will getting the ferry from Cork back to Swansea, The ferry journey is long but is overnight so hopefully we should be able to get some sleep. Ooh I do waffle sometimes…..anyhoo I am back with my final GDT card for Creations by Gill M  where the theme this week is ‘Anything that Flies’ I’ve used

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Just a reminder that the current challenge over on ATC Challenge Blog is: ANYTHING GOES (Optional ‘Things with Wings’ Theme) You still have a week to enter, so head on over to ATC Challenge Blog and check out the rest of the details.

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As you read this I will be almost halfway through my holiday but I’m here to say it’s time for another challenge at Paper Crafting Journey and this time it’s a nice and easy…. ANYTHING GOES This time we are sponsored by Meljens and the DT were lucky enough to be given some images to play with and I used this fabulous butterfly which to me just said paper piecing straight away. I haven’

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Another fortnight has gone by and it’s time for another challenge at Critter Sketch Challenge but before I get to that I just wanted to let you know there is a DT call going on at the moment, please click the badge to go and find out all about it. Right back to the challenge and the theme this week is: WEDDINGS Well it’s not a traditional wedding card but there’s a reason behind it….my

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My holiday is just starting but I’ve scheduled this little post to share with you challenge number seven over on the ATC Challenge Blog and the theme this week is: ANYTHING GOES (Optional ‘Things with Wings’ Theme) I was very inspired by an article in Craft Stamper about stamping into Melted UTEE so I have given this a try here, but I had to be a bit creative as I don’t have UTEE and I don

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Now if you’re reading this then Mr Blogger has played nice and has posted my scheduled post. Right about now our ferry should be about to dock in Cork Harbour and I can tell you already I will be so pleased to see land after 12 hours on a ferry! Enough waffle…. I am very lucky to be a guest designer at Creations By Gill M for the next couple of challenges. And this time it’s a fab sketch and

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I feel a bit sleepy now, one of our friends is about to go on Maternity leave so we all went out for a Curry for lunch and I now feel very full and very sleepy (but at least I won’t have to cook tea later!). I thought I would share the card I made for our friend, it’s not strictly a new baby card it’s more a good luck and hope everything goes well with the labour….but I didn’t think that would

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Phew, this week is getting more hectic, but hurrah holiday on Friday.  As I’ll be on holiday this will be my last LIM entry for a couple of weeks…but it will be great being away with family. Our challenge at LIM Towers this week was to use the colours of my countries flag, now like Chrissie and Mandi I could of gone with either the red and white of the St Georges Cross or the Red White Blue of

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Sorry I’m a little late posting this but we were staying at my parents over the weekend for a birthday BBQ and since we got home yesterday I’ve been trying to get everything sorted, washed, ironed and ready to pack for our holiday.  I can’t wait. We are off on Friday to South West Ireland for two whole weeks of relaxation.  We are going with family so it will be a bit of rest for me as my niece

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Just a reminder that the current challenge over on ATC Challenge Blog is: ANYTHING GOES (Optional ‘All Things Summer’ Theme) You still have a week to enter, so head on over to ATC Challenge Blog and check out the rest of the details.

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Wow, I can’t believe it’s been a whole year since I started my blog. Firstly I want to say a quick thank you to the thirty six followers I have gained along the way, in particular to Lisa Jane who is my most frequent visitor and always has something lovely to say about my creations (even the not so great ones…lol). Secondly to celebrate I have a little candy to give away. It’s not massive

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Just a quick post from me. The challenge over at LIM this week is Feeling Fruity. I’ve used a cherry stamp that part of a cupcake set by Hero Arts. Whilst stamping out some cherries and colouring them in I was reminded of arcade machines. The sentiment is computer generated using word art on MS Word.

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August already? And finally we have some nice weather, I hope you do in your part of the world.  I’m here with another new challenge at Paper Crafting Journey and this time is a photo inspiration: Here’s my card:This challenge we have been sponsored by Digital Delights and were lucky enough to be given some images to use. I was inspired by the colours and the pattern, so I used my new

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I had family visiting over the weekend and couldn’t really disappear to my little Crafty Hideaway to make any cards so when I saw a little colouring competition on the Letraset blog I thought I would have a go as it’s something I could do whilst being sociable at the same time. This has been coloured with ProMarkers only.

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It’s challenge number seven over on the ATC Challenge Blog and the theme this week is: ANYTHING GOES (Optional ‘All things Summer’ Theme) Well we sort of have some nice sunny weather here at the moment and my garden has a nice row of sunflowers all down the left hand side so with that in mind here is my ATC for this weeks challenge… Pop over to the ATC Challenge Blog to see how I made it

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We have a fab new challenge over at Critter Sketch Challenge which is: SUMMER FUN – USE A SUN ON YOUR PROJECT(the rays of the sun, the sun itself or even a project of a sun catcher) Now I hope you can spot my sun? I didn’t want it to look out of place and like it had just been stuck on so I made my circle sentiment my sun! I used a little trick I learnt from Chrissie over on the LIM blog on how

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Well two so far, so I’m just waiting for the third! Typical really Hubby takes little one out for the day so I can craft in peace and everything is starting to break.  Well everything is maybe a small exaggeration but it feels like it. First it was a Martha Stewart edge punch but next it’s my CUTTLEBUG…..OMG is it possible to be distraught over the loss of a craft item? Not sure how it broke.

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Now I’m going to set you a little test with my second try for this weeks LIM challenge….something is wrong with my card, can you spot what? I’ll tell you at the bottom of this post. I must admit I am really annoyed with myself as I really like the way the card turned out. I’ve stuck with the same patterned paper as my first try. This time I’ve paper pieced the butterfly and raised the edge of

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Time sure is flying by this week and I don’t seem to have found five minutes peace and quiet. I actually made a couple of cards for this weeks LIM challenge on Sunday but only got time to take pictures yesterday let alone find time to blog them. Anyway enough waffle, the challenge is to use ribbon or buttons here’s my first attempt…   I love the First Edition range of pattern papers, so

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Just a reminder that the current challenge over on ATC Challenge Blog is: ANYTHING GOES (Optional Windows or Doors) You still have a week to enter, so head on over to ATC Challenge Blog and check out the rest of the details.

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I’m here again with another new challenge at Paper Crafting Journey and this time is a sketch and a theme of: MAKE IT GIRLY Here’s my card:  This challenge we have been sponsored by the wonderful Di’s Digi Downloads and I have used the gorgeous Crown Princess image but please head over to the blog as there are loads more fabulous images. I used the fab Core’dinations colour core card stock to

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I love looking at the Craft Barn Wishing Well posts, but don’t always any of the products to be able to enter the challenge. Well this week it was Alcohol Inks and I have some of those so I’ve had a play… I was inspired by Andy Skinners technique as I’d never thought of using them in water and onto porous objects. So I gave it a try with a plain white tag, some flowers punched out of copy paper,

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Feeling a little under the weather today (and we have some pretty miserable weather here today) so I have left the housework and had an afternoon catching up with some computer things, getting posts scheduled and entering a few challenges I made things for over the weekend. I said in my earlier post for this weeks circles challenge at LIM that I had another idea brewing so here it is… Items:

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We have a fab challenge over at Critter Sketch Challenge which is to make a card for ourselves… HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME Now the sort of card I would like to receive myself is a tricky one as I like lot’s of different styles….CAS, Bling, Glitter, Patterned Papers, Stamping, etc, etc. So I combined a little bit of it all and I’m quite please with how it came together.  Do you think it’s a bit

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Another fortnight has gone by and it’s time for challenge number 6 over on the ATC Challenge Blog and the theme this week is: ANYTHING GOES (Optional Windows or Doors) As you will see from my ATC below I stuck with Anything Goes, I spent ages searching through all my stamps and couldn’t find anything Windows or Doors that inspired me so I used this cute little tree stamp… I’ve had the stamp

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What a funny old day it’s been weather wise today. Awoke this morning to pouring rain, but the good thing was it was 10am and the lovely hubby had let me have a lie in to make up for 6:15am yesterday morning. Later on we went out and we had glorious sunshine, we went to Mothercare as we are on the hunt for a smaller more ‘holiday packing the car friendly’ pushchair for our little boy but by the

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I made a really quick and quite cheeky card yesterday for this weeks LIM challenge. It’s One Layer week and Chrissie and Mandi have also challenged us to use legs! I was inspired by Chrissies Teddy card and the idea that the legs can be implicit so I have taken it a step and here’s my card…… A very simple card…lol and of course you couldn’t get paw prints with out legs!!. I’ve just stamped and

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Some of you may remember a few weeks back I was a guest designer over at Paper Crafting Journey and the lovely Lisa asked me to join the DT.  Well this is my first challenge where the theme this challenge is: FOR HIM We are being sponsored by I have used one of their digi images, and it reminded me of the Godfather films so I wanted to go for that kind of theme, all the shooting and lot’s of

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Me again…I posted an entry to LIM earlier and I knew exactly what Lady LIM or Diva LIM were going to say when I was typing the post…. “Not quite enough white space” lol.  So now the glue has dried I thought I would share the other two cards I made.  Lot’s more white space… On the second card as well as the two blues on the snowflakes and the blue on the sentiment there are also two shades of

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The challenge this week over at LIM Headquarters is shades of blue and I have been having a right little play with my stamps and inks.  Here’s my first attempt… This ones is just lot’s of ink and stamps for the background and then the large snowflake and sentiment have also been embossed. the coloured panel has then been matted onto a white card blank. Items: 6x6 white card blank, other card

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