Snow family

I just love these snow people, here the whole family are together saying hello.
the images come from cuddly buddly

My second Blog award

Thanks Anne for my second award

Here are the 6 rules:

1. The winner can put the logo on their blog.

2. Link the person you received your award from.

3. Nominate at least 5 other blogs.

4. Before listing the nominees give a brief reason why you chose them5. Put links of those blogs on yours.

6. Leave a message on the blogs you have nominated.

I have picked these 5 blogger to receive an award as they are my new blogging sisters and I am enjoying very much seeing some of the lovely creations that they have on their blogs,We have 19 other member in this group all with great blogs, so please check them out, I can only pick 5 but I am sure they will also want to nominate some of the other sisters.

1.. Leona

2..Julie

3..Chrissy

4..Kerry

5..Christina

That was hard wanted to pick them All

Christmas cards

Two Christmas cards that I have made this afternoon First the image is from the cute christmas companions Cd, I then stamped the penny black hedgehogs and coloured using marvy pens, Love these stamped images
The second card comes from a download by Cuddly Buddly, The snow people are so cute, you will be seeing lots more from this set, I love all the pastel colours and backing papers.

SBS24 BLOG CHALLENGE #1

A few of my favorite things...
A card that really shows off YOUR Favorite color...YOUR favorite stamps...YOUR favorite embellishments...YOUR favorite technique...YOUR favorite everything and anything.
That was the brief we had to make this card.
What to do and what to use, There are so many things that I just love to use in my crafting, i don't think there is a card big enough to show them all.
This is my finished card, If you look below I will give you all the details to this card
First I picked some pearlescent card, and the colour of this was an easy one lilac, I love all the different shades of purples.
I then got out my keepsake boards, I have a few of these and went for the romance board for this card, I love how easy it is to get great deep embossing, also how easy it is to mix patterns from the various boards, I embossed two wavy edges, also the centre oval I then finished off with peel offs.
Next papers for these I went for my crafters companion CD, so many to choose from, but this design is from one of my first ever CC CD the florals collection, I love it and seem to come back to time and time again.
I then used a Fiskas boarder Punch to do the side of the paper strip before adding to my card, I also embossed an oval for the centre.
One of my favourite stamp set is this butterfly, I inked it up and ironed some nice bright fantasy fibers onto the stamps, trimmed and stuck both layers together with silicone glue, before placing in the oval.
I also love these prima flowers so joined two together with a flower brad, and added to the bottom corner.
The sentiment came from pink petticoats, I love all of their papers and stamp images, so I had to find someway of adding them to my card.
I made a little topper using the sentiment and some left over paper.
So there you are I have managed to use quite a few of my favourite things, I hope you like the end result.
SBS24, I am so looking forward to next weeks challenge, And will be over soon to see what you all have done with this challenge.

Sketch Challenge 29

OK girls here is sketch 29, I know last weeks was a hard one and some of you on the CC forum struggled, so a nice easy one this week I used a lilac card stock for my base, The backing papers come from Pink petticoats, The image is a Bella stamp lightly coloured with water pencils, Punched her out using an oval scalloped punch, before matting onto the backing paper.
I then printed out The Thinking of you sentiment, before matting and layering using the leftover card stock and backing papers

If anyone else would like to have a go at my challenge , I would love to see what you come up with ,please leave a link to your blog.

Anna`s blog challenge

This sketch challenge is set by Anna on of my blogging sisters, Take a look at her blog some great stuff to see Papers all came from shabby princess, coloured my tilda image with water colour pencils

I`v Been Tagged

I was tagged by Jen and she has told me I am it...... so here goes and here are the rules:1. Link your tagger and list these rules on your blog.2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.4. Let them know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.OK so here goes a little about me:

1.. I have always loved all kinds of crafting, and love the idea of trying new things and techniques paper crafting and stamping being my favourite.

2.. This might sound a bit weired after reading fact 1 But I just cant stand to get any ink on me, Its a real phobia, and I have to scrub it off straight away, hubby keeps waving pens at me to torment me, so you see I am a very very tidy stamper.

3..My current job is a carer and support worker, I go into clients homes to help them, I also spend time with learning disabilities.

4.. Been married to hubby for 26 years , we have 3 grown children, Aleysha, Kyle Jacob.

5.. My baby is our little Yorkshire terrier Max.

6.. Cant stop buying crafting goodies( just bought the cute companions CD and stamp) just love them sooo cute,
You know all about it ladies Don't need it but MUST have it.

7..confession now, not a natural blonde ,very grey really, shh`s don`t tell.

Now who to Tag

1 Anne
2 Rachel
3 Yvonne
4 Tina
5 Jane
6 Jennette
7 Shannon

SBS 24 , I have enjoyed reading your tag information, Looking forward to reading my lists answers

Sketch challenge 28

ok girls here is no 28, lots of layers to play with on this one All the papers and stamps come from crafters companions, Christmas companions

Parchment Fan

Here is a fan I did a couple of years ago and framed it.
This is a closer look at it, it was my first attemp at doing Fans so very proud of this one, it hang in the lounge

Favourite Pattern

I have had the urge to play with my parchment stuff , over the weekend, I find I can shut out the world and relax while doing parchment.
This is one of my favourite patterns and a great way to chase all the worries away

My Sketch Challenge #27

Here is this weeks sketch, I post one every Saturday on crafters companion forum, Its a nice and simple one this week, If anyone would like to join in please leave a comment and a link to your blog will come take a look Again I have been busy printing out papers and toppers from my pink petticoats downloads, i went for a pale blue background card, I used black card for the squares with a bright blue rose print paper, The flowers were printed onto both White and Blue backing papers cut out and built up into layers with a flower brad to hold together, the sentiment also comes from pink petticoats

Diamond fold card

Here is my first Diamond fold card And here is a side view, to show how much this card pops out from the base
The papers were scraps that were left over from my sketch challenge, they came from a pink petticoats download

Diamond top card

I had a go at trying something a bit different, this card is a lot easier to do than it looks, I am sure I will be making a few more of these card I put a piece of scrap pearlescent card through my cuttlebug, then went over the top of the embossed design with chalks, I then coloured my Bella Image with water pencils, cut her out and mounted her onto the embossed mat with 3D foam pads, I then added a flower from Fred she said, the final bit was a sentiment from Pink petticoats

Sisterhood of the Blogging Stampers

I have just joined one of the Sisterhood of the Blogging Stampers groups.
the idea is a sisterhood group, where we can be a support and a friend to fellow blogging and stamping sisters. If you're tired of hearing the fake (yet well-intentioned), "Yeah. Uh huh. That's nice," when you show your friends or DH your stamped creations, this is the place for you. These groups are for giving feedback and sharing friendship.
Here is a bit of information about myself for my blogging sisters
I have always crafted in some way or another( knitting ,cross stitching, Decoupage) for the last three years I have been paper crating, I enjoy stamping , decoupage, scrap booking,parchment craft everything to do with paper crafting.
I live in Wales and have been married for 26 years we have three grown children, and a little yorkshire terrier.
I enjoy chatting and taking part in swaps with the members of crafters companion forum, every week I do them a sketch challenge, that I post on my blogg. If any of my blogging sister would like to join in please do.
You can find all about the sister hood here

my sketch challenge 26

Here is this weeks Sketch
All the papers the lola topper and the flowers came from pink petticoats thr pink ribbon came from my stash box

Crafters Companion August ATC Swap