In The Pink

I'm so excited to tell you this week I'm been asked to be the guest designer over at the

Crafty Boots Challenge

which I'm honoured about.

This fortnight their challenge theme is 

In The Pink

for Breast Cancer Awareness.

In New Zealand it's Pink October for Breast Cancer Awareness and in November is Blue November for Prostrate Cancer and on the last Friday in August we have Daffodil Day.  I remember this well as my oldest son was born on a Daffodil Day.  

This card is a tribute to my sister who past away earlier this year with Lung Cancer.  I can see her now laughing at Stella, and after Radiation and Chemotherapy my sister lost her crown and glory of beautiful dark brown hair and it grew back grey with very tight curls. 

So I do hope Stella and her bra and boobs makes everyone smile.

If you look closely you'll see that there are boobs in the bra as they have been mounted with double sided foam tape.

Challenges I'm Entering:
1. Whoopsi Daisy Digi Challenge Die Cuts and Punches *
2. Dream Valley Challenge # 143 One For The Girls *
3. Crafty Girls Corner Challenge # 95 Anything Goes    TOP 5
4. Lemon Shortbread Challenge #27 Anything Goes *
5. Little Miss Muffet Challenge #149 Anything Goes *
6. The Pencil Case Challenge Week # 31 Anything Goes *
7. Sweet Stampin Challenge Inspired by A Book, A Film or Song *
"Whole Lotta Rosie" by AC/DC From Let There Be Rock 1977
8. Crafty Friends Challenge # 43 Anything Goes *
9. Cute Card Thursday Challenge # 449 Lace and or Pearls *
10. Southern Girls Challenge Pop It Up  TOP 5
The Bra is popped out with foam

Card Recipe:

1. Base: White Linen Card.
2. Coloured Card: Petal Soft Bazzill
3. Design Paper: Digi Download from Bearly Mine which is closed down now.

4. Image: Stella Peeker Braless by Bugaboo Digi Stamps
5. Colour Medium: Copics 

6. Tools Used:

7. Glossy Accents: This was used for Stella's Bra, I painted over with Glossy Accents to give it a shinny appearance.

8. Versa Color Ink: 134 Petal Pink this was dusted around the edges of the finished image.

8. Dies Used.

a. Classic Circles by Spellbinders
b. Lacy Circles by Spellbinders
c. Dandelions
d. Delicate Dollies by Spellbinders 

9. Embellishments:

a. Silver metal corners from Wild Orchids Crafts

b. Pink Heart gems from Rosies Studios, silver braid from my stash, Dandelion Die, Pink Flat Backed Pearls and an assortment of pink flowers from my stash.

c. Silver metal corners from Wild Orchids Crafts

d. Silver braid from my stash, Dandelion Die, Pink Flat Backed Pearls and an assortment of pink flowers from my stash.

e. Stella's Bra was paper pieced and the pink rose is from my stash.

f. Pink Sequins and White lace from my stash.

10. Inside: Here's the inside of my card you can see now how pretty that design paper is.

11. Back:  The back of my card.

Take care everyone thanks for visiting my blog, wishing you a wonderful week and happy crafting everyone.

Grandpa's Flowers

Good morning and welcome to my blog.  Congratulations to everyone that entered in our last fortnights challenge there were some really lovely entries.

I thought I would share with you this week a view from my kitchen window the other morning, the flowering Cherry Tree is out and the Wisteria on the bridge over our pond has just come out I so wish the Wisteria would flower for longer each year.

Onto this fortnights sketch which is a basic and easy design for all of you to make.

Sketch #101

A quick peak of the inside of my card.

This week our sponsor is

 Megan Suarez

You can check out Megan's awesome images here

http://www.sillydillybeans.blogspot.com/

Our prize this week is

3 Free Images

 of the winners choice from her on line store

Don't forget to check out what the rest of the design team have created this week using Dilly Beans Digi Stamps over at 

Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2.

Challenges I'm Entering:

1. Crafty Boots Challenge In The Pink TOP 3

2. Digi Choosday Week 43 Anything Goes *

3. Lemon Shortbread Challenge # 27 Anything Goes *

4. The Pencil Case Week 31 Anything Goes *

5. Little Miss Muffet Challenge #149 Anything Goes WINNER

6. Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge #301 Anything Goes *

7. Tuesday Throwdown Challenge #317 Add A Border *

8. Crafty Sentiment Design Challenge Anything Goes *

9. Dream Valley Challenge #143 One For The Girls *

10. Through The Craft Room Door Challenge Anything Goes *

Card Recipe:

1. Base: White SU

2. Coloured Card: Pale Pink Bazzill

3. Design Papers: Digital Papers

4. Image: Grandpa's Flowers by Dilly Beans Images

5. Colour Medium: Copics

6. Dies Use:

Classic Circles Large and Small

Delicate Doilies

Stitched Rectangles by My Favourite Things

7. Tools Used:

8. Embellishments Used.

9. Inside the card and the back finishing touch.

Take care wishing you all a wonderful week and happy crafting.

Peekaboo Xmas Boy

Good morning and welcome to my blog.  The school holiday break has ended and the boys are now back at school for the last term of the year.  My eldest tells me he only has 4 weeks at school and then he's finished for the year as he'll be on study leave when his exams start in November.  How wonderful to be at school again and always on holiday or breaks or leave weekends.  

This past week I've had a few issues with Blogger, all of my links in my sidebar are missing, I'm not the only person it's happening too, but it is annoying and they say they will return shortly I want to know how long is shortly is it as long as a piece of string? Is this happening to you and have you had problems with Blogger?  All my photo's were missing the other morning but they were back in 24 hours.

This week we have a new sketch but firstly I would like to congratulate our winner from last week.  This week is our

100th Sketch at Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 and Anne has a little giveaway for our lucky winner.

Sketch #100

 This is a really simple sketch so no excuse I want to see heaps of entries this fortnight.

This week our sponsor is Sally-Ann Hancock the owner of 

DigiStamp Boutique. Don't forget to pop over to her shop and see what's new and interesting to purchase you won't be disappointed. 

Digi Stamp Boutique

Bio:

All images/designs are created and copyright owned by Sally-Ann Hancock.  My work means the world to me - it allows my passion to draw and create, to fit with my family life too, often the inspiration for my designs.  Hope you enjoy my images as much as I enjoy creating them.

Sally-Ann is offering our lucky winner 
Prize:   £10 voucher

to purchase images from her online store.

  You'll be spoilt for choice as there are so many to choose from and new images being added every month.

Check out her online store

http://digistampboutique.co.uk/catalog/

And her Challenge Blog

http://digistampboutique.blogspot.co.uk/

Don't forget to drop by the rest of the girls over at 

Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 and see what they've created with Sally-Ann's images.

Challenges I'm Entering:

1. Christmas Card Challenge #44 *

2. The Pencil Case Week # 30 Anything Goes *

3. A Snowflakes Promise Challenge # 30 Twist Seasons *

4. Digi Choosday Craft Challenge Week 41 Anything Goes *

5. Winter Wonderland Challenge Let Get Krafty * 

6. DigiStamp Boutique October Challenge *

7. Little Miss Muffet Challenges # 148 Anything Goes *

8. Crafts Galore Encore October Challenge Anything Goes *

9. Create and Makes Challenge # 4 Anything Goes*

10. Crafty Hazelnut's Challenge Extra Christmas Challenge for October *

Card Recipe: 

1. Base: Kraft Card by Kaisercraft

2. Coloured Card: White SU and Red American Craft Card

3. Design Papers: Christmas Set 6 x 6 by Rosies Studios

4. Image: Peekaboo Xmas Boy by DigiStamp Boutique

5. Colour Medium: Copics

6. Martha Stewart white glitter for the hat.

 7. Cutting Dies Used: Classic Circles
and Delicate Dollies.

8. Tools used:


9. Glossy Accents for the bow on the gift. 

10. Embellishments: Flat backed pearls, flowers and twine all from my stash.

11.  Inside the card.

12. The back of my card.

Take care wishing you all a wonderful week and happy crafting.

Christmas Candles

Good morning and welcome to my blog, I can't believe it but it's the school holiday break again.  It's nice having the boys home as Liam is studying for his end of year exams.  We've had nothing but rain these last six days.  Hopefully the weather will improve that we can spend some time up at our beach house before the boys go back.   Liam spent 6 days in Singapore with my husband at the start of the holidays where they attend the Formula One Grand Prix.  As Singapore is so close to the Equator it was very hot, day and night.  It was a great time to have a male bonding holiday.

Today is Wednesday which means is another 

Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2.  

This week we have another sketch by Sally Dude.

Sketch # 99

Here's my card using our sponsors image

Christmas Candles.

The image is 3 D mounted and here's a quick peek of the inside of the card.

This week our sponsor is 

Heather Daniel's the owner and illustrator of

Fresh Brewed Designs.

Fresh Brewed Designs

Bio:

Hello, I am Heather Dennis, the owner and artist at Fresh Brewed Designs.  I love and do all I can to put God first in my life. I am so blessed beyond all I deserve.  I have an amazing husband who supports and loves me more than anything.  We lead praise and worship together in church. I love hearing him sing. I home school two of the best kids in the world. They are my heart. I can't even describe how much they mean to me. I LOVE all things crafty. I have been crafting and creating since as early as I can remember.

Here is a little about our shop:

Fresh Brewed Designs is a small online company that has been offering a wide variety of digital and rubber stamps since November 2010, designed to meet the needs of paper crafting addicts everywhere. With over 30 categories to choose from and new additions each month, our range of products is expanding all of the time.  

Every month this year we will be giving away BLOG CANDY! 

We would love for you to visit our blog and facebook page, where fresh ideas are always percolating. 

Heather is offering our very luck winner

3 Free Digis 

from her online store

Fresh Brewed Designs

Don't forget to check out SSW2 here and see what the rest of the design team created for you this week.

Challenges I'm Entering:

1. Christmas Card Challenge # 42 Anything Goes *

2. The Pencil Case Week # 29 Anything Goes *

3. Crafty Friends Challenge # 41 Special Occasions *

4. QKR Stampede Challenge #210 Embossing *

5. Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge # 173 My Favorite Things *

(Embossing giving Texture)

6. A Snowflake Promise Challenge # 29 Anything Goes *

7. Digi Choosday Crafting Week #39 Anything Goes *

8. ABC Christmas Challenge T is for Two (Two Design Papers) *

9. Fab 'n' Funky Challenge # 320 Christmas *

10. Winter Wonderland Tic Tac Toe *

(White, Embossing, Punch or Die-Cut)

Card Recipe:

1. Base: White Linen Card from Warehouse Stationery

2. Coloured Card: Purple Bazzill and Cream Bazzill Bling.

3. Design Paper: Gold by Rosie's Studios

4. Image: Christmas Candles by Fresh Brewed Designs (Digital Image)

5. Colour Medium: Copics, Silver and Gold Copic atyou pens.

6. Tools Used.

7. Glossy Accents for the berries:

8. Dies Used:

Spellbinders Classic large and small squares.

Classic Circles and Ribbon Circles.

9. Embossing Folder:

Cuttlebug from the With Love Set.

10. Embellishments:

Flower is made up of 4 flowers from my stash, gold twine and a pearl brad,  purple gems from my stash and flat back pearls from my stash.

11. Finishing touches:

Inside the card and the back of my card.

Take care wishing you all an awesome week and happy crafting.