Happy 21st Birthday Son ...

Today is my baby boys 21st Birthday and this is the card I have made for him.

Twenty one candles including 2 & 1 and a key too.

There is also a champagne charm along with some gems and buttons

and of course plenty of hand stitching too.

This card is half an A4 piece of black cardstock folded length ways.

The candles including flames were cut using my trusted Silhouette using

papers from a number of Nitwit Collections digi kits.

The sentiment is from the male collection I won many moons ago in blogland!

My Son has to work today so we are having a big family meal out tomorrow which happens to be my

Mother In Laws birthday too, so plenty of cake & champagne to celebrate.

Happy Birthday Christopher

Have a great weekend crafters, love x

Sending you Love ...

Yay, it is my challenge over at Passion for Promarkers

and I have chosen the 'Bingo Board' below

I have chosen ribbon, free and blooms but I have almost gone for a full house too!

I have used image, flowers, ribbon, charm, hessian, papers, buttons.

I have used glossy accents for this little cuties glasses.

The corners, matting and layering, speech bubble and the image itself

were all cut using the fabulous Silhouette Portrait.

Another feature I have mastered is cutting around a digi stamp!

Hand stitched once again, for a change.

This challenge is sponsored by 

who have 7 x digi stamps up for grabs.

Good luck everyone, I am looking forward to seeing all the amazing

entries and remember you MUST use a Letraset product to enter.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenge -

Bearly Mine - Girly/Pink (I won Top 3)!

Take care, love x

Come Rain or Shine ...

Time for another challenge over on the Joanna Sheen Challenge Blog

titled 'Come Rain or Shine' so in a nut shell we are looking for weather

related cards.  Here in the UK we love to moan about the weather, too cold, too wet and

occasionally too hot (not often).

I have used stamp, papers, film, postcard & button from my stash.

The sentiment & wave were cut using my Silhouette

I have used the colour picking tool on the Silhouette software to 

match the sun with the papers.

Have I mentioned I love this machine :) x

The shells are from the shores of Tunisa and if you look very carefully

even some Tunisian sand too.  It was really hot in Tunisa, so hot in fact

you couldn't stand on the beach without flip flops and even then

it was for a limited time before your feet would burn!

Great holiday, highly recommended though, the memories.

Along way away from the rain, rain and more rain here in the

South of England at the moment.

Why not come and play along with us for a chance to win a

£15 Joanna Sheen gift voucher for one lucky winner.

Maybe you could one of our daily talent features too!

Take care, love x

Are you a little bit crafty?

Well I am and I guess you are if you are a follower of my blog?
Why am I asking this question well
 'A Little Bit Crafty' 
is a new challenge blog which is launching on 1st April 2013

and I am a Design Team member, yey!

This challenge blog is the brain child of the lovely talented Paula

whom I co-host the Joanna Sheen Challenge blog with.
Thank you soooo much Paula for having me on the team x

It will be a monthly challenge complete with fabulous sponsors

and prizes up for grabs. 

All the design team have been chosen for 

their different styles so there will be plenty of inspiration to help

you along the way, soooo exciting.

So pop the blinkie on your blogs crafters and spread the word!

Take care, love x

Around the World ...

Time for a new challenge at Passion for Promarkers

and this one is titled 'Around the World' and has been chosen by design team

member Eileen.

I have been playing with my Silhouette once again for this one and purchased

the lanterns and 'Love' symbol for this one.  The lanterns were cut from Elegance.

The sentiment was cut out of really thick holographic gold cardstock which I have

had in my stash for many years and the Silhouette cut it perfectly.

cardstock and then coloured with Promarkers to get an exact colour match.

I have used Tilda, papers, flowers, ribbon, gems and of course

coloured with Pro/Flexmarkers and all hand stitched.

Up for grabs for this challenges lucky winner is this lovely set of stamps

called 'Going Places' which ties in perfectly for this challenge.

by Clearly Besotted Stamps

Why not come and play along with us and see if you are lucky?

Take care, love x