My fav colour this Christmas.....

Morning everyone, it's Friday at last. Just popped on to share this card with you, I love these  Me to You papers and this Santa image from Just Ink Lined and I have made a load of cards with this combination this year. Again not a very good photo because of the light factor, I ever used my daylight lamp to photograph this but it didn't make much of a difference there's just no substitute for good old sunshine...lol

I'm just filling in time while I'm waiting for the engineer to come today to either fix my Fridge/freezer or confirm it dead.  The latter would suit me as this is the second time in 5 weeks I've had to throw out a freezer full of food....grrr. 

Two nights ago we had a feast as everything was defrosting I cooked up all the meat and chicken and pizzas to use them up. Unfortunately there are only three people in this household and I couldn't store it in the fridge as it conked out that night too, so most of it went in the bin.  Ahh!! the joys....

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Tomorrow William & I are off to a Wedding in Glasgow at the House for an Art Lover, for those of you who are not familiar with the venue it was designed by the famous Architect 

Charles Rennie MacKintosh and is a favourite for Weddings. My Nephew was also Married here this year and we had a fabulous day. I Love MacKintosh designs and just soaked up the atmosphere the whole day long, so I'm really looking forward to tomorrow. Please please please let the sun shine...........

Charisma wk #46 SNOWFLAKES.....

 Hello everyone I must apologize for this post being late, last night was spent doing Christmas card orders into the wee small hours and I completely forgot to post the challenge, and I might add I thought today was Wednesday...lol probably because I had a day off earlier in the week and my poor old brain just never caught up...lol

Anyway enough waffling, this week our theme is chosen by the lovely Natalie and we want to see...

SNOWFLAKES!

No card from me this week for the challenge as it's team Gemma's turn, so just the info.

Our sponsors are.....

Crimson Cloud
Joanna Sheen
Digi Stamp Boutique

I' be round your blogs later to see your fab Snowflake creations, Have fun !!

In the Pink with Kenny K.....

Just a quick post tonight. A Kenny Kiernan image for this one, she's called Queens Cutie. The DP is gorgeous all glittery and is from the First Edition Sweet Owl paper pad. The metal butterfly is from Wild Orchid Crafts, Ribbon from Mei Flower,the doily is a Marianne die and the flowers, gems and wooden heart are from my stash.

Here is another one I did with KK Movie Star, same design with a few variations. Very PINK......lol 

I'm all pinked out for this week..........

Thanks for popping in...


A couple of challenges for these cards
Top Tip Tuesday.....More than one fold
Digital Tuesday.....Sparkle & Shine

LOTV... Icing The Cake

Hi,  I've had a really busy weekend and not had much time to blog so tonight I thought I'd share this Christmas card with you. Apologies for the bad picture quality it's been so dull here of late that it's difficult to get a bright photo.

This image is Icing the Cake from LOTV, I've been using it a lot for my cards this year, I think it's so cute and looks good in all colours. The papers are Me To You, Winter Wonderland and half the block is Sparkly, gorgeous papers I love them....some of them can be used for any kind of card which makes it really good value. 

Other elements used are Wild Orchid flowers and corner. Marianne heart die, Martha Stewart Snowflakes from the border punch, heart charm and ribbon from Mei Flower.

Thanks for your visit to my blog I hope you like today's card. 

Smiles !!!

Charisma wk #45 Lace & Pearls

Good morning bloggers, I hope you are ready for another fab challenge, this week we would like to see some Lace  &  Pearls  on your creations.

Our sponsors for this challenge are.....

Some Odd Girl

 

 And the

Stampin Boutique

 

Thank you to everyone who took part in our Cutesy challenge the entries were outstanding to say the least and if you would like to see our winners and of course our Charisma Gals inspiration for you them please pop over to the Charisma Challenge blog.

For my DT inspiration this week I have made a step card. At the moment it is minus a sentiment as I haven't decided who to send it too......The materials used are, LOTV Image,Me to You papers,Wild Orchid Crafts corner and flower,Marianne Creatables swirl die, Circle Nesties and lace and ribbon Pearls and brad from my stash.

I hope you can find some time this week to enter our challenge and look forward to having a little nosey round every one's blogs.

Happy crafting....

Father Christmas @ Just Ink Lined

I have been looking for a Christmas image this year that I can use for vintage style cards and I found this fabulous Father Christmas digi stamp at Just Ink Lined, isn't he just wonderful. I love him to bits.... he has a lovely kind face and his eyes follow you around the room...lol

I used HOTP papers, Marianne Creatables heart die,Burgundy organza ribbon from Mei Flower, Oval Nesties, Stickles, Red rose from Wild Orchid crafts, charm the Works, and Poinsettia from my stash. Sentiment from last years Christmas box.

Thanks for popping in, have a lovely weekend.

I am entering this card to the following challenges

Crimbo Crackers...make it Sparkle

Dutch Dare...Punches and Dies

Inky Impressions....Glitter it Up

Top Tip Tuesday.....Christmas

For my Sweet little Grandaughter Niamh who is 1 year old today....

 My Grand Daughter Niamh was 1 year old today,I can hardly believe the time has gone so fast. We had a little Cup Cake party tonight and she had a ball. Below is the card I made for her. It's a bit larger than I normally make this one is 8" x8".

Here's the Birthday girl on the Zebra Hubby and I got for her.

And here is her Birthday Cake...........Mmmmm Yummy Cup Cakes!!. it was amazing. As you can see she just loved it, all pink and sparkly.

Just had to squeeze this one in, it was taken last week at Halloween she was a Snow Princess, the dress was gorgeous and she couldn't wait to take it off as you can see in the second pic...lol

A Blue Christmas..........

Hello again, as promised here is a card made with the image from LOTV Oh Christmas Tree. It's such a fab image I think it's going to be one of my favourites this year. 

I used Anita's Classic Christmas Blue papers from 2 years ago I think!!  Circle and Oval Nesties,Copics and Spectrum Noir pens.Marianne Creatables Poinsetia and a metal corner from Wild Orchid Crafts. Stickles, and Snow It with fine glitter. The ribbon is from my stash.

I Love blue Christmas cards.............

Thanks for popping in

Challenges for this card..........
LOTV....Bright and Sparkly
Winter Wonderland.....Sparkly
Allsorts... Christmas Easel card

Oh Christmas Tree.....reverse image

Hi all, no card today as I've been colouring Christmas images all afternoon. I just popped on to share my latest purchase with you, the LOTV Oh Christmas Tree stamp. I had coloured a few the other day and suddenly noticed that the image is back to front.

On the LOTV web site all the cards that are shown with this stamp are the other way round, and also on the pre coloured squares, that is the little girl is on the left in LOTV and on the right in mine when it's stamped.

It doesn't matter to me at all which side she is on but I let LOTV know anyway. They very kindly offered to replace the stamp and said they would contact the manufacturer to see how it happened. I'm quite happy with my stamp so I'm not returning it.

Just a piece of useless info for you...lol

I used Copics and Spectrum Noir pens and added some Snow It around the image to give a 3D effect. I'm not happy with the hat in the blue image too much glue I think...

 Just out of curiosity has anyone else got the same stamp as me?

Thanks for popping in hopefully I'll have a few cards made this evening to show.

Charisma wk #44 Cutesy

Hi all, hope you are all ready for another Charisma challenge. This week we are looking for anything
CUTE

I know we all love cute images and there are so many to choose from I'm sure you won't have any bother with this challenge...lol

Our lovely sponsors this week are Simon Says Stamp and Pink Cat Studio. As it's team Gem's week I don't have a card to share with you but if your pop over to the Charisma blog you will have all the inspiration from Gemma's team and also some of Carly's team too.

Looking forward to another week of fabulous entries to browse through.

Happy Crafting