Take 3

Vanessa came up with a gorgeous sketch for this week's little extra and made 3 fantastic cards to accompany it, this is my take on the sketch...

October Afternoon paper, Maya Road Ribbon, Prima Flower, Papermania brads, eyelets and letter stickers.

TFL :)

I do ... with a twist!

A huge thank you to Jozza and Becks who have given me this very fabulous award...
Here followeth the rules for this award:
The winner can put the logo on their blog.
Link to the person you received your award from.
Nominate at least 7 other blogs.
Put links of those blogs on yours.
Leave a message on the blogs you've nominated.
Wear a posh frock if you like, lots of bling and make a speech, but - sorry - no red carpet

Need to go and purchase a posh frock, me thinks. As usual, I am copping out, there are just so many fabulous blogs, please consider yourself tagged if you are perusing here :)

This week's little extra is a weddingy type card - with no white/cream/ivory...
(I may have temporarily forgotten and added a little white pen)


Paper is from here American crafts stickers, Prima flowers, brads, buttons and beads, Doodlebug paper frill (I ran it through the printer to change the colour), Docrafts ribbon.

TFL :)

Christmas in June

Aha! my turn to set the dare this week and I decided to go all festive and set a nice Christmas themed dare (yup I know 'tis only June...)



Basic Grey Sultry, Cuttlebug embossing, Doodles, Hobbycraft ribbon, Printed '{Proper Chrimbo}' sentiment.

and this was my little extra this week - using the theme of wood...



Wood effect paper, Doodlebug card and flowers, printed sentiment.

and finally, a card made with Doodley Dillon...



The doodles are not mine - but I do know the person that made them.... :) Scenic Route Papers, Doodlebug ric rac and brad.

TFL :)

10th Anniversary...

This week's Little Extra...
And its for 10 years.
Now there is a choice for this one.... Tin/Aluminum or Diamond Jewellery
Hmmm which would you choose?

^^ I went for both....


Robot from here, colourised using Photoshop, Basic Grey and Doodlebug rub ons, Prima flowers, Docraft brads and Scenic Route papers. 'Better than real Diamond' Bling added with little adhesive gems.


More Robots, faux stitches, Ikea paper string, and a washer ('tis definitely tin for the purposes of this dare)...

TFL :)

A Little Bit of Lace

I made this card for the little extra this week...
A card incorporporating lace or textiles or fur...


Basic Grey, paper lace from the Range, free chameleon image from here coloured in Photoshop, Doodlebug rub ons and printed sentiment.

TFL :)

Paper or Clocks...

This week's little extra is based around the theme paper or clocks...

'tis a little tag that with a paper pieced Monsteroonie... All the paper and bits are Basic Grey and Bazzill cardstock apart from the string :)

TFL.

The Flowers That Bloom In The Spring, Tra La La.

Our midweek Little Extra is titled ‘The Flowers That Bloom In The Spring’ and we would like you to create a card with flowers.

Simple? Aww but hold on…….there’s a little twist because we don’t want to make it too easy for you. We want your cards to have flowers on but we don’t want to see any Prima’s or shop brought blooms. The idea of this dare is for you create your flowers yourself, so let’s see what you can come up with.


Might need sunglasses for this one - tis a leetle bit bright...



Scenic Route and Crafts House papers, vintage buttons, faux and hand stitching, Bazzill card and brads, doodling and inking.

TFL :)

Easter Greetings

This week's little extra is an Easter themed number...



Kate Hadfield doodled chick and clouds
Scenic Route papers
Printed Sentiment
Paper pieced fence
Inking and Doodling.

Don't forget to check out the other Easter cards on the Daring cardmakers blog, they are very fab :)

TFL :)

These are a few of my favourite things!

The mid week dare this week is another one by Mel - these are a few of my favourite things. What you need to do is use one of Mel's favourite things on your card (embroidery cotton/thread, buttons, felt or fabric) and combine it with one of your favourite things.



Doodle chick - Kate Hadfield@the lilypad,Scenic Route papers, Pentel white pen Staedtler black pen, Queen and Co Brads, Paperchase flutterby

I used Mel's favourites - felt, embroidery thread and buttons and added my favoutite - doodling (and inking and digi images :))

TFL :)

Looking back a little....

This week's little extra....


This weeks little extra.......is all about looking back a little ...at last weeks dare ! Yes really, we want you choose a card from one of the design teams previous Friday dare and come up with a card using one or two of the same elements. tricky... !
Don't forget- there is still time to join in the this week's 'foiled' dare and possibly win a prize from Paper Pesto ! and if you really still have time on your hands ...............

I had one of *those* moments and got completely confused... I managed to use elements from previous dares then realised that it should have been from last Friday's dare... but yay! Jane's card has little flowers on it too so I will pretend that I can read and all is well....



I used DCWV papers, MM brad, doodling (lots of!) inking, Doodlebug and Prima flowers, Cosmo Cricket chipboard and Poundland gem.

TFL :)

Mid week Tribute

'Now, as you are probably aware, both Lynne and Gillian sadly stepped down from the Design team recently, and all though the DCM team's door is always open for them, we thought it would be nice to pay a little tribute to them in appreciation for all their wonderful work during their time on the DCM design team. Lythan came up with an idea that we make a card in the 'style' of either Lynne or Gillian's cards. Or maybe pick your favourite of theirs and use an element from their cards on your own card. Everyone has their own style- we thought it might be a little challenge to try out a different style for a change!

Once again we on the design team would like to wish Gillian and Lynne well on their new ventures and hope to maybe see them joining us for the occasional dare in the future, time permitting.'

I cased one of Lynne's fabulous cards;

and made this;

I did cheat a little and 'faux' stitched everything - both Lynne and Gillians cards always have the bestest sewing on them. I also used Basic Grey paper, MM brad, doodling and inking.

TFL :)

Hello...

A rather belated......to everyone :) We had a fairly quiet lager and curry night with our friends in Leamington.

I have (as per usual:)) been busy I finished 2 commissions for Friday and another 2 for Monday. We all had a touch of the flu probably more of a heavy cold but one of those that seems to linger - and flu always sounds better :)...

I have made these though that I can share, the first being for the current Daring Cardmakers Dare - New.



and another for the little extra to use some Santa sent stash - the stash that arrived was from a secret santa type *waves at Lythan* and was amazingly super bright lush and amazingly strokingly gorgeous - thank you Santa :).



One for my BIL who passed his test this week *waves and says yay* - mainly made with fonts and photoshop.



And a little card just to say hello :)



and finally some really fantastic news - my little tag was chosen in the Papercrafts Gallery as one of their projects of the month :)

I am still here :)

Just been super duper busy - tis that mad season of the year lol! I had this brilliant plan to blog much more during December then we all got one of those bugs and so my master plan got waylaid....

This week's little extra is Tag Time....

I used Pink Petticoat papers, Queen and Co and Prima flowers and lots of doodling... :)

I also made a matching bow

- and here is how I made it (I know that I am not the first to do this but this is the way that I set about it :)

Take some papers - I use Pink Petticoat...

Cut 8 strips to measure 2.5 cm by 15 cm and 4 strips to measure 2.5 cm by 12.5 cm.

Doodle 8 stripey bits on some paper...

Curl each strip around on itself and adhere with DST

Add a doodled strip and adhere with more DST - you can use this to stick them all together later on :)

Stick all of the strips together...

Adhere four pieces in to a star shape...

Assemble the remaining strips and add little strips of paper...

Layer the 2 big stars together...

Add the final star shape...

Add a little flower in the centre....et voila :)


And a couple of cards - this first I made for Rhi's fabulous birdy dare...

And a Stripey one for Saffa's dare...


TFL :)

Playing catch up...

Josh was star of the day again yesterday :) Being Star of the Day meant that he got to look after Sam for the evening and also complete details of his stay in the book that accompianies him. Not too sure why as to me, this equates to extra homework when perhaps the Star should be let off homework for the evening :)
Actually we did not have much time to complete it as we whizzed of to Nan's new home where they were putting on a firework spectactular. The fireworks were pretty fab, and went on for aaages - brilliant! We also went at the weekend to the big display at our nearby park but I think that the ones last night were just as good.

The boys both had swords on Sat that light up...

but if you take piccies without a flash or a posh camera you get this...

or this lol!

I much refer Bonfire night to Halloween but I did relent a little this year and we had our first ever pumpkin...

No where near as intricate as lots of others that I have seen on the internet but the boys liked it :)

and... this week's Little Extra...

...is Snowmen and Snowflakes.

I used;
QVC stickers bought ages ago.
Heidi Swapp chipboard letters - you know the ones that are supposed to be self adhesive but don't actually do what it says on the tin...
Hand cut and coloured Snowman
Doodling + Inking
Snowflake brads from stash
Papers were made by Jase :) Once I work out a way, I will share them with you :)

TFL :)

Pud...

I *may* have suggested the little extra for this week, and then promptly went away to make a card without using the required elements - Yes Kathy you may banish me away to the corner of nortiness *chuckles*

The required elements are

4 brads
3 circles
2 rectangles
and lashings of ribbon... and I made this :)

Paper is the really lush free stuff downloaded from Papercraft Inspirations
4 Brads - Papermania and Bazzill
only 2 Circles - the Pud which is actually felt ribbon and the corrugated card berry
2 backing rectangles
Thickers stickers and Ribbon Oasis Ribbon.

So only a little cheat and not really at all if you count one of the brads as a circle shape....

Don't forget that there is a very yummy prize up for grabs this week over on the Daring Cardmakers site

To be in with a chance of winning:

Make a Christmas card featuring some ribbon
Make it especially for this dare
Leave a message on the "Ribbon Galore" message thread to tell us where we can see it - or email it to us for the gallery

TFL :)

and... This Week's Little Extra...

is a template given to us by the wonderful Kathy;

Hmmm square cards are not my forte lol so I made this one instead, the template is still there - honest!

Supplies are
Pink Petticoat paper
Retro Punch
Circle Punch
Primas
Papermania brads
Doodlebug eyelets

It was Mum's birthday last week so we popped over for a very yummy roast cooked by Dad, I made her this card...


and I don't think that I have yet blogged this one - I made it for Kathy for her birthday last month :)



see you all tomorrow as it is dare day yay :)

Last Week's Little Extra....

...was to make a card with a tree on it. I did make one then promptly forgot to upload it! So here it is :)


Supplies are;
Rusty Pickle paper (which was an absolute steal at 10p a sheet at the Newbury show)
Bazzill card
Papermania brads
Doodlebug rub ons
White ribbon from a local sewing shop (was 10p a metre so a bit of a bargain there too!

I got this fab award this week from Kate , Rhi and Liz


-Thank you so much :) I have to nominate 10 blogs to pass it onto so in no particular order... I pass it on to...Melissa Roree Bety Ana Anna Patsy Monica Sadie Flossie's Follies and all of the Daring Cardmakers lol.

and... the cards that I designed for Pink Petticoat are on the site :)

You can see all the cards designed by me and all the other very talented designers here.

TFL :)