Gorgeous new colours at Graph'It Colour challenge

Good morning and a very happy Friday to you, the weekend is nearly here :-) At Graph'It Colour Challenge we're showcasing the gorgeous new colours in the Graph'It Range this week and the DT were challenged to use them all together but we won't make it that hard for you lol. Pop over to the challenge blog and find out all the deeets and of course find out about the fab prize of Graph'It gorgeousness courtesy of our lovely sponsors Premium Art Brands too. My teamies have come up with some amazing artwork to inspire you too so its well worth a visit

I've made a centre step card using a gorgeous Sweet Pea digistamp called Autumn Trio by Ching Chou Kuik

Colours used:

Skin: 4180, 4155,4115, 4120 (blush: 5125, 5110)

Hair: 6290, 3140,3110, 1250, 1210

Eyes: 6175, 6120

Hood: 8290, 8280, 8250, 8220

Rabbit: 9305, 9303,9400

Deer: 3130, 3110, 1250

I've used a backing paper from my stash lots of flowers from WOC, some punched leaves, buttons, twine, some gorgeous red linen ribbon, lace and little green pearls to finish off .

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

One Sweet Challenge: Focus on something (flowers for me)

Whoopsi Daisy: flowers galore

Wild Orchid Crafts: ribbon and lace

Well hopefully nice Mr Blogger will post this for me while I'm hard at work but i'm counting down as I've got a days leave on Monday so its a long weekend for me :-)

Thanks so much for visiting today, hope to see you again soon

Claire xx

Gecko Galz Guest Artist: Beautiful Dreamer

Good morning folks, how's your week going? My card today is one of the projects I created as Guest Artist over at Gecko Galz. As well as lots of gorgeous Christmas goodies, there are some beautiful vintage collage sheets called 'Beautiful Dreamer' and I couldn't resist using one of the lovely wistful ladies for this card.

I used a pretty vintage backing paper, also from Gecko Galz (from the Camelot Paper Pack) to cover a pretty shaped card blank and layered the image up over cheesecloth, feahers, pretty lace and ribbon (from the Ribbon Girl). I added lots of gorgeous flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts, some little wired gems from my stash and some fluffy feathers.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

365 cards: Vintage with fabric

Allsorts: ribbon and bows

Creative Moments: Lace/ anything goes

Happy Campers: show us your flowers

Paper Shelter: 2 colours

Ribbon Girl: October Colour challenge

Sister Act: anything goes

If youv'e got a min, do check out the amazing Gecko Galz blog, as well as amazing artwork from the talented DT you can sign up for a fabby newsletter which comes with a grogeous freebie too.

Thanks so much for visiting today, hope to see you again soon

Claire xx

Make a card at FSC

Hello my lovelies, can you believe another two weeks have whizzed by and its time for a new challenge over at Fashionable Stamping Challenges? Goodness me at this rate it will soon be Christmas eeeeek! Anyway our new challenge is a nice easy one for you, its 'Make a Card' chosen by my lovely teamie Dot. As always our lovely sponsor Flonzcraft has a fab $20 voucher up for grabs for our lucky winner! Pop over and have a look at all the deets and of course check out my teamies wonderful projects, they are such a lovely talented bunch of ladies!!

I've used a shaped card blank and a gorgeous bp from CraftWork cards, the stamp is from Flonzcraft (of course lol) and I've coloured the image with my beloved Graph'It markers. I just love these elegant ladies!

I've added lots of embellies: ribbon, lace, a gesso and glittered fan charm and butterfly and lots of flowers all given the gesso and glitter treatment. I've added some black die cut leaves to finish off. I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

A Creative Romance: pink

Alphabet Challenge:  R is for roses

Bunny Zoe's Crafts: ribbon

Oooh La la: things with wings

Paper Pretties: lots of embellies

Sweet Pea Stampers: Sparkle and shine

Whimsy Inspiration: shabby chic/vintage

Thanks so much for popping by today

Claire xx

Skaters from Splodge Away

Good morning folks, hasn't it been beautiful weather over the weekend? I haven't seen much of it as I'm battling though loads of work stuff but I've got a week of soon, can't wait!! Anyway today's card is a little concertina book card made using some of the scrummy new masks from SplodgeAway, for this project I've used Ice Skaters and the lovely snowflake border.

I used white glossy stencil paste through the skater masks and the snowflake border, once the paste was dry I spritzed them with lots of glimmeer mists in blues and greens and again left it to dry. I matted the images on blue card and used a nestie to cut an aperture:

I've added lots of paper flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts and some lace and ribbon from the ribbon Girl

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

4 Crafty Girls: anything goes

Happy Campers: show us your flowers

Hiding in my Craft Room: Lots of layers

LEJ Designs: winter wishes

Our Creative Corner: forgotten things (glimmer mists are mine)

Paper Shelter: multiple folds

Papertake Weekly: Make it sparkle

Sister Act: anything goes

Well thanks for visiting, its always lovely to see you

Claire xx

PS I've got some lovely Polkadoodles blog candy up for grabs,check it out here

Pretty in pink inspiration at VSC

Good morning, well as good as it can be for a Monday when work is beckoning me, yuk!! Today's card is an inspiration project for our 'Pretty in Pink" Challenge at Vintage Stamping Challenges. There are still a few days left to enter and be in with a chance to win a fab prize from our sponsor Flonzcraft. You don't have to create a vintage project to enter but we do want to see some rubber stamping :-)

I've used a distress ink background, made with cream cardstock and overstamped with an Indigo Blu honeycomb stamp. The image is from Flonzcraft, coloured with Graph'It Markers and die cut with nesties. I've used kraft card to mat and layer and I've added some seam binding, a paper rose from Wild Orchid Crafts and some gorgeous lace from the Ribbon Girl. To finish off I've popped some faux pearls in three of the corners and a filigree corner at the the top. 

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Allsorts: kraft it

Alphabet: L is for lace

One Stop Craft: ribbon or flowers

Penny Black and More: dies and punches

That Craft Place: its a girl thing

Totally papercrafts: lace

Its quite a bit cooler here now, hopefully I won't be half asleep all week this week. All that heat and lovely sunshine turned me into a bit of a zombie lol. thanks so much for popping by

Claire xx

Candy Colours at Graph'It Colour Challenge

Good morning folks, wooo hooo Friday at last!! And not just any Friday but I've got a week off work after today and its one more sleep til Summer Crafting! To add to the excitement we've got a new challenge over at Graph'It colour challenge too, you don't have to use Graph'It markers to join in and there is an amazing prize up for grabs from Premium Art Brands and PolkaDoodles too so hop over to the challenge blog to find out all about it (check out my teamies amazing projects too)

. Its also my first tutorial over at Graph'It Colour challenge, I've done a quick tut on how to use your Mix'It palette for blending so I'd be chuffed to bits if you'd pop over and check it out :-)

For my card I've used one of the super cute images from the PolkaDoodles 'Pretty Sweet' cd, of course the image is coloured with Graph'Its and my Mix'It.

I've used:  Dress 5270, 5140, 5120,5110;   

Blouse: 9104, 7125, 7105;  

Skin:4180, 4155, 4115, 4120 and 5110;  

 Hair: 3140, 2105, 1230 and 1150

The papers are also from Pretty Sweet and I've added a gesso'd butterfly charm, some paper flowers and some little blue berries from WOC (all dusted with Glamour Dust) and a little filigree corner. The seam binding is from The Ribbon Girl, as is the lace.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Penny's Paper Crafty:  pink

Songbird: ribbon

Try it on Tuesday: Metal

Whimsy Inspiration: ribbon and lace

thanks so much for popping by today

have a good day 

Claire xx

Lots of layers at PanPastel UK

Good morning my lovelies, hope you're having a good weekend. I haven't been around much over the past few days as my internet is really playing up, not sure if its the weather or what but hopefully it will soon be back to normal. Anyway back to the important stuff, we've got a new challenge starting at PanPastel UK and this week our theme is 'Lots of  Layers' . Of course you don't have to use PanPastels but we love it when you do :-) As usual our lucky winner will receive a fab PanPastel starter kit from Berni our lovely sponsor at Your Creativity Store although due to the latest increase in postage, the prize will only be available to UK entrants but of course there's always the honour of the PanPastel winners badge for your blog. Here's my DT project for this weeks challenge:

My lovely friend Shirley made a similar project to this a few weeks ago (have a look here, its fab!) and I just had to have a go at making one, Shirl was inspired by this video tut by the talented Miranda. I've used stamps by Indigo Blu and Chocolate Baroque, all the layers have been coloured with PanPasels (of course lol) in Magenta and Turquoise and distressed with a little black. I overstamped with a gorgeous button card stamp from Indigo Blu and added a little black velvet ribbon belt with a blingy buckle.

I popped my dress form up on a little cake stand thingy from the pack of Wendy Vecci art parts that i've been hoarding for ages, I gave it a coat of Maimeri Gesso, coloured with Pans and stamped with a fabric texture stamp from Indigo blu.. I've added lots of embellies, including paper flower, flowers made with Maimeri Light Modelling Paste and a silicone mould. I've also added a few charms, a butterfly,  a teeny tiny coathanger and a fan. I've also added lace, velvet ribbon and some iridescent bead trim. The sentiment is a stamp from Chocolate Baroque and I've popped it in a little frame from the pound shop. The dinky little cotton reel is from The Funkie Junkie Boutique, wound with some embroidery silk from my cross stitching days. 

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Country View Crafts: die cuts

Crafty Friends: use a charm

Little Red Wagon: No patterned paper

Inspired by Stamping: Vintage

Sparkles Forum: Vintage or steampunk

Sugar Creek Hollow: Mixed media

Thanks for popping by, have a lovely crafty day

Claire xx

CRAFT GDT - Recipe challenge

Good morning everyone, will this sunshine last until the weekend? It better after I've spent the last day or so sweltering in my office although I'm told that rain is forecast.  My card today is my GDT project for CRAFT challenge where we've got a recipe challenge for you: the recipe is image, pearls/rhinestones, sentiment and ribbon. As always there are some fab prizes up for grabs, the sponsors for this weeks challenge are: Patties creations, Flonzcraft, Lauretta's Digital Stamps. I adore Flonzcraft stamps and have loads so i've used one of the cuties from Anime Manga Girls (available here)

The background papers are from the gorgeous Pretty Sweet Cd from PolkaDoodles and i've coloured the image with Graph'It markers adding some distress ink around the edges. I've added a doily, some die cut shapes, paper flowers (gesso'd and glittered) along with some pretty lace, ribbon and faux pearls. The sentiment is also from the  Pretty Sweet. i've used kraft card for matting and layering.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

A little bit crafty: something sweet

Amusing Challenges: ribbon or twine

Card mania: kraft

Creative Corner: girly girl

Digi Darla: use a doily

Well as per usual i'm off to earn a crust so thanks for popping by, have a lovely day

Claire xx

Tag time at Fashionable Stamping Challenges

Hi there, its a busy blogging weekend for me with another new challenge starting at Fashionable Stamping Challenges where our theme this time around is 'Tag time' chosen by my lovely teamie Silvia. As always we've got a fab $20 voucher from our generous sponsor Leo at Flonzcraft for the lucky winner so ink up your stamps and play along for a chance of winning. I've made a tag card for my DT project:

The cover is stamped with a Graphic 45 stamp, die cut and letter pressed with a spellbinders die. Inside I've used a selection of gorgeous quirky stamps from Flonzcraft 'Vintage Fashion Ladies' All the images are coloured with Graph'It and promarkers, I've embossed around the images and added a little colour with PanPastels. The backing papers are all downloads from Chocolate Baroque. i've added ribbon, lace, some tiny brads and lots of paper flowers

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

Art Impressions Stamps: brads or eyelets

Card Making Mamas : rubber stamps

Creative Belli: flowers

Die cutting divas: shaped card

Milk Coffee: load on the flowers

Paper playtime: Two or more ribbons

thanks for popping by today

Claire xx

Decorative scalloped ornate framer from SplodgeAway

Hi there folks, its a beautiful sunny day here today so I'm off to sit in the garden for an hour but first here's another of my samples for the recent SplodgeAway Show on Create and Craft. This card features the beautiful Decorative Scalloped Ornate Framer mask.

I've used the mask over a patterned paper and inked with versamark before embossing with walnut stain distress EP. I've also inked the edges and around the scallop with walnut stain distress ink. The image is a digi from Sweet Pea Stamps, coloured with promarkers and layers up over a paper doiley. I've added some seambinding ribbon, lace, a paper rose and a little scissors charm to finish off. Here's another pic to show the image a little better:

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Crafts and Me: shabby chic

Crafty Sentiments: show us stitching

Deep Ocean: ribbon and lace

Passion for Promarkers: ribbon/lace/twine

Simon Says Stamp: anything goes

Thanks for popping by today, 

Claire xx

Alter it at Fashionable Stamping Challenges

Helllooooo, where on earth did the last two weeks go? They've whizzed by in the blink of an eye so that means its time for our new challenge over at Fashionable Stamping Challenges. This time our theme is 'Alter it' and our lucky winner will receive a $20 voucher from Leo, our lovely sponsor from Flonzcraft. So ink up those stamps and get altering :-), if you need some inspiration pop over to the challenge blog and check out the gorgeous samples from my DT sisters.

If you're anything like me, you'll have a huge heap of 'stuff' in the corner of your craft room waiting to be altered - i'm such a hoarder I don't think i'll get everything altered if i live to be 100 lol. Anyway I had a rummge in my heap of rubbish, i mean stuff and found this old gift box that Santa brought a couple of years ago.

I gave the whole thing a coat of gesso and covered the sides with tissue tape. I used a variety of masks and stencils with Maimeri light modelling paste on the front and on a sheet of card to frame the image. Once it was dry I added colour with PanPastels and Dylusions ink, finishing off with some Renaissance treasure gold. 

The focal image is 'Girl with bird on hand' from Flonzcraft, she's coloured with Graph'It and promarkers, the sky and grass were created with PanPastels. I just love this stamp, she's so sweet.

Here's a pic of the sentiment in the corner, stamp from Chocolate Baroque, flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts and butterfly from the Ribbon Girl. The little frame is actually a die cut fob watch with the top bit cut off to make a little circular frame.

To finish off i've added a silky ribbon bow and a paper rose.

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

By the cute and girly: flowers

Charisma Cardz: no digis allowed

Craft Stamper: paper tearing and stamping

Craft your Passion: children at play

Creatalicious: for the girls

Fab'n'funky: favourite embellishment

 (Mine is ribbon but tomorrow it could be butterflies or flowers lol)

Polkadoodles: spring colours/pastels

Simon Says Stamp: flowers

Sweet Pea Stampers: birds of a feather

Top Tip Tuesday: box clever

Thanks for popping by, have a lovely Sunday

Claire xx

Splodge Away DT Debut!!

Good morning folks, this week I'm making my debut as part of the SplodgeAway Design Team, I can't tell you how much fun I've had playing with some of the most gorgeous masks and of course my trusty Splodge Mat. If you've got a few minutes pop over to the SplodgeAway blog and have a look at all the fab project created by my new teamies!

This card was the result of a 'happy accident' as they say lol. I'd decided to use the beautiful 'Fancier Lattice' mask for the glittered lace technique but it all went horribly wrong! I started with some white card and stuck it to some double sided adhesive sheet, applied my mask and sprinkled on lots of rock candy glitter. All seemed to be going to plan until I removed the mask and instead of a nice bright pink glitter I tipped on a load more rock candy - result a nice white glittery piece of card lol.

Not to be daunted I replaced the mask and grabbed my panpastels and applied Magenta and Magenta Extra dark with a duster brush and voila!! The background was made with one of the Splodge Away Feminine Border masks and more PanPastels. I've edged the layers with some treasure gold and added a big white bow and a gesso'd butterfly (from The Ribbon Girl) and lots of paper flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

ABC Challenge: make it sparkle

Allsorts: add some sparkle

Cute Card Thursday: come fly with me

Hybrid Chick: flowers

One Stop Craft: flower power

Well I'd better get organised and go to work, have a good day folks

Thanks for popping by

Claire xx

Maimeri embellishments

Good morning my lovelies, and a big warm welcome to my new followers. One more day at work and the weekend is here yippppeeeee! Before I dash off to work, I wanted to share another sample I created for the 'Sentational Stencilling' shows on Create and Craft featuring the gorgeous new masks by Pronty which i've combined with Maimeri Mediums, PanPastels and Graph'It Markers.

I've used a real assortment of techniques for this little shadow box. The frame was made using light modelling paste applied through a Pronty Mask and coloured with permanent red tint PanPastel. I lined the inside of the box with a scrap of card stamped with a harlequin stamp by Indigo Blue, The lady is one of my favourite stamps from Crafty Individuals, coloured with Graph'It markers and liberally glamour dusted. At the top of the frame I tied a large bow and in the centre I've added a little cameo - I got a few of these from fleabay but they were all black and white so this one got a coat of Maimeri gesso and a dusting of Permanent red tint PanPastel. 

The heart embellie was made using Maimeri Iridescent paste and a Chocolate Baroque stamp, I'm going to do a tutorial for this technique on the PanPastel DT blog so once its live i'll add a link.

Here's a pic of the little frame in the bottom right, I got a few of these from the pound shop, its had the Gesso and PanPastel treatment. I popped a little stamped image inside and then added some flowers and beady trim, again liberally gesso'd and glamour dusted

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

Country View Crafts: butterflies

Crafty Creations: pink plus one (black for me, I love pink and black together)

Crafty Individuals: Spring in fashion

Oldie but goodie: make it girly

Simon Says Stamp: anything goes

well work is calling so i'd better scoot off and earn some pennies

have a lovely day and thanks for popping by

Claire xx

Fairyland Money Box

Good morning all, I'm counting down to a nice long weekend off work and hopefully lots of time in my craft room. I certainly won't be venturing far if the weather stays like this. My project today is my entry for the new Lavinia Stamps Challenge and I've made a little mdf money box that I've decorated with Lavinia Stamps and lots of paper flowers. Sorry about the dark pics, its been so grey and dismal here.

Here's a pic of the front, all the images were stamped with black archival ink and coloured with derwent Inktense pencils:

And here's the back and one of the sides:

And the other side of the money box.

I painted the money box with soft cream emulsion paint and then dry brushed green acrylic over the bottom and blue acrylic at the top. The fairies all have a little glamour dust on their wings and I stamped little stars with flitter glu and added some pastel coloured glitter here and there.

The roof of the money box hides the slot to pop the money in, I cut  a rectangle from grungeboard and then attached lots of paper flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts with my hot glue gun (ouch! I always end up with burnt fungers and covered in glue gun cobwebs lol)> Once it was finished I sealed it all with a coat of Maimeri Matte Gel Medium

I'm also entering this project in the following challenges:

Artistic Inspirations: Fantasy

Crazy Challenge: Fairies and flowers

Everybody Art: Fairies

Sparkle and Sprinkle: Glitter

Through the craft room door: anything goes

Tuesday Throwdown: something dimensional

Thanks for popping by today

Claire xx

Leafy Trails from Chocolate Baroque

Good morning folks, my project today features the gorgeous 'Leafy Trails', one of the new Big Bold Background stamps from Chocolate Baroque, you can find them all here (and some special offers too!) 

I've coloured the images with distress markers, and then inked generously with lots of distress ink. I've added a nestie die cut over the top of the hole and then a 'ring of roses' lol and a green seam binding bow. The beautiful roses are from Wild Orchid Crafts.

The edges of the lid were punched with a MS punch. If you pop over to the Chocolate Baroque Design Team Blog, i've posted a template if you'd like to have a go at making one of these covers. If you do make one, please leave me a link to your blog as I'd love to see it :-)

i'm entering this project in the following challenges

Anything but a card: green/ Irish/St Pats

Celebrate the Occasion: spring is in the air

Creative inspirations paint: go green

Everybody Art: box

Paper Playtime: anything goes

There she goes: shades of green

Wags'n'Whiskers: go green

Thanks for popping by today

Claire xx

Easter with the Gecko Galz

Good morning my lovely friends, Monday already but for a pleasant change I'm not moaning about going to work as I've got the day off ! We seem to be back in the grip of winter, yesterday was freezing cold and we had snow, snow in March,eeeeek thats not good.  My card this morning is my entry for the Easter challenge over at the Gecko Galz yahoo group. I've used a gorgeous vintage image from Gecko Galz (of course lol).

I've created a background with PanPastels and used Maimeri iridsescent paste through a Crafters Workshop template. Once that was dry I added some colour with Graph'It markers. I've layered the image up over a scrap of card embossed with a texture fade and some cheesecloth. I've added blue velvet ribbon, green gingham ribbon and a little heart charm, along with some cream lace from The Ribbon Girls. I've gone a bit OTT with embellies on this card, I've added one of my bargain birds nest from the pound shop (coloured the eggs with markers), flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts,  and some faux pearls too.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Brown Sugar: Easter

Crafty Calendar: Easter Eggstravaganza

Live and Love Crafts: Easter

My time to craft: embossing

Oozak : spring

Quirky Crafts: make your own background

Well i'm off to have a very lazy day, after such a hectic week at work last week I don't seem to have any energy so I'm going tidy up and throw some washing in then recharge my batteries in front of the TV with a pile of images to colour (and a large bag of maltesers too). Ahhh bliss! 

Have a good day

Thanks for visiting today, 

Claire xx

A Girly Challenge at PanPastel UK

Good morning again, here's my second post of the day, this time I'm sharing my DT project for panPastel UK where our theme is 'Girly' and as always our lucky winner will receive a fabby PanPastel starter set from our generous sponsor Berni from Your Creativity Store.  This mornings card was one of the samples I made for the recent Graph'It marker show on Create and Craft, omg I was so excited to see my work on TV!!!!

My interpretation of the theme was to go for lots of ribbon, lace, pearls and flower but i've used fresh Spring shadesFor my card, i've used a gorgeous backing paper from the Gecko Galz, and added some of the PanPastel tints to change the colour slightly, PanPastels are soooooo handy for this. The focal image is a Stampendous Stamp, I stamped it in black and then layered up the Eiffel tower stamped and embossed in gold. Next i added the flowers, coloured with Graph'It markers. I layered the image up over some cheesecloth, adding little pearls here and there. Here's another pic of the image:

The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts and the seambinding ribbon and the gorgeous lace are from the Ribbon Girl.

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

A gem of a challenge: floral frenzy

Allsorts: Springtime

CRAFT: Easter or Spring

Creative Stamp Friends: spring colours

LEJ Designs: all things Spring

One Stop Craft: Spring

Thanks for visiting today, its lovely to see you. 

have a happy Sunday

Claire xx

Anything goes at No Matter Which Challenges

Hello blogland buddies, March already ... where does the time go? Its actually starting to feel like Spring is on the way in my little corner of the world, the sun is shining and the crocuses and snowdrops are looking so pretty. Shame the rest of the garden looks so sad but hopefully everything will soon start to grow again. Anyway its time for our March challenge at No Matter Which Challenges, our theme is a nice easy one 'Anything Goes' and this month we are sponsored by the fabulous Kenny K and the DT have all been lucky enough to work with some fun Kenny K images!

I've made a door hanger using a wooden blank which I've painted with black and hot pink acrylic paints, creating a crackle effect with PVA glue. I coloured the image with Graph'It markersand added some lace and ribbon from my stash. The sentiment was computer generated and die cut with nesties. I've added a black seam binding bow, a paper rose from Wild Orchid Crafts and popped a black button at the top. Here's a better pic of the image:

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

Craft us Crazy: anything goes

Crafty ribbons: anything goes with ribbon

Crafts and Me: dies/punches

Hotshot Crafts: anything but a card

One Crazy Stamper: anything goes

Stampin for the weekend: Use lace

Sweet Pea Stampers: Use a digi

Well as its a lovely sunny day I'm venturing out to a local craft fair and hopefully Mr Blogger will play nicely and post this for me. I don't seem to have been anywhere but work and walking the dogs for ages as the weather has been so dreadful so I'm looking forward to an afternoon out and possibly a nice slice of chocolate cake or something equally scrummy!

thanks for visiting today, hope you're having a good weekend

Claire xx

One stamp, two cards

Good morning, how's your week going? I kind of feel like I'm on the home straight to the weekend as i've got Friday off. I do love long weekends :-) Here are a couple of cards made using the gorgeous new Floral Edges from Chocolate Baroque. When I stamped this card, I though the floral border would make a lovely lacy border so had to have a play and created the second card. 

I don't usually do CAS cards but I thought this would make a pretty card without lots of embellies. I stamped the border stamp with memento ink, added the bird (from Curly Birds) and added the sentiment (from Best Relative Ever. I added some colour with Flexmarkers and matted the image on some black card.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Broken Box Stock: happy birthday

Creative Card Crew: birthday

Sentimental Sunday: flowers, flowers, flowers

Stamping Sensations: Fur or feathers

I had to try using the floral border as a lacy stamp and I think it looks really pretty. I stamped with versamark on kraft and embossed with white EP. I've added some seam binding ribbon, paper flowers coloured with a mist of diluted vintage photo reinker.

The main image is a Stampsmith stamp, I do love these stamps but hardly ever use them as I really struggle to get a good image, this was about my 20th attempt lol. I've layered it up over a doily and added some vellum leaves and a few little pearls. 

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Addicted to Stamps: use kraft

A gem of a challenge:add a bow

LEJ Designs: Lovely lady

Simon Says Stamp and Show: stamp you love but don't use

Thanks for visiting today, and for your lovely comments

Claire xx

Photo Inspiration at No Matter Which

Hi there, we've got a new challenge starting at No Matter Which Challenges today and this month we've got a photo to inspire your projects so do pop over to the challenge blog and have a look at the pic, and also check out the gorgeous projects from my lovely teamies too.

We've got a great prize up for grabs, our lucky winner will receive a $10 dollar gift certificate for Sweet Stamps!! 

As this year seems to be flying by and before we know it Christmas will be here (eeeeeek) I thought I'd make another Christmas cards and took my inspiration from the gorgeous colours of the photo and the basket weave furniture, a perfect excuse to use my Spellbinders lattice dies. 

The backing paper is from one of the GSC Christmas pads from last year. The die cuts were distressed with tattered rose distress ink and sprayed with glimmer mists.

I've used a Molly Bloom stamp for the focal image, she's coloured with promarkers and has some glamour dust on her wings. To finish off I've added lace, blue seam binding ribbon, a little spray of pearls and flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Brown Sugar: Pearls and Lace

Cute Card Thursday: Fairies and angels

Fab'n'Funky: Die cuts/punches

Fussy and Fancy: Pearls and Flowers

I love promarkers: Cute

Thanks for popping by

Claire xx