Concertina Card

 Morning and time for our first challenge of the year at A Place to Start which is Rainbows(lots of colours) or ATG.

I made a concertina card using beautiful papers from Crafters Companion, a pocket inside with a tag, and a couple of tags glued to the pages. The tags and little Fox were cut from oddments of paper from Stamperia and no stamping in sight lol.

Please note if any challenges have digi images for prizes I am just playing for fun and support as I don't have a printer  

Challenges-----

the paper shelter-ATG

allsorts-ATG

Allys Angels-ATG

613 Avenue create-ATG

girlz creative fun art of scrap-ATG+p, papers

love to craft-ATG

crafts galore encore-ATG

love to scrap-ATG

mix it up-ATG/add ribbon

pearly sparkles-use p, paper

do-all kreatives-ATG

colorful options-rainbow(lots of colour)

classic design-ATG

a perfect time to craft-ATG

paper rocks scissors-scissors used to cut the tags and fussy cut Fox

triple B-birds/blooms butterflies

lil patch of crafty friends-ATG

Thank you for dropping by and hope you can join us this month.

Carol x x x

Bookmark and Bloom

 Morning and time for our new "I Spy Something Beginning With B"/ATG challenge at Stamping Sensations with a stamp and co-ordinating stencil  from Visible Image.

I went with B for bookmark and bloom using my favourite Iris flower and stamp set from AALL&Create coloured with promarkers and I used a clear bookmark sleeve from Stix2. Ribbon from stash-(pic below)

Please note if any challenges have digi images for prizes I am just playing for fun and support as I don't have a printer  

Challenges-----

lil red wagon-use the force(stamping)

I love promarkers-ATG

allsorts-ATG

Allys Angels-ATG

love to craft-ATG

love to scrap-ATG

mix it up-ATG/add ribbon

tag-along and ATCs/bookmarks-ATG

outlawz-anything but a card

a perfect time to craft-ATG

classic design-ATG

triple B-birds/blooms/butterflies

Dragonfly Dreams-Floral

we love stamping-ATG

613 Avenue create-ATG

Thank you for dropping by and hope you will come and join us.

Carol x

No idea why second pic posted below and blogger wouldn't let me change it or delete the one above without the ribbon???

Card Swap Reveal

Morning and time for the November Card Chain Challenge  swap reveal and 23 cards were exchanges. The theme was NBUS+3 favourite colours+ animal/flower/fruit image. My card went to Marianne in Greece.

NBUS-side stamps--- 3 favourite colours-green/blue/lilac, Iris flower stamp from AALL&Create, coloured with promarkers, p, paper from Crafters Companion, circle die from My Favourite Things.

My crafty card from Dagmara in Poland.

Please note if any challenges have digi images for prizes I am just playing for fun and support as I don't have a printer  

Challenges-----

DL.ART-ATG

crafts galore encore-ATG

pearly sparkles-use patterned paper

mix it up-ATG

love to scrap-ATG

love to craft-ATG

girlz creative fun art of scrap-ATG+p, paper

craft rocket-something new(stamp set)

Christmas(or not) bingo-column Ii-square/layers/free/stamped image

do-all kreatives-ATG

a perfect time to craft-ATG

lil red wagon-use the force(stamping)

the paper shelter-in with the new(stamp set)

lil patch of crafty friends-ATG

creatalicious-ATG

Allys Angels-ATG

Thank you for dropping by and any comments are much appreciated.

Carol x x x

Memories Journal Page

 Morning and last Saturday of the month and time for our last Smash Your Stash journal page challenge with Vicki from Stamped Smiles. 

Well the year hadn't finished with us yet as Helen not well and still waiting for meds changed and Matthew had another hospital admitance to hospital but at least home for Christmas -then to top it all eldest son had to have blood tests earlier in the eek and levels 10x hight than they should be!!!So I am unashamedly resharing my Spurn Point page as the prompt was memories and some of my best memories are the school holidays I spent there.

I had to include the lighthouse-love them reminds me of the one at Spurn Point where I spent many happy school holidays. My Uncle was a Lifeboat crew man and it was very remote with chickens running round-my Aunt/Uncle and two cousins lived at cottage no 5-its all abandoned now due to getting wash overs with the tides and can get cut off sadly

If you click on the last pic you can see the crew cottageson he left hand side and see how isolated it is-but a truly special place.

Carol x x x

Wishing you a Merry Christmas

 Just a quick post to wish all my followers a lovely Christmas and hopefully a better New Year-but not holding my breath- also Thank you for all the lovely comments you have left on my blog over the year. 

Carol x x x

Another Mixed Crafts

Morning and a few mixed crafts today-a few last minute tags required, using the Robin and foliage/sentiment  stamps from Pink Frog and coloured with promarkers, with Distress ink in background and twine from stash.

 tag-along(and ATCs)-ATG

More knitted blankets and little hats for the prem baby unit-and a couple more hats made since pic was taken.

Path of Positivity---ATG

Some graphite drawings from Daughter Helen- the two dogs were from owners pics, the first one is blind in one eye and took Helen 4 attempts to make it look right. The Cleopatra one is for Granddaughter. The last one is her first attempt at free hand water colour.

Thank you for dropping by and any comments are much appreciated.

Carol x x x

GDT Card

 Morning and today posting my GDT card for Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2. Using sketch 316 by Kathie.

I used an image from AALL&Create coloured with promarkers, p, paper from Crafters Companion, card candy and ribbon from stash -both of which not seen light of day for a good few years and I didn't have the right colour ribbon. I picked the paper because of the pink flowers- didn't plan very well when I cut it because the image covered the flowers!!!

Please note if any challenges have digi images for prizes I am just playing for fun and support as I don't have a printer 

Challenges-----

I love promarkers-ATG

CRAFT-ATG

alphabet-R for ribbon---------------TOP 3

allsorts-ATG

lil patch of crafty friends-ATG

GCFAOS-ATG

neglected stuff-ATG(card candy/ribbon)

paper rocks scissors-ATG(scissors used to cut ribbon)

triple B-birds-blooms/butterflies

we love stamping-ATG

613 Avenue create-ATG

beautiful blossoms-ATG/purple

Allys Angels-ATG

creatalicious-ATG

the creative crafters-ATG

the paper shelter-ATG

Thank you for dropping by and any comments are much appreciated.

Carol x x x