House Mouse - Challenge 12 - A recipe

I thought I would have a go at the House Mouse Challenge this week, I have some lovely House Mouse stamps which over the coming weeks I'll try to show in the challenges. This weeks challenge is a recipe of Ribbon, 2x Buttons, Felt and a Scalloped edge. It's my sister's Birthday this week, the one that lives in Blackpool. This is such a sweet image I know she will love it. I decided to glaze the Bag, Beads and Shoes, I think it makes it a bit more tactile.

Here's my list of items used.

* House Mouse stamp
* Cuddly Buddly paper
* Sissix Felt flowers
* Quickutz Buttons
* Fiskars Border punch
* Pearly gems from stash

My Time To Craft - Challenge 36 - Personalise it

I think I'm just about in time for this weeks Challenge at My Time To Craft, which is to personalise a project with a name, initials, etc. I have been waiting for the new dies to come out over at Cuddly Buddly, which I have to say are fantastic, they are posable, so you get true value for money. Another job extremely well done by Kim. I have made this concertina card for my Daughter Casey, she was 20 on the 25th October.
Here's my list of items used

* Cuddly Buddly Teddy die cutter
* Sweet shoppe papers
* Magnolia stamped Flowers
* Ribbon, gems etc from stash

Tilda and Friends atc - It's a wrap

This weeks theme over at Tilda and Friends atc's is " It's a wrap " You can use any cute image but add a bit of ribbon, lace thread etc. I love making the little atc's and would happily make them from Dawn till Dusk.
Here is my list of items used

* Hanglar stamped image
* Bazzill card stock
* Cuddly Buddly backing paper
* Ric rac and pearly gems from stash

Friday Sketchers - Sketch 21

Well it seems like ages since I've done an entry for a challenge blog. So I thought my first one back would be a nice sketch by Mumur for The Friday Setchers sketch 21 I enjoyed this sketch and had to do a Birthday card for my Daughter to give to my other Daughter who likes cute.
Here's my list of items used.

* Hanglar stamped image
* Sweete shoppe papers
* Prisma pencils
* Cuddly Buddly Sentiment stamp
* Brads and Gems from Stash

Tilda and Friends atc Challenge

This week over at Tilda and Friends atc Challenge blog. It has been decided to open up the challenges to incorporate other "round faced" smiley characters. So I thought I would use my wonderful Cuddly Buddly Winter Charley sitting stamp. This stamp is so easy to paper piece.The background papers are also from the new let it snow winter paper downloads.
List of items used

* Cuddly Buddly Charley
* Cuddly Buddly Papers
* Stickles glitter

A Spoon full of Sugar - Challenge 13

This week over at A Spoon full of Sugar the Challenge is a sketch by Debbie. Also this week it has been opened up so that you can use any make of stamp for the Challenge. Well I thought perfect excuse to make to make another Christmas card with one of the new Cuddly Buddly Christmas stamps range. The Hedgehog was coloured with Prisma pencils.

Here's my list of items used
* Cuddly Buddly stamp
* Cuddly Buddly downloadable backing papers
* Cuttlebug embossing folders
* Mirror card
* Ribbon, jewellery fixings, Snowflake from stash.

My time to Craft - Challenge 25

This weeks theme over at My Time to Craft is Christmas, Yippee say I, it gives me an excuse to use the gorgeous new stamps from Cuddly Buddly. I have used 2 of the new stamps which are, Penguin post and King Edward Post Box. They go so well together. I have coloured with prismas and decoupaged the full Post box, the Penguin has had his hat, wing and beak decoupaged. I also added some Woodware fluffy stuff with a touch of glitter to the hat before I used my heat gun on it. The backing paper is part of the new Winter warm downloadable set also from cuddly buddly.I added an oversized paper clip with a metal snowflake attached and a few gems.

Meggie Baking 3 Challenges in 1

FRIDAY SKETCHERS - CUTE CARD THURSDAY - MY TIME TO CRAFT -
This week I have managed to get 3 challenges in the 1 card. For Friday Sketchers you had to do a layout, which I must say was excellent. For Cute card Thursday it has to be something in the home, I struggled with this one, then remembered that I had the Cuddly Buddly stamp of Meggie baking and for the My Time to Craft challenge, it had to be Red, Black and White. I do feel like I've cheated a bit because I like to do a card for each Challenge, but time has been limited.
I have paper pieced Meggie from Cuddly Buddly. Printed out the recipe for the Background. Done a serious amount of matting and layering, I'm pretty pleased with the result, I like the rich colour of the red.

A couple of male cards I made today

I have a couple of male Birthdays coming up so I thought I'd get them done today, after everybody had gone home ( Sunday is the day all the kids descend on us for dinner, it's like a madhouse, great to see them all, but oh so peaceful when they go home ) Any way this was my way of relaxing - I have paper pieced Kyle from Cuddly Buddly then matted and layered him on some papers which are part of the pirate downloadable set which is also cuddly buddly. The matting block behind him and the hinges are actually tags, but after a bit of creative time I came up with these. The other one is also a downloadable set from Cuddly Buddly, called local lads. These are great because you get everything you need to make your card. images, papers, tags etc.

Linda's card layout challenge

I made this one for ny fellow Cuddly Buddly members card challenge. Each month she sets us a new card layout. We can use any papers for background, but the main theme is to be a Cuddly Buddly stamp or image. It's great fun to join in, we have had some really great layouts. I needed a card for a very nice man that I know, who is an older Gentleman. I have used Shabby Princess papers, the flourishes are from an Autumn leaves set - mindy's flowers and the main image is the cheeky chappie Birthday Kyle from Cuddly Buddly, which I have paper pieced. I am really pleased with how this one turned out, so, thanks, Linda for an excellent layout challenge.

Men at work atc - cb challenge blog

This is my entry for this month's atc challenge over at the cb challenge blog. You couldn't use, Bugs , Bears or Flowers. This is one of my favourite downloadable image sets from Cuddly Buddly. It's called Men At Work. The background was an image I downloaded from the net of a brick wall, I then played with it in Greeting card Factory, ( imported a graphic ) Did a bit of copy and paste and had a lovely big wall. I then printed it on both sides of my A4 card and cut out my template for the atc.

A spoon full of sugar Challenge 6

Here is my entry for this weeks spoon full of sugar challenge 6. This week's theme was to use circles. I have used the new Dana stamp from Cuddly Buddly. I think she'e pretty wonderful and can look so different when put together in brights or pastels. I have used Shabby Princess papers and the small nellie's circle multi frame die. I've added some flat back pearly gems from my sis and a bit of ribbon.

Grandad and Uncle cards

I made these 2 cards this morning, they are from a list of cards that my Daughter Catherine would like me to make for her. They are mostly male cards ( which I don't really like doing ) I prefer nice girlie ones. But saying that, I must say that Kim over at cuddly buddly has some great downloadable graphics, that come with tags and backing papers and everything. Which makes life so much easier. These are from her range known as local lads, my Daughter chose this graphic and wanted the same chap for both cards. I have decoupaged the images. I didn't want to do the same card so changed them slightly. they are for Grandad and Uncle.

A Stack of Ellies challenge

Here's my mid month stack of Ellies cuddly buddly blog challenge, I really enjoyed this one, the Ellies are such a lovely image to work with. I printed it on grey Bazzill, added a bit of water colour pencils. I glazed the coloured bits and I strung some seed beads.

A spoon full of sugar challenge 5

I noticed this challenge whilst blog hopping and it certainly appealed to me, so, this is my card for the check challenge. Two of the backing papers are from Shabby Princess, the pink check which is closest I can't remember it just from my stash. The image is of the wonderful Emmy from Cuddly Buddly, she's such a sweetie to paper piece, the flowers are prima and the gems from my sis.

Sofie's 18th Birthday card

This one is for my Daughter Sofie who will be 18 shortly, this is our favourite nick name for Sofie who makes a drama out of everything. I have used 4 pieces of A4 card in total . One for the base, two for the gate fold then another one to cover the join at the back and add a bit more strength. I have used white linen card and Bazzill card stock the gingham is from a cd from carolannstudio. The Dana stamp has been paper pieced. She's gorgeous and one of Kim's new range from Cuddly Buddly. I made the template in Greeting card Factory imported the crown , printed off then coloured and glittered it. This card has many wonderful gems on it which my very wonderful sister from Oz sends me.

Christening card for Mason

My friend asked me to do her an accordian card, I love doing these - this one is for her nephew Mason, who I met for the first time last week , he's an adorable little chap. These images are from the downloadable range from cuddly buddly. The dotty background is also from a downloadable range from cuddly buddly. Lots of gems ( from my lovely sis in Oz )and some lovely organza ribbon in a pale blue and white. The sentiments are from Greeting card factory and with a bit of tweeking have been made more suitable for Mason.

Engagement card

My friend has just gotten engaged , so I thought the cuddly buddly stamps of Emmy and Kyle would be perfect to use together. The round sentiment stamps and the with love stamp are also cuddly buddly stamps.I added a bit of threaded ribbon through eyelets and a few gems, shock horror no stickles.

Saturday Penny Black challenge

I thought I would have a go at the Penny Black Saturday challenge, This was my first Penny Black stamp. Hedgie is such a cute character , everybody can't help falling in love with him. All the Penny Black stamps that I have all feature Hedgie, so , I guess I should look into buying some different ones. Hedgie has been water coloured, I stamped extra flowers and ladybirds to make the border ( they certainly took some cutting out, I can tell you )The background paper is part of a downloadable set from cuddly buddly and the stamp is a small quote stamp from Stampendous. Oohh almost forgot had to use some stickles , I think I would add a touch of glitter to everything if I could ( I love it ).

A Fishy Tale - Father's Day card

I made this one for my hubby, I just hope he appreciates the joke. For all those of you who have hubbies that fish, how many times have they come home and waffled on about the size of the one that got away. The main stamp is a cb Kyle stamp, he is wonderfully versatile, many of the cb forum members have come up with different ways to use him. The greetings were printed from Greeting card factory, ( brilliant CD's which are really useful and worth having a play with to see what you can come up with.