Friday,

Another weekend looms and I hope everyone has something really nice planned and hope the weather lasts for whatever you have planned, I found a lovely set of stamps and just had to have them and found a perfect challenge for them, The set is by" For the Love of Stamps." The set is at the end of the post,  and used for the first card. 

Materials used for this card are,

•  21 x 15 cm card blank and envelope, 
• Salty ocean Distress ink pad,
• hobbycraft pigment ink pad,
• For the Love Of Stamps, clear stamps,

Challenges I will enter this card for are, 

1. A snowflake promise; Challenge #52 Anything goes, 
2. Crafty Sentiments Design Anything goes Challenge. 
3. *Pause Dream Enjoy* Challenge #26 Mermaids, 
4. TTCRD  Anything goes Challenge  for the week  6-26-18 

Materials used for this card are;

• 15 x 15 cm card blank and envelope,
• Hobbycraft pigment ink pad,
• Wild rose Studio Clear stamps,
• Cloud blue , Sky blue, gold, burnt orange, leaf green, frosted leaf, honeycomb, satin, vanilla Promarkers, 

Challenges I will enter this card for are, 

1. Crafting by Design, Get ready for Christmas June edition,
2. The Merry Christmas Challenge, Anything thing Christmas,
3.  Christmas at Sweet Stampin June anything Christmas, 
4. Home - Simon Wednesday Anything goes, 

WOYWDW

                                 HAPPY WOYWDW 

WOW Wednesday again, Year is just frying by, Going to enter my desk over at Julia's
    Stamping ground, HERE   I love looking at other peoples desk and seeing what they are making,

I really do not like this heat but glad to see the sun,  It makes me feel so good when the sun shines.

Materials used for this card are;

• 15 x 15 cm card blank and envelope,
• Fossilised amber, Salty ocean Distress ink, 
• Hobbycraft pigment black ink pad, 
• Vesafine Vintage sepia, ink pad, 
• On the beach Clear stamps, 

 Challenges I will enter this card for are, 

1. Crafting with Friends, Challenge 70,  Anything goes, 
2. Alphabet Challenge,  G is for The great outdoors, 
3. Creative Fingers Challenge,  #148 Winners #147 
4. Always Fun Challenges #64 Fun at the beach, 

A sketch for my second card today by CAS Colours 

  Materials  used for this card are, 

• 21 x 15 cm card blank and envlope,
• Vesamark Dazzle water stamp pad, 
• Hero Arts poly Clear Stamp,
• Rubber Stampede Red embossing powder 
• Magenta, Promarker, 

Challenges I will enter this card for are,

1. CAS Colours & Sketches, Challenge #278.
2. Pammies Inky Pinkies, Anything goes, 
3. Dragonfly Dreams, Anything goes, 

                                           

My desk with some ATC coins I have been working on ,

Monday

Was busy Saturday and my friend came round and said stop what you are doing I think you need time out, We went for a drive to Coaley Peak its a lovely spot and the view over the River Severn is amazing. There are hang gliders and men with modal planes there, I took a few pictures and will put some here for you to see what I mean. hope they don't bore you.

Now onto the Challenges. 

  A stash challenge today. I have had the wood card stock for about two years and its nice to  used it,                                         

Close up on the glitter. 

Materials used for this card are,

•  15 x15 card blank and envelope,
• 15 x 15 cm wood grain card, 
• Hobbycraft pigment black ink pad,
• Clarity clear stamp,
• Poppy, honeycomb, lime green, canary, satin, & pine Promarkers, 
• Ice white, green meadow 7 scarlet red. Nuvo pure sheen Glitter,
• Paradise blue Nuvo dust, 

Challenges I will enter this card for are, 

1. Creative Craft cottage, Eileen's Challenge Anything goes,  purple bow. 
2. CHNC Challenge #391 Use some Washi tape,
3. Christmas Card Throwdown, June Stash Challenge. 
4. Winter Wonderland Square cards only. 
5. Crimbo Crackers Challenge  #161~  Anything 

   
                                                  



                                                       

Materials used for this card are;

• 21 x 15 cm deckle card blank and envelope,
• Dreamees clear stamps, 
• Hobbycraft pigment black ink pad,
• Canary, poppy, coral, rose pink, spice, apricot, cyan, ocean teal, lilac promarkers, 

Challenges I will enter this card for are, 

1. Inkspirational: Challenge #163 Designers Choice, Use small stamps, 
2. Just Add Ink, #414  Just add I window/ frame, 
3. Pixie's Crafty Workshop, Challenge #329 
4. Little Miss Muffet Challenge #191, Anything goes, 

                      

Weekend again

Well I know strange things happen but really why do they have to happen last night when I am watching a video, The TV just went off and I cannot get it to work again, The video is still going but cannot get the TV back on, I have changed the batteries in the hand set and that's working so think it must be something to do with Sky, I wish I knew about these things but hay ho. If its still like this tomorrow I will get someone out, if I use the other hand set I can get non sky channels. Just asked a neighbour and sky is working so now am at a loss. 

believe it or not the TV came back all on its own.Lol 

I have started knitting hats and scarves for a friend who  makes up boxes for  people at Christmas, This is the first one,

                                                  

This is the saying on the top of the card

Materials used for this card are;

• 21 x 15 cm card blank and envelope,
• Sepia versafine ink pad,
• Pollyanna Pickering clear stamps,
• Cocoa, sandstone, forest green Promarkers,

 Challenges I will enter this card for are;

1. I love promarkers,  #316 anything goes with the option for a boy,
2. Addicted to Stamps and More,  Challenge  #297 Make your Mark, 
3. The Card Concept; The challenge #95  { owl Cherish Our Friendship. } 
4. Lemon Shortbread, Challenge 70 Anything goes, 

                             

WOYWDW

                                                Happy WOYWDW

Well another week has gone by and its time again to share out desks over with Julia at the
 stamping ground,  I loved looking at all the desks last week and thank you all who visited me and left lovely comments, My desk this week is a bit more tidy than of late but not a lot going on at the momemt lol Maybe thats why is tiedier. 

The weather has been a lot better and its nice to be able to go out  for a walk and not have to wear a coat, 

Materials used for this card are,

• 21 x 15 cm card blank and envelope,
• Small pieces of white card stock,
• 4 white pearls,
• Hobby craft pigment ink pad,
• Great impression penguin rubber stamp, 
• Spellbinders 3D santa rubber stamp.,
• Ice white Nuvo Pure Glitter, 
• Hint of green, Glitter frosting, 
• Tonic snowdrop die, 

Challenges I will enter this card for are;

1. jingle belles, I'm dreaming of a white christmas,
2. Sparkle Christmas Challenge, Santa
3. ~Jo's Scrap Shack~, Anything goes, 
4. A snowflake promise. Challenge #52 Anything goes, 

Entered over at the stamping ground 

Had a good weekend,

On Friday my friend came round and we played with the gilding flakes, We sure did have a laugh as you can see by her face, I love it when she comes round as we sure do have a great time, Emma wanted to sneeze and we had to get the lid on the flakes real quick Lol.  Emma came round on Sunday and I cooked a roast  and them more crafting, I had a go at an ATC coin not heard about them till a few days ago,   This is the coin, 

My friend Emma playing with gilding flakes, 

Another sketch today and this ones from CAS(E) this sketch, Find it at the end of the post, 

Materials used for this care are, 

• 21 x 15 cm card blank and envelope,
• Vintage Sepia versafine ink pad, 
• Garden days clear stamp.

Challenges I will enter this card for are, 

1. CAS(E) This Sketch, #276 
2. A snowflake promise, Challenge #52 anything goes, 
3. A bit more time to craft, Challenge #70 anything goes, 

Materials used for this card are, 

• 21 x 15 cm card blank and envelope, 
• Wreath I sentiment clear stamp,
• Your next stamp candle clear stamp,
• Summer yellow. Gold, dusky rose, rose pink, bright orange, pear green, sandstone Promarkers, 

Challenges I will enter this card for are, 

1. CHNC #390  non traditional colours,
2. Christmas Card Throwdown,  June theme wreaths, 
3. CAS Christmas card Challenge, Masculine, 
4. Kitty Bee Designs #120 Masculine cards 

                                        

Have a good weekend,

 I have been playing with gilding flakes and apart from the mess they make I enjoyed using them. This is the card I made, First time I have used the guilding flakes with a stamp but was quite pleased with the result and will do this again, . The sentiment stamp I have used is not a good stamp and I will not use it again as it does not print well,. 

Had some fun with this sketch last night, It went so well I think I do my work goes right at night, Lol.Went to bed at 2 am. I went for another sketch and this one is from Freshly made Sketches ,  Sketch at the end of the post, 

Materials used for this card are,

• 21 x 15 cm card blank and envelope,
• 21 x 3 cm white card stock,
•  Vintage Sepia Versafine ink pad, 
• Tumbled Glass Distress ink,
• Bird, Nest and Flower clear stamps,
• Lime green, meadow green, rose pink, satin, promarkers, 

Challenges I will enter this card for are, 

1. "Less is More " #373 Friendship, 
2. Crafting With Attitude, Challenge #40 Anything Goes, 
3. The Crafty Addicts Challenge #49, Anything Goes Optional Flowers. 
4. Pattie's Creations Design, Anything that Flies, 
5. Freshly made Sketches, Made by Narelle 

Materials used for this card are,

• 13.5 x 13.5 cm tri fold Card blank and envelope, 
• Cracked Pistachio & Shaded lilac Distess ink, 
• Horse clear stamp,
• Papermania stars

Challenge I will enter this card for are, 

1. Crafters Castle, Challenge #6  more than one fold, 
2. Crafty Creations Challenge,#368 Anything goes, 
3. TTCRD Anything goes. 
4. The Cats Pajamas #347, Outdoors, 

                                    

WOYWDW

                                                 Happy WOYWDW 

These weeks are going so fast its Wednesday again and time to go over to Julia's Stamping ground, I love to see all the other desks and what everyone else is up to, I was getting on great with my cards yesterday and then a friend came round and wanted help with gilding flakes and anyone who has used them knows I now have a lot  of gilding flakes all over my craft room, Lol 

My craft table 

This is the second diamond painting I have finished, I loved doing them and will not be getting any more for awhile as they take over my time until they are finished and I get nothing done Lol

                             

Took this photo of the sky the other night, It looks really weird, It was the only red/orange in the sky, 

                          

Now onto the challenges. 

Materials used for this card are. 

• 15 x 15 cm card blank and envelope,
• Black Shadow Nuvo Hybrid  ink pad,
• birds and sentiment clear stamps, 
• Forest green, meadow green, apricot, poppy promarkers, 

Challenges I will enter this card for are,

1. Winter Wonderland. Christmas Birds,
2. CHNC Challenge, #389 Anything Christmas, 
3. Crimbo Crackers,  #160 anything goes, 

Materials used for this card are;

• 21 x 15 cm card blank and envelope,
• Squeezed lemonade Distress ink'
• Odd pieces on white card stock,
• Habico Clear stamps, 
• 8 buttons, 
• 2 bows,
• Bright orange, poppy, lime green, lilac, sandstone. Promarkers, 

Challenges I will enter this card for are;

1. Pixie's Crafty Workshop, Challenge #328. 
2. 613 Avenue Create Challenge #210 anything goes /optional Button & Bows 
3. Penny Black and More, ****In The Garden, ****
4. Crafting With Friends, Challenge #69 Anything goes,

                                               

Another week begins

A good friend  asked me if I would like to go for a drive with her and her fella, I said okay that would be lovely,  thought it would only be an hour or two but no we were gone for 5 hours Lol.  It was lovely and we went all over the place and ended up in Wales and just drove round. The top two pictures are part on a little tea room we found, The bottom picture is a lake that you can walk round and it looks lovely. Did not walk round there but can see the pathway, 

Another sketch today and this one is from CAS(E) this sketch, See it here or at the end of the post, 

Now onto the challenges 

Materials used for this card are,

• 21 x 15 cm card blank and envelope,
• 18.5 x 9 cm blue card stock
• Tonic circle die. 
• Heartfelt creations rubber stamp,
• Rose pink & forest green promarkers,

Challenges I will enter this card for are,

• CAS(E) this sketch. #275, 
• little red wagon, Challenge #449 A rose by any other name,
•  Crafting By Designs, Anything goes, 
• CARDZ TV Anythig Goes Challenge #51 

Materials used for this card are;

• 21 x 15 cm card blank and envelope,
• 21 x 15 cm snowflake pattered paper,
• 7.5 x 6 cm - 7 x 6 cm  -5 x 3 cm white card stock,
• Your next Stamp clear mouse stamps, 
• Coral, winter berry, mint green, summer sun, gold Promarkers, 

Challenges I will enter this card for are, 

1. Crimbo Crackers,  Challenge #160 Anything goes, 
2. TIME OUT Challenges, #111. Holiday, 
3. The Merry Christmas Challenge. #23. Option Polka Dots 
4. ABC Christmas Challenge," L" is for Love, " M" is for Mice, 

weekend soon comes round,

Had a lovely morning out with a friend Thursday. We went to Gloucester Quays and had a great time looking at all the clothes and had a coffee and put the worlds to rights, 

Went for something different today, This is what they called Lift a card, , it like a sketch but a card already made for you to follow, This is from Crazy for CAS See The card  HERE 

Also followed a Cue card with CASology see it HERE 

Materials used for this card are,

• 21 x 15 cm deckle edged card blank and envelope. 
• 14 cm Stylish Silhouettes frame
• 6 x 2.5 cm music card stock,
• Acorn Brown Hybrid Nuvo ink pad,
• Every green bough  & mermaid  lagoon distress ink, 
• Lamb clear stamp [ free with a magazine, ]

Challenges I will enter this card for are;

1. Creative with Stamps, #27 Cute Animals, 
2. Lemon Shortbread Challenge #69 Anything goes, 
3. Crazy for CAS,  #7  Lift a Card, 
4. Cuttlebug Mania, Frame it, 

Materials used for this card are;

• 15 x 15 cm card blank and envelope,
• Habico clear stamps,
• Acorn Brown Hybrid Nuvo ink pad,
• Mermaid lagoon distress ink, 
• Sentiment clear stamp.

Challenges I will enter this card for are,

1. CASology,  Week #303   Farm,
2. The Paper Shelter Challenge #342. Letters and or/ numbers. 
3. CRAFT ROCKET CHALLENGE,  Challenge #49 Birthday, 
4. Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge #383 Anything goes. 

Lift a card, 

                 

Cue Card 

                    

time is flying

Well it sure is cooler today and I like that, Only early though so that could change, If you read my last post I was waiting to see if we have tickets to go and see Andre Rieu  Had a call from my friend and we are all booked up for  in January next year, I cannot wait, 

   

Materials used for this card are;

• 14.5 x14.5 cm card blank and envelope,
• 8.5 x 8.5 cm white card stock,
• Angel, Candle & Santa clear stamps [ free with magazines ] 
• Ice white, scarlet red, green meadow Nuvo pure sheen glitter,
• Summer sun, gold, linen, pink rose & leaf green Promarkers, 

  Challenges I will enter this card for are,

1. Sparkles Christmas Challenge, #89 Santa, 
2. pile it on Challenge #143 All sorts of Holidays, 
3. The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge # 30 Anything Christmas Goes, 
4. Merry Monday Christmas, #293 { Christmas Angels, }
5. Crafting From the Heart, Anything goes,  

Monday

Well it looks like my dream might be going to come true, Today a friend asked me if i would be interested in going to see Andre Rieu and of course it depends wether there are still tickets its in January next year. Another friend wants me to go in July next year and if they both come of I will be a happy little bunny so I am keeping my fingers crossed. Have wanted to see him for about 14 years and here's hoping !!!!

Another sketch today, This time by Christmas throwdown, HERE or at the end of the post, 


I have had a lot of trouble with cats in my garden and they leave something I hate, I have brought these owls and the cat  and hope they keep them away. Not sure what to do if it does not work,

Materials used for this card are,

• 21 x 17 cm card blank and envelope,
• Black shadow Nuvo Hybrid ink pad, 
•  Clear stamp sentiment  [ Free with a magazine, ]
•  For the love of Stamps by Hunkydory,
• Power blue Promarker,  

 Challenges I will enter this card for are, 

1. "Less in More, " Challenge #372 OLC Thinking of you,
2. A Bit More Time To Craft, Challenge #69 Anything goes, 
3. LTCCB  #23 June Anything goes, 
4. CMC #105 Nautical / Marine, 

Materials used for this card are,

• 21 x 15 cm card blank and envelope,
• 21 x 15 cm pattered paper
• 21 x 5 dark red card stock
• 10 cm oval dark red card stock

• 8.5 dark red oval card stock,,
• white card stock, for the stars, 
• Black shadow Nuvo Hybrid ink pad, 
• dark red card stock,

Challenges I will enter this card for are,

1. CHNC Challenge #388 anything Christmas optional Include a bear,
2. 52CCT June Sketch Challenge. 
3. The Twelve Months of Christmas, #42 Optional Make it Masculine, 

                                                  

Weekend .

What a few busy days I have had and just did not get time to post yesterday, So decided I would post today, Its funny how life catches up on you and really would like the new month to be the start of a better time for me but just have to wait and see, 

Went to a lovely spot with friends on Thursday its a place called  Coaley Peak,  This is a picture I took there it has a lovely view and we sat and have a lovely salad meal that we brought with us, 

This Is about Coaley peak and I have to say well worth a visit, 

Coaley Peak Picnic Site is about four miles south west of Stroud on the B4066 to Uley. The site is twelve acres of open grassland with wild flowers and wonderful panoramic views over the Severn Vale towards the Forest of Dean, the Malvern Hills and the distant Welsh Hills. 

It is an excellent spot to have a picnic with plenty of tables with benches and seats, a suberb place to fly a kite or model aeroplane, or take a leisurely stroll through the adjacent Woodland Trust beech wood or the Cotswold Way National Trail. At the centre of the site is the Nympsfield long barrow, an "opened" example of a neolithic "Cotswold-Severn" chambered tomb of which nearly one hundred are known in the Cotswold region. 

Owned by Gloucestershire County Council for "the use and enjoyment by the public", Coaley Peak is edged on the south side by the Frocester Hill National Trust nature reserve where a topograph point out the distant landscape features and Stanley Woods owned by the Woodland Trust on the eastern side'

There is a designated parking spaces for people with disabilities and the picnic tables include one suitable for wheelchair users, interpretation boards and ice-cream seller at busy times.

Now onto the challenges, 

Another sketch today this time from Freshly Made Sketches see it HERE  or at the bottom of the post, 

Materials used for this card are, 

• 21 x 15 cm card blank and envelope,
•  Piece of pattered paper,
• Piece of white card stock,
•  Black Shadow Nuvo Hybrid ink pad,
• Flower clear stamp [free with a magazine, ]
• Daisy and dandelion Sentiment stamp,,
• Poppy & forest green promarkers. 

Challenges I will enter this card for are;

1. Freshly Made Sketches, #339 A sketch By Jen B 
2. Fussy and Fancy Friday, Challenge #212 Favourite Floral,
3. Colour Crazy Challenge Week 21, Anything goes, 
4. Pixie's Crafty workshop, Challenge 327,

Materials used for this card are;

• 21 x 15 cm card blank and envelope, 
• 10 cm & 5 cm white card stock,
•  Black Shadow Nuvo Hybrid ink pad,
• Clarity clear stamp,
• Scarlet red & Ice white Nuvo Pure sheen glitter. 
• Forest green, sky blue, poppy & green Promarkers, 

Challenges I will enter this card for are, 

1. jingle belles Christmas bells,  Those Christmas bells, 
2. The Merry Christmas Challenge #22,
3. Winter Wonderland All hearts Come home for Christmas,
4. I love Promarkers, #360 Anything goes with optional Circles