HAPPY NEW YEARWell 1stly I have to appologise to my team mates for messing up the challenge LOL.Secondly I have to admit that my challenge examples are not all that I hoped they would be. Due to the fact that since just after Christmas i have my 23 year old daughter and 1 year oldf grandson back home camped out in my craftroom. With half of their belongings.So just getting anything to work with was a challenge in itself. Although its lovely to have my grandson at home.Our sponsor Joanna Sheen... Read Full Story

The This Thursday challenge this week is sponsored by Cosmo Cricket. Yippiee. We were sent the most stunning Christmas papers. I adore them. Every die cut embellishment, Every journalling card , and sentiment border. In fact there isn.t a single pice of paper that I don't loveAnyway the challenge was Naughty or Nice and I choose nice . So here are my examples for this week Entitled Jakes 1st Christmas is almost here . I used the most georgeous paper for the background its trully stunning ... Read Full Story

The challenge at This Thursday , this week is Mistletoe and Wine. Which I must admit I found slightly challenging at 1st as I own no wine images or embellies.As most of my recent Christmas projects have been contemporary I decided to go with a traditional feel So I raided my Joanna Sheen CD for some Mistletoe images. So here are my three very traditional Christmas cards. This card has textured wallpaper from a wallpaper sample book that I got from a wallpaper shop. Great for unusual backgroun... Read Full Story

HelloWell I am feeling a lot better than I was , so I hope I will soon be back to my usuall self and managing to get comments on all your entries.Anyway this week our sponsor is Funky Fairies Papercrafts and we got to play with the lovely Chocolate Covered Christmas download and the Cristmas rounds Download. I really could nt believe just how much there was in the Chocolate Covered Christmas download. Word albums, A brag Book all sorts of boxes. A brilliant set of papers and loads and loads m... Read Full Story

Hello allThanks for your comments last week.Well feeling slightly better this week. So I have managed three examples for this week. This weeks challenge is playing with paint so I got my watercolour paints out as I havn't used them for ages.Our sponsor is Toodle and Binks a new stamp manufacturer you can see them at http://www.toodlesandbinks.wordpress.com/,We had three great stamps to play with. They are quite whimsical images which are not usually my style but I really enjoyed using the... Read Full Story

Hello everyoneSorry about there not being a challenge last week, and it being at such short notice, but I was editing the blog on Wednesday last week, When i started getting chest pains that then radiated out and went down my left arm. After about 12 minutes I got a little worried and rang my sister, who told me to ring the doctor , who sent an ambulance and I spent 5 hours in A and E.Fortunatly we have accertained that its not my heart, but I am still getting chest pains on and off so its be... Read Full Story

Well I still have the flu and so my post this week is going to be very short and sweet. As usual there is a great prize on offer at this thursday. Prize this week is sponsored by tanda stamps and is a great set of contemporary christmas stampsThe challenge on This Thursday this week is to go Mojo surfing .So here is where I went surfinghttp://ribenaruby.blogspot.com/ folded cardhttp://inkcicles.blogspot.com/ clip and stringThe above two were my main inspration to use clips and styring and ca... Read Full Story

Our challenge on This Thursday this week is called Thrown a curve You can use it as a title, or you can use anything that curves, Arches, Arcs, Circles. Ovals , Waves, squigglesetcSo anyway my examples for this weeks challenge were made by myself, in bed due to being flued up . Well other than the printing out . However I really enjoyed playing around with the wonderful "tis the season" Cd from Pink Petticoat. I really wanted to print out some of the designs onto fabric to make some... Read Full Story

HellooooooWell we've a new challenge at this thursday. Surprise surprise. Same as every thursday LOLWell this weeks challenge is entitled Art from your heart.We want you to create something inspired by someone or something you love, or create something with techniques that you love. You can use your fav poem or music. Make something for or about someone you love, or as per usual just let the title inspire you. Whatever floats your boat.This week I have three examples and I am going to kee... Read Full Story

Well last week I said we had been going for 3 months, you may have noticed that we had actually been going for 4 months LOL Thats why Im not a maths teacher. LOlAnyway this week the challenge on This Thursday is The spooky season , with a brilliant sponsor Artistic outpost and a very brilliant set of stamps by our sponsor, as the prizeA really fab set of halloween stampsAnyway here are my examples for this week I spritmy stamp with an aqua glimmer mist and stamped the witch image. Then stam... Read Full Story