Bingo at Papertake Weekly

Good morning everyone,

I would just like to say a 'Big Thank You' to everyone for the lovely wishes you sent me regarding my Aunty Hilda, they are very much appreciated.  One of the things I love about crafting is that most of us are really caring of other people, and your well wishes and encouragement always make me feel better, whether it's something that's happened in my life or just an encouraging comment about a card, I've never met a lot of you but feel sometimes that you are my closest friends:) xx  Sending you all big cyber hugs xx

So on to my card for today it's Tuesday so it's time for Papertake Weekly challenge and the theme for this week is 'Bingo' below is the grid and if you don't know how to play it's easy, just choose one of the lines in any direction and include them on your card.

My choice for this week is the top line

I have used this lovely stamp from LOTV called 'Handbags'  I used Tim Holtz distress inks to colour it in and sprinkled frantage around the edges, also glittered the lovely flowers and butterflies with stickles.  I also inked around the edges and even the ribbon got a swipe with the ink pad lol!! The gorgeous pearls are from Ribbon Girl as well as some of the flowers. The little gems inside the flowers were from the hobby house.  I also made a little pull out tag from the gorgeous paper.  I used one of LOTV's lovely verses Set 10.

Other items used

Paper - Antebellum LOTV (Raspberry Road Designs)

Doily Die - Cheery Lynn (Italian Flourish)

Numbers - Tim Holtz

Flowers - Ribbon Girl/Wild Orchid Crafts

Gee-SSo - Indigo Blu

Butterflies - Martha Stewart Punch

Challenge Entered

Simply Create Too - Shop in your stash

Totally Papercrafts - Female Birthday

Crafting from the Heart - Anything Goes

LOTV Monthly Challenge- Bingo - (Ribbon,Pearls & Flowers)

The ABC Challenge - G is for Girls

Natalie & Amy - #18 Flowers

Bearly Mine - One for the Girls

Splendiferous Creations - Fabulous Florals

That's it from me for now, do pop over to the Papertake challenge blog and see what beautiful cards the other girls have created, and don't forget you could also win yourself a lovely prize! 

Take care,

Love and Hugs,

Marjorie xx

Anything Goes at 'Papertake Weekly'

Good morning everyone,
Hope you have had a great week-end!. Isn't it lovely to have longer days of daylight, I hate the dark nights and mornings!!  Well it's Tuesday already and time for another Papertake Weekly Challenge and we all love 'Anything Goes'.  There is also an optional extra to include home made flowers.  These can be made using punches or dies, felt, crochet etc... or you could adapt a ready made flower and turn it into something different, the choice is yours.  For my card I used a lovely verse from LOTV, and decorated it with pearls and a flower I made myself.... do you know how excited I was when it came together lol!!  I have spent so much time on the internet looking at flowers, I have forgot now where I saw this one, as there are so many tutorials that make similar types... I have had a go at a few different styles but quiet liked this one, it has lots of dimension and is so strong, considering it's only made out of black, and white card.... I embossed some white card with an embossing folder for the background, and the border is a Martha Stewart punch and I decorated the little daisies with pearls too, but you can't see it so well on the photo.

My Aunty, who is my Mum's Sister passed away this week-end, and I thought that maybe this might make a nice sympathy card, but I'm not sure the verse is quiet right, can't make up my mind.  Does anyone have any thoughts on it?

Card Recipe

Image - LOTV - Quotables 

Punches - Martha Stewart 

Dies - Magnolia Swirl, Spellbinders Picot Edge Circles,

Joy Daisy Flower die for Flower

Challenges entered

That Craft Place Challenge - Anything Goes

Sister Act Card Challenge - Anything Goes

Card and Scrap - Use your dies
Crafting From The Heart - Dies or Punches

Do pop over to Papertake Weekly and see what fabulous creations the other girls have done, also have a go at making your own flowers it really is so satisfying and you can co-ordinate them with your card.  Also there is a fabulous prize to be won too! ... 

Take care,

Love and Hugs,

Marjorie x

Lovely Layers

Hi everyone, another week has flown bye, wish time would slow down a little lol!!  Haven't the storms and floods been horrible.  My heart goes out to all those people who have been affected by them.  We had really strong winds last week, but things seem to have eased a little, lets hope it stays that way! My car got a bit damaged with falling tiles off the roof, but no major damage to the house, thankfully.

As it's Tuesday, it's time for another 'Paper Take Weekly' challenge, and this week it's 'Lovely Layers'. For my card this week, I've used the lovely 'Pre-Coloured' Art Pads from LOTV, I love these images!  The lovely papers are by Memory Box called 'Minuet' and I've had them for ages, they went so well with this lovely vase of flowers. I added stickles to the inside of the flowers for a little sparkle and instead of using card around the image, I used some of the papers, I think it looks quiet effective, and makes a nice frame.

My die cut flowers are a Marianne die that I love and use all the time, the gorgeous flowers are a mixture from the 'Ribbon Girl' and 'Wild Orchid Crafts', the ribbon is also from the 'Ribbon Girl'.. I won this quiet some time ago and have now just finished my last piece :(  I inked all the card and papers with Tim Holtz 'Old Paper' Distress ink, and the little butterflies are cut out with a 'Martha Stewart' punch, use this all the time too!
Do pop over to the 'Paper Take Weekly Challenge' blog and see all the lovely cards that the fabulous design team have made, there is a lovely prize to be won too!

Challenges Entered

Brown Sugar Challenge - Use a die cut/Punch

Simply Create Too - St.Patricks Day or use Green

LOTV Monthly Challenge - Name that Tune
'Where have all the flowers gone'
sung by Peter, Paul and Mary
Crafty Ribbon Challenge - Ribbon N Bows

Well that's it from me for now, have a lovely week and keep safe:).. Where have all the flowers gone..la,la,
it's in my head now lol!!
Love and Hugs,
Marjorie
xx

Love is in the Air

Hello everyone,
Wow! Can't believe it's a month since I last blogged, I have been busy with Mum and also at work.  We are all trying to take some leave before the end of March, other wise we loose it, we always leave a week or so for the winter months but then it's a mad rush to fit everyone in lol!!

Some exciting news, Dawny over at Papertake Weekly asked me if I would like to be a guest designer for a couple of months... Oh my giddy aunt, I was so excited lol!!  Papertake Weekly is such a lovely challenge blog, with it's lovely sketches and anything goes, and this week it is really simple, just include a heart somewhere on your card, and seeing it's Valentine's Day coming up that should be easy, peasy lol!  There is always a lovely prize to be won too!

Inside 

Removable tag

I've made this card for someone special,  I am going to put a photo in the middle of the heart of them both.  I don't know how they feel about photo's on the internet so will play it safe, and add it later lol!!

Card Recipe

Image - LOTV - Art Pad Set 2 Jack and Puss (Pre-coloured)

Designer Papers - LOTV - 'Always and Forever'  - Nit Wit Collections by Mary Fran 

Sentiments - LOTV - Hand written phrases and sentiment tags

Dies - Heart Border and Heart Die both from Cheery Lynn Designs

Challenges Entered

LOTV - Monthly Challenge - Name that Tune 

'Just the two of us' - by Bill Withers

The Ribbon Girl Challenge blog - Lovely Lili Challenge 

'A romantic Theme'

Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Hearts/Love

Deep Ocean - Love is all around

A Creative Romance - Show us some love

In the Pink - A little pink love

I can't get that tune out of my head now lol!... just the two of us lol!!  It's very wet and cold here today, but we haven't had any snow yet thankfully!... Hope you all have a great week, one thing for sure it's great crafting weather!!

Take care,

Love and Hugs,

Marjorie xx

To a Special Friend

Good morning everyone, it's cold today here in Yorkshire, my hubby had to scrape the ice of his van this morning!!  Brrr I don't likey lol!!  Roll on Summer!

Straight on to my card today as I'm on work soon... I have used 'Art Pad -set 19' from LOTV again, these images are pre-coloured and very stylish, I just added some Diamond Stickles and Voilà job done!

I don't think I have quiet got the balance right on this one, but once everything is stuck down it wont move lol!! I have inked the card and paper with Tim Holtz Distress Ink, Vintage Photo.  I also inked the lovely roses (Wild Orchid Crafts) to give them a more muted look, they look lovely in real life.. The gorgeous papers are from LOTV... Country Lady by Mary Fran.. Sentiments also LOTV.. 'Quoteables Set 62 Friendship' and ' Scroll sentiments', Cheery Lynn and Martha Stewart 'Butterflies', and finished off with a Doo hickey die and lovely pearls from 'Hobby House'

Challenges Entered

LOTV Monthly Challenge - Anything Goes (2nd Entry)

Sister Act - Anything Goes

Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes

2 Creative Chicks - Anything Goes
Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge - Use Patterned Paper
The Squirrel and the Fox - Something New (New Art Pad and New Friendship Stamp)

Take care everyone and happy crafting...

Love and Hugs,

Marjorie xx

Happy New Year

Good morning everyone, sorry I haven't been around for a while but life has been a little hectic!!  The kitchen is finished almost, just the kickboards to adjust as the floor isn't straight lol!! but everything else is working great!... Tried to upload some photos from my phone but I will have to get Debs or Candice to help me, my computer doesn't want to upload them, apparently I don't have a driver....should have taken them with my camera really, but it's too late now!  My lovely family came over from Germany so I had a full house for Christmas week, had my Mum, Debs and Candice too.. it was great.  New Year was quiet as Steven and Family went home, and Debs had worked Christmas and New Year so she needed a bit of a break, so David and I had an early night!!

My card for today is very simple, I don't know whether it would be classed as CAS, but I really enjoyed doing it.  I have three birthdays next week so this is the first card... I have used a LOTV Pre-coloured image, from there art pad collection and this is Set 19 Cute Cottage Garden. I bought it as a Christmas pressy for myself lol!! There are some lovely images in this set, my second card is also going to be from this set as I still don't have any time to sit and colour at the moment. (I haven't finished it yet so will put it on later in the week)...

The lovely papers are Raspberry Road Designs 'Beach Bliss'.. also from LOTV.. and the sentiment is 'To Fit Scroll'.  My little cupcake I stamped and paper pieced it to match, a few rhinestones to give it some sparkle, also stickled the main image, distressed and inked the edges of the paper and card and added some faux stitching.  Doing simple is hard as I kept wanting to add other things lol!!!

Challenges Entered

LOTV Monthly Challenge - Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes (Something New - Art Pad)

Simply Create Too - Anything Goes

Well guys here's wishing you a GREAT 'New Year'.. may it be full of laughter, Love and most important 'Healthy' ...

Big hugs,

Marjorie xx                            

Patch

Good Morning everyone, I can't believe it's so long since I posted a card..... but we have been really busy with the kitchen, it's almost at an end now, just the tiling and kick boards, but they come with there own problems too as the floor isn't completely level, it's sorting out the problem area's that takes the time!... Anyway on to my card for today.... it's bursting with wonderful wishes for my granddaughter Candice who was fourteen at the beginning of the month.... where does the time go!! I have used a LOTV art pad, these are so handy no colouring required lol!!.. I made this card a couple of months ago, as I knew I would be rushing as her birthday is so close to Christmas.. Candice really liked it especially the inside, as there was a little pocket with a nice surprise inside lol!!

The Inside

This card came together so well, the gorgeous papers are 'Country Lady' by Mary Fran, image is from Art Pad 2, sentiments are 'Every day Grundgy Messages' and 'Quoteables - Celebrate' all from LOTV.  I also used La La Land heart die and a Die-namics border, Joy Flower die and a Doo-hickey swirl die and heart die.. gold mesh ribbon (ribbon girl)  which you can't see too well as it's in the middle of the patchwork paper.. pearls, sparkly brads and believe it or not stickles on the candle flames and little smartie's and icing on the cake, but it doesn't show up on the photo's at all... distressed all the papers and card with Tim Holtz Vintage photo ink.. hope you like it.

Challenges Entered

Crafting By Designs - Anything Goes

Brown Sugar Challenge - Anything Goes

Through the Craftroom Door - Anything Goes

Ribbon Girl - Lovely Lili Challenge - Add Sparkle

Hope you all have a fabulous week.. take care,

Love and Hugs,

Marjorie xx

Oh Christmas Tree

Good Morning everyone.. at last I have managed take a photo of my Christmas card, in-between work, kitchen DIY and housework lol!! Debs and  I also managed to get to the Dome in Doncaster on Sunday for Paulas 'Stamp Magic' show ... I didn't buy very much just a couple of essentials.. what am I saying everything I buy is essential lol!!! , I did feel a bit guilty leaving David with the kitchen, but it was nice just for a couple of hours to have a browse and a cup of coffee with my best friend.. my lovely daughter:).   I met up with Carole another fellow crafter, a really nice lady who I met at the LOTV shop earlier in the year and we've kept in touch via email and have met up at a couple of shows we've been too, it was lovely to have a chat:)... anyway on to my card... it's a LOTV image called 'Oh Christmas Tree' and I coloured it with my distress pens, I do looove these pens as blending is so easy with them..I'm itching now to get some more colouring done lol!!  A bit of a photo overload I'm afraid...

I thoroughly enjoyed making this card... I heat embossed the card, poinsettia and leaf edges in gold.  I also heat embossed around the edge of the tag...  I added glamour dust to the fur hat and coat edges, and used stickles stardust on the snow (a little tip from Anne xx).  I faux stitched around the edge of the image which was coloured with distress markers and a little prisma pencil.  I used my new doohickey heart tag.. ( I think everyone in blog land has one of these now lol!!) but it is soooo lovely:)  I added ribbon, gold lace, pearls and a pearl brad for the centre of the poinsettia.  The lovely memory box star is one of my favourites at the moment! Papers are 'Merry Little Christmas' by Marianne.

Challenges Entered

LOTV Ideas to Inspire Blog - Anything Goes (2nd Entry)

Papertake Weekly - Oh Christmas Tree

Thank you so much for stopping bye, I really do appreciate your lovely messages they lift my spirits and make me feel good:)xx..  Have a lovely week-end:)..

Take Care,

Love and Hugs,

Marjorie xx

Jack, Patch and Puss!

Good morning everyone!  Wow! can't believe it's been so long since I posted.  Just busy at work and also I have been playing in my craft room lol!!  I have been experimenting with my new distress markers and I love, love, love them lol!!  Debs and I went to LOTV shop a couple of Saturdays ago.. (Wow! where does the time go!)  had a fabulous day and bought lots of new goodies, including some watercolour paper, which is really lovely to use.  I watched the lovely Lou demonstrating she is such a lovely lady and so helpful...she helped me with shading around the image, which I struggle with... but with the distress markers it's easy peasy lol!!  I don't have a card with my new markers today as I still have to photograph etc... but I have one I made with the new art pads from LOTV that I made for a friends daughter.. now I'm just in love with these little characters 'Jack, Patch and Puss', and have now bought a few of the stamps as well!..  I made the flowers and distressed with Tim Holtz distress inks, also I inked the lovely lace at the bottom it was white and I didn't have a colour to match, think it turned out quiet nice.

What I used

Image - Art Pad Pre-Coloured LOTV

Paper - Bonnets & Bowties by Mary Fran (LOTV)

Ribbon/Lace/Pearl brads - Hobby House

Sentiment - LOTV

Banner and circle pennants dies - Whimsey Stamps

Challenges

LOTV Ideas to Inspire - Ribbon or Lace

Ladybug Crafts - Anything Goes

Chocolate,Coffee & Cards - Anything Goes

A Creative Romance - Dies or punches

Victorine Stamps Originals -  Birthday

Scrap Creations - Polka Dots

Have a lovely day guys, it's cold here in Doncaster, but there is a promise of it brightening up ( err..right lol!!)

Love and Hugs,

Marjorie xx

Angels With Crib

Hello everyone, well here I am back from my hols... it doesn't seem five minutes since I was preparing to go!!  We all had such a lovely time, and Europe is so beautiful, we went to some fabulous places will put some pictures on as soon as I can.  We had lots of drama though before we even got on the ferry, as we pulled into the terminal, the timing belt on the Land Rover snapped!!  it's not often you see a Landy being carried back on a tow truck!! to cut a long story short David managed to get it up and running the next day, after a lot of highs and lows as to whether we would be able to go or not!  Well my dear hubby did us proud and we managed to have a wonderful time:)
It's been hectic at work since I got back, as the other girls have been taking there leave too... I have managed to dabble a little in my craft room and have made a Christmas Card... yes it will soon be here lol!!

I won this lovely image last year from LOTV and have never inked it up, it's called 'Angels with Crib' and I'm so glad I saved it to try with my new Distress Inks from Tim Holtz...Yes.. I have bought some! and I just love them, I think I may have found something I enjoy colouring with as much as my Prima Pencils lol!! I've still got a LOT too learn!  I went on utube and watched Tim Holtz and a few other lovely crafters use them, this was one of many attempts with them lol!! You definatly have to have the right card and so I sent for some Tim Holtz watercolour card which seems to work very well..  I've taken some photo's of my first attempts.. you can see that smooth card didn't really work for me with these inks. On some of the card the ink even run!  The last photo was a cheaper watercolour paper, but it didn't let me work for too long before it started to break up.

The first three were on smooth card

This one I tried shading with copics but they made the distress ink

run, also the inks didn't blend the same on the card

On this card the ink actually run, and I did use archival ink

This was a little better but I couldn't blend very well, 

it was a cheaper watercolour card probably not the 

right weight, when I wet it it a couple of times it broke up.

As you can see I didn't have a lot of success, but once I got the right card I was amazed how easy they were, I was a bit put off by the pink at this stage, so tried a different colour lol!! I do like the intensity of colour you get... I am well impressed with them and can't wait to colour up another image!!

The gorgeous papers are by 'Marianne' and are called 'Old-Fashioned Christmas' I also used Gold Bazzill card, and the lovely star in the corner is a Memory Box Die called 'Special Stars' I gave it the treatment with Stickles Gold.  The ribbon is from Germany, I tried a different way of attaching it and left it free style,but I think I prefer it tucked in!

I would just like to say I bought my pens and paper from 'Country View Crafts' it was FREE postage and my word the delivery was so quick, I think they must have had Santa's little elves working with them lol!!

Challenges entered

LOTV Monthly Challenge - Make It Festive

Papertake Weekly - Sketchy Free for All (No.76)

A Gem of a A Challenge - Use 2 Backing Papers

Wow! hope you are still with me, this is such a long post!!  I do believe today is the last day of Summer!  but the weather man says we are still going to get some lovely weather in September... on that note I will sign out lol!!....

Take care,

Love and Hugs,

Marjorie

xx

Vegetable Patch

Good Morning everyone,  Firstly I would like to say a big 'Thank You' for all the lovely comments last week regarding my Mum, you are all very kind:)... Also a big welcome to my new followers...
Now on to my card for today which is a fabulous image from LOTV called 'Vegetable Patch'.  I have purchased a couple of there A6 Sketch Pads and quiet honestly I just couldn't make up my mind which to colour up first lol!.. WOW!! they are fabulous.. no more smudging when stamping lol!!  and they worked so perfectly with my Prisma Pencils.  I will defiantly be purchasing more of these lovely pads, they are so handy... you can also get them pre-coloured.  A bit of an over-load of photo's sorry:)  I wanted to try and show you the lovely embossing on the leaves and bird house, as the photo's never seem to show up all the little details... do you like my bird house and the fresh bedding I put in for the little birdies lol!!

A little blurred, I never seem to be able to get the whole card 

in focus when I take a side-ways shot!

I've been dying to use this lovely tree die and just had to 

have it on my card some where lol!!

Card Recipe

Image - LOTV  'Vegetable Patch'

Colouring Medium - Prisma Pencils (Skin - Copics)

Papers - The lovely 'Wellington' pad again...

It's a lovely man's pad!

Dies - Memory Box (Tree), Marianne (Gate, Bird etc),

Cheery Lynn (Leaf Swirl)

Buttons - Booffle

Sentiment - Papermania Stamp

Twine - Ribbon Girl

Distress Ink - Vintage Photo (Tim Holtz)

Challenges I would like to Enter

LOTV Ideas to Inspire - Boy Oh! Boy

Totally Papercrafts - Buttons

Here Come The Boys - Buttons

Kaboodle Doodles - Anything Goes

The ABC Challenge - N for Not Just One

Cupcake Craft Challenge - Boys

Sentimental Sundays - Outdoor Fun (Plus a sentiment)

Eureka Stamps - The Great Outdoors

Well guys, hope you have a lovely day, 

Take care,

Hugs,

Marjorie

xx

I Love You.....This Much...

Good Morning everyone,  Monday's do come around so quickly.... Today Meljen designs are sponsoring us over at 'Make it Monday'.   Melissa the store owner designs the most beautiful digis and stamps, her images are always so lovely to use, she has designs for all different occasions and they are such a pleasure to colour... Thank you Melissa for supplying us with such lovely images to play with.  Do pop over and take a look at her shop which you can find here.  This card is for my very special Mumsy ...

I have used white bazzill card and the design papers are from my scrapbox, I printed them out from a card making magazine... last year I think!.. they were a free download and perfect for my card.  The red glittery card is core'dinations 'Glitter Silk cardstock' it really is gilttery afraid my photo doesn't show it up to well though.  I used Die-namics flower trio for the little flowers in pink with a stick on pearl.  The corners are a Corner Die Set by Whimsey Stamps also with a stick on pearl.  The Ribbon is from Bunny Zoes. I stamped the lovely image on to a Spellbinders die called 'Lacey Ovals'.. I use this a lot!  The image is from Meljen Designs and it's called 'I love you...This Much' and I have coloured it with my Prisma Pencils.. I have inked everything with colourbox chalk inks.

Challenges Entered
Simply Create Too - Anything Goes
Fat Pages and cards with Attitude - Love
The Sisterhood of Crafters - Hearts

To be in with a chance to win 4 lovely images from Meljen's Designs all you have to do is leave a comment on another entrants card and mention you saw it on 'Make it Monday'

So the more times you comment the more chances you have of winning!

Enjoy and good luck everyone!

My Pick for this week is.....so difficult, there were so many I wanted to pick!!

I finally narrowed it down to two and my picks are 'Tea for two' by Cheryl 
Isn't this scrapbook page gorgeous...
lots of lovely memories in this special page... you can see more on Cheryl's blog do pop across and leave her some 'MIM' love!

I loved this card by Mandy as well, it was so simple but lots of thoughtfulness went into the making of this card, do pay her a visit and also leave her a little 'MIM' love too...

That's it for today guys, hope you have a fantastic week, at least it should be warmer according to the weather reports... keep safe and wrap up warm...

Love and hugs,

Marjorie

xx

Bugaboo Cowboy

Good morning everyone, hope everyone has survived the snow lol!!  Candice was so disappointed when the snow didn't stop her from going to school lol!!!  but they have forecast more snow for tonight (Sunday) as I am Scheduling this post for early morning I won't know till I wake up lol!! Well it's Make it Monday time and this week we are sponsored by Bugaboo.. and I was sent this lovely image to play with. I would just like to say 'Thank you' to Jodie who draws these fabulous images, for providing us with such lovely images to use!  Do pop along to her store if you haven't been already as there is something for every occasion!
I have so much enjoyed making this card for Liam (my grandson).. It's been a while since I have really felt like doing any crafting, it's been such an effort... but this card came together so beautifully and took my mind to another place lol!!  The image of this little cowboy is just sooooo cute lol!!

I used scraps out of my scrap box as I love that dotty paper and don't have anymore, must buy another pad as it's so nice for boys cards.  I didn't have enough for the bottom so I used a coordinating sheet out of the pad... I have used two lots of design papers one from 'Wellington' and the other is called 'Oxford'. I inked all the papers, cards and dies with colorbox chalk ink.  I love the circle die it's called 'Picot Edge Circles' by spellbinders and I have put red gem stones in each of the circles. The stars are are a Die-manics die called 'stacking stars' I got it from 'Dies to Die for' - BEWARE when you go on this site, it takes all your money lol!!! Tracy has a fantastic selection of goodies, and is so friendly and always willing to help you with any products you want! Oh! and my letters and number are a Tim Holtz die called 'Carnivale' I love it and have used it so many times.. Last but not least is the lovely image which I coloured with my trusty prisma pencils lol!! and you can find him here.

Challenges entered

Bearly Mine - Anything Goes
Bunny Zoes - Anything Goes
Crafts and Me - Something New (Picot Edge Circles Die)
MAWTT - Happy Birthday
Craft your Passion - Gone Country
Here Come the Boys- Bingo - Die Cuts, free, Twine

Bugaboo are offering a very generous prize of 7 lovely single images of the winners choice... and you all know what you have to do... just leave a comment on another entrants card and mention that you saw them on 'Make it Monday'... easy, peasy!  So do come along and show us your lovely PAPERCRAFTS be them new or old!

Pick of the week time Ta Da!! .....

I thought this project was so clever.. the images are only 1" in size, but I love how Rox put them altogether and made this gorgeous  wall hanging... Do pop over to Rox's blog and see how she did it!

That's it from me for today guys... if you have snow, take care and snuggle up in your craft rooms with some lovely hot chocolate, and maybe a little Baily's cream if it's not too early... but you know what they say 'It's five o'clock somewhere in the world'... lol!!

Take Care..

Love and Hugs,

Marjorie

xx

Chimney Santa

Good morning everyone... Wow! These Mondays come around so quick...so that means it's time for another 'Make it Monday' Linky party and today our sponsor is Bugaboo Stamps...  I have been given this lovely image of Santa to play with which you can find here... sorry my card isn't finished as I have had lots going on this week.  I want to make this into an easel card and if I get a chance to finish it I will put the finished card on later.  I wanted it to be Christmassy and girly as it's for Candice....

I've really tried new things on this card lol!!  Like major distressing of the card and paper, even painted the paper with some crafting paste I bought from Lidl that was cheap as chips, and I think it just looks like that Gesso stuff everyone is using, at a fraction of the price.  The lovely snow flake has been bedazzled with lots of glitter, and is a die from Marianne.  I used chalk ink to colour the craft card and paper and also the snowflake, in baby blue.  My image was coloured with Prisma pencils and the sky is a copic pen, couldn't get the colour quiet right would have liked it a bit darker... My chimney has been covered with snowtex and the snow falling is liquid pearls... everything has had lots of gilitter applied!!...the gorgeous ribbon is from the hobby house and those little heart gems were from Cloes crafts that I got from a show.

Challenges I would like to enter

Bearly Mine - Santa is on his way

Love to create - Anything goes

Bugaboo are offering a very generous prize of 7 lovely single images of the winners choice... and you all know what you have to do... just leave a comment on another entrants card and mention that you saw them on 'Make it Monday'... easy, peasy!  So do come along and show us your lovely PAPERCRAFTS be them new or old!

Now for the best part.. who is my pick for this week.... ta! dah!

It's Lucy from Lucy loves scrapping...

Isn't this card beautiful, I love all the embossing and lovely touches that Lucy has put on this card.  Do pop across to her blog and take a closer look and remember to leave her a little love too:)

Just wanted to update you on my Mum, as you know she went for an angiogram last week, well the results are that she will need to have a bypass... My emotions are very mixed as at 85 yrs old it is quiet a big operation to be having!.. but my Mum being my Mum is all up for it, if it's possible.. Bless her!! They have said Mum is a young 85 and it will make a new woman out of her lol!!  We have lots of test to go for first, but I will keep you updated on how she is doing...

Hope you all have a great week. I think we maybe in for some snow here in Doncaster next week...lovely :)

Lots of Love and Hugs,

Marjorie

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Angel Wishes

Hi Everyone, really rushed today lol!  I think everyone is the same, rushing, trying to get everything ready for the big day lol!! We are going to Steven and Nicole's in Germany for Christmas..... can't wait!!  So I have lots to do in the mean time, also Mum goes for her Angiogram tomorrow.  I will be glad when it's over!.. Mum is quiet calm about the whole thing it's me that's the nervous wreck lol!!
Anyway on with the show... it's Monday and time for another linky party over at "Make it Monday".
My card for today is a lovely image by Sugar Nellie called 'Angel Wishes'.. Isn't she lovely,  and that little dog, well he just melts your heart doesn't he lol!!!

I decorated the inside to match the outside

 Card Recipe

Papers - Memory Box 'Mistletoe'

Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts

Image - Sugar Nellie 'Angel Wishes'

Colouring Medium -Prisma Pencils

Challenges Entered
Moving along with the times

Use 3 Elements beginning with the same letter - R for Ribbon, Red and Rose
Crafting for all Seasons - Use Flowers
Party Time Tuesday - Anything Goes
Digital Tuesday - 'Girly'

Our sponsor this week is Cupcake cards and Crafts who will be offering a lovely paper pack of the winners choice, all you have to do is comment on another entrants card and mention you saw it on Make it Monday, so the more times you comment the more chances you have of winning!

Also this week we have a
Special Sponsor
Visions of Sugarplums
Lori Hairston and Lisa Minckler
co-hosting a blog hop together with many participants and available prizes.

* Lori is gifting a $20 Visa Card to a winner at MIM who comments on her VOSP links and mentions that they came over from MIM.  
Winner will be announced on regular post day at MIM.




Do pop over to Make it Monday #118 for all the details

Now who is my pick for this week.....ta dah!!....
It's the lovely Mandy from 'A sprinkling of glitter'  Isn't this card just gorgeous... The details on this card are so beautiful, and I love this Santa image, I think he has such a cheeky smile lol!! to take a closer look at this stunning card visit Mandy here...and don't forget to leave her a little love too!

I would just like to welcome all my lovely new followers, do hope you find something here that inspires you, and thank you for all your lovely comments I love reading them, and they all ways make my day!!

Have a fabulous week everyone and happy crafting...

Love and Hugs,

Marjorie

xx