Some more pictures .....

Just a few more pictures, these taken by my hubby, the Father of the Bride.

Wedding of the year, well as far as I am concerned, lol.

Sorry for my absence lately. Lots going on, not least the marriage of my gorgeous daughter Sam to her partner Mark.

Hope to get back to blogging very very soon but just had to post a couple of pics of my daughter, husband and 2 beautiful grand daughters.

A card at last.

First I must say that I am sorry about the quality of the picture, we haven't had daylight for the whole day and this is the best I could do at the moment.

I am hoping that this card will qualify for two challenges again, Time seems to be slipping away at the moment.

First challenge is Passion for ProMarkers , the theme this week is Glittery and Girly. The second is Anyone For Anya and I hope I am just in time for this one, lol. The theme is to follow a sketch this week.

Papers are once again ( blush) Bearly Mine Designs, this time from Designer Extreme Vol II

Image is from the RainSnowShine set of stamps from Greetings Farm

Image coloured with ProMarkers.

Snowflakes done with Cuttlebug

Brad, ribbon and sentiment all from stash.

Well back to sewing now for my Daughter's wedding dress. A woman's work is never done, lol.

Hugs and Snugs

More Bearly Mine Designs papers again, lol. Only using Vol I so far, don't think I will ever tire of these cds.

I am entering this card into two challenges, First one is the new Anyone For Anya challenge where the theme is sugar and Spice and all things nice. The second one is Passion for ProMarkers and their theme is to use at least two of four shades of purple Promarkers. I hope it fits the bill for both challenges.

Paper from Bearly Mine Designs Designer Extreme Vol I

Image is Anya from Greetings Farm, coloured with ProMarkers

Flower, ribbon etc from my stash.

A couple of cards at last.

Been ages since I managed to get some time together to make some cards it seems. Sorry I haven't posted for so long. I have lots on the go at the moment and of course crafting always seems to get put on to the back burner, lol.

Anyway had an order to do so managed to get two cards made at the same time as I have received my order from Bearly Mine Designs and lurrrrvvv the papers on the cds to bits.

This is for an order for a 40th card for a man. I always find it soooo difficult to make men's cards, just get bogged down with the pretty pretty cards and find it hard to leave off all the gorgeous flowers etc.

This is using papers from Designer Extreme Vol I from Bearly Mine Designs and I thought they looked perfect for a man's card.

Image is one I found somewhere on the internet ages and ages ago and coloured with copic markers.

The 40 is cut using a cuttlebug die and then mounted on to card and trimmed.

The second one I made using some more of the Bearly Mine Designs Vol I papers as I printed a few off to see which I wanted to use.

The gorgeous image is WoJ party Animals, cut with cuttle bug dies and coloured again with copics.

Just an added ribbon and some brads was all I needed to finish it.

Hope it isn't ages and ages again before I post and so sorry to all the wonderful bloggers who's blogs I have failed to visit recently, I will try and get back on track as soon as I can.

PfP Challenge #12

This weeks Passion for ProMarkers Challenge is to use Rose Pink and Cocoa. Took me a while to choose the stamp to use but thought that pink and brown were perfect for the cupcake image so decided on using this one, he is such a cheeky character.

I have also decided to enter the Whiff of Joy Challenge too as the challenge calls for Pink and Brown. Not entered this challenge before but sseing as I used one of their stamps AND it was a joy to make, well what the heck, lol.

Paper is Papermania

Stamp is Whiff of Joy Party Animals

Border is a border punch

Sentiment is computer generated

Leaves were cut on my Cougar Black Cat

Flowers, ribbon, pearls etc from my stash.

Anniversary Card

This was an order from my daughter to give to friends. She wanted something rather modern and not too flowery and didn't want a character stamp on it, boo hoo. So it took some time to get my brain working away from my beloved stamps, lol.

Papers are Pink Petticoat

Corner embellishment is cuttlebug

Hearts were cut on my Cougar Black Cat

All other embellishments were from my stash.

Challenge winner

I made this card for my Brother in Law's birthday and used it in the Passion for ProMarkers FaceBook Launch Challenge ( phew that was a mouthful, lol). The lovely people of PfP chose my card as the winning one. Wooo Hooo, never won a challenge before that could be because I haven't entered them though, ha ha. I was thrilled to bits and recieved 2 stamps from Greeting Farm and a bar of chocolate with a gorgeous wrapper around it. Thank you Ladies ( Gina and Ida ) for my lovely prizes.

Anyway couldn't show it before now as my Brother in Law's birthday was on Friday and didn't want it seen by him before then.

Papers are by Pink Petticoat

Image, sorry, can't remember, it is a week or so since I used it and my memory at the moment is not good. Will update later when I remember. It was coloured with ProMarkers.

Sentiment was computer generated

Stars and circles were cut on my Cougar Black Cat.

Blog Candy x 2!!

Tab has two lots of yummy blog candy on offer untill Saturday 22nd August, over on her Magnolia blog here.

One for Christmas.

Have to start sometime, lol. I thought I might enter the Papertake Weekly Challenge with this one. I have started to try and enter these challenges as it motivates me to make a card, when I am really stuck as to waht to make. This week the challenge is 4 Seasons and obviously mine is winter, lol.

Papers are Dovecraft Christmas Traditional

Image is a Rachelle Anne Miller stamp

Octagons are cut using my Cuttlebug as are the snowflakes.

Sentiment, ribbon and flower is from my stash.

Passion for ProMarkers Challenge #11

I wanted to do a Thank You card for a very good friend, so I thought I would combine it with this weeks challenge over on Passion for ProMarkers Blog. The challenge this week is to follow a sketch and use any colours you like.

Papers are Dovecraft - A Hint Of Pink

Image is Anya Geisha from Greetings Farm

Coloured with ProMarkers

Flowers and pins are from my stash and leaves were cut on my Cougar Black Cat

Sentiment is a stamp by Sugar Dumpling

Blog Candy on Crafters Kitchen

Jak has this fantastic Blog Candy on offer for a very short time, so get on over to Crafter's Kitchen and try your luck. While you are the check out her stunning creations, Jak is a genius.

Passion for ProMarkers Challenge #10

This is the first time I have used this stamp. I was given it this morning by my good friend, thanks Kerry XXX

I thought I would use it to make a chard for the PfP challenge #10 as this states that you must follow the sketch provided and use Pastel Pink and Cool Aqua ProMarkers.

Papers are Papermania Blueberry Hill

Stamp is Magnolia

Leaves are cut on my Cougar and coloured with ProMarkers.

Flowers, ribbon, pins, charm and pearls are from my stash.

George the Chef

Needed to do a birthday card for my Brother in Law as my Sister ordered one from me. He is a great chef so thought this would fit the bill. I also noticed that Charmed Cards and Crafts were running a few competitions and that this card would qualify for two of them so decided to enter it. The first one is in the form of Blog Candy with a twist ..... and the second is one of a few competition catagories and I am entering this in the Birthday Card one.

Papers are Pink Petticoat, Image is from the George At Work collection from Charmed Cards and Craft, coloured with ProMarkers. Corners made using a Cuttlebug die and sentiment was computer generated. Ribbon and gems from stash.

Gorgeous Blog Candy from The Crafting Pad

Val has some gorgeous Blog Candy on offer as a double celebration. It is to celebrate both her Birthday ( Happy Birthday Val) and reaching 5000 hits. Hop over to her blog here and enter. Candy closes on Sat 8th August so there is still time.