Birthday wishes to you

Hi everyone and thanks for stopping by my blog.

Over at Brown Sugar  we have a new challenge starting today.

Theme: Anything Goes

My card this week I took the simple approach and kept it flat.  Coloured the image with pencils and layered it with co-ordinating papers

Items Used

Sentiment and die from Tonic Verso Live, Laugh, Love/ Single Banner

Lace from my stash

Bling gems - Docrafts, Hawthorn & Bramble

Distress Ink - Wilted Violet

Pink paper from my stash

Patterned paper from first edition - Dreamcatcher 8x8 pad

white cardstock

image from Lacy sunshine - Rory's Butterfly

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Karen Xxx

New Baby Girl

Hi everyone and thanks for stopping by my blog.

Over at Brown Sugar we have a new challenge starting today.

Theme: Cute and Cuddley

So here is my card for this week

The base card is 7.5 x 7.5 and made out of A4 pink card stock x 2, its layered with a patterned paper from K & Company, Baby Girl.  Then layer four pink card 3.25" x 3.25" with patterned paper from the same paper pad. 

The cherry blossom flowers and rose leaves are from Wild Orchard Crafts and the charm "It's a Girl" is from Creative charms out of my stash.

It the bottom right hand corner and also the top left hand corner I have attached 3 pink buttons.

The image is coloured in with Crayola pencils and die cut with Sizzix circles and mounted onto a Decorative Circle from Spellbinder Grand selection.  The sentiment is from a free set I got with a magazine and stamped using archival ink pad "Sepia". Punched out of whited card and mounted onto a piece of patterned paper from the same pad. 

Sponsor  -  Stitchy Bear 

Store - http://stitchybearstamps.com/shop/

Blog - http://onestitchatatimechallenge.blogspot.co.uk/

Items used -

Image - My Pillow from sponsor
Pink and white card stock
Patterned paper - K & Company - Scrap to go
Baby Girl
Pink buttons from stash
Creative Charms - "It's a Girl"
two tone cherry blossoms, rose leaves from Wild Orchard Crafts
Stampin up Punch - Scallop Circle and
Circle 1 3/8"
Crayola Coloured pencils
Cosmic shimmer glue
1 mm Foam Roll
"New Baby" sentiment from special occasions from a
free stamp set
Spellbinders Grand Decorative Circles

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Karen Xxx

Charity Cards

Hi everyone and welcome to my blog.

Here are a few cards I have ready for my local charity shop

Marie Currie

I don't know whether its my area but I find handmade cards so hard to sell here, so I decided to donate them to charity.

My mother had bowel cancer about 14 years ago and thankfully it was caught in time and she didn't need any treatment.  We didn't need these lovely nurses, but you never know, and as they are not government funded they need all the donations they can get.  Also my aunt but she wasn't so lucky and palliative care was needed.

These will be dropped into my local shop and hopefully when they put them out they have a higher success rate than myself.

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Karen Xxx

Smile and be happy

Hi everyone thanks for stopping by.

Oh its been a while since I have put a post up here but I'm back.  My aim now Im back is to get caught up on my scrapbooking, so you may see a few pages appear as well as cards.  I love watching videos on You tube and I have a few of my own up from a while back but I never had the courage to do actual projects from scratch.  One because I not sure how to edit and two coming to terms with the sound of my own voice, lol.  I would also like to add another page on my blog to be able to sell my handmade items and some craft items as well, to hopefully reimburse my crafty spending and to give a few pounds to a couple of charities that are close to my heart.  

A list of items I have used

Card stock from my stash

Blossom dies from Tattered Lace

Card Candy from Craftwork cards

Dovecraft Glitter glue

Stamp set I got free pack from a magazine - from the heart sentiment stamps

flat backed pearls from my stash.

Cosmic Shimmer PVA Glue

the image I have used is from Lace Sunshine Stamps

I apologise for not giving exact details on what I have used but I have promised my hubby that I would use some of my stash up before buying any more.  Some of the items I have had for a few years, never used and with my head being the way it is (i.e. like a sieve, lol) I don't remember who, what or where I have purchased them from.  If you look at older post you will see I used this image before but its one of my favourites.

I also have jumped on the band wagon and I am entering this into the Cutie Pie Challenge Blog with the theme of Cute and Girly and also entered it into their DT call.

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Karen Xxx

#103 - Brown Sugar Challenge - Sand and Sea

Hi everyone and welcome to my blog.

Its Friday and its time for another challenge from 

Brown Sugar Challenge Blog

By the time this is uploaded to the site I will probably be sitting in a lovely boring airport waiting to fly home from my holidays in tenerife.  The weather was fantastic and with limited wifi access I have eventually got this post wrote.

Our theme for this weeks challenge is

Sea & Sand

In this weeks card I used an image from our sponsors and coloured in with promarkers.  It was cut out with Spellbinders die and mounted onto blue card.  The pattern paper comes from a selection of DCWV papers I got through QVC embellished with some self adhesive stickers and gems, mounted onto kraft card stock.

Sponsors - Stitchy Bear Digi Outlet

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Karen Xxx

Live every moment

Hello everyone

My blog post today is well out of my comfort zone I think but I must say I enjoyed doing it.  

I had an old cardboard box lying in my room so I cut it up and put it away thinking that I would use it, well I pulled it out again and turn it into what I think is not a bad effort.  I watch some videos on a few friends and think if only I could do that.  

In my project I used my free stamps from Indigo Blu which I got from a magazine I had bought, some archival black ink, misting inks and some gesso.

I have decided to enter this into the 

Indigo Blu Challenge

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Karen Xxx