craft marathon

well it is for me, I have be making like a mad woman the last few days, it all came in one big burst, fingers crossed my mojo will hang around for a little while because I have still loads to do!

will start off with this weeks Crafty Angels challenge, Black & White, set by Laura.


Stash Recipe:

Crate Paper "crate avenue collection, Karen Foster burst brads, gorjuss girl stamp, stickles, black ribbon and papermania black gems. Image coloured with watercolour pencils and background with walnut distress ink.

next up is a birthday card, I have gone mad for blue and red together, definately a favourite now!


Stash Recipe:

October Afternoon Cherry Hill papers, blue and blue gingham ribbon, pin is by fancy pants, letters are pink paislee, bird stamp by imaginese and bubble stamp by pink paislee, gems by papermania.


this card is one of sophies school friends who turned a big 6 on friday. very girly!


stash recipe:

Papermania bluehill papers. white card, studio g stamp, buttons, lace, papermania gems, liquid pearls.

and finally this is a LO I made for a friend birthday

Crafty Creations & Paperplay

this week challenge over on Crafty Creations is "blue" so I made these little atcs.

stash recipe: papermania atc card packs, laura ashley tradional papers, imaginese bird stamp, we are the memory makers stamp and white lace.



all the girls where over last night for a crafting night and cake eating session, I should have been getting on with my paperplay challenge for today but it was just not happening for me last night, could not get it to come together on time, so after some house cleaning and soup making this morning I sat down and got it finished! this weeks challenge was for you to use your favourite embellishments.


stash recipe: white pearlescent black card stock, basic grey porceline paper pack, martha steward punch, papermania punch, tattered rose distress ink pad, basic grey brad, stickles, magnolia stamped image, watercolour pencils, key charm and white organza ribbon.

have a lovely day!

hugs mandyxx

Crafty Angels Week

this is my entry for Crafty Angels Challenge blog this week, I made this little birdie house, just adore these little things, have them everywhere!!

This weeks theme is "buttons and bling" I loved this one! Papers, corecard, stamp are available from the Crafty Angels shop!

Hope everyone is having a great week!

Hugs Mandyxx

card mix

this is one made for "a just because I wanted to" reason lol!

ADORE these papers, my new favourites!


and this card is for my challenge over on Crafty Creations this week, pop over and check out this weeks challenge!

Oooppsss forgot this one

Altered Frame, originally uploaded by Crafty Angel.

forgot to add this one to the other post! Made this the other day to display a dress belong to my daughter Sophie, I just adore this dress and couldnt part with it away or storing it. So I decided to distress a wooden frame, added ribbon, rubons and some pearls. I also added some lace to the dress too! think I have remembered everything now! nite nite xx

collection of projects

I have been a bad blogger of late, so apologises. Should be back to normal here next week, fingers crossed.

wil share a few bits of what I have made over the last week or two, firstly its Crafty Angels Challenge time of the week today, so this is the card I made. This weeks challenge was set by Kate, and we were to do some distressing. Papers are from Laura Ashley and magnolia stamp.

this frame, just BG Mellow papers was for Crafty Creations last wednesday.

and this is a paperplay challenge from a few weeks back, it is a little milk carton that I made, and it is the perfect size to hold a terrys chocolate orange!

good news...

to share with you all!.....I have been asked to be Part of the Design Team at Custom Crops! Yaayyyyyyy so excited about this! So I am now a fully fledged Custom Crop Designer!
Really looking forward to getting started!

off to dance around the house with excitment!

Hugs Mandyxx

Crafty Angels Challenge, Week 2

this weeks challenge has been set by Caz, " Diecuts and Punches" pop over and check out this weeks challenge, wonderful entries by the other talented ladies on the design team, and a chance for you to be entered to win a monthly prize too!

Brand New

Some existence of my mojo returned today, I finally got to play with my fav papers from sassafras. been dying to scrap these two pics side by side!

have a great weekend

hugs mandyxx

Tea & Coffee

this weeks challenge over on Crafty Creations is "Tea & Coffee", do pop over and join us!

Crafty Angels first challenge

..today is the very first challenge over on the Crafty Angels blog.....the first week us designers got to come out and play! Pop over and join us this week!

This weeks challenge is a sketch:

and this is my take on sketch:


Product Ingredients are:

Chipboard Coaster, K&Co Blue Awning Papers, Magnolia sign stamps, Coredinations cardstock, papermania ribbon and pearl brads, and paper gem flowers, all of these products are available in the Crafty Angels Shop!

paperplay...leftover

.....letters is this weeks theme, set by the talented Elisa.

3 papers

Hi all! It is Crafty Creations time of week. This weeks challenge was set by the lovely Ann, to use 3 patterened papers on your project.

This week I made a card using the Papermania Bluehill papers, I just adore these, one of my favourites. I also used some lace, making memories chipboard, a cuttlebug butterfly, gems, autumn leaves butterfly stamp and coredinations.

Have a lovely day, hugs mandyxx

card of colours

June bug arrived, ..............so time HAD to made for a play! I just adore these papers and I think this is the first time I have ever used so many colours on one card!

Have a great weekend
Hugs Mandyxx

You are....

I made this LO today, it is of my daughter, picture taken this year at the beach. I used the lovely Jesse Edwards papers by Papermania and the matching stamps. the good weather must be doing wonders for my mojo today! fingers crossed the sun stays around for a bit!

I have entered this LO to the Crafty Angels blog for DT, fingies crossed! Pop over and check out the shop too, yummy goodies!

hugsxx

and another one!

Paperplay time!!!!!!!!!

this weeks Paperplay challenge was set by myself, using a sketch I designed, really enjoyed making the sketch, might do some more!

"Tags" crafty creations challenge

Its Crafty Creations Challenge time of the week again! YAY!!!!!!!!!! and this weeks challenge is Tags, one of my favourite things to make.

paperplay week 30

this week jackie set the challenge of "stepping out" over on paperplay for us design teamers!
I couldnt believe that I didnt have one item in my stash apart from these ballet shoes, that had anything related to footwear! will have to remedy that one!

have a good day!

my first anya!

Morning all! Hope you all have a good weekend! This is the first time I used an Anya, and I LOVE them, up there with Gorjuss girls now too! They are so easy to colour! This little lady is a digi stamp, that I bought from the greeting farm! I am going to get creating today as I have finally finished my sisters wedding invitation order!

Crafty Creations Challenge #27

This is my first week being on the team over at Crafty Creations Challenge Blog! This weeks challenge was set by the lovely Deena, to find ways to use BUTTONS on your project....dont you just love buttons! so do pop over and have a look, there is literally a yummy prize up for grabs this week, some "stampin up stamps" and Ribbon! Have a lovely day, hugs Mandyxx

yummy awards

A lovely lovely lady left gave me these awards this morning, Dei, thank you so much! you are a truly kind and wonderful person and so happy to know you and have you in my life!

So I would like to pass these awards along to the lovely people who take the time to visit me in blogland and always leave encouraging words :)

To keep the Circle of Friends going I must do my part and pass it along.....
Here are the rules for this award:
To pick up the Circle of Friends Blog Award cut and paste the award logo and use it on your own blog.
Nominate 5 other bloggers you feel have become part of your circle of friends.
Link to your nominees within your blog post.
Include these instructions on how to pick up the award in your blog post.
Link back to the person who gave you the award in your blog post, to show your appreciation. Comment on their blogs to let them know they've received the award

So here are my nominees................I just cant do 5! I have 6......lol!

Dei
Neasa
Julie M
Sandra
Saskia
Marie