A Pink Christmas Set

This is for:-

1. Cute Card Thursday - challenge 89 - "Swirly Girly"

2. Incy Wincy Designs - challenge 21 - "Snowflakes"

3. Simon Says Stamp - So charming

This is an order I got from a friend who has a little girl in Bobby's class at Nursery, she had seen the ones I made Bobby so if they look familiar I have done a set in blue.

Thank you for all the well wishes for my boys, Bobby the youngest has now gone back to Nursery after contracting a 24 hour sickness bug on top of the cough and everything. But he's much better now. But Scott my Eldest lad who was at the doctors over a week ago got worse over the week, and Sunday he was rushed to our nearest medical centre as he was coughing up blood. He has now got a lung infection, so what was the doctor listening to last week when she was supposed to have been listening to his chest and lungs. Westlife, Rhianna maybe?????? It has taken at least 2 weeks for this to have set in , but now the Doctors are covering one anothers backs and saying sometimes it isn't detectable. This is a 14 year old boy who I told the doctor he couldn't even get to the top of ours stairs without having breathing problems. And now when the infection has gone he has to be tested for Asthma cos of scar tissue on his lungs.

And now to top it all off I have Sinusitis, what a bum deal. And then we received bad news this morning, my Husband's good friend who has been suffering with cancer for the last 2 years died at 7 o'clock this morning, my hubby was with him over the weekend but knew his time had come. But still has hit him hard.

Sorry for such a miserable post, hope you all are having a better time than us.

Happy crafting

Tracy x

Hanglar Card and Tag

This card is for:-
1. Creative Inspirations - challenge # 22 - sketch
2. Stampin' For The Weekend - challenge 27 - Red, Green and Gold
3. Stamp Something - Glitzy Somethings
4. Rosie-Dee's - challenge 59 - Red, Green and a bit of Bling
5. Creative Inspiration Wednesdays - challenge 37 - Christmas card and Tag set

I did some more gold embossing on this card around the stamped image and my ticket. It's lovely for Christmas cards, and works so well with vintage.
Creative Inspirations have a fab sketch but in the centre for the image it is a circle but I swapped it for a rectangle, as my image didn't look right in a circle.
Stampin' For The Weekend have a colour combo of Red, Green and Gold, just right for Christmas cards, nice and traditional.
Stamp Something requested us to use something Glitzy, on my card I have glitters on the candle flame, around the fur on his hat. There's also gems and gold embossing.
Rosie-Dee's, this is my first time joining in their challenges and they want a colour combo of Red, Green and a bit of Bling, my card has all of these.
Creative Inspirations wednesdays have the theme of a Christmas card and tag set, so they would match I used the same papers, card and colours on the tag. I also did the gold embossing on the To/From part for the matching of the card.

A little snippet of news, I've been really lucky this week and received my third win this week, yesterday from Stamp Something it was $15 of digital images from Soft Pencil.

Recipe:-
Stamps - Hanglar (from the lovely Annie, thank you), Ticket sentiment (you can find Here), tag sentiment from Habico.
Papers - Dove Craft victorian Christmas,
Colouring Mediums - H20's, Cosmic shimmers,
Tools - Heat gun, glitter, embossing powder, Versa mark ink, stazon ink,
Embellishments - Ribbons, gems papermania,

Hot Chocolate, Hot Mouse

This card is for:-
1. Papertake Weekly - Sketch
2. Die Cut Dreams - challenge # 25 - Hot Chocolate
3. A Spoonful of Sugar - challenge 9 - Non Traditional Colours
4. Crafty Cardmakers - challenge 9 - Alternative Christmas

I loved making this card, I enjoyed using the Pink and Green a bit of a break away from the traditional colours. I adore this image and added some stickles to give Henry a bit of sparkle.
Papertake Weekly is a great easy sketch, brilliant if your wanting to make some quick Christmas cards.
Die Cut Dreams has the theme "Hot Chocolate", and my Henry Mouse has the marshmallows in his mug too.
A Spoonful of Sugar wants non traditional Christmas colours, so I chose Pink and Green, which also comes in for Crafty Cardmakers.

Recipe:-
Stamps - WOJ Henry Mouse, Ticket from Here,
Papers - DCWV Christmas Wishes, scraps from stash,
Colouring Mediums - Distress Inks, H20's,chalks
Embellishments - flowers, stickles,

Here Comes Santa

This card is for:-
1. Sketch saturday - challenge # 79 - Sketch
2. Crafty Creations - week 44 - Lace and distressing
3. Creative Craft Challenges - challenge # 4 - Waiting For Santa

Another vintage looking Christmas card, are you fed up with them yet? Trying to work through my list and make the right cards for each person.
Sketch Saturday has a sketch of course, but I must say it is a good one.
Crafty Creations want us to use Lace and Distressing this week, my card has both.
Creative Craft Challenge has a theme of Waiting For Santa, which means anything with a Santa on it.

Recipe:-
Stamp - Sarah Kay Santa, Ticket from Here
Papers - Dovecraft Victorian Christmas, scraps from stash,
Colouring Mediums - Distress inks, H20's,
Embellishments - Gems Papermania, adhesive ribbon, lace from stash,

DT Card, Bright and Festive.

This card is for:-
1. Allsorts - week 29 - Buttons
2. Cupcake Crafts - challenge 68 - Red and Green
3. Create 4 Fun - challenge 48 - Sketch

This is my Design Team Card for challenge # 3, at Susie's Sassy challenge, the theme this week is "Buttons and Bows". And this week the prize is a GDT spot, the DT cards are great so pop over and have a look.
This card I tried something I've only done once before, I used gold embossing powder and stamped some flourishes on to my red flowers, heated it up and the flowers take on quite a vintage look which is what I wanted. So i was happy with that effect and will use it again.

Allsorts asked for buttons too.
Cupcake Crafts has a colour combo of Red and Green.
Create 4 fun provided us with a fantastic sketch.

I also want to use this card as an entry for a DT Call over at Stampin' For The Weekend, take a look it's a challenge I do weekly and they always have great challenges.

Recipe:-
Stamps - Sarah Kay Christmas Magic, Sentiment Ticket found here, Flourish stamp from stash,
Papers - DCWV Christmas Wishes,
Colouring Mediums - Distress Inks, H20's, chalks,
Tools - Heatgun, Versamark Ink, Embossing Powder, flower punches
Embellishments - Ribbon, button, gems, all from stash.

Happy crafting
Tracy x

A Different Colour!

This Gift card is for:-
1. Stampin For The Weekend - challenge 26 - Lilac and Silver + a gift wallet
2. Sophsiti-cats - challenge ~ 13 - Snowflakes and Sparkles
3. A Spoonful Of sugar - challenge 80 - No Traditional Christmas Colours
4. Crafty Cardmakers - challenge # 9 - Non Traditional Colours

I have made this gift wallet for my sister, as she's saving for a laptop and asked me to give her money for Christmas this year. I'm normally a traditional girl when it comes to Christmas colours, so this was a bit slow to get started at first, but once I'd picked the colours it all fell into place.
Stampin For The Weekend gave a colour combo of Lilac and Silver which i've used, the silver is mirror board. It also had to be a gift wallet and tag, my tag is on the inside to give me something to write my message on.
Sophisti-cats theme is snowflakes and sparkles, I've layered and glittered a snowflake on the top corner and put stickles on the cuffs, boots and muff on my Lizzie image.
A Spoonful of sugar asked for non traditional Christmas colours and since I've used Lilac it fits the challenge.
Crafty cardmakers also wants us to use non traditional Christmas colours.

I have been one lucky girly today, I won second prize over at Debbi's in her Promarker giveaway.
Then I also won at Tellen's place for my sexy Santa card. It cheered me up no end after such a rubbish week with my poor boys being poorly.

Happy crafting
Tracy x

Sexy Santa!!

This card is for:-
1. Tellen's Place - week 42 - "Red and Green"
2. Saturday spotlight with Hidden potential - "Hats On"
3. Incy Wincy Designs - challenge 20 - "red and green"
4. Creative Card crew - challenge 39 - "Christmas"
5. Colour create - challenge 32 - Red, Green and White + Christmas

This card is for my Hubby's work mate who is only 19 and enjoys going out chasing the birds, as he puts it. so I thought quite an appropriate image for the young men, don't you think? The image is free over at Tellen's Place.
Tellen's Place is a colour combo of "Red and Green", so is Incy Wincy Designs.
Saturday Spotlight is "Hats On", she definately has hers on.
Creative Card Crew's theme is Christmas. And so is Colour Create with a colour combo of Red, Green and White.

Happy crafting
Tracy x

Christmas Anya

This is for:-
1. Anyone For Anya? - "Make A Fake"
2. Sketch and Stash - challenge 24 - sketch

At Anyone For Anya the challenge is to "make a fake", so on my Anya I used flock as fake fur.
Sketch and Stash has a fab sketch this week and you have to name your new, never used or neglected stash. Mine is using Flock for the very first time, I think I need to use it a couple of times to get the hang of it.

To be honest not keen on the feel of Flock after using it for the very first time on this card, it's like cotton wool and I don't like the feel of that either. it makes me cringe, but i do like the result with the flock.

Well I want to apologise if I'm not getting around to everyone's blogs for a visit, as my two boys are not very well at the moment. My eldest has tonsilitis and a cough which is making is chest sore. And my youngest has croup again with rather a nasty chesty cough, sore throat and runny nose during the day and blocked at night.
Last night was bad, one or the other of the boys had me up at least every hour, they couldn't sleep, then there was steaming in the bathroom for the croup, then one of them needed a drink etc... etc. But what I can't understand is how can they be up all night then awake all day too.
But bless them they are suffering and I rang the emergency doctors but they are not classed as an emergency, so I was told just to keep them on simple linctus and paracetamol.
So I'm shattered but will try and get round to as many blogs as I can.

Happy crafting
Tracy x

Christmas Love

This card is for:-
1. Penny black Saturday - challenge # 76 - "winter wonderland"
2. Sunday Sketch And Stamp - challenge # 16 - Sketch
3. A Spoonful Of Sugar - challenge # 79 - Brown and Blue
4. Papertake Weekly - "Christmas Crackers"

Penny Black Saturday has the theme of "Winter Wonderland", there is also a bloghop going on and a competition too aswell as the usual challenge.
Sunday Sketch And Stamp has a great sketch to use.
A Spoonful Of Sugar has a colour combo, which is Brown and then you can add either pink or blue, I chose blue.
Papertake weekly's theme is "Christmas Crackers" which is a pretty open theme this week.

Now onto something else, if you saw my post previous to this you will have seen that I won some digital tickets from Lisa at

click Here to visit. Well last night I received three different sheets, Christmas, Love and mixed sentiments, and I couldn't believe how great they were when I printed them out. There is one on my card above. I printed a sheet of each on cream card and a sheet of each on textured white card. The quality is brilliant and I love them. Lisa doesn't charge alot for them and you can ink them or chalk them like I have done. They will be ideal for vintage but also great for the up to date stuff too. I've found a new way for sentiments on my card, I know others have been using them for a while but they are new for me to play with, and the best thing of all once you've bought them you can print as many as you want.

Hope you all have a great weekend.
Happy crafting
Tracy x

Puppy Surprise!

This card is for this weeks challenge at Friday Sketchers, it is a brilliant sketch. I made the card for my friend for Christmas. She has 3 dogs and I know she will love the image on this one. The papers are Papermania I think as I bought them in the sales at the beginning of the year. The stamp is a Helz Cuppleditch called Surprise! The colours are a bit different for me as i'm a traditionalist with reds and greens, I also like the icy blues.

I've also won a candy today of some tickets from the lovely Lisa, you can also get them Here too!


Thanks for taking a look
Happy crafting
Tracy x

Thank You little Mouse!

This is for:-
1. Lili Of The Valley - challenge # 41- - Sketch
2. Stamp something - "Thank You's"

I love this image which is from my friend Brenda, who goes that extra mile and heat embosses the image too, Ta love. Brenda has an eye problem at the moment and it is preventing her from spending time on the computer, hope it improves quickly Brenda. And I feel it is ideal to put on a Thank You card. Don't know what has happened to blogger but it won't let me change the colour of the font. That tool has disappeared all together.
Lili Of The Valley have a great sketch to use.
Stamp Something has a theme of "Thank You's", and I'm always needing a Thank you card so I don't mind putting the Christmas cards on hold to do one of these.

I've also received an Award from my blogging buddy Fiona.


I need to state 5 facts but I did this in the last post for an award, so instead of boring everyone i'll just pass it on to the ladies on the Design Team with me for Susie's Sassy challenge.

You may already have it ladies, but if not plaese take it with love.
Susie
Vikki
Sally
Lisa
Jane
Denise

Happy crafting
Tracy x

An Award

I've received this lovely award from Jacky. Thank you so much, I enjoy coming to your blog and seeing your lovely creations Jacky.

So now I need to list 7 things about myself that people might find interesting........not sure how interesting you'll find them!!!

1. I have passed exams and i'm a fully qualified Manicurist, including nail extentions. But couldn't follow through with it as a career as I have a phobia about touching people and people touching me. I only passed my exams as I used my Mam and Sister on the exam.

2. My most wanted craft item that i've been wanting for ages and still haven't got yet is a Cuttlebug. Awwww.....

3. I love the Twilight saga's and enjoyed the films, but the films are no where near as good as the books.

4. As a keen reader I have all the books, and read them, that Josephine Cox has written which is a total of 36, but she has also written under another name and they are thriller books.

5. I have given birth to three children without any pain relief, but i'm petrified of the dentist.

6. When I was a kid I had rough Collie dogs, my husband also had rough collies as a kid too, now that's what I call Spooky!

7. My Mum, Me and my youngest son Bobby all weighed 6lb 13oz at birth, weird! Same weight through three generations.

Told you they'd be a bit dull, not very good at talking about myself. And once I press Publish Post I'll think of something worth tellilng Lol!

Now to pass it on to 5 lovely Ladies:-
In no particular order
Brenda
Fiona
Debby
Kim
Crystal

Looking foward to see what you put ladies.
Happy crafting
Tracy x

Gone Fishing

This is for:-
1. Papertake Weekly - Sketch
2. Crafty Creations - challenge # 42 - metal/metallic finishes
3. Die cut Dreams - challenge # 24 - "Puppy Love"

This card is another one for my Cousin in America as it's his Birthday on New Year's Eve. He goes hunting and fishing with his Dad in Oregon, so I think he'll like this fishing Dandelion dog.
I don't know about you but I'm having such problems with Blogger at the moment, it won't let me put my post on properly, I can't see the photo of my card as i'm writing this and it's not letting me change the colour of the font either. There's other problems like it won't let me leave comments on blogs half the time at the moment. Then I keep losing things in my sidebar. So please bear with me if you think I'm not leaving comments, I can assure you i'm trying.
Papertake weekly gave us a great sketch and it came in for a masculine card too.
Crafty Creations wanted metal or metallic finishes, so I chose to use gold mirror board and corners.
Die Cut dreams gave the theme "Puppy Love" and I just love this fishing dog.

Happy crafting
Tracy x

Santa's Coming To Town

This card is for:-

1. Die Cut Dreams - challenge # 23 - "Santa"

2. Creative Craft Challenge - challenge # 3 - Sketch

3. Cute Card Thursday - challenge # 87 - "Teens"

4. Allsorts - week 28 - Christmas Carol or Song Title

I have made this card for my cousin who is at university in Oregon in America, we miss him and it's worse at this time of year although he did come home in the summer. He's 19 and the economy is bad over there at the moment so he's finding it difficult.

Die Cut Dreams wants to see a Santa, I used the Sarah kay Santa, he's lovely and traditional.

Creative Craft Challenge has a great sketch to use.

Cute Card Thursday want a card for a teenager and I think you still class 19 as a teenager.

Allsorts have a theme of a Christmas Carol or a song Title, I have chosen "Santa Clause Is Coming To Town".

I have glazed the candy cane on this, and used glmour dust on Santa's fur. He's painted using mainly Distress Inks.

Happy crafting
Tracy x

For A friend

This card is for:-

1. Sophisti-cats - challenge # 11 - Sketch

2. Cupcake Crafts - Digital Images

3. Colour Create - challenge 32 - Red, Green and White

I've done this card with a vintage feel and used Distress inks for colouring all of the image, i'm really improving with these and enjoy using them. I've distressed all the edges with Aged Mahogany, usually I struggle with this colour as it's so deep but it went ok this time. I have made this card for my friend Sarah, her little girl Poppy goes to Nursery with my youngest Bobby. Poppy is adorable and she gets on well with Bobby, and they make lovely friends.

Sophisticats gave us a brilliant sketch to use and one that can be used again and again.

Cupcake Crafts asked us to use a digital image and my image can be found at Simply Inger, check her blog out she has some wonderful creations. Her work is totally amazing and a real inspiration. If you like elegant, vintage and stunning her blog is the place to be. I pop over there all the time even when there's nothing new on, as I still look through what I've seen before and I still get amazed at the beautiful works of art.

Colour Create has a colour combo this time which is Red, Green and White. And ideal for all those Christmas cards we need to do.

Happy crafting

Tracy x

DT Card - Pink and Sparkly

This card is my DT Card for challenge # 2 over at Susie's Sassy challenge and the theme is "Pink and Sparkly". So fun can be had with this one as you can get your glitters and gems out, and have a great time using as much sparkle as you want. This is the great prize on offer this time

I had some problems getting sparkle to show on my photo, after a day of dullness and rain the only picture I could get then had a lot of background. But it made me grit my teeth and have a go at cropping a photo. But now I can't remember how to do it again, what a dunce Lol!

This card is also for:-
1. Allsorts - week 27 - Anything made for a child
2. Create 4 Fun - week 46 - sketch

Allsorts asked us to do anything made for a child, and this is for any little girl who dreams of being a ballerina.
Create 4 Fun have given us a sketch and it was great to use.

Please play along with us over at Susie's Sassy Challenge, it's a great challenge which you can combine with other challenges and it's worth giving it a go for the fab prize.

Happy crafting
Tracy x

For My Husband

This card is for:-

1. Stamps Something - Sketch Something

2. Penny black saturday - challenge 75 - "Christmas For The Guys"

3. Creatalicious Challenge - challenge # 4 - Snowflake and sparkle

4. Crafty cardmakers - challenge 8 - "Clear As Day"

5. Creative Inspiration - challenge 36 - "Sparkle"

6. Simon says Stamp - "Animal Antics"

Firstly this card is for my Husband for Christmas, I used this image a couple of weeks ago on an all white card and he liked it so that was a tip on what to use for his.

Stamps Something gave a fantastic sketch which has kept the card easy to use for a masculine card.

Penny black Saturday has a theme of "Christmas For The Guys", so this gave me the chance to get the Hubby's card done.

Creatalicious challenge is to make something for Christmas including snowflakes and lots of sparkle, this card has both.

Crafty Cardmakers challenge this week is "Clear As Day", which is to use something clear such as acetate. Ihave taken a couple of photo's so I don't know if you can see, I have punched two acetate snowflakes then covered them in glitter. Then I've stacked five assorted snowflakes using silicone to give height.

Creative Inspirations theme is "Sparkle", there's no shortage here.

Simon says stamp Animal Antics, and this is definately an antic, the hedgehog balancing on the bears back to post his Christmas mail. Awwww, and they are animals.

I would like to tell my friend Brenda, that I'm thinking about you, and I hope there's some improvement with your eye soon. Your a great blogging friend and an inspiration too me, how you still manage to knock such beautiful cards out when your unwell is beyond me. Speak soon love.

Happy crafting

Tracy x

No Laundry Today

This card is for:-

1. Simon Says Stamp - "Thinking of you"

2. Creative Inspirations - challenge 21 - "A Pocket"

3. Anyone For Anya? - "Getting round to it"

4. Incy Wincy Designs - challenge 18 - "Purple"

I thought I had better get some photos of this card now before the sun goes in, I hate all this photography business, i'm so rubbish at it. I've put some of my flowers on, that I found hiding away in the bottom of my cupboard.

Simon says Stamp want something that says "Thinking Of You" and on my make the book mark reads "No laundry today, reading only", i'll give this to someone and will write in it "put your feet up and take it easy".

Creative Inspirations is to use a pocket, and my pocket it on the inside and holds a bookmark or it will hold vouchers etc.

Anyone For Anya? are using circles this week, so I put Laundry Anya on a die cut circle, which is from Die Cut Dreams.

Incy Wincy Designs have the theme of "Purple", and it's there on my card, in quite a few different shades.

Have a great day

Happy crafting

Tracy x

Waiting For Santa

This card is for:-
1. Die Cut Dreams - challenge # 22 - "snow & Sketch
2. Fab's Christmas Challenge - week 45 - Diva, Hanging card or wavy frame
3. Anyone For Anya - 3 2 1 Recipe

This cute little girl made me think, when painted in Christmas colours she looks like she's waiting for Santa to come. I stamped Snuggle Anya onto a Die cut shape from Die Cut Dreams, and the top paper is a vellum.
Die Cut Dreams gave us a sketch to work with and a theme of snow, my snow is the stickled snowflakes that are sizzix die cuts.
Fab's Christmas challenge theme this week is either one of the following or all three, Diva, Wall Hanging or Wavy frame. Well I think Anya is a little Diva in her own right and she is stamped on to a wavy frame. So I've used two out of the three choices. And he is sponsored by my friend Susie from Die Cut Dreams this week.
Anyone For Anya? is a Recipe - 3 papers, 2 buttons and 1 bow, you will find my buttons and bow in the centre of my snowflakes and I've used three papers.

Have a lovely weekend all,
Happy crafting
Tracy x

Hidden Treasure!

This card is for:-
1. Sketch Saturday - Sketch76
2. Incy Wincy Designs - challenge 17 - "Thank you"

If your one of my followers you may have seen earlier in the week that I have re-organized my craft space. Well in the cupboard underneath my desk I found some hidden treasure that I forgot I had. On this card i have used some, the lace, the flowers which are carnations made of ribbon. I've also found a stash of buttons, but i'm new to using buttons as I've never really liked using them before and a few other bits, I'm sure they'll surface on to my cards eventually.
Sketch Saturday gave an absolutely great sketch, and I'll definately use it again
Incy Wincy Designs asked for a "Thank you" card.

Recipe:-
Stamp - Hanglar (a RAK from Annie, thanks Annie x)
Papers - My minds eye wild asparagus,
Colouring Mediums - Distress inks, H20's, chalks,
Embellishments - tickles, flowers, lace, brad, ribbon, all from stash.

Angels

This card is for:-

1. Create 4 Fun - challenge 45 - Sketch

2. Penny Black Saturday - challenge 74 - Song title/lyrics

3. Sophisti-cats - challenge 10 - "wings"

4. C.R.A.F.T. - week 25 - Recipe

I wanted to give this card a bit of a Christmas vintage feel, and as this particular image is not actually a Christmas one I thought in traditional christmas colours I might get away with it.

Create 4 Fun gave us a good sketch, it was brilliant to work with.

Penny Black Saturday asked us to use song title/ lyrics, I've chosen for mine Angels by Robbie Williams.

Sophisti-cats asked us to use wings and my teddy angel definately has wings.

C.R.A.F.T. has a recipe which is 1 tag (mine is round die cut one), 1 sentiment, 1 ribbon.

Happy crafting

Tracy x

Making a scene!

This card is for:-
1. A spoonful Of Sugar - challenge 77 - "Create a scene"
2. Colour Create - challenge 31 - "Blue, Silver and White"
3. Cupcake Crafts - challenge 65 - "Snow much fun"
4. Roses On Paper - challenge 24 - "Christmas"
5.Allsorts - "Bring out the bling"
6. Crafty Creations - challenge 41 - "Snow Creation"
7. Creative Inspirations - Challenge 35 - "New or neglected"
8. Cute Card Thursday - challenge 86 - "Glitter me silly"
9. Saturday Spotlight With Hidden Potential - Repeat image

This card turned out better than I thought it would, although I couldn't get the sparkle to show on camera no matter what I did. And as you know I haven't been around much this pass week so I will have to knuckle down and get some Christmas cards made as I have a list as long as my arm. Then i'll have more to post.
A Spoonful of sugar asked us to create a scene and I thought I can't do that I don't posses tree stamps or owt like that , but then I thought a bit more and remembered I'd received a lovely candy from Debbi, and in it was some die cut Christmas trees, so the card started to come together then.
Colour Create gave the colour combo Blue, White and Silver and the colours are lovely together.
Cupcake Crafts theme is "Snow much fun", and I chose Tilda and Edwin as skating fun.
Roses On Paper wanted a Christmas card
Allsorts want you to "Bring out the bling", I know it doesn't show too well but Tilda's cuffs and hem of her coat is glamour dusted, Edwins hat and the branches of the tree are all glamour dusted aswell. There's snow/ice on the ground and bits on the sentiments are all glamour dusted. Plus there is gems on the Christmas trees.
Crafty Creations asked for a snow creation and thats on this card too.
Creative Inspirations asked for "new or neglected", well I've never used this image before, the tree diecuts are new and so are the papers, so I think these qualify for this challenge.
Cute Card Thursday is "Glitter me silly" and there is definately plenty of that although it doesn't show very well.
Saturday Spotlight With Hidden Potential wanted you to use an image repeated, so I used my christmas trees three time, I don't know if that counts as they are die cuts and not stamps.

No recipe today got to pick the kids up so i'm rushing off.
Happy crafting
Tracy x

An Award and Lili of the valley blog hop

I was given this sweet award from Susie and from the lovely ScrappyJan the award comes with a few with rules, which are:Pass this award on to five people, post on their blog to let them know you left this award,and then answer a list of questions in ONE word.

1. Where is your cell phone? Pocket

2. Your hair? short

3. Your mother? Young and active

4. Your father? Old fashioned gent

5. Your favorite food? home cooked

6. Your dream last night? all muddled up

7. Your favorite drink? tea

8. Your dream/goal? peace of mind and healthy children

9. What room are you in? living room

10. Your hobby? Crafting

11. Your fear? snakes and death

12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? with my family

13. Where were you last night? at home

14. Something that you aren't? confident

15. Muffins? chocolate

16. Wish list item? Cuttlebug

17. Where did you grow up? Leeds

18. Last thing you did? kiss hubby

19. What are you wearing? my scruffy lounging clothes

20. Your TV? can't live without it.

21. Your Pets? 5 pets - 2 dogs 1 cat 1 rabbit 1 guinea pig

22. Friends? good ones

23. Your life? hectic

24. Your mood? up and down

25. Missing Someone? yes

26. Vehicle? ford fusion

27. Something you’re not wearing? wedding ring too small

28. Your favorite store? Asda

29. Your favorite color? red

30. When was the last time you laughed? Today

31. Last time you cried? today

32. Your best friend? John

33. One place that I go to over and over? Scarborough

34. Facebook? no

35. Favorite place to eat? Chips at the coast

So I am passing this on to

Brenda

Crystal

Fiona

Scott

Jodie

You all deserve it so much!

Now have you done the Lili Of The Valley blog hop yet, you need to go over there, there is 6 stamps up for grabs and then a single stamp on each blog. So what you waiting for they are absolutely gorgeous and only cost £3.50 each.

Happy Crafting

Tracy x

Sorry!!!

Sorry I haven't been posting for 4/5 days but the weekends are bad for me with everyone at home, there is always somone wanting to go somewhere or want something doing. Yesterday I was catching up with housework. And today I decided to give my crafting area a bit of re-organizing. I have done something I never thought I would, took a picture and now I will show you what I mean when I say I have a small space to craft in, but I love it as it's all mine and somewhere for me to go to de-stress.





Good job I don't have much ain't it Lol! But I always seem to find space with a bit of re-organizing like today and I do have another trolley that you can't see in this picture.





Now onto some news I got into the top three at Sophisti-cats, thank you ladies for choosing me.



Also my DT buddie Sally is holding a competition, and sally will give a prize to who guesses the destination her family are heading to. Pop over and have a go!

I've also received an award from my DT Buddie Susie but I will post that later this evening.

Happy crafting

Tracy x

With Love!

This card is for:-

1. Allsorts - week 25 - weddings

2. Saturday Spotlight With Hidden Potential - So many words

3. Papertake Weekly - sketch # 27

This card was different to do as I've not used a cutie image, but I did enjoy it. I have had this sentiment a while which I got from Papermake up stamps and I used a flourish stamp to do around the edges of the sentiment. The papers are Dovecraft's wedding and everything else was from my stash.

Allsorts's theme is weddings, so I've done an Anniversary card.

Saturday Spotlight want "So many words" instead of an image.

Papertake Weekly gave another great sketch and fit this verse so well.

My Special Card

This card is for:-
1. Susie's Sassy Challenge - challenge 1 - Christmas
2. Creative Craft Challenge - challenge 2 - Christmas Fun
3. Lili Of The Valley - Challenge 40 - Recipe

Today is Launch day over at Susie's Sassy Challenge, and I am lucky enough to be on the Design Team. With a great prize up for grabs, around £60 worth of goods. It will be a fortnightly challenge, with some great things up for grabs including GDT spots. And it couldn't be easier as all you have to do is follow the theme of Christmas.



This card is special to me as it's my first card as a Design Team member, and for a brand new challenge blog, and it's for my Daughter for her Christmas card. She loves roses and I know they are not really a Christmas flower but she just loves them. So the large gold rose is hand made which I made myself. The image is called "looking for santa".

Creative Craft Challenge is Christmas fun, so my entry is waiting for Santa, I remember doing that when I was a kid.
Lili Of The Valley is a Recipe, which is 3 papers which I have, 2 stamps which i've used my image and a sentiment, the 1 type of embellishment, and I've used handmade roses.


Recipe:-

Stamps - Waiting for Santa found here, Sentiment done on computer,

Papers - Papermania A wonderful Christmas time,

Colouring mediums - H20's, Distress inks,

Embellishments - Ribbon, small roses from stash, leaves from stash, Gold rose hand made, bow from stash, glamour dust, stickles,

A Reminder

You still have time to enter this great candy, it closes at 10pm tonight. And to remind you all that the launch is tomorrow for Susie's Sassy Challenge and the prize for the first week is amazing. Yeh about £50 worth of goodies. Pop over tomorrow and take a look. I myself will be there as a Design Team member and all the other ladies are really talented. It's all about fun and creating, so join in the challenges with us and grab some amazing prizes along the way.
Happy crafting
Tracy x

Cupcake Sparkle

This card is for:-

1. Digital Doodling - To use Cupcake Tilly

2. Incy Wincy Designs - challenge 16 - sketch

3. Die Cut Dreams - challenge # 21 - Food and Drink

4. Creative Card Crew - challenge 35 - Ribbons and Gems

I loved using this image, She's so cute and it's a break from Christmas cards. It also gave me a chance to do something girly and use my favourites glitter and gems.

Digital Doodling has this great freebie Cupcake Tilly and she's so gorgeous, pop over and look at her stunning Tilly in a bauble, I love that one. They are also looking for a DT member too.

Incy Wincy Designs gave this fabby sketch which is brilliant to use, but I kept my design simple as the sparkle and gems gave it real sparkle.

Die Cut Dreams has the theme of food and drink, pop over and join in there's 2 weeks GDT spot up for the prize, which I have just done over there and the ladies are so warm and welcoming.

Creative Card Crew require Ribbons and Gems on there's, well there's plenty of gems on the cupcake and corners of the side strip, and there's a ribbon and a ribbon bow.

Happy crafting

Tracy x

Lots of sparkle!

This card is for :-

1. Simon Says Stamp - All that sparkles

2. Colour Create - challenge 30 - All White

3. Penny Black Saturday - challenge 73 - White on white

4. Sophisti-cats - challenge # 9 - Buttons and ribbons

5. Cupcake Crafts - challenge 64 - sketch

6. Crafty Cardmakers - challenge # 7 - Stamp Something

7. By The Cute And Girly - challenge # 2 - Winter Wonderland

8. Creative Inspirations - challenge 20 - Doodle-ing

OMG was this card a brain stormer, Firstly I don't have any cuttlebug or embossing folders so I thought how on earth do I put any pattern into this card. You may be able to see in the pictures that my backing papers have glittered swirls, I did them using a glue pen and glamour dust.

Simon Says Stamp want to see some sparkle, well I think there may be half a bottle of glamour dust on this card, all the snow is glittered. Round the edge of the image i dipped into glue then glamour dusted, the snowflakes were glittered, and also the swirls on the backing paper.

Colour Create wants "All white" leaving only the image to be coloured, it's definately white.

Penny Black Saturday is "White on White" and there is white on top of white.

Sophsti-cats have given us buttons and ribbons, i've used ribbon on the button which is on the small snowflake at the bottom. And also three ribbon strips down the card.

Cupcake Crafts have a sketch and it helped me to put this card together when I was struggling with it.

Crafty Cardmakers is stamp something and to do a stamping technique, so my image is stamped and then my sentiment is heat embossed with black sparkle embossing powder.

By The Cute And Girly has done Winter Wonderland this time and I think the card speaks for itself.

Creative Inspirations asked for doodle-ing, well my doodling is done with a difference as I doodled swirls on my backing paper with a glue pen and the glittered them. Hope that counts.

Sorry the photo's aren't too clear we have had a really dull and wet day today, and for anybody who follows me I managed to make a smaller rose to my usual ones. But in the end although I struggled I like the finished look.

Happy crafting

Tracy x

Great candy!!!

C'MON GIRLS! You know you want it, Lovely candy to celebrate the new challenge that starts on Thursday 5th November. If you go to Susie's blog, enter the candy it closes Wednesday 4th November at 10pm.
I do hope you will join in the new challenge blog Susie's Sassy Challenge , A few of you have asked me to remind you nearer the time so I will keep putting a reminder on here!

Happy crafting
Tracy x