Travel The World

It's that time of the month, another challenge for Sir Stampalot, and the theme this month is "Travel The World". You must pop over and see the rest of the gorgeous creations the team have made. And as the prizes at Sir Stampalot are always brilliant this is what you could win:-


I have used TGF Geisha which can be found at Sir Stampalot here. The papers were a candy win from a while back, the fan is handmade adding a button as an embellishment at the base of the fan. For the rest of the details see my recipe at the bottom.

I got this plain box to work with from Thomas from DotComGiftShop. He asked me if i'd be interested in reviewing some of their Christmas craft products on their excellent blog? It's not just craft items, they supply the most gorgeous gifts, polka dot cake stands, novelty kitchen ware, you must go and have a look, and of course these wonderful boxes to decorate


This is also for the following challenges:-
1. Creative Card Crew - Not another card - gift box or bag
2. Creative Inspirations - challenge 48 - Christmas Gifts
3. Creative Craft Challenges - Tag It


Recipe:-
Stamps - TGF Geisha,
Papers - Oriental from a candy so no name sorry,
Colouring Mediums - Promarkers, Distress Inks,
Tools - Nestie, border die, cuttlebug,
Embellishments - lace, strung pearls, blossoms, a button, stickles,


Thank you for popping by my blog
Happy crafting
Tracy x

Back to the 80's

The challenge theme this week is a colour combo, over at Die Cut Dreams. The colours are wait for it, are you ready.......................................Orange and Hot Pink.
Well it has made me think, a real challenge, not two colours I would put together at all. All i could think of with these colours was the 80's, vibrant fingerless gloves and leg warmers. My daughter wears them now in blacks, reds etc, a bit more of gothic colours I think. But she thinks they have invented them and doesn't believe I have already been there Lol!

So thank you Pops, my birthday present came in handy. I have used 80's Anya from TGF.


This is for the following challenges:-

1. ABC Challenges - F is for Flowers


Recipe:-

Stamps - TGF 80's Anya, Sentiment ticket Bizzy becs, Polkadoodles Poinsettia stamp

Papers - Dovecraft Wild Blossom,

Colouring Mediums - H20's, Distress Inks,

Tools - Nesties, cuttlebug, flower punches,

Embellishments - gems, stickles, ribbon,


Have a great week and thank you for popping by

Happy crafting

Tracy x

Fairy Special

Today's card is done in a colour combo I love using, pink and green. I have used a TGF fairy and used lashings of gorgeous star dust stickles. She's been coloured with H20's and distress inks, and the papers are Papermani's Rose Garden and Bluberry Hill. For the buttons which are from my stash I used my embroidery thread from my cross stitch days.

This is for the following challenges:-

1. Stamptacular Sunday - challenge # 56 - Sew special

2. Anyone For Anya? - sketch # 9 - sketch

3. Paperplay challenges - week 17 - Pretty Pastels

4. Simon Says Stamp - Buttons, bows and bling

5. Crafts and Me - challenge # 3 - Sparkle

Please do stop by the Sir Stampalot Challenge as there is the most fabulous Tim Holtz prize you could imagine, go on have a look and I bet you'll be drooling!

Thank you for your lovely comments in the past and for stopping by to see my creations.

Hope you all have a lovely Bank Holiday weekend.

Happy crafting

Tracy x

DT Card For Susie's Sassy Challenege

The challenge theme this week over at Susie's sassy Challenge is Red, White and Blue, Chosen by the lovely Denise, and this is my DT creation for it. The prize this week is...........GDT spot! There's some great DT cards, so pop on over and take a peep!

I have used a a lovely image called Princess Maggie, and she's one of the Critter Crew over at greeting Farm, only she's not in the shop as of yet, I won her in the weekly digi draw.

I love images with lots of detail, and this image also reminds me of Motivet.


This card is also for:-

A Spoonful Of Sugar - challenge 88 - Freestyle

Incy Wincy Designs - challenge 27 - Ribbon and bows

Creative card Crew - challenge 43 - Punch it



A Spoonful of sugar is letting everyone do what they want by giving the theme of "Freestyle".

Incy Wincy design 's theme is Buttons, Bows, Ribbon and Lace. But it doesn't say if you have to use all 4 items, but I noticed some of the design team only have some, so i'll enter this card and hope it's excepted.

Creative Card crew want you to "Punch It", so this card fits as it has a butterfly and a dragonfly punched on it.


Happy crafting
Tracy x

DT Card For Anyone For Anya?

This is my last week on the Anyone For Anya? challenge, and this week the theme is a colour combo of Black, White + 1 other colour. My other colour is Red, as this is my favourite colour. I have enjoyed my time with the Anyone for Anya? challenge. I used the Geisha Anya, I embossed some punched flowers them made some corners and embossed them too. And added gems and a ribbon.

I would also like to enter this for the Papertake Weekly as I have used this weeks sketch.

Happy crafting

Tracy x

GDT For Anyone For Anya?

I was kindly invited to do a Guest Design Spot for Anyone For Anya? for two weeks. And this weeks challenge is to use charm, and the prize is 2 digital images of your choice from Karen's Doodles.

Do pop over and take a look at the rest of the teams creations, and even join in the challenge too.
Here is my card:-




This card is also for these challenges too:-
1. ABC Challenge - L is for Layering
2. Papertake Weekly - New Beginnings
3. Cute Card Thursday - challenge 94 - New

I have put plenty of layering on this card for the ABC Challenge this week. Papertake Weekly and Cute Card Thursday has the theme of NEW it can either be a new home, new baby or using somethig new like a new product. My charm is new, I used my new Purple Cow Trimmer/Guillotine, and the small flower is new, a gift from my DT Buddy Jane, thanks Jane.



Recipe:-
Stamps - Laundry Anya, sentiment from stash,
Papers - Dove craft, K&Co (for christma from DT Buddy Jane),
Colouring Mediums - Distress Inks, H20's,
Tools - Butterfly punch,
Embellishments - charm, pegs, flowers, ribbon, all from my stash.

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

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

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

Skateboarding

This card is for:-
1. Anyone For Anya? - Patriotic Anya
2. Sketch And Stash - Challenge # 22 - Sketch

This card is for an order, I was asked for a skateboard theme for a Nephew. It also fits with a couple of challenges, Anyone For Anya? who's theme is Patriotic Anya. What they want is to use the colours of the flag which represents your own country. So mine is Red, White and Blue for Great Britain, the Union Jack. Then I've used the sketch on Sketch and Stash and you have to name your new or neglected stash. My new stash was some boys embellishments which I used the skateboard from.

Peace Maker!

This card is for:-
1. Anyone For Anya? - You're Anya
2. Truly Scrumptious - challenge # 17 - sketch
3. Crafty Creations - challenge # 36 - "All shades of pale"

Anyone for Anya? wanted us to use the Anya that was most like ourselves. After a long think I chose Peace Anya, as that is what I am at home most of the time "the peace maker". With three kids and a husband and five pets, things don't run very smoothly sometimes.
Truly Scrumptious gave a brilliant sketch and at the end of the three strips that they put on the sketch I decided to put a daisy on the end of each one. The daisies were punched out with love by my three year old, Bobby.
Crafty Creations theme is "All shades of pale" and I don't know why I picked these colours, pale blue and cream. I'm not even a blue person, but I do like the combo.

I have used some stickles on the flowers and around the sentiment. The papers are Blueberry Hill. I don't know why but the card seems to have a green tint on this photo, I've taken it about five times but I can't get it any better.