A Spoonful of Sugar Challenge 85 Hearts

The latest challenge on a Spoonful of Sugar is for Hearts so I just had to use this really cute stamp to make a card.

This card shows you that love is not for the exclusive use of the young and I think that it is so sweet.

I used the Flaunt It sheet from I Brake for Stamps that was feartued in 'Quick Cards Magazine' last year,

So, if you already have this then get on with the cards. Valentine's Day is on the horizon.

Favourite colour combo

This challenge from Everybody Art challenge 72 is no hardship as I'm only too delighted to make a card in my favourite colours. Who isn't? So off we go with....

A pink card!!!

To make this card I used my stash papers but the cute little stamp is one of my favourites too. It's a silhouette stamp but as you can see, I've used colours on it to give it definition. Pinks natch.

This is the stamp in the raw and it can be bought by clicking on the image.

What do you think?

I just want your opinion of this little fairy. Any comments appreciated.

Blog Hopping

I've been ahving a great time blog hopping lately and I've been amazed at the fantastic work on some of the blogs that are hardly ever visited. I've always left a message to show how much I love what's been done.

Come on sisters.... I advise a good hour of blog hopping and leave comments other wise they don't know that you've visited.

Colour Challenge

Roses on Paper & Belles 'n Whistles combined Challenge Blog! have a colour challenge for Cranberry, Hunter Green and/or Gold! so I just had to make this little book and use those three colours. I've just spotted a challenge for embossing on Inky impressions so I just had to enter that too. What a surprise.

The stamp is from the new stamps from 'I Brake for Stamps' that can be found in out new in section on the Craft Fairy site.

The image was embossed in old gold embossing powder that I had in my stash and it was then coloured in using the, Zig, Kuretake Art and Graphic pens.

I love this stamp as I think that it looks really rich and baroque. Just perfect for Christmas. Next, I plan to make it look very late spring, early summer which is when the poppies bloom.

In the Glossies

I'm so excited as the flowers and a stamp from Craft Fairy have been featured in the 'What's New...' page of the January edition of Cardmaking and Papercraft.

Our flowers

and 'No pain no gain' stamp

have both been featured by the lovely Alice who came to visit Craft Fairy on the stand at the NEC.

If you want them then you had better get over to the Craft Fairy site as they are going fast.

Taffy Crafty Creations

All of you that love the humerous senior stamps, musy pop over to Taffy Crafty Creations to see what she's done with the Bubblebath Belinda stamp. It'll have you in stitches.

This is the stamp that you'll see used so really really well. To buy the stamp, click on the image.

Anything Goes

'Anything Goes', That's the challenge on Creative Card Crew this week and it's really opportune as I've grandaughter number 2. She is small and cuddly and just love small animals and soft toys. So this is for her and it fits the theme too.

The card is made using:

Mouse with sign stamp

Pink Florella ribbon

Basic Grey paper that I had in my stash

the border is punched with a Fiskars border punch and the

circle is cut with a nestabilities die.

Happy crafting.

Little Presents

This is the time of year that every sort of givt needs to be packed with love and care. This is especially true since Kirstie Allsop showed us her idea of a homemade Christmas. Now we all have to make something cute to hand on our gifts.

So wonderfully, the challenge this week on the Stamp with Fun site is for little presents so instead of making a card I decided to make a bag similar to the blue one that I made before.

This cute little bag is embellished with a scalloped edged piece of card front and back and layered up with brown paper that I had in my stash. The little perfume bottle is from Savvy Stamps and is on special offer at the moment on the Craft Fairy site.
The brown dotty ribbon is here, and the pink dotty ribbon is here.

Poinsettia Card for Christmas

When else you might ask, but all will be revealed later on in the year when I show you how to use a poinsettia stamp that is not for Christmas. Today, however, I've decided to use this lovely stamp in the Red and Green challenge

I know that I've made red and green cards already but this one is really traditional so here are some details as well as the card.

All items linked below are available from Craft Fairy.

Poinsettia stamp from Stampinback

Red grosgrain ribbon with white dots

Pens for colouring: Art and Graphic pens from Kuretake; colours 1, 32, 57

Happy crafting.