New beginnings (OLL #96)

Happy New Year everyone!It's been a while since I last blogged, and even today I am quite late with my OLL post. Sorry! It is difficult to catch up after the 3 week-break!
My card for this fortnights challenge over at Ooh La la is a New Year's card which features images and papers from the new Shoes in Bloom CD.

Onto some challenges:

Craft your days away - New Beginnings

Dream Valley - Anything goes

I will try and post some of the stuff I worked on during the holidays during the week but can't promise anything!

Have a wonderful week!

OLL #95 - Not a card

It is Monday and we have a new challenge over at Ooh La la. This time we want you to think outside the box and come up with any projects but cards.

I don't know you, but I have been fairly busy trying to prepare the Xmas holidays - presents, cards, etc. but when it was time to produce a project for this challenge I had it sooo easy! The new Festive Funnies CD contains wonderful projects such as gift boxes, advent calendars, Xmas crackers, bookmarks, and many more.
So my take on this challenge 95 is a Xmas cracker and a little gift box; hope you like the little set.

Challenges:

Totally Gorjuss - Let it Snow

Dream Valley - Xmas

Dude Time Doodles - Xmas spirit

Inky Impressions - Use ribbon

Papertake Weekly - Anything goes

Penny's Paper Crafty - Merry Xmas

Wags'nWhiskers - Fancy Folds

Crafts and Me - Winter and snowflakes

Cute Card Thursday - Anything goes

Have a wonderful week!

OLL #94 - Sparkle

Time for another great challenge at Ooh La la - this fortnight show us Lots of Sparkle!
For my card I used one of the beautiful papers from the Carnival of Colours CD - White Magnolia. The flower is handmade with various papers and all the sparkle comes in the shape a big pearl in the centre of the flower and many little Liquid Pearls, around the sentiment and around the card.

I hope you like my Sparkly card. Why don't you show us yours? You have until Sunday 11th December to enter the challenge! And with Xmas coming, surely you must have some sparkle in your crafting! ;-)

Let's see about challenges out there:

Digital Tuesday - Sparkle and shine
Totally Gorjuss - Sparkle
Birthday Sundays - Birthday card

Creative Craft Challenges - Free

Fresh Brew Designs - Anything goes

Paper Crafting Journey - Anything goes

Have a nice week!

Bingo!! OLL#93

This fortnight at Ooh La la we have a great challenge for you! Play Bingo with us!! Whether it is a line or a full house :-) Here is the bingo grid:

I went for a full house (is this how you call it when you have all the lines/elements??!) and included all the items in my card. Hope you like it and it is of some inspiration to you ;-)

Some suitable challenges:
Anything goes - Stitching
Inky Impressions - Glitter
Truly Scrumptious - Bingo (lace, gems, glitter, die cut, ribbon, button, flowers)
Crafts  your days away - Embellishments bingo (lace, pearls, pin)
Dutch Dare- Punches/dies
Dream Valley - Stitching

Don't forget to check the creations of the rest of the OLL DT for more inspiration!
Have a nice week!

OLL #92 Stitching

Get your sewing machine or your needle or your fine liner out, ladies, 'cos it is time to show your stitching skills over at Ooh La la.
The challenge will run until Sunday 13th November so you have plenty of time to practise (if like me, you need to, of course!)
I have never been happy using my sewing machine with paper (that probably shows, if anything, that my skill with the machine is not great :-)) so I tend to go for faux stitching. And this is precisely what I did with this Christmas card: all papers are from OLL; the die cut is Shapeabilities Nested Bird; gems from my own stash; alphas are Sizzix die cuts and so is the branch.

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Some challenges:

One stitch at a time - Christmas

Raise the bar - Sew what?

Bah Humbug - Die cuts

Jingle Belles - Creatures

Dream Valley challenges - Anything goes

OLL Challenge #91 - Let it Snow

This fortnight at Ooh La la Creations we want to see cards and projects inspired by "Let it Snow"

My project is a little Christmas gift bag, and I used one of the templates that comes with the great Festive Funnies CD, which was released recently by Ooh La la. Isn't the bag great? And so easy to make! The tags and sentiments are also from the same CD.

If you want to see more of this fantastic CD and others, make sure you watch this program:

Create and Craft

 17 October at 5pm:

Featuring: Festive Funnies,

Boys to Men,

Christmas Presence

Sky 671 Freeview 36 Freesat 813

The snowflake on the back of the bag is made of white foam, handcut; organza ribbon and small snowflake punch from my own stash.
Come on, show us your Let it Snow project!! You have until Sunday 30th October to enter the challenge!

Other challenges:

ABC Christmas - U is for Unused stash (foam)

My Mum's Craft Shop - Inspired by a song (Let it Snow)
Crafty Ann's - Inspired by a song

Aud Sentiments - Winter Theme
Floweret Stamplar - Christmas

Polka Doodles - Bows and ribbons

One stitch at a Time - Shape up

Stampinsanity - Anything but a card

Stamptacular Sunday - You choose
Fab's Big Christmas cards - Anything with shine/snowflake

OLL # 90 - Sympathy card

A new challenge starts today at Ooh La La until 16th October - make a Sympathy card.
This is a type of card that sometimes can be difficult to make due to the grieving feelings involved; so when looking for an appropriate image and colours I was happy with my findings: My card features papers and topper from the Algonquin Autumn folder from the recently released Carnival of Colours CD; I very much like the rich colours and the beautiful tranquil image; I hope you like it too.

Some other challenges:

Stamptacular Sunday - Photo Inspiration

Crafty Creations - CAS

Inky Impressions - Punch/dies

Stampin Royalty - Keep it Simple

Easy Craft - Autumn

Phindy's Place - Autumn

Totally Papercrafts - Autumn

ABC Challenge - Anything goes

Have a nice week!



Punches and dies - OLL #89

Good Monday!
This fortnight's challenge at Ooh La la is about Punches and Dies.
My card features the beautiful butterfly paper from the Carnival of Colour CD and several of my punches and dies; the sentiment is from TLC Creations; gems from my own stash.

Have a look at the OLL challenge blog for some fantastic creations!
I have a busy week ahead so I will leave you for now but hopefully post some more cards later on the week.
Have a good one x

Anniversary card OLL#88

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There's a new exciting challenge starting today at Ooh la la:

Anniversary cards

I used the Star Gazer image and papers for my trifold card. Ribbon and gems from my own stash; Xcut Punch.
Make sure you check the rest of the DT beautiful creations for more inspiration. And remember that you have 2 weeks (until Sunday 18th September) to enter your own Anniversary card.

Other challenges:

My Time to craft - In full bloom

The sisterhood of crafters - Flower Power

Little Red Wagon - Border punch

My Mum's Craft shop - Easy as 1, 2, 3 (1 ribbon, 2 patterned papers, 3 gems)

Charisma Cardz - Anything goes

Creative Card Crew - Anything goes

OLL #87: No Backing Paper

Good evening!
From today and until Sunday 5th Sept at Ooh La la we want to see projects with No backing paper.
This was a real challenge for me, 'cos I use backing paper on probably 99% of my cards, but hey, that's what challenges are about, right? And here's what I came up for the challenge:

I used one of the new OLL Carnival of Colours images, the White Poinsettia, die cut with Nellies and double layered, then over white cardstock; embossed sentiment and my new Marianne die cut.
Hope you like it.

Some challenges out there:
Challenge up your Life - No patterned paper

Night Shift Stamping - Flowers and leaves

Mark's Finest Papers - Emboss it

SSDS - Sympathy/get well

Craft us Crazy - Anything goes
Papercrafting Journey - Anything goes

Have a nice week!

Christmas - OLL#86

Good Monday! And how are you all?

It's been a while since the last time I properly blogged. But my holidays are over now and here I am... And since it is Monday let me tell you about another great challenge at Ooh La la...

OLL Challenge #86 is about Christmas!

I have to admit that when they told me the theme for this challenge I was a bit scared!! It takes me ages to come up with ideas for Christmas cards every November/December, so imagine having to do it now in summer!!! But hey, then I remembered this little project I had been meaning to try - a star album. It can be a little photo album, a Xmas decoration, whatever you wanted it to be... Cool or what?!

I honestly cannot remember which site I got the instructions from, but if you like it, just google "Star Album" and I am sure you will find plenty of tutorials. It might look difficult but it is not, just a wee fiddly, that's all!!! And perfect for Christmas! :-)

All images in my album are from the Joyeux Noel CD. Organza ribbon from my own stash. Pistachio, brown and beige cardstock from Coredinations, all embossed with different Cuttlebug folders and distressed to play with different tones and textures.

Let's see what other challenges are out there:

Jingle Belles - Shape up for the Holidays

ABC Christmas challenge - P is for Xmas present

Paperplay - Xmas in August

Fussy and Fancy Friday - Xmas in July/August

Cute Card Thursday - No designer paper

Craft Us crazy - Anything goes

Ai Factory - Anything goes

Crafts and me - Anything goes

Papertake weekly - Anything goes

Have a great week!

Circles OLL #85

Circles, circles and more circles!!!

This is what the OLL Challenge is about this fortnight!

I decided to make a circle calendar to hang in my office. The papers are all from different OLL CDs. I hope you like my project!! Don't forget to visit the OLL challenge blog for more inspirational projects!

Tag it! OLL #84

This fortnight OLL has a cool challenge: Tag it!

Make a tag or include a tag on your card.

My card is for a little boy, Jack, who turned 3 last week. The papers are from OLL CDs, while the cute image, coloured with Letraset Promarkers, is from Whimsy Stamps (recently won at a challenge).

Check the OLL website, the DT members have great cards that will inspire you!

(This post has been scheduled since I am on holidays at the time of this challenge; I hope it works out! Wishing you all a happy summer!)

Summer flowers OLL#83

Good morning! This fortnight at Ooh La la we are looking for creations with summer flowers.
For my shaped card, I used Sunflower image and papers from the Fleur d'Imagination CD. I hope you like the pyramage effect!

My card enters the following challenges:

Anything goes - Here comes the summer

4x4 Fridays - Summer

Wags'n'Whiskers - Summertime

CES challenge - Anything but square
Southern Girls - Anything goes
PaperCrafting Journey - Anything goes

Father's Day #82

Good morning! Another Monday and another challenge at Ooh La la; this fortnight we celebrate Father's Day (19th June) /Special Man so make sure you visit the blog and enter your card here. 

My card features the new Boys to Men CD; I just love these funny images!

Onto some challenges:

Creative Inspirations - Father's Day card

Crafts us Crazy - Father's Day

SentimentalSundays - Father's Day

Fab'n'Funky - Magnificent Men

The Stamping Boutique - Men Only

Mami Doodles - Card for a Man/boy

Secret Crafter- Male card 

The Paper Variety - For the guys

CCEE - Sports Theme

Have a lovely week!

Happy Birthday - OLL challenge #81

Over at Ooh la la the challenge for this fortnight is an easy one:

Make a Birthday card!

My card for this challenge (#81) uses a beautiful image and papers called Pink Ballerina from the Femme Fatale CD which you can find and purchase online from this site.
I hope you like it!

Onto some challenges:

Stampavie and More - Pink

Ai Factory - Pretty in pink

Totally Papercrafts - Pink and girlie

Scrappy Frogs - Happy birthday

Paper Romance - Distressing

Creative card crew - Anything goes

Truly scrumptious - Anything goes

My time to craft - -Die cut

NSS - Clean and simple with flowers

OLL DT CALL:

If you are interested in becoming a member of the Ooh La la DT, please have a look here. You have until June 12th to apply!

Never ending card - OLL challenge #80

Good Monday morning to you all
Another challenge has just started over at Ooh La la; this fortnight the theme is

Fancy Fold

My contribution to the challenge is this never ending card decorated with papers from 2 of the beautiful OLL CDs: All Dressed up and Passion for Fashion. The card has so many folds and sides that gives plenty of room to use many beautiful papers and toppers!

Onto some challenges:

Scrappy Frogs - Anything goes

One stitch at a time - Anything goes

Paper Sundaes - Birthday creations

Crafter's Companion - Girl's birthday

Flip Flop card - Ooh La la #79

Good morning to you - and a beautiful sunny one it is over here! :-)
Since it is Monday, we have a new challenge over at Ooh La la:

Tres Chic!

The girls in the DT have prepared gorgeous cards and projects for you to be inspired, have a look!

My card is called a flip flop or swing card because.. well, for obvious reasons! LOL! Hope you like it. All papers are from the All Dressed Up CD which you can get from the Ooh La la online shop here.

Onto some challenges:

DYSU - make it pop

Mami Doodles - Girly

Wags'n'whiskers - Die or punch

Pollycraft - Anythign goes

Crafts 4 eternity - Anything goes

Scrappy Frogs - Anything goes

Paper Cutz - Anything goes

Aifactory - Anything goes

Pear tree Designs - Free for all

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Back

I am working on a couple of birthday cards at the mo and hoping to post them later. In the meantime - have a nice Monday!!

Aqua, Bling and Sentiment (OLL #78)

Good morning to you all
Another great challenge is starting today until May 1st over at Ooh La la:

Aqua, Bling and Sentiment.

When we were given the theme a few months ago I immediately thought of making a calendar page; for the last 7 or 8 years, every year, at Christmas, I make a calendar for my mum full of photos of the year just ending - photos we have taken on trips, nice photos, and more recently photos of the kids - a scrapbooking sort of calendar, if you like. And every year I plan to make one calendar/family planner for our kitchen too, altered, decorated, etc. but it all ends up with good intentions and I hardly ever decorate our own calendar; ours hangs on the wall, bare of decorations, but full of notes and Must dos. So with this particular challenge I took the opportunity to decorate at least one page of our calendar and I can now proudly say that the April page on our calendar looks good! :-) I got the inspiration from Lisa Jane, here.

The beautiful aqua papers are from different Ooh La la CDs: Passion for Fashion, Silhouette, Fleur d'Imagination and Watercolour Memories. April is typically a fairly rainy month in the norhtern hemisphere, so I thought the aqua colour was ideal for my calendar page. The sentiment is a musical song - April Showers, which you can listen here.

Here's my calendar page. Thanks for your comments.

Some challenges:

Sarah Hurley - April Showers
Stamp Something - April Showers
Cute Card Thursday - Weather inspired
My Time to Craft - on the Spot
Top Tip Tuesday - Spring has Sprung
Fab'n'Funky - Spotty and Dotty
Daring Cardmakers - Spring

 

Easter: challenge #77 at Ooh La la

I love the vibrant colours in these papers! They are from the All Dressed Up and Floral Extravaganza CDs from Ooh La la Creations; both image and sentiment are free digis (by Hobby Paleis), coloured with Letraset Promarkers.
Why don't you join us this fortnight with your Easter creation - a card, an altered item, a gift box..? The challenge (#77) is open til Sunday 17th April and there are great images and papers to be won!

Other challenges:

Bee Crafty - Easter

Spoonful of sugar - Easter

Sweet Stamps - Easter

Paper Cutz - Easter

Craft Us Crazy - Happy Easter

Stamp Something - Digital image

Make it Colourful - Bright colouring

Mami Doodles - Punch or die cut

Catch the Bug - Anything goes

Edited to say that the Easter lamb image belongs to Little Miss Muffet - my apologies for the confusion.