Oriental ATC's

Quite pleased with these ATC's i have done for the swap over at Crafts by Carolyn.

Scrapchat feb card challenge

Over at Susan's blog there is a challenge from Scrapchat , here is my attempt.

A couple more .......

Pink petticoat hippo

Ive just got an email from pink petticoat with the latest £2.99 download, i had to have it its gorgeous, my cards i have done with it.

DCM template

Here's my attempt at the template from the DCM website.

Love this template

Thought id add another

I bought a template card last week and ive made a few cards with it ,its a download and the proceeds goes to charity i got it from here http://www.freewebs.com/template-envies/index.htm. Ive done quite a few birthday cards with it.

Oriental splender

I have just received the most gorgeous card ever, its for my birthday from a dear lady off another great forum Wild rhodes. Here it is

Love these cards

Ive been having a bit of a play with a lovely kit i got from Creativetreasures just before christmas, up untill now i did not know what to do with them. I think i will keep them for myself.

My lovely mate Jackie has tagged me aaarrrggghhh, its ok though not a big tag so here goes


1. You must post the rules before you give your answers.2. You must list one fact about yourself for each letter of your middle name. Each fact must begin with that letter. If you don't have a middle name, just use your maiden name.3. After you've been tagged, you need to up-date your blog with your middle name and answers.4. At the end of your post, you need to tag one person for each letter of your middle name. (Be sure to leave them a comment telling them they've been tagged and need to read your blog for details).

1) Carol is my middle name which was picked by my mum.
2) arts and crafts shows i love going to as you can buy some lovely items
3) r im still thinking on this one
4) overweight i am desperatly trying to lose some weight for the summer hols :)
5) love chocolate and using my credit cards for all those great crafting goodies out there

There thats it i quite enjoyed this one, now ive to find five more ladies to tag and they are Susan, Deb, Angela, Dawn and Nicola, sorry ladies have fun

Christening cards

Ive been having a play around with some lovely stamps i received a while ago, i did not quite know what to create with them until i got asked to make a Christening card off a lady who bought off me in 2006 on Ebay. I was really pleased so these two are what ive done. Ive added some buttons to the left side and gold feet on the ribbon of the top one after i photographed them.

Made my day

Thank you very much Susan for making my day, it is such a lovely award and i would like to award it back tou you for being such a great friend.

Valentine,s day card

Ive been having a play with my cuttlebug embossing folders and like what i came up with, i used some ribbon from Crafts by carolyn and the flowers are from Creative treasures

DCM hide & seek

Thought id get my crafty stash out and have a go at the challenge over at the daring cardmakers, have not done any cards for a while. The challenge is to make a card and have a secret tucked away , i came up with this one. The card comes out from behind the beautiful vase with flowers, i used some of my December S A kit paper.

Happy Birthday to me

Well its my birthday today and i have received a lot of cards and presents will show you all later

Ive been tagged buy Susan

Ive been tagged again this time bye Susan
http://cardmakingsaga.blogspot.com/


The rules of the game:• Link to the person that tagged you and post the rules on your blog.• Share 7 random and/or weird facts about yourself on your blog, we all want to know them.• Tag 7 random people at the end of your post and include links to their blogs.• Let each person know that they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog".

1) I love frogs and would love a pond full in my garden
2)I cannot stand pineapple it make me ill
3)I would love to go in an hot air balloon
4)I like the number 7 has its the date of my birthday this monday
5)I love crafting and using my credit card to buy crafty goodies
6)My first love is my family then my crafting
7)One day i would love to drive but i dont think i have the guts at the moment

There thats it that was hard so im not going to tag anyone has i think everyone will have done this by now, but feel free to have a go if you like.

For another friend

For my best friend and her mum

Using my cricut i have come up with making these two lovely cards, they are better in the flesh. They are A4 size and cut in half , i had to wrap them in christmas wrap has i dont have envelopes that big.I hope they will like them, i have also done my mum and dad one but with a tree on.

DCM Tweet tweet

Quite liked doing this one, id forgotten i had this cd with all the papers and teabag folding too.

DCM guess the song?, yes it is Frosty the snowman

Well i did not like the first one so did another.

DCM golden highlights

The challenge this week on the daring cardmakers is to make a card using the colour gold, here's my card.

DCM corrugated

Well here's my challenge for the DCM challenge this week is to use something corrugated her's my attempt.

Lovely stamps

Ive just took delivery of some lovely goodies this morning, cannot wait to have a play.Id forgot id ordered them only on Wednesday and they are here from Docrafts.

Stamped three times

Card using a die cut.

A die cut reindeer

Big challenge on crafts by carolyn's

Sew on sew

Altered pegs
Mini book

There are quite a few challenges going on over at www.craftsbycarolyn.co.uk, gallery was playing up for me so i thought i would put a few to show here.

DCM cut

The dare for this week was to create a card with a bit of handcutting on it here's mine.

Crafts by Carolyn challenges

Here's my two attemps at the challenges on Crafts by Carolyn, i am well pleased with the results

Charity cards

I have made some more cards for charity.

Ribbons galore DCM dare

The dare today over at DCM was to make a card using ribbon here's mine.

cbc challenges

My knight in shining armour

Gregory at the castle

A day at Conisbrough castle

Entrance to the castle The tower

View from the top of the tower
Rubbish pit

DCM CIRCLE OF FRIENDS.

Thought id sneak another one in

Have not done one of these for the dcm challenges , so has its a year older i thought id rise to the challenge. So here's mine, Happy birthday DCM.