Moving House

Hello everyone!

Hope you all had a lovely weekend, it was pretty cold here so snuggled in front of the radiator in my crafty room just about the entire weekend :) They're even talking about organizing an Eleven-town natural ice skating marathon, an event that hasn't been organised since the early nineties (not enough natural ice)! So that's pretty exciting, even though I won't be skating it but might be watching it on the telly.

 Today I have another Moving House card to share, I hadn't posted it yet. I won't show you the inside, as the only thing there is our new address:

Just a simple card this time, but I really love the decoupage image and the lovely spring colours and flowers. Hope you guys like it too!

Materials: 
* Champagne base card
* Studio Light 3D image, sentiment and DPs
* Prima Daisy Doodles flowers
* Gems from stash

Challenges: 
* Lily Pad (Patterned Paper)
* Divas by Design (Anything Goes)
* Crafty Creations (Home Sweet Home)
* DYSU (Anything Goes)
* Craft Us Crazy (Anything Goes)
* Hotshot Craft (Anything Goes)
* Poodles Parlour (Anything Goes)
* The Stamp Man (Embellish It)
* Cupcake Craftroom (New Beginnings)
* Crafty Pad (Spring Colours)

Well, I'd better be off, busy day at work today, I am definately looking forward to making my deadline this Thursday and have a little breather :) See you all Wednesday for another Friendship's Garden challenge! We are doing a special blog hop too with lots of goodies to win, so stay tuned :)

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Card Making Mamas Challenge and Moving House

Good morning all!

Card Making Mamas' new challenge starts today and the theme this time is "USE SOMETHING OLD". Yes, dive into your old stash (it should be older than 6 months) and start creating! We are being sponsored by  Sassy Studios this time around, and the DT received wonderful digi images to work with, have a look on the challenge blog later today!

Now, I wish I had an example card to show you today, but to be honest I started twice this week and both attempts ended up in the bin. So I will (hopefully!) show you my card for the challenges next week....I will be using Mary Poppins, so stay tuned.....:)

In the mean time, I though I would share a card I made a while back, when we were moving house, but never got around to posting it:

Materials:
* Scalloped white base card
* Studio Light decoupage sheet
* Gems and blue DP from stash

Challenges:
* Marianne Design Divas (In with the New)
* Crafty Purple Frog (Anything Goes)
* Little Miss Muffet (Blues and Creams)
* Shelley's Images (Anything Goes)
* Diva's by Design (New Beginnings and/or Thanks)
* Whimsical Designs (Anything Goes)
* City Crafter (Pretty Inside and Out)
* Crafty Sentiments (Anything Goes)
* Creative Craft Challenge (Use the Colour Blue)
* Paperminutes (Anything Goes)

Hope I will be back with a new card soon, but my inspiration seems to have flown out of the window recently and I can't quite get it back :( But don't worry, I'll keep trying ;) Enjoy your weekend, weather permitting of course :)

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15 mins of crafting

Good morning everyone,

How have all you lovely followers and visitors been this week? I'd like to thank you all for your lovely comments over the past months and welcome my new followers at the same time :)

I haven't been crafting much this week, as we are in the process of moving house, but some of my earlier cards got picked for different challenges this week, all lovely surprises! I've won a number of digis that I will be using as soon as I have more time to craft in a leisurely fashion, instead of just managing my DT cards by the skin of my teeth while packing stuff in boxes :)

Talking about DTs, it's time for another challenge over at Friendship's Garden! If you've participated in our Autumn and Leaves Challenges, have a look at the blog to see our winner and top 3! This challenge is a little unusual, well, at least I have never come across it. We are challenging you to make a card in under 15 mins! Everybody needs a quick card or two, so a great challenge to ease yourself into making a card without stamps as the main feature :)

This is my card, I unfortunately forgot to set a timer, but it was definitely made under 15 minutes:

My trick to make this card so quickly? Two words: Card sheet. I've used a sheet that included image, DPs and embellishments, only a matter of cutting the elements out and combining them. Saves having to think about what goes well with what. Only added some blue gems and a couple of additional DPs and hey presto! Hope you can play along, we'd love to see your quick makes! Show us how quick you can be :)

Challenges:
* Catch the Bug (Anything Goes)
* Stampavie and More (Anything Goes)
* Southern Girls Challenge (Can You Hear the Music?: Our House by Madness)
* ColourQ (Colour Challenge)
* Heart Song Inspirations (Anything Goes)
* Ellephantastic Challenges (Weather-related)
* Dream Valley (Anything Goes)
* Crafty Catz Challenge (Anything Goes)
* Charisma Cardz Challenge (Cutesy)
* CES (Inspired by a Song or a Film: Our House by Madness)

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Fancy Folds

Good morning everyone! Goodness me, I haven't been posting for two entire weeks! I'm doing a grueling teaching schedule at work at the moment, so didn't have that much time to craft. I have however been keeping track of all the wonderful comments I received on some of my previous cards, thank you very much for taking the time to let me know what you think of my little creations! :)

Anyway, enough babbling, it's that time again: a new Card Makin' Mamas Challenge! This time we are challenging you to do some FANCY FOLDING. We'd love to see you participating! We are being sponsored by Crafty Sentiment Designs, they have some gorgeous images and we were lucky enough to be able to work with some of them for the DT examples.

I took the opportunity to get started on our moving house cards, we are moving in a couple of months and I thought it would be nice to make real cards to send our new address out instead of the boring standard ones:






















This type of card is called a spring card, my first one ever! It was great fun to do a slightly different card, although because I stuck the spring on the base card the finished card has a slightly unusual shape and it would be difficult to find a good envelope for it. Never mind, my parents will be at our place this weekend, I'm thinking of giving it to them :)

Materials
* Champagne coloured base card
* Crafty Sentiment design digi ('Bird House')
* Home-made computer generated sentiment
* First Edition Up Up and Away Glittery DPs
* Flora Doodles Primary Colours Flowers
* Silver peeloffs from my stash

Challenges
* 4 Crafty Chicks (Anything Goes)
* Anything Goes (Anything Goes)
* Bows and Berries (Glitter)
* City Crafter Challenge (Scraplift the card; I've used the bird theme)
* Crafty Boots (Things with Wings)
* Ladybug Crafts (Fancy Folds and/or Fall)
* Cute Card Tuesday (Animal Crackers)
* For Fun Challenge (Show us warmth; To me a bird house spells spring!)
* Fussy and Fancy (Try a new technique; Spring card)
* Incy Wincy (Fancy Folds)

I'm putting the finishing touches on a birthday card at the moment, I will probably be able to post that come Sunday, so see you then!

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