Seeing Red

 

First let me say thank you to everyone who entered  Ooh La La Challenge for  

the last fortnight, we had some beautiful and amazing creations all Vintage themed, I was so pleased

that it was not my turn to choose the top 3, but if you do want to see who Lisbeth chose do pop on over, and perhaps you may want to join in with us for the next one

 

 

The challenge this fortnight is Seeing Red and I have used papers and image from Christmas Presence, artwork from the very talented Peggy Abrams, if you would like to see what's on this CD you can see it here, we also have some gorgeous bling and buttons in the shop, not forgetting our new CD Faithful Friends

 

 

 

Boxer Easel Card

Another week has flown by and we had some fabulous entries for our Orange & Green challenge, a big thank you to everyone who played along.   This week the theme is Easel Cards, and I have used an image from our new CD to be aired on Create & Craft on the 27th April 11am with Hayley West.

The corner I used is metal and can be purchased in the  shop.   The Cd will be on the website this week for pre ordering

Happy Crafting

 

 

 

 

 

I would also like to enter this into the challenge over at

Brown Sugar Challenge / Step or Easel

Ooh La La Green & Orange



The challenge over at Ooh La La this fortnight is a colour challenge and we have chosen Orange & Green, the girls have come up with some spectacular creations.   Secondly let me wish you all a Happy Easter Monday a lovely excuse to eat chocolate, I had my fav egg bought a Cadbury's Mini Egg, I wonder what your fav is.   

Now on to my card, the image and paper are taken from Yesterday's Memories CD  the silver swirls are peel offs with added pearls and the white mat was a gift from a friend.

We have some lovely swirls, pearls and bling on the website

I would also like to enter this into:

Allsorts - Vintage

Rhedd & Rosie Challenge Blog  -  Vintage/Shabby Chic

Gone Fishing

 

Another fortnight has flown by and it's time again for another challenge over at  Ooh la La

Our theme for this fortnight is  It's a Man Thing, and this is a card I have made for my Brother's Birthday.   He is mad on fishing and even comes to France on fishing holidays, good job his wife loves fishing aswell.

The DT have some fabulous creations this week to help inspire you so do pop over and take a look

 

The paper and image are from the  Boys to Men CD  and the Birthday Wishes is a stamp
the silver looking spots are stickles.  We shall have new freebies on the website tomorrow and we have new embellishments in the shop with more goodies being added very soon.
Please join in if you can inspiration for mens cards always come in handy, they are a difficult lot at most times.

Perfect day so far

What a fabulous day I am having and they say it always comes in three's

It started early this morning, my daughter and I are arranging an Anglo/French Exposition/Market
here in France which we shall be holding every 2nd & 4th Saturday in the month starting in April
We have lots of interest from both French & English and it sounds an exciting venture
We have lots of different stalls ranging from Cards, Craft, Breads made in a traditional French bread oven, Preserves, Jewellery, Neals yard, Wood & Leather gifts, Scarf Sensations &Patchwork to name but a few. 

Then as I arrived home a beautiful vase of Tulips were delivered from my Son who lives in the UK for Mother's Day, which was the best surprise ever.

 

Saturday

 



 

 



 Wishing all Mums a wonderful day tomorrow

 

Monday

 



Four Legged Friends

Good morning and I hope it's a blue sky where you are today, I always find I feel so much brighter when the sun is shining and it certainly is here today

This weeks challenge is all about our 4 legged friends and I have chosen these adorable kittens for my card this week, it's for my son inlaws Mum who loves cats

The entries we had last week were all amazing and so many thank you all so much for taking the time to join in with us, I hope you like our challenge this fortnight too and I look foward to seeing your creations

Now on to mine, this is a simple card, I added the wording on in my graphics program and just mat and layered onto some beautiful shiny red card



If you like Vintage you will love this CD which was a sell out on C&C last month, there are all sorts to choose from, cute animals, birds, beautiful floral, vintage fashion, and some lovely Xmas images too, you can purchase your copy   here

Sparkle & Shine

Wow what a fabulous amount of entries we had last week for our challenge Love Story

I'm so pleased it was not me who had to choose there were far too many fabulous creations

This week our challenge is Sparkle & Shine so get those thinking caps on and come on over and show us what you have made, one lucky winner will be able to choose a CD of their choice

you have 2 weeks to enter, we are also looking for  Guest Designers so if you would like to join us

please add GD after your name on Mr Linky

The girls have come up with some fabulous designs of their own so if you need a bit of inspiration be sure to take a closer look

This is my take on the challenge

 

 



 

I used a pink sparkly sticky back backing paper to cover my A4 card

The artwork is from Dreams of Tranquility and called  Cathedral of Illusion, I hope you can see the

sparkle on the river and my light is the door in the background, this is a beautiful image and I thought it needed nothing else apart from the metal filigree corners

You can purchase both the CD and the corners in the shop here

Happy Crafting

Challenge # 123 Love Story

Boy the weeks fly by so fast I can't believe we are in February already, big thank you to all the entries we had for our last challenge and dont forget to check out who our lucky winners were .

The challenge this fortnight is Love Story and the girls have come up with the most beautiful creations ever,  we hope you will be inspired to join in  Ooh La La  and look forward to seeing what you create, my image and paper are from our new CD Yesterday's Memories which has a vintage feel

about it and you can see it   here  we also have a fabulous gallery where you can see all of the samples made for the C&C show that was on Sunday 27th Jan

This card was very simple to make

A4 card folded in half and covered with baking paper from CD

2 peel off corners added and the sparkly bits are the full stops from another sheet of peel offs

White card with one edge punched from the Martha Stewart punch  Scroll Lace

White Organza ribbon

Sentiment from CD

 Happy Crafting

And now for something completely different

The challenge this week over at Ooh la La is Wheely Good, well this was quite a challenge and I thought I would try something different this week.
Hubby has been making clocks again for the craft fair in May so I thought I would have a go too and this is what I came up with, it's a present for my nephew

I printed the image out onto card and added the numbers in my graphics program before printing
you can of course use stick on numbers, I then glued this onto an artist's canvas board, then I added the clock hands and back and Voila

Birthday # 121

First let me wish you all a Happy New Year and I hope you got all that you wished for at Christmas
The Challenge this week over at  Ooh La La Blog Challenge  is Birthday, the image I have used comes from our new CD Yesterday's Memories which you can see  here  and I have made this for my sister's Birthday next month.

 

 

 



Christmas Shopping

Yesterday I spent a wonderful day out Christmas shopping with two friends, we started out at 9.30am
and arrived home at 5.30pm.   The sky was blue, the sun was shining but it was only 1° and we had a very thick frost in the morning which made it look very Christmassy.
I did manage to find some lovely presents and this is one that I found for myself I have really caught the cooking bug



I have the cookie dough in the fridge, and the chocolate melting on the stove, I have decidede to make presents of them

Ooh La La Challenge # Reflections

So sorry I am late posting this the time just fly's by
Our theme this week at Ooh La La is Reflections
I decided to go with the Boys to Men CD the artwork on this Cd is amazing and comes
from the very talented Doug Laird, this image is called New Boat and the DT have come up with
some fabulous creations do pop over and join in, this will be the last challenge for this year
So let me wish you all a Very Merry Christmas/ Joyeux Noel
and see you all next year

 

 

 



Another day Cooking / I could get used to this

I said in my previous post it was my son's Birthday next week and I asked him what he would like for his Birthday, well he surprised me by saying he would like some homemade cakes and cookies so, today that's what I have been doing.

I nearly have his package ready to go tomorrow, just waiting for the last batch of cookies to come out.
I managed to make him 30 Chocolate Brownie slices this was a Mary Berry recipe which has never disappointed me so far, I also made him 2 dozen little choc chip buns and then the most amazing Peanut Butter Cookies from Marie's recipe over at the English Kitchen, my son inlaw has just had a taste and did not believe I had made them so they must be good
I did not add the sugar at the end on mine

The recipe given was for 4 dozen but I must of made mine a bit smaller as I managed to get 5 dozen, sorry but the light is not that good in the evening
I hope he enjoys his Birthday tea

Spots & Dots

I can't believe how quick this year has flown by it will soon be Christmas but before that it's my son's Birthday on the 4th Dec so next week aswell as celebrating this we shall also be decoraing the Tree and hanging the decorations a tradition we have kept for the past 35 years, oh boy that makes me feel old saying that

The challenge over at Ooh La La this week is Spots & Dots and we have some amazing creations from the DT and such a variety too so if you would like to join in pop on over here

We also have a copy of Yuletide Wishes on offer so if you are still making your Christmas Cards you could get a helping hand if you are lucky enough to be chosen by random.org

This is my entry it comes from the new Cd out soon

 



 

 

Honey Glazed Granola Doughnut

I decided to have a rest from paper crafting today and decided to bake
I have recently found a wonderful blog full of delicious recipes called   The English Kitchen

We are off out this eve to a late bonfire party and I have made this to take with us
I even made the granola which by the way tasted glorious with yogurt this morning

Marie's recipe is for single donuts but as I did not have a donut pan I decided to use a large pan with
a hole in the middle and it worked a treat.   I can't wait to try this

 

 

Before

 

After





You can find the recipe here

 

 

Someone Special

This week over at Ooh La La the challenge is to create something for someone Special
The image I have used will be on our next CD coming soon and is for my Son's Birthday in a few weeks, yay I am actually ahead for a change

We have 4 new team members that have joined us so I do hope you can pop over and look at
everyone's fabulous creations and of course join in
Happy Crafting
x

Cooking Blog

Whilst searching for a recipe I spotted on a program Sunday I came across this wonderful Blog

The English Kitchen  if you love cooking you will love this blog and the recipes

Today I am going to give the Sausage Bakewells a go

Christmas Sentiment

 

Thank you to everyone who joined in our last challenge, your creations were all fabulous

 

The challenge over at Ooh La La this fortnight is Christmas Sentiment

and the girls have come up with some stunners this challenge.   We are also giving away

one of the new Yuletide Wishes CD as a prize so pop on over and add your creation and link

We look forward to seeing what you all come up with

 

We are looking for some new team members so if your interested dont forget to add

DT at the end of your post

 

My image and papers are all from the new CD and you can see samples of what's on it here

 you can also purchase it in the shop

Yuletide Wishes

This Sunday we are launching our new CD Yuletide Wishes
Artwork/ Shelly Rashe same artist as Everyday Occasions

We hope you will be able to join us in front of the television
Sunday 14th October on Create & Craft TV
 Sky 671 | Freeview 36 | Freesat 813

We have 2 shows 5pm & 7pm with a new guest presenter
Paul Church who we would like to thank for stepping in at short notice
Hayley was otherwise engaged with crafting demo's

There will be lots of beautiful sample cards and projects and new demo's from Paul
If you would like a sneaky peak then pop on over to our Gallery 

And you can also Pre Order Yours  Here

If the Shoe Fits

  

 

Thank you to everyone who entered our Teddy Challenge last week, there were some amazing creations
and I hope you will all join in again with this weeks theme # 114 If the Shoe Fits

The DT have come up with some absolutely beautiful designs and we say goodbye to our Guest Designer
Kim this week who leaves us but not without creating another gorgeous card
If you want to see them up close pop on over to all of the girls blogs

My card comes from Shoes in Bloom 2 CD, Artwork by the talented Lee Brownlee
You can purchase her work here  or even commision her to paint your own bridal bouquet
in the shape of a shoe