Easel Card for a dear Friend

The image is a Jonathon Earl Bowser and from our Dreams of Tranquility Cd and one of my favourites

I am entering this in the challenge over at Lily of the Valley 48# Make an Easel Card

http://liliofthevalleythursdaychallenge.blogspot.com/

Over at Ooh La la this week our challenge is LOVE it does not have to be Valentine Card it just has to be your interpretation of LOVE
I have decided to do something different this week, this tag will be on the card for my hubby,
I have also made a digital scrap page of 2 little people who have crept into my heart big time
Maisy absolutly adores her big brother Harry and I have named this Brotherly Love

I am also entering these both for

C.R.A.F.T - Love

Charisma cardz - I love you

Fussy and Fancy - Hearts

Pile it On - to the one I love

Ooh La La Creations - Love

I recently received this lovely Award from Anne (click on her name to visit her blog and see her lovely creations!!)

The conditions with this Award are to tell you 10 things that make me happy

1. My Grandchildren & Family

2. Crafting

3. Photography

4. Shopping

5. Baking

6. Reading a good book

7. Chatting with my best friend

8. Summer

9. Dancing

10. Digging my veg up and eating them

I am passing this Award on to everyone that visits!!

THE DISTRESSED LOOK

The challenge over a http://www.ooh-la-la-creationschallenges.blogspot.com/

this week is Distressing

This is one of my favourite techniques

I am also entering both of these for the challenge over at

www.creataliciouschallenges.blogspot.com/- No stamped images

ATC's which let you use up all those little bits of lace and scraps we never want to throw away and this fits in nicely with the challenges over at

www.tandastamps.blogspot.com/- Lace

Cathedral of Illusion

This is one of my favourite images from Dreams of Tranquility http://www.ooh-la-la-creations.com/

The backing paper is from the new cd I am working on and they mix and match well

The artist is Jonathon Earl Bowser you can see more of his art work here

www.jonathonart.com/

I have made this card for Friday Sketchers challenge 85

http://www.fridaysketchersblog.blogspot.com/

WINTER FARM

This one I am entering for Fabs Big Christmas Challenge
http://fabsbigchristmascardschallenge.blogspot.com/
This week's theme is Vintage colours and/or Stripes
This is another from the new Cd another Quick Card mounted onto 6x6 white card

www.ooh-la-la-creations.com

Cottages in the Snow

A sneak preview from our new Cd coming soon

Card 2 is one of the quick card toppers just mounted on to 6x6 white card, hey presto made in minutes

I think I shall be way ahead this year with my xmas cards

Images and Backing Papers all on CD

BIRDS OF A FEATHER

Flock together

This is for our challenge this week CREATE A SCENE Challenge 45

www.ooh-la-la-creationschallenges.blogspot.com

I was a bit stumped to start with, then an idea suddenly emerged when I thought about Anne saying about all the snow the UK had been getting. I am working on a new cd and this beautiful water colour comes from the new cd, I have no bird stamps so I have drawn/traced them on, I did not want to draw straight onto the image just incase, so I have used acetate and layered it over the top

I hope you like it

TEXTURE IN BLACK & WHITE CANVAS

One of my favourite colour combinations

This is something different for me I spotted this in one of our craft magazines and fell in love with it

You need: 1 Artists Canvas Board

Tissue/crinkle type paper

Lamp Template needs to be very,very thick card, as these are thin MDF which gives them the depth

Gems

Cover half of the board with your chosen paper and let it dry, paint your lamps with white paint when dry cover half of the lamps with the same paper. When dry free draw or stamp some flowers onto each vase, add a corner decoration, and some gems to give it that extra sparkle, Voila one finished master piece

I am entering this in Crafty Ann's challenge this week which is Texture,hope this counts

http://www.craftyannschallengeblog.wordpress.com/

LITTLE MISS

This is my first Easel card and it was easier than I thought

I used 2 Brads to keep it standing up and then covered the back of the card again to hide the backs, the buttons and corners are part of the image and I glazed the buttons so they stood out more

This image is from Kiddiwinks Cd3

http://www.ooh-la-la-creations.com/

This card is for

Ooh La La Creations 42# Card for a Child

www.oohlalacraftyblog.blogspot.com

CCT Challenge 89 # Swirly Girly

anything that is particularly girly...for example your image, colour combo, flowers, ribbon, bling

and even swirls....the more girly the better.

www.cutecardthursday.blogspot.com

Project Tuesday# Easel Card

www.sasprojecttuesday.blogspot.com

Floral Arrangement

It was my Birthday last week and I had the most amazing pressies, Wotsits,Turkish Delight,Snuggly Blanket for the sofa, Craft Mags from UK being amongst them and a gorgeous Flower arrangement

Living in France there are some things that I really miss, Wotsits,English Choccie and Mags being the top 3, so my son and daughter indulged me and I was in heaven that night, sitting in front of the telly snuggled up in my blanket, eating Wotsits and Turkish Delight and reading my mag what more could you ask for, but I have to show you these they are gorgeous sent from my son in UK, a wonderful surprise top ones were Friday 30th and these ones are today Tuesday 3rd

Christmas Shoes

This week its ' SHOES ' over at Ooh la la Challenge Blog and I am loving these images

This is a huge card its A4 size and I have glazed the decoupaged Poinsettia then made it crack by bending the flower before it had completly dried, I have also used peel offs and gems

*** A SKETCH *** Cupcake Challenge

Well I did not last very long at having a rest, as I spotted this great sketch over at Cupcake

this week, I had to turn mine a bit to accomodate my image which is called "Fruit Mix" and one of my favourite's we have all these fruits in our garden and the colours are so vibrant and blend so well

I hope you like it

Materials used: Ooh La La "Shoes in Bloom CD" www.ooh-la-la-creations.com

Ribbon, Gems & Brads in stash

Shoes in Bloom

I have decided to have a well earned rest until the end of the month, I have just finished our latest CD ' SHOES IN BLOOM ' all hand painted watercolor "Flower Shoes" by an amazing Watercolor Artist Lee Brownlee from the USA, these are a few of the samples that I made for the CD, I hope you like them, if you would like to see more then pop along to our Web Shop:
http://www.ooh-la-la-creations.com/
You can also purchase original artwork or prints from here
http://www.originalartbychobeeites.blogspot.com/

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These beautiful cards were all designed by Annie Huddlestone one of our DT Members, Annie does not have her own blog but these cards are so beautiful I thought they should be shared

My Indiana Jones

This week I have been scrapbooking, I just love this picture of my grandson Harry, he came over and I have not laughed so much in a long time, he loves playing dressing up and I love seeing what he comes up with each time

I have entered this in the challenge over at Allsorts: http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/

This week we would like you to use the colour 'Kraft' I hope this counts

Shades of Autumn

Challenge #37 - SHADES OF AUTUMN ~ over at Ooh La La Creations Challenge blog

This is another favourite image from the beautiful artwork of Jonathon Earl Bowser

titled : Elemental Ballet ~ Earth

and can be found on Dreams of Tranquility Cd

"Embellish It!".

Have just found this challenge over at La La Land and had to join in for 2 reasons
1: I love Embellishments &
2: They have 2 words the same as our blog in their title
If you also want to join in just click on the title
This is one of my favourite images from the Passion for Fashion Cd

September Sunflower

Ooh la la Challenge blog this week have chosen the theme# Floral Fantasy

I have been inspired by this late sunflower my friend Lorna gave me back in July, they should have finished flowering by now but this summer has been the best yet, even the bees are happy

Backing Papers and image taken from Fleur D'Imagination Cd8

Gems and paper flowers from stash, and the lace is the stick on

kind with a gold peel off running thru the centre

Welcome Baby Ella

My Niece gave birth to a beautiful baby girl saturday so the challenge over at Cute Card Thursday Challenge 75 - New Beginnings!

fitted in just nicely

And no stamps used so entered in Allsorts Challenge too

Under the Sea

Shaped cards are the theme this week at Cupcake Craft Challenges

Papers and Image Ooh la la Femme Fatale cd

Xmas

I cant believe we are nearly into September, the weather here has been glorious for the last 5 weeks, sometimes I have to admit a bit too hot, so it seemed strange sitting here today making a Xmas card in the blazing heat, but here it is and its my 1st one this year, and its for the challenges over at

Ooh La La -Black & White Sparkly Xmas

Dutch Dare - Xmas in August

Simon Says - Xmas in August
I have to say I was quite pleased with the finished card, and if you look closely you will see that the trees have sparkle on them

Passion for Purple

This is one of my favourite colours and I love flower images aswell

This is for the shop I sell my cards in he needs some more stock ,fingers crossed the customers love them aswell

Ooh La La Creations Challenge Blog have a Recipe : 2 Ribbons,3 Buttons and a Charm

Pollycraft Monday want buttons and Bows

Image and paper : Ooh La La Fleur D'Imagination cd8

Ribbon,Buttons and charm from stash

This started out as a DL card from A4 but I decided not to trim the end off I added ribbon and the charm to the inside with matching insert, the flower started out as a white one which I coloured with pro markers to match

Sweet & Sassy

New challenge at Ooh La La Challenge Blog

Image from Femme Fatale Cd9
Backing Paper Kiddiwinks CD 3
Gems,Brads and peel offs from stash

Tea Time Treat

The challenge at Paper Blooms this week is: Be Inspired http://paperblooms.blogspot.com/

This topper is a water colour painted by my very dear friend Lorna, I have resized to fit my card she had cataracts in both eyes and has just come home from having the second one done yesterday, I cant tell you how old Lorna is she would kill me but I am always inspired by her beautiful art.

Something a bit different

I needed a picture for my bathroom and whilst out saw this beautiful tile in the sale bin it was just €2 and I had to have it.

My husband hollowed the middle out of a piece of board and made a ledge to fix it onto

I painted the frame with brown paint and let it dry, I then used a darker brown glaze and using a piece of scrunched up newspaper dabbed it over the lighter brown paint

I am more than pleased with it and it did not cost a fortune

Close up of finished frame paint tecnique

Cherries,Cherries & more Cherries

This year we have a bumper crop of cherries, we are lucky too because they are the delicious Black Morello Cherry and they are coming out my ears for want of a better term

I have bottled them,froze them,ate them, made Jam and Compote and then I remembered

this recipe its a favourite here in France

CHERRY CLAFOUTIS

1lb cherries

2 level tbsp granulated sugar

2 tbsp red red wine or cherry kirsch

2 tbsp digestive biscuit crumbs

For the batter

2 whole eggs and 2 egg yolks

3oz sugar

1oz cornflour

9oz double creme

Preheat oven to 220/425F gas 7

Combine cherries, sugar and wine, and place in oven for 5 mins until cherries are hot, drain the cherrries and cool.

Reduce oven to 180/350F/gas4

Whisk the eggs and egg yolks until light and frothy, add the sugar and whisk until blended Add the cornflour and cream and then set aside to rest. Mix the cherries with the biscuit crumb, put into ovenproof dish and then pour the batter over. Bake for 30- 35 mins until golden brown and firm

Leave to cool and then dust with icing sugar and serve with creme fraiche flavoured with cherry juice or icecream

Tip: add the juice to good wine vinagar to make a superb cherry vinegar

Wedding Silhouette

The challenge this week over at My Time to Craft is a fabulous sketch from Becky

Here is my take on it and if you would like to join in just click on the title

The papers and image are from Femme Fatale from Ooh La La Creations

Egypt ~ Think Monday Think ATC

I just had to enter this challenge as my dad loved Egypt and it reminds me of him

Both the paper and Image are from Ooh La La Creations new cd Femme Fatale

I resized both the image and paper, printing the word Egypt on the paper before printing out

ATC's~ A bit of Bling for CCT

I am hooked on ATC's so these are my entries over at Cute Card Thursday just in time for the fabulous prize they have I'm keeping my fingers crossed

Q is for Quilt

This is for the challenge over at ABC such a fun challenge this week really enjoyed making this card

Papers: HOTP

Heart Punch