Xmas Card #01

Still crafting in the dark here, despite the extra hour ;)
Spent some of today painting my bathroom, and then another while trying to get gloss out of my hair.  Ha!

I said last year that I'd not be stressing about Christmas cards this year and I'd be looking for a CAS design, so this is my first effort!

These lovely snowflakes are Paper Smooches dies that I hadn't got round to using before now, also PS sentiment - sentiment panel is popped up on dimensionals and a bit of bling added to the snowflake centres.  Easy peasy!!

• Paper Smooches SPARKS - anything goes
• Layout from Monday Lunchtime 
• Fab'n Funky #209 - Christmas
• Charisma Cardz #7 - CAS
• Sister Act #50 - anything goes
• Allsorts #252 - use those dies
• Bunny Zoe's Crafts March challenge - monochrome
• Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Extra - March

Craaaazeeee Bunny

No craic from me tonight.  Spent my day doing the food shopping and cleaning and tidying.  And squeezed in a wee bit of crafty time in between my cleaning ... usually when I do this I get no further and the cleaning never gets finished, so I'm feeling rather pleased with myself to have a card and a clean tidy house tonight!!

My cards are usually quite girly, so I was determined to make an Easter card that would be OK for my nephew.

I've used lots of Paper Smooches goodies on this card ... the crazy bunny, alpha set and a couple of die cuts from the scrapbooking set.  And I love how it turned out :)

Layout from Paper Smooches Designer Drafts
Kaboodle Doodles #216 - dreaming of Spring
Creative Card Crew #58 - animals
Crafty Catz #224 - anything goes
Polkadoodles #13 - Spring is in the Air
Stampin for the Weekend - Spring colours

ETA: Featured card over at Paper Smooches :)

Flutter by, Butterfly

Where has this year gone already?!  Can't believe our clocks jump forward tomorrow night, but I'm looking forward to the bright evenings.  Maybe I'll get my crafting done in daylight and get some decent pics!  I'd treated myself to a wee day off work today, but spent quite a lot of it on my knees painting skirting boards (ouch, poor sore knees!)  Looking good though ... except need to do the rest of the house now.  Isn't it always the way!

My card uses this cute butterfly from The Alley Way Stamps - paper pieced his middle and frame and butterfly popped up on dimensionals.  Butterfly charm from stash.

Colour theme from TAWS Be Inspired #51
Layout from CAS(E) this Sketch #70
Charisma Cardz #7 - CAS
Top Tip Tuesday - metal (my butterfly charm)
Seize the Birthday - buttons and bling (I remembered the bling but forgot the buttons, so it's a good job they're optional!)
Crafty Catz #224 - anything goes

Lucy's Lambs

Time for a new challenge at High Hopes and this week it's
Spring
Play along with your High Hopes stamps to win a new one of your choice.

I'm lucky that my bus to work passes lots of farming fields, so I'm always on the lookout this time of year for all the baby animals and the little lambs are especially adorable! Mind you, there's many a day when my nose is buried in a book and I see and hear nothing the entire journey!

My card uses Lucy's Lambs - coloured with pencils.  Apologies for grey splodges on image ... I still haven't got my camera sorted.  Turns out it would cost almost as much to fix it as it would be to buy a new one!

Other challenges ...
Layout from Sunday Sketch and Stamp #199
Crafts 4 Eternity R#168 - anything goes
Crafty Catz #223 - bling it up
Simply Create Too #57 - animals
Crazy for CAS #40 - I used the spring / baby lambs theme from the inspiration picture

Mother's Day

So this is Mum's Mother's Day card :)  It took aaaages to make as I'd a few sections on the card that just looked empty and needed 'something'.  So I'd flowers on and off and on again, butterflies moved about the card, different sentiments stamped, mounted and discarded, and so it went on!! Ah well, I like how it turned out in the end!

Image from Tiddly Inks; sentiment from Lili of the Valley.  I've used my copics for a change as I couldn't find any pencils with vaguely the same tone as my fence.  Martha Stewart butterfly punch; CC Designs fence die.
I glittered up my butterflies and flowers with an old bottle of Smooch I rediscovered in my stash.

• Layout from Sketch Saturday #302
• Cutie Pie #65 - a cute one for Mum
•  Lexi's Creations #112 - punches and dies
• Papertake Weekly - for Mum
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - giltter it
• Gem of a challenge #115 - Mother's Day
• Sweet Stampin challenge - doodles
• My Time to Craft #240 - Mother's Day
• Dream Valley #78 - Mothering Sunday
• Pile it On #12 - pretty hair
• Totally Gorjuss #228 - Mum

New PS goodies!

My postie was a very good boy this morning and didn't bring me any nasty bills and delivered my new Paper Smooches goodies instead - I won a $50 shopping spree a couple of weeks back :)

This was one of my purchases ... Hooties.  I know I'm a bit late joining the owl trend, but hey, better late than never!

I've paper pieced my wee owl, popped his feet up on dimensionals, clear gloss to his eyes, and orange stickles to his feet and beak.  I used some clear bling as wee thought bubbles and popped my cloud (dienamics) up on dimensionals too.

Paper Smooches SPARKS - anything goes
Sweet Stampin' - doodles (my doodled border)
Cuttlebug Mania - dotty (I used my Cuttlebug to cut my cloud die)
Tuesday Throwdown #187 - tic-tac-toe - I used bling / paper piecing / CAS
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - glitter it
Crafty Catz #223 - bling it up

Friends Fur-Ever

First day of Spring today ... allegedly!  It's a brrrrr chilly wind out there and a touch of snow forecast for tomorrow.  So glad I haven't put my winter woolies away yet ;)

This is just a wee quickie card.  I'm determined to use up some oldie stash - I've had some sheets of doggy-themed vellum for such a long time and have never used  any of them!  I attached this one with a couple of staples, decoupaged my Paper Smooches kitty and added a bit of silver bling.

Paper Smooches Sparks - anything goes
CASology #87 - blush
Top Tip Tuesday - metal (my staples)
Layout from Retro Sketches #106