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Boz Towers, Essex, United Kingdom
I'm a Red Hat Society member with a love of crafting of all sorts. A very proud mum to four fabulous children and Nan to six gorgeous grandchildren. I started work as a milliner and now have an abiding love of scrapbooking and card making.

The lovely people that drop by ~ thank you.

Sunday 24 November 2013

A New Challenge at OSAAT and a New Dog

It's Sunday and time for a new challenge at One Stitch At A Time. This week our challenge is Bingo!

Please go to our challenge blog here for all the details but it's easy peasy! We would love to see you use three elements on your card, you can use a line across or diagonally, the choice is yours which line you choose but please let us know in your blog post. Regardless of your Bingo line choice you must still use a digital image on your card.  Our sponsor this week is Creative Craft World and you can win our top prize of 3 x Promarkers.

Our rules are pretty simple:

1. You can enter with as many Stitchy Bear images as you wish. But, if you choose to enter with a    non-Stitchy Bear image then you are allowed to enter a maximum of three times.

2. You must link back to our challenge blog on your blog.

3. No back linking, it must be a new project blogged after our challenge goes live.

Here's this week's card:

 
For my main image I've used Whispering Trees by Gingerloft. This is a lovely image that can be made into a card for a man or a woman depending how you 'gussy' it up. I changed to colour of the trees in my old graphics program to blend with my paper and foil.  The background paper is from the ever growing bits and pieces box and I've inked up the edges. The frame is from Spellbinders Diamond Effects and I've added a couple of Memory Box dies called Pierson Corner. A shabby rose with some distress ink added too. A very quick card to make.

My Bingo Line was across the middle, I used Liquid Pearls, Die Cuts and three layers or more.

The New Dog!

We've adopted a new dog called Tuppence, when I get a new photo I'll post it but she is a little camera shy. I was already to get the blog scheduled but decided to take her and our other rescue dog, Alfie for a walk first. Well, we had to bath Tuppence in the garden because she had rolled in a dead bird and then into dog poo! Yuck!!!! I even bought this dog a pink collar and she did that! At least now I know she is clean and fluffy.

Sunday 17 November 2013

It's Sunday and time for a Lovely New Challenge at OSAAT

It's that day of the week when we have a lovely challenge at One Stitch At A Time. This week's challenge is everyone's favourite........ Anything Goes!  We would love to see your creations and it doesn't have to be a card, all your lovely creative ideas would be fantastic. The fab prize this week is.... (drum roll, please!) ......... All the images that the design team used in Challenge #188.  You only have to purchase one stamp from the Stitchy Bear Digi Outlet to be able to enter.


Our rules are very easy:-

1. You can enter with as many Stitchy Bear images as you wish. But, if you choose to enter with a    non-Stitchy Bear image then you are allowed to enter a maximum of three times.

2, You must link back to our challenge blog on your blog.

3, No back linking, it must be a new project blogged after our challenge goes live.

For my card this week I've used 'Nataliya' and you can find her here.  Stitchy designed her just for Nataliya on the design team, how gorgeous is she.





I've used a piece of design paper from a Graphic 45 pas called Bird Song.  I've mat and layered 'Nataliya' onto a  Spellbinder's Square and then onto Marianne Designs Anja's Squares.  I've cut a Cheery Lynn Lace  Faerie Queen butterfly in sparkly parchment paper and added some Creative Expressions pearls as the butterfly trails. Some feathers. lace and pearls to finish. Voila!


Sunday 10 November 2013

It's Time For A New Challenge At OSAAT


It's Sunday and time for a new challenge on the One Stitch At A Time blog. this week the challenge is very special.  The prize for the winning entry using a Stitchy Bear Digi Outlet image is............ all the images the design team are using in this week's challenge.  Wow! That is one fabulous prize.   Chaka Khan....... take it away,   'Ain't nobody does it better"!

Have a look at this fab picture of the images and papers used this week, they are amazing!


Our theme this week for Challenge # 189 is Holidays. To win this fab prize just follow our easy rules:

1, You can enter with as many Stitchy Bear images as you wish. But, if tou choose to enter with a non-Stitchy Bear image then you are allowed to enter a maximum of three times.
2, You must link to our challenge blog.
3, No back linking, it must be a new project blogged after our challenge go live.

This collaboration with the Stitchy Bear Digi Outlet creators will be available FREE if you spend $10 in the store, absolutely great value.

For my two cards this week for Thanksgiving I used a set of the papers and the Fall Harvest image,
Coloured with Promarkers and Flexmarkers and some die cut leaves from a Cheery Lynn die.  I love the colours on this card so cheerful and bright.


For my second card I've used the Santa image and cut and mounted him on a couple of Spellbinders die cuts. The sentiment is from a set set by Marianne Designs. Of course it couldn't be a Christmas card without a Spellbinders Poinsettia and some leaves from my favourite Memory Box die.



Sunday 3 November 2013

This Week's New Challenge at OSAAT #188

It's Sunday and time for another great challenge at One Stitch At A Time.  This week our challenge is everyone's favourite  'Use a Digi'. This means that you must use something digital on your creation and the gorgeous prize is all the digital images that the DT used in Challenge 186, there must be $20 worth of images or thereabouts. Our rules are very simple:

1, You can enter our challenge as many times as you like as long as you use a Stitchy Bear Digi Outlet image available from here.  You have the chance to win out top prize of all of the digi stamps From Stitch Bear's Digi Outlet used by the DT in Challenge 186 and I'm sure that's a lot of great digis.  You may enter ONLY three times with a non-Stitchy Bear image.

2, On your post you must link to our challenge blog.

3, No backlinking, your project must be new and blogged after our challenge goes live.

For my card this week I chose My Heart Pieces beautiful image called 'Sending You Love' and you can find her here. I love Priyanka's designs they are so lovely to colour and so delicate.






I've used a piece of design paper that's come from my waste bits and pieces and chose the Promarkers and Flexmarkers from it although it is hidden under the die cuts. I cut the main image from a Memory Box base and used a matching frame for her and behind her is a die-cut from Spellbinders Respendant Rectangles. More Memory Box flowers and leaves. I generated a sentiment for her and highlighted her socks and bow with a Zig Wink of Stella glitter. A couple of pearls to finish.