My First Blog Candy - Its a Bit Girly!

Having run my blog since the New Year I thought it was time I put on my first blog candy!

Closing Date is 31st May

This pink and girly bundle consists of

Girl Power paper crafting kit from Design House

Pack of 36 Gingham Vase 6x6 papers from Design House

Rose Garden 8x8 paper pack from Papermania plus 3 die cut sheets of alphabets, tags, icons and borders

Papermania classic floral Vellum paper

Papermania Signature Poppy stickers

Set of 9 blank 1.5 inch square board blocks ready to decorate

35 spring shape templates including hearts, birds & flowers

Floral Waterfall card kit

Multi-coloured selection of Card Candy spots

All you have to do is put your details in Mr Linky below and become a follower, if you want to mention the candy in your blog that would be great too! Thanks and good luck!

Update - have just found an ArtEmboss Aluminium embossing kit and will add that to the candy!

Cuttlebug Flowers

I've had this flower shaped cuttlebug die for ages without using it - so thought it was about time I dusted it off and made a pot of yellow, orange and red spring flowers finished off with a bit of glitter in the middle!

Elephants Never Forget a Birthday!

I've been waiting for ages to use this cute little elephant button charm and thought he matched these free papers from Making Cards Magazine a treat!

Swinging Sixties!

Retro mono black and white birthday card using the great Mary Quant image and Carnaby Street sign from the Abbey Road collection from Kaban against a backing paper I have had kicking around for ages!

Lush Making Cards Free Papers

I really like the latest Nancy Watts free papers from this months Making Cards Magazine and have already made 7 cards from them. They are a mix of pale blue, chocolate brown and orange and are great for makeing those 'tricky' masculine birthday cards

Jayne Netley Mayhew Wren Stamp

Yes, its that Jayne Netley Mayhew stamp of a wren again. This must be the 6th or 7th card I have made with it and this time I've teamed it up with the free Kate Knight papers from Cardmaking & Papercraft Magazine which match the blackberries so well! I'm still getting to grips with the new designs on the docraft website, most things seem to take longer to do but there are more choices and flexibility on postings and searchings. If you have the time I recommend you hop over to the Cats Whiskers blog to look at the Just Magnolia Challenge - I love that bute little frog!

Best of Friends

I think this vintage digi image of 2 small girls from Digital Two for Tuesday is just soo cute! I've coloured them with promarker pens and edged with distressing inks and finally layed against a piece of textured gold paper for a sweet atc.

Pink Elephant Baby Girl Card

I made this for a friend who is due to have her baby soon, I thought the elephant digi image was so sweet and coloured it with promarkers. I haven't done much crafting today as I visited my grandmother and did her shopping and then went for a 5 mile walk. I'm going to do a 8 mile midnight walk for my local hospice soon and need to get fitter!

This way to the beach!

This is another one of those Inkadinkado stamps - my mother and daughter have spent the day on Weymouth beach - lucky them!

New Inkadinkado stamps

I treated myself to a set of 'Down by the seaside'
stamps by Inkadinkado - they were less than half price on eBay

These are just 3 of the stamps from the set - there are another 3 that I haven't had a chance to use yet!

Youngest daughter is off on a holiday with her grandma this weekend so I think I will use the time for a crafting session to play with the rest of the stamps.

Chuffed to be in a Magazine!

I was pleased to see a card of mine featured in the readers gallery of Aprils Making Cards Magazine - as usual the family were a bit underwhelmed by it, but I loved seeing my name in print! Anyway this card was made with the free papers from that magazine and I thought I would give to my Dad for his birthday. I'm sure there is an old photo of him in a similar pose next to one of his cars somewhere!

Trying to Use Up My Stash

As its a wet Easter Bank Holiday, I thought I would make some cards and use up some of my stuff (so I could justify buying more!)

This card used up a Forever Friends sticker I have had for ages and a free backing sheet from last years Quick Cards magazine - that leaves only 4 more boxes of stuff to go!!

New Moon ATC

This ATC was made with clear heat embossing of a fir trees stamp on a black card, which were then washed with cosmic shimmer watercolours then a round moon painted in the sky with pearlesant white comic shimmer, its difficult to get the shimmery effect in a photo!

Another CRAFTRAK Exchange Card

I'm really enjoying the CRAFTRAK card exchange - I love being able to see how many miles your card is travelling on a map and the fun of receiving some lovely cards from new friends.This is my latest card that will go off on its travels with one of my favourite cat stamps. Check it out at www.craftrak.com

Anyone Else Craftrakking??

Has anyone else joined the Craftrak Card Exchange? You buy A7 cards with a special code on them and send thems as RAKs (Random Acts of Kindness) to others on www.craftrak.com and you can track their progress online, they can then be forwarded on to others and end up taking a trip all over the place. I registered for free and before I had even purchased a pack of cards (£4.99 for 20) had been send 2 cards. There is even a jam swap where you add an embellishment to a card as it travels around. I'm just about to register this little Hedgie card and send him off on his roadtrip

Dog with a Rose!

Isn't this a sweet little digi image of a dog holding a red rose between his teeth, I thought it was very cute! Today was my Mums birthday so I treated her to lunch and bought her some flowers. she loved the wren birthday card I made also. However I was beaten by my daughter Libby who made her Nannie 3 different birthday cards each with a cat on them!

Cosmic Shimmer ATCs

Cosmic shimmer paints really do live up to their name, I love the shimmering effect as a background. These 4 atcs were made with the turquoise ocean, emerald gold and pearlescent watercolour paints and the 2 on the right hand side also had rich gold shimmer mist sprayed on. Unfortunately they do not photograph very well so you dont get the full effect!

Is Spring here yet?

Well there might not be many flowers in my garden yet but I still want to put spring blooms in my cards now! I hope they will be popping up soon, but at least the cold weather means more time for crafting!

Jungle Parade for postpals

I made this card to send to Ben, a child on the postpals website - they encourage you to 'post a smile to a sick child', just by sending a card to a seriously ill child and their siblings. You can help to make a difference to their lives and I encourage you all to join in if you can.

Vintage Golfing Card

This fab vintage image is free from Digital Two for Tuesday site, coloured with promarkers and I have teamed it up with a metalic card run through the cuttlebug with my new Fleur De Lis embossing folder and also a oval nestie with swiss dots.

Sugar Nellie Apple Girl Card

This girl with her basket of apples by Sugar Nellie is just sooo sweet! I teamed her up with papers from the Papermania capsule collection and, for a change, added a bow to the centre of a flower for the embellishment. Just off to prepare a special tea for my Mum who is coming round soon, we are celebrating Mothers Day early here!

Another new embossing folder

I bought a Quickutz embossing folder for use with my Cuttlebug, this one is called lines and dots and features as the background in this card of a little baby playing in the paddling pool, I know it is a bit summery but thought it was a very sweet digi image and I am hoping the weather will warm up very soon!

New Cuttlebug Folder!

I treated myself to a new Cuttlebug folder yesterday - its called Jewells and has butterflies and swirly leaves on it, you can't really see much of it on this card, but I really like it and hope I will get lots of use out of it in the future!

My Mums Wren Card

Had some time to myself today so have managed to make my Mothers birthday card - she loves wrens and her house is just full of pictures and china ornaments of them - so I hope she likes this! The background is from this months Making cards magazine designed by Nancy Watts and the bird stamp is a new release from Jayne Netley Mayhew

Wedding Day Pussy Cat Couple!

My niece is getting married this summer so I have made this card for her, the background is a Nancy Watt vellum from Making Cards magazine with an oval scalloped nestie card run through the d'vine cuttlebug folder. The Fat Cat couple are designed by David Parkins for Simply Cards & papercraft Magazine. I hope she likes it!