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I do love making Baby Girl cards - probably because my children are both boys and we don't have a lot of pink and frills in the house! Got my Penny Black favourite stamp out (I always seem to use this one for baby cards) plus some Magnolia paper and mirricard and voila!

I couldn't let Valentine's Day pass without a little something for the two loves in my life - Lewis and Sam, so made a couple of little tags to attach to their mountain of chocolate! Both images used are Penny Black so thought I would enter these into this week's Penny Black Challenge , Love and Kisses. Sorry the photos aren't too good but they were taken in a hurry last night while the boys were around!

I meant to post this card a couple of days ago but have only just got around to photographing it as the light has been bad here.  The challenge on CCT this week is Music and Dance so, as I had this image left over from the last card I made, thought I would make use of her and the leftover papers from the card before that. Supplies: Image is Whimsy coloured with Promarkers, sentiment is The Greeting Farm; Papers are Magnolia; Cardstock Pink Petticoat; Punch SU; Web ribbon I bought from Bunny Zoe's Crafts and sticky gems are Whiff of Joy.  String was from my stash. Sorry if the photo is a funny shape but I'm experimenting with iPhoto at the moment to see if it's worth me buying a photo software for my iMac!

Another two-in-one card today which I'm entering for the Simon Says Challenge "Use Domi's Sketch!" and Whimsy Inspirations Challenge "blue + brown". Used another of my Whimsy stamps from the Kenny K Collection called "Boogie Down" with some SU papers and a sentiment from Penny Black. Short and sweet today as it's 3.00 pm and I must get on with my housework!

Don't know what came over me today - up until last week I haven't participated in challenges for absolutely ages and then I manage to make a card which qualifies for two - not like me at all! Anyway, I'm entering this card in Papertake Weekly Challenge "Buttons, Bows, Blings and Bloom" and also LOTV "favourite stamp" (by the skin of my teeth!) I love all the LOTV stamps but this is my most recent so at the moment it is my favourite! I used Promarkers to colour the image, Magnolia papers, Pink Petticoat sentiment and Navy card, Nestabilities, string and punch from SU and button and webbing from my stash.

It's the first time I've taken part in WOYWW and as you can see my desk is a bit of a mess. Plenty of images (mainly Whimsy and LOTV)which I've just started to colour. A couple of cases of Promarkers open at the moment (currently working on skin and hair!), however, my desk will start to get really untidy once I start on the other colours as I never seem to put the pens away when I've finished with them, despite my best intentions!

Yes...another stamp from the Kenny K Collection! Absolutely love this one but was a bit worried about colouring it, however, after trawling through YouTube, I had a go and was quite pleased with the end result although room for improvement! This image is called Bling Baby and I'm just loving those boots! Sentiment is Susana Loves Stamps. Can anyone help with some different layouts please as I seem to have got myself into a bit of a rut using the same one?

I did mention in my last post that I was loving the Kenny K Collection from Whimsy Stamps so here's another one I'd like to share with you. This cheeky little chap is called Happy Little Gnome (quite appropriately!) This card was definitely a labour of love - no problem with the colours, image or papers, however, when it came to the layout and embellishments I was struggling - it took me hours in the end to complete this one! Anyway, entering this into the Simon Says Challenge which this week is spots and/or stripes.

I haven't completed a challenge for years now so thought it was about time I had a go. Decided on the Papertake Weekly Challenge as it was the first challenge I ever did when I first discovered blogland! The theme is "new somethings" and I've decided to go with new stash! I am just loving the Kenny K Collection from Whimsy and have managed to acquire a couple with my Christmas cash. I've used Club Kid and coloured her with Promarkers - I've spent ages trawling YouTube for Promarker tutorials for skin and hair as I was never very adventurous when it came to colouring. However, my fine nibs for my Promarkers haven't arrived yet so I've gone over a bit but just ignore them lol! The photo isn't wonderful as I've taken it this evening with bad light, however, will keep on practicing as my present to myself this Christmas was a new camera as I long to be able to take a half decent photograph of anything!

Promised to post these photos ages ago when I completed the room, however, better late than never! This used to be my dining room and it used to be terracotta! I saw some ideas in Ideal Home magazine a while back and immediately liked it but thought "ooh, this is going to be expensive", however, then saw the magic word "Ikea" and off I went! The wallpaper I got in the sale at Laura Ashley a few years back and all the furniture apart from the tall book shelf, is Ikea - got the tall book shelf from a local pine shop. All the other bits and pieces I've collected over the last 12/18 months. The larger drawers are absolutely ideal for storing wooden rubber stamps and punches and the tall CD/DVD units are perfect for my unmounted stamps and Nesties which I keep in CD cases. It's maybe not to everyone's taste but I absolutely love the lightness of the room and all the "vintage shabby chic" bits. ** Just had a closer look at the photos and noticed m...

This is the last design of Christmas cards I made using the First Edition Christmas Joy pad - this time it's with Penny Black"s Caroling Duck and sentiment is from Pink Petticoat. Back again tomorrow with some slightly different ones! No more tomorrow as I have now given up on making Christmas cards for this year!

Here's a couple more cards using the same paper pad as before but this time using the adorable stamp from Gillian Roberts - I couldn't decide if my mice should be grey or brown so I did both! Sentiment is from Elzybells. Sorry the photos aren't too good but I took these late at night when the light was bad. I did say yesterday that I would be showing the last of my Christmas cards, however, got my posts in a muddle so there's more to come!

I couldn't resist inking these stamps up - used these last year for the majority of my Christmas cards so just made the two this year. The sentiments are from Cuddly Buddly and the papers are from MME "Signature Christmas". Will be back tomorrow with the last of my Christmas cards and then it's back to making birthday cards again!

Well, I've finally got around to putting some Christmas cards together and here's a few of the first design - they all look pretty much the same as I've used the CC Design image (which I absolutely love!)and papers from First Edition Christmas Joy. I kept some quite flat for posting and others layered with foam pads and embellishments for delivering by hand. Sentiment is from Pink Petticoat. Feel like I'm at last getting organised for Christmas...just a few little bits to sort plus the food to order and then I'm done...we're even off to the Pantomime on the 23rd to get us into the Christmas spirit...it's behind you!!!

....and it was delicious!

My gorgeous Lewis is fourteen today...can you believe it - I can't! Where have all the years gone? Lewis made a point of asking me to make him a card so I wanted to do something a little bit special for him and was really pleased with the outcome. Decided to make a little pocket on the inside to slip a Costa gift card in - he does like popping in for a hot chocolate with his mates! Main image is The Greetings Farm, round birthday stamp is Cats Life Press and sentiment is Elzybells, papers are Archaic Collection and just added some string and a rather large button! Cardstock is from SU. We're {hopefully} chilling out today and eating plenty of chocolate birthday cake so think I should probably take a picture of it before we demolish it!

Here's a card I made for a friend of mine who made a gorgeous birthday cake for my Son (picture to follow!) - and yes, she loves coffee so these images and sentiment seemed very appropriate! Main image on the front of the card is Whiff of Joy and the two smaller images and sentiment are MFT. Papers are MME and coloured using PM's. The webbing/ribbon is from Bunny Zoe Crafts. Not doing very well on the Christmas Card front - only made two so far so hope to be able to share these with you soon!

Here are a couple more of the LOTV stamps I bought at the NEC - I just love these...very girly! Same sort of card as before - papers are Blonde Moments and a bit of Glamour Dust but I feel my poor photography skills don't do them justice! Hopefully, might have a few Christmas cards to show over the next week or so - I have started on them - coloured a few images but just haven't got around to putting the actual cards together! Have a great weekend x

Here's one of the Lili of the Valley stamps I bought at the NEC recently - isn't she cute? Blonde Moments paper and mirricard and a sprinkling of Glamour Dust. The cake stamp on the inside of the card is an old Anita's one I dragged out of the drawer! Got a few more of these LOTV stamps which hopefully should be making an appearance on here over the next few days.