Creative Moments Announcement!

Morning all...I am honoured, delighted and pleased to announce that I have been selected as part of the design team for Creative Moments and my first challenge DT entry goes live today!

 

 It's all so exciting!  There's some brilliant sponsors and some amazing images coming up and I can't wait to work with them!

My first challenge was to "Make It Sparkle and the sponsor this fortnight is Stitchy Bear Stamps

 and I have used this gorgeous little Ballerina Bunny...

I printed her onto Papermill Direct white linen card and coloured her with my trusty Faber Castell Polychromo Pencils.  I picked out some of the detail with my tub of crystal Stickles.  The glittered background paper is from the Trimcraft First Edition Desert Bloom stack.  The sentiment is from a set of Do Crafts stamps.  The button and ribbon are from Sonas Made.

Here's the list of Polychromo colours I used...

We would love it if you could pop on over and join on the challenge here - and there's a design team call too, so you could join this brilliant team as well!

I would like to enter this card into the following other challenges:

Anything Goes - Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned Paper
Bright Colours - Crafts 4 Eternity
Anything Goes - Jo's Scrap Shack
Anything Goes - Sister Act
Let It Sparkle - Creative Corner
Anything Goes - Brown Sugar
Anything Goes - Creative Fingers
Anything Goes - Treasured Times
Shine - Inkspirational Challenges
Anything Goes for Kids - Send a Smile for Kids
Anything Goes - 613 Avenue Create
Things With Wings - Robyns Fetish
Fairies - Cupcake Inspirations
Brad, Button &/or bow - Sentimental Sundays
Girly - The Corrosive Challenge
Anything Goes - The Paper Nest Dolls
Give Me a Square Deal - Squigglefly
Anything Goes using a Digi Element - Fitztown - Digi image
Not Just Cards - Anything Goes
Anything Goes - Scrapbook Stamp Society
Use a Digi - Card Mania
Anything Goes -Dream Valley
Anything Goes -Aurora Wings
Anything Goes - optional twist - use glitter - Get Creative
Sooooo Girly - Papertake Weekly
Anything Goes - Through The Craft Room Door
Things With Wings - Loves Rubber Stamps
Anything Goes - Clear It Out Challenge
Down on the Farm - Inky Chicks

Thanks so much for coming by,
have a great day and keep smiling,

Ruth
xx

Tuesday Throwdown Challenge #222 Christmas Tags

Morning all,

There's a fab new challenge starting over at the Tuesday Throwdown Challenge blog today - it's a Christmas tag challenge.  It's sponsored by My Grafico.

MYGRAFICO is a leading Digital Online store with Hand selected Designers. Our unique designs come with affordable prices. We offer Commercial Use high quality Designer cliparts, digital stamps, Photoshop brushes, creative paper sets, scrapbook ing designs, SVG cutting templates, pr-emade party printables and stationery templates.

I really struggled to choose which of their fab Christmas images I wanted to use so ended up using 4 and here's what I came up with:

 

My papers are from a  DCWV Christmas stack.  The gorgeous green pearlised card has such an amazing sparkle and was a special from Paper Mill Direct this time last year - it was so gorgeous I made sure I stocked up.  I used 3 punches for these from EK, Woodware, and Stampin Up.  The ribbon was from the Sonas Made stash coming very soon!  I coloured them with my Faber Castell Polychormo Pencils and finished them off with a wee bit of crystal Stickles - always a must at this time of year!

 

These images are just so flippin cute!

Pop on over and show us your take on this brilliant Christmassy theme, I would love to see what you all come up with!

I would like to enter these tags into the following other challenges:

Any Winter Holiday - Oddball Art Stamps
The Big Guy - Sparkles Monthly Challenge
Anything Goes - Welcome to the Scrapbook Garden
Anything Goes - Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge
Anything Goes - Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned Paper
Not A Card - The Crafting Cafe
Anything Goes plus a Handmade Bow - Craft-Dee Bowz
Christmas is Coming - The Artistic Stamper 
Anything Goes - A Girl Who Crafts 
Anything But A Card - Crafting Musketeers 
Simply Christmas - Stamping Sensations 
Anything Goes - Penny Black & More 
It's All About Christmas - Crafty Calendar 
Red & Green - Cute Card Thursday 
Hand Coloured Image - Milk Coffee
Christmas Creation with Ribbon - Crafty Ribbons
Christmas - C.R.A.F.T. Challenge 
T for Traditional Christmas - Alphabet Challenge
Bright Colours - Crafts 4 Eternity 
Anything Goes - Jo's Scrap Shack 
Anything Goes - Sister Act 
Your Favourite Holiday - Chocolate, Coffee & Cards - Christmas obviously :-)
Christmas Is Coming - Crafty Catz
Let It Sparkle - Creative Corner
Pairs / 2 Of A Kind - Fussy & Fancy
Anything Goes - Brown Sugar Challenge 
Anything Goes - Creative Fingers 
Shine - Inkspirational Challenges 
Anything Goes For Kids - Send A Smile For Kids
Anything But A Card - Allsorts 
Anything Goes - Scribble & Scrap 
Anything Goes - The Papernest Dolls        
Anything Goes Using a Digi Element - Fitztown - digital images on all the tags
Anything Goes - Not Just Cards 
Anything Goes - Scrapbook Stamp Society
Use a Digi - Card Mania - digi images on all 4 stamps
Anything But A Card - The Pink Elephant 
Anything Goes - Dream Valley 
Anything Goes - Get Creative 



Thanks so much for looking!

Have a great day and keep smiling!

Ruth
xx

I Believe In You

I made this card for my gorgeous Daisy...I am holding onto it for the appropriate moment!  I am blown away every day by just how amazing she is, I couldn't be prouder.  She has really settled into high school, has thrown herself into school life with massive gusto, book club, film club, dance club, the gym, maintaining her homework, a wee part time job at the stables, pipe band and scouts.  I don't know where she gets the energy!  I am pretty much only required for taxi driving and feeding at the moment.  I guess that will get worse the older she gets!

Here she is a few weeks ago helping out on a freezing cold super windy Saturday at her first cross country event.  She had a brilliant day and worked really hard without complaint.  She walked miles around the course.  I guess it won't be too long before she is competing at events like this!

Here's her card...

The image is Simply Sassy Winking Student from the always brilliant Sugar Nellie Stamps. She looks a bit like Daisy!  Think it's the glasses and the pleat and the books that do it!  She's stamped onto Papermill Direct white linen card and coloured with Polychromo Pencils.  The patterned papers are First Edition "Desert Bloom" available from Trimcraft.  The sentiment is a Kaisercraft "proud" mini stamp.  The punches used are a Paper Shaper large flower and a Tonic Studios corner rounder.  The button in the middle of the flower is from Sonas Made. 

 Above are my Polychromo colours.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Shop in your craft room - Simply Create Too
Anything goes - Sister Act
Anything goes - Crafty Catz
Anything goes - Brown Sugar
Anything goes - Creative Fingers
Clean and simple - Paula Holifield Crafts
Anything goes - Crafts Galore Encore
Anything goes - A Girl Who Crafts
Anything goes - Penny Black & More
Fall/Autumn colours - Sparkles
Sugarnellie Stamp - Sugarbowl Challenge
Anything goes - 613 Avenue Create
Patterned paper - Squigglefly
Anything goes - Papertake Weekly
Colours of Autumn - Try It On Tuesday
Autumn Colours - PDE Linky Party
Anything goes - Loves Rubber Stamps
Anything goes - Digi Stamps 4 Joy
For the one you love - Ruby's Rainbow
Anything goes - Word Art Wednesday
Anything goes - The Stamping Chef

Thanks so much for looking,
keep smiling and have a great day,
Ruth xx

Humphries!

Morning all,
Been a tad bit knackered being back at the "day job" and trying to fit everything in so there's not been so many posts this week, but I will get used to it again and back on track.  There's going to be a fair few early nights while that happens though, but the good news is I am sleeping like a baby when my head does hit the pillow!  Now how do you encourage an 11 year old to go to bed earlier...

Enough of my rambling, here's my card:

 I've used "Hello Rudolph" & "Santa & Rudolph" Humphry Christmas stamps from Crafters Companion, stamped onto white linen Papermill Direct card and coloured with Polychromo Pencils.  I punched the images out with a Stampin Up 1 1/4" circle punch and mounted it on their scalloped circle punch.  The papers are a DCWV Christmas stack.  The ribbon is from Sonas Made.

Here are the Polychromo colours:

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Shop in your craft room - Simply Create Too - Had all the stuff for more than 18 months!
Anything Goes with a layer twist - Suzy Bee's Bloomin Challenge
Anything Goes - Sister Act
Pink - A Creative Romance
Anything Goes - Crafty Catz
Anything Goes - Brown Sugar
Non traditional Christmas colours - Totally Gorjuss
Anything Goes - 613 Avenue Create
Feeling Cool - Pile It On
No embellishments - Christmas Card Challenges
Christmas - The Ribbon Girl
Anything Goes plus Christmas - My Besties
Getting ready for Christmas - Dream Valley
Anything Goes - Papertake Weekly
Anything Goes - Through The Craft Room Door
Christmas Joy - Creative Card Crew
Anything Goes - Loves Rubber Stamps
3 stamps on a card - Inky Chicks
Anything Goes - Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge
Clean & Simple - Paula Holifield Crafts
Anything Goes plus handmade bow - Craft Dee Bowz
Christmas Is Coming - The Artistic Stamper
Christmas Card - Bearly Mine
Anything Goes  - Crafts Galore Encore
Anything Goes - A Girl Who Crafts
Simply Christmas - Stamping Sensations
Anything Goes - Penny Black & More
It's all about Christmas - Crafty Calendar
Simply Christmas - Sir Stamp A Lot
Bows - Crafty Creations
Anything Goes - The Stamping Chef

Thanks so much for looking
Have a great day and keep smiling
Ruth xx

An Exciting Announcement - Tuesday Throwdown TT220

Morning all, I have an exciting announcement to make today.  I am proud and happy and delighted to tell you I am now on the design team over at Tuesday Throwdown and my first card for them is for challenge TT220 - A Shaped Card which has gone live today!  This challenge is sponsored by the brilliant Robyns Fetish and I have used here "Christie Angel" digi...

The snowflake is cut from the "Accent Essentials" Cricut cartridge and is most definitely my "go-to" snowflake, it's such a great shape.  I cut the shadow in silver mirror card and the top in white glitter card, both of which I have had stashed to use for a while.  This white glitter card was a shedder though, it's fair to say my cricut mat, work desk, my entire general work area and most of myself was absolutely covered in ultrafine glitter!  Shed central!  The letter is cut from the "Don Juan" cartridge.  I used my trusty Polychromo Pencils to colour her on white linen Papermill Direct card.  I glittered her wings with glamour dust on top of glossy accents.

Here's my Polychromo colour chart...

I am so excited to be a part of this lovely team and can't wait to show you more cards for them...pop over and check out the other brilliant designers, join in the challenge, and say hi!


I would like to enter this card into the following other challenges:

Anything Goes with a layer twist - Suzy Bees Bloomin Challenge
Anything Goes - Sister Act
Pink - A Creative Romance
Anything Goes - Crafty Catz
Shaped Cards - Sweet Stampin
Non Traditional Christmas Colours - Totally Gorjuss
Glitter & Glamour - Kraftin Kimmie
Anything Goes - 613 Avenue Create
Photo Inspiration - - Come & Get It
Feeling Cool - Pile It On
No Embellishments - Christmas Card Challenge
Magical - The Corrosive Challenge Blog
Anything Goes - Scribble & Scrap
Christmas - The Ribbon Girl
Anything Goes - Paper Nest Dolls
Anything Goes/Add Some Bling - Ppinky Dolls
Anything Goes - Scrapbook Stamp Society
Getting Ready For Christmas - Dream Valley
Simply Christmas - Stamping Sensations
It's All About Christmas - Crafty Calendar

Thanks so much for looking

Keep Smiling
Ruth
xx

Pumpkin Patch

Halloweeen is here and I am looking forward to Pumpkin carving after school tonight, we had a wee look around Pinterest and there are some absolutely gorgeous really clever ones.  Unfortunately, when it comes to artisticness (don't you just love making up words), I can't draw for toffee so it will just be a bog standard pumpkin for us!

Here's my Pumpkin Patch card...

The image is a digi from the fabulous Nutcrafters.  I printed her onto Papermill Direct white linen card and coloured with Polychromo Pencils .  The papers are First Edition "Desert Bloom" available from Trimcraft.  I punched out the image using a large Woodware circle punch, and the flowers are Tonic punches.  The pearls are from Sonas Made.

 

Here is my polychromo recipe card!

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

I used this sketch from Freshly Made Sketches although I can't enter it as they have a 3 challenge rule! 







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Trick or Treat (Halloween) - A Gem of a Challenge
Halloween or Dressing Up - Open Minded Crafting
Photo Inspiration - - Crazy 4 Challenges
Any Holiday - Hiding in My Craft room - Halloween
Fall/Autumn Colours - Sparkles Monthly
Anything Goes - 613 Avenue Create
Anything Goes - Scribble & Scrap
Anything Goes - The Paper Nest Dolls Challenge
The Witching Hour - Ooh-La-La Creations
Pumpkins - Paper Make Up Stamps
Halloween - PPinky Dolls
Layer It - Craft Hoarders Anonymous
Anything Goes plus Halloween Option - Scrapbook Stamp Society
Anything Goes - The Pink Elephant
Halloween - Dream Valley
Spooky - Oldie But A Goodie - I've had the papers for a good few years now!
Anything Goes - Through The Craft Room Door
Colours of Autumn - Try It On Tuesday
Happy Halloween - Scrappy Moms
Anything Goes - Digi Stamps 4 Joy
Polka Dots - Paper Pretties
Anything Goes - Simon Says Stamp
Anything Goes - Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge
Anything Goes - Divas By Design
Anything Goes - The Stamping Chef
Fall Colours - The Sisterhood of Crafters
Halloween - Nutcrafters

Thanks so  much for looking

Keep smiling
Ruth
xx

Bewitched

Bewitched (the movie, both the original and the remake) is right up there along with all the James Bond movies, Star Trek, Star Wars and the Godfather Trilogy...films everyone always assumes you have seen, but I haven;t ever seen any of them!  Does that make me weird.  Will have to check out Netflix and see if Bewitched is on there, that could be a good Saturday movie for us this week...although I have always loved "Practical Magic" with Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman.  Daisy has recently discovered Moulin Rouge and has gone a wee bit Nicole Kidman daft at the moment.

Anyway, enough of my rambling, here is my card:

The digi is can be found at Squigglefly, and even better, she is a freebie.  She's called "Framed Witch".  I printed her onto Papermill Direct white linen card.  I then coloured her with Polychromo pencils, and it's a bit tricky to see on the pictures but I picked out all the strands of the web with a clear glitter pen from Sakura.   The patterned papers are First Edition "Desert Bloom" available from Trimcraft.

Here's my Polychromo colour list for this image:

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Fall/Autumn Colours - Sparkles Monthly Challenge
Orange & Green - Creatalicious Challenge
Trick or Treat (Halloween) - A Gem of a Challenge
Halloween or Dressing Up - Open-Minded Crafting Fun
Sketch - - Sketch Saturday
Spooky - That's Crafty
Any Holiday - Hiding In My Craftroom - Halloween
Anything Goes - 613 Avenue Create
Magical - The Corrosive Challenge
Anything Goes - Scribble & Scrap
Anything Goes / Spooky - Artistic Inspirations
Use A Frame - Squigglefly
The Witching Hour - Ooh La La Creations
Spooky Nights - The Crazy Challenge
Anything Goes (Halloween Option) - Scrapbook Stamp Society
Spooky Wishes - The Shabby Tearoom
Halloween - Dream Valley Challenges
Spooky - Oldie But A Goodie - my papers I have had probably for a good 4 or 5 years (hangs head in shame...again!)
Trick or Treat or Something Sweet - Crafty Sentiments
Happy Halloween - Scrappy Moms
Anything Goes - Digi Stamps 4 Joy
Anything Goes - Simon Says Stamp
Anything Goes - Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge
Thriller - Michael Jackson - A Song In Your HeART
Anything Goes - The Stamping Chef
Fall Colours - The Sisterhood of Crafters

Thanks so much for looking.

Keep Smiling,
Ruth xx

Holly Jolly Christmas

It still feels odd to make making Christmas Cards this early.  I am a big fan of making Christmas Cards in a batch the first weekend in December, it always makes me feel super Christmassy.  I definitely do not miss the Christmas in July working in a craft store phenomena!  Not one bit!   And I will never forget working a Christmas Eve and the back door going with a delivery of Easter stock!  Seriously people, stop wishing your time away!

Here's my early Christmas card!

a bit different for me this one.  The stamp is an old wooden one someone gave me years ago.  The Black & White cardstock are both from Papermill Direct and the red paper is a Magenta "Stars & Checkerboard" (this is the toning solid on the back!).

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Black & White & ... - Papertake Weekly - I added RED
Christmas - Oldie But A Goodie - Everything is more than 6 months old - stamp is a good few years old!
Anything Goes with a Flower Twist - Fan-Tastic Tuesday
Bows - Creative Card Crew
Festive Florals / Christmas Flowers - Divas By Design
Anything Goes with a Sentiment - Word Art Wednesday
Anything Goes - The Stamping Chef
Christmas Anything Goes with a Sentiment Twist - Completely Christmas
Sentimental - Daring Cardmakers
 Anything Goes - Sister Act
Christmas Fun - Polkadoodles
Photo Inspiration - - Festive Friday
Anything Goes -  Brown Sugar
Anything Goes - Creative Fingers

Thanks so much for looking.

Keep smiling
Ruth
xx

House & Home

I'm blogging from my cosy comfy bed in my lovely eclectic mix of a house, and it makes me smile!  It is a real mish-mash of stuff, and more than a little different but we love it!

Here's my card...

 The stamp is from "The Move" set by Woodware. The sentiment is from the "Big Sentiments" set from Personal Impressions.  I've stamped both of these with Dove Grey StazOn onto the Forever Friends Kraft Notes papers from DoCrafts.  I punched the house out with a circle punch from Stampin Up.  I finished it off with 4mm white pearls...

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Sketch - - Freshly Made Sketches
2 or 3 Word Sentiment - Aud Sentiments
Polka Dots & Pearls - Penny's Paper-Crafty
Anything Goes - The Stamping Chef
Use A Sentiment - Crafty Sentiments
Home - CASology
Warm Colours - Loves Rubber Stamps
Shop In Your Craft Room - Simply Create Too - everything I used is more than 6 months old!
Anything Goes - Sister Act Card Challenge
Anything Goes - Brown Sugar
Anything Goes - Creative Fingers

Thanks so much for looking
Keep smiling
Ruth
xx

It's A Baby!

I seem to be writing increasingly more often about how fast time is going, but it really really is!  As I made these cards today I'm finding myself thinking back to when she was a baby.  In some ways it seems like forever because so much has happened, but then in other ways I can;t quite seem to get my head around the fact that my baby is now 11 and at high school.  How did that happen.  Between school and her extra activities she is a busy wee thing and I am so proud of her.  She works so hard and is a wee trouper.

Anyway, here are today's cards:

The pram stamp is a Magnolia I've had for ages.  I love it.  I stamped it onto the Do Crafts Forever Friends Kraft Notes paper and then coloured the body of the plan really lightly with a single colour.  I glittered the detail with a clear Sakura gel pen and added buttons from Sonas Made.  It's punched out using a Stampin Up circle punch.  The sentiment is from a set of stamps I have had for so long I have no idea where I got them or who made them, I'm so sorry (slapped wrist!).  The hearts are punched with Tonic punches.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Anything Goes - Through The Craft Room Door
Use A Sentiment - Crafty Sentiments
Favourite Colour Combo - Top Tip Tuesday - pinks on "It's A Girl"
Anything Goes - Party Time Tuesdays
Sketch - - Tuesday Morning Sketches
Birthday - Digi Choosday - the ultimate birthday...the birth of a newborn baby!
All Buttoned Up - Scrappy Moms
2 or 3 Word Sentiment - Aud Sentiments
Happy Birthday - Paper Pretties - again the ultimate day of birth birthday!
Oh Baby! - Little Red Wagon

Thanks so much for looking,
keep smiling
Ruth
xx