WINNERS

Sorry everyone for the late posting of the winner's, but as promised earlier today, I have let Mr. Random pick the winners and they are as follows

BLOGAVERSARY CANDY #1 - #77 Natasha Marr

BLOGAVERSARY CANDY #2 - #16 Sue Bearhouse

BLOGAVERSARY CANDY #3 - #49 Pauline

Fizzy Moon Extra Stamp Set in Candy #3 - #50 Shuba

Congratulations ladies.......if you would please email me with your home address so that the companies can post out your goodies to you.

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My Fairy Butterfly

Good Morning everyone, sorry I've been MIA lately, and I haven't drawn the winner's name of the candy yet, but I was in a bit of a bad way last week with my back waiting for my steroid epidural which I got on Thursday, unfortunately there were a few complications with it, and they had to redo the injection at a different location in my spine, so it was a double dose and I didn't react to it so well or it didn't react with me so well, but today was the first day that I've felt up to doing anything crafting wise or sitting in front of the computer for any length of time. I will be back later with the winner's names for the blogaversary candies.

But first, here is my latest DT card for Cheery Lynn Designs, I've used a Willow image from Tickled Pink stamps, and mounted her onto the Exotic butterfly, which I covered with Shabby Blue frantage embossing powder, it looks gorgeous IRL. I then mounted this onto the Notre Dame Cathedral Doily and that was mounted onto the Mexican Tile Pattern Frame. I've used one of the Lace Deco Corners Set C for the corners and the burlap border die behind some blue cardstock. I've also used one of the Butterflies from Set #1(which I also sprinkled frantage embossing powder on) and finally to finish it all off, I've used the mini Fanciful flourish and the reverse of it as well on either side.

The paper is from Bearly Mine Designs Designer Extreme CD

Complete List of Dies Used

Mexican Tile Pattern

Lace Corner Deco C

Mini Fanciful Flourish

Notre Dame Cathedral Doily w Angel Wings

Mini Fanciful Flourish Right

Exotic Butterfly Medium #2

Small Exotic Butterflies #1

I'm entering the following challenges

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I Am Roses DT Project

Here's my latest I Am Roses DT Project

 Helloooooooooooooo, I want to show you a wooden box that Alan bought me for Christmas which I have altered  and which holds my metal charms, corners and zips for crafting. I first painted it with white gesso, then covered it with a 12x12 Melissa Frances scrapbook paper, then inked the edges with Gathered Twigs Distress Ink. I had to cut the paper to fit around the little wooden handles on the drawers (not an easy job to do)

 I then added some lovely ivory trim along the bottom

 I decorated the top of the box with an assortment of I Am Roses flowers, a little glass vial filled with beads, a couple spools, a metal clock and a smaller clock inside, and a metal butterfly.
The image is from Mo Manning which I stuck onto some metal backing plates from the Cheery Lynn dies that I had laying around, I painted them white and then sprinkled some frantage embossing powders on them, glued some lace behind one of them and attached the image to the front. I've used a couple Memory Box dies that went perfectly with the image.

Thanks for stopping by and looking. I hope you like what I've created.

List of Flowers Used

100 Mixed Color 2 Tone R8 - 428

 100 Small Rainbow Flowers S10 - 427

100 Tiny Soft Pink Leaves L1 - 311

50 Mixed Pink Color Cherry Blossoms S3 - 00

25 Mixed 3 Pink Semi Open Rose Buds T30 - 00

25 Pink Scrapbooking Curly Flowers GS2 - 120

100 Mini Mixed White with Middle Paper Flowers R2 - 428

100 White Roses Leaves ZQL 0- 151

White Mulberry Flowers R6 - 15

25 White Mulberry Flowers R40 - 15

25 Big Ivory Gardenia's GB4 - 153

Other Materials Used

Metal Butterflies - Ebay

Metal Watch - Ebay

Metal Clock - Ebay

Head Pins, Beads, Vintage Stamp Stickers & Lace - my stash

Thread Spools - Marianne Design

Glass Vial - Ebay

Paper - Melissa Frances

Cheesecloth - Ebay

Pink Charm Bauble - Ebay

Dies - Memory Box

Image - Mo Manning

I'm entering the following challenges
MilkCoffee Challenge - Shabby Chic/Vintage
Delightful Challenges - Bingo (Pattern Paper-Diecuts-Flowers)
Crafts and Me - Use a Digi
Freshly Brewed - Flowers
Simon Says Stamp - Flower Power
The Sisterhood of Crafters - April Showers bring May Flowers
Stampotique Designers Challenge - Anything Goes
Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes
Tuesday Throwdown - Smell the Roses
Vickie's Challenges - Anything Goes

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Time On My Hands

Good Morning I'm back with my DT card for Marianne Design Diva's. For my card I started off matting this gorgeous paper from the Romantic Vintage Paper pad, onto two layers of different brown cardstock. I then featured the die Clocks and Hands to match the clock in the paper. I've used the leaves dies as beautiful foliage behind the flowers, and one of the birds from the Birds die set. The side hinges are from the Petra's Large Ovals set.

List of Products Used

Birds COL1311

Romantic Vintage Paper Bloc PK9093

Clocks and Hands CR1234

Petra's Large Ovals LR0240

Leaves LR0192

We've got two fabulous prizes to win

From Cuddly Buddly and Marianne Designs

Don't forget in order to be entered into the draw for the prizes, you must use at least one Marianne Designs product on your card or project.

I'm entering my card into the following challenges

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Shasta Time

Good Morning, here I am with my latest card for Cheery Lynn Designs, and with this week's challenge theme being "Dry Embossing", it was time to get out one of the many embossing plates that Cheery Lynn has.

I embossed some pink card using the Black Eyed Susan's embossing plate, and with the pink card, the debossing side looked better and was more pronounced so I used that side. I then laid over top the Chasing Rainbows Doily and added an image from Bildmalarna.  I've also used the Tiny Bubbles border cut out of white cardstock and then stuck to some pink cardstock. The flowers are the Shasta Daisy, and foliage is the Princess Tree and the Ivy Strip. I've also added a small dragonfly from the Things with Wings set, and finished it all off with a Lace Corner from the "C" set. Pearls from my stash.

List of Dies Used

Black Eyed Susans Embossing Plate

Chasing Rainbows Doily with Angel Wing

Ivy Strip

Tiny Bubbles Border

Shasta Daisy Strip

Tiny Things with Wings

Princess Tree

Lace Corner Deco C

Don't forget our challenge theme this week is Dry Embossing. You could win a $20 Shopping spree at Cheery Lynn Designs

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National Teacher Appreciation Day

Good Afternoon Crafters, here's my project I made for the latest I Am Roses Challenge, celebrating National Teacher Appreciation Day.

I decided to make an Easel box card. I started off making the boxes for my card, and covered them with paper (not sure what company they are from) and used Gathered Twigs Distress inks on the edges of the paper. To create the handle I used flat brads and then attached a flower using hot glue.

For my card I used Tilda with Pencils to fit in with the challenge of using a ruler, pencils or an apple on your card or project. I knew when I bought her she would come in handy one day....lol

I cut her out using Spellbinders Labels 4, and created a little blackboard by using chalkboard paint on Kraft cardstock. All the foliage behind the flowers are Marianne Design dies and one Magnolia die.

The metal corners are from Natalie & Amy's shop.

The inside of the Easel card I found this sentiment on Pinterest and it was perfect for this project. The ruler I found on the net, and printed it out, and inked the edges with Gathered Twigs Distress inks.

Closeup of the Crystal Stems which were clear, but I colored them with Copics to match the flowers.

A closeup of all the flowers used, complete listing below

List of Flowers Used

25 Mixed Orange - Tangerine Daisy Flowers  D1 - 210

50 Mixed Pink Color Cherry Blossoms S3 - 00

100 Half Pink-Yellow Flowers R2 - 411

25 Pink and Yellow 2 Tone Mulberry Roses

50 Mini Champagne Pink Semi Open Rose Buds

List of Other Supplies

DP - ???

Foliage Dies - Marianne Design & Magnolia

Image and Banner - Magnolia

Chalkboard - made of Kraft cardstock and Blackboard paint

Inside sentiment and ruler via the internet

Metal Corners - Natalie & Amy's shop

Butterfly Die - Cart Us

Crystal Bead strands - Ebay

I'm entering my card into the following challenges

Crafting Musketeers - Anything Goes

Fashionable Stamping - Anything Goes

Great Impressions - Special Occasions

Lovely Hanglar Stanglar/Magnolia - Anything Goes

The Hybrid Chick - Use Flowers

One Stop Craft Challenge - Flower Power

Craft Your Passion - Floral Delights

Lady Anne's Challenge - Easel Card

Make it Monday

The Crazy Challenge - Card with Box

Crafty Sentiments - Use a Sentiment

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

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Lots of Layers

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 Good Morning everyone, here I am with my latest card for Cheery Lynn Designs Inspiration Blog, for my card I've used a LOTV image of Patch and Jack celebrating someone's birthday.....it's a great image for a birthday card.

This week's challenge is "Lots of Layers" so I dug out some brown and beige papers to layer up with kraft cardstock. I cut the main image and the layers behind it out with the A6 Card Stackers Rectangle and Rectangle Scalloped.

The flowers are the Chrysanthemum die, leaves are the Wreath Strip and the Olive branches.

I've also used the Index Card which I stamped Happy Birthday onto, and I've used the Make a Wish sentiment set (set of 2)

I hope you'll join in on this week's challenge.......you have the chance to win a  $20 shopping spree at Cheery Lynn Designs. Remember you must use at least one die from Cheery Lynn to enter.

List of Dies used

MakeA Wish

Olive Branches

Wreath Strip

Chrysanthemum Strip

Index Card

A6 Metric Card Stackers Rectangle Classic

A6 Metric Card Stackers Rectangle Scalloped

I'm entering my card into the following challenges
Our Creative Corner - Anything Goes
Really Reasonable Ribbon - Ribbon, Bling & Sparkle
Catch the Bug - Anything Goes
The Cutie Pie Challenge - Lots of Layers
Lexi's Creations - Happy Birthday
Love to Scrap - Anything Goes

I'll be back later with my project for I AM ROSES

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Cheery Lynn Inspiration Time

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Good Morning, Happy Tuesday to you all, here I am with my card for the Cheery Lynn Inspiration Blog.

I wasn't sure what I would create this week, just so many dies to choose from, and I knew I couldn't put them all on so I used a few older dies combined with a couple new ones.

I've used this super cute image from Mo Manning, colored with Copics, and I've sprinkled Frantage Embossing powders along the edges, as well as in the upper right hand corner.

I started off by using some mulberry paper as the background, then a paper from Bearly Mine Designs and then my image on top. I've added the Burlap Border die behind the image, and the grass die along the bottom of the image. The corner die is from the Lace Deco Corner Set B. I've also used part of the Butterfly Out corner die cut out in black to give a stark contrast to the rest of the card. The flowers are the Sweet Williams Strip die cut out of the same pink Mulberry paper in the background.

I've used one of the new dies Ivy Corner underneath the flowers and finished it off with the Celtic Heart. And of course with this week's theme of Bling It up, I've added some clear gemstones in the corners, and some blue gems on the ivy corner.

Don't forget you have the chance to win a $20 voucher to use at Cheery Lynn Designs by entering our weekly challenge.

List of Dies Used

Butterfly Out

Celtic Heart

Lace Corner Deco B

Burlap Border

Sweet Williams Strip

Ivy Corner Flourish

Grass Border

I'm entering my card into the following challenges

LOVE TO CREATE - PUNCHES/DIES
SPARKLE N SPRINKLE - USE A DIGI IMAGE
STAMPIN' FOR THE WEEKEND - DIECUTS/PUNCHES
COPIC MARKER EUROPE - GIRLS ALOUD

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Things with Wings New Challenge

Good Morning it's time for another monthly challenge at Natalie  & Amy's, and my fellow teamie Susie has chosen a wonderful theme of "Anything with Wings"

I struggled to find an image to go with the papers, but eventually came up with this LOTV image precolored from their art pad, I've used Glossy Accents on his nose to make it shiny, and used Frantage embossing powders along the edge of the image. The butterflies are all part of the C.C. Designs Butterfly Border die, which I cut them out individually using Kraft cardstock, and then sprinkled Frantage embossing powders on them and they came out looking nice and metallic......I love those embossing powders. The gorgeous papers are from the Graphic 45 French Country papers matted onto black cardstock. The lovely buttons in the corner match the papers perfectly as does the gorgeous metal corner in the upper left.

I hope you'll join us over at Natalie & Amy's this month, we have a fabulous prize of a 

£15 voucher to spend at Natalie & Amy's so you can stock up on some lovely crafting goodies.

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List of Products used available at Natalie & Amy's

Graphic 45 French Country 8x8

 C.C. Design Cutters Butterfly Border Die

Buttons

 Glossy Accents

 Metal Corners

Other materials used

Cheery Lynn burlap border die

Black Organza ribbon

Frantage embossing powders on the butterflies and edge of image

I'm entering my card into the following challenges

CARDS FOR MEN - ANIMALS

CARDS IN ENVY - THINGS WITH WINGS

LEXI'S CREATIONS - HAPPY BIRTHDAY

DREAM VALLEY CHALLENGES - THINGS WITH WINGS

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A Card for Mother's Day

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I've used an image from LOTV, colored with Copics, and cut out with the oval classic Lg Silver stackers, I then drew the false stitching using the edge of the die to make perfect lines. I then cut out a larger circle using the Oval Classic Large Stackers. The largest square cut out of Kraft cardstock was done using the Mini Pearl Square. All other matting was created using the square classic and scalloped Lg Stackers. Flowers are the new Shasta Daisy Strip, and the Embellishment #1 die. Foliage is the ivy strip and the centre piece from the Victorian Garden Doily Frame., I've also used the Princess Tree at the top of my card. The gauze border across the centre is another one of the new releases.

I made the sentiment spelling out Mom using a alpha stamp set from Whimsy and the Tags 4 set. Papers are from Bearly Mine new set Floral Surprise, pearls from my stash. The card is 8x8.

List of Dies Used

Embellishment #1

Ivy Strip

Victorian Garden Doily Frame

 Darling Daisies

Embellishment #1

Shasta Daisy Strip

Princess Tree

Tags 4

Gauze Border

Square - Classic Lg Stackers

Square - Scalloped Lg Stackers

Oval Classic - Lg Silver Stackers

Oval Classic - Lg Stackers

Mini Pearl Square

LIST OF CHALLENGES I'M ENTERING

Artistic Impressions - Card for a Lady

Crafty Bloggers Network - Anything Goes

Love to Create -  (BINGO) - Stitching, Diecuts, Tags

Love to Scrap - Cut it Out

Mema's Crafts - Anything Goes

Robyn's Fetish - Make your own Flowers

The Squirrel and the Fox - Furry Friends

Allsorts - A Passion for Flowers

My Time to Craft - Stitching

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What Used to Be a Mirror is Now....A

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Good Morning one and all, my what a busy week it's been for me already, three days in a row posting....and I'm not finished for the week yet either.....lol

But I wanted to show you the mirror and frame I had, which I have transformed into a gorgeous and useable Chalkboard for my craft room when it's finally repainted.

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I first started by removing the mirror from the inside and Alan sprayed it with Chalkboard paint, giving it about 4 coats.

The frame used to be a lovely wooden frame, but I wanted a white distressed frame, so I took a few Viva Decor pens, and put them on using my fingers, smearing and mixing the colors as I went along, this gave it an antiquey type look to it, once dried I painted over it with White Pearlized paint, which gave it a shabby chic look, I then dabbed on some more Viva Decor paints with a textured cloth. When that layer dried I painted on some white titanium acrylic paint, and then a coat of Distress Ink Crackle Paint Picket Fence color, and all these lovely little tiny cracks started appearing everywhere. Finally I finished it off with a coat of Mod Podge to seal it all in.

I took some metal corners and applied the same technique, then glued them to the corners.

I used some of the Viva Decor pens to change the color of the metal butterfly and dragonfly as well.

Then the fun began.......I got to decorate the corners with flowers

Here's a complete list of the flowers used

100 Mini Mixed White with Middle Paper Flowers R2 - 428

100 Mixed Color 2 Tone R8 - 428

100 Tiny Soft Pink Leaves L1 - 311

100 Pink Soft Green Roses Leaves ZQL 0 - 3

25 White Daisy Flowers D1 - 15

50 Mixed All Color Carnation Flowers CA1 - 427

50 Mixed Pink Color Cherry Blossoms S3 - 00

50 White Cherry Blossoms S3 - 151

25 Mixed Color Semi Open Rose Buds T30 - 427

100 Foam Head White Stamen ZQST1 - 151

25 Pink Scrapbooking Curly Flowers GS2 - 120

25 Mixed Purple Scrapbooking Curly Flowers GS2 - 601

Don't forget we have a challenge going on too. This month's challenging is all about Journalling, can be on a card, layout or other project

I'm entering my Chalkboard into the following challenges

Chalk n Stock - Anything Goes (must use chalk)

Hotshot Craft - Anything but a Card

Artistic Impressions - Anything but a Card

Crafty Boots - Recycle Something (mirror and frame)

Created with Love - Recycle - Reuse (Mirror and Frame)

Seemacrafts - Alter Something (mirror and frame)

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A Purple Fantasy World

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Good Morning, today I'm showing you my DT card for Cheery Lynn Designs, following the challenge theme of  "Pretty in Purple". I've used a Mo Manning baby fairy digi stamp, and went a little overboard with the glue on the wings, which I sprinkled Glamour dust on. Oh well baby fairies are allowed puffy sparkly wings.

And seeing as how it's a fantasy world, there's nothing wrong with purple bees and purple and white ladybirds either....lol

I do love the new burlap border which I cut out of purple card, and the new Chrysanthemum's....they may just be my new favorite flower. But it's oh so easy to cut out a few flowers in just one go and then easy to put together too.

The papers are from my Spring Surprise Digi Set and are perfect for this week's theme, pearls from my stash.

List of Dies Used

Burlap Border

Chrysanthemum Strip

Mini Fanciful Flourish Right

Tiny Things with Wings

A6 Metric Card Stackers Rectangle Scalloped

Mini Fanciful Flourish

Ivy Strip

Lace Deco Corner J

I'm entering my card into the following challenges

Card Mania - Punches/Die cuts

Cards in Envy - Things with Wings

Digi Makeover Challenge - Girly

Love to Scrap - Cut It Out

Sparkle n' Sprinkle - Use a digi image

Digi Galore - One for the Girls

Creative Card Crew - Handmade Flowers

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Featured Sponsor of My Blogaversary Blog Candy

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Good Afternoon, I'd like to introduce you to a fabulous company here in the UK called Craft Shape Supplies that specializes in wooden craft shapes, which you can alter or decorate to your hearts content.

I stumbled across Ken's site last fall and since then I've purchased some letters and other craft shapes from him, which I haven't decorated yet, but I have a lot of them in my craft cupboard.

I did manage to decorate these letters though for my craft room. The letters are made from pine, and are 6mm thick and 6" tall.

To start I painted all the letters with white acrylic paint, which was very thin paint, but perfect for creating a shabby chic look to them. I then distressed the edges with sanding paper and also using Vintage Photo distress ink.

I colored up some cute Tilda's in shades of pink and blue which stand out great against the faded white of the letters now. I also attached some beautiful flowers from I Am Roses, again in the perfect colors.......now I can't wait to hang it on my wall, once we repaint the bedroom/craft room.

If you'd like to alter, paint, paper or distress some letters for your home, check out Ken's shop, and you wouldn't meet a nicer fellow, plus for first time customer's he has a 10% off deal.

And just to prove he's such a great guy, he's kindly sponsored one of the blogaversary candies and here is what he's offering to one lucky winner

a selection of various shapes........ooo what I could do with that! You'll find the complete listing in one of the Blog Candies tabs up top.

All the letters wouldn't fit in one photo, so I took pics of each letter and then put them together.

Thanks Ken for being such a fabulous sponsor.

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New Release Day at Cheery Lynn Designs

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Good Morning.....here's my second post of the day. It's my DT card for Cheery Lynn Designs, and today is the NEW RELEASE day at Cheery Lynn, so head over to the Inspiration Blog and check out my fellow teamies creations showing off more of the New Releases.

For my card, I started off by making the border using the Tiny Bubbles border die and the City Edger Die on either side of it and continued on from that. I really, really love these new Flower die strips, they allow you to cut out so many layers of petals in one go, then it's just a matter of putting them together. All I did was add some color using distress inks to the edges and the centre, then spray the Sweet Williams with water and scrunched them up, let them dry then unscrunched them and glued the layers together and voila, shabby chic flowers. The Shasta Daisy, was just sponge inked in the centre and wet with water and left to dry....no scrunching.

You'll see the Reverse Mini Flourish in the bottom with my big blooms.

Closeup of the Sweet Williams and Shasta Daisy Strip Die Flowers

The top of the border you'll see the lovely little chrysanthemum's, I only used the two smallest in size to create these and laid them onto the ivy flourish corner. I also used the small little flowers from the Embellishments #3 They seemed to match the flowers in the paper design quite well, and funnily enough the new ivy strip used also matched the ivy strip design in the paper as well......so a really good match here.

The image is a Sarah Kay image called "Pia", and I colored her with Copics (working on my pleats...lol)

I've also included the new Felicity Doily (Just one of the many new doily dies that Cheery Lynn does so well) and the sentiment Friend cut out of dark fuschia cardstock.

The papers are from Bearly Mine Designs "Petunia Parade" Digi set

 Closeup of the Chrysanthemum Strip Flower

Complete List of New Release Dies Used

Tiny Bubbles Border

City Girl Edger

Sweet Williams Strip

Shasta Daisy Strip

Chrysanthemum Strip

Felicity Doily

Ivy Corner Flourish

Ivy Strip

Mini Fanciful Flourish Reverse

Friend

Other items used

Papers - Bearly Mine Designs "Petunia Parade"

Pearls, Brads and Gems from my stash

Image - Sarah Kay - "Pia"

Challenges I'm entering my card into:

OSAAT - Bright Colors

Card Crafter's Circle - Diecuts/Dry Embossing

Little Miss Muffet - Anything Goes

Divas by Design - Flowers

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