Winner of the CSN Stores Voucher Giveaway

Thank you for your entries. I was going to use Random Org but it was all gobbledy gook to me, so took the less techie option of putting all 28 names into a bag and got DD to pick one! So without further ado,.....................

the winner is #10 Dawn. 

Congratultions hun, if you email me your details I'll contact CSN and get them to send your voucher over to you.

Pocket Card Invites

It's DD's birthday in a couple of weeks and she's decided that she'd like to have six of her closest friends to come round for a BBQ party and sleepover. So I've agreed on the condition they camp in the garden! She couldn't find any invitations from the shops that she liked, so asked if I'd make "nice" invitations.  So, guess what I've been doing today? yep making up invites. I hope these meet with her approval.

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Craftalicious  - Birthdays
Pollycraft Mondays - Bold & Bright

Cupcake Crazy

I made this card for one of the lovely ladies on MSE who celebrates her birthday today. I hope she had a fab day.

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Cowgirl's Sunday Challenge - Sherbert & Icecream Colours
Crafty Cardmakers - Photo Inspiration (colours)
Crazy Challenge - It's Hip to be Square
Stampavie & More - Anything goes

Giveaway for my UK Followers

I have a fantastic giveaway for my UK followers thanks to those lovely folks over at CSN Stores. Just incase you didn't know, CSN sell a huge range of amazing products including ceiling lights, furniture and cookware, please do pop over to check them out. To give you taste of the products available, I've picked out a couple of my favourite items which I think are just gorgeous!

I expect you're all wondering by now what the lucky winner of this giveaway will receive? Well you'll get a £40 gift voucher to spend on anything you please at any one of the six CSN Stores UK websites.

To enter this fabulous giveaway, simply become a follower, pop your name in Mr Linky and spread the word about the giveaway on your blog. If you don't have a blog you can still enter, put your full name in the name box and in the URL box link back to my blog and keep a note of your Linky number in case you're the winner. To make it fair, only one entry per person please.

The draw will close on Sunday 18th July at 8pm UK time and the winner will be announced on Monday so check back to see if your the winner. If the prize is not claimed by Sunday 25th July another winner will be selected.

Crafty Ribbons Challenge # 16

I was lucky enough to be selected for the latest Crafty Ribbons Challenge. I don't use a lot of ribbons on my work and certainly not heavily patterned ones, so when I received my bundle of Fun in the Sun ribbons I knew I was in for a proper challenge!

I decided that I'd like to make a travel game with one of the ribbon designs, a card and a hair clip with a some of the others.

This is the box that I made to contain the travel Tic Tac Toe game

Here's the game

This is the hair clip

This is the card (excuse the piccy on this one, I just couldn't get the angle right. The ribbon looks like it's at an angle - it's not (well I don't think it is!) and the card is most definately pictured at a strange angle.

Tools
Sizzix Bigshot
Sizzix Texturz Kit #2
Martha Stewart Scoreboard
Purple Cows Guilotine
Sizzix Originals Body Die
Sizzix Originals Hair Die
Spellbinder Nestabilities Large Circles
Basic Grey Sanding Tools

Materials
Co-Ordinations Whitewash Card
Red, Yellow & White Paper - Lidl
Blue Cloud Paper - freebie
Beer Mat
Ribbons
Glossy Accents
Shrink Plastic

I'd like to enter the tic tac toe game into the following challenges:
Sir Stampalot - Lazy Hazy Days of Summer
Ohh La -La -Creations - Simply Summer

Totally Tilda Challenge - or an excuse to play!

When I saw that the Totally Tilda Challenge Blog was running its first challenge I thought it was a perfect excuse to use Tilda as I don't use her nearly as much as I'd like too. The theme is chocolate and I have to say that despite my initial reservations, I think she looks beautiful in this colour.

The card base has been cut using nesties. I've distressed the edges of just about everything in sight and given them a rub over with distress inks. Tilda has been coloured with Promarkers and then her dress has been painted with pearlescent paints. Stickles have been applied to her crown, the bodice and hem of her dress ( unfortunately, I can't get the shimmer and sparkle to show very well). The shoes have had a coat of Glossy Accents.

The brown co-ordinations card has been embossed and sanded. I made the flowers using my new Sizzix flower die. The flowers have been given the stickles treatment too. The gold bow is from ribbon (it's just gold bows joined together and I've cut one off).

Tools
Bigshot
Roses Embossing Folder
Sizzix 3D Flower Die
X-cut Border Punch
Basic Grey Sanding Kit
Spellbinder Nestabilities Labels 8
Xyron Sticker machine

Materials
Brown Dot Paper - K&Co
Brown Stripe Paper - Basic Grey
Brown Card - Core-dinations Card
Lace - from stash
Promarkers
Pearlescent Paints
Stickles - Rock Candy
Glossy Accents
Distress Inks - Walnut Stain
Gold Bow Ribbon - from stash
Card Candy - Craftwork Cards

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Totally Tilda - Chocolate
Glitterbabe's Challenge - Make it Sparkly
The Craft Barn - Shaped Cards
One Stitch at a Time Challenge Blog - Lace, Ribbons & Bows
Cowgirls Sunday Challenge - Scallops & Embellishments
Crafty Catz - Distressing
Crafty Cardmakers - Inky Fingers
Stamp, Scrap & Doodle Saturdays - Shaped Cards
La La Land Crafts - Something New (my new Flower Die)
The ABC Challenge - X - xtra dimension
Dutch Dare - Flowers
Stamp with Fun - Birthdays
Everybody Art - Birthdays
Shelley's Images - Anything goes
Craftalicious - Cute
Stampavie & More - Sparkling
Beary Sweet - Embossing
A Lota Rubber Stamps - Inside Out
Prairie Fairy - Anything Goes
Mark's Finest Papers - Die cut
One Stop Craft Challenge - Distressing
Pile it on - Favourite things (my new flower die and of course Tilda)
Basic Grey - Photo Inspiration (the leaves and spots)
Magical Crafts - Flowers
Crafty Cardmakers - First, Latest & Greatest

Butterfly Easel Card

I have lots of birthday cards to make for this month and as usual I've left things to the last minute! Unfortunately, many of the cards will also need to be sent via the post. I've been desperately trying to think up ways of sending nice female cards that aren't too embellishment heavy to avoid having to pay large letter or packet rate. Hopefully, this card is the solution!!

The card hasn't really turned out how I wanted it to, but I decided that I'd blog all of my attempts be they successes or failures! I had an idea in my head but it hasn't quite come together on paper!! The glue dried far too quickly in this heat and I struggled to get the beads to stick and I also ran out red paper scraps. The only consolation is that at least I know what works and what doesn't! I'll definitely be attempting this card again albeit with some alterations!

I've drawn the card base using a freebie shaped card from this months Papercraft Inspirations as a template. The base has then been covered in DP's which have been edged with distress inks. I've also added some dots of Glossy Accents and then tipped a few gold glass micro beads onto it, and then covered them with another coat of glue. You'll notice that there are no stoppers on the base of the easel, the reason for this is that the easel card is designed to lay completely flat when folded (thus avoiding hefty postal costs). The idea for the "stopper less" base isn't mine, I'm afraid. I've shamelessly nicked the idea from Create & Craft TV.

Tools
Tim Holtz Blender
Scissors

Materials
Card - The Papermill
Distress Inks - Scattered Straw, Tea Dye and Forest Moss
DP - My Minds Eye Freebie from a magazine
Template - Freebie from Papercraft Inspirations
Glossy Accents
Glass Micro Beads

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Crafty Cardmakers - Inky Fingers
Incy Wincy - Things with wings
Craft Barn - Shaped cards
Creative Craft Crew - Easel card