Awards & Show

I would like to thank my friends Kim, Karin, Heike, Camilla, Line and Moni for passing the above award to me and making me smile! I received this award a couple of days ago but would like to pass it to my friends in my blog list who haven't received this from me already as a thank for your visit.

Before I go I just wanted to mention that Zoe and I are going to Alexandra Palace on Saturday for the "The Big Stamp and Scrapbooking Show". If any of my blog friends are going too please drop me a mail as it would be great to meet up.

Hugs,

Trish Tea Angel and some Yummy Awards

I can't believe it's Friday already.. where has the week gone? I have quite a few birthdays coming up so here is a card I made last night using one of my new stamps High Hopes "Trish Tea Angel". If you like the design of my card you can find the sketch for it over at my Sketch blog.

Over the last couple of days I have received some fab awards. The first yummy one from my sweet friends Marlene and Jacqui.

I would like to pass this award to all my Diva team mates at High Hopes and also to the "A Spoon Full of Sugar" DT gang. I won't list all your names but you can see who they are from the list in my side bar.

My other award has been given to me from Malin... Oh Malin.. I just LOVE this - thank you! I pass this below Sylvester award to my daughter Zoe, Heidi, Kelly, Agnes, Karin, Debbie, Lim, Marlene, Bryony, Kristine & Jakki.

Before I go my friend Crissy has just told me that October 4th is "World Card Making Day". If you haven't heard about this you can check out details here. The website has lots of great idea's on how to celebrate and also you can upload your cards to share your creations.

OK, one last thing (boy this was a long post today!).. My daughter Zoe and her friend Hannah at Craft Monkey's have their new challenge starting today at 3:30pm GMT. Don't forget to pop on over to show your support and encourage your under 16's to join in.

Have a great weekend!
Hugs,

Card details:
Stamps: High Hopes Trish Tea Angel" & High Hopes "Tea-Riffic Day" Sentiment
Ink: Memories
Technique: Primacolor Premier Pencils with Sansodor and Paper stumps to blend.
Paper: K&Company Brenda Walton Specialty Paper
Embellishments: Blooms, buttons, dew drops, Hand-made Heart button (thank you Stephanie)

Awards

Over the weekend I received the below two awards.. i'm so lucky! The first from Lainy. Thank you so much sweetie and you know I love your blog too!

The second award comes from dear Line. Thank you for making my day with this new award!


Rules for the JAVABLU Award are:

1. The winner can put the logo on their blog.
2. Link the person you received your award from.
3. Nominate at least 5 other blogs.
4. Before listing the nominees give a brief reason why you chose them
5. Put links of those blogs on yours. 6. Leave a message on the blogs you have nominated.

I have passed on the "I love your blog" award before so I would like to pass on my new award today to Heidi, Debbie, Kelly, Jakki, Karin and Agnes. I have become really good friends with all of these wonderful ladies. Your all the best!

See you in the morning with my challenge card for Spoon Full.

Hugs,

Friday Sketchers, Mothers and Daughters Creations and an Award

We're back from a very wet Cornwall but we had a lovely break. It was lovely to see my Mum and for the girls to play with their Nanny.

Here is a card I made today to cover two challenges. Firstly Friday sketchers which is using the fabulous sketch by Bea as shown below. Also this weeks Mothers and Daughters creations which is to use Stickles on your card.

The shell on my card was collected by my girls at Looe beach on Sunday. It was chucking down and both girls were like drowned rats but had such a great time digging around with their buckets and spades with my Mum. All stamps can be purchased from Silly Monkey Crafts.


I also came home to this lovely award from my good friend Justine - thanks honey!

I know this award has been around lots but would like to pass it to any of my friends who make my day and leave me comments who haven't received it.

My daughter Zoe and her friend Hannah's new challenge started today over at Crafty Monkey's. Please show them your support and ask you little ones to take part. They have a Magnolia stamp to give to one lucky winner.

Have a great weekend!
Hugs,




Card details
Stamps: High Hopes Sweet Anabela, Stanley Sea Snail & You're Fin-tastic! Sentiment (thank you Agnes)
Medium: Prismacolor, Sansodor, Paper stumps, Sakura Stardust pen and stickles.
Ink: Stazon
Paper: SU Ruby Red and Old Olive & Fanciful Pink Diamonds by Paper Adventures. All SU products be ordered through myself.
Embellishments: Ribbon, dew drops (thank you Heidi), Fibres (thank you Lim)

Blog Candy Alert

Jacqui is celebrating 10,000 hits with some very generous blog candy which includes two Rachelle Anne Miller stamps. Pop on over and enter and while your there don't forget to have a good look around at her fabulous creations.

Thought you mike like to see this picture of Danni. I took her and Zoe to the hairdresser this afternoon and couldn't help but laugh.... Danni fell asleep half way through her cut! It was so funny as I had to hold her head up for the hairdresser while she sat there with her mouth open catching flies!

I would also like to thank my blogging friends Jeanette, Tina and Jacqueline for passing the Wylde Woman Award to me and for making my day! I have already received this award before but would like to pass on this award to any of my blogging friends who haven't received it yet as a thank you for your visits and wonderful comments.

See you tomorrow with my challenge card.

Have a great evening,

Happy Friday!

Yeah, I've just been onto the Mother and Daughters creation challenge to check out this weeks challenge to see I won all these wonderful goodies for my entry in last weeks challenge.


It's the Wylde Women award
I have also received this very cool new award today from my talented blogging friends Dawny, Rach, Karin, Tracy, Mumur, Holly, Mel, Moni and Camilla. Thank you so much! If you haven't visited them before hop on over for oodles of inspiration. I haven't added you to my list below but would have passed this to all of you!

The rules of this award are:

1. You can give it to one or one hundred or any number in between - it's up to you. Make sure you link to their site in your post.2. Link back to this blogsite www.tammyvitale.com so Tammy can go visit all these wonderful women.and remember the Purpose of the Award: To send love and acknowledgment to women who brighten your day, teach you new things and live their lives fully with generosity and joy. This is really tricky and I have a huge list to pass this to:

Zoe
Debbie
Hannah
Agnes
Sanne
Ruby
Britt
Maria
Kelly
Jakki
Barb
Gill
Heidi
Ila
Lim
Trina
Justine
Kristine

I am sorry if I have missed any of my friends out and I could have seriously written 100 names down without even trying! I probably won't get round to telling you all this evening now as it's getting late.

Have a great weekend,
Hugs,

Ok, i'm blushing... I have today received these great awards. The first was from Christine and the gold card from Maria and Stacey, Gill, Lolo, and Trina. Thanks you so much for thinking of me and you have really have all made my day.

I have already given out this award this week so I would like to dedicate these awards to all my friends and visitors and thank you for all wonderful comments that you leave me.

Have a lovely evening and I hope to be back in the next couple of days with my DT card as I received some gorgeous HH stamps from the new collection today to play with.
Hugs,

Fab new award

I today received this fabulous new award from Debbie and Tracie. Thank you so much and you know how much I love your creations and visiting your blogs.

The rules of this award,
1. Only 5 people allowed.
2. 4 have to be dedicated followers of your blog
3. one has to be someone new or recently new to your blog and live in another part of the world.
4. you must link back to whoever gave you the award.quite simple really it is a way of saying thankyou to those who take time out for wonderful comments to boost your day.okay Here's the ladies I have dedicated this award to.....

Karin
Tina
Marieke
Heike
Nice

Have a great evening.
Hugs

More fab mail and Award

I received this gorgeous card in the post today from my dear friend Heidi. She also sent me these beautiful charms too. Thank you so much Heidi for this wonderful and unexpected gift.


I received this award today from the wonderful Tina - Yummy Scrummy Create. Thank you so much my dear it is an honor to receive this from you.

I would like to pass this award on to all my visitors and readers of this post as a thank you for your visit.

My first Sarah Kay...

I made this card to join in with my friend Karin's Dutch Dare Card Challenge. This week they are asking you to use only 1 piece of designer paper. I have also joined in the new Sarah Kay Challenge - Stamp with Sarah Kay. Thank you for the great sketch.

I have used my copics to colour today and am pleased with how this turned out and love the vibrancy of the colours but haven't quite got the hang of the shading yet - more practice needed! I can't help going back to my Prisma's though as you know how much I love them!

If you are looking to buy some Sarah Kay stamps Silly Monkey crafts have just received theirs.

I hope you all have a great weekend and it is not too wet where you are. I might be back with another card over the weekend but if not see you Tuesday with my challenge card.
Hugs,




Card detail:
Stamps: Sarah Kay - Margaux is painting Stamp & Ticket Stamp
Medium: Copic Sketch Markers
Paper: K&Company by Brenda Walton
Embellishments: Buttons, ladybug embellishment (Tesco's), Ribbon (thank you Agnes), Homemade Orange Heart button (thank you Stephanie), Crochet flower - Rebecca's Scrapbooking Stash
Equipment: Cuttlebug with bloom dots embossing folder.

I received the above award today from the very talented Rach. Thank you so much and it is such an honor to receive this from you as you know I think your work is just... WOW!

I would now like to pass this to the following 3 talented ladies who I love to visit as often as I can, please take the time to pop over and check out their work.

Maria - Maria's Studio
Renee
Joan

A Spoon Full of Sugar - "One for the Boys"

Thank you to everyone who entered a card into our challenge last week over at "A Spoon Full of Sugar". It has been so lovely to visit your blogs and see all your wonderful creations.

This weeks theme is "One for the Boys" and as the title suggests you need to make a card for a boy/man in your life. Remember you need to use either a Sugar Nellie, Rachelle Anne Miller or Hanglar stamp.

This week Camilla has very kindly donated the stamp "Giddy up!" by Elisabeth Bell for our prize.

I made my card for this weeks challenge for my Grandad who will be celebrating his birthday this week. I coloured the Hanglar boy in my Prismacolor pencils but the goat and tree were coloured in a mixture of Copics and Promarkers. If you are looking to buy some marker pens Silly Monkey Crafts has a fabulous selection of ProMarkers. I used three different Basic Grey papers to create the background and used fibers for the grass. I put a little slit into the goats mouth to pop in some more fibers. I am really pleased with how this card turned out and hope you like it.



Card detail:
Stamps: Hanglar Trädgårdskille, Hanglar Goat and Magnolia Tree
Medium: Prismacolor, Sansodor & Paper stumps, Copics, ProMakers
Paper: Basic Grey Archaic
Embellishments:Fibres
Equipment: Cricut Expression with Mickey's Font Cartridge



Thank you Erna for passing this award to me today. I can't believe this is the 12th time I have received this award in a week. Thank you!

I received this award today from my friend Gill. Thank you so much for passing this to me. I am not sure of the rules but would now like to pass this too:

Agnes
Barb
Kelly

If you get the time please pop over to their blogs for lots of inspirations.

Have a great evening,

A Spoon Full of Sugar - Challenge 6 "CIRCLES"

Don't forget to check out my below post for Blog Candy!


Thank you to everyone who entered a card into our challenge last week over at "A Spoon Full of Sugar". It has been so lovely to visit your blogs and see all your wonderful creations.

All you have to do this week is make a card with a circle somewhere in the design. It could be on the paper, greeting or whatever else you can think of. Remember you need to use either a Sugar Nellie, Rachelle Anne Miller or Hanglar stamp.

We have some fantastic blog candy to send one randomly chosen winner this week, which Bryony from Silly Monkey Crafts has kindly donated. Pop over to her store as she has a fantastic range stamps including High Hopes, Rachelle Anne Miller and Lizzie Anne Designs. Silly Monkey's are also expecting the Sarah Kay stamps very soon.

This is just a quick card from me this week as I am still struggling to find time to work on other projects. Now I can say I have made my first Christmas card which is for my Niece.

Card detail:
Stamp: Maggie the Christmas Fairy
Medium: Prismacolour, Sansodor & Paper stumps, Sakura stardust pen, Fruit Punch Stickles and Mint Ice Stickles.
Paper: From a Christmas pack I bought from The Range.
Embellishments: ribbon
Equipment: Wizard Machine, Nestabilities, Cricut Expression and Zooballoo Cartridge


AWARD


My friend Trina has given me this lovely new award today - thank you so much.. you know how much I love your gorgeous work and for anyone who hasn't visited Trina please pop over and pay her a visit.

I would like to pass this special award to my very good friend Debbie - Crafting Fairy. She knows how special she is and we've become such great friends and even though we've never met it's great to have someone to share idea's with and get honest opinions from.
Big huggles Debbie. x

Today I received this fabulous award from Karin and Karen. It's a special award given to weblogs that catch your eye. Thank you so much ladies you have made my day and thank you for thinking of me. Update: Today 30/06/08 I also received this great award from the following very talented ladies - Michelle, Jeanette, Bev, Pati and Tiina. If you get the time please go and check out out their amazing blogs.. you won't be disappointed!

I would like to give this now to my friends, please check out their blogs as there work is so inspirational. It was so hard to pick 7 as there are so many other blogs I would love to award this to:

Heidi
Debbie
Rach
Lim
Marlene
Gill
Jakki


The rules for this award:
1. The winner can put the logo on her blog.
2. Link the person you received your award from.
3. Nominate al least 7 other blogs.
4. Put links of those blogs on yours.
5. Leave a message on the blogs you've nominated.



p.s. I'm sorry if you read this before I've left a message for you as I've had a busy weekend and haven't had much time for blog hopping. x

A Spoon Full of Sugar Challenge 2 & Award

Thank you to everyone who entered a card into our first challenge over at A Spoon Full of Sugar. It has been so lovely to visit your blogs and see all your wonderful creations. This weeks challenge is to create a card using the colour scheme Pink, Green and Blue. I hope you get the time to come over and join in.

Here is my card for this weeks challenge.


Again this week all cards entered will be in with a chance to win the gorgeous new stamp Lily Cute Kitty which has been provided by the very generous Debbie.


Most of the products used on my card can be found over at Silly Monkey Crafts.

Card detail:
Stamp: Rachelle Anne Miller - Lily Cute Kitty
Medium: Prismacolour, Sansodor & Paper stumps
Paper: Bazzill and Laura Ashley
Embellishments: Friends wire word, ribbon, prima flowers & brads
Equipment: Cuttlebug & Birds and swirls embossing folder


I also received this award from my blogging friend Claire. Thank you for passing this to me honey. I will now pass this award to all my team mates over at "A Spoon Full of Sugar".

Sizzix Sidekick
I have a Sizzix Sidekick brand new and unused which I received with a magazine subscription. It does not have any dies as they have been removed from the packaging. I do not know any information about this machine as I already own a cuttlebug and Wizard. If you need to know more about the sidekick go to www.sizzix.com
It is free to a good home if you can just cover the postage costs. Please email me if you are interested.

nichola.fairbairn@googlemail.com