Crafty Ribbons Dotty Challenge

I was a very lucky crafter and was able to join the dotty challenge from the fabulous Crafty Ribbons. I have to say that I just adore the Crafty Ribbons girls, they not only have the scrummiest ribbons around but they arrive so quickly and are so reasonably priced that I only ever buy ribbon from them now! There are hundreds of ribbons to choose from, I can only ever shop there when I have lots of crafty pennies, I know you all know what I mean lol

I have joined a few of the ribbon challenges now and I would urge any of you who love ribbon to try and get onto one of the challenges they are such fun and the girls send so much ribbon than even after you've made a few samples for them you still have loads left for yourself :o) The dotty sheer ribbon really jumped out to me cos I am a real fan of dotty stuff lol This is a little keyring/handbag charm, Lily helped me with this by picking the beads and putting the small beads on the safety pins

Hair bands and clips, the hairbands are so easy, the ribbon is just tied to a band, then I put a few gems on the ends of some of the ribbons, then little bows attached to plain clips

A wee gift tag simple made with scalloped nesties

Plain and simple card to show off the gorgeous ribbons

And lastly Lily's addition. She made the heart with her Hama beads, backed with yellow card with some flowers (can't see them in the pic) and a cute wee bee sticker, then just a bit of robbon threaded through and a bow on the bottom, she was so proud that she was entering the challenge too :o)

Thanks also to Ali for letting me steal her pics cos mine were really rubbish and Ali always takes such gorgeous pics I knew they would be fab :o)

Autumn at Allsorts

Saturday again....where are the weeks going? This week at Allsorts Brenda wants Autumn Colours and what the fabulous Brenda wants Brenda gets lol It certainly feels like Autumn here at the moment, leaves everywhere after a really windy day yesterday and now its raining! We've had to light the fire the last couiple of days too it has been chilly.

Image is from Penny Black, paper pieced with cardstock and paper both from stampin up. flowers are from my stash, I also used the divine swirls cuttlebug embossing folder.

We are all looking forward to seeing your gorgeous work with the new theme :o)

crafty ribbons huge giveaway!!

Anyone who has been reading my blog for a while will know that I LOVE everything @ crafty ribbons!! From the first challenge I entered so long ago I have been hooked and have entered a fair few of their challenges. A year ago the fabulous girls started doing a Friday Freebie and to celebrate the anniversary Ali and the girls are giving a huge £50 voucher to the first person out of the bingo bag with a £20 voucher for 2nd. To add to the joy they are going to add more prizes as the number of comments goes up!! All you have to do is comment on this post and you're in with a chance!

Allsorts......new beginnings

Morning all and I hope the sun is continuing to shine for us all, we've had a really lovely few days of sun here, so am hoping it will continue this weekend

This week at Allsorts it is the gorgeous Debs' turn to set the theme and we have "New Beginnings" I am knitting up a storm just now as I have sooo many friends and a couple of family members all due in the next 6 months! I also made up a couple of cards in case any come a wee bit early lol

The teddy stamp is by Stampin Up, paper is Bo Bunny(I think) I've also used the martha stewart border punch and scalloped circle nestie, charm is from my stash and finished off with a bot of doodling. I made this a couple of weeks ago and I am so gutted that my border punch has now died!! The middle piece of it just won't cut , it doesn't seem to come down enough anymore.

Hope you are all well and have a fab weekend :o)

1st of the month...pinch and punch??

Heehee that idea takes me back to my childhood, my brother and I would pinch and punch each other as hard as we could, we occassionally left bruises!!

Now I am a mature (ahem) grown up.....first of the month means a new challenge at Penny Black at Allsorts This month's theme is "punch away" ~ see how I thought back to pinch and punch? LOL Actually I am all punched out after searching for a good couple of hours for some flower punches for the wedding invitations! Every place I went to had one or the other out of stock...gggrrrr

Anyway I digress......

The punches I used are the Stampin Up notebook edge punch and the butterfly one which I love but can't remember who makes it. The paper is from my stash, I think I was sent it so again don't know who makes it (not doing well here am I?) The image is a Penny Black stickeroo. The lush ribbon is from Crafty Ribbons, there are loads of colours of this dotty sheer ribbon and I love it (the ribbon is from the ribbon challenge so expect to see some more with it on)

Congrats to the winners of last months fabulous prizes and good luck to you all in this month's prize draw :o)

fun wedding invitations

A friend of mine is getting married in November so she asked me to do the invitations. She didn't really know what she wanted at the start. Then she came back to tell me they were having a bit of a farm theme as her hubby to be looks after the livestock on the local estate. They have got a tractor cake and favours so I came up with the idea of a sheep and the "Ewe are invited". The only other thing she knew was she wanted some bright pink!

So I had a wee play at the weekend just to give her an idea and she and her fiancee love them so much they couldn't pick between them so the square card is the full invite and the oblong card is the evening invite :o)

the sheep stamp is one I've had forever and has no label, our printrer had packed up hence the scribbled wording lol. So just 100 to make now then lol

week 66 @ Allsorts

Morning all and for a change the sun is out this morning!! This week over at Allsorts it is my turn again to set the theme. I want to see projects less than 3" in size :o)

I have made a box from parchment for a friend of mine who has just had a baby boy. The box measures 7cm x 7cm and has a gorgeous heart opening. I have made this box before with a tiny pair of parchment baby shoes but I didn't have the energy to make the shoes this week as I have been struggling with a horrible cough. Instead I rolled up two little bibs and tied them with ribbon. The pic I took of that was terrible though so you'll just have to imagine it lol

The sponsor this week is the fabulous Joanna Sheen and the prize is £10 to spend in her shop.

You have just over a week left to enter the Penny Black at Allsorts Challenge, the theme this month is glitter and glitz and we also have a DT call going on so head over there and get yourself glittery!!