Patchwork Doily.

It's a new challenge over at 

my Butterfly challenge with the theme of

# 31 Butterflies + D is for doily/s

The starting point for this card was

the backing  which is actually the inside cover 

from a Mother's Day Card which I had 

received and was about to stash away

as I had thought it too pretty to discard.

Light bulb moment!

Would be  perfect for this challenge.

The patchwork design just lent itself to having some 

stitching added both down the side of the card and 

on the doily.

Butterflies were cut  from scraps of red card and gems

from my stash along with the pink crochet thread.

Doily is a shop bought one from my stash.

Sentiment is by Wow stamps.

The faux patchwork and the real stitching 

I think work well together.

Entering into the following challenges:

Make My Monday # Things with wings

Dream Valley #106 Things with wings

Tuesday Taggers # Sewing and buttons.

Through the Craft Room Door # Anything goes.

Scrap -Creations # Anything goes.

Suzy Bee's Bloomin challenge #80 Anything goes + add pink.

Hiding In My Craft Room #199 Button up.

In The Pink #69 Stitching real or faux

Pixie's Crafty Workshop #177 Use your snippets.

Stair Step Card.

Well we had the internet up and running for 21hrs.

It was nice whilst it lasted!!

Just managed to get back on this evening 

so will see how long we get before the orange light.

I'm so behind with every thing now. 

This card should have been shown on 1st May

but better late than never.

It's time to reveal the card I made 

For the April Swap at the

Society of Stamapholics

Card Chain Challenge.

I chose the colour theme to work with 

which  was  Pale pink, Charcoal and Dark pink.

I decided on another new card shape

A Stair Step Card.

and sent to Vicki in Australia.

I used the excellent instructions

I found on You Tube

by Katherine Skipper

Front of card.

Rose paper by Jennifer Ellory 2013

Dark pink  paper Making cards 2014

I used pale pink card stock to layer with.

Spellbinders die is  Deckled Rectangles Large.

Inside of card.

Wooden die cut flowers from Scrapmatts

Grey base card is SU cardstock

Letters created in word and printed out.

Entering into the following challenges:

Inspiration Destination #33 Anything goes.

Penny's Paper Crafty #227 More than one fold.

Wags and Whiskers #154 Lots of layers.

Sister Act #106 Anything goes.

Suzy Bee's Bloomin Challenge #80 Anything goes.

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #10 Anything goes.

Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned Paper # Anything goes.

Craft Your Passion #262 Anything goes.

Crafty Card Makers #139 shaped cards

Love To Scrap #54 Anyhing goes. (used a stamp for sentiment).

Jagged Edges 2.

Internet back on for the first time in 2 days!

My ipad also spectacularly crashed (totally unrelated)

but non the less left me a complete gibbering wreck

for the time it took my IT specialist to fix and 

 to restore calm and order to my 

already frayed nerves.  

I'm consuming large and varied glasses

of the hard stuff. 

Internet is still not fixed and 

now into lengthy talks with them

with no immediate end in sight.

So before I loose it completely

It's the 2nd week of my Butterfly challenge

#30 Butterflies + J is for Jagged edges 

Here is the card I have made for your inspiration.

Design papers are from the 'Botanical Collection'

by Prima in two colourways.

Butterfly made from a scrap of spotty paper in my stash.

Sentiment is by Wow

and the butterfly die  by Quick Kutz.

Doodled a jagged line around the edge to finish. 

Entering into the following challenges:

Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned Paper # Anything goes.

One Sweet Challenge # Things with wings.

Night Shift Stamping # Butterflies in your work.

Polka Doodles #19 Things with wings.

Dream Valley #106 Things with wings.

Clear It Out Challenge # Green /+green things.

Scrap Creations # Anything goes.

Through The Craft Room Door # Anything goes. 

Tuesday Throwdown #244 Add  a doodle.

I'm slowly getting round all your blogs

internet and predictive text allowing!!

Hugs Mrs A. 

3 Villiages.

Internet still playing up so I'm running late.

Latest news is that they are still working on it!!

Time once again for the girls in

the Christmas Card club to show 

their creations. 

It was the turn of Rita to set the theme

and her choice was Village Scene.

This sent me scuttling off to my 

box of  used Christmas cards as I knew 

that I had several card fronts

 that would be suitable to use. 

I found 3 with village scenes but as I

couldn't decide which to use

(and my pile of Christmas cards is a bit low)

I give you 3  very  different villages.

You choose!!

The first village scene I'm calling Modern.

I made a sort of envelope style opening for the card base

which I have held closed using Faux buttons 

and bakers twine.

Blue  pearlescent card stock, Anita's sentiment

and the silver edging were from my stash.

Buttons made using  Joy Crafts die cut.

Entering into the following challenges:

A Gem Of A Challenge #144 More than one fold.

Scribble and Scrap #144 Anything goes.

Me and  Mine  #  Beat the rush.

Crafty Hazelnuts Extra # Anything goes.

My second Scene I'm calling  Traditional

and is a Tent fold shape .

I cut the scene up into 3 oblongs and then 

adhered to a red backing card leaving a small gap 

between each panel which I think gives the 

appearance of looking through a window.

I used gold pearlescent card to make the card shape.

Bow and pearls from my stash along with the 

gold sentiment sticker.

Entering into the following challenges:

Country View Crafts # Simply scenic.

Sister Act #105 Anything goes.

Jo's Scrapshack #87 Anything goes.

And Lastly my Medieval Scene.

I have had this card in my box for yrs and yrs

Many more than I care to remember.

Waiting and waiting for the right moment.

The scene is actually only half of the card.

I still have the other half saved !!

I have used yellow pearlescent card for the front 

and used my Spellbinder Labels twenty-eight

to die cut the window frame from the centre.

As the picture was a tad short, I cut the discarded 

insert down and used to create the base

for the sentiment thus covering up the slight

gap left at the bottom.

Black pearls was all I felt  was needed 

to complete the card. 

Entering into the following challenges:

Scrapper's Delights #44 Anything goes.

Craft Your Passion #261 Anything goes.

Christmas Card Challenge #23 No patterned papers.

Crimbo Crackers #80 Die cuts.

Springtime with Vanessa.

Great News.

They asked me to stay on at 

Crafting from The Heart.

I am now officially on the DT Team A.  Yay!!

We have a new challenge for you  this week

which is being sponsored by 

Zuri Digital Stamps.

I chose to work with this delightlful image

'Vanessa'

As always the challenge is Anything Goes.

Please pop over and see what my 

team mates have created  just for you.

You have a week to enter and we 

would be delighted to see you .

I coloured her with my  Spectrum Noir Pencils

and paper pieced her dress using a matching paper

to the backing papers all by Pink Petticoat

from their  'Isobelline' pack. I love these

papers in grey and yellow.

I used Sizzix Framelits die  657936

and the flowers are all made using a variety

of Spellbinders flower dies.

Leaves are Sizzix Susan's Garden 658413.

Yellow and grey snippets used from my stash

along with the gems and pearls for decoration.

Entering into the following challenges:

Pixie's Crafty Workshop #176 Use up your snippets. (odds of card stock for flowers)

Our Creative Corner # April showers bring May flowers.

Clear It Out challenges #  Anything goes.

Deep Ocean Challenge #103 Flowers.

Create and Inspire #21 Anything goes.

Fab 'n' Funky #258 May flowers.

Inspiration Destination #32 Anything  goes.

Penny's Paper Crafty #226 Anything goes.

Cut It Up Challenge #70 Paper piecing. 

Fussy and Fancy #138 Lots of flowers

Jagged Edges.

It's a new challenge over at 

my Butterfly challenge with the theme of

# 30 Butterlies + J is for Jagged edges.

This card is nothing like I had planned

in my head.It looked all right in there

until I started putting it together!!

Many layers later ( one to cover a mistake)

I have a card I'm fairly happy with. 

Papers  are from my stash  and torn at will.
The stamp is one of my favourites
Crafty Individuls CI - 012
Sequin butterflies, gems and twine 
All from my stash. 

Entering into the following challenges :
Craft Your Passion #260 Anything goes.
Fan-Tastic Tuesday #84 Anything goes with pastel colours.
Sister Act #104 Anything goes.
Catch The Bug # Anything goes.
Pixie's Crafty Workshop #175 Use your snippets (Torn papers).
Lil Patch Of Crafty Friends #9 Anything goes.
Fasionable Stamping #97 Things with wings.
One Crazy Stamper # Anything goes.
Creative Ladybirds #3 Anything goes.
Crafts Galore #3 Anyhing goes.

Pointillist Colouring

Our lack of Internet still persists.

We thought it had been fixed as we

had 2 days of continuous usage  

but it was obviously  not to be. 

So the saga continues with the 

Service provider telling us no fault found!!

I am slowly going round the twist with it all and 

finding it so frustrating to manage any blogging

with the limited time a reboot  gives before

the green light flashes orange and disconnects.

I have a connection at the moment

 so typing like the clappers.

I was invited by Crafting Musketeers 

to be their GDT for May

and this is one of the cards that I made.

The Theme for the challenge is to 

Use a Die cut on your project.

I recently went to a class  to learn colouring

The Pointillist Way (using lots of dots)

 which was run by Jane Gill at 

The Craft Barn.

I fell in love with the technique

and came home  and mediately

made a few more cards  in the same style. 

I used a Woodware  Stamp  'Amaryllis'

  for my image and coloured in with

 promarkers in 3 shades of pink and a grey.

Die cut is Spellbinders Labels Twenty-Eight.

Pink and grey toning cardstock  from stash.

Distress ink used round edge of  image.

Sentiment is also by Woodware.

Card shape is a tent fold  with a further flap at the base.

Ribbon and pearls from stash.

Entering into the following challenges:

Crafty Card Makers #137 Dots.

Cuttlebug Mania # We love to stamp.

Inspiration Destination #31 Anything goes.

Ruby's Rainbow #103 Anything goes.

Simon Says Wednesdays # Anything goes.

In The Pink #68 Fussy and fancy or clean and simple.

Cute Card Thursday #371 Use a sentiment.

4 Crafty Chicks #244 Anything goes.

Brown Sugar #144 Anything goes.

Pixie's Crafty Workshop #175 Use your snippets (scrap of ribbon).