Edwin & a Sketch

Well I hope you are all safe at home and well wrapped up like me!! I am being very naughty today and didn't get up until 11am! lol

This week TOMIC is celebrating Edwin's Birthday so the theme this week is Edwin & a sketch by DT member Tina and what a great sketch it is too! I don't often get to play with my Edwin stamps so thought I would give it a go!

This fab little Edwin sat on a pencil is coloured with pro markers and then I have edged the image with distress ink.

These beautiful papers are Basic Grey and the collection is "Lime Ricky" just love the vibrant colours of these yummy papers and find them perfect for boy/male cards.

Over at Magnolia Stamp Lovers Challenge this week the theme is twine so I have added a button with twine and this cute tag which I have stamped this perfect sentiment which I think is perfect for Edwin and finally this twine bow!


Challenges I am entering this card are:

TOMIC - Edwin & Sketch
Magnolia Stamp Lovers - Twine
Paper Sundaes - Clean & Simple
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
Allsorts - Free & Easy
CES - Three Layers or More
Sweet Stampin - Clean & Simple
Totally Paper Crafts - Its a Rainbow

Well that's it for me today as always I have little Summer tonight so may not get round to everybody tonight but as soon as I'm free tomorrow will catch up properly!

Have a great weekend and as always thank you for your special comments!

Love & Hugs Chanelle xxxx

Nathan's 18th Birthday xx

Hello everyone sorry I've not been around again for the last few days but I have been having off days and didn't feel like doing anything.

I am here today with my Stepson's birthday card for tomorrow can't believe that the little cheeky boy who started coming to my house when he was nearly four is now the handsome young man on the picture below! Sorry but its another wedding picture as these are the only recent ones we have!

Well a few weeks ago I won the Kenny K challenge and along with some beautiful papers I have had from Sweden I also got to choose 5 new digi's and this is one of them Party Time which you can buy here. I have coloured the image with pro markers and have used glossy accents on the can, glasses and birthday bracelet.

I have used black & red Card with some Blonde Moments papers which I have inked up so that they all blend together and my new Tim Holt's Die I have wanted this was ages and I picked it up for a great price in a fab sale! I normally hate doing male cards but with my new die found this one really easy and I have loads of Tim Holt's metal embellies so added these for some extra interest.

Here is the picture of Nathan with Rochelle and Brett on there wedding day looking very handsome!


I am entering this into the following challenges:

Cards for Men - Seeing Red
Crafts us Crazy - Anything Goes
Allsorts - Free & Easy
Kenny K - Love



Thanks for visiting and all your fabulous comments.

Love & Hugs Chanelle xxx

I'm hooked!!!

Well I'm back again with another one of Chelsea's digi's I think I'm hooked these little girls are just beautiful and so lovely to work with!

This little lady is called Lexi with Balloons and can be found here as always I have coloured her with my pro markers and added glamour dust.

My papers are Prima which I have inked the edges in purple.

I am trying to make cards for my daughter to take to work which are quick to do!! As you can see I am struggling as I can't leave them alone and want to keep adding to them. This card I have made a gatefold and added a front panel!

Flowers are an assortment of punches, a swirl punch, ribbon and a stampin up sentiment.


I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Allsorts - Free and Easy
Craft us Crazy - Anything Goes

Hope you have all had a lovely weekend, today my DH made a snowman with our Granddaughter Summer she did enjoy it at first but did get a little bored!! lol


Plenty of photo's though for some scrapbook pages.

Love & Hugs Chanelle xxx

Pretty Little Stamps

Good Morning everyone hope you are all tucked up warm as its mighty cold outside today!!

Today I have a fabulous digi that I purchased yesterday from "Pretty Little Stamps" formerly known as "Gurlee Girl Stamps" the lady behind this lovely little store is Chelsea from "Crafting Life's Pieces" who I must say I have followed for quite a while she is an amazing lady and just just of inspiration you really must check out her blog and also her Challenge blog you wont be disappointed!

Any way yesterday when I had gone onto her blog I noticed she had started to sell her stamps as digi's so I just couldn't resist, well who wouldn't such cute little ladies!! lol

So here she is "Cammy in the Wind" and can be found here!

How adorable is she just love the chubby look of these beautiful images and they are so lovely to colour. Mine has been coloured with my pro markers.

This is the sketch over on the Challenge I must say I don't follow sketches very much as I managed to stick to the design but when its finished I have always added or missed of part of it so its never any good so fingers crossed this will pass!

Out came my beautiful Prima papers again "Fairy Flora" just love these magical papers and added with the brown bazzil is just perfect!

I have used a corner die from Memory Box and dug out different flower punches that I have inked with DI's and stickled the middles.

Added a butterfly and a Prima pebble from my stash.

The lovely little butterfly stamp is from a Stampin up set purchased from ebay.


I am entering my card into the following challenges:

Crafting Life's Piece's - Sketch
Allsort's Challenge - Free & Easy
Craft us Crazy - Anything Goes

Well that's all for now need to clean up before I can play again later hope you all have a fab weekend!

Just before I go though I would like to say a big "HELLO" to my new followers and thank everyone for there comments on my House Mouse card!

Love & Hugs Chanelle xxx

Love is in the air xx

Well I had a fabulous time on the Love Hop over at House Mouse & Friends Challenge Blog the inspiration from the DT team is just awesome and as they are one of my favorite stamp sets I decided to dust them off and join in!!

So here is my card.

The gorgeous image is "Lovin'Mousefull" and I have coloured it in with my pro markers.

Found this perfect ribbon in my stash and as always one of my lovely metal corners!

The Cherry Lynn heart die came out again you just can't do a love card without it!

Flowers and the glass love hearts are all from my stash.

This lovely sentiment is from Magnolia and I have stamped it on a spellbinders fancy tag then edged with Tim's DI's.

The yummy papers are DCWV "Madly in Love".

Today I am joining in with the following challenges:

House Mouse & Friends - Love
Simon Says - Animal Antic's
Little Red Wagon - Valentines Day or Love
Truly Scrumptious - Love & Hearts
Paper Pretties - Ribbon or Twine
Deep Ocean - Love You
Anything Goes - To the One I Love

Well that's it from me I have had a bad migraine for the last two days so can't stay on the PC for long!

Hope you all have a fab evening.

Love & Hugs Chanelle xxx

My word I've found My Scrap Book Head!!!!

I don't know where it was hiding but I have found it must have been well hidden as this is the first page I have done since October 2010!!

I will apologize before you go any further as this is a photo heavy (sorry about the quality of the pictures the light today is really poor) post!!

As always my model is my Granddaughter Summer this photo is last year when we went to Barnsley for the day while we where walking around in the Alhambra there was a stall taking these old fashioned picture's and she was little gem "Loved it".

Loads of punched flowers and butterfly's my favorite though is cutting out from paper and I also picked up some amazing Prima papers so that I can just do that.

I have used plain bazzil and a sheet of Graphic 45 paper from the "Once Upon a Springtime" Collection.

On my border strips I have used EK Success and Martha Stewart punches with stickles and added lace.

Also stamped this beautiful Flower Fairy Rose and coloured her with my pro markers also stamped the vintage postcard and heat embossed with gold and then inked with vintage paper.

This is a better picture to show you this wonderful paper and see why I have added the Stamped image.

I will also tell you that I never added journalling to my pages as my DH always tells me that it looks like a child has done it but my word I have added a little tag!! lol

Just a side view so that you can see the flowers!



The Challenges I am entering are:

Simon Says - Anything Goes
Moving along with the times - Blooming Marvelous
Flutterby by Wednesday - Embossing Dry/Heat (My Postcard is heat embossed)
Creative Inspirations - Someone Special

Well that's it if you are still here hope you liked my layout I hope I still have it!!! Hello to my new followers and as always thanks for all your fab comments!

Hope everyone has a great week.

Love & Hugs Chanelle xxxx

My 1st Saturated Canary Image.

Well if you can't beat them join them I always say and I have been seeing these beautiful images all over blog land so I have purchased a couple and here is my first card with them.

My image is Queen of Hearts and can be purchased here.

I have used the image twice in two different sizes and coloured them both in with my pro markers!

The sentiment I inked the circle with pink and then covered it with Glossy Accents not sure what make the stamps are as I purchased them from Ebay.

Loads of punches and dies on my card the flowers are Retro in large, medium & small.
The corners are my new Memory Box die, borders are an EK Success punch and the butterfly's are a EK Success border but just used the scraps and finally two different nesties.

Centers of the flowers are a Viva Pearl Pen just purchased two beautiful pink paper pens today so need to play with them!! lol

The papers are a 6 x 6 Prima pad called "Fairy Flora" I just love these papers and have had them ages just need to start using them!

I just love the new memory box dies they are just so delicate but did find it a pain to get it to cut out properly even though I have a metal plate!

A side view! This is going to be my birthday card to my Sister in February done in January god that's a first!!!! lol


I am entering the following challenges:

Saturated Canary - Dies & Punches (I have plenty)
Allsorts - one or more Hearts
Moving along with the times - Blooming Marvelous
Simon Says - Anything Goes


Thanks you all for popping over I and as always leaving me such lovely comments I am trying my best to keep up with all your beautiful posts.

Have a wonderful weekend Love & Hugs Chanelle xxxx

Such a little oval!!

What a beautiful little card I just love it!

When TOMIC posted there theme this week thought I'd play along but how hard is an oval!! This is the only one I have and its my Small Petite Oval Nestie so it's so small but at the same time I'm really please at the final look!

Been in my scrap drawer again as I didn't need too much paper and found the beautiful floral paper I used a few days ago so went with it!

You can see my cream oval which I have dry embossed and then used my gold ink pad to highlight the embossing.

Love this ribbon its just divine and from The Craft Box you really must check out Lynn's crafty heaven just brimming with lush crafty goodies.

As the oval is so small I have used a Mini Tilda isn't she she beautiful!

Finally I got to cut out the flowers from my backing paper and just love these and how yummy with the gold stickles!

The Challenges I am entering are:

TOMIC - Oval with Embossing (I have used dry embossing)
Moving Along With the Times - Blooming Marvelous
Simon Says - Anything Goes
Crafty Boots - Song (You don't bring me flower's anymore - Neil Diamond & Barbara Streisand)

Thanks for looking and leaving me your lovely comments which means in turn I can call round to you!

Have a lovely evening.

Love & Hugs Chanelle xxx

Sugar Bowl - Sketch

This is a quick post as I have just realised I haven't got long left to enter the challenge this week over at "The Sugar Bowl" which is a sketch.

Last week I actually won this stamp "Lead the Way" in Sugar Nellie's Blog Hop and it arrived yesterday so thought I would try to join in this week!

I have coloured the image in with my trusty pro markers and added some stickles to the skirt and little pooch!

The pictures are rubbish and don't show the papers true colours but I left it so late the light is just no good! Any way the papers are My Mind's Eye Kraft Funday Happy Days 6 x 6 pad with plain bazzil!

The sentiment and coloured string are from the same collection and are so beautiful the sentiment is actually thin wood.

Finally in the right hand corner are three buttons they are the right shade but once again the light has made them look odd!!! lol

Right that it for tonight I'm off to link up to the Sugar Bowl Challenge.

Hope you all have a great evening I going to look around your gorgeous blogs and leave some comments!

Love & Hugs Chanelle xxx