NOOOOO!!!!

It looks like I did speak too soon and my computer has officially died! I feel like my arm has been cut off!! We wanted a new one anyway but hadn't planned on it being so soon! I can sort of check my blog from my phone but can't leave comments. I'm on my MIL's at the mo but don't want to pop round too often! ; )
Thanks so much for all the comments recently, and sorry I havn't been able to return them. I'll be back (hopefully) soon with some cards to share from my new PC!
Byeeee!

Penny Black Saturday #7

I can't believe it's challenge 7 already, where is this year going?!! This weeks challenge is On The Farm, to make a card featuring a Penny Black stamp and something you'd find on a farm. All the DT came up with cow cards, we must be psychically joined in some way! If you join in you'll be enteres in the draw for some fun Penny Black stickers! Here's mine, I love this stamp, the one in the middle reminds me of Amy Winehouse with her headscarf on! I decided not to put a sentiment and let the cows do the talking! Thanks for looking!

Supplies-
Stamp- Penny Black Ladies Devine coloured with water colour pencils
Ribbon- Stash
Paper- local craft shop (it says BuzzCraft on the back)

Wow, another award!!

Sorry bloggers, I have been having major computer troubles and this is the first time I've been able to view my blog all week, fingers crossed it lasts (I hope I havn't spoken too soon!) And when I checked my comments I've been given this fabulous award from Tracy, Dawny, Tracie and Denise! Thank you ladies! It's such a fab award and very much appreciated!
It's the Wylde Women award and the rules 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 (http://http://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.
That's so lovely! Here goes!
Debby
Glenda
Annie
Katharina
Becky
Liz at Pink Petticoat
also right back to the lovelies who awarded me!

New Award!!

I've just been awarded this fabbylicious award by the lovely Annie and Tracy! Thanks so much ladies! You've brightened up my day! Now to pass it on....

The rules of the 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 thank you to those who take time out for wonderful comments to boost your day!
Fair enough, here's mine:
1. Stacey
2. Terrie
3. Tonya
4. Sue
all of whom visit me often with lovely comments and make fantastic cards,
and finally:
5. Liz who I discovered while blog hopping one day and whose cards are fab. She lives in Scotland and her blog name cracks me up, Buttons for Brains!!
I could have given a few more of these away but thems the rules! : )

Michelle's blog candy Round 1!

Michelle at The Card Grotto is celebrating her 1st Blogoversary on August 4th with some challenges! Round 1 is a sketch challenge-

I love these little owls! Great challenge Michelle! Thanks for looking!

Supplies-
Image- Pink Petticoat, coloured with Whispers
Papers- K&Co Classic
Pearls- Glitter Pot
Flowers- Skatty Kats

Phew, told you I had lots to post! That's it for now! Maybe back later! ;)

Sarah Kay Challenge #3

I've never joined in with this blog before! I don't actually own any stamps but got the images from a colouring website! They're so pretty though! This weeks challenge is Too Posh To Be Square! Make a card which doesn't have any squares. I used a bowl to cut my card into a crescent shape, and used my Fiskars cutter and scalloped scissors to make the oval. Thanks for looking!

Supplies-
Image- Sarah Kay (obviously!) coloured with water colour pencils
Paper- Cuddly Buddly download
Ribbon, gems, flowers and brads from stash
Tag- from local craft shop
All edged with brown ink

Stamp Something #11

Here is my card for this weeks Stamp Something Challenge, which is Sweet Something, make a card featuring something sweet. This stamp is so cute, I don't own it though, I just got the image in a swap. The glitter doesn't really show 'til you look close up! Thanks for looking!

Supplies-
Stamp- House Mouse coloured with Whispers and Cotton Candy Stickles icing! and all edged with pink ink
Sentiment- from PC
Pearls- Glitter Pot
Paper- DCWV Nana's Nursery Baby Girl

Friday Sketchers #11

Here's my card for this weeks Friday Sketchers. I've flipped the sketch to fit in the sentiment. I'm not sure about it, I like the image but the card looked a bit plain, but when I added things it looked too much! Oh well! This is also my 3rd for Fab's Christmas Challenge, halfway there! I hope you like it!

Supplies-

Stamps- Honey with Gifts Sugar Nellie, coloured with water colour pencils and glittered with Art Institute Crystal glitter. Sentiment from craft box (it's ages old!) embossed with silver powder

Ribbon and Gems- from local craft shop

Brad- Poppicrafts

All edged with silver pen and Stickles

Cute Card Thursday #19

This weeks challenge is Animals Only - No People Allowed! Here's my card for this week, I love this little mouse! I hope you like it!

Supplies-
Stamp- Whipper Snapper coloured with Whispers, sentiment from Pink Cat Studio
Paper- K&Co Hopscotch
Brads from stash and doodling from my pen!

My Time to Craft #23

I'm a bit late with this one as the new challenge gets posted tonight! The computer imps have visited my PC and I've spent ages getting rid of viruses! But it's taken away any distractions and I've got loads of cards to share! This one is for the MTTC challenge, Artfully Asian. I've probably mixed up lots of bits of Asia with this card, sorry! I'm going to put my supplies at the bottom from now on, I've seen other do it and it's so much easier! Thanks for looking!

Supplies:

Stamps- Kerry-jo set (here) coloured with Whispers, edged with chalks, Pink Cat Studio sentiment

Paper- Prima download, glitter card from Create and Craft

Flower- Pink Petticoat, coloured with chalks

Brads from stash

Katharina's New Stamps! GD call!

Katharina is launching a new range of stamps called Whiff of Joy. There's a new (amazingly talented!) design team, with room for Guest Designers every 2 months, it's all very exciting! Here is the link for here GD call, which is to make a card using this sketch, by the 30th of July.

Here's my entry! I've used my cute new Honey with Gifts Sugar Nellie stamp, paper pieced with Pink Petticoat paper (also in background) and coloured with water colour pencils. This card got some serious glitter treatment!! (It's hard to see in the photo, have a closer look!) The white card is stamped with little snowflakes and embossed with sparkly embossing powder, there's glitter on her coat, hat and scarf and then I used Stickles to make a border and also glitter the snowflake brads (Poppicrafts I think). Then I just matted it all on silver card, wrapped some thread around and added a Stamps Away Christmas sentiment embossed with silver powder. Phew! Thanks for looking!

I'm also adding this as my second for Fabs Christmas Challenge!

Penny Black Saturday #6!

Saturday again! Which means it's Penny Black time! This weeks challenge is Snow much Fun! To include Snow on your card in some way. Plus there's a fab prize to be won from Sir Stampalot!
Here's mine with this cheeky doggie stamp - I couldn't resist! I've coloured it with water colour pencils and Stickles. The paper is a Mad about Cards download and the brads are from Poppicrafts. I have no idea where the sentiment came from!
I'm also going to use this as the first of this months Fabs christmas challenge (to make 6 - eek!)

Papertake: Teenage Kicks!

This weeks Papertake is Teenage Kicks - make a card for a teenager. I still seem to think I am one so I enjoyed this! I used my Rockstar Sugar Nellie stamp, coloured with Whispers, PaperMania black and white star paper and a Mad about Cards download for the checked paper Then a sentiment made on the PC using 'Masking Tape' font and a few brads from my box. Thanks for looking!

Marlene's candy

More lovely blog candy! This time from the extra talented Marlene. She's giving away a cute H&S stamp and lots of images, just look here and leave a comment by friday and you'll be in the draw! Thanks Marlene!

Thanks Tracie!

My very talented Penny Black pal Tracie has given me this lovely award:-

Thank you! I'm so pleased you thought of me! I would award it back to you but I don't think it's allowed! So I'm going to pass this on to 3 other talented ladies:
Stacey
Suzanne
Dawny
Pay them a visit, you'll see what I mean!

Spoonfull of Sugar #8

This weeks challenge is One For The Girls! And you can now use High Hopes Stamps for the challenge, so I pulled out my Stork stamp from Dies to Die For and made a baby girl card. The papers are both DCWV Nanas Nursery, the sentiment stamp is Cuddly Buddly, the jewel brad is from Poppicrafts and the other flowers, brads and ribbon are from my craft box! Oh, and the little pearls in the flower centres are from Glitter Pot. Thanks for looking!

I also used this sketch from Katharina's blog! They're fab!

Friday Sketchers #10

I can feel the mojo slowly creeping back! So I thought I'd give the Friday Sketch by Heidi a go. The paper is from my local craft shop and that's where I got my colour scheme from. I've coloured the Sweet Ebony stamp with water colour pencils and a gel pen. The sentiment is Pink Cat Studio, the little charm is from Marlou (who is poorly and will hopefully be better soon) and the other bits are from my stash. I hope you like it!

Penny Black Saturday #5!

Wow, Week 5 already! Nothing like a challenge blog to make you realise how fast the year is going!

For this weeks challenge, there is this fab sketch! (Tracy knows I love sketch challenges!) I've used my Light the Night stamp coloured with Whispers pens, Doodlebug papers, a CraftWork cards sentiment and some little gems and ribbon for my stash.

Thank god I have a design team card to make, I don't really have a crafty mojo since I've been back from holiday and probably wouldn't make anything! Hopefully it will be back soon and I'll be posting a bit more regularly. Thanks for looking!

Penny Black Saturday 4#

Wow, so many people have joined in the challenges so far, I'm blown away! It's so fun looking at everyone's creations!
This weeks challenge is to use Buttons and Brads - or both! There's a fab prize for one lucky winner from Funky Hand!

For my card I have used Funky Hand background paper, this cute Hedgie stamp (which was in a prize/swap but I can't remember who from, sorry!) is coloured with Whispers pens then I added lots of flowers, brads and buttons from my stash. The sentiment stamp is Cuddly Buddly. I hope you like it and join in!

Hopefully next week I'll get a bit of time to join in some more challenges!

Awww, fanks!!

Thanks guys!
For 2 reasons, firstly thanks for all the lovely holiday well wishes, it was such a chill out holiday and the weather was gorgeous! Back to earth with a bump though, we got home tuesday night and straight back to work on wednesday with a 12 hour day and the same for thursday, errghhh!!
Also thanks to Denise, Tracy and Wheezie for this fab Brilliante Weblog Award!! Thank you all so much!! It's so lovely!

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

This is sooooooooo tricky! You're all so fabulous, you've nearly all already been nominated! If you havn't, consider this for you! Sorry, I know that's a cop out! ;)

Also the fabulous Dawny gave me this award too and I didn't realise, I'm so dopey!! Sorry Dawny! Thankyou!!! : )