Penny Black Saturday October Challenge!

Hello! I hope you're all well on this cold and misty morning! Sorry this is a day late but it's time for another Penny Black Saturday challenge! Octobers challenge is a sketch by our lovely Helen, here it is -

And here's what's up for grabs if you join in-

 Lilac Mini-Makes Kit

 $20 voucher 

and from 

to spend in their online store.

Not bad huh?! ;-)

And here's my card using the sketch, I decided to go down the Halloween route although maybe the Christmas one would have been better judging by the paltry little pile of cards I have so far! I hope you like it and can join us this month!

Challenges; 

Crazy 4 Challenges - Halloween

Papertake - Anything Goes

Totally Gorjuss - Anything Goes




Supplies;

Golden Sunshine!

What? Where?! I've put some on my card! And it's trying to peep out from behind the clouds so hopefully it's worked! It's using another of my new Papertrey goodies. I knew I wanted to use this set for this weeks LIM 'Gold' challenge so when I saw the new CAS-ology blog had a theme of 'Sun' the card made itself! I hope you like it, thanks for stopping by!

Challenges;
Less is More - Gold
CAS-ology - Sun
Passion for Papertrey - Anything Goes

Supplies;

Penny Black Saturday July & a blog hop!

Morning lovely people! It's time once again for a Penny Black Saturday challenge! The eagle eyed amongst you will have noticed the lack of week number on the title of this post, and it's change to a month! That's because from this weekend we are now a monthly challenge! We'll have a new challenge on the first Saturday of every month so there's even longer to join in!

To celebrate we've had a little bit of a makeover and we're kicking things off with a Blog Hop! We've loads of prizes to be won this month and a few Guest Designers joining in the fun! So, hop on the Penny Black bus!

If you've just hopped here from our fabulous guest Andrea's blog then you're heading in the right direction, if not you need to go back to the Penny Black Saturday blog to start at the beginning and make sure you don't miss out on any goodies hidden on the DT Blogs!

All you need to do to be in with a chance of winning a prize is hop along our bus route and leave a comment at every stop! And here is my prize;

A £10 voucher to spend at one of my fave shops - no link to Penny Blacks or personal gain for me, just the shop I tend to look to first for crafty stash! Just leave me a little comment and I'll pop you in the draw!

This competition closes on Thursday 2nd August at 8pm GMT. Good luck!

From here you need to head on over to the lovely Debby's blog!

I suppose you'd like to see a card challenge somewhere here! This weeks theme is Summertime! No, seriously, it is. Let's hope we can coax the sun out from behind the clouds!

Here's my card, and please excuse the truly awful photo - I took it on my phone when my camera had run out of juice and there was hardly any light - brilliant combination! I'll take a better one when I'm home from work today (I'm doing a bridal party's hair this morning - poor things, I hope they won't look like drowned rats by this evening!)
 **Edited with a better picture**

And that's enough from me! Enjoy the hop and have a great weekend!

Challenges;
Clean & Simple - This sketch -->
Papertake - Anything goes
ABC Challenge - S = Surprise

Supplies;

You are Purrfect!

Morning! I hope this finds you well and you're enjoying this beautiful weather ... :-/
I'm back with a card that I've made for this weeks MFT sketch. I keep seeing the sketches and thinking I'll use this new PI Purrfect stamp with this Kitty paper I've had for ages but about 4 sketches have been and gone and I've finally got round to it! Phew! Thanks for looking!

Challenges;
My Favourite Things - This sketch -->
Crazy 4 Challenges - Paper Piecing
Creative Inspirations - Anything goes
Simon Says Stamp - Anything goes
Cute Card Thursday - Animal Magic
Papertake - Anything goes

Supplies;

Penny Black Saturday Challenge #199!

Hmm, slightly misleading title as it's no longer Saturday, but here's my card for this weeks Penny Black Saturday challenge. This weeks theme is May Day! We'd love to see your Spring style cards! We are sponsored once again by the lovely people at Fantastic Ribbons! There's 4 rolls of spankly ribbon to be won!
I had a lack of mojo when I was trying to make my card - nothing was happening! Hence my lateness! So I sat down today, got out some of my favourite and treasured papers, my sewing machine and some lovely dies and came up with this! Not specifically spring like I suppose but it's better than nothing! ;-) I hope you like it!

How cute is this little button die?!

Challenges;
I {heart} 2 Stamp - This sketch -->
Cute Card Thursday - Animal Magic
Sweet Stampin' - No square cards (not particularly adventurous - sorry!)
Secret Crafter - Cute & Fluffy
My Mums Craft shop - Great Outdoors

Supplies;

Cute little Space Man!

Hello! Me again! Jamie's in Holland this weekend with work so I'm having a crafty one! I hope to get ahead with some DT cards but I'll probably end up just joining in all the fab challenges out there! And here's the first example! I've made a card using this months Die-ing for a Challenge sketch. I used the fabulous Chevron Die-Namics and stuck them to some double sided sticky paper leaving a little gap between two of them and spinkled in some glitter. The idea for that came from the current Runway Inspired challenge. I hope you like it!

Challenges;
Die-ing for a Challenge - This sketch -->
Cute Card Thursday - Metallica
My Mums Craft shop - Song or Film - Rocket Man!
Runway Inspired - This photo -->







Supplies;

Penny Black Saturday #194!

Hello! Ooh what a lovely day! And weekend for that matter! Sorry this is so late but I had a case of the ol' disappearing mojo! So here's my card for this weeks Penny Black Saturday challenge! This weeks theme is Easter Eggravaganza!!
We've a lovely new sponsor starting with us this week, and they're fab, Craftwork Cards! This is the prize to be won; paper, ribbon tags and Card Candi from their Moorish collection.

And here's my card, I went for the obvious choice of using a Christmas stamp! Haha! But some lovely springtime papers to go with it. I hope you like it, thanks for looking!

Challenges;
My Favourite Things - This sketch -->
PaperPlay - Spring Colours
Cute Card Thursday - Anything Goes
Creative Inspirations - Anything Goes
Oldie but a Goodie - Easter
Sweet Stampin' - Anything Goes

Pippi Longsocks - so cute!!

Good morning! Just skidding in with another late entry! Trouble is, I make a few cards at the weekend for various challenges, but without posting them all in one day then nothing for the week, it means I have to sneak them in before a new challenge is posted! But anyway, I am super-duper organised here making my lovely niece's 3rd birthday card a whole 10 months in advance!! I just bought this stamp and couldn't wait to use it so I thought I'd just get ahead, I may end up using the card for someone else and making another but for now it's hers! :-) I quite enjoyed taking the time to colour her in, I think that's why I'm enjoying using die cuts too as it means I'm not colouring on every card so when I do, I really linger over it and have fun! Enough of my theor-ising (is that a word?!) have a lovely day and thanks for visiting!

Here's the challenges -
The Sugar Bowl - this sketch -->
Creative Inspirations - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Anything Goes
The Ribbon Girl - Blue & pink
Papertake - Happy Highlights
Crazy 4 Challenges - Child's card

Truly Scrumptious Challenge #72!

Hello! And welcome again to another Truly Scrumptious challenge! I can't believe we're up to challenge 72!?! This week was Bente's turn to choose a challenge and she's opted for Something Forgotten, dust off the boxes of craft stash at the back of your cupboards and see what's been left there!

We're sponsored by Whiff of Joy for this fortnights challenge and the winner will be able to choose a stamp!

Here's my card! I thought in honour of our sponsor this week, I would dig out a Whiff of Joy stamp, I've got so many lovely ones but, like everyone else I'm sure, older get buried beneath all the new, shiny ones! I'm glad I've brought this back to the surface though as it's a really handy one, although in this card I didn't want to colour the bottle green so now it looks like a bottle of ale chilling!! Whoops! I've glittered the bubbles and ice bucket plaque and added some glossy stuff to the ice cubes, not sure it shows! Thanks for looking, I hope you can join in with us!

And here's the other challenges this is for:
I {heart} 2 Stamp - this sketch -->
Whiff of Joy - Love is in the Air
Basic Grey Challenge - Something New (Memory Box border die)

Happy Ever After!

Hello! I hope you're all well and had a good weekend! Mine was very quiet, I was going to say saving money but that's not been the case as I've been lured in by all the online sales and new season craft stash and bought way too much - oops! One thing I bought was this beautiful MME Love Me paper pad, I'd seen it on a few blogs and had to have it so here's a card made with it! It's also using ..ahem.. a new stamp too! One thing I didn't buy though; you may remember a couple of posts back me saying Jamie had got me a few crafty bits for Christmas, well one of them was this We Are Memory Keepers Sew Easy tool, it's like a little wheel that punches stitch holes to either leave as the are or sew through without faffing with a sewing machine. I decided to sew on this card, it's maybe a little too 'homespun style' for this card and I think I need a bit more practise to keep the lines straight but I like it nonetheless! ! I hope you do too, have a great Monday!

I've paper pieced her dress and blinged up her engagement ring!

A close up of the little button, heart thingy!..

..and this cute banner, the sentiment comes with the image.

Here's the challenges it's for:
My Favourite Things - this sketch -->
Cupcake Craft - Something New
Cute Card Thursday - What's new?
Allsorts - Paper Piecing
Crazy 4 Challenges - Something New
Sweet Stampin Challenge - Spots & dots