CRICUT EXPRESSION 2 MACHINE FOR SALE

Hi All My Crafty Friends,

Hope you are all keeping well.

I just wanted to let you all know that I have a super card making gadget for sale if anybody is interested.

I have put an ebay listing up for my machine at the price of £180.00 buy it now.

CLICK HERE TO VIEW MY EBAY LISTING

Please feel free to share this listing with anyone you know that might like this fantastic piece of kit.

Thank You!!

My pop up card for Mothers Day

Hi everyone,

I hope you are all well. Excuse my lack of posts as usual! I will try to get my behind in gear and get posting more as I am still regularly making my cards and other things.

I would also like to share with you photos of my craft room which has come together recently.

I made a pop up card for my Mum for Mothers Day using beautiful craft work card goodies, 

I used snippets of designer papers that had been used on another project to make this project. Don't you just love it when you have scraps that fit a space on your card perfectly?

I would like to enter my card in to Di's Crafty Snippet Challenge here!

Di has an absolutely stunning card this week with a beautiful fairy on, she is giving away some amazing goodies too so if you have a snippets card then go and join in!

I would also like to enter this card in to the following challenges:
Avenue 613 - anything goes with optional twist (sound of birds singing, smell of flowers blooming)
The Shabby Tea Room - Pretty in Pink
Just Inspirational Challenges - Friends or Family
A Creative Romance - Spring Flowers
Totally Papercrafts Challenge - Pastels
Melonheadz Challenge - Time for Spring
Southern Girls Challenge - Floral Frenzy

Thanks for looking,

See you soon.

Laura xx

Back with something a little different...

Hi all,

Just a little post to share with you my entry for Di's Crafty Snippets Challenge

I used Snippets of blue card to create these cupcake toppers I made for a friend for a child's Christening, she made the cupcakes though!!

I love making cupcake toppers and they are so simple.

Hope you like my entry Di :)

Thanks for looking,

Laura

Snippet challenge

Hi all!

Just popping by to say hi and enter a card I made recently with snippets in to Di's crafty snippet challenge.

Join in with Di and the girls here :-)

My entry:

The snippets are the pieces of paper used in the background, I used washi tape and paper mania goodies to create this card. 

Hope you are all well and happy 2014!!

Hi everyone!

Hi everyone!

How are you doing?

It feels like forever that I started typing a blog entry. Hope everyone is well. We moved in to our house about a month ago after a wonderful holiday in Portugal and have been busy ever since!! It is wonderful being in the house finally.

I have still been making my cards, I will post a couple up :-)

Thank you for looking!!

Little Fairy

Hi all,

Hope you are all well! Just a random post from me with a card I made for my God Daughters First Birthday a week ago. 

I have been busy recently, we have had our bathroom fitted so we now have a bath, sink and toilet woohoo! I have finished all of the bedrooms so we just need carpet fitting now which will be within the next couple of weeks. The next big task is to fit our kitchen but we have built about 4 units ourselves so far. Hopefully about a month or so and we will be in... :-)

I would like to enter this card in to the following challenges:

Natalie and Amys Challenge - Things with wings

Crafty Catz - Inspired by a song (R Kelly - I believe I can fly)

Joanna Sheen Challenge - Music Lyrics Challenge (R Kelly - I believe I can fly)

Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Things with wings

ABC Challenges - M for make it sparkle

All Sorts Challenge - Add Some Sparkle

Eclectic Ellapu - Pink team - Anything goes

Divas By Design Challenge - Anything goes

Stampin for the weekend - die cuts / punches

Cutie Pie Challenge - Lots of Layers

Thanks for looking!!

Hope to post again soon.

Hiatus

Hi all,

I have decided to have a blogging hiatus, just for a little while... I find I don't have enough time for crafting at the moment what with trying to get the house ready to move in to and work. I also have to start a new job in a month as I am on rotation so have a few things going on currently which means I'm going to take a short break from blogging.

I will continue to work for my Forever Friends design team and may occasionally post the odd card if I get chance, I just thought it would be good to announce that I may not be as regular as usual rather than leave you in the dark!

We are looking to move in to our house in the next month or two so hopefully it won't be long until I have my craft room up and running and can start making cards regularly!!

Thanks for all of your support recently, I will continue to comment on your blogs too!!

Thanks for looking

21st Birthday Card

Hi everyone,

Hope you have had a lovely weekend and week!

I spent last weekend at home in Norfolk with my parents after they returned from their holiday in Egypt. 

I have made this card for my best friend for her 21st birthday. I must admit, I absolutely loved how this one turned out! Probably one of my favourites and I think that might be down to the gorgeous flowers, they remind me of all the lovely flowers out at the moment! Thank you so much Di ;-)

The image is from kanban crafts and I used snippets of white card for the butterfly and the swirlies! All of the flowers are from wild orchid crafts, absolutely stunning! Background paper from kanban crafts too. Topped with glitter, pearls and a gorgeous wooden heart bought off ebay!

I would like to enter this card in to the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Fussy and Fancy Challenge - Spring Days

Pixies Crafty Workshop - Snippets Challenge

Digital Tuesday Challenge - Spring Colours

Love To Create - Pastel Colours

Card Makin Mamas - It's Springtime!

Charisma Cardz - Happy Birthday

Crafty Card Makers - Friendship

Divas By Design - Use Metal

Thanks for looking!

A little giveaway

Hi all!

I had a little clear out of one of my craft drawers today and have these wooden stamps I have hardly used. Some of them haven't even been inked! They may catch your eye, or they may be suitable for the younger people you know!

I wondered if anybody would be interested in these or could give them a good home?

If so, please leave a comment on this post and I will draw a name out of a hat in a months time.

Draw closes 20th April.

If you would like to put the pic on your sidebar you may but it is not a requirement. Also, I would love it if you could become a follower.

Thanks for looking!

Love to create guest design post

Hi everyone, happy Monday! I am happy as I am on annual leave this week and going home to see my mum and dad on Thursday (who are currently in Egypt! Jealous!) .

I was very lucky recently and was asked to be a guest designer for Love To Create!

The challenge this month is Anything Goes and can be found Here

The sponsors for the challenge are


2 cute ink and Dr digi

I used an image from 2 cute ink and just loved the designs by Dr Digi too!

Here is my card;



I loved making this card and enjoyed being a guest designer at Love To Create, so click here to check out the rest of the work of the design team - Love to create anything goes challenge.

Thanks for having me girls!

I would like to enter my card in to the following challenges:

Pixies crafty workshop - snippets challenge
Cupcake craft challenges - mythical creatures
Stampin for the weekend - child's play
Digital Tuesday challenge - frame it
Card making mamas - spring colours
Cute card Thursday - anything goes

Thanks for looking!

Forever friends monthly challenge

Hi everyone,
I apologise that this post is late, it should have been posted on the 14th, when the post went live on the blog!

This months challenge is lots of flowers!
We want to see flowers on your creations. I know a lot of you love your flowers so please join in!

Our sponsors this month are;

Digi stamp characters

And whoopsie daisy

Here is my card, made using a digi stamp character by Heather Ellis



So if you'd like to take part in this fab challenge and see the rest of the design teams lovely work please click here!


As this card was made purely with snippet I would like to enter this card in to Di's snippet challenge Here
Thanks for looking!

Mothers Day Card

Hi everyone!

Today I am sharing this card I have made for my Mum for Mothers Day tomorrow. I had seen these gorgeous Mum sentiments on Pink Petticoats boutique and just loved the words so got them recently to make a little something with.

I am a big fan of Jules' Blog too, Jules has inspired me with all of her gorgeous Mothers Day creations and my card was inspired by one of her stunning designs. Thank you for the inspiration Jules! 

The card used Pink Petticoat papers, a Tim Holtz Tattered Floral Die, a Corner Die by Memory Box and the Butterflies are Woodware Punches.

Thank you so much for looking today!

Apologies

Hi everyone,

Just thought I would let you know I have just updated my 'Our House' page with updated photos of our house! 

So if you fancy being nosey and seeing what I've been up to...

Click Here

Also, the reason I have shared these photos is so you all understand why I haven't been updating as much on my blog and haven't had the chance to comment quite as regularly as before. Hopefully as things start progressing a bit more I will get more time to update my blog.

Thanks for looking,

Snippets card

Hi all,

Just on my lunch break at work so posting this from my phone!
Will update soon. Thanks for looking x

AWOL

Hi all, sorry I have been a bit AWOL recently, I have been doing a lot of overtime to try and get some extra money as I have to sort out my car (aka rust bucket) :-( I'm also on nights so have been sleeping a couple of hours then going round the house to do some more renovating! It has certainly changed since the last photos I uploaded. I will post some more soon.

How have you all been? Hope you are well.

I have still been making cards so will try and post some more as soon as I can.

For now, here is a card with a gorgeous A Day For Daisies Image which I have coloured and mounted on to a 6x6 card.

As this card used up yet more snippets I would like to enter this in to Pixies crafty workshop snippets challenge

Thanks for looking

February monthly challenge

This month at The Forever friends challenge blog we have a theme, this month it is:

Animal(s) and/or Bird(s) and/or Butterflies on your cards

The sponsor for the Randomly Selected Winners Prize is Joanna Sheen

And the winner of the Forever Friends Favourite is Saturated Canary

The prize is 2 digis of the winners choice

Here is my DT card for the challenge, I used a gorgeous image by Saturated Canary who kindly sponsored our challenge

Kraft card and backing paper by Pink Petticoat, I added flowers and butterflies with pearls.

I also made a Forever Friends card, similar to one I have made before, this was for a lady at work.

I used Forever Friends papers, lettering and an image. I punched a couple of flowers and added pearls.

Thanks so much for looking, and if you have a card that suits this theme we are running this challenge for the month so please feel free to take part!

I would like to enter my butterfly Cardin to the following challenge as the background was made using snippets up woohoo! 

Pixies crafty workshop - snippets challenge

I would like to enter my forever friends card in to Love to create challenge - lets celebrate

Bubbles

Hi everyone, here I am posting my first ever coloured Saturated Canary card.

I am reasonably pleased with how it turned out, I have expanded my promarkers collection slowly and have watched and viewed many tutorials! Practice makes perfect hey?

The beautiful papers are Pink Petticoat, I added pearls, flowers, twine and a sentiment. 

I have slowly been wading through my snippets box and managed to use up more left over card!

I would like to enter this card in to the following challenges:

Pixies crafty workshop - snippets challenge

Love to create - anything goes with a sentiment

Saturated canary challenge - challenge 36

Cute card Thursday - corner challenge

Tuesday throw down - bling it on

Passion for promarkers - add sparkle

Hope you like my card! Thank you so much for visiting today

Chocolate box

Hi everyone,

How are you all?

I have been off work this week and typically have got a cold! Isn't that always the way, you have time off and get ill so you don't feel like doing anything! 

Luckily I still have the energy to make a card!

I have made this card using 'chocolate box' by Lili of the Valley. I stamped and coloured the image last year but never got round to putting it on to a card so have made this 5x5 number to add to the box!

I used snippets of card to make this card. The spotty paper is pink petticoat.

I added hobby craft flowers, a purple brad and some pink pearls.

I would like to enter this card in to the following challenges:

Pixies crafty workshop - snippets challenge

Stampin for the weekend - something girly

Southern girls challenges- get krafty

Lilis little fairies - anything goes

Thanks for visiting

Rudolph Day Challenge

Hi All!

Woohoo! I have made my first entry for Sarn's Rudolph Day Challenge, the first of the year!

I got some lovely coloured gems and wooden snowflakes for Christmas and this is their first outing. I used a LOTV cute square and added stickles and some red cord. Papers are from Pink Petticoat. I also used a new Distress Ink Pad I got for Christmas too, it is 'Antique Linen' and is the first time I have ever used distress inks! You can't really see the result in the photo but I am really pleased with the way it turned out in RL.

As I used snippets up (red papers) I would like to enter this card in to Di's Snippet Challenge.

Another one to add to the box! This year it is my resolution to try and build up my 'pink box', the box I hold all of my cards in. Last year I had the most cards I had ever made, then sold them all on a stall so now don't have too many :-( 

I get very envious when I see other people's card stashes! I need to build mine up so hopefully you will see lots more cards from me, trying to fill up my box! What do you keep your cards in and do you have many?

Thanks for visiting

Monkeying around part 2!

Hi all,

here is monkey number 2! I am not so keen on monkey number 2, I was disappointed with my promarkers, one had dried out and I didn't realise until I started colouring monkeys mouth hence the random line! (Hopefully you can't see too much) does anyone have any tips for dried out promarkers? Or is it a case of say bye bye and throw in the bin?

I would like to enter this card in to Pixies crafty snippets challenge as all of the papers used snippets, slowly trying to get through my pile!

I would also like to enter this card into bugaboos bingo challenge!

Thanks for looking