Tuesday 30 March 2010

Sophisti-Cats DT Card



Hi all
Hope you are all well :-) This is the card for this weeks Sophisti-Cats challenge which is entitled 'Raining Cats and Dogs'. This doesnt mean you ahve to get an image of cats and dogs int he rain,lol, it just means that you can use an image of a cat or a dog . There is no Sophisti-Cats challenge next week as its Easter Monday, so you may as well enter this weeks, lol.
I went to the NEC for the Hobbycraft show on Friday and spent soooo much money. I was actually only there for less than three hours. I hurt my arms as well, carrying the amount of stuff that I had bought back to the car ! But it was worth it, I got so much lovely stuff. Definitely going to go again in November :-)
My weekend away with the girls was so much fun, we had such a laugh.My friend totally adored the George Clooney card. Apparantly she is going to give it pride of place next to her bed (say no more!)

Sorry, in waffle mdoe today, lol. Back to the card

Ingredients
Magnolia dog image, I think the papers are Doddlebug or SEi, not sure, Doily is from Hobbyhouse Crafts, flower is from Wild Orchid Crafts.

Thats it folks, hopefully be back soon :-)

Hugs
Tasha
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Thursday 25 March 2010

George Clooney

Evening all :-)

It's my friends birthday this weekend and my other friend asked me to make her a birthday card with George Clooney on it, lol. Hopefully both of my friends will like this card.
We are all off to Bath this weekend to celebrate my friends birthday, so it should be fun.
Hope you are all ok and looking forward to the weekend

Hugs
Tasha
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Wednesday 24 March 2010

Magnolia Springtime


Hooray, I managed to finish my card that I have been playing with this week. as I havent had much time, I have just been doing an hour or so here and there on this card and now its finished :-) I still have other cards to make this week, but I just had to use my new Magnolia stamps and create this card instead, lol.

Ingredients
Magnolia stamps, the eggs are a free image from the internet, Magnolia papers, flowers and bits from stash

Challenges
One Stop Craft Challenge #72 - Let it shine
Secret Crafter #75 Spring has Sprung
Crafty catz #24 Spring
Frosted Designs Spring and a Flower
C4C Challenges C4C29 Spring
Lots to Do #11 Springtime
Sweet Stamping #18 Spring is in the Air
Cute and Girly March Challenge Spring is in the air
Rosie D's Challenge #67 Green, Yellow and white
Stamp with fun #51 Easter
Lexi's Creations #10 Easter
Magical Crafts #11 Spring / Easter


Phew, think thats it for today. Cant believe it has taken all of my lunch hour to post these, he he
Hugs
Tasha
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Birthday Card for Marinella

Me again :-)

I amde this card for my friends 2 year old little girl, whose party we went to on Saturday. Marinella is just sooo cute and my friends are expecting another baby in August :-) So pleased for them.
This card has come out a bit brighter that it actually is, the green really isnt that bright, lol.

Ingredients
Paper from stash, Greeting farm image, Martha Stewart punch, printed sentiment,brads from stash

Challenges
Cute Card Thursday #104 Anything you like to celebrate each year

Off again now, one more card to post :-)

Tasha
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Die Cut Dreams GDT Card

Hi all
Hope you are all well and enjoying the lovely sunshine :-)
This is my GDT card for the Die Cut Dreams Challenge. This week the theme is 'New Beginnings' and the prize is a weeks GDT spot for which you have to make two projects.
Ingredients
Pink Gem Design image, nestabilities, DCVW paper and bits from stash
Challenges
Totally Gorjuss #22 Ribbon

Well, enjoy the rest of the sunshine
Hugs
Tasha
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Monday 22 March 2010

Sophisti-Cats DT Card


Hi all

Long time awol again I know, but hopefully not so few posts this week. Mmmm, think I say that every week, lol.
This weeks challenge over at Sophisti-Cats has been set by the lovely Tracy and is mint green.lilac.+ 1 other colour and flowers.
The prize is 2 downloads of your choice from Allissa's Paper Town. Lisa, who owns Allissa's Paper Town is trying to sell as many of her downloads as possible so that she can have the operation that she desperately needs on her hip.

Can we ask that you take this badge above & place on your sidebars Please with a link?? it would mean so much to spread the word and gain some support across the Blogs to get Lisa's message out there. She's not begging, or borrowing or evening stealing to help her cause, she is simply creating digital items for sale to aid this fund raising. Your support could change her life. Thank you in advance for any help.

Ingredients
Basic Grey papers, Greeting farm image, flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts, Just Rite stamp sentiment

See you all soon
Tasha
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Saturday 20 March 2010

Hanglar Get Well Card

Helloeeeee :-)
Sorry for being AWOL for a few days, same old story, work is keeping me busy. However I did manage to make this get well card for my fellow Sophissi-Cats DT member Gina. Hope you are on the mend Gina :-) The card does say Get Well inside but me being me, I forgot to take a photo of the inside.
Off to my friends daughters 2nd birthday in Epsom today an off to Brighton tomorrow. No rest for the wicked as they say. But on the plus side, me and hubby booked a holiday last night so only a few weeks and we will be relaxing by a pool. Although I'll probably be pulling my hair out because I wont have any paper and flowers to stroke for a whole week, he he.

Ingredients
Hanglar image, papers from stash, Papermania ribbon and flowers from stash.

Hopefully I wont leave to long a gap till the next post
Hugs
Tasha
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Monday 15 March 2010

Sophisti-Cats DT Card

Me again :-)

This card was made for the Sophisti-Cats challenge this week which is 'New Beginnings'. This challenge has quite a few possibilities, so well worth entering. The DT team have done some amazing cards so even if you dont enter, pop over and have a nose at the gorgeous cards :-)

Ingredients
Lili of The Valley Wedding stamp, Papermania Confetti papers, bits and bobs from stash

Challenges
Friday Sketchers - Sketch #93
Cute Card Thursday #103 Celebrations
Cute Daisy May Anything Goes

Think thats it for today, off to bed now so that I am bright and awake for another fun day at work tomorrow !

Hugs
Tasha
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Die Cut Dreams Guest DT Card

Evening all :-)
Sorry for being so quiet last week, but as usual, work has taken over. I just think it would be nice to get home before 9pm ! Do they not realise at work that I have cards to make ?!?!?!?!?!
Hope you all had a nice weekend and either got spoilt by the family or spoiled your mums. I spent the weekend spoiling my mother in law as I had seen my mum in the week for her birthday.
Hopefully I'll get time to make a card tomorrow night, work depending :-)

Anyway, back to this card.... I won the Die Cut Dreams Challenge last week and the prize was to be a guest designer for two weeks :-) This weeks challenge is to use at least two punches on your card. I think I managed about 4 as I wasnt sure if people would notice them, so thought I'd better use 4 to be on the safe side, he he. For the challenge we had to use a Digi Stamp from Di's Digidownloads as she is sponsoring this weeks challenge. So if any of you fancy winning a couple of digi stamps, you had better enter this challenge :)

Gonna pop my other card on now whilst I am on a roll, lol

Hugs
Tasha
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Tuesday 9 March 2010

Magnolia Notelet Set

Hi again :-)

I started making this notelet set for my mum ages ago, but it was taking so long I got bored of it, lol. But as we are going down to visit her today, I thought I would finish it so that she can have it as an extra birthday pressie.
The  notepaper was made from scanning a completed images of Tilda on the tulips and shrinking her down in Powerpoint. Then in Powerpoint I put an oval shape for the widdle over a yellow background and pasted loads of the Tilda images. I'm probably not explaining that very well. If anyone wants to know how to do it, just get in touch with me and I'll try to explain it a bit better. lol.
The papers are from Pink Petticoat, the butterflies are done using a Spellbinders die, Martha Stewart Border Punch and bits from stash.

Challenges
Cutie Stampers #45 Butterflies, flowers & Blue
Cupcake Craft Challenge #81 Flower Power
I'd like to know what you think of it :-)

Hugs
Tasha
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Magnolia Flower Card

Morning all
Hope you are all ok. I'm still feeling a bit yuck so have taken today off work as well :-(
On the plus side. today has been a good day challenge wise. I won the Die Cuts with a View challenge, so I get to be a Guest Design Team Member for 2 weeks, woo hoo and I also made the top 5 at the Pink Gem Challenge, along with Lizzy, well done Lizzy, your card was gorgeous and should have won in my opinion :-)
Anyway, back to this mornings effort.......

Ingredients
SEI paper, Magnolia stamps, yellow tulle, butterflies cut with Spellbinders, bits from stash

Challenges
Mojo Monday #129 Sketch
Paperplay #10 Just because
Crafty Angels #25 Butterflies

Have a good day all :-)
Hugs
Tasha
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Monday 8 March 2010

Sophisit-Cats DT Card - Flourishes and Bling

Hiya

This is the card I made for the Sophisti-Cats challenge this week which is flourishes and bling.
Hopefully you will all have a go and enter. Even if you dont want to enter, pop over and have a look at the beautiful cards created by the design team.
Lisa runs the Sophisti-Cats challenge and she will soon have some beautiful Die Cuts available at her new shop, Allisa's Paper Town. Getting excited to see what the die cuts will be as the one she used on her DT card was gorgeous.

Ingredients
Basic Grey Papers, the doily cut using the Mothers Day cartridge on my Cricut, CC Design stamp, Bazil bling, bits from stash

Challenge
Friday Sketchers #92 Sketch

Hope to see all your wonderful entries over at Sophisti-Cats
Hugs
Tasha
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Bunny Love

Hi all
Today I am not a well bunny :-( I have been off sick from work today with a dicky tummy and was up all night being sick. Do not feel good today at all. I managed to make a card to try and take my mind off how yuck I was feeling, inbetween sleeping for 4 hours today, shivering.
Hopefully its just a 24 hour thing and I will be ok tomorrow. Anyway, enough of my ailments.....

Ingredients
Penny Johnson stamp, Bo Bunny papers, Mrtha Stewart lattice punch, nestabilities scalloped hearts, Prima flowers, Maya Road chipboard swirl painted and chopped up, bit from stash

Challenges
Passion For ProMarkers #41 - Back To Nature
Creative Inspirations #50 - Lace,pins & pearls

Ooh, call of nature calling me again. Grrrrr!

Hugs
Tasha
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Sunday 7 March 2010

Monkey Business

Evening :-)

Last one for tonight. I fancied making something different tonight, a change from all the girly stuff and flowers. I am quite happy with how this turned out and think it could be for a boy or a girl.

Ingredients
Nitwits Jungle Fever paper, leaves, sentiment and ribbon, CC Designs monkey stamps coloured with ProMarkers, bit and bobs

Hope you all had a lovely weekend
Hugs
Tasha
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Football Card

Hi again :-)
Not overly happy with this card, but then again, I never am when I do cards for boys / men. They look so boring without flowers or bling on them, lol.

Ingredients
Lili of the Valley stamp, Nestabilities, Crafter Companion Boys paper, Forever Friends football paper, Nestabilities, bit and bobs

Challenge

Off to make dinner now, then hopefully another card tonight whilst hubby does the ironing :-)

Hugs
Tasha
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Sugar Nellie Manga

Hi Again

I love the colours in this card. I have the DCVW Garden Party paper pad, and I have been looking at it and stroking it for months, not wanting to use it because the papers are so nice. But I put my foot down yesterday and tore 2 sheets from the pad. It hurt, but at least I ahve made the first move, lol.

Ingredients
DCVW Garden Party paper, Sugar Nellie manga stamp coloured with ProMarkers, Nestabilities, bits from stash

Challenges
Cupcake Craft #80 Round and Round
Mojo Monday #128 Sketch
Stamp Something #16 Something Girly

Hugs
Tasha
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Lili of The Valley Baby Girl

Hi all

First of all, this weekend has gone totally to pot :-( My parents, nan and the dog were supposed to be coming up from Kent for the weekend as its mums birthday. I had got loads of food in to make her a Chinese banquet and made her favourite lemon cheesecake and Eve's pudding. But they got stuck in the traffic jam from hell and the car overheated, so after 4 hours of going nowhere, they turned round and went home again :-( I totally understand why they went home, I'm just sad that I didnt get to see them. But, me and hubby have decided to drive down there on Tuesday after work (mums actual birthday), armed with cheesecake, cChinese dumplings and pressies and surprise her.
On the plus side I managed to make some cards :-) ........

Ingredients
DCVW Baby Girl Nursery paper, Lili of the Valley stamp coloured with Polychromos, Nestabilities, bits from stash

Challenges
Belli Challenge ~86 Eyelets
Creative Card Crew ~ Its a Celebration
Die Cut Dreams #37 Sketch
Lili Of The Valley #48 Easel Card
Stamp Scrap and Doodle #30 ~ Anything
Sweet Stamping #16 Something For a Child

Phew, think thats all of them, lol
Hope your weekend has gone better than mine
Hugs
Tasha
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Thursday 4 March 2010

Friends Birthday Card

Hi all
Hope you are all well :-)
I have actually managed to do a card in the week, woo hoo.
I made this card for one of my best friends whose birthday is at the end of March. I chose the nun image because me and my friends all went up to London dressed as nuns to the Sound of Music sing a long a couple of years ago. Our nun outfits were a little unconventional, but we had a good time :-)

Ingredients
Craftwork Card papers, Prima flower, Mo Manning nun image, Spellbinders Nestabilities, Just Rite stamps sentiment and Prima leaves

Challenges
Sketch Saturday Sketch#92

Only the one sketch. I didn't have time to search through all the others. I really need to start organising myself !

Loadsalove
Tasha
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Monday 1 March 2010

Magnolia Card

Last one for tonight :-)

Ingredients
SEI Winnies Wall papers, Martha Stewart punch, Spellbinders mega ovals nestabilities, Magnolia stamp, craftwork cards craft candy, coloured with Promarkers.

Challenges
Lexi's Creations Anything Goes
Just Magnolia Birthday
By The Cute and Girly Spring Colours
Raise The Bar 3's Company

Off to la la land now. Nitey nite :-0

Tasha
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Mum's Birthday Card

Me again :-)

I made this card for my mum for her birthday. Her birthday always fall near or on Mothers Day. I made it with some of her favourite colours so hopefully she will like it :-)

Ingredients
Paper from stash, Sugar Nellie Manga stamp, Magnolia sentiment stamp, Ovals cut fon my Cricut, Cuttlebug embossing folder, coloured with Promarkers, Craft Notions Rainbow Drops, martha Stewart borderpunch and bits from stash

Challenges
Simon Says Stamp Vintage flowers
Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge Green and Yellow, a 3 dimentional element and a stamped image

Hugs
Tasha
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Sophisti-Cats DT Card

Hi all

Long time no post. Life has been manic and I have had no time to even look at my blog, let alone add anything :-( (poor me, my life is so hard, lol)
Anyway, this card was made for the Sophisti-Cats 'Oriental' challenge which was set by me. I thought it would be a nice different challenge and I was looking forward to it as I have tons of Oriental stuff. But me being me, I forgot that I had something do almost every night of the week and all weekend, so this card was rushed. But even thought it was rushed, I was still semi pleased with it.
I have no idea where I got all the stuff from, it was all just bits and bobs from my stash.
Thought I would enter this for the Corrosive Challenge as well as their challenge is Asian as well.

I have a couple more cards to post tonight, so I'd better get on and do those :-)

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