Sunday, April 29, 2012
Work in progress....
Thought i would share with you my latest work in progress...I bought this set of drawers from a charity shop te other day for £2.50 and then yesterday i went to Craft Central with my friend Elke and amongst other things we bought some decopatch papers. Now those of you that know me will know my craft room is black and white so the papers i bought are black and white!!!!
These are the piccies of the drawers before i attacked them with paper and glue
and here they are after i have been playing this afternoon but you will have to wait til later in the week to see the finished article.
Right off for my shower as we are going to my daughters for dinner this evening
Enjoy the last remaining bit of your weekend
Sylvia xx
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Very special card for SIL
Hi bloggers
Thought i would share a very special card with you...especially for my SIL - she is going in hospital on Thursday for a major operation as part of her cancer treatment. This will be the biggest one of many and she will be in ICU for a while once the op is over. She lives in Newquay Cornwall and for those that know the area will know that there is a beach with lots of lovely brightly coloured beach huts on. Our children played on these beaches and now their children do the same. I loved this sentiment and felt it was just what i needed to say....
The stamp is a brand new one from Michael Powell and i bought it today on a shopping trip out with my best friend Elke. I coloured it with promarkers and then just added a simple bow and flower.
Off to play some more now as i have the downstairs to myself as everyone else is having an early night...lol
Sylvia xx
Challenges..Paper Pretties
Friday, April 27, 2012
Anything Goes.....
Good Morning followers and welcome to my blog post for today!!
This week over at Poodles Parlour, our challenge is really easy..............anything goes
We are being sponsored this time by Stamp n Doodle
and we had some lovely cute digis to use including this lovely wee girl on her bike... I love this idea of a Double Dutch fold and may just use this idea again..here is the link over at Splitcoasters if you wanted to give it a go. Let me know if you do and i will come and pay you a visit
I do hope you will come and join us with your great projects
Until then
Love and hugs
Sylvia x
Thursday, April 26, 2012
CRAFT Challenge DT card
Good morning and its that time of the week again... CRAFT Challenges time
Our theme this week is Animals so anything at all with an animal on it is fine by us...it may be cute...scary....big....little...furry...feathered (like mine) whatever we don't mind.
I got to use this super duper image from Hope Jacare - swirly owl branch which i just fell in love with. I used papers and chipboard shapes from the Sugar & Spice Range from dovecraft and obviously coloured with my promarkers to finish off..

We shall look forward to all your lovely projects and to popping over to nosey at your blogs..
Until next time
Take care and do be crafty...
Sylvia x Challenges DYSU - inspirational flowers.......The Paper Shelter.....Passion for Promarkers.....Creative Craft Challenges.....Sentimental Sundays
Our theme this week is Animals so anything at all with an animal on it is fine by us...it may be cute...scary....big....little...furry...feathered (like mine) whatever we don't mind.
I got to use this super duper image from Hope Jacare - swirly owl branch which i just fell in love with. I used papers and chipboard shapes from the Sugar & Spice Range from dovecraft and obviously coloured with my promarkers to finish off..
We shall look forward to all your lovely projects and to popping over to nosey at your blogs..
Until next time
Take care and do be crafty...
Sylvia x Challenges DYSU - inspirational flowers.......The Paper Shelter.....Passion for Promarkers.....Creative Craft Challenges.....Sentimental Sundays
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Changes are afoot at Nutcrafters!!!
Good evening followers - bet you wondered where i was!!! Oops sorry about the late post for my DT card for the Nutcrafters challenge it must be all the excitement of the new changes we have...
We are opening the rule book this week however and mixing things up a little.
If you would like to enter our challenge but don't have any Nutcrafters images to use, this week we will accept your entry and you will be entered in to win our second prize of your choice of Nutcrafters digi stamp or digi stamp set.
All cards or projects with a Nutcrafters image will automatically receive an additional entry into our main prize draw, so that's twice the chance to win!
No excuses now for not entering the great challenge and a chance to win either the digi or the voucher. Anything goes...yes absolutely anything and i have used some funky card blanks i got from Kanban at the weekend and my backing papers are from a lovely little pad "Webster's pages" which were free in simply cards and papercraft and they are so yummy!!! My digi is a new one from nutcrafters and there's more but you will have to wait and see what they are...may just give you a sneek peak at the weekend!!!!
Good luck in the challenge and chat soon but i have to dash now as we are going out for dinner for a chinese with a very special friend...
Challenges for this card
Paper Pretties.....
The Stamping Boutique.....
The Cutie Pie Challenge Blog.....
Love and hugs as always
Sylvia x
Wedding/Anniversary CRAFT Challenges..
Yoo hoo only me with another challenge DT card for our weekly challenge at CRAFT Challenges
This week we would love to see your cards/projects following a wedding or anniversary theme

For my card i have used a Meljen Designs digi and what a cute couple they are too...I shall be giving this to one of my daughter's best friends when she gets married later in the year...the papers are from a brand new pack of papers from Flair designs petite range and they are such yummy papers.
Challenges DYSU... The Stamping Boutique... Sentimental Sundays... Papertake Weekly... Do come and join us as we have some very special prizes for the lucky winners this week.
Sylvia xx
This week we would love to see your cards/projects following a wedding or anniversary theme
For my card i have used a Meljen Designs digi and what a cute couple they are too...I shall be giving this to one of my daughter's best friends when she gets married later in the year...the papers are from a brand new pack of papers from Flair designs petite range and they are such yummy papers.
Challenges DYSU... The Stamping Boutique... Sentimental Sundays... Papertake Weekly... Do come and join us as we have some very special prizes for the lucky winners this week.
Sylvia xx
Friday, April 13, 2012
Circles !!!!!
Round and round in circles...Poodles Parlour Challenges would love to see your projects with circles as the main theme...
I found this great circles paper amongst the paper pack from dovecraft called Sugar & Spice so with a couple of embellishments from the same range and some ribbon...voila !!! there is my ever so quick and easy card.
I shall look forward to seeing your lovely work when out visiting the blogs and good luck to you all ...
Love and hugs
Sylvia xx
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Inspirational Picture Challenge
Good morning followers..
A beautiful inspirational picture is the challenge this week at CRAFT Challenges and wow have the team got some great projects to show you.
Pop on over, have a look have a look at our work and then come and show us yours !!!! As always there are some fab sponsors and prizes including Bugaboo which is where I got the digi for my 1st card - called beautiful blocks - live love and laugh (seems like good advice to me)


now because i loved the piccie so much i made a 2nd card but this time using a Stitchy bear image of this fisherman...


So come on then, fish the mojo out of the drawer and lets see your projects
Challenges
A gem of a challenge (flower card)
A beautiful inspirational picture is the challenge this week at CRAFT Challenges and wow have the team got some great projects to show you.
Pop on over, have a look have a look at our work and then come and show us yours !!!! As always there are some fab sponsors and prizes including Bugaboo which is where I got the digi for my 1st card - called beautiful blocks - live love and laugh (seems like good advice to me)
now because i loved the piccie so much i made a 2nd card but this time using a Stitchy bear image of this fisherman...
So come on then, fish the mojo out of the drawer and lets see your projects
Challenges
A gem of a challenge (flower card)