CES Challenge #62 - Roses and Ribbons

Good afternoon all - the sun is out for a change and you could almost forget it's November! The boys have 2 friends up at the minute and they are currently wiring into a tin of Roses!

We had a great time looking at your song or film inspired cards last week - I spent quite a bit of time humming all those tunes!

This week the theme has been set by Julie and it's:

ROSES AND RIBBONS

I think I always manage to get these onto a card if I can! So whether it's a little ribbon bow or a whole bouquet of roses, we want to see them!

I decided on a non card creation this time and have decorated some little notebooks from Wilkinsons:

I really enjoyed working on these and plan to make some more for my school's Christmas Market in December. The papers are Prima's "Printery", "Romantique" and "Pixie Glen" which are available from Crafty Emma's Store who of course is offering this week's winner a £10 voucher (not inlc P&P) to spend:

All the other little bits and pieces were lurking in my stash!

Please remember to pop over to my teamies blogs to see their fab creations and I hope we inspire you to join us this week!

Thanks for visiting, Sheena xx

Pollycraft Monday Challenge #118 - Sketch

Morning all! Yet again Monday appears so quickly after Friday - hope you all had a great weekend. So it is time for another challenge over at Pollycraft - may I say we had so many fantastic entries for Marit's "Anything Goes" challenge - my fingers have gone numb from commenting!!!

This week we have a fabulous sketch from Cazza and its a great one! I have used the very delish Melissa Frances "5th Avenue" DPs, a Craftwork Cards sentiment and the flowers are die cut and scrunched up. The divine image is Pollycraft's Moon Fairy - I haven't used her for ages and had forgotten how gorgeous she is!!

This week's lucky winner will receive 10 digis from Pollycraft!

Also worth mentioning that Paula is offering:



Now this is a fantastic opportunity to stock up on digi images!

Please do visit my teamies and I hope we inspire you to join us this week.

Sheena xx

CES Challenge #61 - Entertain Us! (Song or Film inspired)

Good afternoon all - my Internet connection took a hissy fit last night so wasn't able to set this post up - honest!

This week's fabulous challenge has been set by Caroline and we want to see creations that will:

ENTERTAIN US - SONG OR FILM INSPIRED

Now, as always I do find these challenges a tad tricky but I did manage to work a film title into mine:

BAD TEACHER

This card is actually for my new boss at school so I hope he doesn't see this post, lol!!

Used an image from Charmed Cards and Crafts and the papers are MME "Darling Dear" from Crafty Emma's Store. The buttons are from my stash:

This weeks prize is a £10 voucher (excl p&p) to spend over at Crafty Emma's Store:






Emma currently has a ***MASSIVE CLEARANCE SALE WITH UP TO 80% OFF*** plus an extra 20% OFF EVERYTHING (excl. gift vouchers & digi images). You just need to enter this code at checkout...SALE20


There maybe a slight delay in despatch of orders due to the fact that Emma has just had her baby!

Please make sure you check out my other teamies film/song inspired creations and I hope we inspire you to join us this week - please remember to put in your post the film or song you have used!

Thanks for visiting!

Sheena xx

Pollycraft Monday Challenge #117 - Anything Goes!!

Morning all - the last day of October already! My parents had a family Halloween party yesterday and we all dressed up. Hubby was a Rock Star (in his dreams!) and I went as a Clown (no comments thank you!!)

I really enjoyed all of last week's spooky entries - you really like Halloween! This week's challenge has been set by the marvellous Marit and is, quite simply:

ANYTHING GOES!

This week's winner will receive a 5 Pack of Promarkers from Letraset - a great prize!

So what did I create for my Anything Goes?? I went for some christmas decorations!

I die cut the snowflakes using glitter card. The cute images are Pollycraft's Chester who is currently on special offer over at the shop - £2.50 for all 4 Chester Christmas images - a total bargain!! Promarkers and some sparkles finish off my little Chesters (the same image is also on the back of the snowflake).

Please make sure you visit my teamies blogs to see fantastic anything goes and I hope we inspire you to join us this week! 

Thanks for visiting!

Sheena xx

Pollycraft Monday Challenge #116 - Spooky Goings On!!

Morning all - back to school here in Scotland after our October holiday - boo!! Boys are of course looking forward to school and my department get to move back from the huts into the "big" school after 6 years - hooray!!!

Anyway, this week's challenge has a decidedly spooky feel to it as set by the marvellous Mary J:

SPOOKY GOINGS ON

It is, of course, nearly that super spooky time of year (although not a big fan to be honest but the boys have a halloween school disco) when things go bump in the night (usually me trying to get to the loo with the lights off lol!)

Up for grabs for one lucky winner this week are 10 Pollycraft Digis:

Over at Pollycraft at the minute you can grab yourself a bargain - I do love my Promarkers!!:

So, onto my spooky creation! Went a bit pink for this and of course used Pollycraft's Luna Bitterfrost - Vampires Rock. The digi papers are from Pink Petticoat and the flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts. The sentiment is a rubon and the charm was lurking in my stash as was the pink rafia lace.

Thanks for visiting and do pop over to my talented teamies blogs to catch up with their spooky creations and I hope we inspire you to join us this week!

Sheena xx

CES Challenge #59 - New Beginnings (2 week challenge)

Just missed the morning, so good afternoon to you all!! As always you may have noticed I'm a little tardy with my post - I do have a reason!!! With the boys being on their school October week holiday, we went down to the Lake District for 5 days - being as organised as ever, I had to rustle up a card yesterday which I couldn't photograph until today. Am I forgiven????

This week's CES challenge is going to run over 2 weeks - we are all too excited waiting for Emma to have her little one that we can't concentrate!!

So, this week's challenge is appropriately called:

NEW BEGINNINGS

Now this could cover babies as well as new home, new job - you get the idea!

The lucky winner of this challenge will receive £10 voucher (not incl P&P) for Crafty Emma's Store:

Emma currently has a ***MASSIVE CLEARANCE SALE WITH UP TO 80% OFF*** plus an extra 20% OFF EVERYTHING (excl. gift vouchers & digi images). You just need to enter this code at checkout... SALE20 

There maybe a slight delay in despatch of orders due to the fact that Emma is due to give birth any day now!

Well I had a thought to make a New Home card - the idea worked in my head but not sure it worked in practice, but here we go anyway!!
 

The paper is Basic Grey "Out of Print" which is available from Crafty Emma's Store. I just did some tearing (which is not like me at all!), added some little flowers, buttons and pearls.

Please check out my teamies fabby cards and I hope we inspire you to join us this fortnight!

Sheena xx

Pollycraft Monday Challenge #115 - Girls, Girls, Girls!

Good Monday morning all! Yet again, somebody has stolen my weekend - if you find it please return in!!

Last week you certainly loved the Boys, Boys, Boys challenge so creative Cazza couldn't leave the girls out! This week's theme is:

GIRLS, GIRLS, GIRLS

How easy is that for us crafters?!

This week we are delighted to be sponsored by SEW SWEET who are offering a £10 voucher for our lucky winner.

So onto my card:

Went for something quite straightforward here - the papers are MME "Hazel" which are available from Crafty Emma's Store. The images are Pollycraft's Luna Bittersoft which are coloured with Promarkers.

Please pop over to see my talented teamies creations - and I hope we inspire you to join us this week!

Sheena xx

CES Challenge #58

Good afternoon all - I could say Blogger never posted this on time, but it would be a lie - it's just disorganised me!!

Fantastic to see all those Red Cards from last week - they were brilliant! This week Karen has chosen the theme of:

AUTUMN COLOURS

So we are looking for those browns, oranges and reds - easy peasy!!

As always the lucky winner will receive a £10 voucher (excl P&P) for Crafty Emma's Store:

So, here is my autumnal card using MME "Darling Dear", Card Candi and flowers (coloured with Promarkers) from Crafty Emma's Store. The image is LOTV.

Please check out my very talented Teamies blogs to see their fabby creations and I hope we inspire you to join us this week!

Sheena xx

Pollycraft Monday Challenge #114 - Boys Boys Boys!

Good morning (or as good as it can be on a Monday!). Why is the weekend only 2 days long? Spend yesterday afternoon tidying the boy's playroom - this was the room that would be their responsibility to keep tidy so they could play in it - did they? Did they heck. As less of the carpet became visible I totally lost it and tidied it up. I suspect the boys knew this would eventually happen so were happy! Managed to fill a black bin bag so it was quite theraputic!!

Anyway, onto this week's challenge as set by the fantastic Faye:

BOYS BOYS BOYS

I know I can hear some of you groaning - but boys cards are fun!!

This week's winner will receive a 5 pack of Promarkers from Letraset:

Here's my card:

This gorgeous fella is Casper Silvermist - My Board from Pollycraft. Perfect for teenages! The numbers are Thickers. The sentiment, card blank, buttons and twine as well as the paper "MME Everyday Flair" are from Crafty Emma's Store. The charm was lurking in my stash.

Please check out my very talented teamies and I hope we inspire you to join us this week!

Thanks for visiting, Sheena xx

CES Challenge #57 - Seeing Red

Good morning all - the first day of my October holiday - 2 weeks of no school!!! Anyway, this week's CES Challenge has been set by Jenny and she has chosen:

SEEING RED

Now my 2 boys would probably see I often see red if they are misbehaving but in the crafty sense we want to see RED as your main colour - how easy is that??

The winner will receive a £10 voucher (not incl P&P) for Crafty Emma's Store:

So here is my card:

The image is LOTV and the gardenis is from (I think!) Wild Orchid Crafts. The papers (MME Everyday Flair), the card blank, sentiment and Card Candi are all from Crafty Emma's Store.

Please pop over to see the DTs blogs and I hope we inspire you to join us this week!

Thanks for visiting, Sheena xx

Pink {Ink} Sketch Challenge #7 - Erica's Sketch

I'm sure I've said before but I do love using sketches - it means you can concentrate on the papers and embellies!!

Erica at Pink {Ink} Sketch Challenge has created a fab sketch which was great to use.

I had this little LOTV fella coloured up (using ProMarkers) and looking lonely so I teamed him up with an old MM paper pad "Kids Collection Sam", used my new Marianne punch and added some card candi and a sentiment from Crafty Emma's Store.

I am finally on my 2 weeks school holidays but of course have a million things to do - I might even manage a little crafting!

Thanks for visiting!

Sheena xx

Pollycraft Monday Challenge #113 - Lou's Sketch

Good evening all - yip, late again lol! This week's challenge has been set by the lovely Lou and is:

A SKETCH

The lucky winner this week will receive 10 Pollycraft digis - what a prize!

So, do you want to see my card?? I really wanted to use this image but didn't have any suitable DPs so I just used card and embossing folders - I quite like how it's turned out! The sentiment is computer generated and the teenie buttons and pearls were in my stash:

Remember to pop over to the other DTs blogs to see some sensational takes on Lou's Sketch and I hope we inspire you to join in this week!

Sheena xx

CES Challenge #56 - Totally Gorgeous/Pretty Girls

Right, own up, who has nicked the sunshine and replaced it with grey skies and rain??

Typical though, the weekend, no work, rubbish weather!

Anyway - onto this week's challenge set by the sensational Shell:

TOTALLY GORGEOUS/PRETTY GIRLS

And this week's winner will receive a Whiff of Joy rubber stamp from Crafty Emma's Store:

Please do pop over to the store as there is a fantastic 20% off everything (excluding digi images and gift vouchers).

So, here is my card:

The image is from LOTV and the charm is from Ebay. The papers (Prima Printery), scalloped card blank, sentiment, flowers, twine and card candi are all from Crafty Emma's Store. The metal butterfly and pin were from my stash.

Do pop over to see my very talented teamies creations - I hope we inspire you to join us this week!

Sheena xx

Pollycraft Monday Challenge #112 - Tags and Bookmarks

Good morning bloggers! As always Monday already, really?? I have worked an extra day (Monday) for the last couple of months and every morning I ask myself, WHY!!!!!

Anyway, enough about my woes! This week the astonishing Arabella has set the challenge of:

TAGS AND BOOKMARKS

This week's winner will receive the chance to select 3 die cut pack from this week's sponsor:

Now I am lucky enough to come from a family that always read and I hope I've passed that love onto my boys, so I decided to make a bookmark for H:

This bookmark made good use of my scraps and stickers! The cutie monster is of course from Pollycraft coloured with ProMarkers. The book is Roald Dahl's "The Twits" which is a favourite in our house!

Please remember to check out my talented teamies blogs and I hope we inspire you to join us this week!

Sheena xx

CES Challenge #55 - Recycle

Good Saturday morning bloggers! Hope you've had a good week? It's been a busy week in the White House - play dates, French Club oh and work as well, lol!

This week I am delighted to have selected this week's challenge theme which is:

RECYCLE

so we want to see any recycled bits and bobs on your creations - easy!!

This week's lucky winner will get a £10 voucher (not incl P&P) from Crafty Emma's Store:

So here is my creation. The card blank, buttons, Fizzy Moon Image, Flowers and Papers are all from Crafty Emma's Store. My recycled bit is the corrugated card which was protecting a mug in a tin:

Please check out my very talented teamies' personal blogs to see how they've recycled this week and I hope we inspire you to join us this week!

Sheena xx

PS - Grr Blogger - it didn't post this on time!!

Pollycraft Monday Challenge #111 - Swirls and Pearls

Good morning all - Monday again, pretty sure I've missed a few weekdays out! Over the weekend I was on a works night out and we ended up in a retro 80's nightclub - it was fab - clientelle ages with me (or older), all shapes and sizes just having good fun and reliving our youth!

Anyway, back to 2011, and time for another Pollycraft Challenge - this time set by alluring Anita who wants to see your:

SWIRLS AND PEARLS

I have chosen older Cherry Kisses images but she is one of my favourites! The scalloped card is from Hunkydory and the paper was from a free gift from a crafty magazine. The pearls were in my stash and the sentiment is Craftwork Cards.

The flowers and mulberry ribbon are from Crafty Emma's Store who is in fact sponsoring this week's challenge offering a £10 voucher (not incl P&P) to one lucky winner!

Please make sure you check out my very talented teamies creations and I hope we inspire you to join us this week!

I'm now off to listen to some more 80's cheese!!!

Sheena x

CES Challenge #53 - Make it Magical or Spooky!

Good morning all! Well, the central heating was finally switched on in our house last night and the winter duvet will be making an appearance this weekend - did we actually have a summer??

So to cheer us all up Carrie is hosting this week's CES Challenge and has chosen the theme:

MAKE IT MAGICAL OR SPOOKY

As always the winner of this challenge will receive £10 voucher (not including P&P) for Crafty Emma's Store and as always there are fabulous goodies to spent it on (I wish I could enter ....)

So here is my card - the BG papers (Out of Print), the elegant card blank and Promarkers are all available from Crafty Emma's Store. The image is from The Paper Shelter who have lovely digis on offer. The sentiment is from Pink Cat Studio and the little frog charm is from my stash:

I do hope you like it! Please make sure you pop over to my lovely teamie's blogs to check out their fabulous creations and I hope we inspire you to join us this week!

Sheena xx

CES Challenge #52 - Raise your Glasses!!

Good morning all! Hope you've enjoyed a long lie and are ready for the weekend. Think my 2 boys are feeling "at school fatigue" as they were right grumps last night!

Loved looking at you cards last week. This week delicious Donna has set the challenge of:

RAISE YOUR GLASSES

So, we are looking for drink themed creations!

The winner of this challenge will win a £10 voucher (not incl P&P) from Crafty Emma's Store:

For my card I've used Basic Grey "Out of Print" from Crafty Emma's Store and the Beer Monster from Pollycraft. I have to admit that I printed the image a little bigger than I intended but never mind. The bottle tops were in my stash as were the glittery letters.

Please check out my talented teamies creations on their blogs - they are fantastic! I hope we've inspired you to join us this week!

Pink {Ink} Sketch Challenge #4

Morning - I know, don't faint, I did post yesterday as well!! Don't work on a Tuesday so I get a few hours of peace which school/nursery is on.

Over at Pink {Ink} Sketch Challenge there is another fab sketch to follow. I do like using sketches - it means I 've got more time to play with the papers as the layout is already sorted!

Here is my card:

It has quite an autumn feel with the colours - the weather up here has definately turned autumnal! Gorgeous Tilda has been coloured with Promarkers, the DPs were from a massive pad I purchased from TKMaxx and everthing else was in my stash.

Thanks for visiting!

Back to School ....

.... here in Scotland the schools have been back for a few weeks. Paula over at Pollycraft has just released some fantastic new digi images which included some that were suitable for school so I couldn't resist creating this:

Introducing Luna Bitterfrost - Science Rocks, isn't she great? The papers are Fancy Pants "Off to School available from Crafty Emma's Store. The sentiment is from Whimsy Stamps and I bought the OMG charm from Ebay.

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

Allsorts Challenge Blog Week #118 Back to School
TotallyPaperCrafts #81 Back to School
Stamp Something Back to School Somethings

Pollycraft Monday Challenge #108 - Use Felt (and Blog Hop Candy Winner)

Good evening - yes I am rather late (sitting in naughty corner as I type!). It's been a busy day here in the White house - youngest started at school full-time today and I was off to work so it was the usual mad scramble in the morning!

Anyway, thanks for all your Autumn Colours cards last week, it certainly feels like Autumn weather today!

This week's Pollycraft challenge has been set by Jane and she is asking you to:

USE FELT

This week we are delighted to be sponsored by Crimson Cloud who are offering one lucky winner 3 packs of die cuts:

My card for this challenge was a commission for a 90th birthday card:

The papers were from a magazine, the image is Pollycraft's Cherry Kisses - Tea in the 20s and the flowers are made from kraft card and pink felt. The sentiments are from Craftwork Cards.

So do you want to know who was picked at random to receive the S&S Sweet Love Set? Drum roll please .......

Punknscrap

Well done. Please contact me Sheena so I can email your images!

Please remember to pop over to the other DTs blogs to see some fantastic cards and I hope we inspire you to join us this week!

Pollycraft Blog Hop!

You still have until 10 pm tomorrow night to take part in our Pollycraft Blog Hop - to enter click HERE.

CES Challenge #51 - Brown, Pink and Aqua

Good morning all! Well the boys have survived the first week back at school - I just hope I can get them there next week!!

I loved looking at all your bunting, flags or banners cards this week. This week Jane has chosen the theme:

BROWN, PINK and AQUA

which is a great colour combination to work with. The lucky winner will receive a £10 voucher (not incl P&P) for Crafty Emma's Store which always has totally lush crafty stuff!

So here is my card (sorry about the picture - the colours haven't shown up quite so well!):

The gorgeous paper, Bo Bunny "Gabrielle", the sentiment and pink flower are all from Crafty Emma's Store. The lace I had lurking in my stash and the bigger flower is just some Gabrielle DP which I die cut and distressed. The postcard is a digi download from Craftusprint and the main heart image was purchased from Ebay.

Please pop over to the other DTs blogs for fantastic inspiration which I hope will inspire you to join us this week!

Thanks for visiting!

PS - If you have a moment and want the chance to win some fab new releases from Pollycraft (available to buy Monday 29th August) please see my post below!!

Pollycraft Blog Hop and New Releases!

Over at Pollycraft we are having a blog hop to celebrate a fantastic NEW RELEASE! The entire Design Team is involved with each of us showing you sneeky peeks of the 12, yes 12!, new designs, so there's lots of inspiration in store!


There are prizes to be won at every stop along the way, and a GRAND prize at the end of the hop on Paula's blog. 
 
You should have arrived here from Arabella's blog, if you didn't...hop on back to the start, Cazza's blog, and follow the stops in order...


So, what image I am offering up as a prize? 2 fantastic Swings and Slides digis with a sweet theme:

Here are my 2 cards having played around with these scrummy digis:

The images were coloured with Promarkers and the DPs are Pink Petticoat Sweet Sundaes. All the other bits and bobs were lurking in my stash!

I'm giving away these Digis to a lucky winner.


To be in with a chance to win, you need to leave me a comment, and spread the word by adding the blog hop logo to your blog (blog post or sidebar) with a link to the Pollycraft blog.

You must leave comments at every stop along the way.

The blog hop will end on Sunday 28th August at 10 pm GMT and I will randomly pick a winner. The next stop on the hop is: Jane

The images will be available in Pollycraft shop from Monday 29th August.Good Luck!

Pollycraft Monday Challenge #107 - Autumn Colours

Good morning all! Is it really Monday already? Well my 2 are finally returning to school this week after a mind-numbing 8 weeks summer holiday - hopefully being back will tire them out!

This week's it is my turn to host the Pollycraft Monday Challenge and I have chosen the theme of:

AUTUMN COLOURS

so we want to see oranges, reds, browns, dark greens - you get the idea!

This week we are delighted to be sponsored by

who are offering the lucky winner £10 voucher to spend!

Here is my card:

I have kept this card pretty simple! The image is Pollycraft's Sonny's Party which has been coloured with ProMarkers. The coloured strips are from a sheet of 12 x 12 I discovered and the orange ribbon was from TKMaxx. The buttons were from stash and the sentiment is a peel-off which I haven't used on a card for ages!

Please check out the other DT cards which are fantastic and I hope we inspire you to join us this week! Thanks for visiting!

xx

CES Challenge #50 - Banners/Bunting/Flags

Good morning bloggers! I have a really good reason why this is a little late in being posted! It was my first week back at school this week so come yesterday I was lying in bed reading my book (about 7 pm) and the next thing I knew it was 1.15 AM!! Those 6 am starts obviously caught up with me!

So, onto this week's challenge which has been set by Kaylou:

BANNERS/BUNTING/FLAGS

It's a fab challenge - you can either make your own or it could be that they are on the DPs you use!

The winner of this challenge will receive a £10 voucher (not incl P&P) from Crafty Emma's Store which has just taken delivery of some delish new paper pads!!

For my Tilda card I've used MME Lost and Found "Rosy", charm, card candi and Bakers Twine from Crafty Emma's Store:

Please remember to visit the other DTs blogs to check out the fantastic creations and I hope you're inspired to join us this week! Thanks for visiting!