Spring has sprung..

Today's card is for the following blog challenges

Lili's Little Fairies ~ Diamond and Pearls.

Totally Papercrafts ~ All Buttoned Up.

Crafty Catz ~ Stripes or Checks.

Allsorts ~ Buttons and Thread.

Sir Stampalot ~ Happy Birthday.

Materials Used:

Background card ~ Bazzill

Patterned papers ~ First Edition Spring Drop

Doilies ~ Dovecraft Tea Party

Image ~ Lili Of The Valley

Buttons ~ Sew Sweet

Pearls ~ Wild Orchid Crafts

Thread and sentiment from crafty stash.

Image stamped using memento tuxedo ink and coloured with Pro markers.

Thank you for popping by my blog today.

Hope you all have a lovely day.

Love Em x

Being brave......

I have been very brave and doodled on my card today, it is such a hard thing to do.  Just to doodle on the card and not worry that the lines aren't straight ~ well they definitely aren't!

Today's card is for the following challenges:

cupcake craft challenges ~ Something new (my new stamp that I haven't used yet).

allsorts ~ Paper piecing

lili of the valley ~ My favourite LOTV stamp

Materials Used:

All background papers used and floral embellishments were recycled from last years calender ~ Free with Cardmaking & papercrafts last year in association with My Minds Eye ~ Bloom & Grow.

Image ~ Lili of the Valley

Stamped with Memento ink and coloured with promarkers

String, ribbon, pegs and sentiment from crafty stash.

Now to leave you on another yummy little treat.  There will be plenty of these going on! Sorry blame the new years resolutions that WILL be stuck to lol!  I have always had the desire to do loads of things ~ new crafts, sewing, more baking, etc,etc the list goes on and on......

This year the excuses stop and they actually get done.  My list is huge so I won't bore you with them, but I will be sharing on here. 

Another huge project that we are undertaking this year is re-decorating our home.  This is our 4th year in this house, when we initially moved in we had to complete gut the house and decorate, but you know what it is like there are jobs all over that never get finished. 

 This year our home WILL be finished for Christmas!!! 

Yummy Rock Cakes ~ first time made but definitely not the last.

Thank you for taking the time to read my blog, please feel free to leave a comment I love to hear from you.

Love Em x

Vintage butterflies....

Today's card is for the following challenges:

Daring cardmakers ~ Colour combo

Totally papercrafts ~ Sketch

Papertake Weekly ~ Anything goes

Materials Used:

Kraft paper ~ Papermania Kraft Basics

Patterned background paper ~ Tilda Papercraft Springtime

Cream embossed paper ~ K&co Romanza Ivory

Sentiment ~ LOTV

Butterfly punch ~ Martha Stewart.

Lace, buttons, string from crafty stash

Flowers ~ Prima

Pearls ~ Wild Orchid Crafts

Ink pad ~ Versa Color brown.

Yesterday after I picked the little one up from school we did some baking and here's a yummy pic...

Hazelnut and Chocolate Filo rolls courtesy of the Hairy Bikers ~ Delicious! and really easy to make with little fingers.

Thank you for popping by my blog today.

Love Em x



First for 2012....

Happy New Year everyone.

My first card for 2012!

Let's hope that there is time for plenty more this year.

Today's card is for the following challenges:

Daring Cardmakers ~ Spots and Stripes

Totally Papercrafts ~ Time to party (balloons)

The secret Crafter ~ Anything goes

(Apologies for the photograph it is very dark and gloomy in Devon this morning)

Materials Used:

Striped paper ~ The Glitter Mat Stack.

Polka Dot paper ~ Wild Rose Studio gorgeous polka dots.

Purple card stock ~ Bazzill

Image ~ LOTV Maisie 2 balloon

Sentiment ~ LOTV

Buttons and ribbon from crafty stash.

Image stamped with Memento ~ Tuxedo black and coloured with Pro markers.

Thank you for popping by my blog.

It's the little ones last day off school today, so I feel some play time this afternoon and maybe a little baking.

Hope you all have a great day and wrap up warm.

Love Em

x

My favourite 5 Christmas cards for 2011

Today I am playing along with the lovely Debby to pick out my top 5 Christmas cards from 2011.

So here goes... not an easy task.

No.1

No. 2

No.3

No.4

and finally no.5

Hope you have all had a fantastic Christmas.

I will be back with my favourite cards for 2011 on New Years Eve.

Love Em x



Happy Friday

Today's card is for the following blogs..

Crafty Catz ~ Anything goes

LOTV ~ Bright and Sparkly

Willow sketchie ~ Sketch

Make it Monday ~ Anything goes

Materials Used:

LOTV image Just for you

Martha Stewart butterfly punch

LOTV circle sentiment

Forever friends flower paper

Lilac & purple card stock ~ Bazzill

Self adhesive pearl from crafty stash.

Stickles ~ Star Dust

Pro markers

Thank you for popping by my blog

  We will be spending the 5th of November watching a movie with the curtains drawn as the little one does not like fireworks.

Whatever your plans for fireworks night enjoy and stay safe.

Love Em x

Happy Birthday Buster

Firstly I would like to wish my Buster a Happy 9th Birthday.... with his new toy.

Now onto crafts... I had to continue with that felt from sew sweet and this is the outcome.

A brooch

 
                                         Front                                                            Back

Cards

Felt used for the green card Rosette ~ Polka Dot & Lily, for the white card I used Stripy.



My favourite is

I am entering this card into the Papertake weekly challenge ~ anything goes.

Thank you for popping by.

Love Em x

Tis the season.....

Hi everyone and welcome to my blog.

Today's card is for the following blog challenges:

Crafty Catz ~ Challenge 103 and it's a recipe

Allsorts ~ Bear with us

Papertake weekly ~ Get in shape

Winter Wonderland ~ Autumn colours

Materials used:

Hot off the press ~ Forever Christmas Cards

Docraft Kraft Basics 12" pad

LOTV Christmas circle sentiments

LOTV James Bear ~ Deck the halls

Anita's Christmas ribbon ~ gold

Craft planet red glitter glue

Wild Orchid Crafts ~ gold metallic bows

Buttons and gold elastic cord from crafty stash

I have been busy here making Christmas goodies and cards, the first lot of which have been listed in my e-bay (just click the top right e-bay logo). 

Girl's hand decorated hair clips.

Metal clip covered with felt ~ hand stitched.

With felt snowflake, glittered snowflake button and gold seed beads.

At just £2.50 each they make great little stocking fillers.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog

Love Em x

Birthday Step Card

Hi everyone and welcome to my blog.

Today's card is for the following challenges

Cupcake Craft challenge ~ Sew mad

A Spoonfull Of Sugar ~ Happy Birthday

Papertake weekly ~ Grow your own

Sir Stampalot ~ August challenge ~ Whatever you fancy

This is my first step card, which are fantastic but a little hard to stand up well once decorated.

Materials Used:

Step card ~ redhotbed

Grey bazzill card

Tilda papercraft ~ Springtime 12" pad

Stamps ~ Lili of the valley set 1 oh so girlie, Folk flowers and circle sentiments.

Panduro papier mache numbers

Promarkers for colouring stamped images

Papermania 1.6cm midi flower punch

x cut lace border punch

Pearls ~ Wild orchid craft

Stickles ~ Star Dust

Ribbon and chipboard swirl from crafty stash

Sorry I haven't had much time to blog.  Trying to juggle working from home and the little one off school is proving to be quite a task, and to fit crafting in on top is near enough impossible.

Loving the hols though it's so lovely to have my special girl home.

I will be back next week with a thank you card and then I'm afraid yes Christmas will be starting.  I have loads of crafty ideas for Christmas just buzzing around my head, but unfortunately not much time to do them yet.  The little one loves to craft but unfortunately like most things it lasts about 5 minutes then she is on to the next thing lol! 

Hope your are all having a lovely Summer Holidays and see you again next week

Love Em x

What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday

Hi everyone and Welcome to my blog!

Today's post is for WOYWW, which is great fun and I highly recommend that if you don't already join in then do so! (I've always been nosey lol!)

Looking a little tidier than last time ~ yes I have managed to have that sort out, still full to the brim but at least things are in their place.

I have managed to finish work early today so I now have the full afternoon to play!! Yippee! The housework will of course have to wait.

Onto the next project (which hopefully I'll be ready to share tomorrow)

I'm just trying to decide which one of my lovely LOTV stamps to use, I really can't get enough of them at the moment.  Looking forward to the new girlie stamps being released on the 14th.

The Fancy Pants papers were free from an issue of Simply cards & papercrafts ~ gorgeous aren't they.

You can just see in the pic my Papermania bag that I really wouldn't be without, and my new Cath Kidston note book my Sis got me for my birthday.

Check out my wonderful new promarkers storage, beautifully hand crafted by the lovely Rod

 Check it out on e-bay

On the hole starting to look a lot more tidy and organised ~ well as much as it can!

Thank you for popping by my blog, I will of course be having a good nosey around your work desks and where I can leave comments (yep! you got it still having problem with Mr Blogger!)

Love Em x



Country style

Hi everyone and welcome to my blog!

Today's card is for the following challenges:

Sir Stampalot ~ Picture inspiration

Papertake Weekly ~ Anything goes

Penny Black Saturday Challenge ~ Doodlebug!

Penny Black @ Allsorts ~ Your My Favourite

Card Patterns ~ Sketch 118

Materials used to make this card:

Green background ~ Bazzill - Rain Forest

Wild Rose Studio ~ Gorgeous Gingham's

Wild Rose Studio ~ Polka Dots

Xcut border punch

Stamped image ~ Penny Black - Poppy Poem

Sentiment ~ LOTV

Buttons, raffia, string and ribbon from crafty stash

Imitation stitching with fine liner for Doodlebug challenge.

Thank you for popping along to my blog, please feel free to leave a comment ~ I love to hear from you.

Love Em x

Together Forever...

Hi everyone and Welcome to my blog.

Also a huge HELLO! to some new followers xx

Today's card I am entering into the following challenges:

The Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge ~ Anniversary

Crafty Catz ~ Anything goes

Materials Used to make this card:

Background papers ~ Bazzill teal, Tilda papercraft 12"x12" Springtime

Flowers ~ Mulberry Street/Petaloo

Stamped image and sentiment ~ Lili of the valley ~ Together Forever

Buttons and Key charm from own crafty stash

Pro markers to colour image.

This was the card that I made hubby for our 7th wedding Anniversary, ties in perfectly with these challenges.

Also another quick share I have finally downloaded photos of my little one's birthday cake I made for last weekend.  What do you think?

Thank you all for popping by.  Hope you all have a fantastic weekend xx

See you next week

Love Em x

Spring Challenges

Hi and Welcome to my blog.

What beautiful weather we are having in Devon at the moment, gorgeous! and puts me in the perfect mood to make cards for all the Spring Challenges

My card today is for two challenges

Penny Black Saturday Challenge ~ Spring has Sprung

and

Penny Black at Allsorts ~ Welcome Spring

Materials used for this card:

Background papers ~ Forever Friends Spring Time 6"x6" double sided paper pad

Ribbon ~ Anita's everyday ribbon ~ yellow striped

Penny Black image ~ Hugs clear stamps coloured with pencils

Brad and flowers from crafty stash.

I thought I would share with you my beautiful Daffodils flowering ~ The first time I have planted Spring bulbs in my garden (never been in a house long enough ~ moved far to many times!!)

Isn't this weather wonderful, really does re-charge the batteries

(hubby describes me as a little solar panel ~ I soak up the sunshine)

 I hope you are enjoying the weather where ever you are today.

I will be back over the weekend to share another cupcake order I have for Saturday.

Thank you for taking the time to read my blog

Love Em x

Papertake Weekly challenge

Hi & Welcome to my blog!

A huge hello! to some new followers x

Today's card is for the Papertake Weekly challenge which to my delight is a sketch.

Yippee!!! I do love sketch challenges so much.

I found this challenge blog last night and instantly had an idea of what to do.  I have had some papers that have been in my crafty stash for quite a few years (I am sorry to say) and I have finally got around to using them.  What started to be quite a simple idea, as I have the little one home on half term turned out to be a labour of love.  It just kept needing the extra layers and they proved to be quite tricky to cut out!

Apologies for the photo ~ the colours haven't quite come out right it's so dark and grey today it was actually quite hard to get good light.

Green background paper ~ Bazzill Spring breeze

Decoupage and co-ordinating papers ~ are from a card making kit I purchased from my craft club rucraft

Ribbon ~ Celebrate ribbon by the spool and gems from my own crafty stash

Layering is so worth the time gives a great dimension to the card.

The detail in these fairies are great ~ it's a shame you can't see the sparkle in the photo's.  The papers and decoupage are covered in glitter and so am I now!

Thank you for taking the time to read my blog.  Hope to see you all very soon with another challenge

Love Em x

Pretty in pink.....

Hi & Welcome to my blog.

Today's post is a challenge for Penny Black Saturday challenge

This week's challenge is ~ Pretty in pink.

Stamp ~ Penny Black ~ Tiny Wishes

Stamped with Versacolour ink and coloured with watercolours.

Pink card stock, Glittered flower card stock and ribbon from craft stash.

Flowers ~ Prima flowers

also used Sakura white gelly roll pen

Penny black stamps have to be a strong favourite for me ~ I just think they are so cute!

Whilst we are on the subject of pink, I thought I would share with you my beautiful flowers that my gorgeous hubby got me ~ just because he loves me (and not even for Valentines!).  

I'm sure by now you are all aware of my love for flowers so I thought I would leave you with a lovely image of Spring!!!

Thank you for popping by, hope to see you soon.

Love Em x

Penny Black challenges

Hi everyone and welcome to Elf's Crafting Life...

A big hello to some new followers, it's great that you have chosen to follow my blog and I hope that you enjoy what you read.

Today's card is being entered into 3 blog challenges.

Sir Stampalot Challenge ~Autumn breezes, buttons and bows

Penny Black at Allsorts ~ Colours of Autumn

Penny Black Saturday Challenge ~ 2 or more Penny Black images

This is my second entry into Penny Black at allsorts I entered this card in the first week.  The team at Penny Black at Allsorts are kindly drawing winners each week as well as their monthly winner, which is great 4 changes to win!!

This is my entry to all of the challenges

Materials used:

Cute Hedgehog image and 'For You' sentiment from Penny Black ~ Tiny Wishes T for Transparent range

Bee's with envelope from ~ Hugs T for Transparent range

I stamped the above images using a Versafine ink pad and coloured using water colours.

I then matted and layered the card using various papers ~ K&Co Studio K Teal Plaid flat paper, Bazzill ~ Quick sand & Carob, the orange leaf paper is from my crafty stash (sorry I can't remember the brand).

Ribbon ~ Celebrate ribbon by the spool.  Flowers and button from crafty stash.

Sorry everyone I was going to upload a close up of the cute hedgehog image but Blogger is not working very well tonight.

Anyway this is my challenge entry for the following 3 blog challenges ~

Penny Black at Allsorts

Penny Black Saturday Challenge

Sir Stampalot Challenge

Thank you for taking the time to read my blog, please feel free to leave a comment.

Love Em x

Edited 14-10.  Yeah!! I have finally been able to add the close up image of this cute hedgehog x  I have also entered this card into a 3rd challenge (blog post has been edited with links). I hope it still counts as it is a new card from my latest blog post and not back linked to an old project ~ fingers crossed.