Forever Friends ...

Hi everyone & welcome to my blog

Today's card is for the Forever Friends Challenge Blog 

Yippee! It's another sketch challenge, so with great excitement I made up this card yesterday (but unfortunately left it too late to photograph).

Purple and pearlised lilac card stock ~ Bazzill

Medium flower punch ~ X cut

Small flower punch ~ Fiskars

Forever Friends stickers free from Papercraft Inspirations (quite some time ago)

Brads, ribbon and sentiment from crafty stash.

Would make a lovely Mother's Day card don't you think?

Thank you for popping along and reading my blog, hope to see you again very soon

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

Just for you...

Hi everyone & welcome to my blog

Today's card is for The Penny Black Saturday Challenge week 139 ~ Men's cards
and for the Sir Stampalot Challenge February challenge ~ All creature's great and small

Never a good theme for me (men's cards) but I thought I would give it another go, and actually I'm quite happy with how it turned out.

 

Penny Black stamp used from Hugs! Clear stamps, stamped using a Versafine ink and coloured with pencils.

Just for you stamp (free from a magazine), buttons, string, gems and blue card stock from craft stash.

Border punch Xcut ~ lace.

Of course being out of your comfort zone is helped by using such cute stamps. 

Only a really short post today as it is half term and little one is desperate to be entertained!

Hope you all have a lovely day and happy half term!

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

Say it with flowers...

Hi everyone and welcome to my blog.

I know it has been a while, it's been crazy catching up with work.  Hopefully I am nearly there and will get more time to craft ~ yippee!!!

Here is my first blog challenge for 2011!

Today's card is for a challenge over at Penny Black @ Allsorts ~ Say it with flowers. 

A lovely challenge using my favourite stamps ~ Penny Black, and my favourite source of inspiration ~ Flowers (can't wait until Spring).

Papers ~ Papermania Blueberry Hill & Papermania Honey & Hugs

Punch ~ Xcut

Stamp ~ Tiny Wishes

Flowers and sentiment from crafty stash.

This is my card entry for the Penny Black @ allsorts February challenge ~ Say it with flowers.

Thank you for stopping by, please feel free to leave a comment.

Love Em x

Goodbye 2010 ~ Hello 2011

Wishing you all a Happy New Year.

2010 has been a good year, although hard at times ~ possibly the hardest was the little one starting school :(

The good ~ the business has grown, and I have started crafting again!!! 

 I thought I would use this space today to reflect back on the best crafty bits from 2010.   

Stitching 

               

                                       

Cards

Cakes and Bakes

           

      

I must admit for the first time I am really looking forward to the New Year.  We have a lot of plans for the business, work on our home and much much more crafting. 

So being the list queen that I am, the long lists have started on every job possible and plans for 2011. 

The pin board in the office is filling up!

Many resolutions have been made, and fingers crossed they will be carried through (you never know 2011 may be different lol).

I wish you all a Happy New Year see you for more crafting in 2011 xx

Love Em x

Merry Christmas

Welcome and Merry Christmas!

I hope you all had a fantastic Christmas.  We had a lovely quiet Christmas just the 3 of us at home.  We normally do the 'family thing' but we thought this year little one would love to stay at home and play with all her toys from Father Christmas.

And boy didn't she do well ~ mostly for little one except a handful for us!

 With all the mayhem that the snow caused in Devon, there was one point where we weren't sure if Christmas would happen.  (Santa having to pick presents up from family down in Plymouth).

So we made the most of it and got crafty ~ including the little one!

Then the baking began!!

 

     

            

Homemade Christmas tree cupcakes, biscuits, truffles.  Family packs and hampers. 

The smell of the Christmas spices cooking make your taste buds dance and the house sparkle with Christmas cheer.

And more cooking ~ this time by Hubby, he always cooks Christmas dinner (yes, yes I know I am very lucky). 

There was even one put aside for our golden bundle of loveliness ~ Buster.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog during this busy period.  I hope you are all having a wonderful time and got everything you wished for this Christmas. 

I am now full of cold (not what I wished for) and feeling quite sorry for myself, but no time for that as I am off for more celebrations as it is Hubby's birthday today! Happy Birthday xxx

Love Em x

Happy Monday!!!

Good morning everyone and Welcome!

Thank you for all your lovely kind comments on my last post ~ you are all very kind.

Hope you all had a lovely weekend?  I had a great weekend - no work!!!!

I spent the weekend catching up on the housework, gardening, baking and making ~ I was in heaven!!!

Obviously housework involved washing all the uniform but it was just nice to get a bit of organisation in the house again.  Gardening ~ clearing the veg patch ready for Spring and planting out bulbs ( I know I am possibly a little late, but you know what it's like! ).  I also started some indoor bulb planters can't wait I will reveal all when the start to shoot.

 Baking!!

Chocolate Toffee Brownies Yum! Yum!

Baking with the little one ~ Chocolate Crispie's with sprinkles of course!!

Then I actually had time to spare to make a few Christmas Tree decorations that I had in a kit from my Cross stitch mag.  I made a few changes in that I stitched the outside of the birds and filled them with toy filler instead of the suggested glued flat together.

I think I may have to practise my stitching a little ~ the blanket stitch has not turned out great, but then they are handmade dec's so I think they still look good x

I will be back during the week for some more blog challenges.

Thank you for popping by my blog today.

Love Em x

43 Days and Counting!!!

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

Hope you are all well. 

 I'm not getting much time to post at the moment, our Christmas rush at work has already started!! I don't mind too much I do love Christmas very very much ~ I believe I am worse than a child =]

It's my favourite time of year ~ the sparkle (spoken from a true Magpie), the smells (pine and spices) the food, the feeling of giving and not to mention going crazy on handmade crafts!!!!

Onto today's challenge entry.

Materials used:

Square blank red card

 Background papers from ~ Forever Friends Santa's on his way...

Ribbon ~ Celebrate ribbon on a spool

Stamps ~ Penny Black Mimi's Christmas Clear stamps and Kars Merry Christmas sentiment, stamped with Versafine black ink.

Pom pom and gems from crafty stash

I am entering my card into the following challenges:

Sir Stampalot Challenge ~ Christmas Traditions

Penny Black Saturday Challenge ~ Let it Snow

Penny Black at Allsorts ~ It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

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

Hope you all have a fantastic weekend x

Love Em x