Christmas in July

Good morning... Sorry I'm a bit late with my card this week, as you can see it's a Christmas card eeeekkk!! it's creeping up fast lol!!... The challenge today over at 'Papertake Weekly' is 'Anything Goes' with the option of Christmas, but it is only an option but I thought I would get a head start on my Christmas cards...

Card Recipe

Image - LOTV Art Pad

Papers - LOTV 'Twas the night' by Mary Fran

Marianne Poinsettia die I think

Marianne Swirl die

Merry Christmas chip board from Avalon Esoterics

Challenges Entered

TBA

our sponsor this week is LOTV who are offering a £10 voucher to the lucky winner

Do hope you will join us, and if you get a chance  pop over to the main challenge blog and see what my lovely teamies have made for your inspiration...

I am hoping to go to the Summer Crafting show at Doncaster Racecourse this week-end, if nothing gets in the way lol!!... do love a bit of crafty shopping lol! I'm also looking forward to the demonstrations, there are so many talented people at these shows, I just get so much inspiration from them... maybe I will see some of you lovely ladies there too:) xx

Until next time

Love and Hugs,

Marjorie xx

It's A Good Day....

Hi everyone, hope you all had a good bank holiday!! David and I took Mum with us to a Land Rover show at the week-end, she's always loved to come with us but it was quiet a struggle for her to get around even with the little walker we bought her.  We had a lovely picnic at lunch time, then Mum and I sat in the sunshine while David went and had another look around on his own.  I feel quiet sad as she's always loved the shows but it's a bit too much for her now.. but we had a lovely day all the same and the weather was kind to us too!

Well it's time for another challenge over at 'Papertake Weekly' and this week you have a lovely variety of options to choose from, or you can incorporate all of them if you like.... I have chosen to do Dawny's lovely sketch plus the colour choice of Blue and Green... Do pop along to the main challenge blog and see all the options.

Sketch #101

Materials Used

Papers - Candles & Cake and Shabby Shack (LOTV)

Ink - Tim Holtz Salty Ocean

Swirls - Marianne

Dies - I think they were Memory Box

Image - I've thrown away the packaging (sorry)

We are sponsored by Simon Says Stamp and there is a lovely Gift Voucher on offer...

Challenges Entered

TBA

Do pop along to the main challenge blog and see what my lovely teamies have been up to. I do hope you will join us this week for some lovely crafty fun!

Have a lovely week everyone, take care...

Love and Hugs,

Marjorie xx

A New Home

Good morning everyone, sorry I haven't been around for a while but still busy with the house, one little job of getting the Artex sorted has ended up into a major overhaul of all the other rooms lol!!.. The dust just got every where so it's lots of cleaning and painting... Anyway I have managed to clear a little space and I've put this card together for this weeks lovely challenge over at Papertake Weekly which is a Sketchie Free For All... This means you can use the new sketch that Dawny has created or you can choose one of the older ones which you can find here.. I have used sketch #42 as it fitted in so nicely with this lovely image from LOTV.

Sketch #42

Card Recipe

Image - LOTV Pre-coloured art pad

Papers - LOTV Snow Princes Solids By Mary Fran

Flowers - Ribbon Girl and WOC

Butterfly - Marianne

Flower Swirl -Marianne 

We are sponsored this week by Simon Says Stamps so a great prize to be won!

Also do pop along to the main blog and see what my lovely teamies have created for you.

Challenges Entered

LOTV - Pretty Papers

It's short and sweet today guys, so you all take care and happy crafting....I haven't forgotten about the holiday photo's, will put some on as soon as I can...
Love and Hugs,
Marjorie xx

Christmas in July

Good morning everyone, Time for another challenge over at 'Papertake Weekly' and being the first of the month it's Anything Goes with the option of Christmas.. it's only an option though, I promise myself every year to start early for Christmas so this is the ideal opportunity, so here is my first Christmas Card for this year.  LOTV are our sponsors this week so I have used an image from one of the pre-coloured art pads 'Festive Foliage'.  I love the colours in this image and have embellished it with some gorgeous deep red velvet lace from the Ribbon Girl, I should of ordered more of this as I think it's going to become a favourite on my cards!.. After taking thousands of photo's this is the best one I could come up with, but it still doesn't show the true colours of the card, they all match so beautifully, right down to the pearls which you can't see very well... I made the poinsettia from a Spellbinders die and the foliage is a Marianne holly die, also the papers are by Marianne too.. I love this Christmas pad!

Challenge Entered

Christmas Card Challenges - #31 Anything Goes

Craftyhazelnuts Christmas Challenge - Lets Get Sentimental

Our sponsors this week are LOTV and are offering a £10 voucher to the winner, so do join us this week, we would love to see your fabulous cards, also do pop across and see what my fabulous teamies and guest designers have made.

That's it from me for today but before I go I must just tell you this, all the challenges I entered on my last card, except for one, I forgot to link up lol!! There is still time to link some of them up so that's what I'm going to do when I get home from work later lol!!  I don't know what's wrong with me at the moment lol!!

You all take care...

Love and Hugs,

Marjorie xx

Water Lily

Hi everyone, I have some fabulous news to share with you today... Dawny at Papertake Weekly has asked if I would like to join them as part of the team!! I'm fit to burst at the moment lol!! as I'm so thrilled, I have been walking around with a smile on my face all week lol!! ...  Yayhh!! I'm a papertake girly lol!!!  So on with the show lol!!  being the first Tuesday of the month, It's Anything Goes at 'Papertake Weekly' with an option to make something that reminds you of Summer or has a Summery Theme... and that fits in with this lovely fairy stamp that Debs bought me for my birthday, what could be more Summery than this little fairy lol!!! I think she is waiting for the sun to come out from behind those clouds lol!! After I had stuck them down, I realized I should really have had the sun shining brightly... but she looks like she's having a wonderful time sat there on her little Lily pad lol!! I made three versions of this card and just couldn't seem to get it right, but finally decided on this design, I wanted to make her centre of attraction, and I think she steals the show don't you lol!!! I used my inktense pencils to colour her.

What I used

Image LOTV 'Water Lily'

Colouring Medium - Inktense Pencils

Papers - LOTV - 'Shabby Shack' by Raspberry Road

Dies - Marianne, Joy

Other - Glossy Accents (glasses) Stickles Stardust 

Pearls and ribbon my stash

Challenges Entered

4 Crafty Chicks - Anything Goes

A Creative Romance - Girly Cards
Cute Card Thursday - Blues and Hues
Stampin' for the Weekend - For the Girls
Sweet Pea Stampers - Things with Wings
Crafting From The Heart - Anything Goes
Crafting At The Weekend - Anything Goes
Lauralcraft - Challenge 6 - Anything with Wings
My Mums Craft Shop - Ink It Up

This is a lovely challenge so why don't you join us as there is a fabulous prize to be won  from 'LOTV' now who could resist that!!!.. also you have to see what fabulous inspiration the girls have for you!!

Well that's it from me for now, I'm just off to work so until next time, take care...

Love and Hugs,

Marjorie xx

Just To Say....

Hi everyone, here we are nearly out of May, can you believe it, where are these weeks going too!!.. hope you all had a fabulous bank holiday week-end, we have been painting and getting things ready so the estate agents can come and take some photo's of Debs house. I am happy and sad when I think about her moving, but it's a fabulous opportunity for her and Candice.... but I will miss seeing them every day.. although we do have skype, so I think that will be well used lol!!

Anyway onto today's challenge over at 'Papertake Weekly'.. Dawny has done a lovely sketch for us, but as always you can choose one of the older ones if you prefer, which are here!... I love using a sketch, as it's a good place to start especially if Mr Mojo has gone walk about lol!! Sorry about the pants photo, the colours are not really true as the ribbon is a lot lighter and co-ordinates much better in real life, I've been trying and trying to get a decent photo, but this is about the best... sorry!  I have used this gorgeous fairy stamp that I won at LOTV and she is called 'Petal' isn't she just lovely.  I think she can be used for so many different occasions.   I have finally got around to having a go with my inktense pencils, they are a lot different than my distress pens but I love the vibrant colours, but I need a lot of practise with them.  This is a very glittery card as I've used lots of star dust stickles and also some liquid pearls.  The papers are also from LOTV.

What I used

Image - Petal from LOTV

Papers - LOTV- Solid and Patterned - Promises by Mary Fran

Sentiment - LOTV - Hand Written Phrases

Flowers - Wild Orchids

Dies - Marrianne and Memory Box

Challenges Entered

LOTV - Fairies

Diva's By Design - Anything Goes

The Paper Nest Dolls - Anything Goes

The Squirrel and The Fox - Lets hear it for the girls

That's it from me for today, but do pop along and see what fabulous cards the girls have made... there's a lovely prize to be won too....

Take care,

Love and Hugs,

Marjorie xx

Papertake Weekly - A lovely Sketch

Good morning everyone,
Hope you all have had a fantastic week-end, the weather hasn't been too bad has it... just cold bbrrr!  Can you believe we are almost out of March already.  David and I are going to Germany this week as it's our Grandsons 6th Birthday, he is growing up so fast! Really looking forward to it.

Anyway on to my card for today, it's Tuesday so it's time for another challenge over at Papertake Weekly which is a lovely sketch challenge.  You can use the new sketch that Dawny has done, or you can choose a different one from the lovely collection on the Papertake Weekly blog here, but remember it must be one of ours. I chose the new sketch, it was lovely to work with and I really enjoyed making it, once I had found my mojo as he did a little walk about this week lol!!

I used another LOTV pre-coloured art pad image from Set 3 'Wild Flowers'... I used a sprinkling of frantage around the edges, I love this stuff! (I did knock the whole jar over, but managed to scoop most of it up lol!!).. I've just had one of those weeks lol!!  It's lovely and sparkly as I used lots of Stardust Stickles on the flowers, butterflies and my flower at the bottom.  I also put a strip of navy and gold ribbon tucked under the blue panel, the photo doesn't show it up to well, but the little bit of gold really sparkles too.  The flower die is a gorgeous Tim Holtz die that I bought at the 'Harrogate' show last week, I think I'm going to get a lot of use out of this, and of course I used my old faithful 'Marianne' swirl die! butterflies are Martha Stewart all jazzed up with stickles and pearls.  I also popped the lovely doo hickey 'So wrapped, Lovely' Die into the side. The lovely papers are 'Petal Fresh' from LOTV by Mary Fran.

Challenge Entered

LOTV - Bingo (Ribbon, Pearls and Flowers)

Sister Act - Anything Goes

Brown Sugar - Anything Goes

Stampin with the Dragon - Bling it Up

Love to Create - Bingo (Flowers, Blue and Ribbon)

Hope you all have a 'FABULOUS' Mother's Day on Sunday, and hope you all get very, very spoilt.  When my kids were little I always got breakfast in bed (which David and the kids had put together) and we would all open my pressies together, me still half a sleep, but the kids loved it, and the kids would jump up and down on the bed with excitement and say 'come on Mum open your pressies, come on lol!!  It was fabulous, do miss those special times.  What would we do without memories hey! Talking about memory, don't forget to pop over to PTW and see the fabulous cards the other girls have made, lots of fabulous inspiration and a prize to be won too!...

Sorry I seem to have waffled on a bit here... Have a great week and take care...
Love and Hugs,
Marjorie xx

Sketchy Free For All

Hello everyone, hope you all had a great week-end with lots of crafting thrown in!..  Whooo!! I'm feeling quiet happy today, I managed to order some lovely paper pads from LOTV yesterday, had a bit of a struggle at first trying to get on the site.. gave up and tried a bit later, really thought I would miss out again lol!! But NO.. they still had some stock!!  Can't wait for Mr. Postie to arrive now lol!!

My card today is for 'Papertake Weekly' which is a lovely sketch challenge. You can use any sketch as long as it is one of the Papertake sketches.  I chose to use sketch #80. The nice thing about sketches is they give you a good starting point, especially when Mr. Mojo has gone walk about, I love using them.  I really enjoyed making this card, the flowers were cut out with a Joy Die, really want to have a go at making some flowers, I have some gorgeous dies which I haven't known how to use properly so have been on the internet for some tutorials, so watch this space lol!!..   The gorgeous hearts are a Marianne die and I have ruffed up all the black card with some sand paper and scissors, the card is by Tim Holtz and is a dream to use for this sort of thing.  The gorgeous papers are from LOTV designed by Mary Fran.  The image is from one of LOTV art pads.

  

This is the sketch which I turned around so that the side was at the top

Card Recipe

Image - LOTV - Art Pad Jack, Patch and Puss

Paper - LOTV -  'Candles & Cake' by Mary Fran

Sentiment - LOTV - Everyday Grundgy Messages

Dies - Marianne Hearts and Joy Flowers

Challenges Entered
The Cutie Pie Challenge - Cute with lots of spots & dots
The ABC Challenge - F is for Flowers
Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge - Patterned Paper
TTCRD Challenge - Anything Goes
LOTV Monthly Challenge - Name That Tune
'The Hug Song' - by Fred Small
  

My card is about sending someone special hugs so I would just like to send some special hugs to Mary, Andrea and Family from the ribbon girl.  Mary sadly lost her husband last week and I would just like to say you are all in my thoughts and prayers. xx

That's it for today guys, you all take care,

Love and Hugs,

Marjorie xx

Oh Christmas Tree

Good Morning everyone.. at last I have managed take a photo of my Christmas card, in-between work, kitchen DIY and housework lol!! Debs and  I also managed to get to the Dome in Doncaster on Sunday for Paulas 'Stamp Magic' show ... I didn't buy very much just a couple of essentials.. what am I saying everything I buy is essential lol!!! , I did feel a bit guilty leaving David with the kitchen, but it was nice just for a couple of hours to have a browse and a cup of coffee with my best friend.. my lovely daughter:).   I met up with Carole another fellow crafter, a really nice lady who I met at the LOTV shop earlier in the year and we've kept in touch via email and have met up at a couple of shows we've been too, it was lovely to have a chat:)... anyway on to my card... it's a LOTV image called 'Oh Christmas Tree' and I coloured it with my distress pens, I do looove these pens as blending is so easy with them..I'm itching now to get some more colouring done lol!!  A bit of a photo overload I'm afraid...

I thoroughly enjoyed making this card... I heat embossed the card, poinsettia and leaf edges in gold.  I also heat embossed around the edge of the tag...  I added glamour dust to the fur hat and coat edges, and used stickles stardust on the snow (a little tip from Anne xx).  I faux stitched around the edge of the image which was coloured with distress markers and a little prisma pencil.  I used my new doohickey heart tag.. ( I think everyone in blog land has one of these now lol!!) but it is soooo lovely:)  I added ribbon, gold lace, pearls and a pearl brad for the centre of the poinsettia.  The lovely memory box star is one of my favourites at the moment! Papers are 'Merry Little Christmas' by Marianne.

Challenges Entered

LOTV Ideas to Inspire Blog - Anything Goes (2nd Entry)

Papertake Weekly - Oh Christmas Tree

Thank you so much for stopping bye, I really do appreciate your lovely messages they lift my spirits and make me feel good:)xx..  Have a lovely week-end:)..

Take Care,

Love and Hugs,

Marjorie xx

Wild Flowers

Good morning all, where does the time go to?... We are busy replacing our kitchen at the moment, David and I decided to do it ourselves as the fitting costs were astronomical, and I am also working extra hours at work so no time to sit and relax lol!!  I did go to the Harrogate show though a couple of weeks ago... Debs and I had a fabulous time and bought some lovely goodies...  I managed to get my hands on the new paper pads from LOTV they really are gorgeous, and they can also be used for other occasions not just Christmas, so good all rounders:) I watched a lovely demonstration on embossing and can't wait to have a go with my new embossing powders, also picked a few tips up on stamping and inking. It makes all the difference when you are shown the correct way on how to use the tools you have!
I still haven't managed to take photo's of my cards I made with my distress inks, as the kitchen is taking up a lot of time and energy.. I think projects like this make you realize you are not as young as you were lol!!! But we are getting there and it will be worth it in the end:)

A peek at the inside

I made this card for Debs birthday, the image is from LOTV's art pads and I have used frantage on the sides. The little tags are also from LOTV . The paper is called 'Pretty in Pink' by Glitz. I distressed all the edges with Tim Holtz distress ink, sorry I can't remember what colour I used now, I think it was Victorian Velvet.... the layout is a 'paper take weekly' sketch, which I was going to enter, then missed the deadline lol!!  There is a lovely new challenge also starting at The Ribbon Girl for Lili of the Valley products, so click here and have a look.. happy crafting:)..

Challenges Entered

LOTV Monthly Challenge - Anything Goes

The Ribbon Girl Blog - Lovely Lili Challenge 'Anything Goes'

Bearly Mine #108 - Anything Goes

Sister Act - Anything Goes

The Sisterhood of Crafters - Anything Goes

Would just like to say sorry for not being a good blogger, and hope to get back to normal soon, I still have lots of Christmas cards to make... I could also do with some magic elves to help with the kitchen lol!!!
Take Care,

Love and Hugz 

Marjorie xx

Vegetable Patch

Good Morning everyone,  Firstly I would like to say a big 'Thank You' for all the lovely comments last week regarding my Mum, you are all very kind:)... Also a big welcome to my new followers...
Now on to my card for today which is a fabulous image from LOTV called 'Vegetable Patch'.  I have purchased a couple of there A6 Sketch Pads and quiet honestly I just couldn't make up my mind which to colour up first lol!.. WOW!! they are fabulous.. no more smudging when stamping lol!!  and they worked so perfectly with my Prisma Pencils.  I will defiantly be purchasing more of these lovely pads, they are so handy... you can also get them pre-coloured.  A bit of an over-load of photo's sorry:)  I wanted to try and show you the lovely embossing on the leaves and bird house, as the photo's never seem to show up all the little details... do you like my bird house and the fresh bedding I put in for the little birdies lol!!

A little blurred, I never seem to be able to get the whole card 

in focus when I take a side-ways shot!

I've been dying to use this lovely tree die and just had to 

have it on my card some where lol!!

Card Recipe

Image - LOTV  'Vegetable Patch'

Colouring Medium - Prisma Pencils (Skin - Copics)

Papers - The lovely 'Wellington' pad again...

It's a lovely man's pad!

Dies - Memory Box (Tree), Marianne (Gate, Bird etc),

Cheery Lynn (Leaf Swirl)

Buttons - Booffle

Sentiment - Papermania Stamp

Twine - Ribbon Girl

Distress Ink - Vintage Photo (Tim Holtz)

Challenges I would like to Enter

LOTV Ideas to Inspire - Boy Oh! Boy

Totally Papercrafts - Buttons

Here Come The Boys - Buttons

Kaboodle Doodles - Anything Goes

The ABC Challenge - N for Not Just One

Cupcake Craft Challenge - Boys

Sentimental Sundays - Outdoor Fun (Plus a sentiment)

Eureka Stamps - The Great Outdoors

Well guys, hope you have a lovely day, 

Take care,

Hugs,

Marjorie

xx

Daisy Girl

Good morning everyone, Time for another challenge over at Make it Monday....Linky party #108 is now open.... we are sponsored by Digi Doodle Shop this week, they have the most wonderful images so do pop along there and have a look......today I have chosen the lovely Daisy...I just loved this image the moment I saw it, and have really enjoyed colouring her up, I used Prisma Pencils, and I think I'm getting a little better at shading.  I love these type of images and get great pleasure from sitting and colouring...it's making the card that causes all the headaches lol!!  but I am pleased with how this turned out, and the papers I have used were free in a cardmaking magazine...they really are gorgeous.

A peek at the inside

Card Recipe

Image - Daisy Girl

Colouring medium - Prisma Pencils

Design Paper - Prima Botanical Collection

Card - Kraft 

Die - Martha Stewart Daisy

Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts

Embellishments - My stash

Ribbon - Bunny Zoes

Challenges Entered

Bearly Mine - Fall colours

Heck of a Challenge - Anything Goes
Digidesign Challenge - More than 1 punch/die cut
4 Crafty Chicks - The beauty of leaves
Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes
Creative Craft Challenges 2 - Anything Goes
Deep Ocean Challenge - Good Bye Summer
Divas By Design - Lovely Layers (two papers,die border,image,flowers,ribbon)
The Paper Shelter - Fall/Autumn
Whimsy Inspirations - Anything Goes (2nd Card)
Just Some Lines -  Fall Colours

Digi Doodle Shop will be giving a $10 dollar gift voucher to the random winner and all you have to do is comment on another entrants card, so the more times you comment the more chances you have of winning...Simples!!

Now who is my favourite pick for this week....it's always so hard to choose...but I just loved this project by Julia from Papers and scraps creations.  Just check this out guys, it's a fabulous project for Halloween.  Julia has altered a match box and made a mini Halloween book...do pop over to her blog and take a closer look...and don't for get to leave her some love while you are there!!

I have been so busy this week at work and also at home.  We are decorating and started with the lounge, painting and also we replaced the carpet...we are now upstairs in the bathroom, I have tiles on the floor but want something a bit warmer like cushion floor... lol!!  Today is so wet and cold bbrrr!!!

Hope you all have a lovely week....

Big Hugs,

Marjorie

xx

Baby Stork

Good Morning every one, its time for Make it Monday #107 Linky Party.... and it's the wonderful  Meljen's designs today who are sponsoring us ....... I have used Baby Stork today..I think my mojo's coming back a little..I really enjoyed making this card, it's such a lovely fun image and lends itself for a boy or a girl..

The Inside

Card Recipe

Image - Meljens Designs Baby Stork

Designer Papers - First Edition Up Up and Away

Sentiment - LOTV

Dies - Marianne Designer Doily

 Memory Box Madera Corner

Spellbinders Rectangles and cirles

Border Punch - Martha Stewart (Garden Rail)

Ribbon - Mei Flower

Gems, button and twine my stash

Challenges Entered

Bearly Mine Challenge - Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly - Things that make you go Awww!

Paper Shelter - Punch or Die Cut

Whimsy Stamps Inspirations - Anything Goes
Dream Valley - Celebrations

Meljen's Design are giving away 4 single digi's to the winner this week all you have to do is comment on another entrants card so the more times you comment, the more chances you have of winning!!

So come along and join in the fun and share your lovely papercrafts with us.....

Remember it's anything goes every week at Make It Monday

There were so many beautiful entries this week, I really didn't know who to choose.. but here we go.....ta! da!....it's this lovely tag by Lori from choux-choux....Spiders are not my favourite bugs, but these little spiders did capture my heart a little lol!! They do appear to be running down that little web.....  Do pop along to Lori's blog she is amazing, I love to visit her as she always has something different to share with us.....do leave her a little love too.....

Do hope you have enjoyed your visit today, and don't forget to enter my candy...you have to be in it to win it...sound like I'm at work now lol!!!

Love and Hugs,

Marjorie

xx

Fairy In Flight

Good morning everyone, only one more week to go and I'm on holiday yaaah!!!!  I won't be blogging for a couple of weeks, but hopefully will have scheduled posts for my Make it Monday DT.
I have really enjoyed the Olympics too, It was so emotional yesterday to see the final athletes compete, and what a finish with the boxing!! and what about those flash backs of the winners, I was a drained wreck by the end of the day!!..I think they were all winners as they all gave everything they had..well done to team GB!! I'm so proud of them!!  I think all the countries that have competed have worked so hard too!!  It has been a fabulous fortnight...
So onto my card for today's Make it Monday Linky Party 102#, we are being sponsored by the fabulous Digi Doodle store this week and I chose this lovely image called Fairy In Flight.... Afraid I have a bit of a photo overload today.....

A close up of the papers, they really do sparkle beautifully.....the ribbon looks very blue on the photo's but on the card the colours all work together so well..it is more greeny.  Also put stardust stickles around the image, I've seen this on so many images and just love it!!

This view you can see the distressing I used on the papers...it almost made me cry when I took a nail file and roughed up (sorry I mean distressed lol!!)  all sides of that gorgeous paper, then put picket fence distressing ink on top!!  In real life it does look quiet lovely though!  I have used Glamour dust on her wings and stickled all around her with Stardust Stickles, then distressed the edges with aqua chalk ink.

The inside

This image is the first one I did and I used stickles on the wings, and it all went funny...I should have known better, as I've done it before lol!!  So I thought I would decoupage her wings to cover it up, but it wasn't very successful.  I just thought I would show you what she looks like with clouds behind as well, she really does look like she is flying!

The light doesn't do the colours justice as the card is actually a lovely shade of Aqua and Pink..do you like that lovely feather sticking out of the flowers...picked these up at the last Doncaster show...they really are lovely!

I have used First Edition papers called Isabelle, Aqua Bazzill card, lovely lace, ribbon, flowers, and corner are all from Wild Orchid Crafts , coloured her with Prisma Pencils, distressing inks Tim Holtz and the lovely spellbinders die is called Lacy ovals. I also used a Marianne Swirl die.  My corner was originally silver but I painted it with White Acrylic paint...I have tried to buy some Gesso, but they wanted about £30 pounds for a tin, I only wanted to buy a small amount, as it will last me for ages lol!....the acrylic paint seemed to work just as well!

I would like to enter the following challenges

Delightful Challenge - Fabric, Fibre and Trim

Dream Valley - Die Cuts and Punches
Chocolate, Coffee and Cards - Emboss Wet or dry
Crafts & Me - Use a Digi
Divas by Design - For a Female
Simply Create Too - Anything Goes
Inky Impressions -Ribbon
Papercrafting Journey - Anything Goes
Love to Create - Sparkle
Sweet Stamin Challenge - Things with Wings
That Craft Place - Things with Wings

The DigiDoodle Shop is giving away a $10.00 Store Gift Certificate to the lucky random winner!  All you have to do is leave a comment on another entrants card and mention you saw them at MIM...so the more comments you leave the more chances you have of winning.....good luck!!!

My pick for this week was again so difficult so I had to choose two this week because I just couldn't decide so in no particular order.... I chose this gorgeous creation by Darlene....Isn't this just so beautiful...love the colours and the gorgeous Vintage style, do go over to Darlene's blog and take a closer look.

Now isn't this just so cute!!  I had a smile on my face all day.. Tracy is so talented and I can stay on her blog for hours admiring her lovely work... the white at the back is a gorgeous panel that Tracy weaved she has a tutorial on her blog on how to do it....so do pop over and take a look and leave her some love too!!

That's it from me for now guys....hope I've left you with a smile on your face...have a great week....

Take care,

Love and hugs,

Marjorie

xx

Sweet Daisy

Good Morning everyone....how fantastic was the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games!!  David and I stayed up into the wee hours to see it all...The whole ceremony was fantastic and those drummers and all the volunteers were just amazing!, and the lighting of the flame was really something very special!!

Now for another special event....Make it Monday has reached its 100th Linky Party.......I would just like to say a BIG congratulations to our lovely boss Michelle and to all the other member's of the team who have made Make it Monday such a success, and of course all you lovely papercraft enthusiasts!!!......So there is a Special prize this week for one lucky commentator...one of the DT is offering candy to a random commentator, so be sure to visit each DT member and leave a comment...This is the lovely candy up for grabs...2 packs of flourish with a bling, several ribbons and some bows... The winner will be announced next week so pop back and see if you were the lucky one!!

This week we are being sponsored by the lovely Scrapbook Sisters.  The image I chose for today is this little cutie called Sweet Daisy...designed by Gayle Bond..

The inside

I coloured her with Prisma Pencils and gave her flowers a touch of Glamour Dust.  I used Marianne Dies for the little birdie and bird box and fencing.  I used a Martha Stewart punch for the butterflies and a Memory Box die for the corner.  Flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts touched up with Diamond stickles.  My pearls were from the Hobby house.  I used brown Bazzill card and the Design Papers are called New Leaf by First Edition.  The design papers are really gorgeous and sparkle like you wont believe, they don't show up to well on the pants photos though lol!  The inside is a plainer version....

I would like to enter for the following challenges

Chocolate, coffee and cards - Rainbows and butterflies

Crafts and Me - Anything goes

Delightful Challenges - Dog days of Summer

Inky Impressions - Dies or Punches

Die Cuttin Divas - Summer Fun (little birdie and bird box, fencing Marianne Die) Memory Box corner die

Dream Valley - Summer

Pile it on - Cute as can be

Robeyn's Fetish - Summer Fun

Scrapbook sisters are offering a prize of 5 digis to the random winner...remember all you have to do is comment on another entrants card so the more times you comment the more chances you have of winning 

So do come along and join us for the 100th Make it Monday Linky party

Da! Da!....My favourite for this week is.............

This lovely Steam punk card by Jacqueline

I love steam punk, but find it difficult to do....I just loved this image and it has been so beautifully coloured by Jacqueline it is steam punk but has also remained very feminine as her lovely sentiment says!!! be sure to visit her and leave a little love.....

Wow! hope you are still with me lol!! Such a long post this week....will say cheery bye for now...have a great week....take care,

Big Hugs,

Marjorie

xx