My little piece of Paradise

Thanks for stopping by my blog :) I'm new to blogging, only started at the beginning of January 2014. In that time I have had a lot of fun participating in various challenges and have been inspired by so many of you. I'm new to card making but enjoy it so much. I've been a scrapbooker for many years and card making seemed like the next logical step:)
I hope you enjoy your visit and feel free to leave me a comment or follow my blog. HUGZ :)

Saturday, March 15, 2014

ABC - H is for HAIR

Wow it has been a busy week with cards for me lol...
I was asked to join the very talented ladies over at The ABC Challenge Blog and of course I accepted. :)

This week the theme is "H is for HAIR" so showcase your best HAIR images and join us for this great challenge.

Our fabulous sponsor this week is

For my card, I chose a Saturated Canary image because I just love the hair on these gorgeous girls.
I used my silhouette for my die cuts and coloured her with my Prisma Pencils.
The rest of the embellishments I had in my stash :)

Now onto my first DT Card at ABC

Hope you like :)
Hugz


Challenges

613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes
Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes
Crafting From The Heart - Anything Goes
Craftitude - Anything goes/Use Green
Crafts Galore Encore - Use A Stamp Or Digi
Crafty Girls - Anything Goes
Crafty Sentiment Design - Lots Of Green
Love To Create - Anything Goes
MilkCoffee - At Least 2 Flowers (4)
QKR Stampede - Anything Goes
Sister Act - Anything Goes
Sweet Stampin - Mother or Special Lady
Di's Digi Designs - Person Plus Animal
Totally Papercrafts - Shaped Card
Through The Craftroom Door - Anything Goes
Crafting By Designs - Anything Goes


Friday, March 14, 2014

Crafty Catz- Boys and Toys

Hey guys, I'm back with another card :)
After my GDT at Crafty Catz ended I was contacted and offered a position on their design team, well needless to say I accepted, how could I not, they are a great group to work with.

Well this week at Crafty Catz, the theme is Boys and Toys and our fabulous sponsor is 
Prize is 5 Digis

So without further ado, here is my card, hope you like :)


Challenges

QKR Stampede - Anything Goes
Sister Act - Anything Goes
Stampin For The Weekend - Anything Goes
613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes
Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes
Crafting By Designs - Anything Goes
Craftitude - Anything Goes
Crafts Galore Encore - Use A Stamp Or Digi
Crafty Girls - Anything Goes
Creative Moments - Anything Goes
Glitter & Sparkle - Anything Goes
Robyns Fetish - Cards For Boys
Love To Create - Anything Goes
That Craft Place - Anything Goes

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

CFTH - Favorite Colours

Well I'm a day late but on a good note I had a great weekend, hence the reason I'm late lol
I had one of my best friends visit for 8 hours away and only get to see her about once a year so it was awesome!  We took the kids sledding and the boys did some ice fishing.  Can't wait to do it again :)

This week at Crafting From The Heart, the theme is Anything Goes/Favorite Colour and our wonderful Sponsors this week are

Angie's
3 Digis

Sassy Studio
4 Digis

My card this week is an image from Angie's. I love this image and it was so fun to colour.
I used my Prisma Pencils and Silhouette for die cuts.
Love the spring colours.
Hope you like :)



Challenges

613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes/Irish Saying
Brown Sugar - Make it Sparkle
Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes
Crafting By Designs - Anything Goes
Crafting for All Seasons - Spring Into Spring
Craftitude - Anything Goes/Add Green
Cards Galore Encore - Use A Stamp Or Digi
Crafty Girls - Challenge 13
Created With Love - Think Spring
Love To Create - Anything Goes
My Sheri Crafts - Bling It On
Open Minded Crafting - Use Something Green
Papertake Weekly - BINGO (Diecuts, Free, Glitter)
Simply Create Too - Shop In Your Stash
Sister Act - Anything Goes
That Craft Place - Anything Goes





Friday, February 28, 2014

Last Week at Crafty Catz

Well it is my last post for Crafty Catz and I'm very thankful that they gave me an opportunity to join them for a month as their GDT.
They are a great group of talented ladies and will miss them but I will continue to enter their challenges so i guess i'm not going too far away lol
This weeks theme is Anything Goes and they have some great prizes from their sponsors

3 Digis



The image i chose this week is from The Stamping Boutique.
I coloured with my Prisma Pencils of course and cut my card and die cuts with my Silhouette :)
I just love the warm colours and sentiment of this card and hope you do too :)


Hugz x

Challenges

Crafting By Designs - Spring Colours
Craftitude - Anything Goes/Music
Crafty Girls - Anything Goes
Creatalicious - Use Pearls/Glitter
Creative Moments - Swirls and Pearls
Cute Card Thursday - Springtime
Divas By Design - Make It Sparkle
Love To Create - Anything Goes
Sister Act - Anything Goes
The Stamping Boutique - Use Glitter


Friday, February 21, 2014

Crafty Catz GDT Week 3

I can't believe I made it back this week but I did..yayyyy
This has been a tough week for me being sick, this darn cold better leave my house quick!

Today I have a card for you that I made for my 3rd week as GDT for Crafty Catz. What a great bunch of ladies over there, they have been so nice to me, thanks ladies :)

The challenge this week is "use green, cream plus one other colour".
They have a wonderful sponsor this week offer a great prize,

So make sure you enter for your chance to win :)

This week I decided not to colour!
This is the first time I have attempted a card without colouring a digi and I must say it felt very strange.  I didn't know how I was going to approach it but I knew that I wanted to do a masculine card since it was my son's 17th birthday on Wednesday.  
I thought of the things he liked to do and came up with fishing...we live in Northern Ontario so it's an outdoor paradise all year around :)
I decided to do the whole project in card stock not using designer paper.  I cut all my die cuts with my silhouette and heat embossed the "gone fishing" text, scraped and ruffed up the edges of my paper, added some corrugated and voila!

Hope you like

Hugz x




Monday, February 17, 2014

CFTH ~ Flowers

Good day to all :)
Hope everyone is feeling ok, me... not so much.
There has been a bad cold going around our house and alas.... i seem to have caught it.. ughhhhhhh
I would love to say that i have been spending lots of time crafting but instead i'll say that i have been spending lots of time curled up in my recliner lol...
I hear my husband moaning in the next room as i write this lol... MEN!!

Well this week at Crafting From The Heart, the theme is "Flowers", so come on over and show us your creations. Remember that the challenge is always anything goes so it's ok if you didn't use flowers :)
I also want to mention that starting the beginning of March, the challenge will be going weekly!

Our fabulous sponsors for this week are
$15 Shop Voucher

and 

3 Digi's

The Image i chose this week is from Aurora Wings. I must say that this image was such a challenge for me in many ways. First, the amount of detail in this image and trying to choose colours was a huge challenge. Next... her hair!!!!  OMG i must have coloured and erased a million times before i finally has happy with it..... the problem was with the shape i printed the image out on.. i didn't realize at the time that the black lines for her hair were very short and did not reach to top of my image so i had to imporvise and drawn my way through it lol....but  i think it turned out and i'm very happy with it :)  My very last challenge was to choose papers and colours... i started with a step card then scraped that one,  I then cut a shell shaped card.... scraped that one too lol... I also started with teal, then went darker, then decided on the blue and grey!!!!
I used lots of stickles and pearls for this one too
OMG!!!!!!! lol

Well here it is and I hope you like :)



 Cheers xo


Challenges:

A Creative Romane - Let's Get Sentimental
4 Crafty Chicks - Use Pearls
Brown Sugar - Use Die Cut or Punch
Card Makin Mama's - Make It Sparkle
Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes
Cards Galore Encore - Add Gem, Glitter, Candy, Bling
Crafty Girls - Anything Goes
Creative Moments - Anything Goes
Cute Card Thursday - Clever Cutting
MilkCoffee - Girly
Sister Act - Anything Goes
Stampin For The Weekend - Flower Power
613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes
Love To Create - Bling
Creatalicious - Pearls And Glitter
One Crazy Stamper - Anything Goes
Crafting By Designs - Anything Goes










Friday, February 14, 2014

Crafty Catz GDT Week 2

Hope everyone had a good week.  
I'm back again with a new card for this weeks challenge at Crafty Catz.
The theme this week is Lady in Red and they have some great prizes from their fabulous sponsors.


AND


The image I chose this week is from Rick St.Dennis called Morning Goddess.
I coloured her with Prisma Pencils, the sentiment is from TLC and I added die cuts from my Silhouette.
I decided to go with a coffee theme since coffee is my weakness and... well..... she is what i usually look like in the morning... including the coffee cup lol

Hope you enjoy :)



I also have some exciting news to share!
Beginning in April, there is a brand new challenge starting up called Crafting At The Weekend, it will be a monthly challenge with some fabulous prizes from our new sponsors.
The challenge will include all paper crafting mediums so check out the link and don't forget to follow for updates. You don't want to miss out ! :)

Hugs x