Time for Tea Blog Hop!!! :)

Hello, Time For Tea Friends!

The Summer months are nearly here yay!, The Wonderful design team are showcasing the stunning new digi stamp designs out today at Time for Tea Designs on Etsy - by way of a blog hop!

Of course to celebrate the new release we're giving you the chance to win 3 Digi's of your choice!

How to Play in our hop!

1. Like us on our T4T Facebook page

2. Leave a comment on each DT’s post during the hop.

3. Once you've been round the hop of the DT blogs let us know in the comments below on this post your favourite digi stamp from the release!! (or visit Time for Tea Designs on Etsy and tell us your favourite digi and why!

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Below is the Hop order.

T4T Blog 

Alexandra - Thats me :) 

 Lynda
Melanie
Denielle
  Carlyann 

  Nicole

T4T Blog

If you are on my blog, you should have got here from the T4T blog.  You are next off to visit Lynda over at Positive Force.

Good Luck!!! Check out our challenge blog which will be kickstarting off on the 1st June to find out who the winner of the hop is!






Here is my card for the hop :) using the gorgeous All about the Hair, she is just lush to colour

Forest Friends

Good afternoon all

Well it has been another long sabatical for me, but yet again, here I am back in blogging land.

I have been busy making cards, but have been posting on instagram mainly.  Fabulous app :)

I have a card to share with you all, its using the really cute set by My Favourite Things called Forest Friends, there are so many cute stamps in this set!

 

I coloured in the images with my copics, and then used Tim Holtz distress inks for the background, adding some water droplets to create the speckled effect, love this.  Added in some gorgeous clear sequins and those really cute birds :)

 

Hope you have a great day :) 

 

Vet Girl to the rescue

Good afternoon all

Well I should have posted this a while ago, and completely forgot!! Have had rather a lot going on in my life so have got a fairly good excuse lol.

I adore this image, its such cute.  I am not a massive fan of cats but have to say this was just darling to colour in.  I used my copics as my colouring medium, and handmade my roses, as I do :) 

Please pop over to Time For Tea Designs blog for more inspiration and to see what else the design team have been up to :) 

Here kitty kitty

Hi All

Hope you are all having a Happy Easter Saturday :) 

Here is my latest card for Time for Tea Designs blog, using Jo's gorgeous Kitty image.

 I love this card, I used some gorgeous papers by Craftwork Cards, coloured in using Copics and handmade the flowers :)

 

Time For Tea DT Card - Follow your Dreams

Hi All

Well I love this new image by Jo over at Time for Tea Designs :) 

I got asked if I could do this image for a co-worker, whose daughter is a veterinary nurse, and they wear dark green striped tunics :) 

To see the whole card, pop over to Time for Tea Designs: Follow your Dreams and you can then check out all the other great DT cards from the fellow DT girls :) such fabulous inspiration using these gorgeous images.

I had great fun making this card, and added some of my handmade roses that I spend ages making :)

Hope you like :) 

Hey Foxy

Soooooooo, who does not love foxes?  Come on hold your hands up lol??  

Well I love them, and this one that Jo has drawn for Time for Tea Designs is just gorgeous.

I had so much fun with this little cutie and decided I wanted to make a little gift bag using it.

Let me take a Selfie!!!

Good morning all

Well its that Monday feeling again, and I had the weekend from busyland!!!

Saturday is our tidy day, with about 10 loads of washing to do, and take out and dry, eep.

Then there is the tidying of the house after two dogs and three kids lol.  

In the evening we were off to Bovington Army base to take photos of a Dining In of the new Lieutenant Colonel for Wessex Yeomanry for the evening, and oh my lord did my back kill after five hours of that.  

So after all that, I completely forgot to set up my post for Time for Tea Designs and my Selfie card that I made for my Step daughter, Bethany, who turned 18 last week :) 

Without further ado :) 

I fell in love with this image, its so perfect for all the girls, young and old in your lives :)   I coloured in using my copics, of course, and went made with my handmade flowers :) 

Hope you like x

Time for Tea DT Project

Happy Mothers Day to all present and past mums in the UK :).

Very exciting stuff here today as its my first DT project for Time for Tea Designs :) I have been busting to post my first card ha ha

How cute is this beautiful fairy!!! Just adorable and I have had so much fun colouring her up, they are just drawn for colouring :) 

Go check out the other DT's creations over at the Time for Tea www.timeforteadesigns.blogspot.co.uk blog 

Time for Tea

Wahooo, I can finally let it out!! I have been chosen to be part of the fabulous Time for Tea Design Team!! Thank you so much Jo, so chuffed to have been asked and so glad I entered, been colouring up a storm so all ready for when its time to post my first creation :)

Pop along and have a look at Jo's GORGEOUS designs :) and say hi to all the other girls www.timeforteadesigns.blogspot.co.uk

Exciting Stuff

Oooh the excitement is building!!!

I have some great news and i'm not allowed to share it until tomorrow!! lol :) 

Tease or what mwah ha ha ha 

I will be back later with some more colouring I have been doing :) 

Spirals!!!!

Yippee, finished the colouring and just made the card, I really like it, its such a stunning image that I didn't want too much embellishment on the card, what do you think? 

Image by Jeremiah Ketner, papers by Prima "Princess", very apt I think for this beautiful image :) 

I am going to enter this into a couple of challenges, its been soooo long lol

Crafts Galore Encore Challenge Blog 
Craft your Passion

Its a new glasses kinda day :) 

Today, I picked up my new glasses, as my eyes have got worse, and it was cheaper to order whole new glasses rather than have my new prescription put into my other frames, go figure on that one!!  - they look really lovely, well I like them lol, and I took my 11 year old with me, who helped me pick them out so they better look nice he he

Maddie went to a sleepover last night, and I go to pick her up at 11am today, for her to come out saying "Mummy don't be too worried about my nose"!!!! What lol - She says "I slept walked into Bea's wall last night"!!!! pmsl - she has a stonking red mark across her nose and its all swollen bless her little heart and obviously sore.

Soooooo onto cardmaking business, I have jumped back into my colouring again with my copics, and as much as they are very expensive, I just love them - can't help it, have tried cheaper versions of alcohol pens but they aren't for me, I just plain ole love copic pens.

This image has been doing the rounds on some of the facebook crafting pages that I frequent and I just love it, and knew it would be perfect to start practicing my colour skills on again :) with a lot more depth that I want to achieve, and it is.  This is what I have created with her so far, and I love it.  The image is purchased from Jeremiah Ketner Fine Arts etsy page.  

Off to watch a movie me thinks, might be back later with another card I have made

Happy Saturday afternoon everyone :) x



 

Altenew - to me 
 
I have found another new Stamp company that I hadn't heard of until last week, and its called Altenew, they have the most beautiful and gorgeous clear stamps - absolutely stunning. 

I jumped into the pool and bought Painted Flowers (from Make the Day Special in the UK, fabulous and quick service), so so pretty.  Its a four layered flower set, and creates a painted look, which seems to be a very popular look in cardmaking at the moment.

I had a look around their gallery and Pinterest for some inspiration, and came up with the cards below - which I am super happy with :) 

Made with Stampin Up inks and Altenew Painted Flowers/Clearly Besotted Sentiment

Made with Stampin Up inks and Altenew Painted Flowers

Such simple cards really, but a lot of attention were put into these as is required when doing four step stamping!! ;)

I used some watercolour paper for the bottom card, and watered the image when I had it on my acylic block and then stamped and it gave a slightly softer look I think.  I then spritzed the turquoise ink over the whole image and I really love how it looks and how it turned out :) 

Happy Thursday guys :) 

Wednesday already!!!

OMG where has this week gone already, okay, I wasn't at work yesterday as my youngest, was poorly the night before so I had to stay home with her yesterday, bless her little cottons :), she is all better today though and back to school.

I have a couple more cards to share with you, made using some Clearly Besotted Stamps (of course) lol.

Made with Clearly Besotted Dandelion Dreams and the thanks die

Made with Clearly Besotted Dandelion Dreams

The cards were both made using Stampin Up inks, I have since got myself some Memento inkpads as well, to add to my colours, plus they are cheaper than Stampin Up inks and when on a budget, needs must :) 

How pretty are these!!! I got these on Ebay five for the price of four, so a pretty good bargain :)

I also managed to pick up from one of the selling groups on Facebook, this fabulous Fiskars Stamp Press, I have been after one of these for well over a year now, so am in a little bit of heaven at the moment, that I managed to pick one up for just £10 with postage!! :) 

This thing is absolutely huge!!!! I cannot believe the size of it lol.  

I treated myself to my first Zig Wink of Stella glitter pen in clear, so really looking forward to playing with this tonight :) 

Hope you all have a great evening x

New Year - new me?? 

Hi All, well not sure who all will be now, as I have been missing in action for a very long time!

Lots has been happening to a certain degree and on the other hand nothing has been happening!! ha ha

We are all another year older, I am going to be a big whopping 43 this year (okay where has that come from!!!) eek, my girls are another year old, I now have a nearly 18 year old, a nearly 15 year old and a nearly 12 year old!!! OMG!! That is seriously frightening when you sit down long enough and think about it.

My girls are just gorgeous, not only are they gorgeous to look at but they have gorgeous personalities and are such lovely funny young ladies, they either make me laugh myself silly, or make me want to bang their heads together!! ha ha 

I decided, possibly stupidly, back in August last year to get myself my own small dog, I have always craved a smaller dog, and I bit the bullet and bought myself a beautiful male Show Cocker Spaniel, who I named Barley.  He really is the love of my life (he he), I love him no matter what he has done, and I can tell you he has done a lot to my home!!! not to mention my lovely new pair of Hotter shoes! gulp

Because of Barley, who decided that he was going to be an early morning dog, and I am soooo not an early morning person, it has been very hard to cope with the tiredness I have experienced lol, with a job where I am on the road from 7.30 (ish) until I get home at 18:30 every single evening.  I am only now just beginning to stay up past 8-9pm at night, but I will say that's not every evening as I crash otherwise lol.  

Soooooo with all the above, I have finally started to get my crafting mojo slowly returning, and it is slow but returning.  Not sure if anyone else has had the same thing, but I find that I have changed my style of card making to more simplistic cards, which is hard as well as really nice :).  I'd be interested to hear from others if they have had the same thing happen.

I got a Cameo last year and have really enjoyed making creations with that, and made some bits and bobs to sell before christmas which was nice and a nice booster.

I have got back into Clearly Besotted stamps, which are a fabulous English stamp company (wahooo, its about time we got a fab company in the UK), this is run by Stephanie Wincott.  They have the cutest stamps and I am having a whale of time creating with these.

I also have a love of Lawn Fawn, Mama Elephant stamps, but haven't purchased any of these as yet, as I am slowly building up my collection, but its all money and with three (well nearly three) teenagers in the house, money is tight :) 

Went through all my stash over the weekend, and am going to be doing a big well off of bits and bobs that I know I won't use again so no point in hogging it all to myself lol :) 

Made using Clearly Besotted Brushed Poppies set 

So for the first card I used one the Brushed Poppies set by Clearly Besotted stamps, of course.  I used my Stampin Up inks, as they are the only ones I have a lot of colours in. I have had a good look around the web for different inks to use with these stamps, and from a value point of view I have landed on Memento Dye Ink as not only do they do the most beautiful and striking colours, but at only £3.45 for a big ink pad, they are an absolutely fabulous price and stamp out beautifully.  I bought a little pack of white scalloped cards from The Works, which I am systematically working my way through, and think I might put the cards as a little set and see if I can sell them as a set rather than as individual :) 

Made using Clearly Besotted Brushed Poppies set and the happy birthday dies are by My Favourite Things

Second card, is again using the gorgeous Brushed Poppies and this time I teamed it up with some MFT Happy Birthday dies.  I love this font.

I am waiting on a Happy die by Mama Elephant to land on my doorstep in the next couple days, very excited to get this, as I am loving all the new fonts that are being brought out in dies at the moment :) 

Hope you like, and if you would like to leave me a comment, that would be awesome, Happy Monday to all :) 

I am back!!!!! with a challenge card

Good afternoon,

Its Tuesday 15th April 2014 and its been nearly a whole year since I last posted on my blog.

A lot has happened in the last year, I changed jobs, I now work full time and its hard with missing my three girls so badly, but needs must and my girls deserve the best which I am trying to provide for them.

I am on holiday this week, which is just lovely, and I have been able to a card!!!! I know, will wonders never cease lol.

I am entering this into the latest All Dressed Up challenge.  I have just recently found these beautiful images, and am having so much fun colouring these in :).

I also used a new product to me, The Summer Fair, by Tilda, Card Backgrounds.  I cut a 6 x 6 card down and used the front and the back for the front and back of my card, its come out soooo cute.

I used my copics for colouring, and some gorgeous pleated ribbon by Docrafts got this at a great price from The Range, reduced :)

I hope someone gets to still read my blog, but who knows as its been soooo long :)

Enjoy and have a happy Tuesday x

New Cards .....

Some of my latest cards :)

Shabby Chicness

Good evening ladies

I have been a very naughty blogger, and forgotten everyone!!! gasp - so I am going to rectify that this very minute!!  I have been cheating on my blogger account with my new youtube account!!!!! mwah ha ha ha.  I have started to make videos as well!!!! he he he

I am so in love with Shabby Chicness at the moment, as you can see from my super cute project below.  I have had this lovely notebook in my stash for the longest time, seriously well over 4 years now lol. 








I used lots of lovely MME papers, seam binding, distressing using Tim Holtz distress ink pads, the absolutely gorgeous Tim Holtz Birdcage diecut, butterflies by Clearly Sentimental, Charm, MFT flower die, paper from a book, silver embellishment, Papermania Brad, Lace, ceramic little heart and I had soooooo much fun creating this.  I have it proped on my desk so I can see it.

Hmmmmm lets see

if I can achieve my first part of my New Years Resolutions!! I will keep you guessing on that lol

So I have made another card (gasp) I know get me lol

I made this just cause I could, and I wanted to, and I was having another play with my new goodies.

I am going to enter it into this weeks MayzyArt Challenge, which is anything goes :)

A few randoms ....

Good evening

Well its Saturday 5th January already, where is the year going!!! lol

Have had a very chilled out day, spent most of it in our jammies, until I had to go food shopping, booooo.

I have been finishing off a couple cards, writing one, which is now going to be late as I forgot to post it yesterday!!! eeek

I have been colouring all week, during my lunch breaks lol, its great, I have all these images I can now use without having to really think about it!! get me

I am going to post some cards that I had made in December, so they are christmassy and then one I made a couple days ago and then today :)

 The one above is the one I finished off a few days ago, using a gorgeous Magnolia stamp I purchased off my friend on Facebook.  I used some papers I have had in my stash for a year, lol, and some of my christmas pressies :) MFT Loopy Bloom, sooooo cute, all I did was cut the felt and made this a different flower, so cute and versatile, I cute the H using my new MFT Hi Rise alphabet dies, and then finished off with these two cute buttons which are from a huuuuge bag of buttons new out by Papermania, £3 for a mahooooosive bag I might add :)

 

 The card above, is the one I finished off today whilst watching a new film on my laptop lol.  Again I had a half coloured up Magnolia image, so picked my papers and finished off colouring her to match.  I did a little distressing around the edge to tie it all in with my papers and what I wanted to create.  I used my new MFT Loopy Bloom flower again, this time as it is meant to be :)  I then finished off using some black organza ribbon, loooove this card.

 Card above is one I made during December, using a cute second hand Whiff of Joy stamp I bought off a lovely lady on Facebook, I coloured soooo many of these in during December at work lol. 

 Can u see the gorgeous sentiment and die cut bow!!!! soooooo cuuuute - both are from MFT and I bought them from Dies to Die for :)

 Card above is the one I made for my sister and her boyfriend, love this so much.

 I made this for my christmas tree, using a digi image, coloured in with copics, of course.

 I absolutely adore the card above I made, using a snowman stamp that my friend sent me, thanks Di.  I used a very old stamp set for the sentiment, its a Stampin Up set.  I really like how this came out.  I used my Go Kreate Frilly Frame Dies that I bought absolutely yonks ago at Ally Pally I think!! tee hee - Hope you have enjoyed my trip through December lol :)