Friday, May 18, 2012

Best of British Day 1 !! :-)

Today the celebrations kick off !! YAY !! We are now on a countdown to the Queen's Diamond Jubilee !!

Todays sponsor is ,,,,,


Which Craft? UK pride ourselves on creating new and unique Quality Card Blanks'For Your Inspiration'
( If you are going to spend time creating a special card then we believe you need a high quality blank canvas as your starting point)
We are known in the Card making industry for using Only the Highest quality Card gauge throughout the complete 'For Your Inspiration' Collection - where many of our colleagues
use our designs to show case there own beautiful stamps and card making products

Our Designs can be seen on Create & Craft used by many of our Craft colleagues to also show case there own beautiful stamps and card making products..

We also organise the following event.......



Paula has very kindly given us the following prize for one of you lucky people to win....




All you need to do is leave your name with Inlinkz on the Inspiration blog HERE,only one entry per person please to make it fair for everyone...

The DT were sent a selection of shaped card blanks to use. I must say the quality is lovely and I really enjoyed making this. It would have been difficult if not impossible to cut and score this myself :-)


I went for a British summer afternoon theme and used this very cute Kitty Picnic image from the Wild Rose Studio, coloured with Copics. I used a spellbinders labels 8 to cut the image and the mat and I the edges inked with Stormy Sky and Forest Moss DI. I added star dust stickles here and there and used glossy accents on the ladybirds The papers are from Kaiser Crafts and I used a couple of Martha Stewart butterfly punches and a sentiment from Whimsy Stamps. The pearls are Hero Arts and the spotty organza ribbon and button are from Crafty Ribbons.



The DT have made some gorgeous cards for you to see so hop on over to the Inspiration Blog to see them all. Goos Luck with the prize draw too :-)
As a special promotion Crafty Ribbons will be giving free postage on all orders placed during the Best of British event


Please pop over to the Crafty Ribbons Inspiration blog and join in the fun with us....

Now I wonder who the Company will be tomorrow???....

Challenges :

Sassy Cheryl’s ,,, Anything But a Square card

Crafts 4 Eternity ,,,, Things with Wings

Cute Card Thursday ,,, A Touch of Sparkle

Dutch Dare ,,,, Shaped Cards

Moving Along With The Times ,,, Keep it Real , no fantasy( well maybe no rain on a summer day is bit of a fantasy ,,, lol )

Card Crafters Circle ,,,, Sparkle Sparkle

Hotshot Crafts ,,, Die Cuts




Totally Papercrafts ,,, Lisa’s Sketch Challenge

Hi all :-) goodness this weeks gone quick ! where did that go ?? Friday is here again and its time for a new theme on the Totally Papercrafts Challenge :-)

This week the lovely Lisa is hosting and she made us a fabulous sketch to follow ! :-)

It’s wedding season so I thought I would make a card using this gorgeous new Wedding Cake stamp from the Wild Rose Studio, isn’t it pretty !



I stamped with Memento ink onto Neenah card and coloured with Copics. I used silver stardream card for all the layering and the papers are from a gorgeous WRS Wedding Bells pack. I used a Nellie Snellen Oval Multi frame die and threaded some satin edged organza ribbon through, made a bow and added a Prima flower in the center. I finished with a Martha Stewart punched butterfly, there are 3 layers to this, a white card base, then one punched from a matching paper from the pack and then topped with vellum. I added some lilac gems and made the antennae from craft wire. I finished with some Hero Arts Earth Dots and oodles of star dust stickles here and there :-)



We are sponsored by the lovely and uber talented Melissa from Meljen Designs so some fabulous digi images on offer this week !! :-)



Thanks for looking :-) the DT have made some really smashing cards this week so head on over to the TPC to see them :-)

Challenges :

Bearly Mine ,,,, Dies

Stamp With Fun ,,,, Wedding

Love to Create ,,,, Bingo ,,, Ribbon, Punches, Flowers

Paper Sundaes ,,, Things With Wings

Stamptacular Sunday,,,, Butterfly Kisses

Crafty Calendar ,,,, Things with Wings

DRS Design ,,,, Weddings/Anniversary