October Challenge Over At The Crafting Musketeers!

Exciting times crafters!! welcome to our October challenge # 6 over at The Crafting Musketeers!

This months theme is "CHRISTMAS" how wonderful!! I LOVE making Christmas cards! which is a good job, as any crafter will tell you it is our busiest time of year!, so why not get the Christmas crafting underway and come and join us!

Here is my DT card for this month...

I have chosen a Pickles and Podge image from La Pashe    and can be found on "The best Of La Pashe" CDrom available right ...HERE!

This months sponsor is the wonderful and very generous "Bridlington Stationers" who have very kindly donated these lovely promarkers in the 2013 Autumn & Winter selecion for this months prize!!

Here is a little bit about our sponsor...

Bridlington Stationers is owned by Darren Saul.
Established in 1986, Bridlington Stationers Limited is a company brimming with experience. We are a customer focused business supplies company delivering over 30,000 products available on a next day delivery basis on a local and national scale.

Our commitment to personal and friendly service ensures a high level of continuity. We are here to advise, recommend and supply the office products that you need to assist in the smooth running of your business. Our aim is to save you money, save you time and give you the opportunity to buy all your office needs from under one roof.

website is currently under construction! so i will share the details as soon as i recieve them! 

Well as usual the DT have been a very busy bunch making samples that we hope will inspire you and encourage you to join us!!! so please do stop by all of our very talented Design Team Ladies Blogs to see what they have been up to, you will find them all....and there are quite a few of us lol on the right side  of my blog ! 

i look forward to looking through all your entries!!

happy crafting

Nix

xxx

Selection of Mothers Day Cards

Well hello everyone... its been a very busy couple of crafting weeks in my little crafting bubble! so my poor little blog has been slightly neglected! oops! ...but, i'm back! with the surge of Mothers Day orders at a close i can get back on track!
Tonight i am just going to share with you a few simple cards i have made recently, and very soon i will be able to show you some exciting DT work and some more exciting new projects!

This first card is from the Flippin Women Range from La Pashe I love these images! so much fun, there are quite a few to choose from too, this one i printed from "The Big One" CD rom, I matted simply onto some hot pink card and chose to put the decoupaged elements straight onto the backing paper, a nice flash of matching ribbon, and some glossy accents for the bubbles! I matched up the wording in hot pink too, and done!i have to say in my 3 short years of card making this was my busiest mothers day yet! and the most popular cards i have made this year have been the adorable "Pickles and Podge" i love them! now... i wont bore you all with many cards the same...as i made a few!!! so here is a small selection of some of the cards i made this week

How cute!!

...so pwetty...

...do you agree? just beautiful!! i made all these cards in the same way.. i started with my background by enlarging, fading and cropping the original image in my graphic programme, i made each topper by using the decoupage elements and then chose matching ribbons, flowers & gems for each card and of course added lashings of lovely glitter...it has to be done!, i am just LOVING pins on my cards at the moment and the ones i have used here and in all my other cards, i have simply coloured with my promarkers :) all the cards here i have printed out on the new range of papers from La Pashe, if you havnt tried them yet you MUST! they are lovely! so pop on over just Here! and check them out. The cd i used to print from was the new The Best Of La Pashe cd rom, which is just fabby and a must for all crafters..but i'm sure you all know that ;).
I would love you to drop me a message and tell me what you think... i have only realised tonight that i had my settings all wrong :/ as quite a few of my lovely friends are letting me know they have left me a comment but they were not showing when i looked :( but bare with me! i'm still learning all about this blogging lark!, well thats enough of me waffling tonight, i have a date with a nice glass of wine :) so happy crafting all! Nix xx

Pickles & Podge- Mothers Day

Well good evening one and all.... its finally here ...my first card to be put on my lovely new blog!!! woo hoo! i am so happy to be blogging AT LAST :) this lovely image is from the pickles and podge range and you can find it on the "The Best of La Pashe" Cd rom. and perfect to start off my mothers Day cards. I have printed the image, and decoupage on the lovely new papers from la Pashe, I've used the 160gsm decoupage paper that is "oh so oober smooth and silky! and beautiful to cut! for the background I've simply enlarged the image, faded and cropped it, then popped on my sentiment and backed on to some pretty pink card. I've taken the matching backing paper from the cd and the decoupaged image and matted both those onto the same pink card, die cut a lovely matching flourish, then added some paper roses, deep pink ribbon and a couple of pearl pins to finish...oooh and of course the compulsory GLITTER! :)Hope you like it! and would love to know what you think! I love these cute bears and have printed off a few more different designs...watch this space and more will be popping up in the next couple of days... Nicole xx