Sorry!

Well it's Wednesday I know and no sign of the Try it on Tuesday challenge post, please accept my apologies.

Sorry I don't have a tag to share with you as I've had a bad crafting week but I wont bore you with the details.

Anyway enough of that my fellow teamies have been very productive and have created some fab TAGS following the theme of One for the Boys so if you would like to join us for the challenge or check out the DT creations please do pay a visit to the TioT blog.

I'm going to try my very best to be back in action next week even though I've got the plumber coming tomorrow to give the upstairs bathroom a makeover.  I'll probably have to bring some crafty stash downstairs because I doubt I'll be able to access the craft room very easily while the works going on. I'll be so glad when it's finished because I hate all the mess that goes with it. 

Thanks for stopping by,

Pat xx

Something old, Something new.

Hope you all had a good Bank Holiday Monday and enjoyed the lovely sunshine.

It's time for another challenge on Try it on Tuesday.

This week we'd like you to create a card following the theme of Something Old, Something New.

 For the Old I've used this gorgeous Apple Tree stamp by Circa Design which I've had for  years. I used Distress inks for the colouring ,Pineneedle, Vintage photo, Spun Sugar, Fired Brick.

For the New I've used the gorgeous Crackle background stamp by Crafty Individuals embossed using gold fine WOW embossing powder and Spun Sugar DI. I bought this stamp at the NEC in March and this is the first time I've used it.
The green backing paper was made by using Pineneedle DI around the edges of some plain white card.

This week the challenge is sponsored by One Stop Card Crafts so is you decide to enter don't forget to give them a mention and link them in your post.

My fellow teamies have some up with some fantastic designs to inspire you so please pop over to the challenge blog to check them out.

Looking forward to checking out your designs.


I'm entering this card into the Divas by Design challenge which is anything goes.

Pat xx

Birthday Girl

Well it doesn't seem 5 minutes since I announced the April challenge on the Crafters Companion Challenge Blog and here we are with the May challenge.  The challenge this month is to create a Girls Birthday Card. You don't have to use Crafters Companion products but to find out more just pop over to the challenge blog to get all the details. Sara is kindly donating a £30 voucher for the lucky winner chosen at random, so well worth entering I'm sure you'll agree.

I decided to go with one of the sweet SWALK stamps

I coloured with image with Distress Inks and cut out the layers using some nesties and edged them with Diamond Stickles. The patterned paper is one of the papers from the first SWALK CD- ROM.
 I've included this card in the Craft your passion challenge - layers

Hope you all have a good Bank Holiday Monday and the that the sun keeps shining.

Thanks for stopping by

Pat xx