Love You! #Happyvalentinesday

Morning all!

It's Valentine's day!!! awwweee feel the love! 

it's a brand new challenge over at Totally Papercrafts this week! and our theme is of course...

Love/Valentines!!! 

We have a fabulous sponsor as always! So be sure to pop over and join in our theme this week! I'll be looking forward to seeing what you come up with!

For my Design Inspiration i want to share a cutesy card i created using the beautiful Lili of the valley stamps! 

I dug out my prisma pencils again this week, it's been a long while since i used them but i love the effects they can give!
So here's my card!

*Card Recipe*

*C/Stock - That Craft Place

* DSP -  Gorjuss Girl & Echo Park

*Mediums - Prisma Pencils

*Image - Lili of the valley
*Ribbon - American Crafts

*Other  - Charm from Ebay, Pearls from Meiflower, Sentiment from Papersmooches

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today!
I'd love if you'd leave a comment to let me know your thoughts!
xoxo

Love & Peace

First Love, Sweet Love, With Love!

Morning all!

It's a brand new fortnightly challenge at That Craft Place this week and i'm here with another creation to share for the Design Team!

I love how my card turned out today I've used a gorjuss new digi from Time For Tea Designs called 'first love' perfect for valentines!!!

Which leads me to This fortnights challenge is...

♥ LOVE ♥

Eeeeek yep that time of year is upon us once again! 

As always we have a fab prize to be won so hop on over to the challenge blog and see what else our DT came up with to inspire you all!

Here's my Card!
Which I'd like to enter to the following challenges

 Digi Galore - use digi - Valentine
 Fairies Challenge Blog-   #19 Love Is In The Air
 One Crazy Stamper -   Anything Goes
 The Cupboard Trilogy -  Love
A Gem of a Challenge - (W1 of 2) All You Need Is Love
Crafty Calendar -  Love Is All Around
Kitty Bee Designs -  #16 - Valentine's/Love **TOP 3**
My Sheri Crafts -  #126 (W1 of 2)  Valentine

Passion For Promarkers - Anything Goes **TOP 5**

*Card Recipe*

*C/Stock - That Craft Place

* DSP -  My Minds Eye 

*Mediums - Promarkers & Flexmarkers

*Image - Time For Tea Designs
*Die Cuts - Cut on Cameo

*Other  - Flowers from That Craft place & Wild Orchid Crafts, Ribbon from Telford Jems, Pearls from Meiflower and sentiment from hobbycraft

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today!
I'd love if you'd leave a comment to let me know your thoughts!
xoxo

Love & Peace

Die Cut Crazy Valentines Blog Hop!

Welcome to the Die Cut Crazy Magazine Valentine Blog Hop. 

The designers have made some wonderful Valentine projects to inspire your own  crafting with your die cuts. If you just joined our hop, be sure and go back to the Die Cut Crazy Magazine Blog to learn how you can enter to win a prize from Die Cut Crazy Magazine when following the hop from designer to designer.  

Stephanie from Die Cut Crazy Mag will be offering a prize of a 6 month subscription to Die Cut Crazy on the DCC blog to those blog hop followers who leave a comment on all of our Designers Posts on the hop blog!  The blog hop starts RIGHT NOW! and is closed to further comments as of Monday, February 3 11:59 pm CST. The winner will be drawn and announced by Stephanie on Tuesday February 4th on the DCC Blog and Facebook group. How Awesome is that!!! 

With Valentine’s day right around the corner I’m knee deep in orders for cards for friends, family and customers! So that leaves not much time for my poor husband! I’m no way about to go out and buy a card that’s just not right after all I’m a crafter! So whilst thinking about what I could make him that was super quick but ‘kind of a big deal’ I came across this stunning file on the Silhouette America Store which gave me all the components of the card to cut out!

I found it was a super way to use up some scraps of designer paper that I’ve saved in my ever growing box, we all have one right?!, but I wanted to tweek the design to make it my own so I cut freehand from a scrap of white card stock a flag shape and used my Studio Calico Date/phrase stamp to stamp on ‘’kind of a big deal’’ and valentines date for this year. It’s totally him and I can’t wait to give it to him!

Here it is! pretty CAS for me right? 

*Card Recipe*

*C/Stock - Kraft Bazzill Basics Cardstock

Very Vanilla Stampin’ Up! Cardstock

* DSP - Scrap Designer Paper & off cut of white Card stock

*Mediums - Black Ink (I use Versamark)

*Stamp - Studio Calico Date/Phrase Stamp
*Die Cuts -Silhouette Cameo

 Thanks for stopping by the Die Cut Crazy Magazine Holiday Blog Hop. I hope my project inspires you to create your own Valentine project.  Please leave a comment to let me know you stopped by.Next up in the hop you'll go back to the Die Cut Crazy Mag Blog to see Dianne's wonderful project! Go see the amazing project she has prepared for you to enjoy!

 If you just joined the hop, here is a list of designers so you don't miss any.

 Debbie  http://www.scrapmequickdesigns.com/

 Anna http://craftwithanna.blogspot.com

 Allie http://mycardparty.com

 Nancy www.scrapperatheart.com

Melissa www.cardtreasures.wordpress.com

(me) Carlyann

Die Cut Crazy Magazine Dianne http://diecutcrazymag.com/ 

And I will be arranging a surprise crafty prize of a surprise to one lucky person who comments on this post before the end of the blog hop too!

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today!
I'd love if you'd leave a comment to let me know your thoughts!
xoxo
Love & Peace

Exciting New Digi Company!!!

Hey all!!!

I'm here this afternoon to share some exciting news!!!

My instagram friend Jo has set up shop with her brand new artwork and i must say the images are gorjuss!!! I'm so thrilled to be on her design team! So check out the blog HERE! We'll be setting up a challenge blog soon! with monthly challenges! eeeekkk! so exciting!!!

What's this shop called??

Time for Tea Designs!!! You can find jo's Etsy shop here!!!

Our first release is super cool! the digi's are beautiful!!! So check them out! For my project today i'm show casing IHEARTU 

Perfect for valentines day! dontcha think! she's such a nice gal to colour too!!!

Hop on over and check out Jo's other designs! 

Here's my full card! 

I really enjoyed making this card it's been ages since i've done some distressing!! haha!

Keep an eye on my blog for more designs coming from this wonderful new Digi Company!

*Stamps - Time For Tea Designs 'IHEARTU'

* DSP - Magnolia

*Brads - American Crafts

*Ribbon - Local Garden Center & American Crafts

*Stickles - Diamond Ice

*Tools - Page Distresser

*C/Stock - Kraft

*Flowers - Prima

I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Divas by Design -#71 Winged Things

Bearly Mine  - #72 Anything Goe

Celebrate the Occasion - #978 Valentine Card With Ribbon

Crafty Sentiments  - Anything Goes

Deep Ocean Challenge - #44 Love and Lace (Week 2)

Bunny Zoe's Crafts - (January, deadline 10 Feb) Anything Goes

Crafty Bloggers Network - (Feb) Anything Goes

Creative Stamp Friends - (1st week) Hearts/Valentine's Day

Cutie Pie Challenge - (1st week) Valentines Cards

Ooh La La Creations  - (1st week) Love Story

Whoopsi Daisy  - Ribbon and/or Lace

Dream Valley Challenges - (1st week) Valentines (ends 16th Feb)

Glitter n Sparkle - Valentines/Love 

The Ribbon Girls - Must use ribbon - Love You OR Valentine 

One Stop Craft- #214 Anything goes

Totally Gorjuss - #169 Anything goes with lace

Thanks for stopping by! xoxo
Be Sure to leave me a comment so i can pop by your blog!

Cherish a sexy babe!!... hehe

Morning all!

Oooo it's thursday!! hehe that means a new challenge at Charisma this week which is!!!......

(Jokes & Laughter / a creation to make you smile)

I must admit i struggled with this theme mainly as i'd had no sleep at the time i came to think about this challenge so i thought i'd go with a funnyish sentiment 'cherish a sexy babe' thought that went quite well seems she's holding a broken heart!!

Would you believe this is my first Tickled pink Creation! I've seen these stamps around and not got hold of them till now!!! and i love em!! a new addiction here maybe.....

I've used my gorjuss curly wild rose and two-tone roses again from wild orchid i love these!! another addiction!! well.... me loves flowers! and they're pink!!! haha

I've finally got around to inking some of my neglected stampin' up sets too, i've got so many i forget i have them lol are you like that???

I'd also like to enter my card to the following challenge:
Tickled Pink Stamps: Spring (I've gone for lots of flowers and pinks & geens! that's whats in my garden this spring!)

 here's my finished card! (me loveeeees the colours!!)

*Recipe*

*C/Stock - Stampin' Up! Melon Mambo, Green Galore
*DSP - Basic Grey Green At Heart & another
*Flowers - Prima & Wild orchid
*Stamp - TPS Lil lolita valentine
*Mediums - Promarkers & Prismacolor
*Gems from stash
*Doodlebug strips
*Organza from stash
*Buckle
*K&co words

Thanks for popping by hope to see you at Charisma!!