CYDA Challenge #40 ~ Mother's Day

Hello everyone, oops already broken my new years resolution and it's been a month since I last posted anything on my wee blog...tut, tut.

Well after a spring like week today looks a bit disappointing really dark, damp and dreary here in East Yorkshire.  Mollie will be sulking a little later as she's off for her annual's at the vets this morning, she'll get out of the car all waggy tailed and get as far as the vet doors then will plonk herself down and refuse to move.....lol, so we have to pick her up then once inside in the reception she'll not be too bad but as soon as the vet opens his door she heads for the exit and wont budge, thank goodness she's not a big dog that we couldn't pick up, but she really is comical and it's the same routine everytime we go...lol.

So anyway it's time for a card from me at long last.  The theme over at Craft Your Days Away this fortnight was chosen by Donna and is....

Mother's Day

It's just 2 weeks away until Mother's Day, so time to get thinking about our mum's.  We are aware that some countries don't celebrate Mother's Day at the same time as us here in the UK, so we will be happy to see another celebration type related to mum's such as a birthday, but it must be related to 'Mum'

Meljen's Designs are our sponsors for this challenge and the winner will recieve 4 digi images (non-coloured) of their choice.  Two of Meljen's Designs DT have also joined us as our GD's for the challenge, so be sure to check out all the GD and DT pieces over on the challenge blog.

Here's my card.....

Aplologies for the awful photo quality but I wasn't able to take the piccy in daylight.

I have used a Meljen's image called 'Lazy Susan Buggies', coloured with Promarkers.  Papers are 'My Minds Eye'.

We also welcome FIVE new members to the CYDA DT after our DT call that ran over the last fortnight - Julie, Caz, Jacqui, Berit and Nat will all hopefully be joining us for our next challenge in 2 weeks time.

Right that's it from me for now, hope everyone has a great weekend rain or shine.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs

Joanne xxx



CYDA Challenge #29 ~ Pink, Brown & Blue

Well this is a few days late I'm afraid.  Our internet problems are still ongoing despite BT telling us it's now fixed each time which it is for a short time, but we've just had 2 days with no internet and an intermittent phone line, they say they can see the fault which is external, I think it's about time they again send out a physical engineer rather than dealing with it remotely.

Anyway, I want to say a massive thank you for all my birthday wishes, cards and gifts.  I had a fabulous party on Friday night, after nearly a year in the planning all seemed to go well and I think everyone enjoyed themselves, but boy did my legs aches on Saturday after all the dancing, but it was fun so thats the main thing.  Just waiting to see some photo's now as we forgot our camara, but luckily others took photo's.

So onto the Craft Your Days Away challenge this fortnight.....

Angel has chosen the challenge theme of...

PINK, BROWN & BLUE

I love this colour combo, and the DT and our GD have plenty of inspiration to show you over on the challenge blog.  Here's mine...

 I've combined a popcorn bear stamp with one of Pollycraft's digital images for this baby boy card commisioned for a work colleague.

We do hope you'll be able to join us for our current challenge over at CYDA, we can't wait to see your creations with this fab colour combo.

Hugs

Joanne xxx

CYDA Challenge #28

Good Morning All

Crikey we're in September all ready, where is the year going?  We seemed to of had the longest spring ever, will this month give us a short burst of summer.....hmmm wont hold my breath.  Off out later for a very late lunch with some work colleagues (once they finish at 3 o'clock, lucky me has the weekend off!!) to say goodbye to one of the girls who's starting her maternity leave.  I'm sure we will all have a good laugh, so I'm looking forward to that.

It's time for our next challenge over at Craft Your Days Away, and Cathy has chosen.......

MAKE YOUR OWN FLOWERS

I've used some of my own crocheted flowers, still very much a beginner on these but these aren't looking too bad.  The DT appear to have had fun with this one with lots of wonderful handmade flower creations to show you over on the challenge blog.

We do hope you'll be able to join us for this fortnights challenge!!

Enjoy your weekend...

Hugs

Joanne xx

CYDA Challenge #26 ~ 1st Birthday Challenge

Oh my it's been some time since I last posted anything on my blog hasn't it.  I've not been feeling too well recently and in turn have had no mojo to craft, trying to work through it though so hopefully there wont be so many long gaps from now on.

Today we are celebrating our 1st Birthday over at Craft Your Days Away, I can't believe it's been a year since our launch, and what a fun journey our first year has been.  We had to say goodbye to a few wonderful DT buddies but we also welcomed some wonderful new teamies.  So our challenge for this fortnight is quite simply...

BIRTHDAYS

We want to see all things relating to birthdays for any age and anyone, general or special.

We have some amazing inspiration for you over on the challenge blog by three of our GD's and of course the wonderful DT.  

It just so happens we are off to my brother-in-laws a bit later this morning to a BBQ and party for his birthday and our nephews 21st.  Yep thats why it's raining today and now I'm in doubt that I can wear my new maxi dress I'd bought especially...lol, still gonna camp there the night though!!  Anyway, so I had two male birthday cards to make for the occassion not good when you have a low mojo as male cards are always a struggle for me at the best of times, but I got there in the end and I don't think I did too bad considering, so here are the two cards which of course fit in with the CYDA Birthday Challenge....

I think our nephew will enjoy this image from Victoria Case!!

And this one is for my B-I-L, not too sure how much he enjoys golf but we've often seen him in a golf jumper, so I think Maurice from Pollycraft will do him nicely...lol.

Both images were coloured with Promakers.

We have FOUR prizes up for grabs for this special challenge, so we do hope you will join us in celebrating CYDA's 1st Birthday!!!

£10 voucher to spend in Emma's Store

BoBunny - Gabrielle Collection 6 x 6 Paper Pad

Roses Selection

Three Packs of Card Candi

*****

Well I hope you all enjoy a lovely weekend!!

Take Care

Hugs

Joanne xxx

CYDA Challenge #24 ~ Fancy Folds

Good Morning!!

Wish I could say it's a nice bright and sunny start like it should be this time a year, but here in East Yorkshire it's a dull dark start to the morning.  So a good excuse to stay in today and make a start on my birthday party invites for September....ohhh the big 4 - 0...lol.

Anyway today is the start of a new challenge over at Craft Your Days Away and this fortnight it's Shelley who has set the theme....

FANCY FOLDS

The DT have all had fun with this one and have provided lots of inspiration for you over on the challenge blog.  Here is mine.....

Our sponsor for the challenge is the the talented Melissa Jenkins of Meljen's Designs.

We do hope you'll be able to join us for this fortnights challenge.

Have a lovely weekend!!

Hugs

Joanne xxx

SFCC - Challenge #6 ~ Glitter

Good Morning!!!

It's a lovely bright start here in East Yorkshire, just glad it's not as hot as it was earlier in the week.

Can you believe it's the 1st July?  So that means it's time for our next challenge for you over at Sparkles Christmas Challenges, and this month it's really time to get all sparkly with Gill's challenge theme...

GLITTER

The DT have been sprinkling their glitter for some wonderful inspiration for you which you can check out over on the challenge blog and here is mine.....

This month we are being sponsored by.....

with a £10 voucher to spend in her store and we are also being sponsored by...

with either 5 digi's or 4 digi's and a paperpack for one lucky winner.

I have used on my card a Holly image from Robyn's Fetish coloured with promarkers and sakura pens for a subtle glittery sheen, then mounted the sentiment onto red glitter card.

We do hope you can join us for this months challenge.

Hugs

Joanne xxx

Sparkles Monthly Christmas Challenge

Can you believe it's June already??  Where is the time going, flying by it seems.

Well it's the first day of the month so that means it's time for a new montrhly challenge over at SFCC, this month it's all about...

SNOWMEN

....as chosen by Lesley.

We all love an adorabloe snowman or two in our Christmas crafts, I know I do.  You'll find lots of snowmen inspiration from the DT and here is mine....

I was running well behind on my DT stuff to get done before my holidays so I've just done a simple tag, coloured with promarkers, chalks and sakura stardust, it really does sparkle lovely but unfortunately the camara couldn't capture it.

Joanna Sheen is sponsoring this challenge with a £10 voucher for the winner to spend in her online store. We do hope you'll be able to join us for this months challenge.

Thanks for stopping by!!

Hugs

Joanne xxx

CYDA Challenge #21

Good Morning!!!

Hopefully this post has scheduled fine as we should be on the road right now on our way down to Devon fingers crossed for a relaxing 2 weeks.  

It's time for a new challenge over at Craft Your Days Away today, and we also welcome our new DT buddies for their first challenge.  The challenge this time round has been set by the lovely Sarah and her challenge is...

FATHERS DAY/SPECIAL MAN

 It'll soon be fathers day so a great chance to get your fathers day project done but you can do something for any special man!!

Our sponsor this time is our fabulous monthly sponsor...

The DT have all come up with the most amazing fathers day and male themed creations so please do chck them out.  Here's mine....

 

I've used the lovely Maurice from Pollycrafts, I always love working with Maurice and he looks well cool in his special 'DAD' hat don't you think!!

We do hope you will be able to join us for this fortnights challenge, we can't wait to see your creations.

Thanks for stopping by and have a lovely bank holiday weekend!!!

Hugs

Joanne xxx

Pollycraft Challenge #94 ~ Embellishment Bingo

Good Morning

Hope you have all had a lovely weekend, ours has been hectic trying to get ready for our holiday next weekend, just not enough hours in the day at the moment.  Anyway it's Monday and time for a new challenge over at Pollycraft Monday Challenges.

EMBELLISHMENT BINGO

A real fun challenge for you this week if you are not familiar with this kind of challenge (which I've got to admit I wasn't before now) there is a grid of embellishments all you need to do is choose a line that is either a diagonal, horizontal or vertical line, and then you will end up with three embellishments to use.  The DT have all had fun with this one and here is mine.....

I've used one of the gorgeous new images from Pollycraft this is 'Claudia Tutu', I've coloured her with watercolour pencils blended with sansador and promarkers on her dress.  This is a comissioned card for a work colleague.  

This is the Embellishment Bingo Grid

I chose the line of Tag - Sparkle - Flowers

You can't see the sparkle very well on the piccy I'm afraid, but I added Sakura Stardust in Clear Star to Claudia's bow, dress detail and ballet pump straps, then also went over the sentiment writing with it too.

We do hope you'll be able to join us for this weeks challenge, have fun!!!

Hugs

Joanne xxx

Pollycraft Challenge #93 ~ Music

Good Morning!!  Hope everyone had a lovely weekend.

It's Monday so time for a new challenge over at Pollycraft Monday Challenges.  Paula is your host this week and her challenge is...

MUSIC

So all things musical is what we would like to see this week.

Here is my DT piece but you can check out my team buddies creations also over on the challenge blog...

Just love this Chester image with his oversized earphones...lol, so cute.  Ive' coloured the image using promarkers.

We do hope you'll be able to join us for this weeks musical challenge.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day.

Hugs

Joanne xx

Pollycraft Challenge #92

Well this is a few days late I'm afraid, I've not been able to sign in to blogger for some reason...grrrrr, thankfully as you can see this morning all seems to be ok again.

This weeks challenge over at Pollycraft has been set by me....

'BOYZ TO MEN'

 You either love or hate doing male themed cards and crafts, I can tell you I'm more to the hate side...lol, but they do have to be done on occassions.

The GD's and DT have some awesome inspiration to show you over on the challenge blog and here's mine... 

 We do hope you'll be able to join us for this weeks challenge.

Enjoy your day.

Hugs

Joanne xxx

 

Pollycraft Challenge #91

How's these scheduled posts doing??  All posting on time I hope.  Will hopefully be trying to check all posted ok on my iphone as thats the only internet access we'll have on this holiday, not sure what I can do about it on my phone if they haven't been posting...lol, anyway if your reading all this waffle then it's posted!!!

It's time for a new challenge over at Pollycraft Monday Challenges

This weeks challenge theme is a real easy one for you and I'm sure it's gonna be mega popular...

ANYTHING GOES

Yep, absolutely anything goes for this one!!!

Here's my card for the challenge....

I've used one of my favourite 'Swings & Slides' images from Pollycraft colouring her with Promarkers.

We do hope you'll join in with our ''Anything Goes" challenge, we look forward to seeing your makes.

Thanks for stopping by!!

Hugs

Joanne xxxx

Sparkles Christmas Challenge # 4

Gosh it's challenge #4 already over at Sparkles Christmas Challenges, the months seem to be flying by.

This month's challenge has been chosen by moi....

HOLLY & IVY

You can either incorporate the two or just use Holly or Ivy individually on your project.

Please check out my DT buddies beautiful creations on the challenge blog, but before you do here's mine...

I've used one of the Woodland Elves images from Pollycraft coloured with Promarkers.

We do hope you'll be able to join us for this months challenge, we look forward to seeing your Christmas creations.

Hugs

Joanne xxx

CYDA Challenge #19 & DT Call

Good Morning Everyone.

I'm hoping my post has posted as scheduled as we should be on a weeks holiday fishing down in Tewkesbury, looking forward to a nice relaxing week.

It's time for a new challenge over at Craft Your Days Away and we are also excited to be running it with a DT Call!!  Check out the challenge blog for the details on how to apply.

The new challenge theme has been set by Mel.....

MUSIC & DANCE

You can either combine the two in your project or just focus on music or dance individually.

The DT have worked hard on this one to help inspire you and some of us have used images kindly provided by our sponsor Little Musings.

Here's my DT piece...

I have combined two of SJ's images from Little Musings coloured with Promarkers.

We do hope you'll be able to join us for our latest challenge and maybe even apply for a DT position!!

Enjoy your weekend.

Hugs

Joanne xxx

Pollycraft Challenge #90 ~ Fun & Games

Good morning, hope everyone has enjoyed their Easter weekend and not eaten too much chocolate, I feel like I have…lol.

It’s time for a new challenge over at Pollycraft Monday Challenges which this week has been set by the lovely Emma and her challenge for you is…

FUN & GAMES

I bet there has been plenty of fun and games going on this weekend especially with the gorgeous weather we’ve been having here in the UK.

The DT have plenty of inspiration to show you over on the challenge blog and here’s mine…

I’ve used the cute ‘Taking a Break’ from the Swings Slides Set 1 and coloured with Promarkers

Well I hope everyone enjoys the rest of their week, thanks for stopping by.

Hugs

Joanne xxx

 

 

Pollycraft Challenge #89

Good Morning….hope this is going to work ok as I’ve tried using Windows Live Writer to write up my post, so this is it’s first test…lol

It’s time for a new challenge over at Pollycraft Monday Challenges this week your host is Maria with a sketch & theme for you…

Vintage

The DT have all been busy as usual with some wonderful inspiration and here is mine….

I’ve used one of the cute images from ‘Swings & Slides 2’, coloured her with Promarkers and used Prima Papers.

We do hope you’ll be able to join us for this weeks challenge.

Hugs

Joanne xxx

Pollycraft Challenge #88 & CYDA Challenge #18

Good Morning from a gorgeous sunny Yorkshire!!!

Announcing two challenges today with the Pollycraft one being quite late I'm afraid as I've been without my lappy for a week due to a broken power lead, got a new one that didn't work so had to wait for another one which arrived yesterday, so I'm all back up and running again.  With not having the means to print out the images that I wanted I have just the one card to show you for both challenges, which luckily have the same challenge theme...lol

So the challenges this week for you over at Pollycraft Monday Challenges & Craft Your Days Away is.....

EASTER
 And here's my card....

  

Tried something a bit different with my papers.  The image is Pollycrafts 'Spring Things - Bumble Bunny'.

This weeks sponsor at Pollycrafts is Secret Crafter with 3 digi's for the winner.

And our sponsor for new challenge over at Craft Your Days Away is Meljen Designs with 4 digi's for the winner.

Well what to do with this gorgeous day? some window cleaning needs doing so gonna crack on with that sometime and there's always a bit of shopping that needs doing.

Hope you all enjoy your weekend, whatever your plans!!!

Hugs

Joanne xxx

Pollycraft Challenge #87 ~ Old/Neglected Stamp/Image

Well Mr Blogger was not playing the game today with scheduling my post, so many apologies for this late post for the new challenge over at Pollycraft Monday Challenges 

The challenge has been set this week by Kylie......

OLD/NEGLECTED STAMP/IMAGE

So it's time to dust off one of those stamps you've not used for a while or search through your stash of digi images on you PC, who knows what you might find, maybe something you'd even forgot you had.

The DT have had a good old shuffle through their stamps and digi's and come up with some gorgeuos creation, so be sure to check them out.  Here's mine....

I've dusted off one of my old time favourite Sherbert Kisses stamps, I just love these and I always have the urge to give these girlies funky coloured hair...lol.

Paula is your sponsor this week and one lucky winner will recieve the full set of the brand new released today Swings & Slides Set 2

We hope you can join us for this week's challenge.

Hugs

Joanne xxx

CYDA Challenge #17 ~ Spots & Stripes

Oooppss a little late with my post this morning, had to go out first thing this morning so didn't get the chance to do it before hand.  It's time for a new challenge over at Craft Your Days Away.  This week I am your host and the challenge is....

SPOTS & STRIPES

A great all rounder challenge!!

You'll find a whole array of gorgeous inspiration over on the challenge blog from the DT & GD, and here is mine...

Still doing well in building up my xmas stock....lol.  Used this gorgeous image from Pollycraft and coloured her with Promarkers.

We are being sponsored this time round by our fabby monthly sponsor...

And the winner will recieve a $10 voucher code to spend instore.

We do hope you'll be able to join us for our current challenge.

Have a fabby weekend, whatever your plans.

Hugs

Joanne xxxx

Sparkles Christmas Challenge #3 ~ Ribbons & Gems

Pinch, Punch it's the first day of the month, which means it's time for a brand new challenge over at Sparkles Christmas Challenges.  We had a few more entries last month, so thank you to all of you that joined us with your lovely cards and projects, hopefully you will join us again for our new challenge and of course it would be lovely to see some more.  We're now on to April, so the months to Christmas are flying away so don't leave it all to the last minute, join us every month for a Christmas challenge!!

Those that joined in with us last month be sure to check out the challenge blog to see if you are one of our two winners or one of our Top 3.

This month's challenge has been set by Doreen and her challenge for you is...

RIBBONS & GEMS

So we want to see your christmas creations that include both ribbon and gems.

The DT have some wonderful inspiration to show you over on the challenge blog and their own blogs, here's mine....

We are being sponsored this month by Joanna Sheen and the winner will recieve a £10 voucher to spend in Joanna's online store.

Don't forget the challenge blog is a sister to the Sparkles Challenge Blog, which runs fortnightly challenges and the Sparkles Forum so we would love to see you join us for more challenge fun, chat, swaps and a whole lot more.

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy your day!!

Hugs

Joanne xxx