<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737</id><updated>2012-02-18T11:05:54.279-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Craft Cupboard</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>58</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-1810201006774102473</id><published>2010-05-15T11:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-05-15T12:15:56.863-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Penny Black Challenge - Flowers</title><content type='html'>Hi everyone,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was chatting not so long ago about this stamp, saying I hadn't really been happy with the way I've coloured it in the past, but this time I'm happy. I think I was using too much colour before so I've chosen a softer peach and used my Copic markers. So here it is for this week's &lt;a href="http://pennybfriendssaturdaychallenge.blogspot.com/"&gt;PB Challenge&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/S-7rq9jK6fI/AAAAAAAAAhc/WHIseAf3_q4/s1600/Penny+Black+cat+and+tulips+cropped+version.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/S-7rq9jK6fI/AAAAAAAAAhc/WHIseAf3_q4/s400/Penny+Black+cat+and+tulips+cropped+version.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5471569720610843122" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Any way back to clearing up the garden tomorrow, so no more crafting!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hope you all have a great weekend.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Michele&lt;br /&gt;x&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-1810201006774102473?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/1810201006774102473/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=1810201006774102473' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/1810201006774102473'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/1810201006774102473'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2010/05/penny-black-challenge-flowers.html' title='Penny Black Challenge - Flowers'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/S-7rq9jK6fI/AAAAAAAAAhc/WHIseAf3_q4/s72-c/Penny+Black+cat+and+tulips+cropped+version.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-5796567240239745892</id><published>2010-05-09T11:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-05-09T14:04:04.637-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Penny Black Challenge</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/S-ch9LeuUWI/AAAAAAAAAhU/tWhTBO_OmP0/s1600/cat+with+chocs_2+.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 389px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/S-ch9LeuUWI/AAAAAAAAAhU/tWhTBO_OmP0/s400/cat+with+chocs_2+.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469377607402148194" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hi everyone,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is my entry for this great challenge, the '100th Penny Black Challenge'. Lucky for me I had already coloured the cat and stuck in onto the scalloped edge circle. This was originally for the PB Challenge a few weeks ago for Monochromatic Browns, but I never got a chance to finish it! As usual it's great to see all the wonderful creations by the PB Design Team and what other people have made.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The sentiment on the card is by 'Stampin up'. Pop over to &lt;a href="http://jackiescards.blogspot.com/"&gt;Jackie's blog &lt;/a&gt;to buy more of these lovely stamps, papers and lots of other great things.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hope you've all had a great weekend.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Michele&lt;br /&gt;x&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-5796567240239745892?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/5796567240239745892/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=5796567240239745892' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/5796567240239745892'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/5796567240239745892'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2010/05/penny-black-challenge.html' title='Penny Black Challenge'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/S-ch9LeuUWI/AAAAAAAAAhU/tWhTBO_OmP0/s72-c/cat+with+chocs_2+.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-3347385945950667021</id><published>2010-04-10T10:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-10T10:39:00.847-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Penny Black Challenge - Buttons Galore</title><content type='html'>Hi everyone,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love these little buttons by PaperMania and I thought they went perfectly with the paper I've chosen. So here is my entry for the &lt;a href="http://pennybfriendssaturdaychallenge.blogspot.com/"&gt;PB Challenge - buttons galore!&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/S8C1mfaRPKI/AAAAAAAAAhM/KE_mOuu33uo/s1600/PB+-+Buttons+galore+2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 392px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/S8C1mfaRPKI/AAAAAAAAAhM/KE_mOuu33uo/s400/PB+-+Buttons+galore+2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5458562421244378274" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hope you're all having a great weekend in this lovely sunny weather.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Michele&lt;br /&gt;x&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-3347385945950667021?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/3347385945950667021/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=3347385945950667021' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/3347385945950667021'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/3347385945950667021'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2010/04/penny-black-challenge-buttons-galore.html' title='Penny Black Challenge - Buttons Galore'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/S8C1mfaRPKI/AAAAAAAAAhM/KE_mOuu33uo/s72-c/PB+-+Buttons+galore+2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-1284087273358239828</id><published>2010-04-08T04:39:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-08T11:32:04.054-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Copic Challenge - apricot, blue and copper</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/S73BFtU1iFI/AAAAAAAAAg8/KJv3YwHP0Jk/s1600/yellow,+copper+and+blue+copic+challenge.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 374px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/S73BFtU1iFI/AAAAAAAAAg8/KJv3YwHP0Jk/s400/yellow,+copper+and+blue+copic+challenge.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457730627253405778" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Hi Everyone,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hope you all had a great Easter. What wonderful weather today. I made this card this morning just before taking the kids to the beach. It was lovely and really hot and the kids really enjoyed themselves.  This is the first time I have entered a card for the &lt;a href="http://copicscolourchallenge.blogspot.com/"&gt;Copic Colour Challenge&lt;/a&gt;. I love using these pens so it's a great challenge for me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks for looking,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Michele&lt;br /&gt;x&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-1284087273358239828?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/1284087273358239828/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=1284087273358239828' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/1284087273358239828'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/1284087273358239828'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2010/04/copic-challenge-yellow-blue-and-copper.html' title='Copic Challenge - apricot, blue and copper'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/S73BFtU1iFI/AAAAAAAAAg8/KJv3YwHP0Jk/s72-c/yellow,+copper+and+blue+copic+challenge.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-4136432660635930150</id><published>2010-04-03T15:41:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-03T16:16:54.880-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Penny Black Challenge -</title><content type='html'>Hi Everyone,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I haven't been blogging for a long time now but when I saw today's challenge I thought I would put this card on the &lt;a href="http://pennybfriendssaturdaychallenge.blogspot.com/"&gt;PB Challenge&lt;/a&gt;.  I made it a few weeks ago after I bought this stamp at the Stevenage craft show and as it has a little bit of gingham check on it I guess it fits the bill! &lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/S7fExGWoSWI/AAAAAAAAAg0/t6cnPUndMis/s1600/Gingham+pussycat.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 270px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/S7fExGWoSWI/AAAAAAAAAg0/t6cnPUndMis/s400/Gingham+pussycat.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456045821380807010" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hope you all have a lovely Easter and if you get a chance pop over to &lt;a href="http://craftytimescards.blogspot.com/"&gt;Gill's blog &lt;/a&gt;who is this month's Guest Designer, she makes some really lovely cards. I would also like to say a big thank you to &lt;a href="http://javabeanscreativeescape.blogspot.com/"&gt;Tania&lt;/a&gt; who left me an award back in November. Your cards are beautiful so it was lovely to get an award from someone so talented.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-4136432660635930150?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/4136432660635930150/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=4136432660635930150' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/4136432660635930150'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/4136432660635930150'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2010/04/penny-black-challenge.html' title='Penny Black Challenge -'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/S7fExGWoSWI/AAAAAAAAAg0/t6cnPUndMis/s72-c/Gingham+pussycat.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-7459735908982114612</id><published>2009-11-24T15:47:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-24T16:38:53.238-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Christmas - Two Challenges</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/Swx3CWTlOPI/AAAAAAAAAgk/ZgqZ3MMaHJI/s1600/Gorgeous+Girl++with+Santa+hat.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 391px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/Swx3CWTlOPI/AAAAAAAAAgk/ZgqZ3MMaHJI/s400/Gorgeous+Girl++with+Santa+hat.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407828134796278002" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm still trying to get my Christmas cards done so it's great to find a couple of challenges with the theme 'Christmas', &lt;a href="http://everybody-art-challenge.blogspot.com/"&gt;'Everybody Art Challenge' &lt;/a&gt;and &lt;a href="http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/"&gt;'Papertake Weekly'&lt;/a&gt;. Here's my little 'Gorguss Girl' with the addition of a santa hat and my new 'forest scene' stamp in the background, the sentiment is a Penny Black stamp. This is amazingly organised for me with my Christmas cards, I'm normally scribbling them out at the last minute! Bye for now, &lt;br /&gt;Michele&lt;br /&gt;x&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-7459735908982114612?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/7459735908982114612/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=7459735908982114612' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/7459735908982114612'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/7459735908982114612'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2009/11/christmas-two-challenges.html' title='Christmas - Two Challenges'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/Swx3CWTlOPI/AAAAAAAAAgk/ZgqZ3MMaHJI/s72-c/Gorgeous+Girl++with+Santa+hat.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-1853046165853085372</id><published>2009-11-22T13:41:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-22T14:05:22.519-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Whiff of Joy Challenge 56</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SwmwwNikbzI/AAAAAAAAAgU/AxigNBtnYvE/s1600/Whiff+of+Joy+Christmas+card.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 381px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SwmwwNikbzI/AAAAAAAAAgU/AxigNBtnYvE/s400/Whiff+of+Joy+Christmas+card.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407047169949855538" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Here's my card for this week's &lt;a href="http://wojmondaychallenge.blogspot.com/"&gt;Whiff of Joy Challenge&lt;/a&gt;. I made it a few days ago but I've been busy and the light hasn't been too good for taking photos when I've had the chance. I loved this sketch and I needed to start making my Christmas cards so I thought this would be a good time to start. I've added a tree  and some snow to the background to give it a more festive feel! Hope you've all had a lovely weekend. Bye for now,  Michele x&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-1853046165853085372?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/1853046165853085372/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=1853046165853085372' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/1853046165853085372'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/1853046165853085372'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2009/11/whiff-of-joy-challenge-56.html' title='Whiff of Joy Challenge 56'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SwmwwNikbzI/AAAAAAAAAgU/AxigNBtnYvE/s72-c/Whiff+of+Joy+Christmas+card.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-4389320858307409970</id><published>2009-10-28T02:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-28T03:05:47.620-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Papertake weekly challenge - Spots 'n' Stripes</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SugXYg95tmI/AAAAAAAAAgI/O6ScYEgFVMw/s1600-h/halloween+cat+_edited-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 397px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SugXYg95tmI/AAAAAAAAAgI/O6ScYEgFVMw/s400/halloween+cat+_edited-1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397589863337408098" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's another one of my Halloween cards for the &lt;a href="http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/"&gt;Papertake Weekly Challenge&lt;/a&gt;. The kids and I are going to be making little ghosts and witches today and Halloween cakes so we'll definitely be getting into the 'spirit' of things!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-4389320858307409970?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/4389320858307409970/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=4389320858307409970' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/4389320858307409970'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/4389320858307409970'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2009/10/papertake-weekly-challenge-spots-n.html' title='Papertake weekly challenge - Spots &apos;n&apos; Stripes'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SugXYg95tmI/AAAAAAAAAgI/O6ScYEgFVMw/s72-c/halloween+cat+_edited-1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-5487079947806121873</id><published>2009-10-25T05:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-25T05:39:58.799-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Halloween - Penny Black Challenge</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SuRDTWW9qBI/AAAAAAAAAfo/GbBDI1tXszc/s1600-h/PB+mouse+stamp.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 158px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SuRDTWW9qBI/AAAAAAAAAfo/GbBDI1tXszc/s200/PB+mouse+stamp.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396512253195167762" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hello Everyone,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's been a very long time since I posted anything as I've been busy working on the Stamp Addicts Design Team assignments. Check out the &lt;a href="http://stampaddicts-thepurplezone.blogspot.com/"&gt;Purple Zone &lt;/a&gt;to see my work and the other Design Team member's cards. Anyway, I was delighted to participate in this week's &lt;a href="http://pennybfriendssaturdaychallenge.blogspot.com/"&gt;Penny Black Challenge &lt;/a&gt;as I love making Halloween cards. I really like the bright vibrant colours you can use. The Penny Black Design Team cards look great. I have only got one PB Halloween Stamp which isn't very big and not really a main feature for a card. So I thought I would adapt one of my other PB stamps to make it fit the bill! I chose this little mouse and drew a hat on it and added a few other little Halloween stamps by Daisy and Dandelion to complete the look. Here's my card...&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SuRE2DUbAhI/AAAAAAAAAf4/_c-0uUmRG4s/s1600-h/penny+black+halloween+mouse.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 396px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SuRE2DUbAhI/AAAAAAAAAf4/_c-0uUmRG4s/s400/penny+black+halloween+mouse.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396513948891283986" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I am looking forward to spending the rest of this afternoon making some more Halloween cards for my family and checking out the other PB challenge cards. Hope you all enjoy the rest of your weekend. Bye for now, Michele x&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-5487079947806121873?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/5487079947806121873/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=5487079947806121873' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/5487079947806121873'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/5487079947806121873'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2009/10/halloween-penny-black-challenge.html' title='Halloween - Penny Black Challenge'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SuRDTWW9qBI/AAAAAAAAAfo/GbBDI1tXszc/s72-c/PB+mouse+stamp.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-7312210900295154665</id><published>2009-08-15T11:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-16T13:00:16.265-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Penny Black Challenge - Blue &amp; Tan</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SohJxOf_hfI/AAAAAAAAAfg/3UT4N84Zq2Q/s1600-h/penny+black+mouse+with+brush+3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 398px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SohJxOf_hfI/AAAAAAAAAfg/3UT4N84Zq2Q/s400/penny+black+mouse+with+brush+3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370623665694017010" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hi Folks,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love this colour combination for this week's &lt;a href="http://pennybfriendssaturdaychallenge.blogspot.com/"&gt;Penny Black Challenge&lt;/a&gt;. I am being moaned at to get off the computer as my son and his cousins are desperate to get back to club penguin! So here's my entry...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-7312210900295154665?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/7312210900295154665/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=7312210900295154665' title='21 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/7312210900295154665'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/7312210900295154665'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2009/08/penny-black-challenge-blue-tan.html' title='Penny Black Challenge - Blue &amp; Tan'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SohJxOf_hfI/AAAAAAAAAfg/3UT4N84Zq2Q/s72-c/penny+black+mouse+with+brush+3.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>21</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-2655435820597195268</id><published>2009-08-02T15:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-02T23:50:15.521-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SnaHxZJXyVI/AAAAAAAAAfI/bUEFCB9elZg/s1600-h/cutie+sunday+mice.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 392px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SnaHxZJXyVI/AAAAAAAAAfI/bUEFCB9elZg/s400/cutie+sunday+mice.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5365625288692058450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hello Everyone,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Back so soon! I coloured in an image yesterday and thought, 'What challenge can I use this for'? Then I remembered &lt;a href="http://craftyloo.blogspot.com/"&gt;Crafty Lou's &lt;/a&gt;lovely blog lists a few of the challenges on her site. There I found &lt;a href="http://cutie-sunday.blogspot.com/"&gt;'Cutie Sunday' &lt;/a&gt;and I liked the sketch. So Here's my entry&lt;a href="http://craftyloo.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-2655435820597195268?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/2655435820597195268/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=2655435820597195268' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/2655435820597195268'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/2655435820597195268'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2009/08/hello-everyone-back-so-soon-i-coloured.html' title=''/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SnaHxZJXyVI/AAAAAAAAAfI/bUEFCB9elZg/s72-c/cutie+sunday+mice.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-1220968457233741906</id><published>2009-08-01T08:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-01T08:27:59.618-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Penny Black Challenge - Summer</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SnRcsX7Q5QI/AAAAAAAAAfA/WN6u9BcIlnc/s1600-h/PB+challenge+-+summer.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 397px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SnRcsX7Q5QI/AAAAAAAAAfA/WN6u9BcIlnc/s400/PB+challenge+-+summer.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5365014973511689474" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hi Everyone,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is my first challenge for ages. The summer theme has worked out just great for me. My nephew has asked me to make him a thank you card for his friends parents for taking him on holiday with them. So here it is for this weeks &lt;a href="http://pennybfriendssaturdaychallenge.blogspot.com/"&gt;Penny Black Challenge&lt;/a&gt;.  Also a big thank you to &lt;a href="http://bluejellytoo.blogspot.com/"&gt;Victoria&lt;/a&gt; for my award and your nice comment. Plus congratulations on the birth of your gorgeous little boy.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-1220968457233741906?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/1220968457233741906/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=1220968457233741906' title='13 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/1220968457233741906'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/1220968457233741906'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2009/08/penny-black-challenge-summer.html' title='Penny Black Challenge - Summer'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SnRcsX7Q5QI/AAAAAAAAAfA/WN6u9BcIlnc/s72-c/PB+challenge+-+summer.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>13</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-1160729426340410119</id><published>2009-07-29T11:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-29T12:27:28.664-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Stamp Addicts Christmas Show - 30th July</title><content type='html'>Hi Everyone,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's been a really long time now since I have posted anything on my blog but I have been really busy with the children and making cards for Stamp Addicts for their next TV show. It will feature some really lovely Christmas stamps, you can watch it on 'Create &amp; Craft' tomorrow at 11.00am. Here are a few of the cards I made with Judi kins stamps 'Crayon Santa' and 'Layered Frame Holiday' and 'Just Checking' sentiment. Hope you are all having a lovely summer despite the weather! Bye for now, Michele x&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SnCXriFMwgI/AAAAAAAAAeA/tjrQzT4l8Tw/s1600-h/Stamp+addicts+Crayon+Santa+old.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 288px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SnCXriFMwgI/AAAAAAAAAeA/tjrQzT4l8Tw/s400/Stamp+addicts+Crayon+Santa+old.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363953930337042946" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SnCXtSWPnqI/AAAAAAAAAeQ/fKsYJYTo3nc/s1600-h/stamp+addicts+frame+copper.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 394px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SnCXtSWPnqI/AAAAAAAAAeQ/fKsYJYTo3nc/s400/stamp+addicts+frame+copper.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363953960473304738" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SnCgWXopMOI/AAAAAAAAAe4/f9Y9w08nssk/s1600-h/stamp+addicts+crayon+santa+copper+frame.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 393px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SnCgWXopMOI/AAAAAAAAAe4/f9Y9w08nssk/s400/stamp+addicts+crayon+santa+copper+frame.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363963462360314082" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SnCXsqKcFtI/AAAAAAAAAeI/QSVPFihSyLg/s1600-h/Stamp+addicts+crayon+santa+glitter.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 286px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SnCXsqKcFtI/AAAAAAAAAeI/QSVPFihSyLg/s400/Stamp+addicts+crayon+santa+glitter.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363953949686372050" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SnCYymkF-8I/AAAAAAAAAeg/UO3w0R3ITm8/s1600-h/Stamp+addicts+frame+coloured.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 399px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SnCYymkF-8I/AAAAAAAAAeg/UO3w0R3ITm8/s400/Stamp+addicts+frame+coloured.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363955151311076290" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SnCZyOaJ-NI/AAAAAAAAAeo/rcsyP976rjo/s1600-h/Stamp+addict+Frame+navy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 399px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SnCZyOaJ-NI/AAAAAAAAAeo/rcsyP976rjo/s400/Stamp+addict+Frame+navy.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363956244338571474" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-1160729426340410119?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/1160729426340410119/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=1160729426340410119' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/1160729426340410119'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/1160729426340410119'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2009/07/stamp-addicts-christmas-show-30th-july.html' title='Stamp Addicts Christmas Show - 30th July'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SnCXriFMwgI/AAAAAAAAAeA/tjrQzT4l8Tw/s72-c/Stamp+addicts+Crayon+Santa+old.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-665919224069890251</id><published>2009-05-10T08:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-10T11:40:22.371-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Colour Create Sunday Challenge - Week 15, Blue &amp; Green ...</title><content type='html'>Good afternoon everyone,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What a lovely day, I should be planting the plants I bought in the week for my hanging baskets, but when I saw the colours on today's &lt;a href="http://colourcreatechallenge.blogspot.com/"&gt;'Colour Create' &lt;/a&gt;challenge I thought, I must use my little 'Lilli of the Valley' dragon stamp. So here he is for his first outing, he's such a cute little fellow...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/Sgb6FlP3ojI/AAAAAAAAAd4/cW94zidhOpk/s1600-h/CC+blue+and+green.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 384px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/Sgb6FlP3ojI/AAAAAAAAAd4/cW94zidhOpk/s400/CC+blue+and+green.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334225782471893554" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image coloured with Copic Markers, (I'm still addicted to using them!).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enjoy the rest of your day, bye for now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Michele&lt;br /&gt;x&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-665919224069890251?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/665919224069890251/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=665919224069890251' title='11 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/665919224069890251'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/665919224069890251'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2009/05/colour-create-sunday-challenge-week-15.html' title='Colour Create Sunday Challenge - Week 15, Blue &amp; Green ...'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/Sgb6FlP3ojI/AAAAAAAAAd4/cW94zidhOpk/s72-c/CC+blue+and+green.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>11</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-2561461003345012577</id><published>2009-05-04T10:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-04T11:58:29.161-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Colour Create Sunday Challenge - Chocolate, red and cream...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/Sf8lNGDtg3I/AAAAAAAAAdw/zWmbfHR5NgM/s1600-h/P1030930_edited-2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 392px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/Sf8lNGDtg3I/AAAAAAAAAdw/zWmbfHR5NgM/s400/P1030930_edited-2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332021390724662130" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hi everyone,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Amazing! I managed to get a little more time for crafting today.  I love the colours for this week's &lt;a href="http://colourcreatechallenge.blogspot.com/"&gt;'Colour Create' &lt;/a&gt;Challenge, Red,chocolate and cream. I nearly used these colours for the PB Challenge on Saturday but changed my mind, so when I saw the colours I knew exactly the papers I would use.  I love 'Stampin up' papers as it is so easy to match everything up.  Check out &lt;a href="http://jackiescards.blogspot.com"&gt;Jackie's House of cards&lt;/a&gt;. Jackie is a Stampin' up demonstrator. The 'Gorguss girl' is one of my purchases from Ally Pally, I think they're so sweet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can't believe how quickly this weekend has gone, I wish it went as quickly when you're at work!  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is my card, hope you like it....&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-2561461003345012577?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/2561461003345012577/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=2561461003345012577' title='13 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/2561461003345012577'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/2561461003345012577'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2009/05/colour-create-sunday-challenge.html' title='Colour Create Sunday Challenge - Chocolate, red and cream...'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/Sf8lNGDtg3I/AAAAAAAAAdw/zWmbfHR5NgM/s72-c/P1030930_edited-2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>13</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-6395489347660718315</id><published>2009-05-02T08:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-04T10:53:09.745-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Penny Black Challenge - Week 47 - Shapes</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/Sfxugoc2KMI/AAAAAAAAAdo/Sre8fy3y_b0/s1600-h/PB+hedgehog+with+ladybird.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 391px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/Sfxugoc2KMI/AAAAAAAAAdo/Sre8fy3y_b0/s400/PB+hedgehog+with+ladybird.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331257565793102018" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hi everyone,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hope you're all having a lovely weekend. I haven't had much time for crafting lately so it's good to get back to it today. I had already coloured in the little hedgie earlier in the week with my Copic markers so I couldn't resist using him for the &lt;a href="http://pennybfriendssaturdaychallenge.blogspot.com/"&gt;Penny Black Saturday Challenge&lt;/a&gt;. I have used a rectangle and a circle and punched out some flower shapes and some swirls. So hopefully that covers the 'at least three shapes'. So here's my card...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bye for now and enjoy the rest of the long weekend,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Michele&lt;br /&gt;x&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-6395489347660718315?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/6395489347660718315/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=6395489347660718315' title='17 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/6395489347660718315'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/6395489347660718315'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2009/05/penny-black-challenge-week-47-shapes.html' title='Penny Black Challenge - Week 47 - Shapes'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/Sfxugoc2KMI/AAAAAAAAAdo/Sre8fy3y_b0/s72-c/PB+hedgehog+with+ladybird.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>17</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-1276399870071216754</id><published>2009-04-05T13:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-10T16:11:08.204-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Stamp Addicts TV show - Sneaky peek No. 5</title><content type='html'>Hi everyone,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hope you all had a lovely weekend. Here's a last sneaky peek at some of the cards I made for tomorrow's Stamp Addicts TV show which is on Ideal World tomorrow at 11.00am. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Michele x&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SdlALudr1WI/AAAAAAAAAdY/o59abJrzrs0/s1600-h/Stamp+Addicts+red+shopaholic.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SdlALudr1WI/AAAAAAAAAdY/o59abJrzrs0/s320/Stamp+Addicts+red+shopaholic.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321355004910228834" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SdlALHcJSmI/AAAAAAAAAdQ/DFjBb3f9KVs/s1600-h/Stamp+Addicts+blue+shopaholic.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 318px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SdlALHcJSmI/AAAAAAAAAdQ/DFjBb3f9KVs/s320/Stamp+Addicts+blue+shopaholic.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321354994434787938" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-1276399870071216754?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/1276399870071216754/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=1276399870071216754' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/1276399870071216754'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/1276399870071216754'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2009/04/stamp-addicts-tv-show-sneaky-peak-no-5.html' title='Stamp Addicts TV show - Sneaky peek No. 5'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SdlALudr1WI/AAAAAAAAAdY/o59abJrzrs0/s72-c/Stamp+Addicts+red+shopaholic.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-6550128017101713327</id><published>2009-04-04T06:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-05T16:23:30.581-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Stamp Addicts TV show - Post no.4</title><content type='html'>Hi everyone,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's another glimpse at some more cards I made for the Stamp Addicts TV show. I used an acetate window with rain drops on it, though I'm not sure you can see them in this photo.  With the next card, I masked the girl and stamped her three times. I used one of the flower stamps that came with this set of unmounted stamps to add necklaces to two of them and flowers on the other girl's top. She also comes with the text 'love' and 'peace' as well as 'save the world', also the little sleeping bunny.  Hope you're all having a fun weekend in this lovely sunshine.  Michele x&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/Sdddr6hncuI/AAAAAAAAAco/4ZtvQE6lASI/s1600-h/Stamp+Addicts+pink+rain+girl+closed.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/Sdddr6hncuI/AAAAAAAAAco/4ZtvQE6lASI/s400/Stamp+Addicts+pink+rain+girl+closed.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320824493787542242" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SddbgZw45JI/AAAAAAAAAcg/yaejRluHnOk/s1600-h/Stamp+addicts+pink+rain+girl.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SddbgZw45JI/AAAAAAAAAcg/yaejRluHnOk/s400/Stamp+addicts+pink+rain+girl.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320822096991413394" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SdekRcuyItI/AAAAAAAAAdI/rNV088KIvs0/s1600-h/Stamp+addicts+pink+rain+girl+close.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SdekRcuyItI/AAAAAAAAAdI/rNV088KIvs0/s320/Stamp+addicts+pink+rain+girl+close.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320902104438678226" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SddbgPPox9I/AAAAAAAAAcY/iBGkWg2URvY/s1600-h/Stamp+Addicts+Love+and+Peace+trio_edited-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 397px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SddbgPPox9I/AAAAAAAAAcY/iBGkWg2URvY/s400/Stamp+Addicts+Love+and+Peace+trio_edited-1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320822094167590866" /&gt;&lt;/a&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-6550128017101713327?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/6550128017101713327/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=6550128017101713327' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/6550128017101713327'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/6550128017101713327'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2009/04/stamp-addicts-tv-show-post-no4.html' title='Stamp Addicts TV show - Post no.4'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/Sdddr6hncuI/AAAAAAAAAco/4ZtvQE6lASI/s72-c/Stamp+Addicts+pink+rain+girl+closed.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-6381307648954558283</id><published>2009-04-03T01:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-10T16:11:41.218-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Another peek at what to expect on the Stamp Addicts TV show on Monday....</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SdXRIhX0lEI/AAAAAAAAAcA/4pVda5LgrMc/s1600-h/Stamp+addicts+yellow+coat+rain+girl.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 297px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SdXRIhX0lEI/AAAAAAAAAcA/4pVda5LgrMc/s400/Stamp+addicts+yellow+coat+rain+girl.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320388479135552578" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Here's another peek at some of the cards I made for Monday's TV show.  Again, I have used the rain girl, but this time she's wearing her rain hat. I added some ties on it with some thread. I used diamond glase on her raincoat and hat and wellies to add shine. The other one is the little football girl who also comes with assessories, drink bottle and football and whistle and text. I will post some more very soon. Bye for now, Michele&lt;br /&gt;x&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SdXVBGUhO7I/AAAAAAAAAcQ/EixIj3i2I5Y/s1600-h/Stamp+addicts+footballer+red+stripe.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 394px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SdXVBGUhO7I/AAAAAAAAAcQ/EixIj3i2I5Y/s400/Stamp+addicts+footballer+red+stripe.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320392749661371314" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-6381307648954558283?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/6381307648954558283/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=6381307648954558283' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/6381307648954558283'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/6381307648954558283'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2009/04/another-peak-at-what-to-expect-on-stamp.html' title='Another peek at what to expect on the Stamp Addicts TV show on Monday....'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SdXRIhX0lEI/AAAAAAAAAcA/4pVda5LgrMc/s72-c/Stamp+addicts+yellow+coat+rain+girl.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-6430485069001309380</id><published>2009-04-02T02:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-10T16:12:26.048-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Another sneaky peek!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SdSPZ0RdEfI/AAAAAAAAAbo/VA5Wn-q7-nI/s1600-h/Stamp+Addicts+Green+Rain+Girl2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 396px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SdSPZ0RdEfI/AAAAAAAAAbo/VA5Wn-q7-nI/s400/Stamp+Addicts+Green+Rain+Girl2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320034733522751986" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SdSTP37eJpI/AAAAAAAAAbw/tsgyCf7hkWc/s1600-h/Stamp+addict+lime+and+green+girl.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 398px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SdSTP37eJpI/AAAAAAAAAbw/tsgyCf7hkWc/s400/Stamp+addict+lime+and+green+girl.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320038960752109202" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hi everyone,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As promised here's another couple of cards I made for the Stamp Addicts TV show which is being shown on Monday on Ideal World 11.00am.  I am entering these for the &lt;a href="http://www.cutecardthursday.blogspot.com/"&gt;Cute Card Thursday challenge &lt;/a&gt;as the theme is citrus and they both include lime green. All images have been coloured with Copic and Promarkers. Hope you like them...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-6430485069001309380?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/6430485069001309380/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=6430485069001309380' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/6430485069001309380'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/6430485069001309380'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2009/04/another-sneaky-peak.html' title='Another sneaky peek!'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SdSPZ0RdEfI/AAAAAAAAAbo/VA5Wn-q7-nI/s72-c/Stamp+Addicts+Green+Rain+Girl2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-4659650729316862942</id><published>2009-04-01T04:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-02T09:17:00.149-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Stamp Addicts TV show - Sneaky peek!  Plus Papertake Weekly Challenge</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SdTjMb0Hc2I/AAAAAAAAAb4/MyEjWzmQHCg/s1600-h/Stamp+Addicts+love+and+peace+solo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 391px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SdTjMb0Hc2I/AAAAAAAAAb4/MyEjWzmQHCg/s400/Stamp+Addicts+love+and+peace+solo.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320126862595683170" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SdNktL4qhTI/AAAAAAAAAa4/44LyNr1mmOA/s1600-h/Stamp+Addict+beach+girls+2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 390px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SdNktL4qhTI/AAAAAAAAAa4/44LyNr1mmOA/s400/Stamp+Addict+beach+girls+2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319706312302036274" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SdNiRgb2biI/AAAAAAAAAao/2ZUyvm2K8xU/s1600-h/Stamp+Addicts+Swimming+girl+aqua+2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 291px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SdNiRgb2biI/AAAAAAAAAao/2ZUyvm2K8xU/s400/Stamp+Addicts+Swimming+girl+aqua+2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319703637758733858" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hi everyone,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've been a busy bee working on the cards for the next Stamp Addicts next TV show. It is being broadcast for the first time on Monday 6th April on Ideal World at 11.00am. They are brilliant stamps and I've had lots of fun working on these great designs by Judikins. Here's a couple of cards I made using some of the stamps. More of my cards with the other designs to follow shortly.  Check out the other DT members, via the &lt;a href="http://stampaddicts-thepurplezone.blogspot.com/"&gt;Purple Zone&lt;/a&gt;, who have made some great cards.  The theme for this week's &lt;a href="http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/"&gt;Papertake Weekly Challenge&lt;/a&gt; is circle, stamped image and ribbon, so I couldn't resist adding my first card in for this challenge as it fits the bill perfectly!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-4659650729316862942?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/4659650729316862942/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=4659650729316862942' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/4659650729316862942'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/4659650729316862942'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2009/04/stamp-addicts-tv-show-sneaky-peak.html' title='Stamp Addicts TV show - Sneaky peek!  Plus Papertake Weekly Challenge'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SdTjMb0Hc2I/AAAAAAAAAb4/MyEjWzmQHCg/s72-c/Stamp+Addicts+love+and+peace+solo.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-8353284550846650451</id><published>2009-03-12T15:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-13T11:31:24.683-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Cute Card Thursday Challenge 51</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SboXMPSbHWI/AAAAAAAAAaA/1eD2qtQ9lbw/s1600-h/cct+51+march.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 391px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SboXMPSbHWI/AAAAAAAAAaA/1eD2qtQ9lbw/s400/cct+51+march.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312584209466596706" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hi everyone,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love this week's sketch, and because it's a sketch it saves me having to think about the layout too much, which speeds things up a bit! Although my five year old little girl slowed things down as she wanted to make a card of her own. It takes her about five minutes to colour the image and then she wants lots of goodies out my craft cupboard! Anyway I got there in the end, so this is my entry for the weeks &lt;a href="http://www.cutecardthursday.blogspot.com/"&gt;Cute Card Thursday Challenge&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;Magnolia Image coloured with markers.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-8353284550846650451?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/8353284550846650451/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=8353284550846650451' title='11 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/8353284550846650451'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/8353284550846650451'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2009/03/cute-card-thursday-challenge-51.html' title='Cute Card Thursday Challenge 51'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SboXMPSbHWI/AAAAAAAAAaA/1eD2qtQ9lbw/s72-c/cct+51+march.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>11</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-8733484333754393212</id><published>2009-03-08T16:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-11T05:21:18.272-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Colour Create Sunday Challenge - green, orange and yellow...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SbesgyjNELI/AAAAAAAAAZg/1UIMg8LD5Iw/s1600-h/Green,+yellow+and+orange+outside.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 395px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SbesgyjNELI/AAAAAAAAAZg/1UIMg8LD5Iw/s400/Green,+yellow+and+orange+outside.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311903964832010418" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hello everyone,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's my entry for this week's &lt;a href="http://colourcreatechallenge.blogspot.com/"&gt;Colour Create Challenge&lt;/a&gt;,  green, yellow and orange. &lt;br /&gt;    Well, the weekend's nearly over and it's back to work tomorrow, so I shouldn't really be up late crafting, but you know what it's like once you start! Hope you all had a fun weekend.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image coloured with Promarkers and Copics.&lt;br /&gt;Sugar Nellie stamp - Reflective&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Michele&lt;br /&gt;x&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-8733484333754393212?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/8733484333754393212/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=8733484333754393212' title='12 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/8733484333754393212'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/8733484333754393212'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2009/03/colour-create-sunday-challenge-green.html' title='Colour Create Sunday Challenge - green, orange and yellow...'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SbesgyjNELI/AAAAAAAAAZg/1UIMg8LD5Iw/s72-c/Green,+yellow+and+orange+outside.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>12</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-7900084807855393520</id><published>2009-03-07T02:30:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-03-07T07:36:43.688-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Penny Black Challenge - Recipe 3,2,1</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SbKFebFKJoI/AAAAAAAAAY4/si8gTQHyN4Y/s1600-h/mouse+with+dandelion+4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 389px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SbKFebFKJoI/AAAAAAAAAY4/si8gTQHyN4Y/s400/mouse+with+dandelion+4.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310453668335199874" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hi everyone,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wow, I couldn't believe it when I saw that I'd won the draw from last weeks challenge, I had to do a double take, lol! What a great start to the weekend. Thank you so much to everyone on the Penny Black Challenge Team.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I got up early this morning and did this week's challenge so I could get all the mess out the way early, I'm not a tidy crafter! So here's my entry for this week's &lt;a href="http://pennybfriendssaturdaychallenge.blogspot.com/"&gt;Penny Black Challenge&lt;/a&gt;...  Have a great weekend, and thanks for looking, from a very happy blogger, Michele x&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-7900084807855393520?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/7900084807855393520/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=7900084807855393520' title='21 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/7900084807855393520'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/7900084807855393520'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2009/03/penny-black-challenge-week-39.html' title='Penny Black Challenge - Recipe 3,2,1'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SbKFebFKJoI/AAAAAAAAAY4/si8gTQHyN4Y/s72-c/mouse+with+dandelion+4.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>21</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-3756118768368470355</id><published>2009-03-01T09:12:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-03-02T01:49:30.882-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Colour Create Sunday Challenge...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SaurlsO0krI/AAAAAAAAAYM/QyQkpA9xmnA/s1600-h/brown+and+blue+outside+2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 288px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SaurlsO0krI/AAAAAAAAAYM/QyQkpA9xmnA/s400/brown+and+blue+outside+2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308525249803096754" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hi everyone,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hope you're all enjoying your Sunday. I love this colour combination, brown and blue. Here's my entry for this week's lovely &lt;a href="http://colourcreatechallenge.blogspot.com/"&gt;Colour Create Challenge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've coloured the Magnolia image with my marker pens, I'm addicted to using them at the moment!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Michele&lt;br /&gt;x&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-3756118768368470355?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/3756118768368470355/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=3756118768368470355' title='14 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/3756118768368470355'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/3756118768368470355'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2009/03/colour-create-sunday-challenge.html' title='Colour Create Sunday Challenge...'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SaurlsO0krI/AAAAAAAAAYM/QyQkpA9xmnA/s72-c/brown+and+blue+outside+2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>14</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-1104546707554623537</id><published>2009-02-28T01:05:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-28T02:16:29.689-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Penny Black Challenge - Something to eat...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SakC3F54nXI/AAAAAAAAAXs/WctY7K3lcqA/s1600-h/something+to+eat.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 399px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SakC3F54nXI/AAAAAAAAAXs/WctY7K3lcqA/s400/something+to+eat.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307776781333863794" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hi everyone,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The cards from the Design Team look fantastic this week. I have quite a collection of PB stamps thanks to a sale that was on at the Stevenage stamp show but only one that includes food! So here is my entry for the &lt;a href="http://pennybfriendssaturdaychallenge.blogspot.com/"&gt;Penny Black Saturday challenge&lt;/a&gt;, coloured with my Promarkers and Copic Markers. Have a great weekend.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Michele&lt;br /&gt;x&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-1104546707554623537?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/1104546707554623537/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=1104546707554623537' title='20 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/1104546707554623537'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/1104546707554623537'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2009/02/penny-black-challenge-something-to-eat.html' title='Penny Black Challenge - Something to eat...'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SakC3F54nXI/AAAAAAAAAXs/WctY7K3lcqA/s72-c/something+to+eat.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>20</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-485789842041415376</id><published>2009-02-23T14:09:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-23T14:57:59.133-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Papertake weekly challenge - Dawny's sketch #9</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SaMgX0i9GKI/AAAAAAAAAXc/MfdhnDJ_dFk/s1600-h/mouse+with+lily.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 372px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SaMgX0i9GKI/AAAAAAAAAXc/MfdhnDJ_dFk/s400/mouse+with+lily.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306120379586910370" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hi everyone,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hope you all had a great weekend. Lovely sketch from Dawny for the &lt;a href="http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/"&gt;Papertake weekly challenge&lt;/a&gt;. Here is my entry with a gorgeous Penny Black stamp that I bought at the Stevenage Craft show. Image coloured with Promarkers and Copic markers. I'll probably re- take the photo in the day time as the colours will probably look nicer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hope you like it,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Michele&lt;br /&gt;x&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-485789842041415376?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/485789842041415376/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=485789842041415376' title='12 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/485789842041415376'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/485789842041415376'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2009/02/papertake-weekly-challenge-dawnys.html' title='Papertake weekly challenge - Dawny&apos;s sketch #9'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SaMgX0i9GKI/AAAAAAAAAXc/MfdhnDJ_dFk/s72-c/mouse+with+lily.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>12</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-586407546118451986</id><published>2009-02-08T08:24:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-20T01:36:07.281-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Penny Black saturday challenge No. 35</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SY8hVBXNIXI/AAAAAAAAAXM/SucH1vnHZxg/s1600-h/valentine+bear_1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 292px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SY8hVBXNIXI/AAAAAAAAAXM/SucH1vnHZxg/s400/valentine+bear_1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300491931465097586" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hello everyone,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hope you all had a good weekend. I've had a very busy weekend so far organising a party for my son who was 9 and my daughter who was two, but today I've managed to fit in a little time for crafting. Here is my card for the &lt;a href="http://pennybfriendssaturdaychallenge.blogspot.com/"&gt;Penny Black saturday challenge&lt;/a&gt;. This challenge gave me the opportunity to use one of my new stamps and to practice using a combination of my new Copic markers and Promarker pens. I really love using them as they make it so quick and easy to colour an image, which is definitely good when you've got three children!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Michele&lt;br /&gt;x&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-586407546118451986?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/586407546118451986/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=586407546118451986' title='11 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/586407546118451986'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/586407546118451986'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2009/02/penny-black-saturday-challenge-no-35.html' title='Penny Black saturday challenge No. 35'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SY8hVBXNIXI/AAAAAAAAAXM/SucH1vnHZxg/s72-c/valentine+bear_1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>11</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-8031689698275287874</id><published>2009-02-02T14:32:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-02T16:08:26.872-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Hearts &amp; Flowers - Papertake</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SYd042CdY3I/AAAAAAAAAWs/Sn0BaXpwH70/s1600-h/beths+birthday+card.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 375px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SYd042CdY3I/AAAAAAAAAWs/Sn0BaXpwH70/s400/beths+birthday+card.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298332006552003442" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hi everyone,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm back posting after a long break! I've been trying to rest my hand to alleviate my RSI injury. I hope everyone is well and still enjoying crafting. Unfortunately I am still having problems with my hand/arm, therefore I'm still keeping my time on the computer to a minimum, so I won't be able to check out too many of your lovely blogs. It's really frustrating and I've really missed having a good old look, but once I start I don't want to stop!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway here's my card for the &lt;a href="http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/"&gt;Papertake weekly challenge&lt;/a&gt;. I made this card for my gorgeous little girl, Beth, who will be two years old tomorrow. Here she is having a rest and enjoying a cup of tea...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SYd--z0WxpI/AAAAAAAAAW8/1a8Z3pvvVSA/s1600-h/04_28_25---Pile-of-One-Pound-Coins_web.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 222px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SYd--z0WxpI/AAAAAAAAAW8/1a8Z3pvvVSA/s320/04_28_25---Pile-of-One-Pound-Coins_web.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298343104151471762" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bye for now,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Michele x&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-8031689698275287874?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/8031689698275287874/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=8031689698275287874' title='13 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/8031689698275287874'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/8031689698275287874'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2009/02/hearts-flowers-papertake.html' title='Hearts &amp; Flowers - Papertake'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SYd042CdY3I/AAAAAAAAAWs/Sn0BaXpwH70/s72-c/beths+birthday+card.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>13</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-5241047280716408982</id><published>2008-11-15T12:16:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-18T11:46:11.425-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Footie Star...</title><content type='html'>Hello Everyone,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have been trying not to use the computer too much as I have been suffering from RSI in my hand and it's been aggravated by typing, so apologies for not checking out your lovely blogs.  Also it's becoming increasingly difficult to prise my son off the computer! Anyway I couldn't keep away from crafting too long so here is my entry for the &lt;a href="http://pennybfriendssaturdaychallenge.blogspot.com/"&gt;Penny Black Saturday Challenge&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SR8uVfs1XlI/AAAAAAAAAWk/1hcYA1Q5HJM/s1600-h/Footie+Star.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 390px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SR8uVfs1XlI/AAAAAAAAAWk/1hcYA1Q5HJM/s400/Footie+Star.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5268981035868446290" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wishing you all a great weekend,  Michele x&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-5241047280716408982?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/5241047280716408982/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=5241047280716408982' title='28 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/5241047280716408982'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/5241047280716408982'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2008/11/footie-star.html' title='Footie Star...'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SR8uVfs1XlI/AAAAAAAAAWk/1hcYA1Q5HJM/s72-c/Footie+Star.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>28</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-5309766278526353591</id><published>2008-11-06T16:45:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-07T05:31:45.112-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Cute Card Thursday Challenge 35 &amp; Papertake Weekly</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SRRCU0FPElI/AAAAAAAAAWc/QT4WdNNTyzE/s1600-h/snow+tilda+2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 394px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SRRCU0FPElI/AAAAAAAAAWc/QT4WdNNTyzE/s400/snow+tilda+2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265906789648372306" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I started off this card thinking an angel is just what I need for the &lt;a href="http://cutecardthursday.blogspot.com/"&gt;Cute card Thursday Challenge,&lt;/a&gt; but it has ended up a lot more sparkly than I originally intended, so I'm going for the double and including it on the &lt;a href="http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/"&gt;Papertake weekly challenge&lt;/a&gt; as well!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This image is coloured with my new Prismacolour pencils, I love them already and I only got them yesterday!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-5309766278526353591?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/5309766278526353591/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=5309766278526353591' title='19 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/5309766278526353591'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/5309766278526353591'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2008/11/cute-card-thursday-challenge-35.html' title='Cute Card Thursday Challenge 35 &amp; Papertake Weekly'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SRRCU0FPElI/AAAAAAAAAWc/QT4WdNNTyzE/s72-c/snow+tilda+2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>19</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-9056543339024669498</id><published>2008-11-04T12:12:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-04T13:12:03.840-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Kreative blogger award...</title><content type='html'>I was absolutely delighted to receive my first blog award from &lt;a href="http://craftyloo.blogspot.com/"&gt;Crafty Lou&lt;/a&gt;. Thank you so much Louise. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SRC0JrSr1UI/AAAAAAAAAV0/hh5vcA16lqE/s1600-h/kreativ_blogger_award_copy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SRC0JrSr1UI/AAAAAAAAAV0/hh5vcA16lqE/s200/kreativ_blogger_award_copy.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264906042729026882" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The rules are:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. The winner may put the logo on their blog &lt;br /&gt;2. Put a link to the person who sent you the award &lt;br /&gt;3. Nominate 5 blogs &lt;br /&gt;4. Put links to their blogs &lt;br /&gt;5. Leave a message for your nominees.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The lovely bloggers I'm going to nominate who all make wonderful cards are : &lt;a href="http://sketchingstamper.blogspot.com/"&gt;Chris&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://elainesden.blogspot.com/"&gt;Elaine&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://linda-wright.blogspot.com/"&gt;Linda&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://passionforcrafts.blogspot.com/"&gt;Debbie&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://tabbycraftdesigns.blogspot.com/ "&gt;Tab&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-9056543339024669498?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/9056543339024669498/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=9056543339024669498' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/9056543339024669498'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/9056543339024669498'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2008/11/kreativ.html' title='Kreative blogger award...'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SRC0JrSr1UI/AAAAAAAAAV0/hh5vcA16lqE/s72-c/kreativ_blogger_award_copy.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-9100143412073888016</id><published>2008-10-28T14:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-29T00:48:23.379-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Visit Elaine's lovely blog</title><content type='html'>It's Happy Birthday to Elaine, and to celebrate she is very kindly giving away some lovely blog candy. Pop over to her &lt;a href="http://elainesden.blogspot.com/"&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt; and check out her lovely cards.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-9100143412073888016?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/9100143412073888016/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=9100143412073888016' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/9100143412073888016'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/9100143412073888016'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2008/10/visit-elaines-lovely-blog.html' title='Visit Elaine&apos;s lovely blog'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-1912946566814673619</id><published>2008-10-28T04:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-28T07:04:15.807-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Dawnys Sketch #1</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SQcW6B6zMWI/AAAAAAAAAVs/dsBMpOt1ta0/s1600-h/Milly+on+Broom.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 391px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SQcW6B6zMWI/AAAAAAAAAVs/dsBMpOt1ta0/s400/Milly+on+Broom.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262199875808997730" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SQcDI7-GzKI/AAAAAAAAAVM/1m1Xga6DKrg/s1600-h/dawnyp_1ptw+copy.png"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 168px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SQcDI7-GzKI/AAAAAAAAAVM/1m1Xga6DKrg/s200/dawnyp_1ptw+copy.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262178141677735074" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hi Everyone,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yet another Halloween card! 'Milly on a broomstick' is one of my new stamps from Spiral Whisper. I really wanted to use it, especially as I haven't finished making my Halloween cards for my family. I thought the &lt;a href="http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/"&gt;Papertake Weekly Challenge&lt;/a&gt; would be ideal for this as my 'bat stamp' fitted the requirements for the sketch perfectly.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-1912946566814673619?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/1912946566814673619/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=1912946566814673619' title='17 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/1912946566814673619'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/1912946566814673619'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2008/10/dawnys-sketch-1.html' title='Dawnys Sketch #1'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SQcW6B6zMWI/AAAAAAAAAVs/dsBMpOt1ta0/s72-c/Milly+on+Broom.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>17</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-2961228493968601672</id><published>2008-10-26T12:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-02-23T14:31:02.522-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Halloween Milly...</title><content type='html'>Hi Everyone,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've had a fantastic day at Stampin'Up! stamp camp. We made five lovely cards which can be seen on Jackie's blog &lt;a href="http://jackiescards.blogspot.com/"&gt;'Jackie's house of cards'&lt;/a&gt;. Looking forward to the next one already!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, I obviously hadn't had enough of crafting as I came home and finished off my Halloween card that I nearly finished the other day.  I thought I'll just change one little thing on the 'Milly image' I'd coloured and messed her up completely! So here she is, my second attempt, for the &lt;a href="http://aspoonfullofsugarchallenge.blogspot.com/"&gt;Spoon Full of Sugar challenge&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href="http://spiralwhisper.blogspot.com/"&gt;Spiral Whisper Challenge&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SQTJeqOcH0I/AAAAAAAAAUU/dlO-lLyQcpU/s1600-h/Milly+Halloween.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 397px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SQTJeqOcH0I/AAAAAAAAAUU/dlO-lLyQcpU/s400/Milly+Halloween.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5261551793243692866" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http:// thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com"&gt;here is my entry&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-2961228493968601672?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/2961228493968601672/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=2961228493968601672' title='11 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/2961228493968601672'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/2961228493968601672'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2008/10/halloween-milly_26.html' title='Halloween Milly...'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SQTJeqOcH0I/AAAAAAAAAUU/dlO-lLyQcpU/s72-c/Milly+Halloween.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>11</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-7454067150545879331</id><published>2008-10-24T17:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-26T15:03:37.555-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Friday Sketchers - Sketch 25</title><content type='html'>Here is my first entry for the &lt;a href="http://fridaysketchersblog.blogspot.com/"&gt;'Friday Sketchers Challenge&lt;/a&gt;'...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SQL8T2_PpvI/AAAAAAAAAUA/JMpejoMRhSA/s1600-h/wedding+mice.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 383px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SQL8T2_PpvI/AAAAAAAAAUA/JMpejoMRhSA/s400/wedding+mice.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5261044732830656242" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stamp - Great Impressions No.F235&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hope you all have a great weekend.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Michele&lt;br /&gt;x&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-7454067150545879331?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/7454067150545879331/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=7454067150545879331' title='19 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/7454067150545879331'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/7454067150545879331'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2008/10/friday-sketchers-sketch-25.html' title='Friday Sketchers - Sketch 25'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SQL8T2_PpvI/AAAAAAAAAUA/JMpejoMRhSA/s72-c/wedding+mice.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>19</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-6216070922551141932</id><published>2008-10-20T16:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-20T17:13:08.299-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Frightful but delightful! - Papertake Weekly Challenge</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SP0XkvfNcsI/AAAAAAAAATI/aEK7gXwMcT8/s1600-h/ghost+challenge.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SP0XkvfNcsI/AAAAAAAAATI/aEK7gXwMcT8/s400/ghost+challenge.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259385859828708034" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hello Everyone, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love Halloween cards so I just had to have a go at this challenge, so here is my ghostly entry for the &lt;a href="http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/"&gt;'Papertake Weekly Challenge'&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hope you all have a fang-tastic week...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-6216070922551141932?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/6216070922551141932/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=6216070922551141932' title='15 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/6216070922551141932'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/6216070922551141932'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2008/10/frightful-but-delightful-papertake.html' title='Frightful but delightful! - Papertake Weekly Challenge'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SP0XkvfNcsI/AAAAAAAAATI/aEK7gXwMcT8/s72-c/ghost+challenge.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>15</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-2171358351489956267</id><published>2008-10-17T01:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-21T14:27:50.273-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Challenge 32 (Autumn)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SP0bR1gDf1I/AAAAAAAAATQ/PjtXwyP03j8/s1600-h/Halloween+Tilda_2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SP0bR1gDf1I/AAAAAAAAATQ/PjtXwyP03j8/s400/Halloween+Tilda_2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259389933071859538" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hi Everyone,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I haven't got a Magnolia Halloween stamp so I thought I would adapt this one to make the first of my Halloween cards.  I've been meaning to make a start on them for a while now. I recently bought a set of 'Clearly Defined' Halloween stamps from &lt;a href="https://www.stampaddictsshop.co.uk/"&gt;Stamp Addicts&lt;/a&gt;, so they came in handy with this little project! If you look at a post I did in September using my Magnolia stamp you can see her in full before I cut off the bird she is holding and her wings and some of her hair (I sound so cruel!)  So here she is for the &lt;a href="http://cutecardthursday.blogspot.com/"&gt;'Cute Card Thursday Challenge'&lt;/a&gt; &amp; &lt;a href="http://dinkydotsden.blogspot.com/"&gt;'The Dinky Dots Den Challenge'&lt;/a&gt;....&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-2171358351489956267?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/2171358351489956267/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=2171358351489956267' title='20 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/2171358351489956267'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/2171358351489956267'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2008/10/challenge-32-autumn.html' title='Challenge 32 (Autumn)'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SP0bR1gDf1I/AAAAAAAAATQ/PjtXwyP03j8/s72-c/Halloween+Tilda_2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>20</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-2032673419448499923</id><published>2008-10-09T09:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-02-28T02:07:38.849-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Elephants never forget...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SO45EUeT32I/AAAAAAAAASo/ZcO-pK34i4k/s1600-h/Elephant.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SO45EUeT32I/AAAAAAAAASo/ZcO-pK34i4k/s400/Elephant.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5255200561566048098" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hi Crafters,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks so much to everyone who has followed my blog it's a real compliment. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I just love this cute little elephant. I have been looking forward to using him on a card since I coloured him in some time ago for the &lt;a href="http://cutecardthursday.blogspot.com/"&gt;'Cute Card Thursday Challenge&lt;/a&gt;'. So here he is...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com"/&gt;Here’s my card&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-2032673419448499923?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/2032673419448499923/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=2032673419448499923' title='21 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/2032673419448499923'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/2032673419448499923'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2008/10/elephants-never-forget.html' title='Elephants never forget...'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SO45EUeT32I/AAAAAAAAASo/ZcO-pK34i4k/s72-c/Elephant.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>21</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-2183444380553703275</id><published>2008-10-04T08:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-04T08:52:08.545-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy Hedgehog...</title><content type='html'>Hi Crafters,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   Just managed to squeeze a little craft time in today, so here's my entry for the &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://pennybfriendssaturdaychallenge.blogspot.com/"&gt;'Penny Black Saturday Challenge'&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SOeIsoQK49I/AAAAAAAAASA/Lb-gSqczhN4/s1600-h/Heghog+penny+black+challenge.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SOeIsoQK49I/AAAAAAAAASA/Lb-gSqczhN4/s400/Heghog+penny+black+challenge.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253317790651835346" /&gt;&lt;/a&lt;br /&gt;Thanks for looking and I hope you're all enjoying the weekend with plenty of time for crafting, well you really do have fit some time in if it's 'World Card Making Day'!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-2183444380553703275?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/2183444380553703275/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=2183444380553703275' title='18 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/2183444380553703275'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/2183444380553703275'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2008/10/happy-hedgehog.html' title='Happy Hedgehog...'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SOeIsoQK49I/AAAAAAAAASA/Lb-gSqczhN4/s72-c/Heghog+penny+black+challenge.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>18</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-222632545014739461</id><published>2008-10-01T04:17:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-01T06:38:55.035-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Here come the girls!</title><content type='html'>Hi Everyone,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I haven't posted anything for a while as I've been busy working on the latest assignment from 'Stamp Addicts' which was a range of lovely girly stamps called 'Mimi Girls' from DeNami. I quickly took a few pictures of the cards in my lunch hour on Monday and then posted them off to 'Stamp Addicts'. I didn't have the best background for taking the pictures, the car park floor! Oh well. Anyway here are a few of the cards I made.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SONw_nSdGDI/AAAAAAAAARo/U9yDqMYKaZs/s1600-h/cake+mimi.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SONw_nSdGDI/AAAAAAAAARo/U9yDqMYKaZs/s320/cake+mimi.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252165828624586802" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SONo5uyRLmI/AAAAAAAAARI/4uUVnF1O94g/s1600-h/pink+and+white+mimi+2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SONo5uyRLmI/AAAAAAAAARI/4uUVnF1O94g/s320/pink+and+white+mimi+2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252156931464834658" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SONkznX0ZFI/AAAAAAAAAQo/varyaUs_O24/s1600-h/bath+Mimi.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SONkznX0ZFI/AAAAAAAAAQo/varyaUs_O24/s320/bath+Mimi.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252152428349121618" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SONiQvNGvWI/AAAAAAAAAQg/FriomZjLlBw/s1600-h/Dashing+mimi+1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SONiQvNGvWI/AAAAAAAAAQg/FriomZjLlBw/s320/Dashing+mimi+1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252149630132993378" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SONns_sxsEI/AAAAAAAAARA/KK7BA6OPmvs/s1600-h/mimi+with+dogs+brown.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SONns_sxsEI/AAAAAAAAARA/KK7BA6OPmvs/s320/mimi+with+dogs+brown.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252155613155274818" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SONexVsF5YI/AAAAAAAAAQI/Zz48Lf9SLek/s1600-h/Mimi+presents+pastel.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SONexVsF5YI/AAAAAAAAAQI/Zz48Lf9SLek/s320/Mimi+presents+pastel.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252145792172811650" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SONlYDUgm_I/AAAAAAAAAQw/IwTi7NsTTXo/s1600-h/wish.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SONlYDUgm_I/AAAAAAAAAQw/IwTi7NsTTXo/s320/wish.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252153054326725618" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SONd_rW2OGI/AAAAAAAAAP4/nDx0oDho5IQ/s1600-h/black+and+white+mimi.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SONd_rW2OGI/AAAAAAAAAP4/nDx0oDho5IQ/s320/black+and+white+mimi.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252144938995824738" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SONx0vQCpBI/AAAAAAAAARw/IQjGcniPW0M/s1600-h/pink+and+white+cake+mimi.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SONx0vQCpBI/AAAAAAAAARw/IQjGcniPW0M/s320/pink+and+white+cake+mimi.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252166741295014930" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-222632545014739461?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/222632545014739461/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=222632545014739461' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/222632545014739461'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/222632545014739461'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2008/10/here-come-girls.html' title='Here come the girls!'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SONw_nSdGDI/AAAAAAAAARo/U9yDqMYKaZs/s72-c/cake+mimi.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-6596348299550157364</id><published>2008-09-06T04:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-07T06:24:19.822-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Definitely Girly!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SMPVnNL2FFI/AAAAAAAAAM8/NB1R-KlEWSw/s1600-h/penny+black+bear+2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SMPVnNL2FFI/AAAAAAAAAM8/NB1R-KlEWSw/s320/penny+black+bear+2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5243269260720346194" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hello Everyone,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think you would agree that not many men would really want to receive this card, so it is definitely 'One for the girls'. So this is my entry for the &lt;a href="http://pennybfriendssaturdaychallenge.blogspot.com/"&gt;'Penny Black Saturday Challenge'&lt;/a&gt;. Hope you are all enjoying your weekend with lots of 'craft time'.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-6596348299550157364?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/6596348299550157364/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=6596348299550157364' title='23 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/6596348299550157364'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/6596348299550157364'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2008/09/definitely-girlie.html' title='Definitely Girly!'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SMPVnNL2FFI/AAAAAAAAAM8/NB1R-KlEWSw/s72-c/penny+black+bear+2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>23</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-6948752036820818583</id><published>2008-09-04T09:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-04T11:24:58.066-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Little Pink Princess...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SMAN5YQH5CI/AAAAAAAAAMs/dHfZl10G_fg/s1600-h/little+pink+princess.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SMAN5YQH5CI/AAAAAAAAAMs/dHfZl10G_fg/s320/little+pink+princess.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5242205245673038882" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hello Everyone, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another stamped image that I took away with me to colour when I was in France. As this week's &lt;a href="http://cutecardthursday.blogspot.com/"&gt;Cute Card Thursday Challenge &lt;/a&gt;is 'Pretty in pink', it was lucky for me it was the colour I chose for her! So here is my 'Pink Princess', hope you like her.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-6948752036820818583?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/6948752036820818583/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=6948752036820818583' title='16 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/6948752036820818583'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/6948752036820818583'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2008/09/little-pink-princess.html' title='Little Pink Princess...'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SMAN5YQH5CI/AAAAAAAAAMs/dHfZl10G_fg/s72-c/little+pink+princess.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>16</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-6938112993928349771</id><published>2008-09-02T12:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-02T13:28:39.281-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A little birdie told me!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SL2f4BpWpbI/AAAAAAAAAMk/8tyEVqy8t0c/s1600-h/Green+girl+1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SL2f4BpWpbI/AAAAAAAAAMk/8tyEVqy8t0c/s320/Green+girl+1.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5241521326192502194" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hi Crafters,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm back crafting after my holiday in France. I say back crafting but I did actually take a few stamped images with me to watercolour,  well what can I say, I am truely addicted! Anyway here's one of the images I coloured when I was away that I have used for the &lt;a href="http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/"&gt;Papertake weekly challenge&lt;/a&gt;.  Hope you all had good holidays.  Bye for now,  Michele x&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-6938112993928349771?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/6938112993928349771/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=6938112993928349771' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/6938112993928349771'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/6938112993928349771'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2008/09/little-birdie-told-me.html' title='A little birdie told me!'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SL2f4BpWpbI/AAAAAAAAAMk/8tyEVqy8t0c/s72-c/Green+girl+1.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-4699922772843983766</id><published>2008-08-18T17:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-19T00:03:21.670-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Rainy days and Mondays....</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SKpv8gUJ50I/AAAAAAAAAMc/1FMYPhWgmhI/s1600-h/Rainly+days+and+Monday+3.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SKpv8gUJ50I/AAAAAAAAAMc/1FMYPhWgmhI/s320/Rainly+days+and+Monday+3.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5236120602028926786" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hello there,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well the image I've used in this card is certainly appropriate with the awful summer weather we're having! I'm really enjoying using my new stamps I got at Stamperama. I thought this image was so cute I couldn't resist it and it stamps out beautifully. I hate stamps that have thick lines but this one is lovely and fine. I also got to use another lovely stamp by 'Stampin up' for the text. If you like this stamp it comes as a set of various sentiments and is available via &lt;a href="http://jackiescards.blogspot.com/"&gt;Jackie's House of Cards&lt;/a&gt;. Here is my entry for this week's &lt;a href="http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/"&gt;Papertake Weekly Challenge&lt;/a&gt;. Hope you enjoyed doing this challenge as much as I did.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is the sketch &lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SKoYmMPg0qI/AAAAAAAAAMM/2TfchPDB8iI/s1600-h/SketchesByKatharina_26.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SKoYmMPg0qI/AAAAAAAAAMM/2TfchPDB8iI/s200/SketchesByKatharina_26.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5236024561172009634" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bye for now, Michele x&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-4699922772843983766?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/4699922772843983766/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=4699922772843983766' title='27 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/4699922772843983766'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/4699922772843983766'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2008/08/rainy-days-and-mondays.html' title='Rainy days and Mondays....'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SKpv8gUJ50I/AAAAAAAAAMc/1FMYPhWgmhI/s72-c/Rainly+days+and+Monday+3.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>27</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-3581997596841870819</id><published>2008-08-16T10:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-16T17:14:34.296-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Hello Friend...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SKcWRuMhH9I/AAAAAAAAAME/h9-FwqkYPQw/s1600-h/hello+friend+2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SKcWRuMhH9I/AAAAAAAAAME/h9-FwqkYPQw/s320/hello+friend+2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5235177585555611602" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hello Everyone,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I had a lovely time last weekend at the Craft Show and I did what I said in my last post and treated myself to lots of Penny Black stamps. I've got no excuse now for not having a go at the &lt;a href="http://pennybfriendssaturdaychallenge.blogspot.com/"&gt;Saturday Challenges&lt;/a&gt;! Here's my attempt with one of my lovely new stamps.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-3581997596841870819?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/3581997596841870819/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=3581997596841870819' title='18 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/3581997596841870819'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/3581997596841870819'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2008/08/hello-friend.html' title='Hello Friend...'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SKcWRuMhH9I/AAAAAAAAAME/h9-FwqkYPQw/s72-c/hello+friend+2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>18</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-6809303025781381617</id><published>2008-08-02T11:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-12T22:40:18.406-08:00</updated><title type='text'>No Pink Here!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SJSm9PLvaSI/AAAAAAAAAL8/TxDJq1qCVO0/s1600-h/DSCN4244.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SJSm9PLvaSI/AAAAAAAAAL8/TxDJq1qCVO0/s320/DSCN4244.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5229988638261995810" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hello Crafters,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Back again so soon! Now I've finished my 'Stamp Addicts' assignment I thought it would be great to have a go at the 'Penny Black Saturday Challenge' 'No Pink Allowed'. I love Penny Black stamps and now I know about this Challenge I definitely will be tempted to buy some more when I go to the Stevenage Craft Show next week, oh dear!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Michele&lt;br /&gt;x&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-6809303025781381617?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/6809303025781381617/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=6809303025781381617' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/6809303025781381617'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/6809303025781381617'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2008/08/no-pink-here.html' title='No Pink Here!'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SJSm9PLvaSI/AAAAAAAAAL8/TxDJq1qCVO0/s72-c/DSCN4244.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-6129776825257744816</id><published>2008-08-01T10:35:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-12T22:40:19.842-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Sunny Christmas</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SJNZb1oz_GI/AAAAAAAAALs/SkZ26ecr5Qs/s1600-h/Christmas+tree.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SJNZb1oz_GI/AAAAAAAAALs/SkZ26ecr5Qs/s320/Christmas+tree.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5229621927096876130" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hi Everyone,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've just finished the latest assignment for Stamp Addicts. This one is for their next television show called 'Christmas &amp; Gold Leaf' to be shown on 'Create &amp; Craft' in August. The gold leaf just adds a bit more glamour &amp; shine than using embossing powders. Here are a few of the cards I submitted, I have used gold leaf and also oxidating red leaf on some of the cards. It certainly seems weird making Christmas cards when the weather's roasting and anyone looking in my window to see Christmas cards on my mantelpiece would have thought I was completely mad!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stamps used that are available from Stamp Addicts are:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Holly C3132 &lt;/strong&gt;- Printworks&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ornament E3121 &lt;/strong&gt;- Printworks&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Candy Cane C3119 &lt;/strong&gt;- Printworks&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Flourished Frame 2785G &lt;/strong&gt;- JudiKins&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Spirit of Christmas Q023 &lt;/strong&gt;- Printworks (selection of text and Dove Stamp)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SJNTWk9-TwI/AAAAAAAAALc/I9-wPhlyE_U/s1600-h/Christmas+trio.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SJNTWk9-TwI/AAAAAAAAALc/I9-wPhlyE_U/s320/Christmas+trio.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5229615239653117698" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SJNOGdfc-tI/AAAAAAAAAKk/VTR5mFgvT4g/s1600-h/Joy+red.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5229609465210010322" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SJNOGdfc-tI/AAAAAAAAAKk/VTR5mFgvT4g/s320/Joy+red.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SJNS8ZM2-GI/AAAAAAAAALU/PcdTXOSzrQE/s1600-h/bauble.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SJNS8ZM2-GI/AAAAAAAAALU/PcdTXOSzrQE/s320/bauble.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5229614789817727074" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SJNSkVxzLfI/AAAAAAAAALM/5RAOh3oZnmo/s1600-h/Holly+gold.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SJNSkVxzLfI/AAAAAAAAALM/5RAOh3oZnmo/s320/Holly+gold.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5229614376582065650" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SJNPDfO-atI/AAAAAAAAAK0/jyHELPqikFE/s1600-h/joy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5229610513649789650" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SJNPDfO-atI/AAAAAAAAAK0/jyHELPqikFE/s320/joy.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SJNOieAKJvI/AAAAAAAAAKs/nI6aIq3Sq4k/s1600-h/Dove.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5229609946383525618" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SJNOieAKJvI/AAAAAAAAAKs/nI6aIq3Sq4k/s320/Dove.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SJNMndNO4CI/AAAAAAAAAKU/sTM4p160adM/s1600-h/A+king+is+born.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5229607833046016034" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SJNMndNO4CI/AAAAAAAAAKU/sTM4p160adM/s320/A+king+is+born.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SJNdhH2u3RI/AAAAAAAAAL0/YKlj-QimgNc/s1600-h/Holly+white+and+green+background.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SJNdhH2u3RI/AAAAAAAAAL0/YKlj-QimgNc/s320/Holly+white+and+green+background.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5229626415932955922" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bye for now,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Michele&lt;br /&gt;x&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-6129776825257744816?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/6129776825257744816/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=6129776825257744816' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/6129776825257744816'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/6129776825257744816'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2008/08/sunny-christmas.html' title='Sunny Christmas'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SJNZb1oz_GI/AAAAAAAAALs/SkZ26ecr5Qs/s72-c/Christmas+tree.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-535517222019315875</id><published>2008-06-29T14:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-12T22:40:19.995-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Meow...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SGf9AWg5I8I/AAAAAAAAAKM/EOQXvhj5-gk/s1600-h/Meow.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SGf9AWg5I8I/AAAAAAAAAKM/EOQXvhj5-gk/s320/Meow.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217416875817378754" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-535517222019315875?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/535517222019315875/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=535517222019315875' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/535517222019315875'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/535517222019315875'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2008/06/meow.html' title='Meow...'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SGf9AWg5I8I/AAAAAAAAAKM/EOQXvhj5-gk/s72-c/Meow.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-4708298566747930404</id><published>2008-06-27T13:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-12T22:40:21.031-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Crafty Cats...</title><content type='html'>Here's the new cards to add to my cat-a-logue! There's more in the making, so just a short 'paws' before I add them...&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SGVQ7oqrJoI/AAAAAAAAAJc/8nWeL47xrUs/s1600-h/cat+night+on+the+tiles.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SGVQ7oqrJoI/AAAAAAAAAJc/8nWeL47xrUs/s320/cat+night+on+the+tiles.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216664728837498498" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SGVQOtRXR-I/AAAAAAAAAJU/qEd6PfJIIiI/s1600-h/cat+oriental.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SGVQOtRXR-I/AAAAAAAAAJU/qEd6PfJIIiI/s320/cat+oriental.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216663956979402722" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SGVOgjdVt3I/AAAAAAAAAJM/dq17wAyoRPk/s1600-h/cat+glamour.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SGVOgjdVt3I/AAAAAAAAAJM/dq17wAyoRPk/s320/cat+glamour.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216662064559667058" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-4708298566747930404?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/4708298566747930404/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=4708298566747930404' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/4708298566747930404'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/4708298566747930404'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2008/06/crafty-cats.html' title='Crafty Cats...'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SGVQ7oqrJoI/AAAAAAAAAJc/8nWeL47xrUs/s72-c/cat+night+on+the+tiles.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-1338042007544729084</id><published>2008-06-24T16:15:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-12T22:40:21.571-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Cool Cats!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SGGKMDIi1gI/AAAAAAAAAJE/5gNLGZhJEqI/s1600-h/cat+halloween.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SGGKMDIi1gI/AAAAAAAAAJE/5gNLGZhJEqI/s320/cat+halloween.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5215601783075952130" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Hello Everyone,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm back posting again after the breakdown of my computer due to hard disk failure. I didn't have it for weeks and missed it soooo much! It's just wonderful to have it back and now I can add some cards I made using these cool cats by Judi-Kins. The stamps are available from &lt;a href="http://www.stampaddicts.co.uk"&gt;'Stamp Addicts'&lt;/a&gt;. I think they're great as you can use them for loads of different occasions...just add a hat!. He looks to me like he's got attitude and she is rather coy. I am guessing they're male and female anyway! Here are a some cards I've made, more to follow soon!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.stampaddictsshop.co.uk/shop/shop_categories.asp?categoryid=10161&amp;page=2"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Purring&lt;/strong&gt; - 3395E (Female cat)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.stampaddictsshop.co.uk/shop/shop_categories.asp?categoryid=10161&amp;page=4"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cat Walk&lt;/strong&gt; - 3394G (Male cat)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SGGAjuVK0wI/AAAAAAAAAIU/idFmMlY6_Xg/s1600-h/cat+wedding.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SGGAjuVK0wI/AAAAAAAAAIU/idFmMlY6_Xg/s320/cat+wedding.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5215591194692342530" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SGGAXrtRQaI/AAAAAAAAAIM/HAl-pzxRWt4/s1600-h/final+cat+paris.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SGGAXrtRQaI/AAAAAAAAAIM/HAl-pzxRWt4/s320/final+cat+paris.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5215590987829690786" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt; Bye for now,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Michele&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-1338042007544729084?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/1338042007544729084/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=1338042007544729084' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/1338042007544729084'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/1338042007544729084'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2008/06/cool-cats.html' title='Cool Cats!'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SGGKMDIi1gI/AAAAAAAAAJE/5gNLGZhJEqI/s72-c/cat+halloween.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-8047352529098575786</id><published>2008-05-05T17:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-12T22:40:21.704-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Bloomin' Great Day!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SCB5e7IiQbI/AAAAAAAAAHE/PLv2HYzpUV4/s1600-h/Michelle.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SCB5e7IiQbI/AAAAAAAAAHE/PLv2HYzpUV4/s320/Michelle.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197287542162080178" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'In the garden' is the theme this week for the 'Cute Card Thursday' challenge. So I thought, 'that's great I can use my new 'Tilda' Stamp with her holding a watering can'. So here she is, hope you like her.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-8047352529098575786?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/8047352529098575786/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=8047352529098575786' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/8047352529098575786'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/8047352529098575786'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2008/05/bloomin-great-day.html' title='Bloomin&apos; Great Day!'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/SCB5e7IiQbI/AAAAAAAAAHE/PLv2HYzpUV4/s72-c/Michelle.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-2159043975144198839</id><published>2008-05-05T10:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-05T17:59:56.950-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Yo,Ho,Ho!</title><content type='html'>Hi Eveyone, I'm back posting after finishing making cards for 'Stamp Addicts' next television show 'Pirates &amp; Princesses' which will be shown on 'Create &amp; Craft' on the 17th of May. As you can see I was asked to make pirate cards. The stamps were great and there are lots of ways to use them. Here are a few that I made, I will add some more soon. Thought I would include some cards onto the &lt;a href="http://thankgoditsfriday.wordpress.com/"&gt;TGIF&lt;/a&gt; Challenge after I found out that the theme was 'Pirates' from &lt;a href="http://geewizz.wordpress.com/"&gt;Kaz&lt;/a&gt; who has made some lovely cards. Oh dear, another really late night crafting!&lt;br /&gt;Bye for now,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Michele&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All stamps by &lt;em&gt;'Printworks'.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width:480px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" src="http://w304.photobucket.com/pbwidget.swf?pbwurl=http://w304.photobucket.com/albums/nn195/thecraftcupboard/pirates/bd79072a.pbw" height="360" width="480"&gt;&lt;a href="http://i304.photobucket.com/redirect/album?action=slideshow&amp;landing=/slideshows&amp;type=3" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://pic.photobucket.com/slideshows/btn.gif" style="float:left;border-width: 0;" &gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://s304.photobucket.com/albums/nn195/thecraftcupboard/pirates/?action=view&amp;current=bd79072a.pbw" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://pic.photobucket.com/slideshows/btn_viewallimages.gif" style="float:left;border-width: 0;" &gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-2159043975144198839?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/2159043975144198839/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=2159043975144198839' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/2159043975144198839'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/2159043975144198839'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2008/05/blog-post_05.html' title='Yo,Ho,Ho!'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-5396169400377100025</id><published>2008-04-08T12:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-12T22:40:21.884-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Two Little Ducks...</title><content type='html'>I love these cute little ducks, so when I realised I could use them for the &lt;a href="http://cutecardthursday.blogspot.com/"&gt;'Cute Card Thursday' Challenge&lt;/a&gt;, which stated that, 'any form of transport was OK' I was delighted!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stamp by 'Great Impressions' No. F294&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/R_vHOthIGXI/AAAAAAAAAG8/bCYkZHntmBQ/s1600-h/ducks4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5186958451397892466" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/R_vHOthIGXI/AAAAAAAAAG8/bCYkZHntmBQ/s320/ducks4.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-5396169400377100025?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/5396169400377100025/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=5396169400377100025' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/5396169400377100025'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/5396169400377100025'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2008/04/two-little-ducks.html' title='Two Little Ducks...'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/R_vHOthIGXI/AAAAAAAAAG8/bCYkZHntmBQ/s72-c/ducks4.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-1731665708671506040</id><published>2008-04-06T14:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-12T22:40:22.064-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Get Well Soon...</title><content type='html'>Hi Everyone,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This time I thought I'd give the &lt;a href="http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/"&gt;Papertake Weekly Challenge&lt;/a&gt; a go! I'm due to receive my next assignment from 'Stamp Addicts' this week, so my time will be spent concentrating on that till the end of April. I'm really looking forward to seeing what stamps I'm going to receive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;'Get Well Soon'&lt;/em&gt; Stamp is one of a set by &lt;em&gt;Printworks, Clearly Defined Q004 Caring Thoughts - &lt;/em&gt;available from 'Stamp Addicts'.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Buzz in the Air!&lt;/em&gt; Stamp - &lt;em&gt;Penny Black&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bye for now,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Michele&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/R_lFN9hIGVI/AAAAAAAAAGs/0cwFXIMwBCw/s1600-h/Papertake+challenge.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5186252552047958354" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/R_lFN9hIGVI/AAAAAAAAAGs/0cwFXIMwBCw/s320/Papertake+challenge.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-1731665708671506040?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/1731665708671506040/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=1731665708671506040' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/1731665708671506040'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/1731665708671506040'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2008/04/get-well-soon.html' title='Get Well Soon...'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/R_lFN9hIGVI/AAAAAAAAAGs/0cwFXIMwBCw/s72-c/Papertake+challenge.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-6253678062684942279</id><published>2008-03-31T11:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-12T22:40:22.675-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Wonderful Chocolate!</title><content type='html'>Just discovered the 'Arty Girlz' Chocolate Card Challenge and thought I would it would be fun to add a card. Stamp - &lt;em&gt;'lets Celebrate' by Penny Black&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is my entry...&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/R_EwpthIGUI/AAAAAAAAAGk/EUmHxGeJ0Xc/s1600-h/chocolate+challenge+Artsy+Girls.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5183978139231459650" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/R_EwpthIGUI/AAAAAAAAAGk/EUmHxGeJ0Xc/s320/chocolate+challenge+Artsy+Girls.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-6253678062684942279?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/6253678062684942279/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=6253678062684942279' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/6253678062684942279'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/6253678062684942279'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2008/03/wonderful-chocolate.html' title='Wonderful Chocolate!'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/R_EwpthIGUI/AAAAAAAAAGk/EUmHxGeJ0Xc/s72-c/chocolate+challenge+Artsy+Girls.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-8003966030068543528</id><published>2008-03-30T10:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-12T22:40:22.911-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Three little birds on my doorstep...</title><content type='html'>This was the card I made for all my family this Easter, I made nine of them in total! I stamped the chick three times, masking the centre one before stamping the other two. Stamps by &lt;em&gt;'Dovecraft Designer Clear Stamps'. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I used &lt;em&gt;Judi Kins - 'Diamond Glaze'&lt;/em&gt; to give shine and dimension to the eggs. &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/R-_NYthIGTI/AAAAAAAAAGc/PpbmfzDM9nA/s1600-h/chicks.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5183587520545823026" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/R-_NYthIGTI/AAAAAAAAAGc/PpbmfzDM9nA/s320/chicks.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6241522434182729737-8003966030068543528?l=thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/feeds/8003966030068543528/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6241522434182729737&amp;postID=8003966030068543528' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/8003966030068543528'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6241522434182729737/posts/default/8003966030068543528'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecraftcupboard.blogspot.com/2008/03/three-little-birds-on-my-doorstep.html' title='Three little birds on my doorstep...'/><author><name>Michele</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01247037674988602415</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHelD8CZENY/R-_NYthIGTI/AAAAAAAAAGc/PpbmfzDM9nA/s72-c/chicks.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241522434182729737.post-3357397623884706305</id><published>2008-03-27T13:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-12T22:40:23.285-08:00</updated><title type='text'>'Away with the fairies'</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Hi, Here are some fairy cards I made. On the first card I used one of the fairies from a '&lt;em&gt;Lily of the valley'&lt;/em&gt; printed/&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;pre&lt;/span&gt;-cut sheet. The second two were created using a fairy stamp that I bought at 'Ally Pally'. 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