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Hello Crafters! Crafting is my escape into my own little world full of ideas. Some of my best creations are produced in the early hours of the morning out of my craft cupboard …. hence ‘Open all hours’. Plus, as I have three lovely small children, often, evenings, weekends and late at night is the time when I can concentrate on making cards.

Sunday, 8 March 2009

Colour Create Sunday Challenge - green, orange and yellow...



Hello everyone,

Here's my entry for this week's Colour Create Challenge, green, yellow and orange.
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.

Image coloured with Promarkers and Copics.
Sugar Nellie stamp - Reflective

Michele
x

Saturday, 7 March 2009

Penny Black Challenge - Recipe 3,2,1


Hi everyone,

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.

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 Penny Black Challenge... Have a great weekend, and thanks for looking, from a very happy blogger, Michele x

Sunday, 1 March 2009

Colour Create Sunday Challenge...



Hi everyone,

Hope you're all enjoying your Sunday. I love this colour combination, brown and blue. Here's my entry for this week's lovely Colour Create Challenge
I've coloured the Magnolia image with my marker pens, I'm addicted to using them at the moment!

Michele
x

Saturday, 28 February 2009

Penny Black Challenge - Something to eat...


Hi everyone,

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 Penny Black Saturday challenge, coloured with my Promarkers and Copic Markers. Have a great weekend.

Michele
x

Monday, 23 February 2009

Papertake weekly challenge - Dawny's sketch #9


Hi everyone,

Hope you all had a great weekend. Lovely sketch from Dawny for the Papertake weekly challenge. 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.



Hope you like it,

Michele
x

Sunday, 8 February 2009

Penny Black saturday challenge No. 35



Hello everyone,

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 Penny Black saturday challenge. 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!

Michele
x

Monday, 2 February 2009

Hearts & Flowers - Papertake


Hi everyone,

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!

Anyway here's my card for the Papertake weekly challenge. 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...


Bye for now,

Michele x