Did you know.....

that Gayle who draws my favourite bears Bo and Bea also produces other images under the name of FairyD, which are available in the FairyD section of the Teddy Bo store.

I thought I would share with you a couple of cards I made using two of her FairyD images.

Image : FAIRYD_SANTA

Coloured in Photoshop

Papers - Nitwits and sentiment - Still Joyful Hearts

snowflake - Marianne snowflake die

Blue Crystal sticker - Poundland

I am entering this card into the following challenges

Ladybug Crafts Ink TLT Challenge -  #44 Non Traditional &/Or Distressed Christmas

Meljens Designs - Christmas

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In my imagination I have just opened up the box and unwrapped this bauble to put on my tree only to find this cute little elf snuggled up and fast asleep inside it!

Image - FAIRYD_Christmas bulb lineart

Coloured in Photoshop

Kraft card - digital download from Pink Petticoat

Papers - Nitwits - Comfort and Joy

Holly leaves - CREAlies CL CS04 die

Ribbon, metallic cord and gems - MeiFlower 

I am entering this card into the following challenges

Crafty Sentiments  -  More Than One Fold  (Twist, no easel cards)

Digital Tuesday - include a digital element - #135 Cute & Cuddly

Paper Take Weekly - Anything Goes (+ a bit of bling if you like)

Try It On Tuesday - Unusual Shaped Cards

Make it Monday - always Anything Goes

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Pop over to the Teddy Bo and Co store, and on the left hand side underneath the bits and bobs store you will find the FairyD store.

It's also Wordy Wednesday over at Teddy Bo, if you are looking for some inspirational quotes then check out what Edna has come up with this week.

And talking of Teddy Bo, if you want to enter this weeks Teddy Bo Tombola, scroll down to the previous post, add a comment pick a number and you could be one of next weeks two lucky winners. 

Teddy Bo Tuesday, Turkey and Tombola!

Another Tuesday and another day closer to Christmas, yes only 54 days to go, are you organised, have you started your Christmas cards yet or nearly finished them? Of course, we have Bonfire night coming up in a couple of days and our American friends have Thanksgiving to celebrate first with only a few more weeks to wait for that.

The challenge over on the Teddy Bo Blog this week is

Pastels

I just fell in love with this cute little fella, (and not a bear in sight), he's one of this weeks new releases and I just couldn't resist him, so here he is, maybe a bit brighter than pastel, but close enough I hope!

Image - TEDDYBOBEA_082_turkey

Coloured in Photoshop

Papers - Yummy 4 - Clipart Fairy

Seam binding - Ribbon Girl

Peach string - MeiFlower

Too cute to cook circle and Eat Ham! sign made by me.

This weeks new releases

and there is a fabulous 25% off the digital store all week to celebrate the boss lady's birthday.

Pop over here to get the code.

Now onto the first winners in my 

Teddy Bo Tombola,

the two lucky peeps are...

Vicki and Roma please contact me with your details, you'll find my email address in my profile.

Don't forget to leave a comment on this post, and add one of the remaining numbers and you could be a lucky winner next week.

Here's all the prizes wrapped, before they were numbered.

We still have fourteen left, so leave a comment on this post and add a number from the list below, two new winners will be randomly selected next week.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 

Check out the prizes here

Pop over to the Teddy Bo Challenge blog and check out the fabulous inspiration from my teamies, you'll even get to see some bears LOL!

I'm entering my card into the following challenges.

Paper Pretties - Use a Sentiment
Aud Sentiments Challenge -  Make Us Laugh

Crazy!!!

Now when I say Crazy, I'm not actually talking about myself, although there are a few people out there who would probably disagree LOL! 
Crazy is the name of a collection of printables, shapers and papers from the Clipart Fairy. I love the bright vivid colours and as well as using one of the printable kits I also wanted to do something with the papers, so today I have made two cards.

My first card is made using the Crazy Super Oval Frames Kit with bunting from the square frame kit.

I die cut some buttons from a Marianne Creatables die, covered them in glossy accents and left them to dry while I cut out and decoupaged my two oval sections. I joined the ovals together with a small piece of double sided tape at the top and a concertina of card at the bottom to hold the two sections apart.

I had to trim a small straight section across the bottom of the two ovals so that my card would stand, it's only a little amount and isn't too noticeable.

I lined up the buttons at the top, punched holes through all layers then attached the buttons to the card using different colours of wax string from MeiFlower, I added the 'happy' bunting and a computer generated birthday panel.

I reduced the size of one of the ovals in my graphics programme and added some wording to make a message panel for the back of the card.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges

Poodles Parlour- let's hear if for the boys theme

Moving Along With The Times - No Girls Allowed

Whimsy Inspiration - buttons

Digital Tuesday - include a digital element - #134 Buttons & Twine

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My second card uses the Shaper set and papers from the Crazy papers set, this set contains 23 12x12 jpeg papers for only £1.50, which I think is great value.

I printed one of the shaper sections over to the right hand side of my card, then scored down the left hand side of the shaper so that some of the edge touched the score line. I folded the card and used pegs to hold the two layers together while I cut through both layers at once.

I reduced the size of the shaper in my graphics programme and added my wording for the sentiment panel, this is attached to the card with foam pads. 

After printing various paper designs onto a sheet of paper I used MFT Die-namics dies (rolled flowers - Gardenia, Daisy and  Mum)  and Fancy Flourish and used them to decorate around the sentiment panel. There is also a bit of glamour dust sprinkled here and there and pearls from MeiFlower in the flower centres!

I would like to enter this card into these challenges


Aud Sentiments Challenge -  Make Us Laugh (sentiment)
Paper Crafting Journey - Use a Digi (everything except for pearl and glitter LOL!)
Paper Shelter Challenge - #37 Anything goes
Make it Monday - always Anything Goes

Polkadoodle Stash Box Stamp Week

At Polkadoodles this week the challenge theme set by Claire is

Mystical and Magical

So we want to see your cards or projects containing an element of magic...fairies/wizard/
dragon/unicorn.

It is also stashbox stamp week, where the design team get to raid their stamp supplies and team them up with Polkadoodle products.

This week I would like to say a big Thank You to my fellow teamie Ruth for the gorgeous Charmed Delectable Holly Pixie stamped image (no longer available). I have coloured her in with Promarkers (unfortunately I don't have a large supply and didn't have a shade of green suitable for holly, so please forgive her un-holly like colour). I added glitter to her furry and frilly bits and the berries on her headband. The papers are from A Sundae of Seasons, and I've added some faux stitching around the edges. The die is Nellie Snellen Multiframe Dots Circle covered in red and green gems from MeiFlower, the red and green satin ribbons are also available at MeiFlower.


Don't forget to head over to the Polkadoodles challenge blog and check out the rest of the fabulous design team inspiration. You have until Sunday 6th November Noon GMT to show us your fantastical creations. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with.


I am entering my card into the following challenges


Charisma Cardz - Anything Goes
Crimbo Crackers - must be Christmas - Anything Goes
Digi Doodle Shop's Best - Anything Goes
Meljens Designs - Christmas
Scrapbook Sisters - #58 Anything Goes
Crafts 4 Eternity Recipe Challenge -  magical mystical theme

Teddy Bo Tuesday and Tombola!

We are still doing Clean and Simple over at Teddy Bo, so you have until Sunday 30th October midnight GMT to get your entries in, we already have some fabulous CAS entries, you can check them out in the sidebar of the Teddy Bo Challenge blog if you need some inspiration.

I have used one of this week's new releases for today's card. It comes in two version, one with Santa and one without, I have used the other version on a card that will be posted over on the Fairy Tale Friday post this week.

Image used - TeddyBoBea_081, coloured in Photoshop

MS border punch - Layered Arches

Ribbon - MeiFlower

Font - Bingo Stars - DaFont.com

Check out the fabulous new releases in store this week!



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Teddy Bo Tombola

Starting from today and for the next eight weeks I will be holding a Teddy Bo Tombola on my blog.
I have 16 packages, wrapped and then randomly numbered by my grandson Will between 1 and 16, each package contains two items. In each one there will be a Christmas tree ornament, 9 of them will also have a Teddy Bo Key fob, 2 will have a pack of Teddy Bo playing cards, 3 will have a Teddy Bo watch, 1 will have a bookmark and 1 an umbrella.

To enter the tombola just leave a comment on this post along with a number between 1 and 16.
On Monday 31st October around 3pm GMT two names will be drawn and they will receive the parcel that corresponds with their number. If they both have the same number - the first one drawn will win that prize and the second one will be asked to pick another number. Each Tuesday I will list the winners and remaining numbers and we will start again.

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Pop over to the Teddy Bo Challenge blog to see the rest of my teamies wonderful CAS inspiration.

I am entering my CAS card into the following challenges

Forever Friends - must include animal - Anything Goes (+DT Call)

Make it Monday - always Anything Goes

Little Claire's   - #14 Christmas

Crafty Ann's - clean and simple

Clipart Fairy October Workshop

I told you yesterday that I was off to the Clipart Fairy's workshop, well here are the seven cards we made yesterday, I must warn you though, there are lots of photos.

The kits to make all these cards will be available as printables here and interactive here.

Large square card with removable tag inside and embossed panel on front.

 Large square card, with window. 

 Concertina panel at bottom between window layer and panel, holds the window away from the back slightly.

 Happy Man with bunting, message continues onto card insert.

 Happy man Over the Top card, the class sample had the topper straight, but the girls

on my table preferred it at a jaunty angle.

 Cute Get Well card

 Another with a concertina panel to slightly separate the top layers.

 Shaper Easel card using Nature's Guide Collection

 Side view

 Nature's guide Post It card, the tag slides into a specially marked slot on the front.

All pearls, gems and ribbons from MeiFlower, flowers, pin and ribbon slider are from Wild Orchid Crafts.

Another busy but very enjoyable day. Looking forward to the December workshop.

Art Deco Christmas

It's a busy day for me today, off to a Clipart Fairy Workshop, (unless my daughter has gone into labour, no signs yet though), we usually make at least six cards in the six hours we are there, which hopefully I will be able to show you tomorrow.

Today I have a card made using Over The Top - Lady in Red from the Printable store. It comes as a birthday card, but there is an editable sheet so that you can add your own wording, so I decided to make a Christmas card. The kit costs £1.00 and for that you get 5 12x12 jpeg background papers, the topper both with and without wording in jpeg and pdf versions and the decoupage layers again in both file formats.

I used some of the background papers to make my arched card, which is slightly narrower than the topper, so that when the topper is attached it bows out slightly from the front of the card, (couldn't get a decent picture of this). I used Eccentric Font, to add my greeting to the editable topper, The large snowflake is from the Spellbinders Shapeabilities - Ironwork Motifs set, with one of the dies from Create-a-Flake 3 in the centre, the smaller snowflake is also made from this set. I sprayed the snowflakes with spray adhesive and them glittered them using glamour dust and silver glitter, I also used a little red and black glitter, so it's very sparkly. The black and clear crystals are from MeiFlower and the feathers came from an old hair clip of my daughters.

I was hoping this would show the topper standing proud of the front, but you can't really tell, you can see a bit of inside though which is decorated to match.

A close up of the Ironworks Motif, all glittered up.

If you like Art Deco cards, then there is a fab selection here in the printable store, why not pop over and have a look!

I should be back tomorrow with the workshop cards, unless my daughter goes into labour LOL! you'll be sick of hearing that soon!

I am going to enter this card into the following challenges

Inspire Me Fridays - always anything goes

Paper Play  – Use Black

Shelly's Images -  Anything Goes

Paper Pretties -  Black, white, and one other colour

Tuesday Throwdown -#71 Shaped Card

KB Cute Monday - Anything Goes

Make it Monday - always Anything Goes