All about the Boys xx

Well afternoon all

I'm back today with my Crafty Cardmakers Design Team Creation, can't believe its already been two week since the last one!!

The lovely Sally has picked our them this week

FOR THE BOYS

Thats it!

Sally wants you all to make a male themed creation! This could be for a big boy, teenage boy, little boy or even a baby boy! As long as it male themed and follows our rules at CCM you could win a prize!

We have 2 fab prizes up for grabs so two lucky winners! You could win a voucher for the fab One Stop Card Crafts store or maybes a voucher for Digi Doodle images!!

Here's my wee card

This is the wee card I made for my Big Brother's Birthday!

Ingredients:

First Edition Papers

Twine

Hand cut letters

Martha Stewart Border Punch

Gems and Pearls

Glitter

I would like to enter this into the following Challenges

The Crafty Place Blog - One for the Boys

Stamp, Scrap & Doodle - Birthday

Sparkles Monthly Challenge - Men Only

I hope you will join us this fortnight and get your male themed creations made!

Remember to follow our rules to enter the challenge at Crafty Cardmakers Challenge

I'll be back soon

Hugs Melly xxx

Special Lady xxx

Afternoon my lovelies

Hope all is well out there in your part of blogland and its not too cold either!

Its bitter cold here in my bit of Scotland but at least we haven't had the snow they forecast said, well for now lol! Its been busy for me the past couple of days catching up with orders and sorting through others, but I'm almost back on top and can relax again heee!

Its time for another wee Dream Valley Challenge and we have a nice easy one for you all

FOR A SPECIAL LADY

Totally easy!

You just have to create a card or maybe a gift for a Special Female! With Mother's day around the corner its the perfect time to make a wee card or even if you had a birthday coming up for that No.1 Lady in your life! Just please follow the rules and you could win a utterly amazing prize!!

My name is Krista Smith. I am the artist behind the Etsy shop, Saturated Canary Digis. I began working in the stamping world about a year ago when I was hired to create rubber designs for the sweet Scottish company, Sugar Nellie. They launched my artwork under the name 'Simply Sassy.' I moved into the digital world. And-- I love it!! There is a little more freedom here, as I can create anything that pops into my head! I am so humbled by the artistic talent of the girls coloring in my designs-- it is truly an inspiration! Likewise, I am so thankful for the friendships I've made in this wonderful and lovely crafty community! It's been a true delight! I'd love for you to stop by my challenge/inspiration blog, Saturated Canary Challenge and join in the fun...And, while you're there, click over to my personal blog (Saturated Canary) and introduce yourself! I am a bit eclectic and touch on everything from family (I've got me a great one!) to fashion (obsessed!)...Please say 'hi!'...I'd love to be friends!:)

The lucky winner gets a $10 voucher

Wowsers or what??

I just envy who the lucky winner will be lol!

The team were so lucky too, we all received a wee image too use on our own creations

Here's mine using Wash Day, a wee gift for a Special lady's Birthday lol

 Thanks to Debs for the clouds tutorial

(your a star petal)

I would like to enter the following Challenges

Simon Says - Anything Goes

My Mum's Craft Shop - Great Outdoors

Stamp, Scrap & Doodle - Birthday

MAWTT - Garden or flowers

Saturated Canary - Birthday

Please check the Dream Valley blog to see the Design Teams totally super creations!

So much inspiration!

Check you all later

Hugs Melly xxx

Home time xxx

Morning all

So so so sorry for my lack of posts the past week, I have been really under the weather with a bug and other things! But almost all back to my bouncy self lol!!

So its time for another wee Challenge at Sarah Hurley Challenge and this time the lovely Jaine picked our theme

"TAKE ME HOME"

Easy peasy!!

All we want is to see your creations with a "Home" theme like a New Home card or even something with a Princess Castle or perhaps just the word HOME! As long as its to do with houses and hone you can enter!

Here's what I've made

(the first pick doesn't show the papers in all their glory)

I used the amazing new Craft Basics range that Sarah just released!

I love them lol!!

I would like to enter the following Challenges

Rainbow lady - On the street where you live

My Mum's Craft Shop - Great Outdoors

Always Crafting - Yellow and sunshine

Love to create - Anything Goes

One Stitch at a Time - Anything Goes

Robyn's Fetish - Pastel Colours

I hope you will all join us this fortnight at Sarah Hurley and get making a "home" project!

For some amazing inspiration check out the Design Teams totally fab creations

See you later

Melly xxx

So exciting xxx

Good morning alll

So so sorry but this post is slightly late and thats because the dog decided we were staying out for our walk!! She sat down and just wouldn't move! Think she knew I was heading out early lol!!

Anyways I have super exciting news

The lovely Vix held a wee comp on Facebook to get someone as a GDT on the uber amazing Crafts and Me!! And I couldn't believe when wee me was picked! Can you believe wee me, yip lil me was picked!!

So after so much squealing and jumping about lime a mad-man the reality hit me?????!!!!! 

The team on there is sooooooooooooooo talented! Ekkkkkk what would I be doing on there??

after Vix sent my images I just started a lot at them, lol knowing whatever I made wouldn't match up to the Crafts and Me girls! But eventually I got it together and made something for the wee theme of 

VINTAGE

and if you win the wee challenge you can win 3 amazing digi images

here's my card

Ingredients:

Papers - Bo Bunny

Image - Birth of Twilight

coloured with promarkers

nesties

Marianne dies

glitter

everything else from stash

I would like to enter the following Challenges

My Time to Craft -  Fairy

A Gem of a Challenge - Sketch

Crafty Sentiments - use a digi

Digital Tuesday - Distressing

So what do you think??

Does it look alright? I know its not as good as the fab team at Crafts and Me but I did enjoy joining in with them! And I hope you will join us as well!!

Back soon

Hugs Melly xxx

Its Fantasy time xx

Evening all

Sorry my wee post late but I have had a terrible day!!

Lets just say I'll be glad when its over and I can hide under my cover lol!

Now enough of my moans, its time for another challenge at Crafty Cardmakers and it was the lovely Lin's turn to pick our fab wee theme

FANTASY

That's it!

We want you to dig out those fairy's, dragons and witches and create from that fantasy land!

Ingredients:

Papers - Madeline Prima

Stamp - Butterfly Keeper

coloured with promarkers

WOC - flowers

Dew Drops

glitter and gloss

I would like to enter this into the following Challenges

Ohh la la - Bold and Bright

Paper Creations Ink - April Showers Brings May Flowers

Simon Says Stamp and Show - Anything Goes

One Stitch at a Time - Bright

Stamptacular Sunday - Anything Goes

Fussy'n'Fancy - Sketch

Remember you have 2 weeks to enter the Challenges at Crafty Cardmakers but please do not enter any more than 15 challenges to be eligible for our fab prizes! And please check out the Design Teams amazing creations for some fab inspiration!

Take care everyone 

and fingers crossed for a good week!

Hugs Melly xx

Back to nature xxx

Hi all

So so so Sorry but this wee post is a day late due to my Internet going up and down all last night! Plus I have no idea how to do it form my phone lol!!

Anyways this fortnight at Dream Valley Challenges we have another fab wee challenge for you all

EARTH TONES

That's it peeps!

All you gotta do is use naturally earthy colours on your project to enter the wee Challenge! You can make anything you like for the challenge, not just cards anything goes as long as it follows the theme! Now remember to follow our rules and you can win our prize!

Oh and what a prize it is!!!

One lucky winner will win an amazing £20 voucher for the fab Bead Crafty store!

Here's what I made this time

Ingredients:

12x12 - Tim Holtz Kraft Card

Brown paper - Kaiser Craft

Green paper - K&Company

circles - Spellbinder dies

Everything else from stash

I would like to enter this into the following Challenges

Ditzy Craftymess - Anything but a Card

Pixie Dust Studio - Ribbons

Paper Sundaes - Anything Goes

One Stop Craft - 3 Circles = paper and 2 in gems

Check out the Design Teams creations for some uber amazing inspiration! Plus remember you have 2 weeks to enter our Challenges at Dream Valley

I'll be back later

Hugs Melly xxx

More Bloggy Hop xxx

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Happy Sunday everyone
and welcome to Day 2 of Sarah Hurley's Blog Hop

As I said yesterday, its an special wee time for us over at Sarah Hurley Challenges because Sarah has an uber fabulous New CD Release coming tomorrow!
And for all our lovely followers we're having a fun wee Blog Hop with some AMAZING prizes for 3 lucky winners!

Again if you just arrived from Jaine's blog then your on the right track but if  you've only just arrived at the hop, you have to pop back to Jaine! The Design Team have a lil letter that you have to collect and make up a word to be eligible for the prizes!

Leave a comment here then take note of the letter on each blog, work out the word and leave the word in the comments section on Sarah's own blog once you come to the end of the hop!

Here's the prizes again:

1st - a download of the new CD, their choice of either a set of 24 Derwent Watercolour pencils or a set of 12 Pastel Promarkers and a 15% discount from my shop

2nd - a download of the new CD, a set of 5 'Summer' promarkers and a 10% discount from my shop

3rd - a download of the new CD and a 10% discount from my shop

If your word is correct you could be one of the lucky winners from one of our fabulous sponsors.

The blog hop will last until midnight on Sunday night. Along the way you’ll be able to capture sneak peeks of the New CD as well as gather some fabulous inspiration from the team.

Here's the Blog Hop list just in case you got lost along the way

Jaine

Melly - wee me and where you are

Clare

Elaine

Natalie-Jane

Emma

Claireliz

Lisa

Jess

Sarah - your last stop

So here's my 2nd creation

I would like to enter the following Challenges
Craft us Crazy - Flowers
Cute Card Thursday - Spring Flowers
Cooking it up with Katie - Fold me a fun Flower
Crafty Creations - Flower Power
2 Sisters - Flowers
Card Making Mamas - Getting Girlie
Sassy Cheryl - Anything Goes
Top Tip Tuesday - Spotty dotty
Use it Tuesday - Anything Goes

So my wee letter is .............. R

The winners will be posted on Tuesday! But until then you can always check out the CD when it gets released on Monday in Sarah's Shop!

Thanks to all the lovely people who popped by and commented on my blog, so nice to have some new wee visitors!

I'll be back later with my Dream Valley post, so pop over to Clares blog now to continue the hop and see what gorjuss creation she has come up with!

 Good luck and happy hopping.

Hugs Melly xxx

Blog Hop time xx

Good morning my lovely peoples

Now its a special wee time here and over at Sarah Hurley Challenges

The lovely Sarah has an uber fabulous New CD Release and as a special treat to all our lovely followers we're having a fun wee Blog Hop with some yummy prizes for 3 lucky winners!

Firstly if you arrived from Jaine's blog then your on the right track but if  you've just arrived at the hop, you have to pop back to Jaine! Now all the blogs of the Design Team have a lil letter that you have to collect!

Leave a comment here then take note of the letter on each blog, work out the word and leave the word in the comments section on Sarah's own blog! You have to collect the word to win one of the prizes

Here are the prizes:

1st - a download of the new CD, their choice of either a set of 24 Derwent Watercolour pencils or a set of 12 Pastel Promarkers and a 15% discount from my shop

2nd - a download of the new CD, a set of 5 'Summer' promarkers and a 10% discount from my shop

3rd - a download of the new CD and a 10% discount from my shop

If your word is correct you could be one of the lucky winners from one of our fabulous sponsors.

The blog hop will last until midnight on Sunday night. Along the way you’ll be able to capture sneak peeks of the New CD as well as gather some fabulous inspiration from the team.

Here's the Blog Hop list just in case you got lost along the way

Jaine

Melly - wee me and where you are

Clare

Elaine

Natalie-Jane

Emma

Claireliz

Lisa

Jess

Sarah - your last stop

Here's what I have made with the New CD

a wee maze book!

I would like to enter this into the following Challenges

Gingerloft - Anything Goes

One Stitch at a Time - Use a digi (everything is)
Anything Goes - Anything Goes
The Stamping Boutique - Distress
UnstampBelles - Use Country's Flag Colours
Prairie Fairy - Anything Goes
Wags'n'Whiskers - Anything Goes
Crafty Purple Frog - Distress
Delightful Challenges - Stitching
Southern Girls - Fancy Folds

My letter for you is ……  R

Here's a wee sneak of what you can find on the CD

Well thats me till tomorrow, pop over to Clares blog now to continue the hop and see what gorjuss creation she has come up with!

 Good luck and happy hopping.

Hugs Melly xxx

Gone full Circle xxx

Evening all

I hope you all are having a nice week and enjoying the last of the Easter Holidays?

We've been busy here in my wee house, hubby non-stop with work and me working on some last min Wedding Stationary! But we did fit in a lil shopping today and hubby got me some new clothes, lovely my hubby is to me!

Before I go on to the new Challenge at Sarah Hurley Challenges we have a surprise for you all starting tomorrow

so exciting!! I can't wait to sure with you all my new creations and see one of you lucky followers win some amazing and I mean AMAZING prizes lol!

now on to this weeks Challenge, the lovely Jess picked our theme

CIRCULAR

So we want to see all your round creation, no corners allowed!

Here's what I made

Ingredients:

Easter Tea Party kit

thats it!!

I would like to enter the following challenges

Bunny Zoe - Twine/Ribbon

Always Crafting - Anything But a Card

Cupcake Craft - Spring

Lollipop Crafts - Anything Easter

Aud Sentiments - Spring/Summer Colours

Paper Crafting Journey - 3 or more Patterned Papers

Fab'n'Funky Challenges - "on all 4s"

Scrapbook Sisters - Anything Goes

Now remember you have till next Sunday to enter at Sarah Hurley Challenges and can make anything as long as its round! No square or rectangles lol

Check out our talented Design team for some inspiration!

Hugs Melly xx

POP BACK TOMORROW FOR THE HOP xx

A little Spring Fairy xxx

Happy Tuesday everyone

Well its snowing here again in Scotland and sooooooo brrrrrr cold! Hopefully where you are there is sunshine and warmth and plenty chocolate left for you all to nibble!

I hope you all had a lovely Easter weekend and still enjoying some holiday time with family! Sadly both my hubby is back at work and my brother is away home boohoo! But it does mean I can watch what I want on the TV, a wee Twilight marathon as I type lol!

Today I wanted to share a lil card I made last week but just getting the chance to show you all! Also today was the perfect day as it'll brighten up the dull day

Ingredients:

Image - Moon Glow Digi

coloured with promarkers

Papers - Prima Sweet Fairy

Ribbon - Dovecraft

Flowers - Wild Orchid

glitter and pearls from stash

I would like to enter this into the following Challenges

I {Heart} Promarkers - Spring

Totally Papercrafts - Bingo - Pink, Glitter and Pearls

Little Miss Muffet - Spring Colours

Cupcake Challenge - Spring

Bunny Zoe - Ribbon

Will I'm off to enjoy my Twilight indulgence lol!

Take care everyone and I'll be back soon with some more wee crafty projects!

Ps Here's my Easter Cupcakes for the Family

Have a fab Tuesday xx

Dig out your Stickers xxx

Good moro to you

How are you all doing out there in blogland?? I'm super fabby as my big brother is up for the holidays and I'm getting to spoil him rotten and feed him and hubby right up lol! Plenty cooking going on, lots of cakes too! still snowing as well, but its not put downer on anything! Its actually given more mojo to craft!

Ok, enough of be jibbering its time for a Challenge!

This week at Charisma Cardz we have another fab wee Challenge for you all picked by the lovely Lisa

CHIPBOARD AND OR STICKERS

A nice wee easy one for you all!

I decided to make something a little different using no images! Was actually harder than I thought! Think I might use them a bit too much lol!

Ingredients:

Papers - ohhh can't remember lol

Flower stickers - Papermania

Chipboard Sentiment - freebie

Martha Stewart Punch

everything else from stash

I would like to enter the following Challenges

Party Time - Flowers

The Crazy Challenge - Spring

Crafty Creations - Spring

Papercraft Star - Anything Goes

Stampalot Challenge - Happy Birthday

I hope you will join in our wee Challenge this week and you could be a lucky and win either a fab wee voucher for Simon Says Stamp or 5 funky images from Pink Cat Studios! Please have a wee look at what my lovely wee teamies have come up with!

Hugs Melly xxx