Rosalee!!

I just wanna say (well squeal really) yayayayayay AARON won BB last night & I am soooooooooo glad he did, I did try & vote for him but it was always engaged!! I know a lot of people didn't like him, but he must of had a lot of fans to win!! As I know (from twitter) that Jay & Alex were swapping places with him over the course of the week & it was only after the live BBBits show on the Wednesday that Aaron pulled ahead....so I am one very happy bunnie today! I'm sure if you lived within a few miles of me you would have heard me screaming lolol!!! Celeb get me outta here is next lol! Yeah I'm kinda addicted to these reality shows, but can't stand X Factor!!

This week over at CES Challenges we want to see your creations with

ROSES & RIBBONS

fab challenge! When I went away for my fab crafty weekend (next year already booked hehe!) I was lucky enough to get a voucher to spend over at

Delicious Doodles (thanks Teri xx) & this image is one of the ones I got, she is just gorgeous & a dream to colour!

Please pop over to the main blog to see what this weeks prize is!

'Rosalee' is just gorgeous!

Challenges I Would Like To Enter

Dutch Dare- punches or diecuts

Southern Girls- song 'Always On My Mind' Michael Buble

DYSU- song as above

Sketch & Stash- sketch

Goodies I Have Used

Image- 'Rosalee' by Teri over at Delicious Doodles

6" scalloped square card blank from Crafty Emma's Store

Promarkers & Flexmarkers

Skin- blush, sunkissed pink & coral

Hair- raw sienna, mustard, primrose & vanilla

Top- arctic blue, celestial blue & azure

Roses- pink pearl, sorbet & rose pink

Leaves- chartreuse & forest green

Papers & Embellishments

DP- 'Uncommon' by Authentique from Crafty Emma's Store

Sentiment by Just Words from Crafty Emma's Store

Ribbon punch by Woodware

Peach card by Papermania

Rose ribbon from my stash

Thank you for stopping by, not sure what we are upto this weekend as Nige is in work today! The girlies do want to goto the beach lol in the UK in November why?? lololol Maybe tomorrow!
Please pop over to the main blog & see what fab creations my teamies have made this week!

Hugs xx

We are all back! :D

Well we are all back from the first weekend getaway and it is safe to say there will be more of them :D
We all had a great time and thank you to all our brilliant sponsors we will be adding some pictures from the weekend and of the creations we make with all the goodies we got over the following days and months.

These are pictures of the sort of goody bags that we all got a paper craft one and a jewellery one.

The paper craft bag has Lili of the valley, Crafts and me, Kenny K (from Whimsy stamps) and House mouse (from Joanna Sheen ) stamps. A4 card, lots of 6x6 papers, 12x12 papers, silicone glue, foam pads, quickie glue pen, sakura stardust pen, ribbon and other embellishments from Jazzlins, Dream weaver Stencil brushes, Sculpey clay, twinkling H2O's, Shrink plastic, sentiments, a whole range of gems from the lovely Vanessa and loads of flowers from The Paper Shelter among other things. As well as that there were flex and aqua markers for us all to use thanks to Letraset. A box of ribbon from Fantastic ribbon, super smooth paper for us all to stamp on from Crafty Emma's Store and card blanks, more ribbon and cosmic shimmer sprays from Jazzlins. There was an extra little lucky dip bag each as well that had vouchers for Crafts and me, Lili of the valley, Delicious Doodles, Kenny K's Downloads, Bearly Mine, The Crafty Purple Frog, stamps from Joanna Sheen and dies from Marianne Designs.

The jewellery kit was a starter kit so that everyone could have a go and I think most people that tried it really liked it. Natalie I think had most fun with it. There were charms, beads of various shapes and sizes, chain, tigers tail wire, elastic thread and a whole load of findings to make loads of things.

We had a great room with a huge table so that we could all craft together and Emma got to try out both copics and promarkers before she decided which she wanted to buy. We found that markers preference is very much an individual thing as some of us loved the copics and others loved the Promarkers. Emma will be getting promarkers (also my favorite).
The whole weekend was full of lots of laughter, fun and picking up new techniques from each other. I can not wait to see what we all do now we have all got home and can make even more with our goodies.
Thank you all of you ladies for a brilliant weekend. I am working on sorting out more for next year already so if you would like to join us next time please follow the blog and drop me a line.
Huge hugs

Amy xx

P.S. Keep watching this space for more pictures and creations

Marianne designs

We were very lucky to be given some goodies from the brilliant Marianne Designs to play with before the craft weekend and so far this is some of what we have created with the stamps and dies:

Carrie's Cards
Using Marianne Designs stamps




Chanelle's Card

Using Marianne Designs stamp



Teri's Cards
Using Marianne Designs dies




Joanne's Card
Using Marianne Designs stamp



Amy's Cards
Using Marianne Designs stamps

Shell's Cards
Using Marianne Designs stamps




Aren't they so cute and the dies are amazing. If you want any more details about any of these cards they are all on each persons blog so just hop over to check them out.