JUST AN UPDATE........................................

Hi there, You might have noticed that I have been missing in action. That is because I have found myself a new hobbu which has now become a means of income!
I have started a cupcake decorating party business for children from 6 - 16. And I am also making cupcakes to order. If you click on the logo below it will take you to my new blog.

It has really taken off which of course is great but I find that I have not had any time for cardmaking!
Hopefully this will change in the future but for now it's cupcakes galore!!


YVONNE x

CLP Challenge

Can you believe we are in October! With this weather we are having at the moment you would think it's August!

It is the 1st of the month so that means a new challenge over at the CLP Challenge blog and a new sketch:

And here is my card:

Paper is K& Co. Sentiment is from Catslife Press. The ribbon with flowers I got at a craft fair when I was in Holland.

We are sponsored this month by Spesch Stamps and the prize is 5 Digi's of your choice!

We hope you'll be abl;e to join us for this great challenge.

Take care

YVONNE xx

SIMPLY MAGNOLIA AND SOME YUMMYNESS!

We have a new challenge over at Simply Magnolia and this time the them is SHABBY CHIC:

 I just love this Magnolia image. I think she is from the 2010 Christmas Collection

I used paper from MME. Flowers are WOC and the sentiment is Catslife Press.

This time we are sponsored by Scrapbooking Allsorts and have a look on our blog to see what you can win.
We hope you'll join us.

No onto the yummyness. Me and my 12 year old daughter went on a cupcake decorating course from The Creative Cake Company. It was fantastic! And this is what we made:

Don't they look great! I am so pleased with how they turned out and really they are so easy to make! So can you guess what I have been upto the last few days?!



Take care

YVONNE xx

BELLES 'N WHISTLES CHALLENGE

A lovely lazy Saturday afternoon! Everybody happy doing their own thing, perfect!

This is a card I made for the Belles 'n Whistles challenge where you had to follow a sketch.

 I used an image called " Happy Mail". The paper I used is from Cart-Us. The flowers are WOC and Duymelot. Butterfly is from Kort od Godt.

Thanks for stopping

YVONNE xx

SIMPLY MAGNOLIA CHALLENGE

Goodmorning! There is another challenge over at Simply Magnolia and this week it is a nice and easy one: Anything goes.

For this card I tried something different. I made a 3d image. I keep seeing the most amazing creations on Mariska's blog. Go and have a look. So I thought I'll give it a try. It is really time consuming as there are a lot of little bits but it is also a lot of fun to do.

 I used a Magnolia image from the new collection. The papers are Magnolia too. In the next picture you can see the layers better:

It is a long way of being perfect as I think the layers probably need to be raised more.

For this week's challenge we are sponsored by De Egel Kaartenmakerij and they are giving away 80 sheets of 15x15cm of ColorCore card!!

I hope you'll be able to join us.

YVONNE xx

CLP CHALLENGE

It's the 1st of September! Where did August go? Just a few more days before the kids go back to school.

I'll miss them. I like having them around.

Anyway as it is the 1st of the month that means a challenge over at the CLP Challenge blog. Here is the sketch:

We are sponsored  by Lili of the Valley this month and they are giving away a £10.00 voucher to spend in their online shop!

And here is my card:

How cute is this little guy! The image and sentiment are both from Lili of the Valley. The charms I got from Bunny Zoe Crafts.

We hope you'll join us this month.

YVONNE xx

SIMPLY MAGNOLIA CHALLENGE - LOVE IS IN THE AIR

Good afternoon! Just 9 days left and the kids will go back to school. Cannot believe how quick this holiday has gone. Yesterday we went to get them their school uniforms and new school shoes and I can tell yoou my purse is now empty!

Anyway it is Sunday so a new challenge over at Simply Magnolia where this week the theme is LOVE IS IN THE AIR.

Now I had a lot of truble with this card to start of with, I must have stamped it about 9 times! Every time the colours kept bleeding!

As you can see I used a lot of die cuts! paper is Pion which I got from Duymelot who also happened to be our sponsor this week. The prize is 2 Magnolia stamps from the new collection! The sentiment has been computer generated.

I would also like to enter this card into the following challenges:
* Magnolia Down Under - Texture
* Papertake Weekly - using die's
* It's a Magnolia challenge - use pink

Thanks for stopping

YVONNE xx