Mum's birthday

A bit fussier than my usual style, but my Mum will love it! It is a horrid day here today, 95 km per hour winds, tiles falling off the roof, wheelie bin blown 100mt in the orchard!
I do think this Penny Black stamp is teriffic. Coloured with Promarkers.
Flowers from Wild Orchid
E-craft die cuts and SU punches and sentiment. Paper and ribbons from stash.
Challenges: Penny Black Saturday - sketch
Cr84fn Colour challenge - pink, tan, cream
I Love promarkers #139 anything goes

3 French Hens

I made this card with the Penny Black Saturday blog in mind but was 22 mins too late to upload it..but I will enter Pennyblack at Allsorts November -All creatures great and small  (my camera battery was flat!) This lovely stamp is actually a birthday stamp and has 4 hens and a birthday cake but a bit of masking and cutting out and embossing and extra present instead of the birthday cake and Volia! a christmas card is born LOL.  I am very into chicken stamps at the moment as I am still in the honeymoon period with my three 'girls'  actually one is a White Sussex and I was getting pretty fed up that she had stopped laying since moving them to the poly tunnel for the winter....until I went to put some tools away and discovered 8 white eggs laid in the corner behind the tool rack! 
I would like to enter:Sweet stop sketches #sss134-November  I reveresed the sketch
Really Reasonable ribbon.#36 cas christmas ribbon RRR36  using the fab gold mesh ribbon
Ribbon carousel # 29 sketch  which I turned over
Christmas crafting #5twelve days of christmas
Crimbo-crackers Callenge #2 Make it sparkle!
Creatalicious challenges - for Christmas and make sure it sparkles.I just LOVE sparkle, I have been making christmas cards and using glitter all year!
I used: Image: new Penny Black 'Cluck Cluck Cluck' stamp, Promarkers,Nesties & Marianne star dies, SU punches, beautiful gold mesh ribbon from The Ribbon Girl, card and dp from stash, gold embossing powder on the presents.

Louise

This is for my sister Louise's birthday.
I used: Image, Penny Black  Uplifting Occasion which I have wanted for ages and got last week, aqua seambinding, SU punch & Dp, Craftworks sentiment, promarkers.  computer generated '44' in curlz font. Paisley embossing folder, Wizard, Woodware trimmer. I used last weeks mojo monday sketch.

I would like to enter the following challenges: Pennyblack at Allsorts october inspiration photo-challenge of autumn trees and turquoise sky ( the DP actually has quite a bit of autumn beige and brown but it does not show up too well on the scan.) Penny Black saturday # -172 use a number Papertake get-in-shape (use 3 different shapes)

Christmas in August

I have been very, very busy, a house full of various family and friends for 3 weeks non stop!  Toby is doing well after his surgery but is fed up of being confined to the terrace or kitchen area.  I was starting to feel seriously like I needed a craft session and as I managed to get a dash of heat stroke yesterday I thought a christmas card was in order!  We are on week 26 at Less is More

Ok, so we have our 'Lucky Dip' week as it's the fifth Saturday of July.

The challenge is

FEELING FRUITY

 I have only missed a few weeks and it is my favourite challenge so really wanted to take part this week.  I used ods and ends from my stash box,

Image: Penny Black, Promarkers, Glitter cardstock from Papermania, I'm sure that there isn't really enough white space but I am out of time now! I would also like to enter the following challenges:

Penny black at allsorts~Free and easy

I love promarkers# 77-things-with-wings

 Little Claire -things with wings

Simon says stamp Christmas-in-august

Chicken

I punched out this Penny Black chicken for my LIM card but he was too big so I used him here instead on the Thank you card for my Parents in law who are holding a big family party next week to celebrate their 50th anniversary.  I coloured him with Promarkers doodled/stiched the circle, stickles, glossy accents, card candy, paper is Papermania, the sentiment is a font called 'Stitch Bitch' !  I would like to enter it for:  Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Stitch it Up, I used the sketch from Card positioning systems, Truly scrumptious #60 things with wings

3French Hens

I didn't get a card made for last weeks Less is More Challenge as our poor Dog Toby who my lovely followers and visitors may remember has been limping for a while was finally diagnosed with Hip dysplasia and canine arthritis on Friday.  We first took him to the vet when he was 6 months old becuse we were concerned. I came home with some MEGA expensive drugs and have been trying to get him stabalised and comfortable so havn't had much craft time as I'm also getting ready for another week in England.  Thank goodness we have house sitters as we could not put Toby in the kennels. I did think a spot of stamping and colouring in might cheer me up today so after hoovering the spiders out of the spare room I sat down and managed the card above inspired by my feathered friend below and a couple of other unfinished bits.  I would like to enter Less is More: Week 21 Sketch , MAWTT 104-clean-and-simple, Ladybugs crafts - Christmas in June, Clear it out - keeping it simple,
Pile it on - Going round in circles

I used: Penny Black stamps, Promarkers, cricut, papermania cardstock, embossing board, black stickles, glossy accents on the wine glasses.

Hey ho, I'm off to collect the eggs and feed the chickens and Fleur the sheep/lawn mower we are pet sitting for this week while our neighbours are away. Chickens will be my next compulsion... :-)

Penny Black Saturday Challenge

This is my very first entry, I needed a card for my nephew Ollie's 2nd birthday and as he is a boy I think this will do! also entered for the Docrafts PB challenge for a red white and blue card with 3 backing papers. The papers are from my stash, balloons in viva red pen. Mice coloured with pro-markers.