It's the most wonderful time...of the year! Tra-La!

Well I think it is anyway.

I love Christmas card making season and can't wait to get cracking on more.

Here's another one or two .....

 These two are made with a Purple Onion Stamp 'Snowy Trio'

I cheated and scanned the coloured image before mounting it onto the first card.

Serves me right, 'coz my scanner part of my printer has died! Poo!

This one uses a sledge die, the Merry Christmas die and some scraps of SU DP and a little gold mirri card. 

Simple, but effective I think.

 (I'd tell you who's dies they are if I could only remember)! LOL

Thanks for visiting, it's always a pleasure to 'see' you.

An amazing blog hop to celebrate All Dressed Up meets Sugar Nellie!

Hi there Dressies

IT'S PAAAAAARTY TIME!!! 

If you've arrived from Valou's fabulous blog, you're on the right track.

We've just passed our birthday and we have some very exciting news.
Wendy, the owner and designer of All Dressed Up will now be selling her gorgeous images as both rubber and digital stamps with none other than
SUGAR NELLIE

whooop whoop whoop!!!
Please pull up a chair, grab a cuppa and a slice of cake as you'll be here a while.

We're having a mahoosive blog hop with us Dressy Girls and some of the Sugar Nellie Design team too.
AND an extra challenge for all you Dressy fans. Oh and better than that we have a this gorgeous freebie and numbers (just in case you want to change it) designed especially for the celebration.

...and what is a hop without prizes?

We'd like to thank everyone who donated a prize. 

 Lot's of lovely goodies are up for grabs girls but you must follow our two simple rules :)

1. You must complete the hop and leave a comment for every one of us Dressy Girls 
and of course the Sugar Nellies too.

2. You must create a card using the freebie and add it to Mr Linky back at All Dressed Up..  

All Dressed Up
Prize: the four new digital images

 Crafty Ribbons

Prize:  £10 voucher

 Petal Lu

Prize:  Petal Lu Lucky Dip, which will be a box of 50 blooms

Crafter’s Companion

Prize:  $30.00 gift certificate

Hobby Cutz

Prize:  goody bag or gift voucher

Scrap n’ Art Digital Magazine

Prize:  2 prizes, each one being a magazine subscription from the time it is entered to June  

Kit and Clowder

Prize - online voucher to a class

                                                                     Quixotic Paperie
                                                      Prize - Make It Crafty blending card

                                                                     That Craft Place
                                                                 Prize - £10 voucher

                          Now, I guess your all desperate to see these new images 'All Dressed Up'. 

So, let's hop!!!

If you've just happened along, you'll want to start the hop at the beginning with our lovely Dressy Girl Nancy,  run on over to see her gorgeous creation then follow her link to the next Dressy Girl:)

(In case you get lost along the way, here's a list of all the Dressy Girls in hop order).

Nancy

Lisa

Anne 
Valou  

Viv 

Vicky
Holly 

Janine
Keeley
Marilyn

Fiona
Bettina 
Christine L 

Lynne

The hop will run for two weeks.  So you have until 21st of October to get your card made and comment on all of the gorgeous cards :)

Here's a couple of cards I made for this hop...

This is your freebie!

This will be for my grand daughter's birthday on 5th October.
I coloured her with Copics and framed her with a Spellbinders Fancy Frame.

  This little cutie is Called 'feeding The Birds'.

I made the card shape with my Silhouette Cameo.
In fact, I made ALL the shapes with my Cameo. LOL
Coloured with Copics are per usual for me.
A couple of flowers in Autumn colours to add a little extra something.

OK, your next stop is the amazing Vicky! Boy are you in for a treat!

Lastly, a huge congratulations to our lovely designer Wendy.  
We are all thrilled to be a part of your new journey and wish you loads and loads of success :)

Don't forget to leave a comment on every blog girls. Looking forward to seeing your creations.

An attempt at folds

They say no news is good news.... Not quite true I'm afraid.

It's not BAD news, just NO news.

Got the first biopsy results through today (Thursday), but they were inconclusive.

Hmmm, so now I have to go into hospital as a day patient for another biopsy.

Instead of the needle guided one, I have to have the lymph gland biopsy done surgically. Ho hum.
Whatever the results of this one, it's still all good.

If it IS benign, FINE! If it ISN'T benign, it's STILL fine, 'coz my Lymphoma is low grade.

Heads I win, tails I don't lose!

OK enough drama, let's see my latest attempt at colouring folds in clothes with me trusty Copics.

Waddya reckon?

Not a bad attempt on the whole eh?

Now, I found a load of stamps in a ring binder that hasn't seen the light of day for years.
This Tilda being one of 'em, so I have no idea what she's called.
The papers are a 6x6 Forever Friends pad  'Best of British'.

Now I have to work on the decoration side of things. *Sigh*.

One thing at a time Viv!

Please let me know what you think. Good, bad or indifferent is fine by me. LOL

See you again soon!

An oldie but a goody!

Hi friends,

Sorry not been around much due to getting a couple of appointments this last week.

Firstly, I had an 'Ultrasound Guided aspiration' biopsy on an enlarged lymph node in my neck on Tuesday.

It was like having liposuction in miniature!!! Arghhh!

I get the results next  Friday. All being well, it will say the Lymphoma hasn't travelled upwards.

My neck is still sore! Boo!

THEN! I had a tooth out on on Thursday. I felt every single part of it!

The infection was so deep in my tooth, the anaesthetic didn't reach it! ARGHHH again!!

BUT!! No more tooth pain that has been driving me NUTS for 2 months.

Hence my absence. Am I forgiven?

Hope so my lovelies.

Here's a card to make you smile anyway.

I've had this Sugar Nellie rubber stamp for YEARS!
(Even the Stampin' Up DP is old)!

 

 'Snowman with gift'  I LOVE this stamp!

He's sold out at Funky Kits I'm afraid. I hope he goes digital along with his other snowmen friends.

I coloured him with Copics and framed him with two of the Tonic studio oval layering dies.

I will be entering him into these Challenges.

Sugar Bowl Challenge #117

(Hope it counts 'coz it's a SN stamp not image).

Weekly Christmas Card Challenges #44

Mod Squad Challenge - Holiday

I've got another couple of cards in the pipeline, so please call back soon.

A new week and a new challenge!

Hya friends. Well, here's another week about to start and to kick it off,

 it's time for a new challenge at All Dressed Up.


The theme this time is 'Favourite Colour(s)'
Now what could be easier than that!

MY favourite colours are Christmas ones and to prove it, here's a card I made using the adorable
'IT'S SNOWING'

(Click on the name and it will take you to Wendy's Etsy store).

 

He's so cute. He's so happy you can't help smiling can you!

I framed him with a Spellbinders Fancy Frame and some paper poinsettias from a hugs box of Christmas flowers that I won  a while ago on Facebook, courtesy of  Sweet Lilac Paper Flowers.

I LOVE poinsettias! 

The candy stripe paper is from SU!

The green patterned paper is from Simple Stories called 'Handmade Holiday'.

I coloured my happy snowman with Copics and added a touch of Stardust Stickles to the ground and the flowers.

I sponged the Spellbinder's frame with TH 'Broken china'.

Well my good buds, that's my favourite colours.

I do hope you join in with our challenge.

We love to see your amazing projects.

Please visit the All dressed Up Challenge Blog to see the fabulous inspirational projects by my mega talented DT buddies.

Also, why not pop on over to our All Dressed Up group on Facebook You will be made most welcome.

Bye for now and thanks for stopping by.

A beautiful new release at All Dressed Up!

Hi Friends!

Wendy has come up trumps yet again with her newest release at All dressed Up!

Just take a look at these gorgeous goodies..........

 Three Little Christmas Girls

Christmas Dolls

Christmas Owl

Christmas Reindeer

Aren't they just so CUTE!!!

These little crackers will look amazing on your cards!

They are available now in the All Dressed Up Store HERE.

I chose to use 'Christmas Reindeer' for my sample.

He's totally gorgeous isn't he!

I coloured him with WG Copics and created the 'sky' with Distress inks, adding white gel pen 'snow'.

I added Glamour Dust hither and yon to make him sparkle.

The Card base was embossed with the Swiss Dots EF.

I was a bit daft really, as I've got the proper 'Snow' EF somewhere. Duh!

That vivid red ribbon looks a treat I think next to the blue and white.

I'll be back soon with another Rudolph impersonator! 

In the meantime, don't forget our current challenge which is.. 
 AUTUMN.

These images would be perfect for the challenge theme, plus you are in with a chance of winning 3 images of your choice !

Also don't forget to stop by our Facebook Group to share your All Dressed Up creations & chat to fellow crafters.

Keep an eye out for more inspiration from the rest of The Dressy Girls throughout the month.

Happy crafting!

All dressed Up Challenge.. Autumn colours/Theme

Remember when I said I'd stepped down from the All dressed Up DT?

Well, I'm happy to report, I was persuaded most forcefully to stay.

(I'm really flattered that I was bullied into staying actually)! LOL

Anyway, here to kick off my return, is the card I made for the new Challenge.......

Autumn Colours

I used the first of the Three Little Autumn Girls digi combined with another digi depicting all things Autumn.

That's the beauty of these images, they are mostly PNGs which means you can combine them to make fabulous scenes!

I combined my images with the Silhouette Cameo! 

The sentiment is a stamp from Peachy Keen...PK-1340

The flowers were in a little round plastic bottle I've had since Adam was lad.

They are Prima flowers and are I think, supposed to be poinsettias. The colours are perfect for this challenge, so poinsettias or not, I used one. LOL

(The ivy leaves are from the same jar).

Well that's it from me folks!

Please pop on ove to the All dressed Up Blog and join in our challenge.

We LOVE seeing all your clever and beautiful takes on the themes.

Don't forget our Facebook page too! 

It's a lovely welcoming place to show off all your All dressed Up cards and projects.

Back soon with Wendy's wonderful Christmassy (Big hint there) new release!