23.04.2013

Lets Celebrate (at A Passion for Papertrey)

Aaaaand finally – here I am with an actual card to share!!  It’s been so long since I sat down with stamps and ink and card I almost forgot how much I loved it!!  We have a new challenge launching today over at A Passion For Papertrey  and it’s a challenge I’m sure many of you will be able to join in with.  The theme is “Celebration” which has just about any occasion or event covered!  I’ve been waiting for the right time to try out one of my newest sets – Watercolour Wonder and played with one of my all time favourite combos of Pure Poppy and Hawaiian Shores. I’m not sure if I should’ve added the felt embellishments now – they were a bit of an afterthought!!

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Hope you can join us over the next fortnight and play along if you get the chance – just pop over the the blog for all the deets!

Thanks for visiting,


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20.04.2013

My shiny new home – and a giveaway!

Hello and welcome to my new blog home.  I, like a few of my fellow blogging friends have decided to take the step to move from Blogger to WordPress.  I have been blogging since 2008 and felt like a new direction and fresh start was in order.  I think I have designed a blog that pretty much reflects me and my crafting style with my favourite colours, design elements and my penchant for sparkly things all represented here.

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So, what better way to share my joy at the birth of my wee blog than to have a good old fashioned giveaway.  As my new blog theme is inspired by a few of my favourite things I thought I would go with that idea when picking some crafty goodies to give away to one lucky randomly drawn reader.  I have collected together some crafty supplies (and some not so crafty but equally important) that I just can’t live without.  I have picked from some of my most loved companies and put together a bundle that I think a lot of folks would agree is one tasty little haul!

What’s in it? (see inlinkz images below)

Clearly Besotted Stamps: Butterfly Wishes, Blooming Marvellous and Post It: Love (kindly donated by Steph at Clearly Besotted)

Papertrey Ink: Selection of cardstock (not all colours shown), A2 envleopes and a roll of Pure Poppy satin ribbon.

Memory Box Die: Cosmic Star Border

MFT Die-namics dies: Stocking Trio, Santa’s Sleigh, and Bon Appetit

Rangers Glossy Accents

Stix 2 High tack permanent tape roller (essential)

Memento Tuxedo Black inkpad

Cabury’s chocolate selection (is there any other kind??)

So here’s the all important deets….

To be in with a shout of winning all the fabulousness listed above please do the following:

Become a follower of my blog by using one of the tools provided (facebook, feedly, networked blogs etc); leave a comment letting me know what your “can’t-live-without” item is in your crafting collection; share my give-away image above on your blog or facebook page (let me know if you have) with a link the THIS POST and get your name thrown in again!

This giveaway is worldwide!

Thank you for visiting me and I hope you pop along again soon.  Who knows, now that I’m done with all this techie blog stuff I might even make a card or two to share with you!!

Cheerio for now,

Caryn x

 



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12.04.2013

A new challenge at APFP – touchy-feely!

Hello – Fridays are GRRRREAT aren’t they?  I have a total Friday-feeling today – it’s been a LOOONG week at the office!!  Hence I am sharing my card for the latest challenge over at A Passion For Papertrey just a wee bit late!

The challenge this time is get some texture onto your card – it’s time to get all touchy-feely!  My card is really CAS this time but LOOK at the gold glitter – yay for glitter!!

{Happy Birthday}
Stamps: Botanical Silhouettes
Card: Stampers Select White
Tools: Heart Prints die collection.
Other: Jute bag (cut up!!), gold glitter (local art shop), glossy accents

I’m busy preparing to move my blog over to a new WordPress site (on a very steep learning curve at the moment) and am planning a bit of a giveaway sometime in the near future – stay tuned, lol!!

Have a good day,

Caryn xxx

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