Attitude is everything!

Morning all!

Gosh these week's are flying by right!?!

It's nearly the end of Feb already! eeekkk! that's good news for me that means it's not long to go till my vacation from work! i cant wait i've not been off properly since November! it's been a stretch!

Well... i'm here this morning with a brand new challenge over at Totally Papercrafts!

This week it'

Make it Shine!

oooooo the possibilties are endless!!! eeeeppp!!

I've dug out my Octopode Factory Stamps! I really am addicted to these at the moment!

And for my shinyness! I've used the wonderful Pearl swirls from That Craft Place! Alongside my favourite pink paislee Papers!

I hope you'll join us this week!
I'd like to enter my card to the following challenges:
4 Krafty Girlz -# 12 Anything Goes

Creative Moments - Anything goes/Swirls and Pearls

*Card Recipe*

*C/Stock - That Craft Place

*Mediums - Promarkers & Flexmarkers

*Image - The Octopode Factory 'Alisha'

*Paper - Phantom by pink paislee

*Other  -Pearl swirl from that craft place, organza ribbon from stash, button from hobbycraft

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today!
I'd love if you'd leave a comment to let me know your thoughts!
xoxo

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Digi Sketch Turns ONE!!! Happy Birthday!!!

Morning everyone!!!

Today is the 1st Birthday of Digi Sketch Challenge so to celebrate we have some wonderful sponsors giving away some wonderful prizes so lots up for grabs! 

To be in with the chance of winning one of these prizes you need to visit each of the DT blog and leave a comment for them. Once you have commented on all of the team members blogs you will then need to add your name on the Digi Sketch Challenge blog to enter your card into the "Anything Goes" Challenge to be entered into the draw for the Grand Prize!!

We will also have 2 other prizes up for grabs which have been hidden amongst the DT blogs, so its important you visit each blog and comment on them all to be in with a chance to  win one of the hidden prizes. One winner will be selected at random from the comments left on the 2 hidden blogs.

We will also have 1 prize for one of our fans over at the Digi Sketch Facebook Page so make sure you join us there too and you could bag yourself a prize!

So some great prizes up for grabs and a whole heap of fun too!

So what did i create for our anything goes challenge???

♥ Card Recipe ♥

♥ C/Stock - Limetree Crafts Linen Coco
♥ DSP - Jillibean soup
♥ Mediums - Promarkers / Flexmarkers
♥ Stamp - MFT A la Modes ♥ Punch - Ek Success
♥ Embellishments - Chabochons from That Craft Place, Flowers from prima, brads and pearls from meiflower

So come and join in our celebrations on our facebook page and on our Birthday Blog Hop we might even have some cake for you!

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today!
I'd love if you'd leave a comment to let me know your thoughts!
xoxo

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A Random Fan! Blog Hop!

Morning all!

Welcome to the 'A Random Fan' Blog Hop! I'm so so excited that you can join us today!

A Random Fan has some beautiful digi's but today! A Random Fan is going RUBBBAH!!! Yep you heard it! Today's release is of five of the beautiful digi's but in Rubber format! And they're ONLY avalible at C.C. Designs!  We have an exciting blog hop taking place to show off these beautiful stamps!  If you have arrived here from Rebecca's blog your in the totally right place! However if you've just joined my blog or not arrived from the right place you can start the hop here!  So what do i have to show you.... 

I love this stamp! it's called ''Travel Bug'' and such a sweetie to colour! I kept my Card CAS style today as it's such a great funky stamp i wanted to show it off! 

*Card Recipe*

*C/Stock - Neehnah & Stampin Up

*Mediums - Promarkers & Flex Markers

*Stamp - A Random Fan - Travel Bug

*Embellishments  - Sentiment - Kaisercraft, Dew Drops from stash

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today! Melissa is your next stop on the hop!

I'd love if you'd leave a comment to let me know your thoughts!
xoxo

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EEEKKKK! It's Official I'm a designer for C.C. Designs Design Team!

Hey all!

Well i'm super excited to be here on my blog!! To officially announce that i'm joining the wonderful world of C.C. Designs!!! 

Eeeep how excited am i!!! I'm absolutely thrilled to have been asked to join there wonderful design team! The girls are all fantastic! I've loved C.C. Designs right back to when i first started crafting so it's really a wonderful achievement for me to be on the team!!! 

Now before i ramble on you should go check out today's post over at the C.C. Designs Blog and check out the other new teamies too!!! I can't wait to get to know everyone!

Naturally I have a brand new Card to share this morning! Using ''Swiss Pixie Beautiful Lucy'' 

She's such a cutie and I can see her becoming a favorite of mine quite easily!

*Card Recipe*

*C/Stock - Neehnah & Stampin Up

* DSP -  My Minds Eye

*Mediums - Promarkers & Flex Markers

*Stamp - C.C. Designs Swiss Pixie Beautiful Lucy
*Die Cuts - Silhouette Cameo

*Embellishments  - Sentiment 'My Minds eye stickers', Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts, Dew Drops, Pearls from Meiflower, Frantage, Angel Pink Momento ink,

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today! Be sure to bookmark me, follow me to stay up to date about the wonderful world of C.C Designs!
I'd love to enter my card to the following Challenges
Craft Your Passion  - Girly Girl
Lacy Sunshine - (1st Week) Lots of Layers.
 Digi Galore - Things with Wings
I'd love if you'd leave a comment to let me know your thoughts!
xoxo

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Glitter It!

Morning all!

I'm here this morning to yell about the new challenge over at Digi Sketch Challenge! This fortnight's theme and Sketch was designed and chosen by myself! The rest of the design teams creations are fabulous! I can't wait to see what y'all come up with!

I've dug out some stamps that i actually forgot i even owned! haha how many of us have done that right? A'La Modes are one of my favorites from My Favorite Things Stamps! There fun quirky and great for any occasion!
Today's Card i've used the beautiful papers that remind me of paris style love themed by echo park along with some fabulous lace hearts and matching embellishments and for my GLITTER i used a huge oversized heart!

Here's my card hope to see you at the challenge!

*Card Recipe*

*C/Stock - Stampin' Up!

* DSP - Echo Park

*Mediums - Promarkers & Flexmarkers & Blue

*Stamp - MFT Stamps
*Die Cuts - Silhouette Cameo Heart

*Other  - Heart Lace from stash, glitter Wow!, Pearls meiflower, diamond Ice stickles

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today!
I'd love if you'd leave a comment to let me know your thoughts!
xoxo

Don't forget - Most of my Creations are avalible to purchase and my 2014 Custom Order book is now open over at my Handmade Cards & Crafts Shop @ Charisma Cardz!

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Celebrate you!

Morning all!

There's a brand new challenge over at That Craft Place this fortnight! And our theme this time around is....

Make a box or Decorate one!

Now.... this scared the hell out of me! i'm not one for altering things espechially boxes they always go pear shaped! i've tried and tried and failed miserably! so... in good ole Carlyann fashion i kinda cheated but kinda didn't i still technically made my box! and i decorated it!!! haha!!

I opt'd for the easy option of making a card box and a card! haha! But i challenged myself to use The Octopode stamps the way i would use them! not the grunge weird way that is still lovely but not my style, if you get me! sooooo.... here's what i came up with....

I first created an easel card....

Which i totally love how it came out! and when folded looks like this...

Loving the colour scheme i may add!

And then... i created my matching box...

Pretty funky i think! so can't give this away! think it's going in my cabinet of to keeps! hehe! I'm loving these Octopode stamps i never thought in a million years they'd be my thing i guess that just goes to show you may think somethings not for you unless you try it!!!

Here's my final two together.... and don't forget That Craft Place now stocks Octopode Factory Stamps too!!

I'd like to enter my creation to the following challenges

 ABC Challenge –F is for Flowers

 One Crazy Stamper -  Anything Goes

Color Me Creative Challenge  - #87 (W1 of 2)  Anything Goes

Stampin' For The Weekend – (W1 of 2) Flower Power

*Card Recipe*

*C/Stock - That Craft Place

* DSP -  Prima

*Mediums - Promarkers & Flexmarkers

*Image - The Octopode Factory
*Flowers - Wild orchid crafts / That Craft Place

*Other  - Pearls - Meiflower, Sentiment Stickers - Ranger, Lace - That Craft Place

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today!
I'd love if you'd leave a comment to let me know your thoughts!
xoxo

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Love You! #Happyvalentinesday

Morning all!

It's Valentine's day!!! awwweee feel the love! 

it's a brand new challenge over at Totally Papercrafts this week! and our theme is of course...

Love/Valentines!!! 

We have a fabulous sponsor as always! So be sure to pop over and join in our theme this week! I'll be looking forward to seeing what you come up with!

For my Design Inspiration i want to share a cutesy card i created using the beautiful Lili of the valley stamps! 

I dug out my prisma pencils again this week, it's been a long while since i used them but i love the effects they can give!
So here's my card!

*Card Recipe*

*C/Stock - That Craft Place

* DSP -  Gorjuss Girl & Echo Park

*Mediums - Prisma Pencils

*Image - Lili of the valley
*Ribbon - American Crafts

*Other  - Charm from Ebay, Pearls from Meiflower, Sentiment from Papersmooches

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today!
I'd love if you'd leave a comment to let me know your thoughts!
xoxo

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Mad hatters Tea Party - Alice In Wonderland

Morning all!

Something every crafter knows is inspiration comes from many many places and the Christmas holidays left me feeling inspired in a whole new way! I finally got to see a number of movies that I’d not seen before including the not so new Johnny Depp Alice in Wonderland! Which Is my theme of my project right here! You can also find more about this project in the back issue of Die Cut Crazy January's issue!

And it's also our brand new challenge at Charisma! Inspired by a movie!

 How could I combine Alice in Wonderland into a creation? Hmmm… A Mad Hatters Tea party of course!

 So with theme set (Party/Birthday) next step was the design!

  I seriously didn't think about this before I started and realized only after I’d stuck the tea cup to the front by a hinge not once but three times (remember to decorate inside first!) haha! I designed the Tea cup on my Cameo along with the balloon border and the swirls, It was actually by chance that they look like steam coming from the cup! Totally love how it turned out!


  Inside I hid the ends of the swirls with a matching paper matted and used my crop-a-dile to set eyelets to enable to keep the card closed as the hinge of the tea cup handle is quite small!

 And there you have a perfect party card for any tea party Mad ones or not! And totally inspired by Alice in wonderland!

I'd like to enter my card to the following challenges:

Craft Room Challenge - Ribbon & Lace (Week 2)

Everybody-Art-Challenge  - #265 Partytime

Top Tip Tuesday - #120 Girly Challenge  (Week 2)

Through the Purple Haze  - Anything Goes **TOP 3**

Allsorts -  #245  Colors beginning with B (blue & brown)

Color Me Creative Challenge - #86 (W2 of 2)  Girls Just Wanna Have Fun **WINNER**

Suzy Bee's Bloomin' Challenge -  #15  Anything Goes

The Hobby House -  Anything Goes (Neenah card from the store)

*Card Recipe*

*C/Stock -White Neenah Card from The Hobby House & Turquoise/blue Card Stock

* DSP - My Minds Eye Designer Papers

*Mediums - Promarkers & Flexmarkers

*Image - Alice Mae from Some Odd Girl

*Stamp - Sentiment Lili of the valley
*Die Cuts - Silhouette Cameo

*Other  - Pearls, Lace and Ribbon

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today!
I'd love if you'd leave a comment to let me know your thoughts!
xoxo

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Heart...

Heya all!

I've been quite this last few days on my blog i'm totally suffering from this nasty chesty dry cough going around and im full of cold urgh! certainly tell it's winter!

So i thought i'd pop by this morning and show off a lil something different from me this morning! I'm not one for just using stamps that scares me! by that i mean no colouring!!! but i am totally in love with these stamps from indigo blu! I've had them a while y'all know how it goes.... we hord then we use eventually!! haha!!!

I'd like to enter my card to the following challenges

Addicted to Stamps Challenge -Challenge #75 (2nd Week) Hearts.

Eclectic Ellapu - From the Heart.

Catch The Bug  – Love

♥ Card Recipe ♥

♥ C/Stock - Limetree Crafts Linen Coco
♥ Mediums - Versamark Ink
♥ Stamp - Indigo Blu ♥ Embellishments - Buttons and Pearls from stash
Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today!
I'd love if you'd leave a comment to let me know your thoughts!
xoxo

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The Sweetest Thing! & DT News

Morning all!

So I have had a wonderful week! I'm mega mega excited to announce that i'm joining the C.C. Designs Design Team in March! I'm super super excited!!! I Adore C.C. Designs Stamps!!! I was so thrilled to be asked to join, i'm looking forward to getting to know the girls and working with some beautiful releases!!! So be sure to check out my posts when i start!!! eeekkk!!! exciting stuff!!!

Talking of exciting stuff!! Have you seen Ditzie Digi Designs? No?! Well where have you been? The fabulous Lisa from That Craft Place has launched her own brand of Digi Designs and they're mega cool! 

The one i'm showing off today is called...
Manzana & Strudel (yeah named after my kitty!) hehe! how cool....
tho unfortunately because i'm me i play around with my digis and chopped poor strudel out of this one for this card haha! but nevertheless it's a gorjuss digi! 

Here's my card for today! Which i'd like to enter to the following challenges
Deep Ocean Challenge - #70 Fantasy (Week 2)
Card Mania - (Week 2) Angels and/or Fairies
Digi Makeover Challenge - Anything Goes
Ooh La La Creations - (Week 1) Use a Heart

♥ Card Recipe ♥

♥ C/Stock - Limetree Crafts Linen Coco
♥ DSP - My Minds Eye
♥ Mediums - Promarkers / Flexmarkers
♥ Stamp - Ditzie Digi Designs  ♥ Die Cut Tools - Silhouette Cameo
♥ Embellishments - Studio Calico (did you notice they forgot to x there t?)
- Flowers from wild orchid crafts & That Craft Place, Dew drops from stash Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today!
I'd love if you'd leave a comment to let me know your thoughts!
xoxo

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Good Luck!

Morning all!

I'm back again this morning!!! 

Well i'm super ahead of myself right now and creating left right and center for many occasions including this creation today which is for St Patricks day! I know it's not till march right! get me! i'm organised enough that i'm working on a future order already!

It's also for this week's challenge over at Digi Sketch which the rest of the fab DT have designed some awesome cards you should check them out and be sure to join in to win a fab prize!

Our Challenge this week is....

GREEN

So whatcha waiting for!?

I'd like to enter this to
 One Crazy Stamper -  Anything Goes
Catch The Bug – Anything Goes

*Card Recipe*

*C/Stock - That Craft Place

* DSP -  Jillibean Soup

*Mediums - Promarkers & Flexmarkers

*Image - MFT A La Mode
*Punch - Martha Stewart Border Daisy

*Other  - Pearls - Meiflower, Sentiment - Craft Work Cards, Ribbon - American Crafts and Local Market

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today!
I'd love if you'd leave a comment to let me know your thoughts!
xoxo

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Thump in love

Morning all!

I thought i'd pop by this morning to share my newest creation card!

Using the lovely Stamps by the Octopode Factory, now these are not my normal choice of stamp if your a follower or reader of my blog y'all know me i'm all about cute! lol but to be honest i really am in love with this brand so much so i've brought a ton and can't wait for them to arrive in rubbah!! haha!!! 

I'd like to enter my card to the following challenges

Challenges 4 Everybody - Challenge #38 Anything Goes.

Come and Get It Challenges - Clean and Simple.  ♥ TOP PICK♥

One Stitch At A Time -#198 Anything Goes.

Outlawz challenge  -Card for a Male.

The Corrosive Challenges  -Challenge #192 (1st week) Feel the Love

Here's my card!

*Card Recipe*

*C/Stock - That Craft Place

*Mediums - Promarkers & Flexmarkers

*Image - The Octopode Factory

*Other  - Sentiment stamp - Papersmooches, Pearls from Meiflower

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today!
I'd love if you'd leave a comment to let me know your thoughts!
xoxo

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First Love, Sweet Love, With Love!

Morning all!

It's a brand new fortnightly challenge at That Craft Place this week and i'm here with another creation to share for the Design Team!

I love how my card turned out today I've used a gorjuss new digi from Time For Tea Designs called 'first love' perfect for valentines!!!

Which leads me to This fortnights challenge is...

♥ LOVE ♥

Eeeeek yep that time of year is upon us once again! 

As always we have a fab prize to be won so hop on over to the challenge blog and see what else our DT came up with to inspire you all!

Here's my Card!
Which I'd like to enter to the following challenges

 Digi Galore - use digi - Valentine
 Fairies Challenge Blog-   #19 Love Is In The Air
 One Crazy Stamper -   Anything Goes
 The Cupboard Trilogy -  Love
A Gem of a Challenge - (W1 of 2) All You Need Is Love
Crafty Calendar -  Love Is All Around
Kitty Bee Designs -  #16 - Valentine's/Love **TOP 3**
My Sheri Crafts -  #126 (W1 of 2)  Valentine

Passion For Promarkers - Anything Goes **TOP 5**

*Card Recipe*

*C/Stock - That Craft Place

* DSP -  My Minds Eye 

*Mediums - Promarkers & Flexmarkers

*Image - Time For Tea Designs
*Die Cuts - Cut on Cameo

*Other  - Flowers from That Craft place & Wild Orchid Crafts, Ribbon from Telford Jems, Pearls from Meiflower and sentiment from hobbycraft

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today!
I'd love if you'd leave a comment to let me know your thoughts!
xoxo

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Die Cut Crazy Valentines Blog Hop!

Welcome to the Die Cut Crazy Magazine Valentine Blog Hop. 

The designers have made some wonderful Valentine projects to inspire your own  crafting with your die cuts. If you just joined our hop, be sure and go back to the Die Cut Crazy Magazine Blog to learn how you can enter to win a prize from Die Cut Crazy Magazine when following the hop from designer to designer.  

Stephanie from Die Cut Crazy Mag will be offering a prize of a 6 month subscription to Die Cut Crazy on the DCC blog to those blog hop followers who leave a comment on all of our Designers Posts on the hop blog!  The blog hop starts RIGHT NOW! and is closed to further comments as of Monday, February 3 11:59 pm CST. The winner will be drawn and announced by Stephanie on Tuesday February 4th on the DCC Blog and Facebook group. How Awesome is that!!! 

With Valentine’s day right around the corner I’m knee deep in orders for cards for friends, family and customers! So that leaves not much time for my poor husband! I’m no way about to go out and buy a card that’s just not right after all I’m a crafter! So whilst thinking about what I could make him that was super quick but ‘kind of a big deal’ I came across this stunning file on the Silhouette America Store which gave me all the components of the card to cut out!

I found it was a super way to use up some scraps of designer paper that I’ve saved in my ever growing box, we all have one right?!, but I wanted to tweek the design to make it my own so I cut freehand from a scrap of white card stock a flag shape and used my Studio Calico Date/phrase stamp to stamp on ‘’kind of a big deal’’ and valentines date for this year. It’s totally him and I can’t wait to give it to him!

Here it is! pretty CAS for me right? 

*Card Recipe*

*C/Stock - Kraft Bazzill Basics Cardstock

Very Vanilla Stampin’ Up! Cardstock

* DSP - Scrap Designer Paper & off cut of white Card stock

*Mediums - Black Ink (I use Versamark)

*Stamp - Studio Calico Date/Phrase Stamp
*Die Cuts -Silhouette Cameo

 Thanks for stopping by the Die Cut Crazy Magazine Holiday Blog Hop. I hope my project inspires you to create your own Valentine project.  Please leave a comment to let me know you stopped by.Next up in the hop you'll go back to the Die Cut Crazy Mag Blog to see Dianne's wonderful project! Go see the amazing project she has prepared for you to enjoy!

 If you just joined the hop, here is a list of designers so you don't miss any.

 Debbie  http://www.scrapmequickdesigns.com/

 Anna http://craftwithanna.blogspot.com

 Allie http://mycardparty.com

 Nancy www.scrapperatheart.com

Melissa www.cardtreasures.wordpress.com

(me) Carlyann

Die Cut Crazy Magazine Dianne http://diecutcrazymag.com/ 

And I will be arranging a surprise crafty prize of a surprise to one lucky person who comments on this post before the end of the blog hop too!

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today!
I'd love if you'd leave a comment to let me know your thoughts!
xoxo
Love & Peace