C.C. Designs Birthday Blog Hop! & WINNER ANNOUCED

Hey all!!!

C.C. Designs Rubber Stamps are turning 7! Seven years ago today, the first stamps were released, the Big Bunnies, Whiskers. They sure have come a long way.

In the last seven years C.C Designs have had quite a few Illustrators, including AmyR, Sweet November, Chubby Pencil, Diem Animals, Love Lolita, Cookie Crumbs, Baby Buds, Drozy Darlings, Tickled Pink, Paper Pleasing, Pollycraft, Stampin' Spot Studio, Webbie Words, Cuddle Crew, Mashi's Monkeys, Monkey Feet, Shaky A, and Roberto's Rascals.

In celebration of 7 years, each of the Blogs in the Birthday Hop are giving away a $7.00 Gift Certificate to the store. Leave a comment on each Blog to be entered.

The Birthday Hop ends Sunday 6 April, at Noon, EST. 

*Card Recipe*

*C/Stock - Stampin' Up!

* DSP -  Prima Princess

*Mediums - Promarkers & Flex Markers

*Stamps - C.C.Designs Lucy with cross 

*Embellishments  - Flowers - Prima mixed & E-line, Dear Lizzy embellishments

*Dies - Silhouette Cameo

I'd like to enter my card to:

Stampin' For The Weekend– (W2 of 2) Spring Colors
Simon Says Stamp - Birthday
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Top Tip Tuesday - #124 Cute (Week 1)

Your next stop is... Jay Jay But, if you're lost, here's the whole Birthday Hop List...

C.C. Designs Blog
Laura
Faye (that's me)
Simone
Delphine
Amber
Christa
Eva
Kathy 
Rinne
Carly
JayJay
10TH APRIL -I am here to announce that BUNNY! is my winner for the C.C.Designs blog portion of our blog hop.  Please email Christine and put Birthday blog hop winner in the subject line.  christine@ccdesignsrubberstamps.com
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 & Light

It's love

Morning all!

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

It'll soon be christmas before we know it right?! i've been inundated with work and craftyness for the last few months i dunno if i'm coming or going but i'm so into everything i do and i love it what better way for me to be?! Besides... i'm here with another design project...

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

This week it's

THINK PINK

oooooo the possibilties are endless!!! eeeeppp!! I love this sorta challenge! WHY? Oh yeah, that's because i set it!! haha!

I hope you'll join us this week! Don't forget you'll also see my Time for Tea Designs Card in the upcoming April Issue Of Die Cut Crazy exclusively on Apple Store soon coming to Anriod too! :)

*Card Recipe*

*C/Stock - That Craft Place

*DSP - My Minds eye

*Mediums - Promarkers & Flexmarkers

*Image - Time for tea designs
*Dies - Silhouette Cameo

*Other  - Memory Box Precious Hearts Die, Flowers from That craft Place, wild orchid crafts, Handmade by Charisma It's love sweet, Pearls from meiflower, Die heart tag by magnolia, ribbon and lace 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

Love & Peace

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!

Love & Peace

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

Love & Peace

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

Love & Peace

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

Love & Peace

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

Love & Peace

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

Pretty in pink!

Morning all!

I thought i'd stop by with a new creation from me!

I'm currently in my craftroom awaiting my second room to be painted eeekk!!! yep ill be moving in there in the next few days! pretty excited!

I've loads of orders and things to crack on with so i thought i'd share a new creation from my shop!

I love these wee stamps they're so nice to colour!

I'd like to enter it to the following challenges

Catch The Bug  - Think Pink

Colour Me Creative Challenge  #79 (W1 of 2) Anything Goes 

Totally Gorjuss -  Wings and Things

Stampin' For The Weekend  – Week 1 - Anything Goes

Crafty Ribbons -    #65 Butterflies

Divas by Design -  3 or more layers

Whimsy Inspiration - Shabby Chic(ends Oct 30)

*Card Recipe*

*C/Stock - That Craft Place

* DSP - Dovecraft

*Dies - Spellbinders Tags

*Punch - Martha stewart 

*Sentiment - hand stamped
*Other  - Pearls 'meiflower', flowers 'prima', findings 'ebay', ribbon/lace 'stash', chalks & Promarkers & Flexmarkers

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today!
 I'd love if you'd leave a comment to let me know your thoughts! And I can pop along and visit you too!! xoxo

Don't forget - Most of my Creations and Now I'm taking Custom Orders over at my Handmade Cards & Crafts Shop @ Charisma Cardz!

Be Sure to leave me a comment so i can pop by your blog!

With Love...

Morning all!

Super quick post from me this morning as i'm buried in orders to get done today! eeekkk!!

I'm here with a new creation as it's a brand new challenge over at Charisma this week!

The lubbly Leah has chosen the challenge of basically ONE of everything! man.... that's really hard... and yes i cheated of course i did! haha!!

So I went for - ONE colour - pink (errr and white!) lol, One Embelly - Gems (just lots of them), One sentiment - One die cut (banner) and One Cut-out (haha) totally cheated eh?? 

I've even dug out my embossing powders and glitter!!! 

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

Crafter's Cafe - #26 embossing

Simon Says Stamp -  Anything Goes

Whimsy Inspiration - Clean and Simple (ends Sep 04)

Crafty Sentiments  - Make It Girly

Fitztown Challenge  - (2nd week) Add Sparkles

Lexi's Creations -  (2nd week) Sparkle & Shine

Stamp and Create - (August) Glitter

Here's My Card

♥ Card Recipe ♥

*C/Stock - Stampin' Up

*Stamp - Chloe's Creative Cards

*Medium - Distress Embossing Powders - That Craft Place

*Sentiment - Craftwork Cards

*Gems - 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! And I can pop along and visit you too!! xoxo

Don't forget - Most of my Creations and Now I'm taking Custom Orders over at my Handmade Cards & Crafts Shop @ Charisma Cardz!

Be Sure to leave me a comment so i can pop by your blog!

Love is...

Hey all!

So with my holiday from work under way! Yay Time off! I have time to catch up on craftiness as well as housework (boring) and other bits & pieces, so i thought i'd check in with blogging!

I wanted to share a card i made with a stamp i brought yonnnnks ago! and yep true to my standard form i fall in love with something and buy it, it comes and then never use it lol so that cycle has to stop! else my hubby may actually ban me from buying anything else haha!

So today's Card is using the beautiful Indigoblu 'Love is...'

Such a beautiful stamp and so detailed i really love this one! It's so pretty i wouldn't want to put anything else with it and hide it, such as papers etc, so I kept it pretty simple!

I'd like to enter it to the following challenges:

PanPastel UK Challenge - Challenge #31 Floral - Flower    

Little Claire's  - (July/August) #35 Wedding/Anniversary  ends Aug 16th

Crafts and Me - #139 Anything Goes (ends Aug 21)

Paper Shelter Challenge - #122 Anything Goes (2nd week)

Simon Says Stamp -  Anything Goes 

♥ Card Recipe ♥

*C/Stock - Stampin' Up

*Stamp -  Indigoblu love is...

*Gems - Meiflower

*Buttons - Ebay, John lewis

Thanks for stopping by! xoxo
Be Sure to leave me a comment so i can pop by your blog!

Blowing Bubbles with love!

Morning all!

I wanted to post a card i'd created a few weeks ago but hadn't got around to blogging, i'm off work at the moment with a bug that's not nice, so i'm taking it easy and lazying around! lol

My card today is featuring Time For Tea Designs ''Bubbles'' using a layout which i used a few years ago and remains one of my favorites!

I've coloured her with Promarkers and used beautiful papers from market street my minds eye! which i've had for yonks! along with some stickles and chalks, and beautiful pearls to finish!

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

Stampin' For The Weekend - Week 2 - Friendship

Crafts and Me - #129 Bling

Nutcrafters - #41 Anything goes

Everybody-Art-Challenge - #232 Bling

*Stamps - Time for Tea Designs ''Bubbles''

* DSP - My Minds Eye

*Pearls - American Crafts

*Punch- EK Success Corner Rounder & 3 In 1 Butterfly Martha Stewart

*Medium - Promarkers

Thanks for stopping by! xoxo
Be Sure to leave me a comment so i can pop by your blog!

Sweet Lil Flower Fairy!

Afternoon All!

I'm here this afternoon once again to share a brand new Digi release from Time For Tea Designs, I can't sleep once again (really rubbish day sleep pattern at the moment) so i thought i'd do some creating and blogging!

Today's card is featuring ''Flower Fairy'' from the brand new collection just released this Saturday just gone!

I adore her!!! i've coloured her with my usual medium Promarkers and used stickles on her wings!!

The papers are from Prima and also a unknown stack i've had for yonks that i've never delved into! I've gone from fake flowers to paper punched flowers today, using two of my favourite ek success punches! along with some pearls and a little glitzy ribbon for today's creation!

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

Dream Valley Challenges - (1st week) Happy Birthday (ends 20th April) 

Lacy Sunshine - (2nd week) Anything Goes(ends 13th April) 

One Stitch At A Time - Anything Goes 

The Ribbon Girls - Flowers

Totally Papercrafts – Birthday Girl In Pink

Totally Gorjuss -  #178 Anything Goes with Sparkle

Crafty Ribbons - #41 (W2 of 2) Anything Goes with Ribbon

DRS Designs - #64 (W2 of 2) Paper Flowers

Here's my card!

*Stamps - Time for Tea Designs ''Flower Fairy''

* DSP - Prima - Craft Obsessions & Unknown

*Pearls - American Crafts

*Ribbon- Ebay/Crafty Ribbons @ NEC

*Flowers- ek success punches

*Stickles - Diamond Ice

*Medium - Promarkers

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to keep an eye on my blog this week for more new releases!!! xoxo  Be Sure to leave me a comment so i can pop by your blog! My Card today will be available to purchase on my facebook shop Here!