My new FF stamp

Wow I finally managed to get round to making a card... but no it doesn't mean my work space is any more organised nor are my new storage shelves up lol... so this is my entry for 3 of this weeks challenges... Stamp Something 'Birthday Somethings'... Forever Friends 'Ribbons'... and Cupcake Craft Challenges sketch...
I've used:

• FF birthday for you stamp
• Watercolour pencils
• Lilac ribbed card
• Lime & lilac DP
• Cardmakers Accents sentiment ribbon
• 2 lilac flowers
• 2 black buttons
• 2 purple buttons
• Lilac and black inkpads
• Glue dots

A lovin' lil FF bear part deux

So here's my cute lil FF bear again.. I added the ATC from the previous post to a card as a topper to fit as my entry for 2 more of this week's challenges.... Cute Card Thursday 'Xmas pressies' and Cupcake Craft challenges sketch...
I've used:

• ATC topper (some xmas pressies used)
• Red glitter foam hearts (xmas pressie)
• Red stickles (xmas pressie)
• Black sequins
• Black inkpad
• White ribbed card
• Red inkpad
• Whispers words stamp 'Lots of funky love'
• Chunky black ribbon

A lovin' lil FF bear

So here's my entry for this weeks Forever Friends challenge 'The ATC Challenge'.. not made an ATC in a while and as I don't swap them anymore I'm rather loathed to make them.. but then I realised I could use mine as a topper for a card :)
I've used:

• FF stamp
• Watercolour pencils
• Black sequins
• Red stickles
• Red glitter foam heart
• Black inkpad
• Red crack backing paper (leftover from my earlier photo frame)

Gold leaf pearl necklace

Here's my entry for this weeks Scrummy Stash Cafe challenge 'New', so I made this necklace... it's not technically new as it's partially made from damaged old accessorize jewellery but it's new as a complete piece..

I've used:

• Broken Accessorize gold leaf pendant neckalce
• Gold chain
• 12 small glass pearls
• 8 chunky golden oval pearls

... took me long enough to actually maqke something with this pendant, I bought i back in November and just never had any inspiration to enable me to do anything with it, perhaps the New Year has inspired my mojo!

'Take a punch' photo frame

This weeks challenge over at One Stop Craft Challenge has been set by Donna and she picked the theme 'Take a punch', so I altered another frame to join my growing collection...
I've used:

• Ikea wooden photo frame
• Red and black crack print tissue paper
• Black and red sequins
• Black leather effect paper
• Star punch
• Black paper flower
• Red and black buttons
• Black ribbon
• Red chunky voile ribbon
• Red glitter stickles

Photo frame

Wow so here's my first challenge entry of 2009.. it's for the Arty Girlz challenge 'Anything but a card'.. I've altered a plain wooden frame to put some of my recent photos in...
I've used:

• Ikea wooden frame
• Black & white flourish designer paper
• Black lace
• Chipboard flowers
• Paper flowers
• Black & white buttons
• Silver stickles
• Shell buttons

Crafty Creations blog disaster

Some of may have noticed that the old sbs18 challenge blog renamed as the crafty creations challenge died recently.. afdter many infuriated emails to blogger and no replies Jaime kinfdly offered to restart the challenge blog afresh so please bear with us while we get it all rebuilt and jazzy again but it in the mean time come re-enter the candy and join for the challenges next month.... come see us here

Donna's candy

Donna is giving away some great candy.. including some forever friends goodies... so go check it out!

Altered shop jewellery

So during my time down south i've bought a fair few new clothes and now I've got the problem I just don't have the jewellery to match..so I had to do some altering of shop bought jewellery as I couldn't get new beads in time for going out in one of my new tops 2mo night... I added pink beads and changed some of the black beads and reorganised the necklace so there wasn't too much of one colour too close together... and now I have spare beads where I removed certain colours from the necklace :)

I've used:

• DP necklace
• H&M earrings
• Pink glass bicone beads
• Jumprings
• Recycled eyepins

Star hoops

Here's 2 sets of hoops I've made today using a mixture of bits from Lebeado and the craft shop in halstead near my mum's house.. Thanks Linda for telling me about the fab 75% off sale happening there today and tomorrow as well.. I spent a small fortune £21 but that's nothing considering it should have been about £85! I bought so many little goodies, so that should keep me going for a fair while now, especially when I add to all the goodies I got for xmas :)
I decided to use some of my goodies for jewellery.. so I used the star beads (20p each!!) and added them to some beads I've had laying around for a while...
I've used:

• Earring hoop blanks (silver & black)
• Blue foil glass stars
• Black foil glass stars
• White matt glass beads
• Czech Tiff AB blue beads
• Czech Tiff AB black beads
• Earring wires
• Jump rings