Another riddle for you...

Good afternoon, crafty friends! So, another riddle for you...when is a lighthouse not a lighthouse?...

...When it's a windmill, of course!?!...

I have been wanting to turn my Lighthouse box, from Words at Play, into a windmill since I first designed it and being that it's such a grey and miserable day, I spent a couple of hours sitting at my crafty table...

It is a proper working box, so you can take the top off and put things inside...cool, eh?!...

I decorated the sides with some trailing leaves and hand made primroses and forget-me-nots and used a couple of stitched rectangles for the door and windows.

I have to say that I rather like how it turned out, although what I'm going to do with it now, I'm not sure...it'll probably hang around in my craft room for a little while then get relegated to one of my many sample boxes...if only I had pretty bookcases to put things on, you know like the ones you see in magazines, instead of bookcases that have bowing shelves because they are so full of books! (Although we do love our books!)

I hope that you are all safe and well, and finding a little time to craft...

Crafty hugs,

I'd like to enter my Windmill box into the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge, which has a theme of Not a Card...closing 4th May

New papercraft disc/USB...

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Good evening, everyone! Thought I'd quickly pop in before bed to let you know that my latest papercraft disc is now available in my Etsy store...it is also available in USB format, for those of you that don't have a disc drive!
Here's a few samples of what you can find...

18 Predesigned cards
36 Coordinating backing papers
10 3D themed gift boxes
Toppers
Decoupage
Digistamps
Inserts
Sentiments and more...

Now available to order with free UK postage and packaging from https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/ellasdesignwales

Passion for Promarkers - For a Birthday...

Good morning, crafty buddies! Another Tuesday arrives in earnest, which can only mean one thing...time for a brand new challenge over at Passion for Promarkers! This week it's the lovely Nic (aka Coops) in the hostess chair and she's given us a very simple theme of 'For a Birthday'...couldn't be easier?!
We are being sponsored by Di's Digi Stamps, who are offering one lucky winner a $6.00 voucher to spend in their online store...

(Just remember that to be in with a chance of winning the prize, you MUST use your Letraset/Winsor & Newton mediums and follow the challenge theme)

For my DT card, I used the parrot digi from my latest papercraft USB 'Words at Play' and coloured him up with my Pro/Flexmarkers. I teamed him up with the leaf paper from the same design set and a scrap of yellow polka dot from my scrap drawers. I love a pun, so this fun sentiment from the design set was just perfect for the theme of my card... and I finished off with some clear glitter, gems, a few peel off borders and some Glossy accents for the parrot's eye.

I hope you can find the time to play along with our super simple challenge this week and look forward to seeing all of your wonderful creations...

Until next time, have a truly terrific Tuesday...

Crafty hugs,

I'd like to enter my card into the Unicorn Challenge blog theme of 'Fully Loaded or CAS' which runs until the end of the month

Flower pot...

Good afternoon, crafty buddies! In the bid to try and do some more crafting, I have decided to play along with this week's challenge over at Passion for Promarkers, where the lovely Karen has picked a super easy theme of 'Flower power'...

For my card, I used the flower pot digistamp from my latest papercraft USB 'Words at Play' and teamed it with the dot and gingham from the Apple and Acorn paper set. I kept the design quite simple (because that seems to be my style these days) and just added a few embellishments in the way of flags, pearls and a touch of glitter... The splatters came about because one of my Promarkers splashed the page when I took the lid off, so had to roll with it and add a few more with my Distress Oxides!

It would be great if you could play along with the challenge this week, as numbers are dwindling at the minute - I'm guessing due to Summer holidays and the nicer weather that we've been having, or you may be like me and need a reason to get your crafty butt into gear!

Crafty hugs,

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

Love to Craft Challenge

August Anything Goes

I Love Promarkers

Anything Goes with optional Birthday closes 19th
Passion for Promarkers
Flower Power

Passion for Promarkers - Going Dotty...

Good morning, my lovelies! I think the theme for this week's challenge at Passion for Promarkers is just about how I'm feeling!!...I seem to have a lot going on at the moment and am trying to fit everything into a day...usually without success! But one thing I have managed to do is finish my latest papercrafting disc/USB!!...although I'll do another post later, to share some of the sample pics and give details of how to order...

For now, I'm here to tell you about this week's challenge over at Passion for Promarkers! It's my turn to host and I've given you a nice easy theme to use one of my favourite pattern types...dots - so whether it's dotty papers, dotty ribbons, or dotty dresses on images, I want us all to be 'Going Dotty!'...
We're kindly being sponsored by Dies to Die For this week, who are offering one lucky winner a £15 voucher...how cool is that?!...can I enter??...

Just remember that to be in with a chance of winning the prize, you must use your Letraset/Winsor & Newton mediums and follow the challenge theme...it also really helps if you let us know where you've used them, so for example, coloured with Promarkers...

Right, onto my DT project...I decided not to make a card this week and although it may seem that I've missed the boat with this one (with Summer holidays having started) I created a little teacher gift, using the Acorn digi stamp from my latest disc 'Words at Play'...

I have made a little sliding pencil box, which holds 6 pencils...the perfect thank you gift! I have often seen posts where teachers ask parents not to spend too much on gifts, or ask them not to buy the usual personalised mugs, etc (as I'm sure there are only so many you can have!) and that pens, pencils and notebooks were appreciated, as it's something they use and so this little project came about! I loved colouring the acorns and have decoupaged them up to give more dimension, but if you wanted something a little speedier, you could always use the precoloured image from the disc...

Well, I have a pile of ironing with my name on it (I wish it had somebody else's on it, but there doesn't seem to be any takers!), mugs to print for our campervan club and notebooks to decorate...just because I love my new Tim Holtz Wildflower dies...and after reading back over this post, I think I may have to do one to coordinate with this project too!...

I hope you can find the time to play along with my easy challenge this week and I look forward to visiting all of your blogs to see what wonderful creations you've made...

Crafty hugs,

I'd like to enter my box into the following challenges :

Crafty Friends Challenge

Summer until 9th August

Crafty Catz

Anything Goes optional On the Beach closes 1st August

Love to Craft

July Anything Goes closes tomorrow