Halloween HOP with Card Makin Mama's

Are you all ready to hop along to our Halloween Hop... ok excuse the pun but lets get jumping!

The Card Makin Mama's are having their first ever BLOG HOP and your all invited to play along.   You should of arrived here from Jess's blog, dont forget if you get lost on the way to head back to the Card Makin Mama's Challenge Blog to find your way again.


There are amazing prizes up for grabs to those that complete the hop, as well as prizes along the way.  Yes you read that correctly, you can win a prize right here on this blog....


Our hop is all about things spooky and creepy and Autumny, what a beautiful time of year to look forward to!  


Here is a card I made with my limited edition digi from our very own Lizzie at the Card Making Mama's.

If you leave a comment here you will be entered to win the image featured here (the halloween digital image), be sure to check every DT entry on the blog for more chances to win other images along the hop.


Next on the hop is Dee... have fun hopping everyone and have some fun.


Oh dont forget if you stumbled across this post, to go back to the beginning of the blog hop and visit all the DT entries.


Happy Halloween and happy Hopping!

Cooking it Up with Katie, Buttons, Birds and Borders

Excuse my tardiness in my DT post for Cooking it up, ive been a tad rushed this week with my husband on holidays, and renovating a bathroom.  I got this beautiful image last week from Digi Doodles and coloured it over the weekend then promptly forgot to put my project together... Can we all say Mummy brain.

We are playing with the recipe of Border, Button and Bird this week, don't you love the bird i got to choose from Digi Doodles!  I love owls so it was an easy choice to pick this guy.

I  did a bit of mix and match with the background colouring, I started with copics and decided i didnt like it and it so I then came in with the distress inks and daubers, I mixed some grey over the top to try and make it look like the night sky.. not sure if i pulled that off though!

I used a white pen to doodle a border and also I cut a border on my Cougar to frame the image.

So now its your turn, please pop over to the Cooking it up with Katie challenge blog and play along with us this week.

We will be along to visit your creations through the week, have fun!

Also dont forget to visit our sponsor at Digi Doodles!

Card Makin Mama's Halloween

So I was given a little bit of history on the beginnings of Halloween by the Card Makin Mamas after I revealed I really had no clue... funny how people on one side of the world often have no idea about the traditions of the other side.

Anyway, this week we are sponsored by Bugaboo and we each got to choose a design to play with for the Halloween Challenge.

My Image is quite the little cutie.  I had a bit of trouble cutting the spider webs as the blade broke on my cutter after the second web... so this card ended up taking me a lot loner to create that originally planned.

Fab and Funky - Fall colours challenge

Papertake Weekly - three different shapes (webs, base and swirls)

Aud Sentiments - Lily of the Valley

This week we are sponsored by Lily of the Valley and our job was to create a winter card.  I must admit I struggled with this a little, maybe as my winter has just passed and I am loving spring and looking forward to Summer.   I did use winter green designer paper to try and winter up my card!  I look forward to seeing you all over on the Aud Sentiments Challenge blog to show me how to create the perfect winter card!

sorry for the blury image, i cant retake the photo as the card has already left the building!

Curling Coloured Cirlces

This week at Cooking it up with Katie Challenge blog we are asking you to use the following recipe
Curls, Colour and Circles... not as easy as it sounds I found out!
We are sponsored by Stampin with the Dragon and I chose this cute happy birthday sentiment/image to work with.  
I rarely make boys cards, so I took the opportunity to grab some of my Kaiser boys type paper and I came up with the following card.  I tried to link up the colours from the Kaiser paper to the copics I used.  I think I managed to pull that off.