Month: March 2026

Penny Black Saturday Challenge – March 2026

Hello and welcome

I’m back with a reminder for the Challenge over at Penny Black Saturday March Challenge!  The theme  is  Anything Goes (Optional – Four Legged Friends!)

Remember if you’d like to be considered for a Guest Designer spot on a future challenge, please add ‘GDT’ after your name on the link-up.

I decided to make an interactive card this time. It features an fun image form PB – Sunny Days stamp set. I love this fun pup so I thought it was time he was used!

Using MFT – Slider Surprise die I cut the panels and used DP for the front.

The image was stamped o the front panel without the ball, which I stamped separately and fussy cut after the colouring was finished. The background used MFT Cloud stencil.

After assemby was finished I concertina folded a small narrow scrap of card to fit behind the ball. It was added with glue at the ends.

The senitment is from PB -Birthday Bears stamp set.

Inside I stamped the dog again but towards the bottom along with the cloud stencil. After colouring the sentiment from Waffle Flowers Pawssome stamp set was added along with some old simgle letter stamps for the word ‘Ball’.

Please head over to our blog to  check out the wonderfully inspirational work by the rest of the Design Team!  I hope you will find the time to join our challenge this month.

I look forward to seeing what you create!  Good luck!

Thanks so much for taking the time to visit.  I love to read your comments and will be sure to check out your blog.

I hope you all have a chance to enjoy some crafting time !

Cheers

Helen

Challenges:

Seize the Birthday – Anything Goes

Divas that Cut – Celebrate Spring – fun in the sunshine outside

We Love Stamping – Anything Goes

NBUS Challenge #84

AAA Birthday Game #83 – Use Die Cuts

Time Out #309

Hello and welcome

Time Out has a new challenge for you  that opens today and runs through to April 1st.


Our wonderful sponsor, UNIKO, isgenerously offering a $25.00 store credit as a prize for our Challenge Winner, who will also get an invitation to join us as Guest Designer for a future challenge.

We are joined by Verena Shapiro of simple_stamper, and winner of Time Out #304 as Guest Designer.  

My card features the MFT – Box of chocolates die. I used Spellbinders Celebrations embossing folder on the inside of the chocolate box and gave it a light smooch with silver ink to highlight the pattern before adding the chocolates.

After ink blending the backgroud panel and splattering with water, it formed the shaker element to the card.

The Chocolate box and PB Sweet wishes die (cut twice to give a shadow efffect) was added to the card front.

Please head over to our blog to  check out the wonderfully inspirational work by the rest of the Design Team!  I hope you will find the time to join our challenge this month.

I look forward to seeing what you create!  Good luck!

Thanks so much for taking the time to visit.  I love to read your comments and will be sure to check out your blog.

I hope you all have a chance to enjoy some crafting time.

Cheers

Helen

Challenges: 

Seize the Birthday – Anything Goes

We Love Stamping – Anything Goes

AAA Birthday Game #83 – Use Die Cuts

Allsorts Challenge 845 Anyhing Goes

Penny Black Saturday Challenge -March 2026

Hello and welcome

I’m back with the new Challenge over at Penny Black Saturday March Challenge!  The theme  is  Anything Goes (Optional – Four Legged Friends!)

If you’d like to be considered for a Guest Designer spot on a future challenge, please add ‘GDT’ after your name on the link-up.

Once again, I chose some cute little mice for this challenge!

The stamps are from PB – Sunny Days stamp set, distress watercoloured.

The sentiment is from PB – Nice One stamp set.

Please head over to our blog to  check out the wonderfully inspirational work by the rest of the Design Team!  I hope you will find the time to join our challenge this month.

I look forward to seeing what you create!  Good luck!

Thanks so much for taking the time to visit.  I love to read your comments and will be sure to check out your blog.

I hope you all have a chance to enjoy some crafting time !

Cheers

Helen

Challenges:

Creative Inspirations -March Challenge – Cute Critters

Seize the Birthday #321-Anything Goes

Little Red Wagon Challenge #848 – Include An Animal

I Spy With My Little Eye ……..Something You Love (Challenge No. 34) I love Penny Black critters! So much fun!

Time Out #308

Hello and welcome

Time Out has a new challenge for you  that opens today and runs through to December 17. This time it is a very special challenge in celebration of Time Out’s 12th birthday.

Time Out Challenges paper-crafting challenge was founded by Nonni Niskanen and Sandie Munro – two good friends who loved to take “time out” to craft and invite people in blogland with the same interest to join them.
 They launched the first challenge on March 20, 2014. 

Today, we will proudly celebrate our 12th birthday with Challenge #308. In recent years, we have chosen a muse to create a card for our participants to CASE. This year, we are please to welcome Stef Perry of Perry Papercrafts as our muse. Stef has created this gorgeous card for our celebration. The challenge is for our designers and participants to take inspiration from Stef’s card and make their project their own. We ask that our participants explain how their  project is influenced by Stef’s card. Projects can be for any occasion.

Our wonderful sponsor, Waffle Flower Crafts, is generously offering a $25.00 store credit as a prize for our Challenge Winner, who will also get an invitation to join us as Guest Designer for a future challenge.

We are joined by Verena Shapiro of Simple Stamper on Instagram, and winner of Time Out #303 as Guest Designer.

My card feattures a stamp from our sponsor, Waffle Flower – Crocus Flowers.

After embossing in gold, I used Distress inks to watercolour the image before fussy cutting.

It was then added to the background that featured Embossing Folder with gold splatters.

The sentiment is from a very old Verve set – Birthday Surprise.

It was finished with the black strip top and bottom and the gold bow.

Please head over to our blog to  check out the wonderfully inspirational work by the rest of the Design Team!  I hope you will find the time to join our challenge this month.

I look forward to seeing what you create!  Good luck!

Thanks so much for taking the time to visit.  I love to read your comments and will be sure to check out your blog.

I hope you all have a chance to enjoy some crafting time.

Cheers

Helen

Challenges: 

March 2026 TB Challenge

We Love Stamping – March challenge – Anything Goes

I Spy With My Little Eye ……..Something You Love (Challenge No. 34) I love colouring flowers

Allsorts Challenge 844 – Use a Bow

Love to Craft Challenge

Hello again

Sorry I haven’t been posting more recently due to some health issues but hoping all will go well from here.

I am back with a new project over at  Love to Craft! Challenge. As always  LTCCB challenge is any kind of crafty project. The challenges goes for 6 weeks. So for this challenge from March 1st thru April 15th 2026.

This is one of my handpainted Diaries. It features these vibrant cornflowers as requested, painted using acrylic paints. I was’t sure at first but I love how it turned out.

Please head over to our blog and check out the wonderfully inspirational work by the rest of the Design Team!  I hope you will find the time to join our challenge this month.

I look forward to seeing what you create. Remember is can be anything creative!!!

Thanks so much for taking the time to visit.  I love to read your comments.

Stay safe

Cheers

Helen

Challenges: