The Crafty Den

Cupcake craft challenge #179–DT card

2012-02-14T01:23:00.001Z

Oops another late post from me and I think this is going to be theme for the start of this week – sorry! I’m seem to be chasing my tail constantly at the moment, but I am trying to get more organised – honest lol!

I’m here to share my card for this week’s cupcake craft challenge and this week the lovely Shelly has set the theme and she has chosen “en-twined” so basically she would like you to use twine on your creations – easy right? Here is my card:

The cute image is by Lili of the Valley and is called ‘cheers bear’ which I coloured with my promarkers. The papers are from the wild rose studio ‘for men’ paper pack and the cardstock is SU real red. I used red twine from the ribbon girl and the ‘70’ was stamped using a see-d’s stamp set.

We have two sponsors this week – stamp fairy are offering a prize of a $10.00 gift voucher for one lucky winner and the pretty little ribbon shop are offering one lucky winner a whopping 50 metres of baker’s twine.

The rest of the design team have created amazing cards as always, so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out. We really appreciate all the lovely comments you leave for us.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

The crafty pad challenge – the letter b (blue, bear, beer, birthday)

Karen’s doodles challenge – celebrate

The pixie cottage challenge – sketch and/or red

Moving along with the times challenge – cute critters

Fun with shapes and more challenge – birthday

CES challenge – lots of layers

Incy wincy designs challenge – 3 embellishments, 2 papers, 1 image

Kaboodle challenge – where the boys are

I hope you can join in with our challenge this week and I look forward to seeing what you create. Thanks for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: Lili of the Valley – ‘cheers bear’

Papers: wild rose studio – ‘for men’ paper pack, SU real red cardstock

Tools: promarkers, see d’s stamp set (for numbers), personal impressions sentiment stamp, twine from the ribbon girl, pearls from the hobby house, brads from stash, nesties label 1 and circles

Sweet Stampin’ GDT Card

2012-02-12T18:01:00.001Z

Happy Sunday dear friends. I hope you’ve had a great weekend so far, although I can’t believe it’s 6.00pm already – where has the day gone?? I’m here this afternoon to share my second card as Guest Designer over at Sweet Stampin’ challenge. The challenge this week is “clean & Simple” which I know fills most people with dread, me included. Here is my card:

I have used a brand new image from DigiStamp Boutique which is part of the offer of them month called ‘Daisy set 1’ which is available at a very special price for February – just £2.25 for 3 gorgeous images. I coloured her with promarkers and flex markers and cut her out. The pretty papers are from the me to you ‘spring chic’ paper pad and the plain card is from the papermill shop. The sentiment strip is from pink petticoat. I did some faux stitching with my fine liner pen and added a couple of pearls and viola my card was finished. I have to say I think it looks like it isn’t finished but I’m sure some extra bits will find their way onto my card before I send it to anyone lol! You really need to check out the DT cards over at the challenge blog as they are stunning.

There are two sponsors again this week, firstly stamp addicts are offering a £10.00 gift certificate to spend in their online store and the monthly sponsor for February is Joanna Sheen who is offering a £10.00 voucher to spend in her online store.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Stampin’ sisters in Christ challenge – make a happy card

Papertake challenge – anything goes

2 sisters challenge – I {heart} you (image is holding a heart)

Allsorts challenge – free & easy part 2

Craft your days away challenge – get stitchy with it

Crafter’s companion challenge – anything goes

OSAAT challenge – anything goes

Scrapbook sisters challenge – anything goes

I hope you can join in with our challenge and we look forward to seeing what you create. Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: DigiStamp Boutique – ‘Daisy set 1’

Papers: me to you – ‘spring chic’ paper pad, plain card from the papermill shop

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, pink petticoat sentiment strip, SU basic pearls, letraset fine liner pen for faux stitches, corner rounder punch

Bee Crafty challenge–DT card

2012-02-10T13:19:00.001Z

** This is my second post for today **

Please scroll down to see my Stamp with Fun DT project

Hello again dear friends. As promised I’m back with my last catch up post for this week – thank goodness! Over at the Bee Crafty challenge our monthly challenge is “goodbye/thinking of you”. Unfortunately this will be our last challenge for a while as Merrigan is due to have her second baby any day now and she will have her hands full so she is putting the challenges on hold for the foreseeable future, but rest assured she will be back. Here is my card:

I have used a super image called ‘fluffy bunny pair’ as I thought they looked like they were waving goodbye lol! You can purchase the image in the store here. The image is coloured with promarkers and flex markers. I was delighted when I “discovered” this sentiment in my stamp drawer as it fit perfectly with the theme – it is a clear stamp from elzybells. The papers are my mind’s eye from the ‘true blue’ paper pad and I used a cuttlebug embossing folder on the background. The fancy border was a freebie in a parcel I received from the lovely Tracey at Dies to Die For and i was chuffed when it matched my card perfectly – love it when that happens lol!

The prize as always is 2 digi images of the winner’s choice. Please pop over to the challenge blog and check out Deanne’s gorgeous card too.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Karen’s doodles challenge – cute & cuddly

Moving along with the times challenge – cute critters

Alphabet challenge – animal antics

Chocolate, coffee and cards challenge – orange, brown and teal

The poodles parlour challenge – anything goes

Totally papercrafts challenge – rainbow

Allsorts challenge – free and easy

Catch the bug challenge – anything goes

Stamp, scrap and doodle challenge – punches or die cuts

City crafter challenge – use at least 3 colours from choice (orange, yellow and green (mine is teal)

I hope you can join in with our challenge. You have plenty of time as it lasts until the end of February. I look forward to visiting your blogs and seeing what you create. I’ll hopefully be back a little later as I have some candy to offer but until then thanks so much for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: Bee Crafty – ‘fluffy bunny pair’

Papers: my mind’s eye – ‘true blue’ paper pad, brown card from the papermill shop, white digi stamping card from craftwork cards

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, punched border strip from Tracey, elzybells clear sentiment stamp, pearls from the hobby house, cuttlebug swiss dots embossing folder

Stamp with fun #147–DT project

2012-02-10T11:21:00.001Z

Good morning friends. It’s the last day of my week off from work so I’m a little bit sad…….however I have another week off again in 3 week’s time so something to look forward to.

Another catch up post, this time for the stamp with fun challenge and the theme is “love”. I don’t send many Valentine’s cards so I decided to alter a plain brown gift bag, which I thought I would be able to use at some point lol! Here is my bag:

I’m sorry the pics are a bit dark but I took them late at night. The image is a brand new February release from DigiStamp Boutique called ‘Valentine Hattie’ and I coloured her with promarkers and flex markers. The papers are by Docrafts from the ‘hot diggity dog’ A4 paper pack and the plain card is from the papermill shop.

We have a prize up for grabs this week of this super cute The Greeting Farm stamp:

The rest of the design team have created amazing samples as always, so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out. We really appreciate the lovely comments you leave for us.

I would like to enter my gift bag into the following challenges:

The crafty pad challenge – fresh spring colours

Sunday sketch & stamp challenge – sketch

The cutie pie challenge – anything but a card

Little darlings challenge – favourite embellishments (pearls)

Aud sentiments challenge – anything but a card + sentiment

Crafty sentiments challenge – let’s get girly

Daring cardmakers challenge – hearts and doilies

Fussy ‘n’ fancy challenge – with all my heart

Bunny Zoe’s challenge – photo inspiration

Little Claire’s challenge – anything but a card

I hope you can join in with our challenge (but remember you only have 2 more days before it ends). I cannot wait to see what you create.

I know some parts of the east of England have had lots of snow but thankfully it seems to have passed us by – we just had some rain and sleet but nothing that stuck phew! I’ll be back later with my final catch up post *yippee* until then have a fabulous day and thanks for stopping by.

Ingredients:

Image: DigiStamp Boutique – ‘Valentine Hattie’

Papers: Docrafts – ‘hot diggity dog’ A4 paper pad, plain card from the papermill shop, white digi stamping card from craftwork cards

Tools: heart doily from Joanna Sheen, pearls from the hobby house, ribbon from fantastic ribbons, button from stash, SU sentiment stamp from ‘best yet’ set, circle nesties

Cupcake craft challenge #178–DT card

2012-02-10T01:08:00.001Z

Hello again friends. This is my second post for today so please scroll down to see my earlier card.

I’m doing another catch up post – this time for the cupcake craft challenge. Our challenge this week is “pink & red” but it doesn’t have to be a Valentine card. Here is my card:

The image is by Pollycraft and is called ‘Luna bitterfrost hearts rock’ and I coloured her with promarkers and flex markers. I once again used paper from the my mind’s eye ‘love me’ paper pad and the heart was cut with a go-kreate extra large die (which I cut in the grand caliber).

We have two sponsors this week – firstly we have Pollycraft Designs (who kindly gave me the digi to use on my card) and they are offering a prize of 5 digi images and our second sponsor is Simon Says Stamp and they are offering a $20 gift certificate to use in their online store.

The design team have created amazing cards and projects once again this week, so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out – you won’t be disappointed I promise. We really appreciate the lovely comments you leave for us.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Come and get it challenge – love

Pile it on challenge – for a tween

Sentimental Sunday challenge – feel the love

Stampin’ sisters in Christ challenge – show love

The pink elephant challenge – use pink

Scrap creations challenge – Valentine

Top Tip Tuesday challenge – Valentine

Let’s craft and create challenge – flower power

Crafty purple frog challenge – flower power

Cardmadfairy’s digi days challenge – hearts

I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge and I look forward to seeing what you create.

We haven’t seen any snow here yet in South Wales but I think we may be unlucky enough to get some overnight – fingers crossed it’s not too bad. Keep safe and warm if you have to go out and about tomorrow. Thanks for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: pollycraft designs – Luna bitterfrost hearts rock’

Papers: my mind’s eye – ‘love me’ paper pad, SU real red cardstock

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, flowers from wild orchid crafts, ribbon from the ribbon girl, gems from stash, elzybells clear sentiment stamp, scissors for distressing edges, cat’s eye chalk ink pad

Sweet Stampin’ Guest DT card

2012-02-09T17:56:00.001Z

Happy Thursday dear friends. Another catch up post from me lol! I was so chuffed to be asked to be guest designer for February over at Sweet Stampin’ challenge. I love their challenges and try to enter every week if I can.

The theme for this week’s challenge is “the one I love” and I knew immediately what image I was going to use. Here is my card:

The image is of course Wrynn from Tiddly Inks and I coloured her with promarkers and flex markers. The gorgeous papers are my mind’s eye from the ‘love me’ paper pad and the plain card is SU real red. Quite a simple layout for me but I like it lol!

There are two sponsors for this challenge – stamp and create are offering a $20.00 voucher and Joanna Sheen who is their regular monthly sponsor.

The design team have created amazing cards for your inspiration so please pop over and check them out. You need to be quick if you want to enter the challenge as it ends in just over a day!!

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Sweet Sunday sketch challenge – sketch (which I love!)

Joanna Sheen challenge – love is in the air

Tiddly inks challenge – Valentine

Simon says stamp challenge – love is in the air

Stamptacular challenge – Valentine/love + red, white, grey & pink

Papertake challenge – anything goes + option love/add a heart

I love promarkers challenge – love is in the air

Truly scrumptious challenge – love & hearts

One stop craft challenge – for the one I love

By the cute & girly challenge – love is in the air

I’ve still got a few more DT cards to catch up with so stay tuned for more posts!!

By the way what do you think of my new blog background? I really like it – it was definitely time for a change – and the best bit was it was a freebie *yay*. Check out Leelou’s blog to see what other lovely blog backgrounds she has. Have a great evening and thanks so much for stopping by, I really appreciate your support.

Card ingredients:

Image: Tiddly Inks – ‘Wrynn – grow a little love’

Papers: my mind’s eye – ‘love me’ paper pad, SU real red cardstock,

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, circle nesties, dovecraft heart punch,

Passion for Promarkers #135–DT card

2012-02-08T17:01:00.001Z

Well, long time no see lol! I’m sorry that I haven’t blogged for so long (again) but it’s been really hectic and I’ve seem to be chasing my tail and playing catch up for the last few weeks. Hopefully once I’ve blogged this week’s DT cards I can get back to normal, well that’s the plan anyway.

I would normally blog my cards in order of the challenges but I’m going to share my DT card for this week’s passion for promarkers challenge first as I want to enter it into the sugar bowl challenge before it ends haha!

This week’s challenge has been set by Maya and she has chosen “grey & purple”. These have to be your dominant colours (but hair, skin and fur are allowed). Here is my card:

I’ve used an image from Sugar Nellie stamps called ‘domestic goddess’ and coloured it with promarkers and flex markers. The embossed cardstock is actually a light grey but some reason it looks beige in the picks – my usual photography skills at work lol! The doily started life as a large square but I cut it down on the side and stuck it back together to make a frame for the image – I think it looks quite pretty.

Our sponsor this week is Whiff of Joy stamps and one lucky winner will receive a stamp of their choice.

The rest of the design team have created amazing samples so please pop over and check them out. We really appreciate all the lovely comments you leave for us.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

The sugar bowl challenge – sketch

Papertake challenge – anything goes

Crafts and me challenge – use a new image

Frosted designs challenge – ribbon and/or twine

Fussy ‘n’ fancy challenge – polka dots (ribbon)

Stamping for the weekend challenge – embossing

Allsorts challenge – free and easy

Drunken stampers challenge – something new (stamp)

Crafter’s companion challenge – anything goes

Paper pretties challenge – add texture (embossing)

I hope you can join in with our challenge this week and I look forward to seeing what you create. I would like to welcome my newest followers - Sarah Davey and Donna Angliss *waves hello"* – I hope you enjoy your visits to my little part of blogland.

I’ll be back later with another catch up post but until then thanks so much for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: Sugar Nellie stamps – ‘domestic goddess’

Papers: creative imaginations – ‘sonnets lavender’, DCWV – grey textured card, plain card from the papermill shop

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, lace doily from crafty friend, personal impressions sentiment stamp, oval nesties, ribbon from fantastic ribbons, stickles, heart buttons from stash, chalk ink pad for distressing edges, cuttlebug ‘swiss dots’ embossing folder

Back to regular postings soon!

2012-01-31T09:00:00.000Z

I’m really sorry but I’ve had a hectic few days and haven’t had chance to schedule my posts. I’ll catch up with all my DT posts as soon as I can and share my cards with you. In the meantime check out the new challenges:

cupcake craft challenge – theme is ‘recycle’

stamp with fun challenge – fantastic sketch

passion for promarkers challenge – theme is ‘new beginnings’.

I also have some mini candy that I’ll be sharing with you later this week.

Be back soon I promise x

PFP #133 & Winter Wonderland DT card

2012-01-24T23:02:00.001Z

Good evening dear friends. I’m really sorry for the late post tonight but time has just gotten away from me (plus I was side-tracked on Facebook lol!). I hope you’ve all had a great day and are now having a relaxing night. I’m going to try and have an early night tonight as it’s becoming a regular thing for me to go to bed after 1.30am, even on a school night lol! They are starting to catch up with me and I definitely need my beauty sleep haha!

Anyway enough waffling and onto my card. We have a brand new challenge for you today over at passion for promarkers challenge which has been set by Kimberly and she has chosen “recycle something”. Don’t forget to be eligible for our prize draw you must use your Letraset products i.e. promarkers, flex markers, aqua markers or tria markers. Here is my card:

I used a super cute image from Lili of the Valley and coloured it with a mix of promarkers and flex markers. The papers are echo park from the “be mine” paper pad and the pretty flowers were cut out with a magnolia doo-hickey die. My recycled items are the ribbon which was wrapped around a pair of PJ’s that I had for Christmas and the black tag which was on one of hubby’s t-shirts.

Our sponsor this week is Joanna Sheen and the lucky winner will receive a £10.00 voucher to spend in her online store.

I decided to combine my card with my DT card for Winter Wonderland challenge as unfortunately I didn’t make a card on time for last Friday’s challenge but I thought better late than never. The theme over at WW is “easel card” and we haven’t started our Christmas themed challenges yet so it can be for any occasion. The challenge still has one day left so why not knock up a quick easel card and try your luck – you have to be in it to win it!

Our sponsor over at winter wonderland is Lili of the Valley and they are offering one lucky winner a £10.00 voucher to spend in their online store.

The design teams have created amazing cards so please pop over to both challenge blogs and check them out. We really appreciate the lovely comments you leave for us.

I’m sorry it’s a doubled up post today but I didn’t want to let down my teamies at winter wonderland and wanted to make an easel card, as it seems like ages since I made one. I’m really glad I did as it turned out quite pretty I think.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Dream valley challenge – animals (entry #1)

The squirrel and the fox challenge – critters

Lexi’s creations challenge – fancy folds

Little darlings challenge – fave colour (pink)

Moving along with the times challenge – things with wings (entry #2)

Cupcake craftroom challenge – anything goes (entry #2)

St. Luke’s charity cards challenge – recycle something

Flutterby Wednesday challenge – open

Do you stack up? challenge – patterned paper (entry #2)

Critter sketch challenge – use 3 embellishments (ribbon, pearls, flowers)

I hope you will be able to join in with the challenges and I cannot wait to see what you create. Thanks for stopping by today.

Card ingredients:

Image: Lili of the valley – ‘gift wrapped’

Papers: echo park – ‘be mine’ paper pad, pink card from the papermill shop, black card from eBay, white digi stamping card from craftwork cards

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, magnolia doo-hickeys flower die, pearls from the hobby house, personal impressions sentiment stamp, circle nesties, recycled ribbon & tag

PFP challenge 133

2012-01-24T09:00:00.000Z

I’m running a little late with my post for today’s Passion for Promarker challenge. You can check out all the details over at the challenge blog and I’ll be back later this afternoon with my post when I get in from work.

See you soon!

Cupcake craft challenge #176–DT card

2012-01-23T09:00:00.000Z

** THIS IS MY SECOND POST FOR TODAY **

Please scroll down to see my Stamp with Fun DT card

Hello again dear friends, I’m back as promised to share my DT card for this week’s cupcake craft challenge. This week the lovely Maarit has set the theme and she has chosen “all you need is love”, so any occasion where love is the reason i.e. Valentine’s day, wedding, anniversary etc. As I mentioned in my previous post it was my parents anniversary on the weekend and their friends asked me to make a card for them so it was perfect timing for me. Here is my card:

I used a digi from Karen’s Doodles called ‘sweep me off my feet’ and coloured it with a combination of promarkers and flex markers. The papers are SU! and the flowers and corner are from wild orchid crafts. The sentiment was created on the pc. The finished card is 8x8 in size.

Our sponsor this week is Tiddly Inks and one lucky winner will receive a $10.00 voucher to spend in their online store.

The rest of the design team have created amazing samples for your inspiration so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out. We really appreciate the lovely comments you leave for us.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Corrosive challenge – I (heart) you

Stamptacular challenge – seeing spots (embossed panel)

Cute card Thursday challenge – music and dance

Do you stack up? challenge – patterned paper

Sassy studio designs challenge – use frosty colours

The poodles parlour challenge – Valentine/love

Simply create too challenge – love is in the air

Crafter’s companion challenge – love is in the air

Sentimental Sunday challenge – seeing spots (embossed panel)

Creative craft challenge – the colour blue

I hope you will be able to enter our challenge this week and I cannot wait to see what you create. I would like to welcome my newest follower Brittany *waves hello* – I hope you enjoy your visits and will pop by often.

Update on my sister – she went for her biopsy result last Thursday and thankfully everything was clear. They will follow her up again in 6 weeks time and then she’ll have another MRI scan in 6 months time to check nothing has changed. It is such a weight off our minds and it was such a relief for her.

I hope you have a wonderful day and thanks so much for stopping by.

Ingredients:

Image: Karen’s Doodles – ‘sweep me off my feet’

Papers: SU! – ‘paper designer series stack – subtles collection’, white card from craftwork cards, SU not quite navy cardstock

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, flowers and metal corner from wild orchid crafts, pearls from the hobby house, sentiment created on pc, oval nesties, go create circle and scallop circle dies, A4 paper crimper from crafter on FB, cuttlebug ‘swiss dots’ embossing folder

Stamp with fun #145–DT card

2012-01-23T06:00:00.000Z

Good morning dear friends. I trust you had a good weekend. The weather here was quite good, we saw a bit of sunshine even though it was still chilly. We were celebrating my parents 45th wedding anniversary on Saturday and all went out for a lovely family meal in the evening. It was wonderful to spend time with my parents, sister and her family and we seemed to laugh all night!!

I’m here this morning to share my DT card for this week’s stamp with fun challenge. Our theme this week is “cute vintage”, although I did misread the theme slightly and just made a vintage card, but I thought I’d share it anyway. Here is my card:

I made this for my aunt’s 100th birthday a few week’s ago and as I didn’t have an actual photograph of her when she was young I used Google to find a royalty free image to use on my card. I lightly coloured her headband and flowers with flex markers to match my papers and added stickles to the flowers. I inked all the edges for a distressed/aged look and added some lace and a decorative metal corner.

The rest of the design team have created gorgeous cards as always, so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out. We really appreciate the lovely comments you leave for us.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Pile it on challenge – add lace

Sentimental Sunday challenge – die cuts (oval nesties)

Let’s craft and create challenge – butterflies

My mum’s craft shop challenge – fave colour combo (pink/green)

Colour create challenge – pink & green

CRAFT challenge – use numbers

Moving along with the times challenge – things with wings

2 sisters challenge – embossing (white panel is embossed)

Craft your days away challenge – distressing

Joanna Sheen challenge – celebrations

I hope you can join in with our challenge this week and I look forward to seeing what you create. I’ll be back later with my DT card for this week’s cupcake craft challenge but until then have a great day and thanks for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: royalty free image from internet

Papers: floral paper from papermania pack (can’t remember name sorry), green paper from SU designer stack, white card from craftwork cards

Tools: flex markers, oval nesties, metal corner & lace from wild orchid crafts, butterflies bought from crafter on FB, pearls from the hobby house, sentiment created on pc, stickles, cuttlebug “script” embossing folder

Charisma cardz #2–DT card

2012-01-19T09:00:00.000Z

Good morning dear friends. I hope you’ve had a good week so far, although I can’t believe it’s Thursday already!! I have so much to do this week and I don’t seem to have achieved very much – story of my life at the moment lol!

I’m here this morning to share my DT card for this week’s charisma cardz challenge and Nina has chosen “clean and simple” as her theme this week. Here is my card:

I have used a super cute image from Stamp Fairy called ‘Lenny – thank you’ that I luckily got as a freebie a little while ago. I coloured him with promarkers and added a pink glittery bubble sticker to his nose for an extra bit of interest. I paper pierced around the image and then simply matted and layered onto plain cardstock. Very clean and simple (and I’m not entirely sure if it’s not too clean and simple lol!). I’m sorry about the poor pics – I tried all ways to get clearer ones but to no avail!

Our sponsor this week is Stamp Fairy and I have to be honest I’m not sure what the prize is……..but if you pop over to the challenge blog there will be full details there!

The rest of the design team have created amazing samples once again this week, so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out. We really appreciate the lovely comments you leave for us.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Cardmadfairy’s digi days challenge – thank you

Reddy teddy go challenge – in the pink (hope I’ve used enough pink!)

Pile it on challenge – fuzzy friends

Crafty cardmakers challenge – no floral embellishments

Divas by design challenge – new beginnings and/or thanks

Dream valley challenge – anything goes

Anything goes challenge – anything goes

Papertake challenge – bows, buttons, bling or blooms (I have a bloom on my image)

I love promarkers challenge – anything goes

I hope you can enter our challenge this week and I look forward to seeing your CAS creations. Have a wonderful day and thanks so much for stopping by today.

Card ingredients:

Image: stamp fairy – ‘Lenny – thank you’ freebie

Papers – none, black card from eBay, pink card from the papermill shop, craftwork cards white digi stamping card

Tools: promarkers, papermania adhesive stones, glittery bubble sticker from QVC (a long time ago), pricking tool for piercing holes

Cupcake craft challenge #175–DT card

2012-01-17T00:21:00.001Z

Good evening dear friends. I apologise for my late post today but we had a new computer on the weekend and unfortunately I still don’t have half of what I need on it yet, so it’s going to be slow going for a little while until I re-discover and download everything I’m used to.

I’m here with my card for this week’s cupcake craft challenge and this week the lovely Louise has set the theme and she has chosen “born on a winter’s day” so that means we'd like to see your wintery themed birthday cards. Here is my card:

I used a super image from wee stamps called “winter fairy” and I coloured her with promarkers and flex markers. I added flower soft to all her fluffy bits and also to the ground for snow. The papers are SU from the ‘designer paper patterns stack – subtles collection’ and the card is ‘not quite navy’ and ‘crumb cake’, both again by SU.

Our sponsor this week is My Mum’s Craft Shop and one lucky winner will receive a £10.00 voucher to spend in their online store.

The rest of the design team have created amazing samples as always, so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out. We really appreciate all the lovely comments you leave for us.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Moving along with the times challenge – spots and stripes

Paper pretties challenge – blue, white and silver

Simon says stamp challenge – spots and/or stripes

Phindy’s challenge – tic tac toe(ribbon/pearls/flowers)

Totally papercrafts challenge – spots and stripes

2 sisters challenge – metal

Catch the bug challenge – birthday

Mark’s finest papers challenge – use a border punch

One stop craft challenge – spots & ribbon (I’ve used spotty ribbon hope it’s ok)

Sentimental Sunday challenge – ribbon & sentiment

I hope you can join in with our challenge this week and can’t wait to see what you create. I haven’t felt very well all weekend so I’m completely behind with all my DT cards but hopefully I’ll catch up over the next few days so I’ll be a bit late with my cards this week. I really appreciate your lovely comments and look forward to receiving them. Have a great evening and thanks so much for stopping by today.

Card ingredients:

Image: wee stamps – ‘winter fairy’ digi

Papers: SU – ‘designer paper patterns stack – subtles collection’, not quite navy & crumb cake cardstock

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, decorative corner & flowers from wild orchid crafts, SU scallop border punch, ribbon from fantastic ribbons, personal impressions sentiment stamp, pearls from the hobby house, circle nesties

Charisma cardz #1–DT card

2012-01-12T22:39:00.001Z

Good evening dear friends. I’m a little bit later than usual posting my DT card for this week’s charisma cardz challenge. Last night just seemed to pass me by and I didn’t achieve very much! However better late than never as it’s a very special challenge for us over at charisma this week as it’s our 3rd birthday and to celebrate we have amazing prizes up for grabs. Our theme is super easy – “birthday” and you will get an extra entry if you use the number 3 on your creation. Here is my card:

I made this card for a friend at work. She and her twin sister (who’s name is Dreana) were celebrating their 50th birthday on New Year’s Eve and she wanted a card that depicted her sister’s favourite past-time……………..cleaning!!! She must need psychiatric help lol! Anyway I discovered this fantastic image at Bugaboo stamps and it also came with a brilliant sentiment (housework sucks!) but as the birthday girl doesn’t think housework sucks I’ll have to save that for another card lol! I coloured the image with promarkers and flex markers and the papers are a mixture – the pink background paper is SU from the ‘designer series paper patterns stack – subtles collection’ and the shocking pink patterned paper is echo park from the ‘be mine’ paper pad. A few punched flowers and pearls and hey presto and pretty fun card! The finished card is A5 in size.

Now onto our fantastic prizes this week:

DigiStamp Boutique is offering one lucky winner 6 digi images of their choice from her online store.

Pink Cat Studio are offering one lucky winner 5 Digi's of their choice.

Meljen’s Designs are offering one lucky winner this week 4 digis from their online store

The Stamping Boutique are offering 5 digis of the winners choice.

Crafty Emma’s Store has given us a £10 voucher (exc p&p) for one lucky winner this week.

Joanna Sheen is generously offering a £10 voucher

Crafty ribbons has donated a lovely selection of Cherry Ribbons for a lucky winner this week.

Wow wonderful prizes – I just wish I could win something myself lol! The rest of the design team have created amazing samples once again this week, so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out. We really appreciate all the lovely comments you leave for us.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Corrosive challenge – ring in the new year (my image is new)

The crazy challenge – lace and/or pearls

Heart song inspirations challenge – border punches and/or torn edges

Totally stampalicious challenge – humour

Card makin’ mamas challenge – something new (my image)

Fairy tale challenge – something new (my image)

Fussy and fancy challenge – happy birthday or animal print

A gem of a challenge – photo inspiration

Crafty calendar challenge – new news (my image)

Lollipop crafts challenge – anything new goes

I hope you can enter our challenge and I can’t wait to see what you create. Don’t forget you can combine your entry with a maximum of 10 challenges including ours and we have a limit of 3 entries per challenge. I hope you have had a brilliant week so far. I would like to welcome my newest follower Victoria *waves hello* – thanks for joining me and I hope you will visit me often. I really appreciate all my followers and without you my blog would be a lonely little place (and I would have to talk to myself lol!).

I would like to thank everyone who left kind comments regarding my sister – she had to stay overnight after her investigative procedure but she is home now and feeling ok, if a bit tired . She will have to go back next week for the result of her biopsy and fingers, toes and everything else crossed that it will be good news. I will let you know next week how she gets on.

Ok, so that’s it from me today – I can’t believe it’s Friday already tomorrow – where has the week gone? Although I do have something to look forward to this weekend as myself and hubby have been invited to a friend’s surprise 60th birthday party so it will be a rare treat for me to go out (I know I’m sad haha!). Have a great evening and enjoy your last day at work or play. Thanks for stopping by today.

Card ingredients:

Image – bugaboo stamps – ‘JJ vacuum’

Papers: echo park – ‘be mine’ paper pack, SU - ‘designer series paper patterns stack – subtles collection’, black card from eBay, white digi stamping card from craftwork cards

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, ek success retro flower punch, pearls from the hobby house, SU scallop border punch, Rectangle nesties, sentiments created on the pc, me & my big ideas alphabet stickers, sakura stardust pen

Passion for promarkers #131–DT card

2012-01-10T09:00:00.000Z

Good morning dear friends. I hope Monday was good for you. I don’t think I mentioned yesterday but my sister went in for some exploratory surgery on her throat yesterday and although we’ll have to wait for the result at least she wasn’t ill after the anaesthetic as she normally is. They have kept her overnight but hopefully she should come home tomorrow. After all she’s been through I’m keeping everything crossed for a good result.

I’m here this morning with my DT card for this week’s passion for promarkers challenge. This week Gro has set the theme and she has chosen a brilliant challenge – “inspired by a song” (please can you mention in your post what song inspired your card). Don’t forget you must use your promarkers, flex markers, aqua markers or tria markers to be eligible for our prize draw. Here is my card which was inspired by “Rockstar” by Nickelback:

I have used a cool image from Pollycraft called ‘Luna Bitterfrost – Guitars Rock” and coloured her with promarkers and flex markers. The pretty papers are my mind’s eye from the ‘a happy heart’ paper pad and the plain cardstock is SU pink pirouette. I made this card for my niece’s 18th birthday but she isn’t a very girly girl so didn’t add any fluffy embellishments just a couple of gems. The finished card is A5 in size.

Our sponsor this week is Letraset and one lucky winner will receive one of their Promarker Stamping Kits.

The rest of the design team have created amazing samples as always, so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out. We really appreciate all the lovely comments you leave for us.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

The pink elephant challenge – hearts (she has a heart on her t-shirt) – if not appropriate please delete my entry

Moving along with the times challenge – step back in time (retro/music related)

Some odd girl challenge – bling it up

Alphabet challenge – x for x-tra special (18th birthday card for niece)

Crafty Ann’s challenge – let’s think hot (colours)

CES challenge – anything goes

Sweet stampin’ challenge – spots and dots (my paper)

Stampavie and more challenge – hearts (on her t-shirt) again disregard me if not appropriate

Let’s craft and create challenge – anything goes

Aud sentiments challenge – use your scraps

I hope you can join in with our challenge and I look forward to seeing what songs inspire you. Have a wonderful day and thanks so much for stopping by today.

Card ingredients:

Image: Pollycraft – ‘Luna Bitterfrost – Guitars Rock’

Papers: My mind’s eye – ‘a happy heart’ paper pad, SU pink pirouette cardstock

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, gems were a birthday pressie, sentiment created on pc, oval nesties, SU small circle punch

Cupcake craft challenge #174–DT card

2012-01-09T09:00:00.000Z

** THIS IS MY SECOND POST FOR TODAY **

Please scroll down to see my Stamp with Fun DT card

Hello again friends, I’m back as promised with my DT card for this week’s cupcake craft challenge and Liza has set the theme and she has chosen “something new”. You could make a new baby, new home, new job card or just use new stash that Santa brought for you (but if you do please can you let us know what new items you’ve used). I decided to make a new baby card as I don’t have any in stock and I love making baby cards! Here is my card:

I used a super cute image from Lori Boyd designs and coloured him with promarkers. I used my favourite paper for baby cards – gingham – and both papers are from wild rose studio ‘gorgeous ginghams’ paper stack. The blue card is from the papermill shop and the white card is digi stamping card from craftwork cards (which I fed through my paper crimper for added texture). The layout again is super simple, as its for a boy, I just added a few buttons and gems to finish. I have to say that this card is much nicer IRL and I’m really pleased with the finished result.

We have two sponsors this week, firstly we have Sew Sweet who are offering one lucky winner a £10.00 voucher to spend in their online store.

Our second sponsor is squiggle stamps who are offering one lucky winner 3 digi images from their online store.

The rest of the design team have created amazing samples as always, so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out. We really appreciate the lovely comments you leave for us.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Addicted to stamps challenge – January blues

The squirrel & the fox challenge – something new (2nd entry)

Fab ‘n’ funky challenge – something new

My mum’s craft shop challenge – something new

Cute card Thursday challenge – what’s new

Simon says stamp challenge – new something

Card makin’ mamas challenge – something new

One stop craft challenge – BINGO (pearls/gems, die-cuts/punches, buttons)

Sketch Saturday challenge – sketch

Crafty calendar challenge – new news

I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge this week and I look forward to visiting your blogs and seeing your wonderful creations. Have a wonderful day, whether it’s at work or at home, and thank you so much for stopping by today.

Card ingredients:

Image: Lori Boyd designs – ‘baby Levi’

Papers: wild rose studio – ‘gorgeous ginghams’ paper stack, plain card from the papermill shop, white digi stamping card from craftwork cards

Tools: promarkers, square nesties, dovecraft back to basics II buttons, SU basic rhinestones, personal impressions sentiment stamp, paper crimper

Stamp with fun #143–DT card

2012-01-09T06:00:00.000Z

Good morning dear friends. Another Monday and the dreaded start of the working week lol! I really need to win the lottery so that I can craft all day (which I think is every crafter’s dream). One good thing about Monday is that I have 2 DT cards to share with you and the first one is for the stamp with fun challenge. Our theme this week is “calendar” so we want to see all your gorgeous calendar creations for 2012. I was asked by a friend in work to make a desk-top easel style calendar for her daughter and this is what I made:

As I was in a bit of a rush I used a pre-coloured die cut image from Lili of the Valley but I did colour the flower and the dots on her dress with a flex marker so that she matched the paper. It was a fairly basic layout as time was an issue but my friend was happy so that’s the main thing. The papers are a mixture – the brown striped paper is echo park from the dots & stripes ‘candy shoppe collection’ and the pink paper is echo park from the ‘be mine collection’ (I think!).

The rest of the design team have made gorgeous creations, as always, so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out. We really appreciate the lovely comments you leave for us.

I would like to enter my calendar easel-card into the following challenges:

OSAAT challenge – use 3 embellishments (pearls, flowers and punched border)

Lili’s little fairies challenge – new beginnings (new year)

Paper play challenge – Happy new year (calendar)

Crafty catz challenge – a new beginning (new year)

Paper cutz challenge – new year card/project

Craft your days away challenge – new beginnings (new year)

By the cute and girly challenge – new beginnings (new year)

Cupcake craftroom challenge – anything goes

The squirrel & the fox challenge – something new (new year)

Paper sundaes challenge – saturated colours (2nd entry)

I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge this week and I look forward to seeing what you create. I’ll be back in a little while with my DT card for this week’s cupcake craft challenge but until then have a wonderful day and thanks so much for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: Lili of the Valley – die cut image from the ‘girly afternoons’ sheet

Papers: echo park – ‘dots & stripes candy shoppe collection’ and echo park – ‘be mine collection’, SU crumb cake cardstock, white digi stamping card from craftwork cards

Tools: flex marker in watermelon, ek success retro flower punch, MS border punch, pearls from the hobby house, Anita’s calendar pad

Bee crafty challenge #58–DT card

2012-01-08T18:36:00.001Z

Happy Sunday dear friends. Where do the weekends go? I can’t believe it’s already gone 6pm and I haven’t achieved anything yet today lol! I hope you’ve all had a wonderful weekend – I have to say the weather here is South Wales has been pretty good, we’ve even seen some sunshine (shhhh don’t want to scare it away)!

I’m a bad DT member again this month as I’m only now sharing my DT card for this month’s Bee Crafty challenge – but hey at least it’s only the 8th this month (*hangs head in shame*). We have an easy theme this month – we want to see celebratory cards or crafts, this could be to mark the New Year, or be for a birthday, special event etc... just make 'celebration' the theme and we are especially keen to see balloons. Here is my card:

I have used a super cute image called “fluffy bunny birthday” and I coloured him with promarkers and flex markers and also added diamond glaze to his balloon for a bit of shine. The papers are my minds eye “everyday flair” and the edges were distressed and inked with a cats eye chalk ink pad.

The prize as always is 2 digi images from the bee crafty shop and the challenge ends at the end of the month.

The rest of the design team have created amazing samples so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out. We really appreciate the lovely comments you leave for us.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Paper sundaes challenge – saturated colours

Quirky crafts challenge – food glorious food

Southern girls challenge – show us your sparkle

Crafty Ann’s challenge – let’s think hot (colours)

Fussy and fancy challenge – happy birthday or use animal print

Simply create too challenge – layers, layers and more layers

Secret crafter Saturday challenge – let them eat cake

CES challenge – anything goes

Catch the bug challenge – anything goes (1st entry)

Papertake challenge – anything goes

I hope you can join in with our challenge this month and I look forward to seeing what you create. I would like to welcome my newest followers – Bridget, Karen and Samara – *waves hello* – thanks so much for following me and I hope you like what you see and will visit me often.

I’ll be back tomorrow with my DT cards for the cupcake craft challenge and stamp with fun challenge but until then have a wonderful evening and enjoy the last bit of your weekend.

Card ingredients:

Image: Bee Crafty – ‘fluffy bunny birthday

Papers: my mind’s eye – ‘everyday flair’ paper pad, white digi stamping cardstock from craftwork cards

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, SU white flowers, ek success retro flower punch, gems from stash, personal impressions sentiment stamp, nesties labels 8, cat’s eye chalk ink pad, scissors for distressing edges

Winter wonderland challenge–DT card

2012-01-06T09:00:00.000Z

Good morning dear friends. Hasn’t the weather been really shocking this week and I hope you haven’t experienced the awful damage I’ve seen on the TV. It’s been very windy and wet here but thankfully we haven’t had any problems with flooding or any damage. I hope you all keep warm, dry and safe.

I’m here this morning to share my DT card for this week’s Winter Wonderland challenge and the lovely Marianne has set the theme and she has chosen “let’s go shopping “ and she would like to see images that are shopping or holding shopping bags etc. . Our challenge does not have to be for Christmas, although you can if you like, as we don’t start our Christmas only challenges until February. I really struggled with this challenge as I seem to have misplaced my mojo this week so if anyone has any spare please send it my way lol! Anyway here is my card:

I used a super cute image from Lori Boyd designs called ‘back to school Lucy’ but I removed her pile of books! I coloured her using promarkers and flex markers and cut her out with an oval nestie. The papers are a magazine freebie from quite a while ago and the card (which is really turquoise IRL) is stampin’ up. The ribbon isn’t quite so dark IRL either but hey-ho my wonderful photography skills at work again!!

We have some new DT members joining us from this week and joining Team Marianne we have Bridget and Karen and joining Team Kate we have Debbie and Lisa. Welcome girls, I cannot wait to see your wonderful creations.

Our sponsor this week is Crafter’s Companion and the lucky winner will receive a £10.00 voucher to spend in the online store.

The rest of the DT (including the newbies Bridget and Karen) have created amazing cards for your inspiration so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out. We really appreciate the lovely comments you leave for us.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

OSAAT challenge – use a digi

Crafty boots challenge – celebration

Critter sketch challenge – celebration

Tip top Tuesday challenge – anything goes

Pile it on challenge – anything goes

Sentimental Sunday challenge – anything goes

The pink elephant challenge – anything goes

Pollycraft challenge – punch it

Crafts and me challenge – anything goes

I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge this week and I look forward to visiting your blogs and seeing your gorgeous creations. I would like to welcome my newest follower Lisa Jane *waves hello* – thanks for joining me and I hope you will visit me often. Have a wonderful day and thanks so much for stopping by today.

Card ingredients:

Image: Lori Boyd Designs – ‘back to school Lucy’

Papers: patterned paper – magazine freebie, plain card Stampin’ Up!

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, martha stewart punch, nesties, wild orchid crafts flowers and corner, personal impressions sentiment stamp, pearls from the hobby house

Passion for promarkers #130–DT card

2012-01-03T09:00:00.000Z

Good morning dear friends. I hope you had a great weekend and have recovered from any self inflicted illnesses lol! We had a quiet New Year’s Eve and the whole family just chilled out, which was nice though. I haven’t crafted for so long and I have to say it is taken a toll on both my motivation and my mojo, but I’m sure I’ll soon get into the swing of things.

I’m back this morning as it’s time for a brand new challenge over at Passion for Promarkers challenge and it seems like forever since we had a new challenge as we had our month long Mega Christmas challenge last month. I have to say it was wonderful to see all your amazing creations and I really enjoyed visiting your blogs. I have the honour of setting the challenge this week and I have chosen “thank you” as our theme, as I’m sure like me you still have a few cards to make to thank relatives and friends for their Christmas gifts.

I made a very simple card for this week’s challenge although I have to say I’m really pleased with the finished result. Here is my card:

I used a super cute digi from Saturated Canary digis which is aptly called “thank you” and coloured her with promarkers and flex markers. I bought some Martha Stewart PATP punches out of my Christmas money and used just the border punch on this card. The sentiment is from a clear stamp set by personal impressions and I meant to add some pearls but forgot to lol, but as I say I’m really pleased with it anyway!

Our sponsor this week is Letraset and they are offering one lucky winner a prize of a Promarker Stamping kit.

The rest of the design team have created amazing samples as always, so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out. We really appreciate all the lovely comments you leave for us.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Addicted to stamps challenge – something new (digi and punch)

OSAAT challenge – use a digi

The squirrel & the fox challenge – something new (digi and punch)

Pollycraft challenge - punch it

Ladybug crafts ink challenge – use your new stash (digi and punch)

Papertake challenge – anything goes + option something new

Paper sundaes challenge – something old, something new (old paper/ribbon, new digi/punch)

Party time Tuesday challenge – something new (digi and punch)

Scrap creations challenge – something old, something new (old paper/ribbon, new digi/punch)

Pile it on challenge – anything goes

I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge this week and I look forward to seeing what you create. I would like to welcome my newest follower Anne Christine *waves hello* – thanks for joining my happy band of followers and I hope you like my creations. I still haven’t posted my card for this month’s bee crafty challenge so I may be back later with that card too. Until then have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: Saturated canary digis – ‘thank you’

Papers: Papermania – ‘capsule collection – cranberry & apple’, SU real red cardstock, white digi cardstock from craftwork cards

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, SU red ribbon, MS vintage lace PATP border punch, personal impressions sentiment stamp

Happy New Year!

2012-01-01T11:07:00.001Z

I would like to wish all my friends and followers a very Happy New Year and best wishes for a happy and healthy 2012.

I’m sorry I’ve been MIA for a few weeks but things will hopefully get back to “normal” now all the festivities are over (insert sad face). I’ll be back later with my card for the brand new challenge over at bee crafty challenge.

Have a wonderful day.

Passion for promarkers #129–midway reminder & DT card

2011-12-20T09:00:00.000Z

Good morning dear friends. I’m here this morning as we are midway through our Mega Christmas challenge over at passion for promarkers challenge and it is the turn of team 1 to offer some more inspiration. I am lucky enough to be on both team 1 and team 2 so I can share another card with you today. As you know the theme is “celebrations” and the challenge will run until 3rd January 2012. We have some amazing prizes up for grabs which you can read all about in my original post here. Don’t forget you must use your promarkers, flex markers, aqua markers or tria markers to be eligible for one of our fantastic prizes and obviously follow the very simple theme. Here is my card:

My son asked me to make an 18th birthday card for his friend, and as he plays guitar in a band with my son I had to use this fantastic image from Kenny K called ‘rock dude’. I coloured the image with promarkers and flex markers and cut out the image using my neglected rectangle nesties. I embossed one half of the card with a perfect musical note embossing folder and added some twine and pearls. Again another fuss free card as if my son’s friend is anything like my son, then this will be perfect. Most boys this age will just glance at it anyway lol!

The rest of design team 1 have created amazing samples so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out. We really appreciate the lovely comments you leave for us.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Here comes the boys challenge – rock n roll

Kenny K’s krafty girlz challenge – anything goes

Cute card Thursday challenge – stripes

Dutch dare challenge – tic-tac-toe (pearls, distressing, embossing) 2nd entry

Simply create too challenge – embossing

Totally papercrafts challenge – time to party

Secret crafter Saturday challenge – new year/celebration (18th)

Paper sundaes challenge – celebrate

Paper playtime challenge – anything goes + sentiment

Stamps & fun = creativity challenge – your favourite material (paper!!)

Stampavie and more challenge – use red

I hope you can join in with our challenge, but don’t forget you can only enter this challenge a maximum of 3 times. I look forward to visiting your blogs and seeing all your wonderful creations. Have a great day and thanks so much for stopping by today.

Card ingredients:

Image: Kenny K – ‘rock dude’

Papers: sorry can’t remember!, SU real red cardstock

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, pearls from the hobby house, rectangle and circle nesties, sentiment created on pc, twine from stash, crafts too music notes embossing folder