Card Clubhouse IG Hop - Week 16

Hello again lovely friends; I'm back to share my card for the Card Clubhouse IG hop organised by my sweet friend Kelly. We are on Week 16 and our theme is 'back to YOUR class' so we want you to make a card, not to be confused with back to school, YOU are the teacher so show us your speciality!  I'm sure this is going to be such much fun and such a varied hop this week and I can't wait to see what sparks your imagination.

If I was ever going to teach a class it would be totally chaotic as I love so many things such as stamping, colouring, ink blending, die cutting....the list goes on. So I decided to include most of them on my card this week lol!  My husband was rolling his eyes when I told him I was making a card for our cat's birthday but they are still part of the family aren't they?  Willow is 5 and she has a favourite giraffe toy (appropriately called giraffio) so that was the focal point on my card.  I hope you like it. 

Here is my card:

A closer look at the details:

plus I decorated the inside:

Here is a photo of Willow with Giraffio

I began by cutting a kraft card panel 4" x 5 1/4" and used a 'crackle' embossing folder to add some texture.  I also ink blended around the edge with a brown ink pad for some extra interest.  I stamped the image, coloured it with Promarkers and used the coordinating die to cut it out (I also cut 2 more from white card so that I could stack them).  I die cut a tag from white card and ink blended around the edge with yellow ink.  I die cut the letters to spell Willow from brown card and the number 5 from a deep yellow pearlescent card (I also cut the hole reinforcer for the tag from this card).  I adhered everything to the tag using liquid glue.  I added some yellow ribbon to the tag with liquid glue and also made a bow and adhered that with strong red line tape.  I added some scrap white card behind the tag and adhered that over the embossed background with double sided tape.  The panel was then added to my card base using double sided tape.  For a final finishing touch I added some crystal glaze to the brown patches of the giraffe.  For the inside I cut a white panel 4" x 5 1/4" and embossed a small piece of the kraft card, again adding some brown ink over top and adhered it o the bottom of the panel with double sided tape.  I stamped the sentiment in the centre with brown ink and added the panel to the card base using double sided tape.  

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

A Cut Above challenge - ATG with a die cut optional fall flowers

Addicted to Stamps & More challenge - birthdays

As You Like It challenge - favourite safari animal (I think giraffes are a wonder of nature with their long necks; how do they keep their heads up?!  Also Willow loves giraffes too)

Creative Friday challenge - dry embossing

Critter Crazy challenge - ATG with a featured critter

Daisy Chain challenge - animals

Inspiration Station challenge - inspiration photo (I was inspired by the colours)

Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge - happy birthday

The Neglected Stuff challenge - I've had this stamp and EF for years and never used them

Tic Tac Toe challenge - board #298 - middle vertical line: ribbon/twine, free, yellow

I hope you will pop over to Instagram and check out the hop; please use the hashtag #cardclubhousehop2026 to see all the gorgeous creations and also if you want to participate we will be able to find you.

Thank you so much for stopping by.  I have one more post for you today so I hope you can pop back and check it out.  

Love and hugs,

card supplies:

Doodlebug & Sizzix - baby boy clear stamp (for giraffe) - discontinued

Promarkers

Waffle Flower - nesting tags dies

Creative Expressions - crackle embossing folder

MFT - little letters die set

MFT - by the numbers die set

Gina K Designs - on the inside stamp (for inside sentiment)

Gina K Designs - dark chocolate ink pad

Limetree Craft - 280gsm silky smooth white card (not available but other options are here and here)

Limetree Craft - 300gsm smooth white card (for card base)

kraft card and ribbon from my stash

I now have an Affiliate Link for the Gina K Designs store. If you are considering making a purchase I would appreciate you using my links as it will earn me a small commission at no extra cost to you. 

Thank you x

Winter wonderland challenge–DT card

Hello dear friends!  I hope you’ve all had a great weekend so far.  I can’t believe the weekend is almost over though – where does the time go? 

I’m sharing my DT card for this week’s winter wonderland challenge (although I am a tad late oops!) and the lovely Lynsey has set the theme this week and she has chosen “pretty in pink”.  We want to see all your pink creations and don’t forget it has to be Christmas themed to be eligible.  Here is my card:

I used a super cute freebie image from Mo’s Digital Pencil called ‘snowy day’ and coloured it with promarkers.  I have been dying to use this image for ages and now I have I will definitely be using it again and it was lovely colour and really easy to cut out.  I embossed a piece of white card with my swiss dots embossing folder and just added a strip of doodlebug paper to break it up.  Quite a simple card but I’m quite pleased with the finished result. 

Our sponsor this week is Crafty Emma’s store and one lucky winner will receive a £10.00 voucher (excluding p&p) to spend in her 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:

Mo’s digital pencil challenge – I see spots

Paper sundaes challenge – anything goes

Pile it on challenge – pop it up (my image is on 3d foam pads)

Stamptacular challenge – freebie week

Top tip Tuesday challenge – spotty dotty

My mum’s craft shop challenge – it’s a celebration

Card makin’ mamas challenge – make it girlie

Totally gorjuss challenge – bling

Little Claire’s challenge – doing the rounds

St. Luke’s charity cards challenge – glitter/bling (2nd entry)

I hope you can join in with our challenge this week and I look forward to seeing what you create.  Enjoy the rest of your weekend. I’m going to catch up with some recorded programmes on Sky+ – what did we do before we had that lol!  Whatever you’re up to have a fab night and thanks for stopping by.

 

Card ingredients:

Image: Mo’s digital pencil – ‘snowy day’ freebie digi

Papers: doodlebug – ‘pretty pink asterisks’ 12x12 sheet, pink card from the papermill shop, white digital stamping card from craftwork cards

Tools: promarkers, dovecraft snowflake punch, gems from MeiFlower, sentiment created on pc, die-namics first place award ribbon die, circle nesties, cuttlebug swiss dots embossing folder

Passion for Promarkers #137–DT card

Here I am again with a late post but at least I’m actually posting a card this week lol!  Better late than never I suppose.  I hope you’ve all had a good start to the week so far, mine’s been ok, very busy in work but at least the first two days have flown by!  I’m here to share my DT card for this week’s passion for promarkers challenge and this week the lovely Nic has set the theme and she has chosen “black & white”.  However we only want to see the colours black and white apart from skin, hair/fur etc. and obviously you have to use your Letraset pens.  Here is my card:

I have to say I’m really chuffed with how this card turned out.  The image is from Tickled Pink stamps and I coloured him with all the grey promarkers (his hair is actually using warm grey promarkers but it looks a bit brown in the photo).  I made this card for my nephew who is 23 tomorrow so I didn’t “fuss” it too much.  I added 3 card candi, a button and some twine and that was it.  The papers are a mixture but I think they work quite well together.  The card is A5 in size.

Our sponsor this week is Tickled Pink stamps (who kindly gave all the DT an image to use on our cards this week) and they are offering one lucky winner 2 digi images of their choice. 

The rest of the design team have created amazing samples 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:

Dream valley challenge – just for men

The pink elephant challenge – print it

Creative card crew challenge – masculine

Dutch dare challenge – distressing

Totally papercrafts challenge – ribbon and/or bows

Drunken stampers challenge – texture (embossing)

The pretty little ribbon shop challenge – anything goes

Addicted to stamps challenge – birthday card with dots

Lexi’s creations challenge – monochromatic

OSAAT challenge – use a digi or no image

I hope you can join in with our challenge this week and I cannot wait to see what you create.  Thanks for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: Tickled Pink stamps – ‘Lil Lad Lestat’ digi

Papers: doodlebug (text paper) – ‘it’s about time’ 12x12 sheet, me & my big ideas (harlequin paper) – ‘bright co-ordinates’ paper pad, black card from eBay, white digi stamping card from craftwork cards

Tools: promarkers, twine from the ribbon girl, cuttlebug ‘swiss dots’ embossing folder, charcoal cats eye chalk ink pad for distressing, button from stash, card candi from craftwork cards

Sassy studio designs–GDT card

Good evening dear friends.  I’m embarrassed to say that I was a guest designer over at sassy studio designs for October and this is the first card I’ve been able to blog.  As you know at the beginning of the month I was unable to print out any digis due to being out of ink in my printer and I’ve had a bad few weeks personally so this is the first chance I’ve had to be part of the team.  I would like to apologise to the wonderful girls over at sassy studio designs for my lack of creations and I am personally so disappointed as I really love the sassy digis and I enjoy using them as they are so grown up lol!   I made this card for this week’s “inspired by a movie” challenge and the film I chose was “elf” as it is just so funny and perfect for the time of year.  Here is my card:

I decided to go for a twist on the traditional colours and used lime green instead of the normal holly green, which I think looks quite funky.  The image is called ‘Santa’s helper’ and I coloured her with a mix of promarkers and flex markers.  I cut out the image as she was a little bit too big for any of my nesties and raised her up on 3d foam squares.  The papers are old ones that I found in my stash – the checked paper is doodlebug and the words paper is momenta.

The design team are so talented and have created beautiful projects for this challenge.  Please pop over to the challenge and check them out. 

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

OSAAT challenge – Christmas

Stamptacular challenge – borders and frames

The squirrel & the fox challenge – hats or flowers

Craft your passion challenge – BINGO (pearls, free, ribbon)

Heart song inspirations challenge – embossing and/or 3 or more layers

Ladybug crafts ink challenge – non traditional and/or distressed Christmas card

The pixie cottage challenge – sketch and/or get started, make a Christmas card

The beary sweet challenge – your beary best i.e. anything goes

By the cute and girly challenge – Christmas girls

Kaboodle challenge – sassy girls

If you’re quick you still have until 7am tomorrow to enter a card into the challenge, and although we’d love to see your sassy images, you can use any image you like.  I’ll be back later with another card using a sassy image (I am trying to make amends for my poor show last month!!).  I hope you have a wonderful evening and thanks so much for stopping by. 

Card ingredients:

Image: sassy studio designs – ‘santa’s helper’

Papers: doodlebug – limeade grid paper, momenta - ‘thinking of you paper, SU real red cardstock

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, nesties labels 1 small, white organza and lime organza ribbon (layered together) from the pretty little ribbon shop, personal impressions sentiment, circle nesties, dovecraft snowflake punch, pearls from the hobby house 

Stamp with fun #121–DT card

Good morning dear friends.  Why does the weekend have to go so fast, I can’t believe it’s Monday morning already!!  Although it does mean a brand new challenge over at stamp with fun challenge.  This week we have a lovely theme for you of “friends” so you can make whatever you like as long as it’s for your friend!  Here is my card:

I have used two super sweet images from DigiStamp Boutique called ‘Molly Spencer’ and ‘Mum Spencer’ from the ‘Spencer Family’ collection, although I made mum the same size as Molly so that they looked like best friends.  The paper, which is by doodlebug is really old and has been in my stash for ages, but I think it’s really bright and summery.  The “friends” sentiment is actually a sticker, which has been in my stash for many years, and again it’s by doodlebug.

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 sweet stop challenge – sketch

Everybody art challenge – dots

Papertake challenge – getting cute

Crafty creations challenge – seeing double (my images)

Divas by design challenge – pastels

Do it with digis challenge – summer fun

Hanna & friends challenge – summer

Cardmadfairy’s digi days challenge – oh so girly

Crafty Ann’s challenge – embossing

Fairy tale challenge – summer

Frosted designs challenge – buttons

Fussy and fancy challenge – summer

Paper cutz challenge – anything goes

Phindy’s place challenge – use 2 of something (images)

Stamp something challenge – something embellished

2 sisters challenge – anything goes

Allsorts challenge – free and easy

Craft your days away challenge – summertime

Corrosive challenge – all about kids

The crafty pad challenge – embossing

Cutie Sunday challenge – summer

I hope you can join in with our challenge this week and I can’t wait to see all your gorgeous “friends” creations.  I would like to say a big hello *waves* to my newest follower Debbie.  Welcome to my little blog, I hope you will visit me often.  I’ll be back later with my DT card for this week’s cupcake craft challenge but until then thanks for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: DigiStamp Boutique – ‘Molly Spencer’ and ‘Mum Spencer’ from the ‘Spencer Family’ collection

Papers: doodlebug, plain card from the papermill shop

Tools: promarkers, cuttlebug swiss dots embossing folder, buttons from stash, baker’s twine from really reasonable ribbon, sentiment sticker by doodlebug

Winter wonderland challenge–DT card

Good morning dear friends, another week has flown by and we are another week closer to Christmas lol!  It’s just as well I’m part of the winter wonderland challenge DT as I now have a well organised stack of cards ready and won’t be rushing last minute as I normally do.  To help you build up your own stash of Christmas cards we have another brilliant challenge over at winter wonderland and we would like to see your cards feature “holly and/or ivy”, it can be as little or much as you like.  We know that many of you may not have any ivy so as long as you include holly that will be fine.  Here is my card:

Don’t faint I have actually used a real life stamp!!  It’s the gorgeous new stamp from Sugar Nellie called “furry friends” and I’ve coloured it with my promarkers.  I have a feeling this will be used lots for my Christmas cards this year as it is so adorable yet it doesn’t need much colouring to make it look fantastic.  The holly is a sizzix sizzlit die and I’ve added pearls as the berries, which I think looks really nice.  A really simple card but the image is so super cute that I didn’t want to take your eye away from it too much. 

Our sponsor this week is Simon Says Stamp and the lucky winner will receive a $15.00 gift certificate to spend in their online store.

The rest of the design team have created gorgeous cards 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:

Addicted to stamps challenge – Christmas card

The crafty pad challenge – Christmas in July

Stamptacular challenge – animal antics

Whoopsi daisy challenge – sparkle and shine

The crazy challenge – Christmas in July

Die cut dreams challenge – animal antics

Creative card crew challenge – animal antics

Everybody art challenge – dots

Freshly brewed challenge – go wild – use an animal or animal print

I love promarkers challenge – Christmas in July

Papertake challenge – getting cute

Creative belli challenge – Christmas in July

Fab ‘n’ funky challenge – animal magic

Shelly’s images challenge – show us what you got!

2 sisters challenge – Christmas in July

Catch the bug challenge – Thursday’s snow themed challenge

CES challenge – Christmas

The sweet stop challenge – sketch & Christmas in July

Moving along with the times challenge – 3 embellishments (pearls, holly & stickles), 2 papers and 1 image

I really hope you can join in with our challenge and I can’t wait to see what you create.  Have a wonderful Friday and thanks so much for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: sugar nellie stamps – ‘furry friends’

Papers: doodlebug – ‘Christmas assortment’ paper pack, plain card from the papermill shop

Tools: promarkers, stickles, sizzix sizzlit holly die, pearls from the hobby house, personal impressions sentiment

Passion for promarkers #80

Good morning everyone.  This week over at passion for promarkers challenge we have a very special Mega Christmas challenge which will last until 4th January 2011.  The design team have worked so hard over the year that we’ve decided to give them a little break during this busy time.  For our last challenge of 2010 we are making it easy on you – the theme is “anything goes”, so as long as you use your promarkers or aqua markers you will be in with a chance of winning our amazing prizes.  Don’t forget you can enter as many times as you like. 

We’ve asked team 1 and team 2 to make samples for this challenge, but we are showing them separately.  Team 1 are showing their creations this week and team 2 will be showing their creations in two week’s time.  Now technically myself and Michele are in both teams, so Michele is sharing her card this week and I will be showing my card the next time. 

However to make up for such a long break we have some amazing prizes once again.  Here is what is up for grabs:

Letraset are generously offering a set of 40 promarkers in specific craft colours stored in two promarker wallets – fab eh!

Simon Says Stamp are generously offering 3 x $10.00 gift certificates to their online store!

Just Tracy’s are generously offering a variety of prizes including 3 promarkers, a memento ink pad, 10 sheets of suitable smooth white paper and a stamp from their own range

 

Whiff of Joy Stamps are generously offering 1 stamp of winner’s choice

Some Odd Girls are offering 3 digi images of the winner’s choice

if that wasn’t enough - they are also offering a 25% discount to everyone on any order placed on their site during the challenge period using code PRO25 (excluding sale items)!!

I hope you will be able to find the time to enter our challenge for a chance to win these fantastic prizes.  Don’t forget to check back later to find out the lucky winners of the blog hop and special challenge. 

Now I couldn’t do a post today without sharing a card could I and actually as our theme is “anything goes” surprisingly my card fits lol!!  It’s another Christmas card (as I’m so far behind in making them) and it’s using a gorgeous digi image from Whimsy Stamps called ‘classic Santa’.  Here is my card:

I really like the crisp, clean feel to this card and am quite happy with the finished result (which is a nice change lol). 

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

Aly’s Sunday challenge – Inspired by a Christmas movie (mine is Santa Claus the movie)

Corrosive challenge – red and white for Christmas

Quirky crafts challenge – around the world (well Santa goes all around the world!)

Whoopsi daisy challenge – ribbons and bows

Cards for men challenge – Christmas card or gift

Paper playtime challenge – snowflakes

A spoonfull of sugar challenge – Christmas cards

Midnight madness challenge – sketch (I used sketch MMSC84)

Tip top Tuesday challenge – use ribbon on your creation

Ladybug crafts challenge – pearls

Moving along with the times challenge – for someone special (it’s for special friends)

Paper cutz challenge – Christmas card using 2 different papers

Die cut dreams Christmas club challenge – Santa’s sack

Wee memories challenge – Holiday music inspiration (mine is Santa Claus is coming to town)

Sir Stampalot challenge – Travel the world (again Santa goes all around the world)

Have a great Tuesday, drive safely and keep warm.  Thanks for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: whimsy stamps – ‘classic Santa’

Papers: all papers are doodlebug, red card from clear & simple stamps, SU whisper white card

Tools: promarkers, pearls from the hobby house, poinsettia from wild orchid crafts, charm from stash, marianne creatables snowflake die, sentiment created on the pc, SU ribbon

Cupcake craft challenge #116 – DT card

** This is my second post for today **

Please scroll down to see my Stamp with Fun DT card

Hello again everyone, I’m back to share with you my DT card for this week’s cupcake craft challenge.  I’ve had the honour of setting the challenge this week and I decided to have a go at designing a sketch (although I don’t have a photo editing programme so it’s not very good – but my lovely eldest son did ‘pretty’ it up for me lol!).  Here is the sketch:

and here is my card:

Our sponsor this week is Sassy Studio Designs and the lucky winner will receive 4 digi images of their choice. 

I was lucky enough to be able to use one of the images from sassy studio designs on my card – this one is called ‘hanging the wreath’ and I love their flirty, girly images.  The lucky winner will be spoilt for choice. 

Don’t forget we also have our cupcake madness and for the month of November we have Some Odd Girls as our sponsor.  The lucky winner will receive a $9 voucher to spend in their online store.  To be in with a chance of winning this prize you must enter at least two challenges during November – easy peasy!

The rest of the design team have done a wonderful job with my sketch, please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out.  We really appreciate your support and love reading all your messages each week.

I can also enter my card into the following challenges:

A spoonfull of sugar challenge – relish to embellish

Digital Tuesday challenge – I’ve been framed

Little red wagon challenge – use the colour red

Quixotic challenge – Christmas is coming

Theme Thursday challenge – fave colour combo (red, green & white is my fave Christmas colour combo)

Crafty catz challenge – spots and stripes (my papers)

Easy craft projects challenge – red

Raise the bar challenge – let’s see those curves (scallops, circles etc)

Allsorts challenge – twas the night before Christmas

Bee crafty challenge – Christmas

Whoopsi daisy challenge – it’s Christmas

I hope you enjoy using my sketch this week; I cannot wait to see all your gorgeous entries.  I hope you have a wonderful Monday and thanks for stopping by today.

Card ingredients:

Image: sassy studio designs – ‘hanging the wreath’

Papers: doodlebug – Christmas assortment value pack, SU whisper white card, red card from the papermill shop

Tools: promarkers, personal impressions sentiment, SU modern label punch, ribbon from fantastic ribbons, poinsettias from wild orchid crafts, SU scallop border punch, sakura stardust pen, white gel pen, square nesties