Bee Crafty challenge–DT card

** 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

Bee crafty challenge #58–DT card

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

 

Bee Crafty–November challenge

Oh my goodness I am hanging my head in shame as I completely forgot to blog my card for this month’s Bee Crafty challenge.  Merrigan I hope you can forgive me!!  Thankfully we still have 10 days until the new challenge begins so I hope you will have a chance to enter.  Our theme this month is all about “explosions or exploding” - consider using an explosion of fiery, sparkly embellishments or think about creating pop up and 'exploding' cards.  Here is my card:

Now when I made my card it was almost firework night so I used that as my inspiration.  I used “whimsical girl” but cut her out and snipped off her flowers and added stickles to make it look like she was holding sparklers.  It looks a bit pale in the picture but IRL it is super sparkly!.  I also thought the girl looked like she was looking up at the sky at the firework display!  It is a very simple card; I just used some glittery card by DCWV and orange ric rac for a bit of a colour pop. 

The prize as always is your choice of any two downloads (with the exception of the sets & PDFs) from the bee crafty store. 

The rest of the DT have made beautiful creations 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:

Heart song inspirations challenge – gold or glitter

Ooh la la creations challenge – BINGO (die cut, sparkle, ribbon)

Creative craft challenge – minimalistic

Tuesday throwdown challenge – lots of circles

Crafts and me challenge – simples

Delightful challenge – BINGO (add dimension, ribbon/lace, glitter/sparkle)

Scrapbook sisters challenge – anything goes

Stampavie and more challenge – anything but square

Crafty purple frog challenge – use orange

Shelly’s images challenge – anything goes

Southern girls challenge – embellishment BINGO (die cuts, gems, ribbon)

2 sisters challenge – let it sparkle

Crazy 4 challenges challenge – black, white + wow (orange)

Mark’s finest papers challenge – black, white + 1 other colour (orange)

The beary sweet challenge – your beary best (3rd entry)

I really hope you will be able to join in with our challenge – don’t forget you still have 10 days left to play!  Me and hubby went to his auntie’s funeral on Thursday and I have to say it was a beautiful service and there were so many people there it was wonderful to see how loved she was.

I hope you’re having a fantastic weekend so far and that you enjoy your Sunday.  Thanks for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: bee crafty downloads – “whimsical girl”

Papers: DCWV – ‘glitter stack’, pink card from the papermill shop

Tools: promarkers, oval nesties, stickles, ric rac ribbon from stash, gems from stash, Letraset black fine liner pen for faux stitching

Bee crafty challenge #55–DT card

Hello dear friends.  I hope you’re having a fantastic weekend.  We’ve been spoilt today by my mum who made us the most scrummy cooked dinner yum yum!!  I’m feeling lovely and contented right about now!

Don’t faint, I know it’s a very rare Sunday post from me but that’s because it’s time for a brand new challenge over at Bee Crafty downloads.  For our monthly challenge for October we have the very easy and girly theme of “bling” so dig out all your glitter, gems and sparkle and join us for our challenge.  Here is my card:

I have used a bee crafty digi image called “contemporary girl” which is available in the store here.  I coloured the image with my promarkers and used a sakura gelly roll pen in lime star for the ruffles on her dress, buttons and bag.  I also coloured the centres of my flowers with the same gelly roll pen.  The papers are wild rose studio from the ‘Milton & co’ paper pack and the bling flourish is by prima. 

The prize as always is your choice of any two downloads (with the exception of the sets & PDFs) and you can enter the challenge as many times as you like.

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 your lovely comments. 

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

Cupcake inspirations challenge – photo inspiration (inspired by colours)

OSAAT challenge – use a digi

Stamptacular challenge – photo inspiration (inspired by colours)

Ooh la la creations challenge – punches and/or dies

Freshly brewed challenge – fall/halloween themed projects  (my colours)

Ladybug crafts ink challenge – fall and/or fancy folds

Scrap creations challenge – it’s a girl thing

Crafts and me challenge – flowers

Creative craft world challenge – autumn/fall (my colours)

Little darlings challenge – fall or halloween (my colours)

My mum’s craft shop challenge – dress up

Do you stack up? challenge – swirls (my bling swirl)

Paper crafting journey challenge – die cuts and/or punches

Sassy studio designs challenge – fall colours

Simon says stamp challenge – anything goes

Phindy’s place challenge – autumn/fall (my colours)

Totally papercrafts challenge – autumn (colours)

Allsorts challenge – use 5 flowers

Catch the bug challenge – anything goes

CES challenge – totally gorjuss/pretty girls

Sketch Saturday challenge – sketch

Stamp magic challenge – punching/cutting

I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge and I cannot wait to see what you create.  I hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend and I’ll be back in the morning with my DT cards for the stamp with fun challenge and the cupcake craft challenge.  Thanks for stopping by today.

Card ingredients:

Image: Bee crafty downloads – ‘contemporary girl’

Papers: wild rose studio – ‘Milton & co’ paper pack, SU soft suede cardstock

Tools: promarkers, ek success retro flower punch, prima bling flourish, sakura gelly roll pen, personal impressions sentiment, SU scalloped border punch

Bee Crafty #54–DT card

** THIS IS MY SECOND POST FOR TODAY **

Please scroll down to see my Charisma Cardz DT card

Hello again friends.  I have another DT card to share with you this morning, this time for the monthly Bee Crafty challenge.  This month we have a brilliant theme of “fantastic frames and beautiful borders”, which I think is pretty self explanatory!  Here is my card:

I have used a super cute image called ‘whimsical girl and snowman’ and it is available in the Bee Crafty shop at the amazing price of just 99p!  The gorgeous papers are wild rose studio from the ‘wintry Christmas’ paper pack.  I used lots of layers to create ‘frames’, a die cut scalloped nestie to frame the image and just a simple scallop border to finish. 

As always the prize for one lucky winner is 2 digi images from the Bee Crafty store and there are so many cute images to choose from the winner will be spoilt for choice.

The rest of the design team have created amazing samples as always, so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out. 

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

Addicted to stamps challenge – photo inspiration

Stamps & fun = creativity challenge – dots and stripes

Anything goes challenge – inspired by TV/film (The snowman)

Creative card crew challenge – anything goes

I love promarkers challenge – anything goes

Crafty creations challenge – use 3 different dies or punches (snowflake punch, border punch, swirl punch, square nesties die)

Divas by design challenge – Christmas in August

Let’s craft and create challenge – blast from the past (#8 it’s Christmas, #20 dies to die for and #25 go digi)

Little red wagon challenge – border punches (scalloped border)

My mum’s craft shop challenge – 123 (1 image, 2 snowflakes/swirls/pearls, 3 papers)

Scrapbook sisters challenge – anything goes

Your next stamp challenge – song inspiration (frosty the snowman)

Crafts 4 eternity challenge – Christmas

Jellypark friends challenge – gettin’ punchy

Christmas crafting challenge – Christmas sparkle (my pearls)

I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge this month and I look forward to seeing what you create.  Don’t forget you can enter as many times as you like during the month but you must use a digi image, although it doesn’t have to be a Bee Crafty image.  I hope you have a wonderful day and thanks so much for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: bee crafty – ‘whimsical girl and snowman’

Papers: wild rose studio – ‘wintry Christmas’ paper pack, SU cardstock

Tools: promarkers, personal impressions sentiment, ek success flourish punch, MS snowflake punch, pearls from the hobby house, white gel pen, square nesties, SU scallop border punch

Bee Crafty challenge #53–DT card

** THIS IS MY THIRD POST FOR TODAY **

Please scroll down to see my cupcake craft DT card

Wow what a busy day for me today, and I’m not even here to enjoy it lol!  It’s time for a new monthly challenge over at Bee Crafty challenge and this month our theme is “chopping up images”, so we want you to only use part of an image in a different way to which is was intended.  Don’t forget you don’t have to use a bee crafty image but you must use a digital image to enter our challenges.  Here is my card:

the image I used is called “bear family” and this is what is looked like originally

I cut out the tiniest bear from the bear family and decided to make a cute little new baby card.  I coloured the bear in pink with my promarkers and made a dotty background using the same colour promarkers.  The papers are a magazine freebie and the circle is embossed with a cuttlebug embossing folder.

As always our prize is 2 images from the Bee Crafty online store.  As you can see from my card the images are so super cute you will be spoilt for choice. 

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

I’m not linking up my card to any challenges as I don’t have internet access whilst on my hols, although I did follow the Papertake challenge, who had a brilliant sketch by Dawny P. 

That’s all from me today (thank goodness I hear your cry lol!) but I’ll be back tomorrow with my DT card for this week’s passion for promarkers challenge.  I hope you have a wonderful day and thanks so much for stopping by. 

 

Card ingredients:

Image: bee crafty – ‘bear family’ (chopped down to just one bear!)

Papers: magazine freebie, SU pink pirouette cardstock

Tools: promarkers, ribbon recycled from choc box, personal impressions sentiment, SU circle punches, circle nesties, SU basic rhinestones, cuttlebug ‘baby’ embossing folder

Bee crafty challenge 52–DT project

** THIS IS MY SECOND POST FOR TODAY **

Please scroll down to see my Charisma Cardz DT card

Oh my goodness I have just realised that I didn’t post my DT project for the monthly challenge over at Bee Crafty.  I cannot believe it’s 14th July and it was due on 1st; I’m really sorry Merrigan I hope you will forgive me lol!  The monthly challenge for July is “wedding wishes” and I’m sure you have lots of wedding cards, boxes etc due to be made at this time of year.  I decided for a change to make a cute little wedding favour box and here it is:

I used the super cute ‘bride and groom’ image from Bee Crafty and you can see it in the shop here.  I made the box using my go-kreate frilly square dies and just constructed a basic box underneath.  It was really simple to make (well it had to be for me to be able to do it lol!) and I’m really pleased with the finished result. 

As always the lucky winner will receive 2 digi images of their choice from the Bee Crafty online store, so definitely a prize worth winning!.  My fellow teamie Deanne has made a stunning card, it is so beautiful and she has used such unusual colours so please pop over to the challenge blog and check it out. 

I would like to enter my little box into the following challenges:

Cutie Sunday challenge – lace (there is a tiny piece across the corner of the box)

Lollipop crafts challenge – anything goes

Stamps & fun = creativity challenge – lace

Totally stampalicious challenge – anything but square or rectangle

Digital Tuesday challenge – spellbound

Scrap creations challenge – use at least 2 papers and 2 embellishments

Aud sentiments challenge – use a sentiment with at least two words

Do it with digis challenge – spots or stripes or both (I’ve got striped paper)

Simon says stamp challenge – anything goes

Fun with shapes and more challenge – anything but a card

Craft your days away challenge – fancy folds

Even though I’m late posting my DT project you still have plenty of time left so I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge.  Have a wonderful evening and thanks for stopping by.

 

Box ingredients:

Image: Bee Crafty – ‘bride and groom’

Papers: DCWV – ‘nana’s nursery – girl’ paper stack, white card from stash

Tools: promarkers, SU basic rhinestones, lace from wild orchid crafts, MS scoring board (to make box), ek success small retro flower punch, SU sentiment from ‘Mr & Mrs’ stamp set

A summery card……and some news!

Happy Wednesday everyone.  I’m sure you’re wondering what I’m doing here on a Wednesday as I don’t normally post a card today!!  Well I have some exciting news to share – I have been asked to join the DT over at Bee Crafty and I didn’t think twice as I really love Merrigan’s cute images.  The bee crafty challenge is a monthly challenge so there is a brand new challenge being launched today.  The theme for June is “summer fun” and here is my card:

I have used a super cute image called ‘whimsical girl summer drink’ which is available as a single image but you can also get the ‘whimsical girl summer’ set which includes 3 images for the price of 2.  The gorgeous papers are my minds eye from the ‘Gertie’ paper pad.  I also got to use my new eyelet circle nesties, which I’ve had for ages but completely forgot about lol!

The lucky winner of this month’s challenge will receive 2 images from the bee crafty shop. 

I would like to say a big hello to my new team mates *waves*.  Please check out their gorgeous cards over at the challenge blog, you won’t be disappointed.  I am delighted and honoured to be working alongside such talented ladies. 

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

Cupcake inspirations challenge – inspiration photo

OSAAT challenge – 4th of July or picnics

Lollipop crafts challenge – inspired by a song (mine is “here comes the sun”)

A spoonfull of sugar challenge – flower power (my paper and one on my image)

Paperminutes challenge – give me four (four pearls and four layers)

Fab ‘n’ funky challenge – what’eva!

The paper variety challenge – tutti frutti (coconut drink)

Penny’s paper crafty challenge – here comes summer

Truly scrumptious challenge – summer sparkle (my pearls are my sparkle)

Moving along with the times challenge – holidays

Pixie dust studio challenge – tooty fruity (again the coconut drink)

Sassy studio designs challenge – pearls and lace (again flower trim is lace)

Frosted designs challenge – BBQ, picnic or outdoor games theme

Phindy’s place challenge – summer living

Catch the bug challenge – bright colours

Crazy 4 challenges challenge – fave vacation spot or activity (sipping cocktails)

Papertake challenge – sketch

Bunny Zoe’s challenge – lace (flower trim is lace)

Crafter’s companion challenge – here comes summer

I hope you will be able to join in with the challenge this week and I look forward to seeing what you create.  I’d like to welcome my newest follower *waves hello* – Arline – thanks for joining my happy band of followers, I really appreciate it.  Enjoy the rest of your day and thanks for stopping by today.

 

Card ingredients:

Image: bee crafty – ‘ whimsical girl summer drink’

Papers: my mind’s eye – ‘Gertie’ paper pad, plain card from the papermill shop

Tools: promarkers, personal impressions sentiment, nesties circle and eyelet circle, pearls from the hobby house, making memories flower trim