Charisma cardz/SWF challenge – DT card

Good morning dear friends.  I hope you are all surviving the dreadful weather we’re having at the moment.  I hate the rain at the best of times but it’s starting to get on my nerves already lol!  I know that lots of other parts of the country really need rain, but it is definitely one thing we don’t need in the South Wales valleys haha!

Over at charisma cardz challenge it’s time for a brand new challenge and for Team Gemma to share their creations.  The theme has been chosen by the lovely Natalie and she would like to see your “blue, black and white” creations.  I also used the gorgeous sketch from this week’s stamp with fun challenge (I am extremely late with my card – sorry!).   Here is my card:

and here is the sketch:

I have used an image from Some Odd Girl called ‘geeky Mae’ and coloured her with promarkers and flex markers.  The papers are from the docrafts forever friends ‘new arrival’ designstax and the black card is from eBay.  The papers are a really soft pastel blue IRL but for some reason they are showing up as a blue-ish grey in the photos!  I embossed the white card with an embossing folder and added some black gems but otherwise kept the layout really simple. 

We have three sponsors this week, firstly we have DigiStamp Boutique who are offering one lucky winner 6 digi images of their choice.  Our second sponsor is Crafty Emma’s store and one lucky winner will receive a £10.00 voucher to spend in her online store and our third sponsor is the stamping boutique who are offering 5 digis of the winner’s choice.  Certainly lots of fab reasons to join in the fun this week.

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

Stampin’ sisters in Christ challenge – soft pastels

Stamptacular challenge – loaded with layers

Creative card crew challenge – use ribbon

Digital Tuesday challenge – winter blues (I used blue papers/promarkers)

Flourishes timeless Tuesday challenge – BINGO (blue, ribbon and bling)

Scrap creations challenge – it’s a girl thing

Simon says stamp challenge – anything goes

Really reasonable ribbon challenge – black, white + 1 accent colour (+ ribbon)

Bunny Zoe’s challenge – ribbon or twine

The crazy challenge – feminine/girly

I hope you can join in with both challenges and I cannot wait to see what you create.  I would like to welcome my newest follower Sharon (aka shazronnie – fab name by the way!) *waves hello* – thanks for joining my happy band of followers and I hope you will visit me often.  I hope you have a wonderful Thursday and don;t get caught in too many rain showers!  Thanks so much for stopping by today.

 

Card ingredients:

Image: some odd girl – ‘geeky Mae’

Papers: docrafts forever friends ‘new arrival’ designstax, black card from eBay, white digi stamping card from craftwork cards

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, ribbon from fantastic ribbons, personal impressions sentiment stamp, black gems from MeiFlower, craft concepts ‘in stitches’ embossing folder

Charisma cardz challenge–DT card

Good morning dear friends.  I cannot believe it’s Thursday already, the week is flying by, although I’m not complaining!!  Work is super busy at the moment and the day just whizzes by, which is fantastic, although I do think I’m wishing my life away lol!

It’s time for a brand new challenge over at charisma cardz challenge and it’s Team Gem’s week to share their cards.  The lovely Joyce has set the theme this week and she has chosen “fancy folds”.  Now as I was a bit tight for time I played it safe and made an easel card although I do find them extremely difficult to photograph and I forgot to take a ‘side-on’ view!  Here is my card:

 

I have used a super gorgeous new image from DigiStamp Boutique called ‘Hoop Rosie’ from the April offer of the month set called ‘funtime Rosie’ which is available for a special price until the end of the month.  There are 3 images in the set and all are equally as cute as this one.  I coloured the image with promarkers and had a go at doing a cloud background with chalks.  I will try using my promarkers in the future but it was really quick using the chalks (and my finger tip!).  I have to say I am really chuffed with the clouds as it was only my second time of doing it.  The pretty pastel papers are my mind’s eye from the “dwell” 6x6 paper pad.

We have two sponsors this week.  Firstly we have Some Odd Girl who are offering one lucky winner 3 digi images of their choice. 

Our second sponsor is Digi Doodle Shop and 2 winners will receive a $5.00 voucher to spend in their online store. 

The rest of the design have created gorgeous fancy fold cards (and much more imaginative than me lol) 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:

Sketch and stash challenge – fantastic sketch by Kevin (I used a new image and neglected papers)

One stop craft challenge – pastels and die-cuts

Sweet stampin’ challenge – dies and/or doodles

Stampin’ sisters in Christ challenge – make a joy-ful card

Love to create challenge – birthday

Crafty sentiments challenge – spring and pastel colours

Digital Tuesday challenge – birthdays

Top tip Tuesday challenge – spotty dotty (my papers)

Flutterby Wednesday challenge – birthday card

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

I hope you can join in with our challenge this week and I look forward to seeing all your fancy folds.  I would like to welcome my newest follower Nat *waves hello* – thanks for becoming a follower and I hope you will visit me often.  Enjoy your day and thanks so much for stopping by today.

Card ingredients:

Image: DigiStamp Boutique – ‘hoop Rosie’ from the “funtime Rosie” offer of the month set

Papers: my mind’s eye – ‘dwell’ paper pad, black card from eBay

Tools: Promarkers, circle nesties, pearls from the hobby house, die-namics butterfly dies, sakura stardust pen, personal impressions clear sentiment stamp, chalk for cloud background

Charisma cardz #12–DT card

Good morning dear friends.  I’m back in the land of the living at long last!!  I am really sorry for my long absence but I haven’t been feeling very good over the last 2 weeks or so – nothing serious, just a virus I think, but I felt really rough.  In fact I didn’t actually craft at all during that time so I must have been ill.  I even bought a card for my in-laws anniversary – awful I know!!  Anyway hopefully things will slowly get back to “normal” now, although I think my mojo has taken the break badly and is refusing to come back to normal duties lol!

Enough of my waffling!  I’m here to share my card for this week’s charisma cardz challenge and this week the lovely Gemma has set the theme and she has chosen “Easter” which I’m sure will prove very popular!  Here is my card:

I have used a super cute image from DigiStamp Boutique called “Easter Dan” and coloured him with promarkers.  At the moment this image is on offer so why not pop over to the shop and grab him at a very special price of just £1.00 (but only until end of March) – he will come in so useful for all your Easter creations.  The lovely papers are my mind’s eye from the ‘dwell’ paper pad and the kraft card is from dies to die for.  I created my little Easter egg embellishments by die-cutting the smallest oval nestie and drawing some lines with a Letraset fine liner pen and then colouring with promarkers – quite effective I think!

We have two sponsors this week, firstly we have DigiStamp Boutique and Sally-Ann is offering one lucky winner 6 digi images of their choice – and as you can see her images are so adorable you will be spoilt for choice!

Our second sponsor is Joanna Sheen and she is offering one lucky winner a £10.00 gift voucher to spend in her online store.  She has lots of gorgeous crafty goodies plus free shipping on all orders!

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 all the lovely comments you leave for us. 

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

Dream valley challenge – Easter

A gem of a challenge – sketch

Crafty boots challenge – Easter

Sentimental Sunday challenge – Easter or spring

Pollycraft challenge – choklit

Crafty sentiments challenge – Easter

Simon says stamp challenge – anything goes

Sweet stampin’ challenge – anything goes

Ladybug crafts ink challenge – spots and stripes

Scrap creations challenge – Easter

I hope you can enter our challenge this week and I look forward to seeing what you create. 

Card ingredients:

Image: DigiStamp Boutique – “Easter Dan”

Papers: my mind’s eye – ‘dwell’ paper pad, kraft cardstock from dies to die for

Tools: promarkers, oval and circle nesties, SU scallop border punch, pearls from the hobby house, ribbon from stash, tonic (Tim Holtz) distressing tool, sentiment from Netty’s cards

Charisma cardz #10–DT project

Happy Friday everyone.  I hope you’ve all had a great week and are now looking forward to the weekend.  Here in Wales everyone is hyper about the Six Nations Rugby match tomorrow against France when we are in with a chance of winning the Grand Slam (*whispers* I’m not a big rugby fan but will be keeping one eye on the TV just to see what happens).  I’m sure Cardiff will be buzzing with all the fans from both nations supporting their teams. 

I’m here this evening with a catch up post for this week’s charisma cardz challenge.  This week it’s my turn to set the theme and I have chosen “alter it”, so I would like to see something altered to look different from it’s original state – whatever you do is up to you.  I have very little time to create my project so I decided to alter a plain white gift bag (I know I’ve done this before but they are really very useful lol!).  Here is my altered project:

and here is a photo of the bag before I altered it:

I used another new image from DigiStamp Boutique called ‘Easter Rosie’, which is currently one of the offers of the month and available at the special prize of just £1.00.   I also used the little egg images which come in the ‘Easter collection 2’ which again is available at a special prize at the moment.  Why not pop over to the DSB shop and grab them while you can!  I coloured the images with promarkers and the pretty papers are from the first edition ‘hideaway’ paper pad, it’s hard to tell but they are lovely and glittery.  I did add a sentiment and a few more mini eggs on the back of my bag but forgot to take a picture d’oh!

Our sponsor this week is All That Scraps and one lucky winner will receive this amazing prize:

The design team have done an amazing job 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 altered bag into the following challenges:

Kaboodle challenge – show us some green

Digital Tuesday challenge – think spring

Crafts and me challenge – let’s see circles (lots on my paper)

Divas by design challenge – citrus colours

I love promarkers challenge – anything goes

Simon says stamp challenge – a bit o’ green

Crafty Ann’s challenge – spring into spring

Really reasonable ribbon challenge – spring with ribbon

The pretty little ribbon shop challenge – spring colours

4 crafty chicks challenge - chicks rule!

I hope you will be able to join in with my challenge this week.  Your entry doesn’t have to be anything too complicated (just look at my project) the main thing is to have fun!  I look forward to seeing what you create.  I would like to welcome my newest followers – Vicki and Tonya *waves hello*.  Thanks for joining me ladies and I hope you will visit me often.  I’m running late with my post for the winter wonderland challenge but hopefully I’ll get around to posting it tomorrow.  Have a wonderful weekend and thanks so much for stopping by.

Ingredients:

Image: DigiStamp Boutique – ‘Easter Rosie"’

Papers: first edition – ‘hideaway’ paper pad, SU cardstock (from mixed pack – brights I think!)

Tools: promarkers, circle and oval nesties, twine and ribbon from the pretty little ribbon shop, cropadile, plain paper bag from crafts u love 

Charisma cardz #8–DT card

** THIS IS MY SECOND POST FOR TODAY **

Please scroll down to see my PFP/Stamp with Fun DT card

Hello again dear friends.  I’m back with a very late DT card for charisma cardz challenge (I should have posted it last Thursday – what am I like – I’m getting worse I think lol!).  The theme is “masking” and if you’re not sure how to achieve this technique here is a link to a simple tutorial by Beate Johns on SCS, although if I can do it I think most people can haha!.   I decided to use two older stamps from sugar nellie from the gorjuss girls range, which are still firm favourites of mine.  Here is my card:

The images I used are ‘just a girl’ and ‘sitting’ and I coloured them with promarkers and flex markers,  The gorgeous papers are first edition from the ‘hideaway’ paper pad and I coloured the doily with a cats eye chalk ink pad to match my papers.  I added a memory box flourish and some lollipop flowers and I was done.  I really like the sunshine-y feel to this card, especially as they are not colours I would normally use.

Our sponsors this week are Simon Says stamp who are offering a $20.00 voucher to spend in their online store and Pink Cat Studio who are offering a prize of 5 digi images. 

The rest of the design team have created amazing cards as always (and Jenni and myself used the same images on our cards lol!).  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:

The sugar bowl challenge – sketch & option kraft

Critter sketch challenge – buttons, buttons, I love buttons

Incy wincy designs challenge – something old/new (images old, papers new)

Kaboodle challenge – think spring

The pink elephant challenge – let’s see those layers

Pollycraft challenge – spring has sprung

Simon says stamp challenge – anything goes

Card makin’ mamas challenge – let’s see some green & coloured image

Stamping for the weekend challenge – BINGO (glitter/sparkles, lace – doily, butterflies)

One stop craft challenge – button it

I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge, although you’ll have to be quick as it ends in just over a day!!  I cannot wait to see what you create.  I would like to welcome my newest follower Isa – *waves hello* who left me lovely comments this morning – much appreciated hun and I hope you’ll pop by often.  I may be back later with another card so until then have a wonderful day and thanks so much for stopping by today.

 

Card ingredients:

Images: sugar nellie stamps – gorjuss girls ‘sitting’ and ‘just a girl’

Papers: first edition – ‘hideaway’ paper pad, white digital stamping card from craftwork cards

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, die-namics butterfly die, SU circle punches, stickles, memory box flourish die, personal impressions sentiment stamp, doily from Joanna Sheen (I think!) tonic (Tim Holtz) distressing tool, buttons from fantastic ribbons, circle nesties

Charisma cardz #2–DT card

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

Charisma cardz #1–DT card

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