Cupcake craft challenge #172–DT card

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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.  This week our lovely boss lady Faye has set the theme and she has chosen to give us a fantastic sketch to use.  I really enjoyed using the sketch and will definitely be using it again.  Here is my card:

and here is the sketch:

I used an image from DigiStamp Boutique called ‘Stan with beer’ and coloured him with promarkers and flex markers and I added some diamond glaze to the froth on his pint of beer.  The papers are wild rose studio from the ‘for men’ paper pack and I used my very last scraps of elzybells kraft card (sob!!).  I kept the layout really simple as the card is for my uncle and only added a punched star and button.   I have to say that I’m quite pleased with the finished card, even though it’s fuss free – makes a nice change sometimes doesn’t it?

Our challenge will last until 24th December but the DT will then have the following 2 weeks off to spend with our families therefore as a special treat this week we have 3 sponsors this week. Firstly we have tickled pink stamps who are offering a prize of either one rubber stamp or two digi's of winner's choice, our second sponsor is Crafty Emma’s store  and they are offering a £10 gift voucher and our third sponsor is Digital Delights who are offering 3 images of winner’s choice. 

Don’t forget we also have our ‘icing on the cupcake’ sponsor and for December that is Polka Doodles and 2 lucky winners will receive the Pretty Sweet CD. 

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:

Corrosive challenge – anything except Christmas

The crafty pad challenge – anything but Christmas

Cute card Thursday challenge – stripes (on his shirt??)

Little miss muffet challenge – buttons and ribbons (hope it’s ok that I only have 1 of each)

Frosted designs challenge – ribbon

Really reasonable ribbon challenge – anything goes + ribbon

Totally papercrafts challenge – time to party

CES challenge – party, party, party

Totally gorjuss challenge – for someone special

Paper sundaes challenge – celebrate

I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge this week, don’t forget it ends on 24th December and then our next challenge will begin on 9th January 2012.  I would like to welcome my newest follower Karen Letchworth who left me the most kindest, loveliest comment – it was much appreciated hun and I hope you continue to like my creations. 

I have to try and get organised tonight – I still haven’t written my cards, although at least I do have some to write this year and I’ve not wrapped any presents yet!!  Nothing like being last minute is there lol!  I hope you have a wonderful day and thank you so much for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: DigiStamp Boutique – ‘Stan with beer’

Papers: wild rose studio – ‘for men’ paper pack, elzybells kraft card

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, dovecraft star punch, ribbon and button from stash, ‘happy birthday’ stamp by personal impressions, ‘uncle’ stamp by clear & simple stamps, diamond glaze

Passion for promarkers #122–DT card

Good morning dear friends.  I hope you are all well and keeping warm and dry in the windy, wet weather we’re having at the moment.  I got soaked last night just putting my rubbish bags/recycling bins out in readiness for collection today.  I really don’t like the winter and am wishing my life away again until Spring lol! 

Anyway enough of my waffling!!  I’m here this morning to share my DT card for this week’s passion for promarkers challenge.  This week Lisa has set the theme and she has chosen “stars”, which can be on your image, papers or even use star embellishments, we don’t mind as long as we can see one star or more.  I was asked to make a card for a friend’s dad who loves golf, so I thought this challenge would be ideal for a masculine card.  Here is my card:

By the way I now have ink for my printer *yippee* – that was the longest 5 days of my life, although I did enjoy using rubber stamps that I had forgotten about.  I’m back to digi today as I have used an image from DigiStamp Boutique called “golf James” and coloured him with promarkers and flex markers.  The papers are my mind’s eye from the ‘true blue’ paper pad and the kraft card is by elzybells.  I have used gold star brads as I thought they suited the paper better than my usual silver.

Our sponsor this week is Crafter’s Companion and they are offering a fantastic prize of a £20.00 gift voucher to spend in their online store.

The rest of the design team have created gorgeous starry cards, 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:

Sketch Saturday challenge – sketch

Bows and berries challenge – use at least 3 colours from orange, kraft, green, yellow and brown (I’ve used brown, yellow and kraft)

I love promarkers challenge – autumnal colours

Delightful challenge – colours of fall

Shelly’s images challenge – show us your layers

Stamping for the weekend challenge – colours of autumn

Sweet stampin’ challenge – masculine (2nd entry)

St. Luke’s charity cards challenge – let’s hear it for the boys

Fab ‘n’ funky challenge – fall colours

Do you stack up? challenge – use your scraps

Celebrate the occasion challenge – masculine card + use metal (my brads)

I hope you can enter our challenge this week and I look forward to seeing what you create.  I would like to welcome my newest followers preparetostamp, Roma, Rejka *waves hello* – thanks for following me, I hope you can come back and visit me again soon.  Have a wonderful day and thank you so much for stopping by today.

Card ingredients:

Image: DigiStamp Boutique – ‘golf James’

Papers: my mind’s eye – ‘true blue’ paper pad, Elzybells kraft cardstock

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, star brads and glitter dots from stash, personal impressions ‘happy birthday’ stamp, clear & simple stamps ‘dad’ stamp, see-d’s number stamps, circle nesties, stamping up oval all punches

Cupcake craft challenge #164–DT card

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Please scroll down to see my DT project for Stamp with Fun challenge

Hello again friends.  As promised I am back once more to share my card for this week’s cupcake craft challenge.  This week the lovely Rachel has set the theme and she has chosen “buttons & bows” which I’m sure will be a very popular challenge.  I had to make a card for an order so I incorporated the two.  Here is my card:

As you can tell from my card I am still waiting for my ink to be delivered (and I’m starting to get VERY impatient).  I hope it will arrive today or I will be one very unhappy crafter!!  I have used this gorgeous sugar nellie simply sassy image called ‘boho chic’ and coloured her with promarkers and flex markers.  The gorgeous papers are first edition from the ‘bird song’ paper pad. 

Our sponsor this week is digi doodle shop and they are offering one lucky winner a $10.00 voucher to spend in their online store.

Don’t forget we also have our ‘icing on the cupcake’ sponsors and for October we have two!!  Firstly we have Polka Doodles and they are offering one lucky winner a copy of their ‘pretty sweet’ CD collection.  Our second sponsor is Scrap Affair and they are offering one lucky winner a 5 pack of promarkers. 

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:

Stamptacular challenge – you choose

Whoopsi daisy challenge – free and easy

Divas by design challenge – button up

Little miss muffet challenge – girly girl

Meljen’s challenge – use ribbon

Shelly’s images challenge – show us your layers

Fairy fun challenge – sugar and spice and everything nice

Jellypark friends challenge – use pink and a ribbon

Raise the bar challenge – pink is in

Totally gorjuss challenge – bingo (bows, buttons and flowers)

Crafter’s companion challenge – pink and green

A gem of a challenge – sketch

I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge this week and I look forward to seeing what you create.  Have a wonderful day and thank you so much for stopping by – it really means the world to me.

Card ingredients:

Image: sugar nellie – simply sassy ‘boho chic’

Papers: first edition – ‘bird song’ paper pad, plain card from the papermill shop

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, magnolia flower doohickey die, ribbon from fantastic ribbons, buttons and letter stickers from stash, personal impressions ‘happy birthday’ stamp, clear & simple stamps ‘daughter’ stamp, see-d’s number stamps, baker’s twine from the pretty little ribbon shop, circle nesties, stamping up oval all punches

Stamp with fun #132–DT card

Good morning dear friends.  I hope you all had a fab weekend, but boy don’t they go by too fast.  I can’t believe it’s time for work already groan!!  However on the positive side it also means it’s time for a brand new challenge over at stamp with fun challenge.  This week we have a wonderful sketch by Tina to work with.  I had been asked by a friend at work to make a card for her daughter’s 21st birthday so I decided to combine the two!  Here is my card:

and here is the sketch:

I have used a gorgeous image by Sugar Nellie stamps from the simply sassy range called ‘retail therapy’ and I coloured her with promarkers and flex markers.  The colour scheme was chosen by my friend as her daughter loves these colours.  I have to admit I did struggle to find papers that complimented each other and most of these have been in my stash for years.  It does look much better IRL and my friend was very happy with it!  I recently treated myself to some new magnolia doohickeys dies – the flowers and swirl – and I love them already so expect to see them on all my cards for the next few weeks lol!.  The card is 8 x 8 in size and as it was such a layered sketch I think I worked really well on a larger size card.  

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 – purple + 1 other colour (mine is teal)

OSAAT challenge – anything goes

Sentimental Sunday challenge – anything goes

Stampin’ sisters in Christ challenge – anything goes

Aud sentiments challenge – happy birthday

Crafty purple frog challenge – layers

Hanna & friends challenge – bingo (lace, pearls and dies)

Fairy fun challenge – sugar and spice and everything nice

The poodles parlour challenge – birthdays or buttons or brads (I’ve used brads and birthday)

 Simply create challenge – older than 6 months (my papers)

One stop craft challenge – anything goes

I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge this week and I cannot wait to see what you create.  I would like to welcome my newest followers – Dawn Lancaster, Julie-Ann, Wishes, Jane Gould, Nicola Jayne Saul, Elaine, Cath, and KarmaFran *waves hello* – thank you so much for joining my little bit of blogland, I hope you will visit me again soon.  I’ll be back later with my DT card for this week’s cupcake craft challenge.  Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by today. 

Card ingredients:

Image: sugar nellie stamps – simply sassy ‘retail therapy’

Papers: basic grey – ‘romani’ paper (now retired I believe), plain paper from stash, plain card from the papermill shop

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, lace from wild orchid crafts, magnolia doohickeys flowers and swirls dies, brads from stash, making memories ‘cheeky’ shimmer letter and number stickers,personal impressions sentiment, clear and simple stamps sentiment, circle nesties

Charisma cardz #15–DT card

Good morning everyone, I’m playing catch up again!  I’m here to share with you my card for this week’s charisma cardz challenge.  It was my turn to choose the theme this week, the first time since I joined the team, so I decided to have a colour challenge of “pink, green and black” and here is my card:

I used a beautiful image from the stamping boutique called ‘serenity’ and coloured her with my promarkers.  I made this for my mother to give to her sister (my auntie) for her birthday last week.  I don’t know why the paper looks red cos it really is a hot pink IRL lol! 

We are sponsored this week by make it crafty and the prize is 3 digi images from their online store. Zoe's scene images will make it VERY easy for you to mix with your existing stamps for some absolutely STUNNING scenes!

 

The rest of the design team have created amazing samples once again, so please pop over 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:

Incy wincy designs challenge – flower frenzy

Karen’s doodles challenge – happy birthday

Lollipop crafts challenge – all girl

Totally stampalicious challenge – anything goes

Digital Tuesday challenge – little women

Crafts and me challenge – ribbon

Paper pretties challenge – 2 designer papers

The paper variety challenge – flowers

The pixie cottage challenge – sketch and/or for mum or special lady

Aud sentiments challenge – anything goes

Digi doodle challenge – stripes (my paper)

Do it with digis challenge – fairies, pixies or elves

Cardmadfairy’s digi days challenge – 1 digi image, 2 papers, 3 embellishments (flowers, gem brads and ribbon)

Frosted designs challenge – handmade embellishments (used die cut flowers and brads to create my flowers)

2 sisters challenge – bingo (ribbon, gems/pearls/flowers)

The beary sweet challenge – wings

I hope you will be able to join in with my challenge this week and I can’t wait to see what you create.  I’ll be back later with my (late) card for this week’s winter wonderland challenge.  Before I go I would like to say a big hello *waves* to my newest followers fairysparkle and Jane Carroll, thanks for following me girls!  Hope you are having a good weekend so far, the weather is a bit better for the start of the kids Easter holiday so fingers crossed it will continue.  Thanks for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: the stamping boutique – ‘serenity’

Papers:  MME ‘ooh la la’ range, green card from the papermill shop, black card from clear & simple stamps 

Tools: promarkers, joy craft die cut flowers, gem brads from stash, dotty ribbon from fantastic ribbons, sentiment created on the pc, stickles

Passion for promarkers #91 - DT card

Hi everyone, well it’s better late than never but I can finally share my DT card for this week’s passion for promarkers challenge!  I’m still not feeling 100%, although I can’t really put my finger on what is wrong – I just feel “bleurgh” but that means I’m playing catch up with all my DT work at the moment!!  This week we have a gorgeous sketch by Gro to use.  Here is the sketch:

and here is my card:

I have used a brand new image from DigiStamp Boutique called ‘pretty cupcake stand’ and it’s part of the ‘cupcake collection’ which contains 4 cupcake images in total.  They are all equally yummy and so simple to colour.  The lush papers are from my minds eye. 

Our sponsor this week is DigiStamp Boutique and the lucky winner will receive 6 digi images from their online store and there are so many super cute images the winner will be spoilt for choice.

The rest of the design team have created amazing 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 also like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Stampin’ sisters in Christ challenge – use something you treasure (my gorgeous papers)

Kaboodle challenge – happy birthday

The shabby tea room challenge – party time

Wild orchid challenge – die cuts and/or punching

Anything goes challenge – die cuts

Papertake challenge – triple tastic (3 pearls)

Scrap creations challenge – anything goes

Top tip Tuesday challenge – happy birthday

Penny’s paper crafty challenge – from the kitchen

Fairy fun challenge – it’s my party

I’m sorry for the delay in posting my card and I hope that normal service will now be resumed lol!  Please check back tomorrow morning to see my DT card for this week’s charisma cardz challenge.  I would like to welcome my newest follower Sonia to my blog *waves* - it’s a pleasure to have you visit.  Thanks for stopping by.

 

Card ingredients:

Image: DigiStamp Boutique – ‘pretty cupcake stand’

Papers: my minds eye – ‘Hattie’ paper pad, black card from clear & simple stamps

Tools: promarkers, personal impressions sentiment, circle nesties, pearls from the hobby house

Stamp with fun #100–DT card

Good morning dear friends  Where did the weekend go and for that matter where did February go, I cannot believe that tomorrow it will be 1st March!!  At least the weather was a bit brighter this weekend, and we even saw lots of sunshine here, even though it was still chilly.   I hope your weekend was good, even if the weather wasn’t so good where you were.  I’m here to share with you my DT card for this week’s stamp with fun challenge and we have a lovely sketch to use this week:

 

and here is my card:

I have finally used my “new” LOTV image called ‘garden of wishes’ which I have had stamped out on my desk since I bought her!  I love this image as I think she looks so peaceful and dreamy.  As the papers I used were quite bold I decided to colour her in more soft muted colours. 

We are sponsored by Cute Stamps and Cards and they are offering some lovely prizes this week.

          

The rest of the DT have created amazing cards for your inspiration 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 also like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Stamptacular challenge – you’ve been framed (my nesties)

Dream valley challenge – anything goes

Crafty cardmakers challenge – fairies & at least 2 punches

Creative card crew challenge – fantasy

Top tip Tuesday challenge – bling it on (stickles and pearls)

Crafts and me challenge – spread your wings

Crafty creations challenge – at the bottom of my garden lives….(fairies I hope!)

Creative cottage challenge – fab florals

Fab ‘n’ funky challenge – 1 image, 2 embellishments (flowers and pearls) and 3 papers

Flutterby Wednesday challenge – open theme

Colour create challenge – colours of fruit

Paper pretties challenge – use glitter (stickles on her wings)

Crafty purple frog challenge – a touch of magic

Lili of the valley challenge – use circles

Do you stack up? challenge – anything goes

Simply create challenge – the power of flowers

Stamp something challenge – something with flowers

Challenge up your life challenge – fairytales

Crazy 4 challenges challenge – use flowers

Sweet stampin’ challenge – oh so girly

I hope you will be able to enter our challenge this week and I look forward to seeing what you create.  I have a couple of new followers to say hi to – Maureen Frew, Tracy Payne, Jen Nelson, Christine Lonsdale and Debbie – thank you so much for choosing to follow me, I hope you will call by often.  I will be back later with my DT card for this week’s cupcake craft challenge but until then have a great morning. 

Card ingredients:

Image: LOTV – ‘garden of wishes’

Papers: MME – ‘Gertie’ paper pad, plain card from clear & simple stamps 

Tools: promarkers, sizzlit corner die, circle nesties, sentiment stamp from LOTV, ek success retro flower punches, pearls from the hobby house, stickles, white gel pen

Charisma cardz challenge #8–DT card

Good morning dear friends.  This week is just flying by, I can’t believe it’s Thursday already but at least it’s time for another charisma cardz challenge.  This week Allison has set the theme and she has chosen “black,white and 1 other”.  I decided to go for something bright and cheerful so choose yellow as my extra colour.  Here is my card:

This card is a dinky 4x4 size but it’s just perfect for little notecards or even Easter cards.  I have used one of Sally-Ann’s newly released images over at DigiStamp Boutique and it’s part of the spring animals collection.  There are six different, all equally super cute, images in the collection and the set is on a special offer of just £4.20 at the moment – grab yours now whilst its at such an amazing price.  For once I also decorated the inside of my card to match the outside but I forgot to take a picture d’oh! 

We have two sponsors this week.  Firstly we have DigiStamp Boutique who are offering 6 digi images to one lucky winner.

Our second sponsor is Ai Factory and they are offering a surprise prize (it’s only a surprise cos I don’t know what it is at the moment lol!).

The rest of the design team have created amazing cards once again this week, so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out or you can click on their names in my sidebar to visit their personal blogs.  We really appreciate all the lovely comments you leave for us. 

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

Incy wincy designs challenge – use punches or dies

Freshly brewed challenge – ribbons and bows

Crafts and me challenge – time to spread your wings

Creative craft world challenge – use a square

Little red wagon challenge – animals (hope my little chick counts)

The pixie cottage challenge – sketch and/or something cute

Scrapbook sisters challenge – lace and pearls (my doily is lacy and my black pearls)

Really reasonable ribbon challenge – spring theme

Mark’s finest papers challenge – black, white & 1 other

I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge this week and I look forward to seeing what you create.  I’d like to say hello to my new followers Helen and Sarah, thank you so much for following me, I hope you will visit often.   Have a wonderful day, whatever you are up to, and thanks for stopping by today.

 

Card ingredients:

Image: DigiStamp Boutique – spring chick (from the spring animals collection)

Papers: dovecraft – back to basics paper pad, plain card from clear & simple stamps 

Tools: promarkers, ribbon from fantastic ribbons, doily from Joanna Sheen, pearls from the hobby house, circle nesties

Charisma cardz #4–DT card

Happy Thursday friends, I can’t believe how fast this week is going.  It is my first week back in work since I hurt my back and it’s very busy with lots to catch up on which means the time is whizzing by there too (which is fantastic lol!).  I hope you are all having a good week so far and that the weather isn’t too bad for you, although it’s pretty wet and wild here at the moment.  At least we are luckier than the poor people in Australia, I hope everyone is safe there. 

Enough of my rambling!!  I’m here this morning to share my DT card for this week’s charisma cardz challenge and this week we have a really tricky challenge for you.  Leah wants us to only use an image, papers and a sentiment so no embellishments whatsoever!  Oh my goodness how difficult is that???  I decided the safe bet was to make a male themed card as I don’t tend to fuss them too much anyway.  Here is my card:

I have used a brand new image from DigiStamp Boutique called ‘Barney and heart’ and isn’t he just so adorable.  Sally-Ann has released lots of new images for February and there are quite a few different Barney images to buy (and I love them all).  The offer of the month for February is a gorgeous cutie called Grace (see top of my sidebar for details) and there are 4 images for £2.99, which is brilliant value. 

We have two sponsors this week, firstly we have Make it Crafty 

and our second sponsor is Pizzazz Aplenty 

 

Please check out the challenge blog for details on the prizes.  The rest of the design team have done a brilliant job with Leah’s challenge, so please pop over and take a peek.  We appreciate all the lovely comments you leave for us. 

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

Cupcake inspirations challenge – photo inspiration (I was inspired by the colours and hearts)

Pile it on challenge – punch it (my circles are punched)

Cards for men challenge – valentine/love

Lexi’s creations challenge – valentines

Paper playtime challenge – Digi Monday – anything goes

City crafter challenge – all you need is love

Creative craft challenge – love is in the air

I love promarkers challenge – anything goes

Papertake challenge – anything goes

Flourishes timeless Tuesday challenge – valentine

Creative craft world challenge – love

Delightful challenges – come fly with me (butterflies on my image)

Let’s craft and create challenge – heart felt

Penny’s paper crafty challenge – hearts a flutter

Mami doodles challenge – the magic of love

Simply create challenge – give your heart away

Crazy 4 challenges challenge – vintage/shabby chic

Craft your days away challenge – love

Stamp, scrap & doodle challenge – get punchy

Mark’s finest papers challenge – valentine card

Bunny Zoe’s challenge – love is in the air

Bee crafty challenge – hearts

Crafter’s companion challenge – romance

Flutterby Wednesday challenge – open theme (butterflies on my image)

Ok, so that’s my lot for today.  I hope you enjoy your day and maybe find the time to enter our challenge.  Thanks for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: DigiStamp Boutique – ‘Barney and heart’

Papers: basic grey – olivia paper pad, black card from clear & simple stamps 

Tools: promarkers, SU and woodware circle punches, sakura stardust pen, scissors for distressing edges, personal impressions sentiment