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

Winter wonderland challenge–DT card

Good morning friends.  Well it’s Friday, so that means that it’s the last day of my holiday!  I’m sure you haven’t missed me that much as I’ve scheduled all my posts this week (well as long as they’ve worked lol!).  I’m back this morning as it’s time for a brand new challenge over at winter wonderland challenge and Suzi has set the theme of “white on white” and the only colour allowed is on your image, the rest has to be white!  Now I really struggle with this type of card and I hate photographing them but I suppose a challenge isn’t supposed to be easy!  Anyway here is my card:

 

I have used one of the new images from Pollycraft called ‘swings & slides – all the trimmings’ and coloured it with my promarkers.  I have used 2 embossing folders for the background and a gorgeous sizzix swirl die cut.  I’m gutted that I stuck the image on a little wonky but it was stuck down good and proper so couldn’t get it back off!! 

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

The rest of the design team have created gorgeous Christmas cards once again this week, so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out. 

I will hopefully be able to join in with some challenges when I get back from my holiday later this evening. 

I hope you’ve had a really good week and are looking forward to chilling at the weekend.  I’m hoping that my bathroom is finished (or at least almost finished) when I get home!!  Thanks for stopping by today.

Card ingredients:

Image: pollycraft ‘swings & slides – all the trimmings’

Papers: none

Tools: promarkers, SU basic rhinestones, oval nesties, MS snowflake punch, cuttlebug ‘snowflakes’ embossing folder, craft concepts ‘in stitches’ embossing folder, sizzix sizzlits medium swirl die

Cupcake craft challenge #126 – DT card

** THIS IS MY SECOND POST FOR TODAY **

Please scroll down to see my Stamp with Fun DT card!

Hello again friends, as promised I’m back with my DT card for this week’s cupcake craft challenge.  This week’s theme has been set by Donna and she has chosen ‘food for thought’, so we would like to see all your cards and projects featuring food!!  The DT were lucky enough to be given images by our sponsor this week and here is my card:

The image is by Heather Ellis and is from the ‘pure innocence’ range.  I coloured the image with my promarkers but don’t look too closely at her arm as I had a bit of an issue with the colours bleeding lol!  I don’t normally have any problems with the colours bleeding when I use SU whisper white card so it must have just been a one off. 

As I mentioned our sponsor this week is Heather Ellis and the lucky winner will receive 3 digi images from her shop.  As you can see from my card Heather’s images are so sweet and there are lots to choose from.

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

Don’t forget we also have our ‘icing on the cupcake’ prizes up for grabs too.  Blue Jelly Stampin’ (our very own Victoria) is offering a one lucky winner, chosen at random, some Stampin’ Up! stash including a selection of 12x12 SU papers, rhinestones and a brilliant Techniques booklet.  We also have Polka doodles who are offering one lucky winner, chosen at random, the scrummy Sundae of Seasons CD Rom and thirdly we have The Paper Shelter who are offering one lucky winner, chosen at random a $10 Gift Certificate to spend in store.  See the challenge blog for pics. 

I also want to mention that yesterday we launched our ‘What’s the challenge?  You decide’ competition where we are asking for your suggestions for challenge themes and the lucky winner, chosen at random, will win a guest designer spot for the week of their challenge.  Sounds like fun doesn’t it.  We have already had lots of interesting themes suggested.  You can check out the original post here to leave your suggestion.  The competition is open until 30th January 2011. 

I can also enter my card into the following challenges:

The crafty pad challenge – something girly

Cutie Sunday challenge – anything goes

OSAAT challenge – as you like it

For fun challenge – glitter (stardust pen on cupcake)

Let’s craft and create challenge – a stitch in time (faux stitching on pink card)

Digi doodle challenge – anything goes

Glitterbabe’s challenge – anything goes with pink and sparkle

Do it with digis challenge – pink and girly

Do you stack up? challenge – pink

Paper cutz challenge – it’s your choice

Simply create challenge – use your punches

Stamp something challenge – cute somethings

Basic grey challenge – flower power (my paper)

Sketch Saturday challenge – sketch

Wee memories challenge – free your creativity

Ok, so that’s all from me today.  I’ll be back tomorrow with my DT card for this week’s PFP challenge.  Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: Heather Ellis – pure innocence 030

Papers: BG – ‘hopscotch’ paper pad. plain card from the papermill shop

Tools: promarkers, pearls from the hobby house, sakura stardust pen, craft concepts ‘in stitches’ embossing folder, sentiment created on pc, white gel pen, circle nesties, MS cherish border punch