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 #38–DT project

Good morning dear friends.  I hope you are having a great week so far, work is completely manic at the moment so the week is flying by for me, hope it’s the same for you!.  It’s Thursday so that means it’s time for a brand new challenge over at charisma cardz and it’s Team Gem’s turn to share their work.  This week Christel has given us a brilliant theme of “create a gift bag or box and matching card”.  I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed making my projects for this challenge (which makes a change!!).  Here is my card and bag:

I have used a super cute image from DigiStamp Boutique from the ‘cute halloween collection’ which is one of the “offers of the month” this month and therefore available at a fantastic price.  I also printed out extra pumpkins from the ‘halloween doodles set’ which is this month’s freebie, so grab it while you can.   I coloured the images with promarkers and the gorgeous papers are authentique from the ‘6x6 bundle collection: glowing’.

Our sponsors this week are Crafty Emma’s Store who is offering a £10.00 voucher (not including p&p) to spend in her online store and Meljen’s designs who are offering one lucky winner 4 digi images of their choice from their online store. 

The rest of the design team have made gorgeous samples to inspire you once again this week, so please pop over and check them out.  We really appreciate all the lovely comments you leave for us.

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

Corrosive challenge – punches and/or dies

Pile it on challenge – colours of fall

Quirky crafts challenge – anything but a card (my gift bag)

The crazy challenge – men only

Lexi’s creations challenge – card for a child

Lollipop crafts challenge – anything but a card (my gift bag)

Ooh la la creations challenge – punches/dies

Stamps & fun = creativity challenge – use shapes and/or die cuts

Anything goes challenge – anything goes

Ladybug crafts ink challenge – animals

Papertake challenge – creature comforts

Scrap creations challenge – anything goes

Tip top Tuesday challenge – 1 for the kids

My mum’s craft shop challenge – girls and boys

Paper pretties challenge – use fall as your inspiration (colours)

Penny’s paper crafty challenge – fall

Scrapbook sisters challenge – autumn colours

Fairy fun challenge – snips and snails

Mami doodles challenge – all creatures great and small

Sew many cards challenge – halloween

Allsorts challenge – alter/recycle (altered a plain brown paper bag)

Crazy 4 challenges challenge – include a pumpkin

Totally gorjuss challenge – anything but square (my gift bag)

The beary sweet challenge – happy fall, y’all!

Crafty calendar challenge – let sleeping bears lie

Ready teddy go challenge – autumn colours

A gem of a challenge – sketch

Wow that’s a lot of challenges that my cute little set fits into lol!  I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge and I look forward to seeing what you create.  I would like to welcome my newest follower Krista *waves hello*, thanks for following me and I hope you can pop around here again soon.  Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by.

Ingredients:

Image: DigiStamp Boutique – ‘cute halloween collection’

Papers: authentique – ‘6x6 bundle collection: glowing’, SU basic black cardstock

Tools: promarkers, circle nesties, plain paper bag from crafts u love, pearls from the hobby house, sentiment freebie from birds cards

Stamp with fun #115–DT card

Good morning dear friends.  I hope you all had a brilliant weekend, although the weather yesterday was dreadful here – it was torrential rain, windy and quite chilly – what has happened to summer??  Let’s hope we see an improvement this week. 

I’m here this morning with my DT card for this week’s stamp with fun challenge.  We have a nice easy theme for you this week of “pearls and flowers” so I’m sure we will have lots of gorgeously girly entries!!  Here is my card:

I don’t know what happened to my camera today – I couldn’t get a decent photo, even after taking about 15!!  Honestly it wasn’t operator error this time, maybe it’s time to look for a new one lol!  The image is a brand new digi (for me anyway) from papilio stamps and it’s called ‘teen Billie’ and I’ve coloured it with my promarkers.  The papers were a freebie from a craft magazine. 

We have a sponsor this week – the stamping boutique – and they are offering a prize of 5 digi images of the winner’s choice.

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:

Addicted to stamps challenge – summertime (my colours and papers)

Cupcake inspirations challenge – inspirational photo

Order of the opus gluei challenge – girl things

Whoopsi daisy challenge – free and easy

Papertake challenge – anything goes

Scrap creations challenge – happy birthday

Aud sentiments challenge – summertime (my colours and papers)

Do you stack up? challenge – birthday theme

Meljen’s challenge – pink and pearls

Shelly’s images challenge – anything goes

Stamp something challenge – something punched (my flowers)

Totally papercrafts challenge – summer

2 sisters challenge – 1 image, 2 papers, 3 embellishments (flowers, pearls, ribbon)

Our creative corner challenge – inspirational photo (I was inspired by the polka dot cushion and ruffled cushion)

Sweet stampin’ challenge – food, glorious food

Totally gorjuss challenge – flower power

The sweet stop challenge – sketch

Ok, that’s my lot for now, but I’ll be back later with my DT card for this week’s cupcake craft challenge.  I would like to say a big hello to my newest follower *waves* ‘all so cute’ aka Seren, who makes the most adorable crochet animals – welcome to my little blog and thanks for following me.  See you later and thanks for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: papilio stamps – ‘teen Billie’

Papers: magazine freebies, SU pink pirouette cardstock

Tools: promarkers, gorgeous ruffled ribbon from crafts u love, pearls from the hobby house, sentiment created on the pc, ek success medium retro flower punch, circle nesties

Colour create #6

This is my entry for this week's colour create challenge, which is orange, yellow and green with an optional extra of your entry not being a card. I decided to decorate a plain gift bag that I got from crafts u love. I used dp by imagination project and doodlebug. The image is stamping bella (daisybella) which I coloured with my pro-markers. I punched two small holes at the top of the bag and threaded through orange ribbon from my stash. I used fiskars decorative scissors to cut the scalloped edge. I'm sorry the photo doesn't really show off the bag to its best but I couldn't find anything to put inside it at the time :( Have a great day and thanks for stopping by.