Cupcake craft challenge #140–DT card & blog hop

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Hello again and welcome back to a very special post.  I have lots to tell you so grab a cuppa and a biscuit and settle down as this is going to be a long post!

Today over at cupcake craft challenge as well as our normal challenge we are having a blog hop to celebrate our new DT members joining us for the first time.  So I’ll give you the info for the blog hop first and then I’ll post the details for this week’s challenge as normal. 

Thanks for joining us for the Hello Cupcake Blog Hop. If you've just arrived from Delphine then you're in the right place! While you're here, please leave a comment and then hop over to Donna.  Don't forget to leave a comment on each blog in the hop, including cupcake and our guest designer Hayley's for a chance to win the candy from funky farm scrapbook barn.  If you’ve stumbled across my blog and are a little bit lost please go back to the beginning of the blog hop here.  This is a picture of the gorgeous candy you can win in the hop.  To celebrate the blog hop Hayley is also generously offering everyone 10% discount on purchases made at Funky Farm Scrapbook Barn until midnight 9th May, just enter CUPCAKEBH (exactly as shown) at checkout.

Now onto this week’s challenge and the theme this week is “something beginning with C”.  You can use whatever you like as long as it belongs with the letter C i.e. cake, cars, chocolate, cerise etc!  Here is my card:

To fit the theme I have used an image by Mo Manning called ‘what’s Cooking’, the colour Cerise and also I’ve added a Circle.  Isn’t the image so sweet and I’ve coloured her with my promarkers.  This is a Mother’s Day card that I made that I didn’t have a chance to share with you at the time.  My cardstock is actually cerise (hot pink) but for some reason it looks red in the picture – strange!

Our sponsor this week is Simon Says Stamp and one lucky winner will receive a £20.00 voucher to spend in their online store.

 

We also have our ‘icing on the cupcake’ sponsor and for May that is Crafts U Love and they are offering one lucky winner a £15.00 voucher to spend in their online store.

The design team (including our newbies) have done an amazing job, 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:

Crafty Ho’s challenge – celebrate strong influential women (my wonderful mother)

Cupcake inspirations challenge – inspired by the bright colours and my mother’s wonderful cooking

Dream valley challenge – flowers

Sentimental Sunday challenge – mother’s day/for a women

Stamptacular challenge – mum’s the word

City crafter challenge – mother may I?

Scrap creations challenge – flowers

Let’s craft and create challenge – say it with flowers

Little red wagon challenge – for mom

Aud sentiments challenge – happy mother’s day

Dutch dare challenge – card for mom

Mo’s digital pencil challenge – pink and girlie

Some odd girl challenge – something for mom

Fairy tale challenge – mother’s day

Mami doodles challenge – let’s get girly

2 sisters challenge – for a mom

Stamp, scrap & doodle challenge – mother’s day

Well, if you are still with me after all that, you deserve a medal lol!  I hope you will be able to enter our challenge this week and I can’t wait to see what you create.  Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: Mo’s digital pencil – ‘what’s cooking’

Papers: my mind’s eye – ‘ooh la la’ range, plain card from the papermill shop

Tools: promarkers, SU basic rhinestones, large gems from stash, circle nesties, joy crafts flower die, freebie sentiment from netty’s cards

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 #94–DT card

Hello dear friends, I’m sorry I wasn’t around yesterday but I spent most of last night in bed as I felt so wobbly!!  I really thought if I didn’t lie down I was going to fall down but thankfully I feel a little better today.  I have a hospital appointment on Monday so perhaps I can get some answers then – fingers crossed.  Thanks for the best wishes you’ve left for my dad.  He is improving (slowly) but had to have a blood transfusion today but hopefully that will give him a little boost now!  Once he starts to get up and moving they should let him come home. 

I am here to share with you my card for this week’s passion for promarkers challenge and the theme this week has been set by Maya and she has chosen “yellow & pink”.  I love this colour combo as it’s so fresh and girly.  I have used a brand new image from DigiStamp Boutique called ‘music Lucy’ and there are 3 images in this particular set, each one as equally cute as this one.  Here is my card:

 

I used a gorgeous square doily that I won in a recent candy and embossed the background card and left the layout really simple.  The flowers were created using my new Joy crafts flower die cutter which I’m sure you will be seeing lots of!! 

Our sponsor this week is Letraset and one lucky winner will receive one of their gorgeous stamping kits.

The rest of the DT have created amazing and beautiful cards this week, so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out.  Alternatively you can click on their names in my sidebar.   We really appreciate all the lovely comments you leave for us. 

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

Aud sentiments challenge – card/sentiment for a child

Colour create challenge – pastels

Shelly’s images challenge – use at least 1 punch

Frosted designs challenge – bling

Mami doodles challenge – use a punch or die cut

Stamp something challenge – April digi day

CES challenge – children

Stamp, scrap & doodle challenge – glitz

Secret crafter Saturday challenge – butterflies (I have used a punched butterfly)

Corrosive challenge – pastels

The crafty pad challenge – flowers

Stampin’ sisters in Christ challenge – card for a child

Craft your passion challenge – anything goes

The crazy challenge – just add flowers (2nd entry)

Paper playtime challenge – digi Monday

A spoonfull of sugar challenge – tons of texture (my doily and embossing)

Papertake challenge – anything goes + option something new (my flower dies and image)

Scrapbook sisters challenge – use yellow (please dis-regard if it should have been all yellow!)

Creative inspirations challenge – punches and dies

I hope you will have time to enter our challenge this week and I look forward to visiting your blogs.  Have a wonderful evening and thanks for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: DigiStamp Boutique – ‘music Lucy’

Papers: None, textured card by papermania

Tools: promarkers, Joy crafts flower die cutters, doily from candy win, SU basic rhinestones, sentiment created on pc, MS butterfly punch, sakura stardust pen, cuttlebug swiss dots embossing folder, circle nesties