Cupcake craft challenge #189–DT card

Oh dear, I’m a little later than normal sharing my card for this week’s cupcake craft challenge, I just don’t know where the week has gone!!  Our theme this week has been set by the lovely Maarit and she has chosen “material girl” (I bet you’re all singing Madonna’s song now lol!)  Maarit wants you to use some form of material on your creations week so let’s see how adventurous you can be!  I decided to be quite reserved (‘cos I couldn’t think of anything else) and I used felt!  Here is my card:

I’m sorry my pictures are so bad, but I really struggled to get a decent one!  I decided to go CAS on the layout and didn’t use any patterned paper at all – I know shock horror!  The image is a super cute penny black stamp called ‘ladybug & hedgehog’ and I coloured it with promarkers.  I used kraft card from dies to die for and two different embossing folders.  The flower and chevrons were both cut out of felt, also from dies to die for.  I didn’t add a sentiment as I thought it could be suitable for lots of different occasions. 

We have two sponsors this week, first we have Digi Doodle Shop and they are offering one lucky winner a $10.00 gift certificate to spend in their online store.  Our second sponsor is Quixotic Paperie and they are offering one lucky winner a £10.00 voucher to spend in their online store.

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

Addicted to stamps challenge – cakes and/or stitching

Paper sundaes challenge – let’s get cute

Kaboodle challenge – emboss it

The pink elephant challenge – hello sunshine (use yellow)

Deep ocean challenge – use punches/dies

Crafts and me challenge – embossing

Fab n funky challenge – no D.P.

My mum’s craft shop challenge – the great outdoors

Penny black Saturday challenge – no patterned paper

Crafter’s companion challenge – four legged friends

The challenge ends on Sunday at 8pm so you still have plenty of time to get your entries in.  I’m sure you can come up with something much more exciting and imaginative than I did and I really look forward to seeing what material you have used on your creations.  I’m off to do the boys packed lunch ready for school and then will be hitting the sack!!  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: penny black rubber stamp – ‘ladybug & hedgehog’

Papers: none, kraft card from dies to die for, white digi stamping card from craftwork cards

Tools: promarkers, die-namics chevron die and butterflies die, magnolia doohickeys flower die, yellow felt from dies to die for, gems from stash, cuttlebug swiss dots embossing folder and daisy pattern embossing folder, letraset black fine liner pen for faux stitching

Passion for promarkers #146–DT card

Good morning dear friends.  I hope the weather is better where you are than it is here as it’s wet and wild and staying that way all week if the forecasters are to be believed.  However that’s why crafting is the perfect hobby in this weather as you can stay indoors nice and snug and wile away the hours in your crafting area. 

I’m here this morning to share my card for this week’s passion for promarkers challenge and this week the lovely Nic has set the theme of “cut it out”, so basically we want to see all your die cuts.  I’m sure it will be a popular theme.  Here is my card:

I have used a gorgeous digi image from Crafts and Me called Aliah and coloured her with promarkers.  The dies I’ve used are die-namics ‘by the numbers’ dies, spellbinders ‘fleur de lis accents’, circle nesties and magnolia doohickeys swirl from the ‘leaf & swirl’ set.  The beautiful flower was cut from a rose ribbon.  The finished card is 8x8 in size and I made it for my mother’s birthday.

Our sponsor this week is Joanna Sheen and one lucky winner will receive a £10.00 voucher to spend in her online store.

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

Creative craft world challenge – use black

Sassy studio designs challenge – flowers and flourishes

Fussy and fancy challenge – punches and dies

2 sisters challenge – use a digi

Crazy 4 challenges challenge – use black cardstock

Little Claire’s challenge – doing the rounds

Order of the opus gluei challenge – use flourishes

Stamptacular challenge – loaded with layers

Love to create challenge – anything goes

Paper playtime challenge – birthday card including sentiment

Also I have some exciting news!   We are currently looking for 4 new members to join our team over at PFP – so if you’re interested check out our post on the challenge blog at 10.00am for all the details and the linky you need to use to enter.

I hope you can join in with our challenge this week and I look forward to seeing what you create.  Have a fantastic day and thanks so much for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: crafts and me – ‘Aliah’ digi

Papers: SU designer paper series patterns stack ‘subtles’ (purple paper), echo park ‘victoria gardens’ paper pad (yellow paper), black card from eBay

Tools: promarkers, rose ribbon from crafts u love, pearls from the hobby house, die-namics ‘by the numbers’ die set, magnolia doohickeys ‘leaf & swirl’ die set, spellbinders ‘fleur de lis accents’ shapeabilities, circle nestabilities, MS frond punch

Stamp with fun #156–DT card

Oops sorry I got mixed up with my days and forgot to schedule my posts this morning lol!  Anyway Happy Easter Monday dear friends.  I hope you all enjoyed your weekend and ate lots of lovely yummy chocolate.  I was quite reserved for me (only because I didn’t have very much) but the boys had lots of eggs and sweets as usual.  I’m sure I can sneak a few bits off them when they’re not looking lol! 

I’m here this morning to share my card for the stamp with fun challenge and this week we have a fantastic sketch to follow.  I needed to make a card for an order so this sketch was perfect for me – here is my card:

and here is the sketch:

My auntie ordered this card to give to her great-grandson who’s football mad so I used this super cute image from Pollycraft called “skills” and coloured it with my promarkers and flex markers.  The papers are a bit of mish mash!  The striped yellow paper is SU from the ‘subtle paper patterns stack’ and the other pieces of paper/card are from my piles of off cuts!  I found the footballs whilst searching on Google images and I’m really pleased with them.  They will definitely come in handy for future football themed cards.  The finished card is A5 in size.

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 the lovely comments you leave for us. 

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

Cardmadfairy’s digi days challenge – die cuts and/or punches

Catch the bug challenge – anything goes

CES challenge – swirls and pearls

Crazy 4 challenges challenge – blue, white + 1 other colour (mine is yellow)

 Joanna Sheen challenge – it’s a man’s world

OSAAT challenge – use a digi

Pile it on challenge – All about ‘S’ (swirls, stripes, sport)

Cards for men challenge – spring colours

I hope you can join in with our challenge this week and I cannot wait to see what you create.  I’ll be back later with my DT card for the cupcake craft challenge but until then enjoy your extra bank holiday day off work (if you’re lucky enough to have one) and I’ll see you later.  

Card ingredients:

Image: pollycraft – ‘skills’, football digi found on Google images

Papers: SU – ‘subtles paper patterns stack’, black card from eBay, other pieces of card/paper from off cut stash

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, magnolia doohickey flourish die, di-namics label die, gems from stash, sentiment created on the pc

PFP #139/stamp with fun #151

Good morning dear friends.  I’m sorry for the long absence between posts, I wasn’t feeling 100% last week and had a really bad headache all week.  Fortunately I’m feeling better this week (so far) but that could have something to do with the fact that I have a week off work *woohoo*. 

However I’m still dis-organised and have had to combine two of my DT cards – stamp with fun challenge this week is “pink & green” and the new challenge over at passion for promarkers challenge (which I have chosen) is “for mum/female relative”.  I thought I would give you a head start in making your mother’s day cards as it’s only 12 days away!!  However I’m also aware that some of you sadly don’t have a mother to celebrate with so will accept cards for any female relative.  Here is my card:

 

I did have every intention of making a mother’s day card but when my auntie asked me to make her a 2nd birthday card for her great grand-daughter I used this card instead as time was against me (as usual)!  The image is from DigiStamp Boutique and is from the ‘Fairy Hattie collection’.  I coloured her with promarkers and added stickles to her wings.  The papers are do crafts from the gorgeous forever friends ‘new arrival’ designstax and the plain card is SU pink pirouette.  I used a Marianne die for the rolled roses and a die-namics die for the number 2.

Our sponsor this week is the lovely Emma from Crafty Emma’s store and she is offering one lucky winner a £10.00 voucher (excl. p&p) to spend in her online store. 

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 the lovely comments you leave for us. 

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

Birthday sundaes challenge – birthday card with sentiment

Dream valley challenge – mother’s day/female themed

Pile it on challenge – spots or stripes or both (I’ve gone with spots)

Stampin’ sisters in Christ challenge – things with wings (my fairy)

Stamptacular challenge – text me

Flutterby Wednesday challenge – open theme

Aud sentiments challenge – happy birthday

Do you stack up? challenge – things with wings

Simon says stamp challenge – anything goes

Crafty catz challenge – punches & dies

I hope you can join in with my challenge this week and I cannot wait to see what you create.  I would like to welcome my newest follower Kelly Smith *waves hello* – I hope you enjoy visiting my blog and will pop by often.  I will hopefully be back later with another card but until then thanks so much for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: DigiStamp Boutique – ‘Fairy Hattie collection’

Papers: do crafts – forever friends ‘new arrival’ designstax, SU pink pirouette cardstock

Tools: promarkers, Marianne creatables rolled rose die, magnolia doo-hickey swirl die, die-namics by the numbers die set, butterflies die, brackets tab, circle nesties, MS border punch, MS frond punch, stickles, lace ribbon from stash

Cupcake craft challenge #180–DT card

Hello again friends.  Don’t faint, I’m back as promised with my DT card for this week’s cupcake craft challenge and the lovely Keeley has set the theme and she has chosen “pink fluffy cupcakes”.  So basically we want to see you use pink as the main colour, include something fluffy and at least one cupcake – simples!  Here is my card:

I have used a cute image from The Greeting Farm called ‘cupcake Anya’ and coloured her with a mix of promarkers and flex markers.  The papers are papermania from the ‘sweet nothings’ paper pad and the card is SU.  My “fluffy” part is the flower which I die cut out of felt (1 rolled flower and 2 magnolia doohickey flowers glued together).  I got the felt from dies to die for who are now selling 12x12 pieces in lots of gorgeous colours.  I made this card for my mother to give to her friend and it’s A5 in size. 

Our sponsor this week is Prairie Fairy and one lucky winner will receive a $10.00 voucher to spend in their online store.

 

The rest of the design team have created gorgeous cards once again this week, so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out.  We really appreciate the lovely comments you always leave for us. 

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

Corrosive challenge – another dimension

Paper sundaes challenge – birthdays

Fab n funky challenge – try something new (die cutting felt)

Aud sentiments challenge – use the word ‘happy’

Cute card Thursday challenge – flower power

Card makin’ mamas challenge – happy birthday

Allsorts challenge – anything goes

Secret crafter Saturday challenge – BINGO (ribbon, swirls & gems) 

Bunny Zoe’s challenge – celebrations

I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge this week and cannot wait to see what you create.  Have a wonderful day and thanks so much for stopping by today.

Card ingredients:

Image: The Greeting Farm – ‘cupcake Anya’ digi

Papers: papermania – ‘sweet nothings’ paper pad, SU pink pirouette cardstock

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, circle nesties, die-namics butterfly dies, magnolia doohickeys flourish and flowers dies, Marianne creatables rolled flower die, MS border punch, ribbon and twine from the ribbon girl, papermania adhesive stones, sentiment created on the pc

PFP #133 & Winter Wonderland DT card

Good evening dear friends.  I’m really sorry for the late post tonight but time has just gotten away from me (plus I was side-tracked on Facebook lol!).  I hope you’ve all had a great day and are now having a relaxing night.  I’m going to try and have an early night tonight as it’s becoming a regular thing for me to go to bed after 1.30am, even on a school night lol!  They are starting to catch up with me and I definitely need my beauty sleep haha!

Anyway enough waffling and onto my card.  We have a brand new challenge for you today over at passion for promarkers challenge which has been set by Kimberly and she has chosen “recycle something”.  Don’t forget to be eligible for our prize draw you must use your Letraset products i.e. promarkers, flex markers, aqua markers or tria markers.  Here is my card:

I used a super cute image from Lili of the Valley and coloured it with a mix of promarkers and flex markers.  The papers are echo park from the “be mine” paper pad and the pretty flowers were cut out with a magnolia doo-hickey die.  My recycled items are the ribbon which was wrapped around a pair of PJ’s that I had for Christmas and the black tag which was on one of hubby’s t-shirts. 

Our sponsor this week is Joanna Sheen and the lucky winner will receive a £10.00 voucher to spend in her online store. 

I decided to combine my card with my DT card for Winter Wonderland challenge as unfortunately I didn’t make a card on time for last Friday’s challenge but I thought better late than never.  The theme over at WW is “easel card” and we haven’t started our Christmas themed challenges yet so it can be for any occasion.  The challenge still has one day left so why not knock up a quick easel card and try your luck – you have to be in it to win it!

Our sponsor over at winter wonderland is Lili of the Valley and they are offering one lucky winner a £10.00 voucher to spend in their online store.

 

The design teams have created amazing cards so please pop over to both challenge blogs and check them out. We really appreciate the lovely comments you leave for us. 

I’m sorry it’s a doubled up post today but I didn’t want to let down my teamies at winter wonderland and wanted to make an easel card, as it seems like ages since I made one.  I’m really glad I did as it turned out quite pretty I think.

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

Dream valley challenge – animals (entry #1)

The squirrel and the fox challenge – critters

Lexi’s creations challenge – fancy folds

Little darlings challenge – fave colour (pink)

Moving along with the times challenge – things with wings (entry #2)

Cupcake craftroom challenge – anything goes (entry #2)

St. Luke’s charity cards challenge – recycle something

Flutterby Wednesday challenge – open

Do you stack up? challenge – patterned paper (entry #2)

Critter sketch challenge – use 3 embellishments (ribbon, pearls, flowers)

I hope you will be able to join in with the challenges and I cannot wait to see what you create.  Thanks for stopping by today.

Card ingredients:

Image: Lili of the valley – ‘gift wrapped’

Papers: echo park – ‘be mine’ paper pad, pink card from the papermill shop, black card from eBay, white digi stamping card from craftwork cards

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, magnolia doo-hickeys flower die, pearls from the hobby house, personal impressions sentiment stamp, circle nesties, recycled ribbon & tag

Stamp with fun #141–DT project

Good morning dear crafters.  I hope you all had a good weekend and I trust the weather calmed down for most of you.  It was lovely here on Saturday but the heavens opened yesterday.  I am so behind with my Christmas preparations – I still haven’t trimmed up and I’ve yet to write any cards – but it will all work out in the end as it always does!! 

I’m here this morning with my DT project for this week’s stamp with fun challenge.  Our theme this week is “packaging/gift wrapping” and you can make anything you like, it doesn’t have to be for Christmas but it is perfect for any last minute Christmas gifts you may have to make.  As luck would have it I brought home an empty biscuit tin from work last week so it was an ideal opportunity to repurpose it.  Here is my decorated tin:

front view

top view

back view

close up of image

I decided not to make a Christmas tin but instead made a girly tin as my niece’s birthday is coming up in a week’s time so I thought I could fill it with something yummy for her.  I used a neglected stamp from sugar nellie stamps called ‘gorjuss sitting’ and coloured her with promarkers and flex markers.  The pretty paper is cosmo cricket (which is double sided and I used both sides) and the beautiful broderie anglaise lace is from wild orchid crafts. 

The rest of the design team have created wonderful samples 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 altered tin in the following challenges:

Corrosive challenge – anything except Christmas

Stampin’ sisters in Christ challenge – make a birthday card/project

Divas by design challenge – anything goes (2nd entry)

Flutterby Wednesday challenge – open theme

Cute card Thursday challenge – anything goes

Do you stack up? challenge – something old (my stamp and paper)

Meljen’s challenge – use green

The sugar bowl challenge – sketch & option do something unusual

Fairy tale challenge – gift box or gift i.e. bag

Totally papercrafts challenge – anything but Christmas

Allsorts challenge – it takes two – use 2 colours (pink & green)

Penny black and more challenge – happy birthday (2nd entry)

I will be back later with my DT card for this week’s cupcake craft challenge so until then I hope you have a wonderful day and thanks so much for stopping by.

Ingredients:

Image: sugar nellie stamps – “gorjuss sitting”

Papers: cosmo cricket – ‘twist & shout” (I think!)

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, circle nesties, magnolia doohickeys flower die, MS butterfly punch, pearls from the hobby house, stickles, lace from wild orchid crafts, twine from the pretty little ribbon shop

Passion for promarkers #129–DT card

Good morning dear friends.  I hope you had a great Monday – boy was it cold here, although none of the white stuff thank you very much!  I hope everyone up in the North of England and Scotland are keeping safe and warm. 

I’m here with my DT card for this week’s passion for promarkers challenge and we are launching our very special Mega Christmas challenge, which will last for a whole month and end on 3rd January 2012.  We have a very easy theme of “celebrations” so you can enter pretty much what you like as long as you use your Letraset products i.e. promarkers, flex markers, aqua markers or tria markers.  However as it is such a busy time for everyone (including the DT) we are limiting the number of entries to just 3 per person.  Here is my card:

I made this card for a friend at work to give to her grand-daughter India and the image is Lili of the Valley called ‘dandelion clock’.  I coloured the image with promarkers and flex markers and added stickles to her flowers and wings.  The papers are SU from the ‘sweet pea’ 12x12 designer series paper pack and the plain card is from the papermill shop.  The flowers are a magnolia doohickey die and the butterflies are cut using a martha stewart punch.  The sentiment and letters were created using the pc.  The finished card is 8x8 in size. 

We have lots of very generous sponsors for this special challenge, so definitely a good reason to join in with the fun this month!

Letraset are offering 1 amazing prize of 3 new packs of promarkers (metallics set, contemporary xmas set, modern xmas set)

Whiff of Joy Stamps are generously offering 1 stamp from their sentiment collection

Pink Gem Designs are generously offering 4 digi images of winner’s choice

Joanna Sheen are generously offering 6 packs of promarker fine liner sets

DigiStamp Boutique are generously offering 6 digi images of winner's choice

Saturated Canary digis are generously offering 2 digis of winner’s choice

bugaboo stamps are generously offering 7 digis (which we are going to split into 2 prizes)

Tickled Pink stamps are generously offering 2 digis of winner’s choice (from Lil Lolita, Lil Lad and Lil Pinkette ranges)

Crafts & Me are generously offering 6 digis of winner's choice

Wow I told you we had awesome prizes didn’t I!!

Design team 2 are showcasing their work today and then midway through the challenge (in 2 weeks time) team 1 will be offering you more inspiration to keep the ideas flowing.  Please pop over to the challenge blog to see their amazing work. 

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

Dream valley challenge – sparkle (2nd entry)

Pile it on challenge – bling it up

Craft your passion challenge – anything goes and glitter

Crafty boots challenge – anything goes

The crazy challenge – anything goes

Ooh la la creations challenge – lots of sparkle

Stamps & fun = creativity challenge – pearls

Chocolate, coffee and cards challenge – celebrate (2nd entry)

Sketch Saturday challenge – sketch

Penny black and more challenge – happy birthday

I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge and remember it lasts for a whole month but you can only enter 3 times.  I cannot wait to see what you create and look forward to visiting your blogs.  Have a wonderful day and thanks so much for stopping by today.

Card ingredients:

Image: Lili of the valley – ‘dandelion clock’

Papers: SU – ‘sweet pea’ designer paper, plain card from the papermill shop

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, magnolia doohickeys flower die, MS butterfly punch, stickles, pearls from the hobby house, lace from wild orchid crafts, SU scalloped border punch, sentiment and alphabet letters created on the pc, square nesties and labels 8