Winter wonderland challenge–DT card

Hello dear friends!  I hope you’ve all had a great weekend so far.  I can’t believe the weekend is almost over though – where does the time go? 

I’m sharing my DT card for this week’s winter wonderland challenge (although I am a tad late oops!) and the lovely Lynsey has set the theme this week and she has chosen “pretty in pink”.  We want to see all your pink creations and don’t forget it has to be Christmas themed to be eligible.  Here is my card:

I used a super cute freebie image from Mo’s Digital Pencil called ‘snowy day’ and coloured it with promarkers.  I have been dying to use this image for ages and now I have I will definitely be using it again and it was lovely colour and really easy to cut out.  I embossed a piece of white card with my swiss dots embossing folder and just added a strip of doodlebug paper to break it up.  Quite a simple card but I’m quite pleased with the finished result. 

Our sponsor this week is Crafty Emma’s store and one lucky winner will receive a £10.00 voucher (excluding 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:

Mo’s digital pencil challenge – I see spots

Paper sundaes challenge – anything goes

Pile it on challenge – pop it up (my image is on 3d foam pads)

Stamptacular challenge – freebie week

Top tip Tuesday challenge – spotty dotty

My mum’s craft shop challenge – it’s a celebration

Card makin’ mamas challenge – make it girlie

Totally gorjuss challenge – bling

Little Claire’s challenge – doing the rounds

St. Luke’s charity cards challenge – glitter/bling (2nd entry)

I hope you can join in with our challenge this week and I look forward to seeing what you create.  Enjoy the rest of your weekend. I’m going to catch up with some recorded programmes on Sky+ – what did we do before we had that lol!  Whatever you’re up to have a fab night and thanks for stopping by.

 

Card ingredients:

Image: Mo’s digital pencil – ‘snowy day’ freebie digi

Papers: doodlebug – ‘pretty pink asterisks’ 12x12 sheet, pink card from the papermill shop, white digital stamping card from craftwork cards

Tools: promarkers, dovecraft snowflake punch, gems from MeiFlower, sentiment created on pc, die-namics first place award ribbon die, circle nesties, cuttlebug swiss dots embossing folder

Stamp with Fun #152–DT card

Good morning dear friends.  I hope you had a great weekend, the weather here was really pleasant and I even dried some washing on the line (sad I know to be excited about that lol!)  I cannot believe that my week off work went so fast and I’m back in work again today – I really need to win the lottery I think haha!

I’m here this morning to share my card for this week’s Stamp with Fun challenge and this week we have a lovely sketch to use designed by Andrea-Emmi41.  It has nice clean lines and layers which is my favourite type of sketch.  Here is my card:

I rotated the sketch as it worked better with my image that way.  I was asked by a friend at work to make a baby congrats card for a grandmother so I used a super cute image by Mo Manning called ‘baby and bunny’ and coloured it with promarkers and flex markers.  The papers are from the docrafts forever friends ‘new arrival’ designstax and the kraft card is from dies to die for. 

We have a prize up for grabs this week which is kindly offered by Tina and one lucky winner will receive this stamp:

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. 

Crafty purple frog challenge – pink and girly

Frosted designs challenge – use kraft

A gem of a challenge – perfect pastels

Sweet stampin’ challenge – let’s see those layers

Totally gorjuss challenge – anything goes with a  button

Chocolate, coffee and cards challenge – feathers and fur

Totally papercrafts challenge – my favourite things (digis, patterned paper, pearls, layers)

I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge this week and I cannot wait to see what you create.  I will be back later with my DT card for this week’s cupcake craft challenge but until then thanks so much for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: Mo’s digital pencil – ‘baby and bunny’

Papers: docrafts – forever friends ‘new arrival’ designstax, kraft card from dies to die for

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, lace and button from fantastic ribbons, pearls from the hobby house, sentiment created on the pc, SU oval all punches, cats eye chalk ink pad (for inking edges of card/paper)

Cupcake craft challenge #170–DT card

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Please scroll down to see my Stamp with Fun DT card

I’m back again as promised to share my card for this week’s cupcake craft challenge.  This week my lovely buddy Donna has set the theme and she has chosen “let’s get krafty” so she would like to see us colouring onto kraft card.  Now I have to say this is the first time I have attempted this and my efforts and not a patch on the amazing creations I see in blogland.  In my defence I used kids colouring pencils as I don’t have any proper crafting pencils so I did the best I could!!  Here is my card:

I used a super cute image from Mo’s Digital Pencil called ‘first Christmas’ and as I say I used kids colouring pencils (which I’ve had so long they were bought in Woolworths lol!) to colour it in.  The papers are gorgeous and by my mind’s eye from the ‘be merry’ paper pad.  The sentiment is from the clipart fairy and the snowflakes are cut with a die-namics die, which I got from dies to die for. 

Our sponsor this week is Crafty Emma’s Store and one lucky winner will receive a £10.00 gift voucher to spend in her online store.

Don’t forget we also have our ‘icing on the cupcake’ sponsor and for November that is Crafts U Love and one lucky winner will receive a £15.00 gift voucher to spend in their online store. 

The rest of the Design Team have created amazing and very beautiful cards this week, so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out.  You are bound to be inspired after seeing their gorgeous creations.  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 – Christmas card

Stamptacular challenge – Anything Christmas

Papertake challenge – Christmas crackers + GDT call

Everybody art challenge – Christmas card

Little red wagon challenge – Christmas theme

Penny’s paper crafty challenge – tie one on (my twine)

Scrapbook sisters challenge – Christmas time

4 crafty chicks challenge – snowflakes

CRAFT challenge – unusual Christmas

Crafty sentiments challenge – use metal (my charm)

Meljen’s challenge – twine or string

Fairy tale challenge – Christmas

Frosted designs challenge – metal (my charm)

The poodles parlour challenge – Christmas

Sew many cards challenge – twine

Simply create too challenge – Christmas

Totally papercrafts challenge – Christmas

2 sisters challenge – holiday

Craft your days away challenge – buttons or bows

Sweet stampin’ challenge – punches and dies

Ok, so that’s all from me today.  I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge and I look forward to seeing what you create.  Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by today.  I really appreciate you taking the time to visit me and leaving me such wonderful comments.

Card ingredients:

Image: Mo’s digital pencil – ‘first Christmas’ digi

Papers: my mind’s eye – ‘be merry’ paper pad, SU cookie crumb cardstock

Tools: Woolworth’s kids colouring pencils, circle nesties, die-namics snowflake die, twine from the pretty little ribbon shop, charm from wild orchid crafts, sentiment from the clipart fairy, SU basic rhinestones

Winter wonderland challenge–DT card

Good morning dear friends.  I hope you’re having a good week so far.  I cannot believe it is Friday already – although I’m not complaining.  It’s been a super crazy week in work and I will be glad when today is over.  It is my son’s 15th birthday on Monday so we will be going out on Sunday to the cinema to celebrate and probably have a nice meal too, so something to look forward too. 

We’ve had more bad luck in the family this week, my hubby’s grandfather who is 95 has recently had a major operation for cancer but had come home from hospital and was recovering well when he fell and broke his hip.  He is back is hospital and recovering from surgery on his hip now as well.  I know he’s a tough old man but there’s only so much that someone that age can tolerate and I really hope he can bounce back from this. 

Onto nicer things now and today there is a brand new challenge over at winter wonderland challenge and Squirrel has chosen the theme of “nativity”.  She would like to see your images featuring baby Jesus, Mary & Joseph, the 3 wise men etc.  I decided to go for a super minimalist look for my card this time – here it is:

I used a super sweet image from Mo’s Digital Pencil called ‘in the manger’ and I coloured it with promarkers and flex markers.  The sentiment is from a clear set by personal impressions and the gems are from my stash.  The plain card is papermania from textured card pack.  I really like the simplicity of this card, although I really had to stop myself from adding more to it!! 

Our sponsor this week is Simon Says Stamp and one lucky winner will receive a £15.00 voucher to spend in their 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 all the lovely comments you leave for us.  It is wonderful to see how many people are now playing along with our challenges – maybe it has something to do with the fact that there are only 30 days until Christmas lol!

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

Quirky crafts challenge – clean and simple

Stamptacular challenge – boy oh boy

Paper playtime challenge – use a stamped image and add a sentiment

Creative craft challenge – free for all

Digital Tuesday challenge – sparkle and shine (stardust pen on wings and gems)

Ladybug crafts ink challenge – winter blues

Papertake challenge – Christmas crackers (+ GDT call)

Everybody art challenge – Christmas card

Flutterby Wednesday challenge – open theme

I love promarkers challenge – anything goes

Little red wagon challenge – Christmas theme

My mum’s craft shop challenge – things with wings

Scrapbook sisters challenge – Christmas time

Aud sentiments challenge – use any winter holiday sentiment

CRAFT challenge – unusual Christmas

Bizzy becs challenge – Christmas and make it sparkle

I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge this week and I really look forward to seeing what you create.  I would like to welcome my newest follower Mina *waves hello* – thanks for following and I hope you will visit me often.  Have a wonderful Friday and thanks so much for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: Mo’s digital pencil – in the manger

Papers: none, plain card from the papermania textured card pad

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, gems from stash, personal impressions sentiment stamp

Cupcake craft challenge #169–DT card

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Please scroll down to see my Stamp with Fun DT card

Hi everyone, as promised I’m back again with my DT card for this week’s cupcake craft challenge.  This week it is my turn to set the theme and as it’s my son’s 15th birthday next week I decided to get ahead and therefore I chose “card for a teenage boy”.  Now I know you’re all going to groan but unfortunately these cards do need to be made from time to time lol!  Here is my card:

I used an image from Mo’s digital pencil called ‘gamer’ and coloured him with promarkers and flex markers.  This is how you will find my son most days after school, playing on his x-box or on the computer!!  The papers are from a really old pack by dovecraft called ‘masculine’ and I used my last sheet of elzybells kraft cardstock!!  I kept the embellishments fairly simple, as like most men my son isn’t that fussy with his cards, I die cut some stars and wrapped some twine around them, a few pearls and that was it.  The twine is actually green so I don’t know why it looks yellow in the pics (user error again I suppose lol!)  My card is A5 in size.

Our sponsor this week is Lili of the Valley and one lucky winner will receive a £10.00 gift voucher to spend in their online store.

Don’t forget we also have our ‘icing on the cupcake’ sponsor and for November that is Crafts U Love and one lucky winner will receive a £15.00 gift voucher to spend in their online store. 

The rest of the design team have created wonderful samples for your inspiration 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:

OSAAT challenge – anything goes

Stamptacular challenge – boy oh boy

Anything goes challenge – a real sweetie (the gamer has crisps and sweets around him)

Paperminutes challenge – children’s birthday

Scrapbook sisters challenge – anything goes

Stampavie and more challenge – anything but square

CRAFT challenge – stars in your eyes (stars on paper and die cut stars)

Do you stack up? challenge – a splash of blue (I understand if there is too much blue)

Fun with shapes and more challenge – use 3 of something (stars)

Raise the bar challenge – time to feast (the gamer has crisps and sweets around him)

One stop craft challenge – use blue

Sweet stampin’ challenge – birthday (2nd entry)

The beary sweet challenge – your beary best (5th entry)

I hope you will be able to join in with my challenge this week and I look forward to seeing your creations for teenage boys – maybe I’ll pick up some ideas for my eldest son’s birthday in May lol!  Have a wonderful day and thanks so much for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: Mo’s digital pencil – ‘gamer’

Papers: dovecraft – ‘masculine’ paper pack, elzybells kraft cardstock

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, quickutz star cookie cutters, twine from the pretty little ribbon shop, sentiments created on the pc, pearls from the hobby house, nesties labels 1 small

Charisma cardz #35–DT card

Good morning dear friends.  I hope you are having a great week so far.  It so helps having a shorter week doesn’t it – I wish I could work 4 days every week (or not at all lol!). 

It’s time for a brand new challenge over at charisma cardz challenge and although it’s officially team Carly’s challenge I thought I would play along anyway!!  The challenge is everyone favourite of “anything goes”, so we expect to see lots of gorgeous entries.  Here is my card:

I was asked to make this card by a friend of my mother’s and it is A5 in size.  I have used the fantastic ‘Paul texting’ image from Mo’s digital pencil and coloured it with my promarkers and flex markers.  Every edge is distressed to within an inch of their lives, which I think really works for a boys card.  I even decorated the inside but I stupidly forgot to take a picture d’oh!! 

Our first sponsor this week is Simon Says Stamp who are offering a $20 voucher (excl p&p) to one lucky winner and our second sponsor is Pink Cat Studio who are offering 5 digi stamps of the winner’s choice. 

Team Carly have done a brilliant job as always (as well as a couple of Team Gem) 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:

The crafty pad challenge – distressing/tearing

A spoonfull of sugar challenge – party time

Creative card crew challenge – anything goes

I love promarkers challenge – anything goes

Cardmadfairy’s digi days challenge – buttons

Paper cutz challenge – wish upon a star

2 sisters challenge – boys and their toys

Challenge up your life challenge – something for men

Crazy 4 challenges challenge – male themed cards

I hope you can play along with our challenge and I look forward to seeing what you create.  Before I go I would like to welcome my newest follower Daisyrand *waves hello* – welcome to my little corner of blogland, I hope you can visit me often.  I’ll be back a little later with my DT card for this month’s Bee Crafty challenge.  Until then have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by.     

Card ingredients:

Image: Mo’s digital pencil – ‘Paul texting’

Papers: sandylion ‘pirate’ range, SU black cardstock

Tools: promarkers, flex markers , quickutz star cookie cutter, button from stash, SU circle punch for edge, sentiment created on the pc, scissors for distressing edges, baker’s twine from the ribbon girl 

Cupcake craft challenge #152–DT card

** THIS IS MY SECOND POST FOR TODAY **

Please scroll down to see my Stamp with Fun DT card

Hello again everyone, I’m back with my card for this week’s cupcake craft challenge.  This week the lovely Shelly has set the theme and she has chosen “how old?” so she would like see cards for special birthdays i.e. 18, 21, 30, 40 etc. (but you must include a number on your project).  Here is my card:

 

This card was made for an order and the instructions were that her boyfriend liked playing on his x-box, so I immediately thought of this fab image called ‘video boy’ from Mo’s Digital Pencil and I coloured him with my promarkers.  The papers are SU from the ‘sweet pea designer paper stack’.  I didn’t add that many embellishments, just a few die cut/punched stars and a star brad as the papers were quite busy. 

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

Don’t forget we have our ‘icing on the cupcake’ monthly sponsor too and for August we have 3 as it is our birthday month.  Firstly we have Crafts U Love who are offering a £15.00 voucher to spend in their online store, secondly we have Mo’s Digital Pencil who are offering a $10.00 gift code to use in their online store and thirdly we have Sew Sweet who are offering a £10.00 gift voucher to spend in their online store.  So definitely lots of yummy reasons to play along this month. 

We also have a new cupcake joining us this week – Maarit – and as a special welcome we are offering YOU candy.   All you have to do is visit Maarit’s blog and leave her a comment and we will choose one random commenter who will win a gorgeous stamp from Rainbow Studio’s.   

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. 

As I mentioned earlier I won’t have internet coverage whilst I’m away so I’m not able to link my cards to any challenges – I’ll see what’s around when I get back on Friday. 

I’m having a busy DT day today as the monthly Bee Crafty challenge is launching today too so please check back later to see my card.  Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by. 

Card ingredients:

Image: Mo’s digital pencil – ‘video boy’

Papers: SU – ‘sweet pea designer paper stack’, SU soft suede cardstock

Tools: promarkers, star brad from stash, quickutz star cookie cutter dies, star punch from stash, sentiments created on the pc, SU scalloped border punch

Cupcake craft challenge #140–DT card & blog hop

** THIS IS MY SECOND POST FOR TODAY **

Please scroll down to see my Stamp with Fun DT card

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

Stamptacular challenge #65 - GDT card

As I promised I’m back with my guest DT card for the stamptacular challenge.  I’m sad to say this is my last card this week as my guest slot was only for June but I’ve had an amazing time and loved working with all the regular DT, who are a super talented bunch. 

Our theme this week is ‘stars and stripes’ but you can use any colour/theme you like, as long as there is stamping on your project (and yes digi stamps are allowed). 

Here is my card:

Our sponsor this week is Susana’s Custom Art & Card Designs and the lucky winner will receive one sheet of the Victoria Case SCACD spring collection stamps:

 

Please pop over and check out the rest of the DT cards, as they have made amazing samples once again this week.  The DT really appreciate all the lovely comments you leave for them. 

I can also enter my card into the following challenges:

Crafts and me challenge – birthday

Charisma cardz challenge – for the boys

Mo’s digital pencil challenge – anything goes

Polka doodles challenge –  boy’s birthday

Paper cutz challenge – use circles, squares or stars

Our creative corner challenge – blues and greens (also used orange, so discount my entry if I’m not allowed)

OSAAT challenge – stars and stripes

Crafty sentiments challenge – birthday card

Paper sundaes challenge – birthday card

Ok, that’s me done for today.  I’ll be back tomorrow with my DT cards for cupcake craft challenge and stamp with fun challenge. Whatever you’re up to today I hope you have a wonderful day.  Thanks for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: Mo’s digital pencil – boy playing video games

Papers: all by making memories - Max paper pack

Tools: promarkers, dovecraft star punch, SU oval all punches, SU scalloped border punch

Susie’s sassy challenge #11 – DT card

The new challenge over at Susie’s sassy challenge has been chosen by Sally and is ‘springtime garden’ – you can interpret that any way you like!  For my card I used a pretty digi image by Mo’s digital pencil called ‘secret garden’ and I coloured it with my promarkers.  All of the gorgeous papers are PM from the aptly named ‘rose garden’ paper pack and the plain card is from the papermill shop.  I used my CB and embossed the green card with my ‘daisy pattern’ embossing folder.  The gems are from my stash and the sentiment is from the ‘happy day’ stamp set by the greeting farm.  The flowers are from wild orchid crafts and the leaves were cut with my MS frond punch.  It’s difficult to see in the picture but I added stickles the flower arrangement and also the flowers on the image. 

The prize on offer for this challenge is £10 worth of mystery mix of die cuts and images.  The rest of the DT have created some beautiful and very diverse samples for your inspiration.  Please pop over and take a look if you can. 

Now as you know there are quite a few spring challenges out there at the moment so I will also be entering my card into the following:

Friday sketchers challenge – sketch

Incy wincy designs challenge – Easter or spring

Pollycraft challenge – sparkly things (gems & stickles)

Crafty cardmakers challenge – spring into spring

Digital Tuesday challenge – happy spring

Daring cardmakers challenge – bird/birds

Fussy & fancy challenge – green

Allsorts challenge – spring is in the air

Bee crafty challenge – spring

Secret crafter Saturday challenge – spring has sprung

Sweet stampin’ challenge – spring is in the air

Paper jewels challenge – cute and girly

Simple doodles challenge – a little green

Quirky crafts challenge – flowers

Well not too shabby ‘eh?  I hope you all have a wonderful Thursday.  I need to try and catch up with some card orders tonight – I’m falling behind, so must get myself motivated :)  I hope you have chance to join in with our challenge – don’t forget our challenge lasts for 2 weeks so plenty of time to enter.  I can’t wait to see what you create and look forward to visiting your blogs.  Thanks for stopping by today.