Charisma cardz #12–DT card

Good morning dear friends.  I’m back in the land of the living at long last!!  I am really sorry for my long absence but I haven’t been feeling very good over the last 2 weeks or so – nothing serious, just a virus I think, but I felt really rough.  In fact I didn’t actually craft at all during that time so I must have been ill.  I even bought a card for my in-laws anniversary – awful I know!!  Anyway hopefully things will slowly get back to “normal” now, although I think my mojo has taken the break badly and is refusing to come back to normal duties lol!

Enough of my waffling!  I’m here to share my card for this week’s charisma cardz challenge and this week the lovely Gemma has set the theme and she has chosen “Easter” which I’m sure will prove very popular!  Here is my card:

I have used a super cute image from DigiStamp Boutique called “Easter Dan” and coloured him with promarkers.  At the moment this image is on offer so why not pop over to the shop and grab him at a very special price of just £1.00 (but only until end of March) – he will come in so useful for all your Easter creations.  The lovely papers are my mind’s eye from the ‘dwell’ paper pad and the kraft card is from dies to die for.  I created my little Easter egg embellishments by die-cutting the smallest oval nestie and drawing some lines with a Letraset fine liner pen and then colouring with promarkers – quite effective I think!

We have two sponsors this week, firstly we have DigiStamp Boutique and Sally-Ann is offering one lucky winner 6 digi images of their choice – and as you can see her images are so adorable you will be spoilt for choice!

Our second sponsor is Joanna Sheen and she is offering one lucky winner a £10.00 gift voucher to spend in her online store.  She has lots of gorgeous crafty goodies plus free shipping on all orders!

The rest of the design team have made gorgeous creations 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:

Dream valley challenge – Easter

A gem of a challenge – sketch

Crafty boots challenge – Easter

Sentimental Sunday challenge – Easter or spring

Pollycraft challenge – choklit

Crafty sentiments challenge – Easter

Simon says stamp challenge – anything goes

Sweet stampin’ challenge – anything goes

Ladybug crafts ink challenge – spots and stripes

Scrap creations challenge – Easter

I hope you can enter our challenge this week and I look forward to seeing what you create. 

Card ingredients:

Image: DigiStamp Boutique – “Easter Dan”

Papers: my mind’s eye – ‘dwell’ paper pad, kraft cardstock from dies to die for

Tools: promarkers, oval and circle nesties, SU scallop border punch, pearls from the hobby house, ribbon from stash, tonic (Tim Holtz) distressing tool, sentiment from Netty’s cards

Cupcake craft challenge #150–DT card

** THIS IS MY SECOND POST FOR TODAY **

Please scroll down to see my Stamp with Fun DT card

Hello again dear friends, I’m back again this morning as it’s time for a new challenge over at cupcake craft challenge.  This week we have a special theme as it’s our 150th challenge and it is “pick your favourite cupcake challenge”.  There is a list of all the challenges over on the cupcake main blog and you can pick whichever one you like but you must tell us which number/name challenge you’ve used to be eligible for our prize draw.  Here is my card:

I have used one of the new July images from DigiStamp Boutique called ‘Molly summer fun’ and this is part of the ‘offer of the month’ called "Molly & Tom summer fun”.  Doesn’t Molly look happy to be eating her lovely strawberry ice cream lol!  The papers are DCWV from ‘the stack 6’ which I bought from QVC a few years ago.  The challenges I chose to re-do are no. 36 – summer and no. 53 – sketch.  As I mentioned full details of the previous challenges are listed on the cupcake blog. 

Our sponsor this week is Lili of the Valley and the 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 July that is Polka Doodles and the lucky winner will receive 4 Christmas stamps.

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

Dream valley challenge – summer theme

Ladybug crafts ink challenge – summer birthdays

Papertake challenge – anything goes

Scrap creations challenge – summer

Crafts and me challenge – fave stamp/image (any DSB image is my fave)

Penny’s paper crafty challenge – happy birthday

The pixie cottage challenge – sketch and/or wet ‘n’ wild

Crafty purple frog challenge – summer fun

Crafty sentiments challenge – crafting with a child/card for a child

Dutch dare challenge – summer fun

Some odd girl challenge – bright and blinding colours

Southern girls challenge – childhood memories

Mami doodles challenge – at the beach

Paper cutz challenge – include either an ice-cream cone, popsicle, ice-cream sundae or milkshake

Really reasonable ribbon challenge – picnic/summer fun

Totally papercrafts challenge – the beach

2 sisters challenge – summer time fun

Crazy 4 challenges challenge – summer themed card

One stop craft challenge – summer time

Totally gorjuss challenge – summer time

Crafty calendar challenge – under the sea/water theme

Wow, lots of summer themed challenges around this week, pity our weather didn’t realise it was supposed to be summer lol!  I really hope you can play along this week and I can’t wait to see what past challenges you choose to use again.  Thanks for stopping by.

   

Card ingredients:

Image: DigiStamp Boutique – ‘Molly summer fun’ (part of the ‘Molly & Tom summer fun collection’)

Papers: DCWV – ‘the stack 6’, plain card from the papermill shop

Tools: promarkers, pearls from the hobby house, sentiment freebie from Netty’s cards, stickles (on ice cream and fish)