Charisma cardz #44–DT card

Good morning dear friends.  It’s time for Team Gem to share their cards over at charisma cardz challenge this week and Joyce has chosen the theme of “cutesy”.  So you make anything you like as long as it includes something cute – easy peasy!!  I was lucky enough to use an image from one of our sponsors – here is my card:

The image is by pink cat studio and is called ‘Lily hot cocoa’ and I coloured her with both promarkers and flex markers.  I decided to go for another non traditional colour combo of pink and blue and used papers from the ‘Christmas joy’ paper pad by first edition.  I distressed all the edges and added stickles to her “fluffy” bits for a bit of added sparkle. 

Our sponsors this week are Pink Cat Studio who are offering one lucky winner 5 digis of their choice and Simon Says Stamp who are offering one lucky winner a $20 voucher to spend in their online store.

The rest of the design team have created gorgeous and super cute cards 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:

Pile it on challenge – keep warm

Crafty boots challenge – young at heart

The cutie pie challenge – use a charm

Die cut dreams challenge – so charming

Incy wincy designs challenge – dots and stripes

Lexi’s creations challenge – charming

The pink elephant challenge – distressing

Sketch n stash challenge – sketch (new image/neglected eyelets)

Papertake challenge – anything goes + option sparkle & bling

Divas by design challenge – use metal (eyelets and charm)

I love promarkers challenge – glitter and glitz

Totally papercrafts challenge – glitter it

A gem of a challenge – cold & frosty

Bizzy becs challenge – distress your edges

Crafter’s companion challenge – let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

St. Luke’s charity cards challenge – Christmas

Creative belli challenge – 1-2-3-4 (1 image, 2 eyelets, 3 papers, 4 gems)

I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge and I look forward to seeing what you create.  Have a fantastic day and thanks for stopping by today.

 

 

Card ingredients:

Image: pink cat studio – ‘Lily hot cocoa’ digi

Papers: first edition – ‘Christmas joy’ paper pad

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, stickles, circle nesties, SU oval all punches, seam binding from wild orchid crafts, eyelets from WRMK, cropadile, charm and gems from stash, sentiment stamp freebie from craft magazine

Charisma cardz #40–DT card

Good morning dear friends.  I hope you are surviving the dreadful winds and rain we’re having at the moment.  I was drenched just walking from my car to work yesterday – it’s going to be a long winter I think groan!!

On a happier note it’s time for a brand new challenge over at charisma cardz challenge today and I am delighted to have set the theme this week.  As it’s almost halloween I thought I would choose a colour theme of “black and orange”, although you don’t have to make a halloween card unless you want too of course.  Here is my card:

I have used a super image which was kindly given by our sponsor Pink Cat Studio and she is called ‘Lily witch’ and I coloured her with a mix of promarkers and flex markers.  The dotty paper is echo park from the ‘dots and stripes – candy shoppe collection’ and the borders were created with my martha stewart drippy goo border punch.  The fun ghosts were die cut using a sizzix sizzlit die.

As I mentioned our first sponsor this week is Pink Cat Studio and they are offering one lucky winner 5 digital stamps of their choice and our second sponsor is Simon Says Stamp who are offering one lucky winner a $20.00 gift voucher (excl p&p) to spend in their online store.

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 the lovely comments you leave for us.

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

Come and get it challenge – Halloween

Stampin’ sisters in Christ challenge – include fruit (she is holding a pumpkin)

Bows and berries challenge – photo inspiration

Karen’s doodles challenge – Halloween

The pink elephant challenge – trick or treat

Digital Tuesday challenge – we like to party

Freshly brewed challenge – pumpkins

Papertake challenge – anything goes + option something punched

Party time Tuesday challenge – show us your shapes (circle, ghost) 2nd entry

Tuesday throwdown challenge – Halloween

Crafts and me challenge – use a digi

Fab ‘n’ funky challenge – die cuts and punches

I love promarkers challenge – spooky

Little darlings challenge – fall or Halloween

My mum’s craft shop challenge – all creatures great and small (cat & frog)

Mark’s finest papers challenge – use polka dots

Secret crafter Saturday challenge – Halloween

Crafty calendar challenge – spooky

I hope you will be able to join in with my colour challenge this week and I really look forward to seeing what you create.  I hope you have a wonderful day and thanks so much for stopping by today.

Card ingredients:

Image: pink cat studio – ‘Lily witch’ digi

Papers: echo park – ‘dots and stripes – candy shoppe collection’, SU basic black cardstock

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, personal impressions sentiment, circle nesties, MS drippy goo border punch, sizzix sizzlits ghost die, papermania adhesive stones

Charisma cardz #28–DT card

Good morning dear friends.  I hope you are having a good week so far.  I’ve had a mixed week, it was my birthday on Tuesday and I had a wonderful day and everyone made such a fuss in work and it wasn’t even a special birthday lol!  Also I had so many birthday messages on facebook and here on my blog and I feel so lucky to have such amazing friends as you all.  Of course my dad is still in hospital and he is likely to be in for at least another week.  The preliminary diagnosis is a leaking heart valve, which sounds quite scary, but I’m not sure at the moment if he is going to need surgery or not, the docs need him to have another CT scan first.  The weird thing about it all is that he feels ok and remarkably he’s lost 8lb in 2 days as he is now being treated for his water retention (wish I could lose that much weight in two days lol!).  I will of course keep you all updated and I’ve been passing on your get well messages to him! 

Ok, onto my card and today there is a brand new challenge over at charisma cardz challenge.  The lovely Clare has set the theme and she has chosen “it’s in the stars”, so she would like to see some stars on your projects.  I was lucky enough to be able to use an image from one of our sponsors this week and here is my card:

 

The super cute image is ‘Lily the Mermaid’ from Pink Cat Studio and I’ve coloured her with my promarkers.  I’ve used my new x-cut nesting star dies to create the mat behind my image and Lily has two star-fish with her!!  I’ve gone crazy for gingham again but this time went for a monochromatic look.  The paper is wild rose studio from the ‘gorgeous gingham’ paper pack and the plain cardstock is stampin’ up. 

We have three sponsors this week, firstly we have Pink Cat Studio and the lucky winner will receive 5 digital stamps of their choice, our second sponsor is Crafty Emma’s store (please check the main challenge blog for details of the prize) and our third sponsor is the stamping boutique and the lucky winner will receive 5 digi’s of their choice. 

The rest of the design team have created amazing samples as usual, 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:

Lexi’s creations challenge – at the beach

Magical Monday challenge – use some texture

Digital Tuesday challenge – spellbound (x-cut star die)

Everybody art challenge – maritime

Flourishes timeless Tuesday challenge – embossing

Ladybug crafts ink challenge – summer birthdays (2nd entry)

Creative inspirations challenge – no flowers allowed

Penny’s paper crafty challenge – happy birthday

The pixie cottage challenge – sketch and/or wrap it in ribbon

Stampavie and more challenge – birthday

Mami doodles challenge – at the beach

Totally papercrafts challenge – the beach

Allsorts challenge – free and easy

Mark’s finest papers challenge – use a die as a mat

The sweet stop challenge – sketch

Crafty calendar challenge – under the sea/water theme

Ok, that’s my lot for today.  I hope you can join in with our challenge this week and I look forward to seeing what you create.  Have a wonderful week and thanks for stopping by today. 

Card ingredients:

Image: Pink cat studio – ‘Lily the mermaid’

Papers: wild rose studio – ‘gorgeous ginghams’, plain blue card from SU (bashful blue)

Tools: promarkers, sentiment from craftwork cards, raffia from stash, x-cut nesting star dies, prima bling flourish, cuttlebug spots & dots embossing folder

Charisma cardz #22–DT card

Good morning dear friends.  I would like to start today by saying a huge thank you for all your congrats and lovely comments you left me on yesterday’s post.  I am so grateful to have such amazing friends and followers.  Ok, enough of the soppyness, I’d better get on with my post for today haha!

Today we have a brand new challenge over at charisma cardz challenge which has been set by Allison and she has chosen “something that flys”, so basically she wants to see your birds, fairies, butterflies, aeroplanes…….anything that can fly!!  Here is my card:

I have used a super cute image from pink cat studio called ‘birds make giant cupcake’ and coloured it with my promarkers.  I cut a circle doily into quarters and used two as corner decorations, which unusually for me is a good idea I think!!  I kept the layout fairly simple but I’m quite pleased with the finished result (for once!!). 

We have two sponsors this week, firstly we have Simon Says Stamp and they are offering one lucky winner a $20.00 voucher to spend in their online store. 

Our second sponsor is pink cat studio, who generously gave me the image I used on my card, and the lucky winner will receive 5 digi images of their choice.

The rest of my DT team-mates have created gorgeous samples once again this week, so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out.  You won’t be disappointed I promise!  We really appreciate all the lovely comments you leave for us. 

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

Aly’s Sunday challenge – cupcakes

Cutie Sunday challenge – green and pink

Whoopsi daisy challenge – lace and ribbons (hope my doily quarters pass for lace)

Ooh la la creations challenge – happy birthday

Digital Tuesday challenge – animal friends (are birds animals?)

Top tip Tuesday challenge – wrap it up with ribbon

Crafts and me challenge – punch it out (my flowers)

Crafty catz challenge – pink and green

Stamp something challenge – something sentimental – use a sentiment

Allsorts challenge – things with wings

I hope you will have chance to play along with our challenge this week and I look forward to seeing what you create.  Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: pink cat studio – ‘birds make giant cupcake’

Papers: first edition – ‘bird song’ paper pad, plain card from the papermill shop

Tools: promarkers, oval nesties, ek success medium retro flower punch, personal impressions sentiment, doily from stash, SU gingham ribbon, PM adhesive stones

Charisma cardz #19–DT card

Happy Thursday dear friends, I hope you’ve all had a brilliant week so far.  Mine has been busy and I can’t believe it’s Thursday already.  However that means it’s time for a brand new challenge over at charisma cardz challenge and this week’s theme has been set by Leah and she has chosen ‘under the weather’.  Here is my card:

I used a super cute image from Pink Cat Studio called ‘Lily nurse’ and coloured her with my promarkers.  I kept the layout really simple and only added a few embellishments.  I have to say it looks much better IRL but as usual my photography skills are lacking lol! 

We have 2 sponsors this week – Pink Cat Studio are offering one lucky winner 5 digi images of their choice and we also have The Stamp Shoppe we are offering a $15 voucher to spend in their shop.

The rest of the DT have created amazing samples 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 card into the following challenges:

Karen’s doodles challenge – pastels

Pear tree designs challenge – spring (my colour scheme)

Everybody art challenge – flowers (my felt lollipop flowers)

Scrap creations challenge – circles (my flowers and dotty paper)

Top tip Tuesday challenge – flower frenzy

Crafty creations challenge – anything goes

Creative belli challenge – the letter s (spots on my paper)

Paper pretties challenge – add texture (my felt flowers)

Penny’s paper crafty challenge – anything goes

Fairy fun challenge – here come the girls

Raise the bar challenge – flower power

CES challenge – fave colour scheme (pink & green)

Crazy 4 challenges challenge – flowers

Sweet stampin’ challenge – childhood dreams (dressing up as a nurse)

Sunday sketch and stamp challenge – sketch

Ok, so that’s my lot for today.  I would like to welcome my newest follower Jemima’s Jems *waves*, thanks for following me and I hope you visit often.  Have a wonderful day and thanks so much for stopping by today.

Card ingredients:

Image: pink cat studio ‘Lily nurse’

Papers: DCWV ‘nana’s nursery – baby girl’

Tools: promarkers, SU ‘sweet pea’ felt flowers, pearls from the hobby house, sentiment created on the pc, card blank from QVC, cat’s eye chalk ink pad

Charisma Cardz challenge #40 – DT card

Good morning everyone.  It’s time for a brand new challenge over at Charisma Cardz challenge and for me to share my 2nd DT card!  This week Allison has chosen a brilliant theme of ‘autumn colours’ i.e. oranges, reds, greens etc.  The DT were lucky enough to be given an image by one of our sponsors (Pink Cat Studio) and here is my card:

 

Aren’t they a pair of cutie pies messing around in the leaves??  The image is called ‘Lilly & Billy pile of leaves’

We have two sponsors this week Simon Says Stamp are offering a $20.00 gift voucher plus free shipping. 

As I mentioned before we also have Pink Cat Studio who will be giving one lucky winner 5 digital images of their choice. 

The rest of the DT have created some gorgeous samples for your inspiration this week, so why not pop over and take a look.  We appreciate all the lovely comments you leave for us. 

I can also enter my card into the following challenges:

Craftalicious challenge – harvest festival/autumn

Sentimental Sunday challenge – autumn or fall

Stamptacular challenge – layer it on

A pocketful of posies challenge – autumn colours

Incy wincy designs challenge – sparkly glitter

Kaboodle challenge – celebrate the colours of fall

The pink elephant challenge – childhood

A spoonfull of sugar challenge – sparkle and shine

Digital Tuesday challenge – ribbons, buttons bling – use any or all (I used bling)

Creative cottage challenge – bling it on

Fab ‘n’ funky challenge – use a digi image

Paper cutz challenge – 3 patterned papers

Stamping for the weekend challenge – autumn

Totally papercrafts challenge – the great outdoors

Our creative corner challenge – colour combo

Sketch Saturday challenge – sketch

Sweet stampin’ challenge – punch it out

Well that’s it for me today.  I hope you will have a chance to enter our challenge and I look forward to visiting your blogs.  Have a brilliant Thursday, it’s nearly the weekend and the weather is supposed to be really nice for a few days *woohoo*.  Thanks for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: pink cat studio - ‘Lilly & Billy pile of leaves’

Papers: MME – bloom & grow paper pack, SU soft suede card

Tools: promarkers, PM adhesive gems, personal impressions mini leaf punch, sentiment by the greeting farm (from happy days set, SU circle punch, sakura stardust pen, white gel pen, circle nesties

Cupcake Craft Challenge #42 - DT card

This is my DT card this week for the CCC. This week's challenge has been chosen by the lovely Evelina and is "fairies". If you haven't visited Evelina's blog, why not(!), as her work is stunning and her colouring is amazing. Now I've had a very busy week and as a result I left my card until the very last minute to make and because of this I am not entirely 100% happy with it! Anyway onto the card - I used an image by pink cat studio, which was a RAK, and coloured it with promarkers adding highlights to the wings, belt and flower with sakura stardust pens. The dp is all by making memories (yes again, I love it!) and the sentiment was created on the pc. I used a dovecraft punch to cut out the stars and a woodware small circle punch for the "faux" buttons. I used white cotton (from woolworths, sob) to thread through the buttons. The fairyland ticket was a freebie from craft stamper magazine (that was the only reason I bought it lol). The adhesive stones are PM and the brads (in the ticket) are from my stash.