Pink/blue & white card

Hello lovely friends; I hope you've had a great start to your week.  I hope you've managed to miss most of the really bad weather we've had recently.  It's been really wet and windy here but no damage thankfully; I really feel for the poor people in Jersey whose homes have been destroyed.  Nature is definitely a force to be reckoned with on times.  

On to happier things; I'm here to share a card I made recently for a crafty friend.  I saw the colour challenge over on the Less is More challenge so based my card on that.  Here is my card:

here is a close up of the sweet image:

I also decorated the inside:

plus I decorated the envelope (ignore the crease!):

I began by stamping by image and colouring with Promarkers and then fussy cut it out.  I put the image to one side and began decorating my panel.  I used a stencil with light blue ink, darker in the centre and fading out to white.  I stamped the sentiment on a thin strip of white card in pink ink (although it looks a little red in the photos) and placed this directly onto my panel with liquid glue.  The image was added over the sentiment with foam squares.  The panel was then added to the card base with liquid glue.  Very clean and simple for me and I had to control myself from adding anything else lol!  For the inside of my card I lightly ink blended the same blue ink around the whole of the panel and then use the same daisy stencil at the very bottom for some interest.  For the envelope I used the stencil on the bottom and on the lower part of the flap on the back.  I remember seeing in a Kristina Werner video to use distress micro glaze over your decorated envelopes to protect it from moisture so I tried it in view of the bad weather we'd been experiencing.  I did manage to crease the flap with my overly energetic rubbing but it was ok once the card was inside.  I wouldn't normally use pink and blue together but I think it turned out quite sweet.  Let me know what you think.  

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

Less is More challenge - colour challenge - blue, pink & white

Addicted to Stamps & More challenge - make your mark (I used Promarkers)

Crafty Catz challenge - ATG with option of show some flowers

Crafter's Cafe challenge - flowers

Krafty Chicks challenge - stamp act

Mix it Up challenge - ATG with optional stamping (I used a red rubber stamp)

Triple B challenge - include birds, blooms or butterflies

NBUS challenge - never used this stamp or stencil before

I hope you have a wonderful week.  Thanks for stopping by.  I'll be back on Wednesday for Week 2 of the Winter Wonderland IG Hop so see you soon. 

Love and hugs, 

Card ingredients:

The Greeting Farm - Anya blooms *retired*

Tonic Studios - dreamy daisies stencil

Promarkers

Personal Impressions - Big sentiments 

Gina K Designs - birthday cheer stamp set (for inside greeting)

Gina K Designs - passionate pink ink pad & blue raspberry ink pad

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm white smooth card

Sakura - white gelly roll 10 pen

Scrapping4fun challenge - GDT card

Hello again friends; I'm back with my second card for today.  I hope you have a fun and relaxing day before the hustle and bustle of the brand new week.  

I'm joining the Scrapping4fun challenge this month as a guest designer and their theme is a fun one - 'fruits and/or veggies'.  

I wanted to use a brand new die set that I had just received so went with fruit for my card:

a close up of my image:

I decorated the inside:

and the Promarkers I used:

Even though I knew what die set I wanted to use I wasn't sure what image to use.  I was rooting around my stash for something else and came across this older Greeting Farm image which was perfect for my card.  I stamped her with memento ink, coloured her with Promarkers and added some white gel pen highlights.  I fussy cut her out and put her to one side whilst I did my die cutting.  I made a card base from white card using the larger die and then cut it again from red card for my mat.  The layer panel was cut with the matching smaller die from white card and I also used a lattice embossing folder for some interest.  The outer apple mat was again cut from red card and the inner piece was cut with white card; I also used a splatter stamp with red ink for some interest on this piece.  The sentiment was stamped with black ink to the left hand side and the image was added with thin foam squares to the right side of the apple.  I die cut one green leaf for the top of my apple and a final touch was 3 red sequins.  The finished card size is just a smidge smaller than 5 1/2" x 5 1/2".  

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

Addicted to Stamps and More challenge - die cuts and/or stencils

Little Red Wagon challenge - layer upon layer

Shopping Our Stash challenge - colour me beautiful (I used Promarkers) - 13 challenges max

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - ATG

The Sisterhood of Crafters challenge - shapes (I've used lots of die cut shapes)

Can You Handle the Pressure challenge - ATG embossing option bees/beehive 

Seize the Birthday challenge - ATG (no topping this time)

Please pop over to the Scrapping4fun challenge blog for all the details/rules and to see the amazing creations from the design team.  I hope you will find the time to enter the challenge and cannot wait to see all you fruits and veggies.  

Thanks for stopping by and see you all soon.  

Love and hugs, 

card ingredients:

TLC Designs - an apple a day die set

The Greeting Farm - Lottie stamp

Spellbinders - perfect pie sentiments & fillings stamp set (for sentiment) - on sale!

Spellbinders - scarlet smooth disc sequins

Taylored Expressions - splatter background stamp

Gina K Designs - lattice embossing folder

Gina K Designs - red velvet ink pad

Gina K Designs - Breath of Sunshine card kit (for leaf die) (it's sold out but items will be available individually soon)

Gina K Designs - birthday cheer stamp set (for inside sentiment)

the basics:

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm smooth white card

Heffy Doodle - alcohol marker friendly card

Promarkers

Sakura - white gelly roll 10 pen

Versafine onyx black ink (for sentiments)

Memento tuxedo black ink (to stamp image)

red and green card from my scrap bin

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

Passion for promarkers #120–DT card

Good morning dear friends.  I trust you all had a good Monday – mine went in a flash as work was manic – but that’s much better than it dragging though lol! 

I’m here this morning with my card for this week’s passion for promarkers challenge.  This week the lovely Anja has set the theme and she has chosen “altered but not square”, so dig out all your jars, bottles etc and get altering.  I decided to alter a hair gel container and here is my creation:

Sorry for all the pictures but I found it quite difficult to photograph well.  I have used a super cute digi image from the greeting farm called ‘cupcake Anya’ and coloured her with a mix of promarkers and flex markers.  The paper is from my stash and the kraft cardstock is from elzybells.  The lace and flowers are from wild orchid crafts.

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

The rest of the design team have created amazing samples for your inspiration, so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out.

I would like to enter my altered pot into the following challenges:

Cutie Sunday challenge – no text

OSAAT challenge – use a digi

Whoopsi daisy challenge – lace and pearls

Heart song inspirations challenge – anything goes

Stamps & fun = creativity challenge – packaging/wrapping

Anything goes challenge – die cuts/punches or both

City Crafter challenge – we’re going 3D

Digital Tuesday challenge – we like to party

Papertake challenge – anything goes + option something punched

Party time Tuesday challenge – show us your shapes and/or breast cancer awareness

Stamping for the weekend challenge – what a cutie

Stamp, scrap & doodle challenge – anything but a card

Crafty cardmakers challenge – anything goes

I hope you can enter our challenge this week and cannot wait to see what you decide to alter!  Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by.

Ingredients:

Image: the greeting farm – ‘cupcake Anya’ digi

Papers: kraft card from elzybells, patterned paper from stash

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, flowers and lace from wild orchid crafts, nesties labels 1 small, SU basic pearls, fiskars border punch

Charisma cardz #27–DT card

Good morning dear friends.  I hope you’re surviving the awful weather we’re having this week – it’s been perfect weather for ducks so far.  I cannot believe how different it is from last week’s tropical temperatures.  Fingers crossed that it is just a minor blip!! 

I’m here this morning as we have a brand new challenge over at charisma cardz challenge.  The lovely Sally has set the theme and chosen “all about flowers”, so a really nice and simple one for you.  I’m sure we will be swamped with loads of gorgeous creations for this one!  Here is my card:

 

I used a gorgeous (but sadly neglected) stamp from the greeting farm from the ‘miss Anya collection’ and coloured her with my promarkers.  I decided to use a flowery background paper and punch out some extra flowers to fit with the theme.  As the paper was so busy I kept the embellishments to a minimum but overall I’m fairly happy with this card and I really like the colours. 

We have two sponsors this week, firstly we have Simon Says Stamp who are offering a $20.00 gift voucher to spend in their online store.

Our second sponsor is Crimson Cloud who are offering 3 packs of die-cuts from their website. 

The rest of the design team have created gorgeous 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. 

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

Sentimental Sunday challenge – anything goes

Craft your passion challenge – anything goes

Lollipop crafts challenge – anything goes

Ooh la la creations challenge – summer flowers

Creative craft challenge – pretty blossoms

Everybody art challenge – use shapes (flower and oval)

Freshly brewed challenge – 2 papers, 2 embellishments (flowers/buttons), 2 shapes (flower, oval)

Oldie but a goodie challenge – anything goes

Papertake challenge – anything goes + option buttons

Fab ‘n’ funky challenge – purple haze

Your next stamp challenge – button up

Catch the bug challenge – anything goes (3rd entry)

Stamp magic challenge – purple

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

Card ingredients:

Image: the greeting farm – ‘miss Anya collection’

Papers: all from scrap box, plain card from the papermill shop

Tools: promarkers, ek success retro flower punch, ribbon and buttons from stash, craftwork cards sentiment, SU oval all punch

Passion for promarkers #105–DT card

Good morning dear friends.  I had a lovely day out with my mother yesterday and after a quick stop at the hospital it was into Cardiff for a full day of shopping.  We had a great time chatting and laughing and it was fantastic to spend the entire day with my mum, which I haven’t done for such a long time.  Even the weather was behaving until about 10 minutes before we were due to leave, which was brilliant. 

Enough of my rambles and onto the real reason you are here!  Today we have a brand new challenge over at passion for promarkers challenge and the lovely Andie has set the theme and she has chosen “park life”.  We want to see all your images featuring things you can do in the park i.e. play on the swings, ride your bike etc.  Here is my card:

I used a super cool image from the greeting farm called ‘skater Ian’ and the papers are my mind’s eye from the ‘true blue’ paper pad. 

Our sponsor this week is Letraset and they are offering a “special prize” this week.The prize will be 20 x new ultra-fine nib attachments for Promarkers. These have literally just been announced and you can read all about them here.  They clip straight over the top of the bullet nib, and are an ‘extra upgrade’.  Wow who wouldn’t want to be one of the first to try out this new and interesting new product.  Not even the design team have tried these yet lol!  They will be so useful for smaller images and fine detailed work. 

 

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.

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

Aly’s Sunday challenge – all about kids

Corrosive challenge – ribbons and bows

Sentimental Sunday challenge – summery or sparkly (I’ve gone for sparkly with my rhinestones)

Cards for men challenge – stars

Lollipop crafts challenge – inspired by a song (Avril Lavigne – skater boy)

Do you stack up? challenge – use a star

Dutch dare challenge – for the boys

Moving along with the times challenge – inspired by a song (Avril Lavigne – skater boy)

Sassy studio designs challenge – glam it up (my rhinestones)

Shelly’s images challenge – cards for boys/men

Crafts 4 eternity challenge – embellishments beginning with ‘r’ (ribbon and rhinestones)

Easy craft projects challenge – inspiration photo (I’ve gone with the colours)

Mami doodles challenge – card for man/boy

Totally papercrafts challenge – die cuts and punches

2 sisters challenge – for a guy

Catch the bug challenge – it’s a man’s world

The beary sweet challenge – DIY embellishments (my die cut stars)

Bizzy becs challenge – sketch

Little Claire’s challenge – cards for men

Ok, so that’s all from me today.  I would like to welcome my newest follower Elka *waves” – hi and thanks for deciding to follow me, I hope you can visit me often.  Have a wonderful day everyone and thanks for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: the greeting farm – ‘skater Ian’

Papers: my mind’s eye – ‘true blue’ paper pad, SU soft suede cardstock

Tools: promarkers, SU ribbon and basic rhinestones, personal impressions sentiment, quickutz star cookie cutter dies, circle nesties

Passion for promarkers #98–DT card

Good morning everyone.  It’s back to normal today after the Easter holiday *groan* and I’m sure I’ll be having mega trouble getting the boys out of bed this morning!!  Wasn’t the weekend weather gorgeous once again, and I hope you all had a fantastic time, whatever you got up to. 

There is a brand new challenge over at passion for promarkers challenge today and Vix has chosen the theme of “fit for a princess”, which is very apt since we now have Princess Catherine (aka the Duchess of Cambridge) as a new member of the royal family.  Here is my card:

I have used a digi image by the greeting farm called ‘princess Anya’ the paper is from a gorgeous pad by DCWV called ‘nana’s nursery – baby girl’.  The pad is so sweet and some of the papers have glitter already on them, like the cherry paper on the bottom of my card – it looks beautiful IRL. 

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

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. 

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

Dream valley challenge – flowers (2nd entry)

OSAAT challenge – emboss it (my white strip is embossed)

Craft your passion challenge – anything goes

Pear tree designs challenge – free for all

Pollycraft challenge – anything goes

The pink elephant challenge – sketch

Totally stampalicious challenge – kickin’ it old school

Creative belli challenge – royal (I’ve used old digi and papers)

Creative inspirations challenge – pink, yellow and green (it’s only a hint of yellow so hope it’s ok)

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

The pixie cottage challenge – sketch and/or royal wedding

CCEE stampers challenge – add a butterfly

Crafts 4 eternity challenge – anything goes

Daring cardmakers challenge – card with a royal or patriotic feel

Easy craft projects challenge – inspired by the royal wedding

Mami doodles challenge – let’s get girly

Stamp magic challenge – butterflies

I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge this week and I look forward to visiting your blogs.  Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by today.

 

Card ingredients:

Image: the greeting farm – ‘princess Anya’

Papers: DCWV– ‘nana’s nursery baby girl’ paper pad, plain card from the papermill shop

Tools: promarkers, flowers from wild orchid crafts, MS frond punch, MS butterfly punch, SU basic rhinestones, cuttlebug swiss dots embossing folder, sentiment created on the pc, card blank from QVC

Passion for promarkers #97–DT card

Happy Tuesday dear friends.  Isn’t it a great feeling to know there are only 3 working days this week *woohoo*, not that I really dislike my job, but I’d much rather craft all day lol!  I’m here to share my card for this week’s passion for promarkers challenge.  This week Sarah has set the theme and she has chosen “pre-historic”, now don’t panic too much, it’s not as bad as it sounds lol!  Here is my card:

I have used a super cute image from the greeting farm which is from the ‘happy day’ set.  I cut the brown mat with my new-ish go-kreate die and I think it makes a nice change from my usual lots of layers.  I wanted to use the dinosaur paper from basic grey ‘archaic’ paper pad but unfortunately I only had a tiny scrap left, so I decided to make a “badge” to use as an embellishment. 

Our sponsor this week is Crafter’s Companion and this is the first time they have sponsored us.  They are offering one lucky winner a £20.00 voucher to spend in their online store.  They have lots of gorgeous stamps to use with your promarkers, so you will be spoilt for choice. 

The design team have created amazing samples this week, so please pop over 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:

Anyone for Anya challenge – sketch

Corrosive challenge – animals

The crazy challenge – 3 different patterned papers

Lollipop crafts challenge  – shabby chic or vintage (I think my card looks shabby!)

Crafty creations challenge – 1 technique (colouring with promarkers), 2 embellishments (ribbon & “badge”) 3 papers

Creative inspirations challenge – pets/animals

Let’s craft and create challenge – mad about the boy

Meljen’s challenge – masculine

Shelly’s images challenge – show us what you got

Fun with shapes and more challenge – animals

I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge this week and I look forward to seeing what you create.  I would like to say hello *waves* to my newest follower angelwhispers aka Chanelle, thanks for following me and I hope you will visit me often.   Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: the greeting farm – ‘happy day’ set

Papers: basic grey – ‘archaic’ paper pad

Tools: promarkers, personal impressions sentiment, ric-rac ribbon from stash, SU 1” circle punch, oval nesties, MS embossed zig-zag border punch, go-kreate XXL square frames frilly #2

Stamp with fun #92 – DT card

Happy New Year everyone!  I hope you had a brilliant Christmas and Santa brought you lots of lovely crafty goodies.  I wish you all a happy and healthy 2011.  My goodness it’s been so long since my last post that I hope I remember what to do lol!  I apologise for the long gap between posts but I was really unprepared for Christmas this year and what with the snow coming too I just didn’t have time to craft or blog.  I hope my faithful followers haven’t deserted me  

Onto today’s post and I’m sharing my card for this week’s stamp with fun challenge.  We have a lovely sketch by Saphira to work with this week so I hope you can play along with us.  Here is my card:

 

I have used a super cute image from a set of stamps called “happy days” from the Greeting Farm and although I’ve had this set for quite a while this is the first time I’ve inked her up (terrible I know as she is just so adorable).  I have also used my new basic grey ‘marjolaine‘ paper pad, which is gorgeous. 

The rest of the design team have created gorgeous cards once again this week, so I hope you have time to pop over and check them out.  We really appreciate your comments and we love to visit your blogs and see what you’ve created. 

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

Aly’s Sunday challenge – anything goes

The crafty pad challenge – anything goes

OSAAT challenge – anything goes

Order of the opus gluei challenge – It’s new year baby (some new, year-ish or baby related)

Whoopsi daisy challenge – free and easy

Creative craft challenge – anything goes

I love promarkers challenge – anything goes

Tip top Tuesday challenge – get embellishing

Crafts and me challenge – anything goes

The pixie cottage challenge – party/celebration

Your next stamp challenge – let’s party

Aud sentiments challenge – anything goes

Crafty sentiments challenge – anything goes

Digi doodle challenge – anything goes

Moving along with the times challenge – birthday theme & circles (on my paper)

Simon says stamp challenge – time to party/celebrate

Crafty catz challenge – your choice of any previous challenge – I’ve gone for challenge #15 birthday

Stamp something challenge – something with glitter (my gems and although it’s hard to see I’ve used stickles on her necklace)

Really reasonable ribbon challenge – something new (my paper pad)

Totally papercrafts challenge – time to party

Catch the bug challenge – anything goes

CES challenge – anything goes

Crazy 4 challenges challenge – celebrate something

Craft your days away challenge – punch it out (my flowers)

Mark’s finest papers challenge – use something new (again my paper pad)

Crafter’s companion challenge – sketch and/or something new (my papers)

Bunny Zoe’s challenge – sparkle and shine (gems and stickles)

By the cute and girly challenge – bling it on (gems and stickles)

I think I’ve made up for lost time with my challenges lol!  I hope you all have a wonderful Bank Holiday Monday (no work woohoo!) and that you find the time to enter our challenge.  I will, of course, be back later with my DT card for the cupcake craft challenge.  Thanks for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: the greeting farm – ‘happy days’ stamp set

Papers: basic grey ‘marjolaine’ paper pad, plain card from the papermill shop

Tools: promarkers, ek success retro flower punch, SU oval all punches, rectangle nesties, PM adhesive gems, ribbon from fantastic ribbons, personal impressions sentiment, stickles