You can tell I’m not in work lol!

As the title says you know I’m not in work because I’m actually posting cards lol!  I wanted to share a card I actually made when I was GDT over at the Sweet Stampin’ challenge but didn’t get around to posting at the time!  I made a circle card for a change and used a gorgeous image from Saturated Canary called “Whispy”.  Here is my card:

Isn’t this image just adorable.  I coloured her with promarkers and flex markers and cut her out.  The pretty dotty paper has been in my stash for years – I think it was in a super duper 12x12 pad that I got from QVC when I first started crafting!!  To make the card base I used a extra large scallop circle die from go-kreate.  The doily is from Joanna Sheen and the stunning gingham ribbon is from fantastic ribbons. 

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

Saturated canary challenge – Doilies

Pile it on challenge – spots or stripes or both

Stampin’ sisters in Christ challenge – things with wings

Stamps and fun = creativity challenge – one bow

Ladybug crafts ink challenge – pink and girly

Papertake challenge – anything goes

Crafts and me challenge – things with wings

I love promarkers challenge – ribbons and bows

A gem of a challenge – perfect pastels (hope it’s ok that I used some black too!)

Allsorts challenge – spread your wings

I hope you’re all having a great day so far.  The weather here has been "mixed” shall we say, ranging from torrential rain to bright sunshine and then gale force winds but at least it’s sunny for the time being.  I may be back later with another card – I know I’m going from one extreme to the other but I have to make the most of the time to catch up on some cards I haven’t had chance to share with you.  Until then have a brilliant day and thanks so much for stopping by.  I really appreciate your lovely comments.

Card ingredients:

Image: saturated canary – ‘Whispy’

Papers  dotty paper from stash, SU pink pirouette cardstock, black card from eBay

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, ribbon and button from fantastic ribbons, doily from Joanna Sheen, die-namics butterfly die from dies to die for, twine from the pretty little ribbon shop, flowers from wild orchid crafts, SU basic rhinestones, go-kreate scalloped circle/plain circle dies

Cupcake craft challenge #178–DT card

Hello again friends.  This is my second post for today so please scroll down to see my earlier card. 

I’m doing another catch up post – this time for the cupcake craft challenge.  Our challenge this week is “pink & red” but it doesn’t have to be a Valentine card.  Here is my card:

The image is by Pollycraft and is called ‘Luna bitterfrost hearts rock’ and I coloured her with promarkers and flex markers.  I once again used paper from the my mind’s eye ‘love me’ paper pad and the heart was cut with a go-kreate extra large die (which I cut in the grand caliber). 

We have two sponsors this week – firstly we have Pollycraft Designs (who kindly gave me the digi to use on my card) and they are offering a prize of 5 digi images and our second sponsor is Simon Says Stamp and they are offering a $20 gift certificate to use in their online store. 

The design team have created amazing cards and projects 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 the lovely comments you leave for us.

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

Come and get it challenge – love

Pile it on challenge – for a tween

Sentimental Sunday challenge – feel the love

Stampin’ sisters in Christ challenge – show love

The pink elephant challenge – use pink

Scrap creations challenge – Valentine

Top Tip Tuesday challenge – Valentine

Let’s craft and create challenge – flower power

Crafty purple frog challenge – flower power

Cardmadfairy’s digi days challenge – hearts

I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge and I look forward to seeing what you create. 

We haven’t seen any snow here yet in South Wales but I think we may be unlucky enough to get some overnight – fingers crossed it’s not too bad.  Keep safe and warm if you have to go out and about tomorrow.  Thanks for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: pollycraft designs – Luna bitterfrost hearts rock’

Papers: my mind’s eye – ‘love me’ paper pad, SU real red cardstock

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, flowers from wild orchid crafts, ribbon from the ribbon girl, gems from stash, elzybells clear sentiment stamp, scissors for distressing edges, cat’s eye chalk ink pad

Cupcake craft challenge #176–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 as promised to share my DT card for this week’s cupcake craft challenge.  This week the lovely Maarit has set the theme and she has chosen “all you need is love”, so any occasion where love is the reason i.e. Valentine’s day, wedding, anniversary etc.  As I mentioned in my previous post it was my parents anniversary on the weekend and their friends asked me to make a card for them so it was perfect timing for me.  Here is my card:

I used a digi from Karen’s Doodles called ‘sweep me off my feet’ and coloured it with a combination of promarkers and flex markers.  The papers are SU! and the flowers and corner are from wild orchid crafts.  The sentiment was created on the pc.  The finished card is 8x8 in size.

Our sponsor this week is Tiddly Inks and one lucky winner will receive a $10.00 voucher to spend in their 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.  We really appreciate the lovely comments you leave for us.

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

Corrosive challenge – I (heart) you

Stamptacular challenge – seeing spots (embossed panel)

Cute card Thursday challenge – music and dance

Do you stack up? challenge – patterned paper

Sassy studio designs challenge – use frosty colours

The poodles parlour challenge – Valentine/love

Simply create too challenge – love is in the air

Crafter’s companion challenge – love is in the air

Sentimental Sunday challenge – seeing spots (embossed panel)

Creative craft challenge – the colour blue

I hope you will be able to enter our challenge this week and I cannot wait to see what you create.  I would like to welcome my newest follower Brittany *waves hello* – I hope you enjoy your visits and will pop by often.

Update on my sister – she went for her biopsy result last Thursday and thankfully everything was clear.  They will follow her up again in 6 weeks time and then she’ll have another MRI scan in 6 months time to check nothing has changed.  It is such a weight off our minds and it was such a relief for her. 

I hope you have a wonderful day and thanks so much for stopping by.

Ingredients:

Image: Karen’s Doodles – ‘sweep me off my feet’

Papers: SU! – ‘paper designer series stack – subtles collection’, white card from craftwork cards, SU not quite navy cardstock

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, flowers and metal corner from wild orchid crafts, pearls from the hobby house, sentiment created on pc, oval nesties, go create circle and scallop circle dies, A4 paper crimper from crafter on FB, cuttlebug ‘swiss dots’ embossing folder

Stamp with fun #145–DT card

Good morning dear friends.  I trust you had a good weekend.  The weather here was quite good, we saw a bit of sunshine even though it was still chilly.  We were celebrating my parents 45th wedding anniversary on Saturday and all went out for a lovely family meal in the evening.  It was wonderful to spend time with my parents, sister and her family and we seemed to laugh all night!! 

I’m here this morning to share my DT card for this week’s stamp with fun challenge.  Our theme this week is “cute vintage”, although I did misread the theme slightly and just made a vintage card, but I thought I’d share it anyway.  Here is my card:

I made this for my aunt’s 100th birthday a few week’s ago and as I didn’t have an actual photograph of her when she was young I used Google to find a royalty free image to use on my card.  I lightly coloured her headband and flowers with flex markers to match my papers and added stickles to the flowers.  I inked all the edges for a distressed/aged look and added some lace and a decorative metal corner. 

The rest of the design team have created gorgeous cards 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:

Pile it on challenge – add lace

Sentimental Sunday challenge – die cuts (oval nesties)

Let’s craft and create challenge – butterflies

My mum’s craft shop challenge – fave colour combo (pink/green)

Colour create challenge – pink & green

CRAFT challenge – use numbers

Moving along with the times challenge – things with wings

2 sisters challenge – embossing (white panel is embossed)

Craft your days away challenge – distressing

Joanna Sheen challenge – celebrations

I hope you can join in with our challenge this week and I look forward to seeing what you create.  I’ll be back later with my DT card for this week’s cupcake craft challenge but until then have a great day and thanks for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: royalty free image from internet

Papers: floral paper from papermania pack (can’t remember name sorry), green paper from SU designer stack, white card from craftwork cards

Tools: flex markers, oval nesties, metal corner & lace from wild orchid crafts, butterflies bought from crafter on FB, pearls from the hobby house, sentiment created on pc, stickles, cuttlebug “script” embossing folder

Cupcake craft challenge #175–DT card

Good evening dear friends.  I apologise for my late post today but we had a new computer on the weekend and unfortunately I still don’t have half of what I need on it yet, so it’s going to be slow going for a little while until I re-discover and download everything I’m used to. 

I’m here with my card for this week’s cupcake craft challenge and this week the lovely Louise has set the theme and she has chosen “born on a winter’s day” so that means we'd like to see your wintery themed birthday cards.  Here is my card:

I used a super image from wee stamps called “winter fairy” and I coloured her with promarkers and flex markers.  I added flower soft to all her fluffy bits and also to the ground for snow.  The papers are SU from the ‘designer paper patterns stack – subtles collection’ and the card is ‘not quite navy’ and ‘crumb cake’, both again by SU. 

Our sponsor this week is My Mum’s Craft Shop and one lucky winner will receive a £10.00 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.

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

Moving along with the times challenge – spots and stripes

Paper pretties challenge – blue, white and silver

Simon says stamp challenge – spots and/or stripes

Phindy’s challenge – tic tac toe(ribbon/pearls/flowers)

Totally papercrafts challenge – spots and stripes

2 sisters challenge – metal

Catch the bug challenge – birthday

Mark’s finest papers challenge – use a border punch

One stop craft challenge – spots & ribbon (I’ve used spotty ribbon hope it’s ok)

Sentimental Sunday challenge – ribbon & sentiment

I hope you can join in with our challenge this week and can’t wait to see what you create.  I haven’t felt very well all weekend so I’m completely behind with all my DT cards but hopefully I’ll catch up over the next few days so I’ll be a bit late with my cards this week.  I really appreciate your lovely comments and look forward to receiving them. Have a great evening and thanks so much for stopping by today.

Card ingredients:

Image: wee stamps – ‘winter fairy’ digi

Papers: SU – ‘designer paper patterns stack – subtles collection’, not quite navy & crumb cake cardstock

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, decorative corner & flowers from wild orchid crafts, SU scallop border punch, ribbon from fantastic ribbons, personal impressions sentiment stamp, pearls from the hobby house, circle nesties

Winter wonderland challenge–DT card

Good morning dear friends.  Hasn’t the weather been really shocking this week and I hope you haven’t experienced the awful damage I’ve seen on the TV.  It’s been very windy and wet here but thankfully we haven’t had any problems with flooding or any damage.  I hope you all keep warm, dry and safe. 

I’m here this morning to share my DT card for this week’s Winter Wonderland challenge and the lovely Marianne has set the theme and she has chosen “let’s go shopping “ and she would like to see images that are shopping or holding shopping bags etc. .  Our challenge does not have to be for Christmas, although you can if you like, as we don’t start our Christmas only challenges until February.    I really struggled with this challenge as I seem to have misplaced my mojo this week so if anyone has any spare please send it my way lol!  Anyway here is my card:

I used a super cute image from Lori Boyd designs called ‘back to school Lucy’ but I removed her pile of books!  I coloured her using promarkers and flex markers and cut her out with an oval nestie.  The papers are a magazine freebie from quite a while ago and the card (which is really turquoise IRL) is stampin’ up.  The ribbon isn’t quite so dark IRL either but hey-ho my wonderful photography skills at work again!!

We have some new DT members joining us from this week and joining Team Marianne we have Bridget and Karen and joining Team Kate we have Debbie and Lisa.  Welcome girls, I cannot wait to see your wonderful creations. 

Our sponsor this week is Crafter’s Companion and the lucky winner will receive a £10.00 voucher to spend in the online store.

The rest of the DT (including the newbies Bridget and Karen) have created amazing cards for your inspiration 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:

OSAAT challenge – use a digi

Crafty boots challenge – celebration

Critter sketch challenge – celebration

Tip top Tuesday challenge – anything goes

Pile it on challenge – anything goes

Sentimental Sunday challenge – anything goes

The pink elephant challenge – anything goes

Pollycraft challenge – punch it

Crafts and me challenge – anything goes

I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge this week and I look forward to visiting your blogs and seeing your gorgeous creations.  I would like to welcome my newest follower Lisa Jane *waves hello* – thanks for joining me and I hope you will visit me often.  Have a wonderful day and thanks so much for stopping by today.

Card ingredients:

Image: Lori Boyd Designs – ‘back to school Lucy’

Papers: patterned paper – magazine freebie, plain card Stampin’ Up!

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, martha stewart punch, nesties, wild orchid crafts flowers and corner, personal impressions sentiment stamp, pearls from the hobby house

Cupcake craft challenge #172–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 to share my card for this week’s cupcake craft challenge.  This week the lovely Jane has set the theme and she has chosen “don’t look at the light” which means she wants to see all your glitter, bling and sparkly things on your cards and creations.  I made a Christmas card for my niece and the DT were lucky enough to be given a digi image by our sponsor.  Here is my card:

The fun image is from Saturated Canary digis and is called ‘Maddie’ and I coloured her with promarkers and flex markers.  It’s difficult to tell but I added stickles to her pom-poms and also the ruffles on her dress.  I threaded ribbon through the lace and die cut some snowflakes for decoration and I went a bit mad with the gems lol! 

As I mentioned our sponsor this week is Saturated Canary digis and one lucky winner will receive 2 digi images of their choice from her wonderful etsy store. 

Don’t forget we also have our ‘icing on the cupcake’ sponsor who for December is Polka Doodles and two lucky winners will receive a copy of the Pretty Sweet CD. 

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.  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 – snowflakes

Dream valley challenge – Christmas

OSAAT challenge – use a digi

Pile it on challenge – bling it on

The squirrel & the fox challenge – Christmas

Stamptacular challenge – Christmas glitz

Crafts and me challenge – winter (snow/snowflakes)

Crafty creations challenge – Christmas card with sentiment

Crafty sentiments challenge – snowflakes

Cute card Thursday challenge – anything goes

Moving along with the times challenge – last minute Christmas

Sassy studio designs challenge – Christmas using non traditional colours

Card makin’ mamas challenge – Christmas

Frosted designs challenge – glitter

Stamping for the weekend challenge – Christmas

2 sisters challenge – Christmas

Our creative corner challenge – ruffles (she has ruffles on her dress!)

The sweet stop challenge – sketch

Crafty calendar challenge – cold & frosty

Little Claire’s challenge – a family Christmas

I hope you will be able to enter our challenge this week and I look forward to visiting your blogs and seeing what you create.  Have a wonderful day and thanks so much for stopping by today.

Card ingredients:

Image: saturated canary digis – ‘Maddie’

Papers: dovecraft – ‘Christmas fancy’ paper pack, black card from eBay

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, lace from wild orchid crafts, ribbon recycled from old top, die-namics snowflake dies, SU basic rhinestones, sentiment created on the pc, stickles

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

Cupcake craft challenge #171–DT card

** THIS IS MY SECOND POST FOR TODAY **

Please scroll down to see my Stamp with Fun DT card

Hello again friends.  I’m back as promised with my DT card for this week’s cupcake craft challenge and the lovely Rachel has set the theme this week and she has chosen “D.I.Y – make your own backing papers”.  I went through lots of options such as heat embossing, using my promarkers to make my background but eventually settled on using distress inks to colour my base card.  Here is my card:

I have used another new image from DigiStamp Boutique called ‘Lucy and stocking’ and again it is one of the 5 new offers of the month for December.  I have to confess that I actually only own 2 different colours of distress inks so that is why I chose this particular colour combo on my card lol!  I randomly sponged my base card with the distress inks but also stamped some small snowflakes (elzybells stamp) in the same colours to add a bit of definition.  I’m really happy with the overall effect and may buy a few more colours to try it out again.  The sentiment is SU from the ‘best yet’ stamp set,

Our sponsor this week is Simon Says Stamp and one lucky winner will receive a $20 gift certificate to spend in their online store.

Don’t forget we also have our ‘icing on the cupcake’ sponsor, who for December is Polka Doodles and two lucky winners will receive a copy of the Pretty Sweet CD. 

The rest of the DT have created gorgeous 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:

Addicted to stamps challenge – Christmas card

Come and get it challenge – anything Christmasy

Divas by design challenge – anything goes

Fab ‘n’ funky challenge – anything goes

Penny’s paper crafty challenge – tie one on

Do you stack up? challenge – ribbon

Paper crafting journey challenge – anything goes

Simon says stamp challenge – anything goes

Southern girls challenge – ribbon madness

Simply create too challenge – all about Christmas

2 sisters challenge – punches/dies

Catch the bug challenge – anything goes

Craft your days away challenge – buttons or bows

Stamp, scrap & doodle challenge – holiday card

Totally gorjuss challenge – sketch

Christmas cards all year round challenge – anything goes

Ok, so that’s my lot for today.  I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge and I cannot wait to see what you create (and hopefully pick up some new ideas for next time lol!)  I hope you have a wonderful day and thanks so much for stopping by today.

Card ingredients:

Image: DigiStamp Boutique – ‘Lucy and stocking’

Papers: none

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, distress inks, square nesties, seam binding from wild orchid crafts, cream web ribbon from crafter on FB, SU sentiment from ‘best yet’ stamp set, SU oval all punches, SU basic gems, dovecraft snowflake punch