Sweet Stampin’ Guest DT card

This is going to be a super quick post from me tonight as it’s way past my bedtime!!  However I’m late posting my Guest DT card for this week’s Sweet Stampin’ challenge and wanted to get it done before the week ran ahead of me again lol!  I cannot believe that it is already the last week of being a guest but I’ve had a brilliant time and hopefully they’ve been happy with my cards!  The theme this week is “masculine” and here is my card:

I’ve used an image from Tickled Pink stamps called ‘Lil Lad Eric’ and I coloured him with promarkers and flex markers and I have to say I’m really pleased with his shabby/distressed looking jeans haha!  The papers are wild rose studio from the ‘for men’ paper stack and the plain kraft card is from dies to die for.  I distressed all the edges with my new tonic (Tim Holtz) tool which is much easier and quicker than using than my scissors.  I added my usual go-to male card embellishments of stars and buttons and added some faux stitching and my card was done!

The design team have created amazing samples so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out. 

There are two sponsors this week – Quixotic Paperie are offering a £10.00 voucher and Joanna Sheen is also offering a £10.00 voucher, so definitely two good reasons to join in with the fun!

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

Corrosive challenge – another dimension (2nd entry)

Freshly brewed challenge – double it (2 papers, 2 stars, 2 layers)

Paper pretties challenge – punches or die cuts

Crafty sentiments challenge – use only 2 papers

Do you stack up? challenge – distress

Southern girls challenge – so distressed

2 sisters challenge – anything goes

Allsorts challenge – anything goes

Delightful challenge – use patterned papers

Little darlings challenge – pearls

I hope you will be able to join in with the challenge this week.  I cannot wait to see what you create.  Have a wonderful Monday and thanks for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: Tickled Pink stamps – ‘Lil Lad Eric’

Papers: wild rose studio – ‘for men’ paper stack, kraft card from dies to die for

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, quickutz cookie cutter star die, buttons from fantastic ribbons, pearls from the hobby house, sentiment created on the pc, nesties labels 3 (which I cut in half), tonic distressing tool, letraset fine liner pen

 

 

Cupcake craft challenge #179–DT card

Oops another late post from me and I think this is going to be theme for the start of this week – sorry!  I’m seem to be chasing my tail constantly at the moment, but I am trying to get more organised – honest lol!

I’m here to share my card for this week’s cupcake craft challenge and this week the lovely Shelly has set the theme and she has chosen “en-twined” so basically she would like you to use twine on your creations – easy right?  Here is my card:

The cute image is by Lili of the Valley and is called ‘cheers bear’ which I coloured with my promarkers.  The papers are from the wild rose studio ‘for men’ paper pack and the cardstock is SU real red.  I used red twine from the ribbon girl and the ‘70’ was stamped using a see-d’s stamp set.

We have two sponsors this week – stamp fairy are offering a prize of a $10.00 gift voucher for one lucky winner and the pretty little ribbon shop are offering one lucky winner a whopping 50 metres of baker’s twine. 

The rest of the design team have created amazing cards 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:

The crafty pad challenge – the letter b (blue, bear, beer, birthday)

Karen’s doodles challenge – celebrate

The pixie cottage challenge – sketch and/or red

Moving along with the times challenge – cute critters

Fun with shapes and more challenge – birthday

CES challenge – lots of layers

Incy wincy designs challenge – 3 embellishments, 2 papers, 1 image

Kaboodle challenge – where the boys are

I hope you can join in with our challenge this week and I look forward to seeing what you create.  Thanks for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: Lili of the Valley – ‘cheers bear’

Papers: wild rose studio – ‘for men’ paper pack, SU real red cardstock

Tools: promarkers, see d’s stamp set (for numbers), personal impressions sentiment stamp, twine from the ribbon girl, pearls from the hobby house, brads from stash, nesties label 1 and circles

Cupcake craft challenge #174–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 Liza has set the theme and she has chosen “something new”.  You could make a new baby, new home, new job card or just use new stash that Santa brought for you (but if you do please can you let us know what new items you’ve used).  I decided to make a new baby card as I don’t have any in stock and I love making baby cards!  Here is my card:

 

I used a super cute image from Lori Boyd designs and coloured him with promarkers.  I used my favourite paper for baby cards – gingham – and both papers are from wild rose studio ‘gorgeous ginghams’ paper stack.  The blue card is from the papermill shop and the white card is digi stamping card from craftwork cards (which I fed through my paper crimper for added texture).  The layout again is super simple, as its for a boy, I just added a few buttons and gems to finish.  I have to say that this card is much nicer IRL and I’m really pleased with the finished result. 

We have two sponsors this week, firstly we have Sew Sweet who are offering one lucky winner a £10.00 voucher to spend in their online store. 

Our second sponsor is squiggle stamps who are offering one lucky winner 3 digi images from 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 the lovely comments you leave for us.

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

Addicted to stamps challenge – January blues

The squirrel & the fox challenge – something new (2nd entry)

Fab ‘n’ funky challenge – something new

My mum’s craft shop challenge – something new

Cute card Thursday challenge – what’s new

Simon says stamp challenge – new something

Card makin’ mamas challenge – something new

One stop craft challenge – BINGO (pearls/gems, die-cuts/punches, buttons)

Sketch Saturday challenge – sketch

Crafty calendar challenge – new news

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 wonderful creations.  Have a wonderful day, whether it’s at work or at home, and thank you so much for stopping by today.

Card ingredients:

Image: Lori Boyd designs – ‘baby Levi’

Papers: wild rose studio – ‘gorgeous ginghams’ paper stack, plain card from the papermill shop, white digi stamping card from craftwork cards

Tools: promarkers, square nesties, dovecraft back to basics II buttons, SU basic rhinestones, personal impressions sentiment stamp, paper crimper

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 friends, I’m back as promised with my DT card for this week’s cupcake craft challenge.  This week our lovely boss lady Faye has set the theme and she has chosen to give us a fantastic sketch to use.  I really enjoyed using the sketch and will definitely be using it again.  Here is my card:

and here is the sketch:

I used an image from DigiStamp Boutique called ‘Stan with beer’ and coloured him with promarkers and flex markers and I added some diamond glaze to the froth on his pint of beer.  The papers are wild rose studio from the ‘for men’ paper pack and I used my very last scraps of elzybells kraft card (sob!!).  I kept the layout really simple as the card is for my uncle and only added a punched star and button.   I have to say that I’m quite pleased with the finished card, even though it’s fuss free – makes a nice change sometimes doesn’t it?

Our challenge will last until 24th December but the DT will then have the following 2 weeks off to spend with our families therefore as a special treat this week we have 3 sponsors this week. Firstly we have tickled pink stamps who are offering a prize of either one rubber stamp or two digi's of winner's choice, our second sponsor is Crafty Emma’s store  and they are offering a £10 gift voucher and our third sponsor is Digital Delights who are offering 3 images of winner’s choice. 

Don’t forget we also have our ‘icing on the cupcake’ sponsor and for December that is Polka Doodles and 2 lucky winners will receive the Pretty Sweet CD. 

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:

Corrosive challenge – anything except Christmas

The crafty pad challenge – anything but Christmas

Cute card Thursday challenge – stripes (on his shirt??)

Little miss muffet challenge – buttons and ribbons (hope it’s ok that I only have 1 of each)

Frosted designs challenge – ribbon

Really reasonable ribbon challenge – anything goes + ribbon

Totally papercrafts challenge – time to party

CES challenge – party, party, party

Totally gorjuss challenge – for someone special

Paper sundaes challenge – celebrate

I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge this week, don’t forget it ends on 24th December and then our next challenge will begin on 9th January 2012.  I would like to welcome my newest follower Karen Letchworth who left me the most kindest, loveliest comment – it was much appreciated hun and I hope you continue to like my creations. 

I have to try and get organised tonight – I still haven’t written my cards, although at least I do have some to write this year and I’ve not wrapped any presents yet!!  Nothing like being last minute is there lol!  I hope you have a wonderful day and thank you so much for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: DigiStamp Boutique – ‘Stan with beer’

Papers: wild rose studio – ‘for men’ paper pack, elzybells kraft card

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, dovecraft star punch, ribbon and button from stash, ‘happy birthday’ stamp by personal impressions, ‘uncle’ stamp by clear & simple stamps, diamond glaze

Passion for promarkers #123–DT card

Good morning dear friends.  I trust you all had a good Monday – mine was great - work whizzed by for me, which is always a good thing.  I had to take my son to the doctors for a routine check up and then called in to see my parents but it was so wet and windy here that as soon as I came home I snuggled in my PJ’s and didn’t set foot outside the door again – a perfect evening in my book lol!  I hope you managed to avoid the terrible downpours we seem to be having at the moment. 

As it’s Tuesday it’s time for a brand new challenge over at passion for promarkers challenge.  This week I had the honour of setting the theme and I chose “for a child” and I don’t mind what you make as long as it’s age appropriate for a child.  Here is my card:

Now even though it is a baby card I think it can still be classed as a card for a child!!  Well it’s my challenge so I’m accepting baby card entries this week lol!  I made this card for a friend in work who’s daughter has just had her first baby – a little boy named Sonny.  My friend wanted a card that could also be framed as a keepsake and so I bought this adorable sugar nellie stamps digi image especially.  Isn’t it just the most beautiful baby image ever!  Even though it doesn’t look like it’s coloured that much I seemed to tinker with the colouring for ages but I’m quite happy with the finished image. I used both promarkers and flex markers to colour it.  I kept the card relatively flat (in case it was framed) and the layout is fairly uncluttered, which is unusual for me. 

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

The rest of the design team have created amazing samples once again this week, so please pop over and check them out.  We really appreciate all the lovely comments you leave for us.  Speaking of the design team I would like to send my congratulations to my fellow teamie Emma (and her partner Steve) on the new arrival of their beautiful baby daughter Olivia Roni.  Well done Emma!! 

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

The sugar bowl challenge – sketch + option clean & simple (although I did rotate the sketch)

I love promarkers challenge – cute

Let’s craft and create challenge – one for the kids

Shelly’s images challenge – show us what you got

CAS-ual Friday challenge – use any medium to colour your image

Crafty Ann’s challenge – clean & simple

CES challenge – new beginnings

Our creative corner challenge – fabulous faces

St. Luke’s charity cards challenge – let’s hear it for the boys

Creative inspirations challenge – monochromatic

I hope you will be able to join in with my challenge this week and I look forward to seeing what you create.  I would like to welcome my newest followers, Bo, Rachael (aka Angel-23), Linda Simpson and Marleen *waves hello* – thanks for following me and I hope you’ll visit again soon. 

By the way don’t forget to check out my ‘mini candy’ at the top of my blog for your chance to win a £10.00 gift  voucher for DigiStamp Boutique. I hope you have a wonderful day and thanks so much for stopping by today.

Card ingredients:

Image: sugar nellie stamps – ‘bambino’ digi image

Papers: wild rose studio I think, although found it loose in my stash, card from the papermill shop

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, magnolia doo-hickeys flourish die, birth details printed on pc, sentiment around edge – personal impressions clear stamp, SU basic stones, nesties labels one small

Winter wonderland challenge–DT project

Good morning dear friends.  I hope you’ve had a brilliant week so far – the weekend is nearly here woohoo!  I can’t believe how quickly this week has flown by – not that I’m complaining of course. 

I’m here this morning with my DT project for this week’s winter wonderland challenge.  This week the lovely Suzi has set the theme and she has chosen “robin redbreast” so we want to see all your images featuring robins – simples right !!  I decided to make a door hanger for a change:

I am still waiting (not very patiently by the way lol!) for my printer ink to be delivered so I had to search through my stamps for a suitable image.  I was super pleased to find this adorable wild rose studio ‘Milton & co ‘ stamp called “Milton & robin” to use.  I coloured the image with a mix of promarkers and flex markers simply added a large ribbon bow and pearls for decoration.  I used my circle nesties to cut out the aperture for the door handle.  I have to say it looks much nicer IRL and I’m quite happy with the finished result – for once haha!

Our sponsors this week are pink gem designs and they are offering 4 digis of the winner’s choice and also squiggle stamps who are offering 2 digis of the winner’s choice.

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 door hanger in the following challenges:

Wild rose studio blog – Christmas card/creation + blog hop

Allsorts challenge – bear with us

CES challenge – seeing red

Mark’s finest papers challenge  – no designer paper

One stop craft challenge – anything goes

Christmas crafting challenge – little robin red breast

Little Claire’s challenge – Christmas

Clean and simple challenge – anything goes

Whoopsi daisy challenge – let’s do Christmas

Crafty boots challenge – zoo or animal themed

Lollipop crafts challenge – critters

Anything goes challenge – dies, punches or both

Oldie but a goodie challenge – wings

ABC Christmas challenge – u is for unused stash (the stamp and ribbon)

My mum’s craft shop challenge – remind you of a song (when the red, red robin comes bob bob bobbin’ along – Doris Day)

Meljen’s challenge – use a ribbon

Crafty Ann’s challenge – inspired by a Christmas song (when the red, red robin comes bob bob bobbin’ along – Doris Day)

Daring cardmakers challenge – add a bird

Jingle belles challenge – inspired by a holiday song (when the red, red robin comes bob bob bobbin’ along – Doris Day)

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 welcome my newest followers – Becky, Prasanthi, Carol and Craftingdelights *waves hello*.  Thanks for following me ladies, I hope you will pop around again soon.  Don’t forget to check out my mini-candy (which is a sticky post at the top of my blog) for your chance to win a cute stamp by wild rose studio.  The candy ends 7pm tonight. 

Have a wonderful day and thanks so much for stopping by today.

Card ingredients:

Image: wild rose studio – (‘Milton & co’ stamp) “Milton & robin”

Papers: none, SU real red cardstock, white MIC cardstock

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, ribbon from the ribbon girl, pearls from the hobby house, circle nesties

Bee crafty challenge #55–DT card

Hello dear friends.  I hope you’re having a fantastic weekend.  We’ve been spoilt today by my mum who made us the most scrummy cooked dinner yum yum!!  I’m feeling lovely and contented right about now!

Don’t faint, I know it’s a very rare Sunday post from me but that’s because it’s time for a brand new challenge over at Bee Crafty downloads.  For our monthly challenge for October we have the very easy and girly theme of “bling” so dig out all your glitter, gems and sparkle and join us for our challenge.  Here is my card:

I have used a bee crafty digi image called “contemporary girl” which is available in the store here.  I coloured the image with my promarkers and used a sakura gelly roll pen in lime star for the ruffles on her dress, buttons and bag.  I also coloured the centres of my flowers with the same gelly roll pen.  The papers are wild rose studio from the ‘Milton & co’ paper pack and the bling flourish is by prima. 

The prize as always is your choice of any two downloads (with the exception of the sets & PDFs) and you can enter the challenge as many times as you like.

The rest of the design team have created amazing samples, so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out.  We really appreciate your lovely comments. 

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

Cupcake inspirations challenge – photo inspiration (inspired by colours)

OSAAT challenge – use a digi

Stamptacular challenge – photo inspiration (inspired by colours)

Ooh la la creations challenge – punches and/or dies

Freshly brewed challenge – fall/halloween themed projects  (my colours)

Ladybug crafts ink challenge – fall and/or fancy folds

Scrap creations challenge – it’s a girl thing

Crafts and me challenge – flowers

Creative craft world challenge – autumn/fall (my colours)

Little darlings challenge – fall or halloween (my colours)

My mum’s craft shop challenge – dress up

Do you stack up? challenge – swirls (my bling swirl)

Paper crafting journey challenge – die cuts and/or punches

Sassy studio designs challenge – fall colours

Simon says stamp challenge – anything goes

Phindy’s place challenge – autumn/fall (my colours)

Totally papercrafts challenge – autumn (colours)

Allsorts challenge – use 5 flowers

Catch the bug challenge – anything goes

CES challenge – totally gorjuss/pretty girls

Sketch Saturday challenge – sketch

Stamp magic challenge – punching/cutting

I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge and I cannot wait to see what you create.  I hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend and I’ll be back in the morning with my DT cards for the stamp with fun challenge and the cupcake craft challenge.  Thanks for stopping by today.

Card ingredients:

Image: Bee crafty downloads – ‘contemporary girl’

Papers: wild rose studio – ‘Milton & co’ paper pack, SU soft suede cardstock

Tools: promarkers, ek success retro flower punch, prima bling flourish, sakura gelly roll pen, personal impressions sentiment, SU scalloped border punch

Cupcake craft #158–DT card

** THIS IS MY SECOND POST FOR TODAY **

See below for 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.  This week the lovely Liza has set the theme and she has chosen ‘patchwork quilt’ so we would like to see patchwork of some kind on your creations.  Here is my card:

I was lucky enough to find this gorgeous patchwork paper in one of my basic grey paper pads so decided to use that.  The image is from wild rose studio called ‘Mia with kitten’ and I decided to do some paper piecing, which I haven’t tried for such a long time.  The rest of the image is coloured with promarkers.  I think the finished card is a bit busy but overall I’m quite happy with it. 

We are sponsored this week by Simon Says Stamp and one lucky winner will receive a $20.00 voucher to spend in their online store. 

The rest of the cupcake DT have created amazing samples as always, so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out.  We really love reading all your lovely messages each week. 

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

Aly’s Sunday challenge – add a bow

Pile it on challenge – B is for……(bows, blue)

4 crafty chicks challenge – celebrate (birthday)

Aud sentiments challenge – card/sentiment for a girl

Crafty purple frog challenge – birthday

Crafty sentiments challenge – ribbons and bows

Cute card Thursday challenge – a pinch & a punch (oval all punches)

Do you stack up? challenge – friendly critters (kitty cat)

Dutch dare challenge – fall colours

Simon says stamp challenge – anything goes + blog hop

Some odd girl challenge – paper piecing

Fun with shapes and more challenge – what you want

The poodles parlour challenge – animal antics

Raise the bar challenge – paper piece

Basic grey challenge – celebrations (birthday)

Catch the bug challenge – anything goes

Secret crafter Saturday challenge – the colours of autumn

Ok so that’s all from me today.  I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge this week and cannot wait to see all your beautiful creations.  Have a wonderful day and thanks so much for stopping by. 

Card ingredients:

Image: wild rose studio – ‘Mia with kitten’

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

Tools: promarkers, SU oval all punches, personal impressions sentiment, ribbon from lady on FB, flowers from wild orchid crafts (coloured with my promarkers), oval nesties

Bee Crafty #54–DT card

** THIS IS MY SECOND POST FOR TODAY **

Please scroll down to see my Charisma Cardz DT card

Hello again friends.  I have another DT card to share with you this morning, this time for the monthly Bee Crafty challenge.  This month we have a brilliant theme of “fantastic frames and beautiful borders”, which I think is pretty self explanatory!  Here is my card:

I have used a super cute image called ‘whimsical girl and snowman’ and it is available in the Bee Crafty shop at the amazing price of just 99p!  The gorgeous papers are wild rose studio from the ‘wintry Christmas’ paper pack.  I used lots of layers to create ‘frames’, a die cut scalloped nestie to frame the image and just a simple scallop border to finish. 

As always the prize for one lucky winner is 2 digi images from the Bee Crafty store and there are so many cute images to choose from the winner will be spoilt for choice.

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

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

Addicted to stamps challenge – photo inspiration

Stamps & fun = creativity challenge – dots and stripes

Anything goes challenge – inspired by TV/film (The snowman)

Creative card crew challenge – anything goes

I love promarkers challenge – anything goes

Crafty creations challenge – use 3 different dies or punches (snowflake punch, border punch, swirl punch, square nesties die)

Divas by design challenge – Christmas in August

Let’s craft and create challenge – blast from the past (#8 it’s Christmas, #20 dies to die for and #25 go digi)

Little red wagon challenge – border punches (scalloped border)

My mum’s craft shop challenge – 123 (1 image, 2 snowflakes/swirls/pearls, 3 papers)

Scrapbook sisters challenge – anything goes

Your next stamp challenge – song inspiration (frosty the snowman)

Crafts 4 eternity challenge – Christmas

Jellypark friends challenge – gettin’ punchy

Christmas crafting challenge – Christmas sparkle (my pearls)

I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge this month and I look forward to seeing what you create.  Don’t forget you can enter as many times as you like during the month but you must use a digi image, although it doesn’t have to be a Bee Crafty image.  I hope you have a wonderful day and thanks so much for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: bee crafty – ‘whimsical girl and snowman’

Papers: wild rose studio – ‘wintry Christmas’ paper pack, SU cardstock

Tools: promarkers, personal impressions sentiment, ek success flourish punch, MS snowflake punch, pearls from the hobby house, white gel pen, square nesties, SU scallop border punch

Winter wonderland–DT card

Good morning dear friends.  I can’t believe it’s Friday already, my week has just gone by in a flash – which is fine with me lol!  My bathroom is coming along well, albeit slowly, but I’m sure it is going to look fantastic when it’s finished.  I hope you’ve all had a brilliant week and are looking forward to a relaxing weekend. 

It’s time for a brand new challenge over at winter wonderland challenge and this week it is my turn to set the theme.  I decided that although we all really struggle with men’s cards we do still have to make them so I chose “cards for men/boys” as my theme.  I am lucky enough to be able to share a sneak peek of an image that is due to be released over at DigiStamp Boutique called “Henry & presents” but you won’t have to wait long to get it as Sally-Ann is releasing lots of gorgeous new images in the next day or so.  Here is my card:

Isn’t it such a super cute image?  I love DSB images so much and they are so easy to colour in.  You will not be disappointed with the new releases I promise you.  There are a few new Christmas images (including the one I’m sharing today) and also some gorgeous every day images too.  I’ll let you know as soon as they are available in the shop.  The papers are from my new wild rose studio “traditional Christmas” paper pack and the snowflakes have been cut with a marianne creatables die. 

We have two sponsors this week – firstly we have Crafty Emma’s store and she is offering one lucky winner a £10.00 voucher (excl. p&p) to spend in her online store.

and our second sponsor is squiggle stamps who are offering one lucky winner 2 digi images of their choice. 

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:

The sweet stop challenge – sketch

Cards for men challenge – anything goes

The crazy challenge – anything goes (monthly Christmas challenge)

Ooh la la creations challenge – oh Christmas

Paper playtime challenge – anything goes

The shabby tea room challenge – polka dots

Papertake challenge – bingo with a twist (I’ve used middle vertical column – pearls, ribbon, free snowflakes)

Cat’s corner challenge – no cat

Creative belli challenge – gingham (my ribbon)

Let’s craft and create challenge – teddy bear’s picnic (hope my tiny bear is ok)

The paper variety challenge – threads (my gingham ribbon)

AI factory challenge – anything goes

Aud sentiments challenge – anything goes

Paper crafting journey challenge – anything goes

Shelly’s images challenge – show us what you’ve got

I hope you will be able to join in with my challenge this week and I look forward to seeing what you create.  I would like to welcome my newest followers – Caroline, Darcy and Gry *waves hello*.  Thanks for following me and I hope you will visit me often.  Have a wonderful Friday and thanks so much for stopping by today.

Card ingredients:

Image: DigiStamp Boutique – ‘Henry & presents’

Papers: wild rose studio – ‘traditional Christmas’ paper pack, plain card from the papermill shop

Tools: promarkers, SU scalloped border punch, sentiment created on pc, marianne creatables snowflake die, pearls from the hobby house, ribbon bought from crafter on facebook

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