Stamp with fun #88 – DT card

Good morning dear friends.  I hope you’ve all had an enjoyable weekend and the weather has been behaving itself where you are.  It tried to snow a bit on Friday but then the rain came and washed most of it away, however we are now struggling with icy roads and pavements.  Today is the first day I go back to work after my week off so fingers crossed the roads will be ok for my journey (will let you know later lol). 

Anyway enough of my rambling!!  I’m here to share my DT card for this week’s stamp with fun challenge.  This week we have a gorgeous sketch to work with (although I did make a mistake on my card – the panel at the back is only supposed to be half of the background but I didn’t notice and I’ve done a full square – never mind I’m sure it will be fine lol!).  Here is the sketch:

and here is my card:

I have used one of the new-ish images available over at DigiStamp Boutique called ‘cute nativity kids’.  There are three different images in this range and they are all equally adorable.  A nice modern take on the nativity scene I think. 

We have a prize up for grabs this week – one lucky winner could receive this lovely stamp courtesy of Emmi41:

The rest of the DT have created gorgeous samples once again this week so please pop over and check them out.  We really love reading all the comments you leave for us.

I can also enter my card into the following challenges:

Crafty ho’s challenge – any religious holiday

The crafty pad challenge – anything goes

Digital Tuesday challenge – animals at Christmas (I have sheep on my image)

Scrap creations challenge – anything goes

Tip top Tuesday challenge – anything goes

Creative cottage challenge – untraditional Christmas

Stampavie and more challenge – snow/snowflakes

Let’s craft and create challenge – anything goes

Rainbow lady’s challenge – Christmas animals (again my little sheep)

Sew many cards challenge – snowflakes

Crafty Ann’s challenge – sketch and/or Christmas

Theme Thursday challenge – fun images

Totally papercrafts challenge – Christmas punches (my snowflakes)

Catch the bug challenge – anything goes

Challenge up your life challenge – advent/Christmas

Craft your days away challenge – texture (my cotton twine)

Secret crafter Saturday challenge – Christmas

Crafter’s companion challenge – sketch and/or Christmas

I hope you will have a chance to use our sketch this week and I look forward to seeing what you create.  Have a safe and happy Monday but don’t forget I’ll be back in a little while with my DT card for the cupcake craft challenge.  Thanks for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: DigiStamp Boutique – cute nativity kids

Papers: dovecraft – fancy Christmas paper pack, SU whisper white card

Tools: promarkers, MS snowflake punch, personal impressions sentiment, SU oval all punch, pearls from the hobby house, cotton twine from Woolworths (sob), sakura stardust pen, circle nesties

Fairy Fun Friday has moved (and they have candy!)

Roberta over at fairy fun challenge has moved her challenge blog (and shop blog) back to blogger, so don’t forget to change your hyperlinks!!  Also to celebrate she is offering amazing candy, which ends on 24th December 2010.  Here is what you can win:

Oh my goodness look at all that loveliness!  It would be like an extra Christmas present for the lucky winner.  Please pop over to the Prairie Fairy blog to read up on the details.  Good luck everyone. 

Music saves my soul #7!

Woohoo Marcea’s ‘Music Saves My Soul’ is back this week – I am so excited. It is really lovely going around everyone’s blogs and hearing what songs they have chosen and maybe coming across one or two I’ve never heard before.  I love finding new songs to add to my collection lol!  This week is a song from my favourite ever band – Duran Duran.  I had posters covering the whole of my bedroom when I was a teenager and was planning on marrying Simon Le Bon when I was old enough (cos he’d leave Yasmin for me of course haha!).  Anyway the song I have chosen this week is:

I am having a dance around the room as I listen to this (new romantic stylee of course!!).  I hope you like my choice this week.  I can’t wait to hear all your songs too.  Thanks for stopping by today.

Charisma cardz #48 – DT card

Good morning friends, I hope you are all keeping warm – it’s freezing here, although we haven’t had any more snow (thank goodness).  We’re still dealing with the icy roads and pavements though.  My youngest son hasn’t had any school this week yet as the school premises are too icy, so he’s really happy. 

Over at charisma cardz challenge this week we have a fantastic sketch for you to use but we have an added twist that you can only use a sentiment as the main focal point – we don’t want to see any images this week!  Here is the sketch:

Here is my card:

I have used a gorgeous digital sentiment from raindrop echo (available at whimsy stamps) and I’ve hand-cut it and lightly coloured the borders and snowflakes with my promarkers.  I have to say I’m not that happy with my card as I think I printed the sentiment a little too large for my circle.  It also probably has something to do with the fact that I’m so used to having an image as my focal point. 

We have two generous sponsors this week.  Firstly we have Simon Says Stamp who are offering one lucky winner a $20.00 voucher for their online store.

 

Our second sponsor is Meljen’s Designs and they are offering one lucky winner 4 digi's of their choice.  They have so many cute images you will be spoilt for choice! 

My fellow teamies have created amazing samples once again this week, so please pop over to the challenge blog and leave them some love!!  We really appreciate your support of our blog and love reading your comments.

I can also enter my card into the following challenges:

The crafty pad challenge – snowflakes

Cards for men challenge – Christmas cards

The paper variety challenge – tic tac toe (I went for a card, holiday theme and I used my cuttlebug to die cut the nestie)

Stampavie and more challenge – snow/snowflakes

Allsorts challenge – monochrome

Paper play challenge – monochrome

Top tip Tuesday challenge – anything goes

I hope you have a wonderful Thursday and that you will find the time to enter our challenge this week.  Keep warm and thanks for stopping by. 

Card ingredients:

Image/sentiment: meljen’s designs – winter curvy frame with sentiment

Papers: Daisy & Dandelion – a winter’s tale paper pad, SU whisper white card

Tools: promarkers, dovecraft snowflake punch, pearls from the hobby house, circle nesties

Some Odd Girl Hol-ODD-day Blog Hop!

Welcome to the first Some Odd Girl Hol-ODD-day Blog Hop!  We're having this hop to not only show some love for all our Oddies this holiday season but to have a hop that includes them!  So take a hop through our list and make sure to leave comments at every stop because the Odd Girls have some prizes to give away to celebrate, but you have to complete the list to be entered. 

We started at the Some Odd Girl Blog and are ending up at Kristy's blog and I am SURE along the way you'll see some amazing projects!  You should have arrived from Mary's blog, if not start at the beginning to complete the hop.

Here is the order of the hop:

1. SOG Blog
2. Kimmy 
3. Margie
4. Andrea
5. Leah
6. Corry
7. Sally 
8. Yvonne
9. Meredith  
10. Tanya (not DT)
11. Robin Mc
12. Jennifer
13. Donna
14. Marcie 
15. Asa
16. Zarah 
17. Tanya
18. Mary
19. Denise – YOU ARE HERE! 
20. Robin F 
21. Diana 
22. Jan 
23. Cassie 
24. Kellie 
25. Kristy

For my card I have used a newly released image called “Pressie Mae” and she is soooo gorgeous.  I have to say I have a soft spot for Mae – I wish I had her hair lol!  I  have coloured her with promarkers and added some sparkle to her dress with a sakura stardust pen.  Here is my card:

Your next stop in the hop is Robin's blog.  I hope you enjoy the Some Odd Girl Hol-ODDD-day blog hop and thanks for hoppin by!

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

OSAAT challenge – bling it up (stardust pen on her dress and pearls/gems)

Pear tree designs challenge – sketch + gems

Whoopsi daisy challenge – let’s get all girlie

Karber challenge – sparkle (using a digi) (again stardust pen on dress and pearls/gems)

Crafts and me challenge – snowflakes

Creative cottage challenge – untraditional Christmas colours

Cute card Thursday challenge – blast from the past (I went for #37 snowflakes)

Daring cardmakers challenge – Christmas with spots and stripes

Fussy and fancy challenge – Christmas without red and green

Totally papercrafts challenge – untraditional Christmas

2 sisters challenge – non traditional Christmas colours

One stop craft challenge – Christmas cuties

Top tip Tuesday challenge – anything goes

Card ingredients:

Image: SOG – ‘pressie Mae’

Papers: dovecraft – fancy Christmas paper pack, green card from the papermill shop, SU whisper white card

Tools: promarkers, sakura stardust pen, dovecraft snowflake punch, pearls from the hobby house, adhesive stones from Joanna Sheen, personal impressions sentiment

My son’s birthday card

Good morning everyone.  As I don’t have a passion for promarkers challenge card for you today (as our challenge runs for two weeks) I thought I would share a card I made for my son’s birthday, which was Sunday – I can’t believe my baby is 14 years old!!!!!  This is the card that his brother gave to him.  Actually this card could fit the challenge over at PFP as the digi image is new and all the papers are very old lol!  The image is so cool and its from Lori Boyd Designs – her images are so much fun and there is something for everyone.  Here is my card:

The cool dudes hairstyle is something similar to my sons but that’s where the similarity ends.  He is not at all sporty or outdoorsy – he just lives for his x-box, like most kids his age. 

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

Corrosive challenge – things that move (his skateboard)

Stamptacular challenge – fall-ing for you – use fall colours

The crazy challenge – on the go i.e. anything you like

Little paper shop challenge – funky edge (my punched edge)

Totally stampalicious challenge – anything goes

Paper play challenge – stars

Alphabet challenge – e is for embossing

Friday sketchers challenge – sketch

Lots to do challenge – embossing

Craft your days away challenge – texture (my embossing)

Claudia and company challenge – brown, cream + 1 other colour (my colour is red)

Party time Tuesday challenge – anything goes birthday

Scrap creations challenge – anything goes

Top tip Tuesday challenge – anything goes

I hope you have a wonderful Tuesday and don’t forget you have another week to enter the passion for promarkers “old & new” challenge.  There are fantastic prizes up for grabs and you can enter as many times as you like.  I will be back later with my project for the Some Odd Girl Hol-ODD-day blog hop.  Thanks for stopping by today.  

Card ingredients:

Image: Lori Boyd Designs – lollipop – Ethan

Papers: embossed panel is bazzill card, patterned paper (double sided) is from my stash (sorry no name), SU soft suede card

Tools: promarkers, mini star punch from stash, SU oval all punches, SU scalloped edge punch, sentiment created on pc, CB swiss dots embossing folder

 

Cupcake craft challenge #118 – DT card

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Hello again, I’m back with my DT card for this week’s cupcake craft challenge.  This week our theme has been set by the lovely Kathrin and she has chosen “light it up” i.e. she wants to see a candle somewhere on your project.  I did toy with the idea of decorating a real candle but then came across this really cute image from Heather Ellis and so decided to make an easel card instead.  Here is my card:

Sorry there are so many pics but easel cards are so difficult to photograph aren’t they (especially for me with my useless photography skills lol).  This is actually a dinky 4 x 4 card but it looks so cute IRL. 

Our sponsor this week is the character cafe and one lucky winner will receive a $10.00 voucher to spend in their online store. 

We also have our monthly cupcake madness prize and it’s the last chance for November to be in with a chance to win the $9.00 voucher courtesy of some odd girl.  If you’ve entered two or more challenges this month you will be entered in the draw to win the voucher. 

The rest of the design team have created gorgeous samples once again this week, please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out.  We really appreciate the lovely comments you leave for us.

I can also enter my card into the following challenges:

Crafty Ho’s challenge – photo inspiration of a snowman

Order of the opus gluei challenge – frosted things (my snowman)

I love promarkers challenge – anything goes, with sparkle if you like

ABC challenge – x is for xmas

Crafty creations challenge – Christmas cards

The pixie cottage challenge – sketch and/or let is snow

Scrapbook sisters challenge – let it snow

Digi doodle challenge – red and green

Moving along with the times challenge – more than one fold

Sew many cards challenge – red and green

Simon says stamp challenge – let it snow

Easy craft projects challenge – snow

Stamping for the weekend challenge – winter

Just us girls challenge – 3d element on your project (my ribbon bow/snowflake)

One stop craft challenge – Christmas cuties

Mark’s finest papers challenge – add a bow

I hope you will have a chance to enter our challenge this week.  I can’t wait to see what you create and look forward to visiting your blogs.  Have a wonderful Monday and thanks for stopping by.

 

Card ingredients:

Image: Heather Ellis – Mr snowman

Papers: dovecraft – jolly happy Christmas paper pack, plain card from the papermill shop

Tools: promarkers, ribbon from fantastic ribbons, dovecraft snowflake punch, pearls from the hobby house, sentiment from craftwork cards, SU oval all punches, SU and woodware circle punches, corner rounder punch