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Tuesday, 18 May 2010

Passion for promarkers #52 – DT card

Morning everyone, it’s Tuesday so that means it’s time for a new challenge over at passion for promarkers challenge. Our theme this week has been chosen by Tracy and it is “fantasy/mythology”, so you can use all your fairy and dragon type images. Just remember to use your promarkers to be eligible for our prize.

I decided to go for a fairy image and here is my card:

PFP challenge 52 - fantasy

PFP challenge 52 - fantasy (close up)

Sorry for the ‘wonky’ picture my photography skills are on top form as usual!! Image was coloured with the following promarkers:

Dress – lilac and amethyst

Wings lilac, amethyst and baby pink

Hair – tan and caramel

Flowers – lilac, amethyst and meadow green

Skin – ivory, blush and pastel pink

Shading – ice grey 1

Our sponsor this week is sugar nellie stamps and one lucky winner will receive two stamps ‘party parade’ and ‘big bunch of love’ (pop over to the challenge blog to see pics).

Sugar Nellie badge

The DT have created some amazing cards this week, please pop over and take a peek.

I can also enter my card into the following challenges:

Creative inspirations challenge – fairies

Cute card Thursday challenge – for someone special

Digi doodle challenge – ribbon

Mami doodles challenge – monochromatic

Allsorts challenge – birthday

Kaboodle challenge – monochromatic

I hope you will have a chance to enter our challenge and I look forward to seeing what you create. Have a wonderful Tuesday…………..thanks for stopping by today.

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PFP challenge 52 - fantasy

Card ingredients:

Image: Stitchy stamps – butterfly love

Papers: PM – Henbury Lane paper pack, plain card from the papermill shop

Tools: promarkers, purple flowers from stash, small flowers from wild orchid crafts, rectangle nesties, MS border punch, sentiment created on pc, ribbon from fantastic ribbons, sentiment created on pc

Monday, 17 May 2010

Cupcake craft challenge #91 – DT card

** This is my second post for today **

Please scroll down to see my stamp with fun DT card

Hello, I’m back again to share with you my DT card for cupcake craft challenge. This week we have a lovely theme from the super talented Shelly and she has chosen “blooming charming”, so we want to see flowers and charms on your projects this week. Here is my card:

CCC challenge 91 - blooming charming

CCC challenge 91 - blooming charming (close up)

Again the card size is A5 which makes a change from the usual 6 x 6 size and it means you can use a larger image. For the wow effect I coloured the flower with a sakura gelly roll pen and it looks gorgeous IRL, all shimmery and shiny :)

Our sponsor this week is Lauretta’s digital stamps and the lucky winner will receive 4 digi images from their online store.

Lauretta's digi images

The rest of the DT have created some amazing samples once again this week, please pop over and take a peek, if you get the chance.

I am also entering my card into the following challenges:

I love promarkers challenge – sketch

Papertake challenge – shiny/sparkly and special

Creative inspirations challenge – fairies

Fab ‘n’ funky challenge – metal mania (my charm)

Stampavie and more challenge – pink

Cute card Thursday challenge – someone special

I love digi challenge – charming

Prairie fairy challenge – use flowers

Mami doodles challenge – monochromatic (I hope my tiny bit of green is ok)

Stamp something challenge – celebrate something

Allsorts challenge – birthday

Secret crafter Saturday challenge – metal (my charm)

By the cute and girly challenge – celebrations

Sweet stampin’ challenge – get personal

Die cut dreams challenge – use lace

Before I go I want to wish Donna, who runs the cupcake craft challenge, a very happy birthday for today – hope you have a fabulous day even though you’ll be in work lol! Sorry I forgot to send you a card but I’ll get one in the post ASAP!!

Have a wonderful day everyone and I can’t wait to see what you create for this week’s challenge. Thanks for stopping by.

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CCC challenge 91 - blooming charming

Card ingredients:

Image: Prairie fairy designs – Daisy fairy

Papers: PM from the Henbury Lane paper pack, plain card from the papermill shop

Tools: promarkers, sakura gelly roll pen, sentiment created on the pc, charm and flower punch from stash, lace from wild orchid crafts, adhesive gems from Joanna Sheen, twine from SU

Stamp with fun #59 – DT card

It’s Monday morning so time for another challenge over at stamp with fun challenge.  Our challenge this week is a nice easy one for you “stripes”.  You can make anything as long as it has some stripes on it somewhere!!  Here is what I came up with:

SWF #59 - stripes

SWF #59 - stripes (close up)

I had to make a rugby themed card for an order I had so I decided to combine the two.  I have stripes on my paper and also on my little boys shirt – cool ‘eh!!  The finished card is A5 in size. 

Please check out the rest of the DT cards, as they are beautiful as always. 

I can also enter my card into the following challenges:

Papertake challenge – shiny/sparkly and special

ABC challenge – U is for unused stash (the papers are very old)

Cute card Thursday challenge – someone special

Crafty Ann’s challenge – anything goes

DU2DS challenge – anything goes

Stamp something challenge – celebrate something

Stamping for the weekend challenge – a card for a male

Allsorts challenge – birthday

Our creative corner challenge – masculine birthday

Stamp, scrap & doodle challenge – masculine

Sweet stampin’ challenge – get personal

Moving along with the times challenge – sketch

I hope you will have time to enter our challenge and I look forward to seeing what you create.  Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by today.  I’ll be back later with my DT card for cupcake craft challenge.

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SWF #59 - stripes

Card ingredients:

Image: DigiStamp Boutique – rugby Justin

Papers: PM – not sure which pack (had it a very long time), plain card from the papermill shop

Tools: promarkers, sentiment created on pc, SU ribbon, dovecraft star punch, adhesive gems from Joanna Sheen, ‘spots & dots’ cuttlebug embossing folder

Sunday, 16 May 2010

Look what I won!

I recently won blog candy from Jo (Dotty Pudding’s Place) and look at the gorgeous stamps, ribbon and flowers I received.  The stamps are from Wendy at Secret Crafter and they are soooo cute.  I’ve been really lazy and pinched Jo’s picture from her blog :)

image

I just wanted to say a big thank you to Jo and hopefully I will get a chance to use them very soon.  

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Baby boy card

Hello everyone, I hope you are having a good Sunday so far.  I’m sharing a card with you today that I made for a friend at work.  I love making baby cards and at the moment everyone seems to be having boys, which is a nice change.  Last year all I seemed to make was baby girl cards!

baby card (7)

baby card (7) close up

I used another DigiStamp Boutique image from the ‘simply baby collection’ and I paper-pieced the baby-gro and socks – aren’t they just adorable. 

I can enter this card into the following challenges:

Caardvarks challenge – sketch

The crazy challenge – cute and cuddly (it does have a teddy bear on it!)

Papertake challenge – shiny/sparkly and special

ABC challenge – U is for unused stash (I’ve had the ‘it’s a boy’ sticker for years)

Creative belli challenge – hole punches (used my MS border punch)

Cute card Thursday challenge – someone special

Pixie dust studio challenge – cut it out (I cut out the baby-gro and socks)

DU2DS challenge – anything goes

Stamp something challenge – celebrate something

Stamping for the weekend challenge – a card for a male

Bee crafty challenge – something new (new baby)

Sweet stampin’ challenge – get personal

Mami doodles challenge – monochromatic

Right I’d better go and get the boys some dinner, I know it’s late but they didn’t get out of bed until 1.00pm!!  Yes the joys of having teenage boys lol!  Have a great day and thanks for stopping by.

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baby card (7)

Card ingredients:

Image: DigiStamp Boutique – simply baby collection

Papers: Making memories – Ethan paper pad, SU whisper white card

Tools: Promarkers (for teddy), stamped sentiment by verve cut out with SU oval all punches, ‘it’s a boy’ sticker by ek success, hearts embossing folder from ‘love language’ cuttlebug set, buttons from stash, adhesive gems from Joanna Sheen, MS border punch, main sentiment created on pc and cut out with oval nesties

Saturday, 15 May 2010

My son’s birthday card!

I know it’s been a week since my son’s 16th birthday but I wanted to share his card with you.  I also wanted to say a big thank you once again for all your suggestions and help with the drummer image.  He loved his card by the way so I was super pleased about that.  Here is what I made for him:

b'day card (56)

b'day card (56) close up

I decided to go with The Greeting Farm image as it was so funky!  The card is A5 in size. 

Now when I made the card I wasn’t aiming to fit any challenges but luckily for me it fits in with quite a few this week :)

Anyone for Anya challenge – Lucky numbers

OSAAT challenge – going dotty (my paper)

A spoonfull of sugar challenge – 3 designer papers and 3 buttons

Papertake challenge – shiny/sparkly and special (my card is obviously special and metal charm)

Fab ‘n’ funky challenge – metal mania (haven’t got much but used a star charm)

Cute card Thursday challenge – someone special

Digi doodle challenge – use ribbon

I love digi challenge – charming

Crafty Ann’s challenge – anything goes

DU2DS challenge – anything goes

Stamp something challenge – celebrate something (my son’s birthday)

Stamping for the weekend challenge – a card for a male

Allsorts challenge – birthday

Our creative corner challenge – masculine birthday

Secret crafter Saturday challenge – metal (again used a charm)

Stamp, scrap & doodle challenge – masculine

Sweet stampin’ challenge – get personal

Not too bad, considering I didn’t have any challenges in mind when I made it lol!  I hope you are having a good weekend so far.  I’m off to finish my DT cards.  Thanks for stopping by today.

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b'day card (56)

Card ingredients:

Image: The greeting farm – CC drummer digi

Papers: MME – bright co-ordinates pad, DCWV – glitter stack

Tools: promarkers, buttons/ribbon/charm from stash, sentiments created on pc, ‘16’ stickers by creative imaginations

Tuesday, 11 May 2010

Passion for promarkers #51 – DT card

Good morning, it’s Tuesday so that only means one thing – a new challenge over at passion for promarkers challenge.  Our theme this week has been set by Sue and she has chosen ‘strawberries and cream’, which means you can either use images that include a strawberry or just use the colour scheme.  Here is my card:

PFP challenge 51 - strawberry & cream

PFP challenge 51 - strawberry & cream (close up)

I forgot to write down the promarkers that I used but I’ll try and remember (forgive me if one or two are wrong lol):

Hat – baby pink, cocktail pink, red, berry red, powder blue, arctic blue and meadow green

Top – baby pink and cocktail pink

Trousers – powder blue and arctic blue

Shoes – caramel

Watering can – ice grey 1 and 2, red and berry red

Strawberries/grass – red, berry red, meadow green, apple, baby pink

Hair – tan and caramel

Skin – ivory, blush and pastel pink

Shading – ice grey 1

Our sponsor this week is Letraset and the lucky winner will receive a 5 pack of promarkers. 

letraset promarker logo

The rest of the design team have created such pretty samples this week, please pop over and take a peek, you won’t be disappointed. 

I am also entering my card into the following challenges:

Rosie D’s challenge – so yummy

Crafts and me challenge – sparkle (stickles around the edge of my card)

Creative cottage challenge – food and/or drink

Fab ‘n’ funky challenge – show us your fancy edge

Lili of the valley challenge – here comes summer

Paper play challenge – stamp or digi image and bling

Crafty Ann’s challenge – anything goes

DU2DS challenge – anything goes

Fun with shapes and more challenge – pastel inks

Crafty calendar challenge – great outdoors

Crafty angels challenge – one for the girls

I hope you are enjoying your week so far.  My father is still in hospital, and he is not happy about it lol!  They want him to see another consultant before they will let him come home.  Fingers crossed that it may be Wednesday but I’m not holding my breath!!  He is so desperate to come home, but it is better to get him sorted before he comes home I suppose.  Thanks for stopping by today.

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PFP challenge 51 - strawberry & cream

Card ingredients:

Image: free colouring page from internet search

Papers: pink paper from PM rose garden paper pack, strawberry paper freebie from magazine, plain card from the papermill shop

Tools: promarkers, charm and ribbon from stash, stickles, sentiment from WOJ, MS border punch, strawberries hand-cut from the backing paper