Charisma cardz #6–DT card

Good morning friends, I forgot to schedule my post last night so I’m hastily typing it before I go to work (never a good idea lol).  It’s time for a brand new challenge over at charisma cardz challenge and this week the lovely Carol has chosen the theme “mythical/fantasy”.  I decided to use a CC designs mermaid digi image as they are both mythical and fantasy I think.  I have gone “clean and simple” on my card but I’m not sure if I like it – some crafters make this style of card look so stylish and elegant but I can’t seem to get to grips with it.  Here is my card (let me know what you think about my attempt at CAS):

I have used another scalloped card (that was found under my desk!) and the image is called ‘mermaid Emma’.  I coloured her with my promarkers of course and added stickles to her waist and hairband.  There is an awful lot of white on my card…..mmm I’m not sure!!

We have two sponsors this week – firstly we have All That Scraps and they are offering the lucky winner either 1 stamp set or 4 single stamps.

Our second sponsor is Pink Cat Studio and they are offering the lucky winner 5 digi images of their choice. 

The rest of the design team have created amazing samples for your inspiration once again this week, so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out.  We really appreciate the lovely comments you leave for us.  I apologise as I don’t think I managed to get around to commenting on my allocated entries last week but I’ll make sure I’m more organised this week! 

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

Clean and simple challenge – sketch (I hope it’s ok I put the sentiment in a different place)

Pear tree designs challenge – free for all

Karber challenge – movie theme (I’ve gone with the little mermaid)

Aly’s Sunday challenge – bling bling

Little Claire’s challenge – anything goes (second entry)

Kaboodle challenge – break out that ribbon stash

City crafter challenge – all that glitters

Craft your passion challenge – anything goes

I love promarkers challenge – birthday theme and blog hop

Delightful challenges – get punchy

Fab ‘n’ funky challenge – tempting texture

The pixie cottage challenge – sketch and/or ribbon

So that’s it from me today. I am rushing to get to work now so I’ll add my ingredient list later.  Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by.

Passion for promarkers #86–DT card

Good morning friends, it’s Tuesday so that can only mean one thing – a brand new challenge over at passion for promarkers challenge.  This week our theme has been set by Michele and she has chosen “let there be love”, it doesn’t have to be a valentine’s creation it could be a wedding or anniversary card if you like or simply a card to say I love you!!  Here is my card:

 

I have used a super cute image from Some Odd Girl called ‘sweet Kody’ and chose muted colours of kraft, red and white as I think it makes for a more masculine card.  I found this scalloped card in a pile under my desk and thought it would make a nice change from the traditional square card that I always use! 

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

We are sadly saying goodbye to Caryn from the design team as her business is doing really well and she can’t craft as much as she likes.  Also Gina is taking a step back from creating as her online business is really good at the moment too (although she will still be my partner in crime on the blog).  We are pleased to announce that we will have two new members from next week Heidi and Maya.  Please check out their blogs as their work is stunning.

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

Cupcake inspirations challenge – photo inspiration (I as inspired by the colours)

Stampin’ sisters in Christ challenge – a card with no words that signifies love

Cards for men challenge – valentine/love

The crazy challenge – lots of love

Die cut dreams challenge – lots of hearts but no sentiment (my semi-circle is embossed with hearts)

Incy wincy designs challenge – love

Kaboodle challenge – break out the ribbon stash

Ooh la la creations challenge – for someone special

The pink elephant challenge – be my valentine

Stamps & fun = creativity challenge – valentine/love

Totally stampalicious challenge – at least 3 hearts (my semi-circle is embossed with tiny hearts) if not appropriate please delete

Wild orchid challenge – love is

Craft your passion challenge – anything goes

Paper playtime challenge – cupid or hearts

Crafty creations challenge – red, red rose poem (I literally used a red rose)

Little red wagon challenge – kraft

The pixie cottage challenge – sketch and/or buttons

4 crafty chicks challenge – sketch

Dutch dare challenge – buttons, buttons, who’s got the buttons?

Pixie dust studio challenge – say it with roses

Some odd girl challenge – scallops galore

Phindy’s place challenge – embossing

Craft your days away challenge – inspirational photo (I used the colour red and red roses as my inspiration)

I hope you have a wonderful day and that 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.  Thanks for stopping by today.

Card ingredients:

Image: Some Odd Girl – ‘sweet Kody’

Papers – none, Elzybells kraft card, SU whisper white card, red card from the papermill shop

Tools: promarkers, ribbon and buttons from the ribbon girl, cuttlebug hearts embossing folder, circle nesties

Cupcake craft challenge #128–DT card

Hello again, I’m back as promised with my DT card for this week’s cupcake craft challenge.  Our theme this week has been set by the lovely Kathrin and she has chosen ‘seeing red’ so you card must include some red.  Another super easy challenge for you during this love-fest week lol!  I have used another newly released image from DigiStamp Boutique called ‘Grace and puppy’ and I really love this super cute girl.  This is part of the offer of the month and is available at the special price of just £2.99 for 4 different images (including the one I’ve used today).  Here is my card:

I decided to make a general ‘love’ theme card, not particularly for valentine’s day but suitable for lots of different occasions.  I really like the way it’s turned out and the colour scheme is really pretty (although it did take me a while to make it all work together)!! 

Our sponsor this week is Simon Says Stamp and the lucky winner will receive a $20.00 gift voucher to spend in their online store. 

Don’t forget we also have our monthly ‘icing on the cupcake’ prize which for February is sponsored by Crafts U Love and they are offering one lucky winner a £15.00 voucher for their online store. 

The rest of the DT have created amazing cards for your inspiration once again this week, so you must pop over to the challenge blog and take a look.  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 – bling bling (stickles on flower in hair/pearls)

Crafty ho’s challenge – love theme

The crafty pad challenge – love is in the air

Cutie Sunday challenge – hearts

OSAAT challenge – anything digi

Stamptacular challenge – hearts gone wild

Whoopsi daisy challenge – give us your heart

City crafter challenge – all you need is love

Creative craft challenge – love is in the air

Top tip Tuesday challenge – anything girlie

Crafts and me challenge – red

Creative craft world challenge – love

Scrapbook sisters challenge – red, red, red

Moving along with the times challenge – red

Shelly’s images challenge – love is in the air

Do you stack up? challenge – red hot

Frosted designs challenge, red, pink and white

Stamp something challenge – February digi day

2 sisters challenge – the world is your oyster (option valentines)

Allsorts challenge – love, love, love

Bee crafty challenge – hearts

CES challenge – red and romance

Sketch Saturday challenge – sketch

By the cute and girly challenge – red and any other colour (mine is pink)

Little Claire’s challenge – anything goes

Ok, so that’s my lot for today.  I hope you will be able to enter our challenge this week and I cannot wait to see what you create.  Have a brilliant day and thanks for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: DigiStamp Boutique – ‘Grace and puppy’

Papers: dovecraft ‘back to basics’ paper pad, red and white card from the papermill shop

Tools: promarkers, personal impressions sentiment, SU circle punches, circle nesties, woodware heart punch, pearls from the hobby house, stickles, swiss dots cuttlebug embossing folder

Stamp with fun #97–DT card

Good Monday morning everyone, another working week is beginning *groan*.  I hope the weather hasn’t been too bad for you wherever you are – it’s been very windy and wet here all weekend, but thankfully no damage locally.  My thoughts go out to everyone that has been flooded or suffered any other damage. 

Ok onto the reason you are here, my card lol!  I’m here to share my DT card for the stamp with fun challenge.  This week we have a lovely easy theme for you “love” and with so many similar themes around at the moment, there are sure to be lots of challenges you can fit your cards into.  Here is my card:

I decided to make a love/valentine’s card but without the traditional red colour scheme.  I was inspired by the colour scheme over colour create challenge which is green, yellow and white and thought this was a lovely fresh combo to use.  The digi is a new image released at the beginning of the month over at DigiStamp Boutique called ‘love bugs’.  Aren’t they just a super cute pair of loved up bugs!! 

The rest of the DT have created amazing love cards 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 also like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Crafty Ho’s challenge – love theme

The crafty pad challenge – love is in the air

Cutie Sunday challenge – hearts

Sentimental Sunday challenge – happy valentine’s day

Stamptacular challenge – hearts gone wild

Whoopsi daisy challenge – give us your heart

City crafter challenge – all you need is love

Creative craft challenge – love is in the air

Flourishes timeless Tuesday challenge – valentine

Creative craft world challenge – love

Colour create challenge – green, yellow and white

Digi doodle challenge – valentine’s

Do it with digis challenge – love is in the air

Cardmadfairy’s digi days challenge – romance

Easy craft projects challenge – love

Fun with shapes and more challenge – of heart with heart

Fussy and fancy challenge – valentine with no red or pink

Mami doodles challenge – the magic of love

Raise the bar challenge – hearts

Simply create challenge – give your heart away

Aud sentiments challenge – corny valentine sayings

Crafty purple frog challenge – valentine/romance

Phindy’s place challenge – embossing

Stamping for the weekend challenge – valentine’s day

Tellen’s place challenge – hearts

2 sisters challenge – the world is your oyster (option valentines)

Allsorts challenge – love, love, love

Bee crafty challenge – hearts

Crazy 4 challenges challenge – valentine’s card

Created 4 fun challenge – sketch (which I rotated and changed some of the shapes)

Secret crafter Saturday challenge –  valentine

Crafter’s companion challenge – romance

Crafty calendar challenge – love

Bunny Zoe’s challenge – love is in the air

Bizzy Bec’s creatalicious challenge – love theme and use ribbon

Let’s craft and create challenge – heart felt (add hearts and option add felt) – I’ve got both

Oh my goodness that lot is going to take me ages to link up!!  There are so many similar themed challenges around at the moment aren’t there?  I hope you can join in with our challenge this week and I look forward to seeing what you create.  Please call back later to see my DT card for the cupcake craft challenge.  Have a great day and thanks for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: DigiStamp Boutique – ‘love bugs’

Papers: pink paislee – ‘bayberry’ paper pad, white card from the papermill shop, yellow card from papermania textured card pack

Tools: promarkers, sentiment created on the pc, SU oval all punches, oval nesties, stickles, SU whisper white ribbon, pearls from the hobby house, green felt hearts (which are actually supposed to be leaves) from SU stitched felt ‘sweet pea’ pack

Winter wonderland–DT card

Good morning everyone – woohoo it’s Friday - thank crunchie for that lol!  I am so glad the weekend is almost here, although it’s supposed to very wet and windy, so perfect weather for crafting!!  I’m here this morning to share with you my DT card for this week’s winter wonderland challenge and  Lynsey has set the theme this week and she has chosen ‘reach for the stars’.  This was a great challenge for me as I had to make a birthday card for a one year old boy and I love to add stars to boys/men’s cards.  Here is my card:

I have used a super cute image from DigiStamp Boutique called ‘one today’ and you receive a boy version and an equally adorable girl version for just one amazing price.  I decided to use this bright and cheerful paper as I thought it was ideal for a little boy. 

Our sponsor this week is Craftbrulee and the lucky winner will receive a surprise prize.  Unfortunately Jennifer has decided to close her online store but she is still trading through eBay. 

 

The rest of the design team have created amazing cards for your inspiration, so why not pop over and take a look.  We really appreciate all the lovely comments you leave for us. 

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

Aly’s Sunday challenge – for the boys

The crafty pad challenge – something for the boys

OSAAT challenge – photo inspiration (I went with the autumn colours)

Pile it on challenge – punch it

The crazy challenge – happy birthday (second entry)

Ooh la la creations challenge – 3 of a kind (3 stars)

I love promarkers challenge – anything goes

Papertake challenge – anything goes

Ladybug crafts ink challenge – a card for a child

CCEE stampers challenge – use punches

CRAFT challenge – in the roll of a die (my stars are die cut)

Crafty sentiments challenge – a bear on your card

Paper play challenge – stamp it out (I’ve use a digi image)

CES challenge – bold and bright

Sketch Saturday challenge – sketch

I hope you can enter our challenge this week and I look forward to visiting your blogs and seeing what you create.  Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: DigiStamp Boutique – ‘one today’

Papers: my minds eye – ‘true blue’ paper pad, plain card from the papermill shop

Tools: promarkers, quickutz star cookie cutters, SU scallop border punch, SU oval all punches, sentiment created on pc

Charisma cardz #4–DT card

Happy Thursday friends, I can’t believe how fast this week is going.  It is my first week back in work since I hurt my back and it’s very busy with lots to catch up on which means the time is whizzing by there too (which is fantastic lol!).  I hope you are all having a good week so far and that the weather isn’t too bad for you, although it’s pretty wet and wild here at the moment.  At least we are luckier than the poor people in Australia, I hope everyone is safe there. 

Enough of my rambling!!  I’m here this morning to share my DT card for this week’s charisma cardz challenge and this week we have a really tricky challenge for you.  Leah wants us to only use an image, papers and a sentiment so no embellishments whatsoever!  Oh my goodness how difficult is that???  I decided the safe bet was to make a male themed card as I don’t tend to fuss them too much anyway.  Here is my card:

I have used a brand new image from DigiStamp Boutique called ‘Barney and heart’ and isn’t he just so adorable.  Sally-Ann has released lots of new images for February and there are quite a few different Barney images to buy (and I love them all).  The offer of the month for February is a gorgeous cutie called Grace (see top of my sidebar for details) and there are 4 images for £2.99, which is brilliant value. 

We have two sponsors this week, firstly we have Make it Crafty 

and our second sponsor is Pizzazz Aplenty 

 

Please check out the challenge blog for details on the prizes.  The rest of the design team have done a brilliant job with Leah’s challenge, so please pop over and take a peek.  We appreciate all the lovely comments you leave for us. 

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

Cupcake inspirations challenge – photo inspiration (I was inspired by the colours and hearts)

Pile it on challenge – punch it (my circles are punched)

Cards for men challenge – valentine/love

Lexi’s creations challenge – valentines

Paper playtime challenge – Digi Monday – anything goes

City crafter challenge – all you need is love

Creative craft challenge – love is in the air

I love promarkers challenge – anything goes

Papertake challenge – anything goes

Flourishes timeless Tuesday challenge – valentine

Creative craft world challenge – love

Delightful challenges – come fly with me (butterflies on my image)

Let’s craft and create challenge – heart felt

Penny’s paper crafty challenge – hearts a flutter

Mami doodles challenge – the magic of love

Simply create challenge – give your heart away

Crazy 4 challenges challenge – vintage/shabby chic

Craft your days away challenge – love

Stamp, scrap & doodle challenge – get punchy

Mark’s finest papers challenge – valentine card

Bunny Zoe’s challenge – love is in the air

Bee crafty challenge – hearts

Crafter’s companion challenge – romance

Flutterby Wednesday challenge – open theme (butterflies on my image)

Ok, so that’s my lot for today.  I hope you enjoy your day and maybe find the time to enter our challenge.  Thanks for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: DigiStamp Boutique – ‘Barney and heart’

Papers: basic grey – olivia paper pad, black card from clear & simple stamps 

Tools: promarkers, SU and woodware circle punches, sakura stardust pen, scissors for distressing edges, personal impressions sentiment

Passion for promarkers #85–DT card

Good morning to all my lovely friends.  I hope you are having a good week so far.  I was well enough to go back to work yesterday (groan) although my back is still not 100% better.  It was lovely to see all my friends at work, and they always make me feel so valued and missed, which is wonderful but I still think I’d rather be home crafting lol!  I’m back again this morning with my DT card for this week’s passion for promarkers challenge.  This week it’s Ida’s turn to set the theme and she has chosen to give us an inspirational photo to use.  Here is the photo:

It’s entirely up to you what you take from the picture, whether it be the colour scheme, the clouds or even just the landscape scene itself.  I decided to use the colour scheme as I needed a card for a male friend in work and the blue/white/light brown colours worked really well for that.  Here is my card:

I have used a super cute image from Pollycraft called ‘Cuthbert party’.  I love this sweet little bear and he is suitable for all ages I think. 

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

The design team have created amazing samples once again this week, so please pop over and take a peek.  We really appreciate all the lovely comments you leave for us. 

I can also enter my card into the following challenges:

Sketchy colours challenge – brown, blue and white

Aly’s Sunday challenge – for the guys

Corrosive challenge – button it up

The crafty pad challenge – something for the boys

Stamptacular challenge – whateva!

The crazy challenge – happy birthday

Paper playtime challenge – January digi Monday – anything goes

Creative craft world challenge – cute and cuddly

Paper play challenge – layer it up

Simon says stamp challenge – animal antics

Challenge up your life challenge – script for background (light brown paper has writing on it)

Tellen’s place challenge – make it for the guys

Teddy stampers challenge – anything goes

The sweet stop challenge – sketch

I hope you will have a chance to enter our challenge this week and I look forward to visiting your blogs.  A big hello to my newest follower Renata, thanks for your support of my blog.  Have a wonderful Tuesday and thanks for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: pollycraft – ‘Cuthbert party’

Papers: Papermania – blueberry pie paper pad, Basic Grey – basics kraft paper pad, Elzybells kraft cardstock

Tools: promarkers, personal impressions sentiment, quickutz star cookie cutters, button from stash, white gel pen