Charisma cardz #10–DT card (very late)

Good morning dear friends, I hope you are having a good weekend so far.  I know it’s unusual for me to post on a Sunday but I am here to share my (very late) DT card for the charisma cardz challenge.  I haven’t been feeling too good for the last few days so I apologise that I didn’t actually share my card on Thursday when I should have.  We have a brilliant theme this week that has been chosen by Lora which is “easel cards” and I really don’t make enough of them so it was a nice change.  Here is my card:

Why are easel cards so difficult to photograph – they never seem to look good whatever angle you take them at lol!  I have used a long neglected stamp from Sugar Nellie called ‘sitting’ and coloured her with promarkers (of course). 

We have three sponsors this week – firstly we have Scrapbook News and Review and one lucky winner will receive a 3 month subscription to their publication.

 

Our second sponsor is Some Odd Girls and the lucky winner will receive 3 digi images of their choice. 

Our third sponsor is the stamping boutique and one lucky winner will receive 5 digi images of their choice.

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

Critter sketch challenge – sketch

Aly’s Sunday challenge – anything goes

Craft your passion challenge – anything goes

The crazy challenge – lovely ladies

Creative card crew challenge – no flowers

Bee crafty’s challenge – spots/dots

Digi doodle challenge – pearls

Do you stack up? challenge – layers

Simon says stamp challenge – anything goes

Catch the bug challenge – scallops anyone?

Ok, that’s it from me today, but I’ll be back tomorrow with my DT cards for stamp with fun challenge and cupcake craft challenge.  I’d like to say a big hello to my new followers – Rachel and Angela from Rainbow Studios – thanks for joining me ladies, I hope you’ll pop back often.  Have a wonderful afternoon and thanks for stopping by today.

Card ingredients:

Image: sugar nellie – ‘sitting’

Papers: wild rose studio – girly polka dots paper pad, SU soft suede cardstock

Tools: promarkers, white gel pen, pearls from the hobby house, oval nesties, SU oval all punches, personal impressions sentiment stamp

Passion for promarkers #90–DT card

Good morning everyone, it’s Tuesday so that can only mean one thing – a brand new challenge over at passion for promarkers challenge.  This week I’ve had the honour of setting the theme and I’ve chosen “food and drink” which is something I enjoy doing lol!  I had to make a silver wedding anniversary card for my mother’s friend so I combined the two.  Here is my card:

 

As it was for a silver wedding anniversary I decided to use silver mirri card but unfortunately I forgot how much of a pain it is to photograph.  I’m sorry the pics are a bit dark but the flash was glaring so much off the mirri card that I had to tone it down a bit lol!.  I have used another super cute Lili of the Valley image called ‘bubble bath’ and I used my new papers by Wild Rose Studio called ‘wedding bells’ which I got from Crafty Emma’s store. 

We are generously sponsored by Letraset once again this week and the prize up for grabs is one of their stamping kits. 

The rest of 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 can also click on their names in my sidebar to visit their personal blogs.  We really appreciate all the lovely comments you leave for us. 

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

Stamptacular challenge – you lucky duck i.e. congrats, good luck or best wishes

Craft your passion challenge – anything goes

Creative belli challenge – animals

CCEE stampers challenge – swirls (on my paper)

Moving along with the times challenge – anniversary

Meljen’s challenge – u r such an animal

Lili of the valley challenge – sketch

Right-e-o that’s all from me today but I hope you have a really great day.  I look forward to seeing your wonderful creations and visiting your blogs this week.  Thanks for stopping by.

 

Card ingredients:

Image: LOTV – ‘bubble bath’

Papers: wild rose studio – ‘wedding bells’ paper pad, mirri card from my stash

Tools: promarkers, stickles, sentiment created on the pc, circle and labels 8 nesties, dovecraft heart punch, pearls from the hobby house

Cupcake craft challenge #132–DT card

** THIS IS MY SECOND POST FOR TODAY **

Please scroll down to see my Stamp with Fun DT card

Hello again, I told you I’d be back, and I’m not one to break a promise lol!  I’m here to share my DT card for this week’s cupcake craft challenge.  This week’s challenge has been set by our competition winner Em and she has chosen a lovely theme of ‘pink polka dots’ – how fantastic is that theme?  I had to make a card for a friend in work so set to work to combine the two.  Here is my card which is A5 in size for a change:

I have used a super fun image from Sassy Studio Designs called ‘sassy Cassie’ and I have used a stamping up 12x12 paper pack called ‘sweet pea’ that I forgot I had (but I think it’s now retired)!!  I used last week’s Friday sketcher’s sketch as I really loved it but didn’t have time to use it last week.  I will definitely be using it again as it is really effective I think. 

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

Don’t forget we also have our ‘icing on the cupcake’ prize and for March our sponsor is Wild Rose Studio and they are offering two super cute stamps to one lucky winner.

 

The rest of the design team (including our guest designers for March – Helen, Maarit & Poppit) 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:

Aly’s Sunday challenge – anything goes

The crafty pad challenge – use a ribbon

Cupcake inspirations challenge – inspirational photo (I was inspired by the flowers and colours)

Digital Tuesday challenge – celebrations

Aud sentiments challenge – birthday cards, packaging or gifts

Crafty sentiments challenge – birthdays

Pixie dust studio challenge – seeing polka dots

Southern girls challenge – brads, gems or dewdrops (I’ve used gems)

Crafty Ann’s challenge – birthday card

Fun with shapes and more challenge – happy birthday

Simply create challenge – flowers

Stamp something challenge – March digi day

Catch the bug challenge – anything goes

Little Claire’s challenge – flowers

Ok, so that’s it for me today.  I hope you can find the time to enter our challenge and I look forward to seeing what you create.  Have a wonderful Monday and thank you for stopping by today.

Card ingredients:

Image: Sassy Studio Designs – ‘sassy Cassie’

Papers: SU – ‘sweet pea’ 12x12 paper pad, SU soft suede cardstock, LOTV stamping card

Tools: promarkers, sentiment created on the pc, SU oval all punches, ek success retro flower punches, nellie’s choice stamen punch, SU basic rhinestones, MS cherish border punch, ribbon from stash

Stamp with fun #101–DT card

Good morning everyone.  I hope you all had a really good weekend.  I’ve just been relaxing with the family (and crafting a little too) so the time seems to have whizzed by as usual.  I think we should have a two day working week and a 5 day weekend lol! 

I’m here this morning to share my card for this week’s stamp with fun challenge and this week we have a lovely theme for you of “monochrome blue”.  It is such a great colour to work with, although I really don’t use blue enough.  I decided to make a baby boy card as I don’t have any baby cards ‘in stock’ at the moment.  Here is my card:

 

I have used a super cute image from Lili of the Valley called ‘baby blanket’ and I’m ashamed to say this is the first time I’ve inked this little cutie up.  I love gingham papers and especially love them on baby cards, so I had to use my new Wild Rose Studio ‘gorgeous ginghams’ paper pad.  The cardstock I’ve used is navy blue but it looks almost black in my pictures for some reason. 

Our sponsor this week is Just Some Lines and the lucky winner will receive a $15.00 voucher to spend in their online store. 

The rest of the design team have created wonderful cards 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 also like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Aly’s Sunday challenge – anything goes

The crafty pad challenge – use a ribbon

Dream valley challenge – new beginnings

Bee crafty’s challenge – tatty and/or buttons

Papertake challenge – anything goes

Scrap creations challenge – kids

Creative craft world challenge – card for a male (mine is a baby male lol!)

Your next stamp challenge – blue

Simon says stamp challenge – 1 image, 2 papers, 3 embellishments (buttons, pearls and ribbon)

Shelly’s images challenge – layers, layer, lots of layers

Alphabet challenge – r is for ribbons

Fairy fun challenge – inspired by a song (mine is ‘baby love’ by the Supremes)

Fussy and fancy challenge – embossing and/or paper piecing (I’ve gone with embossing)

Phindy’s place challenge – oh baby

Tellen’s place challenge – at least 2 embellishments (I’ve used buttons, pearls and ribbon)

The sweet stop challenge – sketch

I hope you will be able to enter our challenge this week and I look forward to seeing what you create.  I will be back in a little while with my DT card for the cupcake craft challenge but until then thanks for stopping by. 

Card ingredients:

Image: LOTV - ‘baby blanket’

Papers: Wild Rose Studio – ‘gorgeous ginghams’ paper pad, plain card from the papermill shop, SU whisper white cardstock, LOTV stamping card

Tools: promarkers, MFT die-namics buttons die, SU scallop border punch, raffia ribbon from stash, personal impressions stamped sentiment, SU oval all punches, pearls from the hobby house

Winter wonderland challenge–DT card

Good morning dear friends, I hope your week has gone well but I’m sure you’ll agree with me when I say ‘thank goodness it’s Friday’!  I am so looking forward to the weekend and having a little lie-in, I’m really not a morning person at all and really want to win the lottery and give up work now haha!  However until this happens I will have to struggle in the mornings and get up for work!! 

Onto happier things and it’s Team Marianne’s turn to share their cards this week over at the winter wonderland challenge.  As I mentioned last week we are completely Christmas themed challenges from now on so an apt theme this week is “snowflakes”.  You can make whatever you like as long as it contains a snowflake – easy!  Here is my card:

 

I decided to make a set of thank you cards to give out after Christmas to thank people for their cards and gifts.  I know they are very plain and simple but I thought the snowflake was so pretty I wanted that to be the focal point of my card.  I’m sorry the pictures aren’t very crisp but the snowflake was stamped with a brilliance inkpad and it’s makes photographing them very difficult due to the shimmer.  The first picture is more a true representation of the colour but the second picture really shows off the shimmery quality of the brilliance ink.  They look much nicer IRL honestly!  Shock horror no promarkers were harmed in the making of my cards!!!

Our sponsor this week is Pollycraft and the lucky winner will receive 5 digis of their choice.

The rest of the design team have created beautiful cards once again 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 cards into the following challenges:

Clean and simple challenge – sketch

Stamptacular challenge – you’ve been framed

Ooh la la creations challenge – pink, pink and more pink

Creative craft challenge – thank you

Papertake challenge – anything goes (my something old is my snowflake stamp)

Sentimental Sunday challenge – anything goes

I hope you have a wonderful Friday and I look forward to seeing your snowflake creations.  Thanks for stopping by today.

Card ingredients:

Image: snowflake stamp from elzybells

Papers: gingham paper is from my stash

Tools: personal impressions sentiment, pearls from the hobby house, labels 8 nesties

Charisma cardz challenge #9–DT card

Oh my goodness I am so sorry for posting my card so late.  It completely slipped my mind to schedule the post last night (oops!).  This week over at charisma cardz challenge the lovely Joanne has set the theme and she has chosen “four legged friends”, so we want to see all your cute animals.  Here is my card:

I have used one of the ‘spring animals’ from DigiStamp Boutique and this one unsurprisingly is called ‘spring lamb’ lol!  I’ve tried to go with lovely spring type papers to match my cute four legged friend and finished off with some small buttons. 

We have three sponsors this week, firstly we have Simon Says Stamp who are offering a $20.00 gift voucher to spend in their online store.

Our second sponsor is Meljen’s Designs and they are offering 4 digi’s of the winner’s choice. 

Our final sponsor is Crafty Emma’s Store and Emma is offering the winner a gorgeous Pink Paislee Bayberry Cottage 6x6 paper pad to one lucky winner (I have this pad and it is even more gorgeous IRL).

The rest of the design team have created amazing cards for your inspiration this week, so why not pop over to the challenge blog and check them out.  You can also click on their names in my sidebar to visit their personal blogs.  We really appreciate all the lovely comments you leave for us. 

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

Stampin’ sisters in Christ challenge – at least 3 buttons

Whoopsi daisy challenge – let’s get all cute

The crazy challenge – here comes spring

Incy wincy designs challenge – spring is in the air

Paper cutz challenge – spring

Paper garden projects challenge – spring things

Tellen’s place challenge – buttons

A gem of a challenge – buttons, brads, beads and bows

Our creative corner challenge – sketch and distressing (oops forgot the distressing lol!)

Bee crafty’s challenge – tatty or buttons

Digital Tuesday challenge – celebrations

Everybody art challenge – spring

Papertake challenge – anything goes

Top tip Tuesday challenge – favourites (my promarkers and DSB digis)

Creative belli challenge – animals

Delightful challenges – welcome spring

Fab ‘n’ funky challenge – spring into action

The pixie cottage challenge – sketch and/or spring

Scrapbook sisters challenge – spring

Cute card Thursday challenge – signs of spring

Meljen’s challenge – u r such an animal

Pixie dust studio challenge – seeing polka dots

Shelly’s images challenge – layers, layers, lots of layers

Well that’s all from me today, sorry I kept you waiting for my card lol!  I hope you have a great evening and I’ll be back tomorrow with my card for the winter wonderland challenge.  Thanks for stopping by today.

 

Card ingredients:

Image: DigiStamp Boutique – ‘spring lamb’

Papers: MME – ‘Mabel’ paper pad, plain card from the papermill shop, SU whisper white cardstock

Tools: promarkers, dovecraft back to basics II buttons, personal impressions sentiment, corner rounder punch

Passion for promarkers #89–DT card

Good morning dear friends and Happy St. David’s Day to all my welsh followers!  I can’t believe it’s March 1st already, the year is definitely flying by.  At this rate it will Christmas before we know it lol!  This week over at passion for promarkers challenge the lovely Vix has set the theme and she has chosen “sugar rush” so we want to see all your girly, pretty cards.  The DT had a lot of fun and it was nice  change after all our male cards last week.  Here is my card:

The image is being released today by Sally-Ann over at DigiStamp Boutique and is part of the offer of the month for March.  The image is called ‘Bella birthday’ and she has a little friend bear called Oscar which is also part of the offer of the month.  As well as these super cute bears there are also some new flower images which are just gorgeous.  Please go and check them out as they are all available at an amazing price.  I will try and show you another image tomorrow. 

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

The rest of the design team have created gorgeous and super girly cards this week, so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out.  You can also click on their names in my sidebar to visit their personal blogs.  We really appreciate all the lovely comments you leave for us. 

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

Ooh la la creations challenge – pink, pink and more pink

Wild orchid challenge – anything goes

Craft your passion challenge – girly girl

Paper playtime challenge – digi Monday & anything goes

Fab ‘n’ funky challenge – 1 image, 2 embellishments (lace & pearls) and 3 papers

Little red wagon challenge – animals

Scrapbook sisters challenge – lace and pearls

Digi doodle challenge – spots/dots (my paper)

Crafty Ann’s challenge – birthday card

Mark’s finest papers challenge – use food (the teddy is holding a cupcake)

2 sisters challenge – teddy bears picnic

Secret crafter Saturday challenge

– sweet treats (cupcake on my image)

Sweet stampin’ challenge – oh so girly

I hope you will have a chance to enter our challenge this week and I look forward to seeing all your girly creations.  Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by today.

 

Card ingredients:

Image: DigiStamp Boutique – ‘Bella birthday’

Papers: MME – ‘Hazel’ paper pad, plain card from the papermill shop

Tools: promarkers, circle nesties, pearls from the hobby house, lace from wild orchid crafts, personal impressions sentiment, staples from stash