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

Sweet Stampin’ GDT Card

Happy Sunday dear friends.  I hope you’ve had a great weekend so far, although I can’t believe it’s 6.00pm already – where has the day gone??  I’m here this afternoon to share my second card as Guest Designer over at Sweet Stampin’ challenge.  The challenge this week is “clean & Simple” which I know fills most people with dread, me included.  Here is my card:

I have used a brand new image from DigiStamp Boutique which is part of the offer of them month called ‘Daisy set 1’ which is available at a very special price for February – just £2.25 for 3 gorgeous images.  I coloured her with promarkers and flex markers and cut her out.  The pretty papers are from the me to you ‘spring chic’ paper pad and the plain card is from the papermill shop.  The sentiment strip is from pink petticoat.  I did some faux stitching with my fine liner pen and added a couple of pearls and viola my card was finished.  I have to say I think it looks like it isn’t finished but I’m sure some extra bits will find their way onto my card before I send it to anyone lol!  You really need to check out the DT cards over at the challenge blog as they are stunning. 

There are two sponsors again this week, firstly stamp addicts are offering a £10.00 gift certificate to spend in their online store and the monthly sponsor for February is Joanna Sheen who is offering a £10.00 voucher to spend in her online store.

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

Stampin’ sisters in Christ challenge – make a happy card

Papertake challenge – anything goes

2 sisters challenge – I {heart} you (image is holding a heart)

Allsorts challenge – free & easy part 2

Craft your days away challenge – get stitchy with it

Crafter’s companion challenge – anything goes

OSAAT challenge – anything goes

Scrapbook sisters challenge – anything goes

I hope you can join in with our challenge and we look forward to seeing what you create.  Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: DigiStamp Boutique – ‘Daisy set 1’

Papers: me to you – ‘spring chic’ paper pad, plain card from the papermill shop

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, pink petticoat sentiment strip, SU basic pearls, letraset fine liner pen for faux stitches, corner rounder punch

Bee Crafty challenge–DT card

** This is my second post for today **

Please scroll down to see my Stamp with Fun DT project

Hello again dear friends.  As promised I’m back with my last catch up post for this week – thank goodness!  Over at the Bee Crafty challenge our monthly challenge is “goodbye/thinking of you”.  Unfortunately this will be our last challenge for a while as Merrigan is due to have her second baby any day now and she will have her hands full so she is putting the challenges on hold for the foreseeable future, but rest assured she will be back.  Here is my card:

I have used a super image called ‘fluffy bunny pair’ as I thought they looked like they were waving goodbye lol!  You can purchase the image in the store here.   The image is coloured with promarkers and flex markers.  I was delighted when I “discovered” this sentiment in my stamp drawer as it fit perfectly with the theme – it is a clear stamp from elzybells.  The papers are my mind’s eye from the ‘true blue’ paper pad and I used a cuttlebug embossing folder on the background.  The fancy border was a freebie in a parcel I received from the lovely Tracey at Dies to Die For and i was chuffed when it matched my card perfectly – love it when that happens lol!

The prize as always is 2 digi images of the winner’s choice.  Please pop over to the challenge blog and check out Deanne’s gorgeous card too. 

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

Karen’s doodles challenge – cute & cuddly

Moving along with the times challenge – cute critters

Alphabet challenge – animal antics

Chocolate, coffee and cards challenge – orange, brown and teal

The poodles parlour challenge – anything goes

Totally papercrafts challenge – rainbow

Allsorts challenge – free and easy

Catch the bug challenge – anything goes

Stamp, scrap and doodle challenge – punches or die cuts

City crafter challenge – use at least 3 colours from choice (orange, yellow and green (mine is teal)

I hope you can join in with our challenge.  You have plenty of time as it lasts until the end of February.  I look forward to visiting your blogs and seeing what you create.  I’ll hopefully be back a little later as I have some candy to offer but until then thanks so much for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: Bee Crafty – ‘fluffy bunny pair’

Papers: my mind’s eye – ‘true blue’ paper pad, brown card from the papermill shop, white digi stamping card from craftwork cards

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, punched border strip from Tracey, elzybells clear sentiment stamp, pearls from the hobby house, cuttlebug swiss dots embossing folder

Stamp with fun #147–DT project

Good morning friends.  It’s the last day of my week off from work so I’m a little bit sad…….however I have another week off again in 3 week’s time so something to look forward to. 

Another catch up post, this time for the stamp with fun challenge and the theme is “love”.  I don’t send many Valentine’s cards so I decided to alter a plain brown gift bag, which I thought I would be able to use at some point lol!  Here is my bag:

I’m sorry the pics are a bit dark but I took them late at night.  The image is a brand new February release from DigiStamp Boutique called ‘Valentine Hattie’ and I coloured her with promarkers and flex markers.  The papers are by Docrafts from the ‘hot diggity dog’ A4 paper pack and the plain card is from the papermill shop. 

We have a prize up for grabs this week of this super cute The Greeting Farm stamp:

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 gift bag into the following challenges:

The crafty pad challenge – fresh spring colours

Sunday sketch & stamp challenge – sketch

The cutie pie challenge – anything but a card

Little darlings challenge – favourite embellishments (pearls)

Aud sentiments challenge – anything but a card + sentiment

Crafty sentiments challenge – let’s get girly

Daring cardmakers challenge – hearts and doilies

Fussy ‘n’ fancy challenge – with all my heart

Bunny Zoe’s challenge – photo inspiration

Little Claire’s challenge – anything but a card

I hope you can join in with our challenge (but remember you only have 2 more days before it ends).  I cannot wait to see what you create. 

I know some parts of the east of England have had lots of snow but thankfully it seems to have passed us by – we just had some rain and sleet but nothing that stuck phew!  I’ll be back later with my final catch up post *yippee* until then have a fabulous day and thanks for stopping by.

Ingredients:

Image: DigiStamp Boutique – ‘Valentine Hattie’

Papers: Docrafts – ‘hot diggity dog’ A4 paper pad, plain card from the papermill shop, white digi stamping card from craftwork cards

Tools: heart doily from Joanna Sheen, pearls from the hobby house, ribbon from fantastic ribbons, button from stash, SU sentiment stamp from ‘best yet’ set, circle nesties

Cupcake craft challenge #178–DT card

Hello again friends.  This is my second post for today so please scroll down to see my earlier card. 

I’m doing another catch up post – this time for the cupcake craft challenge.  Our challenge this week is “pink & red” but it doesn’t have to be a Valentine card.  Here is my card:

The image is by Pollycraft and is called ‘Luna bitterfrost hearts rock’ and I coloured her with promarkers and flex markers.  I once again used paper from the my mind’s eye ‘love me’ paper pad and the heart was cut with a go-kreate extra large die (which I cut in the grand caliber). 

We have two sponsors this week – firstly we have Pollycraft Designs (who kindly gave me the digi to use on my card) and they are offering a prize of 5 digi images and our second sponsor is Simon Says Stamp and they are offering a $20 gift certificate to use in their online store. 

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 won’t be disappointed I promise.  We really appreciate the lovely comments you leave for us.

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

Come and get it challenge – love

Pile it on challenge – for a tween

Sentimental Sunday challenge – feel the love

Stampin’ sisters in Christ challenge – show love

The pink elephant challenge – use pink

Scrap creations challenge – Valentine

Top Tip Tuesday challenge – Valentine

Let’s craft and create challenge – flower power

Crafty purple frog challenge – flower power

Cardmadfairy’s digi days challenge – hearts

I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge and I look forward to seeing what you create. 

We haven’t seen any snow here yet in South Wales but I think we may be unlucky enough to get some overnight – fingers crossed it’s not too bad.  Keep safe and warm if you have to go out and about tomorrow.  Thanks for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: pollycraft designs – Luna bitterfrost hearts rock’

Papers: my mind’s eye – ‘love me’ paper pad, SU real red cardstock

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, flowers from wild orchid crafts, ribbon from the ribbon girl, gems from stash, elzybells clear sentiment stamp, scissors for distressing edges, cat’s eye chalk ink pad

Sweet Stampin’ Guest DT card

Happy Thursday dear friends.  Another catch up post from me lol!  I was so chuffed to be asked to be guest designer for February over at Sweet Stampin’ challenge.  I love their challenges and try to enter every week if I can. 

The theme for this week’s challenge is “the one I love” and I knew immediately what image I was going to use.  Here is my card:

The image is of course Wrynn from Tiddly Inks and I coloured her with promarkers and flex markers.  The gorgeous papers are my mind’s eye from the ‘love me’ paper pad and the plain card is SU real red.  Quite a simple layout for me but I like it lol!

There are two sponsors for this challenge – stamp and create are offering a $20.00 voucher and Joanna Sheen who is their regular monthly sponsor. 

The design team have created amazing cards for your inspiration so please pop over and check them out.  You need to be quick if you want to enter the challenge as it ends in just over a day!!

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

Sweet Sunday sketch challenge – sketch (which I love!)

Joanna Sheen challenge – love is in the air

Tiddly inks challenge – Valentine

Simon says stamp challenge – love is in the air

Stamptacular challenge – Valentine/love + red, white, grey & pink

Papertake challenge – anything goes + option love/add a heart

I love promarkers challenge – love is in the air

Truly scrumptious challenge – love & hearts

One stop craft challenge – for the one I love

By the cute & girly challenge – love is in the air

I’ve still got a few more DT cards to catch up with so stay tuned for more posts!!

By the way what do you think of my new blog background?  I really like it – it was definitely time for a change – and the best bit was it was a freebie *yay*.  Check out Leelou’s blog to see what other lovely blog backgrounds she has.  Have a great evening and thanks so much for stopping by, I really appreciate your support.

Card ingredients:

Image: Tiddly Inks – ‘Wrynn – grow a little love’

Papers: my mind’s eye – ‘love me’ paper pad, SU real red cardstock,

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, circle nesties, dovecraft heart punch,

Passion for Promarkers #135–DT card

Well, long time no see lol!  I’m sorry that I haven’t blogged for so long (again) but it’s been really hectic and I’ve seem to be chasing my tail and playing catch up for the last few weeks.  Hopefully once I’ve blogged this week’s DT cards I can get back to normal, well that’s the plan anyway. 

I would normally blog my cards in order of the challenges but I’m going to share my DT card for this week’s passion for promarkers challenge first as I want to enter it into the sugar bowl challenge before it ends haha!

This week’s challenge has been set by Maya and she has chosen “grey & purple”.  These have to be your dominant colours (but hair, skin and fur are allowed).  Here is my card:

I’ve used an image from Sugar Nellie stamps called ‘domestic goddess’ and coloured it with promarkers and flex markers.  The embossed cardstock is actually a light grey but some reason it looks beige in the picks – my usual photography skills at work lol!  The doily started life as a large square but I cut it down on the side and stuck it back together to make a frame for the image – I think it looks quite pretty.

Our sponsor this week is Whiff of Joy stamps and one lucky winner will receive a stamp of their choice. 

The rest of the design team have created amazing samples so please pop over 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 sugar bowl challenge – sketch

Papertake challenge – anything goes

Crafts and me challenge – use a new image

Frosted designs challenge – ribbon and/or twine

Fussy ‘n’ fancy challenge – polka dots (ribbon)

Stamping for the weekend challenge – embossing

Allsorts challenge – free and easy

Drunken stampers challenge – something new (stamp)

Crafter’s companion challenge – anything goes

Paper pretties challenge – add texture (embossing)

I hope you can join in with our challenge this week and I look forward to seeing what you create.  I would like to welcome my newest followers - Sarah Davey and Donna Angliss *waves hello"* – I hope you enjoy your visits to my little part of blogland. 

I’ll be back later with another catch up post but until then thanks so much for stopping by. 

Card ingredients:

Image: Sugar Nellie stamps – ‘domestic goddess’

Papers: creative imaginations – ‘sonnets lavender’, DCWV – grey textured card, plain card from the papermill shop

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, lace doily from crafty friend, personal impressions sentiment stamp, oval nesties, ribbon from fantastic ribbons, stickles, heart buttons from stash, chalk ink pad for distressing edges, cuttlebug ‘swiss dots’ embossing folder