Stamp with fun #156–DT card

Oops sorry I got mixed up with my days and forgot to schedule my posts this morning lol!  Anyway Happy Easter Monday dear friends.  I hope you all enjoyed your weekend and ate lots of lovely yummy chocolate.  I was quite reserved for me (only because I didn’t have very much) but the boys had lots of eggs and sweets as usual.  I’m sure I can sneak a few bits off them when they’re not looking lol! 

I’m here this morning to share my card for the stamp with fun challenge and this week we have a fantastic sketch to follow.  I needed to make a card for an order so this sketch was perfect for me – here is my card:

and here is the sketch:

My auntie ordered this card to give to her great-grandson who’s football mad so I used this super cute image from Pollycraft called “skills” and coloured it with my promarkers and flex markers.  The papers are a bit of mish mash!  The striped yellow paper is SU from the ‘subtle paper patterns stack’ and the other pieces of paper/card are from my piles of off cuts!  I found the footballs whilst searching on Google images and I’m really pleased with them.  They will definitely come in handy for future football themed cards.  The finished card is A5 in size.

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 card into the following challenges:

Cardmadfairy’s digi days challenge – die cuts and/or punches

Catch the bug challenge – anything goes

CES challenge – swirls and pearls

Crazy 4 challenges challenge – blue, white + 1 other colour (mine is yellow)

 Joanna Sheen challenge – it’s a man’s world

OSAAT challenge – use a digi

Pile it on challenge – All about ‘S’ (swirls, stripes, sport)

Cards for men challenge – spring colours

I hope you can join in with our challenge this week and I cannot wait to see what you create.  I’ll be back later with my DT card for the cupcake craft challenge but until then enjoy your extra bank holiday day off work (if you’re lucky enough to have one) and I’ll see you later.  

Card ingredients:

Image: pollycraft – ‘skills’, football digi found on Google images

Papers: SU – ‘subtles paper patterns stack’, black card from eBay, other pieces of card/paper from off cut stash

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, magnolia doohickey flourish die, di-namics label die, gems from stash, sentiment created on the pc

Cupcake craft challenge #186

** THIS IS MY SECOND POST FOR TODAY **

Please scroll down to see my Stamp with Fun DT card

Hello again dear friends.  I’m back as promised, although there is no card from me for this week at cupcake craft challenge as it’s the turn of Team B to share their gorgeous creations.  However I thought I’d let you know that the lovely Keeley has set the theme and she has chosen “sewing box” so she wants you to use something you’d find in your sewing box on your creations.  Definitely an interesting theme this week. 

We have two sponsors this week – firstly we have Cuddly Buddly who are offering one lucky winner a £10.00 gift certificate to spend in their online store.

Our second sponsor is Simon Says Stamp who are offering one lucky winner a £20.00 gift certificate to spend in their online store.

Team B have created gorgeous cards for your inspiration so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out.  We really appreciate the lovely comments you leave for us each week.

Even though I’ve not made a card this week I will still be commenting as normal and I cannot wait to see what you create using Keeley’s theme.

Have a brilliant day and thanks so much for stopping by.  I really appreciate you stopping by my lil ‘ol blog!

Stamp with fun #155–DT card

Good morning dear friends.  I hope you all had a brilliant weekend and are raring to go for the week ahead. Unfortunately it’s back to work for me after a week off but at least it’s a short week this week as it’s a bank holiday on Friday!. I’ve got a busy week as it’s my mother’s birthday tomorrow (as well as my SIL’s step-son) and as usual I’m running late and haven’t made their cards yet lol!

I’m here this morning to share my card for this week’s challenge over at Stamp with Fun challenge.  The theme this week is a really simple one “anything but an Easter card”.  Here is my card:

I was asked to make this card by my cousin to give to his daughter for her 30th birthday.  The image is a stamp from Crafts and Me called ‘believe’ which I coloured with promarkers and flex markers.  Isn’t it a beautiful image and a bit more grown up than I usually use but I love it and will definitely be using it lots.  The gorgeous papers are echo park from the ‘victoria gardens’ paper pad and the stunning die cuts are spellbinders from the ‘fleur de lis accents’ set which I recently bought from the we{heart}craft shop.  I didn’t add too many embellishments as the image was quite large and the paper was so pretty I didn’t want to cover it up too much.  The finished card is A5 in size.

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 card into the following challenges:

Fairy tale challenge – everything goes

Stamping for the weekend challenge – anything goes

2 sisters challenge – birthday fun

Totally gorjuss challenge – swirls and whirls (if my swirly die cuts don’t count please delete me)

OSAAT challenge – something new (my stamp is new)

Stamptacular challenge – playin’ with pastels

I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge this week and I cannot wait to see what you create.  I will be back later with my post for this week’s cupcake craft challenge (although there is no card from me this week as it is the turn of Team B to share their creations) but I will be giving you full details of the challenge theme and prizes up for grabs.  Until then thanks so much for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: Crafts and me – ‘believe’ rubber stamp

Papers: echo park – ‘victoria gardens’ paper pad, SU pink pirouette cardstock

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, doily from Joanna Sheen, spellbinders ‘fleur de lis accents’ pearls from the hobby house

Winter wonderland challenge–DT card

Good morning dear friends.  I hope you have all had a great week and are looking forward to the weekend.  Today is the final day of my week off from work so I’m taking my mother out for some lunch and a look around the shops, although she is suffering with her arthritis in her knee at the moment so we’ll probably be having lots of coffee breaks in between (but I’m not complaining as it will be more time to chat and people watch lol!)

I’m here this morning with my card for the new challenge over at winter wonderland challenge.  This week the lovely Marianne has set the theme and she has chosen “it takes two” so she would like to see 2 people/snowmen etc in one image – fairly simple I thought until I couldn’t find any image I had with only two characters!  I had lots with 1 and equally lots with 3 but none with 2 – typical!  So after a quick nip to Pollycraft and I found a super cute image to use and here is my card:

As I said the image is from pollycraft and is called ‘snow buds’ and I coloured it with promarkers and flex markers.  The papers are my mind’s eye from the ‘be merry’ paper pad and the kraft card is from dies to die for.  I punched the snowflakes with a MS punch and added cute little heart buttons from my stash.

Our sponsor this week is Simon Says Stamp and one lucky winner will receive a £15.00 voucher to spend in their online store.

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 card into the following challenges:

The crazy challenge – add a sentiment

Bearly mine challenge – 3-2-1 (3 snowflakes, 2 papers, 1 image)

Crafty creations challenge – fun and games (playing in the snow)

Creative craft world challenge – blue theme

Digistamps4joy challenge – predominantly blue & include water (hope snow is ok!)

Divas by design challenge – stamp something

For fun challenge – buttons galore (3 tiny heart buttons)

Little darlings challenge – outside

The lollipop ladies challenge – fruit loops and glitter

Simon says stamp challenge – anything goes

I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge this week and I cannot wait to see what you create.  Have a wonderful day and thanks so much for stopping by today.

Card ingredients:

Image: pollycraft – ‘snow buds’

Papers: my mind’s eye – ‘be merry’ paper pad, kraft card from dies to die for

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, MS snowflake punch, buttons from stash, personal impressions sentiment stamp, stickles, SU scallop border punch, nesties label 1 small

Charisma cardz #12–DT card

Good morning dear friends.  I’m back in the land of the living at long last!!  I am really sorry for my long absence but I haven’t been feeling very good over the last 2 weeks or so – nothing serious, just a virus I think, but I felt really rough.  In fact I didn’t actually craft at all during that time so I must have been ill.  I even bought a card for my in-laws anniversary – awful I know!!  Anyway hopefully things will slowly get back to “normal” now, although I think my mojo has taken the break badly and is refusing to come back to normal duties lol!

Enough of my waffling!  I’m here to share my card for this week’s charisma cardz challenge and this week the lovely Gemma has set the theme and she has chosen “Easter” which I’m sure will prove very popular!  Here is my card:

I have used a super cute image from DigiStamp Boutique called “Easter Dan” and coloured him with promarkers.  At the moment this image is on offer so why not pop over to the shop and grab him at a very special price of just £1.00 (but only until end of March) – he will come in so useful for all your Easter creations.  The lovely papers are my mind’s eye from the ‘dwell’ paper pad and the kraft card is from dies to die for.  I created my little Easter egg embellishments by die-cutting the smallest oval nestie and drawing some lines with a Letraset fine liner pen and then colouring with promarkers – quite effective I think!

We have two sponsors this week, firstly we have DigiStamp Boutique and Sally-Ann is offering one lucky winner 6 digi images of their choice – and as you can see her images are so adorable you will be spoilt for choice!

Our second sponsor is Joanna Sheen and she is offering one lucky winner a £10.00 gift voucher to spend in her online store.  She has lots of gorgeous crafty goodies plus free shipping on all orders!

The rest of the design team have made gorgeous creations 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:

Dream valley challenge – Easter

A gem of a challenge – sketch

Crafty boots challenge – Easter

Sentimental Sunday challenge – Easter or spring

Pollycraft challenge – choklit

Crafty sentiments challenge – Easter

Simon says stamp challenge – anything goes

Sweet stampin’ challenge – anything goes

Ladybug crafts ink challenge – spots and stripes

Scrap creations challenge – Easter

I hope you can enter our challenge this week and I look forward to seeing what you create. 

Card ingredients:

Image: DigiStamp Boutique – “Easter Dan”

Papers: my mind’s eye – ‘dwell’ paper pad, kraft cardstock from dies to die for

Tools: promarkers, oval and circle nesties, SU scallop border punch, pearls from the hobby house, ribbon from stash, tonic (Tim Holtz) distressing tool, sentiment from Netty’s cards

Charisma cardz #10–DT project

Happy Friday everyone.  I hope you’ve all had a great week and are now looking forward to the weekend.  Here in Wales everyone is hyper about the Six Nations Rugby match tomorrow against France when we are in with a chance of winning the Grand Slam (*whispers* I’m not a big rugby fan but will be keeping one eye on the TV just to see what happens).  I’m sure Cardiff will be buzzing with all the fans from both nations supporting their teams. 

I’m here this evening with a catch up post for this week’s charisma cardz challenge.  This week it’s my turn to set the theme and I have chosen “alter it”, so I would like to see something altered to look different from it’s original state – whatever you do is up to you.  I have very little time to create my project so I decided to alter a plain white gift bag (I know I’ve done this before but they are really very useful lol!).  Here is my altered project:

and here is a photo of the bag before I altered it:

I used another new image from DigiStamp Boutique called ‘Easter Rosie’, which is currently one of the offers of the month and available at the special prize of just £1.00.   I also used the little egg images which come in the ‘Easter collection 2’ which again is available at a special prize at the moment.  Why not pop over to the DSB shop and grab them while you can!  I coloured the images with promarkers and the pretty papers are from the first edition ‘hideaway’ paper pad, it’s hard to tell but they are lovely and glittery.  I did add a sentiment and a few more mini eggs on the back of my bag but forgot to take a picture d’oh!

Our sponsor this week is All That Scraps and one lucky winner will receive this amazing prize:

The design team have done an amazing job 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 would like to enter my altered bag into the following challenges:

Kaboodle challenge – show us some green

Digital Tuesday challenge – think spring

Crafts and me challenge – let’s see circles (lots on my paper)

Divas by design challenge – citrus colours

I love promarkers challenge – anything goes

Simon says stamp challenge – a bit o’ green

Crafty Ann’s challenge – spring into spring

Really reasonable ribbon challenge – spring with ribbon

The pretty little ribbon shop challenge – spring colours

4 crafty chicks challenge - chicks rule!

I hope you will be able to join in with my challenge this week.  Your entry doesn’t have to be anything too complicated (just look at my project) the main thing is to have fun!  I look forward to seeing what you create.  I would like to welcome my newest followers – Vicki and Tonya *waves hello*.  Thanks for joining me ladies and I hope you will visit me often.  I’m running late with my post for the winter wonderland challenge but hopefully I’ll get around to posting it tomorrow.  Have a wonderful weekend and thanks so much for stopping by.

Ingredients:

Image: DigiStamp Boutique – ‘Easter Rosie"’

Papers: first edition – ‘hideaway’ paper pad, SU cardstock (from mixed pack – brights I think!)

Tools: promarkers, circle and oval nesties, twine and ribbon from the pretty little ribbon shop, cropadile, plain paper bag from crafts u love 

Passion for Promarkers #140–DT card

Hello again dear friends.  I’m sorry I’m behind the times with my posts again this week, there just don’t seem to be enough hours in the day at the moment.  Anyway enough waffling from me and let’s get on with showing you my card.  The challenge this week over at passion for promarkers challenge has been set by Gro and she has chosen “yellow and pearls” and here is my card:

I have used a brand new and gorgeous image from DigiStamp Boutique from the “Rosie collection 1” which is one of the offers of the month for March and the set contains 3 super cute images for the amazing prize of just £2.25!!  I coloured the image with promarkers and the papers are from the dovecraft ‘back to basics’ paper pack.  The kraft card is from dies to die for and the pearls are from the hobby house.  I kept the layout really simple as I wanted the image to stand out and I have to say I really love this card!

Our sponsor this week is crafts and me and one lucky winner will receive 3 digi images of their choice.

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 card into the following challenges:

Friday sketch challenge – gorgeous sketch

Totally stampalicious challenge – flowers

Ladybug crafts ink challenge – anything goes

Papertake challenge – one for the girls or mum

I love promarkers challenge – anything goes

Frosted designs challenge – use kraft

Allsorts challenge – say it with flowers

OSAAT challenge – use a digi

Stampavie & more challenge – spring/Easter

I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge and I look forward to seeing your gorgeous creations.  I would like to welcome my newest followers – Carol and Lisa *waves hello*, thanks for joining my little bit of blogland ladies and I hope you will visit me often.  I’ll be back tomorrow with my DT card for this week’s charisma cardz challenge (but it will be after work I’m afraid lol!).  Until then have a wonderful day and thanks so much for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: DigiStamp Boutique – ‘Rosie collection 1’

Papers: dovecraft – ‘back to basics’ paper pad, kraft card from dies to die for

Tools: promarkers, circle nesties, ek success retro flower punch, pearls from the hobby house, SU oval all punches, personal impressions clear sentiment stamp