BACK TO SCHOOL!!

Morning All!!

It's Wednesday and another challenge over at Cooking it Up with Katie

This week's Recipe is :

Furry Friends

Patchwork

Buttons

Check out the challenge and have a look at all the DT Cards they are brilliant!!

We are sponsored this week by the fantastic Meljens Designs pop over and have at look at her images they are great!!

This little cutie is called Teddy Bear Teacher, I've coloured her with promarkers, the cork sheets i've punched into squares and made a patchwork, the ruler is from a new set of Cuttlebug embossing folders and the ABC is from my new Sizzix Tim Holtz alphabet - Vintage Market.

I've found a few challenges lol :

Cupcake Craft - Lets Get Digital

Daisy Doodles - Anything Goes

Incy Wincy - Back to School

Creative Card Crew - Back to School

Stamp Something - Back to School

Simple Doodles - Back to School

Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by :o)

Lots of Love

SUMMERTIME ... and the living is easy :o)

Good Morning All!!

Lovely sunny morning now after the rain :o)

Sorry there were  no cards yesterday but I was busy making design team cards for DCD Christmas Club Challenge Blog

So .... after making Christmas cards all day yesterday I need SUMMER!! I found this digi image at Phindy's Place - isn't she sweet!! I've coloured her with promarkers and made my flowers out of different size daisy punches. The sentiment is computer printed and i've cut it out with my favourite nestabilities set at the moment Ribbon Tag Trio 2.

The challenges I am entering are :

Pollycraft - Pinkalicious

Digital Tuesday - Summertime

Delightful Challenges - Its all about Summer

Phindy's Place - 3D (in my case the flowers and sentiment)

Hope you like it and thanks for looking :o)

Lots of Love

JUST THINKING

Good Morning All!!

And what a glorious morning it is!!

Before I tell you about my card I must just say a BIG, HUGE THANK YOU for all your lovely comments yesterday regarding my good news.  For those of you who know me, you know I have had lots of problems with my ears for the last 7 months and it has been getting me down.  Yesterday's news just made me feel wonderful and all your good wishes was just the icing on the cake. And .......... when I thought it couldn't get any better I woke up this morning to find out I had won the Sentimental Sunday challenge last week - Life if just soooooo good!!!

So .... back to my card - I wanted to use a digi image today as I haven't in a while so, with that in mind, I went in search of a challenge or two lol. This image is a Mo Manning one - Dani and Friends I just love this set of three I downloaded a few months ago. I have coloured her with promarkers, done some embossing and used a Freebie from Sentimental Sundays Blog and printed it out, added a few flowers and gems, followed a sketch and Voila!!

The challenges I am entering are :

Mo's Digital Challenge - Anything Goes

I Love Digi - Emboss It

Crafty Catz - Lets Go Digital

Friday Sketchers - Sketch

Dare U 2 Digi - Blooms and Butterflies

Our Creative Corner - Blues and Greens

Sentimental Sundays - Encouragement and Support

Hope you like it and thanks for looking :o)

Lots of Love

OH CHRISTMAS TREE

Hello Everyone!!

Lovely warm day if somewhat cloudy :o)

Anyway ..... thought I'd do a quick post while I'm waiting for Andy Murray to come on at Wimbledon - and as its a lovely summer day I thought i'd do another Christmas Card lol!!

 This one was made with a few challenges in mind - I wanted to keep it simple and stay away from stamping so turned to my trusty Cuttlebug. I used the cut and emboss Christmas Trees and simply inked the edges of them, my new nesties I bought today "Labels 1" made the sentiment (I printed it on the computer and then cut around it) and just added some glitter, ribbon and card candy

The challenges I am entering are :

My Time to Craft - Yuletide in June

Winter Wonderland - A Festive Tree

Die Cut Dreams Christmas Club - A White Christmas

Sweet Stampin - Clean and Simple

Hope you like it, thanks for looking :o)

Lots of Love

FLOWER GIRL

Good Evening All!!

Well ... football is on .. again ... so I have retired to my conservatory to make another card - my second posting of the day. I made this card totally around 4 challenges I wanted to enter so had to make sure it fit all the criteria. The stamped image is one of the new Flower Soft mounted stamps and I have coloured her with promarkers, some embossing, a small amount of ribbon and some flowers - all in all cute and girly!!

Hope you like it :o)

The Challenges I am entering are:

Cooking it up with Katie - Emboss some green ribbon

Color Throwdown - Certainly Celery, Not Quite Navy, Cameo Coral

Cute Card Thursday - Sketch

Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Nice and Girly

Thanks for looking

Lots of Love

ONE CUTE WESTIE!!

Hello Again!!

Well ... I'm back with card No. 2 out of 5 lol, this time it's from our cute little Westie Skye to her daddy :o) - yes I know I'm mad but hey it always gives me an excuse to make another card!!

This image is a freebie digi image from Birds Cards (Click here for more details), I coloured her with promarkers (of course) using just the Ice Grey range with a touch of pink, and the card/paper is a pad I bought a while ago - Forever Friends double sided cardstock, a piece of which I have embossed with the swiss dots cuttlebug folder

The Challenges I am entering are:

Papertake Weekly - Sketch

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - Fathers Day

Totally Papercrafts - Animal Magic

Crafty Catz - Embossing

Magical Crafts - Something for a Male

Hope you like it and thanks for looking :o)

FLOWERS

Good evening all!!

Had a good day today - enjoyed teaching my 1:1 Cricut Class and am back to taking part in my challenges - I made this card for a colouring techniques demo I did at In2crafting where I work, the object being to show as many techniques as possible. This one is one of my favourites - using Tombow brush markers to colour direct to the stamp and then spritz the stamp with water to give a watercolour effect - the result is different each time as it depends on how much water you use. Some of the Penny Black stamps are perfect for this as the block effect lends itself perfectly to colouring.

Hope you like it and thanks for looking :o)

The challenge I am entering is Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Flowers

FUN IN THE SUN

Just a quick post before I go make tea.  I set myself a "challenge" with this card ... there were five challenges I wanted to enter so I had to make sure the card matched all the themes - after some playing around I was really pleased with the outcome.  The images are stamped from a clear stamp set from Kars, I cut the biggest scallop circle nestie and embossed it added some faux stitching and also highlighted the text (you don't realise how much you rely on design papers until you can't use them!!).  All in all think I achieved it.

Hope you like it :o) xx

Crafty Angels - Summer

Inspirational Card Sketches - Sketch

Fab n Funky - No DP!

My Time To Craft - Ruby, Ruby, Ruby, Ruby

and

Sophisticat Challenges - Card for a Child

LITTLE GIRL KNEELING

Well..... its my second post of the day and I can't promise it's going to be my last lol - I've found all these great challenges and just want to make more and  more cards!!  I've had loads of digi images for ages but forget they are there - but have discovered lots of challenges involving them so I thought .. great .. I can finally use them - digi images are great because you can print them again and again and in any size you want.

For this card I have use a Charmed Cards and Crafts Digital Download along with pulling out my trusty Cuttlebug which, I have to admit, I haven't used to make textured backgrounds for ages so that was different.

The challenges I am entering are:

Inspirational Card Sketches - 63

Dotties World - Textures Galore

Thanks for Looking :o) xx

JUST A CATCH UP

Hi Everyone!! First time on my laptop since Sunday morning as I've had a migraine and been stuck in a darkened room!! Not good when you have lots of challenges you want to enter but cant even look down!  Still never mind .... I thought I'd share with you two cards I made on Saturday for my sister-in-law to give to her friend and her brother for their birthdays I was really pleased with them :) xx

MAKE IT MANLY

I was just doing a bit of "blogging" and came across this challenge My Time to Craft - Make it Manly and thought I would enter a card I made a couple of weeks ago for my hubbie for his birthday from my daughter - this was also a really good excuse to use two of my favourite things Magnolia Stamps and Promarkers - hope you like it :)