Cupcake craft challenge #193–DT card

Well hello dear friends – long time no speak!!  I’m sorry I haven’t posted for such a long time but I’ve not been feeling very well plus I’ve had problems with my internet connection.  To be honest I’ve been feeling so low I’ve even considered giving up crafting – I know shocker!  However I’ve decided to cut back on some of my DT work and concentrate on just a few DT teams and hopefully my love of crafting will return.  I think that I’ve over committed myself and have been really struggling over the last few months, but now that I’ve taken steps to rectify the problems hopefully things will start to look up very soon.  The only problem now is that my mojo seems to have taken the break badly and doesn’t want to return to work lol!

Ok, enough rambling from me this morning, let’s share my card!!  It’s time for a brand new challenge over at cupcake craft challenge and I have the honour of setting the theme.  I have chosen “book lover” as my theme so would like to see either images that feature a book, maybe a bookmark or even use pages from an old book as your background.  I decided to use an image that includes a book and here is my card:

The image is Some Odd Girl and is called “bookish Tia” and I coloured her with promarkers and flex markers (although I’ve just noticed I haven’t coloured her hand lol!).  The papers are echo park from the ‘be mine’ paper pad (I thought the text paper looked like something from an old manuscript) and the plain card is from eBay.  The butterflies are die-namics dies and the gems are from MeiFlower. 

We have two sponsors this week – firstly we have A Day for Daisies who are offering one lucky winner a $12 gift card and our second sponsor is Make the Day Special who are offering one lucky winner 2 Paper Smooches stamp sets (‘Smarty Pants’ & ‘Metropolis’).

The rest of the design team have created amazing samples 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:

Some Odd Girl challenge – sketch

Cute card Thursday challenge – a touch of sparkle

Truly scrumptious challenge – anything goes

I love promarkers challenge – anything goes

Addicted to stamps challenge – black, white & 1 other colour (pink)

Pile it on challenge – patterns: mix your scales

Stampin’ sisters in Christ challenge – build up your card (i.e. add layers)

I hope you can join in with my challenge and I cannot wait to visit your blogs and see your gorgeous creations.  In my absence I have had 4 new followers, which I would like to welcome – Gunn’s kort, Jane Brown, topcatcool, and elainea1.  Thanks for joining my happy band of followers – I really appreciate your support and I hope you will stop by often.  I hope you have a wonderful day and thanks so much for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: some odd girl – ‘bookish Tia’

Papers: echo park – ‘be mine’ paper pad, black card from eBay

Tool: promarkers, flex markers, circle nesties, die-namics butterflies dies and scallop border die, gems from MeiFlower

Stamp with fun #157–DT card

Good morning dear friends.  Another Monday has rolled around too quickly for my liking lol!  I wish we could work 2 days and have a 5 day weekend haha!  I don’t think the government or my bank manager would be very happy with that idea lol!

I’m here this morning to share my DT card for this week’s stamp with fun challenge.  Our theme this week is a really easy one and we expect lots of gorgeous entries – “favourite colours” – just let us know in your post what your favourite colours are!  Now I know some of you have an aversion to pink but I really like using it so my favourite colours are pink and kraft and here is my card:

I have also used one of my all time favourite sugar nellie stamps image called ‘just a girl’ and I’ve coloured her with promarkers.  I also decided to paper piece her dress for a change.  The pretty papers are from the forever friends ‘new arrival’ 6x6 designstax and the kraft card is from dies to die for.  The lace is from eBay and the butterflies were cut out with a die-namics die. 

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 the lovely comments you leave for us. 

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

The sugar bowl challenge – sketch and option stripes/plaid

Joanna sheen challenge – for someone special (card is for a friend who is going through a tough time at the moment)

Crafts and me challenge – 3d embellishments

The pixie cottage challenge – sketch and/or paper piecing

CES challenge – paper piece it

Drunken stampers challenge – you’re a krafty one

Totally gorjuss challenge – bling

Penny black and more challenge – oh so cute

 Pretty little ribbon shop challenge – to die for

Stamptacular challenge – freebie week

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 the details of the brand new challenge over at cupcake craft challenge, although I don’t have a card to share this week as it’s the turn of Team B to showcase their work.  Whatever you’re up to today have a wonderful time and thanks for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: sugar nellie stamps – ‘just a girl’ rubber stamp

Papers: forever friends – ‘new arrival’ 6x6 designstax, kraft card from dies to die for

Tools: promarkers, lace from eBay, die-namics butterfly die, circle nesties, sentiment created on the pc, adhesive gems from MeiFlower, chalk for clouds, SU scalloped border punch

Winter wonderland challenge–DT card

Hello dear friends!  I hope you’ve all had a great weekend so far.  I can’t believe the weekend is almost over though – where does the time go? 

I’m sharing my DT card for this week’s winter wonderland challenge (although I am a tad late oops!) and the lovely Lynsey has set the theme this week and she has chosen “pretty in pink”.  We want to see all your pink creations and don’t forget it has to be Christmas themed to be eligible.  Here is my card:

I used a super cute freebie image from Mo’s Digital Pencil called ‘snowy day’ and coloured it with promarkers.  I have been dying to use this image for ages and now I have I will definitely be using it again and it was lovely colour and really easy to cut out.  I embossed a piece of white card with my swiss dots embossing folder and just added a strip of doodlebug paper to break it up.  Quite a simple card but I’m quite pleased with the finished result. 

Our sponsor this week is Crafty Emma’s store and one lucky winner will receive a £10.00 voucher (excluding p&p) to spend in her 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:

Mo’s digital pencil challenge – I see spots

Paper sundaes challenge – anything goes

Pile it on challenge – pop it up (my image is on 3d foam pads)

Stamptacular challenge – freebie week

Top tip Tuesday challenge – spotty dotty

My mum’s craft shop challenge – it’s a celebration

Card makin’ mamas challenge – make it girlie

Totally gorjuss challenge – bling

Little Claire’s challenge – doing the rounds

St. Luke’s charity cards challenge – glitter/bling (2nd entry)

I hope you can join in with our challenge this week and I look forward to seeing what you create.  Enjoy the rest of your weekend. I’m going to catch up with some recorded programmes on Sky+ – what did we do before we had that lol!  Whatever you’re up to have a fab night and thanks for stopping by.

 

Card ingredients:

Image: Mo’s digital pencil – ‘snowy day’ freebie digi

Papers: doodlebug – ‘pretty pink asterisks’ 12x12 sheet, pink card from the papermill shop, white digital stamping card from craftwork cards

Tools: promarkers, dovecraft snowflake punch, gems from MeiFlower, sentiment created on pc, die-namics first place award ribbon die, circle nesties, cuttlebug swiss dots embossing folder

Charisma cardz challenge–DT card

Good morning dear friends.  I cannot believe it’s Thursday already, the week is flying by, although I’m not complaining!!  Work is super busy at the moment and the day just whizzes by, which is fantastic, although I do think I’m wishing my life away lol!

It’s time for a brand new challenge over at charisma cardz challenge and it’s Team Gem’s week to share their cards.  The lovely Joyce has set the theme this week and she has chosen “fancy folds”.  Now as I was a bit tight for time I played it safe and made an easel card although I do find them extremely difficult to photograph and I forgot to take a ‘side-on’ view!  Here is my card:

 

I have used a super gorgeous new image from DigiStamp Boutique called ‘Hoop Rosie’ from the April offer of the month set called ‘funtime Rosie’ which is available for a special price until the end of the month.  There are 3 images in the set and all are equally as cute as this one.  I coloured the image with promarkers and had a go at doing a cloud background with chalks.  I will try using my promarkers in the future but it was really quick using the chalks (and my finger tip!).  I have to say I am really chuffed with the clouds as it was only my second time of doing it.  The pretty pastel papers are my mind’s eye from the “dwell” 6x6 paper pad.

We have two sponsors this week.  Firstly we have Some Odd Girl who are offering one lucky winner 3 digi images of their choice. 

Our second sponsor is Digi Doodle Shop and 2 winners will receive a $5.00 voucher to spend in their online store. 

The rest of the design have created gorgeous fancy fold cards (and much more imaginative than me lol) 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:

Sketch and stash challenge – fantastic sketch by Kevin (I used a new image and neglected papers)

One stop craft challenge – pastels and die-cuts

Sweet stampin’ challenge – dies and/or doodles

Stampin’ sisters in Christ challenge – make a joy-ful card

Love to create challenge – birthday

Crafty sentiments challenge – spring and pastel colours

Digital Tuesday challenge – birthdays

Top tip Tuesday challenge – spotty dotty (my papers)

Flutterby Wednesday challenge – birthday card

My mum’s craft shop challenge – it’s a celebration

I hope you can join in with our challenge this week and I look forward to seeing all your fancy folds.  I would like to welcome my newest follower Nat *waves hello* – thanks for becoming a follower and I hope you will visit me often.  Enjoy your day and thanks so much for stopping by today.

Card ingredients:

Image: DigiStamp Boutique – ‘hoop Rosie’ from the “funtime Rosie” offer of the month set

Papers: my mind’s eye – ‘dwell’ paper pad, black card from eBay

Tools: Promarkers, circle nesties, pearls from the hobby house, die-namics butterfly dies, sakura stardust pen, personal impressions clear sentiment stamp, chalk for cloud background

Passion for Promarkers #144–DT card

Happy Tuesday dear friends.  Oh dear it’s back to work for me today *groan* but on the plus side it’s a shorter working week *yay*.  Another plus is that it’s time for a brand new challenge over at passion for promarkers challenge.  This week the lovely Maya has set the theme and she has chosen “white on white”, such a pretty theme isn’t it.  We only want to see your image coloured, all your papers/card must be white but we will allow lightly inked edges!  The only problem with WOW cards is photographing them (and you know that’s not my strongest area anyway lol!).  Here is my card:

I have used a beautiful stamp from Crafts and Me called ‘city girl’ and coloured her with promarkers.  It is a brand new stamp and even though I stamped it about 4 times I couldn’t get a perfect impression.  I even tried blotting the stamp with cellotape to try and remove any residue – any ideas for next time I use it!  I went a bit mad with all the dies I used including Marianne creatables rolled roses, die-namics butterflies and die-namics border die.  The embossing folder is from sizzix and is called ‘folksy fun’.  I inked the edges with a cats eye chalk ink pad and added some white pearls to finish. 

Our sponsor this week is Letraset and one lucky winner will receive a Promarker Stamping Kit.

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 the comments you leave for us.

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

I’m rushing to do the post before work so will add this later!

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

Card ingredients:

Image: crafts and me – ‘city girl’

Papers: none, white digital stamping card from craftwork cards

Tools: promarkers, white pearls from the hobby house, Marianne creatables rolled roses, die-namics butterflies die, die-namics monarch border, memory box elegant scrollwork die (which I chopped down), rectangle nesties, cats eye chalk inkpad, sizzix embossing folder ‘folksy fun’

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

Charisma cardz #8–DT card

** THIS IS MY SECOND POST FOR TODAY **

Please scroll down to see my PFP/Stamp with Fun DT card

Hello again dear friends.  I’m back with a very late DT card for charisma cardz challenge (I should have posted it last Thursday – what am I like – I’m getting worse I think lol!).  The theme is “masking” and if you’re not sure how to achieve this technique here is a link to a simple tutorial by Beate Johns on SCS, although if I can do it I think most people can haha!.   I decided to use two older stamps from sugar nellie from the gorjuss girls range, which are still firm favourites of mine.  Here is my card:

The images I used are ‘just a girl’ and ‘sitting’ and I coloured them with promarkers and flex markers,  The gorgeous papers are first edition from the ‘hideaway’ paper pad and I coloured the doily with a cats eye chalk ink pad to match my papers.  I added a memory box flourish and some lollipop flowers and I was done.  I really like the sunshine-y feel to this card, especially as they are not colours I would normally use.

Our sponsors this week are Simon Says stamp who are offering a $20.00 voucher to spend in their online store and Pink Cat Studio who are offering a prize of 5 digi images. 

The rest of the design team have created amazing cards as always (and Jenni and myself used the same images on our cards lol!).  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 sugar bowl challenge – sketch & option kraft

Critter sketch challenge – buttons, buttons, I love buttons

Incy wincy designs challenge – something old/new (images old, papers new)

Kaboodle challenge – think spring

The pink elephant challenge – let’s see those layers

Pollycraft challenge – spring has sprung

Simon says stamp challenge – anything goes

Card makin’ mamas challenge – let’s see some green & coloured image

Stamping for the weekend challenge – BINGO (glitter/sparkles, lace – doily, butterflies)

One stop craft challenge – button it

I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge, although you’ll have to be quick as it ends in just over a day!!  I cannot wait to see what you create.  I would like to welcome my newest follower Isa – *waves hello* who left me lovely comments this morning – much appreciated hun and I hope you’ll pop by often.  I may be back later with another card so until then have a wonderful day and thanks so much for stopping by today.

 

Card ingredients:

Images: sugar nellie stamps – gorjuss girls ‘sitting’ and ‘just a girl’

Papers: first edition – ‘hideaway’ paper pad, white digital stamping card from craftwork cards

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, die-namics butterfly die, SU circle punches, stickles, memory box flourish die, personal impressions sentiment stamp, doily from Joanna Sheen (I think!) tonic (Tim Holtz) distressing tool, buttons from fantastic ribbons, circle nesties