Another touch of yellow for Christmas

For my CHNC challenge 17 this week I asked for 'a touch of Easter for Christmas' - to use some yellow and/or an oval.

I think this was a tough challenge and I wasn't really that pleased with my original card for this, so I decided that I ought to try and make another one - perhaps it will encourage one or two more to take the plunge this week.

So I used the sketch for Sparkle Christmas challenges week 21:

I used some elements from a red line topper & paper pack. This includes the picture of Santa for Bah! humbug 16: the man himself ... Santa Claus.



This is also for:

HLSC 19: Christmas
Alphabet: Y for yellow
Party time Tuesday 13: anything goes
Iris' spot 18: anything goes
Simon says: anything goes
Delicious doodles 22: anything goes

Trust me ...

... I'm a professional!

This is for this week's 'speaking professionally' Daring cardmakers challenge - Rein said: 'We're looking for cards all about the jobs people do this week.' I love this fun digi image from Charmed cards and crafts Dottie at work collection - I coloured digitally in Paint.

I used the sketch given for Card Patterns 112:

I used BG marrakech papers and a Papermania ribbon bow.

I chose the colour scheme for:

Ribbon girl colour challenge 7: red, white & blue
Fab n funky 70: red, white and blue

It's also for:

Crazy challenge 64: 3 different papers
Creative inspirations 58: digi day
Party time Tuesday 13: anything goes
Iris' spot 18: anything goes
Simon says: anything goes
Delicious doodles 22: anything goes
365 cards day 51: spring cleaning - papers are at least a year old, ribbon is old and the 'tool' that I've had since crafting it computer and printer (without which I couldn't have produced the digi image)

White space that isn't white

Having made a couple of cards using Wube sunset background paper with silhouette type stamping, I had one more piece left over, so I've stamped my favourite Inkadinkado trees stamp a couple of times along the bottom, filling in the gaps of the ground with copic C-7 (not quite so stark as black). The sentiment is an Anna Griffin stamp.

This is for Crafty creations 116: white space (which doesn't have to be white!) and Claudia & company 80: clean and simple.

I'm really sorry that I've used up all of this paper now because it has made lovely cards - but I think I ought to use my big and juicy ink pads and make my own backgrounds - hope to do so soon.

This is also for:

Craft us crazy 6: thinking of you
Party time Tuesday 13: anything goes
Iris' spot 18: anything goes
Simon says: anything goes
Delicious doodles 22: anything goes

Awwww ... love ....

This card is for the sketch on Sew many cards 51:

I mounted the background paper on a black linen card and stamped PB brimming with love on to the circle, colouring with copics, so this is for Penny Black Saturday challenge 148 'happily ever after' and also for Penny Black at Allsorts April challenge 'black and white plus one'.

The 'love' sentiment is a Carolee's creations sticker. The red and white dotty paper is BG june bug, which is good for:

Cutie Sunday 139: dots
The paper variety: we want to see your polka dots
Rubber cafe 14: polka dots

The large hearts are felt and the smaller corner ones are satin.



I think this is suitable for a wedding card, so am linking for:

Die cut dreams 88: wedding
Inspiration avenue: royal and/or wedding
Kaboodle 64: here comes the bride
Freshly brewed 44: wedding
Totally papercrafts 63: weddings
Stampin' for the weekend 8: wedding
Stamping vacation Occasion oasis: wedding

And would equally work well for an anniversary:

Speedy the cat (Mark's finest papers) 52: anniversary card

It's also for:

Make it colourful 15: colouring black hair
Craft us crazy 6: animals
Fun with shapes and more 81: animals
Little Claire designs 5: animals
365 cards day 38: just a touch - only colouring two parts of an image - two colours
Party time Tuesday 13: anything goes
Iris' spot 18: anything goes
Simon says: anything goes
Delicious doodles 22: anything goes

Thinking of you ...

Another card for Less is more recipe ' off centre', very similar to the previous card, this time using Penny Black sparklers stamp and the Hobbycraft Thinking of you sentiment stamp.

Once again, this is also for:

Little red wagon 77: clouds
Claudia & company 80: clean and simple
The paper shelter 10: inspired by nature
365 cards day 57: say it with sublety

Sending you encouragement ...

This is another card for Less is more: recipe 'off centre'. I've used the lovely Penny Black burst of stars stamp with memento tuxedo black, colouring the leaves and ground with copic C-7. The background paper is Wube sunset - this just happened to be out on my work surface, having used a piece of it for a card the other day. The sentiment stamp is Anna Griffin.

This is also for:

Little red wagon 77: clouds
Claudia & company 80: clean and simple
The paper shelter 10: inspired by nature
365 cards day 57: say it with sublety

Less is more ... off centre

This is for Less is more 'recipe: off centre'. Yesterday I received a set of four landscape scene foam-backed stamps from La Blanche - and this is one of them inked with memento rich cocoa - the 'just a note' sentiment is a HOTP stamp (which isn't actually crooked irl - it's the scan!):


This is also for:

Claudia & company 80: clean and simple
Hanna and friends 91: pink & brown (sorry, it doesn't look very pink here - it's a subtle, pale pink)
Anything goes 39: colour challenge - pink and brown
Just for fun: all square card

Recycled packaging

When I used Prima flowers on my DLO on Paddy's CJ earlier today, I kept the card from inside the packaging - I felt it was too good to throw away. So I cut off the top part (where it said Prima) and stamped with one of my favourite Inkadinkadoo tree stamps, using memento rich cocoa and heat embossing with detail clear - so this is for these recycling challenges:

Creative card crew: recycle something
Try it on Tuesday: a bit of upcycling
Moving along with the times 95: recycle
If the shoe fits Fashionista Friday 76: happy earth day - recycling, reusing or renewing

I chose the colours for Guylou's creative khaki challenge:

and also used the sketch and 'birthday' theme for Pixie cottage 66:

The background paper is BG cappella; ribbons, buttons and birthday wishes sentimet from stash.

This is also for:

The paper shelter 10: inspired by nature
Stampavie and more 138: birthday
Stamp n doodle: masculine creation
Meljen 55: masculine
Aud sentiments 26: anything goes
Pile it on 17: 2 or more ribbons
Amber's crafts and stuff 6: ribbons and bows
Incy wincy 91: buttons and bows
Let's ink it up 13: show us your stitching
Creative craft: embossing
Simon says: emboss it

Purple and white inchies

These inchies are for this month's swap on BF forum.

I stamped with Paisley background funstamps with brushed concord DI and then stamped a tiny stamping up 'for you' - just the addition of a flower with a gem in the centre and a spotted butterfly on each.




Apologies for the poor quality of the photo - I've now enveloped these up so I can't try to get a better photo.

Happiness is ...

This is is the title of Paddy's CJ and it was my turn to add a DLO before posting off tomorrow to the next person in the BF forum group.

I found the quote on the internet and liked it. I used Best Creation Mr & Mrs papers - they have some lovely flittered glittering on them - quite subtle. Flowers are Prima Innoscence. The large lettering on the right hand page was computer generated/printed and the smaller lettering on my dymo letratag. The organaza wired butterfly is one I've had or a long time, waiting for the right occasion to use it - it's a bit more pink than it looks here and has silver glittered edes to the wings.





I'm linking for these challenges:

Flutter by Wednesday 151: open + butterfly
Everybody art: pearls (centres of the prima flowers)
Pink gem challenge 19: pearls or swirls
Papertake weekly: spots N stripes
Shelly's terrifically thrilling Thursday: show us what you got
Frosted designs fabulous Friday challenge: birds and/or butterflies
Shabby tea room 59: butterfly wishes
Freshly brewed 43: let's see you shine with lots of sparkle
My mum's craft shop 2: all that glitters
Tanda teaser 169: white and silver
C.R.A.F.T. 99: flowers
Paper romance 47: tag it
Stamp, scrap & doodle: tagalicious
Lexi 38: anything but a card
Order of the opus gluei 99: the crown jewels - lots of sparkle here and happiness (which is wished for the bride and groom)

Sorry to hear you're under the weather

This card is for Eat sleep stamp sketchy Thursday 127:

It's als for the colour challenge on There's magic in the air magical Monday challenge to use green, yellow and orange.

I used Bugaboo rainy day bear freebie digi image and am entering this card into the Catch the bug rain project challenge. I copied the digi into Paint and digitially coloured it.

Papers are BG sugar rush.

It's also for:

Paper playtime 43: weather
Kartenallerlei 26: April weather
Allsorts 100: April showers
Stamping vacation special month challenge: April (showers)
Creative inspirations 58: digi day
Going grey (Scrap-creatons): digital
Aud sentiments 26: anything goes
Delicious doodles 22: anything goes

The sandpiper

For this card I've used one of the stamps I chose when I won some money to spend at Stampotique - it's the bird legs by Janet Klein.

This is for the current challenge on Stampotique 28: newsprint/old book pages. No books were really torn for this card because I scanned a page of my Oxford Book of Children's Verse, printed and then tore the edges and very lightly sponged with brushed corduroy DI. The sky background paper is cut from WUBE sunset and the beach from WUBE beach foam. I then stamped bird legs directly on to this and then separately on to pieces of card that I coloured with copics and paper pieced on to the main image, leaving the legs as they were. I don't often paper piece, but think it has worked quite well here.

You can read the poem if you click on the picture.

This is also for:

Sunday stamper 151: wind beneath my wings
Delightful: paper piecing
Phindy's Friday 52: paper piecing
Craft your passion 54: you've been spotted (use dots)
Tuesday throwdown 45: polka dots
Rubber cafe 14: polka dots
Frosted designs fabulous Friday challenge: birds and/or butterflies
The paper shelter 10: inspired by nature

Happy Easter - He is risen!

Happy Easter Sunday!
He is risen!

This card uses FF paper for the background, one of my favourite Easter stamps coloured with promarkers, flowers from stash and computer generated/printed sentiments.

The flowers and colouring of the stamped image were inspired by the 'crepe bouquet' picture given for Moxie Tuesday Trigger:


This is for:

CES 33: spring colours/images
Crazy 4 challenges 83: create an Easter card
Crazy amigo: Easter
Die cut dreams 87: it's Easter time
Penny's 51: Easter
Scrappy frogs: Easter
ECP 36: Easter
Craft your days away 18: Easter
Picture perfect creations speciality 6: Easter
My time to craft 137: Easter wishes
Paperplay 16: Easter time
4 crafty chicks 34: Easter
Kaboodle 63: thoughts of spring/Easter
Pixie dust studio 71: spring forward
Spoon full of sugar 148: let's celebrate - Easter is a good time of celebration
Whoopsi daisy: we are free and easy
Shelly's terrifically thrilling Thursday: show us what you got
Frosted designs fabulous Friday challenge: birds and/or butterflies
Aud sentiments 26: anything goes
Stamp dreams 78: Easter
Stamp n doodle: Easter
Totally stampalicious: keep it simple - 3 or less layers and few embellishments
I love promarkers 62: anything goes
Inky impressions 13: flowers
Stamping vacation special month challenge: April
One crazy stamper: April flowers challenge
Sweet stampin: Easter

Christmas gang card for Keryn's challenge

This is for this fortnight's card for the Christmas gang (there's a list in my sidebar - if you click on the names you can see the creations of the rest of the gang). The idea is that one of the gang sets a challenge for the fortnight - this time it was Keryn - you can see her challenge here.

I chose: penguins, white and ribbon as my items and I also followed the sketch and colour scheme of 'black and white' for Die cut dreams Christmas challenge 62:

The card blank is black stardream that has a glittery look to it. I mounted some vellum on to white card using my xyron. I used a white sparkly snowflake in place of the semi-circle in the sketch. The embossed panel was a piece left over from a couple of years ago and the white and black ribbon from stash. The penguins are felt and mounted on 3D foam so that they stand out a bit irl - so these qualify the card for Christmas stampin all year long 'warm and fuzzy' - use felt.

This is also for:

Sparkle creations Christmas 2011 week 20: anything goes
ABC: S for sparkle
Spoon full of sugar 148: let's celebrate (Christmas this time)
My mum's craft shop 2: all that glitters

Multi-coloured Easter

I made lots of Easter cards this year - sold some to raise money for Tearfund and sent some ourselves.

This is a multi-coloured one, using a mixture of Kanban card and PM Honey & hugs.

It's for:

Crop stop 16: use the colours of the rainbow
Frosted designs fabulous Friday challenge: birds and/or butterflies
CES 33: spring colours/images
Crazy 4 challenges 83: create an Easter card
Crazy amigo: Easter
Cutie Sunday 138: Easter
Die cut dreams 87: it's Easter time
Penny's 51: Easter
Scrappy frogs: Easter
ECP 36: Easter
Craft your days away 18: Easter
Picture perfect creations speciality 6: Easter
My time to craft 137: Easter wishes
Paperplay 16: Easter time
4 crafty chicks 34: Easter
Kaboodle 63: thoughts of spring/Easter
Pixie dust studio 71: spring forward
Spoon full of sugar 148: let's celebrate - Easter is a good time of celebration
Whoopsi daisy: we are free and easy
Shelly's terrifically thrilling Thursday: show us what you got
Aud sentiments 26: anything goes
Sentimental Sundays 51: celebrate spring/Easter
Papertake weekly: spots n stripes
Craft your passion 54: you've been spotted

Frolic and flutter

For this card I've used some of the Kanban card, but also some Bo Bunny spring sentiments paper.

The crocheted flowers (the middle one is a brad) were from The Works (when I showed some in an earlier post I said they were from Poundland ... no wonder I couldn't find any more when I looked there, because I eventually found that in The Works!).

The colours are for the Play date cafe 78:



It's also for:

CES 33: spring colours/images
Crazy 4 challenges 83: create an Easter card
Crazy amigo: Easter
Cutie Sunday 138: Easter
Die cut dreams 87: it's Easter time
Penny's 51: Easter
Scrappy frogs: Easter
ECP 36: Easter
Craft your days away 18: Easter
Picture perfect creations speciality 6: Easter
My time to craft 137: Easter wishes
Paperplay 16: Easter time
4 crafty chicks 34: Easter
Kaboodle 63: thoughts of spring/Easter
Pixie dust studio 71: spring forward
Spoon full of sugar 148: let's celebrate - Easter is a good time of celebration
Whoopsi daisy: we are free and easy
Shelly's terrifically thrilling Thursday: show us what you got
Aud sentiments 26: anything goes
Sentimental Sundays 51: celebrate spring/Easter
C.R.A.F.T. 99: flowers
Creatalicious 21: Easter and include the colours pink, green, yellow and blue

A bright Easter

This one is a bit different, using die cut felt bright yellow flowers with turquoise bling centres. The turquoise flowered card is from the Kanban QVC kit and the sentiment is computer generated and printed. The stamped image is from a See-D Easter set (long neglected!).


This is for:

Cuttlebug spot: oh so soft ... felt challenge
Woodware USA 23: die cuts/punches
Incy wincy 90: bright and bold
Off the wall craftiness 51: Easter - bright colours
Stamping vacation special month challenge: April
One crazy stamper: April flowers challenge
CES 33: spring colours/images
Crazy 4 challenges 83: create an Easter card
Crazy amigo: Easter
Cutie Sunday 138: Easter
Die cut dreams 87: it's Easter time
Penny's 51: Easter
Scrappy frogs: Easter
ECP 36: Easter
Craft your days away 18: Easter
Picture perfect creations speciality 6: Easter
My time to craft 137: Easter wishes
Paperplay 16: Easter time
4 crafty chicks 34: Easter
Kaboodle 63: thoughts of spring/Easter
Pixie dust studio 71: spring forward
Spoon full of sugar 148: let's celebrate - Easter is a good time of celebration
Whoopsi daisy: we are free and easy
Shelly's terrifically thrilling Thursday: show us what you got
Aud sentiments 26: anything goes
Sentimental Sundays 51: celebrate spring/Easter
Stamp dreams 78: Easter
Stamp n doodle: Easter
Pile it on 16: smells like rubber - use a rubber stamp
Inky impressions 13: flowers
C.R.A.F.T. 99: flowers
Sweet stampin: Easter

Sticky note holder (for a change)

A change from all the Easter (and Christmas!) cards with a sticky note holder - very simply made with a piece of striped bling DCWV card and a die cut snail :

This is for:

Lexi 38: anything but a card
Papertake weekly: spots n stripes
Craft your passion 54: you've been spotted
Creative inspirations 108: pets/animals - wouldn't call a snail a pet, but it is an animal!
Cute card Thursday 16: no text

Egg-cellent Easter

This is another card made for Easter using the Kanban QVC kit and a chipboard butterfly. The scalloped edge and the border of the sentiment mat are gold foiled.

Once again this card was inspired by by the photo inspiration with Shabby tea room 58: how egg-cellent - pastels and stripes:


This is for:

Crreative Belli 115: eggs/bunnies
Sukkersoft 121: eggs
CES 33: spring colours/images
Crazy 4 challenges 83: create an Easter card
Crazy amigo: Easter
Crafty pad 116: Easter
Cutie Sunday 138: Easter
Die cut dreams 87: it's Easter time
Penny's 51: Easter
Scrappy frogs: Easter
ECP 36: Easter
Craft your days away 18: Easter
Picture perfect creations speciality 6: Easter
My time to craft 137: Easter wishes
Paperplay 16: Easter time
4 crafty chicks 34: Easter
Kaboodle 63: thoughts of spring/Easter
Pixie dust studio 71: spring forward
Spoon full of sugar 148: let's celebrate - Easter is a good time of celebration
Whoopsi daisy: we are free and easy
Shelly's terrifically thrilling Thursday: show us what you got
Frosted designs fabulous Friday challenge: birds and/or butterflies
Flutterby Wednesday 151: open - with butterfly
Papertake weekly: spots n stripes
Craft your passion 54: you've been spotted
Aud sentiments 26: anything goes
Sentimental Sundays 51: celebrate spring/Easter

Enjoy Easter

Another Easter card that uses components from the Kanban QVC kit and a chipboard butterfly and flower (had these for ages). The scalloped edging on the striped card piece is gold foiled (not black as it looks here). Another card inspired by the photo inspiration with Shabby tea room 58: how egg-cellent - pastels and stripes:



This is also for:

CES 33: spring colours/images
Crazy 4 challenges 83: create an Easter card
Crazy amigo: Easter
Crafty pad 116: Easter
Cutie Sunday 138: Easter
Die cut dreams 87: it's Easter time
Penny's 51: Easter
Scrappy frogs: Easter
ECP 36: Easter
Craft your days away 18: Easter
Picture perfect creations speciality 6: Easter
My time to craft 137: Easter wishes
C.R.A.F.T. 99: flowers
Paperplay 16: Easter time
4 crafty chicks 34: Easter
Kaboodle 63: thoughts of spring/Easter
Pixie dust studio 71: spring forward
Spoon full of sugar 148: let's celebrate - Easter is a good time of celebration
Whoopsi daisy: we are free and easy
Shelly's terrifically thrilling Thursday: show us what you got
Frosted designs fabulous Friday challenge: birds and/or butterflies
Flutterby Wednesday 151: open - with butterfly
Aud sentiments 26: anything goes
Sentimental Sundays 51: celebrate spring/Easter
Sugar creek hollow sensational Saturday: circles

Easter bling

Another Easter card, this time using card that came with the Kanban QVC kit and stickers that I bought at Poundland two or three years ago - these are edges with silver holographic so they are 'blingy'. The flowers at the bottom are glittered too.

The colours were inspired by the photo inspiration with Shabby tea room 58: how egg-cellent - pastels and stripes:


This is for:

Totally Gorjuss 77: bling it on
Card cupids: pastel colours
Papertake weekly: spots n stripes
Craft your passion 54: you've been spotted
Tuesday throwdown 45: polka dots
CES 33: spring colours/images
Crazy 4 challenges 83: create an Easter card
Crazy amigo: Easter
Crafty pad 116: Easter
Cutie Sunday 138: Easter
Die cut dreams 87: it's Easter time
Penny's 51: Easter
Scrappy frogs: Easter
ECP 36: Easter
Craft your days away 18: Easter
Picture perfect creations speciality 6: Easter
My time to craft 137: Easter wishes
C.R.A.F.T. 99: flowers
Paperplay 16: Easter time
4 crafty chicks 34: Easter
Kaboodle 63: thoughts of spring/Easter
Pixie dust studio 71: spring forward
Spoon full of sugar 148: let's celebrate - Easter is a good time of celebration
Whoopsi daisy: we are free and easy
Shelly's terrifically thrilling Thursday: show us what you got
Frosted designs fabulous Friday challenge: birds and/or butterflies
Freshly brewed 43: let's see you shine with lots of sparkle
My mum's craft shop 2: all that glitters