Cheerful Stamp Pad challenge 70 - second week

This is my second tag for the Cheerful stamp pad challenge 70, which is just beginning it's second week, so there is still plenty of time to play along (to link your entries, please go to challenge 70 week1) - and please visit the blog to see the wonderful crafting of the rest of the team.

For this tag I used one of the Edwardian children pictures kindly supplied by the sponsor of Cheerful stamp pad challenge 70: Lunagirl Vintage Images, digitally adding 'My sweetheart' and the phrase that says 'A rose speaks of love silently in a language known only to the heart.' The flowers around the tag are from my stash, as is the piece of sparkly netting used for the tie of the tag.

This is also for:

Facebook A card a day
Pixie's snippets playground week 93
The paper nest dolls 14: vintage
Creative card crew 46: tag
My time to craft 237: vintage or shabby chic
Whimsy 64: shabby chic/vintage
Whoopsi Daisy: vintage/shabby chic
Collage obsession: vintage
Sugar creek hollow 71: romance
Bloggers challenge: love is in the air
Digi sketch: love
Hobby house 5: roses
Tammy scraping corner 83: inspired by a song title: The rose - a pop song made famous by Bette Midler in the film 'The Rose'
Anything goes 101: out with the girls
Top tip Tuesday 111: flowers
One stitch at a time 184: use a digi
Robyn's fetish 180: use a digi
Artistic inspirations 62: anything goes/make it girly
Crafty bloggers network October: anything goes
Eureka 60: anything goes
613 avenue create 40: anything goes
Scribble and scrap 2: anything goes
Papertake: anything goes
Crafting by designs: anything goes
Penny's 147: anything goes
4 krafty girlz 3: anything goes
DL.ART Thursday October linky: anything goes
Moving along with the times: anything goes
Craftitude 50: anything goes
Crafty catz 201: anything goes
Catch the bug: anything goes
The crafting cafe October: anything goes
Oozak 23: anything goes
Sister act 27
Make it Monday 161
Inspire me Fridays 123

Merry Christmas

It was Maureen' s turn to choose the theme for today's Christmas Card Club challenge and she asked us to recycle something on to our card. I cut out a circle around a wreath that was rescued from an old card. I layered an offcut of vellum that has shiny embossed lettering, adding a piece of ribbon to match with the glittered holly berries. I wrapped the vellum around the back of the card, edging with a piece of the red ribbon.

This is also for:

Pixie's snippets playground week 93
Facebook A card a day
Lisa B Designs October: traditional Christmas projects
Ribbon girls: make it sparkly
Fab 'n funky 187: ribbon
Divas by design: CAS
Crafty ribbons 64: anything goes
Creative fingers 5: anything goes + option: ribbon
613 avenue create 40: anything goes
Scribble and scrap 2: anything goes
Creative craft 20: anything goes
Papertake: anything goes
Through the craftroom door: anything goes
Crafting by designs: anything goes
Penny's 147: anything goes
4 krafty girlz 3: anything goes
DL.ART Thursday October linky: anything goes
Moving along with the times: anything goes
Craftitude 50: anything goes
Crafty catz 201: anything goes
Jellypark friends: anything goes
Sister act 27
Inspire me Fridays 123

CHNC challenge 145: picture inspiration

It's time for a new challenge on my CHNC and for CHNC challenge 145 I've supplied this lovely picture of a painting by Loyd Fannin: Bethlehem Nativity:

Loyd Fannin's Bethlehem Nativity water colour painting

I'm asking everyone to take inspiration from this picture - use the colours or anything that the picture suggests - depicting some part of the nativity story perhaps.

For my card I've used paper and glittered elements from a My Paper Stash Library kit, on to a shaped card that I won for a challenge recently. I had to cut the paper around the card shape, then sanded lightly and inked with copic BV17, running this along the top of the card as well.

This is also for:

Facebook Sunday's with Santa week 36: religious scene
Jingle belles: shape up for the holidays
Dare to be sassy Thursdays 197: think outside the box
Delicious doodles 55: shaped cards
Little blue buttons 9: shaped cards
Squigglefly 3913: make a Christmas card
Christmas card challenges week 44: anything goes
Take a word: blue
Bunny Zoe: something blue
Emerald faeries 48: sparkle
Tammy scraping corner 82: monochromatic
Scribble and scrap 2: anything goes
Challenges 4 everybody 30: anything goes
Creative craft 20: anything goes
Papertake: anything goes
Through the craftroom door: anything goes
Crafting by designs: anything goes
Penny's 147: anything goes
4 krafty girlz 3: anything goes
DL.ART Thursday October linky: anything goes
Moving along with the times: anything goes
Craftitude 50: anything goes/things beginning with the letter S - snow, sparkle, scenes
Crafty catz 201: anything goes
Jellypark friends: anything goes
Oozak 23: anything goes
Sister act 27
Make it Monay 160
Inspire me Fridays 123

Love birds

Very simple cards made from recycled fronts of wedding invitation and order of service, inserting some love birds cut from place setting cards, mounted on to some gold card. The 7 x 5 card blank is gold.

The landscape shaped one wasn't that shape originally, but I used a blank and cut round it.

These are for:

CAS on Sunday 18: shape it up
Creative inspirations 234: no square or rectangle cards
Little blue button 9: shaped cards
The pink elephant 219: anniversary or wedding
All kinds of cards 88: clean & simple
Divas by design: CAS
LEJ 73: things with wings
Crafty creations 42: winged things
A creative romance: fairytale or winged creations
Challenges and candies 17: romantic

Crafting Musketeers October: Christmas in October

I am thrilled to have joined the team at Crafting Musketeers and this is my first design card - this is for the Crafting Musketeers 6: Christmas in October. Please click on the link and see the wonderful crafting of the rest of the team and, hopefully, join in the challenge. This is being sponsored by Bridlington Stationers - this is what you could win:

The image on the upright of my side step card is Janet Klein's Stampotique inked with versafine black and heat embossed with detail black powder, coloured with spectrum noirs. The tartan paper is Basic Grey and the striped paper is HOTP. I've had the big poinsettia for ages, not a clue where it originally came from. The red and cream rippled snowflakes were from Hobbycraft. The JOY and NOEL 3D stickers are My Mind's Eye Lost and Found Christmas.

This is also for:

Facebook A card a day
Creative inspirations 234: no square or rectangle cards
Little blue button 9: shaped cards
Polka doodles 39: more than one fold
Jingle belles: shape up for the holidays
Stampavie and more 195: flowers
Happy campers 22: show us your flowers
Chocolate, coffee & cards 49: flowers
Kitty Bee Alhoa Friday 9: flowers

Simple scenes

This is my third design team card for CCAYR October: getting ready for Christmas. This is being sponsored by Platypus Creek Stamping and Craft, who will be giving two cling mount Christmas stamps to each of the winners - there are two challenges this time - one is to make a single card for the theme and the other is to make a set of five cards. Please click on the link and admire the beautiful crafting of the rest of the team - it would be lovely to see you joining in with your 'getting ready for Christmas' entries..

This is a quick set of five cards using Lili of the valley pictures on which children are getting ready for Christmas, taking trees home.

Sentiment circles are Craftwork cards and the snowflakes were from The Works.

These are also for:

Christmas card challenges 44: anything goes
Squigglefly 3913: make a Christmas card
Take a word: blue
Bunny Zoe September: something blue
Crafting by designs: anything goes
Simon says Wednesday: anything goes
A random Thursday 16: anything goes
2 sisters 163: anything goes
Sister act 26
Make it Monday 160
Inspire me Fridays 122

Still getting ready for Christmas for CCAYR October challenge

This is my second design team card for CCAYR October: getting ready for Christmas. This is being sponsored by Platypus Creek Stamping and Craft, who will be giving two cling mount Christmas stamps to each of the winners - there are two challenges this time - one is to make a single card for the theme and the other is to make a set of five cards. Please click on the link and admire the beautiful crafting of the rest of the team - it would be lovely to see you joining in with your 'getting ready for Christmas' entries..

This time the lovely little girls are hanging up their stockings on Christmas Eve and Santa is handing out presents to the children, while the children in the bottom right are going out to carol sing.

For this stepper card I've used snippets of Kanban card left over from a kit from last year and some miscellaneous pictures and an Anna Griffin sentiment. The glittered white flowers are Prima.

This is also for:

Pixie's crafty snippets week 92
Christmas card challenges 44: anything goes
Squigglefly 3913: make a Christmas card
Polka doodles 39: more than one fold
Crafting by designs: anything goes
A random Thursday 16: anything goes
2 sisters 163: anything goes
Sister act 26
Make it Monday 160

Christmas cards all year round challenge October: getting ready for Christmas

This is my first design team card for CCAYR October: getting ready for Christmas. This is being sponsored by Platypus Creek Stamping and Craft, who will be giving two cling mount Christmas stamps to each of the winners - there are two challenges this time - one is to make a single card for the theme and the other is to make a set of five cards. Please click on the link and admire the beautiful crafting of the rest of the team - it would be lovely to see you joining in with your 'getting ready for Christmas' entries.

Rudolph is getting ready for Christmas with his tree.

The background paper is from PDA card and craft and the image, coloured with copics is 'Rudolph tree' by Bugaboo Stamps. Flowers are Papermania.

This is also for:

Christmas card challenges 44: anything goes
Totally gorjuss 203: traditional Christmas colours
Squigglefly 3913: make a Christmas card
Crafty cardmakers 101: cute and furry
Meloonheadz friends: animals
Pattie's 76: animals
Crafting by designs: anything goes
Simon says Wednesday: anything goes
A random Thursday 16: anything goes
2 sisters 163: anything goes
Sister act 26
Make it Monday 160
Inspire me Fridays 122

Guest slot for Tok Bobok 4: autumn

I was delighted to be invited to be a guest designer for Tok Bobok 5: autumn/fall. Please click on the link to see what the team have created and join in with the challenge.

I stamped Penny Black 'fantasy tree' with memento rich cocoa on to a piece of autumnal paper. This stamp isn't specifically one to be used for autumn, but I added spots of yellow, orange, red and brown with copics. This was then cut with a nestie and mounted on to die cut circles. This was then mounted on to a piece of bronze pearlised card that had been embossed with an Embossalicious 'tumbling leaves' folder with my eBosser which had been wiped with some deep red and golden light metallic gilding wax - unfortunately doesn't show up too well on a photo.

This is also for:

Penny black and more at Allsorts September: autumnal colours
One crazy stamper October: thankful/autumn challenge - my card is both
Mema's October: a coat of colours (autumn)
Heck of a challenge October: autumn colours
Feeling crafty 21: autumn
AnMaCreatief 25: autumn
Tuesday throwdown 167: colours of fall
Oozak 23: anything goes
Come and get it: fall colour
One stitch at a time 183: autumn
Get inky 14: fall colours
Parade your crafts 5: fall
Timbro scrap mania 79: here comes the autumn
Dream valley 66: autumn
Fashionable stamping 57: autumn
Kreativer Bastel 32: happy fall
Lunagirl: autumn
Going grey with Scrap-creations: fall
The house that stamps built DCC925: happy fall y'all
Crafty little fairies: autumn colours
Dare to be sassy Thursday 196: fall colours
Delightful: happy fall y'all
It's all about the vintage and beauty 53: autumn harvest
Sugar creek hollow 70: fall is in the air - autumn
Cardz tv 36: colours of fall
Graph it markers 14: colours of autumn ( used copics)
Simply create too 47: fall/autumn
Stempelsonne 98: autumn
House of gilli 54: anything goes/fall
Kreativeinkauf 7: autumn leaves
Allsorts 226: how does your garden grow
Inky chicks 14: use two different die cuts
Designed to color 21: use a die
Fussy & fancy 98: punches and dies
Drunken stampers 143: die cuts
My time to craft 236: thank you
Simon says Monday challenge: say it with stamps
Di's digi designs: show off those colouring skills
Amusing challenges (stamped blessings): anything goes
Loves rubber stamps 72: anything goes
Creative craft 20: anything goes
Papertake: anything goes
2 sisters 163: anything goes
Inky linky 31
Sister act 26
Make it Monday 160
Inspire me Fridays 122

CHNC challenge extra for October

I can't believe that this card is for October! already! This year is going mega quickly. If you haven't started on your Christmas cards now is the time to get your skates on - and what better way than to enter my CHNC challenge extra for October where there is the chance for you to be the randomly chosen winner of £21 of digital images from Bugaboo Stamps who kindly sponsor.

My card is very simple, using printed digital snowflake paper and Noel image, both supplied by Bugaboo Stamps with a piece of lace edged ribbon across the top and a few silver (although they look gold here, they are silver) mirror punched snowflakes. The Noel image was digitally coloured in Microsoft Paint.

This is also for:

Christmas card challenges 44: anything goes
Totally gorjuss 203: traditional Christmas colours
Squigglefly 3913: make a Christmas card
Perfect sentiments 93: holiday snowflakes
Crafters cafe 30: die cuts/punches
Fussy & fancy 98: punches and dies
Cute card Thursday 288: pretty ribbons
613 avenue create 39: anything goes
Challenges 4 everybody 30: anything goes
Crafting by designs: anything goes
Simon says Wednesday: anything goes
A random Thursday 16: anything goes
Crafts4eternity R143: anything goes
2 sisters 163: anything goes
DL.ART thankful Thursday September: anything goes
Sister act 26
Make it Monday 160
Inspire me Fridays 122

Cheerful Stamp Pad challenge 70: tags

This is my design team tag for Cheerful stamp pad challenge 70:  tags.This challenge is being sponsored by Lunagirl Vintage Images. This is really a fun challenge. You can have any type of theme you wish, just put it on a tag. If you happen to have an Lunagirl images, we would love to see you use them.

For this tag I used one of the pictures kindly supplied by Lunagirl, one of their labels 'woman called Anita', digitally blending this with a Dezinaworld music rose background. I printed this and mounted it on to a tag that I had lightly brushed with mustard seed and fired brick distress inks. Flowers and ribbons from stash.

This is for the colours for Cupcake inspirations 230:

This is also for:

Facebook A card a day
Little red wagon 204: back in time
The sisterhood of crafters: tag you're it
Everybodyy art 246: roses
Sweet stamps 136: roses
Happy campers 22: show us your flowers
Ooh-la-la: F is for ... flowers
Scrap-cards 52: flowers 4 you
Cute card Thursday 288: pretty ribbons
The paper nest dolls 14: vintage
Whoopsi Daisy: anything but a card
613 avenue create 39: anything goes
Challenges 4 everybody 30: anything goes
Through the craftroom door: anything goes
Party time Tuesday 139: anything goes
Crafting by designs: anything goes
Simon says Wednesday: anything goes
A random Thursday 16: anything goes
Crafts4eternity R143: anything goes
2 sisters 163: anything goes
DL.ART thankful Thursday September: anything goes
Inky linky 31
Sister act 26
Make it Monday 160
Inspire me Fridays 122

More baubles for The Glory of Christmas 17

Having messed up a bit with the first card I made as my design card for The Glory of Christmas challenge 17,  I inked, stamped and embossed once more and this time it was fine. This was then mounted on to a piece of foiled Hunkydory card and then on to the A5 landscape card blank.

Please click on the link for the challenge and admire the lovely crafting of the rest of the team, including a new member, Tanja - and please join in with our challenge.

This is also for:

Christmas card challenges 44: anything goes
Tuesday throwdown 166: clean and simple
Addicted to stamps and more 64: CAS
Brown sugar 61: black & bling
Bloggers challenge: bling it on
Pink gem 99: use black on your card
Crimbo crackers 51: embossing
Sparkle n sprinkle September: anything goes with glitter, embossing powder and/or flocking
Divas by design: monochrome

The Glory of Christmas challenge 17

This card was going to be for The Glory of Christmas challenge 17, I've used the lovely Papermania Bauble Decoration stamp.

When I stamped the image for the first card the sentiment 'Christmas Cheer' lost a bit of the 'Cheer' on the bottom edge! I didn't want to waste this so I decided to separately stamp the sentiment and mount it on to silver mirror card to match the piece surrounding the image. Everything was inked with versamark and heat embossed with detail silver powder. A couple of strips of glittery silver on the left finished the card off. This is an A5 landscape card - the image is quite large, so needs a large card blank.

This is also for:

Amusing challenges (stamped blessings): anything goes
Tuesday throwdown 166: clean and simple
Addicted to stamps and more 64: CAS
Brown sugar 61: black & bling
Bloggers challenge: bling it on
Pink gem 99: use black on your card
Crimbo crackers 51: embossing
Sparkle n sprinkle September: anything goes with glitter, embossing powder and/or flocking
Divas by design: monochrome

CHNC challenge 144: use three main colours

This is my card for today's CHNC challenge 144: use three main colours.

I've used red, blue and beige (as well as some white, which doesn't count!) - papers are Echo Park 'winter wishes', Express Yourself stickers, a strip of angel hair and some East of India ribbon.

This is also for:

Facebook A card a day
Facebook Sunday's with Santa week 39: anything goes
Little miss muffet 70: we wish you a merry Christmas
Frosted designs fabulous Friday: add texture to your project
Artistic inspirations 60: anything goes/brght colours
Bunny Zoe September: something blue
2 sisters 163: anything goes
Party time Tuesday 139: anything goes
Through the craftroom door: anything goes
Crafting by designs: anything goes
Simon says Wednesday challenge: anything goes
A random Thursday 16: anything goes
Crafts4eternity R143: anything goes
DL.ART thankful Thursday September: anything goes
Sister act 26

Purple power

This is my design team card for The sweet pea stampers 'purple power' challenge that starts today. This will be open for the next two weeks. Please click on the link and see the gorgeous crafting of the rest of the team. We would love to see your 'purple power', using a Sweet Pea image if you have one, but, if not, join in with any image.

The shaped card blank was already decorated with a lilac pattern.I used Elaine Cox's Black Butterfly Fairy rubber stamp inked with memento tuxedo black and coloured with copics. I mounted the cut out on to two pieces of offcut papers, rounding the corners of the larger one. Organza ribbon and flowers from stash. I didn't add a sentiment, but think perhaps one could be put at the bottom.

This is also for:

Facebook A card a day
Top tip Tuesday 110: get in shape
Creative inspirations 233: your favourite stamp brand - Sweet Pea (but I confess I have other favourites too!)
Nutcrafters 52: your favourite colour combinations - lilac and purple
Kort o mania 93: use your two favourite colours - lilac and purple
Whoopsi Daisy: ribbons and bows
Craft-Dee bowZ September: anything goes and include a handmade bow
Cute card Thursday 288: pretty ribbons
Crafty ribbons 63: monochrome
Anything goes 101: out with the girls

Just for you

The background for the card was cut from the packaging that came with some prima flowers, matted on to a kraft card blank. The decoupaged flowers were from Poundland and the 'just for you' sentiment circle from Craftwork cards.

This is for:

In the pink 28: bling it up
2 sisters 162: recycle
Make my Monday: flowers or trees
Crafters cafe blog 29: flowers
Happy campers 22: show us your flowers
Paper-crafting journey: flowers
Crafty catz 199: decoupage
Sparkles 48: fairies and/or butterflies
Jo's scrap shack funday Friday 18: anything goes
Designed to color 20: anything goes
Get creative September card challenge: anything goes
DL.ART thankful Thursday September: anything goes
Sister act 25
Make it Monday 159
Inspire me Fridays 121
52 card pick up 2.38

Another special day

I rescued the spotted background from a card I received that also had the lovely black and white border - the black is flocked - lovely to feel and a thin piece of ribbon down the side. I added the hearts that had felt on them and the lovely littlespotted birds with the googlie eyes and the spindly wire legs.

Photo taken at strange angle to avoid flash glare on the shiny background.

This is for:

Hobby cutz 17: black and white and 1 other colour
DL.ART thankful Thursday 117: wedding
Challenges and candies 17: romantic
Totally gorjuss 202: dotty
Going grey with scrap-creations: polka dots
Tuesday throwdown 165: things with wings
Emma's cards 20: birds
Creative craft 19: use ribbon
Crafty ribbons 62: anything goes
DRS 88: the eyes have it - googlie eyes
613 avenue create 38: anything goes
Jo's scrap shack funday Friday 18: anything goes
Designed to color 20: anything goes
Get creative September card challenge: anything goes
DL.ART thankful Thursday September: anything goes
Sister act 25
Make it Monday 159
Inspire me Fridays 121
52 card pick up 2.38

Garden gate

A simple card using a shaped blank with distressed edges. The image is one that I stamped and coloured a long time ago and never used. It's a La Pasche foam stamp that was coloure with distress inks. This is then framed with a frame that was part of a Kanban kit long ago.

Inspired by the gate on the photo for Creative creations 19: down at the bottom of the garden:

This is for:

Top tip Tuesday 110: get in shape
Hanna and friends 180: special cardform
Creative moments 26: anything goes or frame it
Creative inspirations 232: clean & simple
Charisma 37: favourite colour combo - anything with purple/lilac
Lady Anne stamp challenge 11
Pile it on 38: cool or warm colours
Jo's scrap shack funday Friday 18: anything goes
Designed to color 20: anything goes

Birthday flowers and butterflies

This is a quick card made from a background recycled from a card received, a Craftwork cards sentiment panel and some sparkly Poundland butterflies.

This is for:

In the pink 28: bling it up
2 sisters 162: recycle
Pink gem 98: pink, pink, pink & gems
Flutter by Wednesday 253: open + butterflies
Sparkles 48: fairies and/or butterflies
Tuesday throwdown 165: things with wings
Card caravan (the hybrid chick) 48: birthday
Come and get it: birthday theme
The squirrel and the fox 53: happy birthday
Fairies 13: birthday
Tammy scraping corner 81: happy birthday
Victorine 68: birthday
Seize the birthday: birthday with toppings - one particular colour: pink
Totally papercrafts 185: birthday or new baby
Artistic inspirations 60: anything goes/bright colours
Wags n whiskers 113: sparkle
613 avenue create 38: anything goes
Jo's scrap shack funday Friday 18: anything goes
Designed to color 20: anything goes
Get creative September card challenge: anything goes
DL.ART thankful Thursday September: anything goes
Sister act 25
Make it Monday 159
Inspire me Fridays 121
52 card pick up 2.38

On your special day

This is a quick CAS card using one of my favourite wedding stamps by Anita, just stamped with memento tuxedo black. This and the sentiment were mounted on to silver mirror card and the bling embellishment from Poundland was added - far brighter and more 'blingy' IRL.

This is for:

Hobby cutz 17: black and white and 1 other colour (silver)
Craft your passion 181: no coloured in images
DL.ART thankful Thursday 117: wedding
Stampin with the dragon: weddings
Creative inspirations 232: clean and simple
Through the purple haze: inspired by a song etc - 'I'm getting married in the morning'
Get inky 13: let me tell you about ... and a thing called love
Challenges and candies 17: romantic
Lady Anne's stamp challenge 11
Southern girls 78: the world in monochrome

The cheerful stamp pad challenge 69 week 2

This is my design team card for week 2 of The cheerful stamp pad 69: I love your hat. Once again, I've used the 1935 hat digi stamp kindly supplied by Rick Stdennis, our sponsor, coloured with spectrum noirs, die cut and edged with a purple spectrum. I used a ready decorated shaped card blank on to which I put a horizontal strip of a print that was made with my gelli plate, a stencil and acrylic paint.  Ribbon, flowers and lace/ribbon from stash. Your can enter the challenge here.

This is also for:

Little blue button 9: shaped cards
Ladybug: no squares allowed
Top tip Tuesday 110: get in shape
Hanna and friends 180: special cardform