Sweet pea stampers Easter challenge

This is my design card for the Sweet pea stampers Easter challenge. Please click on the link and see the gorgeous crafting of the rest of the team and join in the challenge.

I used the lovely Bunny Bouquet digital image by Karen Middleton, colour with spectrum noir pens. The background paper and the large mat of the die cuts are offcuts from Raspberry Road paper used earlier for another card. The die cuts were made with Spellbinders marvellous squares. The chipboard flower and the eggs have been around for ages - thought it was about time they were used.

This is also for:

Pile it on 10: Easter joys
DRS 113: you're a good egg
Whimsy 69: Easter
AnMaCreatief 30: spring/Easter
Tok bobok 10: spring flowers
Lacy sunshine 28: use spring colours
The squirrel and the fox 65: autumn or spring
Make my Monday: spring
Crafting for all seasons 72: spring
Great impressions March: spring
Crafty bloggers network March: nature
Corrosive 194: animals
Use your stuff 126: animals (paper and ribbons are old)
Fab n funky 207: animals
Crafty calendar March: animal antics
The stamping boutique 8: use bunnies
LEJ March: favourite die cuts
Crafting from the heart 9: anything goes/favourite colours
QKR stampede 79 anything goes
Fan-tastic Tuesday 26: anything goes
613 avenue create 62: anything goes
Glitter n sparkle 75: anything goes
Scribble and scrap 13: anything goes
Artistic inspirations 82: anything goes
Love to create 106: anything goes
Through the craftroom door: anything goes
Aud sentiments 102: anything goes
Penny's 168: anything goes
Craftitude 60: anything goes
Creative fingers 27: anything goes
Just for fun March: anything goes
DL.ART March
Sister Act 48: anything goes
Inky linky 47
Make it Monday 182
Just B creative crazy March linky party

More inspiration for the Cheerful stamp pad 'anything goes' challenge

This is my design card for the second week of the 'anything goes' challenge on the Cheerful stamp pad. Please click here to see the lovely inspirational crafting of the rest of the team and click here to go to last week's post to link your entries.

I matted this beautiful Easter image from Gecko Galz (challenge sponsor) on to an offcut of striped paper. I covered the card blank with a piece of Raspberry Road Designs paper and simply added two golden yellow flowers that were left from a pack that I bought years ago from Early Learning Centre (how I wish they had continued to stock them).

I'm sharing this on my Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper March challenge - if you haven't yet discovered this challenge blog, please visit and join in the fun - and you could be the randomly chosen prize winner of two packs of 6 x 6 papers.

Colours for the Shabby tea room 209: spring is near - include baby blue, birds and spring flowers:

This is also for:

Gecko Galz March: Easter challenge
Pile it on 10: Easter joys
AnMaCreatief 30: spring/Easter
DRS 112: for the birds
Tok bobok 10: spring flowers
Kreativeinkauf 12: spring flowers
Bloggers challenge: fabulous flowers
Challenges and candies 29: flowers
Lacy sunshine 28: use spring colours
The squirrel and the fox 65: autumn or spring
Fairies 21: spring
Make my Monday: spring
Crafting for all seasons 72: spring
Great impressions March: spring
Crafty bloggers network March: nature
613 avenue create 62: anything goes
Glitter n sparkle 75: anything goes
Scribble and scrap 13: anything goes
Artistic inspirations 82: anything goes
Love to create 106: anything goes
Fan-tastic Tuesday 25: anything goes
Papertake: anything goes
The paper shelter 148: anything goes
Word art Wednesday 122: anything goes
Crafty girls 13: anything goes
Jo's scrap shack 40: anything goes
Just for fun March: anything goes
Wordplay Saturday March: anything goes
DL.ART March
Sister Act 47: anything goes
Make it Monday 182
Just B creative crazy March linky party

CHNC challenge 167: spread your wings

For CHNC challenge 167 I'm asking for any Christmas cards that feature wings in any way.

This is my card, using a Kanban step card on to which I've matted the  'winter bird 1' image, kindly supplied one of this week's sponsors, Bugaboo Stamps, coloured with spectrum noir alochol pen and adding a few dots of stickles crystal ice. The spotted papers are some old DCWV papers and the little Merry Christmas tag with brad is from stash.

This is also for:

The 12 months of Christmas card link up
Pile it on 9: bold/bright
Sweet stamps: fun folds
4 crafty chicks 184: shaped card
DRS 112: for the birds
Dare to be sassy Thursdays 219: make it fly
Ladybug: one for the boys
Divas by design: let's hear it for the boys
The sisterhood of crafters: one for the boys
Paper-crafting journey: make it manly/boyish
Inky impressions 149: 3D projects
Wags n whiskers 124: sports
Allsorts 249: sport
Artistic inspirations 81: sparkles/anything goes
Brown sugar 84: make it sparkle
Glitter n sparkle 74: add a sentiment
Crafty sentiments: spots or dots
Crafty girls 13 anything goes
The paper shelter 148: anything goes
Papertake: anything goes
Through the craftroom door: anything goes
Paper makeup 130: anything goes
Jo's scraps shack 40: anything goes
Sister Act 47: anything goes
Left of center 1st anniversary: anything goes
Make it Monday 181

Suzy Bee's Bloomin' challenge 19: buttons and bows

This is my design card for Suzy Bee's Bloomin' challenge 19: buttons and bows. The beautiful rose image is Crafty Girl Creations Rose Stitchy Bear, supplied by the sponsor the challenge. Please click on the link and see the lovely crafting of the rest of the team and enter the challenge with your creations with buttons and bows.

I've used Raspberry Road Design papers, cutting with image and surrounding papers with Spellbinders Marvellous squares dies run through my eBosser. Buttons were from Poundland long ago and the sentiment and bows are from stash. I coloured the image with spectrum noir pens.

Colours for De creatieve zebra 7: colour or photo:

This is also for:

Craft your passion 203: birthday bonanza
Craftin desert divas 26: birthday
The pink elephant 240: birthday
Seize the birthday: anything goes birthday
Sunflowerfield March: birthdays and/or flowers
Crafty creations 258: happy birthday
Fussy & fancy 109: birthdays
Digistamps4Joy 87: add a birthday sentiment
Totally papercrafts 209: female birthday - must have a number on or a birthday sentiment
Handmade harbour 27: celebrate
Alphabet: B for buttons & bows
Whoopsi Daisy: lots of flowers
Bloggers challenge: fabulous florals
Challenges and candies 29: flowers
Scrapping4fun 12: flowers
Paper pretties 300: lots of layers
Left of center 26: die cuts
Card and scrap 71: use dies
LEJ 87: favourite die cuts
Glitter n sparkle 74: add a sentiment
Squigglefly 9: use your two favourite colours - purple/pink
Top tip Tuesday: 3, 5 or 7 - 3 buttons
My time to craft 238: frame it
Allways something creative 70: bright colours
That's crafty: anything goes
Wordplay Saturday March: anything
Hobbyhome: anything goes
Creative fingers 26: anything goes
Crafty girls 13 anything goes
The paper shelter 148: anything goes
Papertake: anything goes
One stitch at a time 202: anything goes
Jo's scraps shack 40: anything goes
Eureka 79: anything goes
Robyn's fetish 201: anything goes
Paper makeup 130: anything goes
613 avenue create 61: anything goes + option: use your stash (papers are old)
Challenges 4 everybody 39: anything goes
Through the craftroom door: anything goes
DL.ART March
Sister Act 47: anything goes
Make it Monday 181
Just B creative crazy March linky party

Completely Christmas challenge 2

The week has gone by very quickly and it's already time for the second 'anything goes' challenge on Completely Christmas. It was great to see so many people joining in for the first challenge. Please click on the link and see what the rest of the team have made and join in with the challenge - anything goes, as long as it's Christmas (and, of course, you can enter anything Christmas for my own CHNC challenge extra for March at the same time).

Completely Christmas 2 is being sponsored by The Stamping Boutique and for my design card I have used 'holly berry with ribbon' that they kindly supplied. This image had a white background, so I played around digitally with transparency features until I was able to layer the image on to part of a fairy image that I had found free on the internet, originally using it for the purple creation you can see here, changing the colours and adding the text before printing out and layering on to a card blank.

I coloured the holly berry image with a mix of copics and spectrum noirs and then added glossy accents here and there (and  waited impatiently for the GA to dry!).

I've used at least three of the colours for 52 Christmas card throwdown:

This is also for:

The 12 months of Christmas card link up
Paper makeup 130: anything goes
Through the purple haze 31: use a digi
Just inspirational March: anything goes
Sister Act 47: anything goes
Left of center 1st anniversary: anything goes
Make it Monday 181

Guest designer for Crafting by designs

This card is for a guest designer slot on Crafting by designs, where it is an 'anything goes' challenge for the month of March, sponsored by Beccy's Place,

I used the coloured 'snowman with bird' image by Beccy Muir of Beccy's Place. The card blank is an A5 landscape one with a piece cut off the front with the mounted image overlapping. All papers are DCWV. The flowers and buttons were from Hobbycraft. The tartan strip on the left is an offcut from a Hunkydory kit and the circle behind with flower came from another Hunkydory kit.

This is also for:

Pixie's snippets week 114 (Hunkydory bits)
The 12 months of Christmas card link up
Sparkles Christmas 38: more than 3 embellishments - flowers + 3 buttons
Get inky: buttons, buttons, everywhere
DRS 111: button up
Whoopsi Daisy: lots of flowers
Jo's scraps shack 39: floral
Natalie and Amy 18: flowers
Digi sketch: cute
Sweet stampin: cute
Papertake: anything goes
Eureka 79: anything goes
Roby's fetish 201: anything goes
Paper makeup 130: anything goes
One stitch at a time 202: anything goes
613 avenue create 61: anything goes + option: use your stash (DCWV papers are old)
Challenges 4 everybody 39: anything goes
Just inspirational March: anything goes
Sister Act 46: anything goes
Make it Monday 181

Birthday roses

A quick card made from one that has been recycled (bits taken off the background card before using it) with the addition of some lovely embroidered flowers and butterfly that were carefully taken off another card. The Hunkydory sentiment fitted in perfectly.

This is for

Craft your passion 203: birthday bonanza
Crafting desert divas 26: birthdays
The pink elephant 240: birthday
Seize the birthday: anything goes birthday
Totally gorjuss 225: happy birthday
Crafty creations 258: happy birthday
Sunflowerfield designs March: birthdays and/or flowers
Come and get it:: flowers galore
Jo's scrap shack funday 39: florals
Natalie and Amy 18: flowers
In the pink 38: pink plus one (green)
Papertake: anything goes
Fan-tastic Tuesday 25: anything goes
Sister Act 46: anything goes
Make it Monday 181
Just B creative crazy March linky party

Cheerful stamp pad challenge 81: anything goes

This is my design card for today's first week of the Cheerful stamp pad challenge 81: anything goes, which is being sponsored by Gecko Galz. Please click on the challenge link to see the lovely crafting of the rest of the team and to enter our challenge - everyone loves 'anything goes'.

I was so impressed with the images of our sponsor, Gecko Galz, that I couldn't resist buying some. I initially found the script background that was a freebie, but, when I looked further on the Etsy site, I found a wonderful 'sew and sew collage sheet' from which I used the picture on the right and also a 'retro style collage sheet' from which I took the pattern picture at the top. I changed all the images digitally to black, grey and white, printed out and matted on to a black card blank and added three pearl rosettes from Poundland.

This is also for:

Digitally sweet 77: anything goes (everything is digitally produced except the addition of the rosettes)
Creative moments 37: anything goes/swirls and pearls
Simon says Wednesday: anything goes
Deep ocean 72: just for a girl
Penny's 166: guys and girls (either)
DL.ART thankful Thursday 127: use an image of a girl or lady
Bearly mine 120: one for the girls
Totally papercrafts 208: make it shine/sparkle
Artistic inspirations 81: sparkles/anything goes
My Sheri 128: bling it on
Feeling crafty 26: use a digi and bling
Stampin' for the weekend: sparkle and shine
Soartful March: dressforms
Dream valley 76: vintage
Eclectic ellapu: vintage
Kort o mania 103: colour contrasts
Sugar creek hollow 81: sew fashionable
Try it on Tuesday: include some writing
613 avenue create 61: anything goes + option: use your stash (DCWV paper is very old)
Just for fun Mar:anything goes
Eureka 79: anything goes
Paper make up 130: anything goes
Just inspirational March: anything goes
DL.ART March
Sister Act 46: anything goes
Make it Monday 181
Just B creative crazy March linky party

Feature a robin (and blog anniversary)

Before I start this post I've just realised that I've just gone past by blog anniversary - I started this blog seven years ago yesterday! Since then I've been blessed to have 486 followers and I've made 5056 posts! Since starting sitemeter on 29 April 2007 (didn't figure it out till then!) I've had 220,487 visits to my blog. I just want to say a big THANK YOU to everyone who visits and leaves me comments - it is so appreciated. Very soon, I'll be back with some celebratory candy - watch this space!

It was Margaret's turn to choose the theme for the Christmas Card Club's fortnightly challenge for today and she asked us to feature a robin. I received a lovely card for Christmas that had a cute little robin with a fuzzy wuzzy feelie red breast and I couldn't help but recycle him on his card. I hope that whoever eventually gets this card will love him as much as I do.

Spotty paper is DCWV - not wide enough as it was only 6 x 4, so I joined two pieces and put some tartan washi tape over the join. Flowers are from Hobbycraft.

As there is twine and washi tape on this card I'm also showing it on my own CHNC challenge 166 (why not go and have a look and join in?!).

This is also for:

The 12 months of Christmas card link up
Fab n funky 205: Christmas
Pile it on 9: bold/bright
Oozak 31: anything goes/white with one colour
Come and get it: flowers galore
Jo's scrap shack 39: florals
Natalie and Amy 18: flowers
Paperminutes 310: in flight
Jellypark friends: things with wings
Ribbon carousel 90: washi tape
Ruby's rainbow 73: texture
Crafts4eternity R165: texture
Glitter n sparkle 74: add a sentiment
613 avenue create 61: anything goes + option: use your stash (DCWV paper is very old)
Just inspirational March: anything goes
DL.ART March
Sister Act 46: anything goes

The glory of Christmas 28: ski or sleigh

This is my design card for the Glory of Christmas challenge 28: ski or sleigh.  I used AKV snowman ski 2 by Bugaboo Stamps - I love the simplicity of this and decided that colouring his hat and carrot nose was enough. The blue card with white spots is a scrap left over from some Hunkydory card used earlier in the week. The snowdrifts were created with torn offcuts of card that had been embossed with an Embossalicious folder and the eBosser. The sentiment was generated on computer and printed.

This is also for:

Pixie's snippets week 114
Our creative corner March: use scraps
Catch the bug March: anything goes (with this wonderful Bugaboo stamp)
The 12 months of Christmas card link up
Fab n funky 205: Christmas
Winter wonderland: winter Olympics (although I don't think this skier would win a medal!)
Crafts galore March: using a stamp or digi stamp anywhere on your project
Crimbo crackers 59: blue and white
Oozak 31: anything goes/white with one colour
Let's craft and create 89: embossing
MilkCoffee emboss it
Ruby's rainbow 73: texture
Crafts4eternity R165: texture
Glitter n sparkle 74: add a sentiment
One stitch at a time 202: anything goes
Robyn's fetish 201: anything goes
Scribble and scrap 13: anything goes
613 avenue create 61: anything goes + option: use your stash (using up bits!)
Just inspirational March: anything goes
Creative fingers 25: anything goes
Sister Act 46: anything goes
Just B creative crazy March linky party

Third card for CCAYR March challenge

This is my third design card for CCAYR March challenge, which is to make a Christmas themed step card. Please click on the link to see the lovely crafting of the rest of the team. The challenge is being sponsored by Le Crystelle. It would be lovely if you could join in with your Christmas step cards.

Once again, I've used a ready scored step card from Kanban adding card and elements from Hunkydory kits, including the decoupaged picture of The Little Gift Shop.

This is also for:

The 12 months of Christmas card link up
Christmas card challenges 13: anything goes
Fab n funky 205: Christmas
Dare to be sassy Thursdays 218: flip or fold it
QKR stampede 77: anything but a square
Dream valley 76: vintage
Sister Act 46: anything goes
Make it Monday 180
Just B creative crazy March linky party

Second step card for CCAYR March challenge

This is my second design card for CCAYR March challenge, which is to make a Christmas themed step card. Please click on the link to see the lovely crafting of the rest of the team. The challenge is being sponsored by Le Crystelle. It would be lovely if you could join in with your Christmas step cards.

This was made with a 'ready to decorate' step card from Red Hot Bed. Other supplies are Kanban and Hunkydory with circle sentiments from Craftwork cards.

In real life it's easier to see the picture at the back than it is on these photos.

This is also for:

The 12 months of Christmas card link up
Christmas card challenges 13: anything goes
Fab n funky 205: Christmas
Dare to be sassy Thursdays 218: flip or fold it
QKR stampede 77: anything but a square
Sister Act 46: anything goes
Make it Monday 180

Christmas cards all year round March challenge: step cards

This is my first design card for CCAYR March challenge: step cards. I cheated a bit because I was running short on time, so I used a ready made Kanban step card on to which I matted some offcuts of Graphic 45 Christmas past collection 'carol of the bells' - I'm sad that these were the last pieces of this (except for a tiny bit that probably won't get used now). The picture of Santa relaxing with his tipple and mince pie is an old Kanban one and the strip across the bottom and the sentiment are Hunkydory.

Please click on the link here to see the lovely crafting of the rest of the team and to join in the challenge with your Christmas themed step cards. The challenge is being sponsored by Le Crystelle.

This is also for:

The 12 months of Christmas card link up
Christmas card challenges 13: anything goes
Fab n funky 205: Christmas
Dare to be sassy Thursdays 218: flip or fold it
QKR stampede 77: anything but a square
Card mania 41: use a sentiment
613 avenue create 60: anything goes
Card and scrap 70: hip hip hooray - everything can be celebrated
Sister Act 46: anything goes
Make it Monday 180

Completely Christmas challenge 1: anything goes

Yay! The day has arrived -  the start of the new Completely Christmas challenge blog with challenge 1: anything goes. I was delighted with Suzy invited me to be part of the design team - I don't have to tell regular visitors to my blog how much I like Christmas crafting.

So today sees the start of Completely Christmas challenge 1: anything goes - please click on the link and see the wonderful creations of the rest of the team and visit their blogs to give them some encouragement. The challenge is being sponsored by Lacy Sunshine.

For my card I used the 'Christmas boo' image kindly supplied by Lacy Sunshine, digitally colouring the image in Microsoft Paint.The background paper is DCWV and I used some Bazzill 'perfectly pleated' stitched strip down the side. I raise the cut out image with 3D foam and added crystal ice stickles to her hat. The buttons were from Hobbycraft and the sentiment was from Craftwork cards (in real life it is silver with red script, but the photo doesn't show this to advantage).

This is also for:

Crafts galore March: using a stamp or digi stamp anywhere on your project
The 12 months of Christmas card link up
Christmas card challenges 13: anything goes
Fab n funky 205: Christmas
Craftin desert divas 25: glitter
The stamping boutique 6: use glitter
Digi sketch: glitter it
My Sheri 128: bling it on
Pattie's 86: spots or dots
Top tip Tuesday: stitching
Crazy challenge 165: red and white
DRS 111: button up
Fun with shapes and more 155: buttons (I cut round the image by hand)
Sister Act 46: anything goes
Make it Monday 180

Suzy Bee's Bloomin' challenge 18: make it masculine

This is my design card for Suzy Bee's Bloomin' challenge 18: make it masculine, which is being sponsored by Sparkle n Sprinkle who kindly supplied the 'only fish saying' that I've used for my design card. Please click on the challenge link to see the lovely crafting of the rest of the team and it would be lovely if you could join in with the challenge.

I printed out the digi and filled in the fish with stickles to match the Creative Expressions 3D glittered fish stickers that I added to the card. The background was created with a Sheena Douglass embossing folder ran through the eBosser and brushed with peacock feathers distress ink, as were the edges of the image card. I used a piece of stitched ribbon to join two pieces of embossed card together, mounting everything on to a bright blue card blank.

This is also for:

Cuttlebug mania: let's feel it - dimension
Let's craft and create 89: embossing
MilkCoffee emboss it
Ruby's rainbow 73: texture
Crafts4eternity R165: texture
Kaboodle 212: use ribbon
Everybody art 267: ribbon or lace
Corrosive 193: in stitches
Top tip Tuesday: stitching
Take a word: blue
Craftin desert divas 25: glitter
The stamping boutique 6: use glitter
Flat friends 18: cards 4 men
Cuttin and stampin 14-8: all boy
The sisterhood of crafters: one for the boys
Sentimental Sundays 195: make your own background paper
Crafts galore March: using a stamp or digi stamp anywhere on your project
Crafting for all seasons 71: sentiment as focus
Fan-tastic Tuesday 25: anything goes
Card and scrap 70: hip hip hooray - everything can be celebrated
Crafty catz 220: anything goes
Sister Act 46: anything goes
Make it Monday 180

CHNC challenge 166: ribbon, twine, fibre etc

This is my card for today's CHNC challenge 166: ribbon, twine, fibre etc. I hope you will click on the link and see the lovely card that my guest has made and please dig out that ribbon, twine etc and join in. Can you believe it's already March now ... two months of the year gone!

For my card I followed the sketch given for Sketch n stash 133 - I certainly used up some old stash, particularly the fibres which I have had for years - I have two boxes of them and they hardly ever get used nowadays.

I used 8715 Merry Christmas that was kindly supplied by one of the sponsors of my challenge, QKR Stampede, colouring with spectrum noir pens, tearing round the edges and colouring with one of the pens.
The white background was embssed using an Embossalicious folder with my eBosser. on to which I matted a piece of Hunkydory card with white spots and gold foiling. I added a few punched snowflakes using snippets of gold mirror card and, of course, added the three strands of fibres around the edge.

This is also for:

The 12 months of Christmas card link up
Christmas card challenges 13: anything goes
Fab n funky 205: Christmas
Divas by design: make it sparkle
My Sheri 128: bling it on
Totally papercrafts 208: make it shine
Crimbo crackers 59: blue and white
Dgistamps4Joy 86: use dies or punches
Sparkles Christmas 38: more than 3 embellishments - three strands of fibres and more than 3 punched snowflakes
Fan-tastic Tuesday 25: anything goes
DL.ART March
Sister Act 46: anything goes
Inky linky 46
Make it Monday 180

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper March challenge

This is my first card for my Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper March challenge, using some of the paper similar to that given as a prize for the January challenge, with the addition of some DCWV stitched ribbon, a 3D sticker from Poundland and a Craftwork cards sentiment die cut.

If you haven't come across my Patterned Paper challenge yet, please click on the link and have a look and join in - I'm sure that most of you, like me, have stacks of patterned paper just waiting to be used (some of mine has been waiting years to be used).

And there will be a prize of 2 paper pads for the randomly chosen winner - so please go and have a look.

This is also for:

Totally gorjuss 225: happy birthday
Incy wincy: birthdays
Seize the birthday: anything goes birthday
Sunflowerfield designs March: birthdays and/or flowers
Kaboodle 212: use ribbon
Everybody art 267: ribbon or lace
Sister Act 46: anything goes
Make it Monday 180

CHNC challenge extra for March

Today is 1 March and that means that two months of this year have gone already. There are lots of 'crafty' crafters who are getting ahead with their Christmas cards to ease the panic that tends to happen towards the end of the year. There were lots of entries for last month's challenge and I hope that many will join in with CHNC challenge extra for March, where 'anything goes' as long as it's Christmas. Please click on the link and see the gorgeous crafting of the rest of the team, including my guest for the month. If you've never joined in before, don't be shy ... please come and join us and have the reward of starting to build up a stock of Christmas cards ahead of time.

The challenges on CHNC challenge extra blog are always sponsored by Bugaboo Stamps - the randomly chosen prize winner gets to choose $21 worth of digital images. Bugaboo kindly supplied images for the team to use and for my card I've used 'AKV Nativity Mary Joseph' which I coloured digitally using Microsoft Paint. I mounted the image on to a piece of gold mirror card and then on to some Christmas script paper that I've had for ages that originally came with a magazine. This was then mounted on to gold mirror before matting on to the dark brown card blank. The card was finished off with the glitter ribbon and the sentiment square.

I based the card on the sketch given for Digi sketch 'glitter it' challenge:

This is also for:

Catch the bug March: anything goes (with this wonderful Bugaboo stamp)
The 12 months of Christmas card link up
Christmas card challenges 13: anything goes
Fab n funky 205: Christmas
Craftin desert divas 25: glitter
The stamping boutique 6: use glitter
Eclectic ellapu: sparkle
Divas by design: make it sparkle
The squirrel and the fox 64: something spooled
Kaboodle 212: use ribbon
Everybody art 267: ribbon or lace
Card mania 41: use a sentiment
Crafts galore March: using a stamp or digi stamp anywhere on your project
613 avenue create 60: anything goes
Fan-tastic Tuesday 25: anything goes
Party time Tuesday 161: anything goes
Through the craftroom door: anything goes
Tuesday throwdown 184: anything goes
Card and scrap 70: hip hip hooray - everything can be celebrated
Crafty catz 220: anything goes
Sister Act 46: anything goes
Inky linky 46
Make it Monday 180

The sweet pea stampers easel card challenge

This is my design card for today's Sweet pea stamper's easel card challenge. Please click on the link to see the wonderful crafting of the rest of the team and to join in and link your creation.

After a few failed attempts, I managed to make this easel card. Having used some cream card I had in my stash, I realised that the promarkers alcohol ink was bleeding and colours were running into one another, so I started again with printing the Concetta Kilmer's 'owl hearts' Sweet Pea digital image on to  my usual Ryman's brilliant white coated card which is a pleasure to use with alcohol pens. So I used a combination of promarkers and flexmarkers to colour. I then stuck the print out on to an easel that already had the scalloped edge, which meant that I had to cut round the image card that I'd stuck on - no easy job ... and I began to wonder why I was bothering. But with some light sanding and brushing with antique linen distress ink I was pleased with the result and carried on to finish the card with a iece of Doolicraft mocha paper for the base with a strip of cream card with some Tim Holtz tissue tape raised with 3D form for the stopper. I printed the sentiment and brushed the card with antique linen, sticking it on with 3D foam. The fabric flowers were from Poundland  (only a few left now, which is a shame - and they don't stock them any more).

This is also for:

One sweet challenge February: love
Cupcake inspirations 249: birds
Crafty cardmakers 110: come fly with me - birds or cages
Paperminutes 310: in flight
Jellypark friends: things with wings
CCEE 1409: chocolate - I've used the colour, not the real thing, although I LOVE the real thing
Order of the opus gluei 177: chocolate
Stamp dreams 31: tone on tone
Whoopsi Daisy: monochromatic
Little tangles 31: monochromatic colour scheme
Ribbon carousel 90: washi tape
Sweet stampin: humour
Ladybug: flowers galore
PumpkinSpice 60: flowers
Eclectic ellapu: gems
Dare to be sassy Thursdays 218: flip or fold it
Flat friends 17: more than 1 fold
Allways something creative 69 special form cards
Crafty sentiments: love
Beyond grey 46: love is in the air, but no red or pink
Stamp and create February: love is in the air
Whimsy 68: love is in the air
Bunny Zoe February: hearts/love
QKR stampede 77: anything but a square
Passion for promarkers 236: make it digital
Card and scrap 70: hip hip hooray - everything can be celebrated
Crafty catz 220: anything goes
Creative fingers 25: anything goes
Sister Act 46: anything goes
DL.ART February
Inky linky 46
Make it Monday 180

Safari anniversary

I was asked by a friend to make an anniversary card for her to give to her husband while they are away on a safari holiday. This is what I came up with, creating this totally digitally before printing out and matting on to a card blank:

This is for:

Fairies 20: celebrate
Crafty sentiments: love
Bunny Zoe February: hearts/love
The sisterhood of crafters: one for the boys
Crafty little fairies: one for the boys
Dare to be sassy Thursdays 217 it's raining men
Sentimental Sundays 195: make your own background paper (I created this digitally)
Card mania 41: use a sentiment
The paper shelter 147: animal magic
Crafty creations 257: keep it simple
Digi sketch: anything goes
613 avenue create 60: anything goes
Love to create 104: anything goes
Fan-tastic Tuesday 25: anything goes
Party time Tuesday 161: anything goes
Through the craftroom door: anything goes
Tuesday throwdown 184: anything goes
Card and scrap 70: hip hip hooray - everything can be celebrated
Sister Act 45: anything goes
DL.Art February
Inky linky 46
Make it Monday 180

Golf, anyone?

This is the card I made for mum to send to my great nephew (one of her great grandchildren), using some Buzzcraft die cut pyramage and other bits and pieces. The angle of the photo shows the layers although when seen 'head on' it just looks like one picture.

This is for:

Catered crop: good birthdays
Dare to be sassy Thursdays 217: it's raining men
A little bit crafty February: man up
De creatieve Zebra 6: men
Crafty bloggers network February: all about boys
Papertake: lovely layers
Penny's 165: lots of layers
Cardmakin mamas 81: stack it up
Quirky crafts 4: pile it high - layer it up and 3D it
Crafting by designs February
Card and scrap 70: hip hip hooray - everything can be celebrated
Sister Act 45: anything goes
Make it Monday 180