Words at Centre Stage

Hi everyone!

Here I am with my card for Fab 'n Funky's latest challenge, which is "All About the Words", I was really cutting it close this time! I made this card last night and even though I don't craft well under strict deadlines this time it worked really well and came together incredibly fast. I played with my new dies and embossing folders and love the effect I can accomplish:

Hope you like it too and you feel inspired to join us this week!

Btw, hello to my new followers, it's great to have you :)

Materials:
*Stampart by Katherine Sentiment-More Butterflies
* K&Co La Boutique and Prima Jack 'n Jill DPs
* Cuttlebug Embossing Folder Tiny Flowers
* cArt-Us Scalloped Oval Dies
* Tumbled Glass & Victorian Velvet Distress Inks
* Wooden butterflies from local store (Xenos), coloured with Promarkers
* Ribbons and pearl from stash

Challenges:
* Created with Love (Winged Things)
* Pile it On (Wood) Butterflies are made of wood
* Inky Chicks (Bingo) I've used Pearls, Ribbon, Butterfly
* Whoopsi Daisy (Bingo) I've used Pearls, Ribbon, Sentiment
* Stamps+Fun=Creativity (Embossing)
* Craftitude (Anything Goes or Ribbon and Pearls)
* Quirky Crafts (Birds, Bugs and Butterflies)
* Emerald Fairies (Things with Wings)
* The Squirrel and the Fox (Show off your New Stuff) My new dies and embossing folder
* Creative Craft Challenge (New) My new dies and embossing folder

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Butterfly Beliefs

Happy Monday all!

Time is truly flying by now; so much to do but so little time in which to do it before the big C ;) We had a lovely Halloween, thankfully the movie wasn't too scary (Jaws) although I did jump up once or twice!

This fortnight's challenge at Ooh La La is "Stitching, Real or Faux". I opted for real stitching, using some lovely twine I won in a challenge recently. A little different from what I have been working on recently (i.e. Christmas cards), a welcome relief really. I'm curious to see what you will be making of this theme, as usual you have two weeks to link up!

Materials:
* Believe Digi & DP from the Shawn Jenkins CD
* We R Memory Keepers Vintage T Textured CS
* Forest Moss Distress Ink
* Hely Cuppleditch Special Delivery Pastels Twine
* Wooden Butterflies from local store (Xenos)
* Pearls from stash

Challenges:
* Digi Galore (Wings)
* Creative Corner Challenges (Sing, Sing a Song) I Believe I can Fly by R. Kelly
* Alphabet Challenge (T for Twine)
* Craftitude (Anything Goes/Use Twine or String)
* Daring Cardmakers (Other Occasions and Reasons - No Birthday or Christmas cards)
* Left of Center (Twine or Washi Tape)
* Aud Sentiments (Feminine)
* Papertake Weekly (Anything Goes)
* Charisma Cardz (Anything Goes)
* Card Mania (Anything Goes)

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Ribbon Delight

Hi all,

It's Thursday again and I'm already thinking of the weekend! It's Mother's Day this Sunday in the Netherlands, so I'd better get my card in the post for it to make it on time. This week's challenge @ Delightful Challenges is 'Ribbon', here's my card:

Materials:
* Digital Delights Flower Power Dolled Up Daisy, coloured with Promarkers
* Echo Park A Walk in the Park & Docrafts Country Companions For Someone Special DPs
* Butterfly Lace from local store (Xenos)
* Victorian Velvet Distress Ink
* Create & Craft Ribbon
* Eline Vintage sentiment stamp

Hope to see you there!

Challenges:
* Crafty Boots (Use a Stamped Character)
* Bearly Mine (Anything Goes)
* LEJ Designs (Anything Goes)
* Mema's Craft (Anything Goes)
* Digi Galore (Spring)
* Simon Says Stamp (Happy Mail)
* Sweet Stampin' (Anything but Birthday)
* Created with Love (Spring)
* Dream Valley (Things with Wings)
* Cards in Envy (Things with Wings)

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Let's Get Sentimental

Hi everyone!

Phew, what a hectic week it has been! Last Saturday, we celebrated my parents' 50th wedding anniversary and I decided to make a memory book for then with memories and photos from the guests that were invited. Man, did I underestimate the amount of work! Towards the end, I was completely spent and still needed to do a couple of pages! Suffice to say I was close to chucking the whole lot in the bin, but thankfully I somehow managed to complete the book AND write a little speech. It all went without a hitch and my parents loved the book and the speech. Mission accomplished :)

However, I am glad to go back to my own crafty projects, starting today with the new Fab 'n Funky Challenge. It's an easy one this week: "Add a Sentiment". As usual, any project or style will do, link up your creative projects and join the challenge! Our sponsor this week is Digi Darla, who generously donated several images for the DT to work with. I picked Butterfly Wonder, such a cute image and perfect for those Spring cards!

 

Materials:
* Digi Darla Butterfly Wonder digi, coloured with Promarkers & Spectrum Noirs
* Echo Park For the Record DPs
* Tumbled Glass Distress Ink
* My Mind's Eye Bloom & Grow Decoupage Flowers
* DCWV Green Stack Chipboard
* Sakura Glitter Pen
* Eline's Vintage Sentiment Stamp & Art Talent Flower background stamp
* Wooden butterflies from local store (Xenos)
* Memories Direct Flower
* Rounded corner punch & scalloped border punch
* Pearls from stash

Challenges:
* Happy Campers (Flutterby Butterfly)
* Color Me Creative (Anything Goes, optional bugs, butterflies or reptiles)
* AnMa Creatief (Butterflies)
* My Heart Pieces (Use your 3 favourite things) Pearls, Butterflies, Designer Paper
* Heck of a Challenge (Spring/Butterflies & Pearls)
* LEJ (Things with Wings)
* ABC Challenge (In the Air) Butterflies & Bird
* Cute Card Thursday (Spring Fever)
* Always Something Creative (Spring & Green)
* Ruby's Rainbow (Spring Colours of Yellow & Green)

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Pretty Party Time

Back again! 

A new challenge is starting @ PCD as well today, themed "Pretty Party Time", asking for projects focusing on a female birthday or party invitation.This was my first attempt at doodling on the DP, which I first tried with a Glitter Pen. However, it didn't show up very well, so I 'retraced' with a normal ballpoint pen. Hope you can join us!

Materials:
* Platypus Creek Digitals Ulysses Butterfly, coloured with Sakura Glitter Pens
* DCWV Pastels Textured CS & The Photo Stack 2 DP
* Chipped Sapphire & Peacock Feathers Distress Ink
* Personal Impressions sentiment & Marianne Design Letters & More background stamps
* Pearls, Gems & wooden butterflies from my stash, again coloured with the Glitter Pens

Challenges:
* Crafts and Me (Use Your Favourite Embellishment) Pearls
* Paper Pretties (Square Cards)
* Simon Says Stamp (Anything Goes)
* Catch the Bug (Anything Goes)
* One Stop Craft (Anything Goes)
* Ladybug Craft (Girly/Female)
* Bunny Zoe (Anything Goes)
* Tuesday Alchemy (Anything Goes)
* Card & Scrap (Use a Stamp)
* Addicted to Stamps (Pearls & Swirls) I made a swirls from the pearls

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Thankful for You

Good morning everyone,

I am really quite late with my PCD DT card today, as our new challenge started this morning already. I had major problems making this card, I had a great idea in my mind but that never came to fruition unfortunately. The whole card really came into being because of an accident. I was going to print off the lovely Ulysses Butterfly as a whole, but my computer managed to print it too huge to fit on the page twice in a row. At first I wanted to throw the print away and start a third time, but then I thought it might also work with part of the butterfly. And actually, after cutting away all the panels in the butterfly and backing it with glitter paper, I was really quite happy with that element. Problem was, how to proceed and make a complete card out of it. To my mind, it never really came together. You be the judge:

Oh, almost forgot, our theme this week is "Be Thankful", me being thankful that I managed to squeeze out this card after all, even if it is a little late ;)

Materials:
* Create & Crafts CS
* PCD Ulysses Butterfly
* Petaloo Glitter Sheets
* Prima Sparkling Spring DP
* Vintage Page Accents
* Eline Vintage Sentiment stamp
* Ribbons, chipboard, flowers, gems & pearls from stash

Challenges:
* Art Impressions (Pink)
* Charisma Cardz (Badda Bing; Bling/Shiny)
* In the Pink (Pink Plus One): Blue
* Paperplay (Shine On)
* Sassy Studio (Think Pink)
* Come and Get It (Choose 3 ingredients from the list): I've chosen gems, ribbon and glitter
* Dream Valley (Go Pink)
* Joanna Sheen (Down in the Garden)
* Our Craft Lounge (Think Pink)
* Stampin with the Dragon (Animals)

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