Gelmir elf

   This digi from Scrapper's Delights is called Gelmir elf and I coloured it using Promarkers. The design paper was printed using the My Craft Studio CD ROM called A Taste of Spring and was matted and layered onto orange and the white card. The sentiment was cut using various Tattered Lace dies.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Digi Choosday - anything goes
   CD Sunday - anything goes
   Creatalicious - anything goes with optional flowers
   Scrapper's Delights - anything goes
   Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - anything goes
   Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper - anything goes
   Penny's Paper-Crafty - anything goes

Pedal power

   This fortnight the Crafting From the Heart challenge is just for fun.
   I have dug out an old favourite stamp from LOTV called 'Annabel - pedal power' and coloured it using Promarkers. I used a Tattered Lace decorative oval die coloured using a gold metallic Promarker pen to frame it. I then matted and layered it onto brown card around which I had previously wrapped satin ribbon and cream card. I then added a bow and gold peel off sentiments.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - anything goes
   Allsorts - mother's day or feminine
   Crafty Catz - anything goes
   I Love Promarkers - anything goes with optional embossing
   Digi Choosday - anything goes
   Passion For Promarkers - favourite digi or stamp
   The Paper Shelter - sentimental
   Fab 'n' Funky - vehicles
   Through The Craft Room Door - anything goes
   Creative With Stamps - birthday
   Crafty Creations - anything goes

Sending a letter

   Here is a card depicting the mischievious house mice. The designer paper and the pieces for the decoupaged image were both printed using a CD ROM from The House Mouse triple CD collection. I matted the design onto pink card and wrapped a ribbon round one corner before matting the whole onto cream card. I then added the bow and pearls to the corners of the decoupaged image.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Creative Inspirations - Easter and/or animals
   House Mouse and Friends - anything goes with the option of spring
   Crafty Catz - anything goes
   The Crafty Addicts - anything goes with pink
   Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - anything goes
   Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper - anything goes
   Penny's Paper-Crafty - anything goes
   Jo's Scrap Shack - anything goes

Dolphins

   My daughter loves dolphins so when I found a dolphin QKR Stampede digi I just had to use it for my design team member make.
   I printed the image out twice, rotating one of them and added a computer generated sentiment. After colouring using Promarkers I matted and layered the design onto dark blue then white card. Finally I added some Glossy Accents for the water drops but these don't show up very well in the photo.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - anything goes
   Creative Inspirations - Easter and/or animals
   I Love Promarkers - anything goes with optional embossing
   Digi Choosday - anything goes
   Crafty Catz - anything goes
   Crafty Sentiments Designs - anything goes
   Lemon Shortbread - anything goes
   Creative Fingers - anything goes
   Through The Craft Room Door - anything goes
   Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - anything goes
   Penny's Paper-Crafty - anything goes
   Jo's Scrap Shack - anything goes
   Pink Gem - anything goes
   Crafty Creations - anything goes
   Creative Moments - anything goes with animals
   Alphabet - c for CAS

Unicorn

   The new Crafty Cardmakers' challenge has the theme of dragons or other mythical creatures.
My choice of mythical creature is the unicorn and I decoupaged an image from Hunkydory's Little Book of Unicorn Utopia, matting it onto variegated purple mirri and framing it in a lighter purple card cut using a Hunkydory fabulous trellis frame die. I added a die cut bow and sentiment.

   I would like to enter the following challenges:
   Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - anything goes
   Creative Inspirations - Easter or animals
   Crafty Catz - anything goes
   2 Crafty Critter Crazies - anything goes
   Creative Fingers - anything goes
   Kitty Bee Designs - so shiny
   Pile It On - lots of layers 
   Penny's Paper-Crafty - anything goes
   Jo's Scrap Shack - anything goes

Pool party

   Friday can only mean the start of another anything goes challenge at QKR Stampede.
   My frog is the digi called Pool party and after colouring him using Promarkers I cut it out using an oval die. The sky paper in the background was printed from the Illustrious Illusions CD2 ROM from My Craft Studio and the water paper is from their Everyday CD ROM. I matted and layered these onto mid blue card and then white. The bullrushes were cut using a Tattered Lace die and coloured using Promarkers. I then added Flowersoft to the bullrush heads. The sentiment was cut from mid blue card using various Tattered Lace dies.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Creative Inspirations - Easter and/or animals
   Digi Choosday - anything goes
   I Love Promarkers - anything goes woti optional embossing
   Whopsi Daisy - anything goes with men/boys
   Crafty Catz - anything goes
   CD Sunday - birthday
   Crafty Sentiments Designs - for boys
   Digi Designs - add or show texture
   2 Craty Critter Crazies - anything goes
   Lemon Shortbread - anything goes
   The Paper Shelter - birthday card
   Craft Rocket - for men/boys
   Through The Craft Room Door - anything goes
   Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper - anything goes
   Penny's Paper-Crafty - anything goes

Flute player

   The Crafting From The Heart challellenge this fortnight is being sponsored by

   My daughter has played the flute for many years now so I choose to use the digi called solo on my card.

   After colouring it using Promarkers I cut it out using a Tattered Lace pearl die and then matted it onto red card wrapping red ribbon round the base of this and adding a bow. I then matted this onto gold coloured card and added some decoupaged flowers to the top right hand corner.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - anything goes
   Digi Choosday - anything goes
   Crafty Sentiments Designs - for girls
   Through The Craft Room Door - anything goes
   Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - no designer paper

Dogwood legend

   Friday is here again and there is another challenge beginning over at QKR Stampede.
   For my card I have combined three Eureka Stamps digis - legend of the dogwood, dogwood cross and happy Easter. I added a little colour to the ensemble and then matted it onto brown core'dination card.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - anything goes
   Creative Inspirations - Easter wishes and/or animals
   Cute Card Thursday - Easter
   I Love Promarkers - anything goes with something square
   Digi Choosday - anything goes
   Scrapping 4 Fun - Easter
   Lemon Shortbread - anything goes
   Creative Craft Cottage - no patterned paper
   Catch The Bug - anything goes
   Crafting By Designs - Easter
   Kitty Bee Designs - Easter
   Through The Craft Room Door - anything goes
   Simon Says Stamp Wednesday- no designer paper
   Penny's Paper-Crafty - anything goes
   Crafty Gals Corner - Easter
   Pink Gem - anything goes
   Tuesday Throwdown - anything goes
   Crafty Creations - anything goes
   Creative Moments - anything goes with Easter/spring

Easter bunnies

   Today sees a new challenge over at Crafty Cardmakers the theme of which is Easter.
I have made my Easter card using various Tattered Lace dies. I used shaped oval dies to create apertures in two pieces of variegated green card and matted and layered them onto blue card having first positioned a bunny behind the aperture. I coloured the die cut daffodils using Promarkers and layered up the flower parts. The bunnies were cut from a charisma download using the hopper family dies.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - anything goes
   Creative Inspirations - Easter wishes and/or animals
   Cute Card Thursday - anything goes
   Incy Wincy Designs - animals
   Crafty Catz - anything goes with dies
   Passion For Promarkers - make it cute
   2 Crafty Critter Crazies - anything goes
   Tales From the Craft Room - Easter/spring
   Creative Craft Cottage - no patterned paper
   Creatalicious - anything goes
   Kitty Bee Designs - Easter
   Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - animal antics
   Jo's Scrap Shack - anything goes
   Crafty Gals Corner - spring is here
   Crafty Creations  - anything goes
   Creative Moments - anything goes with Easter or spring
   Alphabet - a is for animals

Birthday dance

   This month the Dragonfly Dreams challenge is being sponsored by 

and the theme is include an animal.

   I have used the digi Norah's dance with Cooper and Croz and added a computer generated sentiment. After colouring it using Promarkers I matted and layered the image onto copper mirri and white card.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Crafty Friends - happy birthday
   Creative Inspirations - Easter or animals
   Cute Card Thursday - anything goes
   I Love Promarkers - anything goes with optional something square
   Digi Choosday - anything goes
   Incy Wincy Designs - animals
   Crafty Sentiments Designs - anything goes
   2 Crafty Critter Crazies - anything goes
   Lemon Shortbread - anything goes
   Southern Girls - frame it
   Creative Craft Cottage - no patterned paper
   Catch The Bug - anything goes
   Through The Craft Room Door - anything goes
   Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - animals antics
   Penny's Paper-Crafty - anything goes
   Creative Moments - anything goes with optional Easter/spring
   Alphabet - a is for animals

For mum

   This month the theme for the Send A Smile 4 Kids challenge is for mum.
I matted and layered the printed downloaded hibiscus flower paper onto pink and then white card. Using Tattered Lace's hibiscus wreath die and the charisma download I cut and decoupaged the central flowers and attached them to white card matted onto pink. The letters were cut from the pink card using Tattered Lace dies.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges
   Cute Card Thursday - anything goes
   Crafty Catz - anything goes with use your dies
   The Crafty Addicts - anything goes with in the pink
   Creative Fingers - anything goes
   Crafting By Designs - anything goes
   Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper - anything goes
   Penny's Paper-Crafty - anything goes
   Jo's Scrap Shack - anything goes

Draped cross

   For this week's challenge at QKR Stampede I have used an old digi called draped cross. After colouring it using Promarkers I lightly dusted the edges using Distress Ink and then matted it onto black card.embellishing the top and bottom of this with cream waste from a die cut. I then attached it to a base card of gold.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Creative Inspirations - Easter wishes and/or animals
   I Love Promarkers - anything goes with the option something square
   Digi Choosday - anything goes
   Crafty Catz - anything goes with use your dies
   Crafty Sentiments Designs - anything goes
   Scrapping 4 Fun - anything goes
   The Paper Shelter - Easter
   Creative Fingers - anything goes
   Through The Craft Room Door - anything goes
   Penny's Paper-Crafty - anything goes
   Ike's World - anything goes with d for die cuts
   Creative Moments - anything goes

Going camping

   This fortnight the challenge at Crafting From the Heart is being sponsored by 

   I have used the digi Camp Lacy Sunshine and coloured it using Promarkers. Because the image is so detailed I decided a simple background of plain coloured matting and layering would suffice. The sentiment was cut using a Tattered Lace die.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Cute Card Thursday - feminine
   I Love Promarkers - anything goes with option of something blue
   Digi Choosday - anything goes
   Crafty Catz - anything goes with optional stitching
   Crafty Sentiments Designs - anything goes
   Digi Designs - make it girly
   Passion For Promarkers - for a child or stitching
   Scrapping 4 Fun - anything goes
   Creatalicious - anything goes with the option of not a card
   Through The Craft Room Door - anything goes
   As You Like It - favourite colouring medium (alcohol markers because I find I can blend them more easily)
   Penny's Paper-Crafty - anything goes
   Jo's Scrap Shack - anything goes
   Pink Gem - anything goes
   Crafty Creations - anything goes
   Creative Moments - anything goes