Happy Little Stampers Christmas

Welcome back and today it's time for the new Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge.

As always it is Anything Goes or you can use the optional twist which this month is beverage. I eventually found a sweet digi stamp from Bugaboo that fitted the theme.

I coloured it with Copics using colours to match the paper I used. Why don't you join in the fun too and help build up your cards for Christmas? There's a heap of inspiration on the challenge blog.

A Glass Slipper!

It's my turn to choose the challenge for Make My Monday. After some thought I chose A Favourite Fairytale.
 I think my card makes it clear which one I have chosen. The image is from Bugaboo which I printed out then coloured with Promarkers.

The shoe is also from Bugaboo, liberally covered with Glossy Accents to make it look like glass.
I'm looking forward to seeing what you create!

Spooky!

I'm really not big on Halloween and tend to only make cards if I need to for my DT work, then my grandsons get them. As a result I have very little halloween stuff in my stash so I went shopping for a digi stamp for this card at Bugaboo.

I printed it out on photo paper then used a new to me technique. I smooshed some Distress Oxide inks onto my craft mat, fossilised amber, faded jeans and wilted violet, then using each colour separately wiped the card through it till I was happy with the coverage. The black image then loked very odd but some wiping with a baby wipe, brightened the inks up and cleaned the printed image.  I was o pleased with it I made another!

Love this technique! I seem to remember from years ago that Debbie Moore did something called Print Magic which embossed printed images so Im off to see if I can find some as I think that would make the images stand out even better.Hope you can join us at Cardz for Guyz with your spooky cards.

Cardz for Guyz - Get Well

The challenge this time at Cardz for Guyz is Get Well. I decided to go for a humorous one.

The digi stamp is from Bugaboo, coloured with copics and cut out with a stitched rectangle die. I mounted it onto red, again cut out with a stitched rectangle, and placed it off centre to make room for the sentiment, which is from a Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz set.

There's lots more inspiration over on the challenge blog, so hope you'll come and play too.

Quirky June mid month

It's time for a mid month reminder for Quirky Crafts. This time I used an image from Bugaboo who are kindly sponsoring us.

I printed out the image quite large then colored it in with Copics. I then scanned it and took it into Craft Artist, where I added it to a background all made digitally.

Snowballs for Cardz 4 Guyz

It took me a while to decide what to make for this week's theme of Balls at Cardz 4 Guyz .  I didn't want to go down the sporty route of footballs, golf balls etc. Then as I'm slowly getting into Christmas card mode I thought if snowballs. Of course having decided that this was what I was going to do I had nothing suitable, so went searching for a suitable digistamp and found two at Bugaboo.

I embossed the base card with a Cuttlebug snowflake folder then brushed some Soft Sky ink gently over the top to add a bit of colour. The image was coloured with Copics and some texture added to the snowballs with a fluffy stuff type of pen, then a bit of glitter as well.

For  for my second card I used my new distressed collage die for the background (thanks to Darnell for enabling me!) as I thought the circles could represent snowballs. Again I used Copics to colour the image and mounted it onto some green holographic card. The sentiments on both were from my stash from an old Kanban decoupage kit.

Digitally Sweet #125 - Anything Goes

The new challenge this week at Digitally Sweet is everyone's favourite "Anything Goes". Once again we are sponsored by Bugaboo and I chose this cute Cupie baby -Moon image to work with.

I thought it was perfect for a new baby card! Using Craft Artist2 as usual I coloured hime digitally and added him to a dark blue background, added some clouds and a swirl - job done!

This post is tinged with a little sadness as it is my last one for Digitally Sweet. I have regretfully decided to stand down from the DT as I needed to free up some time for other projects - mainly house and garden related! I'm sure though that I will join in the challenges from time  to time  - after all I will need my digital fix!

Digitally Sweet #115 - Opposites attract!

Hi and welcome to the new challenge at Digitally Sweet. This week we are sponsored by 

  BUGABOO Stamps

"Our challenge is "Oppposites Attract" so we're looking for opposites - black/white, circle/square - you get the idea!"
I used "Young Couple - person to annoy" and went for a simple card in black and white.

I've had to put a narrow black frame around it as the white just disappeared into the blog background! I would aslo have liked to change the sentiment so that half was in white and half in black but it wouldn't let me change the colour at all - so after trying foer abut an hour I gave up and put a speech bubble round it instead. As almost always I created it in Craft Artist 2. No digikits used though just shapes and colour fill!
 

 

Digitally Sweet #109 - My hero!

The challenge this week at Digitally Sweet is "My Hero!" it could be a friend, a member of your famile, a pet etc. We are once again sponsored by Bugaboo and I chose Super Dad to use.

 

 I think Dad's are  heroes to lots of people - mine certainly was !  So let's see your creations this week of someone who is your hero. I created this in Craft Artist 2 using a Daisy Trail Kit - Comic Book.

Digitally Sweet #107 Musical

Hello and welcome to a newchallenge at Digitally Sweet, and this week the theme is "Musical". We are sponsored by Bugaboo Digi Stamps.

 

 I have used "Just a Note 2"  and made it into a Christmas card. The card is all digital created in Craft Artist 2. It's a little bit difficule to see on here but the centre circle is embossed with a holly wreath and a Merry Christmas sentiment in the middle using the Digiboss digikits from Daisytrail.

Digitally Sweet Challenge #99 - Favourite Colours

This weeks challenge at Digitally Sweet is to use your favourite colours. I don't really have a favourite - it all depends on the mood I'm in, the season, the weather - anything can make me change my mind!  The sponsor this week is Bugaboo and I  chose to work with Silhouette Butterfly Flowers. So this influenced my choice of colours. Lots of butterflies are orange coloured  and it's summer so hot colours seem to be in order.

 

As usual I have created it in Craft Artist 2 and used elements from a variety of digikits.