Charisma cardz/SWF challenge – DT card

Good morning dear friends.  I hope you are all surviving the dreadful weather we’re having at the moment.  I hate the rain at the best of times but it’s starting to get on my nerves already lol!  I know that lots of other parts of the country really need rain, but it is definitely one thing we don’t need in the South Wales valleys haha!

Over at charisma cardz challenge it’s time for a brand new challenge and for Team Gemma to share their creations.  The theme has been chosen by the lovely Natalie and she would like to see your “blue, black and white” creations.  I also used the gorgeous sketch from this week’s stamp with fun challenge (I am extremely late with my card – sorry!).   Here is my card:

and here is the sketch:

I have used an image from Some Odd Girl called ‘geeky Mae’ and coloured her with promarkers and flex markers.  The papers are from the docrafts forever friends ‘new arrival’ designstax and the black card is from eBay.  The papers are a really soft pastel blue IRL but for some reason they are showing up as a blue-ish grey in the photos!  I embossed the white card with an embossing folder and added some black gems but otherwise kept the layout really simple. 

We have three sponsors this week, firstly we have DigiStamp Boutique who are offering one lucky winner 6 digi images of their choice.  Our second sponsor is Crafty Emma’s store and one lucky winner will receive a £10.00 voucher to spend in her online store and our third sponsor is the stamping boutique who are offering 5 digis of the winner’s choice.  Certainly lots of fab reasons to join in the fun this week.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Stampin’ sisters in Christ challenge – soft pastels

Stamptacular challenge – loaded with layers

Creative card crew challenge – use ribbon

Digital Tuesday challenge – winter blues (I used blue papers/promarkers)

Flourishes timeless Tuesday challenge – BINGO (blue, ribbon and bling)

Scrap creations challenge – it’s a girl thing

Simon says stamp challenge – anything goes

Really reasonable ribbon challenge – black, white + 1 accent colour (+ ribbon)

Bunny Zoe’s challenge – ribbon or twine

The crazy challenge – feminine/girly

I hope you can join in with both challenges and I cannot wait to see what you create.  I would like to welcome my newest follower Sharon (aka shazronnie – fab name by the way!) *waves hello* – thanks for joining my happy band of followers and I hope you will visit me often.  I hope you have a wonderful Thursday and don;t get caught in too many rain showers!  Thanks so much for stopping by today.

 

Card ingredients:

Image: some odd girl – ‘geeky Mae’

Papers: docrafts forever friends ‘new arrival’ designstax, black card from eBay, white digi stamping card from craftwork cards

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, ribbon from fantastic ribbons, personal impressions sentiment stamp, black gems from MeiFlower, craft concepts ‘in stitches’ embossing folder

Stamp with Fun #152–DT card

Good morning dear friends.  I hope you had a great weekend, the weather here was really pleasant and I even dried some washing on the line (sad I know to be excited about that lol!)  I cannot believe that my week off work went so fast and I’m back in work again today – I really need to win the lottery I think haha!

I’m here this morning to share my card for this week’s Stamp with Fun challenge and this week we have a lovely sketch to use designed by Andrea-Emmi41.  It has nice clean lines and layers which is my favourite type of sketch.  Here is my card:

I rotated the sketch as it worked better with my image that way.  I was asked by a friend at work to make a baby congrats card for a grandmother so I used a super cute image by Mo Manning called ‘baby and bunny’ and coloured it with promarkers and flex markers.  The papers are from the docrafts forever friends ‘new arrival’ designstax and the kraft card is from dies to die for. 

We have a prize up for grabs this week which is kindly offered by Tina and one lucky winner will receive this stamp:

The design team have created amazing samples as always, so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out.  We really appreciate the lovely comments you leave for us. 

Crafty purple frog challenge – pink and girly

Frosted designs challenge – use kraft

A gem of a challenge – perfect pastels

Sweet stampin’ challenge – let’s see those layers

Totally gorjuss challenge – anything goes with a  button

Chocolate, coffee and cards challenge – feathers and fur

Totally papercrafts challenge – my favourite things (digis, patterned paper, pearls, layers)

I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge this week and I cannot wait to see what you create.  I will be back later with my DT card for this week’s cupcake craft challenge but until then thanks so much for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: Mo’s digital pencil – ‘baby and bunny’

Papers: docrafts – forever friends ‘new arrival’ designstax, kraft card from dies to die for

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, lace and button from fantastic ribbons, pearls from the hobby house, sentiment created on the pc, SU oval all punches, cats eye chalk ink pad (for inking edges of card/paper)

PFP #139/stamp with fun #151

Good morning dear friends.  I’m sorry for the long absence between posts, I wasn’t feeling 100% last week and had a really bad headache all week.  Fortunately I’m feeling better this week (so far) but that could have something to do with the fact that I have a week off work *woohoo*. 

However I’m still dis-organised and have had to combine two of my DT cards – stamp with fun challenge this week is “pink & green” and the new challenge over at passion for promarkers challenge (which I have chosen) is “for mum/female relative”.  I thought I would give you a head start in making your mother’s day cards as it’s only 12 days away!!  However I’m also aware that some of you sadly don’t have a mother to celebrate with so will accept cards for any female relative.  Here is my card:

 

I did have every intention of making a mother’s day card but when my auntie asked me to make her a 2nd birthday card for her great grand-daughter I used this card instead as time was against me (as usual)!  The image is from DigiStamp Boutique and is from the ‘Fairy Hattie collection’.  I coloured her with promarkers and added stickles to her wings.  The papers are do crafts from the gorgeous forever friends ‘new arrival’ designstax and the plain card is SU pink pirouette.  I used a Marianne die for the rolled roses and a die-namics die for the number 2.

Our sponsor this week is the lovely Emma from Crafty Emma’s store and she is offering one lucky winner a £10.00 voucher (excl. p&p) to spend in her online store. 

The rest of the design team have created amazing samples as always so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out.  We really appreciate the lovely comments you leave for us. 

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Birthday sundaes challenge – birthday card with sentiment

Dream valley challenge – mother’s day/female themed

Pile it on challenge – spots or stripes or both (I’ve gone with spots)

Stampin’ sisters in Christ challenge – things with wings (my fairy)

Stamptacular challenge – text me

Flutterby Wednesday challenge – open theme

Aud sentiments challenge – happy birthday

Do you stack up? challenge – things with wings

Simon says stamp challenge – anything goes

Crafty catz challenge – punches & dies

I hope you can join in with my challenge this week and I cannot wait to see what you create.  I would like to welcome my newest follower Kelly Smith *waves hello* – I hope you enjoy visiting my blog and will pop by often.  I will hopefully be back later with another card but until then thanks so much for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: DigiStamp Boutique – ‘Fairy Hattie collection’

Papers: do crafts – forever friends ‘new arrival’ designstax, SU pink pirouette cardstock

Tools: promarkers, Marianne creatables rolled rose die, magnolia doo-hickey swirl die, die-namics by the numbers die set, butterflies die, brackets tab, circle nesties, MS border punch, MS frond punch, stickles, lace ribbon from stash

Stamp with fun #147–DT project

Good morning friends.  It’s the last day of my week off from work so I’m a little bit sad…….however I have another week off again in 3 week’s time so something to look forward to. 

Another catch up post, this time for the stamp with fun challenge and the theme is “love”.  I don’t send many Valentine’s cards so I decided to alter a plain brown gift bag, which I thought I would be able to use at some point lol!  Here is my bag:

I’m sorry the pics are a bit dark but I took them late at night.  The image is a brand new February release from DigiStamp Boutique called ‘Valentine Hattie’ and I coloured her with promarkers and flex markers.  The papers are by Docrafts from the ‘hot diggity dog’ A4 paper pack and the plain card is from the papermill shop. 

We have a prize up for grabs this week of this super cute The Greeting Farm stamp:

The rest of the design team have created amazing samples as always, so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out.  We really appreciate the lovely comments you leave for us.

I would like to enter my gift bag into the following challenges:

The crafty pad challenge – fresh spring colours

Sunday sketch & stamp challenge – sketch

The cutie pie challenge – anything but a card

Little darlings challenge – favourite embellishments (pearls)

Aud sentiments challenge – anything but a card + sentiment

Crafty sentiments challenge – let’s get girly

Daring cardmakers challenge – hearts and doilies

Fussy ‘n’ fancy challenge – with all my heart

Bunny Zoe’s challenge – photo inspiration

Little Claire’s challenge – anything but a card

I hope you can join in with our challenge (but remember you only have 2 more days before it ends).  I cannot wait to see what you create. 

I know some parts of the east of England have had lots of snow but thankfully it seems to have passed us by – we just had some rain and sleet but nothing that stuck phew!  I’ll be back later with my final catch up post *yippee* until then have a fabulous day and thanks for stopping by.

Ingredients:

Image: DigiStamp Boutique – ‘Valentine Hattie’

Papers: Docrafts – ‘hot diggity dog’ A4 paper pad, plain card from the papermill shop, white digi stamping card from craftwork cards

Tools: heart doily from Joanna Sheen, pearls from the hobby house, ribbon from fantastic ribbons, button from stash, SU sentiment stamp from ‘best yet’ set, circle nesties

Mojo sketch #76/Crafty muse challenge

This is my card for this week's mojo sketch challenge and the crafty muse challenge which is 'mums & girlfriends'. I printed off the crafty muse 'angelique' download and coloured her with my pro-markers adding stickles to her wings. The dp is from a paper pack I've had for a long time (think it's docrafts or papermania but not 100% sure). The plain cs is from my stash. The sentiment is penny black and the white dots were done with a gel pen. The ribbon is from my stash. A fairly simple card but sometimes simple is good lol. Thanks for looking.

Papertake Challenge

This is my card for this week's papertake challenge which is a fab sketch by Dawny. The image is by docrafts and I coloured it with my pro-markers. I used plain cs from the papermill shop and the gorgeous dp is cosmo cricket (I'll definitely be getting more of this). The flower is from my stash and the sticky ribbon is PM. The sentiment was done on my pc and the adhesive stone is also PM. Thanks for looking.