4 challenges and 2 awards

Here's a card I did yesterday but didn't manage to photograph until today, what dismal weather we're having here!

I'm entering this into 4 challenges:

Penny Black: Song Lyric - Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

I love ProMarkers - Sketch

Allsorts - Bling

Susie's Sassy Designs - Christmas

The image & sentiment are both Penny Black, coloured with PM's and I've added SU! Dazzling Diamonds to the snow and around the edge of the puddle, I've also glittered up the snowflake (from a punch) by using SU! Heat & Stick powder (this stuff is great for preventing the glitter coming back off the card everytime you look at it LOL) and more Dazzling Diamonds, so I think I've got the bling factor covered! The papers are from my stash and the cardstock is SU! Elegant Eggplant, which is fast becoming one of my new favourites - and I don't even like purple, but am loving this!

I've been very lucky to have received two awards, both from my Sophisticat DT buddies Cheryl & Avril, thanks so much to both of you for thinking of me, it's lovely to have these awards and I'd like to pass them on to any of my followers that would like them as a big thank you for your continued support.

From Avril

From Cheryl

A White Christmas

Here's another "all white" Christmas Card, this time for this week's Penny Black challenge, I really do like this effect of a coloured image on a white background, I'm also entering this into Incy Wincy's challenge as I've used their sketch. I bought (quite a few!) PB stamps at the NEC yesterday as I don't have many, really like the stamps and can't buy them locally and I've used this cute set of Carol Singing mice from one of the sets - looks like they're having a whale of a time - if you look carefully you can see one of them has his carol book upside down!

I've coloured the image with PM's - bought 4 of the new sets yesterday too and there are some glittery snowflakes around the image, not very clear in the pic, which I stamped out using an SU! stamp from the set Snowburst with Versamark and added Dazzling Diamonds. The card has been embossed using two CB folders (guess when I bought the new snowflake one?), added some lace, the sentiment is from my old favourite SU! Circle of Friendship and I've also used some shimmery off white c/s (from stash) to mat the image & sentiment on & have punched out a snowflake from the same card using a (yes, it's new & yes I bought it yesterday) Martha Stewart punch!

I had a good day at the NEC yesterday, bought loads of stamps, which I wasn't going to do! Some ProMarkers, which was my intention and a few other goodies like the MS punch, CB folders, some new Nesties, and not so exciting, but necessary a new blade for my CraftRobo. It was really, really busy, especially in the morning, busier than I thought it'd be for a Thursday and I don't think there were as many stalls as last year, it seemed a bit smaller, but plenty of people buying and lots to look at, so had a really good day, came home absolutely exhausted having been on my feet all day, flat stony broke as I spent all my budget (and a teeny bit more - ooops!) and with a cracking headache as I hadn't really eaten, or drunk much all day - well I was too busy browsing & shopping, you know how it is, plus of course the queues to eat and to use the loos were ginourmous, so it was almost easier not to do either!!

And on top of all that stash, look what arrived it the post this morning:

A few weeks ago I was very lucky and won the four new winter releases from the Little Paper Shop and they arrived! Yippee! Aren't they fab, I've got so many new goodies, I don't know where to begin!

Well that was a long post from me, if you've stayed to the end, well done, I'm now off to do the weekend shopping at Sainsburys - oh joy, then have loads of crafting I want to do, as we've got some great challenges going on over at In Love With Stamping, to keep all us poor Demo's who didn't go to the ball (European Convention) occupied.

Have a good Friday & TFL xx

DU2DS & Digi-Stamp Boutique

This is my card for two challenges, a sketch for DU2DS and using one of the fab Olive stamps from Digi-Boutique, which I was lucky enough to win from last month's challenge. This is my favourite of the three Olive images, but they are all really sweet. I've coloured her with ProMarkers, used SU papers from the set Washington Apple and c/s Summer Sun & Whisper White. The sentiment is Penny Black.

Need to be quick (hence the daft picture & not having time to edit it as my entry for DU2Ds needs to be in by tomorrow & it's now 10.00 pm! Where has today gone?

3 Challenges - Penny Black, Sketch Saturday & Charisma Cardz

Made this card yesterday which I can use for three challenges this week.

The sketch is from Sketch Saturday's Challenge No. 44, which I really liked.

Penny Black's Challenge - No. 42 was the theme Think Spring, and I thought this little mouse throwing out his flowers had a lovely Spring feeling to it.

And finally, Charisma Cardz were asking for us to use our favourite things on a card, which for me at the moment are definately my Nestabilities, in particular the nested circles & nested scalloped circles, I use these so much and wonder how on earth I managed without them, they certainly make my life easier. I'm now saving up to buy some more of the nested die sets as they're just fab.

So the image is Penny Black as is the sentiment and I've coloured the image in using SU's watercolour crayons, Lavender Lace; Almost Amethyst, Bashful Blue (for the basket) and Apricot Appeal for the mouse. I've put some diamond glaze over the balloon to give it a bit of shine.

The DP's are from a FunkyFairy's set called Funky's Garden, I only bought the set yesterday (as they're having a half price sale) and wanted to use it straight away and the cardstock is SU's Whisper White and Tempting Turquoise. The ribbon is from my stash.

3 in 1

That's 3 challenges with one card! Sketch Saturday, which gave me the layout, Penny Black's challenge was a Get Well card & Charisma Cardz had an animal theme so the card fits all three.

The stamp is a Penny Black one which I've coloured with watercolour pencils, the roses are done with a Sakura Stardust pen for a bit of sparkle. The papers are Pebble Ink, which I received from the lovely Steph this morning as I won them in one of her giveaways, and put them to use straightaway, the circles and flower border are punched using Nestability dies and the flower embellishments are from my stash.

The only problem is it's not a very good photo, it was a bit dim outside and the colours are a bit stronger than they look in the piccy!

Penny Black Challenge - Romance

I received a set of Penny Black stamps today in the post just in the nick of time to enter this challenge. The stamps are gorgeous, but in the end I choose this sweet little hedgehog, the "love" sentiment is from the same set. The background papers are from Funkyhand's "It's Funky Too" CD and the ribbon is from my stash. I went for a clashing mixture of pinks & purples, quite bold for me, but I think I've pulled it off!