Sketch Saturday meets Stamp With Us

I've combined two challenges with this card, Sketch Saturday, who also have an optional theme of Stars & Stripes (or Red, White & Blue) and the theme over at Stamp With Us this week is Children's Cards.

I was very lucky last week and won the Pollycraft Challenge and had £10 to spend in their shop - what fun & this gorgeous little Moodle Mouse, called Gregory (aww how sweet!) is one of the stamps I bought. I've coloured him with PM's & everything else on the card is Stampin' Up! (except for the button from my stash):

Bashful Blue cardstock, DSP & ink

Stars & sentiment - from the set "In the Stars"

TFL

Another last minute entry for 3 challenges

I've used the sketch for Sketch Saturday (which needs to be by Friday morning this week), I'm also entering it for One Stop Craft - "Let's hear it for the boys" and C.R.A.F.T which is Father's Day and a colour theme of blue & brown.

The image is a freebie I've had on my computer for ages, can't even remember where it came from now, the papers are from Summertime Designs and the brads are from my stash.

A card for many challenges!

Having my daughter at home this week has meant not so much time for crafting, so I hadn't made many cards & still had a long list of challenges I wanted to try & take part in, so this card fills the criteria for 4 challenges, which brings me back up to date a bit! The 4 challenges are:

1. The Pink Elephant - Pink, Green & Yellow
2. DU2DS - Pink & Green
3. Bee Crafty - use a new Bee Crafty Digi-stamp
4. Sketch Saturday - no 46

The image is from Bee Crafty & I've coloured her with SU Stampin' Write markers in Old Olive & Summer Sun, her butterfly net has been coloured with a Sakura Stardust pen and I've paper pieced her dress. All the papers are from FunkyHand's "V Funky" CD and the yellow card is SU Yoyo Yellow. The sentiment is a chipboard sticker from A Pocket Full of Posies, and the little sequin flowers are from my stash.

Sketch Saturday Challenge No 45

I really liked this week's sketch, it was quite a clean, straightforward layout, so I decided to keep the card clean and just use one paper and matching cardstock.

The very cute fairy was a free download from Two Scoops Rice and I've coloured her outfit with Sakura Stardust pens, so she has a lovely sparkle to her (not clear in the photo) and watercoloured her skin.

The backing paper is from a FunkyFairy's set called Funky Flowers and the cardstock is Stampin' Up's Pixie Pink. I've added a bit of bling down either side of the image, and a flower & brad which are all from my stash.

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.