Craftalicious Challenge No. 3

It's time for a new challenge over at Craftalicious and this is my DT card.

We're being sponsored by Crafty Sentiments, who very kindly gave us all an image to use and this is what I came up with.

The theme is Cute, which I think the image does pretty well on it's own, and I've kept the rest of the card quite simple and quite like the geometric look to the card.

Here's the details:

Image - Crafty Sentiments, coloured with ProMarkers

Sentiment - SU! Circle of Friendship, inked with Rich Razzleberry

Cardstock - SU! Whisper White; Rich Razzleberry

Papers & button - from stash

Hope you can play along with us again this time round, we've been thrilled with the number of entries we're getting for the challenges and so a big thanks for all the support.

I'm en-route to Cornwall at the moment, it's going to take about 5 hours to get there, and we're going for a long weekend hopefully in the sun, but looking forward to some R&R.

TFL xx

Some more Love

Still feeling the love with all these fab Valentines/Love cards around & our theme over at Charisma this week is "I Love You", it doesn't have to be a Valentines card but we're looking for the Love in your entries this week!

I've kept my card quite simple this week and I think it could be given to a man or a woman and those hedgies are so cute!

Here's the details:

Stamp - Penny Black, coloured with PMs

Sentiment - Stampin' Up! Circle of Friendship, inked with SU! Real Red

DSPs - Funky Fairy Digi paper

Cardstock - SU! Whisper White; Real Red

Ribbon - SU! Striped Grosgrain Ribbon - Real Red

Other - SU! 1" and 1½" circle punches; hearts cut on Cricut

I'm entering my card into the following challenges:

A Spoonful of Sugar - followed their sketch

Penny Black - Special Someone

By the Cute & Girly - Love

Creative Card Crew - Valentine

Hope you can join us this week, and don't forget I've got a candy on offer at the top of my blog.

TFL x

Sweet Stampin' Challenge No. 8

This is my DT card for this week's challenge over at Sweet Stampin & we've got a colour combo for you this week.

Certainly Celery, Rose Red, Pretty In PInk, Almost Amethyst

you can use whatever brand of products you have to hand, Just keep the colors as close to these as possible!

♥ Please Use a Minimum of 3 colours from the colour combo ♥

I managed to use all four in mine, there's not a lot of Certainly Celery in there, but I've used it on the leaves, stalks & grass.

Here's the rest of the details:

Stampin' Up! used:

Sentiment - Circle of Friendship

DSPs - Tea Party

Cardstock - Whisper White; Rose Red; Almost Amethyst

Markers used - Rose Red; Almost Amethyst; Pretty in Pink; Certainly Celery; Summer Sun

Eyelet Border Punch

Non SU:

Stamp - Lily of the Valley

ProMarker - skin tones

Flowers & gems from my stash

We're on the look out for Guest Designers so if you'd like to be considered you need to enter this week.

I'm also entering my card into a few different challenges:

LOTV - Thank You

Funky Fairys - Anything Goes

Delightful Sketches - Sketch

TFL x

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

Today's Stampin' Up! Class

Had my first Saturday class today, with some new ladies as well as a couple of regulars from my Thursday class and we made a couple of Christmas cards and a good time was had by all.

All SU! of course & here's the deets

Card 1:

Stamps - Tree Trimmings, Frames With a Flourish, Best Yet

Ink - Ballet Blue

Cardstock - Ballet Blue; Certainly Celery; Whisper White

Ribbon - Certainly Celery

Other - Stamp a ma jig

Card 2:

Stamps - Tree Trimmings; Circle of Friendship, Frames with a Flourish

Ink - Old Olive

Cardstock - Chocolate Chip; Old Olvive

DSPs - Merry Moments

Other - Dazzling Diamonds; Eyelet Border Punch; Corner Rounder; Circle Punch 1" and 1¼"

Die Cut Dreams and Stamp With Fun

I've combined two challenges with this card - Die Cut Dreams whose theme is Ribbon & Trim along with Stamp With Fun, using their sketch.

I've used a lovely Tilda image that my friend Carly inked up for me - thanks hun, and coloured her with ProMarkers, the gorgeous papers are K&Co and I've layered it all up on SU! Always Artichoke cardstock. The sentiment is SU! Circle of Friendship; the flower has been cut with an X-Cut punch and the green ribbon is SU! Fairytales, the pink is from my stash.

TFL - off to walk the dog now whilst the sun is shining.

Get Sketchy #7

This is my entry for this week's Get Sketchy Challenge, a very simple sketch, which I enjoyed. The card was really quick to do as the image is a solid stamp which I've inked up using SU Markers, so no colouring in to do afterwards, I've matched it up with SU! DSP's and matching cardstock and it came together in about 10 minutes - which is probably a record for me - I can ummm & ahhh for ages! I recently bought a little gadget for crimping paper & cardstock and I've used that on the mustard card to add a bit of texture.

Recipe - All Stampin' Up!

Stamps - new Level 2 Hostess set Whimsical Wings; Circle of Friendship

Stampin' Write markers - Tempting Turquoise; More Mustard; Garden Green

DSP's - Haiku

Cardstock - Tempting Turquoise; More Mustard; Whisper White

TFL x

Eldon the Caterpillar meets 4 Challenges

I've not been entering so many challenges lately, just don't seem to find the time, so I was quite pleased to be able to make a card to match 4 challenges, plus after not liking my previous card, I wanted to make another card straight away (a bit like getting back in the saddle after falling off a horse - so to speak!). Anyway, enough waffle, this card is for:

TMITA - Use Eldon the Caterpillar digi-image plus use ribbon to make a bow

Carol's Sketch Fun - the sketch

Little Paper Shop - use Autumn colours - Rose Red; Pumpkin Pie & Summer Sun

Stamp With Fun - use Autumn colours

I've used Stampin' Up! throughout (except for the image) & paper-pieced Eldon's body to match with the papers.

Recipe:

Image - digi-stamp from TMITA

Sentiment - Circle of Friendship

Stampin Write Markers - Pumpkin Pie; Rose Red; Summer Sun

DSPs - Summer Picnic

Cardstock - Summer Sun; Rose Red; Pumpkin Pie

Ribbon - Fairytales

Other - ProMarkers - green & grey

It's been an absolutely gorgeous day today, so much so I had trouble taking this picture as it was so bright and I either got overexposed or shadows, so the piccie's actually a bit darker than the colours are in real life.

TFL x

Charisma Challenge #38 - Get Sporty!

Good morning lovely bloggers, it's Thursday again, where the last week has gone I just don't know!! Anyway, that means it's time for another challenge over at Charisma and the theme this week is Get Sporty which has been set by Vee. This sounded a bit scary at first but it's such a broad theme, so I'm sure, like me, you'll find something in your stash to use. I'm also entering this card over at Die Cut Dreams as their theme this week is Men!

My image is from Sporty Billy by Pink Cat Studios and I've coloured him ProMarkers, a friend gave me this image ages ago & I'd forgotten I had him, I managed to drop some ink on the piece of card next to him, and I don't have another image, so I had to cut around him, but don't tell anyone, and hopefully it looks intentional!! The backing papers came from a CD, I've also had for ages and never use, so it was good to dust that off and I made the rosette myself (which is why it's a bit wonky) but I needed something else to go on the card and this was another of those middle of the night moments I had when I couldn't sleep last night and was mulling over my card! The sentiment is from Stampin' Up! Circle of Friendship set and it's all mounted onto SU! Brilliant Blue cardstock.

Hope you can join in this week, there's a lovely prize donated by our fab owner Carly of some gorgeous digi-stamps by Whimsy Doodles, so pop over here for a look and to see the other fab creations for inspiration by the rest of the DT

TFL xx

Willow Sketchie Challenge

I love Willow Sketchie's very cute owl & bought myself a couple of their new Christmas digi-stamps today and have just made this card to enter into this week's sketch challenge. I've coloured the image with Stampin' Up! markers as I'd printed the image out a bit too small & there was no way I was getting into the teeny weeny areas with my PM's! I used two strips of ribbon on the side as one looked a bit lost and I've made the "buttons" using a Cuttlebug embossing folder & cut out the snowflake circles. The flourish around the sentiment is from the SU! stamp set "Frames with a Flourish" which I don't use very often, but as I had a bit of space to fill I've stamped it onto Real Red c/s with Real Red ink & just cut around the edges.

Stamps - Willow Sketchie digi stamp, SU! Circle of Friendship, SU! Frames with a Flourish

SU! Markers - Real Red; Garden Green; Close to Cocoa; Creamy Caramel

DSP - Here A Scrap digi papers

Cardstock - SU! Whisper White; Real Red

Ribbons - sticky ribbons from stash

Also used - Cuttlebug embossing folder, Cosmic Shimmer paint on fur on stocking & hat and Diamond Glaze on eyes

Not a good photo I'm afraid as it's a really dull, dark day, I took it in the porch but the light is just awful!

Charisma DT Challenge

This is my card for the DT Challenge Carly has set for us over at Charisma this month - to make up a pop-up card. I've never done one before so enjoyed giving this a go. I've used SU card in the middle to make the pop-up section so the finished card is a bit thick, think I'll use a thinner card next time, but still pleased with the result and that the pop-up does in fact pop-up!

The image is another sneak peek of one of the new Nutshells stamps coming out soon, which I've coloured with ProMarkers and used a bit of Cosmic Shimmer paint on the snail's shell.

DSPs - Stampin' Up! Haiku

Cardstock - SU! Whisper White & Barely Banana

Sentiment - SU! Circle of Friendship

Flowers - cut with X-Cut punch & added some bling from stash.

The pop-out I've made on the CraftRobo, getting on really well with this now, and added a lady-bird from the same Nutshells set (don't tell anyone but I dropped an ink pad on the cut-out and needed it to cover the blob I left!! I'm such a messy crafter, it's really annoying!)

TFL x

Stamp With Us - Sketch Challenge

This is my entry for this week's Stamp With Us Challenge, which was a sketch and I've turned it on it's side. All Stampin' Up! products used

Recipe:

Cardstock: Whisper White, Chocolate Chip

DSPs: All from Sweet Always

Image: From "Simply Said" & "Circle of Friendship"

Ink: Chocolate Chip

Ribbon: Chocolate Chip

TFL x

Polka Doodles Challenge

This is my entry for last week's Polka Doodles challenge, which doesn't end until Sunday so I'm still in in time. I spent ages thinking about this card, just couldn't decide on the image/theme to use and then decided to combine it with another challenge and use a digi-image. Spent an age trawling through my images and couldn't find the right one, so then decided to buy one, spent another hour or so trawling all my favourite sites and finally chose a sweet Christmas mouse, bought it, downloaded it, went to print it out & my printer decided not to work - aaaargh!

So plan B was called for, went into my craft room, decided to go Stampin' Up! and made the card in about 15 minutes, sometimes I wonder why do I make it so hard for myself!!

Apart from the buttons then it's all SU! in one of my favourite colour combo's pink & brown:

Recipe:

Stamps - Garden Whimsy and Circle of Friendship

DSP - from Sweet Always

Ink - Chocolate Chip

Cardstock - Chocolate Chip & Whisper White

Ribbon - Chocolate Chip

TFL x

Charisma Challenge # 28 - Sketch

Morning all, it's Thursday once again - where did that week go to? And so it must be time for another Challenge over at Charisma. We set a sketch to follow this week and this is my take on it.

I've been very good and stuck to the layout, although I thought I'd finished the card, took a photo and then realised I still had to put 3 embellies down the right hand side - oops. So this is piccie no. 2!

A friend sent me some Lily at the Beach images, knowing how desperate I am to get my hands on them and I couldn't wait to use one of them. I've coloured the image with SU! Markers to match the papers and c/s, which are all SU!

Here's the recipe:

Image: Pink Cat Studios - Lily at the Beach

Stampin' Up! Markers: Old Olive, Bashful Blue, Real Red, Summer Sun, Creamy Caramel, Apricot Appeal (skin tone)

Sentiment: Stampin' Up! "Circle of Friendship"

Cardstock: SU! Whisper White & Bashful Blue

DSP: SU! Summer Picnic

Embellies: Various - from my stash

Hope you can join us over at Charisma this week

Stampacular Sunday - Party Animal

A great theme over at Stampacular Sunday this week, they want to see an animal on your stamped creation and here's my very sweet party pooch. I fell in love with this stamp and backing paper whilst out crafty shopping with my friend Kaz recently (although is it just me or does anyone else not want to "use" lovely papers - ooh it was hard cutting in to it!!) and I was itching to ink him up . Anyway the stamp is by Little Claire Designs and I've coloured him with a mix of Stampin' Up! markers & PM's, I've decoupaged the balloon because when I cut out the image with a Nestie, I just chopped the very top of the balloon off - oops, but it looks better now, so a happy accident. The backing paper is by Making Memories, I've used SU! c/s Chocolate Chip, put some of it through my bug with an embossing folder & cut a circle out with a Nestie to layer the sentiment, which is SU! from a "Circle of Friendship".

I really love this card, is it ok to say that? LOL but I love the stamp & the colours & design of the paper and think they work great together.

One little card for 3 challenges

I made this little circle card for A Passion for Papertrey's Challenge and have incorporated Simon Says which is pink & brown & The Pink Elephant which is pink, brown & white.

I like to have little "thank you" cards in my stash, so this will come in handy at some point in the future I'm sure.

I've just cut out the largest Nestie circle using SU! Chocolate Chip c/s & scallop circle using small squares of Papertrey's Chocolate Remix papers, the flowers have also been cut out of Papertrey papers, from the Rasberry Fizz mix using a Cuttlebug die, the sentiment is SU! from a "Circle of Friendship" and it's layered onto some more Raspberry Fizz cut out with a small Nestie circle, the button brads are from my stash.

Pollycraft Challenge No. 17

A recipe challenge over at Pollycraft this week:

3 embellishments, 2 papers, 1 image

The image is Pollycraft's Cherry Kisses and I've coloured her with ProMarkers, I printed the papers out a while ago & I've forgotten where they're from! The cardstock is Stampin' Up! Orchid Opulence and Chocolate Chip, the sentiment is also SU! from the set "Circle of Friendship" stamped in Chocolate Chip ink & layered onto a chipboard circle, the 3 chipboard flowers are from my stash. I'm not counting the sentiment as an embellishment which I hope is ok!

Stamps and Smiles & Dottie's World

Another two challenges combined but these two work so well together, I couldn't resist. Stamps & Smiles had a sketch to follow, which I've turned around & Dottie's World was to make it holey, so I cut out the circles that were on the sketch.

I've used a Charmed download "Holly in the USA" but I have to say it's not my colouring in (sadly as it's so good!) I've used a coloured image as the colours went with the papers perfectly so it made sense. The gorgeous papers are digi-papers from Summertime Designs and when I came across them I immediately thought of the Holly image as I knew they'd work well together. The paper on the inside of the card is like a patchwork quilt, so sweet and I thought it'd be fun to have it showing through. I've added some chalks to the edge of Holly, it was too white otherwise and have used an SU sentiment from my much loved & used "Circle of Friendship" inked with Ruby Red & the cardstock is also SU's Bashful Blue

Two Challenges

I'm entering this Thank You card for two challenges this week - Charisma Cardz (for tomorrow -just done in time!) which is simply to create a thank you card and Papertrey which is a recycling challenge.  The recycled elements on the card are the ribbon, which is from Christmas and the pink button I've put the sentiment on, which was taken from a birthday card, both have been sat in my stash box just waiting to be re-used.

The sentiment is Stampin' Up! from the wonderful "Circle of Friendship" - I use this set so much, the script in the middle is from Papertrey's Raspberry Fizz papers, as is the small rose at the top, the cardstock is SU! Whisper White and Chocolate Chip (another favourite) and I've embossed the card with a Cuttlebug folder.

I'm sorry this is such a rubbish photo the light wasn't very good, I'll get hubby to take another I think!

Doodle Palace

There's a fairly new blog called Doodle Palace created by Dee & Robin, two excellent digital stamp designers, they have some gorgeous stamps available and were very kindly giving away some freebies last week, I chose the fab Noah's Ark digi-stamp and this is the card I made with it:

I've coloured the image with my SU! markers and used SU! cardstock in Only Orange & Whisper White, the sentiment is also SU! from a set called "Circle of Friendship" and I've cut out a disc using my Cuttlebug to put the sentiment on.  The papers are from my stash & the ribbon is recycled from a gift (see card below).