Image Folder with Cupcake Zoe

I made this image folder for my bloggy pal Jane's birthday recently (only now found time to blog it).  The image I used was from DigiStamp Boutique, I love Sally-Ann's images & these new Zoe ones are definitely some of my favs (might have something to do with the fact they have cupcakes & chocolate lol).  I coloured her in with ProMarkers & added Glamour Dust around the outline, the papers are "Bloom & Grow" by Zoe Pearn from the Sweet Shoppe, the sentiment was free from TLC & I finished off with an adhesive lace border & some ribbon.

Hope you've all had a great week - I have, we had my son Craig & his partner  Zoe & my gorgeous grandchildren (Ryan & Abigail) staying for a few days :) & have a lovely weekend.

The challenges:

CCEE - Clean & Simple

Totally Gorjuss - Sparkle

One Stop - Photo Inspiration

Lollipop - Colours of the Rainbow

Fab 'n' Funky - Keeping it Clean & Simple

Digi Doodle - Anything Goes

Cupcake - Sweet Treats (with option of Halloween)

DigiStamp Boutique - Use Their Image

An Autumn Scene for Squigglefly

This week's challenge at Squigglefly is Colours of the Season.  I used a new image called "Shy Girl" by Abz Hakim.  I coloured her with ProMarkers& Sakura glitter gel pens & used I used a pumpkin patch background found on Google (what would we do without Google!).  I 3D'd the image & pumpkin & added some stamped leaves with a staple.  The finishing touches are a double punched border & a gem for her earring. If you haven't checked Squigglefly out yet, there are so many fab designers & so many different images (& some freebies) :)

The challenges:

Moving Along with the Times - Anything Goes (use ProMarkers)

I Love ProMarkers - Autumn

Digi Doodle - Keep It Simple

Daring Cardmakers - Autumn Leaves

Crafty Creations - Red, Green & Brown

Girly Card

Just a quick post as lunch time... I saw on the I Did It Challenge blog that they were giving away a gorgeous free Beary Dust digi for their "Girl of my Dreams" challenge so here is my card with "Angie".  I coloured her in with ProMarkers & the papers & butterfly are from Craftwork Cards.  I finished off with a flower (made from a cheap bunch of artificial flowers & dissected) & leaves, border punch, Glamour Dust & gems.  

The challenges:

Moving Along with the Times - Use ProMarkers/Anything Goes

Meljens - Anything Goes

Flutter By - Anything Goes (with Butterfly, Fairy or Angel)

Colour Challenge at For Fun

This week's For Fun challenge  is to use Brown, Red & Cream & we are sponsored by Robyn's Fetish.  I must admit colour challenges are not my favourite but it is a nice change to do one now & again :)  The DT were given digi images from Robyn's Fetish to use & the one I used is called "Fall Fun" which I coloured with Prismacolor pencils.  I distressed the edges of the Basic Grey paper & Glamour Dusted around the edge of the image.  I finished my bookmark off with a ribbon, die cut corner & lots of punched leaves.  Why not check out the other DT members blogs for more inspiration.

The challenges:

The Crafty Pad - Distressed or Torn Edges

Fun with Shapes - Bookmark

Totally Papercrafts - Autumn

The Shabby Tea Room - Chocolate Covered Autumn

Pixie Dust - Fall into Fall

Crazy 4 Challenges - Fall/Autumn

Creative Inspirations - Halloween/Fall
Stamptacular - No Cards Allowed!

A Christmas Card!

I've managed to finish this Christmas card I started making last night.  The image was a fab freebie from Spyder (Lynn) - I've just found her blog & it is great with freebies & challenges etc.  I coloured the jolly snowman with ProMarkers, the papers from the "Let it Snow" paper pad by Dovecraft.  I added a bit of silver ric rac, the Christmas trees are a Quickcutz die & I finished of with Glamour Dust, a stamped greeting & gems.

Hope you're Monday is going well.  It is absolutely freezing here, I think I need my gloves on as my hands are soo cold (especially my mouse hand lol).  Oh well time to get tea ready perhaps that will warm me up :)

The challenges for this card:

Spyder's Corner -  Use her Image

Karber Christmas - Use a Digi 

Christmas Stampin' All Year Long - Photo Inspiration

Pear Tree - Free for All

Lollipop - Winter

A Spoon Full of Sugar - Winter Wonderland

Happy Birthday Lexi's Creations!

To celebrate the Blog Birthday of Lexi's Creations the challenge this fortnight is "Birthday", nice & simple as we all need birthday cards :)  Lexi is also sponsoring the challenge via her fabulous craft shop Fairy Dust Crafts (& even if you don't win there is free p&p for orders over £10 so you could still treat yourself ;)  ).  For my card I used the "Happy Birthday Scruffles" image, I coloured him with ProMarkers & 3D the present.  The papers are Forever Friends "Party Time" & I finished off with ribbon, ribbon flowers, brads & a greeting from Craftwork Cards.

The challenges:

Tuesday Taggers - More Than 2 Legs

Delightful - Metal Mania (brads)

Sweet Stampin - Ribbons

Simon Says - Recipe: 3 types of embellishment, 2 patterned papers & 1 image

One Stitch at a Time - Anything Goes (with favourite embellishments)

I Love ProMarkers - Cupcakes

70th Birthday Card

I was asked by my MIL to make a card for her friend's 70th Birthday, this is actually quite a rarity as she usually buys all her cards & luckily it was nearly finished when she was chasing it up today (even though it's only been a week & she wanted it in 2 weeks lol) bless her.  I DID manage to finish it this afternoon & even made a box for it  :)  I used my Crafter's Companion triple CD collection (floral) & added some lace & a computer generated greeting.  To make the sunflowers I punched some daisies, coloured them with ProMarkers & added some card candy that I coloured brown & sprinkled with Glamour Dust.  I hope you're all having a great weekend, we've just been shopping, hubby played footy this afternoon while I was crafting :)  

I'm entering this card for these challenges:

Crafter's Companion News Blog Birthday - Birthday Card (they are 5 not 70!)

ABC - F is for Flowers

Pile it On - Things in Threes

Papertake - 3 of a Kind

Alphabet - Y is for Yellow

Halloween/Fall at Stampin' for the Weekend

This fortnight's challenge at Stampin' for the Weekend is "Halloween/Fall" (although originally it was Autumn/Fireworks so hence my card but as Guy Fawkes night is is Autumn I should be ok).  My gorgeous image is from fellow teamie Di & I coloured it with ProMarkers & Glamour Dust.  The papers are from Designer Digitals & I finished off with a ticket, Punched border & some star sequins.  Why not check out the fabulous creations from the rest of the DT & there is the chance to win prizes from our sponsors KLM Digi Designs & Pink Gem :)

The challenges:

The Stamp Man - Autumn 

Kaboodle Doodles - Celebrate the Colours of Fall

Shelly's Images - Photo Inspiration

Pixie Dust Studio - Fall into Fall

Pear Tree Designs - Autumn 

Just Inspirational - Stamp or Digi

Crafty Going's On - Download or Stamped Image  for their - Fabulous Copic Candy Draw
One Stitch at a Time - Use Your Digi Stamps

Halloween at For Fun

This weeks challenge at For Fun is "Halloween" & also to use Google Eyes.  I made my card with my Funky Divas (Kerry Jo) CD Rom by Debbie Moore, I love the images on here.  The grey background paper is from my stash & the greeting & word paper was free from Summer Driggs (she has LOADS of fabulous Halloween papers & elements).  I finished off with a couple of brads (coloured black), ribbon & I cut out a bat shape & added the google eyes.

I'm entering this card for these challenges:

Double Dutch - Halloween

Creative Craft - Trick or Treat

Craftalicious - Anything Goes

City Crafter - Take Flight

Bee Crafty - Halloween

Fussy & Fancy - Halloween

Cupcake - Scary Creatures

Digi Doodle - Orange Me Glad 

Ellephantastic - Anything Goes
Creative Cottage - Halloween
Everybody Art - Halloween 

Heidi-Mari's Blog Anniversary Challenge (with a Twist)

Check out Heidi-Mari's blog for all the details of her challenge & there is fabulous candy to be won!  The theme for the challenge is Christmas card with a twist :)  My MIL has just frightened the life out of me saying it's only about 10 weeks until Christmas  - so if I don't make more than 1 Christmas card a week I'm only gonna have 10 cards (+ the 5 or so I have already made which still equals not very many lol) arghhhh!

I made a gate fold card for a change &  I used my Popcorn the Bear Christmas collection CD roms.  I did twisted piramage inside (I thought it would go well with the theme of the challenge), the papers are from my stash & I finished off with some hologram card, snowflakes, gems & glitter.

I'm entering this card for these challenges:

Bah! Humbug! - Cuties

Making it with Meslyn - Glity,Glittered Christmas

Alphabet - X for Xmas

Totally Gorjuss - Not a Square 

Allsorts - Inspiration from a Song Title (We Wish You a Merry Christmas)

A Spoon Full of Sugar - Sparkle & Shine

New Images at Squigglefly

As it's Saturday there are even more new images released at Squigglefly.  For my card I used this lovely sentiment called "A Book is Like a Garden" by Jess Holland.  I cut it out using my Nesties & inked the edges.  The paper is digi (can't find where from sorry) & I finished off with some lace, flowers, punched foliage & the butterfly is stamped, punched, glittered with gems added.

Just a short post as I'm only just home from work we had the Flu clinics today so I had to work later & I've got lots of catching up to do with my crafting projects.  Hope you're having a lovely weekend whatever you're up to :)

I'm entering this card for these challenges:

Incy Wincy - Sparkly Glitter

Card Patterns - Sketch

Sweet Stampin - Diamonds are a Girls Best Friend

Glitterbabe - Anything Goes (with sparkle)

Flutter By - Open (with fairy or butterfly)

Something New at For Fun

This week's challenge at For Fun is to use "Something New".  I used several "new" items for this card, the stamped image & words (S.W.A.L.K. from Crafter's Companion), doily & that gorgeous Martha Stewart Flower Patch border punch which was a present from my dear friend Linda (who the card was made for & hopefully she should have received it by now so I'm safe to blog it!).  The image is coloured with ProMarkers & I added a bit of Glamour Dust to the water.  The papers are from my stash & I finished off with some flowers.

The challenges:

Creative Craft - Glamour Puss

Sweet Stampin - Punch it Out

Pollycraft - Anything Goes
Catch the Bug - Anything Goes 

Ooooh...Time to get Spooky at Lexi's Creations

This fortnight's challenge at Lexi's Creations is "Spooky" & I used one of Lexi's new fab Halloween images called Vamp Girl.  I coloured her with ProMarkers & used Black Diamond Stickles on her wings.  The papers are all from Designs by Krista (I love her papers & I haven't used them for ages) & I drew a spiders web in the corner (well it's supposed to be a spiders web!) with silver glitter glue, I finished off with lace, corner peel offs, gems, staple & greeting.  We are sponsored once again this time by the fab Joanna Sheen.  Why not stop by the other DT members blogs for some more Spooky inspiration :)

I'm entering this card for these challenges:

By the Cute & Girly - Spooky

Stamping Scrapping - Halloween

Crafts & Me - Something for a Teenager

The Crafty Pad - Spooky

Sentimental Sundays - Autumn or Fall

One Stitch at a Time - Spooky Halloween, Anything Goes

Cowgirl's - Anything Goes, Halloween

Another Couple!

Hooray!  I've managed to make 2 more Christmas cards this weekend (though I should be making an 18th Birthday cards for a colleague at work's daughter's birthday but I'm on a roll lol).  I saw that Amy has a  new Challenge Blog The Crafty Purple Frog & when I saw the images that she had in her shop (I didn't even know she had a shop) I fell in love, so I thought I'd give it a go.  For this card I used "Pointsettia Fairy" decoupage, the papers are from my stash - I have highlighted the image with Sakura glitter pens but unfortunately you can't see that from the photo.  To finish off I made a lace rosette (the gem is from a broken bracelet), I added ribbon & a peel off.  I kept the card quite simple as I didn't want to detract from the beautiful image :)

The challenges for this card:

Paper Sundaes - Something from your Stash (papers, peel off)

Moving Along with the Times - Fairies or Fantasy

Alphabet - W for Wings

Karber - Fantasy (this is a new challenge I've just found)
Daring Card Makers - Christmas Card for World Cardmaking Day

Right on to the 2nd Card:  I used another one of Di's fabulous digi downloads (I told you I couldn't choose lol), this cute image is called "Penguin Christmas Tree".  I coloured the image with ProMarkers & edged it with Glamour Dust, I used Polar White Flower Soft on his hat & finished off with some gems, ribbon, bell, & a greeting.  The papers were lurking in my stash again.

More challenges:
Die Cut Dreams Christmas - Glitter, Ribbons & Gems
Sparkle - Christmas Movie (optional)
Stamptacular - Layer it On
Gingerloft - All that Glitters or Blings
Penny's - Circles

Better Get a Move on...

with my Christmas cards, I've been making the odd one here & there but I really need to be making lots more.  For this card the gorgeous image I used for this card is from Di's Digi Downloads & is called "Going Home for Christmas" Di has so many fabulous images it took ages to choose.  I  coloured the image with ProMarkers & Sakura Glitter gel pens.  I added Stickles & Glamour Dust for a bit of sparkle & finished off with a flower, brad, tartan ribbon & a ticket sentiment.  The papers are digi & I can't remember where I got them from or find them on my computer :( (though I spent ages looking lol).

I'm entering my card for these challenges: 

Sketch & Stash - Sketch (new stash is the digi & the flowers)

Charisma Cardz - Christmas Crafting

Creative Inspirations - Christmas in September

Bee Crafty - Furry/Fluffy Friends
Totally Papercrafts - The Great Outdoors
ABC Christmas - T is for Tree

Autumnal Colours at Stampin' for the Weekend :)

It's time for the Stampin' for the Weekend challenge again & this time it's to use "Autumnal Colours".  Simon Says Stamp is our generous sponsor & you could win $25 to spend in store :)  I used this gorgeous Greeting Farm image which is a digi download that I've had for ages, she is coloured with ProMarkers & the background chalked.  The papers are from Basic Grey.  I did a double punched lace border & finished off with punched flowers & foliage, pearls & a ticket greeting.  Looking for more inspiration? Then why not check out the rest of the DT for more gorgeous creations :)

The challenges:

Crafty Sentiments - Border Punch

City Crafter - Flowers & Frills

Shelly's - Fall

C.R.A.F.T - Fancy Floral  

A Spoon Full of Sugar - Spots & Stripes 

Creative Stamp Friends - Autumn

Flourishes - Fall in Three's (flowers)

Sweet Sketch Wednesday - Sketch