Tool Shed

Challenges

Cupcake Craft (88) - Don't Be Square
Papertake - Do Something Different (Shaped Card)
C.R.A.F.T. (48) - Shaped Card

Here is something a bit different for me as I usually make square or rectangular cards. I made this card using one of the Glitter Girls embossing boards. The little bear has been decoupaged but you can't see the layers because of the angle of the photo. The trellis and flowers were die-cut with the Cuttlebug and the interior is from a 'shop window' kit that I got ages ago. The lettering was done with rub-ons.

Card Recipe

Bear Decoupage - Daisy & Dandelion
Wood Paper - Internet Freebie
Interior Paper - Creat & Craft Kit

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For You!

Challenges

Sketch Saturday (100) - Sketch
Charisma Cardz (17) - Girly Card With Flowers
Cute Card Thursday (110) - Make Your Own (Flowers)
Delightful Sketches & Challenges - Pull Out Your Punches
Paperplay (17) - Pretty Pastels

Here is a pretty little card that is ideal for a girl of any age in my favourite pastel colours. The image has been coloured with pencils as usual. The white border has been punched with a MS punch. The flowers have also been punched.

Card Recipe

Stamps - Lili Of The Valley
Papers - Shabby Princess
Gems - Stash

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Here Comes The Summer!

Challenges

Lili Of The Valley (DT Card) - Here Comes The Summer
Friday Sketchers (99) - Sketch

Over at LOTV this week the theme is 'Here Comes The Summer' so I have used one of the new 'Busy Bears' stamps from LOTV and followed the Friday Sketchers sketch. The image (Top Chef) has been coloured with pencils.I love the way the little dog is hoping that the sausage will fall and he can run off with it. The flowers are punched with brad centres.

Card Recipe

Stamp - Lili Of The Valley
Sentiment/Papers - Scrapbox
Brads - Stash

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For You!

Challenges

The Sugar Bowl (34) - Sketch & Punches

I made this card using the leftover paper from the previous card, I thought it went quite well with the image. The image has been coloured with pencils. The white piece of cardstock has been embossed with the Cuttlebug. The sentiment is stamped directly onto the card. I punched the flowers from white card and stippled ink onto them so the colour would blend in with the flowers on the image. I think on reflection I should have used a darker bow as this one isn't showing up very well, might change that...

Card Recipe

Stamps - Sugar Nellie/Unknown
Paper - From A Friend
Brads/Bow - Stash

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Who's That?

Challenges

The Creative Cottage (7) - Going Green
Stamp Something - Charmed Somethings
Penny Black (98) - 3 Flowers/2 Buttons/1 Bow
Stamptacular (56) - "Sew" Special
Pollycraft (41) - Make Your Own Flowers
Sketch & Stash (34) - Sketch (Stamp/Paper/Charm)

For this card I have used my friends new PB stamp and paper and a new charm of mine that I won in a blog candy a while ago. I stamped the image and coloured it with pencils and chalks and drew some faux stitching around the edge. I can't tie bows very well so have tied a knot adding a bee charm (hope it counts). I made the flowers by punching daisies from floral paper and layering them adding buttons and brad to the centres. I also placed a brad in the centre of the sentiment. I loved using this sketch and will use it again and I think the green colours have gone together rather well.

Card Recipe

Stamps - Penny Black/Hero Arts
Papers - Friends/Scrapbox
Ribbon/Buttons/Brads/Padded Butterfly/Charm - Stash

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Butterflies & Blossoms

Challenges

A Spoonful Of Sugar (100) - Birthday
Simon Says - Things With Wings
Allsorts (49) - Inspiration Photo
Our Creative Corner - Blooming Blossoms

This is an A4 card which I have covered with rainbow paper. I then stamped swirls roughly in an oval shape and stamped the sentiment inside the oval. Having printed and cut out all the flowers I added these with a bit of tacky glue. Next I used alchohol inks onto glossy photo paper to create some background paper. Once this was dry I punched out the butterflies and added these to the flowers. As the card was for a fiftieth birthday I found some wooden numbers and painted them with pearl paints before placing them inside the wreath. Finally I added glitter glue to the flowers and butterflies.

Card Recipe

Stamps - Imression Obsession/Debbie Moore
Flowers - Fred She Said
Wooden Numbers - Stash

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Pansies

Challenges

Dutch Dare (76) - Easel Card + Repeat Something (Buttons)

Here is an easel card which I made a little while ago and have never shown. The pansies are decoupaged from a set of CD's that I got from Create & Craft a couple of years ago and hardly use. I have simply layered this onto green card. The borders have been punched and the sentiment has been stamped and heat embossed. I have repeated the heart shaped buttons on each of the borders and added paper roses to the ones at the top. I can't remember where the paper came from, sorry.

Card Recipe

Decoupage - Create & Craft Triple Treasures Volume 2
Sentiment Stamp - Stampin Up
Buttons/Roses - Stash

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Art Deco Lady

Challenges

One Stop Craft (77) - Metallic

This is an offset gatefold card that I made for a friends birthday using an image by Kanban. I love these elegant ladies but don't use them often enough as I just like to look at them. The image has been simply layered with black and silver mirri card. The flowers are punched with silver brads in the centres. That's it, simples!

Card Recipe

Image - Kanban
Brads - Stash

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Wedding Card

Challenges

Charisma Cardz (16) - Quote Me
Paperplay (16) - No Patterned Paper
Daring Cardmakers - Die Cut Crazy

This wedding card is made with ivory pearl and gold card. All the stamping has been heat embossed with gold EP. The quote has been layered with card that I have die-cut with Nesties labels. The two hearts have also been die-cut using Nestie hearts and one has been embossed with a Cuttlebug folder. I finished it off by adding three flowers with gold brads in the centres and a bit of glitter glue on the petals.

Card Recipe

Stamps - The Stamp Barn/Inkadinkado/Studio G
Flowers/Brads - Stash

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Forever In A Flap!!!

Challenges

M.A.W.T.T. (42) - Sketch
Paperplay (15) - Stickers
Daring Cardmakers - Getting In A Flap
Cupcake Craft (87) - Red & White
Forever Friends - Numbers
Doodle Palace - Choose From A List Of Challenges (Too many to list)
Fab 'N' Funky (20) - Get It All Out
A Gem Of A Challenge (3) - Special Birthdays

I have made this card for my nephew's birthday in June and managed to get it to fit quite a few challenges, a challenge in itself. I have followed the great sketch although I planned to use it for a totally different card (watch this space!). I turned the sketch so that I could make a 'tent' card and so that the Forever Friends stickers would fit. From the Doodle Palace list I have chosen Black, Red & Neutral/Letters & Numbers. My neglected stash are the FF Stickers/Peel-Offs and the Black Swivelly Things (don't know what they are called). For the 'Flap' I have made 'a card on a card' which opens up as you can see in the second picture. The corners were punched out using a small circle punch.

Card Recipe

Stickers - Forever Friends
Papers/Peel-Offs/Brads/Black Swivelly Things - Stash

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LILI OF THE VALLEY RELEASE DAY!

LILI OF THE VALLEY STAMPS
OUT NOW!

Busy Bears Stamps - £3.75 each

Fritz & Fifi Collection - £14.99

Hurry along to Lili Of The Valley today to get these fabulous stamps. They go on sale today so be sure to get yours before they sell out!

Beautiful Butterflies

Challenges

Our Creative Corner - Beautiful Butterflies
One Stop Craft (76) - Things With wings

Here is a quick little card I did using my 'Flight Of The Butterfly' set/punch. I layered two pieces of cardstock and added a piece of dp to it. I then stamped some flowers and a sentiment onto the dp and tied a ribbon around all the layers before attaching it all to the base card with foam pads. I then stamped and punched the butterflies out and glued them in place with a bit of tacky glue. A very quick card that can be adapted by changing the sentiment. Handy when you need a card in a hurry!

Card Recipe

Stamps/Punch/Cardstock/Paper - Stampin Up
Ribbon - Stash

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Silhouettes

Challenges

Stamp With Us - Sketch

Here is a quick one I have just made for the above challenge where there is a sketch to follow. The stamps I have used are from the Pocket Sillhouettes and the Flight Of The Butterfly sets.

Card Recipe

Cardstock/Stamps - Stampin Up
Brads - Stash

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Hedgie

Challenges

Penny Black (96) - Buttons Galore
Sunday Sketch & Stamp (25) - Sketch
Cute Card Thursday (108) - Touchy Feely
Fab 'N' Funky (19) - Use A Neglected Stamp
Passion For Promarkers (47) - Create Background With Promarkers
Charisma Cardz (15) - Monochromatic Card

I have created the background of this card simply by drawing lines down it using both ends of the pen. I have used buttons instead of the vertical strips on the sketch (I already had lines there). I have embossed the circular mat with the 'swiss dots' cuttlebug folder. The neglected stamp has been coloured with promarkers and chalk and I have added flowersoft to her clothes for the 'touchy feely' part and also a paper rose on her hat.

Card Recipe

Stamp - Penny Black

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Fearn

Challenges

Stamp With Fun (54) - Sketch
Pollycrafts (39) - Pink/Brown/Yellow or Green
Allsorts (47) - Petals & Pearls
The Creative Cottage (6) - Things With Wings
Stamp Something - Something Layered

Yesterday I received my lovely new Promarkers which I won recently on the C.R.A.F.T. challenge. I decided to choose pastel colours as I tend to use pastels quite a bit. I only had the set of skin tones and was rather limited so tended not to use them much at all. Well, today I thought I would have a play with them and this card is the result. Please excuse the shading, I need a lot more practice.

Following the lovely sketch (one I shall use again and again), I first covered my base card with a floral paper. As the paper was just brown and white I coloured bits in with my pens and added glitter glue to the dots, my what a difference! I then wrapped a piece of ribbon around a piece of brown card and attached it to the bottom, adding a punched butterfly (also coloured with the pens). I then coloured my digi stamp using a combination of Promarkers and MLP pens adding glitter glue to the wings and flowers. I then double layered this using Nesties. The stamped sentiments are also double layered. Finally I coloured some flowers with the Promarkers and added pearls to the centres and also the butterfly's body. All in all I am rather pleased with how it all turned out and I think I will be using the Promarkers a lot more from now on.

Card Recipe

Digi Stamp - Pollycrafts (This Week's Freebie)
Sentiment Stamps - Papermania
Paper/Ribbon/Flowers/Pearls - Stash

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I Baked A Cake! - Sneak Peek

Challenges

Lili Of The Valley (8) - Sketch (DT Card)

This is another of the NEW Lili Of The Valley stamps to be released on 21st April (not long now). This one is called 'I Baked A Cake' and is really cute and ideal for lots of occassions too! If you look closely you will see that I have 'frosted' the cake with hologram EP. The leaves and flowers are punched with added roses.

Card Recipe

Stamp - Lili Of The Valley
Papers/Sentiment - Papermania (Rose Garden)
Roses - Stash

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Puss In Boot - LOTV Sneak Peek

Challenges

Daring Cardmakers - If The Shoe Fits
Friday Sketchers (97) - Sketch
Our Creative Corner - Bows

Here is another NEW stamp that will be released by Lili Of The Valley on 21st April. This one is called 'Puss In Boot' and is part of the Cat & Dog Collection. As usual I have coloured the image with pencils.

Card Recipe

Stamps - Lili Of The Valley
Papers - Papermania
Ribbon - Stash

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April Showers! - LOTV Sneak Peek

Challenges

Ooh La La (51) - April Showers
Cuttlebug Spot - Bling
Truly Scrumptious (30) - Sketch + April Showers
ABC - S is for Sparkle

Six days to go before the BIG release of the NEW stamps from Lili Of The Valley. Not only will the 'Busy Bears Collection' be released but also a collection of 4 cute cats and dogs with 8 Sentiments for ONLY £14.99, a real bargain!

I have made this card using one of the cute cats in the collection. Isn't he just adorable? I have coloured him with pencils and added glitter glue to the rain to add some sparkle. The image has been cut and layered using my Cuttlebug and Nesties, as is the sentiment (from the collection). I have followed the gorgeous sketch and added flowers I have punched from sparkly paper and finished off with a few gems.

Card Recipe

Stamps - Lili Of The Valley
Papers - Magazine Freebie
Gems - Stash

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Happy Birthday

Challenges

Cupcake Craft (86) - Childhood Memories
A Spoonful Of Sugar (99) - Sketch
Creative Card Crew (48) - Happy Birthday
Crafty Creations (63) - 1 Design Paper/1 Image/1 Embellishment
Whiff Of Joy (75) - Green/Yellow/Other (Brown)

My childhood memory is of my father keeping budgies in an avery when I was small. Following the great sketch and using the colour combo, my other colour being brown, I covered the card with design paper. The other layers are just plain cardstock with one piece stamped with swirls. The image has been coloured with pencils and chalk and layered onto the same design paper. My one embellishment is a button.

Card Recipe

Stamps - Whiff Of Joy/Debbi Moore/Studio G
Paper - Magazine Freebie
Button - Stash

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Fast Food! - LOTV Sneak Peek

Challenges

Sketch & Stash (33) - Sketch (Stamps)
Stamptacular (54) - Spots & Dots
Doodle Palace - Funny Animals
Papertake - Cutie Pie

Here is another of the NEW stamps to be released by Lili Of The Valley on the 21st April. This one is called 'Sausage Snatcher' and is a right little cutie! I have coloured him with pencils and chalk.

Card Recipe

Stamps - LOTV
Papers - Magazine Freebie
Buttons - Stash

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Gorjuss Girl Meets Mary Quant!

Challenges

The Sugar Bowl (33) - Sketch + Flowers

This card so reminds me of the Mary Quant designs in the 1960's, and yes, I was around then!!! As soon as I saw how this little Gorjuss Girl was dressed I imagined the outfit to be these colours.

Card Recipe

Stamps - Sugar Nellie/Hero Arts
Paper/Flowers/Gems - Stash

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Get Well Again

Challenges

Sketch Saturday (98) - Sketch
Fab 'N' Funky (18) - Neopolitan Ice Cream
Stamp Something - Stitch Something

This one is for another friend who is rather poorly as well, I hope it's not going to come in three's!!! Again I have used the same image as the last card but this time I have coloured it using Promarkers. I have also done some faux stitching on the corners of the image.

Card Recipe

Digi Stamp - Sliekje's Digi Stamps
Sentiment Stamp - Personal Impressions
Paper/Buttons/Flowers - Stash

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Get Well

Challenges

Papertake - Sketch
Stamp With Fun (53) - 3 Papers/3 Flowers/2 Buttons
C.R.A.F.T. (45) - Buttons
Secret Crafter (78) - Get Well
Colour Create (42) - Lilac/Grey/White
The Creative Cottage (5) - Buttons & Bows

I have made this card for a dear friend who is rather poorly at the moment and hopefully this cute little kitty will cheer him up a bit. The kitty is a digi freebie and I have coloured him with pencils. These digi stamps are soo cute I will be using them a lot. If you want to go and have a look at Sliekje's gorgeous designs you will find the link in my sidebar.

Card Recipe

Digi Stamp - Sliekje's Digi Stamps
Sentiment Stamp - Personal Impressions
Papers/Flowers/Buttons/Bows - Stash

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Mono Mania!

Challenge

Cute Card Thursday (107) - Mono Mania

I hope this one is ok for the challenge as I have kept it to one colour as much as possible. Not a lot to say about this one really except that the butterfly and sentiment have been heat embossed.

Card Recipe

Stamps - Stampin Up/Hero Arts
Paper - Stampin Up
Ribbon - Dovecraft

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One For The Boys

Challenge

A Spoonful Of Sugar (98) - One For The Boys

I made this card for a young man who was leaving us at work. I was quite fortunate to find I had this bike decoupage as the young man rode to work on a similar blue bike. So, the bikes are decoupaged, the clothes are stickers mounted onto card and then cut out. The background is a photograph and the sentiment is computer generated.

Card Recipe

Bike Decoupage - TBZ
Stickers - Stash

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B-LIME-Y!!!

Challenges

Truly Scrumptious (29) - Sketch (Fly Away)
Creative Inspiration (31) - Lime Green/Black/Flowers

Well! The colour challenge for this one took me right out of my comfort zone! The colour combo does not appeal to me at all, but, that's what a challenge is for, right?

Following the great sketch I layered up the base card with a combination of papers and cardstock (the nearest I could find to lime green). The main flower has just been glittered along with me and the craft room!!! The butterflies have been punched out of hologram paper with my brand new MS punch. The one at the top is double layered while the other two are just stuck on. I finished it off with a few flower gems here and there.

Card Recipe

Stamp - Dawn Bibby
Papers - Shabby Princess
Gems - Stash

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Side-Step Card

The front.

On the back.

Challenges

Charisma Cardz (13) - Animal Magic (mice)

Penny Black (95) - Check It Out (plaid paper)

This is my first attempt at a side-step card and I have made it for my sister who's birthday is on Saturday. The stamped images are coloured with pencils, there's a suprise! I have added the little butterflies and bees to each of the images. I just adore the little 'hanging' mouse, he is so sweet.

Card Recipe

Stamps - Penny Black/The Stamp Barn/Magazine Freebie
Paper - Jak Heath

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Plate Card

Challenges

Creative Card Crew (47) - Distressed/Aged
Simon Says - It's So Distressing

This is my first attempt at a 'plate card' using a template I bought a few weeks ago. I have also had another go at distressing and I must say I don't think I am any good at it. I prefer my cards looking 'new and clean'. To me I think this just looks a mess. I used distress inks around the edges and on the image and even the flowers, however, looking at this picture I realise I forgot to distress the stand. Oh well, I'll have to do that later..... or.... throw the whole thing in the bin!!!

Card Recipe

Image - Picture Perfect
Flowers/Doily - Stash

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Together Forever!

Challenges

One Stop Craft (74) - Paper Piecing (Dress)
Sketch Saturday (97) - Sketch
Our Creative Corner - Break Out The Buttons
Delightful Sketches & Challenges - Buttons & Bling
Daring Cardmakers - A Diamond For April
C.R.A.F.T. (44) - Purple & Turquoise
Pollycraft (38) - Anything Goes

I must admit that at first I was rather daunted by the colour challenge of using purple & turquoise together. However, I think this little card has turned out rather nice in the end, mainly, I think because I stuck to the paler shades of the colours.

I rather like my daring little bride in her alternative bridal gown, makes a change from white or ivory don't you think? I stamped the image a second time onto purple pearl paper, glued it onto the first image and added glitter glue to her train. The rest of the image has been coloured with pencils and Sakura Stardust pens, lots of sparkles! I inked around the edges of the image and layered with Nesties. The 'Together Forever' sentiment has been stamped, inked and layered in the same way, adding a couple of diamonds. (I have moved the sentiment UP on the sketch as it didn't look right at the bottom, hope this is ok for the challenge). The flowers also have diamonds in their centres.

On the base I have used the same paper and punched border. I 'iced' a couple of heart buttons and put these either side of the border and added the enormous diamond heart gem to the middle (I never thought I would find a use for such a big gem). I have also added a stamped sentiment which has been inked and layered and attached with foam pads to keep the card upright. I recently found this gorgeous stamp at a craft fair it reads "Two lives & two hearts, joined together in friendship, united forever in love." Aaah! It has fast become a favourite of mine!

Card Recipe

Stamps - LOTV/The Stamp Barn/Papermania
Paper/Buttons/Gems/Flowers - Stash

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Daisy-licious!

Challenges

Paperplay - Sketch
Allsorts (46) - No Design Paper
Cupcake Craft (85) - Make Your Own Flowers

Not a wildly exciting card I must admit, but I did make it at one o'clock this morning when I couldn't sleep. Anyway, as the Allsorts challenge asked for NO design paper, I stamped and embossed my own using an old faithful friend of a daisy stamp. If I remember right, this was one of the very first stamps I bought about six years ago. Nothing like a faithful friend that you can call on in times of need... The main image has been coloured with pencils and the sentiments have been stamped and embossed. Although you can't see them very well the punched butterflies are double ones with the lower one flat and the upper one shaped. I have added glitter glue to their bodies. The flowers are all punched with added glitter glue as well.

Card Recipe

Stamps - Little Claire/Personal Impressions/Papermania

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Window Box - LOTV Sneak Peek!

Challenges

The Rainbow Lady (97) - Through The Window
Secret Crafter (77) - How Does Your Garden Grow

Happy Easter Everyone!

I made this card for a lovely blogging friend who recently moved house. I thought this stamp was ideal for a new home card. It is one of the new stamps being released on 21st April by Lili Of The Valley so if you like it put the date in your diaries as I am sure they will sell very fast.

Card Recipe

Stamp - LOTV
Papers - Magazine Freebie

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Zoomin' Along... LOTV DT Card/Sneak Peek

This week we have a great colour challenge for you on the LOTV Challenge Blog. We want you to use BLUE, SILVER and another colour of your choice. We also have a great prize this week of two stamps kindly given by Laila and Lisa. Check out the other DT members blogs for more sneak peeks, links in sidebar.

I have chosen brown as my other colour as it went well with the image. The image I have used is another of the soon to be released new designs from Lili Of The Valley. This one is called 'Zoomin' Along' and it looks like my little chappie is zoomin' along up a steep hill, hope he gets to the top... I have coloured the image with a mixture of Promarkers and Sakura Stardust pens as I wanted a blue metallic car. I have used pearl and metallic card throughout as I wanted plenty of shine.

Card Recipe

Stamp - LOTV
Cardstock - Craft Creations/Other
Peel-Offs/Eyelets - Stash

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