Ooh La La Challenge (26)

This week's challenge at Ooh La La is 'Small Is Beautiful' so I have made this 4"x4" Pizza Box. I have yet to make some mini cards to go inside but will post a picture later when they are done. The cardstock is again from my scrapbox and the paper is from K & Company. The stamp is from SU and the ribbons and eyelet is from my stash. Thanks for looking.

Four Challenges In One

For this lovely little calendar I took inspiration from Claire's sample calendar that she has done for this week's Secret Crafter challenge. If you visit her blog she has kindly put a tutorial on there. She is a very talented lady and her blog is well worth a visit. Thank you Claire, I shall certainly make more of these. The cardstock is from my scrapbox as is the spotty paper. The stamp is from the PB Critter Party Set and the flower and brad is from my stash.

The four challenges are:-

Secret Crafter - Anything But A Card

Penny Black - Pink & Brown

Cute Card - Something New At Xmas (Stamps)

Papertake - Seeing Spots

Thanks for looking.

I'm on a Design Team...

I am just so excited I just had to tell you all that the kind ladies on the Design Team at the Lili of the Valley Challenge Blog have invited me to join them as a member. I feel very honoured that they like my work as they are all very talented, creative ladies. Thank you very much ladies I hope I do you proud. They are:-

Jo

Kim

Steph

Donalda

Nikki

Jacqui

Please pop over to their blogs and see their wonderful creations, you won't be dissapointed. You can check out Laila & Lisa's gorgeous Lili of the Valley designs here. Thanks for looking.

Sketch And Stash Challenge (1)

I have made this card for the new Sketch And Stash challenge which started this week. We have to follow a sketch and use a 'new' bit of stash on it. For my stash I have used a Sarah Kay stamp I had for Xmas which I have coloured with MLP pens and layered using my Nesties. The greeting is from LOTV which I have also coloured. I can't remember where the background paper came from as it was in my scrapbox. The butterfly brad is from my stash.

Thanks for looking.

Magnolia Vs Stampavie Challenge (8)

At Magnolia Vs Stampavie the challenge was to use this sketch and make a 'Thank You' card.

I used a freebie paper from Shabby Princess.The stamps used are Sarah Kay and Stampendous. I embossed the greetings using a versacolor inkpad and did faux stitching along the edges of the blue CS using a MLP pen. The image is coloured with my watercolour pencils. The little frame is one that my friend Val gave me and I coloured it using pearl paints. The butterfly is a peeloff and the flowers are from Habico.

Thanks for looking.

Sketch Saturday (32)/Forever Friends Challenges

For this card I have used this week's sketch from Sketch Saturday and combined it with the challenge from Forever Friends which is 'Your Favourite Colour', bet you can't guess what my favourite colour is??? Yep! your right, it's PINK!

First I covered the card using Papermania papers. Then I stamped the image using an Archival inkpad onto pink CS and also the starry paper. I coloured the image on the CS with my watercolour pencils and the one on the paper with Marvy Le Plume pens. I layered the CS image using my nesties. With the paper one, I wrote a little greeting on the tag and coloured the ribbon using the pens. I then cut out the parcel and layered it onto the CS image using foampads to give a 3D effect. The four flowers were stamped using a Personal Impressions stamp and coloured with the pens. I added the brads from my stash to the middles and positioned them with foam pads.

Thanks for looking.

Penny Black Challenge (30)

This week's challenge at Penny Black was 'embossing' so this card has quite a bit of it going on.

First I stamped and coloured the image using my watercolour pencils and then applied diamond glaze to the bubbles. This was layered up using my nestabilities. I then inked up the cuttlebug folder (using a brayer), with versamark ink and ran it through the cuttlebug with a piece of green card in it. I carefully removed the card and sprinkled hologram EP all over it which I then heated with the heat gun. This gives a sparkly background to your embossing. The background paper is a freebie from Monti's Pixel Playground which I stamped and embossed using a Stampendous stamp and Versacolor inkpad. The flowers were cut out of a freebie paper from Summertime Designs.
Thanks for looking.

Secret Crafter Challenge

For this week's challenge at Secret Crafter we had to follow this lovely sketch. I decided to try my new 'Moose' stamp from the Whimsey Animal Collection. I watercoloured him with my Faber Castell pencils and then mounted him onto cardstock using my Cuttlebug and Nestabilities. I punched a tag and stamped it using a greeting tag stamp from SU and a leaf stamp from one of my See D's sets. The papers are SU and a download.

Over at Scrap, Stamp and be Merry, Erin is giving away some Blog Candy and would like to see a card made with one of the stamps from the Whimsey Animal Collection, so here it is... Thanks for looking.

Three In One...

This card fits these three challenges:-

Papertake - Dawny's Sketch 5, Cupcake Craft - (20) Background Inspired and Stamp Something - Something New.

OK, here we go then. First we have Dawny's lovely sketch which I loved doing (I shall certainly be using it again). Second the colour theme is inspired by CC's challenge blog which is pink & brown. The papers are from my scrapbox and the base cardstock is from Stampin Up (Chocolate Chip). The ribbon is from Craft Work and the tag was die cut with the Cuttlebug. The flowers and button are from my stash. Last but not least, the image is a new stamp I got for Christmas. It is Sarah Kay's 'Picnic of Daisies' and I have coloured it using Marvy Le Plume pens.

You might have noticed that the papers & card I have been using lately are, on the whole, from my scrapbox. This is because one of my New Year's Resolutions is to use up the bits in my scrapbox as much as possible. Therefore I can't always remember where they are from. As I have 5 different scrapboxes all with offcuts in I think it might take me to NEXT year before I have used them all ha!ha! Thanks for looking.

Sketch Saturday/Forever Friends

This week's challenge at Sketch Saturday was "Your Choice". I have chosen the sketch from challenge 27 for my card. As you can see I turned it and used FF stickers and a LOTV greeting. The cardstock is from my scrapbox and the backing paper is a free download. As I have used FF images it qualifies for the Forever Friends challenge which is "anything". Thanks for looking.