AWOL...

Oh dear, I've been a bad blogger this week. I'm sure you will all forgive me when I tell you I have been suffering all week with a viral infection. But, GOOD NEWS, it's now gone so I can get back to normal. Hopefully, I shall get the time to make something tomorrow. I will also try to visit all your blogs as well. Thank you for the comments you all leave, it is very much appreciated.

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Easter Monday Candy!

Lorraine has Easter Monday candy up for grabs, but you have to be quick!!! It ends at MIDNIGHT! Click here to go to her blog.

Lady Racer!!!

This week's challenge at Lili Of The Valley is 'Fun' and I really think this is a fun image.

The image is decoupaged onto mats cut with my nesties and then placed on the front of an 'M' fold card. I covered the back with design paper and attached a computer generated sentiment. I finished off by adding punched flowers and a 'speed limit' sign.

I am going to enter this one for the following challenges as well as it fits the criteria.

Cupcake Craft (34) - Folds

A Spoonful Of Sugar (46) - How Old?

Card Recipe

Decoupage - Marji Rahder

Paper - Scrapbox

Gems - Stash

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Funky Fairys Challenge (10)

The challenge at Funky Fairys is to make a 'green' card and although this card looks blue I can assure you it is in fact green. As it is an aqua green the scanner has turned it blue. I punched the flowers using my daisy punches and recycled a greeting from an old card as it was just the right colour. The Gorjuss Girl image was coloured with MLP pens and layered using nesties.

Card Recipe

Image - Sugar Nellie (gift from blogging friend, thank you)

Papers - Funky Fairys

Cardstock/Pearls - Stash

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ABC Challenge (H is for Hearts)

A nice quickie this time. Using embossed card for the base I cut a red triangular piece of card and placed this on top, adding a peel-off in the corner. The centre is a piece of white card with a heart punched out. This has then been layered onto red card and then black card behind that. The teddy image was recycled from an old card.

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Cute Card Challenge (54)

This week's challenge is to use 'Citrus' colours so thinking of oranges, lemons & limes I came up with this. This is one of my favourite stamps which I have coloured with chalks. Underneath the image I 'shadow' stamped two squares with versamark. In the corners and around the edges I used peel-offs that I coloured with marker pens.

Card Recipe

Stamp - Anita's

Paper - Papermania

Card/Peel-offs - Stash

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Easter Bonnet (5 Challenges)

Challenges

Cupcake Craft (33) - Sketch

Papertake - 123

Penny Black (42) - Think Spring

Simon Says (1) - Yellow & Green

Dutch Dare (42) - Easter Card

What great challenges to work with this week. I have used Penny Black stickers for this card, isn't the bunny so cute, I think I will have to add the stamp version to my wish list. The circle was cut using a CD as a template.

Card Recipe

Stickers - Penny Black

Papers - Joni Gray

Ribbons/Brads - Stash

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Pink Gem Designs - April Release

April release is now available at Pink Gem Designs! There are nine new stamps including four new baby designs, four new Mimi designs & Dina Dragon (Denny's girlfriend).

For more information and a chance to win four stamps visit Pink Gem Designs blog.

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Magnolia vs Stampavie Challenge (20)

This week we had a colour combo challenge which was 'Red, Black and White' with optional 'Grey'. I love this colour combo and was eager to do something. I was going to make a card but I decided to make this little gift box instead. The box has a side opening with a sleeve band around it. I think maybe the punched tag is a wee bit to big for the box but hey! let's call it artistic licence. Please excuse the pictures, I scanned them because I was too lazy to get the camera out!!!

The card I used was printed on the computer with one of Jak Heath's free downloads (see sidebar for link) and I used one of her 'Build A Blossom' flowers again, I do so love these! I stamped the tag with Sarah Kay's 'Picnic Of Daisies' stamps and coloured it with MLP pens. As you can see I managed to incorporate the optional grey colour.

Card Recipe

Stamp - Sarah Kay
Flower/Card - Jak Heath
Ribbon - Stash

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Tote Bag & Nine Cards (Forever Friends Challenge)

The Complete Set

The Tote Bag

1 - 3

4 - 6

7 - 9

The challenge on Forever Friends this week is to 'make a gift for someone' so I am entering this set of cards. I made this little set about three weeks ago for a very special young lady in Malaysia who I have been told, was thrilled to receive them. I found the idea on a Stampin Up demonstrator's blog, her name is Rochelle and you can find the bag etc here, thank you Rochelle. The bag was very easy to make, as was the cards. I have tried to make the cards suitable for various occassions.

Card Recipe

Cardstock - Stampin Up

Papers - Funky Fairys

Stamps - Forever Friends

Ribbons/Gems/Brads/Flowers - Stash

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