A Card for Sundays with Santa (Facebook) and Sugar Bowl

Good Afternoon Crafters, a couple of weeks ago Sugar Nellie had 4 new digital images for sale, and this is one of them isnt he cute, my eldest daughter loves Penquins so this will probably go to her when the time comes.
I have printed him onto white card then used my copic pens to colour him, afterwards I used Nestabilitie Labels Die No.28 and the mount has been cut out with the Decorative one of the same number. The sentiment is one from my stash and  has been cut as a tag, as the Challenge this week over on Facebook for Sundays with Santa is "Tag It".
The card is a 6"x 6" white card with a first mount of red card, the papers are from First Edition "Silent Night" paper pad, this first paper is a blue background then on top is a white snowflake one which has had the punched out in the corners and borders with Martha Stewart punches and then placed on top of the first mount. The around the middle I have  used a ribbon and attached to the back of the first mount.
I then placed my mounted image in the center with the tag popped in the bottom right hand corner. And to finish of I have punched out snowflakes which have been glittered with german glass glitter and layered up and then placed in the top left hand corner, and one in the top right.
This Card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://cardsundmore-challengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/
http://www.craftysentiments.blogspot.co.uk/
http://creativecardcrew.blogspot.co.uk/
http://ladybugscraftsinkchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/
http://www.craftdoormagazine.com/
http://tuesdaythrowdown.blogspot.co.uk/
http://sugarbowlblog.blogspot.co.uk/
http://ourdailybreaddesignsblog.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://networkedblogs.com/OY29Q

Challenge #122 - The Paper Shelter - "Anything Goes"

Good Morning Crafters, well this week over on The Paper Shelter Challenge Blogspot we are combining with the "B" Team for this weeks "Anything Goes" Challenge, its a special one and it will last for two weeks, and we wont be commenting on the entries as we are taking a two week break and will be back again on the 7th August to start a new season. So I hope you will forgive us and enjoy taking part in this fortnights Challenge.
We are as always being sponsored by The Paper Shelter and they are offering a brilliant prize of $30 to spend

on their website The Paper Shelter, but this is providing you have used one of their products on your card, that could be a image, papers or printables and they do have a fabulous choice to pick from. But even if you dont they will still give you 3 digi images of your own choice. Please do and visit their website here.
And for my card I used this image

Its called "A Refreshing Drink" and you will find it here, I printed her onto white card then used my copic pens to colour her. Afterwards I used Nestabilitie Labels Die No.8 to cut her out and a fancy one for the mount out of purple card. The sentiment is one from my stash and has been placed on a fancy tag, again from Spellbinders.

The base card is a 6"x 6" white card with a first mount of purple card, the papers I have chosen to use are from First Editions "New Bloom" paper pad, the first paper is flowered pattern on a white background and the second is green background with hearts on and I used a circle punch die for the doily.

I then cut a tree from some of the deep green card its one by La La Land and is called "Heart Tree" and I placed them on top of the doily and then the mounted image to the side of it. I then cut a border again from La La Land and thats called a "Tulip Border", this was then placed across the bottom of the card with the sentiment tag stuck towards the right. To finish of I have used the same green pearls and placed them down the top right hand side.

Now that youve seen my Card I do hope that you will pay a visit to The Paper Shelter Challenge Blogspot and see what the rest of the very talented Design Teams have created for your inspiration, and hopefully you to will want to take part in this "Anything Goes" Challenge.

This Card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-

http://www.craftdoormagazine.com/ 

http://cardsundmore-challengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/ 

http://anythingchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/ 

http://diecuttindivas.blogspot.co.uk/ 

http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.co.uk/ 

Challenge #119 - The Paper Shelter - "Photo Inspiration"

Good Morning Crafters, by the time this post goes live I will be on my way to Looe in Cornwall for a few days holiday, we are meeting up with friends from Guernsey so it will be lovely to catch up with all their news, I just hope the weather improves and we have at least a dry time, wish me luck.
Anyway this weeks Challenge over at The Paper Shelter Challenge Blogspot is a "Photo Inspiration" one and here is the photo I chose to use.

But before I show you my card I want to tell you about our sponsors Veronica and Pedro of The Paper Shelter, they are the most generously offering a prize of $30.

but this is providing you have used one of their products on your card, they do have a fabulous choice of images, papers and printables on offer and they are very good value and the exchange rate is brilliant. But even if you dont use one they will still give you 3 digi images of your own choice, so its a really good way of building up your library of images to use for our Challenges.
And now I want to show you what I did with this photo for my card.

I have used this gorgeous image "Everyone can Fly" and you will find her here, and I printed her onto white card and coloured her with my copic pens, afterwards I used Nestabilitie Die Labels No.1 to cut her out, then used a Decorative one for the mount.
The base card is a 6"x 6" white card with a first mount of lilac card, and the papers are from First Editions "New Bloom" paper pack, the first paper is a very pretty cream background with a flower pattern on, the second is a strip across the middle which is a embossed one and the third is a pink paper and I have run it through my embosser and a doily die, this was placed under the mounted image. The sentiment was then tucked behind the corner at the top.
To finish of I have used my Cheery Lynn corner dies and cut out two with some of the lilac card and placed in the bottom two corners. And the last thing I have used some of the paper from the same paper pad and punched out several layers of flowers and then embossed them to create the flower in the top left hand corner.
Now that youve have seen my card I do hope that you will pay a visit to The Paper Shelter Challenge Blogspot and see what the rest of the Design Team have created for your inspiration, and hopefully you will want to take part in this "Photo Inspiration" Challenge.
This Card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-

A Card for Sugary Sunday and Sugar Bowl Challenges

Good Morning Crafters, oh my the weather is just appalling here in Gloucestershire, its raining and its cold in fact weve had to put our heating on again as the house was colder inside than out, Im beginning to wonder if we are ever going to have a good summer, I just hope it changes before this weekend as its going to be so cold for my great grandsons Christening otherwise. We are supposed to be sailing on the broads afterwards for the reception, its been many years since Ive been anywhere near them so it will be lovely if its a nice day, though I am worried about getting bitten as Im one of those unlucky people who gets badly effected near water in the summer.
Anyway this weeks Sugar Bowl card and Sugary Sunday Challenge is all about using Leanne Ellis images and Ive used this one titled "Time Flies" and you will find it at Funky Kits. Ive stamped her onto white card then used my copic pens to colour her, afterwards I cut her out with my rotatrim and then mounted her onto a piece of pink card thats been cut with my deckle edged cutter. The sentiment was done in the same way as the image.
The base card is a 6"x 6" white card with a first mount of pink card and the papers I have used are from First Editions "Love Letters" new paper pad,  Ive used three of the papers for my card, then placed my mounted image in the middle and the sentiment below on the right. To finish of I have used a La La Land wings die and cut them out of pearlescent card, the watch is a Tim Holtz one that I have mounted on top of the wings.
This Card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://sugarbowlblog.blogspot.co.uk/
http://cardmaniachallenges.blogspot.co.uk/
http://cheerfulstamppad.blogspot.co.uk/
http://fitztownchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/
http://foreverfriendschallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/
http://kaboodledoodles.blogspot.co.uk/
http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.co.uk/
http://www.memascrafts.blogspot.co.uk/
http://crazychallenge.blogspot.co.uk/

A Card for the Sugar Bowl Challenge - "A Sketch"

Good Morning Everyone, well the sun is out and its quite warm outside, Ive just been into town to pick up my magazines and to give the pup a walk, this is the first time Ive done that for about a month so it was just nice to escape from four walls, and it certainly shattered the pup shes now whacked out asleep by the side of my computer desk.
Anyway todays card has been created for this weeks Sugar Bowl Challenge "A Sketch" and Ive used this sweet digi image for my card and coloured it with my copics before cutting it out with my Nestabilitie Die No.1 and then drew around the die to create the mount for it. The sentiment is one of the Whimsey Christmas stamps from last year and Ive cut this out with a circle die and mounted it on a larger diecut.
The base card is a 6"x 6" white card with a first mount of turquoise blue card and one of two papers from The First Edition "Christmas Joy" paper pack this first paper is a patterned one with snowmen and penquins on a blue background, on top is a stripped one in similar colour tones, across the card Ive then wrapped a film strip ribbon of snowmen and penquins to and attached it to the back of the first mount, The mounted image was then positioned in the centre with the sentiment at the bottom on the right.
This card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://www.sugarbowlblog.blogspot.com/
http://abcchristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/
http://lilredwagon.blogspot.com/
http://www.scrapbooksisters.blogspot.com/
http://7kidschallengeblog.blogspot.com/
http://stampotiquedesignerschallenge.blogspot.com/

A Card for Mo's Challenge "Any Holiday or Celebrations"

Good Morning Everyone, hope you enjoy Trick or Treating today its amazing how quickly these months are flying by and tomorrow starts November I just can't get my head around it, anyway have a wonderful day. I am going to hospital later on today to have a varicose vein injected, not really looking forward to that just hope its not as painful as the stripping but we shall see, keep your fingers crossed for me as I have plans to go to the NEC on Thursday and I don't want them scuppered.
Well today's card has been created for Mo's Challenge "Any Holiday or Celebrations" and Ive used this sweet candy cane fairy as a Xmas card and I have printed her onto white card then used my copic pens to colour her, afterwards I used Nestabilitie Die Labels No.1 to cut her out, I then used the same die on some pink pearlescent card for the mount, the sentiment is one of the Pink Gem ones that's been treated in the same way as the image.
The base card is a 6"x 6" white card with a first mount of pink card and one of two papers from the First Editions two new Christmas Packs "Christmas Treat and "Festive Joy",  the first paper is a white background with hearts and the second paper is a pink background with candy canes on, and this one has been cut into a strip and Ive used the Martha Stewart Cherish Border Punch along both of the edges then positioned it down the middle of my card. I then wrapped a wide pink satin ribbon around the middle of the card and stuck it to the back of the first mount.
I then used some more of the same pink card and one of the Cherry Lynn Doily dies to cut out a circle and this was then stuck to the left and the mounted image was positioned in the centre of the card, and the sentiment at the bottom on the right hand side. To finish of Ive used a white and pink edged Hellebore with two lilies either side in a spray stuck on some silicone glue and punched out leaves in the bottom left hand corner.
This card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://mosdigitalchallenge.blogspot.com/
http://natalduranteoanotodo.blogspot.com/
http://dreamvalleychallenges.blogspot.com/
http://onestitchatatimechallenge.blogspot.com/
http://ribbongirls.blogspot.com/

A Card for Many Challenges

Good Morning Everyone, hope that you are all enjoying yet another holiday weekend, the sun is trying very hard to come out and Im hoping to get out for a walk after dinner. Anyway todays card is to cover several Magnolia Challenges, Magnolia Stamp Lovers "Flowers", Totally Tilda's "Paper Piecing", Magnolia Down Unders "Lace and Ribbons", Dutch Magnolia's "Mothers Day" and Just Magnolia's "Buttons, Bows and Bling" and hopefully with what Ive got here will cover everything. Ive used this sweet image of Tilda with a butterfly, and coloured the base of it with my Copic and Tria pens, and then Ive used two papers from the Hideaway Paper Pack from First Edition and they are two papers with the same pattern but with opposite colouring the first a green with white flowers, and then white with green flowers, they were then stamped and cut out the relevant pieces and stuck them to my image, afterwards Ive used the Oval Nestabilitie die to cut her out, I also used some glitter on the butterflies. I used some of the same green pearlescent card to cut a mount of a scalloped die and the sentiment is yet another of the Magnolia stamps thats been treated in the same way as the image.
The base card is 6"x 6" white card with the first mount of green pearlescent card with one of two of the same paper set, this first one is a all over white background with stripes of different colours and patterns across the paper, on top I have put a single strip mount with a piece of the same green flower paper that I used for her skirt.
On top of this I have wrapped a piece of lace and ribbon around the card and attached it to the back of the first mount, then positioned my mounted image in the middle on top of one of the Cherry Lynn Die cut Doilies with the sentiment at the bottom on the right. I have then created some flowers with yet another piece of the same paper pack and a bit of the green for the middle flower, I used the Marianne flower dies for this, and stuck them onto my card with some silicone glue on top of some punched out oak leaves. The two buttons on the right have had threaded through the holes some fine ribbon and tied in bows, and the final bow is a triple seam binding one thats been stuck at the side of my image.
This card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://magnoliastamplovers.blogspot.com/
http://www.totallytilda.blogspot.com/
http://magnoliadownunderchallenges.blogspot.com/
http://dutchmagnolialovers.blogspot.com/
http://justmagnolia.blogspot.com/

Cards for Men - Challenge 9 - "Circles"

Hi Everyone hope you are all enjoying your Easter. Well weve reached yet another Challenge and this one is being hosted by Kitty of  http://kittyskrafty.blogspot.com/ my very talented fellow team member, and she has decided to have "Circles" as her theme for this fortnights Challenge and it is being sponsered by Heather of Fresh Brewed Designs, you should pop over to her website and see what fabulous images she has.

And this is what Heather says about herself :-

 Hi. I am Heather Dennis. I am a homeschooling mother of 2 wonderful children, the wife of 12 years to the love of my life, a Christian and the owner of Fresh Brewed Designs. I have loved to draw and create ever since I was a child. My daughter has inherited my love of art and recently inspired me to start creating again.

All the images in my shop are hand drawn. I offer a wide range of images from coffee, cute and inspirational.I also love to create custom drawn images, so if you are looking for anything in particular, please feel free to drop me an email.

And she has offered a prize of 3 digi Images of your own choice.
This is my card for this Challenge, made from one of the delightful images she gave to us to play with.

For my card I have used this gorgeous owl of Heathers and coloured him with my copic pens before cutting him out with my circle Nestabilitie Die, then used a larger one for the mount out of dark brown card. The sentiment is one from my stash and this has also been cut out in the same was as the mount.
The base card is a 6"x 6" white card with a first mount of dark brown card and one of three papers from First Edition set of papers "Sweet Owl" the first paper is two tone brown spot paper, and on top of this is a brown background with swirl circle pattern on and this with the third paper which is yet again a brown based paper but this one has pink glitter and white circles on, Ive used a spot border punch down both edges and layered them up on top of each other, with yet another piece of the dark brown card thats been put through a my cuttlebug with a circle embossing punch.
I then positioned my mounted image in the middle with the sentiment at the bottom on the right, and the final touch is the two ball buttons on the bottom left hand side. Now that youve seen my card I do so hope you will now pop over to our Cards for Men Challenge Blogspot to see what the rest of my fellow Design Team members have created for you and hopefully you to will be spured into taking pard in the Challenge.
This Card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://www.cardcupids.org/blog/
http://cheerfulstamppad.blogspot.com/
http://corrosivechallengesbyjanet.blogspot.com/
http://thecraftypad.blogspot.com/
http://onestitchatatimechallenge.blogspot.com/
http://sentimentalsundays.blogspot.com/
http://sparklesforumchallenges.blogspot.com/

A Card for Mo and Cute Card Thursday Challenges

Good Afternoon All, well its become cloudy again so I suppose we are in for some rain, I did manage to get out for about 30mins at 12noon when the sun was out, but by gum it was very windy and my poor daffodils are being battered to death. Anyway todays card has been created for this weeks Mo's Challenge "Buttons and Bows" and Cute Card Thursday "Couples" Challenges, Ive used this sweet pair for my image from Mo itns called "Brady and Chloe" and Ive printed it onto white card then used my copic pens to colour it before using the new Nestabilitie Die No.19 to cut it out afterwards using the same die to draw around and create the mount for it. The sentiment was one I created on the computer and printed it out onto white card and mounted it onto a piece of the same green card.
The base card is 6"x 6" white card with a first mount with green pearlescent card and one of two papers from the First Edition"Hideaway" papers, a very pretty white base with spots of orange yellow and green with flowers in them, the second piece has been cut into a strip and Ive used a heart border punch from Martha Stewart along both edges, I then positioned it across the card and on top I have put a piece of threaded lace around and attached it to the back of the first mount.
I then stuck my mounted image in the middle and the sentiment at the bottom on the right hand side. I created a bow with some seam binding ribbon and stuck to the right of the mount, and the last thing I picked three buttons from my stash and threaded some bakers twist through the holes and tied bows with it, and then stuck two at the top on the left and one on top of the green binding bow.
This card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://mosdigitalchallenge.blogspot.com/
http://www.cutecardthursday.blogspot.com/
http://mypartnerincraftingcrime.blogspot.com/
http://theresmagicintheair.blogspot.com/
http://paperromancechallenges.blogspot.com/ 

A Card for Mo and Cute Card Thursday Challenges

Good Morning All Im so sorry Ive not been around much lately, Ive had 5 birthdays in the family this week plus a couple from last week, then we went to the NEC on Thursday and out for the day yesterday so its been all go this week. Anyway for the next few days there will a new card posted not only today but then there are my DT cards for three challenges to come so you wont be let down by not finding something new here. Todays card has been created for two Challenges and anymore I might find later, anyway the first two are Mo's "Show me Attitude" and Cute Card Thursday's "Sketch by Deb" and Ive used this sweet image of Mo's called "Will with Attitude" and I really feel this is just like all little ones when they get the strops, Ive printed him onto white card then coloured him with my copic pens, afterwards I used my rotatrim to cut him out and to mount him onto blue pearlescent card. The sentiment is one I created on my computer and printed it out and mounted it in the same was as the image.
The base card is a 6"x 6" white card with a first mount of blue card and one of four papers from the First Edition "Up and Away" paper pad, the first being a white background with clouds and a scibble design, the second paper a blue cloud pattern has been cut into a 5inch square and Ive used one of my Martha Stewart all around punch sets on it, this was then stuck on top of the first layer and for my third paper is a multi circle pattern and this has been mounted in a oval mount, and the fourth is a strip pattern thats been mounted down the left hand side.
I then positioned my mounted image in the middle with the sentiment down the bottom on the right.
This card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://mosdigitalchallenge.blogspot.com/
http://www.cutecardthursday.blogspot.com/