Crafting a cold away

I have a cold, one of those stuffy, pressure in your head type of colds :(
So I decided to try to make cards to help take my mind off it.
At first I had crafters block so I looked through the list of challenges in my sidebar and made a few notes, nearly 2 hours later I have made 3 cards! :)

The first is for the following challenges:
Passion for ProMarkers - make your own flowers
I {heart} ProMarkers - white on white (the only colour to be the image used)
Allsorts - use at least 3 punches
Wild Orchid Challenge - Ribbon & Bows
Papertake Weekly - Animal Magic
Colour Create Challenge - All white (with coloured image), with the optional extra of embossing
Charisma Cardz Challenge - Anything Goes

Here's my card:

The white base card was stamped with clear pigment ink and an Anita's snowflake stamp, then heat embossed with clear embossing powder. I wrapped white ribbon around and tied into a bow at the front.
The image is by Artful Stamper and is called 'Cat Nap', I coloured this adorable image with ProMarkers, the cat itself is a blend of caramel & buttercup colours. I added some white flock to the trim of the hat and a little glitter to the bell at the end.
Next I made my flowers, using 3 punches: SU 5 petal flower punch, All Night Media Snowflake punch, and the smaller flower with my SU boho blossoms punch. I added flat-back pearls to the centre of each flower to finish.


The next card is for Simon Says Stamp Challenge Blog, who have a fab sketch to follow made by their new GD Jay Jay:

The SSS DT have all used Sarah Kay images this week so I thought I would use this Sweet Ebony 'picking apples' image by Elizabeth Bell who designed this image with inspiration from Sarah Kay. I coloured this cute image with SU markers.
The card base is SU creamy caramel cardstock, the paper is by Dovecraft and is from their 'funky vintage' collection. The flowers were made using x-cut retro flower punches and a woodware leaf punch. Sentiment is by SU from their 'pocket silhouettes' stamp set.
I added more flat-back pearls to complete the card.



Now, this card is SO CUTE! which suits this weeks challenge over at Pollycraft perfectly which has the theme 'Cute and Cuddly'...


The image is also by Pollycraft and is called 'Marleys Bauble'. Isn't he just the cutest?! :)
I coloured Marley with ProMarkers, then added some more white flock to trim his hat, and a little glitter to his bauble although it's hard to see.
The green patterned paper is by MME 'quite contrary' paper pack, the blue spotty paper is from Dovecrafts 'back to basics' paper pack.
The sentiment is from a Dovecraft clear stamp set (studio g)
I used this weeks sketch from Truly Scrumptious, who also gave us the option of using the colours blue and green too, hence my colour combo for this card.
As lovely as it was, I felt it needed something adding and so got my boho blossoms punch out again to make some flowers, my woodware punch for the leaves and added flat-back crystals to the centre to finish.

Phew! quite a long post for me! thanks for staying the course if you are still here lol.