Cute Chester

Here's Letter Chester, an image (digi) I originally bought from Pollycraft, but is now available in rubber at Little Miss Muffet Stamps...

I coloured Chester with promarkers and cut him out to add to the front of this layout, which happens to be the current challenge over at LMM challenges, to use the sketch provided.

Patterned papers used are by Dovecraft, with pieces of gold shimmer vellum to layer too (sadly, the shimmer isn't showing in the photo).
I used my SU eyelet border punch for the scalloped strip across the middle.

I'd also like to enter Chester at:
Bearly Mine - Anything goes
Christmas Card Challenges - scallops

Thanks for looking xx

SNOW, go away now!!

We've got more snow here :(
We don't want anymore thank you, we're looking forward to spring arriving and the white stuff just spoils it.
 The only good thing about having snow, is that it makes you want to shut yourself away in a warm room surrounded by craft stash and a mug of something hot (and maybe a couple or six of mcvities double chocolate digestives - mmmmmmm! )

The following card was made for the challenge and using the sketch from Seize the Birthday, who want us to make a feminine birthday card this week...

The cute image is a prize from Crafty Sentiments and is called Tess Summer Fun. It has a floral background to it and although very pretty, I decided to use just Tess alone for this card, this is the reason I requested this particular image because you can use her with or without the background and also with long hair or even give her a haircut and she has a short bob hair style. I like to get images that can be used in more ways than one.
I used some lovely floral paper that was free with a craft mag and is called 'sew pretty'
The diamond patterned paper is by Nitwits.
I also used gold mirror card, xcut scalloped circle die, sentiment from SU fun and fast notes stamp set.

As well as the Seize the Birthday challenge, I'd also like to enter this card at:
Crafty Sentiments Designs challenge blog - anything goes

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This next card is a stepper card (love this style of card).

I have used the adorable 'Cat with flower' digi image from Motivet and coloured with promarkers, lots of blending in this one with different shades of browns to get the effect I wanted. I used caramel, tan, cocoa and umber.
The patterned paper is from an old pad I had when I had a cricut machine and is called 'tags, bags, boxes and more'.
Just for you sentiment is from my SU 'Oval All' stamp set, and the flowers were punched using my SU boho blossoms punch. The leaves are from a woodware punch.

I'd like to enter this card at:
The Paper Shelter - card with many folds
Papertake Weekly - anything goes

Thanks for stopping by, if you have to go out today, wrap up warm and don't forget your wellies xx

for a 21st birthday

I'm quite happy with how this card turned out, it's very pretty and sparkly, perfect for a special birthday...

The image is ideal for a 21 year old young lady who loves shopping, it is of course 'madison attitude' by Kenny K. The spotty paper was from a free 6x6 paper pad that came with a craft magazine ('with love' by me to you)
The sentiment is computer generated. I used silver mirror card, flowers & red and clear crystals and a xcut 'sparkle' punched border to finish.

I'd like to enter this card at:
The Paper Shelter- card with folds
The Pink Elephant - inspiration photo (I went with the red and pink colour palette)
Papertake Weekly - anything goes
Bearly Mine - anything goes
I love Promarkers - Happy Birthday (and a happy 3rd birthday to all the DT from me)
Oldie but a Goodie - red & pink... old stash used = image bought May 2012, and crystals which i've had for an eternity ;)

Thanks for looking xx

White Rabbits!

Well actually it's a lemon one ;)
Here's my first card for this month...

Whimsy Stamps gave away this cute bunny doll digi on facebook recently, if you missed it, don't worry, it's available to buy from their store HERE.
I coloured bunny doll with promarkers before cutting it out (easy with this image).
The patterned papers are both from the same 'sweet always' collection by Stampin Up.
'aunt' is die cut with sizzix dies I believe, I received these years ago in a RAK from a friend and found them in a ziploc bag at the back of my scraps drawer, and are perfect for this card, so glad I found them.
The sentiment is also by SU, from their 'fun & fast notes' stamp set, and punched out with their word window punch.
For a final bit of SU, I used my boho blossoms punch to make the yellow flowers.
The pretty border edges were made using my xcut 'sparkle' punch.

I made this card for Februarys colour challenge at Auntys Forum, and I'd like to also enter this card at:
Top Tip Tuesday - layers (my 3rd & final entry)
Creative Card Crew - girly (my 3rd & final entry)
Simon Says Stamp - anything goes
MAWTT - punch it out
Cute Card Thursday - a different corner
Totally Gorjuss - flowers
ABC challenge - G for going dotty

Thanks for stopping by, have a great day xx

this card's been tango'd!

If you don't like the colour orange then please look away now lol.
I do like orange, but other people seem to be able to use it better than I can on a card :/

I chose orange because the intended recipient of this card is a Wolves fan (Wolverhampton Wanderers) and orange is the closest colour I have to one of the team colours (even though some people say the colour is gold, which, btw, I have also used on this card) The other team colour is black, which, as you can see, is the colour card I have used to die-cut his name from.
Anyway, i'm hoping he likes this card when I give it to him for his 21st birthday...

The image is another I won from Kenny K, and is called 'cheers dude' :)
The extra beer glasses above the 21 and the text behind the image are both from SU's cheers to you stamp set, and the text background paper is from a Kanban CD 'male bacgrounds'.

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Seize the Birthday - sketch & masculine card
Creative Inspirations - one for the guys
Simon Says Stamp challenges - anything goes
Allsorts - masculine


I actually counted all the cards I have made for this month and I think i've hit a record for me... 16 (well 17 actually, because I have made a card for a forum challenge that I can't show until tomorrow).
So January has been a very productive month for me, even better that I won 2 challenges and now own some fabulous digi images, and also came in the top 3 at Cards for Men too. Go me!
I hope February's cardmaking time is just as good, as most of my family and friends birthdays are in the first few months of the year, so have plenty to do.
Thanks for stopping by and seeing what i've been upto this month, and thanks for your lovely comments too xx

she loves me

This card will be given to my Mom by my son for Mothers Day. I really hope that my Mom doesn't stop by my blog before March 10th, I can't put photos on facebook yet but i'm hoping i'm safe to on here.

I have used another of my latest 'winnings', 'she loves me' from Crafty Sentiments. Isn't he a cutie? coloured as per usual with my trusty promarkers...

I'm entering this card into the challenge over at Passion for Promarkers - add sparkle, and the challenge over at Oldie but a Goodie - Glitz and Glam (my old stash is the leaf patterned paper and the crystals) I have actually had the leafy paper for about 4 years now, it is from a pad by Provocraft and is called 'windswept'. The sparkly, glitzy part is of course, courtesy of the pretty gems added to the pale blue piece cut using my cArt-Us 'drops' border die. The yellow (barely banana) piece was punched with my SU eyelet border punch then I glued the 2 together before adding the little crystals.
I'd also like to enter it at Creative Card Crew whose theme is girly, & Pennys Paper Crafty, whose theme this week is One for the girls, presuming that means a card for a girl and not a girly image (Pennys & CCC DTs, please delete my entry if it doesn't fit the theme for your challenges).

Thanks for stopping by xx

on a roll...

Morning all, look at me? haven't posted so much for aaaaaages! and i'm here again with a few more cards I've made.
BTW, I'm so glad to see the back of all that snow, aren't you? or do you still have some?
We have rain today and the sky is overcast, so I apologise for the dull photos.

My first card is for the challenge over at Simply Less is More and uses their sketch, the image is called Flowers and Bumblebee and is by Heart Song Designs, I sponged the sky background with bashful blue SU ink before colouring the image with promarkers. I added a thin strip of card top and bottom and punched out the handwritten sentiment.

I'd also like to enter this card at Totally Gorjuss' challenge which is 'flowers'.

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This next card will be entered at the challenge over at Seize the Birthday, who also gave us a sketch to use for our layout, this time they want to see a feminine birthday card...

and on the inside i've handwritten "...it's your birthday"

This card was in fact my second attempt at the sketch (scroll down a little to see my first).
I used Mo Manning's oh so cute 'Two Jill' and coloured her with promarkers. I will also be entering this card in Mo's  DP2 challenge, which is 'emboss it with a Mo', I used my stylised flowers embossing folder on the pink piece behind the image.

I'd also like to enter this card at:
Top Tip Tuesday - layers
Creative Card Crew - girly
Pennys Paper Crafty - embossing

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So this is the card I made with Seize the birthday's sketch before realising i'd made a Mother's Day card instead of a birthday card lol, no matter, it's a lovely sketch...

I won this Kenny K image along with 4 others over at the challenge at Totally Papercrafts last week "YAY!!"
How lucky am I eh? HUGE thanks to the Totally Papercrafts team and of course to Kenny K for my prize. This little beauty is called Happy Hour, and straight away I knew I wanted to use this for my Mom's card for Mother's Day which is March 10th this year.
I coloured her to (sort of) match the paper which are both from a set called Sew Pretty and were free in a craft mag.
'mom' was cut using Die-namics dies and the sentiment is handwritten.
The beautiful border edge to each side of the image is a cArt-Us die.

I'd like to enter this card over at:
Charisma Cardz - hearts and flowers
Crafty Calendar Challenge - 'New' (in my case, it's stash, the image, papers and border die are all new this week)

Hope you like, and thanks for stopping by today xx