One of a kind...for you

The 3 different flowers and the sentiment on this card are stamped from SU's One of a kind set.

I stamped using rich cocoa memento ink, stamping the largest flower 6 times before cutting the centre out of three of them so that I could 3D them with foam adhesive.
The ProMarkers used to colour the flowers are Rose Pink, Dusky Pink, Buttercup & Cocoa (cross hatching in centre of flowers)
The leaves are punched from close to cocoa SU cardstock.
The DP is by Paper Cellar, from their wedding collection.

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Cupcake Crafts challenge - Pink & Brown

ABC challenge - E is for Easel cards


thanks for looking xx

Beer Monster!

What a great image this is! :)
It's from Pollycraft, I was looking through my digi images that I have already printed out ready to colour and saw beer monster and had to get out my Promarkers to colour him in.

The challenge this week for the Pollycraft challenge is 'No designer paper' so out came my plain cardstock in complimentary colours to the image, I sponged the edges with SU close to cocoa ink to distress them slightly.

A spoonfull of sugar have asked us to use 'spots & stripes' this week so the green piece (SU Old Olive) was stamped with SU chocolate chip ink using a polka dot stamp, and the stripes were hand drawn onto the 2 side tab pieces using a SU close to cocoa marker.

For the layout of this card I have used the brilliant sketch by Dawny P for this weeks Papertake Weekly challenge, which incidently happens to be celebrating their 3rd birthday next week! :)

Thanks for stopping by today, i'm off to see what other challenges I can make cards for :)

2 cards - 6 challenges

I'm feeling much better now, all thats left of my cold is a sore throat and a slight cough :)
I'm so happy to be able to have some free time at the moment to sit and make cards, and it's nice to have a go at some of the fab challenges that are around in blogland.

Here's my first card today...

I started with a cream card base and rounded the top corners.
Next I stamped the 3 trees (SUs 'Trendy Trees' stamp set) onto cream cardstock using Old Olive, Really Rust, Summer Sun, Pumpkin Pie and Close to Cocoa inks. I cut these out and used foam adhesive to stick them to a piece of my fave Chatterbox 'chateau' cardstock which I had punched the top corners to replicate the card base and also scallop edge punched the bottom of it, adding some yellow ribbon just above the scallops.
The sentiment is also from the same SU stamp set.

I'd like to enter this card into the following 4 challenges:

Allsorts - Plain and Simple

Sketchy Colors - Colour Challenge
(Yellow, Orange, Green and Brown)

Stamp Something  and  Stamptacular who are both asking for us to use fall (autumn) colours this week.




This is my second card...

I've used SU's 'Almost Amethyst' cardstock and 'Tea Party' papers for this card.
I paper pricked all around the card and one of the centre pieces then dragged a purple pen through the holes to make the 'stitching'
The pretty Magnolia image was coloured with ProMarkers.
I punched out the flowers from glittered cardstock and coloured the centres with a purple pen. The sentiment is from SU's Pocket Silhouettes stamp set.

I used the lovely sketch by Dawny over at Just Magnolia's and would like to enter this card to their challenge.
Also, the challenge over at Crafty Catz which has a theme of stitching.

Thanks for looking :) xx

Together Forever

Oooops! guess who forgot to schedule her post for yesterday!

This is my card for this weeks challenge over at Sketch Saturday.

I've used my all time favourite cardstock, Chatterbox's 'chateau' collection.
I bought a stash of it a few years ago, I love this cardstock SO much, it's double sided and the patterns shown on the card show both sides of the card.They also do a floral/criss-cross piece in the same collection. Actually, I'm not sure if it's available to buy anywhere now but google might have the answer eh?
The image was given to me by a friend and is a Pink Cat Studio image, i've used my SU markers to colour.
The sentiment is from SU's fun & fast notes stamp set.
and the little hearts are punch outs taken from a fiskars border punch.

To see the FABULOUS work by my fellow teamies, please go to their wonderful blogs,
links are over there >>>

Some Odd Girl competition

There's a competiton over at Some Odd Girls blog to name their newest arrival, a cute little monkee!
The winner will receive the complete set of 5 adorable Monkee stamps as well as a host of other goodies that you'd give your left arm for!

Click below (or in my sidebar) to check it out yourself :)



I think the little guy looks like a "Marlon"
Fingers crossed eh?
Why don't you give it a try? Good luck if you do!

EDIT: Sadly I can't get my name choice/blog to enter this comp :(

I've tried to email them too but get error messages each time I try.

Ah well, maybe you'll have more luck than me

UPDATE: it's working now :)

Come here, there's more...

Do any of you remember Jimmy Cricket? lol
Jimmy is an Irish comedian & "Come here, there's more", was a catch phrase of his, and that is exactly what I want to say to you too.... because I have made 2 more cards this afternoon! (perhaps having a cold isn't such a bad thing after all eh?)
Ok perhaps reserve judgement until you see the cards! LOL!

Well actually I can only show you one today because the other is my DT card for Sketch Saturday this coming Saturday.
So here's the card that I can show you...


and the inside...

I've made this thank you card, to give to someone after they have given a gift.
The theme at Whiff of Joy Challenge this week is "Thank You"
WoJC are celebrating their 2 year anniversary too! congrats ladies! xx
I started by colouring the adorable Henry Mouse hugging heart from Whiff of Joy with ProMarkers, adding SU dazzling diamonds to the heart.
I used the beautiful sketch designed by my pal Lena from this weeks challenge at Sketchy Colors, hope it's ok to use artisitc licence and not put the image in a box in the centre circle.
The sketch suits a gatefold card perfectly and once the scalloped edges were punched (SU eyelet border punch) it left a strip of the inside of the card showing which I added a complimenting paper to the outside design so that it would show through, then I wrote the words "Thanks I Love it!" inside.
The paper on the outside of the card is from the same collection as the inside - Paper Cellar's Wedding paper stack, I love the grid-like harlequin pattern in these muted colours,
and GRID is the theme this week at Stamptacular Sunday Challenge, I just found this challenge blog & it's my first time entering, hope they like my card.

Well the heavens have opened here, and we have thunder/lightning too so I think i'll go back to my desk and see if I can find any more challenges to make cards for ;)
I've really enjoyed getting my fingers inky today :)

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.