Sweet as Candy

It's Super Saturday over at Little Miss Muffet, so that means you can buy some rubber for a special discounted price, and you can also get your hands on a freebie too, this time, the freebie is Monster Vic,
you can see a couple of examples using Vic on the LMM blog.

My card today uses one of the spotlighted stamps...

So in the spotlight this week are the carnival sentiments and banners. You can buy the sentiment i've used on this card in the set  Swings 'n Slides Carnival Sentiments #2
(and you can find set #1 HERE)

I teamed up the sentiment with Swings 'n Slides Cotton Candy,
but to be honest the sentiment would go with almost any other LMM stamp as they are all sweet.
The pretty heart paper is from a 6x6 pad called 'with love' by me to you.
I've used the dies ornate frame and drops border, both are by cArt-Us.

Have a fab weekend! It's my Mom's birthday today, and I offered to cook some buffet foods for the family, so that's what i'll be starting to do when this scheduled post goes live.
I baked a lemon drizzle cake today (meaning friday), Mom loves lemony flavours so I hope she'll like it, i'm dieting, but plan to have a little bit of it as it's the first time i've made this cake. I'm also going to be having a little bit of the date and walnut cake that my daughter has made for her Nan. My Mom's fave cake :)

I'd like to enter this card at:
Crafty Sentiments - make it girly
Pollycraft Challenge - for the kids
Simon Says Stamp - anything goes
Charisma Cardz - just one (one image, one sentiment, one colour...)


UPDATE: Thank you! xx
I'm a winner at
 

Rudolph Day challenge

The 25th of each month was Rudolph Day over at Auntys Forum. Sadly the forum closed last week :(
Luckily, Kathy told us about a new forum Craft Bubble II  So some of us have moved to this friendly new place full of inspiration, exchanges and challenges for all sorts of crafters, not just card makers.
And they have a Rudolph Day :)
This month we have been asked to make a card using the colour RED and to include paper piecing.
Here's my card...

I've used a hanglar & stanglar stamp for this card, it actually has angel wings, but I cut those off when I fussy cut the image out. I stamped the base onto white card and coloured with promarkers, then I stamped again onto the red paper (from MME's snowed in paper pack) so that I could paper piece her dress. I used the same paper for the base and the flowers, punched using my SU boho blossoms punch, adding a flat back pearl to complete the flowers.
The white/gold patterned paper was given to me free with an online order of card stock so I don't have a name for it, sorry, pretty though eh? it is slightly embossed and the gold shimmers. I cut out some squares and punched the opposite corners.
Talking of gold shimmer, I used plain gold paper for the leaves. I finished the background with some card candi.
I also paper pieced the bauble that she is holding, using a scrap of paper from SU's Bella Bleu collection.
The sentiment is my own, from my Ticket Sentiments range.

I'd like to enter this at:
Pennys - I chose card candi, flowers and pearls
Simon Says Stamp - anything goes
Crafty Hazelnut's challenge - cute
Christmas Card Challenges - punches
CHNC challenge extra for August - anything goes (christmas)

Sketch challenge at LMM

That's right, today's challenge over at Little Miss Muffet is a fabby sketch, here's what I did with it...

I've used the digi stamp Polka Dot Pals Andy for my card this week and coloured him with promarkers, I chose this image because it reminds me of the cute little boy who will be receiving it.
I wanted the colours to be bright and cheerful and I was drawn to these Echo Park digi papers (called Playground Paper Pack #2) for that very reason.
I checked, and I actually bought these papers 2 years ago!! Clearly about time I used them eh?
I printed the image a few times so that I could 3D it slightly, you can't see in the photo, but the main body, head, then hair and hands are layered with glue rather than foam pads because I prefer a more subtle layering for images like this one, the end result looks more natural I think.

It's your turn now, let's see your creations :)
You'll find the challenge rules and more inspiration by the other Little Misses on the challenge blog.

I'd like to enter this card at:
Paper Crafting Journey - anything goes
Bearly Mine Challenges - digi days
Shopping Our Stash - for the boys
I Love Promarkers - use a number
Pollycraft Challenge - for the kids
Crafty Creations - use a number
Simon Says Stamp - anything goes

Thanks for stopping by today,
Happy Crafting xx


UPDATE: thank you! xx

Inspiration

I found this beautiful cd folder whilst on my tintynet travels.

The design inspired me to make this card for my Moms birthday this coming Saturday...

I've used Echo Park 'abundance' digi papers, I colour changed the houndstooth paper to blue as I wanted to back it to the floral patterned paper for the fold over, and blue looked better than orange because I wanted to use these pretty blue papermania material flowers.
I used 3 flower petals for each bloom and secured them with metal spacer beads and a brad. I arranged them with ivory mulberry roses and kraft punched leaves (woodware ash punch).
I paper pricked all around then dragged a white gel pen along the holes for some faux stitching.
I glued a crystal gem to another larger brad to secure the folded part.
'mom' is cut using dienamics 'by the letter' dies.

I'd like to enter this card at:
Crafty Catz - stitching (option of material)
Crafty Sentiments - make it girly

thanks for looking xx

UPDATE! YAY! i'm a winner, thank you Crafty Catz xx

Super Saturday time!

Today's Super Saturday freebie from Little Miss Muffet Stamps is Sister Brinda, from The Van Family.
I decided that she'd look pretty on a tag for a party gift, because that is definately a party dress if ever i've seen one right?...

I coloured Brinda with promarkers then cut her out using a cArt-Us die, then cut another from red mirror card using a bigger die from the set. It's always difficult to photograph mirror card.
The sentiment is an old Pollycraft one, and the mulberry roses are from my stash.
I used 2 punches, SU's scalloped oval to frame the sentiment, and Woodware's Ash leaf.

Brinda is off to the parties at:
The Pink Elephant - anything but a card
Lexi's Creations - sparkle and shine
Papertake Weekly - flower power
Penny's Paper Crafty - dies and/or punches


In today's spotlight is Cool Chester,  a rubber stamp available at a special discounted price.
You can see some wonderful cards created by my teamies on the challenge blog.

Speaking of challenges, have you attended the Monster Ball yet? ;)

Don't forget our DT call ends tomorrow at midnight CDT (i think that's 6am Monday UK time)

Have a great weekend xx

Robin Owl

And here's my third card to show you today...

This is Cozy Winter Owl from Meljens Designs, but yeah I coloured him as a robin.
Have you ever coloured an image and you sort of have blinkers on and colour something differently to how most others would? Faye, yes I know you have, snowball/bauble, nuff said, even though it was genius!
Anyway, I printed this image a while ago, I often print in batches so that I have an image to hand, and this was printed for my christmas image batch. I usually write the name of the image on the reverse in pencil, except this time I didn't do that obviously.
So I grabbed the image, and I saw a bird in a winter scene, so in my head that meant a robin, so I happily coloured the little chap in and made my card.
I always put my finished cards to one side so that a) any glue can dry completely, and b) it reminds me to take a photo. That is unless i've made a card for my husband or for my son, in which case their cards get to dry in a secret drawer where neither of them can walk in and see it.
Anyway, my husband walks into my craft room and sees a couple my latest makes, "Jo, they're great, but i've never seen an owl with a red belly before". That's when I looked at the image again and realised.

He still looks good as a robin right?

The spotty paper is by Kaisercraft (Christmas Tradition) The swirly sentiment is one of the first stamps I bought many moons ago and is by Papermania.

I'm entering Robin Owl at:
Meljens - fancy font
Creative Inspirations - christmas in August
Crafty Calendar - anything goes
Christmas at Sweet Stampin - winter animals

Annoying Husband.

Now did you read that as your husband is annoying, or that you annoy him?
Most wives would say the former, all husbands the latter lol.

I've made this card for my hubby for our wedding anniversary in October.

I bought the image from Bugaboo, which came with a sentiment, but not THIS sentiment, this sentiment actually came with this image. I wanted to buy both images anyway, but for me, the sentiments work better the other way around as I plan to use the stella and gus image for my parents anniversary card next year.
The papers are by Stampin Up, it's their 'Not Quite Navy' dsp from a patterns paper pack I bought years ago. My SU stash dates back to when the four colour groups were soft subtles, earth elements, rich regals and bold brights. Not Quite Navy was in earth elements and has probably been retired quite a while now.
I punched out some small hearts using the same cardstock for a faux embossed look.
'husband' has been cut using my dienamics 'by the letter' dies.

I'd like to enter this card at:
Inky Impressions - masculine
Paper Crafting Journey - anything goes
Kaboodle Doodles - a song or a quote


number 3 on its way...