Here's The Cake!

Well it's Friday again!!!

Time for Digi's With Attitude Challenge #20

The theme for this weeks challenge is
 "Use you favourite image"

We'd love to see any new project using YOUR favourite  image.

This week we are kindly sponsored by The Cutting Cafe 

  who are very kindly offering a prize of "3 sets of  the winners choice", to our first winner!

This is of course in addition to the usual
Digi's With Attitude $10 Store Coupon, one for every 25 entries!

I did promise not to do a square card!!!

So here we have my favoutite Digi's With Attitude! Image, this is Grumpy Gretchen, Big Deal Birthday!

 If I'm honest, I have many favourites as I really enjoy working with all the images but, this is one of the first images I got from the store & I have had soooo much fun with her!

This card is for a friend who has just celebrated her 50th Birthday but as she was a bit sensitive about her age, I didn't mention it on the outside but died on the insert!

My image was coloured with promarkers & paper pieced! I tried to stick to a monochromatic colour scheme. This is my first attempt at paper pieceing & I have to say it was lot's of fun!

I used my Sakura clear star pen to add shimmer to her eyelids, her shoes, bits of the cake & the board that the cake is on!

I punched the corners to round them off & added a matt of dove grey light weight card to which I had done the same.

The lovely Design Papers I have used were a freebie, which I think was from Joanne Barsby, ages ago & I had never got round to using them until now ( although I have to say I admired them often!!) Sorry I can't find a link to them anywhere!

For the layout I used an A5 rectangle card, to which I added a matt of the dove grey card which was

punched along the bottom edge using my Martha Stewart Punch.

I added a rectangle of one of the DPs & then I added a strip of the grey card topped with the same DP just above the punched edge using foam tape to give it a bit of height.

I then added two different sized squares of coordinating DPs which were matted onto the grey card and stuck on the diagonal to one side! I then attached the image over these! I next added computer generated sentiments & paper roses. Next was the large layered flower with the rose at the centre

& finally the round sentiment

which is from Sentiments 4 You

and was cut out using a scalloped circle nestie!

I think that's everything!!!

I hope you can find the time to add your project to the
Digi's With Attitude! Challenge!

Thanks for looking & don't forget to check out the other DT members wonderful  inspirational cards! I'm sure they'll all be very different this week!!
Big Hugs
Dawn xxx

P.S. as you read this I'll be on my way home from my hols!
I'd like to put this card forward for the following challenges
Passion For Promarkers #89 Sugar Rush
Papertake Weekly Anything Goes
My Grafico Monthly Challenge Anything Goes
Freshly Brewed Monthly Challenge Pink & Paper Piecing
Deset Island Crafters #3 Itinerary  (Papers, Theme & hand coloured image)
Little Miss Muffet Challenges #4 Designer Papers
Craft Ann's Challenge blog  Birthday Card
Crafty Catz Special Birthday (50th)
Oh La La Creations Pink Pink & More Pink

Wishful Thinking!

Well hello everyone, it must be Friday again!!!
I'm back with my DT card for
Digi's With Attitude! Challenge #19
"Wishful Thinking" Where do YOU wish you were right now?

 Here's my card!

This is Beach Tween! She's having a lovely time on the beach, daydreaming of her Prince Charming coming along some day & sweeping her off her feet!

She & Video Gamer Tween another newbie can be found in the Digi's With Attitude! Store from today!

This weeks Challenge is very kindly sponsored by
Bearly Mine Designs

They are kindly offering up a  Prize of 2 Digi Sets of the winners choice for our first winner!

This is of couse in addition to the normal
Digi's With Attitude! $10 Gift Voucher (1 for every 25 entries)

On to how I made my card! The card base was a 14cm x14cm square. I just can't seem to stop making square cards at the moment!!! I promise I'll do another shape next time!

I coloured the image with Promarkers as always and cut her out with a nestie on the Big Shot.

I followed a sketch from my file for the design of this card.
The DPs I used were kindly provided by our sponsor this week! There were several different designs, from different collections in the bundle we were given, so can't advise what they are!
You'll just have to pop on over & check it out for yourself!!!

The paper lacey border was part of a prize I won from Lyn over at  Spyder's Corner for guessing how many punches she had used on a particular card!
My prize was a big padded envelope stuffed with punched bits & pieces! Lucky me eh!!

The sentiment ticket was part of a set from
Sentiments 4 You, (check out the website & their Friday Freebies!) I coloured it up with promarkers too & mounted on foam pads for dimenson!

Embellishment wise, I have my silver peel off butterflies which I stuck onto acetate, then cut out, folded the wings back & attached with Pinflair Glue ,some self adhesive pearls around the image.

& this little ribbon flower embellie which was part of a Blog Candy that I won from The Glitter Fairy, to celebrate the birth of her son! I really am a lucky girl aren't I!!!

Thanks for stopping by! I really hope you can find the time to join in with us at Digi's With Attitude! & tell us where you wish YOU were right now!

Did I mention that this post is scheduled & right this minute I should be on the lovley island of
Lanzarote,

Hope fully soaking up the sunshine

  while the cat sitter looks after the house, the plants, the goldfish & my fluffy buddy Sammy!

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges
Bearly Mine Ribbon & Pearls (Tues)
Creative Craft Challenge Cards for Teens (hoping my "tween" qualifies!) (Tues)
Digital Tuesday Punches
Partytime Tuesdays Anything Goes
Sweet Stamps Flowers
Incy Wincy Designs Use Punches or Dies
Stamps Are us For the Girls
I Did It Creations Anything Goes
Pile It On Childhood Dreams
Sentimental Sundays Be Inspired (Lighthouses make me think of the beach!)
Scrapbook Sisters Pearls & Lace
 Creative Craft World Use A Square (I've used squares & rectangles)
Little Claires Designs Anything Goes
Totally Gorjuss Checks
Aly's Sunday Challenge Give Support To cheer up a friend!
Flutter By Wednesday's Use a Butterfly Angel or Fairy

A Woman's Work!

A woman's work is never done & that goes for this little lady,who is one of the latest additions to the Digi's With Attitude! store this week!

She's called Vacuuming Tween & she's dying to get out with her friends but instead, she's having to clean her room!!!

She's decided to have a bit of fun while doing it & is doing the Hoover Boogie to her favourite old Queen song "I want to break free!" Those of you old enough might remember the video with Freddie Mercury in a dress doing the cleaning!

Which brings me on to this weeks
Challenge#18 over at Digi's With Attitude!
It's a Theme Challenge & is "Anything to do with cleaning!"

 Now you don't have to use a Digi's With Attitude! image but we do like to see what you do with them!

This week we once again have a sponsor!

Robyn's Fetish is offering up 2 paper packs, of the winners choice, from their store! This is of course  in addition to the usual prize of a $10 coupon for the Digi's With Attitude! store.
They very kindly provided the DT with some papers to play with for this challenge too!
The papers are from a collection called Coney Island Summers!

I made my card using a twisted easel base! to which I added  a matt of lightweight green card & then the  green floral paper.

I coloured my image with promarkers to match in with the papers & cut her out on the big shot with my latest nesties. I matted her onto a layer of the green textured paper.

I then added a computer generated sentiment, a ribbon from my stash, a paper flower with a rose at it's centre & a couple of punched flourishes!
 For base of the easel I used the green textured paper.

The stop was once again a computer generated sentiment cut out with another nestie & matted onto the floral paper & lightweight card! 

For balance I added a rose & punched flourishes!

Thank you for looking & I do hope you'll have time to play along! Don't forget to visit the other DT members blogs & comment on their cards too!!!

I have been asked how I made this card and I have to say it was very simple to do!
I took a square card blank, opened it up & scored one half from corner to corner on the diagonal!
I folded over the card & sharpened the fold with a bone folder.
I added the design paper to the base card.
I then took another piece of cardstock the same size as the base card & decorated that with the DPs and my image, flowers etc!
I attached the front to the base & added the sentiment as a stop to retain the card front!
 I hope you can follow these instructions! If you do want any more details just ask!!!

I'd like to enter this card for the following challenges
Creative Craft World Use a Square
Stanpavie & More Monochrome
Stamin' Royalty Use Markers
Digital Tuesday Use a Diecut
Creative Inspirations Paint Keep It Sweet & Simple

My Grafico Monthly Challenge Anything Goes
Digi Doodle Shop's Best Anything Goes
Paper Crafting Journey Anything Goes
Samuel Taylor's Challenge Use Promarkers/Copics
Sassy Studio Designs Use a Punch
Shelly's Images Blog Anything Goes

Happy Camper!

Morning all!!! I'm back with this weeks DT card for the
Digi's With Attitude! Challenge #17

This week's challenge is a How do YOU do it?
Make it look PUFFY!

How do YOU make something look PUFFY on your project?

Our Sponsor this Week is

the fabulous Stampin Dragon Designs who are very kindly offering a prize of  a $10 coupon for their store.

Make sure you pop over & check out their stuff!!! Lots of fab digi's papers, images & much  more!
This is in addition to the usual $10 Coupon for the Digi's With Attitude! store!

Here's my card!

The image I've used is "Camping Tween"

She's due to be released today in the

Digi's With Attitude! store!

I coloured her up with my promarkers and I wanted to cut her out as a round image but

she just didn't fit inside any of my round cutters!
Silly me forgot to size the image properly!!!

In the end I drew around the outside edge of a scalloped nestie with a pencil & hand cut the shape!

I made my 140x140mm base card from a sheet of brown cardstock. Which has the fold at the top & stands like a tent to reflect my camping image!

For the layout I followed the sketch from Sketch Saturday

 I'm having such fun using sketches for layouts at the moment!

The papers I have used were very kindly given to the DT, by Stampin Dragon Designs, to play with!

I just love them & didn't hesitate to make the most of them. The papers are from two different sets (Coffee Cream used for the layout & Essentials 5 used for the fern leaves) I think they work really well together!

As you can see I made my PUFFY bit by punching out some fern leaves using my Woodware Punch and some of the DPs. I embossed them to make them curl up a bit & then simply layered them around the image, to make a leafy wreath, sticking them down as I went using my quickie glue pen!

I feel it's like looking through the trees & seeing her at her little campfire, toasting her marshmallows!

The sentiment was from Sentiments 4 You & was cut out with a scalloped circle nestie.

I coloured it with promarkes & attached with foam pads for dimension.

The only other thing I added was a couple of square gems to fit in with the sketch!

I do hope you can find the time to join in with us at Digi's With Attitude! this week!

Don't forget to pop on over & check out the other DT members fantastic cards for some inspiration!
Thanks for stopping by!

I'd like to enter this card for the following challenges.
Sketch Saturday Inspirational Sketch
Creative Card Crew For a Loved One
Fab 'n' Funky Texture
I Love Promarkers Happy Birthday
Craft Your Passion Anything goes
One Stich At a Time Use a Digi
Catch The Bug Challenge Anything Goes
Little Claire's Anything Goes

Sweet Valentine!

Here I am again with this weeks DT Card for

Digi's With Attitude! Challenge #16!

This weeks Challenge is a colour challenge!

"Use Red & White OR Pink & White!"

What else could I do but make a Valentine card considering the colours in the challenge & the time of year! 

My dearly beloved might be lucky & get two cards this year!

On second thoughts, I might send one to myself!!!
It'll most likely be the only one I get!!! lol

The lovely image I used was the newsest "Tween" on the blog! She's none other than "Valentine Tween" & she soon to join all the other cute "Tweens With 'Tude" over in the Digi's With Attitude Store! Watch this space!
Don't forget there will soon be a new freebie in store too!

For the design of my card I followed the fab Saturday Sketch from Sweet Stampin

The DPs are from the "5 Valentine Rose Backing Papers " set over at Cardmaking Downloads 

I punched both edges of the large heart paper to give it the scalloped effect!

As you can see I opted for Red & White! I cheated a bit with a little Pink & Green but I think I'll get away with that!

I coloured the image with my Promarkers & I used a white gel pen to highlight areas on the hearts & on her shoes.I used the blender pen on the flowers & on the bench to give them the pinky tinge! I cut the image

 & matt out with my nesties!



The sentiment I used was simply a peel off coloured with the same promarker as the hearts & the dress & I cut the corners with a corner punch, just to give it a bit of shape!

The little hearts are brads, my great little bargain find on my recent visit to the Hobbycrafts 70% off sale!
Thanks sooo much for stopping by! I do hope you'll find the time to join us in the Challenge! I'm sure you're all making at least one project using Red & White or Pink & White!
Don't forget to check out the other DT members cards at Digi's With Attitude! Challenge Blog



I would like to enter this card in the following Challenges
Sweet Stampin Sketch (Saturdays)
I Did It Creations #40 Red (Sundays)
Simply Create #36 Give Your Heart Away (until Feb 11th)
2 Sisters # 24 Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Do You Stack Up#5  Red Hot
Penny's Paper Crafty Hearts a Flutter (Wed)
By the Cute & Girly Red + Another Colour (Tues)
AIFactory Pink & Red (Thur)
CCEE Use Your Punches (Thur)
Crafty Purple Frog Romance (Thur)
Digi Doodles Best Shop (Thur)
Guylou's Inimitablity DigiStamps Hearts (Thur)
Moving Along With The Times Red (Thur)
Paper Crafting Journey Love Is In The Air (Thur)
Sassy Studio Design Love Is In The Air (Thur)
Mygrafico Anything Goes (Monthly)
Crafts And Me Red (Wed)
Creative Craft World Love (Wed)
Scrapbook Sisters Red, Red, Red (Wed)
Simon Says Stamp Love Is In The Air (Wed)
Flourishes Challenge Timeless Tuesdays (Tue)
Stamping Vacation Pick Three
(Monthly border punch, heart,, black around eyes)
Tip Top Tuesday Anything Girly (Tue)
Tuesday Taggers Feel The Lurvvvveeeeee (Tue)
Bunny Zoe's Crafts Love Is In The Air (Mon)
KB Cute Monday Use Hearts (Mon)
Lexi's Creation Challenge (Mon)
OLLCB 3 Of A Kind (Mon Hearts in hair)
Paper Playtime Anything Goes With Digi (Mon)
Simon Says Stamp & Show Some Love (Mon)
Stamping Scrapping Challenge Central (Mon)
IDIC Red (Sun)
Mark's Finest Papers (Sat)
SSDS Get Punchy (Sat)
Craftmad Fairy Digi Days Romance

Monkey Business

Evening everyone! I've been having a play! I've made a card for my Brother's Birthday next week! He loves bright colours so this is what I came up with for him!

The image is Mikey Monkey from  Digi's With Attitude! I bought him ages ago & have used him a few times! I just love his cheeky little face!

I coloured him up with Promarkers & cut him out with the nesties on the Big Shot! The papers are from the Some Bunny collection over at Scrapbookingmad.I came across these when I was looking for something else, I think the colours are just fantastic! I followed the February sketch from Dude Time Doodles and matted everything on to bright orange lightweight card. The computer generated sentiments were attached with foam pads as was the image.

The buttons were from a Christmas set of Snowman button brads! I just love that fabric!

I hope you like it!

Thanks for stopping by!

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges
Incy Wincy Designs#79 Monkeyin' Around
Dude Time Doodles February Sketch
The Crafty Pad #106  Something for the men
Do You Stack Up #4 Patterned paper
I love Promarkers  Anything goes
The Pixie Cottage Sketch & or Buttons (Buttons)

This Little Lady Definitely Has The 'Tude

Here I am back again with a card for

Digi's With Attitude! Challenge #15 Go Digital People!

Please pop over & join us if you can! This weeks prize is a Digi's With Attitude! $10 gift certificate

Meet Cheerleader Tween, one of the newest Tweens on the block! She certainly loves life!

You can find her & all the other Tweens here in the Digi's With Attitude! store.

I coloured this little lady up with Promarkers. I then cut her out using my Nesties in the Big Shot, ran a Promarker around the edge of the scalloped circle to add a bit of colour and went round again with my Sakura Quickie Glue Pen. I then added some Diamond Sparkles. I added some sparkle to her pom poms too! She most definitely had to be blonde because as they say, "Blondes have more Fun!"

As she is so bright, bold & sassy, I had to make the rest of the card the same, so I matted her onto some fluorescent yellow & pink card which I punched down one edge with my Martha Stewart punch. I trimmed the top & bottom using scalloped scissors and added to a 5in x 5in scalloped card.

The fluorescent card I used was in a goodie bag that I purchased from Southfield Stationers ages ago and I didn't think I'd ever use it but this card just had to be bright!

I couldn't find any flowers or embellishments bold enough to adorn this card so I made my own.  I made the flowers using two different sized daisy punches and the fluorescent card.  I ran a large embossing tool along the back of each the petals to give them a bit of shape then I used the embossing tool again in the centre on the front. I glued the two daisies together & attached them to the card using foam pads of varying depth.

The sentiment is a freebie from Sentiments 4 You I coloured it with Promarkers & treated it in the same way as I did the image! I attached it using foam pads. I've left the centre blank & will add glittery numbers when the time comes!

Thanks for looking!

Happy Crafting!

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges
Creative Belli The Letter P It has to be not just pink but "PINK"(Bi Weekly, Weds)
Fab n Funky Delight in your digi I truly did delight in this one!(Weds)
Top Tip Tuesday Fabulous Flowers You cant ignore these!! lol(Tuesdays)
Kaboodle Doodles Bling it Up(Mondays)
Woodware USA Anything Goes(Mondays)
The Crafty Pad Challenges Girly(Saturdays)
The Rubber Cafe Sparkle & Glitter(Thursdays)
Some Odd Girl Scallops Galore(2 weekly Thurs)
Promarker Challenge Let it Shine(Tuesdays)
Stampin Fairy Circles (Sundays)
Stampin' for the Weekend Getting warmed up! (3rd Friday of the month)
Crafty Catz  Flowers(Fridays)
Crafty Cardmakers Flowers (Mondays)

Take A Break!

Well it's that time of the week again so take a break, get a cuppa & put your feet up!

Meet Kit Kat!

This is my DT card for Challenge #14 over at Digi's With Attitude! where the theme is  How do YOU do it?

Show us how YOU make RAIN DROPS!

Please pop over & join us if you can!

Each winner, one for every 25 entries, will win a $10 Digi's With Attitude! Gift Certificate!

You can find Kit Kat here at the Digi's With Attitude! store.

Now, I had lots of ideas on this one, gemstones, glitter, liquid pearls, cut out paper shapes.........the list was endless but I decided to go with these little heart shape sequin type confetti as it mirrored the shape of the  bottom of the umbrella!
I coloured the image with????  Yep, my promarkers and I used the blender pen to give him that washed out look! Next, I simply cut the corners with a corner punch and matted onto some lightweight card. I did the same with two panels of Designer Paper, I thought the paper was a bit like a rainbow with all the colours! Sorry, I can't tell you what the paper is as it was part of the candy I won from Maria over at Inkymitts! If you haven't already done so, you should check out her awesome blog!
I do sooo love these candy giveaways! Thank you Maria, perhaps you can, once again, enlighten us on the origin of the paper!
I also added a bit of knotted ribbon from my recycled ribbon stash. (The stuff you cut off your clothes!)
Next I added the computer generated sentiment which I again matted onto the same card.

For some reason, not sure why! I wanted to make this cat talk with an accent! Lol!
The sentiment was attached with foam pads for dimension.

Finally I added the flower which was cut out from the same paper, using a Tim Holtz Alterations Bigz die on my Big Shot.
I inked the edges with distress inks, used a large embossing tool on the petals to give them dimesion, then layered & fixed with a brad.
I added a couple of fern leaves punched out with my new Woodware Punch and attached with a foam pad.
I hope you like him! Thanks for stopping by!


I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges!
Digi Doodle Shop's Best Challenge #43 Anything Goes
I Love Promarkers # 49Keep It Sweet & Simple
Stamp Something Challenge Cute Somethings
Penny's Paper-Crafty # 45 Anything Goes
Karber Weekly Challenge #21  Ribbon
Fab and Funky Challenge #56 Animal Magic
Marks Finest Papers Challenge Use Hearts
Pear Tree Designs Challenge # 32Anything Goes
The Fuzzy Wuzzy Challenges #5 Use An Animal
Totally Papercrafts Challenge #50 Add a Heart
Bee Crafty's Card Challenge #12 Ray of Sunshine My Rainbow Colours Paper

Hope Your Birthday Rocks!

This is my DT card for the Digi's With Attitude! Challenge #13Where the theme is Use Green & Black!

Green, if I'm honest, has never really been a favourite colour of mine but lately I find I'm using it more & more! Black has just always been there, especially in my wardrobe!!
The image is of course from Digi's With Attitude!  She's called Rock band Tween! What Tween doesn't dream about being in a Rock band! You can find her & the other Tweens here! Isn't she just adorable! The more I worked with her the more I loved her!
I decided to make an easel card. I did originally plan to do a roundie but that didn't quite work out the way I wanted so I changed it to this style.
I coloured the image with my faithful Promarkers, then added some sparkle with my old fave, the trusty, Sakura Clear Star pen!
You can't see it in the main pic but as I was colouring her up I took this pic just to let you see the sparkle!
As you can see she's not quite done yet!
I cut the image out with my nesties and the base card was printed on both sides with a backing paper download from the Trendy Girls Collection at Scrapbookingmad. I just love that design to bits!

Here is a closer look at her fully coloured up! She looks so much better with her hair done!!!
The ribbon was purchased from a local haberdasher. I thought the colour was a good match!
Green is definitely growing on me!

The sentiment on the stop was computer generated & again cut out with nesties. The glossy black card used for matting is from Southfield Stationers Bits n Pieces range. You can visit their shop or buy online!

I used foam pads to attach it & added some irridescent gems to finish off!


I do hope you like her!
Thanks sooo much for looking!
 
Challenge list:-
AiFactory Challenge #64 Anything goes
Dare to be Sassy Challenge #55 Use it up Zebra Print Paper
Stamin' B's Challenge #93  Use a Die Nesties
Creative Cottage Challenge #30 Use Something New  (Digi, gems & ribbon)
Top Tip Tuesday Challenge#17 Anything Goes
Craft our Passion Challenge#40 Let's Tie One on Green Ribbon
Cupcake Craft Challenge Challenge#124  Something New (Digi, gems & ribbon)
Kaboodle Doodles Challenge # Do It With Digi's
Pollycraft Mondays Challenge #75 New Things (Digi, gems & ribbon)
CYDA Challenge #11 Anything Goes
Sweet Stampin Challenge Try Something Different (Green & Black!)
Paper Play Challenges 11 Cutie patootie
Glitterbabe's Challenge #27 Anything Goes
Scrapbook Sisters Challenge #18 Heart's Desire (To be in a Rock band)

My First DT Card

So excited & nervous at the same time to share this card with you!!!

This is my first ever DT Card & this one is for Challenge #12 over at Digi's With Attitude! Challenge Blog , where the theme is "New Years Resolutions" and as the title suggests, your project must reflect a New Years Resolution.

The image is one of Grumpy Gretchen and is called Martini! You can find her here!

I printed her onto some lightweight smooth card & coloured her with promarkers! I added a piece of recyled ribbon, from one of my birthday pressies, then matted the image and the computer generated sentiments onto some black lightweight card.

  

I then matted the image onto the pink & black designer backing paper (not sure where it's from as I was given it by a friend).The sentiments were attached with foam pads to give a bit of dimension.

To finish the card off, I attached a couple of sticky gems & a  built up paper flower which has a little rose as the centre!

These little paper roses are sooo sweet!
I hope you like it! 

Please pop over & join in the Challenge if you have the time!

Thanks for looking!
Update: the paper is Kate Knight for Dovecraft! Thanks for letting me know Maria x
Off to look for some challenges to enter my card in!!!

Dutch Dare Card Challenges #94 New Beginnings (DT place!)
Paperplay Challenges #11 Clean & Simple
Sassy Studio Designs #54 Something New (Digi)
I Love Promarkers #47 Recycle (My Ribbon)
Sparkles Forum Challenge #2 New Things (Digi & DT place)
Stamp Something January Digi Day Challenge
Scrapbook Sisters Challenge #17 Anything Goes
Crafty Card Crew New Beginnings
Pile It On Challenge #1 Brand Spanking New