Fresh Cut Tree

Hi all,

Here I am with this weeks DT card for the challenge over at 

QKR Stampede

where the challenge is always Anything Goes.

For this card I've used digi #13814 Fresh Cut Tree
with a simple computer generated sentiment.
I coloured the image with my promarkers then diecut with a circle die.
I used two different papers, one Chritmas themed & one Kraft.
I also die cut some snowflakes from the same papers.

I hope you can play along in the challenge, which is always anything goes.
Each week, we select two winners  1 using QKR Stampede or Eureka Stamps image and 

1 using any image!

I'd like to enter my card in the following challenges:
Cute Card Thursday - Christmas/Holidays
Cardz For Galz - Something Beginning with S (snow, snowman,snowflakes)
Christmas At Sweet Stampin' - Anything Goes/Optional Stars

Happy Anniversary

Good morning all!

We've had a great week taking in the atmosphere at the 

Edinburgh Festival & Fringe.

It's back to normal today, back to work & I have a card to share!

This fun little offering was made for my parents anniversary!

I used the 7 Year Itch Decoupage Sheet from La Pashe, 

Wrinklies At The Movies CD.

My Dad is a big Marilyn Monroe fan, & my Mum loves 

the movies, so it worked well for them!

The base is 8"x8" Kraft cardstock.

The Papers are from the My Minds Eye, Best Of Paisley Paperstack.

I kept the layout fairly simple, adding a couple of bits of ribbon & some lace.

The sentiment was printed on some Kraft then cut out using a 

Spellbinders Callout die.

The stars were punched using an amazing Fiskars Punch that I won!

(It feels like it will punch through anything, like it's butter)

I then embossed them using the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder.

I added a sheer bow to finish it off.

As you can see from the photo, I decorated the inside of the card too!

Thanks for popping by, I hopeyou like it!

I'd like to enter this card in a few little challenges:

Ooh La La Creations -Three Embellishments. Top 3

CD Sunday - HOT HOT HOT (W1 of 2)  Top 3

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper - Anything Goes with Patterned Paper.

Dies R Us Challenge -Doily and/or Lace.

Fun with Shapes  - Lace.

Sparkles Forum Challenges - Lots of Layers.

Inkspirational - Patterned Paper.

My Time to Craft -Embossing (heat or dry).

Robin Berries

Good morning all!

Here is another little Christmas Card I have to share!

I was lucky enough to be asked to make some samples using the new 

 CD Rom from La Pashe.  The Gift Of Christmas.

Which will be launched on Create & Craft TV this Friday!

are on Create & Craft TV this Friday!

Freeview 36, Sky 674, Virgin 748 & Free Sat 813
at 10.00am 

 For this one, I used the extra, smaller image which is on 

the same page as the decoupage. Sometimes people are unsure

what to do with it. I generally make a smaller card which will mail easily!

I simply used an A6 (A2 in the US) Kraft base & added the image

which was matted on to some gold paper.

I added a white panel  with a border which was punched with a 

Martha Stewart Doily punch. Next I added a strip of red paper.

I then added some gold & jewel coloured ribbon from my stash &

a gorgeous piece of shiny green ric rac.

The sentiment is from the CD too.

I hope you like my little card. I'll share the decoupaged version later!

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

Clear It Out - Anything Goes Stash, Anything Goes

Holly Jolly Christmas - Feathered Friends

Paper Creator's Crafts - Dies Or Punches

Sparkles Forum Christmas - No Designer Papers

Dragonfly Dreams - Flying High With Wings

Robyns Fetish - Use Kraft Card Stock

The Ribbon Girls - Just Add Ribbon

A Gem Of A Challenge - Animals Or Birds

Suzy Bee's Bloomin Challenge - ATG + twist Add Feathers or Wings

Sketch Saturday - Sketch

Hello!

Good morning all!

I'm back again with another card to share!

I spotted a couple of challenges that I wanted to play

 along in so I made this one just for fun!

Very CAS & super speedy!

I used an A6 Kraft base, added a die cut circle of Chevron paper

from Craftwork Cards & a Tonic die cut butterfly or two.

The sentiment was die cut with a Lawn Fawn die.

Really quick & really simple!

Thanks for looking!

This card was made with the following challenges in mind:
Glitter n Sparkle - Things Begining With B (Butterflies)
Addicted To CAS - Chevron
Allsorts - Add A Butterfly
Inkspirational Challenge - Anything Goes With Kraft
Suzy Bee's Bloomin' Challenge - Use Ice Cream Shades

Time For Wine

Happy Hump Day all!

Don't you just love a Wednesday? 

Safe in the knowledge that it's all downhill towards the weekend!

I have yet another La Pashe card to share today! 

I've been trying to tidy up a bit & have been using up some 

of my scraps snippets & leftovers!

This one was made using the little sepia tone image leftover from the main

Time For Wine Decoupage Sheet from The Grumps range!

The papers are from La Pashe too!

I used a 6"x6" Kraft card base, added a matt of blue paper then the

star DP which was inked with a bit of distress ink

I added a die cut mat of the checked paper  which was also inked.

The image was cut using a circle die & the edges inked.

Next I added a frame cut from Kraft CS & inked then mounted on 1mm foam pads.

I added a strip of hessian/jute/burlap. The stars were cut from the DP & mounted on foam pads.

The sentiment is from a tape runner which has several different fonts.

Finally I added a little button, just because!

Thanks so much for popping in, I hope you enjoyed your visit!

I'd like to support a couple of challenges as listed below:

Cardz 4 Guyz - Checks/Gingham

Fan-Tastic Tuesday - Anything Goes +Twist: Add Some Texture

Going Grey With Scrap Creations - Celebration

Artistic Inspirations - Anything Goes With Twist: Die Cuts

Make My Monday - Kraft Card (2nd Entry)

Santa

Good morning all!

The Card I have to share with you today is  a quick & simple CAS card 

This one was made using an A6  Kraft base, with a rounded corner,

  a Papermania Topper & some Washi Tape!
I used this great sketch


from STAMPlorations as the inspiration for the design of my card!
(sadly though, I can't enter their challenge as I haven't used a stamp)

I distressed the edges of the topper with a pair of scissors,

then lightly inked the edges with a liquid chalk inkpad

I thenmounted it on some foam tape for a bit of dimension

The inside of the card was decorated in a similar fashion.

Thanks for popping in!

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

Crafty Bloggers Network - Christmas

Perfectly Rustics - Holiday

The Glory Of Christmas - St Nicholas/Santa/Father Christmas

Feature A Creature

Good morning all!

I hope your week is going well so far!

We're currently on a staycation here in Edinburgh for the Fringe.

Having a great time & seeing lots of interesting things!

It's time for the brand new challenge over at Crafting For All Seasons!

Where the theme for this fortnght is

Feature A Creature!

Here's my card!

(I'll apologise straight away for the quality of the photos but I just 

couldn't get the pics I wanted!)

A fairly simple Christmas card (I need millions of these!)

Our sponsor this time is Lacy Sunshine. 

The DT were kindly given images to play with!

The image I have used is - Santa Pickles
The base card is an A6 Kraft card & the DP is by First Edition.
I used a die to cut the shaped end. 

I coloured Pickles using Promarkers, trimmed the image then edged with a 

Colour Q liquid chalk inkpad then matted on to some Kraft card stock

I used some Washi tape from my stash to add a border, then

finished with some buttons threaded with twine!

The snowflake fell on to the card when I was rummaging about in my 

Chrismas stash so I decided to leave it there!

Thanks for stopping by, I hope to see you in the challenge!

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

Creative Card Crew - Christma

Passion For Promarkers - Button It

Retarte - Anything Goes and/or Christmas

2 Cute Ink Challenge - Animals

Eureka Stamps - Add A Button

Secret Garden

Good morning lovelies!

Here I am with today's card!

I made a 6x6inch Kraft card using Secret Garden

one of the new Clear Polymer Stamps from La Pashe!

This card is actually intended for a man but I guess it might

be suitable for any keen gardener or indeed anyone who likes

to spend time in the garden!

I used my usual FlexMarker & ProMarker combo to colour up the image.

then matted it onto some brown CS which has a punched border.

I added a little bit of raffia mesh some buttons & some twine.

I just had to add a little bunch of keys too!

The papers are First Edition, Bo Chic (I think)

All of these items have been in my stash for ages!

A little side view to finish up.

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

Crafty Catz - One For The Boys

Delicious Doodles - Green & Brown

4 Crafty Chicks - Trees

Southern Girls - Buttons Badges Or Flair

Fab 'n' Funky - 1 image, 2 DPs, 3 Embellishments (buttons charms twine)

A&T Emerald Faeries - 1 image, 2 DPs, 3 Embellishments (buttons charms twine)

Clear It Out - Anything Goes + 2 or more buttons

Passion For Promarkers - Use At Least 1 Button

Santa's Sleigh

Morning all, it's time for a new challenge at 2 Sisters!

This is my final GDT project for them!
* Sad Face*

It's been great fun! Thanks so much for having me as GDT!

*Smiles*

This week the theme is
"Anything But a Card"

Here's what I have to share with you!

It's a little Santa's Sleigh made using Candy Canes & chocolate bars!

So easy to make but so much fun! 

I think they are great substitute for overpriced selection boxes! 

 I first saw these on Jak Heath's blog!
She had a link to a tutorial but I decided to google & see what else was out there!
There are so many tutorials of different styles!
I had a look at them all & decided what I wanted to do!

Here are some of the ingredients I've used!

 Candy Canes & a 4 finger Kit Kat formed the base.

I decided to wrap my chocolate as my other half was playing Santa on Christmas Day 

& handing these out to all the little ones. 

I was worried that in the mayhem, the chocolate would 

end up all over my sisters floor! 

This way, the theory was that if the kids tore them apart, 

it should just be the outside wrappers& not the actual 

chocolate wrappers that tear.

This particular model was wrapped in kraft paper,

I also did some in scraps of wrapping paper!

I tied each "present" with some twine!

Here are all the presents ready to be glued together!

I used my hot glue gun to do this!

Two of the finished articles!

The Santa's on these look really laid back! lol

I actually made 18 of them in the end as everyone wanted one!

A view from a different angle!

I can tell you that these little babies went down a treat 

with the adults as well as the kids!

Thanks for popping in! 

I can't wait to see what project you make for the

Anything But A Card Challenge at 2 Sisters this time!

I'd like to enter this project in the following challenges!

Hiding In My Craft Room Freestyle

C.R.A.F.T Not A Card

Craft Us Crazy Merry Christmas

Crazy Amigo Challenge Merry Christmas

Deep Ocean Challenge Santa Is Coming To Town

LEJ Designs Santa's Coming To Town

Craft You Passion Alter It

Unstampabelles Christmas (No Stamping)

Santa's Cookies Are Ready!

Good morning everyone!

How are you all today?

I'm still totally chasing my tail & playing catch up but I am getting closer

 every day to being organised for Christmas!

Over at the 2 Sisters Challenge blog, there's a new challenge for you!

This week the Theme is Krafty Christmas & we'd like to see you 

use Kraft on your project!

Here's my GDT card!

It's a simple little A6 card.

This weeks sponsor is Kenny K & I was given this little 

sweetie Santa Cookies from Kenny K to work with!

Isn't she just the cutest little thing you've ever seen!

I did try to print the image out onto Kraft card-stock but it wasn't

to be as the Kraft was just to thick for my poor printer.

So, instead I used Kraft for my base & for matting!

I coloured the image with a combination of Copics, Promarkers &

Flexmarkers then cut her out with an oval Nestie.

I cut the matt with a scalloped oval.

The sentiment ticket is from The Crafty Pad

The ribbons are from Lidl & the little Chrome Bell from MieFlower

The buttons & design paper were from my stash.

I used a simple paper insert to finish off this little card!

I hope you like it! 

I'm dropping it off later at my hairdressers 

with a box of cookies for them all!

Thanks so much for stopping by, it's always nice to have visitors!

I hope you have the time to Get Krafty & join in with  the 

challenge at 2 Sisters this time!

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

Everybody Art Challenge Anything Goes

Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas  Anything Christmas

Di's Digi Designs  Christmas

Charisma Cardz Santa Claus is coming to town.

Auds Sentiments - Anything With A Sentiment

Copic Challenge Europe A Christmas Card

Craft Us Crazy Merry Christmas

Happy Campers Food & Drink

Crafting In A Topsy Turvey House

Happy Hump Day all!

It's Wednesday & that means super new challenge at 

Dude Time Doodles!

The theme this week is

Home Improvements (with the tool man!)

Here's my card!

I made a 6x6 inch card base from my brand new Kraft cardstock.

It's pretty CAS as my stash is still packed up in boxes!

One day we'll be finished with all the DIY & redecorating here!

The image I have used is Pierre Painter, he's a real perfectionist & when

 he's decorating it takes him forever to do the cutting in! lol

I coloured him up with my Promarkers

I made the sentiment in my graphics programme.

I added some ink distressing to the edges.

I decorated the inside of my card a little.

The DP I've used is a freebie from Mujka Chic @ My Grafico.

The Ric Rac has been in my stash forever, I had loads of it!
I think it's from Anita's I'm so glad to finally be using it up!
Make sure you check out the Dude & Dudette's creations at
Dude Time Doodles for more inspiration before you play along!

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I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:
Digital Tuesday Challange - Text Me
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
Passion For Promarkers - For A Man/Youth
Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Distressing
Crafty Bloggers Network - Anything Goes
Crafty Boots - Three
Daisy Doodles Creative Challenge - One For The Boys
Lollipop Crafts - Something Old Something New
My Gafico - Anything Goes
The Cutie Pie Challenge - Use A Digi
Creative Inspirations Paint - Anything Goes
Scrappers Delights Paper Crafts - Distress it
Colour Me Creative - Bright Fun Colours