The Crafty Pad Designs Shop 25% Off Sale

Hi all I hope you're well,

Just a quick reminder that 

The Crafty Pad Designs shop closes on the 7th Jan! 

Debbie's images will still be available for purchase at

Card making Downloads but for now you can get an awesome

 25% off at The Crafty Pad

Here's a reminder of a couple of my favourite images 

& what I made with them!

Flowers For Mum

You can read more about it here!

Butterflies With Verse & Borders

You can read more about this card here!

Pocket Watch & Elements

You can read more about this acetate card here!

Thanks so much for stopping by & don't forget to bag yourself

a bargain before the shop is closed!

Debbie, I wish you all the best in your new adventures with the family

& I hope one day you will open up  The Crafty Pad Designs

again &  can play with lots more fab images!

Thank for the great time I had on your design team & I'm delighted

to have met some lovely ladies there too!

Dear Friends

Good Morning, & a happy Sunday to you all!

It's with a sad heart & a tear in my eye that I tell you today is my last

 DT card for The Crafty Pad. 

The challenge blog & The Crafty Pad Designs shop will both be

 closing after this challenge is over but for now, lets celebrate the  new challenge

#201 Friendship/Keep In Touch/Goodbye

Here's my little creation

The image I have used is Snowmen from The Crafty Pad Designs.

I love this image but I've never actually used it up until now.

I thought it was just perfect for this challenge theme.

I went for a CAS style too as on this occasion I felt less is more!

I printed the image & sentiment directly on to a DL card base, 

then printed the image a second time & fussy cut out the Snowmen 

I coloured the images with my Promarkers then layered them using some 

Pinflair glue for dimension. I added a line of glitter along the snowline

The sentiment is one I've used forever & I think it's very true!

I have made many dear friends in blog land, especially

the ladies I have met at The Crafty Pad they have been  wonderful

teamies & we've all had great fun! This card is dedicated to them &

to all of you, my lovely blogging friends!

I took a side view to try to show you the dimension!

I hope you can join in the challenge this week!

We'd love to see all your Friendship/Keep in touch creations!

We also hope to keep in touch with all the friends we've met 

through The Crafty Pad Challenges! 

Without your entries, it just wouldn't have been so much fun!

I must also say a thank you to all the sponsors, especially those who

supported my in my Breast Cancer Awareness Fundraising Challenge!

The last person I want to thank is Debbie the lovely boss without whom

there would have been no Crafty Pad Designs & none of the fun we've all had!

Don't forget that there is a 25% off sale until the shop closes on 6th Jan 2012

but, Debbie's images will still be available after then from

Card Making Downloads . 

Just search for The Crafty Pad in the designers section.

The sponsor for this weeks challenge is the lovely

Joanna Sheen

who is once again offering a £10 voucher

to spend in her online shop! 

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

Come & Get It Anything Christmas

Dream Valley Challenges Christmas

Joanna Sheen Challenge With Love At Christmas

No Matter Which Challenge Christmas

Opus Gluei Baby It's Cold Outside

Pan Pastel Challenge Christmas Time

Robyn's Fetish Snowmen

Hiding In My Craft Room Go Digital

Totally Gorjuss For Someone Special

Cards Galore Christmas

Cupcake Craftroom Anything Christmas

Ladybug Crafts Christmas and/or Winter

Natalie & Amy's Challenge Winter Wishes

Avadares Anything With A Digi

Guylou's Inimitability Let It Snow

!!!!Sale Now On!!!!

Good Morning bloggers!

Just stopped in to tell you about a massive sale at 

The Crafty Pad Designs.

Did you know that the shop & the challenge blog are closing?

Debbie the lovely boss has decided to give a huge 25% off 

of everything! From now until the 6th January 2013.

The shop closes its doors on the 7th Jan 2013!

Make sure you don't miss out on a bargain!

Debbie's images will continue to be available for purchase after the 7th Jan from

Card Making Downloads

Just look under Digital Stamps/Line Art

 & refine your search to The Crafty Pad Designs

You will also find a search by designer box in the side bar,

just scroll down until you find The Crafty Pad Designs.

Happy crafting friends!

Let's Hear It For The Boys!

Good Morning Bloggers!

Today see's the start of this weeks brand new challenge at 

The Crafty Pad

This weeks theme chosen by little old me is

#174 Let's Hear It For The Boys

With Father's Day fast approaching here in the UK, we'd like to see
your creations to celebrate either

Father's Day Or A Special Man In Your Life!

Easy Peasy huh??? We'll see you over there!!!

My card is a Father's Day Card.

The Image & Papers are both from The Crafty Pad Designs

I Love My Daddy - Daughter UNcoloured Image & Sentimet

One For The Boys Digital Backing Papers.

The base card is A5, made by scoring & folding an A4 sheet of cardstock.

I played about with the layout, adding lots of layers. 

The image was coloured with  a combination of

Promarkers & Flexmarkers. I only recently began using 

Flexmarkers & I'm liking them a lot!

Think I have to get me some more! lol

The sentiment, is one of the two that come with the image.

(The other is a Happy Birthday sentiment.)

I cut it out with an inverted scallop nestie then matted onto a 

scalloped circle of cardstock.

I popped it on some foam pads for dimension then

added a ribbon bow & a little saw charm.

to finish off embellishing my card I added some silver Card Candi.

Thanks for stopping by to check out my creation!

The GDT & DT ladies of the A Team over at 

The Crafty Pad

 have been creating some wonderful 

projects to inspire you!

Do hop on over & check them out!

* Important Information*

New at The Crafty Pad!

If you enter a card in  The Crafty Pad Challenge using a 

Crafty Pad Designs Image

You will get a FREE Crafty Pad Designs image of your choice.

Check out the Challenge Blog for details!

*More Important News*

We have two fabby sponsors this week

Letraset

Who are giving one lucky winner this set of Promarkers

Crafty Emma's Store 

Who are giving a second lucky winner

A £10 Voucher to spend in their store!

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

Pan Pastel UK Boys/Father's Day

ATCs & Cards With Attitude Anything Goes/Father's Day

Cardmadfairy's  Digi Days Father's Day/Masculine

Card Makin' Mama's Father's Day

Pattie's Creations Father's Day/Male

Phindy's Place Father's Day/Masculine

Poodles Parlour Fathers Day

Simply Create Too Father's Day

Stamp Man For A Man

C.R.A.F.T  Male Card

Digi Doodles Shop's Best Male Card

DL.Art Thankful Thursdays Card For A Man

Card A Day Blog Challenge  Choose from May themes (Red White & Blue)
Paper Shelter Go Dotty
Penny's Paper Crafty Father's Day
Scrapbook Sisters Red White & Blue
Bearly Mine How Charming
Creative Craft Challenges Red White & Blue
Passion For Promarkers Red White & Blue
Sassy Cheryl's It's All About The Dad's & The Grandad's
Cards For Men Father's Day
Kaboodle Doodles Manly Men
Love To Create Father's Day Or A Special Guy

A Great Granddaughter

Good Morning all!

Happy Jubilee Weekend to all in the UK!

I hope you're all enjoying the celebrations!

Over at The Crafty Pad  this week, Team B have created some wonderful

inspirational samples for this weeks fab new challenge!

 I also have a little card to share with you today!

The image I have used is The Crafty Pad Designs

  Rocking Horse.

I've used this image several times & I just love it!

It's so versatile!

I took the inspiration for my colours from the photo's

at Chocolate Coffee & Cards

&

{Pin}spirational

I used Promarkers & Flexmarkers to colour it up then added 

a bit ofDiamond Sparkles glitter.

The image was cut out using a scalloped circle nestie then matted onto 

some plain cardstock.

The D is a piece of Oragami paper is from some blog candy which I won

and the buttons are from a Papermania Capsule Collection

I hand cut & rolled the little flowers & the double bow is a 

recycled ribbon from a work diary! 

The sentiment was made in my graphics programme.

I added a little bit of glitter to the heart in the centre!

Thanks for stopping by!

Now don't forget to head on over to The Crafty Pad to check out the 

New Challenge & the lovely DT creations to inspire you!

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

Gingerloft Circles

Great Impressions Die Cuts/Punches

One Stitch At A Time Use A Digi

Order Of Opus Gluei It's all relative

The Hybrid Chick Card Caravan Use Pink

The Ribbon Girls Use Ribbon Or Lace

Speedy & Friends Use Buttons

Sweet Stampin' Your Favourite Stamp

ATC's & Cards With Attitude Anything Goes
Crafty Catz Buttons & Bows
Chocolate Coffee & Cards Photo Inspiration
Shelly's Images Pick at least two from list (I chose Ribbon, Bling, Flowers, Markers & A Digi)
Paper Play Use Two Of Something
Cooking It Up With Katie Celebrate with Ribbon & A Die Cut
Crafts & Me Add A Ribbon
Digistamps4Joy Cute As A Button
I Love Promarkers Use A Digi
{Pin}spirational Photo Inspiration
Hooked On Crafts All That Glitters
My Craft Spot Buttons & Bows
The Ribbon Reel Photo Inspiration + Use Dies/Punches Ribbon Flowers

New Release Day & A Chance to Win!

Hi all,

I hope you had a good weekend & a relaxing May Bank Holiday Monday!

Over at The Crafty Pad,it's time for some New Releases.

Here's a preview of today's little gem!

Introducing Harry & Hilly!

This image is "Harry & Hilly With Toadstool" 

& is available now in The Crafty Pad Designs Shop

There are a total of four images in this set, there will be a new one released

tomorrow, Wednesday & Thursday of this week!

Did you know it's Hedgehog Awareness Week!

I do so love these little guys!

I bet you do too!

If you'd like to be in with a chance of winning this image

 & the rest of the set, here's what you have to do!

Just pop on over to the Crafty Pad Challenge Blog

check out what awesome projects the DT have done to inspire you,

then leave a comment on today's New Release Post. 

One lucky commenter will win today's New Release Image

& so on until Thursday!
For a second chance to win that day's image, become a follower &
leave a second comment or let us know you are already a follower!

If you've commented on each day, 

you are in with a chance of winning the full set!

Why are you still here????

Off you pop & leave a comment!

Good Luck!!!!!

Oliver Fishing

Good Morning all! Happy Sunday!!!

Ohh Sunday!!!  That means time for the new challenge at
The Crafty Pad

The theme for this weeks challenge is a "Trio Of Colours"

#158 Red Blue & Green

Here's my little DT card

The image the DT were given to play with this week is 

Oliver Fishing!

Oliver is available at The Crafty Pad Designs Store,

Coloured or  Uncoloured.

I have used the uncoloured version & coloured him up with my promarkers!

I made my own Design Papers using tiles from the Woodsy Clip Art Collection

at Scrapbookingmad. I was really pleased with them!

Which reminds me, before I go any further I must tell you about 

our wonderful sponsor this week!

My Memories Digital Suite

One lucky winner will receive a download of 

 their fantastic Scrapbooking Software.

It's not just for scrapbooking, you can so so much more with it!!!

If you don't win & would like to buy a copy of the software, 

there is a link in my side bar with a code which will save you $10 

just copy & paste it in the appropriate place when you get to the checkout!

I have used the uncoloured version of Oliver 

& coloured him up with my promarkers!

I added a sun using Pan Pastels. I also added a fish & float which 

I cut from my DP & layerd up to give some dimension.

I added some bakers twine & a couple of buttons from my stash!

The big red one is a vintage button from a box I was lucky enough to be given!

I gave the sentiment ticket, also from The Crafty Pad Designs,

some distress ink treatment!

I hope you like my card!

I'm so glad you stopped by!

Don't forget you have all week to enter the challenge,

we also still have the DT Call running until the 27th of the month

so if you're interested check out the post here!

You don't have to have any previous experience but you do have to have a blog!!

Why not give it a go!!!

Don't forget to check out the other DT cards for your inspiration!!

Don't forget to enter my candy draw while you're here!

I'd like to put this card forward for the following challenges:

PanPastel Challenge Animals (Hope fish count! My sun is done with PanPastel!)

Colour Me Creative Copic's Challenge Lot's of Bright Fun

Card Makin' Mama's Happy Birthday

Crafty Ann's Bold & Bright 

Hotshot Crafts One For The Boys

Scrapbookaholic By Abby Birthday

Simply Create Too Add Sunshine To Your Day

Wags 'n Whiskers Male Birthday

4 Crafty Chicks Use Two Of Something (2 checked DP's + 2 pieces of Bakers Twine)

Auds Sentiment Challenge Use a sentiment with Happy in it

Card & Scrap Buttons

Crafters Companion Anything Goes

Sunday's With Chrissy Birthday

I love Promarkers Nature

Creative Card Crew Masculine

Tuesday Throwdown Entwined (Use Twine)

Craft Your Passion Recipe 

Cupcake Craft Entwined (Use Twine)

Kaboodle Doodles Boys Or Masculine

Sew Many Cards Buttons