Something Different!

Good evening fellow bloggers!

I've got something a little different to show you today!

A while back I had a chat with Derek & Kim when I was in Southfield Stationers factory shop  & they very kindly offered me some bits  from their latest pastels range to play with!!! It took a while to get organised what with one thing & another but finally the stuff arrived just as I was getting ready to go my hols & all my crafty stuff was packed away!!! (Gotta stop the cat sitter playing with it!!! Don't want to be responsible for giving someone the bug!!)

There are a few sheets there but I made a start with these! The first card is made using a backing paper & one image from a whole sheet of toppers! I wasn't quite sure what I wanted to do with this but it made it's own mind up for me!!!  

It just had to be a little twisted easel card! I kept it simple as I didn't want to overshadow the  image. The base card as you can see is white cardstock! I cut a square from the backing paper, cut in half , inked the edges using a sponge & a distress inkpad, then added to the base & the folded over section. I did the same to the topper then added the image using foam pads for dimension. I'm not sure how well you can see but on the darker stripes of the egg, I doodled with my Sakura Clear Star pen to add a bit of detail! I think it lifted the image which would have been a bit flat otherwise. I added the butterfly which is a peel of simply stuck onto lightweight vellum & cut out, then attached with pinflair glue. ( A technique I originally picked up from a Southfields demo way back when!)

I wrapped a length of ribbon round the base & tied in a knot, added a few irridescent gems & used a button & ribbon flower as the stop!

The second card is made using a pyramage sheet & a coordinating backing paper! The sheet had Valentine sentiments on it but as Valentnes day is well past, I thought it would make an ideal birthday card an 18yr old who's just a bit goth!!! The black & pink colourway is great! It's just girly enough without being OTT. I used an A6 white card for the base. The fold is along the top. I then added a matt of lieghtweight black card with I had punched using a border punch along the bottom edge!

Next I added a matt of the coordinating backing paper which I tied a ribbon around & added a double bow. I added a strip of white card then the pyramage topper which was assembled using pinflair glue.

To finish off  I added a diecut 18 and some black irridescent gems irridescent gems irridescent gems 

 Southfield Staioners, "The Paper People" are the home of the Bits n pieces range which I'm sure many of you will have come across! You can check out the website here! They sell online as well as from their shop!
The shop runs regular events, deonstrations, drop in sessions etc. There is also a little cofee shop which serves great coffee!!! (That's coming from a bit of a coffee snob!!)
You can find them on Facebook too!

I'm on a new DT!

Good evening all! Just a little post to let you all know that I  am absolutely delighted & very proud to now be part of the Design Team over at

My Grafico Challenge & Inspiration Blog

I'm soo looking forward to working with the ladies over there, some of whom I've already worked with!

Thanks soo much for having me as part of the team!

I'll promise I'll be back with a card soon!!!

Can I also take this opportunity to my latest followers! Do check out their fabby blogs if you get a mo!
Tazza  whom I worked with at DWA & will now be working with at My Grafico(Hope this link's okay!)
Lynn  whom I will be working with at My Grafico
& Karen who I almost got to work with on DWA but will now be working with at My Grafico!
Thanks for joining me ladies!
Ooops, Just missed you there Pankti another My Grafico DT member! Will try to find a link for you!!!

My Versatile Blogger Award!

Whooppee I got another award!!!! Thank you Jacki, I'm honoured! I'll wear it on my side bar with great pride!!
The rules that come with this award are simple
1) Tell 7 facts about yourself
2) Hand the award on to 15 fellow bloggers

Easy Peasy you might say but what on earth can I tell you that you don't already know?????

1) I'm such a sop I cry at the least little thing!!!
2) We're changing internet provider later this week & I'm petrified it goes wrong & I can't get online!
3) I'm supposed to be on a diet but I had a packet of Smatrties this afternoon!
4) I spend far too much time on the pc when I should be doing other things!
5) I love to learn new things.
6) I alway champion the underdog!
7) Although I have a fear of heights, I went on a hot air balloon ride & I loved it!

Now who to pass this award on to...........
1) My good friend Ali who's always there for me!
next my DT friends from Digi's With Attitude! You girls rock & I love you all!
2) Cindy-Lynn
3) Jenny
4) Stacie
5) Tazza
6) Tammylee
7) Jennifer
8) Juelt
9) Jules
10) Tanya

11) Bettina who has sadly moved on from the DWA! DT
12) Karen
13) Linda
14) Katrina
15) Sally

Jak's Latest Exciting Floral Craft Blog Candy & New Followers

Just got back from Jak Heath's wonderful blog & she's offering up the most amazing blog candy!

There are 16 sheets of Build a Blossom from La Pashe & all the tools to make them look life like!!!

Don't miss your chance to win this amazing prize! Pop on over to her blog soon as you only have until the 10th March! Could you please let her know you came from my blog if you do pop over!

While I'm here, I'd like to say hi & big wave to my latest followers Amy (hope that links okay, you have soo many!) & Linda Thank you soo much for joining us ladies!!!

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

Seeing Red!

Hi folks,

Thought I 'd share a set of ATCs with you today!

These are for the February swap over at
Ali's ATC Swap Stop.
If you're taking part & don't want to see cover your eyes & walk away from your PC!!! lol

The theme is "Seeing Red" & is open to your interpretation!

The only thing I could think about after St Valentines Day was Little Red Riding Hood!

I had to go on a search to find some images of her & I found this delightful Digi Stamp Set at
 Digital Delights!
Once again I have to apologise for the quality of the pic as it was done at work in a hurry as I had to catch the post!
I coloured the main images with promarkers & I used a variety of Sakura Glaze, white gel pen & Clear Star pens to highlight various areas on the image. As you can see thay are all the same but slightly different!
I used a corner punch before matting & layering!
I used red Mirri card for the base of the ATC & the papers are from the Valentine Rose Collection by the lovely Sammy Murphy over at Cardmaking Downloads!
If you'd like to join in the monthly swap pop on over to let Ali know & she'll give you all the details!
 It doesn't matter if you haven't done it before, she'll keep you right!!!

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

Wednesday!!!

Morning all! Just got a bit of time before I head off to work so I thought I'd share this candy with you!

It's half term candy from Jude over at Crafts International do pop on over & check out her fab blog & enter her candy very generous give away!

If you look at my sdie bar you'll see I've cleared away all the old candy wrappers & filled the dish with new stuff! Don't forget to go check out all these blogs & the wonderful giveaways!

Remember you have to follow the individual rules on each blog to be eligible!

Have a good Wednesday all!

Two Blog Candy Give Aways from Gill

Gill over at CREATIONSbyGillM has been given a lovely set of Sweet Pea Stamps to give away as blog candy!

I think you'll agree they're very sweet! Pop on over to her blog & see how you could be in with a chance of winning! She hasn't specified how long this will be on offer so I wouldn't hang about! There is also a 150 followers candy up for grabs!

See my side bar for the link!

 

Autism Awareness Card Freebie at Arda Cards Blog!

Evening all, I've been off hopping around a few blogs & I found this over at Arda Cards Blog!
My friend Suz Brill ( A designer over at Cardmaking Downloads) whose son who has Autistic Spectrum Disorder, has designed some little Autism Awareness Cards. The idea is that the parents or the child can pass these out to explain the reason behind certain types of behaviour in difficult situations!
She's offering them up as a freebie for you to use or to pass on to someone you know who may like to use them! The cards come in all different designs & are completely free to download directly from her blog!
Do pop on over & check it out if you are at all interested!