Sunday Sweet Sunday!

Happy Sunday to you all!

This week at
The Crafty Pad
 Challenge, #117  is Easter!

Here is my DT project

Three little Oragami  Easter Baskets.

 This week we are sponsored by the lovely Joanna Sheen

The prize on offer is a £10 voucher for her wonderful store!

Click on the pic to visit!

This week Debbie, the lovely boss, has asked the DT to use one of the Bunny images from 

The Crafty Pad Designs 

I opted to use Bunny 2 to embellish my little baskets.

These are so easy to make, just one sheet of paper for each, with a little strip cut off for the handle, a few simple folds & hey presto!

I printed my papers onto both sides of some double-sided matt photopaper.

The digi papers I have used are from the Green Easter set by Sammy Murphy,available from Scrapbookingmad

I've had this download for absolutely ages but they are still available.

I did a little bit of colouring on the bunnies with my Promarkers.

Next, I cut out the images with various nesties!

The baskets are different sizes & all sit neatly stacked inside each other.

The largest is made from an A4 sheet & the smallest an A5 sheet.

I filled them with a variety of sweets.

My idea was to fill them with mini chocolate eggs, chocolate bunnies & Easter chicks but this is what happens when you ask your other half to do your shopping  for you!

Yep, it's as described but as he's a fan of the jelly sweet variety this is what he brought home! Lol!

Still I don't think the recipients will complain!

The only other embellishments I added are some paper flowers, papermania I think, with a brad for the centre of each then attached with some pinflair glue gel.

The little peeper chicks were left over from some Easter Bonnet creations I did earlier!

Thank you for stopping by!

(You may have seen a sneak preview of this post, Mr Blogger was being naughty & not listening to the fact that I wanted to schedule it!)

I'd like to enter these little baskets in a few challenges

Bee Crafty Easter

Catch The Bug Easter

Craft Your Days Away Easter

Crazy 4 Challenges Easter Gift

ECP Easter

Our Creative Corner Easter 3-D Project No Cards

Evening all!

Good evening everyone! I'm feeling quite pleased  with myself this evening as I'm all up to date on the housework, the cards I need are made & I have the rest of the weekend to play with!

Here's my latest card!

My Mum is helping a friend out with lambing this month and she has asked me to make a card for Lucy her friends daughter who is 2 tomorrow.

The image is Bo Peep from Sassy Cheryl's.

I've  had this digi for ages & I was going to use her on a card for my Mum but never quite got around to it.

I thought it was ideal for this occasion!

I coloured her up with promarkers & chalked in a sky. I used a white gel pen to add highlights.

I'm not sure where the colours I used came from but they came to me!

The DP I have used came from Cardmakingdownloads I think it was part of the Valentine Rose set.

The red is some lightweight card. The sentiment is from Sentiments 4 you.

The ribbon is recycled from a baby gift set & the gems have been in my stash forever!

I kept it fairly simple as it is for a 2yr old.

Thank you for stopping by! I'm always happy to see you!

I would like to enter this card in some challenges as listed below

Digis With Attitude! Spring has Sprung
AI Factory Party Animal (That lamb is kicking up it's heels!)
Art Impressions Stamps Challenge Anything Goes
Auds Sentiments Anything Goes
Sassy Studio Designs Spring Theme
Creative Card Crew Spring
Freshly Brewed Designs Cute & Sweet
Simon Says Stamp Card For A Child
Stampin Royalty Spring Has Sprung
A Spoonful of Sugar All Creatures Great & Small

Fairy Fun Fridays Favourite Nursery Rhyme
Sassy Cheryl's Challenge Think Spring

I'm a bad blogger! A Blog Award & Some new followers too!

Hi all!

I'd like to welcome my latest followers!

Chris who has yummy candy ending tomorrow! See my side bar! 

Rumilina Took a bit of doing but I found a link!YAY!

Alyna sorry, I know you've been around for a bit!

Big waves to you all & thanks for following! I love it that you stopped by!

Do pop over to their amazing blogs & leave a little love when you get a mo!

A while back, the lovely Linda gave me a Liebster Blog Award!

I did thank her at the time but I have been a bit busy of late & never quite got around to posting about it & complying with the rules!

 Thank you again Linda ! I really do appreciate it!

As a recipient of the award, you must do the following:

1. Thank the giver on your blog.  Thanks again Linda ! (Done)

2. Link back to the blogger who awarded you. (Done see above)

3. Copy & paste the blog award on your blog. (Done)

4. Reveal your 5 blog picks. (Done, See below!)
Crafty Chris, my latest follower
Alyna, another recent follower
Ann a blog I just came across
Sylvia from Wee Stamps a fellow Edinburger
Carrie another blog I found recently
 5. Let them know you chose them by leaving a comment on their blog. Done!
Enjoy the rest of your Monday evening!
 
 

Fluffy Easter Bunnies & Chocolate

Good Morning all! It's Monday, the start of a whole new week & time for another DT card for

My Grafico Monthly, Anything Goes Challenge!

This week we were given the Fluffy Bunnies set from Cheri Wenger to use!

Such a cute set I'm sure you'll agree!

This card was inspired by the pansy's & crocuses or croci (whichever takes your fancy) which are in my garden & flower pots at the moment!

(We spent a couple of hours out there in the sun yesterday afternoon, giving it a bit of a spring clean & tidy!)

I used an A6 white card blank for my base.

The papers are from the Spring Collection @ Southfield Staioners, which were given to me to play with & blog about! (Lovely spring colours & excellent quality!)

I cut three panels from the paper, then simply matted those onto some yellow lightweight card. I tied a yellow spotty ribbon from the Papermania Capsule Collection around the bottom one, finishing with a bow!

The image was coloured with trusty promarkers, cut out with a nestie & then placed directly onto the panels!

The sentiment is from Raindrop Echo Designs - Kristina's Sentiment & was cut with a smaller nestie then layered onto a square of the DP & some yellow card. It was stuck down with some foam tape!

I did have some flowers ready to go onto this card but I felt it should stay simple & decided to go with the buttons, also  from the Capsule Collection.

I do hope you like it!

I'm sure you'll be able to join in with our challenge this month! It's always "Anything Goes" at My Grafico

Don't forget to stop by the other DT member's blogs & leave them some love when you get a mo!

I know they love it when you do!

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges
Digi's With Attitude Easter (Mon)
Bee Crafty Easter (Fri)
Little Claire's Any Celebration With a Spring Theme "Easter"
Shannon's Sentiments Use an Animal
Stamping Vacation Special Thing's About April "Easter"
Totally Gorjuss Anything Fluffy
Craftmadfairies Digi Days  Easter
Fuzzy Wuzzy Inspirational, Include an animal
Paper Cutz Bunny Lamb Chicks or Easter Eggs (Bunnies & Easter Egg)
Pattie's Creations Easter or Spring (Easter)
Phindy's Place Easter
Stampin' for the Weekend Easter

Aly’s Sunday Sketch Bunnies Due April 16th
Crazy Challenge Easter Due April 17th
Die Cut Dreams  Easter Due April24th
Pink Paper Paradise Anything Goes Due April 16th
Polly Craft Challenge  Easter Due April 17th
Stamps R Us Challenge  Easter Due April 17th
Woodware USA  Anything goes Due April 17th
ABC DT Challenge Easter

More Candy from Maria

Maria over at Inkymits is soon to celebrate her 1st Blog Birthday on the 8th May!

She is offering up some candy to celebrate!

Pop on over to check it out!

Let her know I sent you!

Carlyann Has Candy

Just been doing a bit of blog hopping & I found that Carlyann of Charisma Cardz & Charisma Cardz Challenges has some sweet sweet candy on her personal blog!

Not one not two but three prize giveaways!

This is just one of them!

Pop on over to check it out for yourself but you'll have to hurry, it ends soon!!

Spring Is In The Air!

Spring Is In The Air over at The Crafty Pad for Challenge #116!

Here is my DT card! 

Our Challenge this week is sponsored by

Digital Craft Downloads

Who are offering a fab prize of £10 to spend on anything of your choice!

They have templates, digi papers & lot's more too!

This week the lovely boss, Debbie from The Crafty Pad Designs, 

(where you can buy digi & polymer stamps)

 has asked the DT to use a Window or Wishing Well image.

As I used Windows last week I thought I'd use the Wishing Well this week!

The image is called Boy & Girl at Wishing Well!

I coloured the image with Promarkers as ever & chalked in the sky!

The little girl started with beautiful blonde hair but, as I was a bit heavy handed with my chalks, it turned out green! (lol) She is now a beautiful brunette!

I distressed the edges of the image using a pink Ink It Up inkpad.

The ribbon was a bargain buy from Imag-e-nation!

£1 for a card with 4 or 5 different ribbons!

I made a border using a multi function punch and distressed it with the same pink.

I then matted & layered using lightweight blue card & the lovely Flora papers by Lilly Bimble

My base card is a white scalloped square.

The sentiment is a freebie from Sentiments4you, it was cut out with a scalloped circle nestie & I again distressed the edges with pink . It was mounted on foam tape to give it a bit of dimension.

The flowers and leaves are from Sweetpea Polly's Crafty Things on ebay.

Thank you soo much for stopping by. I do hope you have time to join in with our Spring Challenge over at The Crafty Pad.

Don't forget to stop by the other DT members blogs when you get a bit of time & leave them a little love too!

It's always appreciated!

I would like to enter my card in the following challenges

2 Sisters Challenge Spring

Make It Colourful Colouring Skies

Crafty Ann's Raise a Smile

Fairy Fun Friday Favourite Nursery Rhyme "Jack & Jill"

Fashionista Friday Spring Is In The Air

Pattie's Creations Easter or Spring "Spring"

Dutch Dare Challenges Spring Has Sprung

The Rubber Cafe Easter/Spring "Spring"

Appeal From a Friend!

Morning all! I've just received an email from a blogging friend & fellow DT member! She's in the process of setting up her own challenge blog & needs a little bit of help!

I'll let you read  for yourself!

"Hi girls,

I have a really big favour to ask of you!
It's to do with my challenge blog.
I'm just 3 people away from reaching my first magical 100 followers. I've been busy this past couple of days organising sponsors so that I can have a special celebration once I reach the 100.
So far I have some fabby companies on board, and I'm going to be able to run my very first challenge of my own with some lovely prizes. :0)
So what I'm asking of you all is this. If any of you don't follow me yet - please can you click on to my blog - http://kraftykarens.blogspot.com/ - and click on the follow me button, to bring me up to the 100 mark. And also - can you spread the word for me on your own blogs?
I'm going to be advertising on my blog late this afternoon/evening about the celebratory challenge and prizes etc.
Also, I would love for you all to come join me once it is live! :0)
I'm so happy to have reached the 100 mark honestly I can't even put the feeling into words for you all.
Any help you can offer me would be greatly appreciated!
Hugs.
xx "
Pop on over & check out her fabby blog for yourself!

Saturday ATCs

Happy Saturday all! Hope it's as sunny with you as it is with me!

Thought I'd share some ATC's with you this afternoon!

I made these for the swap over at Ali's ATC Swap Stop.

You have to make 4 ATC's to fit in with the theme!

This months theme was Wild Thing!

For the bases I used Stepper Templates which were designed by Debbie Lauder from Craftystash!

I'm not sure if the ATC size is available on the website but I know the Stepper Templates are!

I used the Jungle Safari Clip Art collection from Scrapbookingmad & made my own papers, using the tiles in the collection, which I printed directly onto lightweight card for the bases!

The leaves were cut with a woodware punch & sentiments are computer generated.

For some reason I only have individual pics of three of them but you're probably getting bored now anyway!

Thanks for stopping by, enjoy the rest of your Saturday!

Oh Dear, I Missed A Birthday!

Ooopsy deary me, I missed the birthday of a male friend of the family & had to get a card done ASAP!

Time fall back on  one of my old faithful tried & tested download sheets!

This sheet is from Craftystash & was designed by the lovely Debbie Lauder!

You can find it here!

The side stacker sheet comes with a greeting & a blank panel for your own greeting!

Also supplied in the download are the two DPs you see on the card! Fab eh!

The stacker was cut out & the edges were distressed with Weathered Wood ink  (as were most other elements on the card) before being built up using pinflair glue! Whilst I waited for this to dry I assembled the rest of the card!

I used an A4 sheet of recycled card for my base & simply folded it in half to give an A5  landscape card.

I added a matt using a  sheet of white linen texture paper, then the DP! I made a panel using the linen paper & the other DP. I added a border which was cut with a Martha Stewart punch . This was added to the panel along with a ribbon.

I matted the stacker & greeting on to the linen texture paper & added to the card.

To finish off I made a little rope with two buttons, two beads & some raffia.

Hope you like it! It’s great to know you have something there for emergencies!

Hugs

Dawn xxxx

I'd like to enter this card in a couple of challenges as below!

Samuel Taylor Distressing (Monthly)

Delightful Challenges Sun Sea & Sand (Wed 13th)
My Time To Craft Nautical (for fun)