I'd like to be.......

As the song goes.........Under the sea,.in an Octopus's garden......lol

Morning all! Is it Monday already??? 

Where did the weekend go???

Here's my DT card for the My Grafico, Monthly, Anything Goes Challenge this week!

Isn't she lovely....that's another song....lol

This little lady is from Jessie Weible/JD Digi Designs at My Grafico & you can find her here

Please don't forget to enter the challenge! It's not hard to qualify as it's alway Anything Goes!

Stop by the other DT members blogs too if you get a chance & leave them some love!

I've been having fun following sketches over the last few weeks & this week is no exception.

The sketch I chose this week is from Sweet Stampin, it just caught my eye!

If you don't like sketches, you can use an alternative of Spots, Stripes & Sparkle.

I think I've done a bit of both!

This week I opted to use papers from my stash that I've had forever! I think I got them on ebay or in one of these surprise crafty bundles you get from suppliers.

So, on with the show, here's how I made my card.

The base card is a square, cut from a sheet of white A4 cardstock.

I added a square of light green card, then my shiny spotty paper. This kind of said "sea" to me & when I stuck it down with photoglue, it kind of went a bit wavy too, I liked it so I left it as it was!

The image was coloured with Promarkers, cut out with an oval nestie & matted onto a large scalloped oval of the light green card.

I cut my scalloped section out with a spellbinders square scalloped die. To do this, I put my card to one edge & cut, then flipped it over to do the other edgee, making sure I matched up the scallops!

I then added a layer of pearlescent vellum. I'm not sure how well you can see it in the pics, it's obvious to me but I know it's there! I did all the little panels with the light green card & the pearlescent vellum as I didn't want my card to look too busy!

The sentiment is from Sentiments 4 You if I'm not mistaken. 

(FYI, they have a Friday Freebie each week!)

I used promarkers to colour, then it was cut out with an inverted scallop circle nestie & matted onto a scalloped circle of the light green card.

I also added a ribbon bow & two decorative pins ( my latest purchase!).

Thanks for stopping by,I hope you like her! 

Don't forget to enter your card at My Grafico Anything Goes Challenge

I'm off to look for some suitable challenges for my card!

Sweet Stampin Sketch OR Spots Stripes & Sparkle
By The Cute & Girly Anything Goes
Crafters Companion Girls Birthday
Emerald Faerie Garden Anything Goes
Corrosive Challenges Birthdays
Dream Valley Challenges Dig out the old & use with the new! (Old papers new digi)
OSAAT Anything Goes
Paper Sundaes Birthdays
Stamp Scrap & Doodle Saturday Dig out old stash
Annabelle's Stamps Say it in Monochromatic tones

Is it Sunday Already Cup Cake?

Happy Sunday all! 

Well I'm hoping it's happy Sunday & Mr Blogger has sorted himself out!

I felt a bit lost as I couldn't comment on anyone's lovely cards or upload any of my own!

When I did get on Mr Blogger had removed lots of your lovely posts!

As it's Sunday, it must be a new challenge over at
The Crafty Pad! 

This week for Challenge #121 we would like to see "Holes"

There are lots of options, big holes little holes, holes with ribbon threaded through the list is endless & the type is up to you!
We're sponsored this week by the lovely
Joanna Sheen

who is offering £10 to spend in her fabby shop!

Here's my card with my interpretation of the theme, with lots of holes!
 Lol,  had to make up for the lack of spots & dots last week!

The Design Team were asked to use one of Debbie's Cup Cake images

from The CupCake Complete Set

available from The Crafty Pad Designs the sentiments are part of the same set!

Here's how I made my card:

For the base card I used a white scalloped square card. 

I scored down the middle of the front section & folded it back, et voila a fold back card!

I spent ages looking for just the right paper to use for this card & found it was literally under my nose all along!  

The striped paper came from Southfield Stationers & was part of a bundle I was given to play with a while back. It matched the cup cake holder just perfectly.

I've used these papers from Southfield's quite a lot!
The colours are great & the quality is really very good!

The image & decoupage sections were coloured with promarkers, I layered up the decoupage using pinflair glue & added some Diamond Sparkles glitter to two of the sections.

 The cherry on top was highlighted with a white gel pen which got a bit smudged, oopsy, 

I then cut out the image using my new frame die from Nellie's which I purchased at Southfield's.

On the inside section, I added the outside of the frame that I used to cut out my image, which was matted onto the blue paper, then added the sentiment, which was cut out with a scalloped oval!

 I used my ribbon threading punch to puch two holes at the top & bottom & threaded some lace, which is full of holes, through the punched holes & stuck down.

The other sentiments were simply matted on to the blue & attached with foam tape to give some dimension!

I hope you'll find the time to join us for our "Holes" Challenge at The Crafty Pad!

I'm off to look for some challenges for this card. Enjoy your Sunday!

OSAAT Challenges Anything Goes

Sparkles Forum Recipe, 2 Papers,1Ribbon or Bow, 2 embellishmets (Hope my pins count as embellishments

The Hot Spot Challenge Case a Cake

Kenny K Kraty Girlz Die Cuts & Punches (I've used both)

Scrappy Frogs Anything Goes

One Stop Craft Challenge Ice Cream Colours ( Blue Moon, Vanilla,Strawberry & Black cherry Flavours)

My Mums Craft Shop Challenges Use Dies

Fairy Fun Friday's Here Come The Girls





My Grafico Challenge is Back!

Good morning all! 

Happy Monday to you all & I hope you had a fab weekend!

Over at My Grafico, we had a unexpected week's holiday due to one thing & another but we're all back on track & raring to go after our impromptu break!

I hope you'll be able to join in with our Anything Goes Challenge this month!

Grab a cuppa by the way, you might need it!

Here's my DT card!

I just love making Twisted Easel cards, such fun!

This week we were given these wonderful ticket sentiments from La La Studio to work with!

Such a great set for all manner of occasions!

The Image I used for this card came from Dude Time Doodles, he's called Hillbilly Moonshine!

I coloured him up with promarkers & added a bit of glitter to the bubbles above his head!

I cut him out with a square scalloped nestie.

I then used a couple of distress inks to grunge him up a bit & distressed the edges with a pair of scissors!

For the layout of my card I used a sketch from Little Claire's

This card is for my brother-in-law's birthday!

 The day after his birthday, he's heading of to Majorca for his future son-in -law's stag party! 

I really hope he doesn't end up in this state! lol

The DP I have used was the result of a printer malfunction, which resulted in my printer going in the bin!

Still, I hung on to it & it came in handy, so I have to say it was a happy accident!

As well as the Ticket Sentiment which I used as the stop for the easel section of the card

I computer generated a little funny sentiment of my own

As the image I used was from Dude Time Doodles, I wanted to enter their challenge this week which was to use any sketch & to add a flower! So Here's my grungy flower!

A couple of Prima flowers, grunged with distress inks & a little card candy centre!

I also dotted some card candy about just to bring everything together!

I do hope you like him!

Thanks so much for looking!

Don't forget to visit the other DT members blogs & give them a bit of love too! You'll find the DT list next to DT cards on the challenge blog!

Challenges I'd like to enter this card for

Dude Time Doodles Any Sketch will do but add a flower

Little Claire's Anything Goes

Digi's With Attitude! Make us Laugh

Come & Get It Birthdays

Creative Cowgirls Anything Goes

One Stitch At A Time Fancy Folds

Pile It On Funny Sentiment or Image

Scrappy Frogs Anything Goes

Sentimental Sunday's Anything Goes

Cards For Men For Someone Special

Craft Your Passion Check it out

The Crazy Challenge Anything Goes

Design Dollies Creative folds

Happileigh Scrappin Green

Pollycraft Challenge Boyz To Men

Stamps R Us Masculine

Thank you!

Just stopped by to say thank you for everyone who voted for my cards over at Quirky Craft Challenges!

Delighted to say I won!

Whoop Whoop Yaaaayyyy!

Thanks again everyone!

I promise I'll share a card with you tomorrow!

Time to Fess Up!

Hello everyone out there in blog land!
It's Sunday which means a new challenge over at
The Crafty Pad!
Challenge # 120 Spots & Dots let us see you go Dotty!
This week we are kindly sponsored by Letraset

Who are offering a fabby pack of 5 Aquamarkers

We are also sponsored by our very own Lovely Lorraine from L.R. Designs

 Okay, so, 'fessing up time!
 I'm a bad bad bad bad girl!

I made my card for the challenge DT.....but.....I stupidly forgot all about the Spots & Dots!
*Blushing Furiously*
I guess you could say the creator was totally Dotty!

So here's my card, minus the spotty & dotty bits!

I was feeling so pleased with myself & my card too! 

The DT were asked to use the 

Recipe for a Friend from The Crafty Pad Designs.

I opted to keep my card fairly simple as I didn't want to detract from the Recipe!

I printed the recipe onto some pearlescent paper then cut out.

I've been working on a big project (top secret for now) using gate fold cards & decided this design would suit the recipe just perfectly!

I used a sheet of A5 textured chocolate brown card for the base card.

The DP I used was part of a download from Craftystash I keep using these papers as they are so versatile!

I apologise for the quality of my pics as I took them when it was dark & the colours just aren't true, no matter how I tried to fix them!

I added some flowers from Sweetpea Polly's Crafty Things & some leaves punched out using my woodware punch.

To finish it of I added this neat little frog fastner, 

it's the kind of thing you see on Oriental jackets & blouses.

I got this from Mei Flower at a recent Craft Show! I think it's just perfect for this kind of card! It's something just a little bit different from ribbon!

Inside the card which you can't see on any of the pics,  there is a linen textured paper insert. I added a strip of the DP down either side just to tie it all together.

I'm going to send this card to a friend who's feeling a bit down at the mo with a lovely bar of Green & Black's Chocolate!

Don't forget to join in the Challenge at The Crafty Pad if you can & if you do don't be like me & forget your Spots & Dots! lol

Now for some challenges, I'd like to enter the following

Bugaboo Anything Goes

Cardmaking Mama's Make a card for a loved one

Crafty Catz Use a quote of a sentiment

Inspire Me Friday's Anything Goes

Cute Card Thursday Chocolate

Diva's By Design Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly Anything Goes

Top Tip Tuesday Anything Goes

I Have a Favour to Ask

Hello again, I didn't think I'd be back so soon but I have entered two of my cards in the Challenge over at Quirky Crafts & the winner is chosen by the number of votes they receive.
I'm a bit embarrased to ask but if you could stop by the challenge blog & vote for my cards I would be thrilled! Do check out the other entris while you're there!  I would hate you to vote for me then see something you liked better!
Thanks
.

Evening all!

No card tonight I'm sorry, not even a piccie, but I just had to stop by to say hello to my latest followers! Sooo happy to have you join us! I feel a candy coming on! Watch this space!
Stamp Fairy aka Gerda, Hunnybunny aka Barbara and Sue of Guardian Angel Crafts. Big waves & smiles to you all & thanks again for joining us!
Do pop over to these wonderful ladies blogs when you get a chance! You won't be disappointed!
Have a fab Friday evening!

How Time Flies!

Here's another humble little offering from me!

The image is Bethy's Wedding  from Mo Manning & is coloured with Promarkers.

I bought it to make a wedding card then realised I had an anniversary card to do & this would fit the bill just perfectly!

The colouring is not the best, I used some pearlescent paper & it behaved a bit differently to the paper I normally use! Not to worry, here it is warts & all!

I used the sketch from Sunday Sketch & Stamp for the design of my card!

The papers are from my stash, a Do Crafts bundle I believe!

 I've had them since almost the very beginning of my crafting journey!

Every now & then I get them out & find just what I want in there!

My "lace" border was puched using a Martha Stewart punch, then I wrapped some red organza ribbon around it I tied a bow!

The flowers are Prima with a bit of card candy as the centre! I cut out some little flourishes with a Papermania punch & attached them.

Finally, the sentiment, a silver peel off on some white card, stuck on with pinflair glue to give a bit odf dimension!

Thanks for looking!

I do apologise if you tried to look at this card before but Mr Blogger is being a bit naughty of late & posted before I was finished writing this! Yesterday he told me I wasn't following any blogs!

ROFL have you seen the list of blogs I follow!!!!

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

Sunday Sketch & Stamp Sketch

Clear it Out Challenge Ribbon/Trim

Papertake Weekly Anything Goes

Top Tip Tuesday Anything Goes

Try it On Tuesday A Card using Something older than 6mths and something newer than 6mths

Craft Your Passion Anything Goes
Crafty Creations Anniversary
Papercraft Star find Your Own Sketch (Sunday Sketch & Stamp as above)
Quirky Crafts Red White & Blue & inspiration from the Royal Wedding
Digi's With Attitude! Stars (All over the DP)

Oh Baby, Baby!

If you read my last post you'll know that my niece was in labour the other day!

I'm happy to say she had a little boy Aryan, 6lb 4ozs. Mother & baby doing well!

This of course calls for a card!

As you do, I trawled a few sites looking for just the right image!

I found just the one I wanted at Pink Gem Designs he's called Baby Boy Bundle.
I also noticed the challenge on A Gem of A Challenge was a sketch, so I decided to make that the basis for my creation.

Without further ado, here's my card

I have to say I'm really pleaesed with how it worked out!

I coloured the image with promarkers & cut out with a scalloped circle nestie. I coloured the edges then ran my quickie glue pen around & added my lovely Diamond Sparkles glitter!

As you can see, I did the same with my Sentiment

I made the little bunting by cutting a thin strip of card & some triangles from the papers I used. I then added the name by just printing it out & cutting the letters individually. All glued together with my quickie gluepen!

I added a card border which was cut using my new Martha Stewart deep edge punch & glittered the edges! I then  added some Prima Flowers & ribbon from my stash.

Topped off with a few little bits of card candy dotted about et voila!

I hope you like it! I sure do!

Before I list the challenges I'd like to enter I must welcome my latest followers!

Big hello's & big waves to Moira & Lynsey!

No links as yet but I'll keep looking! Thanks for joining us on this crafting journey!

So, on to challenges.

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

A Gem of A Challenge A Sketch
KB Cute Monday Use Dots
Stamp With Fun Ribbon or Lace
Secret Crafter For a Baby
Crafty Catz Congratulations
Totally Papercrafts Glitter
Cute Card Thursday Use a sketch ( From A Gem Of A Challenge)
Bearly Mine Beautiful Babies

Craft Your Passion Anything Goes
Pollycraft Anything Goes
Make It Monday Anything Goes

I Believe In Fairies

Happy Sunday all! I hope you're having a nice weekend & enjoyed THE WEDDING on Friday!

Don't they make such a lovely couple!

Now on to business!! LOL

Today sees the beginning of a new Challenge over at The Crafty Pad

Challenge #119 is Swirls & Pearls

We're sponsored this week by the fantastic Crafty Ribbons!

They are offering this lovely bundle of Bursting Blooms Ribbons as their prize!

The DT were asked to use one of Debbie's Fab Fairy Chloe images this week!

I chose this one!

 The images available on both The Crafty Pad Designs & Cardmaking Downloads
there are some great matching circle & ticket sentiments too!

I followed the sketch from Truly Scrumptious Challenge 56  as the basis for my card

The papers I have used were a freebie from Joanne Barsby last May & they provide my swirls!

I added some self Adhesive pearls & some little butterflies punched from the papers using my Martha Stewart punch & some white satin ribbon from my stash!

I coloured the fairy with promarkers & resisted the urge to colour the mushroom red & white!

I'm not sure that you should use glitter with pearls but her wings just cried out for a bit of sparkle!

I used a quickie glue pen & diamond sparkles for this!

I did the same to the edge of the image & the sentiment which were both cut out using Scallop Circles Nestabillities on my Big Shot!

I'm not sure you can make them out but I used a corner die to cut out ornate corners with the darker pink paper & stuck to the outside corners of the panels

This card is for my nieces birthday who, as I type, is in hospital having her second baby boy!

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

Truly Scrumptious Challenge 56 A Sketch (Wed)

Fairy Knoll Challenge 47 Birthdays

Ellephantastic Challenges Birthday/Party

Rainbow Ladies Challenge Take a Town City or Country Break (Country, woodland)

Crafts 4 Eternity Anything Goes

Fashionista Friday Things With Wings

Inspire Me Fridays Anything Goes JFF

Miami Doodles Let's Go Girly

Phindy's Place Glitter Glamour & Glitz

Stamp Something Something With Wings

Stampin With The Dragon May Day

Little Miss Muffet Die Cuts & Punches