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

Boys & Their Toys!

Happy Wednesday all!

Today, I'm sharing the card I made for the new challenge over at

Dude Time Doodles 

This weeks Challenge is  "Boy's & Their Toys"

I think that's pretty clear, don't you???

Here's my card!

Oh no, I've done it again, another square card! Sorry!

This is Larry Lane & he loves to go bowling but, 

sometimes in life as we all know, Split Happens! lol

The sentiment is part of the Larry Lane Set

from Bonibleaux Designs

I coloured Larry with my trusty Promarkers then cut him out with a 

square nestie, I did a bit of shading with a flexmarker but I'm not sure 

if you can see it on the photo's.

The digital papers & embellishments are from the 

Ten Pin Kit at Peppermint Creative

I also added some little ribbon tags which I secured with brads 

which have been in my stash forever!

The inside of the card has a bit of decoration too!

The border punch is by Martha Stewart

Here's a side view!

Thanks so much for dropping in! I really appreciate it!

I look forward to seeing your Boy's & Their Toys 

creations at Dude Time Doodles this week!

This card was made with the following challenges in mind:

Clear It Out Father's Day/Masculine (Use up your Eyelets or Brads)

Digital Tuesday Anything Goes

Kaboodle Doodles All Manly Men

Totally Stampilicious Get Your Giggle On

There's Magic In The Air  Bingo (Punches Ribbon 2 or more patterned papers)

Incy Wincy Designs Blue & Black With A Sentiment For A Boy/Man

Squigglefly Make Me Laugh

The Cutie Pie Challenge Die Cuts/Punches

Dream Valley Challenges Humour

Great Impressions Die Cuts/Punches

Here Come The Boys Anything Goes

One Stitch At A Time Use A Digi
Platypus Creek Digitals For The Boys
The Ribbon Girls Use Ribbon Or Lace
2 Sisters Inside & Out
Di's Digi Designs Male Inspired Creations
Little Claire's Male Theme
Fairy Tales Men & Boys
Fat Pages & Cards With Attitude Anything Goes/Father's Day#
Patties Creations Fathers Day/Male
Stamp Man For A Man

It's Simple! Call Me.........

Hello all!

It's time to showcase the June New Releases from The Crafty Pad Designs!

These are in the form of Silhouettes this time!
These have a real vintage feel about them & could be used for cards for male or female

I was given the Table image to work with, but I loved all of these images

so much, I just had to get my hands on more!

In the end, I used the Table, the Telephone & the Chair

Here's my creation

I made a pretty simple Black & White card.

I merged the images in my graphics programme

then added some text. I then printed the image onto 

some linen embossed cardstock.

 I cut out the image using an inverted scalloped nestie

then matted onto a scalloped circle of black cardstock.

The A6 card blank was pre-embossed with spots!

I fixed the image to the card using foam pads to give a bit of dimension

then added a double bow & a stick pin.

A trio of black self adhesive pearls finishes off the card!

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you like my little card!

Pop on over to the Challenge Blog to check out the rest of the images

& the awesome creations by the rest of the DT!

One lucky commenter will win all of the new release images,

so don't forget to leave some love!

It could be you!!

You have just one week to comment & the winner will be announced on 

Thursday 14th June's winners post on the Challenge Blog

I'd like to enter my card in a few challenges

BunnyZoe's Crafts Anything Goes

Crafty Boots Anything Goes

Karen's Doodles Farewell Or Miss You Card

Gingerloft Circles

Great Impressions Die Cuts &/or Punches

Joanna Sheen Challenge Remember When......?

Kenny K Krafty Girlz Pearls

Pan Pastel UK Something Vintage

One Stitch At A Time Use A Digi

The Ribbon Girls Use Ribbon Or Lace

Just Some Lines Black & White

ATCs & Cards With Attitude Anything Goes

Art Impressions Stamps Seeing Spots

Crafts & Me Ribbon

Crafty Creations Circles

Creative Inspirations Paint CAS

Pretty In Pink

I thought I'd share this simple little card with you today!

The message is clear!

The card base is an A6 pre-printed Papermania Designer Card.

The image & sentiment are both Breast Cancer Awareness Freebies 

from McMahon Five Designs.

The image was coloured with promarkers & flexmarkers.

I added a matt of card which was punched down one side with a

Martha Stewart border punch.

The sentiment was rounded off on two corners with a corner punch.

I also added a couple of butterflies. 

The larger butterfly is a Tonic punch, the smaller is Martha Stewart.

A few self adhesive pearls just finish it off!

Thanks for dropping by!

This card was made with the following challenges in mind:

Stamping Scrapping Central Don't Bug Me

Tammy's Scrapin Corner  For The Girls

The Cutie Pie Challenge Die Cuts/Punches

Link Up For Pink Create a Breast Cancer Awareness Project Using Pink

Great Impressions Die Cuts and/or Punches

One Stitch At A Time Use A Digi

The Hybrid Chick Card Caravan Use Pink

Crazy 4 Challenges Add Some Butterflies

ATC's & Cards With Attitude Anything Goes

Card Makin Mama's Punches

Frosted Designs Fabulous Friday Punches

Shelly's Images Pick at least 2 from the list ( Bling, Monochromatic, Punched Border, Markers, Digi)

I Love Promarkers Use A Digi

Penny's Paper Crafty Anything Goes

Scrapbook Sister's Anything Goes

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

Dude Time Doodles May New Release Blog Hop

Good Morning all you lovely bloggers!

It's the last Wednesday of the month & that means it's time for the 

Dude Time Doodles blog hop to 

showcase the new release images from 

Dude Time Doodles aka Bonibleaux Designs!

If you've arrived from the awesome Dude Kevin's blog then 

you are on the right track!

If not don't fret, you can just hop on from here as it's a circle hop!

Make sure you leave a comment at each stop on the hop as  

the mystery host will be giving one lucky person a little prize!

Here's my card!

Patriotic huh! 

I am in a real Red White & blue mood right now!

The image is Roger Redskin! 

He & all the hop images will be available in store today!

He's cheering on his team like only Dude's do!

I did a simple card with a red square base.

The papers I have used have been in my stash forever!

The Happy Birthday DP is Papermania but I have no idea about the other!

I added a bit of ribbon, some buttons & bling!

Here's a closer look!

I coloured Roger with  a selection of promarkers, 

with a touch of copics & flex markers!

He sure looks like he's having fun!

The sentiment is by Create with TLC.

The inside of my card is decorated a little too!

I feel it helps with the balance as well as adding a bit of interest!

Thanks for stopping by!

Your next stop on the hop is the wonderfully talented Charlene

I'm sure you'll be glad you hopped on over!

Now, as always, I'll be getting some beauty sleep when this post goes live

so will update the links as soon as I can. 

In the meantime, I hope you find the hop posts okay!

Have fun!

I's like to enter this card in the following challenges:
Digi Stamps 4 Joy Buttons
I Love Promarkers Use A Digi
My Mum's Craft Shop Red White & Blue
Tuesday Throwdown Masculine
Can You Digi It Love Of Country
Celebrate The Occasion Anything Goes
Creative Craft Challenges Red White & Blue
Digital Tuesday Just For Laughs
Simon Says Stamp & Show One For The Boys
Lexi's Creations For The Men/Boys In Our Life
Here Come The Boys Anything Goes
Great Impressions Anything Goes
One Stitch At A Time Red White & Blue
2 Sisters Bring On The Boys
Craft Your Days Away Red White & Blue
Di's Digi Designs Show Us That Bling
Little Claire's Male Theme
One Stop Craft For The Boys
Chocolate Coffee & Cards For The Boys
Crafty Catz Male
Fairy Tale Boys & Men
Stampin With The Dragon Heroes (DT)
DRS Designs masculine
Sassy Studio Designs Hats Off To You
SJ Papercrafts All About The Boy + Use something old from your stash

What Colour Is Yours?

Good morning lovely bloggers!!!

It's Sunday again & time for the brand new challenge,

#172 at The Crafty Pad, where the theme is

"Colours Of Your Flag and/or Sketch"

I live in the UK so my flag is Red White & Blue

I'm not sure why but I really wanted to make a Christmas card for this one!

The cute little image is Christmas Ted Posting Letter, 

just one of  a series of Christmas Teds over at 

The Crafty Pad Designs

The sentiment ticket is from the Christmas Sentiment Ticket Set,

you get a set of  11 tickets for a mere £1.20!!!

here's the sketch before I forget!

I am such a doughnut I forgot all about the sketch when I was making my card!

Duh, it's such a fab sketch too!!!!

Our Sponsor this week is the lovely 

Joanna Sheen 

who is offering one lucky winner 

a fab £10 Voucher to spend in her awesome online store!

Heres a closer look at Ted!

I coloured him with promarkers & added some Diamond Sparkles Glitter.

Not sure you can pick it up on the photo!

I added a little border which was punched using a Martha Stewart punch.

I coloured one section of the ticket & added some glitter too.

The paper has been in my Christmas stash forever & is a 

download but I'm not sure where it's from.

You can just about see that I've decorated the inside of the card too 

but I've also forgot to take a picture of that! Doh!

A trio of buttons in the colours of my flag & a red organza 

ribbon bow finish off my little creation!

Thanks for popping in today!

I hope you can find the time to join us this week at The Crafty Pad.

Pop on over to the Challenge Blog for some more inspiration at

I'd like to enter my card for the following challenges:
Christmas Card Challenges Bling (Diamond Sparkles)
One Stitch at a Time Red Blue & White
Craft Your Days Away Red White & Blue
Craftymess Challenge Christmas With Non Traditional Colours
Di's Digi Designs Show us that Bling
ATC's & Cards With Attitude Anything Goes
Card Makin Mama's Punches
Fat Pages & Cards With Attitude Anything Goes
Stempelsonne Headgear
Crafting For All Seasons Celebration With Buttons
Digistamps 4 Joy Buttons
Paper Shelter Challenge Bling (Diamond Sparkles)
The Play Date Cafe Colour Inspiration
Penny's Paper Crafty Anything Goes
Truly Scrumptious Anything Goes
Bearly Mine Anything Goes
Going Grey With Scrap Creations Bingo Diagonal Glitter, Diecuts/Punches, Buttons
Paper Take Weekly True Colours
Top Tip Tuesday Bring Out The Old (Digital Paper)
The Pink Elephant Buttons Galore

Watch Out For The Crafty Pad Showcase!

Good Morning Blog Land!

It's my turn to showcase a Crafty Pad Image to remind you all 

to enter your Crafty Pad Creations in the 

 May Crafty Pad Monthly Showcase.
Remember, this runs until the end of the month.

Don't have a Crafty Pad Image???
You can pick up a freebie from the Challenge Blog here

I've waited ages to share this card with you all!

I have to say I am rather pleased with this one if I say it myself!
This is the first time I've tried this out, it's an
Acetate Tent Card
& was inspired by my good friends Ali & Debbie
Thank You Ladies!

The clock face is the Pocket Watch image from this set at 

The Crafty Pad Designs

The Sentiment Ticket is also from The Crafty Pad Designs.

I printed out  Design Papers from 

Bearly Mine Designs 

onto both sides of some super smooth card.

Next I printed all of the elements out on the card.

I cut out the elements & inked using some distressed inks

Not sure if you can see it in the photo but I liquid embossed the face with

Anita's 3D Glaze, when it had dried, I put it in the freezer.

This allowed me to crack the glaze, giving a cracked glass effect

On the back, I used the pocket watch image again but I blanked out the middle 

then added the birthday greeting.

You can see another Crafty Pad Designs Sentiment Ticket there too!

I made the circle sentiment in my graphics programme

The font is 1942 Report & you can get it free here

I thought this gave the card an added vintage feel.

A closer look at the sentiment ticket.

Here's an angled view.

I added some Funky fibres in co-ordinating colours.

Before I go I should also remind you of our Sponsor this month!

Crafty Individuals

Who are offering this wonderful prize

Wish I could enter! lol

I hope to see you over there!

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

Bearly Mine Anything Goes

Creative Card Crew Dimension

Creative Craft Challenge Distressing

Die Cuttin Divas Buttons, Banners & or Birthdays

Party Time Tuesdays Vintage or Shabby Chic

Tuesday Throwdown 3D

Tammy Scrapin Corner Distressing

Great Impressions Anything Goes

Joanna Sheen Challenge Happy Birthday 

One Stitch At A Time Anything Goes

Crazy 4 Challenges A Birthday Card

Little Claire's  Male Theme

Chocolate Coffee & Cards For The Boys

Delicious Doodles Try Something New

Paper Play Challenges Destruction (Distressing, grunge, cracked glass)

Rainbow Lady's Challenge Let's Get Inky

Southern Girls About The Boys

SJ Crafts All About The Boys

Crafty Creations Male Birthday Card

A Great Big Thank You!

Good Morning Blog land!

As it's the Team B's turn to inspire you over at The Crafty Pad this week, 

I thought I would share another "Thank You" card with you!

This was made for the same lovely lady who asked for the small 

"Thank You" cards a little while back!

This card is entirely different! 

It was to be for all of the Ward Staff who cared for her during 

a prolonged stay in Ward 6 at The Western General Hospital in Edinburgh!

The request was for a "great big card with nurses & beds etc!"

As you can see, Pink is fast becoming my favourite colour at the moment! lol

Well, I couldn't find many digis'of hospital beds, 

but I did find one at Bugaboo!

In fact all the digi's on this card came from Bugaboo!

They're just great to colour up!

The card is an Anita's A4 Card Blank the quality is great & the 

envelope that came with it is really sturdy too!

It was lot of space to cover but I found I was running out of space 

for all the ward staff around on this one! Lol

Each of the images was coloured with Promarkers & is coloured up to 

represent the various members of ward staff who looked after this special lady!

For the glasses, & anything made of glass, I added a little 3d glaze.

The design paper is a digital freebie that I picked up a long time ago.

It was designed by Joanne Barsby!

I also used a plain pink lightweight card stock to matt everything onto!

I cut out the images with various nesties & added a couple of small 

panels with ribbon wrapped around just to break things up a little.

The centre panel is the same as the smaller cards I made!

I added some punched leaves which I embossed, some mulberry paper roses

& the obligatory Breast Cancer Awareness pink ribbon!

I added a little decoration to the inside of the card!

Thanks for popping in! I hope you like it!

I'm off to Feline Playful to check if this baby fits any of the 

challenges tracked by them this week!

I'd like to enter:

One Stitch At A Time Anything Goes

Pan Pastels UK Challenge Pastel Colours

Hiding In My Craft Room Do Over (the centre image & sentiment was used on the small cards too)

ATC's & Cards With Attitude Anything goes or Butterflies & Blooms

Fat Pages & Cards With Attitude Anything Goes or Butterflies & Blooms

Crafts 4 Eternity Wonderful Wings (The little student nurse image)

Fairy Tale Things with wings

Hot Shot Crafts Die Cuts

Crafty Ribbons Flowers

Delightful Challenges Add ribbon

Digi Doodle Shops Best Work Related

Sisterhood of Crafters May Flowers

Sweet Stamps  Favourite Colour

Ooh La La Creations Ribbon or twine or both

Stamp & Create One for the ladies

Pollycraft Colour Inspiration