So Girly with Sweet Stampin'

My second post today  and ...........

Saturday is time for Sweet Stampin, and this week our theme is Oh so Girly.

 So out came my LOTV stamps again - they never fail on this front.  I have used Pom Pom for this card, and coloured her with Copics, and embellished with Diamond Stickles.  I followed a sketch from Sketchy Colors for this.  My papers are from the Essence of Nature CD by Elusive Images, with Coredinations cardstock.  My swirls are cut with a Magnolia Doo Hickey die, as are the dragonflies.  Flowers are Prima (big purple flower) and WOC (Roses).  Pearls are from stash.

Challenges I am entering this for:

Sketchy Colours - follow the sketch
KB Cute Monday - Use Glitter
Stamps R Us - For the Girls
Lili of the Valley - Circles
IncyWincy - Punches or Dies
Creative Cottage - Fabulous Florals
Do You Stack Up - Anything Goes
Bunny Zoes Crafts - Spring Flowers Everywhere
Guylou's - Anything Goes
Sweet Stamps - Flowers
Card Makin' Mamas - Birthday
Pile It On - Childhood Dreams
Crafty Emma's Challenge - Flowers and Flutterbys
Rainbow Lady - Something from a CD - my paper is printed from a CD
Flutterby Wednesdays - Open Challenge
Stampin' for the weekend - Monochrome




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Spring Flowers for One Stop Card Crafts

Hello Saturday

I have had the most amazing time this week.  On Thursday I went to an ArtsyCrafts event, and spent the whole day in some fairly intesive classes. Firstly with Lin of LB Crafts and Leandra of PaperArtsy, BUT the highlight was an class with the amazing Tim Holtz. I have come home on such a high - and will blog about this later with some photos.


For One Stop Card Crafts this time  we want to see Spring Flowers. 

 Having made this card I think it looks more like Summer - but one of my fave Sarah Kay images, and I have lots of flowers to compensate, and some of my fave colours.

This is Bernadette Admiring the Spring Flowers.  I have colours with Copics.  My papers are MME So Sophie, and the cardstock is Coredinations.  I have used a Magnolia Doo Hickey die for the swirls and dragonfly.  The pretty two tone roses are from Joanna Sheen, and I have used pearls and lace from stash.

I am entering this for the following challenges:

Bunny Zoes Crafts - Spring Flowers Everywhere
Stamp Something - Flowers
Lexi's Creations - Flowers
PaperCutz - Spring
I Did it Creations - Anything Goes
Stampin Sisters in Christ - Use the colour Green
Party Time Tuesday - Anything Goes
Southern Girls - Brads, Gems or Dewdrops
Paper  Crafting Journey - Anything goes
Flutterby Wednesdays - Open Challenge
Paper Pretties - Glitter
Creative Cottage - Fabulous FloralS
Card Makin Mama's - Happy Birthday
ASFOS - birthday wishes
Stamping with the Dragon - Birthdays
Crafty Emma's Challenge - Flowers and Flutterbys


Our sponsors this week are CRAFTY EMMA'S STORE, and our monthly sponsor is QUIXOTIC PAPERIE


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Digital Delights DT card

Good morning everyone

When you read this I will be sitting in a class room with the delightful, fabulous, amazing Tim Holtz getting my hands all inky, and learning lots of new stuff.  How exciting can that be!  Sigh ...........Did you see him on QVC on Tuesday?  .

My images are Bride and Groom, and the sentiment is from the Wedding and Anniversary Sentiment Set.   I have coloured the image with Copics.

All my papers are from an Elusive Images CD - Essence of Nature.  I love the ethereal look of the grasses.  The cardstock is Coredinations, which I have had for some time.  The plain panel in the middle has some seam binding looped over it.  The very prettywhite  roses down the side were a very recent purchase from Joanna Sheen, and the pale apricot ones - to match the flower in the bride's hair - are from Wild Orchid Crafts.  A white satin ribbon is looped through the flowers.  The gems are from stash, and just ramdonly placed to give some bling.
 

I have followed the sketch from Sketch Saturday for this card. 

 
 

 

 

I am entering this for the following challenges:

Crafty Calendar - Love

Little Claire - Anything Goes

Crafty Ann's Challenge - Love is all around

Delicious Doodles - Glitz, Gam, Glimmer and Bling

Dutch Dare Challenge - Glitter, Sparkle, Bling

Paper Crafting Journey - Anything goes
Top Tip Tuesday - Bling it On

Rainbow Lady's Challenge - Use something from a CD - my paper is from a CD

Shelly's Images - Show us what you got - anything goes

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I'm off to see the Wizard - of Distress .......... Grunge

I am off to classes with the fabulous, amazing, talented Tim Holtz at ArtsyCrafts - so excited  ......... sigh ..........

A flower for Less is More ....

In the interests of trying to restrain myself from covering everything with lush flowers, I am continuing my efforts of entering Less is More.  It is now week 2, and  this week is the challenge is a  ONE LAYER CARD  with the theme of a flower or three.  I cannot remember when I last did a one layer card.  Anyway I wasted all Thursday afternoon trying to get a decent image from a fabby  Personal Impressions stamp which is like a dandelion blowing in the wind.  I have had this sometime and not inked it up before.  Well I failed miserably - whatever ink or cardstock I used. 

So this is my entry, and I have added a score line down the side and across the bottom to frame the image.

I am entering this for the following challenge:

CCEE Stampers - use scoring

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Digital Delights - Cleaning Bear

Hi everybody

I don't know where the last few days have gone - but disappear they have!  Today is time for my latest card for Digital Delights, and I am using Cleaning Bear.  Now I know that H*******K is a dirty word in the for most of us in the crafting world, so I hope you appreciate my sentiment!

My card is based on a sketch from Friday Sketchers.  I have used papers from Nitwits Collections - I am really loving these are the moment.  I have coloured my image with Copics, and have computer generated the sentiment.  Towards the end of last year I was lucky enough to win a Joanna Sheen voucher in a challenge, and have been trying to decide what to purchase with them - well I spied these very pretty daisies at the weekend, and just had to have them, and coincidentally they are a perfect match with the paper I have used.  I also bought some white ones so that i can spray them whatever colour I need.  I have also used Nesties, Martha Stewart and Stampin' Up punches, and some ribbon from Stampin'Up.

I am entering this for the following challenges:

Friday Sketchers - Sketch
Stampin' Royalty - Use markers
Copic Creations - Warm Colours
Everybody Art - A recipe
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Shabby Tea Room DT Call

I have decided to enter the DT call for the Shabby Tea Room.  Entries have been asked to used the photograph below for their inspiration.

This is my entry for the DT Call - the pcitures are pooh - day light is non existent and overhead lighting is awful.

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It's the love bug at Sweet Stampin'

Hi everybody - a beautiful sunny Saturday morning.

At Sweet Stampin' today we have a theme of  Love Bugs - and I guess that could be all manner of things!  This week we are sponsored by Prairie Fary, who have a fabby range of Digi Stamps, and our monthly sponsor is Quixotic Paperie.

My love bugs are  Butterflies.

For this card I followed a sketch at the Lili of the Valley Challenge, and this fabby LOTV image is called 'I Do', so entirely appropriate for Valentine Day, but also suitable for wedding cards.  I have coloured with Copics.  My papers are from Nitwits, flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts, the lovely silk ribbon from the ribbon girl.  The love brad attached to the pink bow is from Delish Designs, pearls from stash.  The senitment is computer generated.

I am entering this card for the following challenges:

Lili of the Valley - Sketch
Do you stack up - Ribbon
CRAFT - Valentine
Colour Create - Chocolate, Strawberry, Cream (mine is milk choklit this time!)
Crafty Senitments - Valentine/Love
Rainbow Lady's Challenge - It's all about love
Samuel Taylor's Monthly Challenge - Copics/Promarkers
Stamp-n-Doodle - Red/Pink and White plus one other colour - mine is milk chocolate
Penny's paper Crafty Challenge - Hearts a Flutter
Crazy 4 Challenges - Hearts
The Crafty Calendar Challenge - Love
Crafty Ann's - Love is all around
Crafty Catz - Valentine/Love
Stamping with the Dragon - Anything goes
Off the Wall Craftiness - follow the colour scheme
Dutch Dare - Red/Pink and White
Sassy Studio - Red/Pink and White
In Style Stamps - Colour Challenge
A Spoon Full of Sugar - Let's see some love
Paper Play - Hearts and flowers, but not valentine

I really appreciate it that you take the time to look at my blog and leave such lovely comments. Thank you each and every one of you.

It's all about Love at One Stop Card Crafts

Good morning to one and all

Valentine Day looms and everywhere Valentine Cards are swamping the challenges.  One Stop Card Crafts is no exception, and our theme is Love is in the Air.

Our sponsor this week is Robyn's Fetish, - you will find a large array of digital stamps and papers in store.

I have followed a sketch from Sunday Sketch & Stamp for this card, but rather than using rectangles of paper, I have used hearts.

The fabulous image from Lili of the Valley, The Little Things, which I have coloured with Copics.  My papers are from Nitwits - there are so many lovely designs to choose from.  The lace is from stash, as are the pearls and very tiny heart charm on the double tag.  Flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts.  Heart shapes and main image are cut with Nesties, and the heart panel has been done with a Martha Stewart border punch.  The tiny tags are done with a Stampin' Up punch. 

I am entering this for the following challenges:

Sunday Sketch & Stamp - Sketch

Stamptacular Sunday - Hearts gone wild

Creative Inspirations - Inspired by Hearts

Let's Ink It Up - Love/Romance

Card Makin Mamas - Valentine

Off the Wall Craftiness - Hearts or Vintage

Polka Doodles - That's Amore

Penny's Paper Crafting - Hearts a Flutter

Simple Create - It's bright in here

Stampin for the weekend - Valentine

Sew many cards - Valentine

Cute card Thursday - Hearts and Flowers

Dutch Dare - Love is in the air - red/white/pink

Paper Crafting Journey - Love is in the air

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Digital Delights - Bumble Bee Larry

Hi Everybody

It's time for more new creations from the team at at Digital Delights!

As it is coming up to Valentine's Day, I decided to have two little bumble bees, but I really could not colour one of them differently, but just image that one is a little girlie bee!

I have coloured with copics, and highlighted the edges of the wings and the little feelers on the top of their heads with gold Stickles.  My papers are from Nitwits (I just love their papers).  I have edged the gold star paper with Distres Inks in Scattered Straw and Walnut.  I have used a Martha Stewart punch to create a flowery border, and added some black lace.  The two heart circular pieces are Nesties.  The sentiment is computer generated.


I am entering this for the following challenges:

Sew Many Challenges - Anything Goes

Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes
One Stitch at A Time - Do It With a Digi
Creative Card Crew - For a loved one
Creative Card World - Love Card
Incy Wincy - Love



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Seeing Red at Cupcake and a few other challenges ...

A second post from me is fairly unusual, but this red challenge is right up my street, and I have a really fun card for it.  I made this for a friend and it is now safe to blog it.

The image is  from Bugaboo.  I coloured with Copics, and added a bit of glossy accents to her glasses.  I am not sure what the papers are they are leftovers from Christmas, but they inspired the colours I decided to use.

I am entering this for the following challenges:

Cupcake craft challenges - Seeing Red
OSAAT challenge – Anything digi
Crafts and Me - It's Red
Gingerloft Challenges - Red
Scrapbook Sisters - Red, red, red
Moving along with the times - Red
Stamp Something - February digi day
By the Cute & Girly Challenge - Red is all around us
Little Claire - Anything goes


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Less is More - A new challenge on the block

Good morning bloggers

A lovely crafting buddy of mine, Chrissie, and her friend Mandi, have started a new challenge blog - Less is More.  Anybody who follows Chrissie will know that she is the master of less is more, and that she produces fabulously elegant cards.  The theme for the first challenge is Pink, Black and White.

Most people who know me realise that I find this style of card very difficult - all the space makes me nervous.  Anyway I decided to take the plunge.  The pink image is from an Elusive Images plate that I have had for a long time, and very rarely used, and there were several images from that one plate I could have used for this challenge.  The sentiment is from the same plate.  I stamped the image with a ColourBox chalk ink, and the image and the black mount have been cut with a Nestie die.  However, I couldn't resist just a little bit of sparkle, so three pink gems have been added as well.

I am entering this for the following challenges:
Aly's Sunday sketch - Bling
StampArtic - Clean and Simple


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Sweet Twenty-One for One Stop Card Crafts, and several other challenges

Good morning everyone
We have a new challenge at One Stop Card Crafts, and we will be looking to see numbers on your entries to the challenge this week.  This week we welcome a brand new sponsor for 2011...... Ellephantastic.

We look forward to see all your creations on the challenge blog.

****Also is you would like to feature as a guest designer for challenge #118 please put GDT after your name.*****

For my card I have decided to make it a 21st birthday card, and therefore I wanted to make it a little more special.  So, it is an 8 inch square one.

 I have used Bazzill cardstock, and the DT papers are MME Bella Bella, which I adore - I love the vintage look of them.  I have inked around the edges with a chalk ink in brown.  On the pieces underneath the photograph I have used a Doo Hickey die on the edge of the plain card, and stamped the patterned paper with a very old Anna Griffin music stamp.  The swirls are Tim Holtz, leaves under the flowers are Doo Hickey and L-Em, and the butterflies are Martha Stewart.  The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts, and pearls from stash.  The beautiful photograph is from Art Freebies.

I am entering this card for the following challenges.

Anything Goes Challenge - Butterflies
CCEE Stampers - Must use a punch - I have a butterfly and the numbers made with punches
C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - In the roll of a die - must use die
Gingerloft Challenge - Things that fly - I have butterflies
Kaboodle Doodles - Make it Monochromatic
Magical Mondays - Flowers
My Time to Craft - Flourishes
Alphabet challenge - N is for Numbers
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes + Flowers
Stamping with the Dragon - Anything Goes
Stamptacular Sunday - Whateva!
The Stamping Bazaar - Anything Goes
Top Tip Tuesday - Anything Girlie
The Crazy Challenge - Happy Birthday


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New releases at Digital Delights

Hi everybody

It's a new release week this week at Digital Delights  and this week is rather special because we have not one, but two new release sets!! Our sets are Billy Blast Off and Pet Angels.  As of now, digi downloads from Digital Delights have no expiration date, so if you switch computers or lose a file, you can still re-download your images months later.

I have used an image from the Pet Angels set called Angel Dog on Clouds and this can be purchased here.

I have used Core-dinations card stock, and Tim Holtz papers for this card.  The image is coloured with Copics, and the wings enhanced with Stickles.  My sentiment is Stampin' Up, flowers are from WOC, and pearks from stash.



I am entering this for the following challenges:

Fuzzy Wuzzy  - animal and anything goes
ABC Challenge -  N is for Nesties, and sketch
Try it on Tuesday - feel the lurve
Stamps R Us - animals

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