Craftalicious Challenge No. 3

It's time for a new challenge over at Craftalicious and this is my DT card.

We're being sponsored by Crafty Sentiments, who very kindly gave us all an image to use and this is what I came up with.

The theme is Cute, which I think the image does pretty well on it's own, and I've kept the rest of the card quite simple and quite like the geometric look to the card.

Here's the details:

Image - Crafty Sentiments, coloured with ProMarkers

Sentiment - SU! Circle of Friendship, inked with Rich Razzleberry

Cardstock - SU! Whisper White; Rich Razzleberry

Papers & button - from stash

Hope you can play along with us again this time round, we've been thrilled with the number of entries we're getting for the challenges and so a big thanks for all the support.

I'm en-route to Cornwall at the moment, it's going to take about 5 hours to get there, and we're going for a long weekend hopefully in the sun, but looking forward to some R&R.

TFL xx

Strawberries & Cream

Yum, yum, could just tuck into some scrummy strawberries & cream, especially as the sun is shining and it's such a lovely summer food!

But instead I've made a card using my new SU! set Tart and Tangy, which features this lovely strawberry stamp.

Here's the SU! used:

Stamps - Tart and Tangy; Lovely Labels

DSP - Summer Picnic (retired)

Cardstock - Very Vanilla; Real Red

Ink - Real Red; Glorious Green

Paper Piercing Tool

Other - buttons from stash

I'm entering my card into two challenges:

Truly Scrumptious - sketch and theme Strawberries & Cream

Cupcake - Strawberries & Cream

Hope everyone's enjoying this glorious weather - I certainly am!

TFL xx

Brown, Blue & Cream

I think this is a lovely colour combo and it's been set by Tasha over at Sophisticats for our latest challenge.

I decided to (finally) ink up my new HouseMouse stamp I bought at the NEC and made this baby boy card, how sweet is that mouse? He's stamped with grey Memento ink, which gives a lovely soft image & I've coloured him with Koh-i-noor pencils.

Stampin' Up! used:

Sentiment - Whimsical Words (SAB set)

DSPs - Bashful Blue Designer Series

Cardstock - Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip

Other:

Martha Stewart punch; card candy from stash.

I'm one of those "odd" people that adore rodents, I know some people hate them, but I think they're gorgeous, in particular rats & mice (I can see you shuddering at the back LOL). Last year my daughter and I got ourselves two cute little ratties and called them Morris & Milo, like all animals they had very distinct personalities, Morris was the leader, the greedy boy & more adventurous of the two, whilst Milo was quieter, more cuddly & not as daring as his brother. Sadly we had to have Milo put to sleep last week, as although he was only 8 months old he'd developed a brain tumour, which is fairly common in rats, but it was so upsetting for us, and he will be sadly missed. We didn't want to leave Morris on his own as rats are sociable creatures, they live in colonies and shouldn't be kept on their own, so on Saturday we got ourselves two new little fellas, who have been named Seymour & Bertie. Seymour is very shy, and keeping himself to himself at the moment, whilst Bertie is Bold Bertie and very bright & very nosey - I think he's going to be a handful! They're in a separate cage at the moment as they have to be introduced carefully to Morris so there's no fighting and so far they've sniffed each other through the bars. So although we still and always will miss Milo, these two new boys have helped to cheer us up & hopefully Morris too.

Anyway that's enough of my rattie waffle, hope you can join us at Sophisticats again this fortnight! And looking forward to seeing your blue, brown & cream creations.

TFL x

Charisma DT Card

Our theme over at Charisma this week is Girly and to include flowers, we've been sponsored by Digistamp Boutique who gave us all a fab digi to use. I've coloured mine with PM's, the flowers are punched using SU! Boho Blossoms punch with some added gems & the DSP is from my stash

Other SU! used

Cardstock - Rose Red; Whisper White

Sentiment - Oval All

Tab Punch

Hope you can join us this week & TFL!

Sophisticats DT Card - For a Child

This is my DT card for Sophisticats this week as our theme is "Card for a Child", we're being sponsored by Cardmad Fairy and she very kindly gave us some images to use on our cards, and I used this sweet little girl called Sally, coloured with PM's.

Rest of the card is Stampin' Up! as follows:

Sentiment - Fun & Fast Notes

DSPs - Sweet Always (retired)

Cardstock - Pixie Pink, Whisper White

Eyelet Border punch.

I've made another card for this week's challenge:

Last week at my Stampin' Up! class we made a whole bunch of cute & cuddly animals using SU! punches, some of these were cased from the very talented Julie, including this monkey which I thought would be great to use on a child's card.

Yesterday my two fab and talented SU! downlines Kaz & Loraine came over and we made more of these animals and I borrowed Kaz's Fox & Friends and made this card, using the monkey from the stamp set to do the background, along with the circle from Trendy Trees.

Rest of the details (all SU!)

Monkey - made with various SU! punches and Chocolate Chip & More Mustard cardstock

Stamps - Fox & Friends; Trendy Trees

Ink - Chocolate Chip; More Mustard

Cardstock - Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip

Ribbon - Chocolate Chip

Hope you can join us for our challenge this fortnight & TFL x

And you can quote me on that!!

"Quotes" - that's the theme we've got for you this week at Charisma and I once again used my gorgeous Rose is a Rose stamp set, I had to make an Anniversary Card and found a gorgeous quote to use (good old Google), it's a bit unclear so the quote says:

"Love is like a rose, when pressed between two lifetimes, it will last forever"

All Stampin' Up! used as follows:

Stamp - A Rose is a Rose, with Close to Cocoa & Chocolate Chip ink, also Mellow Moss & Old Olive on the leaves

Cardstock - Chocolate Chip; Very Vanilla

DSPs - Tea & Crumpets

Ribbon - Chocolate Chip

Non SU -

Embossing folder & nesties

Hope you can join us this week, we've a couple of prizes to give away, so worth entering.

TFL xx

Oops guess what I forgot!

I was so pleased with myself yesterday, I got back into the blogging hotseat, I caught up with a zillion posts and left comments, I posted the new challenge & the winners post on Sophisticats and totally forgot to post my DT card on here - D'uh!!!

So here it is, better late than never! Gina set the challenge this week & it's distressing so hopefully you can see where I've distressed the edges of the cardstock & paper using my trusty SU distressing tool. For the bird I have shamelessly nicked the idea from my very talented friend Kaz, I've used the gorgeous new two-step bird punch as a template and chalked in the image which gives such a lovely soft effect.

Rest of the details:

Sentiment - SU! Fresh Cuts in Chocolate Chip ink

Cardstock - SU! Bravo Burgundy & Whisper White

Chalks - SU!

Paper,rose & lace from stash

Hope you can join in with the challenge this week

TFL x

Return of the bad blogger!

Hello, I'm back - been a rubbish blogger again this week but determined to get back into it (and crafting) this week - that's the plan anyway!

So this is my card for our challenge at Charisma which this week is "Thank You" We're being sponsored by the Cutting Cafe and I've used a couple of the digi's from the prize pack "Beautiful Blooms" which I've coloured with PM's

Stampin' Up! used:

Sentiment (but not available in UK) in Pixie Pink ink

Cardstock - Pixie Pink; Whisper White

Eyelet Border Punch & 1 3/4" circle punch

DSP & Ribbon from stash

Hope you can join us again this week & TFL

A Little Bird Told Me....

it's time for another challenge over at Charisma and this is my DT card, our theme this week is "Animal Magic" which has been set by Allison and it's all about animals, so pop over for a look.

I've used the new gorgeous Extra Large Two-Step Bird Punch from Stampin' Up! it's in the new mini which comes out today - if you'd like a copy just send me an email and I'll send one out to you.

I've stamped on the bird (but not the wing) using another new Mini product, a beautiful stamp set called Vintage Vogue. When we saw this was being released a lot of the SU Demos started hyperventilating, but I wasn't sure it was a set for me, then I saw some of the fantastic, beautiful creations made using this set and completely changed my mind, I can see it becoming a firm favourite. I've also used the small flower stamp and one of the sentiments from the same set. I don't own this Bird Punch (yet) I had a cheeky punch with it at our SU Training Day when it was passed around for us to look at, so my bird is all in one colour but you can punch the wing and the branch out in different coloured cardstock if you like, I coloured my branch in using SU! markers.

The papers are SU! Sweet Always, the punch is one I bought at the NEC last week, ribbon & bling from my stash as is the embossing folder

I'm entering my card in the following challenges:

Totally PaperCrafts - Pink & Green

Annabelle Stamps - Sketch

Hope you can join us again this week

Sorry I'm not getting around to many blogs at the moment, I've not been feeling too good and struggling to get things done at the mo. Normal service, I hope, will be resumed shortly!

TFL x

Sausage Dog

Isn't he a cutie? Cut on the Cricut from a cartridge I borrowed from a friend (and is on my wish list) I loved this little fella and have been waiting to use him so I set the challenge on Sophisticats this week with him in mind - "It's raining cats & dogs" and you can use cats, dogs and/or rain on your entry.

The rest of my card is all Stampin' Up! as follows:

Sentiment - Fun & Fast Notes

Cardstock - Pixie Pink; Real Red; Only Orange; Ballet Blue

DSPs - Sweet Always (retired)

Ribbon - Chocolate Chip

Word Window punch, slot punch (not available in UK)

Other - Nesties

Hope you can join us this time around, we're running this challenge for two weeks & I'm sponsoring the prize, which is a mixed pack of 6x6 SU! double sided papers.

TFL x

Spring has sprung!

Hello, here I am, late again with my Charisma DT card! Not been too bright this week, I've got a frozen shoulder and it's been giving me a lot of pain, I can still craft (phew) but I've just been a bit down with it all. However, had a fab day at the Hobbycrafts show at the NEC yesterday (thanks to Carly who persuaded me to go and took me - thanks hun), spent far too much but I think the retail therapy did me & my flagging mojo good so hopefully now I can get a bit more crafting & blogging done. Apologies to everyone for not visiting you recently, and I will do my best to catch up with everyone over the next week.

Vee has set our challenge for this week and it's "Spring has sprung" and we've been lucky enough to be sponsored by Digistamp Boutique who also gave us some fab images to play with. I love this cute bouncing bunny & chick, which I've coloured with PM's and the sentiment comes from my pal Lisa and was perfect for this card.

Stampin' Up! used on the card:

DSP's - Sweet Always (retired)

Cardstock - Pixie Pink, Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White

Pastels - Pumpkin Pie

I'm entering my card into the following challenges:

Sweet Sketch Wednesday - Sketch

Fab n Funky - Favourite Technique (embossing)

Digital Tuesday - Happy Spring

Hope you can join us this week & TFL xx

Mint & Lilac

This is my DT card for Sophisticats where our challenge this week is a colour combo - mint & lilac plus one other of your choice and we'd like to see some flowers on your creations too.

Our prize this week has been donated by our lovely leader Lisa and is:

2 downloads of the winners choice from

http://allissaspapertown.blogspot.com/

Lisa's currently trying to raise money to put towards a much needed hip operation, please visit her blog above for more details or click on the banner on my right hand column - thanks x

Here's the details on my card:

Image - Pollycrafts digi

Rest all SU!

Sentiment - Oval All, ink Almost Amethyst

DSPs - Tea Party

Cardstock - Almost Amethyst; Gable Green; Whisper White

Flowers - stamp One of a Kind; Boho Blossoms punch

Ribbon - Almost Amethyst

I'm entering my card into the following challenges:

Bee Crafty - Spring

Fab n Funky - use something new - the sentiment is from a new stamp set, first time I've used it

Sweet Sketch Wednesday - sketch

Hope you can join us at Sophisticats this week

For Ewe

"Spring is in the Air" over at Sweet Stampin this week, and this is my DT card for the challenge. You can interpret this any way you wish, use Spring colours/images, Easter, daffodil's whatever you like. It's lovely seeing the spring flowers starting to peek through and although it's raining this morning, it's been a gorgeous week with lots of sunshine and it really does feel like Spring is on it's way - hooray for that. So I'm really looking forward to seeing all the "Spring" entries this week.

Here's the deets on my card

Image & Sentiment - Wild Rose Studio

DSP - SU! Rainbow Sherbert (retired)

Cardstock - SU! Green Galore; Whisper White

punch for flowers & buttons from stash

There are lots of lovely Spring themed challenges around this week & I'm entering my card into the following:

Crafty Catz - Spring

A Spoonful of Sugar - Easter

Creative Card Crew - Going Dotty

Allsorts - Spring is in the Air

TFL x

Yesterday's Sweet Stampin DT card

Oh I'm so behind this week, where has the time gone? Here's my DT card for yesterday's Sweet Stampin challenge, which this week is a colour combo:

As always with our colour challenges you can choose any three of the four colours, or use all four, and you don't have to use SU! colours, a close match is fine.

I've used three on my card - Barely Banana, Sage Shadow & Blush Blossom. There's no DP on my card, it's a stamped background, I've used the two-step stamp set (try saying that quickly 10 times! LOL) Greenhouse Garden, and stamped out the flowes using the Banana & Blush together, I was amazed how well it worked. Here's the rest of the details:

Stamps - Garden Whimsy; Greenhouse Garden; Hello Again (sentiment)

Cardstock & ink - in colours above plus Whisper White cardstock

Ribbon - Fairy Tale Originals (retired)

Other - Eyelet Border punch; Tab punch

Non SU! - Embossing folder & flower from stash

Hope you can join in this week, not only is there the chance to win the monthly prize - generously donated by Stacey our sponsor, but Emma's also offering to send a winner a selection of stamped images if we get over 50 entries this week - so come on - do your best!

I've used the sketch from In Love With Stamping, only problem is the challenge ended this morning, so I've sort of missed the boat there! Oh well, it was a good sketch.

Hope you're all having a lovely Mothering Sunday, I've been spoilt, had a beautiful card - handmade of course - from my gorgeous Georgia, she raided my stash yesterday and I just loved the card she made me - will get a piccie up - and also she gave me Michael Buble's album, ummm ummm love The Buble! We went out for coffee this morning and ended up having brunch in one of my favourite places in Ironbridge - so diet went well & truly out of the window with bacon & scambled eggs on toast, oh it was delicious! Oh well, there's always tomorrow!

TFL x

Mother's Day

Here's another card I've done for Mother's Day, which is next Sunday in the UK. I've been trying to do my Sophisticats DT card all weekend for tomorrow and I can't say what the challenge is just yet, suffice to say I've found it very challenging! I've now made 3 cards, each with the intention of being my DT card, but as each one has started to come together I've decided it won't work with the theme! Until I got to card no. 3 that is. But it does mean I've done more crafting this weekend that I've done in a while, so that's been good.

Here's the details:

Image - digi from Gina K, coloured with ProMarkers

Sentiment - digi from Cutting Cafe

DSPs - SU! Sweet Always & PaperMania

Cardstock - SU! Chocolate Chip; Whisper White & Very Vanilla

Tools - Embossing folder; SU! Scallop Circle Punch; SU! Distressing Tool

Leaves & buttons from stash

I'm entering my card into the following challenges:

I Love Digi - Sketch and card for Mum theme

Bee Crafty - Embossing

Quixotic - Leaves

Crafty Calendar - Flower Power

Digital Tuesday - Scallops

I'll be back in a bit with another card but first a walk with the dog in the glorious sunshine we've got today I think!

TFL x

Sweet Stampin' Challenge No. 16

Good morning, here's my DT card for our challenge over at Sweet Stampin, the theme this week is "Something for a child" It was my step-grandaughter's 2nd birthday this week and I made this card for her, it's a bit busy for me, but should appeal to a two year old.

The unicorn, no. 2 and name have all been cut out on the Cricut and the butterfly is punched out using an SU! punch and matching stamp.

Here's the details:

Stamps - SU! Flight of the Butterfly, Simply Said (tiny flowers in background)

DSPs - Sweet Always

Cardstock - SU! Ballet Blue; Pixie Pink; Bashful Blue; Real Red; Green Galore; Basic Black; Whisper White

Bling & Ribbon from stash

We've got a new sponsor this month - Stacey, who is an independant SU! Demonstrator and she's very kindly giving away a fab prize of a Darling Dots stamp set:

I'm entering my card into the following challenges:

Delightful Sketches - Kids

Lily of the Valley - Easel Card

Thanks for looking and hope you can join in this week

Monochrome Bicycle

Hello Blogland, hope all is well wherever you are in the world, it's wet & grey here in Shropshire, so a day in my craftroom beckons (hopefully!)

It's time for another challenge over at Sweet Stampin and it's sketch week again, here's the sketch for you to follow:

I really liked this one, another to keep & use again I think.

I've used my Everyday Basic Button set from PTI and used black & white buttons for the wheels, and just added a touch of colour to the bicycle seat, handlebars and bell, but other than that it's black & white all the way, which I always like, I always think mono cards are so striking!

I've done a bit of paper piercing with my SU! piercer & mat pack (to give me nice straight lines!) added some embossing too and a bit of faux stitching around the sentiment.

My cardstock is SU! Basic Black & Whisper White (so I have used some SU! on my card - remember to enter our challenge you don't have to use SU! but you get two entries into the monthly draw if you do, plus it's the last week to get into the draw to win the pack of mixed SU! 6x6 papers donated by me!), the paper is from Pink Petticoat and the rest is from my stash.

I'm entering my card into the following challenges:

A Passion for Papertrey - Black & White

Fab n Funky - Black & White

Crafty Creations - 3 Dimensional

Thanks for looking & hope you can join us this week - have a good weekend!

Simple Flower Birthday card

Here's a quick & easy card I did earlier today, keeping it nice & simple. There's a challenge over at the Cutting Cafe to use one or two of the free digi stamps they're giving away this week, I've used both the dots and the flowers on mine and I've combined it with One Stop Craft's challenge, who are looking for the colour combo Apple Green, Chocolate & Clotted Cream. Rather than try & match up a colour to the backing paper & flower outline, I decided to keep it uncoloured and printed out the flower & papers onto SU! Very Vanilla cardstock for the cream colour.

Here's the rest of the details:

Sentiment - SU! Stem Sayings

Cardstock - SU! Very Vanilla; Chocolate Chip

Flowerpot - cut on Cricut

We've had a few flakes of snow again today, which I hope doesn't come to anything, really bored of winter now - roll on Spring!

TFL xx

Love You Tons!

As I've previously mentioned I've got a Cricut on a borrow at the mo (and now have one on order too yippee) and I'm loving the Paisley cartridge, I did this cute elephant the other day and have made a card with him, he's great for Valentine's! You'll be seeing more "Paisley" creations to come for sure as I'm in love with this cartridge and it's now on my wishlist for when I get my own Cricut!

Here's the details:

Elephant & Sentiment - Cricut Paisley & Alphalicious cartridges

Stamps used (to make heart background) - SU! Love You Much; Hello Again

Ink - SU! Real Red; Pixie Pink

DSPs - Digi from Stuff to Scrap

Cardstock - SU! Real Red; Pink Passion; Pixie Pink; Whisper White; Basic Black; Bashful Blue; Ballet Blue

There are loads of Valentines/Love challenges out there at the moment so I'm entering my card into the following:

Die Cut Dreams - Have a Heart

Crafty Calendar - Love (plus hearts as a bonus)

Willow Sketchie - Sketch

Paperplay - Love

Lily of the Valley - Valentines

C.R.A.F.T. - Love/Valentines

Creative Card Crew - Valentines

TFL xx

Floral Frenzy

Hello there, it's the weekend - hooray and here's my DT card for Sweet Stampin, our challenge this week is called Floral Frenzy.

I made my card for a friend who commissioned it for a 60th birthday and it was one of those" oh do whatever you like" kinda requests, so I made it and hoped she'd like it - luckily she loved it!

Our sponsor this month is a lovely lady and one hell of a crafter - oh it's me - he, he! I'm giving away a mixed pack of Stampin' Up! 6x6 double sided papers, there are papers from about 8 different packs so plenty to get your hands on, but you have to join in to win. The more challenges you enter this month, the more chances you have, plus if you use any SU! products on your projects, you get two entries for that project! So hope you can join us.

I'm entering my card in Get Funky's February challenge, it's a free theme for the month & I've used FunkyHand papers on my card. I've cut the flowers and the "60" out on a Cricut, I've got one on a borrow at the moment whilst a friend is holidaying (for two months, lucky so-and-so) in Australia but I'm very excited as hubby is now buying me one for my birthday - whoop, whoop! I've put SU! Dazzling Diamonds around the edge of each flower, and added some card candy (from my stash) to the centres, the ribbon is from my stash and the sentiment is SU! from the set Cheer & Wishes.

Hope you can join us this week & have a great weekend.