Sweet Stampin’ Guest DT card

This is going to be a super quick post from me tonight as it’s way past my bedtime!!  However I’m late posting my Guest DT card for this week’s Sweet Stampin’ challenge and wanted to get it done before the week ran ahead of me again lol!  I cannot believe that it is already the last week of being a guest but I’ve had a brilliant time and hopefully they’ve been happy with my cards!  The theme this week is “masculine” and here is my card:

I’ve used an image from Tickled Pink stamps called ‘Lil Lad Eric’ and I coloured him with promarkers and flex markers and I have to say I’m really pleased with his shabby/distressed looking jeans haha!  The papers are wild rose studio from the ‘for men’ paper stack and the plain kraft card is from dies to die for.  I distressed all the edges with my new tonic (Tim Holtz) tool which is much easier and quicker than using than my scissors.  I added my usual go-to male card embellishments of stars and buttons and added some faux stitching and my card was done!

The design team have created amazing samples so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out. 

There are two sponsors this week – Quixotic Paperie are offering a £10.00 voucher and Joanna Sheen is also offering a £10.00 voucher, so definitely two good reasons to join in with the fun!

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Corrosive challenge – another dimension (2nd entry)

Freshly brewed challenge – double it (2 papers, 2 stars, 2 layers)

Paper pretties challenge – punches or die cuts

Crafty sentiments challenge – use only 2 papers

Do you stack up? challenge – distress

Southern girls challenge – so distressed

2 sisters challenge – anything goes

Allsorts challenge – anything goes

Delightful challenge – use patterned papers

Little darlings challenge – pearls

I hope you will be able to join in with the challenge this week.  I cannot wait to see what you create.  Have a wonderful Monday and thanks for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: Tickled Pink stamps – ‘Lil Lad Eric’

Papers: wild rose studio – ‘for men’ paper stack, kraft card from dies to die for

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, quickutz cookie cutter star die, buttons from fantastic ribbons, pearls from the hobby house, sentiment created on the pc, nesties labels 3 (which I cut in half), tonic distressing tool, letraset fine liner pen

 

 

Passion for Promarkers #137–DT card

Here I am again with a late post but at least I’m actually posting a card this week lol!  Better late than never I suppose.  I hope you’ve all had a good start to the week so far, mine’s been ok, very busy in work but at least the first two days have flown by!  I’m here to share my DT card for this week’s passion for promarkers challenge and this week the lovely Nic has set the theme and she has chosen “black & white”.  However we only want to see the colours black and white apart from skin, hair/fur etc. and obviously you have to use your Letraset pens.  Here is my card:

I have to say I’m really chuffed with how this card turned out.  The image is from Tickled Pink stamps and I coloured him with all the grey promarkers (his hair is actually using warm grey promarkers but it looks a bit brown in the photo).  I made this card for my nephew who is 23 tomorrow so I didn’t “fuss” it too much.  I added 3 card candi, a button and some twine and that was it.  The papers are a mixture but I think they work quite well together.  The card is A5 in size.

Our sponsor this week is Tickled Pink stamps (who kindly gave all the DT an image to use on our cards this week) and they are offering one lucky winner 2 digi images of their choice. 

The rest of the design team have created amazing samples this week so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out.  We really appreciate all the lovely comments you leave for us.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Dream valley challenge – just for men

The pink elephant challenge – print it

Creative card crew challenge – masculine

Dutch dare challenge – distressing

Totally papercrafts challenge – ribbon and/or bows

Drunken stampers challenge – texture (embossing)

The pretty little ribbon shop challenge – anything goes

Addicted to stamps challenge – birthday card with dots

Lexi’s creations challenge – monochromatic

OSAAT challenge – use a digi or no image

I hope you can join in with our challenge this week and I cannot wait to see what you create.  Thanks for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: Tickled Pink stamps – ‘Lil Lad Lestat’ digi

Papers: doodlebug (text paper) – ‘it’s about time’ 12x12 sheet, me & my big ideas (harlequin paper) – ‘bright co-ordinates’ paper pad, black card from eBay, white digi stamping card from craftwork cards

Tools: promarkers, twine from the ribbon girl, cuttlebug ‘swiss dots’ embossing folder, charcoal cats eye chalk ink pad for distressing, button from stash, card candi from craftwork cards

Cupcake craft challenge #166–DT card

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Please scroll down to see my Stamp with Fun DT card

Hello again, I’m back as promised with my DT card for this week’s cupcake craft challenge.  This week the lovely Shelly has set the theme and she has chosen “take a leaf out of my book” which means we want you to use leaves as the main interest on the project, either the image or embellishments.  Here is my card:

I was lucky enough to be offered an image from our sponsor this week (who are tickled pink stamps) and I chose this one called ‘vintage Christmas Christina’ and coloured her with promarkers and flex markers.  I created the holly background with a see-d’s stamp and coloured them with promarkers.  The dotty paper is HOTP from the ‘forever Christmas cards’ paper stack.  The holly were cut out with a sizzlit die and I used pearls for the berries. 

As I mentioned our sponsor this week are tickled pink stamps and one lucky winner will receive either one rubber stamp or two digital images of their choice.

 

Don’t forget we also have our ‘icing on the cupcake’ sponsors and for October we have two!!  Firstly we have Polka Doodles and they are offering one lucky winner a copy of their ‘pretty sweet’ CD collection.  Our second sponsor is Scrap Affair and they are offering one lucky winner a 5 pack of promarkers.

The rest of the design team have created amazing samples as always, so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out.  We really appreciate all the lovely comments you leave for us. 

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Come and get it challenge – anything goes

Dream valley challenge – anything goes

OSAAT challenge – Christmas

Paper pretties challenge – embellish

Meljen’s challenge – Christmas

Paper crafting journey challenge – use a digi

Card makin’ mamas challenge – use die cuts/punches

Sweet stampin’ challenge – anything goes

Little Claire’s challenge – Christmas (3rd entry)

I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge this week and I look forward to seeing what you create.  Whatever you are up to tonight, whether you celebrate Halloween or not, have a wonderful evening and thanks for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: tickled pink stamps – ‘vintage Christmas Christina’ digi

Papers: HOTP – ‘forever Christmas cards’ paper stack, SU real red cardstock, hand-stamped holly background

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, sizzix sizzlit holly die, pearls from the hobby house, ribbon from the pretty little ribbon shop, pink petticoat sentiment ribbons, circle nesties

Cupcake craft challenge #155–DT card

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Please scroll down to see my Stamp with Fun DT card

Hello again everyone.  I’m back with my card for this week’s cupcake craft challenge and this week we are super excited as we are celebrating our 3rd birthday.  We’ve got lots of amazing prizes and also a fun Treasure Hunt for you to take part in.  I’ll give you the details of this week’s challenge first then I’ll explain all about the Treasure Hunt.  I apologise now as this is going to be a long post, so grab a cuppa and a biscuit (or two!) and get comfy. 

Our challenge this week has been set by the lovely Faye and she has given us a gorgeous sketch to work with.  It’s a lovely simple sketch so very open to your interpretation.  Here is my card:

and here is Faye’s fab sketch:

I have used a super cute image from Tickled Pink stamps called ‘Lil Pinkette – Coraline’ and coloured her with my promarkers.  The papers are papermania from the ‘happy birthday to you’ paper pad and the black cardstock is SU.  The butterfly and cupcake are really sparkly IRL as I covered them with stickles but it’s not showing up in the pic that well.  I really love this sketch as I love the clean lines of it and will definitely be using it again.

Now we have lots of wonderful sponsors this week.  Crafty Emma’s store is offering a £10 gift voucher, Cupcake Card and Craft is offering a ‘soft whispers paper collection’ (picture on the challenge blog), Digi's with Attitude is offering a $10 gift certificate, Inky Impressions is offering 1 stamp and a goodie bag, The Stamping Boutique is offering 5 digi images of the winner's choice and Tickled Pink Stamps are offering either 1 rubber stamp or 2 digi images of the winner’s choice.  Wow doesn’t that sound amazing! 

On top of that we also have our ‘icing on the cupcake’ sponsors, and for August we have 3 as it is our birthday month.  Firstly we have Crafts U Love who are offering a £15.00 voucher to spend in their online store, secondly we have Mo’s Digital Pencil who are offering a $10.00 gift code to use in their online store and thirdly we have Sew Sweet who are offering a £10.00 gift voucher to spend in their online store.  So definitely lots of yummy reasons to play along this month.

Now as I mentioned earlier we are having a birthday Treasure Hunt.  To be eligible to win Treasure, you will need to leave a comment on the post you find the Treasure on.  There are 3 different Treasures to be won.  The comment will need to include your Inlinkz number, as you are only able to enter if you play along in this week’s challenge.  You will also need to add a picture of the Treasure to your sidebar, linking back to Cupcake.  You can enter all 3 Treasures, if you find them, so long as you enter our challenge this week, leave a comment as above and include one treasure picture on your sidebar.   Winners will be randomly drawn from all the comments on the relevant posts, noon on Sunday but don’t forget you must follow the rules mentioned above. 

I am honoured to tell you that I am a “Treasure Keeper” and this is the fantastic prize you can win.

 

The rest of the design team have created amazing samples as always, so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out.  We always read your lovely comments and really appreciate each and every one. 

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Anything goes challenge – birthday/celebration

A spoonfull of sugar challenge – birthday

Top tip Tuesday challenge – straight edges

Creative craft world challenge – birthday

Delightful challenges – things with wings

Divas by design challenge – birthday

Flutterby Wednesday challenge – open theme

Stampavie and more challenge – card for a girl

Meljen’s challenge – use black

Daring cardmakers challenge – so kawaii (hope my card is cute and bright enough)

Fussy and fancy challenge – use a lot (3 adhesive gems)

Stamping for the weekend challenge – spots and dots (my papers)

Totally papercrafts challenge – food and drink

Craft your days away challenge – birthdays

Stamp, scrap & doodle challenge – photo inspiration

Crafter’s companion challenge – glitter and glitz

Addicted to stamps challenge – anything goes

The crafty pad challenge – cute and girly

OSAAT challenge – anything goes

Whoopsi daisy challenge – anything goes

I hope you are still with me after that mega post – if you are you deserve another biscuit lol!  I’m sure you’ll agree that it’s definitely worth entering our challenge this week with all the wonderful prizes up for grabs.  Have a brilliant day and thanks so much for stopping by.  

Card ingredients:

Image: tickled pink stamps – ‘lil pinkette – Coraline’

Papers: papermania – ‘happy birthday to you’ paper pad, SU black cardstock

Tools: promarkers, papermania adhesive gems, personal impressions sentiment, stickles, butterfly punch-out bought from lady on FB!

Cupcake craft challenge #147–DT card

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Please scroll down to see my Stamp with Fun DT card

Hello again, I’m back to share with you my DT card for this week’s cupcake craft challenge.  It is the turn of lovely Liza to set the theme this week and she has chosen to give us a gorgeous sketch to work with.  Here is the sketch:

and here is my card:

I was lucky enough to be given this adorable digi image from our sponsor Tickled Pink stamps and this sweet girl is called ‘kitty with a flower’ and the pretty papers are first edition from the ‘birdsong’ paper pad. 

As I mentioned our sponsor this week is Tickled Pink Stamps and one lucky winner will receive one rubber stamp or two digital images of their choice.

 

Don’t forget we also have our ‘icing on the cupcake’ sponsor, who for June is Little Claire Designs and the prize is a 6x6 paper pad and two stamps.

The rest of the design team have created gorgeous cards using Liza's fantastic sketch, so why not pop over to the challenge blog and check them out.  We really appreciate the lovely comments you leave for us. 

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Cutie Sunday challenge – animals

Stampin’ sisters in Christ challenge – doodle on your cards (my “faux” stitching)

Whoopsi daisy challenge – pile on those flowers

Stampavie and more challenge – butterflies

CRAFT challenge – stitching (my “faux stitching)

Do it with digis challenge – animal magic

Sew many cards challenge – punch it

Stamp something challenge – pretty papers

Totally papercrafts challenge – die cuts and punches

I hope you can play along with Liza’s sketch and I cannot wait to see what you create.  Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: tickled pink stamps – ‘kitty with flower’

Papers: first edition '- birdsong’ paper pack, SU black cardstock

Tools : promarkers, EK success retro flower punch, MS butterfly punch, Oval nesties.  Pearls from the hobby house,

Cupcake craft challenge #122 – DT card

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Hello I’m back again to share my DT card for today’s new challenge over at cupcake craft challenge.  This week the lovely Victoria has set the theme and she has chosen “thank you”.  It was a nice change to make something other than Christmas cards.  Here is my card:

I was lucky enough to be given an image by Tickled Pink Stamps to use on my card and this lovely lady is called ‘Lylah’.  I have distressed all the edges of my papers and chalked around the image, sentiment and flowers. 

This challenge will last for two weeks and ends on 3rd January 2011.  We have two sponsors this week – firstly we have The Creative Cottage who are offering a £10.00 gift voucher to one lucky winner. 

Secondly we are being sponsored by Tickled Pink Stamps and they are offering either 2 digi’s or 1 rubber stamp to the lucky winner.  As you can see their images are gorgeous and really quirky. 

The rest of the design team have created amazing cards once again this week, so I hope you will have the time to pop over and check them out.  We really appreciate all the lovely comments you leave for us. 

I haven’t got time to list all my supplies but I will pop back later and do that.  I will also find out what challenges I can fit my card into lol! 

Once again have a warm and safe Monday, don’t venture out unless you really have to (like me unfortunately!).  Thanks for stopping by today.

Charisma cardz #42 – DT card

Good morning everyone, I can’t believe it’s Thursday already and unbelievably I am sharing with you my 3rd DT card for the charisma cardz challenge.  Wow where did the time go?  This week over at charisma cardz the theme has been set by Lora and she has chosen “vintage”.  Now it is not my most favourite theme ever and I’ve probably gone more distressed than vintage on my card but I’m quite happy with the finished result.  Here is my card:

The look I was trying to achieve was old photograph i.e faded/washed out colours and I think the colours are reminiscent of Victorian times.  Well like I say I’m quite happy with the overall card and for once I’m really pleased with my colouring (which is quite rare).

We have two sponsors this week, the first is bunny zoe crafts and they are offering one lucky winner the prize of vintage Tilda, vintage crochet flowers and also a set of 6 Christmas tree charms. 

Our second sponsor is all that scraps and they are offering one lucky winner the prize of any cc designs stamp set or 4 single stamps.

The rest of the DT have created gorgeous samples (and much more vintagey (sp?) than me.  Please pop over to the challenge blog and take a look.  All your lovely comments are much appreciated. 

I can also enter my card into the following challenges:

The crafty pad challenge – distressed/torn edges

Paper cutz challenge – anything goes

Polka doodles challenge – something spooky (my image is quite gothic)

Allsorts challenge – bingo (line – flowers, pearls and punch)

Sweet stampin’ challenge – ribbon

Totally gorjuss challenge – pink (mine is quite muted)

Creative inspirations challenge – spooky (again my gothic image)

Stampin’ royalty challenge – ribbons

I hope you will have a chance to enter our challenge and I can’t wait to see what you create.  Have a great day and thanks for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: tickled pink stamps – Lil Lolita Lilith digi  

Papers: DCWV – wedding prints paper stack (grey paper), plain card from the papermill shop

Tools: promarkers, marianne creatables die, ek success retro flower punch, pearls from the hobby house, ribbon, chalks and silver brad from stash, woodware circle punch