We Love Stamping challenge - guest designer

Good morning lovely friends; I hope you've had a great start to your weekend and of course the added bonus if you live in the UK is an extra day off tomorrow for the Bank Holiday (apologies if you have to work).  The sun was actually warm and shiny here yesterday so fingers crossed it appears today; although we can rarely string two days together at the moment. 

I am delighted and honoured to be a guest designer over at the We Love Stamping challenge this month so I'll be sharing a card today and also another card in two weeks time.  The theme for this month has been chosen by Lynn and is 'Vintage'.   There are some fantastic prizes up for grabs courtesy of Lisa Horton Crafts.  

Now I have to admit that my heart sank when I read the theme as vintage is not really my thing but hey that is what a challenge is all about isn't it.  I used the opportunity to make a birthday card for my Father in Law for this first card and I was really happy with the finished result.  

Here is my card:

A close up of the image:

Of course I decorated the inside:

I began by stamping the car image onto cream card with a brown ink; I cut it out, inked around the edges and also distressed the edges with a edge distressed (which I did to most of my edges).  I stamped the map background in the same way and again inked and distressed the edges.  I used a newspaper style patterned paper for my background and added that to my card base with double sided tape.  The postcards were cut from a piece of patterned paper, inked and distressed along with the circular piece.  The tickets were cut with two different types of dies and again inked with various colours of ink.  I stamped one with a coordinating sentiment.  The letters were die cut from brown card and stacked 3 high for some dimension.  I stamped the happy birthday sentiment with brown ink onto cream card, inked and distressed and cut out with a sentiment strip.  The hardest bit was figuring out placement on the card and I have to say it took me a good while of moving and changing my mind before I came to the final result.  Most things were added with double sided tape except the car image, sentiment and circle embellishment which were added with foam tape and the DAD letters with liquid glue.  For the inside I used the same newspaper patterned paper for my background, I stamped a postcard onto cream card and again inked and distressed it.  I die cut a few more tickets and stamped my sentiment into the centre of a cream rectangle which was inked and distressed.  Everything on the inside was adhered with double sided tape.  I think it is the perfect card for an older gentleman and although I went a bit mad with the inking and distressing I think it turned out ok. 

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

Alphabet challenge - C is for cars

Classic Design challenge - ATG optional twist happy birthday

Crafts Galore Encore challenge - ATG

Crafty Calendar challenge - ATG

Cut It Up challenge - add a sentiment

Daisy Chain challenge - boys/men

The Male Room challenge - trains, planes and automobiles

As I said I will be back with my second card on the 18th May.  I hope you can play along with the challenge and I cannot wait to see all your vintage projects in the linky.  Enjoy the rest of your weekend and thank you so much for stopping by. 

Love and hugs, 

Card ingredients:

Car Stamp - from Amazon (was a set of 4 stamps)

MFT - little letters die (retired)

MFT - mini ticket strip border (retired)

Indigo Blu - map background stamp

Whimsy Stamps - ticket sentiments & friendship ticket sentiments stamps (retired)

Gina K Designs - flowing florals (for happy birthday)

Gina K Designs - large strip sentiment dies

Woodware Stamps - one for the boys (for inside sentiment)

Hunkydory - essential paper pack - vintage newsprints

Gina K Designs - ink pads: sea glass, jellybean green, fresh asparagus, dark chocolate, warm cocoa

Versafine Clair - acorn ink pad

Lidl - Crelando 270gsm coloured card (available in store)

Postcard stamp - unknown brand

Heidi Swapp - edge distresser (discontinued)

Stamp with Fun #129–DT card

Good morning dear friends.  I’m sorry for being MIA last week but I’ve been suffering with a virus and really haven’t felt like crafting at all (shocker I know!!).  I have to say I think it’s going to be one of those viruses that lingers forever as I still don’t feel back to normal, but at least I feel like crafting now haha!  I hope you all had a great week last week, although the  weather is decidedly wintery all of a sudden isn’t it. 

I’m here this morning with my card for this week’s stamp with fun challenge and we have the easiest theme for you of “anything goes”, so there is no excuse not to play along!  Here is my card:

I have used a gorgeous digi image by Krista Smith called ‘Penny, a ragamuffin’ and it is available (along with lots of other gorgeous images) in her etsy shop saturated canary digi’s.   I coloured her with a mix of promarkers and flex markers and the papers are echo park from the ‘be mine’ paper pad. 

The rest of the DT have created amazing samples as always, so please pop over 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:

Corrosive challenge – punches and/or dies

Stamptacular challenge – just sayin’ (include sentiment/words)

Whoopsi daisy challenge – shabby chic

Delightful challenges – girly girl

Fab ‘n’ funky challenge – bingo (digi image, ribbon, 3 papers or layers)

My mum’s craft shop challenge – birthday

The pixie cottage challenge – sketch and/or fussy and fancy

CCEE stampers challenge – use pink and lace or doily

Cute card Thursday challenge – anything goes

Moving along with the times challenge – sparkle (gems, pearls, silver corner)

Cardmadfairy’s digi days challenge – lots of layers

Stamping for the weekend challenge – tickled pink

CES challenge – embellish me more (pearls, gems, ribbon, doily and corner)

CR84FN colour challenge – bright pink, black and grey

One stop craft challenge – girlie

Stamp, scrap & doodle challenge – birthday

Bizzy becs challenge – anything goes

Ok, so that’s all for me for the moment, but I’ll be back later with my DT card for this week’s cupcake craft challenge.  Have a great day and thanks for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: Saturated Canary digis – ‘Penny, a Ragamuffin’

Papers: echo park – ‘be mine’ paper pad, SU basic black cardstock

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, SU ribbon, silver corner from wild orchid crafts, personal impressions sentiment, whimsy ticket die, pearls from the hobby house, papermania adhesive stones, doily from Joanna Sheen

Passion for promarkers #80

Good morning everyone.  This week over at passion for promarkers challenge we have a very special Mega Christmas challenge which will last until 4th January 2011.  The design team have worked so hard over the year that we’ve decided to give them a little break during this busy time.  For our last challenge of 2010 we are making it easy on you – the theme is “anything goes”, so as long as you use your promarkers or aqua markers you will be in with a chance of winning our amazing prizes.  Don’t forget you can enter as many times as you like. 

We’ve asked team 1 and team 2 to make samples for this challenge, but we are showing them separately.  Team 1 are showing their creations this week and team 2 will be showing their creations in two week’s time.  Now technically myself and Michele are in both teams, so Michele is sharing her card this week and I will be showing my card the next time. 

However to make up for such a long break we have some amazing prizes once again.  Here is what is up for grabs:

Letraset are generously offering a set of 40 promarkers in specific craft colours stored in two promarker wallets – fab eh!

Simon Says Stamp are generously offering 3 x $10.00 gift certificates to their online store!

Just Tracy’s are generously offering a variety of prizes including 3 promarkers, a memento ink pad, 10 sheets of suitable smooth white paper and a stamp from their own range

 

Whiff of Joy Stamps are generously offering 1 stamp of winner’s choice

Some Odd Girls are offering 3 digi images of the winner’s choice

if that wasn’t enough - they are also offering a 25% discount to everyone on any order placed on their site during the challenge period using code PRO25 (excluding sale items)!!

I hope you will be able to find the time to enter our challenge for a chance to win these fantastic prizes.  Don’t forget to check back later to find out the lucky winners of the blog hop and special challenge. 

Now I couldn’t do a post today without sharing a card could I and actually as our theme is “anything goes” surprisingly my card fits lol!!  It’s another Christmas card (as I’m so far behind in making them) and it’s using a gorgeous digi image from Whimsy Stamps called ‘classic Santa’.  Here is my card:

I really like the crisp, clean feel to this card and am quite happy with the finished result (which is a nice change lol). 

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

Aly’s Sunday challenge – Inspired by a Christmas movie (mine is Santa Claus the movie)

Corrosive challenge – red and white for Christmas

Quirky crafts challenge – around the world (well Santa goes all around the world!)

Whoopsi daisy challenge – ribbons and bows

Cards for men challenge – Christmas card or gift

Paper playtime challenge – snowflakes

A spoonfull of sugar challenge – Christmas cards

Midnight madness challenge – sketch (I used sketch MMSC84)

Tip top Tuesday challenge – use ribbon on your creation

Ladybug crafts challenge – pearls

Moving along with the times challenge – for someone special (it’s for special friends)

Paper cutz challenge – Christmas card using 2 different papers

Die cut dreams Christmas club challenge – Santa’s sack

Wee memories challenge – Holiday music inspiration (mine is Santa Claus is coming to town)

Sir Stampalot challenge – Travel the world (again Santa goes all around the world)

Have a great Tuesday, drive safely and keep warm.  Thanks for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: whimsy stamps – ‘classic Santa’

Papers: all papers are doodlebug, red card from clear & simple stamps, SU whisper white card

Tools: promarkers, pearls from the hobby house, poinsettia from wild orchid crafts, charm from stash, marianne creatables snowflake die, sentiment created on the pc, SU ribbon

Cupcake craft challenge #120 – DT card

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Hello again everyone, I’m back to share my DT card for this week’s cupcake craft challenge.  This week the lovely Shelly has set our theme and she has chosen “little red robin” so basically you must include a robin on your card somewhere!  I recently got a gorgeous new digi from whimsy stamps and really wanted to use it, so although she isn’t technically holding a robin, I’ve coloured it as one lol!  Here is my card:

 

Isn’t she just a beautiful image and I think my bird looks ok as a robin haha! 

Our sponsor this week is Simon Says Stamp and the lucky winner will receive a $20.00 voucher plus free shipping – I know I say it every time but I am so jealous!

Don’t forget we also have our cupcake madness and for the month of December we have Wild Rose Studio as our sponsor and they are offering the lucky winner two stamps – Kira and Milton with teddy (see pics below).  Don’t forget to be in with a chance of winning these two gorgeous stamps you just need to enter two of our challenges during the month. 

 

    

The rest of my cupcake teamies have created stunning cards once again this week to give you some inspiration, so please pop over the challenge blog to check them out.  We really appreciate all the lovely comments you leave for us. 

I can also enter my card into the following challenges:

OSAAT challenge – old stash, new stash (my papers are old, my image is new)

Papertake challenge – sketch

Tip top Tuesday challenge – anything goes

Flutterby Wednesday challenge – open theme

Frosted designs challenge – use glitter (stickles on her wings)

The townscrapper challenge – bling

Stamp something challenge – Christmas colour combo somethings

2 sisters challenge – sparkly Christmas

Basic grey challenge – 4 diff embellishments, 3 papers, 1-2 images/sentiments

Secret crafter Saturday challenge – Christmas

By the cute and girly challenge – children

That’s my lot for today.  I hope you will dig out your little red robin images and join in with our challenge this week.  Thanks for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: whimsy stamps – little Christmas angel (by Crissy Armstrong)

Papers: basic grey – wassail paper pad, red card from clear & simple stamps

Tools: promarkers, pearls from the hobby house, personal impressions sentiment, MS embossed snowflake border punch, marianne creatables snowflake die, stickles, circle nesties

Charisma cardz challenge #47 – DT card

Good morning dear friends.  I hope you are all ok this morning…..I wonder how many of you are snowed in?  We haven’t seen any of the white stuff yet but it’s been forecast for the weekend and I don’t mind as I have a week off work next week *yay*.  I am here today to share my DT card for this week’s charisma cardz challenge.  We have a lovely, easy challenge this week, which has been set by Carol and she has chosen “one for the girls”, how fantastic is that?  I was inspired by the some odd girl challenge to try making a window card, which I’ve never done before…..so here is my card (sorry there are a few pics today):

I have used a gorgeous image from Some Odd Girl called “snowy Mae”.  I love their quirky images and they are just a dream to colour.  The card is quite simple and when I have time I will probably add a sentiment on the inside and cover the other white side with matching paper but I didn’t have chance to do it now.  I have also used my brand new Christmas ticket sentiment stamp set and matching die cut from Whimsy Stamps.  The delivery was super quick and the postage was very reasonable considering it had to come from USA.  I will definitely be ordering from there again. 

We have three brilliant sponsors this week – DigiStamp Boutique is offering one lucky winner 6 digis.

We also have Some Odd Girl sponsoring us and they are offering one lucky winner 3 digis of their choice.

 

Our third generous sponsor is Pizzazz Aplenty and they are offering one lucky winner this amazing prize:

 

Please check out the rest of the DT cards as they are all amazing (and totally girlie) as always.  We really appreciate all your lovely comments that you leave for us. 

I am also entering my card into the following challenges:

Pile it on challenge – winter means……(wrapping up warm)

Easy craft projects challenge – snow (my paper is supposed to represent snow falling)

Fussy and fancy challenge – Christmas but no red or green

Stamping for the weekend challenge – winter

Totally papercrafts challenge – snow and snowflakes

2 sisters challenge – snowflakes

Crazy 4 challenges challenge – add a circle

Die cut dreams Christmas club challenge – Christmas anything goes

Totally gorjuss challenge – non traditional Christmas colours

Mark’s finest papers challenge – use circles on your project

A spoonfull of sugar challenge – anything goes

Digital Tuesday challenge – let it snow

I love promarkers challenge – anything goes

Papertake challenge – cut it out (I punched my snowflakes and used my nesties)

ABC Christmas challenge – x is for xmas

Crafts and me challenge – snowflakes

Crafty creations challenge – Christmas cards

Creative cottage challenge – untraditional Christmas colours

Fab ‘n’ funky challenge – go with the flow

For fun challenge – anything goes

Scrapbook sisters challenge – let it snow

Let’s craft and create challenge – anything goes

Everybody art challenge – use shapes (I’ve got circle and snowflake shapes)

Some odd girl challenge – window card

Wow, lots of similar challenges around this week – it will take me an age to link them all up lol!  I hope you will have a chance to enter our challenge this week and I can’t wait to see what you create.  Have a wonderful day.  Thanks for stopping by. 

Card ingredients:

Image: some odd girl – ‘snowy Mae’

Papers: making memories – Emma paper pack, purple card from the papermill shop, SU whisper white card

 Tools: promarkers, circle nesties, dovecraft and MS snowflake punches, pearls from the hobby house, sentiment & die cut from whimsy stamps

By the Cute & Girly challenge – Guest DT projects

I am so excited to share with you my guest designer projects for the September By the cute and girly challenge. This month’s theme is “Indian summer” and I have to say I was a little perplexed as to what to make. One of the sponsors this month is whimsy stamps and they offered some images for the DT to use on their projects. I used one of their images called “Emma swinging” on my card. I also decided to make a sweet little gift box after seeing the fantastic tutorial on the Whiff of Joy tutorial blog. Here are my projects:

There are some great prizes to be won for this month’s challenge including:

prize1 - Joanna Sheen £10 voucher

prize2 - Simon Says Stamp $20 voucher

prize3 = Whimsy Stamps $15 voucher

prize4 - Little Snippets $15 gift voucher

And finally they will also choose 2 guest designers at random to join them for their November challenge.

Please pop over and check out the DT cards and projects as they are all gorgeous. I hope you will be inspired to join in with this month’s challenge. I can’t wait to see what your create.

I can enter my projects into the following challenges:

The crafty pad challenge – simply pearls (I used pearls on both my projects)

OSAAT challenge – girlie and/or colour inspiration (both my projects are girlie I think)

Kaboodle challenge – 2 patterns, 2 plains, flowers and/or lace (my card fits this recipe)

Totally stampalicious challenge – anything but a card (obviously my box!)

Hanna and friends challenge – pearls and swirls (my card)

Fun with shapes and more challenge – dots, swirls, flowers and text (my card)

Stamping for the weekend challenge – anything goes

Bee crafty challenge – anything goes

CES challenge – anything goes

Crazy 4 challenges challenge – lattice (my box has a punched lattice border)

Just us girls challenge – template challenge (my box)

Anything goes challenge – say it with flowers (my card)

Stampavie and more challenge – anything but a card (my box)

Your next stamp challenge – anything goes

Wow now I have to go and link them up lol! I hope you have been enjoying the lovely weather we’ve been having – our challenge is quite apt I think!! Thanks for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: whimsy stamps - “Emma swinging”

Papers: basic grey – max & whiskers paper pad, SU soft suede card stock

Tools: promarkers, EK success swirl punch, EK success retro flower punch, nellie’s choice stamen punch, pearls from the hobby house, sentiment from “happy day” stamp set by the greeting farm, SU scallop border punch, oval nesties

Box ingredients:

Image: the greeting farm – chibi india

Papers: basic grey – marrakech paper pad, SU soft suede cardstock, SU whisper white cardstock

Tools: promarkers, MS border punch, MS butterfly punch, SU clear button, twine and ribbon from stash, pearls from the hobby house, circle nesties

Passion for Promarkers Week 4 - DT card

Wow I can't believe we are already on Week 4 over at Passion for Promarkers. This week's challenge colours are Berry Red & Royal Blue and boy did I find this a tough one! I stamped the stamping bella 'kilo watt' robot image and coloured him with the challenge colours adding shading around the outline with ice grey 1. The papers are all doodlebug and the plain cs is from the papermill shop. The red piece of card was put through the CB with the swiss dots embossing folder. What do you think of my sentiment? I created it on the pc and couldn't really think of anything wittier at the time lol! The adhesive stones are PM. A perfect card for a little boy I think. Here are a couple of close ups of the image and sentiment.

I hope you have time to join in with the challenge this week. We are lucky enough to be sponsored by Whimsy Stamps this week who are offering this gorgeous stamp as a prize - her name is princess emma:

Don't forget to check out the other DT members cards as they are all gorgeous. Thanks for stopping by.