Cards For All Seasons IG Hop Week 22 - Boo!

Hello again friends; I'm back to share my card for this week's Cards for All Seasons IG hop organised by my lovely friend Kelly. We are now on Week 22 and our theme is 'boo'. Such a fun theme this week and open to lots of interpretation; even if you don't want to make any more Halloween creations you could use Halloween colours instead.  There are going to be so many awesome creations along the hop this week and I can't wait to see what sparks your imagination.

I found some plain white gift bags recently that I've had in my stash for years so I thought, even though I don't have many trick or treaters, why not decorate them to fill with sweets and chocolate (and if I don't have any callers I'm sure my sons and myself will eat the goodies lol!).  I know I've used this stamp set once already this year but it's so super cute and I gave more of the images some love this time around.  I went with the same layout and design on each bag just changed up the images and colours.  There are lots of photos today as I wanted to give each bag its moment in the spotlight haha!  I hope you like them.

Here are the bags all together:

Here is each bag and a close up of the image:

 

 

 

 

 

I worked in a production line style as I felt it made everything go faster.  I cut all the pieces of pattern paper, the striped paper is 4 7/8" x 5 1/8" and the strip of paper is 4 7/8" x 1 14".  I also cut black card mat layers for each piece and adhered them together with double sided tape.  I cut 5 of the arches from white card and using the next size up cut a black layer.  Before adhering them together I stamped the spider webs in black ink (although I used second generation stamping on 4 of them as I thought the first one was too dark) and stars in a colour to match the paper.  I did some ink blending around the edges in the same ink colour as the stars and then adhered the arches together with liquid glue.  I stamped and die cut all the images (except for the bats which I die cut from black card) and then coloured them with Promarkers.  I also added some white gelly roll pen highlights.  It was then time to assemble; I added the strip onto the black and white panel with double sided tape, added the arch into the centre with foam tape and placed the images and sentiment onto the arch with foam squares.  I added the bats with liquid glue and also added a string to the spider so he wasn't floating in mid air!  I think they are adorable and if I do have any kiddos at my door on Friday I'm sure they will love them.  

I would like to enter my gift bags into the following challenges:

Allsorts challenge - autumn colours

Cardz for Guyz challenge - use orange, black, purple - 1 or more

Crafty Catz challenge - ATG optional twist Halloween

Crafty Gals Corner challenge - fill in the blank - spooky____ treat bags

Creative Crafting Uncles challenge - Halloween

Creative Inspirations challenge - autumn/something spooky

Creative Knockouts challenge - Halloween or fall

Double D challenge - Halloween colours

Make My Monday challenge - Halloween colours

Papercraft challenges - spooky delights

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - ATG

Sweet Stampin' challenge - Halloween or Halloween colours

The Dream Factory challenge - Coco: day of the dead and/or Halloween

Try It On Tuesday challenge - Halloween

I hope you will pop over to Instagram and check out the hop; please use the hashtag #cfascardhop2025 to see all the gorgeous creations and also if you want to participate we will be able to find you. 

I'll be back tomorrow with my card for the Krafty Chicks challenge so I hope you will pop back and check it out. Until then thank you so much for stopping by.

Love and hugs,

supplies:

Hobbycraft - small gift bags 5 pack

MFT stamps - fab-BOO-lous friends stamp & die

Mama Elephant - B2B arches die set

MFT - black & white stripes 6x6 paper pack

Authentique - glowing 6x6 paper pad

Dovecraft - back to basics II 6x6 designer paper pack

Limetree Crafts - 280gsm silky smooth white card

Limetree Crafts - 220gsm black card

Promarkers

Versafine Clair - nocturne ink pad

Sakura - white no. 10 gelly roll pen

Gina K Designs - large strip sentiments dies

*I now have an Affiliate Link for the Gina K Designs store. If you are considering making a purchase I would appreciate you using my link as it will earn me a small commission at no extra cost to you. 
Thank you x

Spring Into Card Making IG Hop - Week 3

Hello my lovely friends; I hope you've had a wonderful day so far.  It's Week 3 of the Spring Into Card Making IG Hop organised by my lovely friend Kelly and this time we are all about spring.  Each week we will be sharing a themed card focusing on the joys of spring.  If our hop inspires you please use the hashtag #2024springintocardmakinghop to join in the fun.  

This week we are making Easter or spring creations and as Easter is almost here I decided to make one more Easter card.  I used an older (but new to me) stamp.  Here is my card:

A close up of the cute image:

I decorated the inside:

I began by cutting a panel of alcohol marker friendly card to 3 3/4" x 5" and stamped the image towards the left of centre and coloured it with Promarkers (I also stamped a mask to use later).   After colouring the image I placed the mask overtop and lightly inked all around with a sea glass ink pad to give a slight halo effect to the image.  I then stamped the sentiment to the left of the image in black ink.  I cut a panel of kraft card slightly larger than my white panel and adhered them with double sided tape.  I then added this onto my card base with foam tape.  For the inside I cut the exact same panels as the front, stamped a sentiment in the centre with black ink and lightly ink blended the same sea glass ink around the edges.  I decided to stamp just the little eggs from the image into the left bottom corner three times and coloured them with Promarkers.  The panels were again adhered together with double sided tape and added to the card base with double sided tape also.  I finished with some white highlights using a gel pen and my card was complete.  

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

AAA Cards challenge - anything CAS goes option spring/spring colours

Allsorts challenge - keep it simple

CRAFT challenge - Easter/spring

I Love Promarkers challenge - ATG option use the rainbow

Papercraft challenges - Easter

Scrapping4Fun challenge - Easter/spring

Shopping Our Stash challenge - spring has spring (13 challenges total)

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - ATG

Stamping Sensations challenge - spring (3rd entry)

Sweet Stampin' challenge - Easter

The Cutie Pie challenge - Easter/Mother's Day

The Sisterhood of Crafters challenge - bunnies and or chicks (if my 'bunny' isn't appropriate please delete/ignore my entry)

Tic Tac Toe challenge - Easter eggs, yellow, free

I would love it if you would pop over to Instagram and see the amazing work by all the other crafters taking part in the hop.  Please use the hashtag #2024springintocardmakinghop to find us and also so that we can find your creation if you are inspired to take part.  

I'll be back again with you tomorrow with my card for the Krafty Chicks challenge so please pop by and check it out.  As always I appreciate the comments you leave and thank you so much for stopping by. 

Love and hugs, 

Card ingredients:

Stamping Bella - Valerie bunny stamp (retired)

Dovecraft - essential sentiments (for inside greeting)

Promarkers

Gina K Designs - masking magic sheets

Gina K Designs - sea glass ink pad

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm silky smooth white card 

Heffy Doodle - alcohol marker friendly card

Crafter's Companion - 280gsm kraft cardstock

Memento - tuxedo black ink

Versafine - onyx black ink

Sakura - no 10. white gelly roll pen

Winter wonderland challenge–DT card

Hello dear friends!  I hope you’ve all had a great weekend so far.  I can’t believe the weekend is almost over though – where does the time go? 

I’m sharing my DT card for this week’s winter wonderland challenge (although I am a tad late oops!) and the lovely Lynsey has set the theme this week and she has chosen “pretty in pink”.  We want to see all your pink creations and don’t forget it has to be Christmas themed to be eligible.  Here is my card:

I used a super cute freebie image from Mo’s Digital Pencil called ‘snowy day’ and coloured it with promarkers.  I have been dying to use this image for ages and now I have I will definitely be using it again and it was lovely colour and really easy to cut out.  I embossed a piece of white card with my swiss dots embossing folder and just added a strip of doodlebug paper to break it up.  Quite a simple card but I’m quite pleased with the finished result. 

Our sponsor this week is Crafty Emma’s store and one lucky winner will receive a £10.00 voucher (excluding p&p) to spend in her online store.

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 the lovely comments you leave for us.

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

Mo’s digital pencil challenge – I see spots

Paper sundaes challenge – anything goes

Pile it on challenge – pop it up (my image is on 3d foam pads)

Stamptacular challenge – freebie week

Top tip Tuesday challenge – spotty dotty

My mum’s craft shop challenge – it’s a celebration

Card makin’ mamas challenge – make it girlie

Totally gorjuss challenge – bling

Little Claire’s challenge – doing the rounds

St. Luke’s charity cards challenge – glitter/bling (2nd entry)

I hope you can join in with our challenge this week and I look forward to seeing what you create.  Enjoy the rest of your weekend. I’m going to catch up with some recorded programmes on Sky+ – what did we do before we had that lol!  Whatever you’re up to have a fab night and thanks for stopping by.

 

Card ingredients:

Image: Mo’s digital pencil – ‘snowy day’ freebie digi

Papers: doodlebug – ‘pretty pink asterisks’ 12x12 sheet, pink card from the papermill shop, white digital stamping card from craftwork cards

Tools: promarkers, dovecraft snowflake punch, gems from MeiFlower, sentiment created on pc, die-namics first place award ribbon die, circle nesties, cuttlebug swiss dots embossing folder

Passion for Promarkers #140–DT card

Hello again dear friends.  I’m sorry I’m behind the times with my posts again this week, there just don’t seem to be enough hours in the day at the moment.  Anyway enough waffling from me and let’s get on with showing you my card.  The challenge this week over at passion for promarkers challenge has been set by Gro and she has chosen “yellow and pearls” and here is my card:

I have used a brand new and gorgeous image from DigiStamp Boutique from the “Rosie collection 1” which is one of the offers of the month for March and the set contains 3 super cute images for the amazing prize of just £2.25!!  I coloured the image with promarkers and the papers are from the dovecraft ‘back to basics’ paper pack.  The kraft card is from dies to die for and the pearls are from the hobby house.  I kept the layout really simple as I wanted the image to stand out and I have to say I really love this card!

Our sponsor this week is crafts and me and one lucky winner will receive 3 digi images of their choice.

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 the lovely comments you leave for us. 

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

Friday sketch challenge – gorgeous sketch

Totally stampalicious challenge – flowers

Ladybug crafts ink challenge – anything goes

Papertake challenge – one for the girls or mum

I love promarkers challenge – anything goes

Frosted designs challenge – use kraft

Allsorts challenge – say it with flowers

OSAAT challenge – use a digi

Stampavie & more challenge – spring/Easter

I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge and I look forward to seeing your gorgeous creations.  I would like to welcome my newest followers – Carol and Lisa *waves hello*, thanks for joining my little bit of blogland ladies and I hope you will visit me often.  I’ll be back tomorrow with my DT card for this week’s charisma cardz challenge (but it will be after work I’m afraid lol!).  Until then have a wonderful day and thanks so much for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: DigiStamp Boutique – ‘Rosie collection 1’

Papers: dovecraft – ‘back to basics’ paper pad, kraft card from dies to die for

Tools: promarkers, circle nesties, ek success retro flower punch, pearls from the hobby house, SU oval all punches, personal impressions clear sentiment stamp

Sweet Stampin’ Guest DT card

Happy Thursday dear friends.  Another catch up post from me lol!  I was so chuffed to be asked to be guest designer for February over at Sweet Stampin’ challenge.  I love their challenges and try to enter every week if I can. 

The theme for this week’s challenge is “the one I love” and I knew immediately what image I was going to use.  Here is my card:

The image is of course Wrynn from Tiddly Inks and I coloured her with promarkers and flex markers.  The gorgeous papers are my mind’s eye from the ‘love me’ paper pad and the plain card is SU real red.  Quite a simple layout for me but I like it lol!

There are two sponsors for this challenge – stamp and create are offering a $20.00 voucher and Joanna Sheen who is their regular monthly sponsor. 

The design team have created amazing cards for your inspiration so please pop over and check them out.  You need to be quick if you want to enter the challenge as it ends in just over a day!!

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

Sweet Sunday sketch challenge – sketch (which I love!)

Joanna Sheen challenge – love is in the air

Tiddly inks challenge – Valentine

Simon says stamp challenge – love is in the air

Stamptacular challenge – Valentine/love + red, white, grey & pink

Papertake challenge – anything goes + option love/add a heart

I love promarkers challenge – love is in the air

Truly scrumptious challenge – love & hearts

One stop craft challenge – for the one I love

By the cute & girly challenge – love is in the air

I’ve still got a few more DT cards to catch up with so stay tuned for more posts!!

By the way what do you think of my new blog background?  I really like it – it was definitely time for a change – and the best bit was it was a freebie *yay*.  Check out Leelou’s blog to see what other lovely blog backgrounds she has.  Have a great evening and thanks so much for stopping by, I really appreciate your support.

Card ingredients:

Image: Tiddly Inks – ‘Wrynn – grow a little love’

Papers: my mind’s eye – ‘love me’ paper pad, SU real red cardstock,

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, circle nesties, dovecraft heart punch,

Cupcake craft challenge #174–DT card

** THIS IS MY SECOND POST FOR TODAY **

Please scroll down to see my Stamp with Fun DT card

Hello again friends, I’m back as promised with my DT card for this week’s cupcake craft challenge and Liza has set the theme and she has chosen “something new”.  You could make a new baby, new home, new job card or just use new stash that Santa brought for you (but if you do please can you let us know what new items you’ve used).  I decided to make a new baby card as I don’t have any in stock and I love making baby cards!  Here is my card:

 

I used a super cute image from Lori Boyd designs and coloured him with promarkers.  I used my favourite paper for baby cards – gingham – and both papers are from wild rose studio ‘gorgeous ginghams’ paper stack.  The blue card is from the papermill shop and the white card is digi stamping card from craftwork cards (which I fed through my paper crimper for added texture).  The layout again is super simple, as its for a boy, I just added a few buttons and gems to finish.  I have to say that this card is much nicer IRL and I’m really pleased with the finished result. 

We have two sponsors this week, firstly we have Sew Sweet who are offering one lucky winner a £10.00 voucher to spend in their online store. 

Our second sponsor is squiggle stamps who are offering one lucky winner 3 digi images from their online store.

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 the lovely comments you leave for us.

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

Addicted to stamps challenge – January blues

The squirrel & the fox challenge – something new (2nd entry)

Fab ‘n’ funky challenge – something new

My mum’s craft shop challenge – something new

Cute card Thursday challenge – what’s new

Simon says stamp challenge – new something

Card makin’ mamas challenge – something new

One stop craft challenge – BINGO (pearls/gems, die-cuts/punches, buttons)

Sketch Saturday challenge – sketch

Crafty calendar challenge – new news

I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge this week and I look forward to visiting your blogs and seeing your wonderful creations.  Have a wonderful day, whether it’s at work or at home, and thank you so much for stopping by today.

Card ingredients:

Image: Lori Boyd designs – ‘baby Levi’

Papers: wild rose studio – ‘gorgeous ginghams’ paper stack, plain card from the papermill shop, white digi stamping card from craftwork cards

Tools: promarkers, square nesties, dovecraft back to basics II buttons, SU basic rhinestones, personal impressions sentiment stamp, paper crimper

Cupcake craft challenge #172–DT card

** THIS IS MY SECOND POST FOR TODAY **

Please scroll down to see my Stamp with Fun DT card

Hello again friends, I’m back as promised with my DT card for this week’s cupcake craft challenge.  This week our lovely boss lady Faye has set the theme and she has chosen to give us a fantastic sketch to use.  I really enjoyed using the sketch and will definitely be using it again.  Here is my card:

and here is the sketch:

I used an image from DigiStamp Boutique called ‘Stan with beer’ and coloured him with promarkers and flex markers and I added some diamond glaze to the froth on his pint of beer.  The papers are wild rose studio from the ‘for men’ paper pack and I used my very last scraps of elzybells kraft card (sob!!).  I kept the layout really simple as the card is for my uncle and only added a punched star and button.   I have to say that I’m quite pleased with the finished card, even though it’s fuss free – makes a nice change sometimes doesn’t it?

Our challenge will last until 24th December but the DT will then have the following 2 weeks off to spend with our families therefore as a special treat this week we have 3 sponsors this week. Firstly we have tickled pink stamps who are offering a prize of either one rubber stamp or two digi's of winner's choice, our second sponsor is Crafty Emma’s store  and they are offering a £10 gift voucher and our third sponsor is Digital Delights who are offering 3 images of winner’s choice. 

Don’t forget we also have our ‘icing on the cupcake’ sponsor and for December that is Polka Doodles and 2 lucky winners will receive the Pretty Sweet CD. 

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:

Corrosive challenge – anything except Christmas

The crafty pad challenge – anything but Christmas

Cute card Thursday challenge – stripes (on his shirt??)

Little miss muffet challenge – buttons and ribbons (hope it’s ok that I only have 1 of each)

Frosted designs challenge – ribbon

Really reasonable ribbon challenge – anything goes + ribbon

Totally papercrafts challenge – time to party

CES challenge – party, party, party

Totally gorjuss challenge – for someone special

Paper sundaes challenge – celebrate

I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge this week, don’t forget it ends on 24th December and then our next challenge will begin on 9th January 2012.  I would like to welcome my newest follower Karen Letchworth who left me the most kindest, loveliest comment – it was much appreciated hun and I hope you continue to like my creations. 

I have to try and get organised tonight – I still haven’t written my cards, although at least I do have some to write this year and I’ve not wrapped any presents yet!!  Nothing like being last minute is there lol!  I hope you have a wonderful day and thank you so much for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: DigiStamp Boutique – ‘Stan with beer’

Papers: wild rose studio – ‘for men’ paper pack, elzybells kraft card

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, dovecraft star punch, ribbon and button from stash, ‘happy birthday’ stamp by personal impressions, ‘uncle’ stamp by clear & simple stamps, diamond glaze

Winter wonderland challenge–DT card

Good morning dear friends.  As there is no passion for promarkers challenge card today I thought I would do a catch-up post and share my card for last week’s winter wonderland challenge.  A huge apology to my fellow DT girlies, I meant to post it Friday evening but then I completely forgot – oops.  However better late than never and there is still time to enter our challenge (phew!).  Our theme is “let it snow” so I know there will be lots of lovely entries for us to drool over.  Here is my card:

I have used a super cute image from saturated canary digis called ‘a winter ragamuffin’ and I coloured her with promarkers and flex markers.  The gorgeous papers are echo park from the ‘season’s greetings’ pad and I dug out my neglected MS double loops border punch. 

Our sponsor this week is Delicious Doodles and one lucky winner will receive 3 digi images from their online store.

The rest of the DT have created gorgeous samples for your inspiration, so please 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:

Addicted to stamps challenge – snowflakes

Cupcake inspirations challenge – inspiration photo

Dream valley challenge – Christmas (2nd entry)

OSAAT challenge – use a digi

Quirky crafts challenge – snow

The squirrel & the fox challenge – Christmas (2nd entry)

Stamptacular challenge – Christmas glitz

Crafty boots challenge – Christmas

The cutie pie challenge – use a sentiment

Heart song inspirations challenge – snowflakes and/or doilies

Lollipop crafts challenge – happy holidays

The pink elephant challenge – snowflakes and sparkle

Pollycraft challenge – Christmas fun

Crafty purple frog challenge – it’s cold outside

Hanna & friends challenge – winter cards

Paper play challenge – snowman

Card makin’ mamas challenge – Christmas (2nd entry)

Crafty Ann’s challenge – Christmas BINGO (glitter, snow, red)

Craft your days away challenge – snowmen

Totally gorjuss challenge – let it snow

I hope you will have time to enter our challenge - the linky closes on Thursday at 5pm so still time to get involved.  I’ll be back later with my second catch up card for the bee crafty challenge (this time I’m 12 days late with my card – oh dear!  I blame the time of year for everything at the moment lol!)   Have a great day and thanks for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: saturated canary – ‘a winter ragamuffin’

Papers: echo park – ‘season’s greeting’, SU real red cardstock

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, circle nesties, MS double loops punch, dovecraft snowflake punch, heart button from stash, sizzix sizzlit architectural accent #1, sentiment from pink petticoat, stickles