Knitting friends

   This week the challenge at Crafting From the Heart is being sponsored by

 
   I have used the image from Bugaboo Stamps called close knit friends and after colouring it using Spectrum Noir pens I matted and layered it onto black card, pink core'dinations car, another piece of black card and finally white card. I then added a black peel off sentiment.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Cute Card Thursday - clean and simple
   Digi Choosday - anything goes
   The Crazy Challenge - birthday
   Lemon Shortbread - anything goes
   Glitter n Sparkle - anything goes
   Penny's Paper-Crafty - anything goes
 
 

Netball

   A friend asked me to make a card for her grand daughter who plays netball. I have some CD ROMs which contain thousands of clip art images so I superimposed the players over an image of a netball and then using word art added the greeting. After cutting it out using a die I matted it onto gold mirri card and coloured the girls using Promarkers.
   Using a circular die I created an easel card and attached the above to it. I printed another clip art image and cut it out using a circular die and attached it to the base of the card. I then outlined it using gold peel off strips. I used two smaller versions of this image either side of the words '15 today' matted onto gold mirri card to create the stop for the easel.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - anything goes
   Creative Inspirations - anything goes
   Digi Choosday  - anything goes
   The Crazy Challenge - birthday
   The Crafter's Cafe - birthday
   Crafty Sentiments Designs - anything goes
   Fab 'n' Funky - let's get sporty
   Through The Craft Room Door - anything goes
   Crafty Girls Creations - anything goes
   Dies R Us - shaped cards/projects
   Tuesday Throwdown - anything goes

Clown

   This week we would like to see your birthday cards over at the QKR Stampede challenge, although as always there is the anything goes option.
   I have used the digi called clown (number 176002) along with a computer generated greeting. The image has been coloured using Promarkers in the main with blue glitter glue gel for the hoop. I then matted and layered it onto blue glitter card and white card.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - anything goes
   Creative Inspirations - anything goes
   Cute Card Thursday - clean and simple
   I Love Promarkers - girl's birthday
   Digi Choosday - anything goes
   The Crazy Challenge - birthday
   The Crafter's Cafe - birthday
   Lemon Shortbread - anything goes
   Creative Fingers - anything goes
   Paper Creator's Crafts - bright and bold
   Imagine That - anything goes
   Through The Craft Room Door - anything goes
   Penny's Paper-Crafty - anything goes
   Sweet Stampin' - things that go round
   Crafty Sentiments Designs - anything goes

Spring fling

   The challenge at Crafty Cardmakers for the next fortnight has the theme floral profusion.
   I began my card by embossing a rectangle of Hunkydory's adorable scorable card using the Avery folder from Tattered Lace and matting it onto cream card. The flowers were printed using Tattered Lace's Sweet Serenity Blissful Blooms CD ROM and then cut using the matching dies. The glass bowl was cut from packaging and silver mirri. I arranged the flowers in the bowl and then used wet glue on the lower half of the bowl to attach it to the card so that the top of the flowers are free to move.
   The sentiment was cut using another Tattered Lace die.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - anything goes
   Creative Inspirations - anything goes
   Allsorts - happy birthday
   Crafty Calendar - flowers
   CD Sunday - say it with flowers
   The Crafty Addicts - anything goes with die cuts
   Through the Craft Room Door - anything goes
   Crafty Gals Corner - add flowers
   A Gem of a Challenge - spring fever

Bright colours

   Time for a new challenge at Send A Smile 4 Kids. This time the theme is bright colours and it is being sponsored by:

Paper Nest Dolls who are offering three digis

and

Tonic Studios who are offering eight Drops.

   I have used the paper Nest Dolls digi called  Hippy Emma and coloured it using Promarkers  and Spectrum Noir pens. I cut it out using a Tattered Lace Charisma Frames 1 die and matted it onto bright pink card. I Also mattered the designer paper onto the same colour card before matting it onto white card. The  banner and sentiment were cut using dies from Tattered Lace's stage card die set. The green 'swirl' is a cut off from a Tattered Lace die cut and the butterflies were cut from a scrap of designer paper left over from making Christmas cards.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Creative Inspirations - anything goes
   I Love Promarkers - girls birthday
   Allsorts - happy birthday
   The Crafter's Cafe - birthday
   Paper Creator's Crafts - bright and bold
   Butterfly - l is for layers and/or colour cream

Pretty polly

   This week over at the QKR Stampede challenge we would like to see things with wings. You can as usual follow the anything goes theme if you wish.
   I matted and layered a piece of blue sky paper left over from a previous project onto black then cream card. I cut a collection of leaves using Tattered Lace rainforest leaves dies, coloured them using Spectrum Noir pens and glued them to the background paper. The main image called parrot (number 24336) I also coloured using Spectrum Noir pens and then fussy cut and attached to the card. Finally I added little postcards to the top right hand corner.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Dream Valley - things with wings
   Ooh La La Creations - something beginning with b (bird)
   Crafty Catz - anything goes with more than two layers
   Seize The Birthday - creatures or animals
   Paper Creator's Craft - bright and bold
   Addicted To Stamps and More - make your mark
   Ike's World - anything goes with fairly flying
   Little Miss Muffet - anything goes
   Creative Inspirations - anything goes
   Digi Choosday - anything goes

Happy gardening

   There is a new anything goes challenge at Crafting From the Heart today so do come and join in.
   My main image used a Tatty Twinkles stamp called gardening makes you happy. After colouring it using Promarkers I cut it out using a Tattered Lace essential byzantine die and matted it onto green core'dinations cardstock which was also cut out using a byzantine die.
   I used Tattered Lace's essentials byzantine lattice die to emboss white card which I then matted and layered onto green core'dinations cardstock and white card.
   The flower pots were stamp using a stamp from Jayne Nestorento's Cute Companions In the Garden set and coloured using Promarkers. I cut a slit in two of them and made a stack of three pots. The bird was created using a stamp form the same set. Also from the same set of stamps was the sentiment.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Digi Choosday - anything goes
   Cute Card Thursday - dies and punches
   Brown Sugar - embossing
   The Crafty Addicts - anything goes with die cuts
   Lemon Shortbread - anything goes
   Glitter n Sparkle - one for the ladies/mother's day
   Creative Fingers - anything goes
   Kitty Bee Designs - anything goes with for mum
   Through the Craft Room Door - anything goes
   Do-Al(l) Creative - let your heart speak
   Scrapbook Stamp Society - anything goes with mother's day
   Penny's Paper-Crafty - anything goes
   Pattie's Creations Designs - for the girls

She loves me, she loves me not

   I began by covering white card with daisy patterned printed paper I have had in my stash for some time. After decoupaging the House Mouse image I matted and layered it onto pink mulberry paper and gold card and tied a satin ribbon which I had coloured using Promarkers round the lower part of the card. This was then attached to the backing paper.
   I used the Tattered Lace chamomile spray die to create the bouquet of flowers, doubling up on the flower heads and adding extra flowers to the spray. Promarkers were used to colour the spray of flowers.
   Using a Tattered Lace ornamental with love die I cut the sentiment twice, colouring each cut piece with a different colour so that when one was placed on top of the other a dropped shadow could be formed.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Dies R Us - flowers
   Crafty Friends - cute
   Creative Inspirations - blooms and bows
   Cute Card Thursday - dies and punches
   House Mouse and Friends - summertime
   Crafty Calendar - flowers
   2 Crafty Critter Crazies - anything goes
   The Ribbon Girl - card
   Seize the Birthday - creatures or animals
   Make My Monday - May flowers

Graduation

   This week the theme for the QKR Stampede challenge is anything goes with the twist graduation.
   I designed the background paper using the computer and matted and layered it onto black and then white card. The Eureka image called cap (number 18901) was coloured using Promarkers, fussy cut and attached using foam pads.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Digi Choosday - anything goes
   Incy Wincy Designs - clean and simple
   Through The Craft Room Door - anything goes
   Addicted to Stamps and More - anything goes
   Crafting When We Can - clean and simple

Stars and stripes

   The Scrapping 4 Fun challenge which begins today has the theme of ladies and the sponsor is Sheep Ski Designs. I have been lucky enough to have been asked to be a guest designer for this challenge and this card is what I came up with.
   The striped paper and the star strip were created using the My Craft Studio graphic program. I wrapped red tape round the striped paper either side of the star strip before attaching it to white card. The window was cut down from a Tattered Lace die cut and I attached acetate from packaging behind the frames. I then attached a clip art picture behind the whole window and attached it to the card. The lady was cut from white card using the Tattered Lace die called Lauren out for a stroll and I coloured it using Promarkers. Finally I attached a computer generated sentiment.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - anything goes
   Cute Card Thursday - dies and punches
   Crafty Catz - anything goes with optional mirri card
   The Crafter's Cafe - feminine
   Lemon Shortbread - anything goes
   4 Crafty Chicks - celebrate women
   Crafting By Designs - anything goes
   Penny's Paper-Crafty - anything goes
   The East Wind - celebrate the women
   Eclectic Ellapu - anything goes

On your special day

   This fortnight the theme for the Crafty Cardmakers challenge is add a sentiment.
   I was asked to make a card for a friend's mother who was about to celebrate her 90th birthday and who liked gardening and owned a cat. I matted two shades of centura pearl card onto white card and then added various die cuts to the card. All the dies used were Tattered Lace ones and this is the list of those used:
   Tiddles (the cat)
   Scroll
   Autumnal hedgerow (for the background roses)
   Meadow sweet (for the sentiment)
   Long stemmed rose (for the leaves)
All die cuts were coloured using Promarkers and I added Stickles to the rose centres.
A peel off was used for 'to mum' and I added two flowers from Wild Orchid.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Passion For Promarkers - make it bloom
   The Paper Shelter - flowers
   Crafting By Designs - anything goes
   Seize the Birthday - anything goes
   Kitty Bee Designs - anything goes with for mum
   Crafty Girls Creations - anything goes
   Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - a hint of pink
   Dies R Us - flowers
   As You Like It - favourite die (autumnal hedgerow because you can chop it up and use it in so many different ways)
   Penny's Paper-Crafty - anything goes
   Crafty Creations - anything goes

Unicorn kidz

   The theme for the challenge at Dragonfly Dreams this month is monochrome and is being sponsored by Bugaboo Stamps.
   I wrapped two rows of washy tape round the left hands side of a square piece of core'dinations cardstock and stuck a paper ribbon strip between them. I then wrapped satin edge organza ribbon round the centre of the paper strip. this was then matted onto white card.
   The image from Bugaboo called unicorn kidz was coloured using Promarkers, cut out using a Tattered Lace oval die and matted onto centura pearl card. I added 3D glue to the star and the 'tail'.
   Finally a white peel off sentiment and a bow were added to the ribbon strip.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - anything goes
   The Crafter's Cafe - feminine
   Scrapping 4 Fun - anything goes
   The Ribbon Girl - any card
   In The Pink - birthday
   Catch the Bug - anything goes
   Crafty Girls Creations - anything goes
   Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - a hint of pink
   Pattie's Creations Designs - for the girls

Rock star

   Send A Smile 4 Kids starts a new challenge today with the theme for dads and/or special males. It is being sponsored by:

Bugaboo who are offering 4 digis for their prize

and

Die-Versions who are offering a $15 gift certificate.

   I have used a Bugaboo image called Rock star boy and coloured it using Promarkers, adding Glossy Accents to the glasses. The design behind the image  was created using My Craft Studio's From A Man's Point of View - Toddlers to Teens CD ROM. I matted and layered it onto glitter card and then white card. The sentiment was cut from glitter card using a Tattered Lace die.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Cute Card Thursday - anything goes
   Incy Wincy Designs - clean and simple
   Crafty Sentiments Designs - anything goes
   Lemon Shortbread - anything goes
   Through the Craft Room Door - anything goes
   Penny's Paper-Crafty - anything goes
   Crafty Creations - anything goes
   Catch the Bug - anything goes

Butterfly

   This week the QKR Stampede challenge has the theme of feminine card along with the usual anything goes.
   What could be more feminine than pink! so I chose this as the background colour for my card. Onto this I matted a square cut from a design from Hunkydory's Little Book of Faberdashery. I outlined it using narrow strips of green peel off and added green buttons threaded with green twine to the centre of four of the flowers. The digi image called butterfly (number 8505) was coloured using Promarkers and I attached it to the card using foam pads. Finally I added the happy birthday sentiment cut using a Tattered Lace die.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Cute Card Thursday - anything goes
   Digi Choosday - anything goes
   Passion For Promarkers - make it bloom
   Crafty Catz - anything goes with use five of something
   The Crafter's Cafe - feminine
   Addicted to Stamps - flowers and butterflies
   Cupcake Inspirations - colours: spring, pink, orchid
   Crafty Sentiments Designs - anything goes
   Digi Designs - use something digital
   2 Crafty Critter Crazies - anything goes
   In The Pink - birthday
   Inky Chicks - butterflies
   Through The Craft Room Door - anything goes
   My Time to Craft - sequins or buttons
   Simon Says Stamp Monday - the great outdoors
   Make My Monday - may flowers
 

Retro selfie

   This week Crafting From the Heart is being sponsored by 

and as usual the theme is anything goes.

   I have used their image called Retro selfie and coloured it using Promarkers. I matted it onto deep pink core'dinations cardstock from which I cut a design using Tattered Lace dies from their picture window set. This was then matted onto a paler piece of pink core'dinations cardstock. The sentiment was cut from core'dinations cardstock using a die from the above set. I then added a roll of film embellishment.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Creative Inspirations - one for the girls
   Digi Choosday - anything goes
   Crafty Catz - anything goes
   Digi Designs - use something digital (image and roll of film)
   Scrapping 4 Fun - anything goes
   Lemon Shortbread - anything goes
   Creative Fingers - anything goes
   Creatalicious - anything goes with for girls of mother's day
   Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - anything goes
   Crafty Gals Corner - anything goes
   In The Pink - birthday