Chocolate drops

   I have used a sheet from the House Mouse second food and drink decoupage pack and matted the made up image onto black card. I formed an easel card from cream card and on the base of this I matted and layered beige and brown card  and used one of the sentiments supplied matted on brown card as a stop. The other sentiment I added to the decoupaged image.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Crafty Friends - animals/birds
   House Mouse and Friends - anything goes with more than one fold
   Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - anything goes
   Animal Friends - mouse
   Make My Monday - critters

My best friend

   This is a card I have made for The Outlawz progressive challenge using All Dressed Up's digi called My best friend. I coloured it using Promarkers and matted it onto a brown oval card cut using a Tattered Lace die. The plaid paper is a piece left over from an old Lili of the Valley paper pad and the paws CD ROM printed paper was a scrap from my stash. I matted and layered these onto pale yellow paper and white card and glued a strip of the pale yellow paperover the join of the two design papers.
   The sentiment was cut using a die from one of tattered Lace's magazines and I finished the card with three card candi.

   I would like to enter this into the follwoing challenges:
   Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - anything goes
   Creative Inspirations - anything goes
   I Love Promarkers - for a girl
   Digi Choosday - anything goes
   Allsorts - make it girly
   Incy Wincy Designs - anything goes
   Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper - anything goes
   Passion For Promarkers - dies and/or punches
   Digi Designs - use a digi image
   Lemon Shortbread - anything goes
   Southern Girls - anything goes
   Colour Crazy - anything goes
   The Paper Shelter - colour it
   Creative Fingers - anything goes
   Creatalicious - anything goes with optional embossing
   Through The Craft Room Door - anything goes
   Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - anything goes
   Penny's Paper-Crafty - anything goes

Bike

   The Crafty Cardmakers challenge for the next fortnight has the theme of embossing.
   I embossed blue core-dinations cardstock using the Tattered Lace plaid embossing folder, sanded it and then inked it using Distress Inks. I then matted and layered it onto a darker blue card and white card. The image from The Paper Shelter called cute bike was coloured using Promarkers and cut out using a die from Tattered Lace's decorative insert stepper set. This I then matted onto red card. The sentiment was cut from red card using dies from Tattered Lace's all occassions sentiments set.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Crafty Catz - anything goes with optional food
   Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - anything goes
   Creative Inspirations - anything goes
   Digi Choosday - anything goes
   I Love Promarkers - anything goes with for a girl
   Allsorts - make it girly
   Stamping Sensations - feminine
   Incy Wincy Designs - anything goes
   Crafty Calendar - use dies/punches
   Digi Designs - use a digi image
   Southern Girls - anything goes
   Colour Crazy - anything goes
   Creative Fingers - anything goes
   Creatalicious - anything goes with embossing
   Through The Craft Room Door - anything goes
   Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - add a sentiment
   Penny's Paper-Crafty - anything goes
   Sweet Stampin' - birthday girls
   Pink Gem - anything goes
   Crafty Creations - anything goes
   Creative Moments - anything goes
   Alphabet - w is for anything you wish
   Tuesday Throwdown - use your favourite colour (blue)

Great tit

   I matted and layered the background taken from the Paper and Wood pad onto black, grey and white pieces of card and added two colours of Flower Soft to the catkins. The great tit was cut using dies and a charisma pad from Paper and Wood.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Crafty Catz - anything goes with critters
   Allsorts - dies and/or punches
   Crafty Calendar - use die cuts/punches
   Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper - anything goes
   2 Crafty Critter Crazies - anything goes
   Through The Craft Room Door - anything goes
   Make My Monday - critters
   Always Fun - animals

So many candles

   I used Tattered Lace's happy birthday swirl and elegant alphabet dies for the wording on this card. The image was stamped using Hunkydory's burning birthday stamp and coloured using Promarkers. The design was matted and layered onto black and then white card.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Sweet Stampin' - birthday boys
   Alphabet - w is for anything you wish
   Addicted to CAS - cake
   Less Is More - more but still CAS
   The Paper Shelter - with a sentiment

Alphabet bears

    I used these adorable digi alphabet bears from LOTV to create a card for my great niece. They were coloured using Promarkers. The happy birthday letters were generated using the computer and again coloured using Promarkers. The rosette was cut using a Tattered Lace die and the whole design was matted and layered onto pink and then 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 - anything goes
   Digi Choosday - anything goes
  Stamping Sensations - feminine
   The Crafter's Cafe - anything goes
   Creations In Pink - anything goes
   Createful Heart Cards - anything goes
   Creative Fingers - anything goes
   Creatialicious - anything goes with optional hearts
   Fab 'n' Funky - in the pink   
   Penny's Paper-Crafty - anything goes
   Crafty Animals - anything goes

Hedgehogs

   The current Crafty Cardmarkers challenge has the theme of love is all you need.
   I have made a very quick card using Sweet Designs hedgehogs die and the accompanying charisma and background pad, matting the background onto dark brown card and a scalloped white base card. The sentiment was stamped using brown ink and again matted onto dark brown card.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Crafty Catz - anything goes with optional embossing
   Crafty Friends - love/romance
   Cute Card Thursday - anything goes
   Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper - anything goes
   Cupcake Inspiration - green, white, brown

   2 Crafty Critter Crazies - anything goes
   Tales From The craft Room - love is in the air
   The Cutie Pie - cute and cuddly animals
   Creative Fingers - anything goes
   Always Fun - love/Valentine
   Through The Craft Room Door - anything goes
   C.R.A.F.T. - love/Valentine
   Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - with love
   Crafty Animals - anything goes

A glass of wine

   For this card I used Bugaboo's glass of wine digi along with the accompanying sentiment and a computer generated sentiment.  I coloured the digi using Promarkers and then matted and layered the design onto wine coloured card and white.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Crafty Catz - anything goes with optional embossing
   Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - anything goes
   Digi Choosday - anything goes
   Stamping Sensations - feminine
   Crafty Sentiments Designs - anything goes
   Southern Girls - anything goes
   Colour Crazy - anything goes
   Through The Craft Room Door - anything goes
   Creative With Stamps - red
   Penny's Paper-Crafty - anything goes
   Pink Gem - anything goes
 

Love is ...

   The theme for this month's Dragonfly Dreams challenge is 'it's a love thing' and it is being sponsored by

   I have used their digi called Love is, coloured it using Promarkers, cut it out using a Tattered Lace heart die and matted the image onto deep violet card. The heart paper from my stash was also matted onto deep violet card once a horizontl strip of washy tape had been added. A smaller heart shape was tucked behind the main heart and letters in white peel off were added.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Crafty Catz - anything goes with favourite colours (violet)
   Crafty Friends - love/romance
   Cute Card Thursday - valentine
   I Love Promarkers - anything goes with optional embossing
   Digi Choosday - anything goes
   Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper - anything goes
   Crafty Sentiments Designs - use hearts
   Passion For Promarkers - for a child/children images
   Digi Designs - all about love
   Colour Crazy - anything goes 
   Digi Doodle Studios - it's a love thing
   Createful Heart Cards - anything goes
   Catch The Bug - anything goes
   Creatalicious - anything goes with hearts
   Through The Craft Room Door - anything goes
   Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - anything goes
   Simon Says Stamp Monday - all loved up

Easter eggs

   The February Send A Smile 4 Kids challenge has the theme of Easter or spring.
   I have used pages from Hunkydory's square little book of Sweet Springtime and decoupaged an image. This was then matted and layered onto pale green mirri, pale yellow card, another mat of pale green mirri and finally white card. The sentiment was cut from the waste of one of the pages using a Tattered Lace die.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Crafty Calender - use die cuts/punches
   The Crafter's Cafe - anything goes
   Creative Craft Cottage - anything goes
   Creative Fingers - anything goes
   Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - anything goes
   Penny's Paper-Crafty - anything goes