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