A bouquet for Mum, DigiStamp Boutique DT card

Hello my lovely crafty friends!

I hope you are well and having a good weekend.

Things are very hectic here at the moment so I have a fairly quick and simple card to share using one of the newest releases from DigiStamp Boutique.

This pretty image is called A bouquet for mum and includes 4 lovely sentiments one of which I have used on my card.

Items Used:

Digital Stamp and sentiment- DigiStamp Boutique, A bouquet for Mum

Coloured with Promarkers

Tonic Studios Scalloped Rectangles layering dies

small butterfly punch

small adhesive pearls

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop and look at my card today, I really do appreciate your continued support.

Bye for now

hugs

Blue Lilacs

Hello my lovely crafty friends.

I do hope all is well with you, sending hugs to those in need of them.

Yesterday, for some reason, I felt like colouring in some flowers. I was too impatient to stamp or print any images so I was pleased to remember my LOTV Black and White Sketch Pad full of gorgeous wild flower images just waiting to be coloured.

Here is a card I made with the Lilacs image. I know I haven't used the correct colours,  I coloured them in blue so I could use some of my favourite papers!

Items Used:

Image - from LOTV Black and White Sketch Pad Set 3 Wild Flowers
coloured with Promarkers and Flexmarkers

Papers - LOTV Petal Fresh

Senitment - LOTV Handwritten Phrases

Butterfly Stamp - Clearly Besotted Elegant Butterflies coloured with Promarkers

Organza Ribbon coloured with Promarkers

Small Pearls from Hobbyhouse 

I would like to enter my card into the following fabulous challenges:
Crafty Ribbons - anything goes with Ribbon
Glitter n Sparkle - use some blue
Love to Create - Bingo Ribbon/Blue/Flowers
LOTV Monthly Challenge - Crafty Bingo Ribbon/Pearls/Flowers
Fan-Tastic Tuesday - Anything Goes as long as it's square
Sentimental Sundays - Flowery Springtime

Thank you for taking the time to stop and look at my card today. Your support and encouragement means so much to me and I love to read any comments you may wish to make

Bye for now

hugs

Family at the Passion for Promarkers Challenge

Good Morning to you all my wonderful crafty friends.

I hope you are well, sending hugs to those in need of them.

Today is the start of a new Passion for Promarkers Challenge.

This week the theme chosen by the lovely Donna is

Family

(card for a family member e.g. Mum, Dad, Brother, Sister etc.) 

For this challenge we are sponsored by Michele R Designs.

The prize for the lucky winner is $10 of digi papers.

I decided to make a special card for my mum. The Sweet Peas image is from Beccy's Place. This is a favourite flower ours, my Grandad always grew them and in the Summer and when we visited he would also pick a bunch for us to take home. Whenever I see them I am reminded of him and happy memories.

The beautiful sentiment is from Pink Gem Designs.

Items Used:

Digi Stamp - Beccy's Place Sweet Peas coloured with Promarkers

Sentiment - Pink Gems Designs

Papers - Wild Rose Studio (not sure of the name as they are quite old)

Spellbinders Floral Ovals

Spellbinders Labels 18

Spellbinders Scalloped circles

Seam binding, heart ribbon and gems from stash.

If you take a look at the Passion for Promarkers Challenge you will see the rest of the creations made by this week's design team

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

Fab 'n' Funky - Anything Goes
Aud Sentiments Challenge - Any Sentiment
Scribble and Scrap - Anything Goes

Thank you for taking the time to stop and look at my blog today, I really do appreciate it and love the read any comments you may wish to make

Bye for now

hugs

Top of the Pops at Crafty Little Fairies Challenge

Good Morning to you all my wonderful crafty friends.

I hope your week is going well, not too long now until the weekend. Sending hugs to those in need of them.

Today is the start of a new Crafty Little Fairies Challenge.

This week our theme is a really fun one:

♫ Top of the Pops ♫

inspired by a song title

We have 2 fabulous sponsors for this week who are

The Ribbon Girl 
and

 Iva Nova Chest

Here is my card, you probably know by now that I love these cute LOTV mice ,they are great fun to colour.

 My song title is 'Sowing the Seeds of love' by Tears for Fears, one of my brother's favourites.

Items Used :

Stamp -  LOTV The Potting Shed coloured with Promarkers

Papers- LOTV Perfect Pair

Sentiment - LOTV For You Circular Sentiments

Papermania Kraft card

Flowers - Dienamics Layered Rose coloured with Promarkers

Martha Stewart Leaf Punch

Woodware Daisy Punch

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

LOTV Ideas to Inspire Monthly Challenge - pink and White

Ladybug Crafts - Use Kraft 

Penny's Paper Crafty - Add a Sentiment

Moving Along with the Times  - Furry Friends

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop and look at my card today. You support and encouragement means so much to me and I love to read any comments you may wish to make.

Bye for now

hugs 

We're Clean and Simple at A Little Bit Crafty

Good morning to you all my wonderful crafty friends.

Thank you for your kind comments on my cards yesterday. 

I can hardly believe that it is the first of September already and my children go back to school and college next week. I am really going to miss them, we have had a wonderful Summer together.

Anyway, today is the start of a new A Little Bit Crafty Challenge

This month our theme is

Clean and Simple

For this challenge we are sponsored by:

Bugaboo Stamps 

Prize 7 digis of winners choice

Delicious Doodles

Prize 4 digis of winners choice

Craft All Day

£10 Voucher to spend online

The design team were very lucky to be able to pick an image from one of the sponsors so I chose the gorgeous Floral Watering Can from Delicious Doodles

To try and add a bit of interest, I used my Spellbinders Edgeabilities Classic Scallop to shape the bottom edge of my card and embossed some lines using my Hougie Board.

Items Used:

Digi Stamp - Floral Watering Can from Delicious Doodles coloured with Promarkers

Sentiment - Clearly Besotted Butterfly Wishes

Spellbinders Edgeabilities Classic Scallop

If you take a look at the Little Bit Crafty Challenge you will see the wonderful creations made by the rest of the design team

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

Creative Romance - CAS

Just Add Ink - Just Add Colouring

Delicious Doodles - Anything Floral

Thank you for taking the time to look at my blog again today. I know that I always say it but I honestly do appreciate your support and encouragement.

I hope you enjoy the rest of the weekend

bye for now

hugs

DT card for Sketch 'n' Stash Challenge

Good Morning to you all my wonderful crafty friends

I hope you are all well and that you had a good weekend.

Today is the start of a new Sketch 'n' Stash Challenge. This time we are onto Sketch #16

Our optional theme chosen by the lovely Janet is Monochromatic.

For this challenge we are sponsored by the wonderful Crafty Individuals

Please see the challenge blog for details of the fabulous prize.

So here is my card, it's a really easy sketch this time. You can add any embellishments you wish but I decided to keep it fairly simple.

Here is the sketch:

Items Used:

Digi Stamp - Digi Stamp Boutique Mac and Flowers coloured with Promarkers

Papers - Pink Petticoat Daisy Bouquet

Punches - Tonic Studio and EK Success

Spellbinders Circle and Labels 22

Sentiment - Craftwork cards

If your take a look at the  Sketch 'n' Stash Challenge, you will see the wonderful creations made by the rest of the design team and see who were the winners of the last challenge

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

The Cutie Pie - Anything Goes

Digi Stamp Boutique - August customer challenge

Sister Act Challenge - Anything Goes

Thank you for taking the time to look at my blog today. I really do appreciate it and love to read any comments you may wish to make

Bye for now

hugs 

Guest Designer card for Papertake Weekly Challenge

Hello again everyone.

This is my second post for today (please scroll down to see my Passion for Promarkers DT card)

Today is the start of a new Papertake Weekly Challenge. I am really enjoying being a Guest Designer them.

This week the theme is one of my favourites

Flower Power

Add something floral - papers, image, embellishments whatever you choose

For this challenge we are sponsored by

The Ribbon Girl 

The prize for the lucky winner is a £10 voucher to spend online

I used a gorgeous Digi stamp from Janey's Digi Designs and went for a lilac colour scheme. In real life the colours of the petals do match my papers!!

Items used

Digi Stamp - Janey's Digi Designs Phlox coloured with Promarkers

Papers - Papermania Capsule collection Boysenberry

Memory Box Fabulous Phlox

Sentiment Clearly Besotted A little Sentimental

If your take a look at the Papertake Weekly Challenge, you will see the wonderful creations made by the rest of the design team.

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

Creative Inspirations - Monochrome.

Simon Says - Monochrome

Thank you so much for taking the time to look at my blog once again today. I really do appreciate it and love to read any comments you may wish to make

Bye for now

hugs 

Favourite Colours at the Passion for Promarkers Challenge

Hello to your all my wonderful crafty friends.

I hope you are well and having a good week. Sending hugs to those in need of them.

Today is the start of a new Passion for Promarkers Challenge

This week our theme is

Your Favourite Colour Combination

Our sponsor this week is the wonderful Digi-Stamp Boutique

The lucky winner can choose 6 digi stamps of their choice.

I have to admit that I do have a couple of favourite colour combinations.

 In the end I went with blue, beige and white, mainly because I wanted to use my pretty papers from Lili of the Valley!

I made this card to give to my daughter before she set off for Summer School at Sussex Uni on Sunday. I just wanted to remind her how proud we all are of her.

Items Used:

Digi Stamp - Wee Stamps - Hopeful. Coloured with Promarkers and Flexmarkers.

Papers - LOTV Petal Fresh

Sentiment - LOTV Inspirational Sentiments 

Memory Box Corner Bow Die

Flowers Stamps - Heartfelt Creation Posy Patch coloured with Promarkers

Martha Stewart Frond Punch

If you take a look at the Passion for Promarkers Challenge you will see the wonderful creations made from this week's design team.

I would like to enter my card into the following fabulous challenges:
Challenges 4 Everybody - Always Anything Goes
The Cutie Pie - Anything Goes
Kaboodle Doodle - song title or quote (Shine by Take That and a sentiment quote too! )

Thank you for taking the time to look at my blog today, I really do appreciate it and love to read any comments you may wish to make.

I'll be back later with my GDT card for the Papertake Weekly Challenge

bye for now

hugs 

DT card for Sketch 'n' Stash Challenge.

Good Morning to you all my wonderful crafty friends.

Just wanted to start by saying sorry that I have been a bit quiet recently. One of our cats, Claude, suddenly became very ill last week  and we had to make the heart breaking decision to have him put to sleep yesterday. Our pets become such a big part of our lives, it's so hard to say goodbye to them. So, we shed a lot of tears yesterday, but at least he is at rest now and no longer in pain and we have lots of special happy memories.

Anyway, today is the start of a new Sketch 'n' Stash Challenge.

This week we are onto sketch number 15 and our optional theme is use handmade flowers.

For this challenge we are sponsored by the fabulous Ooh La la Creations

The prize is a CD of the winner's choice and some bling!

I decided to ink up one of my older Penny Black Stamps. Obviously, I made this card before Claude became ill,  now I will dedicate it to him, he brought so much happiness into our lives.

Items used:

Stamp - Penny Black Cat Bath coloured with Promarkers

Papers - First Edition Blank Canvas

Cheery Lynn - Mini Fanciful flourish

Memory Box Norland Flower

Sentiment Clearly Besotted A little Sentimental

Here is the sketch for you to follow, as you can see, I have rotated it

If you take a look at the Sketch 'n' Stash Challenge blog you will see the wonderful creations made by the rest of the design team and we have introduced our fabulous new teamies too.

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

Crafty Sentiments - Animals

Polkadoodles - In the Garden 

Sweet Stampin' - Going Krafty

Pile it On - Outdoors

Penny Black Challenge - Bright and Sunny

Penny Black and More - In the Garden 

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop and look at my blog today. I really do appreciate it and love to read any comments you may wish to make.

Bye for now

hugs

It's Summer at A Gem of a Challenge

Good Morning to you all my wonderful crafty friends.

I hope you are well and having a good weekend.

 Yippee - the sun is shining here and it looks like it's going to be a nice day.

Today is the start of a new

A Gem of a Challenge 

This week our fun theme chosen by Ria is

Summer

The prize for the winner will be.....

2 Individual Digi images

(NO SETS, PERSONALISED WATERMARK'S OR SENTIMENT SETS) 

of the winners choice from PINK GEM DESIGNS.....


I have made another centre stepper card and coloured sweet Ice Cream Ellie. I had intended to use some bright coloured papers I have which are covered with ice-creams but, as you can see, in the end went with a blue and yellow colour scheme to tie in with her dress and the daisies on her hat.

Items Used:

Digi Stamp - Pink Gem Designs - Ice Cream Ellie coloured with Promarkers

Papers - Papermania Blueberry Pie

Memory Box Summer Kites

Memory Box Blooming Posie

Tonic Studio small flower punch

Sentiment - Clearly Besotted A little Sentimental

Pearls and Gingham ribbon from stash

If you pop along to A Gem of a Challenge  you will see the wonderful creations made by this week's design team and a very special guest designer too!! 

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

Sentimental Sunday's  - Child's Play
Creative Inspirations - Something old something new - new digi stamp and kite die (very)old papers
Fab 'n' Funky - Anything that looks like Summer
Crafty ribbons - anthing goes with ribbon
QKR Stampede - No Squares Allowed

Thank you for taking to time to look at my blog once again today. I really do appreciate it and love to read any comments you may wish to make

Bye for now

hugs

We're Clean and Simple at A Passion for Promarkers !!

Good Morning to you all my wonderful crafty friends.

I hope you are well, sending hugs to those in need of them.

Today is the start of a new

Passion for Promarkers Challenge.

This week the wonderful Jen had chosen

Clean and Simple

For this challenge we are sponsored by Letraset who will be giving a pack of Flexmarkers to the lucky winner.

I decided to colour a gorgeous rose image that I bought from the Digi Doodle Shop before they closed last year.

I used a texture card blank and embossed a frame around the image using my Hougie Board

Items used - probably my shortest list ever!!

Digi Stamp - Digi Doodle Shop (sadly now closed) coloured with Promakers and Flexmarkers

Sentiment Stamp - Craftwork cards

Paper - First Edition Blank Canvas

If you take a look at the Passion for Promarkers Challenge you will see the wonderful creations made by the rest of this week's design team.

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

Milk coffee Stamps - show us your colouring skills

Ladybug Crafts - August Challenge Something Floral

613 Avenue - Anything Goes (optional use a sentiment)

Pan Pastels - Floral

One Stop Craft -  Keep it Simple

Thank you so much for stopping and looking at my card this morning. I really do appreciate it and truly love to read any comments you may wish to make.

 I will be back a bit later with a Guest Designer card.

Bye for now

hugs 

Summer Sun at A Little Bit Crafty Challenge

Good Morning to you all my wonderful crafty friends. 

I hope you are all having a good week.

Oh my goodness, I can hardly believe its the first of August. This year is certainly whizzing by.

So, today is the start of a new

A Little Bit Crafty Challenge.

This month our theme is 

Summer Sun

We have 3 fabulous sponsors for this challenge they are :

 The Paper Shelter

$20 voucher

My Mum's Craft Shop

£10 voucher

Dawn til Dusk Craft supplies

 £15 voucher 

The design team were given the chance to use some gorgeous digi stamps from The Paper Shelter. I chose pretty Sophie in the Country. I have given her red hair but am now wondering if it clashes a bit with papers!

Items Used:

Digi Stamp - The Paper Shelter  Sophie in the Country coloured with Promarkers and Flexmarkers

Papers - Wild Rose Studio Milton and Co (magazine freebie)

La-La Lands Heart Banner

Cheery Lynn Leaf Flourish

Sizzix Flowers Lovely

Sizzix Framlits Rounded Tags

Tonic Studio punch  Daisy Border 2

Sentiment - LOTV For You Circular Sentiments

If you take a look at A Little Bit Crafty Challenge you will see the wonderful creations made by the rest of the design team.

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

Inky Chicks - Summer Colours

Paper Crafting Journey - Punches and/or Die Cuts

Dream Valley - Summer Days

Party Time Tuesday - Anything Goes

The Paper Shelter - Anything Goes

Simon Says - Anything Goes

Thank you so much for taking the time to look at my blog once again and also for all your wonderful comments on my last card. I really do appreicate it.

Bye for now

hugs 

DT card for Sketch 'n' Stash Challenge

Hello to you all my wonderful crafty friends

I hope you all had a good weekend.

Sorry I haven't posted any cards since Thursday, I am enjoying spending some time with my children at the moment.

Today is the start of a new Sketch 'n' Stash Challenge. This time we are onto sketch number 14 and our optional theme chosen by the wonderful Kevin is Birthday Wishes

For this challenge we are sponsored by 

Fred She Said Designs

Prize $10 to spend online

The Design Team were very lucky to be able to choose an image from Fred She Said. Not surprisingly,  I picked a gorgeous floral image. This is called Marigolds & Morpho Set, it comes with a butterfly and sentiments too.

here is the sketch for you to follow:

Items Used

Digi stamp - Fred She Said  Marigolds & Morpho Set coloured with Promarkers

Papers - Fancy Pants Park Bench Flower Garden

Whimsy corner die

Craftwork cards sentiment stamp

Impression Obsessions Small Bow

Martha Stewart Doily Lace border punch

If you take a look at the Sketch 'n' Stash Challenge blog you will see the wonderful creations made by the rest of the design team. 

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

Bearly Mine  - Anything Goes

Songbird - My favourite Thing - flowers and butterflies

C.R.A.F.T Challenge - For the girls

Sentimental Sundays - Anything with Wings

Card Mania - Summer Blooms

Thank you so much for taking the time to look at my blog again today, I really do appreciate it and love to read any comments you may wish to make

Bye for now

hugs 

Die-ing for it at A Little Bit Crafty Challenge!

Good Morning to you all my wonderful friends and blogging buddies.

I hope you are well and had a good weekend. We were very lucky to have 2 beautifully sunny days.

So, my goodness,  it's the 1st of July already - can you believe it? Anyway, that means the start of a new

A Little Bit Crafty Challenge

This month our theme is

"Die-ing" for it!
We would like to see your creations that you have made using dies of some kind

Our wonderful sponsors for this month offering some amazing prizes are :

Smeared ink - $15 voucher

Saturated Canary - 3 digis of winners choice

Cheery Lyn Designs - £20 voucher

The design team were very lucky to be able to choose an image from Saturated Canary. I chose the beautiful Sabrina.

My colour scheme for this card was inspired by my gorgeous daughter when she was wearing a pretty peach coloured top, it really suited her and went so well with her beautiful dark brown eyes.

Items Used

Digi Stamp - Saturated Canary Sabrina

Papers - Prima Devine from MCH

Memory Box Fabulous Phlox available @ MCH coloured with Tattered Rose Distress Ink

Memory Box tiny Bow available @ MCH

Impression Obsession Butterfly Set from MCH

Sentiment - LOTV Vintage Labels Occasions

Pearls from stash

If you take at look at A Little Bit Crafty Challenge, you will see the wonderful creation from the rest of the design team

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

Fasionista - Wedding or Birthday

Creative Craft Challenges 2  - A stitch in time

Inky Chicks - Anything Goes

Divas by Designs - Pretty Pearls

Crafting for all Seasons - Make it Girly

As you like it - 3 favourite embellishments - butterflies, flowers and pearls -I love adding these to my cards to help me create a little scene for my image. I especially love adding pearls to my flower centres and butterflies

My Sheri Crafts - Happy Birthday

Card Crafter's Circle -Happy Birthday!

Crafty Sentiments  -  Girl Power
C is for challenge -  NEW CHALLENGE **Flowers

 

Thank you for taking the time to look at my blog today. I really do appreciate it and love to read any comments you may wish to leave.

Bye for now

hugs

Pink and Blue Forget-me-Not

Hello Everyone

I hope you are well and having a good weekend. For me, I will be spending time with my lovely daughters as my son and hubby are out playing cricket both today and tomorrow. The forecast is quite good too which is a bonus!

 Yesterday I decided to have a little break from making Design Team cards because I wanted to make a card to send to a special person who is going through a difficult time at the moment.

This gave me a good reason to colour another gorgeous image from Janey’s Digi Designs as you probably know by now how much I love making floral cards.

I chose the delicate Forget-Me-Not which seemed quite appropriate for the occasion. I hadn't realised that these tiny flowers also grow in shades of pink until I saw a photo of them on Janey's Digi designs blog. So, I decided on a pretty pink and blue colour scheme for a bit of a change.

Items Used:

Digi Stamp - Janey's Digi Designs Forget me Not coloured with Promarkers and Flexmarkers

Papers - Pink Petticoat Daisy Bouquet and Hydrangeas

Sentiment Stamp - Craftwork Cards

Butterfly punch (no makers name on it)

Organza ribbon from stash

If like floral cards then please take a look on Janey's Digi designs blog. You will see loads of inspiration on there from the Design Team and also some really wonderful creations made by customers using Jane's fabulous images.

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

Papertake Weekly - FAB sketch
CraftyCatz  Say it with flowers
Creative Moments - Flowers
I love Promarkers - Pink and Blue

Simon Says Challenge - Anything Goes

Digi Haven - Flowers

Thank you for taking the time to stop and look at my blog today. I really do appreciate it and love to read any comments you may wish to make.

I hope you all have a good weekend

bye for now

hugs 

It's as Easy as 1,2,3 at Lili's Little Fairies

Hello again everyone. I hope you are well and having a good week.

Today is the start of a new Lili's Little Fairies Challenge.

This week our theme is

It's as Easy as 1,2,3 

Please use 1 image, 2 papers and 3 embellishments ( or 3 types of embellishment)

and our lovely sponsor is DREAMEES with a £10 voucher.

For my card I have used 3 types of embellishments - ribbon, flowers and pearls.

The layout is a sketch from the Papertake weekly challenge, there are loads of fab ones there to choose from.

Items Used

Stamp - Lili of the Valley Best Dress coloured with Promarkers

Sentiment - LOTV sentiment to fit scroll

Papers - First Edition Summer Breeze

Dienamics flower and leaf trio 

Pearls and Organza ribbon from stash.

If you take a look at the Lili's Little Fairies Challenge you will see the wonderful creations made by the rest of this week's design team and also see who were the winners of the last challenge

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

Ladybug crafts ink - Flowers and Ribbon

Totally Papercrafts - Flowers and Bows

Lili of the Valley Monthly Challenge - Use a (LOTV) Sentiment

Sentimental Sundays - For the Girls
Crafty Sentiments - Girl Power
Papertake Weekly - Sketchie free for all - I used Sketch number 65
Creative Inspirations - Anything Goes option of ribbon
simon says stamp – anything goes

Thank you for taking the time to look at my blog today. I really do appreciate it and love to read any comments you may wish to leave.

Bye for now

hugs