DT card for Card Mania Challenge - Embossing

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

I hope you all had a good weekend. Mine was good, it just went too quickly that's all!

Anyway, today is the start of a new Card Mania Challenge and for the next two weeks the theme is 

Embossing   (wet and/or dry)

our sponsor is the wonderful Whimsy Digi Stamps and the prize is 5 digis of your choice

The design team were lucky to have some gorgeous digis from Whimsy Stamps to use for the challenge.
I chose this gorgeous angel. I used 2 embossing folders for the background.

Items Used:

Digi Stamp ~ Whimsy Stamps Touched by Love coloured with Promakers

Spellbinders ~ Fleur de Lys  squares

Embossing folders ~ Couture Creations Washed Away

          ~ Cuttlebug Snow Dots

Memory Box die ~ Country Landscape

Cheery Lynn die ~ Holly Corner

Sentiment  ~ LOTV Christmas Grungy Messages

Viva Decor Pearl Pen  ~ Ice White from MCH

Oh my goodness, if you get a chance check out the Card Mania Challenge blog, the design team's creations are stunning. You will also be able to see who were the lucky winners of the last challenge.

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

Addicted to Stamps- things with wings

Hooked on crafts- Christmas, no red or green

I ♥ Promarkers - cute

Alota Rubber stamps Challenge 94, Blue and White

Cute Card Thursday - Fairies and Angels

Divas by Design - Feeling Festive

Thank you so much for taking the time to look at my blog today, I'll be back later with my DT card for the Sketch n Stash Challenge

Bye for now

Hugs 

DT card for Ladybug Crafts - Monochrome

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

First of all I would like to send all my best wishes to my American buddies affected by the storm. My thoughts are with those whose lives have been affected by the devastation. 

Well, can you believe it, today is the first of November!

So, the good news is that means the start of a new Ladybug Crafts Challenge

This month our theme is another one of my favourites:

Monochrome

The fabulous prize for the lucky winner is £15.00 voucher to spend online at Ladybug Crafts .

I decided to use one of my favourite colours, and I know the lady I have in mind to send this to loves this colour also which is good!

I was very lucky that the lovely Sam from Ladybug crafts sent me this gorgeous image to use.

 

Items used:

ink stamp ~  Stampavie Marguerite taking Ruben for a walk coloured with Promarkers and Flexmarkers

Papers ~ Papermania Lucy Cromwell

Nellie Snellen flower punches

Craftwork cards sentiment

Pearls and organza ribbon from stash

If you pop over to the Ladybug Crafts Challenge blog you will be able to see the gorgeous creations made by the rest of the design team. 

I hope that lots of you will be able to join us this time.

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

Glitter n Sparkle - Monochrome

Whoopsi Daisy - Punch it out

Tammy's Scrappin Corner - Anything Goes

 Bearly Mine- flowers galore

Love to Create - lots of layers

Nutcrafters - ribbon or twine

Inky Impressions - lots of layers

Thank you for taking the time to look at my blog today, I appreciate your support and encouragement.

Bye for now

Hugs

DT Card for Joanna Sheen Challenge - Silhouettes

Good Morning to you all my wonderful friends and blogging buddies

I really do hope that you are all having a good weekend.
Its a cold but gloriously sunny morning here on the South coast of England.

Today is the start of a new Joanna Sheen Challenge. Our theme for the next 2 weeks is

Silhouettes 

as usual the wonderful prize is a £15 voucher to spend in the Joanna Sheen online shop.

Now, you will see that my card is not really in the traditional silhouette style. The reason for this is I was sent some fabulous Joanna Sheen Knitting Rubber Stamps 

which I was determined to make fit the theme. So I heat embossed them to create the butterfly silhouette. Luckily for me the rest of the design team agreed that my was fine for the challenge (although looking on the challenge blog mine sticks out like a sore thumb!)

Items used

Joanna Sheen Knitting Stamps

Budding Vine Embossing folder

Cheery Lynn mini fanciful flourish

Martha Stewart medium butterfly punch

Memory Box Cherry Blossom Die

If you pop over to the Joanna Sheen challenge blog you will be able to see with wonderful creations made by the rest of the design team .You will also be able to see who were the winners of our last challenge.

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

DYSU - embossing Wet or dry

Poodles Parlour - anything goes

Totally Gorjuss - Things with wings

Card Making Mamas - Anything goes

Robyn's Fetish - Use an Embossing folder

Thank you for taking the time to look at my blog today, I really appreciate your support and encouragement.

I'm off to have a big catch up with all my commenting and see what you have all been up to.

I hope you enjoy the rest of the weekend.

Bye for now

Hugs 

DT card for Stampin' for the Weekend Challenge - Anything Goes

Good Morning to you all my wonderful friends and blogging buddies

Yippee, it's Friday. Nearly the weekend and it's half term next week too, I love having the children at home.

 Well, today is the start of a new Stampin' for the Weekend Challenge.

For the next 2 weeks our theme is

Anything Goes!

Our sponsor is the fabulous  Pretty Little Ribbon Shop who will be giving a wonderful prize to our lucky winner.

So onto my card, which I made for my gorgeous daughter who was 17 last week. She is such a special young lady in every way so I wanted her card to be special too.

I had great fun making this one.  It is an easel card with a drawer into which I put some yummy chocolates.

Sorry for the picture overload, I always have trouble photographing these type of shaped cards

To show the sentiment:

Showing the little pull out tag I made to write the birthday message on and those cute little mice.

The little heart charm says 'made with love'

Items used

Ink stamp - Lili of the Valley Chocolate Factory coloured with Promarkers

Sentiment -  Lili of the Valley For Your circular sentiments

Papers - Doodlebug Designs

Flowers - Dienamics Flower flower trio and woodware punches

Heart Banner Die - WOJ (from MCH)

Martha Stewart Lace Heart border punch

Brads and gems from stash.

If you take a look on the Stampin' for the weekend blog you will be able to 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 this card into the following fabulous challenges:
Fashionista challenge - Challenge 8 - Anything goes
Crafty Pad - use an animal
Addicted to stamps - animal friends
Bearly Mine - easel card
Southern Girls animal crackers
charisma cards - Don't be square!

Thank you for taking the time to look at my blog today, I really do enjoy reading your comments.

I hope you all have a great weekend

Bye for now

Hugs 

DT card for Lili's Little Fairies - A Girly Christmas

Hello to you all, my wonderful friends and blogging buddies

I hope you are all having a good week.

Today is the start of a new challenge over at Lili's Little Fairies and the theme this time is

A Girly Christmas  Card

The prize for the lucky winner is the 2 new Lili of the Valley Gorgeous Oriental Stamps Aimi and Cho .

Last week I was very lucky to win  the lovely Donna's blog candy. Inside my wonderful parcel, crammed full of crafty goodies, was the sweet Lili of the Valley stamp that I used on today's card. It was so much fun to colour.

So here's my card, I was in my element with this one -combining 2 of my favourite themes!

I added loads of glitter to my snowflakes and Stickles on all the layers, it's a shame you cannot see the sparkle on my pictures!

Close up of those pretty girlies

Items used :

Ink stamp ~ Lili of the Valley All in a Row coloured with Promarkers

Sentiment - LOTV Christmas Grungy Messages

Papers - Dovecraft Christmas Fancy

Snowflakes - Marianne Designs

Border die - Dienamics crochet border

Glamour Dust

Stardust Stickles

Viva Decor Pearl Pen - Ice White from MCH

If you pop over to the Lili's Little Fairies blog you will be able to see the wonderful girly and festive creations made by the rest of the design team. You can also see who were the winners of the last challenge.

I would like to enter this card into the following fab challenges:
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge- No rules
Papertake Weekly - fireworks (glitter and sparkle)
J+C Creations - contemporary Christmas
I ♥ Promakers - Christmas is Coming
ABC Christmas Challenge - Up to you!
Crafty Ribbons - Christmas

Thank you for taking the time to look at my blog today, it means a lot to know you are there!!

Bye for now

Hugs 

DT card for Fab 'n' Funky Challenge #144 - Animals

Good morning to you all.

Today is the start of a new Fab 'n' Funky Challenge and this time I am the host!!! 

So especially for all of you animal lovers out there I have chosen the theme of

  Animals 

That's a nice easy one for you all to be able to join in I hope!! Just use any image, die cuts,  papers  whatever - as long as we can see an animal you're in!!

We have 2 sponsors this time which means 2 lucky winners. They are the fabulous Crimson Cloud and DigiDarla Designs.

The design team were very lucky to be able to use some images from DigiDarla Design to use.

As you have probably know, I am a cat lover so no prizes for guessing which animal I chose!

Items used:

Digi stamp - Digi Darla Designs - Cat in Fall coloured with Promarkers

Embossing folder - Die'sire Floral Frenzy  

Memory Box Arboscello Tree

Martha Stewart lace heart border punch

Joy Crafts leaf die

Paper Crimper

Spellbinders 

Sentiment - LOTV sentiment tags

Natural Soft Hessian Mesh Ribbon from the Ribbon Girl

If you take a look on the Fab n Funky Challenge blog you will be able to see the fabulous creations by the rest of the design team and be able to see who were the winners of our last challenge

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

Ribbon Girls - colours of Autumn

Cupcake Craftroom - anything goes in Autumn

Passion for Promarkers - Pets

Lisa B Designs - Autumn

Addicted to Stamps - Animals Friends

Allsorts - Autumn

Crafty Pad - Use an animal

Polka Doodles - Autumn

Paperplay challenge - Wooden it be nice

Thank you all so much for taking the time to look at my blog today, I appreciate your encouragement and support.

Bye for now

Hugs 

DT card for Sketch n Stash Challenge 99 Kevin's Sketch

Hello again everyone, I said I'd be back!
This is my second post for today, for my Card Mania DT card please click here

Well, today is the start of a new Sketch n Stash Challenge and this time our sketch has been designed by the wonderful and talented Kevin. Here is his fabulous sketch:

We are sponsored this time by the fabulous My Mums Craft Shop who will be giving a £10 voucher to the lucky winner.

I used the sketch to make a birthday card of my niece. She belongs to a Gymnastics club and enters competitions so I was delighted to find the idea image over at Digi stamp boutique. I went ultra pretty and girly for this one!

Tried to get a close up so you can see tiny charm which says' made with love'

Items used

Digi stamp - Digi stamp boutique - Gymnast Molly coloured with Promarkers

Papers - Doodlebug designs

Memory Box simple banner

Tonic Studio flower punches

Charm - Meiflower

Sentiment - craftwork cards

Stickles - stardust.

If you pop over to the Sketch n Stash Challenge you will the wonderful creations by the rest of the 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:

The Squirrel and the Fox - Use a ribbon

Digi Stamp Boutique - October challenge (use DSB image)

CRAFT challenge - use metal

Cute card Thursday - Glitter

Thank you for stopping and looking at my blog today, I really do appreciate it

Bye for now

Hugs