Shaped cards at A Gem of a Challenge

Good Morning my lovely crafty friends.

I hope you are well and having a good weekend.

Today is the start of a new 

A Gem of a Challenge
This time it's my turn to pick a theme so I decided on
Shaped Cards - Anything but Square

The prize for the winner is 2 Individual Digi images

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

of the winners choice from PINKGEM DESIGNS....

I made a centre stepper card, one of my favourite card shapes, to showcase the adorable 

Bunny with Daffodil 

Items Used:

Digital Stamp - Pink Gem Designs Bunny with Daffodil coloured with Promarkers

Papers - very old, I think they may be K&Co?

Sentiment - Clearly Besotted Stamps

Die-Namics Pierced Rectangle Stax

Memory Box Spring Border

Woodware Butterfly Punch

If you take a look at A Gem of a Challenge you will see the wonderful creations made by the rest of this week's Design Team. I hope lots of you will be able to join in with the challenge.

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

Cutie Pie- Cute Cards with Fancy Fold
Papertake Weekly - A Cut Above
Graph'It Colouring Challenge - Spring Time

Thank you so much for stopping by to look at my card today. Your support and encouragement means so much and I love to read any comments you may wish to make.

I hope you enjoy the rest of the weekend.

Bye for now

hugs

Easter Buffy - DigiStamp Boutique DT Card

Hello again my lovely friends.

I'm back with my second card of the day which is my DT card for DigiStamp Boutique.

I decided to make an Easter card featuring the adorable Buffy from the  Easter Buffy Set 2. 

There are 2 more equally cute images in the set.

My sentiment is also from DigiStamp Boutique found here.

Items Used:

Digital Stamp - DigiStamp Boutique Easter Buffy Set 2 coloured with Promarkers

Sentiment - DigiStamp Boutique Easter Bently

Papers - VERY old magazine freebies!

Crafters Companion  Petite Dot Embossalicious Embossing Folder
Die-Namics Inside Out Stitched Rounded Squares
EK Success Flower Punch

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

The Pink Elephant - photo inspiration

Dream Valley - Easter

Fan-Tastic Tuesday - Anything Goes with a twist: Easter Card

Creative Inspirations - Feathered Friends / Animals
I love Promarkers -Easter/Springtime

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

Bye for now

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It's Anything Goes at the Sugar Bowl Challenge

Good Morning my lovely friends.

I hope you are well and having a good week.

I have 2 cards to share today so I shall get straight on with my first one.

Today is the start of a new Sugar Bowl Challenge

 where the theme is 

Anything Goes

 using a Sugar Nellie image 

As always one lucky winner of this challenge gets to choose 4 sweet Sugar Nellie digis

and

a second prize winner will receive 2 Sugar Nellie digis

For my card I have used an adorable Sugar Nellie digital stamp called A Little Bit of Gossip, she has such a sweet face.

Items Used:

Digital Stamp - Sugar Nellie - A Little Bit of Gossip coloured with Promarkers

Sentiment - Clearly Besotted Stamps - With Love

Papers - LOTV Pastel Dreams

Die-Namics Blueprints 14

Tonic Studio Scalloped Square Layering Die Set

Impression Obsession Small Butterfly Set

If you take a look at the Sugar Bowl 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:

Papertake Weekly - A cut Above

Thank you for stopping by today, I really appreciate it and love to read any comments you may wish to make.

I shall be back soon with my DigiStamp Boutique DT card

Bye for now

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Chocolate at the Passion for Promarkers Challenge

Good Morning my lovely friends.

I hope all is well with you and that you are having a good week.

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

This time our theme is

Chocolate  - use chocolate colours and/or image

Our sponsor for this challenge is 

Letraset with the prize of a 12 pen set for the lucky winner.

For my card I have used an older Lili of the Valley stamp, these mice look like they are having lots of fun!

Items Used:

Stamp - LOTV  The Chocolate Factory  coloured with Promakers

Sentiment - Wplus9 Basic Banners

Papers - LOTV Paper Pad  - Solids Always and Forever

Die-Namics Rounded Stitched Rectangle Stax

Die-Namics Scalloped Stitched Edge

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

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

Gathered Blooms - Dies to Die for DT card

Good Morning my lovely friends.

I hope all is well with you and that you are having a good weekend.

Today I am pleased to share my card made with some gorgeous goodies from Dies to Die for.

The stunning floral background has been made with the Taylored Expressions - Gathered Blooms Cutting Plate and I have used Die-Namics Blueprints 20 for the frame.

The Elizabeth Craft Designs  sentiment has been added to a Die-namics Horizontal Stitched Strip and the gorgeous butterfly is made with Memory Box Pippi Butterfly layered onto an Isabella Butterfly.

Items Used

Taylored Expressions - Gathered Blooms Cutting Plate

Elizabeth Craft Designs - Thank you

Die-Namics Blueprints 20

Die-namics Horizontal Stitched Strips

Memory Box Isabella Butterfly

Memory Box Pippi Butterfly

Memory box Cardstock - Lagoon

Enamel Dots - MME Now and Then'Wild & Free'

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

Crafty Catz - No designer papers

Thank you so much for stopping by to look at my card today, I really do appreciate it and love to read any comments you may wish to make.

I hope you enjoy the rest of the weekend.

bye for now

hugs

Easter Chubby - DigiStamp Boutique DT card

Good Morning my lovely friends.

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

I am here today to share my DigiStamp Boutique DT card

This time I have used some of the images from the Easter Chubby Set to create a fun Easter card.

The fabulous set contains 2 main images plus accent images which you can use in so many different ways. I have also used one of the sentiments which is included.

Items Used:

Digital Stamp - DigiStamp Boutique Easter Chubby Set coloured with Promarkers 

Glossy Accents added to the Easter Eggs

Papers - First Edition and MME

Die-Namics Pierced Oval Stax

Papertake Weekly - Happy... (Happy Easter)

Crafty Gals Corner - Hippity Hop!

Thank you so much 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

Cute Bunny - DigiStamp Boutique DT card

Good Morning my lovely friends.

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

Today I have the pleasure to share my DigiStamp Boutique DT card.

I have used one of the images from the newly released and appropriately named Cute Bunny Set.

The set contains 3 adorable images and 4 fabulous sentiments, one of which I have used on my card.

Items Used:

Digital Stamp - DigiStamp Boutique Cute Bunny Set coloured with Promarkers and Flexmarkers

Papers - LOTV Country Meadow

Bazzill Kraft Cardstock

Memory Box Fabulous Phlox coloured with Promarkers

Xcut corner rounder punch

Tonic Studio small flower punch

Craftwork cards shaped card blank

Pearls

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

Creative Inspirations - Anything Goes with option of  a using sketch (used sketch #6 - almost!)

Little Red Wagon -  Cute,Cute,Cute

ABC Challenge - ‘E is for Exceptionally Cute’

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

Bye for now

hugs

For a Special Lady at the Passion for Promarkers Challenge

Good Morning my lovely friends.

I hope you are well and happy. Sending hugs to those in need of them.

Today is the start of a new Passion for Promarkers Challenge

This week I have chosen the theme of

For a Special Lady

Make something for any female in your life, it doesn't have to be for Mother's Day.

For this challenge we are sponsored by Polkadoodles

Prize - 2 digi-stamps (see challenge blog for more details)

I used this theme to make a Mother's Day card for my lovely Mum.

The image has been white embossed and the sentiment embossed on vellum.

Items Used:

Stamp - Clearly Besotted Stamps Fresh Flowers coloured with Promarkers

Sentiment - LOTV Simply Sophisticated 

Paper - Doodlebug Designs

Die-Namics pierced oval stax

Dies- Go Kreate Square Frilly #10

Impression Obsession Small Butterfly Set

Pink Gems

If you take a look at the Passion for Promarkers Challenge you will see the stunning creations made by the rest of the design team.

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

In the Pink - for a special lady

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Special Lady/Girly 

Fantasy Stampers Challenge Blog  - Mum's the Word

Crafty Cardmakers and more - For a Special Woman

Dream Valley Challenges - Mother's Day

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.

Bye for now

hugs

Easter Bently - DigiStamp Boutique DT card

Good Morning my lovely friends.

I hope you are well and happy, I'm sending hugs to those in need of them.

So, I am here today to share my DigiStamp Boutique DT card with you.

Here, on the South coast of England, we have been lucky and had some lovely sunny weather the last couple of days. This inspired me to make my first Easter card of this year featuring the adorable Easter Bently.

The sentiment can be found with Spring Bently

 Items Used:

Digital Stamp - DigiStamp Boutique Easter Bently

sentiment - DigiStamp Boutique Spring Bently

Papers - LOTV Petal Fresh

Die-Namics Pierced Oval Stax

Die-Namics Stitched Scalloped Edges

Nellie Snellen Floral Punches

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

Papertake Weekly - anything goes option of handmade flowers

Cute Card Thursday - die cuts/ punches

Card Mania -  (March) Spring

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.

bye for now

hugs

The Bunny is Coming/ Easter at the Without Words Challenge

Good Morning my lovely friends.

I hope you are well and had a good weekend.

Today is the start of a new Without Words Challenge.

This time our theme is

The Bunny Is Coming / Easter

please remember the challenge rules:

A CAS design that must feature a handcoloured image

Minimal (or none at all) embellishments

You may use a sentiment if you wish

for this challenge we are sponsored by

QUIXOTIC PAPERIE

For my card I have used an adorable digi-stamp from Pink Gem Designs.

Digital Stamp - Pink Gem Designs Bunny with Flowers coloured with Promarkers and Flexmarkers

Papers - LOTV Solids Bonnets and Bowties

LOTV Solids Snow Princess

Sentiment - Clearly Besotted Stamps

Die-Namics Blueprints 13

DieNamics Stitched Scallop Edges

Die-Namics Stitched Traditional Tags

Twine

If you take a look at the Without Words Challenge, you will see the stunning creations made by the rest of the design team.

Thank you for taking the time to stop and look at my card today.

I truly appreciate your continued support and encouragement. I always enjoy reading your comments.

Bye for now

Hugs