Photo Inspration at Paper Crafting Journey!!

Wow, we had loads of entries for our Anything Goes challenge at Paper Crafting Journey... I always love stopping by the blogs and seeing everyone's gorgeous creations!!! But two weeks has gone by and we start a new challenge today. This fortnight we have a photo inspiration challenge.  Take from it what you wish, the image itself or the colours.. your choice but this must be the source of your inspiration. We are sponsored by Saturated Canary this fortnight and I used Hugs and Kisses.

I went with the colours of the photo but I didn't have the exact colours so used different shades of those colours!!!

I coloured Hugs and Kisses in with tria markers. I was going to go with a white theme behind her but then decided I wanted to try some new techniques that I've just learnt about so I distressed around the edge of the card base with pink ink, then inked an embossing folder and ran the white cardstock through the embossing machine. Love the way it turned out although not as perfect as I probably would have liked! I also die cut some flowers and embossed them the say way but I mistakenly embossed first then die cut so it pretty much flattened all the embossing so a note for next time!! to finish off I just added the rhinestones to the middle of the flowers!!!
Well I hope you can join us this fortnight for our Inspiration challenge at Paper Crafting Journey!!! Be sure to follow the rules and only enter up to three entries otherwise you will not be eligible for the prize that is up for grabs!!!

Sketch 39 at SALS!

Another great sketch to play along with this fortnight at Seems a Little Sketchy!

We are sponsored by Sassy Studio designs this fortnight and I used Hippie Chic 2. I have had this image for ages and was glad to finally colour it up!

I switched the layers around a bit but love the way it turned out!! I bought this  basic grey paper (pad) (yes I finally bought some paper after 18 months) and it matched the colours of the image perfectly!!! I then added the embellishments.

I hope that you can join us this week at SALS... Please head on over to the blog to see what the rest of the DT created!!!

Child's Play at Craft Your Passion!

Wow, the weeks are just flying by especially this month, I think because I am so busy!! Not a free weekend in sight! So fitting in time to make cards is a challenge at the moment but I am managing it somehow!!
So it's time for a new challenge at CYP and this week our challenge is Child's Play so we want to see your creations featuring children playing! We are sponsored by the Sugar Kissed Cottage and I got to use this sweet image!!!

Reminds me of my sisters and I when we were little... on the rare occasion that we got along...LOL! I coloured the image in with Tria markers. All the papers are from my stash, and I used my new memory box die - Nottingham border. I then added all the embellishments and the sentiment that I found (obviously fell off another card!!)

I hope that you can join us this week at Craft Your passion! Be sure to stop by the blog to see what the other girls have created!!!

Anniversary at Polka Doodles

Hello and welcome to a new challenge at Polka Doodles!! This week we are challenging you to make an anniversary card!!! This is not an occasion I usually make a card for but I do love the way this one turned out!!!! Again this is another all digital card!!! I sometimes feel like I am cheating going all digital but I love that you can layer and create with so many different paper and elements. There are so many CD's in the Polka doodles shop but if you don't want to wait for the postie (especially those of us who live overseas) then you can always get your digi's immediately if you order from the Digi World at the Polka Doodles store.

Here is my card for the anniversaries  challenge!!

Close up of the heart that has been painted with vanilla shimmer smooch spritz then covered with crystal effects.

 

I used  paper from the Love and Cherish CD Rom. I then duplicated the paper and cut out the heart so that I could 3D it! I then painted it with smooch spritz and covered it in with crystal effects. I then just added the ribbon and rhinestones to the middle of some of the flowers. The sentiment is from the sensational sentiments stamp sheet.
I hope that you can join us this week at Polka Doodles.

Floral Delights at Craft Your Passion!!

Has anyone else been having trouble with blogger!! Yesterday I tried so many times to post but ended up having to go through picasa to do my blogs!! It was a pain in the behind!!!
Anyway, it's time for a new challenge at Craft Your Passion and we would like to see your Floral creations - so flower papers, flowers, flower images etc!! We are sponsored by Bugaboo Stamps and Stampin Dragon this week!!
I used this cute Stampin Dragon image and made another tag!!

I coloured in the image with tria markers and added a bit of kindyglitz to the middle of the flowers. The paper is from a new paper pad I bought from a craft show on the weekend - kneehighs from Basic Grey. The flowers re also punched out from that paper pad!! To finish the tag off I added the twine and the rhinestones!!!

Thanks for stopping by! Hope you can join us this week at Craft Your Passion!!

I Love You This Much!

Hi it's my turn to post on The Digi Bell's blog!! I decided to make a tag seeing as Mother's day is coming up and thought this wold be great to add to a present!!! I have used "Ï Love You This Much" from Elisabeth Bell's digital collection.

 

I embossed the flowers and swirls with white embossing powder, then used my summer distress inks for the coloured background! I sprayed a bit of glitter spray but think I ended up ruining it, took away the brightness of the colours!!! I stamped the sentiment on then added the ribbon and Rhinestones! I coloured I Love You This Much" in with tria markers then adhered her to the tag with foam tape.. I then just added the ribbon to the top for tying!!!

Day 2 of His and Hers class!!

Still playing catch up but here is my take on the cards by Cristina Kowalczyk on Day 2 of the His and Hers Class on the Online Card Classes blog with Jennifer McGuire and Kristina Werner!
These cards followed a technique which was colouring vellum! I had a lot of fun doing these!!

Her Card:

 

 His Card!

For both the cards I coloured in the strips and stars with tria markers. Then I just added the sentiments and a bit of bling!!!
Really enjoying these classes, learning loads of new stuff, using things I've had for ages and not touched. I have one card done for day three but need to get  few DT cards made first so will be back in the next day or two with those!!