Challenge 151 at CYP!!

Wow, I'm getting a bit behind again with posts... so sorry everyone!!! And my commenting!!! I am sincerely sorry if I have not been stopping by and commenting but I just always seem to be busy but not sure what doing cos I feel like I'm not accomplishing anything!!
Anyway I am here now and hoping to get my act together!!
Before I get on with the new challenge just wanted to say a big THANKS to Jenn (blog owner of CYP) for all that you do to run these fabulous challenges!! We all really appreciate all the work you put in to make everything run smoothly!! :)
So we have a new challenge at Craft Your Passion and we are sponsored by Birdie Brown. We would love to see a BANNER on your card somewhere for this challenge so get out your dies or punches or create your own and join us!!

I used Pocketable Puppy for my card and literally made a pocket out of it, so that the puppy could be pulled out with the sentiment on it!!

I coloured the image in with Tria markers. I then cut the dog and flowers away from the pocket and added the yellow tag to it and stamped Happy Birthday on it! I then die cut the peony for behind the puppy then die cut the banner and just added the ribbon and rhinestones!!

Kept it pretty simple but I think it looks cute!!

Hope you can join us at Craft Your Passion this week!

BINGO!!!

Yep it's time for a game of BINGO at Paper Crafting Journey!! And for this challenge we are sponsored by Sassy Studio Designs!! I used one of my SSD images that I already had printed out (my new years resolution) - Skater Sassy!!

 

I got a bit carried away with my card so I got Bingo across the middle horizontally and vertically!! :) So I used Gems, embossing , ribbon/twine, diecuts/punches and buttons. When I first finished my card, it looked a bit bare so I kept adding to it!

 

 I decided to use one of my favourite colour combos - brown and pink!

I coloured Skater Sassy in with tria markers and used a gold glitter pen on the wings of her top and the buckle of her belt!! The papers I used are from my scrap stash (so not sure of the company). You may not be able to see but I have embossed the newsprint paper with dots. I added the ribbon and twine then I  went crazy with all my embellishments... buttons, rhinestones, flowers, added the die cut vines and the sentiment which is from Make it Crafty. And of xourse to finish it off I added some kindyglitz to the spotted paper!!!

I hope that you can join us at Paper Crafting Journey this fortnight and play along with our BINGO challenge!!

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

* Crafting for All Seasons - Dies/Punches

* Inky Impressions - Favourite Colour Combo
* 4 Crafty Chicks - Twine
* Bearly Mine - Lace/Ribbon/Twine
* Deep Ocean - The Letter B (I've used buttons, brown)
* Papertake weekly - Buttons and Bling
* A Gem of a Challenge - Dies/Punches


Sweet Tooth Mary at The Digi Bell's!!

Must apologize for the terrible photo, today has kind of snuck up on me, so didn't get my card made till just now for my Digi Bell's Post... I thought I was well ahead of all my DT committments but then I realised that I wasn't!   So I have had to take the photo in not so good a light!! In fact I took a short cut and actually used this recycled card (because when I made this card I hated the image and since found out it wasn't a legitimate image anyway) and just coloured the image and made a few modifications!! So I used Sweet Tooth Mary which you can get from Elisabeth Bell's Digital collection but I didn't really want the tooth fairy component of the image so I cut off the tooth Fairy and then turned the tooth brush into a ruler!!

I used the colours of the papers to colour the image using tria markers!! I then added the rhinestones and kindyglitz. I actually love this card now!! Will be perfect for a crafty friend!!
Well it's bed time for me.... Enjoy your day everyone in the Northern Hemisphere!!

A Birthday Card for my Brother!!

Wow, can you believe this, my third post today!! If you would like to see my Craft Your Passion post or Seems a little Sketchy post then please keep scrolling...
It was my brothers birthday yesterday so we had a party for him and my niece (who turned 4 a week and a half ago). My sister made the cake and I made my brothers card!!

Isn't this awesome... My sister makes the most amazing cakes!!

 Now I'm not great at making male cards and really don't have a lot of male images so because my brother is always fixing or making something, whether it be a computer or a car, a bed base etc. So with that in mind I thought I'd use a stamp I haven't used before(and there are so many) ... Fix- It Christopher from Inky Impressions!!

I coloured Fix-It Christopher in with Tria Markers. The papers are all from my Scrap Stash (the SB papers are from Kaszazz), I wasn't sure what else to add to the card so I went through all my embellishments and found my little saw charm that is also from Inky Impressions. I attached it with the twine, then added the stars and buttons and used the sentiment from Make it Crafty!! I tore the paper for a bit of character...

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

* Inky Impressions - Ribbon or Twine

* My time to Craft - Men Only

* Sweet Stampin'- Stars and Stripes

* Raise the Bar - Anything Goes

* Cards Galore - One for the Men

* Charisma Cardz - Anything Goes

* Whimsy Stamps - Add Some Metal

Stamp Fairy is sponsoring Craft Your Passion!!

It's time to get out your glitter and go crazy!!! It's time for a new challenge at Craft your Passion and we are sponsored by  Stamp Fairy!!! And if you haven't guessed already our theme this week is All That glitters!!
An easy one for me as I always have to add glitter somewhere on my cards!! So I got to use Mimi Stars from the Stamp Fairy and this is what I created!

I coloured Mimi Stars in with tria markers and added glitter to the stars and the floor mimi is standing on!! The papers are all from my scrap stash and I added glitter to all the stars!! Then I went crazy with my embellishments, adding stars and some glitter to those, rhinestones, ribbon and buttons!!

Hope that you can join us this week and show us your glittery projects!!!

A New Sketch at Seems a Little Sketchy!!

I am exhausted today...walked the kids to school then walked to my aquarobics  class, did my class then walked home... now I have no motivation to do anything else (although I have cleaned out all my clothes drawers today) plus it's 35 degrees here today so that doesn't help!!
Anyway, we have a new sketch at Seems a Little Sketchy which I changed slightly and we are sponsored by Squigglefly and My Heart Pieces!!

 

And here is my card!!

All the papers and sentiments I used are from my scraps stash. I then just added the image "Love You Momma" from my Heart Pieces (which I coloured with tria markers) and the stars and rhinestones!! The only real change I made to the sketch was bringing the circle forward and moving the sentiment!!!

Hope you can join us at SALS this fortnight!!

 

Shabby Chic at Polka Doodles!!

Hi everyone, how are you? Staying cool (or warm if you're in the Northern Hemisphere!!) We are in the middle of a string of 30 plus degree days so it's reasonably hot. It's 8pm here and still 29 degrees... :) Oh and thunder rolling in the background!! LOL!!
So it's time for a new challenge over at Polka Doodles and our challenge this fortnight is Shabby Chic!  Now I have to be honest and say that I'm not too sure what that means so  hopefully my card is shabby chic!! As always there are some fabulous prizes up for grabs but if you can't wait to see if you won why not head  over to the Polka Doodles store where you can pick up some fantastic digi's both paper and images that you can purchase for awesome prices and download them straight away and start creating with them!!
Well here is my card for the Shabby Chic challenge:

  All the papers, images and the sentiment are from the Studio 12 CD Picknix Collection 1 . I put this all together on the computer and printed off an extra mannequin so that I could give the card a bit of dimension!! I distressed around the edges of the card, then added some buttons, pins and the ribbon which I inked with walnut stain distress ink!! I also added a little rhinestone and a bit of glitter on the blue buttons!! I think it turned out ok but you can be the judge!
Head on over to the Polka Doodles blog to see what the rest of the DT have done!! There is always lots of inspiration to be found over there!!