MAWTT Things with Wings

Come over to Moving Along with the Times and join us in this week's challenge, the theme set by Judith of 'Things with Wings'. There's plenty of scope there for your creative juices to get working. I started off with  a bird at first and then changed to butterflies - they always seem happier to me! lol

I used a small square card from Craft UK and used bright blue card as a mat but where I got this card from I have no idea. I can't ever remember buying it. The little butterflies, cut in various colours with a Martha Stewart punch, were randomly placed around the Lili of the Valley sentiment. I matted the sentiment on to a gold scalloped circle cut with a Spellbinders die. The border of flowers is a Memory box die and after cutting it in white I coloured it with my Promarkers.

I'm hoping that my eyes will stay open long enough for me to enter into some challenges. I've typed this post all in one go so you can tell that my eyes have improved remarkably. I had a larger dose in my injections at the beginning of January and it's made a big difference - I've even noticed it myself. Thank you all for your kind wishes and I will get round to visiting you all soon, I hope.

I'm entering my card into the following challenges:

Crafty Sentiments - Anything Goes
Creative Card Crew - Anything Goes
Through the Craft Room Door  Anything Goes
Crafty Cardmakers - Punches and/or Dies
Crafting from the Heart - Anything Goes
Craft your Passion - Anything Goes

Fitztown - Anything Goes with a Twist

The challenge over at Fitztown Challenge Blog is Anything Goes with a twist and the twist is - use patterned paper.. Come and join us, you know that this is your favourite theme. lol

I used the image Fae 21 and you can buy this one and lots of other lovely digis from the Fitztown Store.

My card blank, once again, is by Joanna Sheen. The orange card is all from Papermill. The glittered backing paper is from a First Edition pad called Hideaway. I coloured the image with my Promarkers and then used a Sakura gelly roll pen on her face art and the butterflies, to add some glitz - I'm not sure that you can pick that up on this photo though. I used a Spellbinders label die to cut her out and then used three more Spellbinder dies to add the butterfly top left, the backing for the computer generated sentiment and the butterfly circle top right. The three other little butterflies are cut with a Martha Stewart punch. For more glitz I added some faux gems, from JJD Cards, to the circle top right.

I'm entering my card into the following challenges:
The Paper Shelter Challenge - Dies and/or Punches
Aud Sentiments Challenge - Anything Goes
Artbymiran Challenge - Anything Goes
Brown Sugar Challenge - Birthday for a Girl
Sister Act Card Challenge - Anything Goes
Fairytale Stampers Challenge - Flowers
That Craft Place Challenge - Love/Valentine
Cards Galore Encroe Challenge - Anything Goes
Crafty Hazelnut's Challenge - Patterned Paper
Die Cut Divas Challenge - Anything Goes with Die cuts

Hydrangea and Butterfly

I've done lots of shopping, washing and general housework today so I thought it was time to relax and do some colouring this afternoon. I had one of the Delicious Doodles images, Hydrangea and Butterfly, already printed so I set to work on it. I was pretty pleased with myself when it was finished as I liked it! That doesn't always happen. lol

My card blank is a large square by Joanna Sheen. I used my Promarkers to colour and then cut it out VERY carefully. I had saved this Godfruit sentiment a few weeks ago and so I printed it to fit in the frame and in a toning colour. I matted and layered the image on to two shades of Papermill card and added three gems to the bottom corner of the frame. It actually looked very nice just as it was but then I decided to add some more butterflies. I'm not sure whether I've gone overboard with the Martha Stewart punched butterflies! Perhaps you can tell me what you think?

MAWTT Sketch

This is the sketch, above, that the DT had to follow and I hope you'll come and join us with your take on this sketch. It was Red (Riette) who set the challenge and the sketch was her first blogged card. I'll show you my first blogged card at the end of this post. This is my card for the Moving Along with the Times challenge.

 I haven't worked to a sketch for such a long time and I really enjoyed doing this one.

My small card blank is by Craft Uk. I used Papermill card and using a Crafter's Companion embossalicious folder. I embossed both pieces before cutting.The pink pearlescent card separated the two colours nicely and I topped it with one of my favourite sentiments. I typed it in colours to match the background card and then cut it with one of my cheap dies. The gold heart is from a little pack of hearts sent to me by Laurie, Designer Diva. Using my Martha Stewart punch I cut a butterfly in the pink pearlescent card and set it on top of the heart. I like this card and I love the colour combination.

I'm entering my card in to the following challenges:

Eclectic Ellapu Pink Team - Wings
Eclectic Ellapu Purple Team - Flowers and Butterflies
Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes
Crafting When We Can - Hearts and Flowers

Right, here is my first blogged card and write up which I posted in February 2011. I started off my blog by not writing very much at all. Now I forget to stop. lol

This is a card I made yesterday. I used a flower stamp that I got free on a magazine a few years ago. I made the leaves with my Crealies die. The bunch of flowers is backed with gold paper. The frame and the corners are the 'bits left over' after using one of my label nesties.

A card just for fun!

Hello everyone - a second post for today! I made a card for fun, no design team work and I think this is one of only a handful I've made since Eric's death. I just haven't been in the mood for crafting and making my design team cards for Stitchybear has actually covered me for family and friend birthdays during the past year. This morning I've finished off a card I started earlier this week. I've been very remiss in my blog entries and blog visits so I must apologise to all those bloggers who have commented time and time again, each week, and had nothing in return from me.

I was going to enter it into the Joanna Sheen craft forum monthly challenge and then I thought I would add it to my blog too. 

The large square card blank is by Joanna Sheen. The image is from Joanna Sheen's Enchanted Dreams CD. I matted it on to Papermill purple card. The backing paper is from Chocolate Baroque's Peacock Summer Party CD and I matted that on to Papermill's cerise card. The little butterflies are all cut with a Martha Stewart punch in various papers. The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts and the leaves are all dies by Crealies and Marianne. 

I'm entering it in to the following challenges:

The CD Sunday Challenge - Hats

Jellypark Friends Challenge - Celebrate Summer

Sister Act Card Challenge - Anything Goes

OSAAT 156 - Use a Digi

The theme this week is Use a Digi so pop over to One Stitch at a Time and join us.  I used the image called Butterfly Scent by Kaz Krafts over at Stitchybear Digital Stamp Store.

I coloured the image with Promarkers and cut it with a Spellbinders grand nestie, backing it on to the larger size nestie in Papermill yellow card. The scalloped card blank is by Craft UK. I used a Martha Stewart punch around the page for the backing paper in ivory pearlescent paper, again from Papermill. After cutting it I found that it was slightly too big for the base card so I trimmed off the outside edge! I added butterflies in two different sizes, both Spellbinders dies. I layered the one at the bottom so it was yellow underneath and white on top with Wild Orchid Craft pearls down the body. I finished it off with three pearls at the top right.

The sponsor this week is Stitchybear and a lucky person will win all the images used by the DT on challenge 154 but do check out the challenge blog for details.

I'm entering my card in to the following challenges:
ABC Challenges - Flowers
Crafty Boots Challenges - Flowers
Creative Creations Challenges - The Letter B - butterflies and bloom
Loves to Create Challenge - Anything Goes
Passion  for Promarkers - Butterflies
I love Promarkers - Anything Goes
Charisma Cardz Challenge 11 - Die Cuts
Happy Campers Craft Challenge - Add Dimension
Card Makin Mamas Challenge - Spring Colours
Jellypark Challenges - Pretty Pastels

Thank you all for visiting. Please leave a comment to cheer me up, I'm having a bad weekend.

Hazel

#143 OSAAT - More than one fold

The theme this week, over at One Stitch at a Time, is 'More than one Fold'. I chose the image from Donna's (Lil Diva) Mermaid Silhouette 4 pack on sale at Stitchybear Digital Stamps Shop.

I'm sorry these photos aren't very good, they're quite dark.

I used a sheet of Papermill white card for this one and scored it to about A6 size when folded. I printed the image on to white paper and then printed and cut out another mermaid image to use as a mask. My Distress Inks were used for the sea and the sand that the mermaid is sitting on. A few Beachcomber shells were used on the seabed, along with some gold 'pebbles' by John Lewis. On the two flaps I used blue paper that I had in my stash. It was printed from a CD and looked like sea/sky but I can't remember which CD it came from, sorry. I made a Happy Birthday plaque which I set above and to the side of the mermaid. Another panel was cut for the sender to write on I fixed this to the front inside page. I used Distress Ink again, on the plaque  and the writing panel, after cutting them with my Spellbinder dies. I used more of the sea/sky paper on the front panels and then used some darker blue card for the opening edges using a Martha Stewart punch.

The sponsor this week is Stitchybear but please check the challenge blog for full details of prizes.

I'm entering my card in to the following challenges:
Digi Galore Challenge - Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge - Anything Goes
Avadares Challenge - Anything Goes
Lady Anne's Challenge - Sentiment, Anything Goes
Stampin with the Dragon - Anything Goes
Wags 'n' Whiskers - Anything Goes

Come back and join us next week when we'll be having blog hop. The hop will last right over the festive season - so you'll have three weeks to take part.

Geranium Stand and Holiday Story

I had this Delicious Doodles digi, available here, printed already and I decided to colour it last night. I coloured it with my Promarkers before cutting it with my Spellbinders oval nestie and matting on to a pink scalloped nestie. This morning I eventually made the card! The card blank is from Craft UK. The pink card is all available from Papermill, I used two different shades of pink. The pink patterned paper was in my 'pink' drawer and I have no idea where I got it from, sorry. I used my Martha Stewart punch on each long edge before adding to the lower part of the card. The dark pink paper is from Costco. I added a silver metallic decorative square to the top corner and two swirls were added - the top one is a Spellbinder die and the other is a Marianne die. 

We were also invited by Just Keep on Creating to tell a travel story for a separate challenge entry. My husband and I went on a trip of a lifetime in 2010 to visit relatives in Darwin, Australia from our home in the UK.  We did so many exciting things whilst we were there and one of them was going on the Adelaide River Queen boat to see the jumping crocodiles. I took wonderful close up photographs of these huge creatures jumping right out of the water. The guide then told us she was going to dangle some meat from the top deck of the boat and we would see the white bellied sea eagles come swooping down for it. I positioned my camera, waited for the call, clicked....... and caught an image of the empty string dangling! Fortunately my husband's cousin got a perfect shot of the eagle and that's the one that's in our scrapbook. We flew down to visit more relatives in Perth, Manjimup and Augusta and have more photos of where the two oceans meet, the Southern Ocean and the Indian Ocean, spectacular. So many happy memories.

I'm entering my card in to the following challenges:

Just Keep on Creating - Anything Goes and Travel Stories

Little Miss Muffet Challenge - May Flowers

The Poodles Parlour - Anything Goes

Pixie Dust Studio - Flowers

Set my own challenge

Today I was feeling slightly better so I decided to set myself a challenge and make a card to follow a few challenges in one. The photo isn't too good but I think you can see the main points!

My card is a scalloped square by Craft UK. The pink pearlised card is from I know not where but the backing paper is a freebie from My Mind's Eye. I printed the image from Joanna Sheen's Daisy and Friends CD and coloured her with Promarkers. I cut the corners with my round corner punch to match the backing paper and card. I used Distress Ink round the edge of the image. My ribbon is from my Australian stash and my buttons came from Create and Craft many years ago. I used a Martha Stewart punch to punch out three small butterflies to add to the background.

I'm entering the card in to the following challenges:
Moving Along with the Times - Cute as a button
CD Sunday - From me to you
The Pretty Little Ribbon Shop - Spring Colours
Whoopsi Daisy - Punch it Out

Daisy and Friends CD

I'm still not 100% because of this blinking vertigo and I seem to be sleeping a lot! I've just woken up after a lunch time nap and managed to finish this card. It's a small square card blank by Craft UK and the pink Mirri board is by Joanna Sheen. I've used two backing papers that I got as freebies in two different magazines but they are from the same designer, Kate Knight. The image is of course from the Daisy and Friends CD, by Joanna Sheen, with the images drawn by Linnie. I coloured her with Promarkers before cutting out. and edging with Spun Sugar Distress Ink.The 3D butterfly is cut with a Martha Stewart punch and the small flower silver charm was bought at Bluewater craft show a few weeks ago.

I'm entering this card in to the following challenges:
Crafty Sentiments - Two papers
Moving Along With the Times - Lots of layers
CD Sunday - Wings and Legs
Whoopsi Daisy - 3D

Be Square

This week the theme over at the Stitchybear Challenge Blog is 'Be Square' and I chose to use Donna, Lil Diva's Cherry Cupcake image. This image, and many more, can be bought from Stitchybear Digital Stamps Store. The pale green card is from Papermill and the card blank is from Craft UK. I had a 12x12 sheet of cupcake paper in pale pink and green - I have no idea how long I've had it, or even where I got it from but I copied it without colour and used it as the backing paper. The orange paper is also from Papermill. I coloured the image with my Promarkers and cut it with the Spellbinders square nestability. I embossed the orange square with my Martha Stewart scoreboard to give a squared pattern and I embossed the green paper with the Cuttlebug Swiss dots embossing folder. Three small square of orange paper were stamped in Memento ink with a small cupcake stamp that I got free in a magazine. The orange square mosaic pieces are from Hobbycraft.

Our sponsor this week is our very own Stitchybear so that's definitely an incentive to enter.

I'm entering this card in to the following challenges:
Crafty Boots - Anything Goes
Stamps R Us - Emboss it
Creative Craft Challenges - Free for All
Party Times Tuesdays - Anything Goes
Willow Sketchie - Anything Goes
Simon Says - Anything Goes

I've made another card!

After a very slow week on card making I decided to make one today. I chose a Craft UK scalloped card blank. the bright yellow paper is from Papermill. I used my new Spellbinders Impressability 'Flower Delight' to stencil the backing paper with Distress Ink in mustard seed. The bright yellow paper was used again with the Martha Stewart deep edge punch, double arch. I decided to use a LOTV image that I got in a freebie pack in a magazine. I coloured it with Promarkers and cut it with a Spellbinders circle nestie. The tag is from my stash that I've had for ages and I tied it with two shades of gold/yellow organza ribbon. Three small gems complete the design.

I'm entering it in to the following challenges:
Lili of the Valley - Anything Goes
Lollipop Crafts - Anything Goes
Moving Along with the Times - Ribbons and Bows
Simon Says Stamp - Tag You're It

#87 Use a Digi

Yes, THIS week at One Stitch at a Time it's Use a Digi! Sorry, I had myself confused last week as well. lol I've chosen my digi, 'I know I'm cute' by April of Reeces Scrap Pieces at Stitchybear. We're being sponsored by

      

http://www.onestopcardcrafts.co.uk/

The winner will get a £10 voucher to spend in their store. 

My card is a large square card blank by Craft UK. The lilac card and paper are from Papermill.The backing paper is a 12x12 scrapbook paper but I'm not sure where I bought it from, possibly one of the shopping channels. The lilac paper is cut with my new Martha Stewart deep edged double arch punch around the page punch! Phew, that was a mouthful! The lilac lace was from the local market. The lilac pearls to complete the design are from WOC. My image was coloured with my faithful Promarkers, cut with a Spellbinders oval nestie and backed with the deeper lilac scalloped nestie.

I'm entering my card in to the following challenges:
Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Lace it Up
Craft Your Passion - Bingo - Flowers, Pearls, Use a punch (flowers on bp and lace)
Heart Song Inspirations - Embossing and/or three layers - I chose three layers
NettieG's Digital Gems - Recipe of Image, flowers, flat backed pearls (flowers on bp and lace)
Papercrafting Journey - Use a digi
Charisma Cardz - Cutesey

I needed a change!

I've made so many cute cards lately that I needed a change! I'm entering two challenges with this card: The ABC Challenge - which has the theme C for Crochet flowers and Papertake Weekly which says Anything Goes plus bling if you wish!

My card is a small square by Craft UK. I think I printed the backing paper from a CD a few weeks ago and then didn't use it. Now, of course, I can't remember which CD it was that I used. Duh!! I added a row of dark red pearls, from Wild Orchid Crafts, in to the pattern at the top of the paper. I used a strip of Costco's dark maroon paper as a central band and punched it with Martha Stewart's double arch punch. The shape in the centre is a Memory Box Whimsy circle and it acts as a beautiful frame for the crocheted flower. I added a further three cream crocheted flowers and I got all the flowers from Create and Craft.

Tag It

The challenge at Ladybug Crafts is Tag It and here is my entry.  I've used a large square Craft UK card blank. The striped backing paper is from Trimcraft's Desert Blooms pad. 'Magnum with flu' is my digi from Ladybug Crafts and it's the first time I've used him. I coloured him with Promarkers and cut out with a Spellbinders nestability. The pale orange mat, behind the image, is cut with a Martha Stewart deep edge punch. The tag is from my stash. I did make one and then decided to use this one instead because the colours tie in so well. I added the dark red organza ribbon, from Joanna Sheen, to the tag to match the armchair.

Challenge 80 - Punch It

Over at One Stitch at a Time we have the challenge Punch It. I chose to use Claire's image of Hester Hen and you can buy it from the Hope Jacare Doodles section  here.

The sponsor this week is Joanna Sheen and the prize is a £10 voucher to spend at her online store - lucky winner.

 

 http://www.joannasheen.com/

I coloured Hester with Promarkers and cut her with my Spellbinders square nestie and backed it with the scalloped nestie in red Mirri card. I punched a heart in the same Mirri card and placed it top right in the square. The backing paper is a lovely muted dark red patterned paper from Costco. I used a Martha Stewart punch to edge the bottom of the card. Some of the shapes that were waste I added to Hester's tail to give her a bit of bling. I love this image. I used my favourite Craft UK card blank in 8 x 8 size.

I'm entering this card in to the following challenges:

Stamps and Fun - Creativity - Animals
City Crafter Challenge Blog - I Heart You (incorporate a heart)
Papertake Weekly - Things With Wings
Crafts and Me - Add a heart
For Fun - Red, brown, yellow
Simon Says Stamp - Song or Film Title - I picked the Song Title - Chick, chick, chick, chick, chicken!

Wings and Things with Spots and Stripes

Yes, I'm combining two challenges again! This time I'm entering Papertake Weekly - Wings and Things and Crafty Sentiments - Spots and Stripes.

My small square card blank is from Craft UK. The backing papers are from Costco, the pink one, and I think the green is printed from a CD. I've embossed the pink with the Cuttlebug folder, Swiss Dots (it's nearly spots) and I embossed the green one with my Martha Stewart Scorepal (stripes!). The pink base card is from Papermill and the bright cerise Mirri card is from Joanna Sheen. The image is from Joanna Sheen's range of Favourite Flowers stamps. I coloured it with Promarkers and then cut it out and mounted it on the Spellbinders butterfly edged nestie. The little 'waste' butterflies add to the one that is in the basket of flowers. Did you spot it?

I will also enter it in to another challenge: - Ladybug Crafts Ink  - Flowers   - You've got a whole basket full of them!

Feeling Low

I've been washing today so I've been playing at the same time. The trouble is that I keep forgetting to go downstairs to check that the load has finished so it means it takes me all day to wash two loads!

Never mind, I've had fun making this card. It's a Craft UK 8 x 8 card blank and has brown card from Papermill as backing to a Costco paper. The image is from Stitchybear and I've coloured it with Promarkers before cutting with a Spellbinders nestie. I used a Martha Stewart punch to cut a border in a band of another Costco paper and backed it with more brown card. A bronze organza ribbon from Joanna Sheen is across the top of this band of paper. I've used Create and Craft fruit buttons as embellishments and a sentiment generated on the computer. The edges of the sentiment and the main image were distressed with Ranger's Distress Inks in tattered rose. Pearls from Wild Orchid Crafts are top and bottom left corners.

This card is going to be entered in to three challenges:
Papertake Weekly - Bingo and I used the middle line down - Pearls, Ribbon and Free
Crafty Sentiments - Dies and Punches
Simon Says Stamp - Food and Drink (medicine, ugh! but you do drink it and fruit)

Simon Says Lemon and Lavender

Simon Says Stamp Challenge this week is Lemon and Lavender. My card blank is a large square card from Craft UK. The lemon card is from a pack I've had for years and I can't remember where I bought it. All the dies are Spellbinders apart from the small butterflies and they are cut with a Martha Stewart punch. The lavender card is from Papermill. The LOTV image is stamped in Memento ink and coloured with Promarkers. The little pearls on the large butterfly are from WOC.

Papertake Weekly Challenge

The Papertake Weekly Challenge this week is Dads and Lads. This is my card, a small square blank from Craft UK. The checked distressed backing paper is from a freebie Serif paperstack from a magazine. The LOTV image is stamped on to a Spellbinders label nestie with Memento ink and coloured with Promarkers. The edges of the label were distressed with Distress Ink. The mirror board is from Papermill and one is embossed with the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder and the red one is embossed using my Martha Stewart Scorepal. The sentiment was generated on my computer and the buttons are from Create and Craft.