Today is my Blogoversary

It has been such a fast year and full of ups and downs but it has been such a lot of fun being a small part of the world of craft blogs. I've 'met' such a lot of wonderful crafters and enjoy dropping into their blogs on a weekly, if not daily basis - an amazing source of never ending inspiration!
Today I'm posting a card which I've made just for the sake of it, I adore this gorgeous image from Mo's Digital Pencil and couldn't wait to look for a suitable challenge. I just had to colour it up and make a card!


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Creative Inspirations

This week the challenge at Creative Inspirations is 'a special card or project with numbers on it'. My design team card is for a 21st, I covered some plain chipboard numbers with patterned paper from the Bloom & Grow collection and distressed the edges with an emery board. I used more Bloom & Grow for the backing and used a Cuttlebug embossing folder on some white card before glueing on my numbers. The sentiment is from Stampin Up and I used a nestability die to cut the shape, I then followed a weekend workshop from Passion for Promarkers to make the flower - I love this and will be using it again and again!

Bling it! -Stamp Something challenge

This is my design team card for this week's Stamp Something challenge, which is Bling It!
The image is the gorgeous Fairy Tabia from Mo's Digital Pencil, I coloured her with Promarkers and a clear glitter Sakura pen. The backing paper is Pink Curls from American Traditional Designs. I edged a bit of pearlescent card with a Martha Stewart border punch and stuck on two strips of sticky backed pink ribbon then added glossy accents and sprinkled them with tiny iridescent stars.
We again are being sponsored by Copic and there is another fabulous set of pens to be won so what are you waiting for - go get creating!!!

Passion for Promarkers Challenge - week 21

Today is the middle of a really busy week for me - not a lot of time for crafting unfortunately : (
I don't have a day off until next Tuesday so I've just popped in to post a card for this week's Passion for Promarkers challenge. There is a sketch by Gina to follow and I've flipped it to use it for my card. My backing papers are from Pink Petticoat, the buttons are from Woodware and the sentiment is from the Patti Picklicious CD by Kirsty Wiseman.

Have to dash off now to try to fit in a little crafting before bed time!
If you have a minute to spare, pop on over to my Cardmadfairy's Creations blog to see the 2 new digi stamps available there now.
Thanks so much for popping by - and don't forget about my Blog Candy - see last post : )

Brown Somethings

The challenge this week for Stamp Something is 'Brown Somethings' so I got out a K&Co Recycled Earth Tones stack and found this great free digi image which I had printed out ready to colour up and thought it would work well with the colour scheme. The only trouble is I've completely forgotten where it came from. I thought I'd be able to find it again but I've been trawling around the internet for ages but can't find it. If anyone out there recognises it please let me know so I can add a credit :)

I've been told by Suzi (thanks again) that the fab sausage dog image came from Paula from Pollycraft. Thanks Paula I loved using your image.

Thank You x 3

Managed to make another card which fulfills 3 challenges today - getting the hang of this!!

Firstly I took the Doodle Palace challenge which was to make a Thankyou card which includes using ribbon and creating a backing using plastic wrap and ink or paint. I made mine with a plastic bag and distress ink, I then edged the piece of paper with the ink and stamped flowers on it. To also enter it for the Papertake Weekly challenge I used their great sketch and lastly, so that the card was eligible for the Charisma Cardz challenge, I followed their recipe - 1 ribbon, 3 flowers, 3 papers, 1 charm. The extra backing papers are Basic Grey Lime Rickey.

Snowbaby in the Pink

I found a challenge this morning which was just crying out for my Sweet Snowbaby stamp!
The Cute Daisy May challenge for this week is Pink Christmas and I loved all the Design Team's pink cards so decided to try one too. I used Promarkers, Angel Wings Shimmerz and Kars Deco Glitter on the stamped image, a Cuttlebug embossing folder for the circle, backing paper from Pink Petticoat and some lovely pink fibre I found in my ribbon box.
Hope you like her!

3 challenges

It's always a challenge for me to fit one card to several challenges but I think I've just about managed it with this one - firstly I went with Anyone for Anya whose challenge this week was 'You're Anya' - I'm always cold so this wintery Miss Anya is most like me, then I followed the sketch from Sketch Saturday which this week was designed by Ria, finally I used the Paper Play challenge which was 'Pale & Interesting' to determine the colour scheme for my card - there, 3 challenges add up to my card for today :)

My backing paper was from Kars.

Creative Inspirations challenge 18

Today's challenge over at Creative Inspirations is Christmas in October - perfect for me to show off another card using one of my Christmas Stamps - you can find them over here - this one is Cosy Snowman and I have coloured his hat & scarf with Promarkers. I used a Cuttlebug Snowflakes embossing folder for the background, I punched the border with a Martha Stewart punch, the punched snowflake was cut from glitter card and has a little bead cap fixed to the centre, finally I added a sentiment from the Retro Christmas Chains set by Stampendous.


We are sponsored this fortnight by Inky Impressions Rubber Stamps so for your chance to win a great prize get cracking with a Christmas project for the challenge.

Halloween - Saturday Spotlight challenge

Today is the first Saturday Spotlight with Hidden Potential challenge which is to make a card for Halloween without using Halloween images. Well as I never make Halloween cards since it's not so much of a big deal here in the UK, I don't really have much in the way of images to use anyway so I just cut a ghost shape from some white card and inked round the edges with some black ink, I then thought I'd like some little feet for under the ghost costume so I stamped one of my Gorjuss Girls' feet. The word Boo is cut from Sizzix dies and I used aplahabet beads for my greeting. I finished it all off with some orange brads - hope you like it!

Apple/school Somethings

This week's challenge at Stamp Something is to create something to do with school - an apple for the teacher, back to school - you know the idea or something to do with apples!

Our sponsor this week is My Creative Classroom:

My Creative Classroom is an online arts and crafts learning center. Our interactive and in-depth courses are instructor led and filled with wonderful projects and techniques to help you get the most out of your supplies. This Fall MCC will be offering over 70 courses. From Cricket to Copics and mixed media to rubber stamping and scrap booking. We have something for everyone! Join us as we kick off our Fall semester, which began on September 1st! We are excited to be sponsoring this Stamp Something Challenge and one lucky participant will win a $25 scholarship toward a class of your choice!

For my Design Team card I went down the something to do with school route and used a digital image from Whimsie Doodles which I coloured with my trusty Promarkers, the backing papers are Bloom and Grow from My Mind's Eye. I used buttons and ribbon from my stash to finish the card off.

C.R.A.F.T. challenge

This week I'm the proud sponsor of the C.R.A.F.T. challenge - go and have a look at my new blog Cardmadfairy's Creations for all the details - here is a little peek at my creation for the challenge!