"Too wet for the ducks"

Too wet for the ducks is the new challenge theme set by Your Special Delivery challenge blog. If you would like to take part in this new challenge you can go right on over to Your Special Delivery challenge page and download the free Studious Duck image. I have coloured my copy of Studious Duck with Promarkers in Grass and Canary so that it is eligible for this week's colour combo at Passion for Promarkers
So many scallops is the theme at My Time to Craft challenge so I have used my Martha Stewart punch for the scalloped edge. My backing paper is Lime Rickey from Basic Grey.

Stamp Something - Recipe for Love challenge

This week's challenge at Stamp Something is a very special one. It's called "Recipe for Love," and not only would we like you to use our recipe - 1 ribbon, 2 papers, 3 embellishments (this can be a total of 3 or 3 different kinds), but we have a special request too. Over at Stamp Something...for Jaimie, there is a special card drive challenge taking place and some really awesome blog candy prizes to be won if you choose to participate.

So, what we would like, is from now until Monday at 10am ET, anyone who makes a card with our recipe challenge, please link it on the Stamp Something blog and then also mail your card to Jaimie and then link on the Stamp Something...for Jaimie blog for your chance at even more prizes! We are trying very hard to spread lots and lots of love to this young girl. For more information, please visit the Stamp Something...for Jaimie blog to read her story!

Our sponsor this week is the fabulous Mo, from Mo's Digital Pencil! If you haven't seen Mo's amazing digital images, you must go and check them out. They are fantastic and I love using them!

The prizes - yes 3 - for this Recipe of Love challenge are:

1st Prize: a $20 gift certificate to Mo's shop
2nd Prize: a $10 Gift Certificate to Mo's shop
3rd Prize: a $5 Gift Certificate to Mo's shop

Mo also gave the design team some images to work with for this challenge and this was my choice, it is called Hoppin Happy and I just adore it!


Please send your card to the address below:

Jaimie Cates
c/o Mont Vernon Fire Station
Main Street Mont Vernon,
NH 03057

Spread the love blog hop!

Today I am taking part in a very special Blog Hop, I was very upset when I read of an event which touched the life of my blogging friend and Design Teammate Erin Bailey,

"On October 4th, 4 teenagers armed with knives broke into a home in a small town in New Hampshire. Alone and sleeping inside were a mother and her 11 year old daughter. These 4 boys broke into this home with the intent to rob and kill anyone inside. They stabbed the mom, Kimberly Cates, to death and left her daughter, Jaimie, for dead in their driveway. It was a completely random act, their home was chosen only due to its secluded surroundings."

Erin has a close friend who lives near to and is friends with the family concerned and after receiving a grief filled email from her friend asking for help for the family, she knew she needed to help however she could.. so she and another couple of crafty friends decided to organise an international blog hop.

You should have arrived here at my blog from Libby's, if not you should go to the start of the hop at Katherina's blog.


This is my card for Jamie and we would love you to take part in the blog hop and also make a card for her thereby helping us to spread some love and awareness and hopefully lots and lots and lots of cards and wishes of hope for Jaimie.

I will enter everyone who leaves me a comment on this post into a draw for one of my Christmas Polymer stamps. The next stop on the blog hop is Sammy Jo's blog, thanks so much for dropping by today.
Jenni x

Creative Inspirations challenge 20

This week I am the Sponsor of the Creative Inspirations challenge, the theme of which is Doodling, and the winner will receive 4 of my Christmas Digi Images!

Available from:




I have made my card with one of the Christmas images - Snowbaby & Pogo in a Pickle. The image was coloured with Promarkers and finished off with Stickles on the fur collar and cuffs and with Glossy accents on the tree lights, the backing paper is from a Dovecraft Christmas stack from a couple of years ago and I doodled the lights across the top of the card. The holly leaves are sizzix die cuts and the berries came off a Christmas cracker! The sentiment is from Pink Petticoat.

Hope you like my card - now go and enter the challenge for your chance to win some Christmas images : )

and the winner is................

Rachel

congratulations Rachel - email me your address and I'll get the candy packaged up for you : )

Blog Candy

Blog Candy has now ended - the winner will be posted this evening!

Cute and Fuzzy

Cute and Fuzzy is the theme for this week's Stamp Something challenge and the images some of the Design Team have used come from this weeks sponsor Ildi Co, Jenny is giving our winner this week 5 of her lovely digital images.
I chose Cuddles Kuma Forest for my card and coloured the image with Promarkers, I used papers from K&Co for the backing and the flowers and the sentiment is from my new Stampin Up set Sincere Salutations.
The card also fits two more challenges: Furry Friends at Allsorts challenge and Spots and Stripes at Papertake weekly

Hope you enjoyed your visit to my blog!

Making Cards for Christmas

My buddy Eiglas has started a new thread, Making Cards for Christmas on the Trimcraft Forum so I decided to join the club and made this card in the theme for this week - Pink and Green. I also thought I'd make a shaped card so that it fit into the Dare U 2 Digi Stamp challenge as well - No Squares Allowed.

My backing paper is from a Christmas stack from last year - I suspect it's Papermania Naughty & Nice. I used a Snowflakes Cuttlebug folder to emboss my circle and coloured Skating Josie with Promarkers, the card was finished off with a snowflake charm and a sentiment printed off the computer again.

Anniversary Card

Today's card is an Anniversary card which I made for this week's C.R.A.F.T. challenge, I used a digital image from DigiStamp Boutique and coloured it with Promarkers, I used Sparkly Sweet backing papers from K&Co and a sentiment I created on the computer. I followed the sketch by Ger from this Sunday's Sunday Sketch & Stamp challenge and I would also like to enter this one for this week's Passion for Promarkers challenge which is Any colours & theme.

Blog Candy Reminder - ends Saturday PLUS a freebie

I celebrated my first blogging anniversary on the 20th October and I'd like to offer this little blog candy which will include some of my own design polymer stamps (which are available on my other blog Cardmadfairy's Creations) by way of a celebration of a whole, extremely fast, year in Blog land, I've had so much fun with the challenges, blog hops and design team work! I have been inspired by so many lovely bloggers and aspire to be an inspiration to others in turn. I'd also like to take this opportunity to thank my followers and all of you who leave regular comments for me, I appreciate each and every one of you!!

If you would like to win my candy:
Leave me a comment on this post
Please spread the word by linking to the candy on your blog (either a blog post or on your sidebar)
If you don't have a blog, please leave a comment on this post with your email address
It also would be lovely to welcome some new followers :o)

The candy will close on Saturday 31st October at midnight. The winner will be announced the day after. I will ship internationally!

PLUS - Meet Sweetheart Fairy


Sweetheart Fairy is my latest Digi design and she is available FREE with any purchase from Carmadfairy's Creations until my Son's birthday on November 24th.


Do you think she makes a cute card?

Already have 55 entrants to the blog candy, will be drawing names on Saturday evening and posting the winner on Sunday.

Another day, another Halloween card!

This will be my final Halloween card for this year, I really need to be getting on with all the cards and other crafts for Christmas. I've 2 Craft fairs looming and must get working on stocking up for them. So will be spending all time when I'm not in the library flitting between my desk where I make my cards, my tiny Stained Glass workshop (our porch!) and in front of the telly where I have a tray on my knees to make jewellery.

Anyway back to today's card, which is a Design Team card for the new Your Special Delivery challenge blog.

If you haven't yet come across Your Special Delivery yet here's what the founder Gina has to say about her new site:

"Your Special Delivery digital craft site is a new concept that allows talented crafters to display and sell their own digital stamps, papers, craft sheets, scrapbook files, and much more via a unique designers page.

It promises to become a valuable resource for crafters to view and purchase different styles of work for their own craft projects. So much more than a digital store which includes a forum, gallery, freebie page, and a page dedicated to promoting small artistic businesses."

I have made my card with a digi stamp Franny created by Gina herself, I coloured Franny with Promarkers and Twinkling H2o's and doodled a spider's web on her dress, then used a Stampin Up spider stamp to create the backing paper and inked the edges with a purple inkpad. The sentiment was stamped with scrabble style stamps and each letter cut out individually and the edges inked again with the purple. I stuck some black lace threaded with purple ribbon to the card behind my image and hung a delightful skull charm from it, finally I stamped along the bottom of the card with a lace border stamp again from Stampin Up.


Go and check out Your Special Delivery today and why not enter the challenge as well!

I'm also entering the card in the following Halloween challenges:
Penny's Challenges
Cute Card Thursday
and
Incy Wincy Designs

Halloween somethings

Stamp Something's challenge for this week is something for Halloween, now as I said on an earlier post we don't really celebrate Halloween much here in Sccotland so I don't really have anything in the way of stamps, backing papers or even embellishments suitable for a Halloween card, however the Design Team were given some lovely Digital Images from this week's sponsor Cute Daisy May which allowed me to make this card.
Linnie, the owner of Cute Daisy May is also offering our random winner FIVE sheets of images, winner's choice!!!
So here is the card I made, I think it worked out quite well considering - hope you like it!

As there are quite a few Halloween challenges around just now I'd also like to enter this for
Cupcake Challenges
Stamp With Fun
My Time to Craft
Crafty Creations
and
Kaboodle Doodles

Pop back tomorrow for another Halloween card!