Baby, baby

Today I'd like to share one of two baby cards I have made this week for a colleague. She is so excited to see her new baby nephew for the first time, her sister lives in Australia and she is arriving with her baby son tomorrow for an extended visit to meet his Scottish relatives.

The image I have used is by Meljens Designs, isn't it just so sweet? I have coloured the image with Promarkers and added some Stickles for a bit of sparkle and doodled around the border. I used Papermania backing paper and pearlescent card from Southfield which I punched with a Martha Stewart border punch. I then die cut Thomas's name with a Sizzix alphabet die and finished it all off with a bit of organza ribbon from my stash.

Entering this one for:
Ooh La La - Stripes
Penny's Paper Crafty - Anything baby
Little Red Wagon - Use stars (I doodled some extra stars)

Catch a falling star

Very quick post today before heading out to work - the card I have to share this morning is my DT card for Crafty Creations where this week's theme is Music and/or Dance. We are sponsored by Tiddly Inks who generously supplied us with the gorgeous digi images you will see on the team's fab creations.


Also entering this one for the following:
Die Cut Dreams - Sweet little girls
Karber - Cards for girls
Lexi's Creations - Flower power
Aly's Sunday Challenge - Sparkly & glittery
Sunday's with Chrissy - Sparkly & shiny
Craft Your Days Away - Girly & glitter
Going Grey - Gotta go digi

Whoo's up for an Alcohol Inks challenge?

This week's Spotlight challenge at Crafty Cardmakers is to use alcohol inks on your project.

I have combined last weeks Clean & Simple theme and the Alcohol Inks from this week for my DT card. I used the alcohol inks on memory glass (why is it called memory glass - anyone know?) and stamped my owls on top using Jet Black Archival Ink. I attached the glass to white card using Glossy Accents then layered the white onto green card, the little gems are hiding the spots left by the Glossy Accents! I then cut a strip of the green card and punched a border with a Stampin Up punch and layered some ribbon on top. The backing paper is Bloom & Grow by MME and the little sentiment is from Studio G.

"memory glass...because crafter's were creating memories by using the glass to make ornaments and loved one's pics with some art! they started out using microscope slides like 1" x 3", enclosing two pieces with metal tape, etc. then the idea grew to different size glass pieces."
Thanks so much for the info Joanne!

Also entering the challenges at:
Clearly iStamp - Owls
Paper Romance - Clean & Simple
Daisy Doodles - Keep it Simple
Stamping Vacation - Sparkle is a No No

OSAAT - Rainbow challenge

One Stitch At A Time has a very special challenge for you this week... they are challenging you to make a special "Rainbow Themed" card. It's an anything goes type of challenge, but you must have a rainbow or the colors of a rainbow in your creation.

The reason for this Rainbow challenge is in honor of a very special little guy named Cameron. If you click below, you can read his story...

http://fortheloveofcameron.com/

A little History and the reason for this Super Challenge this week...

A very very good friend of Stitchy's who is known in the digital world by the name "FUNKY" , has built a beautiful fundraiser blog for her grandson Cameron..He is autistic and Funky and her daughter are striving to help Cameron..

Some of you may know Funky, she has been in the digital scrapping world for a very long time. If you could find it in your heart to help Funky and her little guy out, it will not go unrewarded. We know times are very hard for everyone right now, so if you can't give even a dollar, please don't feel bad, but please do go and read his story, he's quite a character lol..Thank you in advance all that take part in this very special challenge - have fun & good luck!!!

We have 10 GREAT PRIZES FOR 10 equally great WINNERS...and that is only at the main blog...

Prize #1 is all 5 of My (Stitchy Stamps) New Release Stamps

Prize #2 is all 5 of Beary Dust's New Release Stamps

Prize #3 is a package from Craftbrulee

Prize #4 is a package from Rod

Prize #5 is a package from I Am Roses

Prize #6 is 3 New Release Stamps

Prize #7 is 3 New Release Stamps

Prize #8 is 3 New Release Stamps

Prize #9 is 3 New Release Stamps

Prize #10 is 2 New Release Paper Packs and A Sentiment Sheet

We will also have ONE KID WINNER....who will win ONE PRIZE of THE 3 NEW KIDS KORNER RELEASE STAMPS.

My new stamp for the challenge is now available at Stitchy Bear & I Did It Creations

and here is a card using the image

New Halloween images

I have been working on a couple of new images for Halloween and before releasing them I wanted to make cards to see how they look. This is one of them and I'd be really interested to hear what you think ..... would you buy this image?


Entering the card for these challenges:
Southern Girls - Anything goes
Simon Says Stamp - Halloween, Thanksgiving or Christmas
Incy Wincy - Halloween Celebration
Daisy Doodles - Anything goes
Pixy Dust Studio - Black & white & 1 other colour
Sew Many Challenges - Halloween

Cupcakes again

The card I'd like to share this morning is the second one featuring a cupcake this week, the image is (I'm 99% certain) an old freebie from Pollycraft and I've had it printed out ready to colour up for a very long time. When I saw that this week's challenge on Passion for Promarkers was Sweet Treats I thought this image was just the ticket. I coloured it with Promarkers and added some stickles on the icing and the flame, I then finished the icing off with glossy accents. The papers I've used are from Making Memories Cheeky Collection - Abby.

Also entering the following challenges:
Scrap Creations - Children theme
Fab'n'funky - What'eva
Your Next Stamp - Anything Goes
Creative Cottage - Celebrations
Freshly Brewed - Brown

Crafty Creations - Transportation!

Today's new challenge is up at Crafty Creations and I have my DT card to share. I used the absolutely gorgeous Up & Away by my fab teamie Claire (Hope Jacare) because it's a regular sight from my front window. We have hot air balloons taking off from the sports field in front of our house between May & September each year, dependent of course on the weather - the wind has to be not too strong and the sky needs to be quite clear. Anyway it's a great sight seeing the huge balloon inflating and taking off at close range:



I bought my husband Neil a balloon flight for his 50th birthday and he said it was one of the best things he's ever done!

My card was coloured, naturally, with my promarkers and I added a bit of texture with Sakura Glaze pens and a bit of glitter with Gelly Rolls. The backing papers are by Doolicraft, which I'd never heard of and I found them in TK Maxx of all places! The flowers are 3 sizes of punched circles of the dp, distressed and held together with little heart shaped brads.

I'm also entering the card in these challenges:

I Love Promarkers - Transport
Cowgirls Sunday Challlenge - Anything goes

Drunken Stampers - Serenity now
Stamptacular Sunday - Distress it
Everybody Art Challenge - Handmade flowers

Fab new blog - well worth a look

If you haven't yet discovered Feline Playful go now and check it out. It is a fantastic new blog which is a great timesaver for all crafters who enjoy taking part in challenges regularly. Karen checks out the challenges and lists what each one is on a daily basis, so instead of trawling through all the different challenge blogs you can just go and look at Feline Playful to decide which ones you want to take part in. Brilliant - oh and she has candy too!

Something new

I love to try new crafts and have been meaning to try feltmaking for some time, my sister Gillian had been doing a bit recently and she inspired me to have a go at needle felting while I was staying with her for a couple of days last month. Since then a great opportunity to attend a feltmaking workshop arose through my work at the library, so I went along on Friday and had a fun time trying out wet felting for the first time and spent the day making this bag. The organisers of the workshop are hoping to start holding regular workshops locally so I may well be doing a bit more of this, although I have to say, it was quite hard work - I came home exhausted and it sure didn't do my Tennis Elbow any good!! Thanks to all involved in a fab day.

Out of my comfort zone

Today's new Creative Inspirations challenge has taken me right out of my comfort zone - I hardly ever make any cards that are not square or at least rectangular but the challenge chosen by our lovely Dawn, who is stepping down from the DT, is - Anything but square or rectangle!

I thought about this until I almost ran out of time but finally came up with a cupcake shape to base the card on. I used Distress Inks to colour and stamp on the cupcake case and used coloured card edged with Distress Ink for the icing. The little mouse is a digi stamp which I bought & printed out before my lovely husband accidently deleted all my digi stamps so I'm afraid I don't have any details on where it came from (if anyone can help, I'd be delighted to add the credit to my post). The image was coloured with Promarkers, the sentiment is Stampin Up.

Our sponsor this week is Fantastic Ribbons who are giving away a huge bag of assorted buttons to our lucky challenge winner.

I am also entering my card for the following challenges:
Polka Doodles - Shaped Card
Dare U 2 Digi - Shaped Card
Bee Crafty - Anything goes
Stamp Something - Something Cute
Paper Romance - Furry Friends

A little bit of fantasy

I fancied getting my fingers inky today so decided to make a card for the I love Promarkers challenge Myth & Magic. I wanted to do a watery background so I chose a Michelle Perkett digi stamp to use as my image. I used distress inks, and a water & Blonde Moments Pearl Pigment powder mix (which I spritzed all over the background and over the image after colouring it with Promarkers) finally I sprayed on some Jade spray ink from Art from the Heart - you should see my fingers now!!

Anyway here is the result, I hope you like it :o)



I'm entering my card in these challenges:
I love Promarkers - Myth & magic
Charisma - Inspired by a song
("The Mermaid's Song", is a melancholy Gaelic song of lost love between a mermaid and a mortal youth.)
Cute Card Thursday - Material girl (fabric flowers)
Fab n Funky - living in a material world (ditto)
Digi Doodle - Write me a message

Crafty Creations challenge

Today's card is my DT card for Crafty Cardmakers. This week's challenge is White Plus One - use white with only one other colour. As you can see I have used blue as my Plus One, I actually coloured my Tilda image with something other than Promarkers!!! I know - shock, horror! I used my watercolour pencils and coloured most of the image with two shades of blue. I used a very pale flesh colour and a tiny bit of black for the hair, but it's 99% blue - honest!

This is also suitable for the challenges at:
The Pink Elephant - Mostly white
Sentimental Sundays - Clean & simple
Lexi's Creations - Emboss it
Die Cuts R Us - Anything goes