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!

Doodle Palace challenge

My crafty friend Jude , as winner of last week's Doodle Palace challenge - congrats Jude! - has set this week's new challenge which is: a Christmas Card using the color combo: Traditional Green and Red. She would also like everyone to use: 2 PAPERS, 3 BRADS, 4 FLOWERS and 1 RIBBON.
My card is below and I've just noticed having read the instructions again that she says 4 flowers - not 3 - but actually my 3 flowers are made up from 6 different ones stuck together - so does that then count??

The papers I've used are from DCWV, the image is one of my new range of stamps available here and the other bits and pieces are all from my stash.

Mega candy giveaway

Jude has a mega - candy giveaway today go and check out her blog here for your chance to win all this -

Thank goodness it's Monday!!!

I have been working at the library every day recently including Saturday and Sunday and have had very little time for playing. So I'm glad that it's Monday and I have the next few days without work and have time to catch up with some challenges and with my other crafts - stained glass and jewellery. I have quite a large stained glass order to fulfill so that will keep me busy for a few days but at least I'll be at home and able to sneak in the odd card here and there!

Today's card is for Carol's Sketch Fun challenge and I flipped the sketch so it also works for the Papercraft Weekly challenge, I've used papers from Kars, a sentiment from Pink Petticoat and of course the image is Magnolia, I received this one in an image swap so don't know what it's called I'm afraid.

Fliss also has a new range of stamps.....

.... and she is offering the full range as candy on her blog. Congratulations Fliss I'm sure the new stamps are going to go down a bomb!

A new home for my Stamps and Digital Images

I have just created a new blog from which I can sell my stamps and images direct, please go and have a look and say hello to me at Cardmadfairy's Creations!