A thank you card from me today

I made this thank you card following a sketch at Donna's Den I thought the sketch was great. The papers have been printed from Pink Petticoat Downloads. I have chosen the colours of lilac and green as I thought they were great summery colours. The sentiment has been computer generated and cut out with my circle and scalloped circle nestie dies and the flowers have been cut out using my new Marianne Design flower/leaf dies. I have added a lilac gem to the centre of the flower.
The image is a Lili of the valley stamp which I have coloured in with Promarkers. The image and sentiment has been stuck onto the card using 3d foam pads to raise off the card and the flower, leaves have been stuck on with Pinflair.

I am entering this card into the following challenges
Donna's Den Sketch
Cute card Thursday Summery Colours
Meljen Circles Galore
Delightful sketches Summery colours
Creative Card Crew To die for
A pocket full of posies One for the girls

Thanks for looking x

Pink and Brown birthday card

Here is a pink and brown card I have made. The backing papers are from a Dovecraft 6 x 6 paper pack called Piece of Cake. I have followed the fab sketch over at Lili of the valley this week. The image is a Lili of the valley stamp which I have coloured in with Promarkers. I have punched the corners of the image with a Dovecraft corner punch and then matted onto brown card which has had the corners rounded off with a punch. I have stuck 4 pink gems in the centres of the punched corners.

The brown and cream spotty ribbon was from a reel I bought from WS designs at the Newbury craft show on Saturday which I have tucked around some cream card and added a little bow to the centre. I have stuck the image on with 3d foam pads to raise off the card. The sentiment "With Love" is a gold peel off.

I am entering this card into the following challenges
Trimmies CRAFT Cakes/icecream
Just inspirational Recipe
Lili of the valley Sketch
Totally Papercrafts One for the girls
Lexis Creations Layers

Thanks for looking x

Stephens and Debbies 1st anniversary card

Here is a card I made for our friends Stephen and Debbie who will be celebrating their 1st anniversary on 12th July, Congratulations Stephen and Debbie.

I have followed the wonderful sketch over at Just Inspirational, they also have the theme of Love, Anniversaries, weddings etc.
The image is a Karens Doodles digi stamp which I have coloured in with Promarkers. I have then cut the corners using my heart corner punch and then matted onto red card and used another corner punch on the corners, can't remember the name of it though.

I have used my heart cuttlebug folder on the top right corner triangle and then edged with gold peel off. The heart backing paper is from a 6 x 6 Forever Friends Love paper pad. I also edged this with gold fine line peel offs. I then used my Martha Stewart heart punch to punch the decorative heart edges and matted onto gold and red card and then also stuck 2 gold fine line peel offs onto each piece of card.

The sentiment is computer generated and then stuck onto red card. The image, sentiment and top right hand corner triangle have all been stuck on to the card using 3D foam tape to raise them up.

I am entering this card into the following challenges
Just inspirational Sketch and love theme
Paper Sundaes White plus one other colour, the main colours I have used are red and white with a splash of gold
Incey Wincey Punches

Thanks for looking x

Black, white and one other colour

Here's a card I made for Karens Doodles UK challenge which was to use black, white and one other colour. I have followed the sketch over at Pollycraft this week. The cute image is a Karens Doodles digi image which I have coloured in with 2 skin tone colours of Promarkers, satin and dusky pink and I have coloured the rest in with azure Promarkers. I have stuck 4 Papermania mosaic gems in the 4 corners of the image. I have cut the corners using a corner rounder.

I have printed out some gingham papers from my Pink Petticoat download and matted onto blue and black card. The sentiment is computer generated and matted onto black card. The image and the sentiment have been stuck on with 3d foam pads to raise off the card.

I am entering this card into the following challenges
Karens Doodles UK Black, white and one other colour
Pollycraft Sketch
Simon Says stamp Ginghams, plaids, checks
Craftalicious Cute

Thanks for looking x

Anniversary card for Denise and Malcolm

I have made this anniversary card for our neighbours Denise and Malcolm.

I have followed this weeks lovely sketch over at Sketch Saturday. The image is a Karens Doodles digi stamp which I have coloured in with Promarkers.
I then punched the corners of the image with my Fiskars heart punch, matted onto blue card and then used a corner rounder. I have used my new seeing spots Cuttlebug embossing folder on the green card and then matted onto yellow card and my new 5 x 5 Dots Crafts too embossing folder on the blue card and then matted onto yellow card.
The dots are slightly larger than the swiss dots cuttlebug folder which I also have.
I have cut out the circles with my nesties and embossed the yellow circle with the Crafts Too dots folder before matting onto the blue card.
I have then added 3 Papermania green mosaic gems in the bottom left hand corner.

I am entering this card into the following challenges
Karens Doodles Scandinavian Green-blue-yellow
Sketch Saturday Sketch
The crafty pad Animal fun

Thanks for looking x

Summertime

The challenge over at Karens Doodles Netherlands challenge this week was to get inspired by your favourite country or vacationing. I am from the UK so have followed a Red, White and Blue theme but this image also reminds me of my wonderful honeymoon in the Maldives, where we just lazed around all day drinking yummy iced coffees.

The image is a Karens Doodles Digi image which I have coloured with Promarkers. I then cut out the circles with my nesties. I followed the sketch and theme over at Crafts for Eternity this week. The stripey paper is from a Pink Petticoat download. I have cut out zigzags on the red paper to create the bunting but it should also count for using zigzags at My time to craft challenge too. The sentiment has been done with silver peel offs.

I am entering this card into the following challenges
Karens Doodles N Favourite country/vacationing
Digital Tuesday Summertime
My time to craft Zigzags
I love Promarkers Stripes
Creative Cottage Summer Surprise
Meljens Designs Red, white and blue
Pixi dust Red, white and blue
Stamp something Colours of your flag
Raise the bar Colours of your flag
Crafts 4 Eternity Recipe and sketch
Pennys paper crafty Something with a dog
Ooh la la Simply summer
Alys Red, white and blue
By the cute and girly Warm summer days

Thanks for looking x

I've won second place in another challenge

Wow I can't believe it, I have won another challenge, this time over at Karens Doodles Scandinavian blog I came second which means I get to choose two of Karens amazing digis for free. This time I chose Workout buddy and Nutsy Cake. I have started getting a really good collection of her digis now, most I have bought but I have also won 6.

Can't wait to see what other digi images she brings out next. Thanks for looking x

Red, white and blue

I hope everyone is enjoying this fantastic weather we have been having.

Here is another card I have made, this time I followed the fab sketch over at Creative Inspirations. The image is a Karens Doodles digistamp which I have coloured with Promarkers.

I have cut the image and scalloped circle out with my nesties. I have embossed both pieces of red card with a cuttlebug embossing folder and matted and layered onto white card which was then matted and layered onto blue card edged with a silver fine line peel off. I have wrapped thin ribbon around the 2 pieces of red card before sticking down.

I am entering this card into the following challenges
Polka Doodles Boys Birthday
Allsorts Embossing
Crafty Pad Embossing
Karens Doodles USA Red, white and blue
stamp with fun Birthday
A spoonful of sugar Animal Crackers
Creative Inspirations Sketch
Pixie dust studio Red, white and blue
Meljen Designs Red, white and blue

Thanks for looking x

One for the lads

Another card made, this time one for the lads.

I have followed the sketch over at Cupcake Craft. The image is a Karens Doodles digistamp which I have coloured in with Promarkers.
The papers are from a 6 x 6 pad by Dovecraft called Masculine. I have edged the star and strip papers with silver fine line peel offs. I have cut the circle and scalloped circle out with my nesties. I have used a round punch to snip off the corners on the image and then stuck onto blue card, I rounded off the corners with a corner rounder punch and stuck 4 clear gems in each corner. I have faux stitched around the circle and the image with a green and blue fine tipped end of a Marvey Le Plume pen.

I am entering this card into the following challenges
Karens Doodles Scandinavian Stitching
Cupcake Craft Sketch
Charisma Cardz For the boys
Paperplay Sunglasses
Our creative Corner Blues and Greens
One stitch at a time Stars and stripes
Papertake Weekly In stitches

Thanks for looking x

A card for Nick

I have made this concertina tag card for my Brother in Law Nick.

I have used half a piece of 12 x 12 green Bazzill card. I have used scraps of ribbon to tie around the hole in the tag. The images are from Karens Doodles Nick is very keen on fishing and has two young daughters so thought these images would suit the oaccasion. I have flipped the little girl digistamp in Photoshop Elements so I have two girls but with the fish shown in opposite directions. I have coloured the images with Promarkers and then cut around them. I have added glossy accents to the fish to make them look wet.

I used my nesties to cut out the ovals and scalloped ovals and stuck them to the card with 3D foam pads, I then stuck the images on to the ovals with Pinflair glue gel.

The sentiment is computer generated.

I am entering this card into the following challenges
Karens Doodles Tag It
Crafty Creations Let is shine - used glossy accents on the fish so they shine
Charisma Cardz One for the boys
Pixie Dust Use 2 or more images
Meljen Bookmarks or tags
Polka Doodles card for the boys
Sew many Anything goes
Paper Sundaes Birthdays

Thanks for looking x