Tuesday 30 June 2015

My DT card for Digi Choosday - Use some Embossing

It's time for our new challenge over at Digi Choosday


and our theme for you this week is 

Use some Embossing

We would love you to hop over and join in with the challenge so we can come and visit your blogs and leave you some lovely comments

Here is my card

My embossing is dry, it's one of the Embossalicous folders from  Crafters Companion, it's a 6 x 6  called Bird Houses which I thought would go perfectly the the beautiful coloured owl image called Hats Off Twiggy from Polkdadoodles, the collection is called Twiggy and Toots and is available as a full digi dowwnload, CD and the image is available singly in the Polkadoodles Digi Download store HERE

The paper, gingham bows and flowers are also in the collection

I have also used brown pearls 
Sue Wilsons Classic Itty Bitty Bow die 
Sue Wilsons Dotty Itty Bitty Bow die
Brown pearlescent paper and pink card for matting and layering

I am entering this stepper card into the following challenges

613 Avenue Create Anything Goes with a pearl or rose
Scribble and Scrap  Anything Goes
That Craft Place  Layers
Artistic Inspirations  Anything goes
Crafting from the heart  Anything goes
Craft your passion  Anything goes
Incy Wincy  Anything Goes
Not just cards  Anything goes
Scrapbook Stamp Society  Anything goes
The Pink Elephant  Anything Goes

Thanks for looking 
x

Tuesday 23 June 2015

My DT card for Digi Choosday - Tag it!

Our new challenge has started over at Digi Choosday


Our theme for you this week is 

Tag It

I hope you will hop over and join in with us over at the challenge blog HERE
You can also check out what my teammates have been busy creating and to pick up the new discount code available until midnight tonight

 
I decided to make a card using my Sizzix large tag die and some Kraft card, I am really into Kraft  at the moment as you can tell from my previous posts

The perfect digi download to go with Kraft card has to be the delightful Twiggy and Toots full download collection (also available on CD) which I have used for the coloured images, digi bows, sentiment ticket and gorgeous dotty paper

The owl images are also available singly in the Digi Download Store 

Hats Off Twiggy
Tea for Twooo
Dancing Queen

I just added some gingham ribbon through 2 tag holes and brown dotty organza ribbon through the other 2 holes

I am entering this card into the following challenges

Artistic Inspirations Anything Goes
Craft your passion  Anything Goes
Incy Wincey  Anything Goes
Love to scrap  Anything Goes
My Besties UK  Anything goes and ribbons
The Crazy Challenge  Spots and Stripes
The Paper Girls  Happy Birthday
The Paper Nest Dolls  Anything Goes
Everybody Art Multi fold card
Through the craft room door  Anything goes
Scribble and Scrap  Anything Goes

Thanks for looking 
x

Sunday 21 June 2015

My DT card for Lacy Sunshines new challenge

Its now time for our new challenge over at Lacy Sunshine 


Our theme this fortnight is

 Baseball and Apple Pie

(Creations should be centred around picnics, BBQ's etc)

We would love you to join in so hop on over to the challenge blog HERE to enter your creations and to see what the rest of the DT have made to hopefully inspire you 

Here is my card for the challenge


The gorgeous image I have used is called Eleanor Blue Ribbon Pie and is available in the Lacy Sunshine Shoppe HERE
I have completed a colour recipe card if you want to know what colours I used on my image  


I have also used the following ingredients 

Card blank from Every Crafts a £1
Papers - Nitwits So Berry Precious
Strawberries from same Nitwit download
Pearlescent red paper to mat and layer
Craftwork Cards card candi
Sue Wilson's classic Itty Bitty bow die
Sue Wilsons Itty Bitty Dotty bow Die
Digi Bunting
Red pearls
2 cocktail sticks to hold the bunting up
X-cut corner punch

I am entering this card into the following challenges 

Crafty Sentiments Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly Oh so pretty 
TTCRD  Anything Goes 
Artistic Inspirations Anything Goes 
Incy Wincey  Anything Goes 
Love to scrap  Anything Goes  
Melonheadz  Summer Fun
The Shabby Tea Room  Sweet Summer 
The Crazy Challenge  Spots and Stripes 
The Paper Nest Dolls  Anything Goes 
Whoopsi Daisy  Summer Fun

Thanks for looking 
x

Thursday 18 June 2015

Lacy Sunshines Eleanor and Pickles through the years blog hop


Late one night in June of 2012, Heather Valentin was on the phone with her best friend and was drawing, like many of us do when talking on the phone, and the result, the first Eleanor and Pickles image – Eleanor and Pickles Book of Spells. The first image of Eleanor by herself, was Eleanor Bookworm.

Now, 3 years later, Eleanor and Pickles make up the largest category of images created by Heather Valentin for Lacy Sunshine Stamps. Eleanor and Pickles along with various other character friends, like Tilly the dinosaur, have had many adventures over the past 3 years and Heather continues to draw new images of these delightful characters.

Over the next 2 days, the Lacy Sunshine DT gals will be celebrating Eleanor and Pickles 3rd Anniversary/Birthday with our Through The Years Blog Hop. Please come hop along with us to win some “Pickletastic” prizes and see some Heather’s favorite Eleanor and Pickles images. You can visit Lacy Sunshine Shoppe to view the entire range of images available for purchase.

The hop begins here at Lacy Sunshine Challenge blog and then follows the order below. Make sure you stop at every blog on the hop and leave a comment. Don’t forget to leave a comment here too. Our prizes will be announced along with our New Challenge post on June 21st. Hope you enjoy the hop!!

  Lisa

So here is my card using Lacy Sunshine's  fabulous Eleanor and Pickles Batty Bats digi image which is available in the Lacy Sunshine Shoppe HERE


 I have used the following Copics to colour


Other ingredients used

Go Kreate Dies
Scalloped circle and plain circle nesties
Lilac Satin ribbon with piece of card candi in the centre
LOTV circle sentiment stamp
Happy Birthday Banner die from Poppy Stamps
Patterned papers, butterflies and flowers are from Nitwits Promises FQB
Tiny bows on the bunting and Octagon buttons are from Robert Addams Buttons and Bows die set
Pearls in the centre of the flowers

I am entering this card into the following challenges 

Di's Digi Designs Die cuts
Scrappers Delights  Anything Goes
613 Avenue Create Anything Goes
Addicted to stamps  Summer Colours
Dragonfly Dreams  Special Occasions
Electic Ellapu Anything Goes
GreaImpessions  Anything goes
That Craft Place  Anything Goes
Corrosive Challenges  Pile it on
Artistic Inspirations  Anything goes with layers
Craft Deebowz  Anything goes with a hand made bow
Crafting from the heart  Anything Goes
Craft your passion  Anything Goes
Love to scrap  Anything Goes
Melonheadz  Bright colours
The Paper Girls  Happy Birthday
Crafty Sentiments Anything Goes
Inky Chicks  Butterflies
Papertake Weekly Oh so pretty

 Thanks for looking
x

Tuesday 16 June 2015

Yippee I made the top 3

I made the top 3 over at Glitter n Sparkle with my Pizza style box shown below 


and get to add this gorgeous badge to my blog 

Thanks for looking 
x

My Birthday cards for Freya and Olivia

Its time for our new challenge over at Digi Choosday 


 and our theme for you this week is 

Use some buttons

We would love you to come over and join us so please head over to the challenge blog to enter your creations and to also pick up the discount code valid until midnight tonight



I needed to make an 18th birthday card for my daughter Freya and one for her best friend Olivia. I have been dying to use the new Twiggy and Toots Digi Download 
and I thought this image was perfect to add a 1 and 8 to in the balloons

The coloured image, cute little digi heart buttons and both gorgeous papers are from the Twiggy and Toots full digi download, its great that you can download the collection straight away and can get crafting immediately but if you are patient and would prefer the collection on CD it'savailable at Polkadoodles Store
The image is called Party Birthday Celebration and is available singly HERE

I have also used the following ingredients

Hot Pink Gingham ribbon
1 and 8 from Quickutz number dies
Happy Birthday Banner die from Poppy Stamps
Pink and white bakers twine
All Occasions alphabet dies

On Olivia's card I used the cute digi circle buttons and blue bakers twine and all of the other ingredients


I am entering this card into the following challenges

Di's Digi Designs Die cuts
Scrappers Delights  Anything Goes
613 Avenue Create Anything Goes
Addicted to stamps  Summer Colours
Dragonfly Dreams  Special Occasions
Electic Ellapu Anything Goes
Great Impessions  Anything goes
Corrosive Challenges  Pile it on
Artistic Inspirations  Anything goes with layers
Craft Deebowz  Anything goes with a hand made bow
Crafting from the heart  Anything Goes
Craft your passion  Anything Goes
Love to scrap  Anything Goes
Melonheadz  Bright colours
The Paper Girls  Happy Birthday
Crafty Sentiments  Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly  Oh so pretty
TTCRD  Anything Goes

Thanks for looking
x

Thursday 11 June 2015

I've won another challenge - Its great to be back

Whoo hoo I won another challenge, this time over at The Crazy Challenge



with my gift card shown below

 
 
 I get a prize and the gorgeous badge above to add to my blog

Thanks for looking 
x

Wednesday 10 June 2015

I'm a winner over at Eureka Stamps

Eureka


What a lovely surprise to find out I am a winner over at Eureka Stamps 
with my project shown below


I get to choose 2 images as my prize

Thanks for looking
x

Tuesday 9 June 2015

My DT card for Digi Choosday


Its time for our new challenge over at Digi Choosday

 
Our theme for you this week is

Fathers Day/Male card

We would love you to hop over and join in so please head over to the challenge blog HERE to enter your creations

I decided to make a shaped card this week using Polkadoodles Winston Digi Download, this image is called Gone Fishing and is available, in outline only, singly in the Digi Download store HERE
On the CD and in the download there is also a coloured version which is what I have used here

The spotty kraft paper, buttons, Gone Fishing sign and sentiment are also from the Winston digi download/CD, I used Gathered Twigs distress ink around the edges of the paper

I think Winston is perfect for male cards

I used my Go Kreate dies to cut the image and brown card to match the base card and added brown gingham ribbon along the centre of the card and tied a knot rather than a bow

I am entering this card into the following challenges 

Bloggers Boys of summer
Chocolate Coffee Cards  Summer fun
Creative Corner  Just for Dad
Fussy and Fancy  Fun in the sun
Patties Creations  Fathers Day
Reasonable Ribbon  Masculine with ribbon
Simply Create Too  Masculine
Simply Papercrafts  Anything Goes
Sister Act  Anything Goes
Wags n Whiskers  Seeing spots
Catch the bug  Anything Goes
Little Claires  Outdoors
My Sheri Crafts  Water
My time to craft  Male
Cute as a button  One for the boys
Pile it on  For a man

Thanks for looking
x

Sunday 7 June 2015

My Lacy Sunshine Tag

Its time for our new challenge over at Lacy Sunshine 


Our theme this fortnight is 

Wild about you 

We hope you will hop on over to join in the fun so if you fancy joining in please head over to the challenge blog HERE

We also have something else to look forward to

 so make a note, we'd love to see as many of you as possible joining in the fun


Here is the tag I made using the lovely image Rory and Flamesnort, she is available in the Lacy Sunshine Shoppe Here

I have also filled in this colour card incase you wanted to know what colours I had used


I made the tag using a Sizzix original tag die, I have also added some black dotty ribbon through the hole 
The sentiment which says Wild about you is from a Jungle Fun Nitwit download

I am entering this tag into the following challenges 

Simply Papercrafts  Anything Goes
Catch the bug  Anything Goes

Thanks for looking
x

Friday 5 June 2015

I made the top 3 over at Addicted to Stamps



 I made the Top 3 over at Addicted to Stamps with my slider box shown below

 
 
Thanks for looking
x

Thursday 4 June 2015

Whoo Hoo I won a challenge

Whoo Hoo I won a challenge over at Perfectly Rustics with my Pop out gift box shown below 
My first win since my break from crafting

 
 
Thanks for looking
x

Tuesday 2 June 2015

My DT creation for Digi Choosday

Our new challenge has now started at Digi Choosday


  and our theme for you this week is 

Use Kraft Card

We hope you will come over and join in the fun over at the challenge blog HERE

I made a Gift box card for our challenge using Kraft card for my base card and box inside and used the fabulous Winston Full Download collection from Polkadoodles for the wonderful image which is called Splish Splash and the beautiful patterned kraft papers, which are also available on the Winston CD. The outline image is available singly in the Polkadoodles store HERE
The tag in the centre section has white on the reverse to add my message

Don't forget there is 25% off digi images over at Polkadoodles today so head over to the Challenge Blog to get the code before you do your crafty shopping

Other ingredients used

Spellbinders octagon and scalloped octagon nesties
Spellbinders labels 16
Spellbinders circle and scalloped circle nesties
Spellbinders fancy framed Tag die
LOTV circle sentiment stamp
Brown Dotty ribbon from Woodware
Brown pearls
 

I am entering this project into the following challenges

Always Something creative Anything Goes
Crafts Galore Anything Goes
Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned Paper Anything Goes
Creative Craft Cottage  Add a bow
Lia Stampz  Anything Goes
Nordstalten Hobbyklubb  Gift set
Paper Creator  Anything Goes
Paradise of stamps  Anything Goes
Petal Lu  Anything Goes
Scribbles Designs  Things beginning with B (used Bear and Brown)
Sisters of Craft  Anything Goes
Challenge up your life  Use a digi
Di's Digi Stamps 2 or more pattermed papers
Hiding in my craft room  Freestyle
Little Claire  Outdoors
Dragonfly Dreams  How does your garden grow
Glitter n Sparkle  Add an animal (Bear)
Corrosive Challenges Anything Goes
Crafty Bowz  Anything Goes
Crafting from the heart  Anything Goes
Eureka  Special Occasions
Memas Crafts  Anything Goes
My Besties  Anything goes with ribbon
Stamp and Create  Summer fun
Crazy Challenge  Use ribbon or lace
The Papernest Dolls  Anything Goes
Whoopsi Daisy  Summer Fun
Clear it out challenge Anything goes (Stash item is ribbon)
Cuttlebug Mania  Bling it up (used pearls)
Going grey with scrap creations  Celebrations
Loves rubber stamps Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly  Anything Goes
TTCRD  Anything goes

Thanks for looking
x