Bling, Bling, Bling - Charisma Cardz

2nd Post of the Day

Back again with my 2nd post of the day, where our new challenge over at Charisma Cardz this week is 'Bling, Bling, Bling!' This is quite a picture heavy post, but I have compressed the pics so I hope they dont take too long to load.

We are sponsored by Crafty Emmas Store and Digistamp Boutique, so well worth playing along :)

I have been meaning to make one of these 'Magic Cards' since I first saw this brilliant tutorial by Marianne over at Stampartic and whilst it took quite a bit longer to assemble and decorate than a normal card, I really enjoyed the whole construction of it. :)

I used one of my favourite stamps from Crafts & Me called Turn to Hesed.  She is almost all glittered with very fine Art Institute glitter in various shades but you cant see so well in the pic.

I used MME papers and decorated inside and out with Cheery Lynn Dies and MS Doily punch.

I always cover brads on the inside of cards with Card Candi - it works a treat! :)

The back is also decorated fully with MME Papers, Cheery Lynn Dies and the MS Doily Punch.

The flowers were Ebay and the white dotty ribbon is Joanna Sheen and I have attached a heart charm to the flower spray.

I am entering this card in the below competitions:

Crafts & Me - Add A Ribbon

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Creative Inspirations - Diamond - Lots of sparkle

Craft Your Days Away - Red White Blue

Ooh La La Challenge - Make It Girly

The Shabby Tea Room - Colour Me Pretty

Allsorts Challenge - Happy Birthday to someone special

Deep Ocean Challenge - Swirls

Moving Along with the Times - Cool Brittania - Red, White, Blue

Bunny Zoes Crafts - Anything Goes

My Mums Craft Shop - Red, White, Blue

Thanks so much again for visiting my blog today and I will be hoping to catch up with my comments when my internet is restored to full speed on 1st June :)

C.R.A.F.T. GDT Card - Cerridwen

1st Post of the Day

Morning :)  Here with my first post of the day and my last card as GDT for C.R.A.F.T Challenge, I have thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it :)

Our new challenge for this week is 'Background Text' and again there are multiple sponsors and lots of chances to win a fab prize.  We are sponsored by My Heart Pieces, EyeCandie Creations and Saturated Canary and our Star of the Month winner will receive a prize from Stitchy Bear Stamps.

I was given this gorgeous image 'Cerridwen' to work with and she was just wonderful to colour.  I used a mixture of MME and Prima papers and coloured the image with Promarkers and added shimmery highlights with a Sakura shimmer pen.

The border punch is MS, the dies are Spellbinder and the flowers are WOC.  I followed the sketch over on Sketch Saturday and once I had chosen this to work with, this card really just seemed to make itself :)

I am entering this card in the below competitions:

Bunny Zoes Challenge - Anything Goes

Sketch Saturday - Brilliant Sketch

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

I ♥ Promarkers - Use a digi

Thanks so much for looking at my blog today, and please pop back later to see my second post :)

Cheery Lynn Designs - For the Graduate

Morning fellow crafters and bloggers! :) I hope the weather is lovely where you are - its been absolutely gorgeous here for the last week, so lets see how long it lasts!! lol :)

My card today is for our new challenge over at the Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge where our theme this week is 'For The Grad', and as always we have a fabby prize of a $20 gift voucher to spend in the online store so well worth joining in!

I hand-stitched Prima Printery papers onto layered Ivory and Black bazzil card and inked the edges.  The image is from SquiggleFly and called Noah Graduates .  On the top and bottom panel I used the Mini Flourish Scroll die and added an acorn and leaves.  The middle panel has the really elegant Mini Flourish Band and I made the Diploma and Grad hat on my digi-cutter and attached gold embroidery thread for the tassle.

All dies used on this project are:

B170 - Mini Flourish One

D133 - Dimensional Small Leaves #1

B176 - Mni Flourish Band

XL-2 - Square Scalloped LG Stackers

L-1 - Square Classic LG Silver Stackers

I am entering this card in the below competitions:

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

I ♥ Promarkers - Use a digi

Divas by Design - Anything Goes

Deep Ocean Challenge - Swirls

Moving Along With The Times - Celebrate - but not Birthday

One Stop Craft Challenge - One For The Boys

Crafty Catz - Card for a Man

Chocolate, Coffee, Cards - For the Boys

2 Sisters Challenge - Bring on the Boys

Cards For Men - Congratulations

Lexis Creations - For the Man/Boy in our lives

Totally Gorjuss - Something New - the digi-stamp is new :)

Thanks so much for looking at my blog today, and if you get time checkout the Cheery Lynn Designs Inspiration blog where there is gorgeous projects every day by our talented DT.

PS:  My internet has been throttled until 1st June, so I am a bit slower getting round and visiting atm, but I will be along to catch up as soon as I can see pictures!! lol :)

Joanna Sheen - Remember When

We are going vintage this time on the Joanna Sheen Challenge where the theme for our new challenge is 'Remember When'.  The winner will receive a fabulous £15 gift voucher to spend online at Joannasheen.com so well worth joining in!

I was given this wonderful stamp set called Ladies of the Night to play with, and there are oodles of brilliant images in this from steampunk to couture.  They are great as either main images or accessories too.

For my card I hand-stitched MME paper (I am on a roll with these!) and designed my own suspenders on my digi-cutter and stitched the ribbon to them.  I stamped the images on lightly patterned paper and added extra shading with DI pens.   

I also hand-stitched tiny black seed beads for extra dimension and added black glitter for a bit of bling. The word was cut on my Silhouette digi-cutter too.

I really enjoyed making this card and got quite carried away with it! lol :)

I will be entering this card in the following competitions:

Oooh La La Creations - Ribbon or twine

Totally Gorjuss - Something New - stamps

Thanks so much for visiting my blog today and I hope everyone is having a smashing weekend,

C.R.A.F.T. GDT card - Recipe

Well what a relief to be here today - my pc is still having mega-sulks and until I can fix my grafix driver issue I am plagued by BSD's and usually just when I am in the middle of something important..... bah and tut!! :(

Anyway, enough of my PC woes and moans,  my card today is for our new challenge over at C.R.A.F.T Challenge where this week we have a recipe to follow:

2 or more Designer Papers

Add a Tag

Use Glitter

We are sponsored this week by Die Cut Dreams, Sassy Studio Designs and Trimgym's Digistamps so plenty of reasons to join in :)

Right, now onto my card....... this was my first ever attempt at using my new Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pens, and I found it a very different colouring process to using PM's.  If anyone knows any good tutorials (either step by step or YT) then I would really appreciate it, as this appears to have been beginners luck, and I have really struggled today on a different project to get even a half decent result. :(  I invested in some proper watercolour card, so I know its not that, but I do think its a different method of colouring altogether and feel I have quite a lot to learn :)

I coloured this gorgeous Festive Fairy LOTV image (I LOVE this stamp) and used MME papers.  I stamped extra foliage in black at the top corners of the papers and inked the edges.  The poinsetta flowers were also made with MME paper and the border is spellbinders.

I am entering this card in the below competitions:

Crafts & Me - Fabulous  Flowers

Sketch Saturday - Fabby sketch - thank you :)

Crafty Catz - Girly Time

Crafty Calendar - Things with Wings

Sweet Stampin Pixies - Fave Faery

Creative Card Crew - Dimension

Moving Along with the Times - Celebrate anything but Birthday

Thanks so much for visiting my blog today, and I will be popping round to visit later :)

Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge - Add a Window

Morning everyone :)  I hope you are all getting some of this glorious warm and sunny weather where you are, its nice to make the most of it up here before the midges start appearing! lol

So our new challenge this week at Cheery Lynn Designs is 'Add a door or window', and the moment I saw this gorgeous window die I knew it would be perfect for a wedding card.

I hand-stitched K&Co papers to ice white pearl card and also cut all the other dies with the same 300gsm pearl card.  I added one of the corners from the Lace Corner Deco I set to the top of the window, and decorated the bottom with a section of the Mini Flourish Band.  I then added 3 Mini Fanciful Flourish dies before I added my stamped image, and blinged it up with a few pearls.

All the dies used on this project are:

FRM 143 - Window C

B117S - Mini Fanciful Flourish

B176 - Mini Flourish Band

B174 - Lace Corner Deco I

B133 - Lace Light Deco Border

XL-5 - Scalloped Circle

L-4 - Circle Stackers.

I am entering this card in the below competitions:

I ♥ Promarkers - Use Die Cuts

Divas By Design - Fabulous Flourishes

Creative Inspirations - Anything Goes

Deep Ocean Challenge - Swirls

Moving Along With The Times - Keep It Real

One Stop Craft Challenge - Spring Weddings

Totally Gorjuss - Charmed

Emerald Faeries - Embossing - dry

Ooh La La Creations - Ribbon &/or Twine

Top Tip Tuesday - Dig out the old - I have had the K&co paper for over 4 years!

Thanks so much for visiting my blog today, and I hope you get time to join in with our challenge.  There are inspirational projects uploaded daily on our Cheery Lynn Designs Inspiration blog so worth checking out too! 

I will be back again tomorrow so I hope everyone has a fabby day!

One Free Wish

Good Morning :)  First of all I just wanted to say thanks for all the lovely comments on my last card, and well done to everyone who spotted it was upside down! lol :D It made me feel so much better to read that others had done it too.  You will be relieved to know that once the glue had dried I managed to peel the whole topper off intact and spin it round the right way! ;)  Phew!

So today I thought I would share another DT card I made last week for the New Release Cheery Lynn Dies.  Again I have used the gorgeous 'One Free Wish' die, Iris Leaves and another one of the new corners from the Lace Corner Deco H set.

I hand stitched Prima Fairy Belle papers, and also used the Lace Light Deco Border and my favourite flower dies - Large Rose, Medium Rose and Miniature Rose dies - these are brilliant as they cut several at once! :)  The stamens were from the new Build a Flower set #1 and come in a range of sizes so really versatile and useful.

I am entering this card in the below competitions:

Crafts 4 Eternity - Wonderful Wings

Thanks so much for visiting my blog today and I hope everyone has a brilliant week!

Ooops!!

Morning :)  Happy Weekend! 

Well I always say if you are going to 'bob it up' then do it with style!!!...  Spot the ever-so obvious and not so deliberate mistake on this card - LOL :D  No prizes for guessing, but I am not giving any clues.  Answers in the comments box please! lol.

So our new challenge over at Sweet Stampin this week is 'Faeries &/or Angels' and we are sponsored by the fabulous Emerald Faeries - I LOVE these digis! :)  and also one of our regular sponsors the brilliant and ever generous  Joanna Sheen.

I hand-stitched MME Indie Chic Saffron papers, used MS PATP, Spellbinders and Marianne Dies, and the flowers are WOC.  This card was a little bit 'lastminute.com' (having rejected 2 earlier attempts) and so in my haste I made an upside down card! :D lol.  ....or the mischievous little Isla did it! ;)

I am entering this card in the below competitions:

Wild Orchid Challenge - Anything Goes

Mariannes Design Divas - Spread your wings

Paper Sundaes - Things with wings

Thanks so much for visiting my blog today, I hope everyone has a smashing weekend!

Make it Charming - Charisma Cardz

2nd Post of the Day

Whew...... 2 posts in one day!! :D lol.

Our new challenge over at Charisma Cardz this week was chosen by me, and I picked one of my favourites embellishments to add to a card - 'Charms'.  I love to see dangling charms, they really add movement to a card and always make it look so special.  We are sponsored this week by the brilliant Joanna Sheen, Meljens Designs and Crafty Ribbons.

I hand-stitched some uber-gorgeous papers on this card from Bearly Mine Designs, using sheets from the Mini Dots, Paper Lace and Floral Fantasy collections.  I loved being able to size them to fit and and pick my own shades :).  I coloured my Tilda with PM's, used MS punches for the doily background, border and butterflies, and the flowers are WOC. 

The pink dotty satin ribbon is Joanna Sheen, the gorgeous heart pin is from my blogging buddy Karen (thank you!) and the dragonfly charm is from my stash.  The mini doily is a Spellbinders Persian accent blinged up a bit, and I have no idea where I got the silver beaded loops from lol!

I am entering this card in the below competitions:

The Sketch Challenge - Fabby sketch!
CES Challenges - Anything Goes
I ♥ Promarkers - Anything Goes
2 Sisters Challenge - Make It Girly
Magnolia Stamp Lovers - Flowers
Crafters Companion - Here comes Summer
Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Anything Goes
Divas By Design - Tickled Pink
Truly Scrumptious - Anything Goes
Moving Along With the Times - Keep It Real
Bearly Mine Challenges - Use Dies




Thanks again for popping back today, and I hope everyone has a smashing day.  I will be back again tomorrow too!

C.R.A.F.T Challenge - Easel Cards

1st Post of the Day

Morning :)  Back again with my first post of the day sharing my GDT card for C.R.A.F.T Challenge, but first of all I would like to thank everyone who joined in on the blog-hop and stopped to visit me on the way :)  The winners have now been drawn and are announced on the challenge site, so dont forget to check to see if you have won. :)

Todays new theme is a real favourite of mine (except when it comes to photographing them! lol) - we would like to see your  'Easel Cards' this week, and we are sponsored by The Stamping Boutique, Crimson Cloud and the brilliant Bugaboo Stamps!  Excellent prizes, so I hope you find time to play along.

For my card, I used one of my oldest Bugaboo stamps from the Sunbonnets Collection called Fancy Flowers.  I love these images, and they are such a doddle to colour in!

I layered beige and white bazzil card and hand-stitched MME papers.  The dies are a mix of Memory Box and Spellbinders, and the butterfly punches are MS.  I coloured my image with my trusty PM's, and added Prima flowers and pearls from stash.  The smaller roses are ebay.

I am entering this card in the below competitions:

 

Die-Ing for a Challenge  - Gorgeous Sketch!

Creatilicious Challenges - Bingo - Easel Card, Ribbon, Butterflies

Papertake Weekly - In The Garden

Crafts & Me - Pearls and Lace

Thanks so much for visiting my blog today, and please check back a little later for my 2nd post!

Bling It Up - Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge

Morning fellow crafters and bloggers :) Back again today with my DT card for Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge where this week our theme is 'Bling it Up'.  The winner of the challenge will win a $20 voucher to spend in the online store and as there are some GORGEOUS new release dies this week, this is a brilliant prize! :)

Now, I can definately say I was inspired by my sister when making this card! lol :D  We have a brilliant friendship and though we live 600 miles apart, its just about perfect! ;)  I know she would really appreciate this card too as I am guilty of cutting her fringe off when we were little whilst no one was looking! ;) I thought it looked much better lopped off, but mum had to drag her off to the hairdressers to get it finished! lol :D  Soz Sis!

I have had this funny Mo Manning 'StepSisters' image for ages, and this is the first time I have used it, but I think I grinned the whole time I was making this card, they have such funny cross faces! I hand-stitched MME Vanity Fair papers, and used just one corner die from a set of 3 in the new Lace Corner Deco H set and also used the new Mini Fanciful Flourish die on the dotty panel.

I made the larger flower from the Sweet Williams Die and added stamens from the new Build a Flower #1. 

The base of the card has the new Spring Flower Burst doily, and again I repeated the corners, flowers, stamen and the Queen Anne's Lace border die.

All the dies used on this card are:

**New** - B181 - Build a Flower #1

**New** B173 - Lace Corner Deco H

**New** - B1175 - Mini Fanciful Flourish

**New** DL221 - Spring Flower Burst Doily

DL199 - Reflections Scalloped Rectangle

D137 - Sweet Williams

B152 - Miniature Rose

B154 - Medium Rose

B155 - Large Rose

B160 - Queen Anne's Lace Border

I am entering this card in the below competitions:

Mos Digital Pencil 2 - Tickle My Funny Bone

Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Anything Goes

CES Challenges - Anything Goes

2 Sisters Challenge - Make it girly

Simon Says Stamp & Show - Anything Goes

I ♥ Promarkers - Anything Goes

Passion for Promarkers - Inspiration photo

Divas By Design - Lots of Pink - Hope this is enough pink, if not then please delete my entry :)

Thanks so much for visiting my blog today, and I hope you find time to play along with our challenge.  There is also fabulous daily inspiration from the rest of the DT on the Cheery Lynn Designs Inspiration blog, and all the details of the gorgeous new releases can be found on the Cheery Lynn Designs website.

I will be back again tomorrow (twice!) so I hope you find time to pop back,

Cheery Lynn Designs - NEW RELEASES!!!

If you are looking for the C.R.A.F.T blog hop post its here

Woo!! Today is such an exciting day as it sees the launch of the  New Release Cheery Lynn Dies!  ...........and they are ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS! :)

My first project (above) was made using the stunning Pixie Guardian die, which cuts beautifully and is a wonderful size.  This card is 8 x 8 so its also perfect for 6 x 6 cards too! I used one of the new Lace Corners (from a set of  3 very elegant corners), and the letters are from the new Lower Case Lace Script Alphabet.

The dies used on this card are:

**New** - DL217 Pixie Guardian
**New** - LSLC - Lace Script Lower Case Alphabet
**New** - B174 - Lace Corner Deco I
B133 - Lace Light Deco Border
DL146 - Large Dragonfly with Angel Wing

2nd New Release:

This is the new 'One Free Wish' die, also a great size and just utterly fabulous! I fell in love with this as soon as I saw it, and just couldnt wait to use it! 

I have also used one of the new doily dies  'Spring Flower Burst' on the base of this card, and the stunning centre flower is from a new collection called Build a Flower.  These are going to be fantastic, and this first set includes leaves and stamens in all sizes and gorgeous petals too.  The dainty leaves are the new Iris Leaves set.

I layered black and white bazzil card, and all the dies used on this project are:

**New** - DL216 - One Free Wish
**New** - DL221 - Spring Flower Burst
**New** - B179 - Iris Leaves
**New** - B181 - Build a Flower #1
DL184 - Sophias Heart
XL-5 - Scalloped Circle Stackers
L-4 - Silver Circle Stackers

Check out the rest of the fabulous new release designs from the rest of the DT on the Cheery Lynn Designs Inspiration blog - they are stunning, and please check back on my blog tomorrow for my challenge post also using some of the fabby new release dies :)

I am entering the 'Pixie Guardian' card in the below competitions:

Divas By Design - One for the Boys
Fab n' Funky Challenges - Buttons & Bows
Crafty Calendar Challenge - Things with Wings
CES Challenges - Anything Goes
By The Cute & Girly - Spring/new beginnings
Allsorts Challenge - For a boy


and I am entering the 'One Free Wish card in the following competitions:

Truly Scrumptious  - Anything Goes
Do You Stack Up - Use a Flower
One Stop Craft Challenge - Monochrome
Paper Sundaes - Things with Wings
Cupcake Craft - No DP

Thanks so much for visiting my blog today I hope everyone has a smashing day,

C.R.A.F.T Birthday blog hop! :)

Good Morning :) Back again today, and I am so excited as this is my very first BLOG HOP!! :)

This week is a very special week over at C.R.A.F.T Challenge, we are celebrating being  3 years old! So, Happy Birthday to us!!

Our challenge this week is 'Celebration', so any project fitting this subject will be eligible for a super prize.


We also have our blog hop this week too, and you can choose to do one or more of the following to join in:

1. Take part in our challenge
2. Add your name to Inlinkz on the DT and GDT blogs to be in with winning a prize on their blogs.
3. Complete the blog hop (adding your name to Inlinkz on your way), collect all letters and form the sentence it forms and leave a comment at the end of our challenge post with your answer.

We have a lot of sponsors this week, with lost of prizes to be won.

• A prize for the winner of our 'Celebration' challenge this week.
• A prize for the randomly chosen winner on each (G)DT member's blog.
• A prize for the randomly chosen comment with the correctly formed sentence from the collected letters along the way.

To ensure all is done fairly, we will enable comment moderation this week to keep all answers behind, so there can be no cheating.

Our blog hop route:

Elke 

Sue 

Nikki 

Tigerlover 

Liam and Owen 

Jenny 

Coops 

Carol 

Sylvia

Sharon 

Sheryl

Jeanette

Alison - You're here!

Jo

CRAFT Challenge

As you can see you should have arrived here from Jeanette's blog. If you have not, please return there or to Elke's blog for the start of our blog hop.
The sponsor on my blog is Trimgym's Digital Stamps and Images 

By adding your name/blog to Inlinkz below you can be in with a chance of winning 

3 digistamps or 1 paper pack of the winners choice

Don't forget to link in and to collect your letter on this stop which is

 

Your next stop will be Jo. Hope you are having fun! Enjoy the rest of our blog hop!

I am entering this card in the below competitions:

Cute Card Thursday - Food or drink
CLP Challenge - Fabby sketch :)
Papertake Weekly - Cute, cute, cute
Simon Says Stamp - Sweet Tooth
Passion for Promarkers - Special Birthdays

Shades of Purple - Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge

Good Morning fellow crafters and bloggers, I hope everyone is having a great week so far? :)

My card today is for our new challenge over at the Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge, where our theme this week is 'Shades of Purple', and the winner will receive a brilliant $20 gift voucher to spend online in the Cheery Lynn Store.

I think I have mentioned before that I struggle with 'Purpaidh', as its such a strong colour to work with, so this was quite a challenge for me too! :) lol.

I played with a couple of gorgeous new dies I hadn't used before, and I was blown away at how brilliantly they cut and how detailed the results were. I started off using the Cathedral Lace Frame for my back-drop and overlaid it onto lilac vellum to soften the colour a little. This is such a wonderful die and very versatile too.

I used white bazzill cardstock to cut both the large and the small Lace Faerie Queen Butterflies - arent these just fabulous! :) They also have such beautiful detail. I cut matching angel wings in vellum and this gave it lots of fluttery dimension. I coloured my stamped image, and cut off the original bat-wings, as I was wanting something a little more delicate and pretty  :)

I had such a lot of fun making this card and used all the below dies:

DL148 - Cathedral Lace Frame
DL160 - Large Lace Faerie Queen Butterfly
DL161 - Small Lace Faerie Queen Butterfly
B160 - Queen Anne's Lace
DL 193 - Horizon Coved Rectangle

I hope you find time to play along with our challenge this week, and I look forward to seeing some fabulous creations. Dont forget, there is also daily inspiration from the other talented members of the DT over on our Cheery Lynn Designs Inspiration Blog, and if you visit the Cheery Lynn Designs website you can see there is not long to go before the NEW RELEASES!!! :) These are so exciting!

I am entering this card in the below competitions:

Crafts & Me - Die cuts/Punches
Deep Ocean Challenge - What a Wonderful Woman!
Crafty Calender Challenge - Things with wings
Stampin for the Weekend - Layer upon Layer
Emerald Faeries - Anything Goes
Oldie But Goodie - Die Cuts/Punches
Bearly Mine Challenges - Faeries
Dream Valley Challenges - For a special lady
2 Sisters Challenge - Anything Goes

Thanks so much for visiting my blog today, I will be back tomorrow with something a little bit different :)

4 Legged Friends - Sweet Stampin

Well I cant believe its Saturday already, this week has flown by - I think its been all the sun!! ;) lol.  It was certainly tricking trying to photograph my card due to all the rays coming through the window!  :D LOL

My card today is for our new challenge over at Sweet Stampin where this week our theme is '4 legged friends' :)  awww!  We are sponsored by the brilliant Joanna Sheen for our monthly prize and also the fabby Whimsy Stamps for our weekly prize, so 2 chances of winning a great prize :)

I used a cute little Penny Black stamp, and hand-stitched Fizzy Moon and MME papers onto crisp white bazzill card.  I thought I would try just punching 2 sides of the backing card with the MS punch to give it a different look, and I think it turned out ok, and then added some candy pink and white twine in a cross-stitch. 

The dies are a mix of Doo-Hickey and spellbinders and the bow is Anna Griffin.

I am entering this card in the below competitions:

Paper Sundaes - Ribbon and Pearls

Marianne Design Divas - Pearls and Swirls

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Paper Playtime - Anything Goes

Oldie But Goodie - Dies & Punches

Passion 4 Promarkers - Bright and Light

Creative Inspirations - Animal Antics

Do You Stack Up - Circles

Stampin for the Weekend - Layers 

Thanks so much for visiting my blog today and I hope everyone has a smashing weekend! :)