Forever Friends Twirly Ribbon Border

Thought I'd have a bit of a play with some fine ribbon on this card, twisting and gluing it to make a little border!

Supplies:
Image: Forever Friends "Christmas Gift" coloured with Promarkers
Paper: Spotted paper from Papermania "Sweet Nothings" pack.
Embellishments: Pink & blue ribbon, gems, peel-off sentiment.

Challenges:
Bizzy Bec's Store Blog Challenge July - Borders & Frames
Die Cut Dreams #94 - Animal Antics
Creative Card Crew - Animal Antics
Papertake Weekly  - Getting Cute
Totally Papercrafts #75 - Girly Girls
Stamptacular Sunday #120 - Animal Antics
I Did It Creations #64 - Animals
Fab N Funky #82 - Animal Magic
Crafty Creations Challenges #128 - Seeing Double

Anya with flowers & some butterflies!

Supplies:

Image: Anya with flowers from The Greeting Farm, coloured with Promarkers

Paper: Blue with white dots from Daisy & Dandelion paper pack

Tools: Screen fold template, deckled rectangle nestabilities, XCut butterfly punch, MS scalloped border punch.

Embellishments: Gems

Challenges:

Farm Fresh Friday - Spring Break
Creative Inspirations #104 - No square cards
Fab n Funky Challenge #65 - "Do it more than once" (more than one fold)
Meljen's Challenge #51 - Get creative with punches

Crafty Emma's Store Challenge #29 - Die cut crazy
Pollycraft Challenge #86 - Friends
I Love Promarkers #58 - Go Dotty
Stamp Something - Spring
Polka Doodles #12 - Spring has sprung

Good Luck in Green!

Well, it's St. Patrick's Day tomorrow. Lliving near Cheltenham, home of the Gold Cup (aka Cheltenham Festival) I know there will be a lot of Guiness-drinking leprechauns around! Was hoping to go to the races myself, but didn't get around to finding a ticket in time, so I suppose I'll just watch it on the tv. I thought this card was perfect to celebrate!

Supplies:

Images: "Good Luck Frame" from Create with TLC (printed over the paper)

Paper: The green shamrock paper is from a Papercraft Inspirations download.

Embellishments: Chipboard shamrock, inked green & decorated with gems.

Challenges:

Sentimental Sundays #46 - Let's Go Green

One Stop Craft #122 - Clean & Simple

Allsorts Challenge #94 - Luck o' the Irish

Meljen's Designs #49 - Green

Inky Impressions - Monochromatic

Fab n Funky #64 - Going Green/St Patrick's Day

Papertake Weekly - Trio-tastic (three shamrocks)

Creative Card Crew - Green

Bee Crafty Challenge #18 - Festival

Wishing you the Fairy best!

Wow two cards posted in one day! For some reason at the moment I find sketch challenges seem to have me stumped! I spend so long trying to find bits and pieces to fit that I never get anywhere! So here's a sketch-less creation!

Supplies:

Image/Sentiment: "Fairy 1" from Digi Doodle Shop (that I won in the Forever Friends Monthly Challenge), coloured with Promarkers, "Wishing you the fairy best" sentiment is from Create with TLC.

Paper: Both the floral and pink polkadot papers are from the Pink Petticoat, Vintage Rose Collection. The edges are chalked.

Embellishments: Handmade pink bow tied with Reflecta silvery thread!

Challenges:

Cupcake Craft #132 - Pink Polkadots

Crafty Cardmakers #41 - Fabric
Incy Wincy Designs #84 - Pastels
Fab N Funky #63 - Make it Girly
Crafty Purple Frog Challenge #10 - Fly with us
The Crafty Pad #11 - Use a ribbon

Tilda Bookmark & Fancy Fold card

Here's a diagonal double pocket card made from a Splitcoast Stampers tutorial.

I've used G.C.D Studios Cloisonne double sided paper to make the actual pocket card. The gardening image on the front is from Beccy's Place  - she has loads of lovely digis to play with! I've coloured with Promarkers, and added "60" in peel-off number to the tea-cup as the card is for my friend's mum's 60th!

In the top pocket of the card I have placed a bookmark, made using gold cardstock, and Tilda with Wedding Gifts, coloured with Promarkers (to match the paper). I printed the sentiment off from Word!! I've added a ribbon and totally forgot to put an eyeley around the hole!! (Too many other things going on at home)!

Challenges I'm entering:
Crafty Cardmakers Spotlight - Fancy Folds
Colour Create #55 - Pink, Cream & Green
Crafty Ann's Challenge #25 - At least one digi stamp & favourite colouring medium
Crafty Catz Weekly #53 - Magnolia/Tilda
Craftalicious Challenge #10 - Anything Goes
One Stitch At A Time #34 - Digistamps
Fab n Funky #43 - Use a digi image
Creative Inspirations #81 - Birthday

Christmas Teddy Bear!

Wow, second Christmas card this week - I couldn't resist after my Polar White FlowerSoft arrived yesterday!!
I finally got round to using this Daisy & Dandelion stamp (which was free with an issue of Docraft's Creativitiy magazine) - he's coloured with Promarkers. The template for the octagon easel card was from Crafty Ann's blog. The papers are all Dovecraft or DCWV (I think!)

And a close-up of the FlowerSoft:

Challenges I'm entering:
Crafty Ann's Challenge #18 - Shaped easel card
Stamp, Scrap & Doodle #45 - Shaped card
Flourishes Timeless Tuesday #74 - Christmas in July
Fab n Funky #30 - Get into Shape

A new birdhouse for Grandad!

Well, I had intended to make this to enter into the Dutch Dare Challenge (as this is where the birdhouse template came from - go and have a look) after seeing the wonderful cards they'd made, but work has been crazy the last couple of days, and I just haven't really had the brainpower to finish it in time, but here it is anyway:

My first card for ages with no stamped image/Promarkers! I've used striped paper from the Papermania Secret Garden paper pack, and the little birds are chipboard toppers from a magazine freebie. Just added some silk ivy, and a load of Shamrock Green Flowersoft (moss) to go with the peel-off that I coloured green!

Challenges I'm entering:

Cupcake Craft #95 - One for the boys
Incy Wincy Designs #45 - One for the guys
Creative Inspirations #65 - One for the boys
Fab N Funky #28 - Just for Dad
Magical Crafts Fortnightly # 17 - Father's Day
A Spoon Full Of Sugar #108 - Enjoying the sunshine

World of Nonsense!

I've finally gotten around to using this fantastic Alice in Wonderland word art from Paulette at Create-with-TLC. The card is for my friend Fiona from school, who actually bought me the Disney film on DVD for my 21st Birthday! It was always a little bit of a running joke at school that we loved the film!!

I found the image of Alice from Dezina World and coloured her with Whispers pens (ages ago - before my Promarkers). The paper is from a Daisy & Dandelion pack. I made the wire word myself, and I've added some flowers (2 paper from Papermania, & 1 fabric), pearl brads for the centres. On the yellow flower I've added some gems!

Challenges I'm entering:
Papertake Weekly #43 - Say it with flowers
MelJen's Designs #8 - Seeing Spots
Alice in Wonderland Challenge #13 - Mushroom inspiration
Allsorts #52 - Birthday
A Spoon Full of Sugar #104 - Cute & Girly
Quixotic Challenge #26 - How Sentimental
Fab N Funky #24 - Make it yourself

My first Sugar Nellie card!

My lovely Mum bought me the "Daisy" Sugar Nellie stamp for my birthday, and this is the first card I've made with it!!

I coloured the image using my Promarkers, and used some downloaded purple flowery paper from Cuddly Buddly for the background. The yellow ribbon, photo brad thingy and green flowers are all from the Papermania Capsule collections. I've just added some little brads for the flower centres. Apologies for the dog hair in the middle of the card - he gets everywhere! 

Challenges I'm entering:

Simon Says Challenge - Sketch

Crafty Calendar Challenge#8 - The Great Outdoors

Fab n Funky #23 - Metal Mania

Polka Doodles #18 - Summer Blossoms

Lili of the Valley #52 - Here comes Summer

Easy Craft Projects #12 - Spring

For Fun Challenges - Use a rubber stamp

Stamp Something #100 - Birthday

C.R.A.F.T #49 - Wedding/Birthday

Crafty Angels #34 - One for the girls

Tilda among the flowers!

I've finally got around to colouring one of the Tilda's I stamped in my little frenzy a few weeks ago, as I found her somewhere new to sit and watch the world go by! The flower pot is a fab die-cut from Susie and I have made the flowers myself using a punch, and distressed them with a nail file. The pink & green textured card is from DCWV scrapbook kit in a stack - I had no idea it would distress until I ripped a bit and it's got a white core! The blue paper is Papermania, the brown is Daisy & Dandelion. I also used my Sizzix flourishes sizzlit that I haven't used for AGES (if ever) for the stems and the little hearts.

Challenges I'm entering:
Creative Inspirations #31- 3 flowers, 2 papers, 1 ribbon
Die Cut Dreams #45 - Make your own flowers
Pollycraft #41 - Make your own flowers
Creative Cottage #7 - Going Green
Fab n Funky #20 - Get it all out (old stash)
S2G #53 - Flowers
Secret Crafter Saturday #80 - Distressing
CPS #164 - Sketch
One Stitch At A Time #10 - Flowers
Just Magnolia #52 - Anything Goes