Go Green!

Time for another challenge on Dottie's World. If you join in then please remember the digi image, it's the most important aspect of the challenge but you'll be surprised by how many enter without one.

Our lovely Gunn set the challenge and this is what she wants: "on this one I want you to have green as the main color on your card. And the rest is up to you, but you have to use a Charmed download for this one, that is in fact the most important thing. I also would like you to include a metal charm."

Well I love green on my cards so that part was a pleasure, I'm a very earthy kinda gal.

My Charmed download is another image from the Sugar & Spice bundle. I coloured her in with Copic markers, here are my colours:

R20, R24, R39, R59, R81, R83, R85
Y15, Y17
V12, V15, V17
RV19
G05, G07, G12, G14, G17
B21
E00, E02, E35, E37, E39

Forgot to write down my hair colours but they were all C's

I cut the Charmed image partially out at the bottom so that she sat on my large Fancy Pants Chipboard swirl. The required charm here is a beautiful large heart charm adornment by Tim Holtz.

I layered several borders I had cut with a Martha Stewart Border punch.

The blue rose is Prima Mini Roses. The chipboard jounalling piece is again Fancy Pants , and the "Hugs" rub-on is Basic Grey Basics. Paper is Basic Grey, plus plain cardstock.

Scalloped circle is cut with a Nestabilities die.

I hope you like it :-)

Pop back later when I will draw my little candy :-)

Thanks for visiting the Charmed corner of the Web ♥ Have a great Sunday x

Leaf It

A great challenge for this Sunday on our digital download blog "Dottie's World". Lou set the challenge for us this week and she wants to see leaves, whether paper, fabric, stamped or real, plus of course a Charmed download...

I used one of the images from the new Sugar & Spice bundle for my card, and coloured it in with Copic markers:

Lots of leaves on there. The paper on the front is a leaf paper and the paper inside the card is the same design but bigger. I used the Basic Grey Origin 6x6 paper pad, where the designs are smaller than the 12x12 paper, on the front, and the 12x12 inside. All other leaves on here are K&Co Wild Saffron grand adhesions.

The sun was cut on my Quickutz Silhoutte and coloured with Copics and that gorgeous lace is Prima. Pearls are Blue Awning pearls coloured with Copics to get the bronze colour to coordinate with the Wild Saffron Leaves.

Quite simple inside but the paper is quite busy so anymore would be cluttered I think. used Nestabilities for the round shape and a Tim Holtz Paper Distresser for the rough edges of the actual card.




Pop over and see what the other design team members have created for your inspiration, and then join in so we can see your work.

Thanks for popping by ♥

Sketch, Hearts and a little distressing....

Another challenge card for Dottie's World DT. A super sketch challenge this time set by Nicole.

The card is also entered into Creative Card Crew Challenge - where the challenge was "distressing" and A Spoonful of Sugar, where the theme was "Hearts". The distressed element is the edges where I used my Tim Holtz Paper Distresser, and a liberal use of my distress inks.

Here is the sketch from Nicole for Dottie's World:

Products used:
Image from the Sugar & Spice digi-stamp bundle. I coloured in with Copic Markers.
Paper: Basic Grey (Vintage Floral from the Sublime collection) and black plain cardstock
Bows are made from black satin ribbon. Flowers are K&Co paper flowers.
Sentiment is a rub-on - K&Co I think. The hearts are Fancy Pants rub-ons.
I always use Distress ink for edges etc
Pearls are Blue Awning pearls coloured with Copics to get the shade I wanted.
I used Nestabilities for the shapes and a Tim Holtz Paper Distresser for the rough edges.


Pop over and see what the other design team members have created for your inspiration. I hope you will join the challenge.

Thanks for popping by ♥

B-ring out the Old, B-ring in the New

A great challenge on Dottie's World for our Digi-stamps this week, where Adele asked you to b-ring out the old and b-ring in the new: "dig out something from your stash, blow off the dust and put it to use with a new item that you have recently bought or been given as a pressie! As long as you use a Charmed Download, the rest is up to you."

My card uses some old twine (but unused I hasten to add) and the new items are a few Silhouette designs that I purchased last week.

I used a Charmed download from our new Sugar & Spice bundle and coloured her in with Copic markers. The frame here is a Quickutz Silhouette download design.

For those of you waiting the new Basic Grey is arriving this week, along with Imaginsce Sweet Cheri and limited edition Tattered Angels Glimmer Mists - these are new to Charmed Cards & Crafts but we will be stocking the ranges from now on.

Thanks for popping by :-)

It's a Girl Thing

I have the headache from hell today, and I strongly suspect it was brought on from an overindulgence of chocolates! It was my birthday yesterday and I had so many chocolate gifts that I absolutely had to try - and one unfortunately led to many!

To try and alleviate my pain I decided to make a card for the Sunday Challenge on Dottie's World. As the theme was "It's a girls thing" I used one of our brand new "Sugar & Spice" images, they are just too cute for words! This card was uber quick to make, apart from the colouring in it took me under half an hour, and that's quick for me - and then two hours to get the pictures taken, the light is awful at the moment.

A very simple inside ready for the greeting

I used one one of the new Martha Stewart Deep Edge punches for this card, isn't it fab?

This is such a lovely image drawn by our Lou. You can get it for free if you win our blog candy :-)

Products used here are:
Image from the Sugar & Spice digi-stamp bundle. I coloured in with Copic Markers.
Heart border is paper from Imaginisce Perfectly Posh, all rub-ons and ribbon are from that range too.
Plain cardstock
Cake inside the card is K&Co Madeline Chipboard
Prima Swirls
Tools used: Tim Holtz Paper Distresser, Nestabilites dies, Martha Stewart Deep Edge punch.

Very simple card to make as the edge and the image really is all it needs.

I mentioned it was my birthday yesterday and one of the highlight of my day was when a totally beautiful, and absolutely massive, bouquet of flowers were delivered. They were from my very special friend Lou, just take a look!! Sorry for the backdrop, the only place I can get any light is in the conservatory.

Totally stunning!! Thank you so much Lou my darling ♥♥♥♥♥xxxxxxxxx

I also got cards from some of my wonderful forum members, Mellie, Shell and Lea. Here they are with my card from Lou:



In order of the picture the cards are from: Shell (who also gave me a box of Hotel Chocolat Pink Champagne Truffles, cor they were nice (yep, all gone), then Lou's card, Mellie's card and Lea's card. Thanks girls xxxxxxxxxxxx

I hope you are all enjoying the Christmas break. Thanks for visiting ♥