Thank You Teddy

I love the images from Meljen’s Designs and have quite a few. Melissa is very generous with her freebies and is giving one away every Friday at the moment.

I printed off this cute image Thank You Teddy as I felt that it would suit the sketch which is the challenge on Meljen’s at the moment.

I coloured the image using Promarkers and Flexmarkers adding  a little white gel pen for highlights and Stickles glitter glue in the centre of the flowers. I cut into a circular shape and distressed the edges with a small inkpad.

The card front has been covered with floral paper from the Desert Blooms pad from First Edition. I used a scrap of brown card and treated it to a Fiskars border punch. Finally I used an assortment of paper flowers and gems to create layered flowers.

This was a great image to colour and work with and we all need a thankyou card with a cute teddybear on don’t we?

Materials Used in this Project are as follows:-

Card size – 6” Square

Digi Image – Thank You Teddy from Meljen’s Designs

Paper – Desert Blooms pad from First Edition

Tools – Treading Water punch from Fiskars, Letraset Promarker and Flexmarkers, white gel pen

Embellishments – gems, stickles glitter glue, Prima flowers

Techniques – Punching, distressing

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order):-

• Artistic Inspirations – #81 Anything Goes/Sparkles
• Cards Galore Encore – Rubber Stamp or Digi Stamp
• Challenges 4 Everybody  – #39 Anything Goes
• Cheerful Stamp Pad – #81 Anything Goes
• Crafting By Designs – Anything Goes
• Crafty Hazelnut’s Patterned Paper – March Anything Goes
• Eureka Stamps  – #79 Anything Goes
• Fan-Tastic Tuesday - #25 Anything Goes
• Just Inspirational – Flowers
• Little Red Wagon - # Punches
• Loves Rubber Stamps - #93 Anything Goes
• Make It Monday –  #181 Anything Goes
• Meljen’s Designs - #199 Sketch for Layout
• Melonheadz Friends – Bright Colours
• My Craft Creations – Anything Goes
• Natalie & Amy’s Challenge – #18 Flowers
• Paper Makeup Stamps Digi Makeover – #130 Anything Goes
• Paper Nest Dolls – #5 Anything Goes
• Papertake Weekly  – Anything Goes
• Passion For Promarkers - #237 Flowers
• Pause Dream Enjoy - #5 Use any sketch
• Pile It On – #9 Bold/Bright
• Scrapper’s Delights - #17 Bling It Up
• That Craft Place – Anything Goes
• Through The Craftroom Door - Anything Goes
• Whoopsi Daisy – Lots of Flowers
• Word Art Wednesdays - #122 Anything Goes

From The Heart Progressive Challenge

I absolutely love Faith Skrdla’s images and try whenever possible to take part in the Progressive Freebie challenge over at From The Heart Stamps. This month we were given the Birthday Candle Birdbrain set which came with oodles of sentiments. This card has been made with a friend in mind who has a quirky sense of humour, is about 10 years older than me and we have known for many years.

I have used the current sketch at I{heart} Sketches for the layout.

The image is coloured using Promarkers and Flexmarkers and mounted onto a scrap of black card which is recycled from embossing folder packaging. I mounted the image and the sentiment on the same way and added 3d foam for dimension.

The card front is covered with a paper from the Birdsong pack from Papermania. The yellow spotty one is from Craftwork Cards. Used some thin green card for punching along the top edge and added some gorgeous spotty ribbon that was part of a prize I had recently from Really Reasonable Ribbon. Finally I added some red buttons with yellow waxed cord knotted through them.

Eventhough February is the shortest month I have been better organised than I was in January so not finishing it off right at the last minute. That’s progress compared to last month!

Materials Used in this Project are as follows:-

Card size – A5

Digi Image & Sentiment – Birthday Candle Birdbrain by From The Heart Stamps

Paper – Birdsong by Papermania & Craftwork Cards

Tools – Fiskars Treading Water punch

Embellishments – Buttons & Twine

Techniques – Punching, recycling

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order):-

• 4 Crafty Chicks - #182 Things With Wings
• A Gem of A Challenge - #113 Spots & Stripes
• Animal Friends – #11 Dots/Spots
• Card Mania - #41 Use a Sentiment
• Catered Crop – Birthdays
• Challenges 4 Everybody  – #38 Anything Goes
• Crafty Hazelnut’s Patterned Paper – February Anything Goes
• Crafty Ribbons - #77 Anything Goes
• Cutie Pie Challenge – #63 Spots & Dots
• Digistamps 4Joy - #86 Dies or Punches
• Flourishes Timeless Tuesday – #259 Polka Dots
• From The Heart – February Progressive Freebie
• Get Inky - #8 Buttons
• Glitter & Sparkle - #73 Bright Funky Colours
• I {Heart} Card Sketches – Sketch 055
• Incy Wincy Designs - Birthdays
• Inklings & Yarns - #45 Anything Goes
• Kaboodle Doodles - #212 Use Ribbon
• Love to Create - #104 Anything Goes
• Loves Rubber Stamps - #91 Use a Funny sentiment
• Make It Monday –  #180 Anything Goes
• My Craft Creations – Anything Goes
• Oldie But Goodie – Buttons (Striped paper 2 years old, buttons & twine at least 4 years)
• One Crazy Stamper – Anything Goes
• Outlawz Friday Alcohol Markers Challenge – CPC022114 Things With Wings
• Papertake Weekly  – Lovely Layers
• Paper Pretties – #PWC298 Ribbons
• Pattie’s Creations - #86 Spots or dots
• Sister Act Card Challenges - #45 Anything Goes
• The Squirrel & the Fox – #64 Something Spooled
• Through The Craftroom Door - Anything Goes
• Totally Gorjuss  – #224 String or Twine
• Tuesday Throwdown - #183 Things With Wings

Imagine That #10 Hedgehog Friends

  

It’s the 1st of the month and time for Challenge #10 at Imagine That! Digis by Kris and if you took part in the last challenge you will have received the Hedgehog Friends outline pack which has 4 images with 3 different sentiments.

Pop over to the store to see this image and all the other amazing sets. This set is also available as a coloured option.

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If you saw the last card I made using the Hedgehog Greetings pack you will know that I have a friend who runs a hedgehog sanctuary from her home. At the moment she is looking after 9 babies and between them they need 53 feeds per day. She asked me to make some thankyou cards for the people who make donations to her and I have used these images to make another couple for her. I do plan to make a lot more for her as my way of donating to her. I may also have asked if I can cuddle a baby hedgehog or two J

As I will be mass producing them I have used the colour images of the Hedgie Boy and Hedgie Girl and printed them onto matte photo paper. They have a slight sheen to them and the colours have printed out so well. I flipped the little boy around so they are both facing the same way. These are matted onto scraps of cardstock from my ‘go to here first’ scraps box. There are no embellishments to keep bulk and postage costs down. As much as much as I love adding bling etc it is not cost effective for a non profit organisation that is run on donations.

The cards have been made using the same background paper. I was very lucky to have recently won 5 sheets of this in 12” x 12” size so they will make quite a few cards. I have used up scraps of papers from the Woodland Friends paper pack by Docrafts. I made the girl hedgie more feminine with a punched border. To finish off I have added one of the sentiments from the digi pack.

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I do hope you will join in with our challenge. Progressive freebies are so much fun and a great way up building up your digi collection too. Pop over to our blog and see what the rest of the DT have made. They are very inspiring and you won’t be disappointed J

Materials Used in this Project are as follows:-

Card size – A6

Image & Sentiment – Hedgehog Friends from Imagine That 

Paper – Woodland Friends by Docrafts

Tools – Fiskars Treading Water punch

Techniques – Punching

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order):-

Birdie Brown's DIY Dad

Birdie Brown has a monthly challenge and is very generous with her freebies. This month we get to work with DIY Dad. I thought it would make a great image for a new home card.

I used this weeks sketch from I {Heart to Sketch} for the layout as I thought the larger panel on the left would make a great wall that was being papered by DIY Dad.

I coloured the image with Promarkers and Flexmarkers in Browns and blues which are my favourite colours for a male themed card. I found some really really old papers from a Male orientated magazine pack that were perfect to go with it. I ‘wallpapered’ the panel leaving one roll curled up going down the wall. I cut the same length of paper as the first but added a core of scrap cardstock in the centre to strengthen it and then some of the strong red backed tape to make sure it doesn’t unfurl. I also added a roll of paper as an embellishment.

The brown cardstock is textured scraps from DCWV and I used a Nestabilities die to cut the sentiment panel which is a very old rub on and a punched house.

That’s my card for this month’s challenge and how on earth did it get to be the end of May already? I honestly do not know where this year is disappearing to……

Materials Used in this card are as follows:-

Card Size – 4 ½” Square

Image – DIY Dad by Birdie Brown

Sentiment – Rub on from stash

Paper – From a Male themed magazine special & DCWV Cardstock

Tools - Letraset Promarkers & Flexmarkers, 3d foam, Fiskars Border punch. House punch, Nestabilities die

Techniques – Die cutting, Punching

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order):-

A Creative Need – For The Men

As You Like It - #2 Fave 2 colour combo (Blue and Brown for male cards)

Birdie Brown – May Challenge

CDAC Anything Goes – Any Handmade Craft

DRS Designs - #71 Paper Punches

House of Gilli - #52 fave colour combo (for male cards)

I {Heart} Card Sketches – Sketch 020

Inspire Me Fridays - #104 Anything Goes

Mema’s Crafts – Anything Goes

Paper Creators Crafts - #9 Anything Goes

QKR Stampede – #40 One for the Boys

Shelly’s Images TTT – Show us What You Got

Sister Act Card Challenges - #8 Anything Goes

Wags ‘n Whiskers - #104 Anything Goes