Daisy Doodles #42 Raise It Up

OMG this is my 750^th Post!! I can’t believe I have waffled that much but then I have been blogging since May 2007 J I don’t think I can remember life before blogs…..

Thankyou to all my lovely followers, I am truly honoured that you feel I have something worthy of looking at and reading, mwah Mwah MWAH big kisses to you all xxx

Anyhoo, enough of that kissy kisssy stuff. 

I am delighted that this is my 2^nd week as Guest Designer at 

 The challenge theme this week is Embossing and you have until Sunday 25^th September 7pm EST to get your entries in. You can emboss using a heat gun, an embossing folder or even the traditional stencils and lightbox, just make sure you use a digi OK J

I chose the image Feelin’ Bad Freddy. Don’t you just want to give him a hug to make him feel better? If you want to own him you can pop over to Daisy’s Digi Doodles store and he can be yours for only $2

You can tell he is a man as he’s in bed feeling sorry for himself. If it was a woman teddy she’d have no chance to take a rest would she girls?

The patchwork style paper on the base has been embossed and on the criss crosses and inked to brink the design out better. I have also used brown cardstock by DCVW and cut a circle for behind Freddy’s bed which has been embossed with a Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder and sanded with an emery board. The other brown strip has also been embossed with a Sizzix folder.

Freddy and his bed has been decoupaged with 4 layers and coloured with Promarkers. Following the sketch layout from Sketchbook Saturday I used a Nitwit collection of free papers from a magazine. I used a Martha Stewart punch, some scrummy ribbon and recycled a chipboard tag from a piece of ASDA clothing for the sentiment tag. I covered it with a scrap of blue card, distressed the edges and handwrote the sentiment.

  

I hope you like my card. I think it would have to cheer up the poorly recipient.

I'll see you again next week with another lovely Daisy's Digi Doodles design.

P.S…. Keep checking out the store for some fab new designs, Jules has been doodling and they are just blooming gorgeous J

Materials Used in this card are as follows:-

Card Size – A5

Image – Feelin’ Bad Freddy  by Daisy's Digi Doodles

Patterned Paper – Nitwits magazine freebie and DCWV for textured card

Sketch - Sketchbook Saturday #28

Embellishments – Recycled chipboard tag, and some pretty ribbon

Tools - 3D Foam & Scissors, Promarkers, Cuttlebug and Sizzix embossing folders, emery board, small ink pad, Martha Stewart Punch

Techniques – Embossing, distressing with inkpad and emery board, punching, recyling

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

• Aly’s Sunday Sketch – Add a Bow
• Anything Goes #49 – Shabby Chic
• Art With No Boundaries – Anything Goes
• Bee Crafty #54 - Frames & Borders
• Cards For Men #19 – Anything But Square
• Catch the Bug – Punches or Die Cuts
• Crafts 4 Eternity R#36 – Brown & Blue
• Crafty Calendar Challenge – Bears
• Crafty Creations #135 – Anything But Square
• Creative Stamp Friends #33 – Card for a Man
• Delicious Doodles #1 – Fresh Start (used new papers)
• Di’s Digi Designs #1 – Anything Goes
• Digi Doodle Shop’s Best #75 – Circles
• Do You Stack Up #36 – Texture
• Fresh Brewed Designs #63 – Use Something New (papers)
• Fun With Shapes & More #91 – Anything Goes
• Heartsong Inspirations #15 – Chipboard
• House of Gilli #16 – Embossing
• House That Stamps Built DCC831 – Card for a Guy
• I Did It Creations #72 – Anything Goes
• Inky Impressions IIC #23 – Brown & Cornflower blue
• Karen’s Doodles – Checks
• Let’s Craft & Create #27 – Blast From the Past (#25 Use a Digi)
• Make It Monday #54 – Link Up Party
• Paper Shelter #30 - Embossing
• Papertake Weekly #64 – Anything Goes
• Passion For Promarkers #116 – Patchwork
• Pile It On #37 – Lots of Layers
• Shabby Tea Room #79 – Masculine & colour inspiration
• Sketchbook Saturday #28 - Layout of Card
• Speedy The Cat’s Friends #72 – Use a Punch
• Stamp n Doodle – Anything Goes
• Stamp Something – Anything Goes
• Totally Gorjuss #97 – For a man or boy
• Totally Stampalicious – Anything Goes

AIF073 Under The Weather

We have a new challenge for you today at AI Factory and this week we have an Under The Weather theme where you should make a Get Well Soon card.

We're showcasing a fabulous clipart set called Little Doctor which is available from the AI Store here.

It is amazing how many individual images you get. No less than 12!! Really really good value and there is something for everyone.

Now before I tell you more about my card I need to apologise that the colours on my image are different to the clipart. You know when no matter what you do to fix it your printed colours don't come out right, well unfortunately that happened to me. I think it still works really well but maybe now quite how the designer pictured it LOL

I like to make unusual shaped cards and as soon as I saw the set I knew I wanted to make an ambulance card. I printed the image out to an A5 size and used a sheet of white A4 card for the base. I thought it would be fun to have the doctor peering out of the window so added him to the inside of the card with a Get Well Message which is a fabulous freebie from Elegant Wordart By Bethany. Last but not least I have added spokes to the wheels with some black Paperchase gems in the centre.

To enter this week's challenge visit the AI Factory Challenge Blog where you will see the full rules and details. If you play along with us and upload your image you could win this week's image.

You are not required to use an AI Factory image to enter, but there are loads of great freebies available here in the freebies section of the store. You will need to link up your entry before midnight EST on Wednesday March 30th. If you use an online gallery Such as AiF, PCP or SCS then please tag your entry with the challenge code AIF073 so we can see all your cards in one place. Whilst you are at our challenge site please take a look at the rest of the DT's wonderful creations.

I look forward to seeing your entries in our challenge and Good Luck !

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges

• Aud's Sentiments #24 - Get Well Cards
• Crafts & Me #27 - Anything Goes
• Crafty Pad #113 - Use a Digi
• Crazy Challenge #59 - No Square cards
• Creative Card Crew - No Rubber Stamps
• Creative Inspirations #104 - No Square Cards
• Fun With Shapes & More #79 - Card without Designer Paper
• Gem of a Challenge #17 - No Square Cards
• Gingersnap Creations #93 - Get To Work
• Scrapbook Sisters #28 - Anything Goes
• Sugar Creek Hollow - Anything Goes

Get Well Soon Forum Challenge

The challenge this week is to make a Get Well Card but it must feature circles. There are loads in this one so I think I've filled the brief and made a nice bright card that would cheer anyone up who was feeling poorly. 

The patterned papers are from DCWV. The flowers are Prima daisies with Papermania gem centres. I used my Nestabilities to cut the scalloped circle, all the rest are cut using a Fiskars template, a DST roll and a little tin! I have a sert of compasses somewhere, do you think I could find them??? Nah of course not.

The rubber stamped butterfly is coloured using Sakura Souffle and glaze pens for the flowers and Marvy Le Plume for the main wing.

The sentiment tag has been adorned with peel off stickers and a small piece of ribbon from a Brenda Pinnick QVC kit.

All the coloured cards used for the mats have been from my scraps. I recently sorted them into colour families and put them into a Papermania concertina organiser and have found I am able to utilize them much more easily as I can now find the colours I need. It's amazing how much more productive I have been as a result of doing this and whilst it was the most boring and tedious of jobs to sort a huge carrier bag full it is really paying dividends now.

Get Well Card

Made a get well card for Mother in law who is feeling a bit under the weather.