It's time to be Thankful.

The theme over at Kitty Bee Designs this time is Thankful/Thank You. I am a couple of days late with my blog post, I've been a bit under the weather and really weary, so trying to catch up with things when I have some evergy. Enough about me, let me show you the lovely card I made. I used the adorable Panda digi on my card, and kept it nice and simple and monochrome. I popped some butterflies on it, everyone loves a butterfly.

The panda digi is ideal for super quick, super cute cards as you can just print him out and you are ready to go!

I really hope you can pop over and join us this time.

I would like to enter the following challenges;
Di's Digi Designs - Thanks
Brown Sugar Challenge - Thank you.
Crafty Creations  - Thank you
Creative Belli - Thank you
Flutterby Wednesday's - Thankful

Where does time go?

That is a question I am constantly asking myself, especially when it comes to birthdays. My youngest niece was 21 yesterday(10th) and I wanted to make her a card that reflected her musical talents.  

I decided to use a Kenny K digi as they are perfect for people who are into their music, I printed it onto Diamond White paper and coloured it in using Flexmarkers and Promarkers. I made the digi a bit bigger than I normally would and ended up making an 8x8 card, which is very very unusual for me!!

I knew I had these digi papers and thought they were perfect with the image, I added a 21 cut from a Tim Holtz die, and popped on a wee metal guitar. 

Ingredients

Kenny K Metal Babe Digi Stamp

Promarkers and Flexmarkers

digi papers

Bakers Twine

metal guitar charm

Tim Holtz Market Place Die

Layering card & paper from stash

I hope you like the card.

I would like to enter the following challenges;

Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes

Alphabet Challenge - T is for Twine

Crafting by Designs - Anything Goes

Penny's Paper Crafty #152 - Lots of Layers

Midway at Kitty Bee Designs.

It's midway through our "Black, white and one other colour" challenge at Kitty Bee Designs and I made a tag this time using the super cute Zebra digi stamp.

I opted for teal as my other colour, and used a Promarker and some Memento ink to add the colour. I created the background using a Confetti stamp from Stampin Up and coloured round the edge with the Promarker. I added some sparkly gems onto the Zebra and the starbursts, then stamped a sentiment onto a punched shape. The "awesomsauce" sentiment comes from Everyday Sayings Stamps from Sarah Hurley.

I hope you can pop over and join us this time.

Black, white and one other colour.

Is  the theme over at Kitty Bee Designs Challenge Blog, and I opted to use hot pink as my other colour with this super cute Zebra digi stamp.

It is such a versatile image, which you will see from the creations my team mates have made. It is always good to have a digi in your collection that you can use for births, congratulations, birthdays or just a note card.

I coloured her using a Magenta  and Cool Grey Promarkers. I got my backing papers from The Papeterie in Aberdeen, and their papers are just divine. The punch is from Stampin' Up and the adorable "Make A Wish" sentiment is from Sarah Hurley.

I hope you can join us this time with our "Black, White and one other colour" at Kitty Bee Designs.

Sneak Peek Time

The seasons are changing, yippeeee, and Halloween is on its way.  And to celebrate this Sarah Hurley will be launching a brand new exciting range!! But, I have been playing with some of the kit (I know, how lucky am I?) and made something really cool!

I can't show you the completed project yet incase Sarah confiscates my kit!!! Though I will share a sneak peek of it.

 

How amazing are the wee skulls and bones...and there is a cat :D

I hope you are looking forward to the new kit, and I can't wait to share the completed project x

Babies is the theme.

Aloha! This is my first post for the Kitty Bee Designs DT and I can't tell you how excited I am to be onboard, I love their super cute digis.  You can get them from their Etsy Store and they have something for all occasions.  

The theme this time is Babies, and I used the cute Super Star Bunny to make my card. I opted to keep it CAS, and let the image be the main focus.  Yellows are always a safe colour to have in your stash of baby cards lol.

Ingredients

Super Star Bunny Digi Stamp by Kitty Bee Designs

Sentiment from Stampin Up

Coloured with Promarkers

Papers from Stash

I hope you can join us this time, you have until Friday the 13th (wooooo) to enter.


I would like to enter the following challenges;
Lia Stampz - For Baby

It's all about the dads.

This time over at the Digi Galore the theme is "Fathers Day", and our sponsors are the fabulous Kenny K with the lucky winner picking 5 of their cool digis.

I used Remote Control Digi, and coloured him using Promarkers and Flexmarkers. I then VERY CAREFULLY cut him out, my word my hand and fingers were sore after this lol. I used papers from the Britannia kit by Sarah Hurley to add lots of colour. I finished it off using my Sizzix Corner Die and a wee sentiment from Lili of The Valley.

Ingredients

Remote Control Digi by Kenny K

 Papers - Britannia Digi Kit by Sarah Hurley

Coloured with Promarkers and Flexmarkers

Lili of The Valley Sentiment

Sizzix corner die, Nestie die, circle punch, star punch.

Blue and red card from stash.

I hope you like the card and join in with us this time.

I would like to enter him into the following challenges;

Jellypark Challenges - Masculine

Kitty Bee Designs - Fathers Day

Pattie's Creations - Fathers Day

QKR Stampede - For Dad

Milk Coffee - Fathers Day

Crafting By Designs - Anything goes with a Male twist

Digistamps4Joy - Masculine

The Stamping Chef - For Dad

Craft Your Passion - Fathers Day

Eureka Stamps - Fathers Day

Cute as a bug.

Hello, today we have a new challenge over at Digi Sketch Challenges and the theme is "Cute".  We have a sketch for you to play along with too, but you don't need to use it if you don't want to.  We are sponsored by Cedar Chest Designs, who have gorgeous digital images and the prize is a $10 voucher for their online store.

I chose to use "Love Bug", and at only $1 it is a complete bargain!! I coloured it up using my trusty Promarkers, and decided to make the heart on his back a wee bit different so used Black Diamond Stickles. I used polka dot papers from the "Back to School" digi kit by Sarah Hurley as the background, and layered it up with the Ladybug Freebie from Shery K Designs. I used a sentiment from a stamp set, that I thought was perfect.

Ingredients

"Love Bug" from Cedar Chest Designs

Polka Dot paper from Back to School Digi Kit from Sarah Hurley

Ladybug Paper Kit  from Shery K Designs

Promarkers

Black Diamond Stickles

Spellbinders dies

Red Grosgrain ribbon, green card from stash.

I hope you join us this time at Digi Sketch Challenges.

I would like to enter the following challenges;

Cupcake Inspirations - Ladybugs

One Stitch At A Time - Use a digi.

Corrosive Challenges 174 - Sentiment on the front

Picture & Scrap - Lots of layers

Natalie & Amy - Things with wings

Crafts and Me - Use a digi

Digistamps 4 Joy - Spring

Biker Chick.

Hello again, lots of blog posts this week, and this time it's to tell everyone about a new challenge over at the Digi Galore Challenge Blog. And this time Louise has drew up a funky wee sketch for us to play with.  We are sponsored by the fabulous The Paper Shelter with a $20 voucher for their online store as the prize.

I chose to use "Undetected" On The Routes, and coloured her with my favourite MOTO GP riders colours of blue and yellow. For those of you unfamiliar with MOTO GP, the rider is Valentino Rossi and he is an amazing rider! Colouring her was rather tricky as the digi is very detailed, but thanks to fine tips for Promarkers and LOTS of patience I finished her and I love her.

Ingredients

Undetected from The Paper Shelter

Spotty Stripey Paper from Secret Rose Garden

Coloured with Flexmarkers and Promarkers

Memento ink

Sentiment and dies from Clearly Besotted Stamps

Spellbinders die, XCut corner punch

Ribbon and blue papers from stash.

I hope you can pop over and join us this time, we look forward to seeing your creations.xx

I would like to enter her into the following challenges;

Oldie but a Goodie - Inspired by a song- "Born to Be Wild"(Something 6 months old, ribbon)

Papertake Weekly Challenge - The Sound of Music - The song "Born To Be Wild"

Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes

Lacy Sunshine - Anything but a square with hand coloured image.

The Corrosive Challenges - Sentiment on the front.

Crafty Catz - Anything Goes

Cute Card Thursday - Something Blue

Moving Along With The Times - CaS

The Paper Shelter - Anything Goes.

Rain, Rain, Go Away!!!

Is the theme for this fortnights challenge over at Digi Sketch Challenge, which is rather fitting with all the rain we have had the last couple of days in Scotland. Though my weekend away had gorgeous weather :D

The sponsor this time is Ellephantastic and Crafty Sentiments Designs. So the winner will be spoilt for choice.  As always there is a theme and a sketch to follow, and I decided to do both this time.  I used "Emily in the rain" from Ellephantastic, and used some Echo Park papers to match in with the theme.

Ingredients

Emily in the rain - Ellephantastic

Echo Park - Walk in The Park Papers 2

Coloured with Promarkers and Flexmarkers

Sentiment from Craftwork Cards

Green card and card blank from stash.

I hope you can join us this time and enter the challenge.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges;

Crafty Calendar - Sunshine and Showers

Card Crafter's Circle - April Showers

Digi Haven - Rain/umbrella

Whimsie Doodles - April Showers

Let's hear it for the girls.

Is the theme over at the Digi Galore Challenge Blog, and it is sponsored by the fabulous MayzyArt. I love the MayzArt digis and have quite a few waiting to be coloured up.  This is my first DT card for Digi Galore,and following the theme of the challenge I opted to use the beautiful Frog Princess digi and make her very girly.

 

I coloured her using my trusty Promarkers and Flexmarkers. The frog is covered with Glossy Accents to make him nice and shiny :D I also put Glossy Accents onto her crown. And what princess is complete without some sparkles?

 

I opted to keep the card as digi as I could, and used papers from digi kits(details in ingredients)

 

Ingredients

Frog Princess from MayzArt Digi Stamp

Pink polka dot paper - Secret Rose Garden Digi Kit

Pink and green background paper - Carina Gardiner

Memory Box Corner Die

Coloured with Flexmarkers and Promarkers

Glossy Accents and gems.

Sentiment made on computer.

 



 

 

I hope you can pop over and join us this time.

 

 

I would like to enter the following challenges;

One Stop Craft Challenge - Colours - Pastels
Dilly Beans - Pastels(digi stamp)
Crafty Ribbons - Pink and Green
Belli Challenge - Pastels
The Stampin Chef - Girly Girl
Whimsy Inspiration - Pretty in Pink
 

 



Another card from my colouring in fest last week.

And this time it is one of the beautiful hand drawn Rose Digi Stamps from Sarah Hurley. I am starting to get a wee bit more confident with my colouring and loved the results I got from colouring this.  I also coloured one in shades of purple and will blog that once I have made it into a card. 

 

I used papers from the Secret Rose Garden Kit, as there are lovely polka dot papers in the kit. I cut the rose out with scalpel so you could really see all the details in it.

 

Ingredients

Sarah Hurley Hand Drawn Rose Digi Stamp

Papers from Secret Rose Garden Kit

Coloured with Promarkers and Fexmarkers

Sentiment from Whimsy

Gems and plain papers from stash.

 



There is still plenty of time to join in at the Sarah Hurley Challenge Blog, where the theme is "Projects with character" and it is sponsored by Letraset.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges;
Broken Box Stock - Florals
Happy Campers - Flower Power
Moving Along With the Times - song or film..."Kiss from a rose" by Seal
Passion For Promarkers - Week 193, "cut out your image"
House of Gilli -Anything goes with a flower
Sparkle N Sprinkle - SNSSC18 - Use a digi.

New week, new challenge over at Digi Sketch Challenges

And the theme this time is Butterflies and or roses, as always there is a sketch to follow, but you don't have to use it to join in with the challenge.

 

This time we are sponsored by the fab The Cutting Cafe, and the prize is 3 sets. I opted to make a card with a sentiment as the main focus, the first time I have ever done this.

 

Ingredients

Social Butterfly Digi from The Cutting Cafe

Rose Garden paper

Butterfly embossing folder

Nesties

butterfly punch

pearls and paper from stash.

 

I haven't followed the sketch, but my creation features butterflies and my paper has pretty little roses on it.

I hope you can join us this time.

I would like to enter the following challenges;
Great Impressions - Pastel colours
Hobby Cutz - Clean and Simple
Opus Gluei - Pastel
Scrappy Frogs - Think spring
Broken Box Stock - Think Spring
Brown Sugar - Spring
DigiHaven - Spring
Divas by Design - Spring Colours

My first ever Saturated Canary image.

Hello, I have always been nervous colouring Saturated Canary images, as they are so intricate and detailed.  I finally faced my demons and coloured up the lovely Jules. I am very pleased with the result and hope you like her too :)

Ingredients

Saturated Canary - Jules Digi

Coloured with Promarkers and Flexi Markers

Sentiment from Stampin' Up,

Mini flower punch

Card, paper, pearls and lace from stash.

I would like to enter her into the following challenges;

Brown Sugar - Anything Goes

Paper Crafting Journey - Ribbon or Lace

Link Up For Pink - Must use pink

I Love Promarkers - Anything Goes

Bearly Mine - Anything Goes

Bunny Zoe Crafts - Girly

Craft Your Passion - Ribbons or Lace

The Pretty Little Ribbon Shop - Happy Birthday



Everyone loves a cute card.

And "Cute" is the theme over at the Willow Sketchie Challenge this week. There is also a sketch you can choose to follow, I went for the theme of cute.  I used one of Sharons gorgeous new digis, which are available here, and a complete bargain at only £1 per digi :D  I used the adorable "George having a nap", and coloured it using Promarkers and Flexmarkers. The prize is a mystery prize sent by Willow Designs .

 

We also have a fab Willow Designs Group over on FB, a chance to chat, share your creations and hear about special offers and new digis :D

 

Ingredients

George having a nap digi - Willow Designs

Promarkers, Flexmarkers

Nesties

Shabby Shutters DI

Tim Holtz garland die

Kraft card base.

Paper, sentiment and ribbon from stash.

 

 

There is also a fab sale over at Willow Designs with 50% off CDRoms and Clear Stamps. Why not pop over and grab a bargain?

 

 

I would like to enter the following challenges;

Crafting By Design - Use alcohol markers.

Stars and Stamps - Show us your green

Top Tip Tuesday - Fur or feathers

The Kraft Journal - Use your scraps(ribbon)

Pause Dream Enjoy - Use ribbon

Platypus Creek Digitals - Anything goes

 



 

It's time to celebrate.

Happy New Year, here's hoping it is a fabulous one for us all.

 

This is my first blog post of 2013 and what better to post about than the fabulous new challenge over at the Sarah Hurley Challenge Blog, and the theme this month...it's "Celebrate".  I made a card for someone who has passed their driving test using the Britannia Kit (which has a massive 50% off) and Craft Basics Kit in Black and White. Both kits are full of great papers that you will use time and time again. The Britannia kit is choc full of iconic images, and I had to use the Mini one as the proud owner of one ;)

Ingredients

Sarah Hurley- Black & White Paper Kit , Britannia Digi Kit

Promarkers,

Di'Namics

One of hubbys old maps.

 

I hope you join in and celebrate with us, there is a fab prize up for grabs.

 

 

 



Christmas with the Christies.

I can't believe Christmas is behind us and we are racing towards a whole new year full of exciting things.

 

I hope you all had a lovely Christmas, we had a very relaxed and peaceful one, just how we like it. 

 

And as is tradition we made our cards to each other. I am ashamed to say hubby is a much better crafter than I am *hangs head*.

 

I used a Karber Digi for hubbys card and opted for Rudolph, as he supports Aberdeen FC and the fans are known as "Rudolphs". Probably because it is soooo cold up there, and you end up with a red nose lololol.  I coloured him(Rudolph not hubby) with Flexmarkers and Promarkers, and used Fluffy Stuff on his hat. I then popped him onto some delicious papers from the Santa's Workshop Christmas Kit from Sarah Hurley. I just love this kit and will be using it throughout the year as it is so versatile, and has more than just Christmas papers in it.  I embellished it with tiny snowflakes in white pearlescent card, popped some wee gems on them and added the word "husband" which I die cut from the Vintage Market die from Tim Holtz, I also distressed this using Black Soot DI.

 

 



Here is hubbys card to me, I love it. I will let you be the judge of which one is best ;-)

 

 

I may start encouraging him to make more cards.

 

I would like to enter my card(the top one) into the following challenges;

Di Digi Designs - Christmas

Craft Us Crazy - Merry Christmas

Hanna and Friends - Christmas

MilkCoffee Challenge - Christmas



 





New challenge over at Just Some Lines.

Hello, there is a new challenge over at Just Some Lines this week and the theme is "Reduce, Reuse and Recycle".  There is also a change of rules and now you can enter the challenge as long as you have used a JSL Digi, there are some fab freebies here. I used Tea Party Time which is available as a free download, so no excuse not to join in.

 

For the "Reduce, reuse, recycle" theme, I made a bookmark and used an old cereal box as my base layer, the ribbon was used as wrapping on a gift from a friend.  I coloured this cute little girl with Promarkers and added some sparkly bits for something extra. The background papers are by Sarah Hurley.

Hope you like her and join in with us this fortnight over at Just Some Lines.

Remember, remember...

The 5th of November, gunpowder, treason and plot.  It's almost Guy Fawkes night, and the theme over at the Sarah Hurley Challenge Blog this month is "Fireworks".  So I decided on a night time scene using my favourite kit, Oz and a hot air balloon from Woodland Whimsies.  I created the scene where Dorothy is returning home from Oz and made some fireworks in the background from gems.

 

I printed out 2 hot air balloons from the Woodland Whimsies kit, cut them out, then used one as a template to make the Oz balloon.  I coloured the basket with Promarkers.  There are lots of amazing papers in the Oz kit, and I used the "Yellow Brick Road" paper as a base for the scene, and used the "Oz" papers for the balloon.  I also used the digi stamps in the kit to make the Wizard, Dorothy and of course ToTo. The fab sentiment is also from the kit, if you like the Wizard of Oz you will love this kit and use it time and time again.

I hope you like this card, and join in with us this month.

There is still time to get your creations submitted to the next Sarah Hurley Lookbook, with all the information you need here. Why not join in?

It's almost Halloween...

And tonight I thought I would finally bite the bullet and enter one of the "13 Days of Halloween" Challenges over at Simply Challenged Challenges. They were ever so slightly short of entrants for a prize to be given out, so thought I would take myself out of my comfort zone and try a Halloween card. I am in the Simply Betty group on Facebook, and they are a great bunch of girls, I even met two of them today and had a great time.  The group also does swaps every now and again, and the gorgeous papers I have used came from my lovely swap partner Emily.

The theme I chose was "candy corn", so my card could only have yellow, orange, white and black as colours.  I used a Simply Betty digi Skeleton Peter, and coloured him with Promarkers. I then pop him onto a nestie cut shape, that I embossed with a Skull and brocade.  I added lots of diecuts(mostly from the lovely Anda), and tried my best to stick to the colour scheme. I hope you like him :D

 

Here is a close up(in better lighting) of the embossed die cut.

 

 

 

Ingredients

Skeleton Peter from Simply Betty Stamps

Nightlight papers by My Minds Eye

Oval Nesties

Cuttlebug Embossing folder

Promarkers

Sizzix, Cheery Lyn and Spellbinders Halloween Dies

Gems and bakers twine from stash.

 

 

I would like to enter him into the following challenges;

Simply Challenged Challenges - Day 11, Candy Corn

Creative Inspirations Paint - Halloween

Robyns Fetish - use an Embossing folder

PanPastel UK - Halloween

Scrappy Frogs Challenge Blog - Halloween

2 Sisters Challenge Blog - Halloween



CraftyMess Challenge Blog - Halloween
Di's Digi Designs - Halloween
My Time To Craft Challenges - Halloween
One Stop Craft Challenge - Halloween
Simply Create Too - Use Orange, Yellow and Black.
Sparkle and Glitter with Rick - Sweet Halloween
4 Crafty Chicks - Halloween
Milk Coffee Challenges - Halloween