Sunny Days

Good morning all!

Happy Monday to you.

I'm full of the joys today because the sun is shining & I'm not in work all week.

As it's the Edinburgh Festival & Fringe this month,

we've taken some leave to join in the fun!

Anyhoo, as it's Monday, it's time for the new challenge over at

Eureka Stamps where the theme for this week is

#154 Sunny Days (use a sun on your project)
Here's my card!

The images I have chosen to work with are

Digi 20207(205) Smiling Sun and Digi 7701 Cheerleader

I decided if the sun was shining, the colours needed to be bright & cheerful.

I found a piece of paper in my scraps box, (it's from La Pashe), with just

the colours I was looking for!

I found a lovely piece of cardstock to match the pink & took it from there.

The images were coloured using my promarkers

The sentiment was done on my pc in DJB The Cheerleader font.

I cut the fishtails by hand. I used spellbinders dies to cut my ovals & a 

Martha Stewart punch for the butterfly.

The little pearls have been kicking about my stash forever!

I had great fun making this card & I love how it turned out.

I did actually intend to colour the pom poms & perhaps add a little glitter

But hey ho, I forgot I've decided she looks fine as she is so she'll stay that way.

I hope you can play along in the challenge

I'd like to add this card to the following challenges:
613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes
Pile It On - Bright Colours
A Gem of A Challenge - One For The Girls
Crafting With Friends - Anything Goes
Crafting With An Attitude - Anything Goes
In The Pink - Anything Goes (In Pink)
Crafting For All Seasons - Bright & Beautiful
Stampavie & More - Sport
Digi Chooseday - Diecuts & Punches
Fan-Tastic Tuesday - Anything Goes (Include A Butterfly)

Seaside Anchor

Good morning all!

How time flies, it's Thursday already!

Time for this weeks Just Inklined card !

I've made a Beachy type card! The image I have used is

Seaside Anchor 

a perfect image for a male or perhaps just a beach lover.

So many occasions spring to mind.....

I used a Kraft base with a strip of corrugated card in the same colour.

Some gauze, raffia, fish charms, an anchor charm & a little shell.

I coloured my image with promarkers. The sand was done with a distress

marker. I have only one, in Vintage Linen, but it worked perfectly for the sand!

The sky was Tumbled Glass Distress Ink.

I popped up the image on some foam tape.

The usual side view to finish!

Hope you like it! Thanks for hopping by!

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Fresh Brewed Designs - Seaside/Summer

Inky Impressions - No DP

Wonderful Wednesdays - Always Anything Goes

Crafty Sentiement Designs - Hand Coloured Image

Creative Card Crew - Sea/Beach

Everybody Art Challenge - Corrugated Cardboard

Craft and Smash -  Shells, Sand & Sea

Dies R Us - Day At The Beach

Card Mania - How Charming

Caravan Club

Good Morning Campers! Hi Di Hi!!!

It's Thursday which means it's time for me to share a card

made using a Just Inklined image! 

The image I have used is Caravan Club.

It's one of the many images which are exclusive to 

The Best Of Just Inklined 2012 CD Rom

I have to say, I've had my copy for a good while but I still keep

 finding more & more wonderful things on it!

Here' a closer look at the image,I coloured it with my watercolour pencils!

I've had them for years but I've only just started to use them & still have a lot to learn!

The papers I have used are American Crafts. 

The flower was cut from the beige paper & I cut one from another 

sheet then layered them after embossing then a bit for some dimension. 

The buttons are from my stash!

Thanks so much for popping in today!

I'd like to enter my card in the following challenges:

Sassy Studio Designs - Vacation or Travel Theme

By LORi Designs - Designer Paper

Creative Belli - Summer

Inky Impressions - Button It

Pollycraft Challenges - Fun In The Sun

Can You Digi It - Holiday Hullaballo (Summer Holiday)

City Crafter Challenge - Summer Time

Crafty Sentiments - Summer Holiday

Inky Chicks - Summer Colours

Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps - Neon Colours

C is For Challenge - Fresh & Bright

Creative Stamp Friends - Summer Sun Holidays

Summer's Here

Good Morning all! Sunday already!

Today's little card is for The Crafting Cafe where the 

challenge theme is Summer's Here!

How true that is here in the UK, I'm just loving it!

Our sponsor this time is our lovely Lindsay

LEJ Designs

Who provided the DT with some cracking images to create with!

The image I have used is Beachy Fun

The papers are from a Do Crafts Creativity Club Members Download

I did some paper tearing & added touches of giltter.

The sentiment is from the download too. 

This wasn't the original sentiment.I had it printed & cut

 but I lost it in a bundle of me stash & though I searched high & low I couldn't find it!

 That is until the card was done of coursewhen it just fell at my feet! LOL!

 Is it just me that happens to?

The sky is tumbled glass distress ink & I drew in some birds with 

a Letraset fine marker.

I decorated the inside of the card too but omitted the glitter as

I find that clogs up your biro when you write your message!

Thanks for popping in!

You have until the end of the month to enter the challenge so 

if you haven't done so you'd best get cracking!

I'd like to enter this little card in the folowing challenges

Pan Pastel UK Challenge - Summer

Hiding In My Craft Room - Freestyle

Chocolate Coffee Cards - Life's A Beach

Stampin With The Dragon - On The Beach

Stempelsonnen Challenge - Summer

Wags N Whiskers - Summer Fun

Southern Girls - No Spoolin

Baffies Kreativladen - Water

Creative Moments - Holidays/Vacation

Inky Impressions - Summer

Creative Card Crew - The Great Outdoors

Going Grey With Scrap Creations - Vacation

A Meringue To Share

Good morning all!

Todays card was commissioned by my dear MIL.

She asked for a birthday card featuring a meringue. Eeek I thought, that's a challenge!

I trawled the internet but I just couldn't find a digi image of a meringue anywhere.

I happened to ask in one of my facebook groups & lo & behold,

I woke up next morning to find that my hero, the awesome, very talented  & truly
 lovely Jak Heath had drawn one especially for me! 

Isn't it just gorgeous! Looks good enough to eat!

Meringues with Strawberries & Cream just scream summer to me!

I printed out the image 3 times, coloured them all with promarkers,

 then cut & layered them up with pinflair glue to give some dimesion.

The papers I have used are from the fabulous

Kitschy Kitchen pad by Melissa Frances

A little look at the inside too!

Thanks for popping in!

I'm going to enter this card in the following challenges:

One Stitch At A Time - Use A Digi

Totally Gorjuss - Sweet

Graph'It Markers - Candy Colours ( being a Dental Nurse, I went for Sula sugar free Strawberry & cream)

Polkadoodles - Summer Fun

YNS - Sketch & Photo Insp.

Crafty Ribbons - Anything Goes With Ribbon

DL Art Thankful Thursday Challenge - Summer

Dream It Up - Summertime

Rhedd & Rosie Challenge - Here Comes Summer

Mondays Child

Good Morning all,

I hope we're all well & having a great weekend so far!

Here I am with a little card I made for my Great Nephews 2nd Birthday

The image I have used is Mondays Child (b) from Mo's Digital Pencil

I love Mo's images, they are just too cute!

My GN was born on a Monday so this image was the obvious choice!

Coloured with a mix of flexmarkers & promarkers.

I kept the colours to yellows & greens as they are colours

which shout sunshine & summer to me!

The sentiment was made on the pc using a free font called

 Sunshine Poppy  it's one of my favourite fonts at the moment.

The papers are by First Edition the stack is called Hideaway.
You can't see the inside but I decorated it in a similar fashion.
Thank for dropping by!

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:
Bronte & Bella's Challenge - Fun In The Sun

Colour Me Creative - Colours Of Summer

Di's Digi Designs - Summer Fun

Little Claires - Male Theme

My Sheri Crafts - Birthday

Brown Sugar - Boy/Man

Fairy Tale - Happy Birthday (2)

Jellypark Challenges - Celebrate Summer

Auds Sentiment Challenge - Summer

DRS Designs - The letter B (Boy, Birthday, Bunting)

Milk Coffee Challenge - Summer Fun

My Heart Pieces Digital Stamps Challenge - Use A Digi (3)

LEJ Designs - The Sun Has Got His Hat On

Paper Minutes - Sun, Summer, Sunshine

Craft Your Passion - In The Garden

Eureka Stamps - Summer Fun

Nikki in The Pink

Hey crafty bloggers!

I just had to share another little card I made.

This is for a dear friend.

She loves pink!

I do hope she likes this!

The image is Birthday Nikki from Ladybug Crafts Ink,

coloured with Promarkes & Flexmarkers.

She's just so adorable, I just love this stamp!

The border punch is from Martha Stewart.

I distressed the edges of the image & the pink spotty paper, which is from a 

Papermania, Capsule Collection & inked the edges with a little inkpad!

The sentiment is a See D's Stamp from my stash!

I've had it forever & hardly used them at all so I've dusted

them off & am remedying that! 

The pink ribbon & brads were from my stash!

I added a little decoration to the inside to balance the card!

Here she is on an angle

Silly me forgot to add the ribbon between the layers so had to add it after 

the card was assembled. To tidy it up, I just added a panel of the papers.

Thanks for coming by!

I'd like to enter the following Challenges:

Ladybug Crafts Ink TLT Summer Fun 

Crafty Catz Ribbons & Bows

Frosted Designs Fabulous Fridays Twine Ribbons

Pattie's Creations Birthdays 

Little Miss Muffet Challenges Pink

Catered Crop Distress

Great Impressions Anything With Animals (Nikki's Tiny Poodle)

Scrapper's Delights Paper Crafts Birthday

Stampin' Sisters In Christ Use Die's Punches or Shapes of any kind

Pile It On Something With P (Pink, Punch,Poodle, Parcels)