Runner

   The theme for the challenge beginning today at Crafty Cardmakers is birthdays.
   I used a cream card for the base of my design. The person I made this card for loves running on the beach so I created the scene by using the digi called Kimberly jogging from Make It Crafty and combining it with a beach picture. I coloured Kimberly using Promarkers and fussy cut the front leg.
   Using the monumental moments die from Tattered Lace I cut LOVE from core'dinations cardstock. Using two oval dies I cut a frame for the O. I then placed the scene behind this, but brought the cut leg to the fore of the die. This was then attached to the base card. I die cut With from core'dinations cardstock and attached this to the card.
   Using the Tattered Lace die Ditsy Clematis I cut three from white card and coloured them using Promarkers. Cutting into them, I placed pieces in various positions about the card and added Stickles to the flower centres.
   Finally using letters from Tattered Lace's vertical sentiments dies I created the phrase happy birthday Alison around the upper half of the O.

   I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
   Crafty Friends - special occasions
   Ooh La La Creations - feminine
   Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - anything goes
   Woopsi Daisy - die cuts/punches
   Brown Sugar - anything goes
   Crafty Sentiments Designs - anything goes
   Catch the Bug - anything goes
   Creative Fingers - anything goes
   Creatalicious - anything goes with let's celebrate
   Inspiration Destination - anything goes
   Kitty Bee Designs - birthday
   Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - anything goes
   Crafty Gals Corner - anything goes
   Make My Monday - no patterned paper

Noel

     One more addition to my cards in readiness for Christmas. I matted the deep red snowflake design paper onto white card and outlined it with gold peel off. I then cut the letters from another piece of design paper and glued them to the left hand side of the card, afterwhich I added some glitter to the letters. I have had the papers in my stash for some time but I believe I printed them using a CD ROM from Debbi Moore Designs.
   The cute litle fairy from Make It Crafty is called Fairy Twinkles. I coloured her using Promarkers, cut her out and added glitter to the wings,before shaping slightly and attaching her to the card using glue gel.
    Finally I used the Tattered Lace die Florentine bells to create the gold mirri card bells. I tied narrow ribbon through the top of them, made a bow and glued it to the centre of the card.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   I Love Promarkers - things with wings
   Craft Your Passion - anything goes
   Craftyhazelnuts Christmas - merry and bright
   Incy Wincy Designs - anything goes
   Crafty Ribbons - anything goes
   Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Extra - anything goes
   Buckwell's Crafty - things with wings
   Fab 'n' Funcky - Christmas
   Inspiration Destination - anything goes
   Crafting By Designs - get ready for Christmas
   Crafthazelnut's Patterned Paper - anything goes
   Penny's Paper-Crafty - anything goes
   Word Art Wednesday - anything goes
   Beccy's Place - anything goes
   Little Miss Muffet - anything goes

Adventurer

   This week the theme for the Crafty Cardmakers and More challenge is 'for a man or boy' and have made a birthday card for the husband of one of my nieces. I have chosen to use part of a digi image from Make It Crafty called 'Family-adventure-boy'. I coloured it using Promarkers and distress inks and matted it onto brown core'dinations cardstock.
   The yellow design paper is from a paper pack which came from an old magazine and this I matted and layered onto brown core'dinations cardstock and white card. I attached a different strip of paper from the same pack to the lower part of the card and bordered it with gold waste peel off.
    From this latter paper I cut the sentiment using Tattered Lace dies and glued them to brown cardstock. I then outlined these using gold peel offs and attached them to the card using foam pads. Lastly I coloured some card candi and glued these to the bottom right hand corner of the card.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Creative Moments - anything goes/man in your life/father's day
   Crafty Gals Corner - the great outdoors
   The Stamping Boutique - summer fun
   Penny's Paper-Crafty - use favourite embellishments (card candi)
   Doodle Pantry - anything goes
   Crafty Boots - father's day/man in your life
   Ribbon Girl - masculine
   Scrapping 4 Fun - birthday
   Crafty Sentiments Designs - for a man
   Papertake Weekly - something for the boys
   Digi Sketch - all about men
   Without Words - summer holidays
   Ooh La La Creations - here comes summer
   I Love Promarkers - anything goes
   Craft Your Passion - anything goes
   Digi Chooseday - father's day/male
   Passion For Promarkers - masculine
   Creative Fingers - anything goes
   Inspiration Destination - anything goes
   Crafting By Design - anything goes
   Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper - anything goes
   Word Art Wednesday - anything goes
   One Stitch At A Time - anything goes with men

Building with dad

   The theme for the new challenge starting today at Creative Corner is 'Just for Dad'.
   I while ago I printed some brickwork paper but the printer was low on inks and so it printed the bricks with a very pink hue. Rather than throw the paper away I dusted it with pumice stone distress ink and used it as the background for this card, matting and layering it onto black and then white card.
   The digi image I used is from Make It Crafty and is called building blocks with dad. I coloured it using Promarkers, dusted the edges using distress inks and matted it onto black card.
   The sentiment was cut from core'dinations cardstock using Tattered Lace dies.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Clear It Out - anything goes
   The Pink Elephant - masculine birthday
   Sweet Stampin - father's day or a special man
   Penny's Paper-Crafty - anything goes
   Pattie's Creations Design - father's day or graduation
   Digi Galore - father's day
   Crafting From The Heart - anything goes
   Addicted to Stamps and More - make your mark
   Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - make it masculine
   Inky Impressions - make it for a man

Looking Fabulous

   Make It Crafty has a design call going on at the moment (until April 12) for a new CAS design team.

   They have some lovely stamps, both rubber and digital. For my card today I combined two of their digital stamps - dandelions and Kimberly-hula-hoop - and printed it out on Neenah card.

   I coloured Kimberly using Promarkers and used the following colours:
      Skin - oatmeal, blush, dusky pink, vanilla
      Hair - cocoa, cinnamon, tan
      Eyes - china blue
      Clothes - china blue, denim blue, powder blue, pastel blue
      Shoes - cool greys 4 and 5
      Hoop - cardinal red, berry red, poppy

   I coloured the dandelions and grass using Spectrum Noir pecils with the following colours:
      Grass - 045, 046, 048, 056, 057
      Flower heads - 003, 015, 020, 068, 112
   I also added 095 to the hair to enhance the darker brown colour.

   Having completed the colouring I cut the card to form a 139 cm sided square and using  the Good Hair Day set of Tatty Twinkles stamps added the sentiment. I then matted this onto a 142 cm sided black card square before attaching it to a 6 inch by 6 inch square card blank.
   Here is the finished card:

 
      I am entering this into the following challenges:

   Make It Crafty - design deam call
   Incy Wincy Designs - clean and simple
   Addicted to Stamps and More - clean and simple
   Papertake Weekly - anything goes
   Glitter n Sparkle - anything goes
   Inspiration Destination - anything goes
   Little Miss Muffet - anything goes

 

A new home

   I coloured this digi stamp called 'Mushroom house' from Make It Crafty using Promarkers. I chose greens, yellows and oranges to mirror the colour of daffodils that are out at the moment as I thought this appropriate for the person who is moving in the next few months. I then matted it onto a square base card. I coloured thin strips of silver peel off using permenant marker pens and outlined the image with them. I also used the same marker pen to colour the peel off sentiment.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Digi Galore - new home
   Little Miss Muffet - spring colours
   Bunny Zoe's Crafts - spring colours
   C.R.A.F.T. - picture inspiration (I used the colours of daffodils)
   Creative Inspirations - anything goes
   My Craft Creations - anything goes
   V's Sweet Ideas - anything goes
   Inspiration Destination - anything goes
   Scrapbook Stamp Society - anything goes
   The Pink Elephant - anything goes

Carly in the spotlight

   The digi I used here is called 'Carly celebrates' and is from Make It Crafty. Having printed it out I lightly, in pencil, drew an oval where I thought the spotlight might fall and then two straight lines from the widest points of the oval to meet above Carly's head. I then coloured it using Spectrum Noir pens and cut it out using a Sellbinders labels 8 die. I cut black card using a Spellbinders decorative labels 8 die and matted the image onto this.
   The background paper is from Papermania and I cut a rectangle from this so that when attached to the blank white card base Happy Birthday would be positioned  under the matted image. I framed this paper with narrow peel off which I had coloured using permenant markers.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Scrapebook Stamp Society - anything goes
   Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - anything goes
   Addicted to Stamps and More - make your mark
   Crafting From the Heart - anything goes
   Word Art Wednesday - anything goes
   Crafty Gals Corner - anything goes
   The Pink Elephant - anything goes
   Party Time Tuesday - anything goes
   Through the Purple Haze - anything goes
   Everyboby Art - anything goes

Gnome is where the heart is

    I can remember as a child walking past a garden in which there was a gnome fishing in a little pond and this is what started my love of gnomes.
   On this card the gnome is a digi stamp from Make It Crafty called 'gnomey-drew' and I have coloured him using Promarkers. The image behind him is another digi from the same company: this time a cropped digi called 'mushroom house'. I faded out the edges of it and coloured it using Dewent coloursoft pencils.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - anything goes
   Whoopsi Daisy - add a sentiment
   Digi Sketch - anything goes
   Creatalicious - anything goes
   Addicted to Stamps and More - anything goes
   Crafting From the Heart - anything goes
   Fantastic Tuesday - anything goes with the twist make it square
   As You Like It -  favourite is digi because you can re-size the image
   Little Miss Muffet - anything goes
   Creative Moments - anything goes

Believe

    Iam not very good at running but I do enjoy being active so I can relate to the sentiment I have used on this card.
   The card was designed by combining various digital images. The background is from My Craft Studio's Setting the Scene CD ROM and the sentiment is from their Papercraft library volume 2. The runner is a Make It Crafty digi called 'kimberley - jogging'. I reduced the second runner in size and also rotated it a little.
    I coloured the background using Spectrum Noir pens and the figures I coloured using Promarkers because I felt this way I would obtain a greater contrast between the background and the figures.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Little Miss Muffet - anything goes
   Eclectic Ellapu - anything goes
   The Pink Elephant - use green
   Make My Monday - a scenic card
   Crafting When We Can - favourite hobby or activity
 

Life's in the balance

   The Make It Crafty digital image I have used on this card is called 'kimberly-weigh-scales' and I coloured it using Promarkers. The sentiment was one I found on a My Craft Studio CD ROM.
   Before attaching the design to a white base card I inked the edges using aPromarker pen.
   I hope my sister enjoys the humour.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Passion For Promarkers - for a special lady
   Inky Impressions - for a special lady
   Papertake Weekly - mum's the word
   In the Pink - for a special lady
   Fab 'n' Funky - focus on the image
   Simon Says Stamp Monday - B is for  ... balance
   A Gem of a Challenge - pretty in pink
   Little Miss Muffet - anything goes
   My Craft Creations - anything goes
   Inspiration Destination - anything goes
   Crafting From the Heart - anything goes
   One Stitch at a Time - anything goes with women
   Creatalicious - anything goes
   Crafting By Designs - anything goes
   Word Art Wednesday - anything goes
   Sweet Stamps  - anything goes

Senior love

   The challenge over at Crafty Cardmakers and More this time has the theme love. I thought what better than the love between two of the older generation and made this anniversary card.
   The image called 'Flirty Seniors' is from Make it Crafty. I stamped it onto watercolour card but coloured it using Promarkers. It wasn't so easy to blend the inks as on the usual card that I use but it seemed to work as long as I was careful at the edges of each section. I then matted it onto black core'dinations cardstock, wrapped ribbon round two corners and then matted onto cream card. The words were cut from deep red core'dinatios cardstock using tattered Lace dies.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Without Words - Je t'aime
   Penny Black and More - anything goes except a digi
   Ooh La La Creations - love
   ABC - c is for cupid
   Allsorts - love is all around
   Winter Wonderland - KISS (keep it sweet and simple)
   The Paper Shelter - be my valentine
   Stamp and Create - all you need is love
   Addicted To CAS - hugs and kisses
   Little Miss Muffet - all you need is love

Never too old for love

   I could not resist this old gentleman and I thought it would make a good Valentine card for the older generation! The stamp is 'Old Calvins flower surprise' from Make It Crafty and after stamping it onto watercolour card I coloured it using Derwent watercolour pencils. I then matted it onto black card. The background papers are green card and red Bazzill Basics paper and the sentiment was cut using Tattered Lace dies.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   My Craft Creations - anything goes
   Whoopsi Daisy - anything goes
   Incy Wincy Designs - sketch
   Crafting Musketeers - valentine
   Crafty Calendar - what's new (stamp)
   Brown Sugar - valentines
   V's Sweet Ideas - something new (stamp)
   Crafty SEntiments Designs - love, valentine's day
   Creative Fingers - anything goes
   Crafting From the Heart - anything goes
   Vintage Stamping - new year, new stash (new stamp)
   Word Art Wednesday - anything goes
   Scribble and Scrap - anything goes
   The Pink Elephant - anything goes
   Through the Purple Haze - love is in the air
   Crafty Creations - something old (papers), something new (stamp)
   Little Miss Muffet - anything goes

Elf snowman

   This began by merging and editing two images from Make It Crafty. The two images were 'family adventure and snowelf'. I coloured it using Promarkers, a silver gel pen and a little bit of glitter. I also added glossy accents to the buttons. I framed it with centura pearl card cut out using the Tattered Lace die krystal, gluing the reverse so that the die cuts did not fall out. I then matted and layered it onto some paper embossed with a silver design, silver mirri and white card.

   I wish to enter this into the following challenges:
   Without Words - Christmas (modern look)
   Send A Smile 4 Kids - winter fun 4 kids
   Passion For Promarkers - bingo (die cut, free, glitter)
   Craftyhazelnut's Christmas - anything goes
   QKR Stampede - Santa or snowman
   Inky Impressions - winter wonderland
   Cupcake Inspirations - winter wonderland
   Imagination Crafts - anything goes
   Love To Create - icy winter days
   Crafty Creations - who wants to build a snowman

Scruffy balancing on a bauble

   I began by attaching two lengths of ribbon to paper printed using Joanna Sheen's triple House Mouse CD ROM. these were to form the ribbon from which the baubles were to hang. I then matted and layered this onto green mirri and white card.
   I die cut  two waste pieces of centura pearl using a Marianne Creatables die and matted each onto a circle of red mirri card and glued them so that they hung at the end of the ribbon lengths.
   At the top of one bauble I attached waste foliage,a Tattered Lace die cut cone and a bow. Above the other I glue gelled a jester so that he appeared to balance on the bauble. This was from a digi stamp from Make It Crafty and coloured using Promarkers in less than 15 minuites! Make It Colourful's November challenge is speedy colouring.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Ooh La La Creations - Christmas
   Whoopsi Daisy - anything goes
   Digi Sketch - dies/punches
   Crafty Sentiments Designs - use die cuts
   Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Extra - anything goes
   Fab 'n' Funky - anything with die cuts
   Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper - anything goes
   Word art Wednesday - anything goes
   Through The Purple Haze - anything goes

Snowelf

   This digi image called 'Snowelf' from Make It Crafty makes me think of what my grandsons could get up to. I can just imagine one of the older boys turning one of his younger siblings into a snowball or at least attempting to! I coloured it using Staedtler biros and applied some glitter to the snowman before matting it onto gold card.
   The sentiment was stamped using a Penny Black stamp. I then embellished the card with centura pearl card snowflakes which had been cut using Tattered Lace dies. I stuck pearls in the centre of largest flakes and mini gem stones in the centre of the smallest flakes.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Fab 'n' Funky - Christmas
   The Paper Shelter - is it too early for Christmas?
   Completely Christmas - anything goes with the twist add a sentiment
   Craftyhazelnut's Christmas - if you want to get ahead get a hat!
   Allsorts - Christmas
   Crafty Calendar - bingo (pearls, sentiment, die cuts)
   Crafty Cardmakers - cut it out
   Brown Sugar - anything goes
   Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Extra - anything goes
   Christmas At Sweet Stampin' - snowflakes
   Lacy Sunshine - include a hat
   The Pink Elephant - anything goes

Birthday presents

   Lots of die cutting on this birthday card. I began by matting and layering yellow core'dinations and brown core'dinations cardstock onto cream card.
   The top band is brown core'dination cardstock with a border cut using a die from the Spellbinders ric rac set. The letters for the sentiment were cut from yellow core'dinations cardstock using Tattered Lace elegant alphabet dies.
   The lower band is again brown core'dinations cardstock to which I attached two borders from yellow core'dinations. These were created using the Tattered Lace victorian rectangle die. I then wrapped a double layer of yellow ribbon round the centre of the band before attaching it to the card. I then made a double bow and glued this to the centre of the ribbon strip.
   The central digi image from Make It Crafty called 'small gifts' was coloured using Spectrum Noirs and  edged with distress inks. I then matted it onto brown core'dinations cardstock.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Ooh La La Creations - use a bow
   Inky Impressions - anything goes
   Brown Sugar - anything goes
   Love To Create - love of ribbon
   The Squirrel and the Fox - happy birthday
   Crafting From the Heart - anything goes
   Word Art Wednesday - anything goes
   Crafting at the Weekend - anything goes

New home

   I coloured this Make it Crafty digi image called 'mushroom home' using Dewent pencils and distress inks. I then matted and layered it onto two pieces of distressed Core'dinations spotted cardstock. Finally I added a peel off sentiment which I had coloured in three colours.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Eureka Stamps - vintage or distressed
   Incy Wincy Designs - anything goes
   A Little Bit Crafty - distress it
   Crafting From The Heart - anything goes
   Suzy Bee's Bloomin' - anything goes/twist must use spots or dots
   Tuesday Throwdown - new home
   Creative Moments - use 3 layers
   Inky Impressions - anything goes

Elves

   These elves appealed to my sense of humour, I just could not resist buying this digi called crackered-elf from Make It Crafty when I saw it. I coloured it using Promarkers and a gold gel pen and then cut it out. The background paper was created using My Craft Studio and I matted and layered it onto green mirri card and white card. I then attached the elves using glue gel having shaped the image slightly. I finished the card with a peel off greeting.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Winter Wonderland - boys will be boys (they must be boy elves - I can see my grandsons behaving like this)
   ABC Christmas - S for something festive
   Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Extra - anything Christmas
   Crafting When We Can - Christmas come early
   Completely Christmas - anything goes

Surfer dad

   This is a freebie digi stamp for those who subscribe to Make It Crafty. I coloured it using Promarkers to match the designer papers that I had and then cut it out using a Spellbinders label eight die. I then shaded the background getting lighter from left to right using distress ink in an attempt to give the impression that the dad was walking from inside to outside, but I don't think it has quite worked. I'll have to have another go sometime.
   The 'bubble' paper was printed using La Pashe's 'something for everyone' CD ROM and the flowery paper was printed from a Crafter's Companion CD ROM. Both were matted onto black mirri card. The sentiment was a take on a famous advert.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Brown Sugar - anything goes
   Crafting From the Heart - anything goes
   Fantastic Tuesday - anything goes
   The Pink Elephant - anything  goes
   Word Art Wednesday - anything goes

Gnome from home

   I have combined two digi stamps from Make it Crafty to make this scene. The background is using the digi 'mushroom house' and I coloured this using some new Spectrum Noir pencils that I recently bought. The digi used for the foreground is 'gnomey - Harry' and this I coloured using Promarkers. I then dusted distress inks around the edges and matted the whole onto navy mirri and white card.

   I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
   Ooh La La - scenic
   I Love Promarkers - anything goes
   Crafty Sentiments Designs - anything goes
   Imagination Crafts - create a scene or summer holiday
   The Squirrel and the Fox - anything goes
   Pile It On - primary colours
   Crafting from the Heart - anything goes
   Fantastic Tuesday - anything goes
   Make It Colourful - atmospheric perspective
   Suzy Bee's Bloomin' - anything goes
   Penny's Paper-Crafty - anything goes