Silver bells

    Some years ago I bought some glitter flakes but until now I have never used them. They have just been sitting with my stash. After several failed attempts I managed to arrive at this image which uses silver flakes and an image stamped onto black card using a Sheena Douglas silver bells rubber stamp from the A Little Bit Festive range . I matted and layered it onto grey and white cards and then edged it with narrow silver ribbon adding a clear gem to three of the corners. The sentiment was from the same stamp set.

    I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

   Beccy's Place - holiday cards

   Craty Catz - anything goes

   Craftyhazelnut's Christmas - anything goes

   Allsorts - anything goes with optional lace

   CCC Digi Creations - Christmas is on it's way

   Lemon Shortbread - anything goes

   Catch The Bug - anything  goes

   Craft Rocket - Christmas/winter

   Through The Craft Room Door - anything goes

   A Perfect Time To Craft - anything goes

   

H is for holly

    I matted and layered white card onto gold mirri and then white card. The holly swirls were cut out using a die from Sheena Douglass's Deck the Halls collection, stamped using the coordinating stamp and coloured using Promarkers. The sentiment was stamped using a stamp from the same set and I added six red gems to finish the card.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

   Beccy's Place - holiday cards

   Allsorts - anything goes with optional lace

   Crafty Calendar - anything goes

   Crafty Sentiments Designs - anything goes

   Creative Craft Cottage - Christmas/winter

   Catch The Bug - anything goes

   Craft Rocket - Christmas/winter

   Sweet Stampin' - use red

   A Gem of a Challenge - anything goes

   A Perfect Time to Craft - anything goes

   Aud Sentiments - Anything goes

Lovebirds

   The new challenge at Crafty Cardmakers has the theme of love.
   I have used Sheena Douglass' A Little Bit Sketchy Lovebirds stamp and coloured it using Promarkers. I then matted and layered it onto two shades of green card and white card.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Crafty Friends - anything goes
   Penny Black and More - anything goes with the option of tags
   Creative Inspirations - with love
   Cute Card Thursday - anything goes
   I Love Promarkers - anything goes with optional dies/punches
   Digi Choosday - anything goes
   Passion For Promarkers - flora and fauna
   Stamping Sensations - all things bright and beautiful
   Addicted to Stamps - anything but a square
   Brown Sugar - love
   Digi Designs - all about love
   Scrapping 4 Fun - love
   2 Crafty Critter Crazies - anything goes
   Fabrika Fantasy - anything goes with love
   Catch The Bug - love is in the air
   Creative Fingers - anything goes
   Creatalicious - anything goes with love, hearts
   Crafting By Designs - anything goes
   Kitty Bee Designs - love and valentine
   Penny's Paper-Crafty - anything goes
   Jo's Scrap Shack - anything goes
   Pattie's Creations Design - love
   CraftyGals Corner - CAS
   A Gem of a Challenge - anything goes
   Alphabet - w is for wings

Noel

   The theme for this fortnight's challenge at Crafty Cardmakers is wet or dry embossing. I have gone with dry embossing using Sheena Douglass' festive embossing folder and colouring it using Promarkers.
   I began by applying glitter to the edges of green card and then matted the embossed design onto it. I then applied glitter randomly to the holly leaves and berries. The sentiment was cut from coloured card using Tattered Laces' ornamental Noel die.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Crafty Friends - anything goes
   Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - anything goes
   Crafty Catz - anything goes
   Winter Wonderland - Christmas birds
   Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - frame it
   Dream Valley - add some bling
   Christmas At Sweet Stampin' - anything goes

Orange flowers

   This week the challenge at Crafting From the Heart is just for fun.
   I stamped the flowers from Sheena Douglass' A little Bit Sketchy Humming Bird stamp set several times and fussy cut them to decoupage the flowers, colouring them using Promarkers. The sentiment was cut using the Tattered Lace ornamental best wishes die and again coloured using Promarkers. I added faux stitching to make the border of my design.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Crafty Friends - anything goes
   Penny Black and More - in the garden
   Digi Choosday - anything goes
   Stamping Sensations - anything goes
   The Crafty Addicts - anything goes with say it with flowers
   4 Crafty Chicks - birds n blooms
   Creatalicious - anything goes with flowers
   Craft Rocket - birthday
   LeAnn's World - anything goes
   Jo's Scrap Shack - anything goes

Old car

    Another challenge starts today at QKR Stampede and I thought that I would try a new technique - stencilling.
    The stencil from Sheena Douglass  was used to create the background to the digi image (called old car). I used Distress Inks for this and Promarkers for the digi. The sentiment was cut from both white and black card using a Tattered Lace ornamental best wishes die.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - anything goes
   I Love Promarkers - anything goes with for a boy
   Digi Choosday - anything goes
   Passion For Promarkers - make it manly
   Whoopsi Daisy - anything goes with hand coloured image
   Stamping Sensations - anything goes
   Crafty Catz - anything goes
   Lemon Shortbread - anything goes
   Crafting By Designs - anything goes
   Kitty Bee Designs - masculine cards
   Crafty Girls Creations - anything goes
   Penny's Paper-Crafty - anything goes
   Sweet Stampin' - dad or special man
   Creative Moments - anything goes
   Little Miss Muffet - anything goes

Anemone

   The theme for this fortnight's challenge at Crafty Cardmakers is birthdays.
   I matted pale green pearlescent card onto purple mirri and white card. To make the flower design I used Sheena Douglass' Adorable Anemone dies and stamps from the full bloom set. I stamped and cut several layers to build up a decoupaged image colouring them using Promarkers and added some flourishes cut from black card. The sentiment was also cut from black card using Tattered Lace's happy birthday swirl die.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Crafty Friends - flowers
   Whoopsi Daisy - anything goes with flowers
   Crafty Catz - anything goes with optional CAS
   Creative Fingers - anything goes
   Creatalicious - anything goes with dies and punches
   Crafting By Designs - anything goes
   Seize The Birthday - anything goes with vibrant colours
   Craft Rocket - flowers
   Through The Craft Room Door - anything goes
   Simon Says Stamp Monday - flower power
   Everybody Art - die
   As You Like It - favourite colouring medium (alcohol pens as I find I can blend more easily with these than with pencils or paint)
   Penny's Paper-Crafty - anything goes
   Jo's Scrap Shack - anything goes
 

Holiday scene

   This week at Creative Corner we want you to use an old stamp in our challenge. Many of us have stamps in our stash that we have not used for a while, so come and join us in the fun.
   For this card I have used one from Sheena Douglass called 'Stream of life'. It reminds me of the summer holidays I used to spend in the Lake District. I coloured it using Promarkers and after matting and layering it onto black card and silver mirri card I added Glossy accents to the river in the foreground and the stretch of water in the background.
   I wrapped black ribbon round the lower part of mauve core'dinations cardstock before matting and layering that onto black and then white card. I then added light mauve and black card candi to the ribbon.

   I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
   Crafting Musketeers - stamped image
   Digi Sketch - use a stamp
   Papertake Weekly - anything goes
   Crafty Sentiments Designs - anything goes
   Hobby Cutz - no designer paper
   Scribble and Scrap - anything goes
   V's Sweet Ideas - summer fun
   Loves Rubber Stamps - anything goes
   Scrapbook Stamp Society - anything goes
   Fantastic Tuesday - summer
   Crafty Creations - it's all about 's' (summer, scenic, stream)
   Crafting at the Weekend - anything goes
   Addicted to Stamps and More - holiday
   Sweet Pea Stampers - photo inspiration

Forget-me-nots

  

   The challenge at Creative Corner this week is for mum. I thought what better flower to use than the forget-me-not especially as my garden is covered with them at the moment.

    I used a Floral Fantasy stamp from Sheena Douglas, stamping it in opposite corners of the white card and coloured the image using Promarkers. I attached green ribbon diagonally across this before matting and layering it onto blue mirri card and white card.

    I cut blue centura pearl card using a Spellbinders labels six die and coloured the edge using a Promarker pen, before edging with green peel off. I then stamped my sentiment on it and attached it to the card. Three larger flowers were stamped, coloured, cut out, shaped and glued to the die cut. Finally I attached a bow and gems to the ribbon.

   I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

   Paper Pretties – mother’s day/spring

   Crafty Little Fairies – in the garden

   Whoopsi Daisy – hand coloured image

   Inky Impressions – anything goes

   Stampotique Designers – flowers

   Digi Sketch – spring time

   Crafty Ribbons – anything goes with ribbon

   Crafty Sentiments Designs – anything goes

   Glitter and Sparkle – add some ribbon

   A Little bit Crafty – flower power

   Pile It On – rubber stamping

   Scrapbook Stamp Society – anything goes + optional use of a sentiment

   Simon Says Stamp Wednesday – anything goes

   Crafting From the Heart – anything goes

   Fantastic Tuesday – floral

   Vintage Stamping – anything goes

   Scribble and Scrap – anything goes

   Sweet Stampin’ – no designer paper

   Lacy Sunshine – favourite colour combo (blue, yellow & green)

   Challenges 4 Everybody – anything goes

   The Pink Elephant – favourite pastel colour combo (blue, yellow & green)

   Creative Moments – anything goes/spring

   QKR Stampede - mother's day

   Crafting at the Weekend – anything goes

Sunrise

   For this card I played around with lots of different coloured distress inks
   The image is taken from 'Lakeside Shore' by Sheena Douglas and I wanted to create a sunrise picture.       Before dusting the sky area with the inks I masked off the sun and clouds.  When I had finished 'playing' I removed the mask and coloured the image using Promarkers. I then matted and layered the picture, brown mirri card and orange mirri card onto white card. I then stamped and coloured a branch from the same stamp set, cut it out, shaped it and attached it with glue gel to the right hand side of the card. A sentiment finished the card.

   I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
   Crafting With Dragonflies - card with nature/trees/leaves
   Without Words - pumpkins ( I've taken the colours green, orange, brown and purple!)
   Crafty Little Fairies - anything goes
   Eureka Stamps - halloween colours
   Scribbles Designs - shades of orange
   Kaboodle Doodles -  halloween colours
   QKR Stampede - seeing orange

Dreaming?

   I have had this set of stamps called Bah! Humbug!1 from Sheena Douglas for some time but have never got round to using them, so I thought it was about time that they saw the light of day!
   Having stamped the images I masked off the edges and dusted the top half with distress inks (dusty concord, faded jeans and black soot). The chimneys and and roof tops were coloured using Promarkers and then I removed the masking tape. I then added lots of glitter (although it doesn't  show in the photograph) to the roofs. This was then matted and layered onto navy and dark violet mirri card.
   I stamped snowflakes onto the white base card before attaching the image to it. Finally a sentiment was added.

   I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
   Penny Black and More - anything goes
   I Love Promarkers - snowflakes
   Crafty Little Fairies - Christmas in October
   Crafting Musketeers - Christmas in October
   Addicted to Stamps - Christmas is coming
   Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Extra - anything goes