Autumn Colours

The days are still flying by at a rate of knots here.  It's mid October and in a blink we'll all be saying it's Christmas.  For now, let's celebrate the season we're in.  After a cold and misty start yesterday, the day improved and we had a lovely sunny afternoon.  Perfect for a garden tidy.

Before I get onto that though I must tell you about the latest challenge over at Diva's by Design, it's,

Autumn Colours

And they are in all their glory at the moment!

So, my card uses a fantastic digi by From The Heart, and some LOTV paper & kraft.

Colouring is by Promarkers and then the card is finished off with ribbon, buttons and a Pippa butterfly.

Sponsoring this weeks Diva's challenge is the wonderful Iva Nova Chest, who are offering the lucky winner a "Charming" prize!

Challenges;
Stampin For The Weekend - Anything goes
Creative Craft Challenges - Anything Goes
Papertake - Happy Halloween Hues - or Autumn - mines more Autumn!
Shopping Our Stash - Oldest ribbon - this one has to be in this category, it was bought a couple of years ago in Germany.
Tuesday Throwdown - Pumpkin Patch
Craft Your Passion - Embossing
Tammy's Scrapin Corner - Fall Colours
Pink Elephant - Pumpkin Photo Inspiration
Without Words - Pumpkins
Glitter n Sparkle - Add some Orange
Chocolate Coffee & Cards - Autumn

A Delightful Snowman

... by Designed 2 Delight - but not a delightful story!!!

How do you store your digi's?

& more importantly, do you have a BACK-UP?

Our hard drive started playing up last night, and at one point, I could no longer access all my digi images - & there are one or two!  Luckily my husband managed to recover them all, but I had no back up so if they had gone - they would have been gone for ever!  So today's lesson it, burn a CD, save to a stick - do something & make sure you have a back up cause it is just too painful to loose all your lovely stamps!

Anyway my story had a happy ending but it was a bit of a scare! On a happier note, Femo mogs is happier after her two injections from the vet and is back to her normal self.

Finally, the card!

A D2D image, coloured with Promarkers, glittered with glamour dust and set on Craft Companion papers.

Challenges;
Chocolate Coffee & Cards - Layout
Designed2Delight - October Monthly challenge
Crafty Catz - Lets Have Sparkle
Fussy & Fancy - Feelin Blue
Charisma Cardz - Cool Colours
CHCC - Use something over 6 months old - The papers are about 2 years old  Jx

Inspired By A Song (Or Film)

... but I went with a song...

And the song is - Kids In America by Kim Wilde a hit back in 1981 for all the youngsters out there!  I was at school when it reached No 1 and for anyone interested, here's a blast from the past!

So,

Inspired By A  Film or Song

Is the latest theme for the Oldie But A Goodie Challenge set this time by the lovely Laurie.

To join the challenge, please follow the theme and include something older than 6 months on your project and tell us what it is.

My Oldie was the paper - Doodlebug - from a set which is a few years old now.

The sponsor this time is the ever so generous Bugaboo Stamps & one lucky winner will receive 7 free digi's of their choice.

My card features the lovely Ava, a Bugaboo Digi along with a freebie stamp from Designed2Delight, & it's still available last time I checked!

Challenges;
Designed2Delight - September Challenge
Pile It On - For A Child
Fussy & Fancy - Trip Around The World - The card is for a little girl having a farewell birthday party before moving to America with her parents.
MAWTT - Seeing red
Song Bird - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

For more inspiration visit the main blog & see what the rest of the DT made, Jx

Photo Inspiration

Where is the summer? 24th July and the school holidays are romping by and we still haven't seen much of the sun. We didn't even see much of it in Berlin either which was a bit disappointing!

Anyway, Lisa has a lovely summery inspirational picture for us all to focus on for the current Oldie But A Goodie Challenge, so we can look at it and dream of sunny days!

The challenge this time is sponsored by The Digi Doodle shop and one lucky winner will receive a $10 spend in their shop if they are the chosen winner. Remember though that as well as following the theme, you must also include an item older than 6 months on your card, and let us know what it is.

For my card I went with a Designed2Delight from months back, old papers & an old ribbon, gosh even the sentiment stamp was over 6 months, so this card really is a golden oldie!

Challenges;
Dream Valley Challenges - Summer
Our Craft Lounge - Sunny Days
Patties Creations - Summertime
Poodles Parlour - Use A Digi
The Stampman - Anything Goes/Summer Colours
Fussy & Fancy - Photo Inspiration - Beach pic
Come & Get It - Bingo - Ribbon/Free/Punched Shapes - Orange Ribbon/Candi/Punched Flowers.
Crafty Ribbons - By The Sea
Passion For Promarkers - Feelin Fruity - Fruity images or colours - Tangerine/Orange colour.

Now please head over to the main blog page and check out the other DT cards - there are some beauties there this time so I think we have all really jumped on the sunny theme. Jx