Charisma Cardz DT

Another week! Where is time going?! Well we have spent most of the last week at various hospitals/doctors with the little lady in prep for her op next year - fingers crossed all is heading in the right direction!

Anyway in the mean time it's Thursday again, which means it Charisma Cardz Challenge again already!

This week the theme is to make a matching pair of things! You choose, and we cant wait to see what you create. There are some fab prizes up for grabs as well, so go take a peek.

Here is what I made, and in good old Sally style I dropped the box, had chocolate balls everywhere, and it all popped apart! Typical, but never mind hay?! I had to chuckle and chase the chocs before my dog helped to pick them up!

To make I used various punches, Papermania card stock, ribbon & sparkly gems from my stash, versa mark ink, clear embossing powder, acetate, Penny Black sentiment,and some lovely chocolate balls.

Gorjuss Girl.....

Hello, hope the start of the week has been a good one.

Here is a card I made whilst in PINK mode! I have so many yummy papers I would love to use, but always come back to good old trusted pink! So I am gonna try my best to live dangerously and be brave and use other colours - cant be that hard right???

I am going to enter this card into the following challenges:

Paper Players: Clean & simple.

Crafty Creations: White + 1 colour.

Crafts & me: Gems & sparkle.

Lil Lolita: Girlie girl.

Stamp something: Cute.

Secret crafter: Clean & simple.

Quick and cute

............... is this weeks theme over at My Time To Craft. Which I thought was great, so after having a little thinky, I got out my new cuttlebug snowflake die, and started cutting snowflakes out of glitter card (lovely glittery sparkle, I got covered! lol).
I loved making these small cards, these ones remind me of when I was at school many moons ago lol, and it was cool to give out tiny Christmas cards.

All that aside Im so proud of me getting some Christmas cards done already, I might just make a few more like these. I think they will look quite nice twinkling away in the dark Christmas nights to the glow of the fire! - We put the fire on for the first time last nigh as it was freezing, I'm looking forward to the summer again already, lol.

The team over at My Time To Craft is also having a DT call if your interested pop on over.

To make these cards I used:
Cuttlebug snowflake die, plain card stock, nestabilities, doodlebug stamp 'Let it snow', glitter card, papermania brads, sparkly gems.

Christmas in July.....

Here is a card I made for the One Stop Challenge, this weeks theme is Christmas in July.

I have used Anya Angel, coloured her with promarkers and the wings covered with glamour dust. I cut the image out using nesties, the papers are papermania, small snowflakes are a ribbon and the large snowflake is a sizzix die. The sentiment is doodlebug.

Dies to Die For guest design team call & a couple of challenges

Tracy over at Dies To Die For is advertising for a guest spot on her design team, now - I know the chances of getting picked are beyond slim, as there are so many amazingly talented people out there, but I thought I would have a go - what the heck lol..... Here are my two cards for the call.

I have recently purchased some stamps (these gorgeous Anya's) and received fantastic first class service and would love to be associated with such a company - plus Dies To Die For sells sooooooooooooo much more other lovely stuff I could be broke a day after pay day!!!

This card is based on a sketch by Raspberry Ribbons, it is the sketch for their current challenge, I love this sketch, as I like the simplicity of it, to make I used my brand new Anya available here.

Coloured her with Pro Markers, covered the princesses crown & star on the wand in lashings of Glamour Dust, cut out using Nestabilitie die, then mounted onto Pink Petticoat papers with 3d foam pads, I punched the bottom edge to the mounted section out using a Marther Stewart punch, wrapped round a tied a gorgeous pink ribbon, which has a gold shimmer to it, and added a Craft Work Cards sentiment.

The second card I made for the Dies To Die For Guest team spot is also for the Arty Girlz challenge, where this weeks theme is Blue/Yellow Colour Combo. Well using the same Anya (couldn't resist!) I coloured her with Pro Markers, The crown & star I coloured in pastel yellow, and again covered her what should be sparkly bits with Glamour Dust, she was cut out with a nestabilitie die, and mounted onto bazzil and paper from Pink Petticoat, the yellow sparkly gem stars are from Papermania.

Elzybells sketch challenge

I really need to do something about taking scew-wiff photos, this really is a rectangular card! Have just made a new years resolution to sort this little problem out!!!!!!!!!!! It wont be an over night one tough. lol

Over at Elzybells there is a great sketch for this fortnights challenge http://elzybells.typepad.com/my_weblog/. Obviously I have used a gorgeous Elzybells image and sentiment - which I just love. Coloured her with pro markers and paper pieced her with coordinating Pink Petticoat, which are so so yummy when printed out onto silk paper. The big shimmery brown dots are craft work cards toffee treats. Gems are papermania. I added some glamourdust to the princesses crown and skirt - a princess has to sparkle after all!!!! lol. x

Double challenge

Here is a card I made for the Raspberry Ribbons challenge, which is based on a sketch. http://raspberry-ribbons.blogspot.com/, having half made it, whilst blog hopping I came across Cup Cake Challenge, this week the theme is Spots & Dots, so I have doubled it up! http://cupcakecraftchallenges.blogspot.com/.

I have used an Elzybells image and paper pieced her dress, shoes and bow with the same Papermania paper I have used. She is coloured with copics. Cut out using nestabilities. The flowers are from my stash, attached with silicone glue. The card stock is bazzil, the sentiment is Studio G. The main image has been attached using 3d foam pads.

There is a great paper piecing tutorial over on Elzybells blog at the mo, check it out. http://www.elzybells.typepad.com/

Papertake Weekly Challenge

This weeks Papertake Weekly Challenge is based on a great sketch http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/.

Having coloured the below snowmen (in the below post) with copics I thought I'd have another go. This is another lovely stamp I brought at the Exeter craft fair, I love it - I love them all, lol...... I enhanced the flowers by putting glossy accents on them, so htey have a slight glimmer to them. I cut it out with nestability dies, then layered it onto silver matted card, also cut out with scalloped nestability die. I ran some matching silver card through the Divine swirls embossing folder. The silver strip across the front was also run through the dotted embossing folder, the brads are gorgeous made by papermania. The sentiment is by Pink Petticoat, mounted onto matching card cut out using a cuttlebug die.

Double challenge

Here is a card I have made - initially just by colouring in the image, however it soon turned into a birthday card for my cousins little girl Izobel who will be 2 - next May!!!!! I'm a bit worried as I am just not that organised........... I'm sure I will make her several more by then.

This card is for Cute Card Thursday's challenge is: Lots of sparkle!
You can add bling, glitter, baubles, stickles, anything that makes your card sparkle! http://cutecardthursday.blogspot.com/

Also the card is for daring Card Makers is: King (or Queen) for a day, incorporate a Crown (or Tiara) somewhere upon your card!

I coloured the Sugar Nellie image with prismas and sansador, I coloured all the stars in with H2O's, added glossy accents to the tiara star, and glamour dust to the wings. I mounted the image onto some great sparkly/shimmery paper I got from the local craft shop, added a sentiment, and attached it with a small papermania brad, which is covered in tiny stars. The number is chipboard, covered in white card, smothered in glue with a dusting of glamour dust.

The picture has not come out as well as I would have liked as it is dark now, however I have added two pics, one with the flash one, one without, it shows the two tone shimmery paper off a treat!

The pic above was with the flash, and is what the papers look like, below is without the flash.

CCT In the water

This week CCT http://cutecardthursday.blogspot.com/ has a theme of:

In the water!
"As always a little flexibility is allowed in the theme, it can be in, on or beside water and the water can even be frozen i.e. snow or ice! We always look forward to your own interpretations!"

I saw this challenge, and immediatly knew what image I was going to use - does not happen very often! lolo. I have used a Pink Petticoat image (I've re found these little beauties over the past few days!), coloured the image with copics, cut it out with nestabilities, added glamour dust as the bubbles in the bath. The backing paper is K & Co, ribbon is from Hobbycraft, I used a sizzix die to cut out some swirls using bazzil card stock. Prima flowers, and sparkly papermania brads. To finish an Elzybells sentiment, mounted onto green bazzil. I mounted the image to the card using 3D foam pads.

Saturday Sketch Challenge

Here are two cards I made for this weeks Sketch Saturday Challenge http://sketchsaturday.blogspot.com/ , one of which is a Christmas card. I think they are now to late to enter, but thought I would show anyway.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

The first one is a Happy Birthday card, I used a Pink Petticoat image and coloured it with chalks, for the bubbles in the bath, I used glamour dust (so brilliant this stuff - it seems to also last forever!) I cut it out using oval nestabilities, added a Elzybells sentiment, some prima flowers and a woodware brad. The base of the card was embossed using a cuttlebug folders, and I also added some embossed straight lines.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

The second card is again based on the sketch, using a Christmas theme. The image is Magnolia, coloured with prismas and sansador, glamour dust added to the wings, backing papers by DCWV and papermania, sentiments are doodlebug.

Tilda Challenge

I love Magnolia stamps, they are all so lovely. I have recently brought this stamp fingers crossed it arrives tomorrow amongst a load of other goodies I treated myself to! lol

I coloured the image using copics, and the wings with sakura glaze sparkly pen, then mounted it onto bazzil, then onto the lilac bazzil with 3d foam pads.

This is my entry for this weeks Tilda and Co challenge. http://magnoliachallengeblog.blogspot.com/

Image: Magnolia

Backing Paper: papermania

Coloured: Copics

Matting: Nestabilities

Gems: Stash

Ribbon: Stash

Sentiment: Penny Black

Card: Bazzil

Michelle's Bolgoversary candy - Part 1

Michelle at the Card Grotto is giving away some yummy candy, you have to design a card based on her sketch (which I loved). Check out Michelle's bolg http://cardgrotto.blogspot.com/ Here is my card, I coloured it worth primsa's and sansador.

Image: Magnolia (curtsy of Vicky at Cuddly Cards)

Matting: Nestabilities

Card: Bazzil

Papers: Papermania, and DCWV

Flowers: Prima

Brads: Woodware

Sentiment: Penny Black

Coloured: Primsas and Sansador

Arty Girlz Challenge.

Here is a card I have made using a lovely image sent to me by Vicky at Cuddly Cards in a swap. I love this image, I might just have to buy the stamp, he is so cute.

I coloured the stamp with watercolours then went over it with stargazers in the darker blue areas, and the white icing on the cake and plate, it gives it a lovely shimmer.

I have entered this card into the Arty Girlz blog competition, this week the challenge is to make a male card, so here's my attempt! http://artygirlzchallengeblog.blogspot.com/

Image: Sugar Nellie

Backing Papers: Papermania

Shimmer: Stargazers

Brad: Stash

Card: Bazzil

Die Cut: Cuttlebug

Penny Black Challenge and CCT Challenge.

Here is a quick card I made tonight, its another double challenge for Cute Card Thursday, http://cutecardthursday.blogspot.com/ this week the theme Animals Only - No People Allowed!!! Good fun I say. I used the layout on this weeks Penny Black Challenge to make the card. Here is what I came up with. http://pennybfriendssaturdaychallenge.blogspot.com/

Apologies for the poor image, I (as per usual) waited for it to get dark before taking a picture - I must stop doing this. lol.

Image: Penny Black

Backing paper: Papermania

Sentiment: Pink Petticoat

Brad: Stash

Card: Bazzil

Die Cut: Cuttlebug

Friday Sketcher Challenge

Along time, no blogging!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This week has been so crazy, I cant believe its Friday again tomorrow. Here's a quick card I put together based on the Friday sketchers sketch. I love the more simple basic sketch's, I think it is more my style. I used primsas and sansador to colour bella, and added some sparkle to the icing on the cake. I attached the image and the sentiment using 3d foam. http://fridaysketchersblog.blogspot.com/

Image: Bella
Backing papers: Pink Petticoat and HOTP

Sentiment: Craft work cards

Flowers: Prima

Brad: Papermania

Gems: Stash.

Ribbon: Stash

Glitter: Glamour dust

Quadrouple Challenge..........

Here I go again!!!!!!!!! I've managed to do 4 challenges in one with this card!!!!!

Firstly the Tilda and Co challenge was a great sketch, I used my new to me image, which I love. http://magnoliachallengeblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/26-sketch-this.html

The second challenge is DCM which was to create a Christmas card. http://daringcardmakers.blogspot.com/

Third challenge My Time To Craft, which this weeks theme was seasons, hense the Christmas/winter theme. http://www.mytimetocraftchallenge.blogspot.com/

Finally there is the Crafting Mad challenge, to make 1 or 6 Christmas cards, I will probably make some more over the next few days. http://craftingmad.blogspot.com/

Whilst making this card I realised I have put away my existing Christmas stamps somewhere safe, I wanted to stamp a sentiment across the bottom, and heat emboss it with sparkly or glossy poeders. So as soon as I find my stash (hopefully this afternoon, I feel a mission coming on!) I will add it.

I used prismas and sansador to colour the image, and glamour dust to add sparkle to the wings, and a lovely snowflake brad I brought recently as they were a bargain at the local craft shop. :)

Image: Magnolia

Backing Papers: Papermania

Ribbon: Stash

Brad: Dovecraft

Glitter: Glamour dust

Friday Sketcher Challenge

Here is my card for the Friday Sketcher Challenge. I love my Penny Black stamps, and prima flowers. I coloured the image with water colours. I added some small gems, had to have a bit of sparkle on there somewhere. lol

Friday Sketcher Challenge

Image: Penny Black
Papers: K and Co
Card: Bazzil
Flowers: Prima
Brads: Papermania

Papertake weekly challenge

Here is my card for this weeks Papertake Weekly Challenge. I found this one quite hard the challenge was a sketch, which did not appear to have an image on it! Even tough I could have done my own interpretation of it, I decided to stick with the sketch. I'm not sure as tough I like it, but thought I'd put it on anyway.

http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/2008/06/katharinas-sketch5.html

Backing paper: Pink Petticoat

Card: Stash

Sentiment: Pink Petticoat

Ribbon: Stash

Flowers: Prima and stash

Brads: Papermania

Penny Black & Arty Girlz Competitions

This week the challenge set by the Penny Black Saturday Challenge team was friendship, http://pennybfriendssaturdaychallenge.blogspot.com/2008/06/challenge-2-friendship.html I have made this card for my boyfriend's Nan who will be 80 something in the week.
I'm not sure it counts as I've used a hedgy stickeroo, and not a stamp, but it's still Penny Black. I've embossed the card with a cuttlebug folder and stuck sparkly gems in the middle if the flowers.

I took the photos late, so they have not come out to well! The smaller flower is a lovely rich dark blue colour.

Image: Penny Black Stickeroo
Flowers: Prima

Embossing: Cuttlebug

Brad: Papermania

Sentiment: Pink Petticoat
Backing paper: Stash

Card: Bazzil

Flower Stickeroo

Here is another quick stickeroo card I made whilst playing around. I have put this into the Arty Girlz challenge, this weeks theme is pink. Simply brilliant. http://artygirlzchallengeblog.blogspot.com/

Image: Penny Black Stickeroo

Backing paper: Pink Petticoat

Card: Bazzil

Sentiment: Pink Petticoat

Embossing: Cuttlebug