Special Delivery

Two cards today surely makes up for the lack of productivity yesterday! At least that's what I'm going with! :D

I used papers from Grace Taylor's Lullaby paper pack, which is just so cute! I cut the heart circle on my cameo, but the border along the middle was done with a border punch from Martha Stewart.

The adorable image is from Digital Delights by Louby Loo and I've coloured it of course with my ProMarkers and I've paired it with a computer generated sentiment. The bear was cut on my cameo and I used twine and some gems to embellish.

I'm submitting this for:

- The Paper Players - It's Hip To Be Square
- Clear It Out Challenge - Anything Goes
- Crafting When We Can #100 - Ribbon, Twine or Washi

Baby Congratulations

Who doesn't love a new baby coming into the world? But what I love less, is when the parents don't want to tell you the sex and what colour do you do? Gender neutral can have it's benefits! These papers are from Authentique and are a little bolder than I'd usually use for a baby card, but actually, I like it.

The image is from Digi Doodle Shop, the image panel and the layer was cut on my cameo and the image was coloured with my promarkers. I kept the embellishments simple, with just a few gems.

I'm submitting this for:
- Creative Corner Challenges - For Baby
- Moving Along With The Times - Baby Baby
- Creative Fingers Challenge #86 - Anything Goes
- Fun With Shapes #186 - Grey/Yellow/White
- Crafty Friends Challenge - Anything Goes

Delightful Challenges! Add Ribbon!

The Challenge at Delightful Challenges this week is Add Ribbon! And we're sponsered by (Magnolia-licious)!

I got to play with the brilliant, Little Dumpling and Stork! And a sentiment from the It's for You sentiment set! I also got to use the fab Just Girls digital paper pack.



The image is coloured with my promarkers, I used a pale pink card base and ribbon from stampin' up! And of course, I had to have gems.

Don't forget to go over to the Digital Delights Challenge Blog and check out what the rest of the Design Team has done this week and enter your own card!

And check out the website for more fabulous Digital Delights by loobyloo.

New Baby

Wow it has been forever! The last few months have been a series of one health problem after another and a lot of doctors and tests that have resulted in a lot of treating the symptoms with no idea what the underlying cause is. I have full appreciation for the NHS and for everything the doctors have been trying, but oh how I wish they'd just figure out whats causing it all, so I can go back to whatever passes for normal for me.

One of the big problems is that I'm so constantly exhausted, some days I barely have the energy to do the stuff I *have* to do, never mind the stuff I want to do, which means crafting has been pretty much none existent and I haven't been looking at the challenges at all... but do I miss crafting, so I decided to have a gander at some of the challenges this week and this is what I came up with...

I used jillibean soup papers - homemade 6 bean soup - the giraffe stamp is from Flonzcraft and the sentiment stamp was a freebie from a magazine. Layered them all up on red card and mounted on a white card base.

I used the sketch from CAS Colours and Sketches and the animals theme from Charisma Cardz this week, as my inspriration.

Even though this is a very simple card, after so long not making anything it was a lot of fun to get something done again, now I just have to find time - or say screw it to the housework and make time, lol - where I'm not so exhausted, to make more than one card every 3 months!

CAS Baby Girl

I used an adorable image from Papercrafts Magazine, coloured with promarkers: pale pink, pastle pink, soft peach, rose pink, dusy rose, cerise.

A scrap of paper from me-to-you down the side, a sentiment from Stampin' Up and some pearl darning thread, a button and some pearls to embellish.

I'm submitting this for:
- Charisma Cardz Challenges #52 - Monochrome
- A Gem of A Challenge #62 - New Beginnings
- Crafty Calender Challenge - Whats New
- My Time To Craft #203 - All About The New.
- LEJ Designs #35 - Something New

Sent From Above

I used me to you paper layered on papermania shimmer textured card stock and an image from pollycraft coloured in promarkers: china blue, duck egg, cool aqua, cornflower, demim blue, sky blue, vanilla and blush. (note to self: buy some pastel blues! lol!). The sentiment is computer generated (font: 'Ain't Nothing Fancy')

I added a sheer blue ribbon, button and chipboard embellishment from my stash to finish.

I'm submitting this to:
- Sketch Saturday #239 - sketch
- 365 Cards #1 - New Beginnings
- Stampavie and More #184 - Blue and White
- I Love Promarkers #149 - Monochrome
- Crafty Sentiments Designs - New
- Passion for Promarkers #179 - New Beginnings

9 Months on the Inside

I came across the stamp and sentiment recently while tootling about on Bugaboo and I just had to get it! I've coloured it with promarkers: vanilla, blush, cornflower, denim blue, china blue, lipstick red and pastel pink.

The paper is from a craft magazine (I think crafts beautiful...) and it's layered on textured card from papermania. I used ribbon, an embellishment I've had laying around in a drawer for aaaaaaages and a few gems, to embellish.

I'm submitting this for:
- Winter Wonderland - New Beginnings
- Mojo Monday #274 - Sketch
- Little Miss Muffet #51 - Anything Goes
- Paper Makeup Stamps: Digi Makeover #69 - Anything Goes

Hello Baby

A friend of my mum's recently had a baby girl - which was very inconvenient of her, because I only had baby boy cards handy in my stash ;) - so I sat down this afternoon, and this is what I came up with.

I printed the images are from Pink Cat Studio's and cut the squares with my nesties, then coloured with promarkers: pastel pink, pale pink, soft peach, rose pink sandstone, caramel, spice, terracotta, warm grey 1, warm grey 2, amber and honeycomb.

The DP is from a me-to-you paper pack. I stamped the sentiment from stampin' up and I added the punched butterflies (yesterday, I got the two woodware punches - and some promarkers - while I was 'just passing by' craft world, lol) and pink gems from my stash to embellish.
br> I'm submitting this for:
- Ladybug Crafts Ink - Bingo (Top Row: Die Cuts, Pink Gems, Butterflies)
- CPS-Card Sketches #285 - Sketch
- Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Challenge #73 - Hip to be Square

Pals Paper Arts #137

I used an image from pollycraft for this, coloured with promarkers - vanilla, buttercup, canary, duck egg, cornflower and blush and a sentiment from papercrafts magazine. The papers are me-to-you, layered on pale blue card. Embellished with ribbon, gems and a little wooden rocking horse embellishment.

I used the sketch from Pals Paper Arts #137:

CAS Baby Girl

A clean and simple card for a baby girl, using some £1 stamps I got ages ago. I used my nesties to cut the holes and kept back the squares to stamp the images onto them, edging them with the same pale pink ink and sticking them to the inside of the card so they would show through the holes. The sentiment is from Stampin' up and I embellished with twine and gems.

I am entering this for:
- Daring Cardmakers - A Hole in One
- Crafty Creations Challenges #175 - Baby, Baby

Hello Baby

I wanted to use a boat image on a baby card - but the boat stamp I've got really isn't what I'd use for a baby card, so I decided to make one out of paper and card - I've seen this done before and think it looks really cute!

I used scraps of design paper from Homemade Magazine and Allison Butler, raising the boat base and one of the sails on dimension pads and stamped the sentiment from stampin' up, cutting it to use as a little flag for my boat, embellished with a bit of twine and some gems to finish.

I'm submitting this for:
- Oh La La Creations #107 - Baby Baby
- My Mum's Craft Shop #61 - Clean and Simple
- Creative Inspirations #167 - Trooping the Colour (Red, White and Blue)
- Cupcake Craft Challenge #196 - Red, White and Blue

Double Trouble

I used a freebie image from Beyond The Fringe and mirrored it, colouring with promarkers - lime green, pear green, almond, blush and rose pink, inking the back ground with a sponge in light blue.

The papers are from the Me-to-You 'Especially For You' paper pack layered on a pale yellow card. The sentiment is computer generated and I finished with a few pearls.

I used the sketch from Papertake Weekly Challenge #68, flipped around:



I'm also submitting for:
- My Time to Craft #180 - It Takes Two
- Simon Says - Anything Goes
- PaperPlay Challenges '12 - Week 22 - Double Delight
- Crafting for All Seasons #28 - Many Layers
- I Love Promarkers #119 - Use a Digi

New Arrival

I made a base card using kraft card and over laid it with a white panel, with a computer generated sentiment, added the ribbon and tied a bow, from sew sweet. I used another adorable Pollycraft image, coloured with promarkers - marsh green, pear green, sandstone, caramel and henna. Cut the image out and stuck on with dimensional pads, adding a few gems to finish.

I'm submitting this for the following challenges:
- "Less Is More" #68 - Baby or Child
- Fussy and Fancy Friday - New Baby
- Delightful Challenges - Add Ribbon

Baby Stars

Not quite a traditional baby card - but then I sort of loath the whole 'pink for a girl/blue for a boy' thing anyway, lol! - I used papers from We R Memory Keepers Travel Light and Woodland Folk. The stamp is from Pollycraft, coloured with promarkers - bright orange, amber, honeycomb, spice and blush.

I cut and I separated the star shaped balloon from the rest of the image and raised it on dimensional pads, brushing over it lightly with a papermania orange ink pad. The stars were some pre-cuts a friend sent me, the sentiment from Stampin' Up and I finished with a few gems.

I used the sketch from The Sweet Stop #158:

And I'm also submitting to the following challenges:
- Everybody Art Challenge #192 - Baby
- One Stop Craft Challenge #182 - Monochrome

"Less is More": Week 66 Colour Challenge

"Less is More" has their new challenge up today and as the first week of the month, it's a colour challenge - Yellow! I love yellow, it's such a bright sunny colour, but I don't use it nearly enough really, so this was a great reason to do so!

I've also been meaning to make more baby cards, because I had literally one in stock and goddess help me if anyone had a boy, because it's pink, lol. Yellow is a lovely colour for babies, boy or girl, so I decided it was perfect for this challenge.

I used a pollycraft digi, coloured with promarkers - canary, buttercup, vanilla, mustard, blush, lime green and apple. I sponged a the yellow onto my base card and added the yellow gingham ribbon and the little sun charm, before adding the cut out digi stamp resting on dimensional's and finally added the sentiment from Stampin' Up in dark green ink.

CAS-ual Fridays: CFC42

It's Friday, which of course means CAS-ual Fridays!

CFC42: Hey Baby! Clean And Simple Baby Projects

I used stamps from a little set I got out of the £1 store *ages* ago and some black card and pink paper from my scraps box.

I'm also submitting this for 365 Cards - Day 1 - New Beginnings.

Welcome Little One

Sketch 'N Stash had a great challenge this week to pick any of their past sketches to make a card - as I only recently found this challenge blog, it was a great excuse to dip into all the sketches I'd missed.

I picked sketch #49, which you can see below:

I also combined this with a few other challenges:
C.R.A.F.T Challenge - #139 Recipe: A Digital Image, Some Ribbon, Some Buttons.
The Pink Elephant - #133 Recipe: 1 Image, 2 Pattern Papers, 3 Buttons.
My Time To Craft - #172 A is for Adorable
Passion for Promarkers - #134 New Beginnings
Party Time Tuesday - #53 Anything Goes

I used 2 different patterned papers from Papercraft Inspirations Magazine. The image is a gorgeous digi from Pollycraft 'Moon Lullaby 2 - Closed', coloured with promarkers - Blush, Duckegg, Cornflower, Poppy, Buttercup and Canary.

The sentiment was a pre-printed freebie - I forget where from. I used yellow and blue card from the Paper company and ran the blue card through my cuttlebug with the swiss dots folder. I then sewed in the ribbon - which is brand new stash, just bought from of all places, the local discount book store a few days ago! - and 3 buttons and added some glitter glue to the cloud for a bit of sparkle.

365 Cards - Day 314: Super Sketch Sunday

Sundays 365 Cards challenge 314 was Super Sketch Sunday

This is the sketch:

This is my card:

I used paper from my Best Of K & Company Too block - the sentiment 'Sunshine' was already on the paper. The image came from the amazing Sliekje Digi Stamps - the stamps are free and totally fantastic, I highly recommend taking a peek! - and the ribbon and gems came from my stash.

I must confess - although anyone at all familiar with me will know this very well! - I'm not a fan of pink and I'm even less a fan of the idea that pink must be for girls and blue for boys, but even so, I'm very happy with how this card turned out.