Moo Bookmark

Because I am too much of a pushover and my next door neighbours granddaughter demanded a cow bookmark... she picked the cow topper and picked the paper herself from the Hot of the Press Homegrown pack, all I really did was cut all the various bits on my cameo and put it all together.

I like it so much, I may make a few more with different animal toppers!

Delightful Challenges, Anything Goes!

The Challenge at Delightful Challenges this week is Anything Goes, Freestyle it and have fun! And we're sponsered by Scrappy Land!

I got to play with the brilliant new, Magic Belle! And a sentiment from the Bookmark Sentiment Set!



I love this new set, inspired by J.M. Barries "Peter Pan"! And of course, as an avid reader, I could think of little better than a bookmark, to show it off! I coloured the image with my promarkers, adding glitter to the wings, got some scrap papers from my scrap box (I think one of them is from jillibean soup!) to do the background and added a little ink to the edges. I cut a couple of clouds, with my die cuts, including the sentiment in one and added a few gems and some ribbon, to finish.

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.

365 Cards - Day 287 (Happy and Sad)

It's opposites week on 365 Cards and today's opposites are 'happy and sad'. I pondered this for a while and a quote popped into my head... and then I pondered some more over what to do with the quote! I supposed it could have been used for a sympathy card or something like that, but it didn't quite suit what I wanted, so I started digging through my digital stamps to see what inspiration struck and eventually this is what I came up with:

The card and matching bookmark both use the same image from Digi Darla and I added the computer generated sentiment over the top in Open Office. I love to read and so do a lot of my friends and thinking about how a really good book can make me happy, but also make me feel sad when it's over, it seemed a good fit for the quote!

I coloured the images with promarkers: Sandstone, caramel, vanilla, blush, buttercup, mustard, gold, china blue, sky blue, poppy, ruby, marsh green, forest green, slate and chestnut.

I layered both images onto yellow card (another deliberate choice to use a 'happy' colour and then blue in my image as in 'feeling blue' - I may have over thought it, lol!) and then onto the kraft bases. To the card I added some button twine, a button and some gems as well as a pocket inside to hold a gift card (to a book store of course!) and to the bookmark, I punched a whole and added some ribbon.

Read Books & Dream

This weeks Cupcake Craft Challenge #193, is Book Lover - so I decided I'd make a bookmark, because I can never have to many bookmarks, not with all the books I have! Raspberry Roads Summer Goodness pack and the cloudy paper is from Rachel Harper's 'Lets Fly Away' pack. The image is a pollycraft digi coloured with promarkers - lime green, pear green, marsh green, duck egg, sky blue, sandstone, caramel, henna, chestnut, blush and maroon. I made the words with individual letters from a me-to-you alphabet set and added the heart gem in place of her neckplace, punching a hole and adding ribbon to finish.

I'm also submitting this for LEJ Designs Challenge #4 - Anything But A Card.