Truly Scrumptious and Daisy & Dandelion challenge card

Evening all!!

This card is my entry for the Truly Scrumptious sketch challenge and the Daisy & Dandelion challenge blog.

The Truly Scrumptious challenge was to follow the sketch (below) and also to add something shiny to the card. I've added shiny brads, gems and a Papermania metal tag around my cute little bird sentiment!!

The challenge on the Daisy & Dandelion blog was to make a card for a friend, so I thought the 'with love' sentiment would be good!!






Products used:

Daisy and little bird stamps from the Daisy & Dandelion clear stamp set, stamped in black ink, clear embossed and coloured with whispers brushmarkers.
Printed papers from the Daisy & Dandelion Picnic Patch collection.
Flowers punched with medium & small xcut punch.
Adhesive gems, brads & metal tag - all Papermania.
Ribbons are from Craftime.
Cardstock from stash.

Thanks for looking!!

Creative Inspirations Challenge 1

Morning all!!

This is my entry for the first challenge on the new Creative Inspirations Challenge blog. This week was a sketch challenge:

I've used a Sugar Nellie stamp - 'Rockpool Fun' which I've coloured in with brushmarkers and twinkling h2o's.

The printed papers and sentiment came from Claire Curd's CCSR Big One paper pack.

The edges are inked with ColorBox fluid chalk in Creamy Brown.

Cardstock and shells from stash.

Thanks for looking!! You can check out the new Creative Inspirations challenge blog here!!

3in1 Easter challenge card

Well, this is another 3in1 challenge card (trying to save a bit of time while I have visitors!!!).

The design of this card is for Loretta's sketch challenge over on DoCrafts. The theme is Easter for the Spoon Full of Sugar challenge and I have used lots of glitter glue for the G is for Glitter challenge on the ABC challenge site!!

The stamps I've used were part of a 3pack I bought from MadAboutCards - not sure of the brand! Stamped with black Stazon and coloured with Whispers brushmarkers.

Paper - Papermania Retro Flowers pad

Chipboard shapes - Papermanina, coloured with permanent pens then covered with Glitz It Sparkles glitter glue

I also used Glitz It Sparkles as a border round my stamped images

All edges inked with ColorBox fluid chalk

Yellow card and ribbon from stash

Thanks for looking!!

Back to basics challenge card

Hello everyone! Hope you all had a good weekend and didn't forget to put the clocks forward!! It's been nice here today, after the snow we had yesterday!

This card is my entry for the Back to Basics challenge on Sue, Playing with Paper's blog. The rules included that no patterned paper was to be used (aarrgh - that was a tough one!!), or die cuts, punches, prima flowers etc (see Sue's blog for full details). Much to my relief, stamps were allowed - so I used the largest one I had to fill up my card!!!!

The stamp is an Anita's one I got for a bargain in DoCrafts Christmas sale. I stamped the image twice, coloured in and cut out the flowers. I layered them up then added some Anita's Clear Gloss. I chalked the background of the stamped image with yellow and green Dovecraft chalks.

I needed to fill the back of my card blank, so I stamped all round it with a small flower border stamp and clear Versamark ink, then dabbed purple chalk all over it. It actually looks quite pretty but doesn't show up on the photo very well!!!

The red rafia is very 'basic' - it came from the Christmas wrapping section at Tesco's!! In fact, I've used this quite a lot, it's been very useful!!!

I hope I manged to meet all the conditions of the challenge! This was a fun one!!

Stampin' Chic sketch challenge no.2

Well, I'm cutting it very fine with this one!! This is my entry for the Stampin' Chic sketch challenge no.2, and also for Clare Curd's weekly challenge on the DoCrafts website.





The stamp is from CCSR new 'for him' range. I stamped it three times, on white card and two patterned papers, embossed and then cut out and pieced it together. I didn't like the colour of the trousers in the end so went over them with a brown brush marker.

Faux stitching added by piercing holes with a pokey tool and then a brown brush marker again.

Backing papers - CCSR Big One paper pack
Metal rimmed velum tag and black & white brads - Papermania
Ribbon - from stash
Card - local craft shop
Edges inked with black ColourBox fluid chalk
'Best Wishes' stamp also from CCSR.

Thanks for looking!!

Claire xx

Sugar Bowl challenge card

First of all I'd like to say a big 'Thank You' to everyone who has been visiting my blog and leaving me lovely comments!! It's much appreciated so thank you very much!!!

The card I have today is the one I made for my mother-in-law for Mother's Day. It is my challege card for the Sugar Bowl challenge site. The challenge was to make a Mother's Day project using one of the Sugar Nellie stamps.

The stamp I used was Daisy (yes, again!!) watercoloured with brushmarkers. I pricked the egdes and added faux stitching.

Patterned papers from CCSR Big One paper pack and a DoCrafts goody bag.

Silk flowers - Papermania

Card - Core-dinations

Small purple flowers punched from Core-dinations new Gemstones cardstock

White button - came from my MIL

Tiny buttons - Bought online recently, can't remember where from, will try and find out!!

Ribbon was a freebie from a craft magazine

Edges inked with ColourBox fluid chalk.

Thanks for looking!!!

3 in 1 challenge card!!

Just a quick one tonight as my Mum is coming to visit tomorrow and I need to clean the house!!! I've got a lot of visitors over the next few weeks so may not be able to make as many cards as usual - but I will try really hard to keep looking at everyone's blogs!!!

This is a record for me - 3 challenges in 1 card!! I have to admit this was quite an easy one. The ABC challenge was to use flowers and the challenges on Daring Cardmakers and Clare Curd's DoCraft challenge were both to do something girlie!!

I've used my favourite Daisy stamp from Sugar Nellie and my CCSR BigOne paper pack (I love these papers!!!). The stamp is coloured with Whispers brushmarkers.

Other products used:

Happy Birthday stamp - Scrappy Cat
Silk flowers, large paper flowers & brads - Papermania
Small paper flowers and card - local card shop
Ribbon - from stash (think it might have been Christmas wrapping ribbon from Tesco!!)

Thanks for looking and I hope to be back soon!!