Sailing

I'd been asked to make a special 60th Birthday card for a bloke who likes sailing. So here we are! I must say that Rainbow Studios saved the day with this wonderful acrylic stamp which I've used Aquamarkers to colour and I've added a faux stitch around the edge of the image.


It's the first time I've made a shutter card too and it took me a while to work out the dimensions so I got the best use of a sheet of A4 card. I didn't quite get the measurements quite right so the card doesn't actually fold flat (I'll blame the embellishments!) so I'll make a box for it to go in.

All the papers are from an unavailable (sorry!) paper collection from Funky Hand called Boys and Girls and it really is a fab set of papers! I've added buttons from my stash, tied them with button twine from The Ribbon Girl, a computer generated sentiment and a sliver anchor charm which I've just noticed, has spun round on the photos!

I've made a layered oval tag for the message to be written on and it will hang over the back of the card when its packed into the box.

Quite pleased with how its turned out!

I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Jen's Digi Stamps: Non Standard Folds
Karen's Doodles: Fancy Folds
Opus Gluei: By The Sea
Pile It On: Three Different Shades of Blue
Sentimental Sundays: Shaped Card
4 Crafty Chicks: Twine
Digi Doodles Shops Best: Shaped Card
Stampin' B's: Clouds
By The Cute and Girly: The Sea

• Image: Rainbow Studios, coloured with Aquamarkers
• Papers: Funky Hand
• Dies: Sizzix Oval Tag
• Button twine: The Ribbon Girl
  
• Everything else: My stash
  

Dude Time Doodles - August New Release & Blog Hop!

It's the last Wednesday of the month so its time to reveal the new Dude Time Doodles images and to kick it all off we have a blog hop for you!

One of the Dudettes will be the hostess with the mostest and one lucky commenter will win a digi image! So make sure you leave me a comment - I've not yet been the hostess so this could be the one!!

If you've arrived at me from Michelle then you are on the right track although there is no start and end point, just make sure you've visited us all! From me you need to hop to NanaConnie and leave a comment there too!!


I couldn't resist making this image into an Anniversary card! The image is called 'Hand It Over' and is available to buy in the store. I've coloured it with Promarkers and added some Divine Twine from The Ribbon Girl, a computer generated sentiment and the papers are all from Funky Hand - Funky Daze cd.

And before I forget - you don't want to miss out on the very first Dude Time Doodles Scavenger Crawl on 24 August! By all accounts its going to be a lot of fun!

Good luck with the hop and don't forget to leave a comment! Once I'm awake I'll directly link to the blogs in the hop before and after me!

I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Sweet Stop Sketches: Sketch followed
CES: Humour / Funny

• Image: Dude Time Doodles, coloured with Promarkers
• Sentiment: Computer Generated
• Papers: Funky Daze from Funky Hand
  

Racing Car

Continuing with Jacob having a better social life than me, he's been invited to another Birthday party and this time its a go-kart themed one! And what a perfect image from Wags n Whiskers (I chose this as one of my winnings from a previous challenge - thank you!)

The Wags n Whiskers current challenge is:

Birthday

I've coloured it with Promarkers and the papers are from Funky Hand - Rainbow Polkadots download and I've used both the positive and negative spots. The black card is from my stash and I've added a little bit of inking and doodled a line around the edge.

The traffic light buttons are all from my stash - I had a great time trying to find 3 buttons the same size and in the right colours! And the divine twine is from the Ribbon Girl.

My card fits the following challenges:

Card Patterns: Sketch 124 used

Everybody Art Challenge: Dots

Here Come The Boys: Sporty

Pink Gem Challenge: Lets Hear It For The Boys

Sweet Stampin Challenge: One For The Boys

Totally Gorjuss: All About Boys

• Image: Wags n Whiskers, coloured with Promarkers
• Spotty papers: Rainbow Polkadots download from Funky Hand
• Divine Twine: The Ribbon Girl
• Everything else: My stash

Little Cutie

I've recently rediscovered my Polkadoodles cd A Double Sprinkle of Kraft and I've also made a determined effort to use up some of my offcuts of card from when I make a card blank. So I've combined the two!


All the papers and image are from the cd and I've added some divine twine from The Ribbon Girl plus some brads from my stash.

Nice and simple! My dinky little card fits the following challenges:

Willow Sketchie: Sketch
KB Cute Challenge: Use A Digi
Stamptacular Sunday: Animal Antics
Little Claire's Monthly Challenge: Things With Wings

• All papers and image: Polkadoodle Double Sprinkle of Kraft
• Divine Twine: The Ribbon Girl
• Everything else: My stash

Fetch A Sketch Challenge 2 - Midway Extra

Welcome to Fetch A Sketch Challenge 2 and our Midway Extra! The two winners from Challenge 1 have been announced on the Challenge blog so please check to see if you've been lucky!

Dude Time Doodles and Boni the owner and artist is generously offering the winner of this challenge a $10 Gift Certificate! Dude Time Doodles is perfect for those pesky men in your life - the ones that are always difficult to make a card for, but no longer! Dude Time Doodles is your answer! Click on the banner below to be taken to the store:

Dude Time Doodles also have a challenge blog with regular freebies and the chance to become a Guest Designer for a month - pop by the challenge blog for a look! I am also part of the Dude Time Doodles Design Team and I have so much fun with the images!

The sketch, designed by Jenny is below. You can rotate it, flip it, resize it and add embellishments or a sentiment where ever you want, just as long as we can see the elements of the sketch. We've also been joined by some of the Dudettes for this challenge, so pop over to the Challenge blog for more inspiration

As last week, I've made a card with a sheet of dull acetate (its sort of milky looking) and added the star brad threaded with Divine Twine from The Ribbon Girl plus the same colour has been wrapped around the card. I've used Ollie Octopus for my image and he's been coloured with Promarkers. Again, the waves have been made with a die cut that I've used as a template and the handmade paper was generously donated by Lynsey.


Good luck with the challenge - for more details please visit the challenge blog and enter your creation via the blue frog. Closing date for entries is 12noon GMT on Sunday 24 July and the winner will be announced on Monday 1 August. You can use any of your stash and there is no limit on the number of challenges you can enter.

I'd like to enter the following challenges with my card:

Tiffany Doodles: All Creatures Great and Small
Glitter Geeks: Under The Sea (thank you for the top three placing on the last challenge!)
Just Add Ink: Photo Inspriration
Everybody Art Challenge: Maritime

• Image: Dude Time Doodles, coloured with Promarkers
• Divine Twine: The Ribbon Girl
  Everything else: My stash

Polkadoodles Challenge 28 - Summer

Welcome to another Polkadoodles challenge! Already we are upto week 28 which means we are getting closer to Christmas! But this week the challenge is all about summer!

I've made two sets of simple notecards with summery images! Both sets use the Sundae of Season's cd and I used the cropping tool on Adobe to select the area I wanted to print. And then repeated the image onto a sheet of A4 card so I could cut it all out as one. The beach huts fit 3 to a sheet of A4 and the kits 4 to the same sized sheet. The trickiest bit was doing the measuring to make sure that all the cards were the same size!


I've doodled a line around the edges of each card and used buttons from my stash. The button twine is from The Ribbon Girl.
I had a great time choosing which buttons to go with each set! The kites show off three of the colours in the kite with the beach huts going for a pearlescent or white button.

Good luck with the challenge - closing date is Sunday 24 July at 12noon GMT and please remember our rules!

My cards fit the following challenges:

Crafts and Me: Summertime
Divas By Design: Pastels (beach huts)
Papertake Weekly: Hot colours (kites)
Party Time Tuesday's: Blue Skies and Sunny Days

• All images: Sundae of Seasons cd
• Button Twine: The Ribbon Girl
• Everything else: My stash
  

Tea's Up!

Yep, Tea's Up! It's the title of a brand new download from Funky Hand which has been released today! There are lots of wonderful papers which actually include some tea splodges on them, a page of toppers and sentiments and some mini alphas too. Here is one of the samples I've made and I've followed the Ellephantastic Challenge sketch for June.

All the papers including large topper and sentiment are from the Tea's Up download - I've simply layered up the topper and sentiment, added a wobbly doodle, inked edges and added some buttons! The button twine is from The Ribbon Girl and I can see me getting some more of this as its fab!

This is quite a titchy card - about 10cm square so don't think that my buttons are huge ones!

And if the download does fall into your shopping cart, have a look at the Funky Hand challenge blog too - there is a download as a prize for the winner and its open until 14 July!

Oh, and don't forget - Fetch A Sketch launches tomorrow morning at 9am!

I'd also like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Aud Sentiments: Food or Drink Theme
Stampin' B's: Frendship Sentiment

• All paperbased items: Tea's Up download from Funky Hand
• Button twine: The Ribbon Girl
• Everything else: My stash
  

Red, White and Blue (and Yellow!)

I think I got a little carried away with all the stars on this! The image is from Dustin Pike and is for the current challenge which is:

Red, White and Blue

I've coloured the image with Promarkers and used a very generous clear out donation from Lynsey for the thin mulberry type red and blue papers. The buttons are from my stash and I've added Divine Twine from the Ribbon Girl to the centres. The larger stars have been cut with a Cuttlebug die and the tiny ones are a punch, again from Lynsey.

I've added a faux running stitch around the edge of the card and the sentiment is computer generated and I've used some Safmat from Letraset which, despite looking daunting to use on the packet was really simple! I've followed the current sketch from Digi Doodles Shop's Best:

And if you've not already popped over to the Fetch A Sketch pre launch party - please do so but be quick as it ends on Sunday 26 June! Some candy on offer to two lucky commenters plus some extra prizes along the way! The Fetch A Sketch challenges launch on Monday 27 June at 9am!

This card also qualifies for the following challenges:

Off The Wall Craftiness: Red, White and Blue - Inspirational Photo (below)


Cooking It Up With Katie: Use a current sketch, for a Birthday and add Yellow
Stamp Something: July 4th Colour
Craft Us Crazy: Red, White and Blue
Paper Play: Stars and Stripes
Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge: Red, White and Blue

• Image: Dustin Pike, coloured with Promarkers
• Papers: Thin mulberry - donation from Lynsey
• Dies: Cuttlebug
• Divine Twine: The Ribbon Girl
• Everything else: My stash
  

Polkadoodle Challenge 25 - Stashbox Stamp - Red, White & Blue

Welcome to another Polkadoodle challenge! This week the DT have been tasked with raiding through their stamp box (or digi stamp folder) to find an image to use with Polkadoodle papers. The challenge to you is a colour theme:

Red, White and Blue

I've used KO Kurt from Dude Time Doodles and he's been coloured with Promarkers. The sentiment is from Raindrop Echo Designs and I've cut it into a star shape.

All the papers are from the very fab Fathers Day Download (I really do like this collection!) and I've inked the edges. The red, white and blue divine twine is from The Ribbon Girl.

Good luck with the challenge - its open until Sunday 3 July at 12noon GMT.

And if you've not already popped over to the Fetch A Sketch pre launch party - please do so but be quick as it ends on Sunday 26 June! Some candy on offer to two lucky commenters plus some extra prizes along the way! The Fetch A Sketch challenges launch on Monday 27 June at 9am!

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Ladybugs Craft Challenges: Use Red
Tuesday Throwdown - Masculine
Die Cut Dreams: Red, White and Blue
Stamp N Doodle: Masculine and No Flowers
Scrappy Frogs: Simply Red

Sisterhood of Crafters: Men

• Image: KO Kurt from Dude Time Doodles, coloured with Promarkers
• Sentiment: Raindrop Echo Designs
• Papers: Fathers Day Download
• Twine: The Ribbon Girl

More Poppy Notes

I enjoyed making the last set of note cards so much that I decided to make some more with another poppy image in the set from Tiddly Inks! Again I've used off cuts of card to make these long thin note cards.

I've coloured the poppies with Promarkers and added glossy accents to the centres. The sentiment has been stamped with a little Studio G alphabet stamp set and I've added a faux stitched border around the edges.

Red organza and satin ribbon is from my stash and I've tied some button twine in from The Ribbon Girl.

I'd like to enter the note cards into the following challenges:

Sir Stampalot: Photo inspiration (field of poppies)

The Rubber Cafe: Summer
Hanna and Friends: In The Garden
Peachy Keen - Let's Face It Friday's: Patriotic (red for St George's cross of England!)

• Stamps: Tiddly Inks, coloured with Promarkers and Glossy Accents
• Ribbon: My stash
• Button Twine: The Ribbon Girl
• Sentiment: Studio G stamps
  

Dungarees

I found a dungaree template whilst blog hopping and I'm sorry but I can't remember where I got it from so cannot credit the designer. I've added a little t-shirt to the inside of the card with pearlesecent paper and I've added a faux running stitch around the edges.

I've used a sheet of Debbie Mumm's Nursery Rhyme 6.5 x 4.5 glittered stack for the actual dungarees and also added a faux running stitch around the edges with a blue gel pen. The buttons are from my stash and the button twine is from The Ribbon Girl. The pocket has been added with an off cut and is on foam pads.

And if you've not already popped over to the Fetch A Sketch pre launch party - please do so! Some candy on offer to two lucky commenters plus some extra prizes along the way! The Fetch A Sketch challenges launch on Monday 27 June at 9am!

My card fits the following challenges:

Fab n Funky: Templates
Anita Be Stamping: Shaped Cards

Aly's Sunday Challenge: All About Kids

Creative Inspirations: Stitching

Marks Finest Papers: Buttons

Word Play Weekend: Blue

• Template: Can't remember
• Papers: Debbie Mumm - Nursery Rhyme 6.5 x 4.5, pearlescent paper from my stash
• Button Twine: The Ribbon Girl
• Buttons: My stash

Poppy Notes

I've directly printed onto the card with these poppy images as the Tiddly Inks challenge this week is:

One Layer

It wasn't quite as easy to print 3 on a sheet of A4 as the printer doesn't like the last bit of the card so I had to print two then turn the card around and print the last one! The poppy image is part of a small set that I was sent by Christy for taking part as a guest in the recent Tiddly Inks Treasure Hunt, so to use them was perfect for this challenge!

I've coloured them with Promarkers and added a faux running stitch around the edges with a fineliner black pen. All the buttons are from my stash and the button twine is from The Ribbon Girl as I won a recent Penny Black Saturday challenge and they were the sponsor! Really quick delivery and great communication from them too!

And if you've not already popped over to the Fetch A Sketch pre launch party - please do so but be quick as it ends on Sunday 26 June! Some candy on offer to two lucky commenter's plus some extra prizes along the way! The Fetch A Sketch challenges launch on Monday 27 June at 9am!

These note cards also fit the following challenges:

Digi Doodle Shop's Best: Stitching
Art Impressions Stamps: Buttons and Bows
CRAFT: Stitching
Hanna and Friends: In The Garden
Stamp Insanity: Clean and Simple
Paper Pretties: Single Layer Cards
Crazy 4 Challenges: Twine, String etc

• Image: Tiddly Inks, coloured with Promarkers
• Button Twine: The Ribbon Girl
• Buttons: My stash