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
  

Fetch A Sketch Challenge 4 - Midway Extra

Welcome to the midway extra for our fourth Fetch A Sketch challenge! Jenny is this fortnight's hostess with a rather wonderful sketch for you to work with. The winner from challenge three has been announced on the challenge blog so pop over to see you if you were the lucky entrant!

Our sponsor for this challenge is Dude Time Doodles and the prize for one lucky entrant is a $10 gift certificate to the store - Bonibleaux Designs. Always perfect for the pesky men but be warned - there are some very must have images in the store!

And the sketch that we have for you to follow is:

Remember, you can flip it, rotate it, add your sentiment and extra embellishments where ever you like, but as long as we can recognise the sketch then we are happy bunnies! You can also use what ever products you like.

For my sample card I've used The Blame Game digi stamp from Dude Time Doodles, coloured it with Promarkers. All the papers are from Funky Hand - All I Want for Xmas download and I've added some faux stitching here and there. The side panels have been cut with my largest Nestie and the sentiment is computer generated.


The five tiny (didn't quite realise just how tiny they were!) are from my stash.

The closing date is 12noon on Sunday 28 August and for more details and how to enter, please pop over to the challenge blog. Good luck!

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

Christmas Card Challenges: Cheer (as in humour)
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge: Keep it Simple
Frosted Designs Fabulous Friday: Animals
Stampin' For The Weekend: Spots and Dots
Heart Song Inspirations: Animals

• Image: The Blame Game from Dude Time Doodles
• Papers: All I Want for Xmas download from Funky Hand
• Dies: Spellbinder Nestabilities
  
• Sentiment: Computer generated
• Everything else: My stash
  

Squiggle Stamps Guest Designer August - Pink & Black & Lace

I won a recent Squiggles challenge and was asked to be a Guest Designer, which of course I accepted in a flash! Thank you for asking me and the digital images are wonderful! Their current challenge is:

Pink and Black with optional lace

I've used the same image twice to create two different card on the same theme. They've been coloured with Promarkers. For this first card (which was used last night as we went to a Wedding Reception - I now feel really old as I can remember the groom being born!!) I used papers from a pack that was given away with a crafting magazine. I can't remember the name of the magazine but a pack of A4 papers was with every issue.

The Wedding was a black and white theme so perfect for the card! The pink is from my stash and I've added 4 dull half pearls to the corners plus I've dotted liquid pearls all around the edges.

The lace is from our local scrapstore and is actually underwear lace!

For my second card I've used some more underwear lace (posh knickers this time!) along with a faux silver slider heart. Papers are from my stash and I'm pretty sure that the larger paper is Funky Hand and the smaller one with the image layered onto it is Kirsty Wiseman - Patti Picklicious cd - I was so pleased to be able to use them as the oddments box is becoming somewhat full and overflowing!

For more details on the Squiggles challenge, please click here! The challenge winner receives £10 gift certificate to spend in the store!

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

Designed To Delight: Pink and Black
Little Claire's Designs: Wedding / Anniversary
Truly Scrumptious: Lace

• Images: Squiggles Digital stamp, coloured with Promarkers
• Papers: All from my stash
• Lace: Scrap store
• Everything else: My stash
  

Football!

And here is the second image that was a new release yesterday from Jellypark! This one is Boy Playing Football and he'e been coloured with Promarkers. I've added a football pitch that has been printed from Colour Me Happy cd from Funky Hand plus an offcut from a previous project. The two darker blue pieces are from my stash and I think both are Bazzill.

A bit of faux stitching plus two snaps in the top corner and my card is complete! And again, the image from Jellypark is a bargain at £1.25!

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

My Mum's Craft Shop: Hobbies and Sports
The Paper Shelter: Stitching - Real or Faux
The Stamping Boutique: Birthday for a Young Male

• Image: Jellypark, coloured with Promarkers
• Printed papers and football pitch: Colour Me Happy cd from Funky Hand
• Everything else: My stash
  

Superboy!

Yesterday saw two new releases in the digi stamps for Jellypark and here is one of them! This one is called Superboy and at only £1.25 it is a bargain! I've enlarged the image with no loss of quality and its around 5 inches tall.

He's been coloured with Promarkers and I've used an offcut of card to attach him to the card base so that he stands up on his own.

The backing papers (fantastic eh?!) are from the Not For Girls cd from Polkadoodles and I've layered it onto some red card and doodled a line around the edge. I think this is going to be one of those cards that I won't want to use!

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

Card Makin' Mama's: Birthday Cards
Cute Card Thursday: Clean and Simple
Moving Along With The Times: Fantasty
Papercraft Star: Use a Book as Inspiration (well, mine is a comic - Superman!)

• Image: Jellypark, coloured with Promarkers
• Papers: Polkadoodle, Not For Girls cd
  

Simply Create Challenge 50 - Distressing

Welcome to another Simply Create challenge! This fortnight we are sponsored by Bonibleaux Designs - otherwise known as Dude Time Doodles. Pop over to the challenge blog to find out what you could win!

The theme this fortnight is:

Distressing

I've used papers from Alison Sloan - these are actually part of a Christmas digital scrapbooking kit called Comfort and Joy but I really like the papers and they are so versatile too! I've distressed the edges with scissors and added some string from the kitchen drawer. You can buy her digital kits here.

I've used Doghouse Doug as my image from Bonibleaux Designs and he's been coloured with Promarkers. I thought he fitted the theme quite well as he does look distressed!

Hope you can join in with us! I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Charisma Cardz: Distressing
Sassy Studios: Distressing
Corrosive Challenge: Earth Tones
Dream Valley Challenges: Distressing

• Image: Doghouse Doug, coloured with Promarkers
• Papers: Alison Sloan, Comfort and Joy Kit
• Everything else: My stash
  
  

Jellypark Challenge 3 - Embellishments

The weeks seem to be slipping by which is no bad thing because it is time for another Jellypark Friday Friends Challenge! Although the challenges are easy peasy its the choosing which Jellypark images to use which is the hard bit for me!

The challenge this fortnight is:

Embellishments

I finally settled on this Dinosaur Boy digi stamp which I've coloured with Aquamarkers. The papers are from Funky Hand - Craft The Year Away cd and I've added some quite realistic (even if I say so myself!) faux stitching around the edges.


A little bit of inking around the image with some very old yet trusty little inkpads and then I went a bit mad with some buttons from my stash! I found a pack of Dress-It Up buttons too which were dinosaurs so added one of them too!

Good luck with the challenge and to see the new releases pop over to the Challenge blog - I'll be blogging the cards I've made with the new releases tomorrow as Friday is a busy day for DT posts for me but you can see my creations on the challenge blog.

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

Moving Along With The Times: Fantasy (dressing up)
Pixie Dust Studio: Boys Will Be Boys
The Paper Shelter: Stitching - Real or Faux
Cupcake Craft: Stitching - Real or Faux
Here Come The Boys: Critters

• Image: Jellypark, coloured with Aquamarkers
• Papers: Funky Hand - Craft The Year Away
• Everything else: My stash
  

Polkadoodle Challenge 32 - Good Luck

Welcome to another Polkadoodle challenge! The challenge theme this week is:

Good Luck

I've made a star shaped card as a good luck at school card for a friend's little boy who will start school this September. I've used a template that I've had for ages and don't know where its come from along with papers (Star Cake) from Paper Boutique Vol 1. I've cut out extra stars and layered them with foam pads and then applied glossy accents over the top.

I've added a faux running stitch around the edges with a blue gel pen and then added some blue gems from my stash.

The banner is double layered and is a Sizzix die. I've coloured it with Promarkers and handwritten the sentiment. Ribbon is from my stash.

Good luck with the challenge and hope you can enter! Closing date is Sunday 21 August.

Crafty Sentiments: Die Cuts and Punches
Pals Paper Arts: 1 Paper, 1 Punch, 1 Sentiment
Shelly's Images: Back To School
Scrapbook Sisters: Stars

• Template: Unknown source
  
• Papers: Paper Boutique Vol 1
  
• Dies: Sizzix banner
  
• Sentiment: Handwritten
• Everything else: My stash
  

Star and Snowflakes

Yep, its another Christmas card - my total is looking pretty impressive now and the end is in sight!

I've used a star shaped template that I've had for some time and can't remember where it came from - I suspect a magazine but cannot be too sure.


The papers are Let It Snow 12x12 stack from Dovecraft and I've glittered the edges. Snowflakes are a Sizzix die and I've used papers from the same stack along with some very glittery centres that I bought from Dunelm last week (49p reduced from £1.99!!)

I'm thinking that it needs a sentiment somewhere but I don't know where or what to put so it will stay like this until I've made my mind up!

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

Cute Card Thursday: Clean and Simple
Digi Doodles Shops Best: Shaped Card
Fab n Funky: Christmas
Ooh La La Creations: Christmas

• Papers: Dovecraft Let It Snow 12x12 paper stack
• Dies: Sizzix Snowflake
• Sparkly Centres: Dunelm mill

Dare You Rattle My Chains?!

Its search for a Guest Designer time over at Dude Time Doodles! And its really easy to join in too - all you have to do is pop over to the challenge blog and snag the freebie on offer, make something with it, blog it, link it back to Dude Time Doodles and you just never know - it could be you!

Gavin Ghost is the freebie and I've coloured him with Aquamarkers and turned him into a doorhanger.
The papers and mini letters are from Spooky Dookie download from Funky Hand and I've added some bat embellishments (made by me!) and some Sizzix die cut ghosties all with wobbly eyes!

And not forgetting the bandage - cheaper the better and I do get some odd looks when trying to work out if its crepe or cotton weave!

Good luck with the Guest Designer hunt! I'd like to enter my doorhanger in the following challenges:

Haunted House Designs: Kreepy Kids (doorhanger for one of them!)

Send A Smile For Kids: Anything Goes (for kids)

• Papers and letters: Spooky Dookie download from Funky Hand
• Image: Gavin Ghost, coloured with Aquamarkers
• Ghosts: Sizzix die cuts
• Bats: By me
• Bandage: Morrisons