Aqua & Red Willow, Part II

This is the second of the three Whiff of Joy images that I coloured for their Aqua & Red Challenge. I've based my card on this week's CPS Challenge sketch.

I've stamped Willow and masked her to sit her on the toboggan, she's coloured with Copics and there are Stickles on the toboggan's runners. The image is edged with Distress Ink in Broken China and I'm also entering Corrosive Distressing Challenge. The DPs are, again, free downloads from Summertime Designs. The card candy and the sentiment are from Craftwork Cards.

Another Christmas Card for 2010!

Here's another Christmas card made before we get out of this snowy, wintry weather. I'm starting to run out of steam with Christmas and have some really fun DT work to post soon, so Christmas will soon take a back seat :). I've copper embossed a Tim Holtz reindeer onto a background of tree stamps and sponging with Distress Inks. The card is matted onto copper pearlescent card and then onto more of that lovely Magnolia DP I've been hoarding. I've rotated this week's CPS Challenge sketch, added a Craftwork Cards sentiment and some ribbon from my stash. Again, I've stuck to my resolution to minimise embellishments to avoid all that extra postage on my Christmas cards :). It's not quite so bad when it's a birthday card here and there but it's quite a shock when you're posting 30 or 40 cards at once!

Bella & Bronte get their skates on again

This card is for Mo Manning's Challenge, which uses a recipe this week of three different papers, two ribbons and one decorative edge. I've used the sketch from this week's Card Positioning Challenge and I'm also entering it into DU2DS's Glitter Challenge.

Image is coloured with Copics and lots of Diamond Stickles. It's mounted onto a Nestie scalloped rectangle (my decorative edge). The three DPs are Stampin' Up. The blue ribbon was originally cream and has been coloured with Copics. The sentiment is Papermania. I think I've used this image more than anything else so far for Christmas cards!

A Simple Thank You Would Do!

This card is made using a new embossing folder that I bought at the NEC on Friday. It's by Quick Kutz and I fell for it in a big way :). I played around with the folder and several different types of cardstock, as well as chalks and Distress Inks, on Saturday night when I was waiting up late to collect my son from a party and in an absolute haze of exhaustion. I looked at what I'd done and didn't like any of it. Happily after a day or so I decided that I did like them after all :).

The card is finished just in time for this week's Simon Says Challenge: Give Thanks and I've based it on a very clean and simple sketch from this week's Card Positioning Systems Challenge.

Hammered card for watercolouring was dry embossed and inked with Pine Needles and Old Paper inks, some green Stickles added to the flowerheads. Sentiment stamp has no brand name on it, sorry. Gems and organza ribbon from stash.

"A simple thank you would do" is one of those phrases you tend to use a lot with teenagers.... LOL!

A Day Without Coffee... Well You Don't Want To Know!

There's still time to join in the Digi-Day Challenge run by Shirleys2Girls over on SNR Card Universe. There is a free digi-image and set of sentiments to use with it. Create something with it and post it on SNR Card Universe before tonight and you could win an Shirleys2Girls stamp. If you join the group there (easy, no strings attached) even better. At present there are over 130 members of the group. If we get to 150 or more members then the Girls will post another free image to use!

I've based my card on the simple, effective sketch at Card Positioning Systems for their challenge this week and I've followed Stamp Something's Challenge of using of mainly using the colour brown.

The digi image was coloured using copics; the edges were inked with Distress Ink and Adirondack Mushroom, the steam and marshmallows were added with "Fluffy Stuff" snow. Papers are Basic Grey mounted onto metallic brown card, ribbon from stash. I've more ideas for this digi; watch this space :). Oh and don't forget to join in the fun over at SNR Card Universe.

Yum, yum, yum

Good Afternoon, I've only one card to post for the weekend, I'm at the international Festival of Quilts, living it up, looking at the quilts, meeting old and new friends and teaching Young Quilter workshops.

This card is made to celebrate Cupcake Craft Challenge's 1st birthday. The theme is "Something Sweet", I've used cupcake stamps from Hero Arts in their honour :). There's a great blog hop and some amazing prizes to be won, make sure you enter! Happy Birthday CCC!
CPS Card sketches, I love cards with multiples of three on them, don't you think cardmaking is like gardening, when in doubt work in threes of fives?

The card is fairly simple: cupcakes are paper pieced from plain pink and a stripe, with Stickles blinging up the hearts. The papers are all K & Co, purple gems added and all put onto a Kraft card. Blue grosgrain ribbon is from my stash.

Sweet Summer Sun - and 8 challenges!

It's been a lovely hot day today, in fact it's been hot for a few days and I've been drawn to making a hot summer sunshine card. I've begun with the very simple, very usable sketch from the CPS Challenge blog this week. I've used some lovely images from My Grafico, a set called Garden Elements and I've coloured them with Koh-i-Noor pencils in hot pinks and oranges to match Michelle's Summertime theme on the Digital Tuesday Challenge. This is also the theme at Cupcake Craft Challenges so I'm entering it for this Challenge too. Sadly Cupcake Craft is closing down as a challenge, it will be their last challenge next week. A Challenge blog is a big commitment and a lot of work, thank you to all the Cupcake gals for running their challenges for so long :). There's yet another Summer Challenge to enter at A Spoon Full of Sugar this week!

The challenge this week at One Stop Craft Challenge is to use Fruity Colours, so I'm entering my orange and raspberry card, though it has no actual fruit on it, it still fits the bill. Charisma Cards has an open challenge that you can enter up to four times, that they've called Rubbernecker Week after their sponsor, so here's entry #2 to their challenge. And last but definitely not least, my blogging friend Danni has a Flutterby Wednesday theme of creating an outdoorsy card with a butterfly of fairy. OK I make that SEVEN challenges in one card - yippee! :).

PS My Grafico has a Summer/4th July challenge which Martha has reminded me about (see my post below). So that makes it a record EIGHT!

Now, on to the card...

Digi images from My Grafico were printed twice and coloured with Koh-iNoor pencils. Flowers were cut out and added to the image with 3d sticky dots. The image was edged with Distress Ink in Worn Lipstick and matted onto pink card. The DP is an Artylicious printed paper from my Graphicus Guild membership. The Hero Arts sentiment is stamped onto orange Bazzill card and the whole of it matted onto pink. The butterfly from the set was then stuck down, some Glossy Acents and Stickles blinged it up a bit and I added two butterfly brads from a special offer pack I bought at Made by You. Enjoy the summer and I hope you enjoyed looking at the card!

CPS Challenge 112

I've used a pretty sketch from Card Positioning System's blog challenge to make this simple card. It isn't easy to get a good photo of it, the paper used is silver and black and it looks better in real life! The paper, card flowers and faux brads are all from Craftwork Cards. The two sentiments are both from a Hero Arts set of birthday greetings.