Beach time

Pattie, at Patties Creations, is challenging us with...

"Beach / Under the sea"

this month.... 

I took the beach element and used her image "Beach Cabana Trio".

It was a simple image to colour... with my promarkers and other alcohol pens. 

I used the pointilism technique to try and make the sand look textured.

(Lots of little dots, in slightly different colours)

I added a sea-line, behind the sand, as I felt it needed sea too.  

A little strip of Dovecraft paper sits above and below the image,

with an embossed line the other side of the paper: one on top, on along the bottom.

I found a spotty paper, which I cut a couple of bunting flags from. 

The birds are lovely little diecuts.

Sheepski designs - atg - 1 Sept

Creative moments - atg - 21 Aug

I love Promarkers - atg - 18 Aug

Lil red wagon - happy days - 13 Aug

Jans digi stamps - atg -  5 Sept

FRIENDS cards for friends

I have a few friends who are big FRIENDS fans!

I had a go at making a few cards for them on that theme...

For Kirsty's card, I printed off some images

and popped a few of them on 3d foam. 

I downloaded the FRIENDS font 

for the wording on the card.

For Craig's card, I thought about the famous framed spy-hole they have in the door.

(  "The police don't visit" - is a private joke! )

I 3d-foamed the central perk logo at the bottom. 

I downloaded the FRIENDS font for the wording. 

Happy birthday boy

Over at The Colour Crazy Challenge this time,

we are being sponsored by the popular: Paper Shelter.

This cute little image is called "Casual boy".

I coloured him with my promarkers and alcohol pens

and ran an embossing folder through my bigshot, to make the background. 

The frame was diecut too, and the stars and sentiment! I like how this card came together. 

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Ice cream Trio

Pattie, over at Patties Creations, is challenging us this month, with

"Anything goes!"

You can use any hand-coloured image for this challenge. 

She has a whole range of fabulous images in her digi store

and I used "ice cream trio" for this card.

My Father-in-law LOVES ice-cream. 

This is a card for him, for Fathers day. 

Neopolitan in particular...that's why I used the

3 colour here, for the flavours: vanilla, strawberry and chocolate. 

The Image comes as plain double-scoop ie creams: I added the toppings of 

strawberry sauce, hundreds and thousands, and a cherry - myself!

The top scoop of each ice cream has been mounted on 3d foam for a bit of height. 

The red / white gingham (I thought) looked like a little napkin behind the cones. 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Retro geek

Dr Digi are our sponsors this time, over at the

Colour Crazy Challenge. 

I got a fabulous set of sentiment images... Comic sentiments. 

The set has 6 uncoloured images as well as a bunch of coloured images! 

I chose to use 2 (uncoloured) images to make 2 cards.

For this first card, I chose to colour the image with my promarker alcohol markers

and I used a fab retro backing paper behind it. 

A small red border underneath the sentiment and some balloons fussy-cut

 from a piece of docrafts paper, finished this card.

Oh, I wanted a clean, crisp edge around each of the  parts of this card, 

so carefully edged each element with a dark brown promarker.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Cute card challenge - masculine - 18 June
I love promarkers - atg / for a boy - 23 June
Digi choosday - atg - 19 June

For this card,

I fussy-cut around the sentiment, after colouring it with my alcohol markers

and mounted it onto a black / red / white strip combo. 

I found the retro backing in my stash - 

it is actually a sticky-backed sheet! 

I have no clue where I got this from, only that I've had it for a long time

and I thought it was retro enough to go with the coloured sentiment. 

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Creative knockouts - atg - 19 June

Crafty Gals - you're the man  -  10 July

Jans digi stamps - atg - 6 July

Fathers Day

At Patties Creations this month, 

we challenge you with:  "Things that fly."

I used the image "Hot air balloon" and the freebie hot air balloon.

I was really struggling to make a sky background for this card.

Then my hubby asked if he could use my desk in my craft room

to do some encaustic art.

He's not done any for ages, but seeing as we have had a fair bit of time at home and done plenty

of jobs, he thought he would have a play.

Encaustic art (incase you don't know) is

painting with wax on an iron! I'm rubbish at it! 

He has all the stuff and I cleared my table:

on the premise that he made me some background pieces. 

So here is the background he made for me. Perfect for sitting the 

balloons on, which I coloured with my promarkers and 

other alcohol pens. I dry embossed the edge of the card. 

I love this card - and that its a combination of both

of our creative skills. 

I'm giving this to Dad for Fathers Day.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
Crafty creations - atg - 1 July
Simon says stamp - masculine - 18 June
Paper funday - atg / masculine - 1 July
Crafty catz - atg - 12 June
Simon says stamp - its a man thing ( make your own background) - 16 June
Cardz 4 Guyz  - fathers day - 16 June
Through the craft room door - atg - 17 June

Fairy wishes

Hi!

At the Colour Crazy Challenge this week, we have the sponsor

Ching Chou Kuik

this time, for our "anything goes" challenge.

This lovely image is called " starry wish".

I coloured it with my promarkers and alcohol pens 

and diecut around the image, letting the edge of the wings sit just outside the diecut.

The paper in the background is a freebie that came with a magazine some time ago. 

I inked the edges of the diecut and the punched stars with 

4 colours... to create a fantasy / rainbow feel.
A finishing touch I like and used on this card
is dry embossing round the edge of the backing paper.  

The diecut shape is lifted slightly, as I mounted it on 3d foam. 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
Lil patch of crafty friends - atg - 6 June

Ching chou Kuik - embossing wet / dry - 1 June
Crafty gals - for the ladies - 20 June
Seize the birthday - atg - 21 May

Never forget you are loved

Over at Patties Creations this month,

we have the ever popular challenge: anything goes. 

I used the image "daffodil circle" to create my card.

With my promarker pens, I coloured the green leaves and daffodils and added a 

stickles glitter centre to each one.

I added some extra leaves to the image, and 

die-cut some swirls and leaves.

I stamped the sentiment on and punched some butterflies from spotty card. 

I made this card to send to my (Almost 98 year old) Grandma,

who lives in a carehome.

I wanted to send her a message to tell her we are thinking about her,

in such strange times, when we can't be together, as a family. 

I also sent a little note of thanks - to the staff who are working tirelessly, 

to care for my Grandma and the other residents.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Sheepski designs - for the girls - 1 June
Crafty Catz - atg / sending hugs -
Creative fingers - atg - 16 May
Polkadoodles - atg - 13 May
 Crafty Galz - (Easter ) OR Spring - 16 May
I love promarkers - atg - 12 May

Birthday baking

I made this card recently, for a friend's birthday.

She's a cake baker: who loves cats!

The sentiment was computer generated. 

The cat is a diecut.

I shaped the bottom of the image so it looked like the edge of a shelf. 

I put glossy-accents on the cherries and 

a-wink-of-stella on the fruit-pie, then embossed the edges of the card. 

I thought this fitted better on the kraft card, rather than a white card-base. 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Jan's digi stamps - atg - 4 May
Crafty friends - atg - 25 April
Southern girls - atg - 1 May
2 Crafty Critters - atg  use an animal - 26 April
Creative crafters - atg - 9 May

Time for tea

Apologies!

I'm a bit late with this card  it should have been on yesterday.

I am completely to pot with what day we are on...

This challenge, over at the Colour Crazy Challenge,

we are being sponsored by one of my favourites: Knitty kitty designs. 

I got this lovely image: Kit T and cake.

I paper-pieced the teapot, cup and bunting

and coloured the rest with my alcohol markers. 

The "mum" is actually little stickers, which I thought would work well 

with the image - and the sentiment at the bottom is from my computer. 

The backing paper was from my stash and i punched the butterflies

and diecut the "precious heart" by memorybox.

This is a larger, square 8 x 8 inch card, for my Mum. 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Lil patch of crafty friends - atg - 3 May
Pink gem designs - atg - 22 April
Crafty friends - atg - 24 April
Crafty calendar - atg - 1 May
Love to craft - atg - 1 May
Love to scrap - atg - 1 May
A perfect time to craft - atg - 28 April
Crafty Catz - atg / paper piecing - 24 April 

Happy birthday to Ewe!

Pattie's Creations is giving us a very popular

challenge this month - Birthdays!

I used her new image "Baa to you" ...

The image includes both sheep. 

I love the shocked look of the face of the one on the left!

I paper pieced the background, stamped the houses

and trees and fussy-cut around them to add them to the scene. 

Embossing around the edge of the whole thing

and hand-drawn faux stitching, finished this card. 

I would like to add this into the following challenges:

Pink gem - atg - 8 April
Catch the bug - atg - 12 April
Inkspirational - atg - 24 April
Cardz 4 galz - cute animals - 10 April
2 Crafty Critter crazies - atg - 26 April
Crafters cafe - atg - 16 April
Cards galore encore - atg - 1 May
Love to craft - atg - 1 May

Home Sweet Home!

Our challenge this time over at The Colour Crazy challenge 

is being sponsored by Createful heart stamps.

I used the image "home sweet home" which was lovely to colour. 

I used my alcohol markers to colour and added a sentiment from 

Pink Petticoat (sadly, no longer trading).  

A few punched butterflies and some spotty paper for the background 

(along with a few embossed lines) finished this card.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Wishing you...

The challenge at Patties Creations this month.

is: Anything goes!

This is an image I have had my eyes on for a while...

it's called "Wishing well."

I doodled a background - making it up as I went - with my alcohol pens. 

I used fineliners to draw on the dandelion clocks in the foreground

Embossing a single line around the Kraft card and drawing a black line with the 

"Wishing you..." sentiment, finished off this card. 

(I will finish off the inside of this card with "... a happy birthday!" or  "... well!"

(depending on what occasion I decide to use this card for. )

I would like to enter this into the following challenges

Creative fingers - atg - 30 March
Crafty Creations - atg - 1 April
Creative moments - atg - 19 March
Crafty sentiments - atg - 10 March
Digi choosday - atg - 15 March
Jans digi stamps - atg - 17 March

Vintage camera

Twinkle lane designs  are our sponsor this week,

over at The Colour Crazy Challenge.

I got this amazing image - perfect for my Dad!

It's called "Vintage Camera."

I looked up some old cameras on the www and coloured this one with the

 same kind of colours (with my alcohol pens).

I added a camera film diecut - which I have had for years.

A few different papers and an embossed card with stars on, sit in the background -

which I inked around the edges. 

The "smile!" sentiment also comes with the image. I cut this freehand, to look like 

an old camera flash.

I used a die for the happy birthday sentiment...a bargain which I 

bought in The Works - and cut in half. 

A couple of punched gold stars finished this card.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Watercooler wednesday - masculine - 25 Feb
Through the craft room door - atg - 26 Feb
A place to start - masculine - 1 March
Jan's digi stamps - atg - 16 March
Incy Wincy designs - atg - 1 March

Cherry blossom branch

At Patties Creations this month, with Valentines day drawing near,

Pattie has challenged us:  "love, love, love."

I wanted to make something a little different.. possibly a card i could give to my husband.

I used "Cherry Blossom Branch" image(coloured with my promarkers)

 with a few die-cuts - 'birds' and 'precious heart' - and a stamped sentiment.

I dry embossed the inside edge of both the white piece and the spotty card

and inked all edges with a grey chalk eye. 

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Cut it up - love with a diecut - 20 Feb
C.R.A.F.T. - love / valentines - 14 Feb
I love promarkers - love - 17 Feb
Simon says stamp - with love - 13 Feb
Through the craft room door - atg - 11 Feb
Incy wincy designs - atg - 1 March
Make my Monday - i heart you - 17 Feb
Lil patch of crafty friends - atg - 17 Feb
Cards galore encore - atg - 1 March

Playing around...

Over at the Colour Crazy Challenge this time, we are being sponsored by Dr DiGi.

I got the fabulous image called "Solitaire Saul."

I coloured the image with my alcohol pens and used 3d foam on the guy and the back of the chair.

I coloured the cat on the desk to look like our cat, Bella

(As this card will be for my Hubby). 

I copied the cat and made it slightly smaller, and popped him at the guy's feet

- and coloured him like our little kitty, Chester. 

The window is a diecut (on 3d foam) and the scene behind the window is actually

one of my Hubbys pieces of encaustic-art!

I may add a sentiment to this card at some point, but I'm not sure what yet.

I would like to add this into the following challenges:

Crafty Friends - atg - 1 Feb
Southern Girls - atg - 7 Feb
Crafty Creations - atg - 1 Feb
I love promarkers - atg - 3 Feb
Simon says stamp - besotted with our pets - 1 Feb

New years, Cheers!

Pattie's Creations are back with our January challenge -

"Anything goes."

I have "Cheers to you ladies!" -  a new image, drawn by Pattie...

I thought this image was great, and knew a few people I could make cards 

for with this image on, so made 2 cards! Lol. 

I coloured with my promarkers an used a dovecraft paper pack for the backing papers...

"tea party" i think the papers are called.

The sentiments under the images are from Pink Petticoat -

 who are sadly no longer trading. 

I punched a couple of stars too.  

These cards just make me smile. 

I would like to enter into the following challenges:

Brown sugar - atg - 3 Feb
Through the craft room door - atg - 8 Jan
Incy Wincy Designs - atg - 15 Jan

Penguin

                                                At The Colour Crazy Challenge this week,
                                                    we are being sponsored by Bugaboo.
                                            I got the gorgeous image: Winter penguin ski...

 I popped him on a backing of snowy paper and a little hill I cut out (and glittered along  the top of it.) I coloured, using my alcohol markers - promarkers and spectrum noirs.  The sentiment is a vellum sentiment -  I bought a whole pack of them in The Works for £1 recently - a real bargain! Someone sent me the snowflakes a few years ago -  I can't remember if they were punched or diecut... but I glittered them! I finished this card with a double (dry) embossed square and some doodling around the edge.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Kitties in the window

At Patties Creations this month, Pattie's challenge is:

Christmas with animal(s).

I used 'Allie Winter Window' ...

we recently got two kittens - well, a mum cat and her kitten boy.

 (She is only 18 months though.)

and I based these cats on our two. 

I popped the image on 3d pads and added a diecut cat in the top window,

which I coloured (with promarkers) like our Chester. 

The image comes with the bigger cat in the bottom window

 (which I coloured to look like our Bella). 

The little gingerbread garland came from a piece of christmas backing paper -

I fussy cut those out (And it took aaaages!) 

The green garland is made up of lots of little punched ferns and I fussy cut some teeny hearts

and added some dovecrafts pearls effects berries. 

I cut a tree and presents from backing paper and added these to the card - 

along with a stamped sentiment. 

I love this image and am going to give this card to my In-laws, for Christmas. 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
Crafty catz - last minute christmas - 13 Dec
Cardz 4 galz - cute christmas - 20 Dec
Crafting with an attitude - atg - 29 Dec
Creative moments - atg - 1 Jan
I love promarkers -  atg - 17 Dec
Sheepski designs - your favourite things (my cats!) - 15 Dec
A passion for promarkers - christmas critters - 11 Dec

Christmas cards

I'm not on the team for this week's challenge at The Colour Crazy Challenge,

but when I found out that our sponsor was Knitty Kitty Designs, I knew I had to join in!

I was delighted to spot the image : Christmas Catflap.

I made 2 cards with this image: one for my Mum and Dad and one for my Hubby.

First up, is my Mum n Dad's card...

Believe it or not, the "snowy" backing paper is wrapping paper!

I couldn't find just what I needed in my stash, then my eyes fell on my wrapping paper rolls

and I found the perfect thing!

I fussy-cut the bunting - from a sheet of docrafts paper I have had for yonks.

The super-cute image was coloured with my alcohol markers, 

and touches of nuvo glitter and glossy accents

were added, here n there. 

I added a "6" on top of the door, for my Mum n Dad's house number and

a little bit of pavement in front of the house, so I could add the stamped sentiment.

Now for my Hubbys card...

Made in much the same way as the other card, I added a stamped and coloured

 (and glittered!) mistletoe branch above the door and a banner along the bottom. 

I added some extra lines on the door, to make it look a bit more

 like our own front door. 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Crafty Catz - atg with spots / stripes - 29 Nov

Creative fingers - atg - 29 Nov
Brown sugar - atg -
Crimbo crackers - atg with animals - 5 Dec

Imagine that - atg - 6 Dec
Crafty sentiments - atg christmas - 26 Nov
Cutie pie - cute animal - 3 Dec
Jan's digi stamps - atg - 2 Dec

Cheers!

Dr Digi is the sponsor this time, over at the Colour Crazy challenge 

(and our theme is anything goes, as usual).

I got this fab image called "Pint glass" 

which I found perfect for a card for my Brother-in-law. 

The backing paper comes from a pack I bought in a Pound shop (I think!) and

I dry embossed a line around the edges of this paper. 

I stamped the "birthday" part of the sentiment and hand-wrote

the "happy " and "brother" parts.
(I made the LUKE label on the pc. )

The spotty paper comes from a DCWV pack.

I loved colouring this digi image with my alcohol pens...

 it was quite quick and easy. 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges...
Creative fingers - atg - 1 Dec
Through the craft room door - atg - 27 Nov
Jan's digi stamps - atg - 2 Dec
Lil patch of crafty friends - atg - 5 Dec

Gift time. (50)

At Patties Creations this month, Pattie has decided to have an "anything goes" challenge - 

so you've no excuse mot to join in! 

I used her image "gift time" to make a card for a man.

The image: a stack of presents, was lovely to colour. 

I added a die-cut frame (on 3d foam), stars and balloon-numbers. 

I got the sentiments for free from Desert Divas.

Embossing and inking the edge of the grey spotty card finished this card off.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Pink Gem - atg - 6 Nov
Crafty friends - atg - 17 Nov
Crafts galore encore - atg - 1 Dec
Seize the birthday  - birthday - 7 Nov

Birthday princess

Today, I wanted to share a card with you, which

I made for the Colour Crazy Challenge - anything goes.

The sponsor this week is Moonflower...

I used the image "Gigi Princess."

She was beautiful to colour with my alcohol pens and white sakura pen. 

Going through loads of my papers, I couldn't find any that I 

was happy with, with this image. So,

I popped her on an embossed background and 

added a simple, punched butterfly.

Halloween traditions

Over at Patties Creations this month, we are challenging you to create

 something in the theme of "Autumn ' Halloween."

I chose the halloween theme and used 

one of Patties newer images: caramel apples.

I coloured the image with my alcohol pens and quickly realised that that

was the only colour I wanted on the card. So I rifled through all my black / white / grey papers

and came up with these - from a Dovecraft set (I think). 

I layered the papers, inking the edges  and matted the image in the middle.

The little bats, ghosts and moon are actually halloween confetti - 

I just found it in my stash. (I completely forgot I had it!)

I may add a sentiment at some point... 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Brown Sugar - atg - 1 Nov
Crafting with an attitude - atg - 29 Oct
Creative knockouts - lots of layers - 10 Oct
Crafting by design - atg - 26 Oct
Cards galore encore - atg - 1 Nov

Birthday

As usual, at The Colour Crazy Challenge blog, we 

have the theme - anything goes!

I chose to use the image "Mouse Daisy" - which I won recently, from A Day for Daisies.
(I believe the shop is taking a break for now)

This is the first time I have used the image and it's really sweet.

I coloured the mouse and flower with my alcohol markers, and made the little spots on

Mouse's dress stand out, by popping on a teeny blob of liquid pearls on each spot.

The sentiment "birthday wishes" was a freebie from the "desert diva " blog 

and I computer generated her name. 

The number is some stickers I found recently when having a craft room tidy up!

I simply trimmed the image slightly smaller than the card

and dry embossed the edges. 

I like the effect.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
Brown sugar - atg - 1 Oct
CAS on sunday - animals - 1 Oct
Crafting with an attitude - atg - 30 Sept
Crafting by design - atg - 1 Oct
The paper shelter - use a digi - 28 Sept

Hapbee birthday!

At Patties Creations this month we are challenging you to make a card with

"Things that fly."

I used Patties image cute little image called "honey bees." 

(The image doesn't come with this many bees... i printed off a 

few extra for my card - the beauty of digital stamps!)

The paper is from a pack I bought in the states about 5 years ago.

The "birthday is a new stamp I got -

and I hand-wrote the "Hap.." myself, sitting the bee

perfectly to finish the word. 

I added the little spots behind the bees and some dry embossing

around the blue paper and faux stitching around the yellow paper. 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

A perfect time to craft - atg - 27 Sept
Digi doodles - atg - 28 Sept
Love to craft - atg - 1 Oct
A gem of a challenge - atg - 10 Sept
Catch the bug - atg - 15 Sept
Di's digi designs - atg - 22 Sept
Creative fingers - atg - 22 Sept

It's summer!

We had a real heatwave here,

just as I was making this card...

At Patties Creations this month, we are challenging you to use a

"beach / under the sea" theme.

I used the image called "beach time" which was wonderful to colour. 

I really played with my alcohol pens and tried to get some texture in the sand,

using a pointilism technique. 

I diecut the sentiment, after colouring various grades of blues.

I haven'y used this die before and I have had it for years!

The baking paper came from a papercraft pack that I've had for yonks, too. 

I tried to make the image resemble an old polaroid picture. 

The butterflies are from one of my favourite punches from

Martha Stewart.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Love to craft - atg - 2 Sept
Scribbles - summer - 15 Aug
Sweet stampers - atg - 10 Aug
Cards galore encore - atg - 1 Sept
Crafty Hazelnuts - patterned paper - 1 Sept
Cardz 4 galz - summer fun - 15 Aug
Crafting with an attitude - atg - 31 Aug
Imagine that - atg - 5 Sept
Lil patch of crafty friends - atg - 5 Aug
Creative moments - atg - 7 Aug
Die cuttin divas - atg - 6 Aug

I like how this one came out.

Snow White

The theme this week at The Colour Crazy Vhallenge is,

as always, Anything Goes.

Th image I got to play with this time, is called Lilly Snow White

and is from Moonflower.

I coloured the image with my alcohol markers

and plopped some glossy accents onto the apple, for that shine.

The leaves and swirls are from diecuts and I

punched the little flowers and middles, and the butterflies.

I doodled a little on the flowers with white pen, to add something more. 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Creative moments - atg - 5 Aug
The paper shelter - atg - 15 Aug
Digi choosday - atg - 2 Aug
LeeAnns world - atg -  3 Aug

Birthday cake for Dad

At  Patties Creations this month, we would like to to

 include some "food / drink " on your project.

I used one of Patties newer images called 

"birthday cake slice."

I know many, many people, who I could make a card for, 

with this image on the front!

I decided to make this card for my Dad, 

whose birthday is this week. 

I made a rainbow cake for him, with icing and hundreds-and-thousands sprinkles on the top.

A little sign is stuck into the cake

and I used my new happy birthday die 

(cut twice, once in black, once in white and layered over the top of "happy")

and made a little "Dad" sign with my (precious hearts) hanging bow and the letters of Dad dies.

The paper was a bargain pack I bought on the car boot sale last week 

and I cut a patterned border with my fancy scissors. 

Funnily enough, we went out for a meal at the weekend, with Dad,

and one of the cakes on the dessert menu, looked a LOT like this one!

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Get creative - atg - 2 Aug

Yoga

This week. over at the Colour Crazy Challenge, 

our sponsor is: Little Blue Button stamps.

I used the image called 'Pose of an elongated triangle.' 

I coloured this image with my promarker pens and fussy-cut it.

I embossed the edges of a dotty square and made her a little 

yoga mat to work out on. 

A simple background of  embossed stars

and a  hand-written "namaste" finished this card.

I am thinking of giving this card to a work colleague who loves yoga.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Imagine that challenge - atg - 5 July
Digi choosday - atg - 12 July
Creative moments - atg - 7 July

I love promarkers - atg - 9 July
Simon says stamp - stripes and / or stars. (I used stars!) 11 July

Wedding season.

Summer is almost here, and so is wedding season.

So,  Patties Creations would like you to share your "wedding" cards with us this month. 

I used Pattie's image: wedding bands with ribbon. 

I used my new gold/brown blend and dark red blend Tri-blend Spectrum noir pens.

3 pens in one - a great idea and super to work with. 

The "congratulations" stamp is a new one too...

I bought it in a set on a car boot sale, for a few pence! 

I think the embossing folder finishes this card well. 

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

A gem of a challenge - atg - 22 June?
Cards galore encore - atg - 30 June
Ccc digis - add a ribbon - 1 July
Scrap from your heart - wedding - 1 July

Pretty.

This week, over at the Colour Crazy challenge, 

Ching Chou Kuik is sponsoring our "anything goes" challenge. 

I used the image called "lucky clover."

(although I coloured the clovers, like they were flowers.)

 The background paper is from Pink Petticoat - which is sadly no longer trading.

  I dry embossed the edge of the image and the edge of the backing paper.

 I like this effect.

 The sentiment was a freebie a loooooong time ago!

 (I can't remember where from, sorry!)

I coloured the image with my alcohol pens and added a touch of liquid pearls, then a little diamond stickles glitter. She shimmers in the right light.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
Brown sugar - flowers - 4 June
Jo's scrap shack - atg - 12 June (ish)
The fairy and unicorn - white witch - 1 July
Addicted to stamps - flowers - 2 June

Pretty in pink.

For our challenge at the Colour Crazy Challenge this week,

our sponsor is Tiddlyinks.

As always - anything goes is the challenge. 

The image is called "Bloom beautifully Emma"

and it comes as this image,

 this image with a cute little girl

 and the little girl on her own. 

I chose just to use this part to make a card for a friend.

I coloured the image with my alcohol markers and added a computer generated sentiment.

The butterfly on the right was printed, fussy-cut and I used 

3d foam on the back of the Wings to make it more 3D. 

The backing paper came from my stash

and I inked and dry embossed the edges to finish.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Gem of a challenge - atg- 18 May
Creative fingers - atg - 20 May
Jos scrap shack - atg - 15 May
Creative knockouts - friendship - 10 May
SOuthern girls - atg - 9 May
a2zscrapbooking - may flowers - 1 June
Simon says stamp - birthday 9 May

A 60th card.

A work colleague friend is turning 60! 

She loves her garden, so I thought the lovely image,

"Three cactus in pots" was a great image to use, from Patties Creations. 

The theme of our challenge this month is "birthdays."

This was a great image to colour with my promarkers and other alcohol pens.

I backed the image on a piece of patterned card

and used diecuts for the words and numbers. 

A little faux stitching and embossing finished the edges of this card.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
Catch the bug - atg - 12 May
Crafty friends - use more than one die - 12 May
Crafty Catz - atg - 10 May
Creative fingers - atg - 20 May
Crafts galore encore - atg - 1 June
Simon says stamp - birthday - 9 May