Redonkulous DT day

Time to share another great image from Redonkulous Designs

This great little guy is Karate Kid Boy, isn't he cute? The papers are Basic Grey Urban Prairie and the bottons, sentiment and metal frame are Stampin' Up!. Pop over to team leader Kim's blog to see what my fellow DT have to share with you.
I am entering this into the following challenges
Sweet Stampin' Challenge - scallops
Sweet Sunday Sketch challenge - sketch #162
That Craft Place - it's all green
Our Daily Bread Designs - anything goes
Charisma Cardz - anything goes
Basic Grey - favourite colour combo

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Three Challenges Tuesday!!

This card is just perfect for a friend who is getting married soon. I thought I would struggle with the "White on White" but I am pleased how it turned out. The image is by the very talented Karen Johnson and is lightly coloured with Promarkers. I embossed some white card using the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder to mat the image on. Both the mat and image were had the edges inked with a nude chalk ink. The flower, pin, pearls, bead and brad are Stampin' Up! as is the sentiment which has been cut out with my Nestabilities. I then added some more bling with Diamond Stickles around the bottom of the dress and in the flowers.
This card is entered into
Sir Stampalot Bring on The Bling-you might have to enlarge the piccie
Karen's Doodles - White on White
Simon Says - going DOTTY

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Whimsy July challenge/Simon Says

Another card which combines two challenges. This must be a record number of posts/cards on my blog this week. I should be off work more often. Must remember to by a Lotto ticket this weekend!
The sketch for the card is the July challenge from Whimsy stamps. Their lovely image is Beach Baby Jayme and is coloured with Promarkers. I cut her out and matted her on SU cardstock which was cut with my Nestabilities.
The Simon Says challenge this month was a photo inspiration one. The photo was of a Blue Lagoon. This inspired me to use the turquoise and yellow cardstock- turquoise for the lagoon and yellow for the brilliant sunshine. I would be Beach Baby Jayme relaxing on the sand lol!
The DP and cardstock are Stampin' Up!, gems are from stash.
Thanks for visiting, I hope you leave me a wee comment as they make me smile.
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One card, three challenges

This card is for my youngest son's teacher. He chose the image, by Mo Manning, as his teacher brings her laptop to school sometimes. She also has glasses and short hair he says. I pointed out she was wearing a dressing gown but he shrugged and said "It's Pyjama Day!". This image is called Laptop Lizzie, and is coloured with Promarkers. Mo's Digital challenge this week was to make an easel card. The sketch I used is from the Sketch and Stash Challenge.I am also entering the card in the Cupcake Craft challenge which is "Dazzle Us". I have blinged up the roses and patterned paper with Stickles and used plenty of Glimmer Dots, so hope it is sparkly enough, although I am not sure you can see it properly in the photos(click on them for a closer look).The cardstock and DP are Stampin' Up!, roses from Wild Orchid Crafts and dots from stash.
Hope you like and thanks for visiting
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Flight of the butterfly

I have been playing with the fabulous Flight of the Butterfly stamp set from Stampin' Up! and the matching Butterfly punch. The first card also uses the set Pocket Silhouettes. All cardstock is SU as well.
My week off work is almost over and yet I have hardly done any crafting!! Where did the days go? Will have to make the most of the weekend I think.
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First attempt at brayering

I have watched Barbara Grey loads of times on C&C. She makes it look so easy to create beautiful landscapes that I fancied giving it a go. I have used the Speedball brayer available from Stampin' Up!, a post it note to mask out the sun, Stampin' Up! Real Red ink and Stampin' up! Pocket Silhouettes stamp set. Cardstock is also SU, Basic Black, Real Red and Whisper White. The inspiration to use this set and create an easel card came from a fellow demonstrator Jo, whose cards you can find
here.
Thanks Jo and thanks for stopping by my blog and for any comments you may leave.

The Sugarbowl

Feels like an age since I did any crafting. I had to make a card for a friend's birthday so decided to combine it with the current Sugarbowl challenge. The added challenge was "lace". I have used the Martha Stewart Doily punch for my lace. The cardstock and paper are Stampin' Up! Bashful Blue and the Sugar Nellie image is coloured with Promarkers.The sentiment is a Hot Off The Press stamp.
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Busy, busy, busy

No cards for days then a rush of them at once! The first card is for the Double Dutch challenge. Tilda is coloured with Promarkers and the papers are basic Grey Granola.
This card is for Sunday Stamper which has a theme of trees this week. I have used Bashful Blue cardstock and the sparkle is the gorgeous Dazzling Diamonds glitter. The stamps, cardstock and glitter are all Stampin' Up!




Finally some SU cards done at a workshop. I know I have shown you the tree one again but I uploaded it and can't figure out how to delete it from this part of the post???If you want details of products used, check out my SU blog here

Some more Sugar

Another fabulous sketch over at The Sugar Bowl. I have used another of the gorgeous Christmas Manga images, coloured with Promarkers. The papers are again from the Kars Christmas pad. The flowers are punched using a Stampin' Up! 5 petal punch and the small flower gems are from my stash. I was in a rush so when I stamped the sentiment(SU as well) I have misplaced it slightly but I didn't have time to fix it as I am off for a few days with my boys, leaving hubby home alone.
Hope you like the card, see you later in the week and thanks for stopping by
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A busy week of craft!

A midweek challenge from Stamp With Us was to make a card using the cardstock Brocade Blue, So Saffron, Regal Rose and Elegant Eggplant. Here is my attempt. The stamps are from the sweet Forest Friends set.




This little suitcase was made using one of the Simply Scrappin' SU kits. My measurements for the lid were a bit dodgy so it is far from perfect but I thought I would blog it anyway but don't be looking too closely. I am going to have another go at making one. Meantime my darling son is taking this one to keep his "stuff" in!

This birdhouse was another of the Stamp With Us projects, from Monica this time. Really enjoyed making this but haven't had time to make the notelets to go inside yet. Too many other things on my to do list.All products are Stampin' Up! apart from the sentiment which is HOTP. Off to catch up with the other projects now.
Thanks for looking
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A Feast of Chocolate

This is the latest online project from Stamp With Us and was designed by Zoe. The cardstock used is Chocolate Chip and Whisper White.The papers are Close to Cocoa designer series. I have used image stamps from the Organic Grace and Simply Said sets and the sentiments are from Oval All and Best Yet sets. I have also used the Scalloped Oval punch and the pearl embellishments are from the Pretties kit.All products are Stampin'Up! and can be ordered through me.The chocolate "cup" cake was also part of the challenge and was delicious.
Thanks for looking, hope you are liking these projects as much as I am enjoying making them.
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Mini-book project

This is the most recent project from the online classes from Stamp With Us and is from Natalie. You can make one of these from half of the contents from a Simply Scrappin' kit, available from Stampin'Up! The kit I have used is one from the US, called Summer Days. I plan to put some of my holiday snaps from this year into it. All embellishments are from the kit and the ribbon is SU white grosgrain.The way the photos have uploaded you are seeing the back page frist and the front page at the bottom :0)
I will definitely be making more of these.
Thanks for looking
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Some Stampin' Up! time

I am doing some online classes just now and here are the projects we have done so far. I still have to perfect them so excuse any little imperfections! The shoe and handbag are made using Only Orange cardstock. The paper is from the Rainbow Sherbert series and the ribbon is Tempting Turquoise.The brads are silver from stash and SU green Galore. The gorgeous flower is made with Pink Passion and Yoyo Yellow cardstock and the Scalloped Circle punch. The idea is to put some goodies inside the shoe- perfect as a party favour!
The second project was a technique called "faux frosting". If you look closely you may see the textured frosting on the cupcake. The cupcake stamp is from the Crazy for Cupcakes set. I had no re-inkers available so will be trying this technique again when I order some. I have glittered the frosting instead but I'm not sure it shows up in the piccie. The paper on the card is from the Tea Party series and the cardstock is Pretty In Pink and Almost Amethyst.The sentiment is from the Circle of friendship set. If you would like to order any Su products then please e-mail me.
Thanks to Monica Gale of Stamp With Us for the instructions/inspiration. Her finished samples were fabulous.

Sketch Saturday

Another day, another card, this time using a lovely sketch for this week's Sketch Saturday challenge.The papers are from the new Jesse Edwards collection, another thing in my Creativity Goody Bag.I used my scalloped edge punch by Stampin' Up! to edge the pink papers. The image is my Innovative Stamp Creations and I have coloured this using Distress Inks. I have always loved this stamp plate and finally managed to get my hands on it last month. The flowers, spacers, brads and glittery dots are all from stash. Thanks for looking, have a good weekend
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High Hopes Challenge

The challenge this week was to make something other than a card. I decided to make a box by adapting a tutorial on SCS. I got the link from Rach's blog ages ago. I then decided that I would some Stampin' Up! products as I do love them but rarely find time to play. The cardstock is Bazzill. The stamp is from Stampin' Up! Summer By The Sea set and I have coloured the image in with the Soft Subtles markers.The ribbon through the lid is Stampin'Up! grosgrain in Elegant Eggplant. I plan to use this for a hostess gift next workshop.
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Sketch Saturday

What a fab Sketch this week although I have had to rotate it to fit my image. The paper is from Basic Grey Marrakech, image is Whiff of Joy, including the tree stump.I stamped Oakley first, then masked him and stamped the tree stump to look as if he is sitting on it. I then watercoloured the image and matted it on Chocolate Chip cardstock from Stampin' Up! Again using Choc Chip I made a mat with scalloped sides using an SU stamp and added a strip of green Bazzill. This was attached to the card and then finished off with some flowers and a green brad from stash along with a gorgeous spacer(first time I've used them) which I got from Hobby House. Thank you Bev for pointing me in the right direction for these. I then glued some Zoomz along top and bottom of the card per the sketch.Apologies for the poor photo, I need one of those light tent thingies I think :0)
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Three challenges in one day

For the Friday Sketchers challenge I thought I would take the opportunity to make use of some new products that will be launched by Stampin' Up! on Wednesday 1st April. There is a new mini catalogue coming out and I got a couple of things on pre-order.
The cardstock used is Sage Shadow for the main card and scalloped circle, with Barely banana for matting and the sentiment. The gorgeous little Bambi image is from the Forest Friends stamp set and I punched him out with the SU Scalloped Circle punch. The ribbon is Old Olive grosgrain by SU and the sentiment is from the new Oval All set and is punched out using the new Scalloped Oval punch.

For the Sketch Saturday challenge I again decided to make use of my new SU sets. The cardstock is from the Soft Subtles range, Sage Shadow and Barely Banana, with the scalloped circle in Old Olive. The owl and leaves/trees are from the Forest Friends stamp set. The ribbon strip is Old Olive grosgrain and the flowers, brads & pearls are from the SU Pretties kit. Finally the sentiment is from the new Oval All stamp set and is punched out using the new Scalloped Oval punch.
The Sugar Bowl challenge was to make a Spring themed card. I think of flowers and butterflies when I think of Spring so I have used backing paper full of butterflies on my card. This was a free gift with making Cards mag and is designed by Nancy Watt. The Pen Pal image from Sugar Nellie was watercoloured and then I inked the edges with a Promarker and mounted her on foam pads. I popped some little flowers at each corner of the image. The sentiment is from the new Stampin' Up! set Oval All and I have punched out the sentiment with the Scalloped Oval SU punch.I also inked around the sentiment with the Promarker.
If you would like to get your hands on any of these new products, give me a shout and I can order them for you.
thanks for looking
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Truly Scrumptious/Charmed card

The sketch aver at the Truly Scrumptious challenge is fabulous. I had to make a card for a friend's birthday. I also spotted a competition over on Charmed Cards & Crafts where you have to submit coloured images- I have downloaded the image from their website, isn't she sweet?
The papers are HOTP and the CS is Bazzill. I used my Scalloped Edge punch from Stampin' Up!, some sticky pink ribbon from Anita's and Primas with a pearl brad in the centre. The image was watercoloured with Derwent Inktense pencils.

Been a busy week.

I haven't managed any challenges at all this week as time seemed to run away from me. Here are the three things I did manage to get done. The first is a card using my Messy Rabbit stamps from Joanna Sheen. These are so cute. I wateroloured the images using my Derwent pencils and the paper was a scrap from my stash so I have no idea who it is by I'm afraid.

I bought a bingo board from Poundland for altering. I covered the front with the gorgeous Rustic Gems papers and edged it with Adirondack Dabbers in Gold. On the reverse I used various dabbers blended together. I then coloured a couple of Grungeboard pieces with the gold dabber and attached them to the front of the board using Glossy Accents.It is now winging it's way to a friend and I hope she likes it.

I did find time to use the latest Handbagz board from the Glitter Girls to make a card for my neighbour. The papers used are Stampin' Up! Certainly Celery collection and I used my new Quickutz alphabet for the name and age.
Thanks for dropping by, here's hoping this coming week has more time to craft.
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