Gorguss Pink & Purple sketch

Another weekend gone already!!




I did manage to make one card this weekend and there's another one under way....
It feels like an age since I used one of my Gorjuss Girl stamps so thought it was time I inked one of them up. I used the sketch from The Sugar Bowl challenge, just changing the shape of the middle layer but the stamp just lends itself to an oval shape, and the Pink and Purple challenge at Creative Card Crew this week was one not to be missed. I felt it needed a little something along the right hand edge but not sure what so settled for 3 crystal flowers after rooting through my stash.
Papers are DCWV glitter stack, Whitewash and sparkly one I've had for ages. I used my new heart embossing folder on the whitewash card, really pleased with the result, think I'll try it the other way round next time.

That's it from me today, hope you've had a great weekend.

Quietly crafting....

I've had a quiet morning crafting - the rest of the house were sleeping or out!!



The image, one of the new LOTV stamps, has been on my desk for the last few days, I just couldn't get the hair colouring right - anyone got any hints for copic colours for blonde hair, I would very much appreciate them. I'm thinking I need to buy some more shades :)

I am going to start using up more of my stash this year rather than keep stroking it and putting it away for best.... have managed to use a fair amount on this card.
Papers are DCWV Nana's Nursery Baby Girl, LOTV image, I used nail gems on the skirt. Sentiments are from SU! and Whimsy Stamps and my favourite punches from SU!

I'm entering this card into the following challenges

Creative Card Crew - a card with more than 1 fold
Flutterby Wednesday - sketch
Lili of the Valley - things with wings
Stamp Something - LOTV stamp

Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Better late than never!!

Apologies for the delay in posting this, it's taken me forever to get it posted!

Creative Card Crew is turning one year old this week and we're having a celebration! That's right and it's a celebration for YOU. Because without you, our loyal participants, we wouldn't have made it this far. The festivities this fortnight include:

3 digital images of the winner's choice from Sunshine Stamps

These two stamps from Bunny Zoe's Crafts:

A $20 gift certificate from Simon Says Stamp

and (...drumroll please...)
A One Month Guest Designer Opportunity with Creative Card Crew
And that's not all folks. Our design team has blog candy on their blogs. So start hopping and sign up for your chance to win individual blog candy from:
Paula, Owner
Claire
Janna
Linda
Linda C.
Maria
Pauline
Sam
Victoria
and welcoming back Sharon,
one of our original founders who is making a return visit
just to celebrate with the Crew.

So as you may have guessed by now the challenge for this fortnight is

'Celebration'

so on to my card for the celebration....

Another new stamp, from the City Girls collection from Whiff of Joy. I made the flower kind of along the lines from Bev's tutorial, using 3 flower shapes cut with my cricut, scrunched them up and sanded them to give the distressed look. Used my newish Martha Stewart punches and some SU! punches.

There are lots of pictures already on this post, so I am going to make mine a surprise candy! All you need to do is participate in the challenge this fortnight, don't forget, no linking back to old creations, and leave a comment on this post.

Looking forward to seeing your take on the challenge, come on and join the party.....

Creative Get Well

Running a bit late with this posting today, I tried to schedule it last night but silly Mr Blogger wouldn't play the game.....

The challenge at Creative Card Crew this fortnight is Get Well Soon, a good choice Claire Ellen with all the germs around at the moment. The sponsor this week is Truly Scrumptious Crafts, see the pics below for the wonderful prize on offer




Here's my card for this challenge. Love this new stamp which is from the City Girls collection from Whiff of Joy, I ordered a couple of these stamps on release day Thursday 4 Feb and it arrived 2 days later, how's that for delivery, thanks Katharina.



The papers are from a new paper pad I treated myself to on Saturday, they are just delish, got matching flowers but thought these prima ones matched better. The layout is the sketch from the Whiff of Joy challenge this week.

Papers = Papermania Aqua capsule collection
Brads & ribbon from stash
Coloured with copics
Punches - Martha Stewart double loop and Stampin' Up! super oval and scalloped oval.

Looking forward to seeing what you come up with this fortnight.

Creative Card Crew - Valentine challenge

Love is in the air ..... my turn to choose the challenge this week at Creative Card Crew, so with Valentine's Day nearly on us there really was no other choice to be made!!

This week's Sponsor is Crafty Addicts and there is a wonderful Rachael Anne Miller stamp up for one lucky crafter.



This is about the third attempt at my DT card.... It's been a busy couple of weeks and crafting has been put on the back burner :-( probably at a time when I could do with it most!



I dusted off some of my much neglected SU! stash to make this card, rooted out the Simply Said stamp set, Whisper White and Real Red cardstock, Real Red ink and my Stamp-A-Ma-Jig. I decided on a Z fold card as I haven't done one of those for ages. On the left of the Whisper White ribbon I have stamped Love using Versamark ink but it's not showing up too well, you'll have to zoom in to get a better look.
I couldn't make a valentine card and not use the lovely Martha Stewart heart border punch could I? so that's the only non SU! product used here. I've just had another look at the photo, think I was a bit heavy handed with the dabbing on the edges, another one destined for the bin I think!

Looking forward to seeing your entries for this challenge. Happy crafting.

Creative Card Crew - Distressing

The challenge this week at Creative Card Crew is 'distressing'
I saw a card in blogland this week which was using the MME Bloom & Grow papers, so I dug mine out as I haven't used them in ages.



The image is one I got before Christmas which hasn't seen ink yet, I think she is just so cute. Coloured with copics and distress inks, I distressed the edges of the textured card, although its not too clear in the picture unless you get a close up!
Love the colours on this card, one of my fav combos and it was great to make a card that's not Christmas!

Looking forward to seeing what you come up with this week.....

Get your skates on.....

I don't know how you ladies are doing with your Christmas preparations, but I still have quite a bit to do. I'm afraid I'm one of those people who don't relax until the shops have shut on Christmas Eve and I know there is nothing else I can buy! So I really need to get my skates on...



The challenge this week at Creative Card Crew is to use gold or silver on your card. Not something I usually struggle with at anytime of the year but at this time its easy peasy.
I used one of my new stamps from Whiff of Joy which dropped on my mat at the weekend, I just adore this cute lil' mouse, coloured with copics and mounted onto DCWV papers, I know a little bit predictable, but hey they are my favourites :-)

The challenge this week is sponsored by Crafty Addicts and is a fabby prize so why not visit the blog and see what it is - come on you know you want to!

Another busy day today, which sees the final 2 performances of our Christmas concert, always a very busy time, trying to organise the tickets, ensuring we can accommodate as many parents, siblings, grandparents and other relatives as possible. I am going to watch one of the performances, really looking forward to it as I have heard the practices going on for the last couple of weeks but not seen any of it yet.

Just remembered I used the sketch from Sketch Saturday, so better get on over there and leave a link before its too late.....

Gingerbread man with bling!!

The challenge this week at Creative Card Crew is sponsored by Digital Delights and the theme of 'Favourite Things' has been chosen by Paula. We were all provided with a choice of digi images to use - I'm not usually one to use digi images, more of a rubbah girl but its very easy and I can see myself using more of these images in the future.



I chose to work with the gingerbread man image, which I printed on to SU! Whisper White cardstock, sprayed with hairspray to seal the image and coloured with Promarkers. The papers are from a DCWV stack, ribbon from the Range and snowflakes made using MS punch. I made an easel style card - really liking these!

Another Christmas card made and I know just whose mat this card is going to be dropping on!

Looking forward to seeing your entries this week.

My first easel card

The challenge at Creative Card Crew this week is 'Strings Attached' Linda who has chosen this challenge would like to see fibres on your card.



Having seen lots of easel cards around in blogland recently I decided to give one a go. Really enjoyed making this, can see I'm gonna be making a few more of these, they are so effective and easy to make. Just what I needed after my hectic weekend...
I used some more of those lovely paper from the MME Magnolia stack, Edwin & Tilda skating, such a cute image, coloured with my copics. If you look closely you can just about see fibre on my card - yes it is there, tied through the button in the middle of the flower.

The prize this week is a $20 gift certificate from Simon Says Stamp, so lets see your fibres....

Do A Doodle

It's Donna's turn to set the challenge this week at Creative Card Crew and she has chosen the theme of 'Do A Doodle' I am a bit of a scaredy cat when it comes to doodling, but took a deep breath and gave it my best shot!



Thought I would give Miss Anya Rain a bit of an inking up as it was raining when I started to make the card. The papers are from an MME, Magnolia paper stack, loving these papers, they are all delish.
I had fun and games with the image, had coloured Miss Anya with copics, just thought I would add a little shading and the ink bled all over the edges of the stamped image so that ended up in the bin - in little pieces.

When I had sorted out all the layers and stuck them together I put them on the card base the wrong way round, grrrrr..... so off came the card front and stuck it to another. Boy is this card heavy now, even more so as I have decorated the inside, just glad I used papers not cardstock, otherwise the poor old postie would be getting a workout ;-)



The sponsor of this week's challenge is the lovely Nikki at Bunny Zoe's Crafts, lots of lovely stash at wonderful prices, why not pay a visit and do some online shopping, my kind of shopping these days, don't have to put a foot out of the door or even get dressed!

I've followed the recipe at Anyone for Anya this week which is to use 3 papers, 2 buttons and 1 bow. The buttons are tiny but they are there, just about visible under the bows.

Robbie Walking......Card for a boy

The challenge this week at Creative Card Crew is to make a card for a child or baby.... I opted to make a card for a boy, when I came across a certain stamp in my stash.



This cute image of 'Robbie Walking' is from Cuddly Buddly, coloured with copics. The papers are a HOTP pad I bought recently, I just love the vivid colours. The stars are cut from a flower punch (SU! punch) and run through an embossing folder, then inked on the embossing and round the edges.

There is a fabby prize up for grabs again this week, go on over to Creative Card Crew to see what it is and the rest of the DT's take on this challenge.

I am going to enter this card into the Create 4 Fun and Charisma Cards challenges this week.

Creative Card Crew - Sharon's Scallop challenge

It's Sharon's turn to set the challenge at Creative Card Crew this week which is to include scallops on your cards.
Crafty Addicts are sponsoring the challenge this week, there's a fabby prize up for grabs, so get those cards coming.....



I coloured the Miss Anya image with copics chosing colours that went with the papers from DCWV Nanna's Nursery Baby Girl paper stack, which has been on my desk for a while as I need to make a card for a baby girl. I used the sketch from Truly Scrumptious and the card was nearly finished when I realised that I hadn't included any scallops..... so I added some lace, rik rak ribbon and the sentiment is matted onto a scalloped oval. There is a little heart charm dangling from the sentiment but its not too clear in the photo, sorry photography skills severely lacking!

Creative Card Crew - Celebration card

The challenge at Creative Card Crew this week is to make a celebration card. I was running a bit short on time so it had to be a quick card.
I background stamped and heat embossed some gold pearlescent card with some gold embossing powder. I stamped the main image on red, green and gold pearlesent card and cut out various elements which I then layered up and added to my card with a piece of gold ribbon from my stash.
Ooops nearly forgot the image in the middle of the ornament. I stamped and heat embbossed this onto some vellum and coloured and dry embossed the image from the back.

Why not join in the fun this week - go and see the fabby prize up for grabs this week!

All That Sparkles

It's Paula's turn to set the challenge this week at Creative Card Crew and she has chosen 'All That Sparkles'

Come on girls we all know how much you love to add a bit of bling to your cards..... what better excuse. I can't wait to see your cards come rolling in, there's a fabby prize up for grabs this week.



I used the opportunity to increase my Christmas card stash - can't believe how well I'm doing so far, if I carry on at this rate I'll have enough for next year too!!

Papers from DCWV All Dressed Up stack
Miss Anya Snow
Copics
CB Snowflake embossing folder
Stampin Up punches and sentiment
Glamour dust.

Hope you have a wonderful day...

Decorate the inside of your card

It was my turn to set the challenge this week at Creative Card Crew. I've seen lots of cards beautifully decorated on the inside as well as the outside, something I keep meaning to do but never get round to, so thought this could be my challenge.

The challenge is being sponsored by Katharina from Whiff of Joy so make sure you take part to be in with a chance of winning the wonderful prize up for grabs.

Onto my card..... I'm still into making Christmas cards, doing quite well so far, I've never been so organised!! It won't last long, so gotta make the most of it while it lasts LOL.



I love this cheeky Charlie with snowballs image, which I coloured with copics and finished off with Icicle stickles. The papers are DCWV and some of the mirri card has been run through a CB snowflake embossing folder.



I decided to carry the layout from the front through to the inside. I was wondering how to decorate the inside when this lil' calendar stamp jumped up begging to be inked up - I've had it for almost a year and its not seen a drop of ink - can you believe that!

I was looking through my stamps for a sentiment to go on the front of the card and this lovely one from the Loads of Love set from Stampin' Up! caught my attention, it just had to go in the middle.

I am really pleased with how this turned out. I would like to say I will continue with this trend as I think it finishes off the card nicely but there are so many other plates to keep spinning at the moment (and patchwork crying out for my attention)I'm not sure I will be able to....

Hope you have a great week, don't forget to check out the other DT members fabulous cards. I look forward to seeing your entries for my challenge.

Creative Card Crew - Claire's recipe challenge

It was Claire's turn to set the challenge this week at Creative Card Crew and she chose a recipe. We had to use 2 papers, 3 flowers, 2 brads, 1 ribbon and 1 button.
The challenge this week is being sponsored by Crafty Addicts, so make sure you check out the lovely stash up for grabs this week - I would hate you to miss out so make sure you join in the challenge this week.
Here's my take on the recipe....



Once I had decided on what papers I was going to use the rest of it seemed to fall in place, I love it when that happens, although it doesn't happen very often!
I am pretty pleased with the result, hope you like....

Recipe
Papers - DCWV All Dressed Up & mirri card
Image - Sugar Nellie, Manga Girl,
Sentiment - Stampin Up
Coloured with copics
All other items from stash

Have a fairy nice day - Creative Card Crew challenge

The challenge this week at Creative Card Crew is
'Have a fairy nice day'



My first attempt went in the bin, the second attempt took some time to put together but I think that's because I was feeling guilty, Barry was painting the hallway and I should have been helping.... Anyway we got there in the end and I'm pretty pleased with the end result and it means one less card to make at Christmas!

Go on over to Creative Card Crew to check out the other DT members wonderful cards and the great prize that's on offer this week.

Stamps - image Sugar Nellie, sentiment Cuddly Buddly
Inks - Memento Tuxedo Black, Copic markers and Gelly roll pens
Papers - DCWV Rose Tinted Xmas paper stack
Tools - Stampin Up punches, CB embossing folder
All other items from stash

My first DT card for Creative Card Crew

Did I mention that I had been asked to join the Design Team at Creative Card Crew ;-)
Well here's my first DT card, it was Sharon's turn to set the challenge this week and she chose a colour combo of Black, Pink & White.



I really enjoyed making this card using a Whimsy image sent to me, which I coloured with copic markers. I didn't have the right coloured bloom so chose a white one and coloured it with a copic to match the ones used in the image.
The card went great until I had finished it and tried to stand it up to photograph it - guess what? I had stuck the image and details on the wrong way..... what a muppet? Fortunately I managed to lift it and turn it round, no harm done..

The challenge this week is sponsored by Whimsy stamps
and the fabulous prize that Denise has given us is a Pyjama Emma stamp and the Wedding Cake and Kisses digital download.

Make sure you visit Creative Card Crew and check out the very talented design team members work and those great prizes.

Recipe
Image - Whimsy Images
Papers -DCWV All Dressed Up stack, pearlescent card from stash
Sentiment - Stampin Up! Sincere Salutations
Punches - Stampin Up! large oval and scalloped oval, Martha Stewart border punch
Blooms, gems, brad from stash
Bead cap from a wonderful bead shop I visited last week The Bead Cellar in Black Torrington, why not take a look at their website and check out what lovely things they have to offer.

Am off to make the most of my last few days of freedom, back to work on Thursday :-(

Back with a few challenges...and some fantastic news!!!!

I finally managed to escape to my craft room today and made a couple of cards for 3 challenges.



I am entering the first one in for the following challenges :-
Stamp Something - Animal Something
Dutch Dare - sketch
The image is a Whimsy image sent to me by a blogging buddy, Sharon, coloured with copic markers, I am so loving these, need to get the last set soon...
Papers are MME, Bloom & Grow, K & Co, Antique Linen & textured one from a DCWV card stack.
I am really pleased with this card, a nice one for a male, makes a change from a football one!

Unfortunately I can't show you the second card yet as its my first card as a DESIGN TEAM MEMBER da da da....... for CREATIVE CARD CREW. I was thrilled to be asked to become a DT member, once I stopped jumping around the room with delight I had to pinch myself to make sure I wasn't dreaming!!

Make sure you visit the Creative Card Crew blog tomorrow to see my card.

A Quick Post

A very quick post, here's a card I made for the following 3 challenges
Creative Card Crew - Xmas in August
Simon Says Stamp - Xmas in August
Friday Sketchers - Carole's sketch, a great one to work with, one I shall use again!

I'll be back with a goodies list later.