Peace & Joy

Another Christmas card done today to cover challenges
365 Cards Day 220 - 'In Stitches' to use cross stitch on the card
Simon Says - Colour Combo 'Red & Green'
Winter Wonderland #19 - Sleighbells Ring

I am starting to enjoy making the Christmas cards now as the weather was so awful today the heating came on so I felt wintery :D
Red base card topped with 'Bug' snowflake embossed white card.
A piece of green card out of bits box I edged with my Fiskars border punch and mounted a piece of scrap Christmas stripey paper on top finished off with rik rak ribbon.
The image is a download from Pink Petticoat 'Doodle-icious Christmas' and I cut around it with my Woodware scallop punch.
I frinished the card off with a little bit of Christmas sparkle by putting a few gems here and there on the snowflakes
My meagre effort of cross stitching was to draw my stitches around the border.
I would have loved to have done some real cross stitching for this, as I spent many years doing it but my thumb joints are now past their best with OA so I resisted the urge.

Don't Ask!!!

365 Cards Day 213~ In Pieces - we were provided with set pieces of a pumpkin to download and do with what we will.

This was definitely a hit and miss affair...and more miss than hit.
Trying to piece my bits of coloured paper onto the A4 sheet to go into the printer was a hoot! then...doh!!! I ended up with a green pumpkin and orange leaf..lol!!..so had even smaller bits to play around with...hence my pumpkin looking as it does - lid up!!! My 2 orange pieces would not make a whole pumpkin.
The spider paper is a download, which may be Pink Petticoat, not 100% sure. The bats are out of a pkt of table sprinkles.
Thanks for giving my grey matter a good stir today :D

Sunday Combo

The start of another week and Super Sketchy Sunday at 365 Cards Day 211
I also chose the colours of Hot Pink, Dusky Pink & Ice Choc over at Colour Create 28 which could also include Pearls & Swirls
Also fits in with Simon Says - 'Stitch It Up'


Ingredients:-
PP - Download from Pink Petticoat
Images - Download from Lisa's Altered Art
Swirl Stamp - Basic Grey 'Wassail'
Ink - Colorbox Chalk 'Chestnut Roan'
Pearls - KaiserCraft
Sentiment - Bo-Bunny Press sticker
Faux stitching - Doodlebug 'Sew Easy' rub-ons
Tag, base card, brown & pink card from my stash.

Tuesday Triplets

Oh! I loved this challenge over at 365 Cards Day 206 so everything we put on our cards had to be in 3's.

Ingredients:-
Card x 3 - Kraft/White/Green
Image has 3 flowers!!
Faux stitching x 3
Blossoms x 3
Pearls x 3
Sentiment x 3 - Pink Petticoat Download

Sunday Lovely Sunday

The first card today is for 365 Cards Day 204 - Super Sketchy Sunday
Here we are again the start of another week.
At first I thought oh! no!! an oval card, but then thought again and opted for an oval shape on a usual A5.
This got rid of lots of bits and bobs in my box, I love that.
I just cut and embossed 2 new ovals in my 'Bug' and the image is a download from Pink Petticoat, which I coloured with Sakura Gel pens.
I added a single piece of card candy for balance.

and the 2nd card is for Crafty Creations #33 - Coffee or Tea
I had one set of these great images & sentiments left that a forum buddy sent me, aren't they great.
I chose Basic Grey papers and some flat backed pearls that looked like coffee beans, well if you half shut your eyes...lol!!

So that's me for today. I have a lot of stamping to do for a stamped image swap for the forum and 3 cards to make from a card kit swap, so busy, busy, busy.

Flight of Fancy

I was using my new(to me) owl stamp from Magnolia Tilda and remembered there was a challenge somewhere for wings so hope I've made the deadline for Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge 'Flights of Fancy'.
I stamped the owl on a little piece of Basic Grey then coloured the eyes in with a white liner pen.
The branch stamp and seperate leave are all misc. in my drawer and I used several shades of Adirondack to stamp them up.
The heart sentiment is a download from Pink Petticoat.
Ribbon and butterfly charm from my stash.

Sporty Saturday

It has been a sporty saturday what with the F1 qualifying, the rugby and the football, very enjoyable, I do love my sport.

So onto my card making for today which is very little, I've usually got more done than this.

A little sporty number for 365 Cards Day 182 which had to feature a ball of any kind on it, so I have a football and the colours for the scarf and cap are for Liverpool!
This image is a great download from Pink Petticoat and the background is a download from French Frog 'Joey'. The flower stamp is by Stamps Away and the little birdie Hero Arts. The sentiment is part of the turtle image. I coloured the images with a mix of Copics and PM's
The base card is Lakeland's Kraft

This card will also cover challenges over at :-
Stamp Something Challenge - Animal Something
Saturday Challenge - Flights of fancy (anything with wings)

What's the Buzz?....

Funky Fairy's Challenge 24
It's a recipe, woohoo! I love recipes

Ingredients :-
4 x Papers.........check
3 x embelishments..check
2 x punched shapes.check
1 x image..........check

I downloaded Funky Fairies swirly papers in 4 different shades on 1 A4 sheet and cut a square out of the centre so that I got 4 equal squares.
The 3 embelishments are the ribbon, the bee charm and the sentiment tag....all from my stash
Used 2 different Woodware punches to cut the 2 scalloped circles
The image which was downloaded from Pink Petticoat was in the top circle and coloured using Sakura Gelly Roll pens
The cream scalloped base card is (I think) Craft Creations.

...Cooked! :)

Anyone for Cocoa....

....and Cornflower Blue
These are the 2 colours to be used for week 7 over at
Passion for Promarkers
Not colours you would naturally pick to go together, but once the card is finished it's not too bad.
Other ingredients :-
Promarkers - also Vanilla and Canary
Copics - Pinkish White and Blush
Blue card - Bazzill Basics
Image - Pink Petticoat download
Blossoms - Prima
Brown card, paper, tags, and pearls from my stash
'Nestie' Divine Swirls was used to emboss a piece of the brown card and Largest Scalloped oval to cut and emboss around the image.

Big Hugs

This is a combo of 2 challenges
Papertake Weekly Challenge -'Delightful Downloads'
and
Funky Fairy's Challenge 22 - Anesha's sketch

Fabulous sketch and created the card using the Funky Fairy's Papercrafts downloaded 'Simply Swirly' papers
The other download used is the 'Big Hugs' from Pink Petticoat which is adorable.
I used ProMarkers to colour the image.
I used my Nestabilities scalloped circles in 2 sizes to cut and emboss around the image and to make 2 circles to mount the punched circles of paper and brads to resemble large flowers
The sticky backed ribbon is an ancient piece by Anita's
The base card, flowers and brads fom my stash.
I love turquoise and cream together, a nice change.

Dawny's Sketch

 
This was a great sketch over at Papertake Weekly Challenge - and I had just the downloads I wanted to use that had the sentiments included on the bottom.
Papers :- Basic Grey - Offbeat + brown misc.
Image - Pink Petticoat download coloured with ProMarkers
Everything else from my stash.

Spots & Stripes.....

Another combo, wow!! I've excelled myself this week.
A great sketch over at Pink Elephant (#12) designed by Carol Houghton and Spots & Stripes being the theme at Papertake Weekly Challenge
Ingredients used :-
Papers - Basic Grey 'Cupcake'
Image - download from Pink Petticoat
OXOX rub-ons - Doodlebug 'All Mixed Up
deep yellow card from my stash
Tools used :-
Fiskars Paper Edgers 'Clouds'
Letraset 03 Drawing Pen

Black, White & Pink....Just a bit Dotty!

Lovely colour theme at Colour Create week 12, with the addition of polka dots somewhere.
I kept this plain and simple...just like me...and came up with this card. Although the kanga is grey..that is a paler shade of black, isn't it? :-)

Ingredients :-
Image - download off Pink Petticoat
Paper - Doodlebug Paper Pot Pourri
Card & ribbon from my stash...actually the ribbon was a surprise gift from forum buddy Pat (Handy) hugs!!

Tools used :-
Letraset Pro-Markers - Cool Grey 2, Cool Grey 5, Blossom

Simples!! as that cute meercat would say. lol!!

Do I need a Reason?.........

.......For being late with this challenge over at Mojo Monday.....wk 82. Tried it a couple of times and this was the best I could come up with, come back MOJO all is forgiven!
I lurve these cute little images from Pink Petticoat and haven't made enough use of them.
I didn't do much adorning of this card as I think the paper is too lovely to cover up.
Ingredients :-
Image - Pink Petticoat download
Papers - Basic Grey 'Sugared'
Colorbox Chalk ink pad in 'Chestnut Roan'
Rik Rak - Bazzill
Heart embellie, leather-look cream card and sentiment from my stash
Tools used :-
Fiskars scallop punch
Sakura Gelly Roll pens

The Pink Elephant

That is the name of another wonderful challenge blog I have found and their theme this week was Pink, Green & Brown
Now those are colours that I love so just had to do it, didn't I?
I had some lovely new Card Candy sent to me by a crafting buddy, what a lovely surprise that was today. They were just perfect for this and they are the 3 'dots' at the top left. The paper is by Basic Grey - 'Sultry', the flowers are a mix of primas, the ribbon is American Crafts. The great image is a download from Pink Petticoat, which was cut out using my Nestabilities, Classic Scalloped Circle and a larger brown to matt. The tiny sentiment tag was out of my image stash. I coloured it with PM in Blossom. Pearls and misc.pink base card from my stash also. I was quite pleased with the end result and it only took me a tiny amount of time compared to my previous card.