Pretty in Pink

One card to cover so many challenges

365 Cards Day 257 - Picture This ~~ Pink Frosting

Cute Card Thursday - Glitter me Silly

Papertake Weekly Challenge - Digi Sparkle

Passion for ProMarkers - given sketch

Pink Elephant #40 - Be Thankful

Ingredients

Glitter encrusted paper - Doodlebug 'Cupcake Daydream'

Digi Image - Nutcrafters

Colouring medium:-

Image - ProMarkers ( made a list of cols and lost it :-(  )

Smooshed edges of scallop circle - Colorbox Chalk 'Wisteria'

Digi Sentiment - Pink Petticoat

Nestie - Classic Scalloped Circle Small

Base card, flowers and gems from my stash

N.B. 365 Cards The frosting on the cakes is bright pink but unfortunately the scan has bleached them :-(

Colour Scheme

365 Cards Day 229 - Colour Scheme

It took a while for me to find the colours for this challenge as they didn't show up on the 365 blog so had to blog hop to see if anyone had put them up.
I've had huge probs with viewing some peoples pics and it's driving me mad. It's such a shame when I cannot see what some have been up to all these weeks, but hey ho! that's Blogger for you or, maybe, my server???

This card was quickly put together for this challenge as I'm not in crafting mode.
The die cut and embossed cream card was sent to me along with a pile of other colours from a crafty buddy CarolAnn off a forum Wish.
I chalked the vines in green ans the owl in light brown, they just about show up in the scan.
Mounted on peach/apricot coloured card from my stash
The sentiment stamp by Stampendous was inked with Adirondack 'Butterscotch'
Gems added to the sentiment and owl's eyes.
Leaf embelishments from my stash to finish off for an autumn feel to the card.
If I'm not too late - which is my wont, this will also fit in with Secret Crafter #53 Autumn Colours and The Pink Elephant #36 - Fall

A Certain Sentiment....

A card done today to cover
365 Cards Day 151 - to use the sentiment 'You Can Do It!'
The Pink Elephant # 25 - given sketch

A great sketch to use from TPE which always helps when mojo is low.
I had to think about this sentiment for quite a while and on rummaging through my box of image swaps came upon this one which looks to be from Hero Arts and the wording on the image is "With peace upon my wings, I shall fly around the World" which I thought was just perfect for this challenge.
I used Craft-T chalks to colour the image, and papers from Kay & Co. Tim Coffey Travel/Vacation . 3 pieces of card candy in a nice sandy colour and starfish charm finished it off. I used Doodlebug rub ons onto a little tag for the sentiment and added a little piece of cotton thread.

4 x Combo

Four challenges covered by this card.
Penny Black Saturday Challenge week 58 - Soft & Sweet + PB stamp
Sketch & Stash challenge 15 - Given sketch
Passion for Promarkers wk 9 - Rose Pink & Lime
The Pink Elephant Challenge #24 - Animals

Ingredients - challenge elements hilighted
PP - Basic Grey 'Sultry'
Image - NEW download of 'Whimsical Girl' from Bee Crafty
Colouring medium - Promarkers: Rose Pink, Lime Green,Vanilla, Meadow Green. Copics: Blush, Pinkish White & Blue Frost
NEW Funky Flower brads from Eyelet Outlet
Sentiment stamp - Penny Black split in two - second part on the inside.
Base Card - NEW 12 x 12 Bazzill

I hope the boxes are ticked for all challenges Penny Black's 'Soft & Sweet' element and Pink Elephant's 'Animal' element being covered, hopefully, by the little cute birdie.

Wedding

I am able to combine 2 challenges for this theme. Both The Pink Elephant and 365 Cards 112 wanted a wedding card and the addition of the word 'Love' in the sentiment was required on 365 Cards also.
I don't have any wedding rubber stamps so printed off a great little picture out of my file of Vintage ephemera and pictures. With my love of cats this is adorable.
I am the world's worst at tying bows, so forgive my mangled effort. My mum tied beautiful bows the art of which she learned when she worked for Nestle's and tied the bows on the Easter eggs, she was first class, bless her. I inherited her arthritis but not her bow tying abilities..LOL!!
Anyway, I digress..........
Ingredients :-
Paper - Basic Grey 'Marrakech'
Nestie label to mount picture onto
Vellum Quote - DCWV
Flat backed pearls, ribbon and base card from my stash
Fiskars 'Threading Water' punch used to edge piece of blue card

The Pink Elephant Recipe.....

Challenge #17 at The Pink Elephant this week is a recipe being
3 Buttons
2 Layers
1 Sentiment

Used a great sketch from Clean and Simple which I've used over and the ingredients are:-
Papers Kay & Co. & Basic Grey
Ribbon American Crafts
Cream card embossed with 'Bug' embossing folder Swiss Dots
The sentiment I created in Word
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

Recycle

At The Pink Elephant Challenge Blog this week the challenge #11 is - For Mom
(Happy Mother's Day or Happy Birthday Mom)and/or
Don't Throw That Away (Recycle, Reuse) So as I haven't got a mother now -Bless her - I chose the latter.
The only new or purchased items were the flower(newest purchase) and the pink card (had for about 6 years, a huge box).
The recycled items were:-
White and brown card from my bits box some of which are the backs of received bought cards.
The great spotty paper was free with a magazine my sister passed on to me.
The button is out of my dear old mum's button tin I inherited :-)
The thread through the button is a piece of cotton that had unravelled off my cotton throw with the fringe
and last but not least the sentiment is cut from a received bought card.

I really enjoyed doing this and I am a hoarder of 'useful' bits and bobs as us crafters are, I daresay.
The sketch Idea came from Clean & Simple 10 min. Monday

It's a Girl

Sarn over on our Crafting Forum chose this theme as her challenge for the week so decided to couple it with this great sketch over at Pink Elephant Challenge being #7
The base card was embossed with a Cuttlebug folder and mounted onto misc. pink card.
The image of the pram is out of my image stash and I coloured it with Sakura Gelly Rol Stardust pens.
A row of Prima flowers adorned the bottom of the image and pink gems were added to the centres and at the left side of card. The Sentiment was cut from a free sheet in Beautiful Cards magazine.
Not the best card I've ever made lol!!

Red & Green Buttons

Another chance to combine 2 challenges. So over on Pink Elephant Challenge #6 we find 'Buttons' and on Colour Create wk7 we have Red & Green.
So combining the both I have come up with this card. All items are from my stash ...the buttons are one of the items I won on Penny Black Saturday not long back. I am still foggy with my cardmaking today, don't know what is wrong, but I mustn't stop or I won't do anything.
The scan is a little foggy too as the embellishments are a little bulky so there is more shadow than usual.

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.