Going Green!

Here's my latest challenge card:

The DP is My Minds Eye - Quite Contary and the flower is one I made a while back.
I'm going to enter this into the following challenges:

Clean and Simple - Sketch
Do You Stack Up - Green
Reasonable Ribbon - Green and Ribbon
Easy Craft Projects - Green
Simply Create - The Power of Flowers

Thanks for looking!

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Mothers Day

For once in my life I'm organised with a card (I'm trying to learn my lesson after the super secret valentines flop) so I've made a mothers day card for my lovely Nanny. My lesson isn't completely learned though as I was supposed to be making a birthday card for a friend who has a birthday next week - Ooops!

The image is a digi from Digi Stamp Boutique, and it's coloured very simply with my Promarkers. The DP & brads are from Papermania (got to love the docrafts online sale!) and I've used my beautiful new Big Shot to create the flower embossed strip.


I'm going to enter this card in the following challenges:


Everybody Art Challenge - Spring
Papertake Weekly - Anything goes and something old (I was officially old this week!)
If the shoe fits - Inspiration: Picture of Daffodils
Stamp Something - Use a Digi
Catch the bug - Anything Goes
Little Miss Muffett - Use Designer Papers
Southern Girls - Brads, Gems or Dewdrops
Stamping for the Weekend - Springtime
Bee Crafty - Spring Florals
My Grafico - Anything Goes
Paperplaytime - Digi & Anything Goes
Digi Stamp Boutique - Anything Goes
Simply Create - The Power of Flowers


Phew - what a list!


Thanks for looking!


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Woopie!!!!

I accidentally (on purpose) opened one of my birthday presents early!

I've got a BIG SHOT!!!!!

Whoopee!!  

(My excuse for opening early was that I needed to check all the bits had been included and that it worked so I wasn't disappointed on my birthday.  Now there is no point packing it all back up so I might as well use it!)

That's all - now if anyone knows of any sources of free money so I can go on a spending spree buying dies and embossing folders I'd be most grateful if you'd share the details!!  xx

Thanks!

Cute Dog!

I found this cute dog digi stamp a week or so ago from here via Free Digital Stamps and I finally got round to colouring it and using it in a card. As you can see I went for an amazingly adventurous colour scheme of brown and .... a bit more brown - but I'm a real novice with Promarkers so the only way is up really I hope!  The papers are Papermania's Bird Song. 

I'm going to enter this card in the following challenges:

Craft Your Passion - Male Card or Project

Passion for Promarkers - One for the Boys

Do You Stack Up - Anything Goes

Woopsie Daisy - Lets All Get Cute

Easy Craft Projects - Something for the Boys

Bizzy Bec's - Sketch

Also before I go a big HI to my new follower Donna!

Thanks for Looking!



Gift Tag

Another day - yet another thing I'm trying.

Just a quick one here to show you something little I've made for no reason other than to have a go a paper piecing. I've seen some beautiful examples people have done recently showcased on their blogs and I decided to have a go.  

This was my attempt and I mounted it onto a little gift tag:

I think the stamps were a bit small really to show this technique off properly, and the photo really only shows up the glitter I added to the cake toppings.  They are patterned - really they are! 

I also attemped some fake stiching round the edge of the stamp but that didn't work out too well really - I think I put the holes too close together.

I've got some bigger christmas stamps that might work well with this and possbily some fairies that may work - but would be a big faff to cut out!  Looks like I'll have to invest in some more stamps!

Thanks for reading! x