I'm A Star, YAY!!!

I have been playing over at CDAC with the progressive challenge and the latest image is soooo adorable, it is the cutest little piggie from Doodle Pantry.

I made a couple of cards with it but the one that has been chosen to 'Star' I made for Breast Cancer Awareness.

I coloured my image with Promarkers and used a square die cut to cut it out and matted it onto  some toning pink paper and used three different squares of paper to form the background. The whole lot is set onto a square card made from Centura Pearl which has been matted with a digital paper from (I believe) Jak Heath.

The ribbon and heart embellishment are from Mei Flower, pink letters I've had in my stash for ages and the sweet die cut is a Memory Box die.

I will enter this into Jacksons Digital Expressions Challenge and any other Breast cancer challenges I spot!

Hope you like my li'l piggie and thanks for stopping by, hope to see you again soon!

The Sentiment Challenge has Moved!

Good evening everyone, my post tonight is for the Sentiment Challenge at Lady Annes. The site has moved but the challenge is still up for you to join! We have a challenge running for one month (until 25 October) with a theme of Halloween, with a twist of die cuts; so you've got plenty of time to get your creative juices running and get your entry in! Our sponsor is Sandi's Samples and Sandi is giving the winner four digis from her store.

For my card I have used the wonderful witch image from Mo Manning, I think she's great. I die cut the image using the out of the box technique and die cut lots of circles, I stamped out the spider and attached to her broom - I wonder if thats what the cats scared of? I used the Kanban clock die for my midnight clockface and I stamped the bat and wicked witch from a clear stamp set from Docraft. I stamped and embossed the halloween greeting using a puff white embossing powder, I backed it all with some silver webbing and added some mirror mosaics and star bling. The image was coloured with Promarkers.
Well I hope you enjoyed my wicked witch and I can't wait to see what you create!

Thanks for stopping by, I appreciate you spending the time and I love to read your comments!

Breast Cancer Awareness

Another quick post today, I made this card in support of breast cancer awareness and I will be posting it on Jacksons Digital Expression and Mema's Challenge blog.

The image is from McMahon Five and is coloured with Promarkers. The papers are from the Fizzy Moon collection by Trimcraft, I found some gorgeous pink metalic card in my stash that I used to frame the image and added a little lace.

I hope everyone will enter these challenges in support of Breast Cancer as I;m sure that everyone has been touched by this insidious disease and would like to help find a cure!

Thanks for stopping by and please to check out these challenges!

Colour Challenge

It's Tuesday again!
That means it's the Color Challenge over at the Outlawz and this week's colour choice was mine!

I took this picture at the RHS Flower show at Tatton Park, Cheshire, in the summer (what summer, lol!) and Guylou worked her magic and got the colours selected - she's so clever!
FOr my card I used the beautiful clothes peg fairy image from our sponsor this month, Inky Impressions.

I coloured the image with Promarkers, as usual then cut it out using a Spellbinders Label die which I inked the edges in green. I matted up some cute flowery paper onto some scarlet card for my background, the maple leaves are cut with a punch and the large leaf is cut with a die cut and the run through a rippler, the centre has been lined with green gems. I found some cute fabric butterfiles and the red bow in my stash a.nd then finished off with the graduated red pearls from Mei Flower who do some great bling at very reasonable prices.

Thanks for stopping by I really appreciate it and would love you to leave a comment!

Through the Craftroom Door

Hello everyone, I've been having a crafty day today and managed to get two cards made so far so I'm really getting ahead with my challenge cards!
I want to share a card with you that is in the latest Throught the Craftroom Door Magazine. I don't know if you subscribe to it, I would heartily recommend it there are some fabulous tutorials and amazing projects as well as some great free digis! Great value for money.
So my card features the Poppy Heart from Indigo Blu - I think it is one of my favourite stamps.

I used some Centura Pearl card to make the basic card and cut the heart aperture out on my Cricut. I then stamped the outside of the card withe the Poppy Heart stamp randomly all over front and back with Memento Black Tuxedo.

The image was them stamped oonto some Neenah card and coloured with Promarkers, I cut a frame of red silk paper and mounted this behind the aperture on the front. I think the overall effect is fabulous and I have used this stamp two or three times in different colour combinations and it looks good every time!

Thanks for stopping by I do appreciate your visit and love to read any comments you may leave - see you soon!

CDAC Progressive Challenge #20

I have been taking part in the Crafters Digital Art Center progressive challenge and today I would like to share the latest challenge card with you.
The image, Lazy Cat, was drawn and provided by Priscilla Styles and she has created this image in three styles, Halloween, Christmas or just Lazy and I do think she has captured a cats character perfectly!

I coloured the image with Promarkers and some metallic markers. I layered it onto some gold bubble card which has a nice effect and then used some embossed mulberry paper. The base card is from Centura Pearl which has been layered with some poinsettia printed vellum. The poinsettias are from a Marianne die cut and the greeting is precut and was bought from my local craft store last year, I finished it off with a little red organza bow.
I can see this image being used a lot this year for Christmas cards!

Thanks for stopping by I really appreciate you taking the time and I love to read your comments!

Outlawz Color Challenge

Hi everyone, it's Tuesday again and this weeks challenge was chosen by Roxann

What a challenge this proved to be! I really had to rack my brains until I came up with something that I thought was passable!

For my card I decided to go steam punk, I used some wonderful paper that I got from Costco a couple of years ago that is very grunge/steam punk in design. I layered it up with some mustard card embossed with cogs and things again very steam punk, I then stamped out some clock with a set of Kanban stamps that I have and finished with some marquasite letters - I hope you like it!
Very different from my normal style and way, way outside of my comfort zone but I think I pulled it off!

Thanks for stopping by, I do appreciate you taking the time and I love to read your comments!