Something Elegant

Good Afternoon all that follows....

Hope you have had a lovely day so far and that the weather is good at your end. Sun is shining which makes it lovely outside.

Well I needed a little break from bright bold colours so for today I went for a Monochromatic card in shades of blue. I find these monochrome cards quite hard sometimes, but must admit I think I picked an easy image to go with this kind of card today....

I used baby blue pearl card blank for my card, then I added the navy blue embossed panel, which I embossed using my Cuttlebug, and I am actually not too sure what the embossing folder is called as it is one of my very first folders. The paper I used was glitter embossed, I am not too sure where it's from as all the writing on the paper pack is in German I got this off ebay about a year ago and never used it. I then added the punched border which is a Martha Stewart punch and the light blue ribbon. The flowers were hand made using some of the left over backing papers. The image was cut out with a Nellie snellen die. The image was coloured using Promarkers and lastly I added all the lovely Pearls.

Well, Hope you all like it...Thank you for taking time to stop by my blog and I hope you all have a fabulous weekend....

I am entering this into the following challenges:

• Sketch Saturday - The sketch I used
• Gingerloft - Shades of Blue
• Bunny Zoe's Craft Challenge - Happy Birthday & lots of Pearls
• A spoonful of Sugar - Texture
• Party Time Tuesdays - Elegant Birthday
• Papertake Weekly - Anything goes
• Cooking Up with Katie - Recipe
• Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge - Embossing
• Lexi's Creations - Monochromatic
• Cardmaking Mamas - Embellish it
• Digi Doodle Shop Best - Happy Birthday
• The Stamp Man - Embossing
• Wags 'n Whiskers -Ribbon & Pearls

April Showers, Bring May Flowers!

Good Afternoon Everyone,

Well the sun has been shining but we seem to have a lot of gusty winds, which makes it a bit unpleasant outside, so therefore I abondend the gardening this afternoon and ended up making a card instead.

So the new sketchie for this week has been posted by the lovely Rosie on the CMLI forum and she has a theme Rain & Showers, which there is quite a few challenges for this week.

Well hopefully we will have lovely flowers in May after all the rain we've been having.

So I used a Magnolia Tilda stamps which I had for many months and not even used yet, so I thought this will be the ideal oppurtunity get her inked up. I coloured my image using promarkers. The papers is from a Cardmaking & papercraft magazine. I can't remember from where I got the digi sentiment. The big yellow flower was hand made using some punches. The background for the sentiment was embossed using the Swiss dots folder and my cuttlebug. Everything else is just from my stash.

Close Up of the sentiment and embellishments

The Image

So I really hope you all like it and this happy cheery card, makes you all feel a bit brighter.

Thank You for everyone who stopped by my blog, and for those of you that take a minute to leave me a comment, THANK YOU!

So I am entering the following challenges:

Craty Catz Weekly Challenge - April Showers

Just Magnolia - Buttons

Magnolia Stamp Lovers - Ribbon

Little Claires Designs - Spring

Stamptacular Sunday - Buttons, Bling, Blooms

Cute Card Thursday - Tropical

Paper Playtime - Anything Goes

Paper Sundaes - Spring Blossoms

Do You Stack Up - Yellow brick road

Crafty Cardmakers -Yellow, Ribbon, Stitching, Gems

Pollycraft Monday - Old/Neglected stamp

Magical Monday - Swirls & Pearls

Passion for Promarkers - Yellow & Pink

A spoonful of sugar - Texture

City crafters - Cheer up

Papertake weekly - Anything goes

Flutterby wednesday - Open Challenge

Crafty Creations - Rain/showers

Creative Card Crew - April Showers

Welcome New Followers!

Morning Everyone,

Just want to say a huge welcome to all my new followers think that is about 11 in a week, that is amazing! Hope you will all pop back on a regular basis and that you will find something you like on my blog.

Just a reminder that there is still time to enter my candy as loads of my followers has still not entered!

The Post is Here

A Little Variation

Afternoon Everyone,

Well, what have you all been up to? Crafting I hope!

Anyway as you all remembered last week sometime I posted some pretty flowers which my and LO made. I enjoyed making them so much I decided to make some more, but with a little variation.

Materials Used:

Little weaved basket, which I bought from Hobbycraft

Flower Layer Set dies - from Sizzix - Cuttlebug

Skewer sticks, Coloured card in 3 different colours as well as some glitter card stock

Pearls for the flower centres, 1 fairy image from Wags 'n Whiskers

Promarkers, Glue, double sided tape, and some imagination...lol

Anyway here is the rest of my piccies:

So I made this for a Special friend of mine's Birthday which is soon. I Hope you all like it. Anyway, Thank You for everyone who took a minute to stop by and visit my blog. It is very much appreciated. Thank you also for those who take time to leave me a comment. It is always very much appreciated.

Challenges I have entered this into:

• Digi Doodle Shop Best - Happy Birthday
• Fairytale Challenge - Happy Birthday
• Little Claire's Designs - Spring
• Allsorts Challenge - Blooming Blossoms
• Paper Sundaes - Spring Blossoms
• Dream Valley Challenges - Things with wings
• OSAAT - 3D item
• The Crafty Pad - Flowers
• Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes
• Simon Says Stamp & Show - Anything but a card
• Passion for Promarkers - Yellow & Pink
• Papertake weekly - Anything Goes
• Digi's With Attitude! - Anything Goes
  
  

First Easter Card!

Good Evening Bloggers,

Well, done my first Easter Card Earlier today! So here it is:

I used the sketch from Sweet Sketch Wednesday to design my card the Papers is from Wild Rose Studio and The Paper Cellar. I used the Swiss dots embossing folder to emboss the background card. I am sorry to say that I don't actually know where the digi image is from as it is one I downloaded last year round easter time. The two punches is from Martha Stewart and the Organza ribbon flower was hand made by myself. The Ribbon & gems was from my stash!

I am enterning this card into the following challenges:

• A spoonful of sugar - Easter
• Sweet Sketch Wednesday - Sketch
• I Love Promarkers - Emboss it
• Crafty Creations - Bunnies
• Pixie Cottage - Stitching
• Creative Craft World - Easter
• Cardmadfairy Digi Days - Easter
• Craft Your Days Away - Spots & Stripes
• My partner in crafting Crime - Layers

One Stop Craft Challenge DT Card!

Morning Bloggers,

Well, I don't know what happened as I had this post scheduled to go live on Saturday as I was away for the weekend, but this morning realised that it never did and still don't know what happened to the original post as it is now nowhere to be found!

Anyhow, the new theme this week over on One Stop Craft Challenge is Spots & Dots and we have a lovely prize sponsored by Dude Time Doodles! They also gave a some lovely image to work with, so here's my card!

My Papers is from the Wild Rose Studio Spots paper pack. My image was coloured using Promarkers and the sentiment is from the lovely Paulette over on Create with TLC. The Punch I have used is from Martha Stewart and the rest of the embellish is just from old stash.

Please hop over to the One Stop Craft Challenge blog , where you can find some more lovely creations from my fellow DT members.

I am entering this into the following challenges:

• Digital Tuesday - For the Kids
• Creative Card Crew - For a Child
• Digi Doodle Shop Best - Happy Birthday
• Fairytale Challenge - Happy Birthday
• Totally Papercrafts - One for the Boys
• CES - Children
• My Partner in Crafting Crime - 3 or more layers
• Craft Your Passion - Anything goes

I would like to take time to Thank each and everyone who took time to visit my blog and leaving me some lovely comments, just know they are very much appreciated.

Less Is More!

Morning Blogland!

Well, sorry gave in last night before I posted this one, was just so tired and had to go to bed!

Anyway this is my card I done for the Less is More Challenge!

I must confess it probably took me longer than any of the other cards I have done this week, I just can't get to grips with this style, but anyway at least I tried!

I am entering this into the Less is More Challenge & Creative Cottage Challenge.