DSC #102 Guys Only

Welcome to another DT project for Digitally Sweet Challenges! Our theme this week is GUYS ONLY and we had some wonderful images to choose from given graciously for this week's sponsor Stitchy Bear Stamps. I made a masculine birthday card:

I printed out the lighthouse beach digital stamp and one of the digital papers by Stitchy Bear and added to back card  base. I coloured the digi stamp with my watercolour pencils and a water brush. I then used a die for the sides and corners in black and buff cardstock. This is the first time I've used this Spellbinders Marvelous Squares die too! I've had it in my stash waaaaay too long LOL. The sentiment is hand stamped and I added a dark beige ribbon that matched the buff card. I do make simpler style cards and I really wanted simple with this one as the image is so great. I wanted it to be the focus of the card. Hope you like it!

SUPPLIES USED:
Sunset at Sea digi stamp & backing paper - Stitchy Bear Stamps
Corner and border side diecuts - Spellbinder Die set called Marvelous Squares
Sentiment Stamp - Papermania Clare Curd's Signature Range (Sentiments)
Derwent Waltercolour Pencils
Dovecraft Premium Pigment Ink in black
Black and Buff cardstock - Papermill Direct
Ribbon from my stash

CHALLENGES ENTERED:
Papertake Weekly - To Die For (use a diecut)
Sweet Stamps - Anything Goes
Try It On Tuesday - Use your stash (ribbon and die)
Crafty Creations Challenges - Use Something Old from Stash (ribbon & Die)
Crafty Girlz Challenges - Anything Goes
Crafts 4 Eternity Challenge - Beside the Seaside
Creative Fingers Challenges - anything Goes
Suzy Bee's Bloomin Challenge - Anything Goes
Eclectic Ellapu - Seaside/Nautical and Anything Goes with Watercolours
Little Claire's Design challenges - Man's Birthday Card

DSC #101 Recipe Challenge

Welcome to another Friday Design Team creations for the wonderful challenges at Digitally Sweet Challenges! Our fab sponsor this week is Sparkle n Sprinkle. They are offering a terrific prize for this week's winner! Our theme this week is a Recipe challenge: Use 1 image...2 designer papers  [digital or real], 3 different embellies [digital or real]. Here's mine:

I used 1 image (just used it 5 times...lol,) 2 digital papers (one for bg and one used behind digital stamp), and 3 real embellishments (blue ribbon, red flat backed pearls and a frame I made. I know these colours are a bit unusual. I took it from the plaid digital paper I created for a digi scrap kit for a collab when I sold at a shop called Designs In Digital. I took the digi stamp and removed the white bg in Photoshop then added a matching digital paper in gold behind it and colourised the stamp in navy blue. Luckily I had some DCWV matching cardstock in a rustic red for the mats on the stamps, frame and punched border. Just added a gold card base and gold mirri frame layer.

SUPPLIES USED:
Pinecone & Needles Digi Stamp - Sparkle n Sprinkle (link goes directly to digi stamp page)
Digital papers - Designed by me
Red cardstock - DCWV Matchmakers Cardstock Stack in Neutrals
Gold card base and Gold mirri board - from stash
Border Punch - Martha Stewart Punch Around the Page Modern Garland (old one, used border)
Red flat backed pearls - MeiFlowers
Blue Ribbon - Ribbon Oasis
Antique Linen Distress Ink 

CHALLENGES ENTERED:
Crafting When We Can - Bright Colours
That Craft Place Challenge - Autumn or Steampunk
The Squirrel and Fox - Anything Goes
Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge - anything Goes
Crafty Girls Challenge - Anything Goes
Creative Fingers Challenge - Anything Goes
Suzy Bee's Bloomin' Challenge - Anything Goes

DSC #91 - All for the Girls

Happy Friday and welcome to my DT project for Digitally Sweet Challenges!  Our sponsor yet again is the lovely Lunagirl and she gave us some gorgeous images to choose from to create for this week's theme, All for the Girls. I made this sisterly card:

I took a kraft card blank and rounded the corners with my Zutter corner rounder. When I when to print the image I also created the To A Dear Sister sentiment in Word. I added the Lunagirl image and sentiment on some white card and trimmed to a 1/16th inch border using my wonder Perfect Layers. I also used a couple of Copic markers to colour the flowers in the image. The papers I used are from the Dovecraft 1st Edition 6" x 6" paper pad called Springtime. I used a greenish with flowery corner for the background and the centre strip is a glittered cardstock from the pad as well. I know it's hard to tell that. I added some cream lace and pearl string then 3 beige flowers from my stash. The 2 little tags were also from the paper line which I cut out and put on white card. All items were distressed with Old Paper Distress Ink.

SUPPLIES USED:
Image of 2 Girls - Lunagirl
Kraft Card Blank - Papermania 6 x 6 card & envelope pack
Papers - Dovecraft 1st Edition Springtime
Beige Flowers, cream lace, pearl string, 3 flowers, beige bakers twine - from my stash
Distress Ink - Old Paper
Copic Markers

CHALLENGES ENTERED:
Scribble and Scrap Challenge - Anything Goes
That Craft Place Challenge - Ribbon/Lace
The Squirrel and the Fox Challenge - Let's Hear It For The Girls
Crafty Sentiments Challenge - Anything Goes
Paper Take Weekly Challenge - Anything Goes
Try it on Tuesday Challenge - Feminie and Fancy
Crafty Creations Challenge - It's All About "S"
Creative Moments Challenge - Anything Goes
Rhedd & Rosie's Challenges - Vintage Style
Crafty Girls Challenge - Anything Goes

DSC #90 - Friendship

Happy Friday one and all! Here I am with my DT project for this week's challenge at Digitally Sweet Challenges. Our theme this week is FRIENDSHIP and our lovely sponsor is Sparkle & Sprinkle. For today's project I made a card of course...lol. This one was fun:

I enjoyed making this card because as soon as I saw this image, this card popped into my head. I wanted to use lots of bright colours so out came the Copic Ciao markers and away I went. The base is a scalloped edge white card, the flowers are old Prima Flowers I ordered off of QVC many moons ago. Final touch was adding the little shells. Hope you like it too!

SUPPLIES USED:
BFF Mermaid digital stamp - Sparkle & Sprinkle (link takes you right to the stamp's page)
Copic Ciao Markers
White Scalloped 6" x 6" blank card - From stash
Aqua cardstock & blue dotted cardstock - From stash
Prima Flowers - in tubes from stash
Green, Pink and Orange Trims - Bazzil Basic Cardstock Borders
Shells - From stash
Big flatback pearls, small pearls and Card Candi flower centres - From stash

DSC #89 Babies

 Well it's official! My Scheduling function on Blogger is not working. I had this post set for Friday morning, but just noticed that it hadn't posted. My HUGE apologies to Digitally Sweet Challenge for my DT project not to be there.

Welcome to another DT project for this week's challenge at Digitally Sweet challenges! We love digital over at Digitally Sweet so this week I created an all digi image using one of our sponsor's images from Stitchy Bear Stamps:

I created this image in Photoshop to use basically as a printable card topper. Our theme is "Babies" so I made it as a baby shower type card. I went through my Commercial Use digital scrapbooking folders and found elements to put with the Stitchy Bear stamp. The backing papers are from Far Far Hill.

DSC # 88 Blue & Yellow

Happy Friday ya'll! That's my Southern coming out in me today...lol. So it's Friday and ya'll know what that means...it's time to show you my Design Team project for Digitally Sweet Challenges! This week's theme for you is Blue & Yellow and the sponsor is Bugaboo Stamps. We got to choose our own image and here's my project:

I made a card this week. I know it's a pretty basic design but I did alot of colourising in Photoshop and with Copics. The whole digi stamp was in black and white but I changed the colour of the text and digitally painted the rose and butterflies. I then used the rose and big butterfly to create matching papers that I printed out as well. I then just edged the papers and stamp with Black Soot Distress Ink and did lots of matting and layers in black and royal blue card. I used a Copic marker to change the colour of the Card Candy and added to the corners. My final touch was a bit of a fail that looks a little better in person is I added Pinflair Glaze to the bubbles in the digi stamp. The glaze absorbed into the paper too much and stained but it is really glossy when you see it live. Ah well.

One thing I am loving and that's my Perfect Layers rulers to created nice even layers. I got the full sized ones so I could use them on bigger projects as well as cards. LOVE LOVE LOVE! Get yourself some if you are "straight line challenged" like me...lol. I can't cut a straight line to save my life, even with a paper trimmer...even with a guillotine! Someone at one time must have told me to "get bent" and boy I sure did...LOLOLOL.

SUPPLIES USED:
Bugaboo Stamps - Image name 4 square Beleive (link goes right to image I used)
Blue Cardstock - From stash
Black Cardstock - 12" x 12" from Papermill Direct
Backing papers - created by me in PS CS3 using the digistamp
Copic Ciao Markers - B29 Ultramarine, B24 Sky, YR23 Yellow Ochre & YR17 Golden Yellow
Craftworks Card Candi - in silver
Pinflair Craft Glaze
Distress Ink - Black Soot

CHALLENGES ENTERED:
Dream Valley Challenges - Anything Goes
Scribble and Scrap Challenge - Anything Goes
Through the Purple Haze - Anything Goes for a Male
Crafty Boots Challenge - Blue & White
Ooh La La Creations Challenge - Quotations
Just Inspirational Challenges - Anything Goes
Crafting for All Seasons - Things with Wings

DSC #86 - Anything with Wings

Welcome to this week's challenge over at Digitally Sweet Challenges where we LOVE all things DIGITAL and CRAFTY. This week's theme is "Anything with Wings" and our lovely sponsor is Lacy Sunshine!

I made another card this week using an adorable Lacy Sunshine digi stamp:

Below is a list of supplies I used. This is a super simple card to make but the colours just came together nicely. Wish my colouring job on the stamp looked better in the photo. The shading looks much better in person.

SUPPLIES USED:
Lacy Sunshine - digi stamp Chrys Cherished Wing (near bottom of page)
Papermill Direct - white cardstock base I cut the card size to 6.5" x 6.5"
Paper Cellar - background paper from their 6" x 6" paper pad called "Celebrations"
Spellbinder Dies - Labels 8
Copic Ciao Alcohol Markers
Distress Ink - Spun Sugar
From My Stash - Pink cardstock, silvery ribbon, corner gems, wing glitter and grey marker pen

CHALlENGES ENTERED:
Glitter n Sparkle Challenge - Add Ribbon
Scribble and Scrap Challenge - Anything Goes
That Craft Place Challenge - Anything Goes
Digi Chooseday Challenges - Wings and Things
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge - Pastel Colours
Movin Along with the Times - Pretty Pastels
Craft Ribbons Challenge - Anything Goes with Ribbon

DSC #85 - Bingo Card

Welcome to this week's Design Team Project for Digitally Sweet Challenges! This week we were sponsored by Stitchy Bear Digi Stamp Outlet. We were given a wonderful choice of images to work with to go with a Bingo Card Challenge. Here is a card I made then the line of Bingo card I went with to make it:

This was a pretty basic card design but I just love those colours! Before I coloured the digi stamp, I picked out the paper I wanted to use. I chose a paper from a Colorbok 12" x 12" pad called "Fruit Punch" that I ordered a while back from Create and Craft TV. I knew the digi stamp had lots of detail so a simpler paper design was needed.  This diagonal stripe screamed at me as did the plain pink to match. So I dived into my sets of Copic Ciao pens and picked matching colours to use on the stamp. The "SMILE" flag was from the Colorbok paper pad as well. The pad has a few sheets of sentiments, journal spots and alphabet to match. The flourish is a Cheery Lynn die called Fanciful Flourish Left that I cut pieces off of to arrange in the corners...all added to a craft card base.

SUPPLIES USED:
Stitchy Bear Digi Stamps - called "Birds and Babies" (link takes you to the stamp's page)
Papermania - 6" x 6" craft cards and envelopes
Cheery Lynn Designs - Fanciful Flouish Left die cut with my Cuttlebug (bought in the UK)
Colorbok Papers - Fruit Punch 12 " x 12" paper pad (diagonal stripe, pink paper & sentiment)
Papermill Direct - 300 gsm 12" x 12" black cardstock
Martha Stewart border punch (I don't know the name of it.)
Copic Ciao alcohol pens
Pearls from stash

CHALLENGES ENTERED:
Simply Less is More - Makes Me Smile
4 Crafty Girlz Challenge - Anything Goes
Scribble and Scrap Challenge - Anything Goes
The Squirrel & the Fox Challenge - Use a diecut or punch
Through the Purple Haze Challenge - Creativity Strikes

Craft Haul & New Card

Hi all!  Got a couple things for ya here. First, let me show you a new clean and simple card I made last night. I got inspired from this week's theme at the Less is More Challenge Blog whichis "A Touch of turquoise." Here is my take on the theme:

 

I used some of my new stamps sets that I recently purchased. I have a nice crafty haul video below that shows you more of what I bought too! I basically cut offpart of the card front and replaced it with acetate. I stamped the chevrons on the inside of the card so it showed through the acetate. It's a nice CAS design. My new Peacock Feathers ink pad was a bit blotchy though. I don't know if it was the ink, the clea stamp or just my own terrible stamping technique...lol.

 

SUPPLIES USED:

Marion Emberson Designs Clear Stamp - Chevrons

Marion Emberson Designs Clear Stamp - Just Because

TH Distress Ink - Peacock Feathers

Card Base - Papermill Direct: A3 white 250 gsm cardstock

Acetate - from stash

 

ENTERING THESE CHALLENGES:
Simply Less is More - A Touch of Turquoise
The Paper Players Challenge - Three Spree
4 Crafty Girls Challenges - Anything Goes
Sister Act Card Challenge - Anything Goes

DSC #82 "Anything but a Card"

Welcome to this week's DT project for Digitally Sweet Challenges! DSC has weekly craft challenge that's all about digital! If you love scrapping and cardmaking with digital images, then come join us!

This week we are sponsored by Lunagirl Images. Lunagirl was kind enough to supply us DT members with some gorgeous vintage-y images to work with and here is what I made for you...a box:

It's always nice to have a cute little box onhand for little last minute Mother's Day or birthday gifties. This box is 4" x4" and made of kraft card. I printed and cut out 3 of Lunagirl's images then distressed the edges in Vintage Photo Distress Ink. I adhered them to the lid with matt medium, which I think turned out nice as I just LOVE the matt non shiny look. I took a piece of natural sponge and dabbed around the box with watered down Black Soot Distress Ink. I edged and dabbed the whole outside of the box to match.

I took more of the kraft card and made 3 flowers, 2 rolled ones and 1 with a Tonic flower punch. Those got distress and dabbed with the sponge as well. I added tiny Mulberry Crafts rosebuds that I coloured with a waterbrush and Fired Brick Distress Ink. Lastly I tucked in a little brass key.

It came together so quick and easy, hope you like it!

SUPPLIES USED:
Lunagirl Images - 3 vintage images
Papermill Direct - 12" x 12" Buff cardstock
Mulberry Crafts -  Off white Mulberry paper rose buds small S#151
Yummy Honey Crafts - key
Galleria Matt Medium
Beads from stash
Tonic Sm Flower Punch
TH Distress Inks - Vintage Photo, Fired Brick & Black Soot

Entering in the following challenges:
Glitter n Sparkle Challenges - Mother's Day
Dream Valley Challenge - Mothering Sunday 
Scribble and Scrap Challenge - Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly Challenge - Anything Goes
Crafts 4 Eternity - Anything but a card
Crafty Hands Challenge Blog - Shabby Chic
Seemacraft Challenge - Vintage

Another Winner

I won again. My Pnk and black digital cardfront won last week's challenge at Digitally Sweet Challenges. I have such a soft spot for using digital designs in my crafting being that I did a lot of designing in Photoshop for so long. I still design sometimes and I have some images for sale at Card Making Downloads. Have a peek if you like!

I would like to thank everyone over at Digitally Sweet Challenges for my win this week and I greatly appreciate the new Lunargirl digi images I won. Can't wait to use them to!

I'm off to my craft room for the rest of the afternoon as I just printed off a bunch of new digi stamps. I want to break out the Copics and have a colour...lol.

Hugs, Dorothy

Digital Card Front

I sat here this afternoon playing in Craft Artist Pro and decided to make a printable card front for a quick birthday card. Here is what I whipped up:

 

It's pretty basic but I just loved the images in the freebie digital scrapbooking kit I used. I'm going to mount this on some pink and white matting then finally onto a blank 6" x 6" black card. I can see me using this kit for other projects as it had so many cute graphics inside it.

The kit I used was an old freebie kit called "Silhouette" by Numb Bum Designs. I would love to link to her but her blog no longer exists and she is not available in any online digital shop anymore either. But she did design some really cute scraps, ashame really. Then again I don't design digital kits anymore either. One day the designing bug might hit me again...lol. At the moment I really enjoy making real life crafts in my craft room. there is just something about having glue, glitter and inkyness everywhere that makes me happy.

ENTERING IN FOLLOWING CHALLENGE:

Digitally Sweet Challenges - Black & White + One Other Colour

My Card WON!

 I would love to thank everyone over at Crafting When We Can Challenges for giving me this Winner's award on my anniversary Bookatrix card I entered in their challenge last week. I was really surprised and very honoured!

I won some very cool digital stamps from Sassy Studio Designs...check out their blog shop! I cannot wait to get them and use them.

It was such a gorgeous day here in Essex that the hubby and I went to the seafront for the day then came home to watch The Arsenal barely beat Spurs so a good day all round...Thanks be to God!

Hope you all had a lovely weekend as well. Those of us in the UK have had such rotten winter weather that now it's warm and the sun is out, we all were at the seaside today. It was crowded at Southend-on-Sea but it was worth fighting the crowds. 

Last Minute Card

Wow...two posts in one day! YIKES Scoob! I was wandering around the challege blogs and saw this one about to end and thought I would whip something up. The first card I made was a huge fail but this little CAS card turned out cute. Thought I'd enter it.

 

When I saw the theme of Spring Flowers I immediately thought of this new stamp set I bought on ebay. I bought it used and it came with no packaging. It looks like and Inkadinkadoo stamp set. If anyone knows, please leave me a comment so I can give credit.

I stitched around the stamped floral block with my Copic 02 liner pen and I used Papermania pigment inks.

Entering in the following challenge:

Simply Less in More - One Layer CAS Spring Flowers

Hugs, Dorothy

 

My First Bookatrix

A friend of mine asked me to make her a card for her parents Golden 50th Anniversary and I agreed. I thought of a few designs and settled on an easel card...then I had an even better idea. I remembered that a long time ago someone gave me a bookatrix board. Funny thing that I foundit quite quickly in my mess of a craft room...lol. So I grabbed an old folder of peel offs and lots of white cardstock and away I went to making my very first ever bookatrix card.

I even created it's own stand and presentation box:

My friend just loved it as she had never seen anything like this before. I sure hope her parents like it as well. Thanks for having a look at my creation!

Here's my supply list:

White 300 gsm card (A3 sized) - Papermill Direct (I LOVE their card)
Gold peel offs in butterflies gold links, lines and fancy corners. Can't remember where these are from.
All white flowers  - Wild Orchid Crafts
Largest gold paper rose  - Hobbycraft  (white rose misted with homemade gold glimmer mist)
Folk Art Antique Gold paint (I painted the green leaves under the flowers in gold)

I would like to enter my bookatrix in the following challenges:

Crafting When We Can - Anniversary

Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes

Glitter n Sparkle Challenge - Anything Goes

Scribble and Scrap - Anything Goes

That Craft Place Challenge - Anything Goes

Purple Heart

I was going through my paper stash and I found this old paper stack that I bought at a craft show over 4 years ago. It was a generic stack with no cover or company name on it so I don't know who to credit but it had all sorts inside: vellum, embossed card, pealised paper; all in 2 colours, pink, purple and blue.

So I came up with this clean and simple card. I used the printed vellum as a type of banner across the bottom by folding it slightly so it pops up in the middle. The heart stamp is old too. I used it 10 years ago to make my wedding invitations...lol. It's a wood mounted stamp and we all know those last forevvvver.

Here's my suppliess list: Card stock base is white 300 gsm from Paper Mill Direct; lavender embossed paper and vellum from that old paper stack; heart stamp I have no idea; word stamp from a Studio g mini set; purple Color Box chalk ink.

Entering in the following Challenges:

CASology - purple

Paper Creator's Crafts - Anything Goes

Mason Jar Tag Card

Happy Friday all! Hope you all have a lovely weekend ahead. It  looks like our horrible rainy weather is going to calm into a sort of bright weekend here in Essex. Hope my family back in the States (New Jersey) are dug out of the snow they've been getting. Now onto my new card:

 

The card was based on a sketch for a challenge over as The Paper Players and I'm just making it in under the wire...lol. Here is a photo of the tag tucked inside the pocket:

Here is a list of my supplies:  The papers, mason jar tag, and jar topper were from one of my new 12" x 12" paper stacks called Dear Lizzy Neopolitan by American Crafts; Personal Impressions Everyday Words stamps, Distress Ink in Tattered Rose, Ribbon from Ribbon Oasis; Black Papermania ink; Heart buttons from my stash.

I love love love the papers in this stack. The mason jars are so cute. I fussy cut out the mason jar tag from a whole sheet of them then mounted it on the tan dotted paper from the set and fussy cut around that as well.

Entered in the following challenges:

The Paper Players - based on sketch

Crafty Girls Challenges - Anything Goes

Creative Creations Challenges - Less is More

My Craft Creations - Anything Goes

I'm Alive & A Box Card

Yep I'm still around. I took a long break from blogging. I didn't intend to be away so long but life has a habit of getting in the way but it's a new year and I'm back to crafting. I hope start entering challenges again and hope today's is just the start.

Today I made a box card. Here it is:

I just LOVE the dimensional effect of this card. It folds flat too! I followed a YouTube tutorial for this box card: Box Card to Fit in a C6 Envelope. I received my new copy of Simply Cards and Papercrafts magazine yesterday and as a free gift inside was a 6" x 6" paper pad and set of clear stamps in the new Prima Fairy Belle range. Goodness it was so gorgeous I went on a seach for something to make with it.

I encourage you to try out the box card tutorial and I'd love to see your results so leave me a comment and show me your stuff.

I entered this card in the following challenges:

Digitally Sweet Challenge - Anything Goes

Debbi Moore Designs Challenge - Love


Cards Galore Encore Challenge - Anything Goes


Natalie and Amy's Challenge - One for the Girlies


Sparkles Monthly Challenge - Show Off Your New Stash


The Crafting Cafe - Anything Goes

Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes

Scribble and Scrap Blog & Challenge - Anything Goes

Have a Craftastic Day!!

Owl Couple Digial Layout

Since I'm still waiting on my craft room to get painted, I've been doing some digital art in Craft Artist Pro. Just downloaded this new kit and knew it would make a cute card front.

I used one of the new digital stamps I won from Lacy Sunshine Stamps. Ain't they da cutest? lol
The digital scrap kit I used was a freebie I downloaded today over at Pixels and Company.

I colourised the digi stamp in Photoshop then assembled the page using Craft Artist Pro. 

CHALLENGES:

Lacy Sunshine Challenge - Anything Goes
The Sketchy Challenges -  Karen's sketch
Challenges 4 Everybody - #21 Anything Goes
Word Art Wednesday - #81 Anything Goes
My Heart Pieces Challenge - Be Sentimental

A "Deer" of a Challenge

I missed last week's challenge due to craft room woes (more on that later.) So I'm back with another digital layout for Digitally Sweet. This week was an inspirational image. The image of choice racked my brain a little so I decided on the obvious...a deer and similar colours.

Scrap kit used: Sunny Daze Freebie Mini kit by Mari Koegelenberg from Sweet Shoppe Designs.
Deer Photo: morguefile.com
Page created in: CraftArtist 2 Professional (PC) (affiliate link)

CHALLENGES ENTERED:

Digitally "Sweet" Challenges - Photo Inpiration


Thanks for looking!
Hugs