DSC #129 - Anything Goes!

Ooooh yes..I love an anything Goes challenge and that's what we have for you this week over at Digitally Sweet Challenges! Our sponsor is Lunagirl and she provided us on the Designs Team with some gorgeous images to work with. I created a card. It's basic but my new printer really made the images look fab:

I started with a pale pink pearlised card base. I also had some matching pink pearlised paper to mat the girl image on. I mounted the flower frame background image on brown cardstock and edged with Vintage Photo Distress Ink. I went to town with fine glitter and added it all over the backing image. I also highlighted the pink flowers in the girl image with the glitter. Then as embellishments I added 3 pink buttons a pink stick pin pearl, a swatch of lace and added lace along the opening side of the card. There are also some glitter pen pearls as well. It came together quick but looks quite nice.

We hope you'll join us over at Digitally Sweet and enter a challenge this month...this on is the last for February so look for our Feb winners!

DSC #126 Colour Challenge

Happy Friday!!! It's time for a new weekly challenge at Digitally Sweet Challenges where hybrid crafting reigns! LOL This week our theme is a colour challenge. Go over to Digitally Sweet to see the colours. Our lovely sponsor is Sparkle n Sprinkle and here is a card I made for my DT project:

I ttok the Friends image into Photoshop and colourised it using the colour for the challenge. I then made three background papers using the same colours: the fine dotted paper, a multi stripe paper and a deep red slightly damask pattern paper. I printed then cut everything out. I arranged the matted layer after distressing the edges with Old Paper Distress Ink. I added a sheer ribbon and knot and moulded flowers that I made with air dry clay and moulds. So easy.

SUPPLIES USED

Zendoodle Friends digital stamp set - Sparkle n Sprinkle
Papers created by me in Photoshop
Ribbon and cly flowers from stash.
White card base from stash

I do hope you qill join us over at Digitally Sweet Challenges this week!

Happy Crafting!
Hugs, Dorothy

#282 - Owls, Hearts, Love

YEAH...it's time for a new challegne at Crafty Creations Challenges! Our theme is "Owls, Hearts, Love" and we ask that you use owls and/or hearts in your creations for this challenge. Our terrific sponsor is:

You could win something cool from them too all you have to do is join in the challenge! Here is my Design Team project. I went with hearts and I used one of CFS Designs digis on it:

I used a CFS Designs sentiment with the heart in the middle and took it onto Photoshop. I took the heart. created my own matching backing paper and colourised the sentiment. I also made a small panel of the burgundy colour as well. I printed them on thin cardstock and cut them out then added some Distress Ink in Spun Sugar around the edges and around the cut out heart. I added the solid colour panel underneath then I raised up the heart paper using 3d foam pads on a scalloped card base. I added the sentiment in the centre of the heart by doubling up the foam pads. Finally I added bling gems, a die cut swirl and a dark swirl printed ribbon.

SUPPLIES USED:
Valentine Wishes sentiment - CFS Designs
Distress Ink in Spun Sugar
Backing paper created using sentiment heart in Photoshop by me
Scalloped car base, gems, ribbon and swirl from my stash.

CHALLENGES ENTERED:
Glitter n Sparkle Challenges - Anything Goes
Dream Valley Challenges - Valentine's Day
Scribble and Scrap Challenge - Anything Goes
That Craft Place Challenge - Anything Goes
Crafting From the Heart Challenges - Anything Goes
Through the Purple Haze Challenges - Anything Goes
Whoopsi Daisy Challenges - Pretty in Pink
Crafty Boots Challenges - Hearts and Valentines
Crafty Sentiments Challenge - Include a Heart
Papertake Weekly Challenges - Anything Goes
Digi Choosday Challenges - In the Pink
Creative Inspirations Challenges - Love is in the air
C.R.A.F.T. Chalenges - Valentine's Day
TIME OUT Challenges - Valentines with twist hearts
Creative Fingers Challenges - Anything Goes
Wags n Whiskers Challenges - Hearts
Eclectic Eliapu - Burgundy/Red, Ivory/Cream and Hearts
Paper Creator's Challenges - Love is in the Air
Buckwells Crafty Challenge - Love/Red
Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge - Anything Goes
Natalie and Amy's Challenges - All About the Love


Hope you will join us at Crafty Creations Challenges! thanks for having a peek and my card and as always...

HAPPY CRAFTING!
Hugs, Dorothy

#281 Something Old Something New

It's time for a new challenge at Crafty Creations Challenges! I like this type of theme as it gets me diggin through me stash. We hope you will join in the fun and enter. Use something new and something old on your crafty goodness and you could win goodies from our sponsor Fresh Brewed Designs!

Here is my Design Team project for this one:

Bright ain't it? LOL i used a cute little image provided by our lovely sponsor and created this A6 birthday card. I coloured in the printed image with my trusty Copic Ciaos and matted it on yellow and red. I created the sentiment myself in Photoshop. Now here is how I stuck to the theme Something Old Something New:

NEW
The image and the embossing folder I used on the yellow card background. I just bought a whole bunch of dies and embossing folder from the Sizzix.co.uk site as they were having a huge sale of up to 80% off!!! I ordere 10 items and they only came to just over £17.00. Regular price would have been almost £90. Amazing right? Yellow cardstock from a big pack of American Crafts cardstock I got a TK Maxx.

OLD
Lots of mouldy oldies here...lol. The blue card base I've had for over 7 years. The red swirl paper was bought when I first started scrapbooking...gosh almost 10 yrs ago! The butterfly gems and blue dotted ribbon again bought when I first started making cards about 7 yrs ago

SUPPLIES USED:
Image #20 Latte Party from Fresh Brewed Designs
Yellow Cardstock - American Crafts Big Card Pack (Tropical pack)
Embossing Folder - Sizzix Textured Impressions set of 2 A2 folders Trellis and Swirls (I used Swirls)
Spellbinders Dies in Regular Circles
Copic Ciao Markers
Ribbon by Craft Works in a 4 ribbon pack in blues.
Blue Card Base, Red Swirl paper, Butterfly gems are all from my stash

Thanks for looking and I do hope you will join us at Crafty Creations Challenges!

Happy Crafting,
Dorothy

DSC #123 Dance Like Nobody's Watching

I'm still trying to get back into the swing of things here but I finsally got into my craft room. it's still a mess, it still needs lots of reorganising but i made a little path for me to get in and make something. I had a hard time finding stuff (like my ATG gun which I still cannot find thanks to my daughter) but I found enough to make something for our challenge this week over at Digitally Sweet Challenges!

Our lovely sponsor this week is Lunagirl! I love love love her images and she let us have a few absolutely gorgeous dancing ladies to use for our projects. Here's my card:

I started with a premade card blank in white then added papers and embellies from my stash. I loved this theme and images as an ex-bellydancer...lol. Hope you like my card and will join us for this week's challenge at Digitally Sweet!

SUPPLIES USED:
Lady image from Lunagirl
Sentiment created myself in Word
White card blank from stash
Blue pattered paper and blue pearl paper from my stash
Ribbon Bow from stash
Distress Ink in Tumbled Glass
Fiskars border punch looped border
Impex Heart stickers
Trimits Paper Crafts blue glitter butterfly

Thanks for having a look!

HAPPY CRAFTING,
Dorothy

#278 Something to "Die" For Challenge

It's time for a new challenge at Crafty Creations Challenges! Our theme this fortnight is Something to "Die" For. To enter you will need to use some sort of die cuts on your project...who doesn't love dies?! Our lovely sponsor this week is Robyn's Fetish Stamps and you could winn some awesome digital images. I made a card for this DT project:

Just a simple winter time card as I just loved this digital stamp. I don't own a whole lot of dies yet but I did have one that looked kind of snowflake-like. I coloured the digi stamp with some plain coloured pencils as I wanted only a faint bit of colour. I toyed with leaving the stamp uncoloured but when it went together it really did need a little bit to tie it all in.

SUPPLIES USED:
In the Cold digi stamp - Robyn's Fetish Stamps
Backing paper - free gift from an old Papercreafter magazine, BoBunny paper set.
Snowflake dies - Spellbinders Ironwork Motifs Die
Pale blue twine - Papermania 3-Piece Capsule Collection Spots & Stripes Pastels Bakers Twine

Old Paper Distress Ink
White grosgrain ribbon bow - from stash
White scalled card base - from stash
Sentiment created by me

Hope you will join us for this challenge!

Happy Christmas Crafting!
Dorothy

#277 Embossing Challenge

Hi all...it's time for a new challenge over at Crafty Creations Challenges! I hope you will join us this time around and enter your creation using some type of Embossing. Our wonderful sponsor this week is Beccy's Place and you could have a chance to win some lovely images from her too.

Here I used 2 different types of embossing, dry embossing with an embossing folder and embossing powder with a heat gun.

I made a tag shaped card with buff cardstock which is similar to kraft. I cut out a tag shape in white to go on after I ran it through my Cuttlebug with a chevron embossing folder. On top of that I added designer paper from My Mind's Eye along with the sentiment trimmed off that same paper. I colooured the wreat digi stamp and the ornament digi stamp with my Copic Ciaos and on the ornament's white bits, I added some clear glitter embossing powder which raised up a bit and sparkles. To "hang" the ornament I added some little crystal branches and a jute bow. LAstly I topped the tag with red and sheer white ribbon.

SUPPLIES USED:
Wreath & Ornament Digi Stamps - Beccy's Place
Red with gold dots background paper - My Mind's Eye Mistletoe Magic 12" x 12" paper set
Distress Ink in Fired Brick and Antique Linen
Cuttlebug Embossing folder - Chevron
WOW Embossing Powder in Clear Sparkle
Nutscene Jute Twine
Crystal branch taken from a larger Chriatmas sprig £1.00 at Asda
Red and white ribbons from stash

DSC #115 Opposites Attract

Happy Friday and welcome to this week's Design Team project and new Challenge announcement for Digitally Sweet Challenges! Join us for this week's theme of "Opposites Attact" and sponsored by Bugaboo Stamps. I made a friend card:

This stamp was so cute. I coloured it in with Letreset Promarkersand set it on a frame I made out of 2 different pealised papers. I then punched out some little balloons out of the same paper. This paper was double sided so I could get a third colour in each bunch. I had a hard time finding a designer paper that I liked then I found this 6" carstock pad of all cupcake papers and this one matched the colours so well.So come on over to Digitally Sweet Challenges and show of your crafty goodness. I can't wait to see what to enter!

SUPPLIES USED:
"Ava and Deacon Friends" digital stamp - Bugaboo Stamps
Letraset ProMarker Set (12 colours + Free Blender)
Cupcake backing paper - Paper Cellar Cupcakes 6x6 Patterned Papers
Pearlised paper and beige & gold twine from my stash.

#276 New Challenge at Crafty Creations!

It's time for a new challenge at Crafty Creations Challenges and we do hope you will join us. Our lovely sponsor is Freshly Brewed Designs. This week's theme is "Just One." Basically use just ONE of things on your card. For example, on my card below I did one image, one designer paper, one button, one dove, one ribbon, one bow and one flower:

See how I used just one of each item. Sorry about the colours in the photo. If you saw the card in real life the colours I used on the digi stamp match the glittery designer paper. I ried to correct in Photoshop but it looked horrible so I left it. UGH.

SUPPLIES USED:
Queen for a Day digi stamp - Freshly Brewed Designs
Flowery Glitter Designer card - First Edition "Dreamcatcher" 6" x 6" paper pad.
Copic Ciao Markers
Button - from stash
Dove die cut, ribbon and purple flower - received from craft swaps.

I hope you will check out this fortnight's challenge at Crafty Creations. Can't wait to see what you create!

Happy Crafting!
Dorothy

#128 November - Christmas Card Challenge

Hey...it's the 1st of November already! It's time for a new challnge at Bearly Mine Challenges! I hope you will join us this month for our challenge theme "Christmas Cards." You know it's that time again where the closer it gets to Christmas the less time there is for crafting so get those cards done now and join us! Here is my simple Christmas card:

I know it's hard to tell but I coated the backing paper with fine silver glitter and I added chunkier silver glitter to the birds and snow. The letters are also glittery and are from a sticker sheet alphabet I got at Hobbycraft. All 3 papers are printed out from the Bearly Mine Designs Christmas Traditions 2 digital paper set. It sure is ashame you cannot see all the glitter...lol.

Thanks for looking and hope you will join in the challenge!

Happy Crafting!
Dorothy

DSC #110 - Your Hero

Happy Friday all! It's time for this week's challenge at Digitally Sweet Challenges and our sponsor this week is Bugaboo Stamps! Our theme this week is "Your Hero" but this could have many takes on it such as a friend, parent,dog...lol, or just someone or some position you admire like fireman, military, nurse, etc. We would love for you to join us! Here is the card I made this week as an example:

Look...NO distress ink! LOL. I just used lots of layers for this simple card as I really wanted the image and sentiment to stand out. I love dogs and one day soon I'll introduce you to my two fuzzy puppykids Buster and Paris. When I saw this image I knew I had to use it! Of course this also is me at least 10 times a day...hugging my dogs....lol.

SUPPLIES USED:
GirlPuppyLove digi image - Bugaboo Stamps
Scalloped white card blank - Cards UK bought in The Range
All cardstock - American Crafts Tropical collection
Border Punch - Fiskars Punch called Bracket Border
Copic Ciao markers
Gems from stash

Have a Happy Crafty Day!
Dorothy

Challenge #274 Thinking of You

Here I am a day late and dollar short for this challenge round post for Crafty Creations Challenge. I have a good reason, I am so so sick. I had the start of a chest infection, then I coughed really hard and pulled a mucle in my chest. Talk about excrutiating pain...OUCH! Then the chest infection went full blown. No eating, no sleeping = UGH. Enough about me, now on to the newest challenge!

This week's theme at Crafty Creations is "Thinking of You" and we do hope you will join in. Our lovely sponsor is San's Designs..check out her shop..it's has gorgous digis. Here is the card I made as a Design Team member:

I took a craft card blank then mat and layered papers edged in Distress Ink. Then just layered up my embellies: the lacey circle diecut, the image coloured with Copics, the sentiment I made myself, leafy diecut and flowers.

SUPPLIES USED:
Waiting 4 U digi stamp - San's Designs
6" x 6" kraft card base by Papermania Square Card Blanks w/ Envelopes
Designer papers - Crate Paper "Fourteen" 6" x 6" paper pad
Larger Flowers - from old Prima Flowers Tubes bought off of QVC years ago.
Small Flowers - Mulberry Crafts UK
Large Diecut - Spellbinders Nestabilities Dies-Lacey Circles
Leafy Diecut - Poppystamps Lovely Tendril Style #956
Copic Ciao markers
Distress Ink in Antique Linen

Happy Craftin All!
Dorothy

DSC #109 - Sports

It's be a week since i've posted and I missed last week's challenge at Digitally Sweet because of my birthday goings on. I'm back this week with another easel card and our theme for our challenge is SPORTS. Make a crafty project with a sports theme and using some sort of digital image on it then come on over to Digitally Sweet Challenges and enter! You could win some gorgeous digi treats from our sponsor Stitchy Bear Stamps!

Here's my easel card:

I started with an A6 blank card in medium blue and folded it into an easel card shape. I coloured in the Trophy Bowler digi stamp with my Copic ciaos and printed out my own sentiment. I cut out the sentiment and the bowling ball will circle dies and I used white gelly pen to highlight the holes of the bowling ball. For the matted layers I used black cards and paper from the Stitchy Bear paper set called King of the Couch. Extras added was a sheer stripe gray ribbon and black card candi.

SUPPLIES USED (All links go to product)
Trophy Bowler digi Stamp - Stitchy Bear Stamps
King of the Couch Papers - Stitchy Bear Stamps
300 GSM Black Cardstock - Papermill Direct
Blue Card base & White cardstock - from my stash
Spellbinders Die Large Standard Circle Nestabilities
Sheer Stripe Gray Ribbon - Ribbon Oasis
Candi Dot Embellishments .35oz-Metropolis

Challenge #273 - Use Orange

Two weeks gone and it's time for a new challenge at Crafty Creations Challenges! Our theme this time around is to use orange in your project. Our sponsor is Robyn's Fetish and I used one of her gorgeous images. I made a Happy autumn card:

First I coloured in the Fall Pumpkin digital stamp with my copic Ciao markers. Then I fussy cut it out. I took a white card base, inked the edges with Linen Distress Ink. On top I layered burnt orange card, the fall leaf digital paper from a digital scrapbooking kit then some dark brown card that I embossed with a folder and my Cuttlebug. I added a tag I also distressed with the Linen ink. I added jute twine to the tag. A simple yet effective card!

SUPPLIES USED:
Robyn's Fetish Fall Pumpkin digi stamp
Fall Leaf paper from digi kit - "Autumn Thoughts" by Designs by Megan Turnidge
Orange and Brown card from stash
White card base from stash
Copic Ciao markers
Cuttlebug Embossing Folder Argyle
Jute Twine from stash

New Bearly Mine Challenge

It's a new month so that means it's time for a new challenge at Bearly Mine Challenges! Join us for this month's challenge with the theme halloween. I personally don't "do" halloween so I made a card with a basic theme...SPIDERS...lol.

Whatcha think? Not halloween but still a bit scary huh? Well if you live in the UK you will know we get some really big spiders here, I mean creepy, massively huge, long hairy legged suckers. Don't what it is about the UK that breeds big spiders...lol. Anyway, I used the Bearly Mine paper set called Halloween Fantasy. I used 4 different papers and I colourised 2 of them to match in Photoshop. I edged the papers with Distress Ink in Black Soot. I placed these on a black card base. I embellished with black Card Candi, Spellbinder diecuts and a big green glittered spider I got in a pack of 4 from a local 99p Store.

SUPPLY USED:
Bearly Mine papers - Halloween Fantasy
Black Cardstock - Papermill Direct
Spellbinders - Nestabilities Marvelous Squares S4-383
Craftword Card Candi-Metropolis
Green Glitter Spider - from a local 99p Store

DSC #107 Music

It's another Friday and it's time for the weekly challenge at Digitally Sweet Challenges! Here is my Design Team project for this week...a card:

I made an easel card this time using one of our sponsor's digi stamps. You can find this stamp here at Bugaboo Stamps. I took the stamp and coloured it in with my Copic Ciaos I then printed off a music sheet that I colourised in Photoshop and laid that as a base top and bottom all edges with Black Soot Distress Ink. I also printed out the music notes and fussy cut those out. I made the sentiment myself. Finally added 2 black bows and aqua blue gems.

Yeah I know I know...another BLUE project...lol. I know I've been using a whole lot of blue lately. Sorry about that. I'll make sure to use a diferent colour next time. I hope you enjoyed this week's card and I do hope you will join us for this week's challenge at Digitally Sweet Challenges!

DSC #105 "Charm"ing

Good morning lovlies! It's dat time...it's time for this week's new challenge at Digitally Sweet Challenges! We have a terrific sponsor this week...you could win your choice of digi stamp from Lacy Sunshine Stamps! She was kind enough to let us on the Design Team have an image each to work with. I chose this beautiful stamp called Emily Snow Princess. Our theme this week is "Charm"ed - Add a charm to your project.

LOL it's hard to see the white card base, this is what happens when I photograph at night. There is just too much glare on the photo. I used an extra light but guess I shouldn't have...can we say "overkill?" LOL This is an extra large card. It measures 6 3/4" by 6 3/4" which I made out of A3 white cardstock. I printed out the digi stamp and the 4 digital papers and sentiment. These were from a freebie scrap kit I had downloaded awhile back. I coloured Emily with my Copics, then added corner dots, a ribbon and a charm which is metal with a heart on it.I definitely didn't use traditional Christmas colours on this one but I went with the colours of the scrap kit I used. All supplies are listed below.

SUPPLIES USED:
Emily Snow Princess Digital Stamp - Lacy Sunshine Stamps
Creativ Christmas Free Digi Scrap Kit - Regina Falango (kit no longer available but she has other freebies)

A3 Cardstock Base - Papermill Direct
Copic Markers
Card Candi
Green Cardstock - Core'dinations Gemstone Cardstock 12"X12"

Thanks for having a peek...hope you will join us at Digitally Sweet Challenges. We would love to see your creations!

Happy Crafting!
Dorothy

DSC #103 Chocolate & Cream

Happy Friday peeps! I'm here with my DT project for Digitally Sweet Challenges! Our sponsor this week is Lunagirl and she let us have some wonderfully vintage images all dealing with CHOCOLATE! I loved this image so made a card.

 Much of this card was printed out from my computer: the main image by Lunagirl of course, the sentiment and one of the backing papers. I started with a 6" x 6" kraft card and matted using black card. I added a couple different laces and chipboard corners which I coloured with Distress Ink in Vintage Photo. I found a chocolate sentiment online and opened Photoshop to type it out. I added a background colour to the sentiment to match the image.

Thanks for looking and hope you'll join us over at Digitally Sweet!

SUPPLIES USED:
Main Image - Lunagirl
6" x 6" kraft card base by Papermania Square Card Blanks w/ Envelopes
Black cardstock - Papermill Direct
FLoral pattered paper - First Edition Desert Blooms Paper Pad 6 x 6 inch
Printed out Text Backing paper - Far Far Hill
Sentiment made by me in PS CS3
Vintage Photo Distress Ink
Laser Cut corners - shop no longer in business but find great laser cut mdf by Fernli Designs
Laces from my stash

DSC #103 Oriental

Welcome to Friday Design Team project for Digitally Sweet Challenges! This week we are sponsored by and the theme is Oriental. Time got away from me this week so I whipped up a cute little card.

 

I know it's not fancy but I did take time over the colouring and choosing the paper.  The paper is Dovecraft Papermania Leaf 6" x 6" pad. The flower one I loved because of the encapsulated glitter that came on the paper. I used Copic Ciao markers to colour in this little cutie.  I'm not entering any challenges this weeke either as it's time to go on holiday for a little bit. Hubs and I are just doing a little sightseeing in the Midlands here in the UK.

So hope you all have a really terrific weekend and enjoy yourselves! Happy crafting!

Hugs, Dorothy

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