Two cards, and an explanation...

Good morning lovely crafters, I hope you have a lovely weekend planned.

Before I show you my cards for todays challenges, I think I need to explain something, My posts lately have been quite quick ones and they might become quite infrequent over the next few weeks.

 My brother was diagnosed with lung cancer and a brain tumour a few weeks ago. He has spent the last couple of weeks in hospital, and yesterday I brought him home. As he lives alone I will  be spending alot of my time helping to care for him over the next few weeks. I do hope that you will understand and forgive me for not keeping my blog upto date, but I fear that I may not have much time for crafting and family must come first.

Now on to the first of this weekends challenges....

Totally Gorjuss Challenge #86 Ribbon and Lace

our sponsor for this challenge is Fantastic Ribbons   

My card was made for one of the dinner ladies at my daughters school, who was giving up her job to have a baby. I had to make quite a large card to enable all the other dinner ladies and staff to sign it.

As you can see I used papers and images from a forever friends CD. I printed out a few various designs and sizes and decoupaged them to look like a group of bears.

I used a strip of of ribbon and lace across the card and finished off with some tiny buttons and button brads.

I do hope you will join in and dont forget to pop over and get some more inspiration from our very talented team.

Second challenge card today is for

Stamp, Scrap and Doodle Saturday  its a sketch challenge

Our sponsor this week is Robyns Fetish 

They very kindly gave the dt images to use, I chose this cute image Five little froggies.

I used papers from a papermania pad

 and printed the sentiment off the computer. I finished off with a strip of braid from stash.

Thanks for looking.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Hugs Sue x

SSDS DT card - Photo Inspiration

Good morning, I am so sorry I am late posting this card, should have done it yesterday, but life got in the way.

At Stamp, Scrap and Doodles Saturday we have a photo inspiration challenge for you.

For my card I used some Kanban toppers and card and a ribbon bow. Nice, quick and simple!

I am entering it into these challenges

Delightful challenges - Anything goes

Totally Papercrafts - Die cuts and Punches

I look forward to seeing your fabulous creations this week.

Totally gorjuss - Challenge #85

Good morning all you lovely crafters, its time for another challenge over at Totally Gorjuss.

This week Challenge #85 - Pearls and Swirls

and we have Simon Says Stamp as our sponsors.
Heres my card

I used swirly papers from Papermania matted with deep red card.

This image is one I chose as a winner from Delicious Doodles, its called Mushroom Fairy and isnt she just gorjuss.

I coloured her with Copics, naturally and I must say she really is a pleasure to colour.

I added lots of pearls in red and white and more swirls in the form of a die cut and on the ribbon.

I do hope that you will join in with our challenge this week.

Challenges I'm entering
Lexi's creation - No Sentiment
Scrappy Frogs - Simply red - (use red)
Delightful challenges - Anything goes
Cute card Thursday - Birthstone -Ruby and Pearl
Totally Papercrafts - Die cuts and Punches
Delicious Doodles - Things that Flutter (2 entries - used one of their images)
Crafts and Me - Bling it on

Truly Scrumptious challenge card

You will find this weeks ABC challenge in the post below.

Hi all its time for another challenge at Truly Scrumptious, this week we have a very pretty sketch

and our sponsor is Crafty Individuals.

Here's my card



I used papers from a K and Co pad matted on green card. With ribbon from stash and Card Candy to finish.

I hope you will join in with our challenge this week

Challenges I'm entering

Papertake Weekly - Dads and lads

Delightful - Anything goes

Creative Inspirations - Blue and green plus 1 - orange

ABC challenge W is for ...

Wedding

Our sponsors this week over at the ABC challenge are Sugar Nellie / Funkykits

I kept my card simple this week, layering up a pearlescent swirly paper with a gold pearlescent card.

The wedding dress image was stamped onto acetate using white Staz on, with gold leaf applied to the back of the image. It looks really effective in real life, unfortunately it doesnt show up in the photo. I finished the card with a rosebud, pearl gem and gold chiffon ribbon.

I'm looking forward to seeing your beautiful creations.

Challenges I'm entering

Pollycraft - ribbon and flowers

Stamp with fun - pearls and flowers

Delightful challenges - Anything goes

Bye for now.

Please pop back later for the Truly Scrumptious challenge.

Kenny K guest dt challenge card

Morning all, I am very happy to share my card with you today.

 I was asked a while ago to be a guest dt for Kenny K's Krafty Girlz  challenge.

This weeks challenge # Use your favourite colours

 

My papers are from a set by Docrafts and I just love the colours, black with a vibrant pink, its so lush!

I used this gorgeous image - Penny Pitstop. I coloured her with Copics, naturally!

I might have gone a little overboard with my embellies, but why not? I do love flowers and a bit o'bling!

Hope you'll join in with the challenge, as always there's some fab prizes on offer.

Fathers day at Stamp, Scrap and Doodles Saturdays

Afternoon everyone, hope you are having a lovely Saturday.

The challenge this week at Stamp, Scrap and Doodles Saturdays is

Fathers Day

and our sponsors are 

  

As you can see I used papers from a Forever Friends paper pad

along with a Forever Friends stamped image. I'm not sure what I used to colour the image as I did it a while ago.

My sentiments are from a great set of digi sentiments by our current sponsors Squigglefly. You can find them here

Hope you'll all join in with this weeks challenge, and I'll look forward to seeing all your wonderful cards and creations for Fathers Day.

Challenges I'm entering

Paperplay - Fathers Day/ Mens card

CRAFT - Fathers Day

Delicious Doodles - Fathers Day

Stamp Something - Something Punched

Delightful challenge - Fathers Day

Crafts and Me - Stamp Something

Fab n Funky - Magnificent men

Creative Inspiration - Card for Dad

Totally gorjuss - Challenge #84

Good morning crafters, todays challenge over at Totally Gorjuss is

Flower Power

We are sponsored this week by Crafters Companion.

Heres my card

I used stamps and papers by Flower soft. Roses from Wild Orchid and a chiffon ribbon bow from stash.

I used Copics for skin and flowers and paper pieced the dress using one of the background papers.

Now its your turn, lets see lots of flowers.

Challenges I'm entering

Totally Papercrafts - Summer

Crafts and Me - Stamp Something

I'll be back later with my card for the SSDS challenge

Christening card for SSDS

Good afternoon, I'm back with this weeks challenge at Stamp, Scrap and Doodle Saturday

- Use whats on your desk right now.

I had this paper from CUP and topper from Lili of the Valley out as I'd been asked to make a christening card for a one and a half year old boy, who is getting christened this weekend. All my rubber stamps associated with christenings have little babies on them, so I thought this image of a toddler would suit better

I circled the image with card candy and added a couple of bows,

one with a Special Day tag

and the other with a silver cross charm.

Hope you will join in with this weeks challenge and use whatever you have out on your desk right now.

Challenges I am entering

Top tip Tuesday - Wrap it up with ribbon

Hanna and friends - Blue and white

Cute card Thursday - Embellish it

Lili of the valley - Punch it up

The Stampman - Boys/ men

totally gorjuss #83 sketch

Good morning, happy Saturday to all.

Over at Totally Gorjuss this week we have sketch challenge and we are sponsored by Joanna Sheen.

For my card this week I chose an Anya image from The Greeting Farm.

I coloured her with Copics, as always.

I finished my card with a silk ribbon flower, organza bow and some pink heart shaped pearls.

Challenges I'd like to enter

Fun at fairy knoll - Birthday

Dutch Dare - photo inspiration

Cute card Thursday - Embellish it

I'll be back later with a card for the SSDS challenge.

Bye for now.

Welcome to my new addition

Say hello to my new little ball of fluff. We have named her Kira, she is a 7 week old German Shepherd. We picked her up yesterday and she is settling in nicely. Isnt she just adorable?

Investigating her new garden

Snuggling up with her teddy.

Ok mum, I'm ready for my close up!

As you can guess I've got a couple of sleepless nights in store, probably not much crafting time either.

I dont mind in the slightest, I've been talking my hubby round to the idea of getting a puppy for the past 12 months, and I finally got just what I wanted. 

Truly Scrumptious DT card

You can find my latest ABC dt challenge card in the previous post below.  

Hi all I'm back with this weeks challenge at Truly Scrumptious.

Firstly can I just say Wow and Thank you to every one who joined in with our last challenge. I'm sure that we must have had a record number of entries, there were hundreds. I did try to get round to see as many of your creations as I could, and I apologise if I didnt make it to see yours.

Now for this weeks challenge # 58 - Summer Sparkle

What does that say to you? Anything summery with added Sparkle and bling.
Our sponsors this week are Digis with Attitude.

For my card I used an image from our sponsors  - Fortune teller.

I coloured with Copics and added lots of stardust Stickles ( although it doesn't show up on my photo.)

 

You can see the glitter a little better in this close up.

The papers are lovely and summery colours from a K and Co pad layered with lilac pearlescent card.

I added a swirl, some vellum butterflies with gem bodies and some various size flowers, again with stickles stardust glitter on.

Hope you like it!

I look forward to seeing all your lovely summer sparkle creations.

I'm am entering these challenges

Crafts and Me  - Punch it out

Fab n Funky - What'eva

Papertake weekly - sketch

A Spoon ful of sugar - Flower power

ABC challenge V is for ...

Good morning all, well Wednesday has come round very quickly again, hasn't it?

This week Team B's challenge over at ABC is

V for Variety

We want to see a variety of embellishments on your projects, - at least three different ones.

We are being sponsored by the Stamp Fairy this week, so theres a great prize up for grabs.

I needed to make a card for my great nieces 1st birthday and so I decided to use it as my ABC design team challenge card too. Papers are from a Papermania pad.

I use this sweet image Linda Fairy #3 from our sponsors, the Stamp Fairy and coloured with Copics.

For my variety of embellishments I used pink seam binding ribbon from the Ribbon Girl, a star charm from the Hobby House

and different size roses from Wild Orchid Crafts.

I hope you will join in with us this week and show us an assortment of embellishments.

Challenges I'm entering

Pollycraft - Be my teddy bear

Flutterby Wednesday - Open challenge

Creative Inspiration - Cute bears

Fab n Funky - What'eva

Crafts and Me - Punch it out

I'll be back later with the Truly Scrumptious challenge.

Bye for now!

Sue x