Saturday challenge card

Good afternoon, I hope your having a wonderful Saturday.

Last night I put my paints away and got out my Promarkers and Copics. I stamped lots of House Mouse images and had a few hours colouring in. Love it, so relaxing. I been very busy today, taking the children to and fro their activities, doing the usual house work, washing, etc, etc, but

I've just managed to fit in making a quick card to enter some challenges. Here it is.....

I followed the sketch over at Sketch Saturday, always a good idea if short on time, otherwise I sit swapping and changing the layout for ages.

I used this adorable HM image, coloured last night with Promarkers and Copics.

I layered up on green and pink card and used a backing paper from stash, edging all layers and edges with Forest Moss Distress ink 

I used a Martha Stewart border punch under the image and a sentiment from a House Mouse rubber stamp set. I finished off by layering up some flowers with a metal centre embellishment and some small plastic daisies and popped a gem stone in the centre of each.

Hope you like it.

I am also entering it into these challenges

Sweet Stampin - Use lots of green

Joanna Sheen - Spring is in the air

Stamp, Scrap and Doodles - Green and White

Totally Gorjuss - Spring

Simon says Stamp - a little bit of green

Catch up tomorrow,

Hugs Sue x

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.

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

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

A sketch challenge at SSDS

If you are looking for this weeks Totally Gorjuss challenge card you can find it in the post below this one.

This week at Stamp, Scrap and Doodles Saturday we have a sketch challenge, and guess what its one of mine, nice and easy.

I used some papers and decoupage topper that I got free in a magazine, I'm so sorry to whoever designed it, but I couldn't find a name on it anywhere, if you recognise it please let me know so that I can credit them.

I do hope you will join in this week, I do love to see all your creations.

Challenges I am entering

Creative Card Crew - Anything goes

My time to craft - Use a die cut

Fab n funky - Cute and cuddly

Air, land and sea

This weeks challenge at Stamp, Scrap and Doodle Saturday is

Military Theme

I had to use some Kanban toppers as I dont have any images to fit the theme.

I made an easel card with them.

A ship image on the base part

and a plane on the front.

I apologize for the photos but I find taking pics of easel cards difficult.

Challenges I'm entering

Crafts and Me - Anything Goes

Crafty Catz - Anything goes

2nd post today - SSDS card

Told you I'd be back, (sound like Arnie)

Todays challenge at Stamp, Scrap and Doodle Saturday is

Use Old Stash

I've used one of the first Sugar Nellie stamps that I first bought and had totally forgotten about.

I actually stamped  and coloured it ages ago, so I've no idea what I used and you can see there is no shading to speak of. I kept it quite simple, using a couple of old papers from stash and a pre printed sentiment, couple of flowers and some dotty ribbon.

Hope you'll join in with us this week and use up some of your old stash.

Challenges I am entering 

Simon says Stamp - Look what the stork brought 

SSDS DT card - Mothers Day

This weeks challenge over at Stamp, Scrap and Doodle Saturday is

Mothers Day

I wanted to make something a bit different for me and I found this shoe template that I've had for years and never used and thought it was perfect for this weeks theme.

I used some papers and card candy from Craftwork Cards and some really delish pink pearlescent card.

You can see the dimension of the shoe in this pic.

Lets see what you come up with.

Challenges I am entering

Simon Says Stamp - Anything goes

SSDS DT card - Tag it

This is my second post today and I would like to show my DT card that I made for the Stamp,Scrap and Doodles Saturday challenge.

This week its Tag it! 

I used papers that I got free in a magazine and used them to make a small pocket on the front.

The image on my tag is Henry with Cupcake from Whiff of Joy.

When I found these cupcake buttons in my stash I thought that they would be perfect for this card.

I am entering this card into

Stamp with Fun - Birthday

Stampavie - Birthday

Creative Inspiration - Pets /Animals 

Crafty Catz - Childrens cards

Rainbow Lady - Sweet treats

Colour create - Pink, blue and brown

SSDS DT card - A Recipe

Happy Saturday everyone! That means its another new challenge at Stamp Scrap and Doodles Saturday. This week we have

a recipe challenge

you need to include 3 patterned papers, 3 flowers, 3 sparklies and 1 ribbon.

I chose to use this image from LOTV and a recipe stamp also from LOTV. I coloured with Copics and added stardust stickles to highlight the sugar.

Papers are from a Papermania pad, flowers from Wild Orchid and sparkly gems and ribbon from stash.

Hope this gives you some inspiration, I look forward to visiting your blogs and seeing what you create.

I would like to enter this into these challenges

LOTV - Happy Birthday

Crafty Catz - Furry Friends

Papertake Weekly - Truly Dimensional