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Hi All,

It's been a while but I'm back with a couple of samples I made for 

Splash Crafts who've just introduced a cute 

Care Bears Range which is amazing!

Here I've made a little easel card & used the dies to cut out the images.

The images & papers are  really versatile & great to work with.

Available in a format to suit everyone, there are stamps, dies, embosing folders,

a papercrafting kit & it also comes on a USB so you can 

print & craft until your heart's content.

For this little cutie, I simply used the paper & a sentiment

with some ribbon, lace & a couple of pretty little crochet flowers

Thanks for popping in!

I hope you like my little samples!

I'll be back with more soon!

Shabby Penny Pamper

Good Morning Bloggers!

I hope you're well!

I have this little card to share with you!

I have made a similar card in the past using this image & papers 

but this is the shabbier chic version!

The image is Penny Pamper from The Crafty Pad Designs.

Whenever I see her, I start singing "Splish Splash I was taking a bath!"

The papers are from The Crafty Pad Designs

The proper colour is this

but, when I printed them out, my printer was playing games

& they looked a bit muddy. However, I quite liked the result,

 so decided to stick with it! The papers were printed on to matt photo paper. 

The Sentiment Ticket is from The Crafty Pad too!

The image was coloured with a combination of Promarkers & Flexmarkers

The edges were distressed with a pair of scissors then inked

The flowers were inked & layered with a brad to secure them.

(These have been in my stash forever)

The leaves & butterflies were punched & inked.

The ribbon I've used was plain white but it also received the ink treatment!

The sentiment ticket was distressed & inked too!

Thanks for looking at my creation!

I hope you like it!

I have candy on my blog here! Do play along!

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Musically Challenged - Any Movie Or Song (Splish Splash as mentioned earlier!)

My Time To Craft - Music or Movie Influenced

Art Impressions Stamps Challenge - Expect The Unexpected (Use Something From Your Stash)

Let's Hear It For The Boys!

Good Morning Bloggers!

Today see's the start of this weeks brand new challenge at 

The Crafty Pad

This weeks theme chosen by little old me is

#174 Let's Hear It For The Boys

With Father's Day fast approaching here in the UK, we'd like to see
your creations to celebrate either

Father's Day Or A Special Man In Your Life!

Easy Peasy huh??? We'll see you over there!!!

My card is a Father's Day Card.

The Image & Papers are both from The Crafty Pad Designs

I Love My Daddy - Daughter UNcoloured Image & Sentimet

One For The Boys Digital Backing Papers.

The base card is A5, made by scoring & folding an A4 sheet of cardstock.

I played about with the layout, adding lots of layers. 

The image was coloured with  a combination of

Promarkers & Flexmarkers. I only recently began using 

Flexmarkers & I'm liking them a lot!

Think I have to get me some more! lol

The sentiment, is one of the two that come with the image.

(The other is a Happy Birthday sentiment.)

I cut it out with an inverted scallop nestie then matted onto a 

scalloped circle of cardstock.

I popped it on some foam pads for dimension then

added a ribbon bow & a little saw charm.

to finish off embellishing my card I added some silver Card Candi.

Thanks for stopping by to check out my creation!

The GDT & DT ladies of the A Team over at 

The Crafty Pad

 have been creating some wonderful 

projects to inspire you!

Do hop on over & check them out!

* Important Information*

New at The Crafty Pad!

If you enter a card in  The Crafty Pad Challenge using a 

Crafty Pad Designs Image

You will get a FREE Crafty Pad Designs image of your choice.

Check out the Challenge Blog for details!

*More Important News*

We have two fabby sponsors this week

Letraset

Who are giving one lucky winner this set of Promarkers

Crafty Emma's Store 

Who are giving a second lucky winner

A £10 Voucher to spend in their store!

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Pan Pastel UK Boys/Father's Day

ATCs & Cards With Attitude Anything Goes/Father's Day

Cardmadfairy's  Digi Days Father's Day/Masculine

Card Makin' Mama's Father's Day

Pattie's Creations Father's Day/Male

Phindy's Place Father's Day/Masculine

Poodles Parlour Fathers Day

Simply Create Too Father's Day

Stamp Man For A Man

C.R.A.F.T  Male Card

Digi Doodles Shop's Best Male Card

DL.Art Thankful Thursdays Card For A Man

Card A Day Blog Challenge  Choose from May themes (Red White & Blue)
Paper Shelter Go Dotty
Penny's Paper Crafty Father's Day
Scrapbook Sisters Red White & Blue
Bearly Mine How Charming
Creative Craft Challenges Red White & Blue
Passion For Promarkers Red White & Blue
Sassy Cheryl's It's All About The Dad's & The Grandad's
Cards For Men Father's Day
Kaboodle Doodles Manly Men
Love To Create Father's Day Or A Special Guy

Cute As A Button

Good Morning all,

A very happy Sunday to you!

This week at The Crafty Pad, it's "Team A" who are bringing you 

some inspiration for the challenge this week which is

#166 Bounty Of Buttons

We want to see at least 3 buttons on your project!

Here's my card!

Aha, I see you're saying "That's not a Crafty Pad Designs image!"

"Correct" I say! 

This week we are sponsored by Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps & More

They Kindly supplied the Design Team with some images & are offering a prize 

of 5 Digital Stamps Or 4 Digital Stamps & 1 Paper Pack to the winner 

of this weeks Challenge!

Wowzers!!!

I used the sketch from

I {heart} 2 stamp 

as the basis for my layout!

I changed the shape & flipped it!

This is Cutie Patootie Bear

I printed her onto some linen embossed card, I like the texture of this!

I used my Promarkers  to colour her up & I've 

added a few little buttons including a little button nose!

The papers I've used were a freebie from ages ago

I thought they were perfect with this image.

I lightly distressed the edges with a pair of scissors & some ink.

I then layered them with a contrasting plain coloured  paper.

The sentiment was made on my PC using Cutie Pop font 

which you can get here for free!

I also added some pink ribbon & some more of the heart shaped buttons.

I added a punched border which I inked with pink & blue

I decorated the inside of the card just a little!

I'm so glad you managed to stop by!

Don't forget to check out the challenge blog for some more inspiration

from my Team A Teamies!

I hope you find the time to play too!

I'd like to put this card forward for the following challenges:

I {heart} 2 stamp Sketch

Crazy 4 Challenges Using Buttons
Card Makin' Mama's Make It Girlie
Fairy Fun Friday's Anything Goes
Stampin' For The Weekend Ready Teddy Go
Wags 'n Whiskers Anything Goes
Pixie Dust Studio  Use Ribbon
SJ Papercrafts 1,2,3 (I image, 2 papers, 3 heart shaped buttons)
Celebrate The Occasion Just Because (must use pink)
The Stamping Boutique Distress
Critter Sketch Critters
Incy Wincy Designs Cute Critters

Bingo!!!!!

Good Morning all,

It's Wednesday & that means it's time for a fab new challenge over at 

Dude Time Doodles!

This week we have a really fun challenge for you!

First of all here's my card!

The Challenge we have for you is Bingo!

I chose the diagonal, twine,step card,brads.

The image is Ted TightEnd

On the football field, he's a bit of a scary character but off the field, 

he's a real pussycat!

I coloured him up with promarkers & fussy cut him out,

before mounting him on to the card with foam squares for dimension.

The card base was made using an A4 sheet of cardstock.

I used a Pop Out Step Card Template from 

Debbie Lauder over at Craftystash

It's so simple to use & saved on waste too, as there is an elements sheet included!

The papers I have used were a freebie download by Shabby Princess

I think they are fantastic & they were just what I wanted for this card!

I printed the striped paper directly on to the card stock & printed 

the template on the reverse.

I cut it out using a craft knife & ruler then embossed the fold lines 

with an embossing tool & ruler.

I added the sentiment to the panels in my graphics programme. 

The font I have used is called Collegiate & you can download it free from here!

I distressed all of the panels with a red inkpad before assembling the 

card & added twine & brads from my stash.

I have to say I was really happy with the way this one turned out!

I hope you like him too! Thanks so much for stopping by!

Now eyes down, check out the other fab makes by the Dude & Dudettes

then go create! You have just one week to enter the challenge!

To make it even more fun we have Patties Creations as a sponsor this week!

I'd like to enter my card in the following challenges:

I Love Promarkers Anything Goes

I Brake For Challenges Fancy Folds

Inky Impressions Any Shape But A Square

Joanna Sheen Celebrations

Crafty Sentiments Anything Goes

Creative Craft Challenges The Colour Blue

Paperminutes Anything Goes

Partytime Tuesdays Birthday Projects/Cards

Sassy Cheryls Bright & Cheery

Cards For Men Boys & Their Toys

Daisy Doodles Creative Challenge Anything Goes

Hooked On Crafts Something New (Papers Font)

Incy Wincy Designs Bold & Bright

Lexi's Creations Anything Goes

Stamp & Create Anything Goes

Dream Valley Challenges Anything Goes

One Stitch At A Time Anything Goes

Catch The Bug Birthday Challenge

The Secret Crafter Anything Goes With Blue

Just Some Lines Colour Challenge

Our Craft Lounge It's In The Numbers

Patties Creations Fancy Folds

C.R.A.F.T.  Challenge Celebrations

Moving Along With The Times Spots and/or Stripes

Sassy Studio Designs Let's Celebrate