Easter morning

   The theme for the new challenge beginning at Crafty Cardmakers today is Easter. I have chosen to use the digi image Easter Morning from Stitchy Bear Digital Outlet.
   I coloured it using Promarkers and then painted Stickles onto the wings, after which I matted and layered it onto gold mirri card and white card. I then coloured some peel off letters and created the sentiment.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   My Crafting Stories - Easter
   Cute Card Thursday - Easter
   Digi Choosday - Easter/flowers
   Allsorts - Easter
   The Crafter's Cafe - Easter
   Addicted To Stamps - any shape
   Glitter n Sparkle - anything goes
   Crafty Boots - Easter
   Inky Chicks - happy Easter
   Scrapbook Stamp Society - anything goes with Easter
   Sweet Stampin - Easter
   A Gem of a Challenge - Easter

Happy new year

   Creative Corner has a new challenge starting today. It is being sponsored by Stitchy Bear Digital Outlet and the theme is Happy New Year.
   I have used their digital stamp called 'Please drink more responsibly'. I coloured it using Promarkers then cut it out using a Tattered Lace oval die and matted it onto black card. I had some papers in my stash from a very old magazine, so I matted both of these onto black card before attaching them to a card blank. I also had some red beading peel off so I used these to mirror the necklace on the image. Finally I added a sentiment cut from black card using a Tattered Lace die.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Without Words - feeling festive
   Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - anything goes
   Craft Your Passion - anything goes
   Digi Choosday - anything goes
   Passion For Promarkers - let's celebrate
   Crafting Musketeers - use a sentiment
   Brown Sugar - anything goes
   Crafty Sentiments Designs - happy new year
   A Bit More Time to Craft - anything goes
   Creatalicious - something old, (papers) something new (digi image)
   Inspiration Destination - anything goes
   Beccy's Place - anything goes

Fall colours

   The theme for our new challenge starting today at Send A Smile 4 Kids is fall colours. We have three generous sponsors:

Lacy Sunshine who are offering 3 digis to the winner'

Stitchy Bear Digital Outlet who are offering a $10 gift certificate

and

Inspired By Stamping who are offering a $20 girt certifcate.

    For my first card I matted paper I had printed using the Peerless Designs CD ROM Woodland Treasures onto yellow core'dinations cardstock. I then wrapped ribbon round the lower half of the card and matted it onto white card. The digi image, from Lacy Sunshine is called Rory Autumn Winds. I coloured this using Promarkers and then cut it out using a Spellbinders die. This I matted onto yellow core'dinations cardstock which I had also cut out using a Spellbinders die. Finally I added a felt heart.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Dream Valley - autumn colours
   I Love Promarkers - autumn
   Crafting Musketeers - autumn colours
   Addicted to Stamps - autumn
   Digi Designs - fabulous fall colours
   Scrapping 4 Fun - spring/autumn
   Addicted to Stamps and More - make your mark
   Our Creative Corner - shades of autumn
   Lacy Sunshine - winds of change
   Eclectic Ellapu - stash more than six months old (everything apart from image)

   My second card uses a digi image from Stitchy Bear Digital Outlet called pumpkin swirls. Again I coloured it using Promarkers. The sentiment stamp used is from Flower-soft's second set of floral sentiments. I edged a ready made card with gold edged orange peel off and then matted my design onto this.

   I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

   Crafty Gals Corner - anything goes

   Beccy's Place - anything goes

   Word Art Wednesday - anything goes

   Digi Galore - anything goes

   Crafty Girlz - anything goes with bring in the harvest

   Sieze the Birthday - anything goes

   Doodle Pantry - anything goes

   Inspiration Destination - anything goes

   Craft Your Passion - anything goes

At the beach

   We start a new challenge at Creative Corner today, the theme of which is 'At the beach'.
   I wrapped satin ribbon round the lower edge of paper from the All Aboard pack from The English Paper Company and matted and layered it onto blue core'dinations cardstock and white card. (The paper itself had a pale yellow background but for some reason it shows up as pale blue in the photograph.)
   The digi image called 'flip flops' is from the Stitchy Bear Digital Outlet. I coloured it using Promakers  and cut it out using a Spellbinders floral oval die. Whilst still in the die I dusted the background with distress inks. Once it was removed from the die I coloured the edge using Promarkers. I then attached it to the card along with a bow made from the satin ribbon.
   The letters which I glued to the ribbon were cut from red core'dinations cardstock using dies from Tattered Lace's elegant alphabet set.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Lil Patch Of Crafty Friends - anything goes
   I Love Promarkers - anything goes
   Papertake Weekly - to die for
   Crafty Sentiments Designs - anything goes
   QKR Stampede - use a die cut
   Digi Designs - use ribbon, lace or twine
   Crafty Boots - fair and square
   Creative Fingers - anything goes
   Creatalicious - summer fun at the beach
   Inspiration Destination - anything goes
   Scrapbook stamp Society - anything goes with frame it
   Crafty Girlz - anything goes with lazy days
   Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper - anything goes
   Penny's Paper-Crafty - anything goes
   The Stamping Boutique - at the beach
   Word Art Wednesday - anything goes
   Pattie's Creations Design - anything goes
   Crafty Gals Corner - anything goes
   A Gem of a Challenge - one for the girls
   Eclectic Ellapu - by the sea

Bright colours for kids

   For our challenge at send A Smile 4 Kids this time we would like you to use bright colours. Again we have three generous sponsers: Stitchy Bear Digital Outlet ($10 gift certificate), The Cutting Cafe' (3 sets of digis or cutting files) and Sassy Studios (4 digis).

   My first card uses the BB Kakes image 'garden me' from Stitchy Bear Digital Outlet.
   I matted pink spotty paper onto pink mirri and white card. I then attached a narrow floral border to the lower half of the card.
   I rounded the corners of the image which I had coloured using Promarkers and matted it onto red mirri card which I had cut out using a Spellbinders label one die. As a final touch I added Stickles to the top corners of the spectacles.

   I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
   Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - anything goes
   Craft Your Passion - anything goes
   Incy Wincy Designs - spots and dots
   Glitter n Sparkle - anything goes
   Doodle Pantry - anything goes
   Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - furry friends
   Addicted to Stamps And More - make your mark
   Fantastic Tuesday - anything goes with the twist in the garden
   Digi Galore - summery/bright
   Bunny Zoe's Crafts - furry friends

   My second card made use of Flower treat cupcake PDF files from The Cutting Cafe'. No pieces were given to form the depth of the 'cupcake' but there is a video supplied on the web page and I was able to make suitable pieces. I used scraps of card to make the flower. I filled my 'cupcake' with beads as these would be less sticky than sweets. 

   I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
   Clear It Out - anything goes
   Word Art Wednesday - anything goes
   Crafthazelnuts Patterned Paper - anything goes
   Inspiration Destination - anything goes
   Creative Fingers - anythiny goes

Baking

   This week the theme for our challenge at Creative Corner is animal fun.
   I began by cutting a base card using a decorative circle die from Tattered Lace and dusting the edges with distress ink.
   I used a Stitchy Bear digi called 'baked with love' whose creator is Digi Blessings. Using a graphics program I encircled it with the Happy Birthday sentiment. I then coloured it using Promarkers and very lightly shaded the background using the same coloured distress ink as used for the edge of the card. I then cut it out using the same die as previously and attached it to the base card offsetting the 'waves'.
   Finally I added glitter to the spilt sugar.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   ABC - G is for go digital
   Allsorts - feature a creature
   Digi Sketch - furry friends
   Dragons Lair Designs - add an animal
   Little Caire Digi Stamp - shaped card
   Animal Friends - birthday
   Open Minded  Crafting - food related
   Inspiration Destination - anything goes
   Crafting From The Heart - anything goes
   Through The Purple Haze - anything goes

For the boys

      It's another Saturday and another challenge over at Send A Smile 4 Kids. The theme for this challenge is 'for the boys' and there are three very generous sponsors:-
   Squigglefly  (3 digis),  Stitchy Bear Digital Outlet ($10 gift certificate) and Fred She Said ($10 gift certificate).

   

   For this first card I used the image 'Pirate captain' from Squigglefly. I coloured it using Promarkers and lightly  dusted the edges with distress ink before matting it onto black core'dinations cardstock. The backing paper printed from a CD ROM sometime ago and laying around in my box of stash was also matted and layered onto black core'dinations cardstock and white card. After attaching the image to this I glued card candi onto the corners. Finally I fixed the best wishes sentiment cut from core'dinations cardstock using Tattered Lace dies onto the card.

   I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

   Crafty Ribbons - nautical

   My Craft Creations - anything goes

   Papertake Weekly - anything goes

   Brown Sugar - anything goes

   Through the Purple Haze - anything goes

   Word Art Wednesday - anything goes

   Party Time Tuesdays - anything goes

  

   My next card was made using the soccer image from Stitchy Bear Digital Outlet.

 

   Again I have coloured the image using Promarkers and distressed the edges with distress ink. The papers used were printed using the Popcorn platinum CD ROM from Crafter's Companion and everything was matted onto green card. I chose black with white spots card candi as the nearest I had to football colours.

   I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

   Passion For Promarkers - one for the boys

   Addicted to Stamps - lots of layers

   Inspiration Destination - anything goes

   Crafting From the Heart - anything goes

   Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper - anything goes

   A Gem of a Challenge - lots of layers

   Open Minded Crafting - no pink and no red