Hanging Lantern

I used Primeval Botanical Collection papers, with a freebie image from Beyond the Fringe, coloured with sandstone, caramel and almond promarkers. The sentiment is craftworks and I used ribbon, button, pearls and flowers from stash.

I'm submitting this for:
- Skipping Stones Design #151 - Sketch
- C*R*A*F*T Challenge #178 - Recipe
- Daring Cardmakers - Let There Be Light
- Digi Haven - Anything Goes

New Challenge/Blog Candy

The Craftyhazel Nut Christmas Challenge, will have a new monthly Anything Goes, challenge starting in January 2013, where you can post any Christmas cards every month for a chance of winning a prize!

They will be sponsored by Bugaboo Stamps when their challenges start in the New Year, but right now, there is a fabulous Christmas blog candy up for grabs, if you go over to the new challenge blog!

Westie in a Stocking

I used freebie papers fro Quick Cards Magazine and a cute little digi - my dog is a westie and I just couldn't resist this digi stamp! - from Delicious Doodles, coloured with promarkers: poppy, ruby, pear green, marsh green, olive green, warm grey 1 and pale pink.

I punched some card with my x-cut lace trim punch and added some green ribbon from my stash. The sentiment is a stick on from Daisy and Dandelion. And I finished with a few gems.

I'm submitting this for:
- Willow Sketchie - Sketch/Christmas in October
- Paper Crafting Journey - Ribbon or Twine
- Christmas Stampin' All Year Long #34 - Circle
- Fab 'n' Funky Challenge #144 - Animals
- The Crafty Pad #193 - Use an Animal
- Passion for Promarkers #172 - Pets

60th Birthday

The Sweet Stop sketch this week had a 'spin' - inspiration from a book or movie, I hmmm'd and haaa'd about it all week, before just deciding to grab the first thing that came to hand: Gone Fishin'

My inspiration pretty much just came from the title, but hey, that still counts right?

I used papers from the new leaf paper pack matted on brown on this card and an image from pollycraft coloured with promarkers: pear green, marsh green, olive green, cocoa, chestnut, henna, sandstone, caramel, warm grey 2, cool grey 3, cool grey 4, blush and slate.

The sentiment is from Flonz, the 60 is stickers and I added a couple of fish embellishments from make and create a few pearls and faux stitching around all the different bits.

I'm submitting this for:
- The Sweet Stop #181 - Sketch
- Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Challenge #77 - We're All In Stitches
- Craft Catz Challenge - Male Card (w/Optional: Use a Number)

Celebrate The Season

I used papers from Quick Cards Magazine matted on card from the paper company. The image is from pollycraft, coloured with promarkers: amethyst, lilac, lavender, pale pink, pastel pink, duck egg, cornflower, sky blue, pear green, sandstone, caramel, slate, almond and blush.

The sentiment is from Crafters Companion. I used my lace trim punch on the border, some ribbon from my stash and then used a snowflake punch to punch six snow flakes, adding pearls to the center of each of them.

I'm submitting this for:
- Sketch Saturday #230 - Sketch
- Desert Islands Crafts #40 - Punches, Pink, Purple, Pearls
- I Love ProMarkers #140 - Christmas Is Coming
- Ladybug Crafts Ink - The Ladybugs Need a P!

Second Spring

I used digi's from Sweet and Sassy Stamps on this card, cutting the leaves out seperately and colouring them with promarkers: honeycomb, spice, terracotta, sandstone, caramel, mustard and cocoa. I used mft's die-namics to cut out the sentiment and kraft card matt, then added a button with twine and a few gems to embellish.

I'm submitting this to:
- CAS-ual Fridays #75 - Over The Edge
- "Less is More" #90 - Autumn
- Allsorts Challenge #177 - Autumn Colours

Get Well Wishes

A quick CAS card, with Cherry Kisses from Pollycraft, coloured with promarkers: marine, lime green, cocoa, blush, honeycomb, spice, terracotta.

I matted her on brown card and used a bit of scrap paper (I think from raspberry roads summer goodness pack) and stamped the sentiment from stamping up, adding a few gems to finish.

I'm submitting this for:
- CPS-Card Positioning Systems - Pick Your Favourite Sketch (#48)
- Crafty Creations Challenge #192 - Get Well!

Cheers 2 You

I used an image from Milk Coffee Stamps, coloured with promarkers: maroon, burgundy, poppy, ruby, cocoa and almond. Ribbon, gems and card from my stash and the sentiment is made with individual me-to-you bear lettering.

I'm submitting this for:
- The Play Date Cafe - Flame, Grape, Mulberry
- Retro Sketches #34 - Sketch
- Our Creative Corner - Clean and Simple Kitchen

Happy Birthday Flowers

I used some papers from Papercraft Inspirations 'Sew In Style' and an adorable image from Lily of the Valley, coloured with promarkers: china blue, cornflower, poppy, ruby, pear green, marsh green, olive green, buttercup, mustard, blush, soft peach, slate and black.

I added ribbon and pearls from my stash and paper flowers from make and create to embellish.

I'm submitting to:
- Cupcake Craft Challenge #214 - Two's Company
- {PIN}spirational Challenge #29 - Image Inspiration
- Sweet Sketch Wednesday #176 - Sketch
- Chocolate, Coffee and Cards #24 - Stitching

Buzz - It's Your Birthday

The papers are from a mixture of sources, We R Memory Keepers and Crafts Beautiful Magazine. I used black card from the paper company. The image is a digi from Sweet 'N Sassy and is coloured with promarkers: mustard, vanilla, buttercup, sandstone, black and slate.

The 'it's your birthday' sentiment is from papermania and I used me-to-you individual letter stamps to stamp 'Buzz' in black and mustard papermania ink. I added ribbon from sew sweet, a felt flower from make and create and a few gems to finish.

I'm submitting this to:
- Mojo Monday #263 - Sketch
- Passion for Promarkers #171 - “bee happy (yellow & black)”
- Lollipop Crafts #92 - Happy Birthday
- Digital Tuesday #182 - Warm and Fuzzy
- One Stop Craft Challenge #201 - Anything Goes

Happy Halloween

I really do not have any remotely halloween-y papers - but never one to let that stop me, I had a dig through my papers and pulled out these from papermania's hampstead collections, the colours were right, green, black, orange - all that I was missing was the purple, so I used purple card to matt it!

The image is from pollycraft and I coloured her with promarkers: slate, honeycomb, spice, amthyst, mustard, almond, blush, soft peach. Stamped the sentiment from stampin' up and finished with some gems.

I'm submitting to:
- The Sweet Stop #180 - Sketch
- Craft Your Passion #132 - Which Witch is Which?
- Lexi's Creations #76 - Halloween
- Papertake Weekly - Fright Night... boo!
- Little Miss Muffet #46 - Halloween Colours: Orange, Black, Purple and Green
- Card Crafters Circle #45 - Halloween
- Crafty Catz Challenge #155 - Halloween
- Fussy and Fancy Friday #74 - Anything Goes
- Stamp with Fun #183 - 3 Papers

Seasons Greetings

I used a cute freebie image and sentiment from Crafts on the Net for this card, coloured with promarkers: pear green, marsh green, olive green, lime green, apple, poppy, sandstone caramel, mustard and cornflower. I cut a second image up to layer on top of the first and added gems.

I'm submitting to:
- Retrosketches #33 - Sketch
- Ooh La La Challenges #116 - Christmas Sentiment
- Totally Stampalicious - A Stampalicious Christmas
- ABC Christmas Challenge - U is Up To You
- I Love Promarkers #139 - Anything Goes
- Charisma Cardz Challenge #41 - Clean and Simple
- Totally Papercraft - Christmas (9 Weeks and Counting)

Put Your {Heart} Into It

A quick, CAS card today, using a bit of scrap paper and a few embellishments from Artwork. The sentiment is stamped from stampin' up.

I'm submitting for:
- CAS-ual Fridays #74 - Put Your {Heart} Into It
- Card Crafters Circle #44 - Black&White and One Colour
- Setimental Sundays #124 - Black & White + One

Happy Birthday 2 U

The papers are from various sources, I'm not sure about all of them, but some came from the paper shelter. The images are from Digi Doodle Shop and are coloured with promarkers: poppy, ruby, cornflower, denim blue, china blue, pear green, marsh green, olive green, cool grey 3, sandstone, caramel, chestnut and blush.

I used my x-cut lace trim punch on the border at the bottom and ribbon from sew sweet. The sentiment is a sticker and I added a few gems to finish.

I'm submitting to:
- Created With Love #12 - Birthday, W/Red and Blue
- Twisted Tuesday Challenge #27 - Farm Livin' Is the Life for Me, W/Grass
- Sketch Saturday #229 - Sketch

"Less is More" #89 - One Layer w/Wings

When I saw the "Less is More" challenge this week my first thought was 'dang, one layer' - I swear, I live in fear of the one layer challenges, lol! - but a quick glance through my stamps and I rediscovered this one, from a christmas stamp set I got last year, it was a magazine freebie and I can't remember exactly where it's from, but I thought it would do quite nicely!

I scored out a rectangle with my score bored, stamped the image inside and coloured with my promarkers: ruby, caramel and cocoa and a gold pen for the crowns. I swithered a while over adding anything else and in the end gave in and added some gems (I can't help myself, everything should have gems!)

Autumn Birthday

With all the autumn challenges lately, I've been struck by the fact I have no really autumn-y paper... at least, that was true until I spent 20 minutes sifting through my paper drawers and found some from paper craft inspirations issue 91 that I didn't even remember having, lol! I used that, along with an image from Angel's Landing, coloured with promarkers: sandstone, caramel, honeycomb, spice, terracotta, pear green, marsh green, henna, cocoa and cool grey 4. I finished it very simply with some gems and a sentiment from Flonz.

I'm submitting this for:
- Sketch 'n Stash #98 - Sketch
- Cupcake Craft Challenge #213 - Autumn
- Creative Card Crew #21 - Birds
- LEJ Designs Challenge #25 - Happy Birthday
- Paper Crafting Journey - Add Some Bling
- Sarah Hurley Challenge #73 - Autumn

"Less is More" #88 - Silver

An extremely quick, clean and simple card for this weeks Less is More. The challenge is to use silver, so I decided to make use of some of the outline stickers I have but rarely ever use anymore. I'm not sure where these ones are from (I've long since forgotten!) but they are silver outlines, with a glittery middle and rather pretty. All I did was line them up in the center and stick them on. I didn't add any other embellishments, because I didn't feel anything suited.