Food Glorious Food

Hello, good morning, it's a nice sunny day here in Malta today, just perfect for a visit to the beach and some nice cool ice cream ............ just like the one I have on my card today.

This is my FIRST card for my new DT at Sweet Stampin' Challenge  :)  The theme this week is FOOD GLORIOUS FOOD and all the girls were given some cool fun images from Prairie Fairy to  play with.

For my card I chose this gorgeous triple cone ice cream image which I coloured with my promakers. I printed the ice cream three times and then cut and layered with foam for dimension.

Thought I should make something extra special for my first card ...

and so I made a Joy Fold Card for the first time.

I remember having seen a very similar card somewhere, with the image on the side holding the top fold, and thought it was perfect to go for my image. Unfortunately can't remember where I saw it so as to give credit.

The gorgeous main sentiment 'YOU are so sweet' is from the All About You stamp set from the All That Scraps store. .. which lucky me had won some time ago. There are twelve different sentiments in the set which all go with the word YOU, love it :)

Our weekly sponsor this week is 

Bunny Zoe who are offering one lucky winner a 10 Gift Certificate

and our monthly sponsor is 

Prairie Fairy who is offering the winner 5 digis from the store

I am entering my card in these challenges today.

- Stamp and Create June - SUMMER

- Top Tip Tuesday 37 - MORE THAN ONE FOLD

- Papertake Weekly - ANYTHING GOES

-Totally Papercrafts 70 - SUMMER

Thank you for looking today ... 

.. not going to the beach though  : (  

No one can or wants to come with me boo 

xxx

Sitting Pretty

Seeing so many Spring themed challenges around at the moment I was really inspired to play along and make something myself as well... and so after having a look at the stamps I had, I thought this adorable Sitting Pretty stamp from Prairie Fairy, was just perfect for what I had in mind. 

I decided on a simple layout today, some softly coloured papers, a sentiment from Crafty Sentiments and then added lots of gorgeous embellishments ..... 

Not usual for me to add so many stuff on my cards, I do like to make simpler cards, but I thought they looked nice all together....

and I even added some glitter on her wings as well... can't have a fairy without glitter I thought.

So my challenges now...

- Prairie Fairy Fridays 49 - OH SO SPRING
- Lili of the Valley 90 - SPRING
- Daisy Doodles Creative Challenges 30 - SPRING
- Simon Says Challenge - SPRING COLOURS
- Tuesday Throwdown 43 - SPRING
- Little Claire's 4 - SPRING CELEBRATION
- Papertake Weekly - ANYTHING GOES
- Going Grey with Scrap Creations - PICK 3 (ribbon, flowers, charm) errm looks like I picked four.. the glitter .. Hope it's ok!
- Creative Inspirations 106 - PUNCHES and DIES
- Delightful Sketches - FLOWERS
- The Crafty Pad 115 - FLOWERS
- Crafts and Me 29 - GLITTER
- Flutter By Wednesdays 149 - OPEN
- Allsorts Challenge 97 - BLOOMING BLOSSOMS
- The Secret Crafter Saturday 128 - BUTTERFLIES
- Dream Valley 4 - THINGS WITH WINGS

mmmm  I knew there were a lot.. but didn't realise there were so many.. that is fun he he :)

Thank you for looking today.. going for a walk now in this beautiful Spring weather. I need some fresh air.. had another boring day at work!!!


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Tip Toe Fairy

I am so very excited today as the day has come when I am to post my cards as a GDT for the month of July for Stamptacular Sunday Challenges and also as a DT for One Stitch At A Time Challenge Blog .. wooo hooo :) I can't believe I'm actually writing this!!

So here is my first card and this one is for the Stamptacular Sunday Challenges. I had been participating for quite some time in the challenges so when I got the email from Dee you can imagine how excited I was .... woo hooo :) I am not going to tell you what I did he he ... lucky for me that everyone was asleep ;)



The theme this week for the Challenge No 66 is to do an APERTURE CARD !!!! and I have to admit I had never did one of these before but must say it was very good for me as I got to challenge myself to do something different. I hope you like it.




For my card I used all the flower punches I had, which I all inked one by one and I also used my beautiful Tip Toe Fairy stamp from Prairie Fairy Designs which is one of the five images I had won sometime ago in one of the challenges there. I printed off the wings twice and then after colouring with my promarkers and adding glitter, I cut a little slit in the main image at her back and slid the top wing from there.

I didn't use any DPs for my card but instead I stamped all over with a daisy stamp which was a freebie in my fave Cardmaking and Papercraft magazine this month. I also stamped it three more times with black ink this time, colouring them also with my promarkers and after cutting them out I stuck them to the inside of the card to look as if the fairy was stepping on them :)



.. a close-up of the sparkles





Here are my challenges for my card today..

1 - Prairie Fairy Fun Fridays Challenge No 26 - ANYTHING GOES
2 - Flutter By Wednesdays - OPEN
3 - Incy Wincy Challenge No 48 - THINGS WITH WINGS
4 - Magical Crafts Forthnightly Challenge No 18 - FLOWER POWER
5 - Corrosive Challenge No 70 - LOTS OF FLOWERS
5 - Alphabet Challenges - J is for JEWELS
I thought the flowers on my card and the colours I used did give a summery feel.. so here are now some Summery themed Challenges...
6 - Ooh-La-La Creations Challenge No 57 - SIMPLY SUMMER
7 - S2G Challenge No 63 - SUMMERTIME and SPARKLES
8 - The Creative Cottage Challenge No 17 - SUMMER SURPRISE

Thanks for visiting today

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Father's Day

I decided to do another Father's Day Card and this time I'm using this cute teddy from Prairie Fairy which, lucky me... :) is one of the five stamps I had won in one of the challenges!! I had so much fun colouring this one, he is so cute I think :)







Today I followed this sketch here...


... coloured teddy with my promarkers and the background papers are from Papermania, which I've had for years now I think! The Blue DP was a free download from here if you like it :)

Now for my challenges .. which are quite a few today :)

1 - The Corrosive Challenge No 68 - THE SKETCH
2 - Prairy Fairy Fun Fridays Week 23 - GLITZ AND GLITTER ... I added some glitter on his shoes
3 - Lexi's Creations Challenge No 16 - SOMETHING OLD... and that is my background paper.
4 - PaperPlay Challenges Week 24 - SOMETHING OLD as well
5 - Forever Friends Challenge Blog - A CUTE IMAGE NOT FOREVER FRIENDS
6 - I ♥ ProMarkers Challenge No 19 - BEARS

and now for the male themed challenges

7 - Magical Crafts Fortnightly Challenge No 17 - MALE/FATHER'S DAY
8 - Stamptacular Sunday Challenge No 63 - A TRIBUTE TO ALL FATHERS
9 - Incy Wincy Challenge No 45 - ONE FOR THE GUYS
10 - Cupcake Craft Challenge No 95 - BOYS

Woooh ... so many today.... lovely :) he he

As always, thanks for looking.
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xxx

Father's Day Card

Male cards are not my favourite, but you can't avoid them, can you? and with Father's Day coming up and all these male challenges going on, I decided to challenge myself and make one too.

Not that I didn't enjoy making this one, how could I? ... look what a cute new image from Prairie Fairy Designs I got :) Yes, it's a new one, but actually I got not one new... but FIVE :) and that's not all.... 'cos I won them too !!! Woo hoo :) fabby fabby fabby :) !!!



These are the challenges for my card:

1 - Prairy Fairy Fun Fridays Week 21 - It's a Photo Inspiration this one here.. the green is in one of the books!!



2 - The Crafty Pad Challenge No 73 - MALE card
3 - Simon Says - MALE card
4 - I Love Digi Challenge No 8 - FOR MY DAD
5 - Crafty Cardmakers Challenge No 22 - LEAST and MOST .. my least is green and most is beige.
6 - Crafty Angels Week 37 - A SKETCH .. here it is



Thank you so much for looking.

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Recycling

The challenge at the Prairie Fairy this week is RECYCLING.. and this is what I did.


I bet you are asking where is my recycling :) but look what was in the back page of one of the many magazines that was left in my letter box this week, which normally end up straight away in my bin!! When I saw it, I immediately remembered this challenge.

I cut out the pink flowers .. after I took this photo I cut the one in the bottom as well, and then stuck them on the background somewhere else on top. I then hid the large 'T' with the circle wording, those small letters with another cut out flower and spaces where I cut out flowers with another circle wording and with the adorable Prairie Fairy stamp which I coloured with my promarkers.


I hope you like the result... now I'm going to try and get me some more of this mag as I loved the paper!!! he he :)

Some challenges:
1 - Prairie Fairy Challenge No 18 - RECYCLED
2 - Kaboodle Doodles Challenge No 30 - CELEBRATE SPRING

Thanks so much for looking.
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xxx