Dad in his Deckchair.....DON'T LOOK DAD!!!

We're off to Padstow in Cornwall next week so I'm busy trying to get all my cards sorted that need doing before then! It's Dad's Birthday whilst we're away, so here's the card I've made for him - hopefully a reflection on what he'll be doing on the beach!

Supplies:
Image: "Deckchair Dreaming" from Lili of the Valley, coloures with Promarkers & chalks.
Papers: All three papers from DCWV Scrapbook kit in a stack "All Occasions"
Embellishments: Handmade green bow, green/blue sticker from DCWV kit, peel off sentiment.

Challenges:
Lili of the Valley Challenge #110 - Sketch
Bizzy Bec's Challenge September - Blue, Green & White
Crafty Calendar September - Let Sleeping Bears Lie
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
Charisma Cardz #35 - Anything Goes
Stampin' for the weekend #15 - Holidays
Allsorts Challenge #119 - Green & Blue
Crafty Cardmakers #51 - Summer Holiday Memories

Christmas in June

My first Christmas card of this year! I was just in the mood to have a bit of a play!

Supplies:
Image: "Robin with Mistletoe" from Pink Gem Designs, coloured with Promarkers.
Paper: Both papers from Dovecraft.
Embellishments: Glamour Dust, Woodware white fluffy stuff.

Challenges:
Crafty Ann #43 - Christmas in June
I Did It Creations #61 - Mid Year Christmas
Crafty Calendar June - Things with Wings
Crafty Sentiments - Christmas in June

My First Tatty Teddy Card!

We went to the latest Docrafts Demo at The Range in Cheltenham, and couldn't help but get the new goody bag & Creativity magazine, which included this cute stamp! I've always loved the "Me to You" bears and have quite a collection of the little soft toys & ornaments!

Supplies:
Image: "Tatty Teddy" from Docrafts, coloured with Promarkers
Paper: Spotted paper from "Especially For You" Me to You paper pack.
Tools: Nestabilities Blossoms for sentiment topper - cut in Coredinations Gemstones textured card.
Embellishments: Peel off sentiment, ribbon & bow. Inked round the edges.
 
Challenges:
Crafty Calendar May - Teddy Bears
Crafty Catz #83 - Anything Goes
Pile It On #21 - Bears
Stamptacular Sunday #112 - Bearnecessities

Simple Thank You!

This is a card for my "best friend from school" Rach's parents - they took us (Rach and I) to Birmingham on Saturday to go bridesmaid dress shopping. (Rach gets married in July and all three bridesmaids live in different counties so this was my turn to dress up)! They took us for a lovely meal at a great Italian restaurant before the shop-trawling began. Obviously it's not really a "dad" experience so Rach's dad went off to the technology dept of Selfridges to watch the sport! Then it was just Rach, her mum and I - we got a lot done, including a little side-track to Jane Norman (LOVE, LOVE, LOVE JN!) and we may have narrowed it down to 2 dresses, which the other girls will try and then we can start with the accessorizing!

Supplies:

Image/Sentiment: The lovely bunny is from the "Daisy & Dandelion" range, and coloured with Promarkers. "Thank You" sentiment is from Raindrop Echo Designs.

Papers: Both the flowery and spotted papers are from Papermania's Capsule Collection "Lemon Sorbet".

Tools: Nestabilities deckled rectangles.

Embellishments: The yellow ribbon is also from the Capsule Collection.

Challenges:

Crafty Calendar #18 - Spring

Stamp & Create #9 - Spring Break

Papertake Weekly - Lemon Zingy

Stamp, Scrap & Doodle - Spring has Sprung

Paper Sundaes #60 - Keep it Simple

Autumn Daisy!

Here's another card featuring Daisy. She's our only Sugar Nellie girl at the moment, so all my Sugar Bowl entries feature her! I've used Promarkers to colour her.

I've used pigment inks to colour the edge of my card (a bit of orange, yellow & green), and used some flower paper from a magazine freebie to go for an autumn colour theme. I'm not sure what the green net-string stuff is (if someone could enlighten me that would be great....), but I've added some of that as I found it lying in the bottom of the drawer and is seemed to fit. I've cut some Core Color card using nesties, and Daisy's sitting in the middle.

Challenges I'm entering:

The Sugar Bowl #44 - Sketch +/- Birthday

The Crafty Calendar - Birthday +/- autumn colours

Creative Card Crew - Bloomin' Marvellous

Simon Says Challenge - Autumn

Stamping for the Weekend #48 - Autumn colours

Craftalicious Challenge #9 - Autumn

Stamptacular Sunday #78 - Fall colours

C.R.A.F.T #70 - Fancy Floral

Sugar Nellie & My Mind's Eye

Here another little card I've made with "Daisy" from the Sugar Nellie family!

I've coloured her with my Promarkers, and both the papers are from the My Mind's Eye summer papers that were free with July's Cardmaking & Papercraft magazine. I think they're perfect for this little girl sitting outside with her flowers! I've added a couple of eyelets to the card, but kept it quite simple other than that!

Challenges I'm entering:

The Sugar Bowl #38 - Sketch & scallops

Craftalicious Challenge #3 - Cute

Easy Craft Projects #16 - Summer

By the Cute & Girly July - warm summer days

Crafty Calendar July - Summer

Creative Craft Challenge - Summer lovin

Magical Crafts Fortnightly #18 - Flower Power

Bee Happy!

I've had this cute bee (a freebie ages ago from Dustin Pike) coloured up for a while and just had an urge to make a card with him as it was raining yesterday!

I actually coloured him using Whispers pens (in the days before my Promarkers). The spotty paper is from the new Papermania Henbury Lane collection (it's actually sparkly but doesn't show up on the photo). Then I used an MS punch to scallop some blue shiny card I recycled from an advertising booklet! Added some yellow ribbon & a peel-off sentiment!

Challenges I'm entering:

Sunday Sketch & Stamp #29 - Sketch
By the Cute & Girly June - Old, new, borrowed, or blue
Crafty Calendar Challenge June - Bugs & Beasties
ABC Challenge W - Weather
Pile it On #22 - Quirky

My first Sugar Nellie card!

My lovely Mum bought me the "Daisy" Sugar Nellie stamp for my birthday, and this is the first card I've made with it!!

I coloured the image using my Promarkers, and used some downloaded purple flowery paper from Cuddly Buddly for the background. The yellow ribbon, photo brad thingy and green flowers are all from the Papermania Capsule collections. I've just added some little brads for the flower centres. Apologies for the dog hair in the middle of the card - he gets everywhere! 

Challenges I'm entering:

Simon Says Challenge - Sketch

Crafty Calendar Challenge#8 - The Great Outdoors

Fab n Funky #23 - Metal Mania

Polka Doodles #18 - Summer Blossoms

Lili of the Valley #52 - Here comes Summer

Easy Craft Projects #12 - Spring

For Fun Challenges - Use a rubber stamp

Stamp Something #100 - Birthday

C.R.A.F.T #49 - Wedding/Birthday

Crafty Angels #34 - One for the girls

For Fun Challenges Sketch

Here's another card I've done using the Papermania Sunshine Capsule Collection (everything but the cardstock & the peel-off)! I think everyone's feeling the flower power this week as it's meant to be the start of Spring (even though we're still getting frost a lot of mornings)!

Challenges I'm entering:

For Fun Challenges - sketch

Cupcake Craft Challenges #81 - Flower Power

Crafty Calendar Challenge #6 - Flower Power

C.R.A.F.T Challenge #40 - Mother's Day/Flowers

Simon Says Challenge - Girly