DTBST DT - Monochromatic

Morning SSD Fans! 

A new challenge over at DTBST today - Link is HERE 

Challenge this week is "monochromatic!"

I was struggling a little with this but I had to make a Frozen themed card for an order so decided to use this for the challenge :)

I coloured her up first with promarkers, added the swirl embossed card to some light blue backing and then added all my elements. All I had for the order was "princess/frozen, glitter and bling" think I pulled it off! 

The greeting is printed on to vellum and pushed up away from the card. The snowflakes are die cuts :)

Hope you enjoy the challenge! 

I'm off to colour her up in red. See what she looks like ;)

But first I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:

1. Penny's Paper Crafty challenges - Celebrations
2.  I love Promarkers - Anything Goes
3. Cute Card Thursday - Ladies Only

DTBST - Anything Goes

Hello Sassy Fans! 

A brand new challenge over at Dare To Be Sassy today - Link is HERE 

Our Challenge for this week is 

"Anything Goes" 

I've gone with a glittered up Frozen Queen. 

It's actually for a picture frame, but I've ran out of frames :-/ 

As soon as I get a frame, I'll post a completed pic :) 

I am going to add the little girl's name in between the snowflakes to make it look as the the Frozen Queen is throwing out her name in the snowflakes. 

As you can see, her bodice and dress have been glittered up using white glitter. Underneath I coloured her using promarkers and spectrum noir pens. 

The snowflakes are punches that I've used on silver, white and blue card. Added some washi tape to the edges, along with a button, snowflake and twine. 

Look forward to seeing all your creations, 

DTBS - Make it Fly

Hi Sassy Fans! 

I hope you are all well. 

I'm back on the Dare To Be Sassy team for this month - Link is HERE 

So the challenge for this week is 

"Make it Fly " 

I've used Virgo - Link is HERE 

But I've given her a frosty kind of look :) 

Decided to make her in to a christmas card. I think she's very versatile! The spotty card is one half of a card from Ikea - I love them!! And the snowflakes are die-cut. I just had to get a button and some twine on there too ;) The image itself is coloured using promarkers. Added a few pearls for an extra touch too. 

Hope to see your awesome creations on the blog! 

SSD Sponsorship - Pirates and Princesses

Hello! 

A quick post from me this afternoon with a card for the sponsorship over at Incy Wincy Designs - Link is HERE 

The challenge theme is 

"Pirates and Princesses" 

Of course I've gone with Elsa!  Link to image is HERE

Although I nearly went with Rapunzel as I was watching Tangled at the time. 

Ellie LOVES Frozen so this is her card for her 8th Birthday which is next week. The background is embossed with a swirl folder and a snow folder. All the little snowflakes are punched out too. "Ellie" and the "8" are die-cuts along with the bigger snowflake. I am ummming and arrring whether to glitter up her dress, I know I will end up doing it. Who doesn't love a bit of glitter right?! 

I've decided, she needs a glittery dress! 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges: 

1. Eureka Stamps - Monochrome 

2. Artistic Inspirations - Anything Goes With A Twist Of Magic 

Thank you for popping by!

OutLawz DT - Tic Tac Toe

Good Morning! 

A new DT for me that I've joined - The Outlawz Challenges! Whoop! 

So my first challenge as part of the DT is "Tic Tac Toe" - Link to Monday Greetings is HERE

I do love this! It's super easy, just pic a line, anyway you like and make your card :) 

 

I have used "Die cut/punches/image/Embossing" 

And we are also sponsored by All Dressed Up - Link HERE 

And... Deedee's Digi's - Link HERE 

 The image is super cute! It's called "All Dressed Up For Christmas" - Link is HERE. 

The image itself is coloured using Promarkers. I went with none traditional colours in the pink and grey. I may add a little glitter nearer to christmas too. The sentiment is printed off the PC with punched snowflakes. The ribbon has a silver button with a small white snowflake attached with twine. Added a few gems to make it a little more girly :) 

Thanks for popping by to my lil blog :) 

DTBST DT - Sparkle is a Girl's best Friend...

.. And it certainly is with this Girl in mind! 

A super new challenge over at Dare To Be Sassy Thursday this week with the challenge of Bling up those creations - Link for blog is HERE.

I've gone with something a little different for this week's challenge and made a picture box.

I've used 120 gems on this bad boy! Along with snowflake glitter vellum, glitter on Elsa's dress, glitter ribbon and mirror board & irredescent card stock. I've also used a bling brad on the ribbon and bow. else has been coloured up using spectrum noir pens whereas Anna was promarkers. She is so intricate to colour but nevertheless, She turned out awesome! 

There you have it! Please stop by the blog and play along :)

My Time To Craft DT - ATC

Good Morning! 

I have no idea what happened with last weeks post.. it's just disappeared! 

Some great Snowman creations as well. 

This weeks challenge over at MTTC is "ATC"

An ATC is 2.5 inches by 3.5 inches for anyone that doesn't know. 

This is what I've come up with....

I've used glitter snowf;ake papers,wood greeting and die cut snowflakes. I HAD to add some bling too :) 

More than likely, I'll put this on a card with the same background and use this as a focal point. 

I did struggle with this a lilly but I'm happy with the outcome. 

Crafting When We Can DT - Christmas Come Early

Good Morning! 

Welcome to another challenge over at CWWC. This fortnights challenge is

"Christmas come early" 

Our sponsor for this challenge is Inky Impressions. 

As soon as I seen this image, I loved it! So, here's what I've come up with, 

That's one christmas card done, about 2 million to do LOL! I wasn't sure about the snowflakes but stuck with them anyways. And as always, had to get some ribbon in there somewhere :)

Off to get some inspiration for more christmas cards! 

My Time To Craft DT - Christmas Birds

Morning! 

Another cold one here. I'm hoping it's not too cold tomorrow as I'm off down the football. Which kind of leads me on to my post....

Over at My Time To Craft our new challenge is 

"Christmas Birds" 

So any bird that you see on a christmas card or in a winter scene i.e. Robbin, Cardinal, Turkey.

I've used a penguin. Technically, a penguin is a bird. The relevance to the football is that this little cute penguin is coloured in the Aston Villa Football Club colours, Claret and Blue, as it's for a a little Villa fan. 

So, here it is:

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The cute lil penguin is from C.C Designs from the Meoples range. She is in a set of three and they can be found HERE. She has been coloured using Spectrum Noir pens and cut out and raised from the embossed snowflake panel. The paper is from the Docrafts Capsule Collection, Spots & Stripes - Festive. And of course.... a few snowflakes! 

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Please take a look at the blog and come play along. Happy crafting! 

Untraditional christmas colours....

Good Morning! 

Rain here today. I'm on dinner duty so no going out which suits me! Plus, I'm well proud of myself.... 

Finally managed to get the last two christmas cards done!! 

 

WAHAY!!

Anyways, on to the post and card I'm showcasing today. 

Having such a big group of family and friends, sometimes, can be a pain the backside... I always run out of idea's! It's made worse by both my Mom & Dad and I sending double cards to my Auntie & Uncle and both cousins, so that's two completely different cards I make for them... Next year, I'm having ideas on a postcard! LOL!! First up, is Abigail's card off me using a Saturated Canary image in

 

Untraditional christmas colours....

 

  I do love these little ladies.

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Naughty or Nice is about right for Abigail! This looks like her too. She has been coloured using Spectrum Noir pens and cut out. That took a while as well! Snowflake embossed panel as per and of course a couple of snowflakes layered up with a ribbon and bow. I was going to put her name on it, but couldn't fit it on. Not even around the scallop circle.

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Snowflakes

So, I'm entering my card into the follwoing:

1. Saturated Canary - Untraditional Christmas Colours
2. Crafty Catz - Anything Goes
3. Totally Papercrafts - Christmas using Non Traditional Colours

I'm off to prepare dinner. Catch you all later.

Traditional?

Afternoon peeps! 

You know when you're just not sure about a card, like the placement of all the bits of paper and embellishments... I had this yesterday. Cut everything to size and die cut all the bits, got the ribbon ready with it's bow, went to stick it down... didn't like it. So chucked it all in the box n started again. Now, I'm hoping this falls under traditional colours as I don't seem to do traditional coloured cards?! 

Anyhows, here is the masterpiece.. well... 

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 The only thing I kept the same was the layout! I've used a Some Odd Girl image and coloured her with Spectrum Noirs. I added a few highlights as well. Funny old pen that I used. I didn't think I had done it properly to start with then it just darker and darker lol. The snowflakes are die-cuts cut in half and stuck down behind the greeting. Some embossing and a load of pearls and gems and finished. #

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Greeting & Detail

I'm entering this into the following challenges:

1. Fab 'n' Funky - Snowflakes

2. Cute Card Thursday - Christmas Catch Up! 

3. Crafty Little Fairies - Let It Snow

I'm off out to see some family. Happy Crafting! 

Creative Inspirations GDT - Traditional Christmas Colours Only

Morning Everyone! 

It seems to be getting a little warmer here... still no snow! 

Saying that, no rain yet either which is always good. 

Onto the challenge from Creative Inspirations. This weeks challenge is 

"Traditional Christmas Colours Only"

 So, Red, Gold & Green. 

The sponsors for this challenge are the Stamp Fairy. I've used a sentiment rather than an image. 

 

Here's my card:

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I really struggled with this card to be honest. I think because I've made so many cards in non-traditional colours, I find it hard to use traditional colours. Very strange! 

The background is embossed with the two strips of paper from the Traditional Papers, Papermania range. I've used twine in Red and Green plus a star button. 

sentiment

 I'm off to finish the last two christmas cards. I have no idea what I'm doing for them! 

My Time To Craft DT - Cute & Cuddly

Good Morning! 

It's getting colder and colder... I hope we get snow soon! 

Over at My Time To Craft we have a new challenge of  

"Cute and Cuddly Christmas Animals"

This means use anything Cute & Cuddly for Christmas.

I have used a cute and cuddly bear from Di's Digi's Stamps. The image can be found HERE.

(Go to the bottom of the page and it's second in from the right)

Here's my card:

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I wanted to keep the card fairly simple hence using only a few embellishments and papers. The papers are from the Dovecraft Back To Basics II set. And, yep, you guessed it... I had to add a couple of snowflakes! I do love my snowflakes! Plus my twine and buttons....

Here's a couple more pictures:

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Twine & Button

Please take a look at the blog and come play along. Happy crafting! 

Green with Snowflakes

Afternoon peeps! 

Whilst my internet is deciding to play along, I thought I'd write this post up. 

I don't know about you, but when I started doing this card I thought "Why did I offer to do this?!" I had a complete mind blank, specially with it being for a mate's mom which is off him!! Eeeeek! After much deliberation, I finally have something that I'm happy with....

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Originally, I wanted to do the card white with white glitter but you might know that the glittered snowflake vellum wouldn't show up! Grrr... I thought about the other usual christmas colours but I wasn't happy with any of them. Then I came across this green mirror card. Sorted. Finally I could use the vellum that's benn sat in my drawer for over a year! I've stitched the vellum to the green as to not have any glue marks. The ribbon is also stitched to the card with the bow being attatched by a brad. Got to add a little bit of bling. The snowflakes and flowers are die cuts with the leaves being punched out of the green card, white card and vellum. A couple of hat pins and some gems and finished. 

Here's a few more pics...

Flowers & Leaves

Snowflakes

 I think really that the snowflake should have been bang in the corner but beggars can't be choosers! 

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

1. Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

2. Oldie but a Goodie - Ribbon and/or Lace

3. Creative Craft - Non-traditional Christmas Colours

Thanks for popping by! 

Creative Inspirations GDT - Contemporary Christmas Colours

Don't you just hate it when you schedule a post and then your internet decides it's not going play! 

Got to love my network provider. 

Anyway, onto the main post. 

For December, I am the Guest DT member over at Creative Inspirations. Very exciting! 

This weeks challenge is 

"Contemporary Christmas Colours"

So no Red, Green or Gold! 

Here's what I've done.

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This is actually 1 of 2 cards that I've done as part of a big order. Will pop a picture on later of the other card. The papers are from two different packs, Docrafts Capsule collection Spots & Strips - Festive and Special Delivery. The image is called "Noel" and is from Saturated Canary. She can be found HERE. She has been coloured with Spectrum Noir pens, cut out and slightly raised away from the background image. Luckily, when I was sorting through my ribbon drawer, I found some ribbons that match perfectly! Wahay! And of course, a couple of snowflakes were added. 

Here's a few more pics:

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Layers

 And here is the other card but with the papers the other way round.

Quite a few pics there! 

Please take a look at the blog and come play along. Happy crafting!