Summer Buddy

Looking for inspiration I came across this sketch on the Ready, Teddy go challenge blog



I've used it to make this card.

Products used:

• Nutcrafters Summer Buddy Stamp
• Card and paper from stash
• Memento ink pad
• Promarkers - Terracotta, Burnt Sienna, Cocoa, Sandstone, Spice, Pumpkin, Amber, Dusky Rose and Coral,Cornflower, Powder Blue and Pastel Blue.
• Spellbinders Nestabilities - Labels 10
• Glossy accents (to Ice Lolly and nose)
• Flower Embelishments from stash

I will be entering this into the following challenges:

• Ready, Teddy-Go Challenge No. 9 - 'It's a little sketchy'
• Nutcrafters Challenge 16 - 'Anything goes'
• C.R.A.F.T challenge 152 - 'Animals'
• Stampalot Challenge - April Challenge
• Cute Card Thursday Challenge 214 - 'Animal Magic'
• Shopping Our Stash challenge 49 -'Starts with a b' ( Brown, Buddy Bear, Bricks )

Pastel Sketch

Good evening everyone and I hope you all had a wonderful Mothers Day. I had a lovely Mothers Day lunch with my family and I was so happy today to see that I made top 3 on stamptacular Sunday challenge blog with my last post. I also managed to have a play with my new nutcrafters stamps that I bought recently from their online sale. I created this card using Nutcrafters stamp 'Thankful Rae'. I think she's really sweet.

Created with the following products:

• Nutcrafters stamp 'Thankful Rae'
• Nestabilities large standard circles
• Pink Petticoat Wild Blossom Collection Papers
• Image coloured with promarkers -Meadow Green, Pastel Blue, Cool Aqua, Maroon, Buttercup Yellow, Pastel Yellow, Baby Pink + Pale Pink and Copics E000 and E00
• Prima Flowers
• Ribbon from Creative Pastimes
• Buttons from stash
• Glossy Accents

For inspiration I used the following sketch from the Pixie cottage blog



Entered into the following challenges:

• Nutcrafters Challenge 14 Bingo -Ribbon, Flowers, Buttons
• The Pixie Cottage Challenge 112 - Perfect Pastels / sketch
• Stamptacular Sunday Challenge 155 cute as a button (6 buttons used)
• I love promarkers challenge 108 - anything goes
• Paper Sundaes Challenge 112 photo inspiration
• Totally Stampalicious - A bouquet of flowers

Mothers Day. 12th March 2012.

Sorry I haven't posted in a while, but, lifes been busy! Must try harder!!!

I made this today and thought I'd enter it into a few challenges. The image is a cute Nutcrafters image,coloured with promarkers, and the papers are various papers in my collection. I used the sketch on Stamptacular Sunday Challenge blog as inspiration and as it's Mothers day next Sunday, I have used a Mothers day theme. Hope you like it.

I'll be entering this into the following challenges:

• Nutcrafters challenge 13 -just for Mum
• Stamptacular Sunday challenge 154- sketch
• Dream Valley challenges 27 -Mothers Day
• Passion for Promarkers 139- Theme
• Simon says stamp challenge -Mothers Day
• Sweet Stamping Challenge -Lets see those layers
• The Pink elephant -TPE 139 -Photo inspiration
• Cupcake Craft Challenges 183 -going dotty

So So Sweet!

Hi there everyone. Had a great week this week. Firstly,  I found this lovely Lavinia Pine tree stamp waiting for me in the post when I came home on Friday! I was lucky enough to win this from Creative cardmaking magazine back in November, so that was a nice surprise, and secondly I made top 3 in the latest Nutcrafters challenge.
 As its so cold and windy here today, I made this card to remind me of sunny days ahead and looking forward to some warmer weather!

This card was created using the following items:

• Nutcrafters stamps, Ice cream parlour and Nutshells -Tash
• Coloured with Promarkers
• Stamped with Memento inkpad
• Papers - Dovecraft Glamour Prints
• Glossy accents
• Martha stewart punch

I will enter this card in to the following challenges:

• Nutcrafters - Challenge 10- Anything goes
• Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge -Food and drink, no.169 
• C.R.A.F.T challenge 138 -use numbers
• Daring Cardmakers -Kitchenalia
• I love promarkers -100 Anything goes
• Sundays with Crissy -Beat the mid winter blues

Golfing Al

2 cards in 2 days, unheard of! I made this card surprisingly quick with the Nutcrafters challenge in mind, 'anything goes'. I paper pieced the stamped 'golfing Al' image and coloured with promarkers and copics. I have used paper from ' Lets fly away' paper stack which came free with Quick cards magazine this month. I really like the clouds and hot air ballon images that came with this pack.

Products used:

• Nutcrafters, Nutshells, Golfing Al stamp
• Golf bag stamp and sentiment stamp from Papermania - stamping for him stamps
• Lets fly away paper stack
• Promarkers
• Copics
• Core'dinations colour core card

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

• Nutcrafters -Anything goes
• One stitch at a time -Anything goes, challenge 96
• Cards for Men -Boys and their toys

Favourite LOTV stamp

Hi Everyone. I was so pleased to make Nutcrafters top 3, last post, with my New Years card, so thank you to Nutcrafters for that! I was getting short of inspiration so did a little blog hopping yesterday and found this lovely sketch on Bev Rochesters blog. Bev has some great tutorials on her blog and absolutely beautiful creations,  and so, as I need help with  my colouring, 
watched her colouring tutorial. My colouring isn't great yet but I'm hoping it's improving with practice!!! I was pleased with the result of this card. I find sketches really help with inspiration when you're stuck for ideas. I didn't have any paper doilies when I looked through my stash and came across an old fiskars punch that I haven't used for ages. I think it makes a great doily, so I'll be using these old punches again! Sometimes things you think you won't ever use again come up trumps. My motto -never throw anything away, it might come in useful. Unfortunately thats why my house is such a mess, LOL!!!!!

I created this card using the following:

• My Minds Eye 'quite contrary' summer papers
• Mulberry paper roses, from Nutcrafters
• Lily of the valley stamp ' Little Ballerina' and sentiment stamp 'time to celebrate'
• Stamped with memento ink
• Coloured with promarkers
• Fiskars border punch
• Martha stewart border punch ' floral lace'
• Paper adhesive ribbon K + C company 'wild saffron'
• embellishments from stash
• Sketch by Bev Rochester, below

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

• Lili of the valley Thursday Challenge
• Creatilicious challenge number 30
• Charisma Card Challenges - 1, Happy 3rd Brithday
• Passion for Promarkers challenge - Inspired by a song week 130  - 'Dancing Queen'
• Winter Wonderland Challenge -Birthday
• Designed to delight -Hearts Challenge

Happy New Year

Hi everyone. Hope you all had a very Happy Christmas and wishing you all good health and happiness for 2012. I had a lovely Christmas but have been so busy I haven't had time to make any new cards recently. Looking forward to the New year now and getting back to normality!

I have made this card using the following:

• Papers from ' The frosted ice collection' - Creative Cardmaking magazine
• Nutcrafters free bonfire party digital image
• Promarkers
• Stickles
• Spellbinders Nestabilities eyelets squares
• Embellishments from own stash

I will be entering this card into the following challenges:

• Nutcrafters Challenge 8 - 'Happy New Year' 
• C.R.A.F.T Challenge 135 -'New Year'
• Charisma Cards week 50 -'Anything Goes'
• Creatalicious Challenge 29 - 'Colour challenge'
• I love promarkers challenge 97 -'Anything goes'
• Passion for promarkers week 129 - 'Celebrations'
• Sweet stamping challenge blog -'New beginnings'
• Crafty boots Challenges - 'Celebrations'
• Kaboodle Doodles challenge 100 - 'Lets celebrate'
• The Crazy Challenge 100 - 'Party'