Brand new challenge blog and my DT card!

Hi all

I am sooo excited to let you know about this one! Now I can reveal all hehe...

Lou from Creative Craft World has started up a BRAND NEW challenge blog and she has asked me to be one of the DT yay.... of course it took me all of about a nano second to say YES!!!

The first challenge this week is of course to celebrate all those Mothers out there and is is Lou's first Mothers Day, most of the time it is a thank less job but this is the one day of the year where Mums should get spoilt (I'm all for being spoilt all year round though ;-)

Here is my first card for the DT and we would all appreciate your support by joining in this special first challenge (FAB prize on offer too) have a look at the blog here





Thought I'd have another bash at making an easel card. I have used a Sarah Kay stamp and coloured with pro markers. Flowers are from my stash, prima and some silk flowers I took apart (LOL). I have used the Hero Arts Dandelion frame to make it look as though she is walking through the grasses. Papers are Papermania capsule collection (Heather) and of course Martha Stewart doily punch.

I am also entering this for the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp - Mothers Day/girly
Creative Card Crew - Celebration
Cupcake Craft Challenge - Flowers
Crafty Cardmakers - Female celebration
Ooh la la creations - Anything goes
Crafty Calendar Challenge - Flower power (optional extra is pastels)
By the Cute and Girly - Spring is in the air

1 card loads of challenges!

Hi all

Been a hectic week this week but I finally made time for some crafting - well thats if I don't count a scary tiger mask for my nephew, a fairy wand and bookmark for my daughter, a lightening bolt sword for my son (all for the Book Week at school)! Well today I am one year older and not much wiser hahaha!!!

Really enjoyed making this card with some new papers I treated myself to today (I am naughty cos I have LOADS and it was a want not a need).

This is one of my all time favourite stamps from Whiff of Joy, makes me feel all cosy and warm when I ink her up haha!! It is ages since I entered the challenges over on the Whiff of Joy challenge but this week there is a gorgeous colour combo of "coffee and cream" so I just had to have a go!

I have followed the lovely sketch by Karen over at One Stitch at a Time, I really enjoyed working with this sketch and it was perfect for the paper I used as there was no layering and this particular Victorian Classic paper from Paper Cellar looks great on its own, in fact the whole pad is beautiful!



I have coloured the image in promarkers (Satin, Cinnamon, Henna, Pastel Beige and Cocoa), the challenge this week over on Passion for Promarkers is Back to Nature and with all the flowers and the Hero Arts dandelion frame stamp which I have used behind Willow fits the bill!



I quite like the sepia look on the card and as it is all one colour I am entering it into the Crafty Creations Challenge which is all one colour and the Stampin' for the Weekend which is Monocromatic. It reminds me of the vintage photos which fits in with the Stamptacular Sunday Challenge of Back in Time.

The challenge over on Simon Says is Mothers Day/girly and with all these flowers it is defintely that!! The flowers are a selection from Hobby Craft but the fabric flowers I made following Bev's tutorial over on Whiff of Joy Inspirations and Tutorials Blog which is great for me as I don't have a sewing machine (even if I did I wouldn't be able to use it as I took Metal Work instead of sewing at school, made this choice after an absolute disaster making a pencil skirt that was so tight it bound my knees together and I could only walk by moving my legs from the knee down LOL).

Stamp, Scrap and Doodle Saturdays have put a DT call out, check the details over on their blog and this weeks challenge is sparkle and shine!

The punched leaves meet the challenge at Quixotic Cards which is Leave it Out!!!