Di's Digi Give Thanks Challenge

Hi everyone, from a VERY wet 'Sunny South East' of Ireland! I need paddles today and for the next day or so, and am hoping the weatherman's forecast gets better next week.

So, while I love snow and wrapping up and all things Christmas, it was a great change to make a fun fresh card without snow scenes LOL!

Hope over to Di's Digi Challenge Blog and join us for the next two weeks' challenge, Give Thanks.

The image I used is Henry's Mushroom tea, and I love hedgehogs so was delighted when Di started drawing them!

The butterfly punch is a Martha Stewart one and I used my new Happy Cut and a cuttlebug folder to emboss the dots - will add a tutorial in the next few weeks about this - how to successfully emboss a 7 1/4 inch piece of card with a small embossing folder - delighted to have cracked that one!

and lastly the inside of the card...

am entering this card into these challenges:

ABC Challenge blog - B for Butterfly

Simon Says Sketch from Dawny

Hanna and Friends - Animals

Di's Digi Fall Colours + my fave twinkly paints

hello bloggers and fellow crafters, hope you have all been having a good weekend and those Christmas cards are in full swing LOL.

Am sharing a great feminine card, which would be great to send to someone who loves baking, and I have chosen autumnal colours for this one - those limy / green flowers, when the leaves start to turn and the browns and reds, just no orange on this one

Over at Di's Digi Challenge Blog, the theme this week is Fall Colours, and hope you can join in too.

I have used Gonna Bake a Cake image for mine and I just love the luscious choc layer cake and the little girls baking cap!

I have used Cheery Lynn Mega Fanciful Flourish die on this card, cutting the die so I could re position leaves and fronds where I wanted them

...and added some pretty Wild Orchid Craft flowers to which I added ultra fine glitter in an old rose colour pink and limey green colour, using art institute glitter glue to add the glitter as well as adhere the flowers.

...a closeup photos of the roses and cherry blossoms and the stitching onto the Nitwit papers from their Warm Fuzzies collection.

The tan coloured pearls are from Cottage Crafts, and you can find the range here, they are excellent value and each pearl comes off the sheet individuality, no need to cut the long adhesive strings on other brands!

and the inside of the card left blank for that special sentiment.

In case you are wondering about the skin colour, I used promarkers for that (yes you can colour hammered card which isnt usually suitable for promarkers as it can bleed, if you are careful). I used markers from light to dark, in the following order - antique white Flex Marker, almond, satin, march hare and sunkissed pink - delighted with the result!

Hope you like the card blank, which cardstock I also used for layering and the punched border - its kraft card from Craft creations which you can find here and its a great weight, good quality cardstock which I got in 12 x 12 sheets - am going to use more of it!

I am entering this card into some other challenges too:

Sketch 'n Stash - Challenge 100 use one of the catalogue sketches - I used number 82, here is the sketch

The Pink Elephant Challenge - #173 Use your favourite colouring medium - I used twinkling H2O's

Cupcake Craft Challenges - get Krafty

Totally Papercrafts Friday Challenges - Cute and Girly

Stampin for the Weekend - All stitched up (got my sewing machine out after a long while..woohoo)

Will be back with more cards next week, as have been going through all the photos taken and not posted, so pop back again..

oops my post didn't actually publish on blogger LOL (numpty here forgot to schedule the post!) - so here is the other little Halloween card I promised everyone yesterday.. another lots of layers card!

You cant find this cute little character at Di's Digi Downloads and the digi is called Magician Boo.

Here are some more photos to show the layers and also click on this link to find the papers at Bearly Mine Designs - Happy Hauntings.

and the inside of the card - love those papers!

Halloween at Di's Digi Challenge Blog

Hello from me, yes I have been a stranger for a while LOL. Been busy crafting and doing other things as well, so blog was neglected again, oops!

Its that time of year ALREADY when the clocks have gone back and the autumn colours are out and of course Halloween is upon us! I love the crisp bright days though when it doesn't rain and I do love autumn as much as spring.

Onto my card for this week's challenge at Di's Digi Challenge Blog, using Di's Magic Spell image - how cute is this little witch....... he he he he...........

I did some paper piecing which you can just about tell from the photo (sorry it was getting dark when I took it earlier) and although its time consuming I am happy with the result and want to use this technique more - flat stamped images just seem ordinary now!

...and here is the full easel card - in  8 x 8 size with all its gems and flowers etc,

The papers are from Bearly Mine Designs which you can find here, its called Happy Hauntings.

The dies used for this card are a mixture of Spellbinders, Go Kreate, Marianne D and a Martha Stewart punch, and the image was coloured with Faber Castell polychromos pencil crayons (only sansador added to the face).

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Bearly Mine Challenges - Flowers Galore

Mojo Monday 265 - Round or Square sketch

Cute Card Thursday - Something Scary

Fussy and Fancy - Anything Goes

Sweet Stampin' Challenge Blog - What's Cookin

Stamptacular Sunday Challenge - Not just an ORDINARY card - mine is an easel

will be popping back with another Halloween card tomorrow

Di's Digi Challenge and its a Christmas card

Hi everyone and its a bit late, but still hoping you are all enjoying your weekends!

I have a pastel Christmas card to share for Di's Digi Challenges, and the theme for the next fortnight is:

USE MORE THAN ONE DIE CUT OR PUNCH.

Hope you will join us as am sure there are loads of you who have dies and punches, with there being so many fantastic ones on the market at the moment (actually tooooo many.. its so tempting all the time!)

Here are some close up's of the card which you can see is a recessed aperture one - my current favourite and very easy card style at the moment.

The mirri card makes the recessed image really 'pop' and you can see the spine of the card, scored to accommodate the recess in the photo above.

My partially cut die cut poinsettia, a Marianne die, finished with Cheery Lynn Leaves (okay I know the leaves should be as big as the petals but I decided on smaller ones!)

I used flowersoft in yellow and polar white for the flowers and hat.

And another view - also the Poinsettia['s looked nicer in pink, so I decided to make them that colour LOL!

The medium used to colour this time wasn't anything I usually use, and I decided to use my watercolour tubes again (colours paynes grey, Chinese white, terre verte and permanent rose all Windsor and Newton watercolours).

The watercolouring on the digi image is hard, but I was very careful with the lines.

You can find the digi image by clicking on the picture below, and I will put up a tutorial tomorrow for changing the colours on digi lines (mine are grey on the card).

Hope you pop in tomorrow.

DI's Digi Challenge - Back to School

Its Saturday and its the weekend - yayyyyyyyy,  and time for another Di's Digi Challenge.

This time its back to school, and this card is for all those little ones who had their first day and might have found it a wee bit difficult - well done to all of you, and I would bet you will love it now!

Anyone looking at this card might spot that the colouring is a wee bit different - I have a few distress ink pads, so decided to give them a go and love the result - only the first attempt mind, and I need more colours too! Bit tricky with a digi image but I managed not to let the printed lines bled too much. Hope to do some more with the inks and build up my collection of colours now.

our sponsor this week is Sweet Stamps, so go on click on the Di's Digi Picture at the top of this post and play along, and thanks to sweet stamps for sponsoring our challenge!

Di's Digi's 'no squares allowed' Challenge

cant believe where the time has gone over the last few weeks, will soon be Christmas ..............! 

Some Christmas stamps are starting to make their way into my stash but for now I want to share a summery card, because we haven't had enough 'summer' yet!

This weeks'; Challenge over at Di's Digi Challenge blog is 

NO SQUARES ALLOWED

Here is my card for the challenge, a centre step fold:

added some wild orchid crafts mulberry flowers and die cut / punched leaves

 Made a box using the same gorgeous red pearlescent payper box cardstock - it has such a lovely sheen to it and a soft red bordering on wine / burgundy colour, but not that dark.

... and here is the little tag which slots into a pocket behind the centre panel, ready for a little message.

I coloured the image with twinkling H2O and cosmic shimmer paints, and in this photo you might see some of the sheen from the mica pigments..

If you click on the image, you will be directed to Di's Digi Download site, where you can purchase this gorgeous digi of Milly with her basket:

and click on the paper pack image below to find out where you can get the lovely fresh papers from Donna's Bearly Mine Spring Delights range.

Don't forget to enter the challenge at Di's Digi Challenge Blog, its running for the next two weeks so you have loads of time to get those fancy die shapes, stepper cards or boxes etc entered into the challenge!

Di's Digi Challenge Mystical Creatures DT card

A sunny cheery hello everyone, the sun is shining here and that puts us all in great spirits!

Have a sweet pink and girly fairy card to share with you. This one is my DT card for Di's Digi Challenges  and uses Di's Fairy Izzy Image which you can find HERE.

For this image I decided to make a landscape easel card:

and some other photos of the detail:

The inside of the card, suitable for a sentiment / personalised message:

...and this is the card view folded and from the outside:

Love those EK success flower punches - these are called Retro flower..

Pop along and join in our challenge HERE; share your Fairy, Mermaid and other mystical creations with us!

Popping back later, have loads more to post!

Di's Digi Downloads Pile on those Flowers Challenge

Sorry am a bit late with this today, but here is my card for our new challenge over at Di's Digi Download Challenge Blog.

The theme this week is to Pile on those Flowers, and am sure that's an easy one for most of us to do, we find it hard not to, sometimes!!

... so pop in and join us with all your floral themed projects.

Di's Digi Summertime Challenge

You might have seen this card on Di's Digi Challenge blog already at the weekend, sorry am late in posting this, I don't know how I forgot oops.

This week the Di's Digi Challenge is running for one week just this week, so get your Summertime entries in asap if you want to play along/

for this card I used Izzy's Flower Wagon from Di's Digi Downloads and Patchwork Party papers from Bearly Mine

the fence die is from Cheery Lynn

and LOADS of little flowers!

a side on view  and colouring was with pencils but I didn't blend with sansador because I wanted the stokes left and it to be a little rustic..

a couple of mens cards with digi images

Popping in with a couple of mens cards, made with digi images, digi papers, embossing and colouring with pro markers and pencils respectively.

the first one is using Di's Digi's Off Puttin' Image which you can find here

The sentiment ticket stamp is from Lili of the Valley and the text Computer generated - the ticket stamps are great as they are polymer so you can stamp over your sentiment with ease.

and a couple of closeups to see the textures:

 

the second card is from a digi stamp from Just Inklined stamp which you can find here and go well with Bearly Mine Digi papers from the Damask Delights papers and embossed effect from the cuttlebug folder.

that's all for today but will have more when I can take some more photos in the daylight