Meljen's Designs Monkey Circle Easel card

Cute little fella isn't he? This little guy makes me smile and is just fantastic as a precoloured or B&W digi for any small child's card!

The banana's don't come with a digi, that's just a clipart image resized and layered and here is the card standing as an easel:

Supplies used:

Spellbinders grand circle / grand scalloped circle dies,

Spellbinder scalloped rectangles

word art circular text - font is Curlz

Nylon stripe Ribbon

number dies from Quickutz called Haunted mini alphabet

Meljen's Digi image called Monkey Toes - precoloured

This is how the card looks folded and closed.

The inside has loads of space for writing a message...

Meljen's Sketch Challenge

 Hi everyone and welcome to another Meljen's Challenge week. This week's challenge is a sketch and you can enter here.

For my card, I used Fancy Gift Box, which is one of the newer releases and you can find it here - a great digi for making lots of last minute Christmas cards!

I will be back with more photos as it seems to be dark when I am home these last few days!

Am entering my card into these challenges too:

Stamp with Fun - Winter (cool blues, white and silver - icy colours)

Bearly Mine - Blues and Silver

Crazy 4 Challenges - Put a Bow on it 

Allsorts - Bring on the Bling

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

the Bearly Mine papers I used you can find here, they are called Christmas Wishes

Easel Card Drawer Box

Hi everyone, am popping in with something I hope will get EVERYONE in the Christmas spirit!

 

I made this box for Meljen's last month and will be adding a tutorial over the next few weeks, but wee bit busy at the moment with my own Christmas things, so will pop up a link when I have this and some other tutorials all posted to the tutorials page, so please be patient... thank you!

This is the image I used - Bundled little snowboy - the added bonus is if you like coloured prints and don't want to colour him in yourself, then he is available in B&W and pre coloured here.

A close up of the box and chocolates coming from the drawer and the yummy card candi from craftwork cards with silver polka dots!

And here is the same box this time made with a house mouse stamp - i love those little mice!

A side on view of the easel and those go kreate dies with the rounded corners. 

Love the green gingham paper - you are likely to see it on some more cards this year!

will pop back tomorrow with something more to share.

Meljen's Designs Honey Bears

Everyone needs to spread a little love, so here's a cute card with a message for your honey!

 

This stamp is from Meljen's Designs and you can find it HERE, coloured with polychromos pencil crayons and blended using sansodor and blending stumps.

The dies I used are spellbinders labels twenty two, Cheery Lynn Heart to Heart Doily dies, and the papers are from Bearly Mine Designs, called Love Dreams.

The inside of the card is also decorated with the die cuts and papers, to match the outside and hope you like the warm cozy colours in this card!

Meljen's Orange and Brown Challenge

Hi everyone and hello again. Just sharing a cheery card for Meljen's Brown and Orange challenge this week. 

I could have made something with a fall or autumnal theme but I wanted to make some birthday cards so used this adorable Autumn Flower Mouse image which you can find here.

those papers are luscious and from Bearly Mine Cheeery Days paper pack which you can purchase here.

The photo was taken in the evening so will add more detail images when I get home in the daylight LOL, and just to say that papers used are two different colourways - one in peach and one in brown from the same Cheery Days pack - perfect co-ordination! those two papers I used are in the preview of the digi pack in Donna's shop if you take a peek

Why not pop along and join us and take part at Meljen's Design Team and Challenge Blog, and play along?

Am entering this card in the following Challenges:
Mojo Monday Sketch - Mojo 267

Papertake Weekly - Flower Power

See you all soon :)

Meljen's Designs Critter Challenge Week

Hi everyone and am back with a card which isn't Christmassy and has a jungle theme! Imagine... at this time of year LOL - of course it is spring / summer in other parts of the world... send me some sun please someone!

Please hop along and join us at Meljen's Designs for our Critter Challenge HERE for the next few days.

I used Happy Panda for my card, and Nitwit Collections papers called Jungle Fun.

The sentiment stamp is from Lili of the Valley.

Entering this card into Papertake Weekly Sketch - here 


Dont forget the sale of coloured digi's at Meljen's by clicking on the picture / link below:

here are some photos of the layers and the inside of the card:

Meljen's Designs Funny Bone Challenge

Yes, that's just what the title says - we are making humorous cards this week, and hope you like the sentiments from all the DT cards which are fabulous, and can see on our Challenge blog here:

So onto my card, then, a clean and simple design, so I can showcase this really cute digi!

Its called Little Possum and the link to the shop and the digi is below, just click on the image.

I coloured this little guy in promarkers and masked the image before inking the clouds in blue memento ink.

Hope you like the sentiment, am never normally good at my own sentiments, but this one seemed quite apt!

Pop along and join us for the challenge this week, there are some cute and whimsical images in Meljen's Designs' shop and some freebies you can use too!

Meljen's Challenge #126 Back to School

Hi fellow crafters, am back with another book card for a Back to School Challenge, cos I am sooo addicted to making these easy little paper projects!

This is my first Challenge entry with Meljen's and am pleased to share this happy Penpal Mouse with you, which you can find HERE.

So I decided to make a book card with brown, fawn and gold coloured card stock and printed papers from Bearly Mine CD Designer Extreme Volume 2.

There are over 600 papers on this CD with all different themes - clean, vintage, dots, floral, stripes, masculine , etc etc - the list goes on and on..............

and you can get it here:

some close up photos -

 I drew the red line on the printed papers with a ballpoint pen, 

the mouse from Meljens Designs, link above, was coloured with promarkers, 

the blackboard I made with card stock, die cut numbers, embossing folder, corner punch and garden twine and a brad..

The apple is a cuttlekids die, and the stars are punched out with an EK success corner punch..

and the inside..

The rear view which shows the papers from the CD - I didn't distress these at all, this is how they print out..

why don't you pop along and join in the challenge this week over at Meljen's Challenges?

Meljen's Design Team and a new release

Just wanted to share my news, that Melissa has added me to her talented, mad bunch of DT gals, and I am thrilled to be picked, thanks so much. 

I love the images Melissa creates, they are so 'happy' and whimsical and just make me smile, so I am looking forward to creating lots of happy cards!

In the spirit of the olympics, I decided to use this hare for a man's card, well just PERFECT, since the guy likes athletics!

I coloured the digi image with promarkers and the papers used were from ALL BOY pack from My Minds Eye.

I also used craftwork cards candi stamps to personalise and add the sentiment.

If you want to hope along to Meljen's blog's here they are:

the shop:

 the Challenge Blog:

Melissa's Artist Blog:

and the new digi's just released:

 

Hope you can join us in some challenges, and you can find other Meljen's cards I have made HERE