Crafty Ribbon DT card........Challenge 92

Hiya peeps,

A new challenge for Crafty Ribbons Blog, this time the theme is Butterflies & ribbons (of course its got to have ribbons on there somewhere!!!)...

I went for a completely different look for me when I used a Tonic die from a set I brought sometime ago & have looked at them completely a few times but this was the first time that I have used one of them (I think). I decided all along that I wanted to leave it white & was going to do a black & white card but then saw the beautiful papers from LOTV (the paper pad was a freebie with a craft magazine recently).  The butterflies on the die I coloured with Sakura glitter pens & that was a mistake due to the lines where the ink has settled, The separate butterflies are cut from Spellbinder dies and coloured with promarkers & then topped with Sakura gelly roll glitter pens but it still left lines.... I wont be using the gelly roll pens to cover large areas again after this as Im not happy with the whole effect now.
The ribbons are from Crafty Ribbons (of course) and I have used an ivory 16mm Grosgrain available to buy from here and a buttercup coloured swiss dotty grosgrain 10mm wide is available to buy from here which is what I layered on top.
Dont forget to check out our Challenge Blog ;0 xxxx

My GDT card for Fitztown.....

Good Morning peeps,,

I sincerely apologise for my lateness in posting this card of mine for Fitztown. Ive not been well & to top it off I couldnt sleep last night. Thats another story & Im not here to bore you.
I am here to tell you about the beautiful (even if I say so myself) card featuring the lovely lady called Cameo 9 and she is available by clicking on the link in blue.  As for the colours I used, the first thing I found was the lilac backing paper in amongst some papers I found whilst starting to tidy up my craft area. Then I knew straight off that I wanted a colour to contrast with that so decided, quite easily on the teal., and a good choice it was too. This card is fast becoming one of my favourites!!  It is a large card measuring almost 9 inches square and is formed by using 2 sheets of A4 250gsm card from Papermill Direct. The teal mirror card is from Creata via Create and Craft tv (when it was on special promotion).  The ribbons are all from Crafty Ribbons which has loads & loads of selections of the most gorgeous ribbons & sparkly accessories that you could wish for!!!  Anyway (sorry, I can get carried away with talking about ribbons as I am very addicted to them), back to the card. Cameo 9 was coloured with a combination of Graph It's, Promarkers, Flexmarkers & my trusty Sakura Gelly Roll pen in the colour of Clear Star to add the glitter where I want it. The dies I used are all Spellbinders, Scalloped Ovals, Labels Twenty and Grand Decorative Ovals. I love the grands ovals & circles... so beautiful.
The other items all came from my own stash, & they were: faux pearlescent flower shaped pearls and the hat pins used for decorating the ribbon bow,
I think thats about it with what I have used....
Thanks for reading & again, my sincere apologies for the lateness of posting this blog write up.

Join in with the blog challenges over at Fitztown Challenge Blog, you wont regret it!!!
Happy Crafting peeps xxx ;0


I am entering this card in to the following challenges:

CCC Digi Creations Challenge Blog, the theme is Challenge 2 Digi Stamp Image & Diecut
http://cccdigicreations.blogspot.co.nz/2014/06/challenge-2-digiuse-diecut.html

The Corrosive Challenge Blog, the theme is #200, Celebration! Anything Goes
http://corrosivechallengesbyjanet.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/challenge-200-celebration-anything-goes.html

Sister Act Card Challenge, the challenge is called #59
http://sisteractcardchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/challenge-59.html

A Lacy Sunshine creation.........

Good Morning peeps (well it is here in the Uk at 3.25am) lol

This is to show you a card that I made a couple of weeks ago but have only just realised that I hadnt blogged about it....
Its a beautiful image called Lil Frolic Sitting Pretty that comes from Lacy Sunshine Stamps that I love to colour at the moment.
Lil Frolic Sitting Pretty was designed by Heather (owner & designer/artist of Lacy Sunshine) .... I decided that Lil Frolic was meant to have pale green hair to coordinate with the mint green card stock I had used... I also decided to use up some of the larger fabric flowers that I had in a large tub for a while now so I layered 2 of them up & added a larger sized flat backed faux pearl in the middle. The smallest flowers that I used are my newest addition to my crafty stash. I layered a white organza ribbon across the mint green satin ribbon & made a double looped bow.
The actual card base was cut, along with the 2 layers of cardstock, were cut with the smallest 2 dies of the same set of my Spellbinders Grand Scalloped Rectangle dies,

I wish, now, to make a sincere apology to Heather at Lacy Sunshine stamps as I have spelt the images name wrong on my photos below. It should read: LIL Frolic Sitting Pretty, not Litti as I have written on the watermark on each photo.

I am entering this card in to the following challenges

Lacy Sunshine Challenge Blog, the theme being: Dies and/or Punches
http://lacysunshinechallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/dies-andor-punches-challenge.html

Suzy Bee's Bloomin' Challenge, #31, the theme being: Layer It Up
http://suzypantssmarty.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/suzy-bees-bloomin-challenge-31-layer-it.html

Sisters of Craft Challenge for June, as always with this blog the theme is: Anything Goes
http://thesistersofcraft.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/sisters-of-craft-june-anything-goes.html?m=1

Blog Hop & a card from Fitztown

Good evening peeps,

For those fans of mine who wish to take part in the
ONE year Blog Hop that Fitztown are having, Here is a some of what you need to know (the rest is on the main challenge blog).....

Welcome to the Fitztown Challenge Blog Hop! We've got something special going on this week! As usual, we've got our challenge to play along with. We have a CELEBRATION theme for this challenge and this is for a very special reason!   Fifty two weeks ago today, Fitztown Challenge Blog launched its very first challenge! Woohoo! So put on your party hat and fancy duds, shine up your party shoes and come celebrate with us at our CELEBRATION Blog Hop!       

This Blog Hop ends on Saturday, May 31st, midnight, USA EST! We will announce the winners for the blog hop on Sunday, June 1st at 6:00 PM USA EST or GMT+1 (as we are now in the UK) Saturday, May 31, 2014 at 5:00:00 AM

This is a Fitztown image that I have made in celebration of my ex mother-in-laws birthday. (After all she still is the nan of my teenage daughter)

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Sisters Of Craft, the theme is always Anything Goes

http://thesistersofcraft.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/sisters-of-craft-launch-of-our-new.html?m=1

The Stamping Chef, #31, the theme is Anything Goes 
http://thestampingchef.com/Challenges/2014/05/28/challenge-31-anything-goes/

The Lion & A Lamb

Me again peeps and yes, Ive got another creation for you.

This time by the talented Gerda Steiner and this is a free image she has given out so we
can enter her Blog Challenge here
I chose a simple landscape card with just a piece of slightly embossed looking pink ribbon called Cubist Light Pink bargain roll of 10m for just £1 and its a good width at 15mm. I brought this from a clearance section of Crafty Ribbons (that link will take you right to the ribbon itself on their fabulous jam packed website!!!).

To coordinate with the light pink ribbon I chose a pink card from Papermill Direct. Its called Baby Pink at 240gsm weight. I also chose an odd sheet of yellow card that I had which matches perfectly with the darker parts of the lion... The only other item that I found in my own stash is the "hi" sentiment which I know is from Polkadoodles as it was on a sheet with other sentiments. I just coloured the outer edge in a grass green (the same colour pen as the "grass" under the lion & lamb) to go with the rest of the card, but Im thinking as an after thought that maybe it was the wrong colour green!!!
I wanted to make this as a Clean & Simple card and so I didnt add anything else....
I hope you like this cute little card as much as I do (if not please contact me via my email or leave a comment below). If, however, you do like it, I would really appreciate you sharing this blog or my Facebook page please ;0 x

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Gerda Steiner Blog Challenge,/must use the image Lion & Lamb
https://gerda-steiner.squarespace.com/challenge2/

Rhedd and Rosie Challenge Blog/No Flowers & Nothing Floral
http://rheddandrosies.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/33rd-challenge-no-flowersnothing-floral.html

A Purple Passion of a card

Good Morning peeps,

A quiet Sunday lies ahead for me, still involving crafting but with my teenage daughter staying upstairs to finish off some college work & Reggie (my handsome dog) will be with her if I know him.

My project to show you this morning is a rubber stamp that I thought I had lost, which is why youve not seen it before (on one of my creations anyway). ...................
Its a Gorjuss girl stamp called "A Little Birdie Told Me" designed by Suzanne Woolcott in 2009 (according to the label on the original bag that the stamp come in).

I decided to go with my favourite colours for this little lady (purples) & also because a couple of challenges I have seen that I might enter.

I stamped Gorjuss on to a piece of super smooth white card using a mixture of Promarkers & Graph It's, and then die cut her out with one of many Spellbinder dies that I own., I also die cut the 3 layer "flower" in the top left hand corner, the banner & the leaf. That should make sure Im in with the rules of a particular blog challenge that I wish to enter using this card.
Matt & layered with card of different weights, a doily cut into 4 so I can lay them down under the dotty lilac card. The sentiment & topper it sits on are from my own stash as are the flat backed pearls in the 2 diagonal corners.

The new part of this challenge is the white slightly embossed base card from Papermill Direct, I only received this stash last month.
The neglected part of this challenge has got to be the rubber stamp itself (with me loosing it for so long,.... it must be a good 3 years!!!!

I followed a sketch for this creation, It, again, is for a particular blog challenge that I am going to enter using this card.
I hope you like what you see....

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Sketch N Stash Challenge, of which the theme is: Follow Sketch No 39
http://sketchandstashchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/chalenge-139.html

Stampin' For The Weekend Challenge No 10........

Hiya peeps,

Hope everyone is ok? Ive had an eventful time during this last 2 weeks since the last challenge but it turned out ok in the end. My teenage daughter had a fab birthday spread out over a few days starting out with 6 friends (most from college) coming round on the Saturday evening for drinks & eats. I think the last person to go home went at 12.30am and then the only friend she had staying over (as she didnt live locally) finally settled down to sleep around 1.30am. It made a really good change though to hear my daughter laughing so much!!

Back to today's card for the Stampin' For The Weekend Challenge Blog.

The theme for this challenge is "For The Girls" which means anything Female.  I chose a beautiful digi image called Lizabeth Butterfly Wishes from Lacy Sunshine Stamps and coloured her with my Promarkers, Spectrum Noirs and a couple of Sakura Gelly Roll pens (one of which was a glitter pen).
I decided on a twisted easel late the night before so I made myself a little note to remind myself. I think it suits this image expertly!! The colours, pinks, purples & spring greens are my favourite colours for the spring/summer and during the autumn/winter I prefer using darker/brighter range of plums, orange, red, browns & darker greens.
All card stock used is from Papermill Direct and the majority of the flowers are from Orchid Crafts. The pink with white hearts paper is from a Forever Friends paper pad (of which Ive lost the cover to). The thin purple ribbon come from a fabulous company called Crafty Ribbons and to find the same ribbon click here
Everything else that I used (not mentioned) are from my own stash,.
The finishing touch was the 2 stick on faux gems on the Butterfly antenna. I really hope you like the finished result as much as I do.
Dont forget to have a go at our fabulous blog challenge.... found HERE

I am entering this card in to the following challenges:

I <3 Promarkers Challenge, the theme is Anything Goes
http://ilovepromarkers.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/220-anything-goes.html

Crafty Girls Challenge the theme is Anything Goes
http://4kraftygirlzchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/challenge-18-dt-call.html

Crafting At The Weekend the theme is Anything Goes
http://craftingattheweekend.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/challenge-1.html

Crafting By Designs the theme is Anything Goes
http://craftingbydesigns.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/may-anything-goes-challenge.html

Passion For Promarkers the theme is Use Your Die Cuts
http://promarkerchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/week-248special-anniversary-challenge.html