DT card for Quirky Crafts Challenge blog April 2016

Hiya peeps,

This is the second of three blogs from me today, Sunday 10th April.
This post is all about Quirky Crafts Challenge  for April & also to let you
know that we still have the DT call open so please follow the instructions on the main blog page through the link above to read them.

Our sponsors for this month are the fabulous Crackerbox Palace and we had the choice of any image we wanted from their store for rubber stamps, but in return they sent us digital images of the chosen image.  As the theme for this months challenge is up to me, I chose the wonderful & quite versatile theme of 
Its Raining Cats and Dogs and its up to you whether you use both cats and dogs or either one.. 


All card stock used on the making of this card comes from Papermill Direct in the Lake District of England. I made no attempt to colour the image of both the cat & dog as I felt it would be worse off.  I decided on an oval easel card this time & I feel as though it compliments the image itself.
I used my Spellbinders Grand Decorative Ovals Die Set to cut the papermill direct cardstock in the white & orange.  All patterned cardstock & ribbon are from my own stash.

I dont think I could say anything else about this card.....

I would like to enter the following challenges:

The Ribbon Girls Blog Challenge

A Bit More Time To Craft

Craft Your Passion

Crafting With Friends

Show Us Your Pussies

DT card for Crafting Musketeers April 2016

Hiya peeps

Firstly my sincere apologies for being M.I.A. for the past week or so...
Life has been so busy and only gets busier for me this month with 5 different hospital appointments... please think about me!! ;(
(I do have today free so hence the catch up on 3 blog challenges!!!)

Well, its challenge time over at Crafting Musketeers blog and  Challenge #36 theme is Spring Is In The Air. Sponsored by Crafty Sentiments and we, the design team were given a few lovely digi images to choose from. I chose to use
Lily with Flowers. 

The backing paper (flowers with grass), the orange ribbon, and 2 matt & layer & sentiment and faux pearl drops are all from my own stash. All card, coloured & white are from Papermill Direct, all matt & layering behind the image are die cut using Nestabilities Card Creator A2 Curved Matting Basics B  & I coloured Lily using alcoholic marker pens. The laser cut word "Memories" is a new addition to my stash (along with a small collection of other nouns) are from a recent purchase but I cant remember where from at the moment).  The card measures 8.25inch x 7.5inch so is a lovely size.

Wednesday 30th March Inspirational Blog post for CR

Hiya peeps

A happy Wednesday to you

This is the main post of todays Inspirational Blog post

MY SINCERE APOLOGIES FOR NOT FINISHING OFF THIS BLOG POST,

IT WAS COMPLETELY MY FAULT AS I RAN OUT OF TIME.

PLEASE WATCH OUT FOR THE NEXT BLOG POST.

Your last day to enter the Easter Parade Blog Hop & Yesterdays Inspirational Blog Post

Hiya peeps and a Happy Easter to you!!

Here is yesterday's Inspirational Blog post by me, Marg ..

And as it is Easter Sunday I went with a child's Easter bonnet 

brought from a well known discount book/childrens art store

and also the little chicks were from the same store.

All the ribbons & the button used are from Crafty Ribbons 

Your last day to enter....

Also, Crafty Ribbons Challenge Blog has an 

EASTER PARADE EVENT on over this weekend... 

As we have 12 people on our Design Team (DT) you will find 4 DT creations

on each of the 3 days, Easter Saturday, Easter Sunday & Easter Monday.

You can back link to the previous days too. The object? Besides the 4 blog hops each day is to find the Easter Egg hidden on one of each of the 4 DT blogs. 

Some maybe easy to find, some a little bit harder. 

(Please scroll down for more photos)

The button is available from this selection pack:

Basics 2 Go Buttons - Flower Brights

The ribbons I used are:

Vintage Rose Organza - Purple/Purple

This design comes only in Sheer ribbon. 

25mm sheer printed on one side only, but as it is sheer ribbon you can see the design on both sides. Available in 1.5mtr bags of one colour or 10mtr rolls.

All of the rest that I used are Exclusive to Crafty Ribbons:

Nature Ribbon - Pansy

25mm grosgrain printed with 8 pansy images.  Printed on one side only

Nature Ribbon - Butterflies

25mm grosgrain printed with 4 butterfly images.  Printed on one side only

The butterflies are: 

Large White – Pieris brassicae

Peacock – Inachis io

Meadow Brown – Maniola jurtina

Peleides Blue Morpho - Morpho peleides – Central and South Americas

Ribbon designed by Laura Rumble

Animal Cuties - Ladybirds

9mm Grosgrain ribbon printed with ladybirds on one side only.

Three colours - Pink, Blue and White, 1mtr lengths or 10mtr rolls

Tulip Message Ribbon

40mm white Grosgrain ribbon printed with Tulip Messages on one side only.

The messages are: With Love, Thinking of You, Best Wishes & Happy Birthday.

1 mtr lengths or 10mtr rolls

Summer Festival - Grass Ribbon

Summer Festival ribbons - 15mm Grass Ribbon

Printed on 15mm grosgrain on one side only

Grass! A simple line of grass in 1 mtr lengths or 10mtr rolls

Summer Festival - Meadow Ribbon

Summer Festival ribbons - 25mm Flower Meadow Ribbon

Printed on 25mm grosgrain on one side only

Flower meadow in full bloom available in 1 mtr lengths or 10mtr rolls

Marg's Easter Blog Hop for Crafty Ribbons

Hiya peeps

Yeah!!!  Welcome to my blog and if you came from 

LEAH's BLOG you are in the right place. If not, 

you need to start there, follow the links below in 

that order to qualify.

To take part in our EASTER PARADE

you will need to visit our DT members' blogs and leave a comment on the DT creations which they have made for the parade  

There is also an egg sitting on a few of the girls blogs which you will 

need to take note of and then link up on that days post. 

and tell us on whose blog you found the egg.

if you take part every day and linkup  with the correct name  

on each day you have extra chances of winning in the random 

draw from all three days.

if you only want to join in one day thats fine too!!

SUNDAY's links

LEAH

ME - YOU ARE HERE

CHRISTELLE

CAROL

now back to CRAFTY RIBBONS  to add your link

For the card below I used an A4 pink card scored to form the A5 portrait card base, 

coloured the beautiful Izzys Spring Stroll digi from Di;s Digi Stamps. After using 

15mm Sheer Ribbon in Shocking Pink vertically twice and then topping with

Basics 2 Go Sheer Ribbon - 9mm Mint

Im not going to bore you with all the details about how I made/using 

what stash as its more important for you to carry along with the blog hop.

If, by any chance, you do want to know more about the card, please leave me 

a comment with your email address and I will reply with full details for you.

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

Di's Digi Stamps 250316, FOR THE GIRLS CHALLENGE

Crafty Ribbons where the theme is Green. My DT card for March.

Hiya peeps

Another card from me but this time for Crafty Ribbons

where the theme this month is: Green

This 8 x 8 inch card was made using a topper from Hunkydory, a kit that 

Ive had for a couple of years I think, so unfortunately I dont remember 

the collections name, also the sentiment topper is from the same collection.

55I topped it on a Spellbinders Decorative Grand Circles

paper die cut & below that is an old paper doily, cut down slightly to fit 

the base card. The majority of the paper/mulberry flowers are from

Prima Marketing. The ribbon I have used along the width of the card, is

called Summer Festival - Meadow Ribbon 25mm (Exclusive to Crafty Ribbons)

and is my favourite ribbon from the whole website at the moment. It cheers

me up no end and is very peaceful to look at. 

Everything else on this card is from my own stash.

I hope you like this card that I love!!

Midway Reminder for Crafting Musketeers Challenge Blog

Hiya peeps,

I would like to show you a card that was made for the midway reminder 

post over at Crafting Musketeers Challenge Blog., to use 3 different ribbons.
This is a card using a pre-coloured topper that I found in my stash,
and is created by Helz Cuppleditch whom I adore as her work is quite
varied but still cute.  I topped the cute dog, called Pepper, on a die cut piece of Papermania 6x6 paper using a Spellbinders die. I used a piece 

of A4 linen effect card from Papermill Direct in Cumbria as their
standard is very high & such an excellent choice of colours, weights
and smooth & embossing of such cardstock.

I chose 3 different shades of blue for the background topper on
a watercolour effect flower filled backing paper from
Making Cards magazine. Using them all together makes
such a difference to the whole effect. The theme of the
Challenge this month is to use 3 different types/colours/designs
of ribbon and thats what I have done on this beautiful card. I first
used the Patchwork Rose Ribbons - Happy Birthday, cutting it to
form 2 different sized banners "falling down the card".

then I chose a 5mm Gingham Ribbon - Sky & Fresh Stripe ribbon -Peacock

across the card in a diagonal way gently coming towards each other 

at the bottom of the card. I then glued a double bow using the 

2 thinner ribbons to just below the pic adding 3 decorative hat pins with white pearl teardrop ends on them.


I believe I have created a spectacular card, I am that pleased with the way its turned out