Its time for Creatalicious!!

Hiya peeps

& 

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Its time for a new challenge over at the wonderful

Creatalicious Challenge Blog

The theme for Challenge #150 is as always, ANYTHING GOES, but with optional embossing (wet or dry).

I havent used the option of any embossing but my

digi image is from our sponsor for this challenge,

 Little Blue Button Stamps and the prize for our winner

will be a $10 voucher to use on their website.

I have made a simple 6x6 inch card using a ready

made card base, It is part of a set of mixed shapes/folds.

The digi image was printed out on to a 225gsm plain white

cardstock, coloured using my pencil crayons, mainly using the metallic colours to give the sheen that I wanted.

I fussy cut out the coloured image out & stuck her onto the 

die cut Raspberry coloured circle. That die cut was then mounted on the base card using foam pads.

I added the small ready made bow (using silicone glue gel) and the sentiment (using foam pads) which is a pun on the mermaid, then stuck a piece of blue faint patterned paper on the inside (using double sided tape), all of which

are from my own stash. The final touch was the small sentiment on the inside, which is from Lili Of The Valley 

(printed on to clear printable sticky backed paper, from my own stash)

I wish to enter this card into the following challenges:

World Wide Open Design Team #10

Creative Craft Cottage #112

The Corrosive Challenge #10

Cardz 4 Galz Challenge #83

Creations In Pink #3

Scrapy Land Challenge #100 (Circle die from Tonic Studios)

Its nearly Halloween!!!

  Hiya peeps

Its time for a Halloween card from me and I came

up with this beauty from Aurora Wings, she is called

Halloween Sprite, she was a freebie for a limited

time when you spent over $10 at their website,

here, or on Etsy, here.

The white card is from Papermill Direct, 
A4 sheet folded in half

The green card is from Sizzix which is part of a
60 sheet multi colour pack bought from
 Hochanda Craft Channel and TV shopping

The trees, an all-in-one die, Branched Birch, are
2 lots of die cuts just slightly overlapped from

Sizzix, designed by Tim Holtz.

The moon is just an odd shaped circle cut from a scrap piece of pearlescent & linen effect cardstock.

The toadstools, black cat & sentiment are all from

a stamp set that was free with a craft magazine

that I bought at some point that I cant remember.

I coloured Halloween Sprite using my set of

Newdoer 160 Ultimate Coloured Pencil Set

(that I bought from Amazon earlier in the year).

I also used a Spectrum Noir Clear Overlay Sparkle

pen on the stars in the image. That set of 3 (all the same) are widely available from craft stores on the

High Street, Superstores or Websites.

I wish to enter this card into the following challenges:

Aurora Wings #72

World Wide Open Design Team #10

The Corrosive Challenge #10

Colour Crazy Craft Challenge #42

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge #402

Animal Friends Challenge #67

Another card for one of my DT's...

Hiya peeps

Todays card is for a new challenge over at

Not Just Cards Challenge Blog

Our challenges are always Anything Goes

so why not give the challenge a go??

The card I made for you is a 15cm square card made using half a 30cm square piece of cardstock from Crafters Companion. Topped that with a odd blue coloured patterned paper cut down to fit the card.

Folded in half then I added the lilac loopy edge

ribbon to go down the card. I then coloured the

digital image from LeAnn's World 101  and shes

called Cindy, isnt she a delight? I matt & layered

her on a lilac card, then a flower with an

emphisised center on each flower patterned

embossed square and then stuck that, at an angle

with foam pads. The final touches were a few drops

of Buttercup coloured Liquid Pearls and then

Liquid Glass on Cindy's eyes and the bubbles

coming out of the bucket.

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

BROWN SUGAR BLOG,#238 - OCTOBER THEME

FABRIKA FANTASY #25 HALLOWEEN

IF YOU GIVE A CRAFTER A COOKIE #104 PHOTO INSPIRATION 
(The title is my link, A witch is associated with
Halloween which is in the Autumn)

WORLD WIDE OPEN DT #10 AG

CREATIVE CRAFT COTTAGES #112 PRETTY PINKS OR HALLOWEEN

COLOUR CRAZY CRAFT #41 AG

WORD ART WEDNESDAY - WK 356/357 Anything Goes

THE CORROSIVE CHALLENGE #10 AG

LEANNS WORLD 101 #7 AG

CRAFTING WITH AN ATTITUDE #44 ALWAYS AG

William K T D: Congratulations!!!

Hiya peeps

Today I would like to show you a
New Baby Boy
boxed card that my best friend &
husband (of 40+ year) middle daughter
(I will call her R for this post),
she received this week.

Its extra large, at just over 9 in x 8.5 in
in white, is a triple fold backward opening card.

The main hand coloured digital image is from the
delightful Di's Digi Designs and the cute,
lovable image of animals (on the inside fold)
is called "Animal Shelf 2" & available here 

I coloured the whole image in using pencil crayons.

I would love to be able to tell you about any
of the dies that I have used on this card & box,
but, honestly, I cant remember!! (I have that
many and dont keep packaging for them)

Blue baby feet sheer & the baby themed shaped ribbons were bought from an old website.
They might be available from elsewhere...

Organza Pale Yellow, Pale Blue (wider) Satin
and the Blue Bay Washing Line ribbons are all
available from Crafty Ribbons here in the 
West Country, England.

All the items used for this card & box
are used from my own stash.

I wish to enter this card into the following challenges:

Di's Digi Design Challenge Blog - #For the Boys 

World Wide Open DT Challenge #09 Anything Goes

613 Avenue #213 Anything Goes optional twist Clean & Simple

Create & Inspire #77 Anything Goes or Inspired By A Song

Cute Card Thursday #550 Anything Goes

Morgan's ArtWorld Open Challenge #10 Anything Goes


Crafty Sentiments Designs - AG

Next project for a DT.....

Hiya peeps

Todays card is my DT card for the

Creatalicious Challenge Blog #148

end of September competition. As our theme

this time ANYTHING GOES with optional use texture,

I added 4 different items on to this project to give the

"Texture" option part of our challenge. These textures are

explained as you continue to read through this post.

The card measures 22.5cm x 21cm (8.75in x 8.24in approx)

and is made using 2 x A4 sheets of linen effect white 255gsm

brought from my favourite cardstock website Papermill Direct

located in the Lake District. 

I coloured the gorgeous digital image from Mari Digis Store

  called Mermaid and her horse thats according to Google

Translation that is!, with pencil crayons and added Liquid Glass to her eyes, the seahorse's eyes and all the bubbles. 

****Oh, I do apologise, sincerely, I published this post without double checking and realised that I hadnt finished writing it****
I put that to one side whilst I created the card base, the matt & layering, and adding some of the texture with a lime green "spiders web" netting that I brought from a well known shopping channel for craft stash, added a width of white lace, 
stuck down a strip of blue satin and added a thinner strip of pink ribbon. I still decided that it needed something else....
So it was then time to add pearl effect squares with pearl effect center. i did carefully measure the length of embellishment that I needed to give the 2 small rows of 6 for each side. The final piece of ribbon was the wide seahorse & sea bed that was stuck down to each side. The large round circle in the top left hand

side is a "hammered" effect clear crystal sparklies of 14mm width, available from a wonderful website called The Ribbon Girl. 

I wish to enter this card into the following challenges:

Aurora Wings #71 Inspired By Music - The Beautiful Briny from Bedknobs and Broomsticks

World Wide Open DT #09 - AG

Foxy....

Hiya peeps

Todays card is a project I made this week

to enter in to some blog challenges. I also

wanted to let you know what Im up to when

Im not blogging about my DT projects.

The delightful image in this card is called a Pawfect Day from Tiddly Inks

The card is a standard 15x15cm (6x6 inch) and was made from a slightly embossed card which has a beautiful sheen when in a certain light, (unfortunately

I dont remember where I brought this cardstock from). I added a light piece of beige coloured same

cardstock then topped it with a piece of patterned

paper with large flowers, branches and birds (of which you cant see). I added the piece of vintage cream lace,

added the pencil crayon coloured image, which was matted on to a piece of gold sheen cardstock and

foam pads. The paw prints and sentiment (sentiment

of which I had added a red colour on to the word

"b-day"), are from the same image set from Tiddly Inks. The large round circle in the top left hand

side is a "hammered" effect clear crystal

sparklies of 14mm width, available from a wonderful website called The Ribbon Girl. 

I wish to enter this card into the following challenges:

Tiddly Inks #217 Boys, Boys, Boys

World Wide Open DT #09 Anything Goes

Creative Craft Cottage #111 Ribbon and/or Lace

Pammie's Inky Pinkies #1838 Anything Goes

Crafting With Friends #73 Anything Goes

Pixies Snippets Playground #335 Anything Goes

Di's Digi Designs #For The Boys

Addicted To Stamps and More! #312 Make Your Mark