A New Home

Hiya peeps

Today I would like to show you a card that Ive made for my eldest daughter, husband & 2 sons, as they moved from their first flat into a fabulous 3 bedroom house. 

I saw, on the Lili of the Valley website, a wonderful card using the image & I fell in love with it straight away. Its called A New Adventure and its gorgeous. I hope I have done the digi justice with the colouring using pencil crayons and the card I made using it. Its a large 8.5cm square card using a beautiful Spring Green cardstock for the base & I cut the outer edge corners using a basic corner punch. I then cut a piece of "toadstool" ribbon & secured that across the piece of gemstone red card from Crafters Companion, with the corners rounded, then mounted that onto the green base card. After colouring the digi I mounted that onto a piece of black gemstone round cornered card. 

I then cut out the four words "Happy Wonderful New Home" from my own large die cutting collection, stuck them onto the top corners of the white card that I had printed the digi image onto. I then made a ribbon bow using the same toadstool ribbon, which is from a fantastic UK company called Crafty Ribbons. (I used to be on their design team).  The final thing I did was to add the 3 pearls in the top right hand corner. 

I wish to enter this card into the following blog/Facebook challenges:

Crafty Ribbons on Facebook, £15 win 21st June

CCC Digi Creations Challenge

Aud Sentiments Challenge

Die Sketch Taten

Just Us Girls Challenge

613 Avenue Create Challenge

Addicted to Stamps

Crafting By Designs

An elephant never forgets.....

Thats what the saying says anyway!!

I would like to show you a card that I made this month.

Its a 15cm (6 inches) square white card, matted & layered with a lovely red, blue and orange card. The hand coloured digi sits on the orange coloured card. 
The image is from the very talented Di's Digi Stamps and is called "Ellie wrapped with love".
I have quite a collection of Di's digi's and I admire her work. The white/red Organza Swiss Dots ribbon is exclusive to Crafty Ribbons here in the UK. The sentiment is from a set that I have had for a couple
of years now, containing a variety of colours and I believe is from Hunkydory, but I cant remember
where I brought it from (sorry). I have used 3 cutting dies, Tonic Studios - Scalloped Square Layering Die Set - 482e (available from other stores/websites) for the blue and the orange card & white card with the digi image are cut using Spellbinders Nestabilities A2 Curved Rectangle dies (unfortunately these are no longer available from this link even though it does show you the details, they should be available from other stores/websites).
I wish to enter this card in to the following challenges:

CCC Digi Creations #93 - AG

Animal Friends #63 - June - Elephants

613 Avenue Create #210 - AG

Create and Inspire #75

Addicted to Stamps and More #297 - Make Your Mark

Allsorts Challenge #472, Use at least 2 dies

A Facebook & blog challenge card....

Hiya peeps

Today I would like to show you a card that I recently made, using an image from 

Ike's Art of a Panda Bear. It was a freebie from Ike's Facebook page for the monthly challenge. 

As it looked like a Giant Panda, I decided not to colour it in using black & white like you would normally expect, but as I going through google images of Giant Pandas (to see exactly what colour goes where on the animal) and I came across the Red Giant Panda (RGP for quickness whilst typing)! I didnt even realise that they existed. So, after seeing them it instantly made up my mind to use the RGP as inspiration for my colouring. I wanted to be different for this challenge, basically to give me more of a chance of winning.

Oh, Ive also got a new "toy" as such, its a Foldable Laptop Desk Tray from Amazon and, its changed my life of having to sit in bed with my ulcerated leg (one is healed but thats for another post on here).

Anyway, back to the project, heres the finished card:

I would like to enter this in to the following challenges:

Ike's Art Facebook page

Die-Sketch Taten (A german blog)

Cheerful Sketches

June's DT project for.....

NOT JUST CARDS (June 2018)

Blog Challenge

Hiya peeps

Today I would like to show you a recent project 
I made for one of my ex-stepdaughter's, Sanya.

Her Birthday is actually the day after my youngests daughter called Tia.

I used an image, to which I have been told,
is from, possibly, a freebie from
Crafty Sentiments Designs from some while ago. 
That is not to say dont shop with them as their designs are so gorgeous & cute.

The hare pictures (visible on the open cut "steps")
are free from my subscription to Making Cards crafting magazine, which is a monthly inspirational read. 
The card blank is from a large set of variety white ready to use cards with envelopes from
Craftwork Cards website, possibly via Create and Craft (which I dont buy from as a shopping channel anymore).
Everything else used is from my own stash, including the coloured pencil crayons (160 set in plastic carrying case brought from Amazon for under £30) which I used to colour the digi image and more since....

I wish to enter this card into the following blog/Facebook challenges:

Fried Chicken...... Challenge entry

Hiya peeps

Below you will find a funny but kinda cute image from the delightful Bugaboo and its called "Fried Chicken".
The sentiment, pictured immediately above the image, 
is included in the digi (but it is an old image
that I had brought).
Coloured with Graph It Markers, matted
and layered on cardstock brought from
Papermill Direct using dies used from
Spellbinders. The patterned paper and the
trio of stick on pearls are both from
my own stash. 

I wish to enter this card into the following challenges:

Catch The Bug Challenge Blog

Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog

All Dressed Up Blog Challenge Entry...

Hiya peeps

This is a card that I decided to make, using a digi image called "All Dressed Up Christmas" from the fabulous 

ALL DRESSED UP (On Etsy)

The actual card measures 17cmx25.2cm.

I decided to colour the delightful digi in using pencil crayons with the "Happy Christmas" on the Christmas Tree, written, using a pen from a set of Artist Pens.

The dies I used are from Spellbinders, Crafters Companion & Tonic Studios. The embellishments, backing papers & cardstock are all from my own stash.

I wish to enter this card into the following challenges: 

All Dressed Up Blog Challenge

The Holly and The Ivy Christmas AG

A Gem of A Challenge

Tiddly Inks Blog Challenge Entry...

This is a card I made earlier today:

Tiddly Inks

Blog Challenge entry where the theme is

Floral's and Plants.

I decided to use the beautiful digi image called

Poppylicious and was a delight to colour using pencil crayons (which are my preferred method at this present time). I then mounted it onto a rounded edge square die cut from Tonic Studios which has a beautiful diamond border & little holes cut out on all four sides. The sentiment was from my own stash.  The actual card is just a simple 15cmx15cm made from 250gsm smooth white cardstock from Papermill Direct

which is my preferred choice of card for

stamping & printing.

I wish to enter this card into the following challenges:

Tiddly Inks theme: Floral's and Plants

CCC Digi Creations