cardmadfairy's digi days ~ include an animal

Its that time again over at cardmadfairy's digi days and we have a new challenge and its a nice easy one for you all.....

Include an Animal

please just use an animal on your project and dont forget we are a digi challenge blog so you MUST use digi's

we are being sponsored by pink gem designs for this challenge which is run by janet, she has a fabby website where she sells her own stamps and of course many other crafty stash as well.

here is my card using Morris the cat i chose to make an easel card using my very neglected pets dovecraft papers, and added a lovely fishy charm and some fabric flowers, the sentiment was sent from a friend and not sure who's it is sorry, i got the lace form bunny zoe's crafts its amazing stuff,

Isnt he a cutie

Challenges entered

Cute card thursday - lace
Charisma - all about flowers

Simon says stamp - stitching

The crafty pad - style of card (2nd)

DDCC #120 - summer fun

Hi there folks sorry this post has gone out a tad bit late !! i still keep getting the time conversions wrong lol,

Over at DDCC we have a new and fun challenge for you, our sketch challenge seemed a little tricky for alot of you so i hope this one is easier,

Our new challenge is ....

SUMMERFUN

so interpret that as you wish,

This card is using a digi from di's digi downloads who is our sponsor for this challenge, she has alot of fabulously cute images over there and very reasonably priced too,This card was made as an extra and the image is actually an old wooden backed stamp im not sure of brand im afraid,hope to see you there guys x

smell the flowers

Dont you just love the Some odd girl digi's and stamps !! i sure do, here is one of theirs ive used on my card today,Ive used pale and pastel colours on this card so that the eye goes straight to the image, did it work lol,

I left it plain as if im honest i wasnt sure what wlse to do with it!!!!

recipe*
K an co papers
green card stock
some odd girl digi
scallop and plain nestie ovals
vine deep edge border punch from martha stewart
ivory ribbon
craftwork cards sentiment
promarkers and
glossy accents for flowers
6x6 in blank

for a simple card there are lots of stuff on it lol

Challenges **
Penny's - happy birthday
I love promarkers - clean and simple
Papertake - anything goes (2nd)
Allsorts - free and easy

Today has been a long day, ive had to wait in for all my decking to be delivered all £800 of it :-o
and yep still not here yet,

Goth girl

Here is todays offering for you, i went with the gothic look for this one, well i tried to anyway lol, kept it 2 silver/black and purple,

i bought this digi from delicious doodles over at stitchy about a month ago and i love her, i think she is stunning! what do you think?

I left her uncoloured as she is perfect just as she is !!To make this card i used

all dressed up dcwv matt stack

silver card candy

white and purple ribbon

computer generated text

delicious doodles digi via stitchy bear designs

silver twine

oval plain and scalloped nesties

silver paper

purple card stock

stickles

7x5 in card blank

black button

Id very much like to enter her into a few fabby challenges

Fab n funky - Purple haze
Crafts and me - fave stamp or digi (she is fairly new but i lurve her)

The crafty pad - particular style of card ( i chose easel)

Papertake - anything goes

Digital tuesdays - bling it up

Crafts your passion - anything goes (2nd entry)

Dream valley - ribbon

osaat - use a digi

I hope you like what you see, i was fairly pleased with this one when finished.

hope everyone is having a lovely wednesday, ive just come back from a friends after havin a brekkie bacon cob yummy.

Pretty blossoms

Ok guys here we go with the first challenge over at our new digs, we have had to start from scratch due to some nasty folk messing with the original one,

we are being sponsored by meljens designs and lily of the valley

thankyou guys for continuing to sponsor us we appreciate it,


Our new challenge is

PRETTY BLOSSOMS
here is my card for this challenge using a meljens fabby image

Here is our new banner please feel free to take it an pop it on your blog

challenges i would like to enter into are:

1. craft your passions away - Anything goes
2. C.R.A.F.T - Gardening
3. Secret crafter - here comes summer

4. Allsorts - free and easy
5. Stamp something - digi day

6. Alphabet challenge - I for insect

So pop over to here and save our new deets an delete old blog please xxx

creative craft challenges - IMPORTANT

Just a reminder folks that creative craft challenges has moved to new digs, so please pop over here and have a nosey round,

our new challenge goes live tomorrow.

we would love you to become a follower and pass on the word,

thanks guys

The new creative craft challenges

Many of you may well have heard about the trouble we have had over at our original challenge blog? some blighter has been deleting all our posts so i have moved us over to new lodgings,

our new location is HERE and i would love for you to pop over take a look and become a fllower and also if im not asking too much already lol, do a blog post for us with our new link in it,

thanks so much in advance guys xxx

DDCC #119 - A sketch for you

Kelly has been havin blogger problems today and yesterday so our challenge over at DDCC has gone out a bit late guys !!!!!blogger is being such a pain at the mo and im thinking there is just too much traffic for it to cope with ??

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Anyway onto our current challenge then i guess and we have a fabby sketch for you,

please remember though that you can only combine with upto 5 other challenges to be elligible to win our prize,

XX HERE IS OUR SKETCH XX

And we are being sponsored by the great stamping boutique why not pop over and have a look at the DT takes on the sketch and who won our last CAS challenge, you never know it could be you !!!

woyww 108

You may wish to look away !!!!!!!! the mess that you are going to see you may never be able to forget lol, now im not lucky enought to have a craft room but i do possess a corner of our bedroom much to hubby's dismay,I thought id share this wityh you on WOYWW 108 there are lots of boxes/drawers etc but still i cant stay tidy lol

Here is the carnage of my latest crafting moments !!! I tend to leave drawers open so i can find my stuff easier lol, believe it or not im actually quite organised !!!!
Here is my work desk, ive been colouring in a fab some odd girl digi and popped my fave essential on there "glossy accents" ready to use on an ordered card,
if you can see it just in the corner there is an old spice rack which houses all my buttons in colour coordinated bottles

As you can see everything is all over the place at the mo, i have had few new bits an pieces of late and im still awaiting some new stamps and storage etc to be delivered form 3 or 4 different places lol, dont worry ive been ebaying to make some pennies to spend,
know i now my space isnt very inspiring but i thought id share as i havent done do for quite a while !!!

hugs xxx

No cracks about your age .......promise

Yep thats the name of this card lol

I got a massive deal on ebay a while ago, which consited of about 32 of these fabulous stamps and sentiments, for a mere £15, all the charachters and text as well !!!!!!

I love humourous cards dont you ???

I used glitter card on this which ive had for what seems an age and not used any of it for about 12 months !!!!!! I also ised my retro paper stack from papermania another thing ive not used much for a while,

i was in the mood to use up some old stuff aith my new stamps

Im not sure about colour combo though ?

Challenges

Sunday sketch and stamp - the sketch

Secret crafter sat chall - embossing

Ces - anything but square

I love promarkers - anything goes

Cards for men - stars

A special card for sis

Here is the card i made for my mum to give my sister, my mum has a big thing for easel cards, pretty much all the ones she asks for are easel lol,

For something a little different spin i chose to make the 21 out of buttons, so i gathered all my various sizes and shade blue buttons,

Frontal viewI added some prima flowers and some stickles along with swiss dots satin ribbon and that pretty much makes it,
Challenges

Alphabet challenge - half a dozen (6 flowers)

Daring cardmakers - something old something new......(old labels nestie,new ribbon, blue is obvious lol and borrowed im afraid i couldnt manage,hope it still counts)

Charisma - white plus 1 (blue)

Creative belli - G for.....(glitter)

Southern girls - anything goes

CYDA - monochrome (shades of blue)

A taste of the orient

for this fortnights challenge at cardmadfairy.s digi days we are going for a taste of oriental,

i hope your feeling some inspiration guys as this one was a big leap out of my comfort zone lol, of course what helped me a great deal was using another new digi from the fabulous jenny

"AKA the cardmadfairy"

our sponsor for this challenge is little claires, as you probably know they have some fabulous rubber and digi stamps amongst lots of crafty stash neccesities.

Now here is my card
And a proper view from the front, i tried to corrugate some red card and give it a chinese menu look lol, not sure that succeeded, but hey ho.

The recipe for this was fairly simple,

red and black card stock

digi from cardmadfairy

promarkers

black stickles

hand written text

black satin ribbon

martha stewart vine deep edge border punch

brad
7x5 card blank

challenges id like to enter her into are

i love promarkers - anything goes

a spoonful of sugar - ribbon and bows

My first challenge as DT over at dutch dare card challenges how excited am i

A few weeks ago you may remember me announcing that i was lucky enought to be chosen to join dutch dare!!!

well over there we work in weekly teams, so this is my first piece of dt work for them, and the theme is

CAS cards (clean and simple

we are being sponsored by fellow dt member pattie of patties creations and i have used one of her digi images for my card,

the recipe was of course very minimal, i used back to basics papers, a patties digi, some purple gems a little organza and job done,

i hope to see you there,

pretty in pink

It was my sisters 21st birthday the other day and i worked like a dog to make her a pretty card, i wanted to make something as a keepsake, so i did one of my fave colour combo's...pink/brown,

Everything is pretty much those colours, even my stamped image, isnt she funky? she is from dimensions forth and was a mere £3.99 unbelievable!!!!

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I made a twisted easel card with lots and lots of stickles as per my usual design lol, i just love how it shines without all the mess,

Here is a closer view of it !!I used alot of my fave stash on this seeing as it was my baby sister it was for lol,

Recipe**

Cupcake papers

pink card stock

silky flowers

card candy

stamp dimensions forth

stickles

promarkers

pink satin ribbon

whimsy stamp tag/ticket set

oval plain and scallop nesties

6x6 card blank

computer generated text

I hope you like what i did with it, im pleased to say linda loved it.

Challenges entered**

I love promarkers - anything goes

Crafty creations - let it shine

A spoonful of sugar - ribbons and bows

Stamp something - pretty papers

The poodle parlour - anything goes

creative craft challenges has a new challenge

Good morning folks, after our last challenge dissappearing !!!!! we are back on track with a new challenge and hope you pop by to join us?

we are looking for make your own backing papers, so no designer or digital papers please,

here is a card i made using the cuttlebug embossing folder, and the some odd girl digi from one of our sponsors, she is called mamma mae isnt she lovely,

Id like to enter this card into the crafty pads challenge something new, ive gone with new baby if you couldnt tell lol.

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And here is a card made using rainbow studios stamps for the backing paper, these are a new sponsor for us at creative craft challenges and have lots of lovely things over on thier site.

the shaped cardblank is from which craft
and this card qualifies for
a spoonful of sugar - ribbons and bows
and
crafty catz - fancy folds

hope you like my cards x

Super Dad

My 2 boys alex(5) and kyle(2) have a massive thing for super heroes...spiderman/superman/incredibles even inspector gadget lol....you name em they love em lol, so this digi was perfect for thier fathers day card,

He is fab isnt he he is called heroman

The recipe for this card was very simple i used red card stock and grey pearlised paper,grey/silver ribbon, my stickles of course as no card is complete without my stardust stickles lol, i think i use it on everything lol, ive also used those grey star brads but i cant remember the brand of those sorry, then my parisian border punch
the sentiment is a sticker i got from pda craft warehpouse in langleymill,

Challenges

One stop craft challenges - stick it

Incy wincy - fathers day / masculine

DYSU - stars

Totally papercrafts - die cuts and punches (i used punches)
Just add ink - colouring in

Crafty sentiments - father day

Creative card crew - ribbon and brads

Papertake - dads and lads

Pear tree - fathers day

A CAS card for a fella

When i went to craft central they were selling off loads of die cut decoupage sheets really cheap, well as i havent always time to put a card together and dont like dodgy rush jobs too much, i thought perfect,I added some dovecraft papers,brown satin ribbon and a craftwork cards sentiment, and drew out a tag and bobs ya uncle, well not mine but someones lol

Id like to enter this into a few challenges if i may:

Incy wincy - fathers day/masculine

OOh la la - fathers day/special man (father in law)

Cupcake craft challenges - boy oh boy oh boy

The stamp man - boys and men

Little claires - cards for men

Secret crafter - male cards

Fussy and fancy - card for man or boy

Hope you like it i know its plain but its meant to be lol watch this space for more cards today and tomorrow xxx