Crafters Companion Challenge: Halfway reminder & A-May-Zing CD Launch! Sneak Peeks Day 3!

Hiya! I'm back again with some more cards!
Firstly for this months Crafters Companion Monthly Challenge halfway reminder. This months challenge is Four Legged Friends! You don't need to use Crafters Companion products to win but if you do you'll be entered into the draw twice to win a £30 voucher to spend on the CC Website!
Here is my card, it's made using one of the Benjamin Bunny stamps from last months release coloured with pencils. A simple layout, bit of embossing and I'm done! Not sure why I didn't add a sentiment though - never mind!

Challenges;
Paper Sundaes - Anything Goes
Cards for Men - Spring Colours
Paper Pretties - 3 or more layers & Wet/Dry embossing
Secret Crafter - Mens card
Supplies;

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My next lot of cards are for the upcoming collaboration launch between Crafters Companion and Nigel May! He's designed a new craft CD called All Kinds of Everything! I've been working on a project to hopefully show off all the lovely elements on the CD and I'm going to show you a little bit of it everyday until the launch on Thursday 19th April at 9pm.

To make it a bit more exciting, any comments you may wish to leave me will enter you into a draw to win a signed photo of Nigel! I'll announce a winner from all the comments on my A-May-Zing posts left before Weds 18th at 9pm, on my last Sneak Peek post on Thursday morning, if that makes sense! There's also a chance to win the CD itself over on the CC Blog!
Here's the next 3 cards I've made. It's a set of 12 cards for all occasions that can be given as a gift. I wanted them to be fairly clean & simple to show this CD can be for beginners as well. I also needed the cards to be quite flat, you'll see why on Thursday! Every card has a matching envelope and insert, all from the CD.

Todays set of 3 is for Mums and Babies!

The idea behind this set was to have a card ready for almost all events that might pop up in a year and babies are often one of them (I have a new niece or nephew coming in 7 weeks!!!) Firstly a Baby Girl card, these little images are so sweet! I added a cloud effect border, some little ribbons and those bows are also from the CD - very lifelike!
I'd like to enter this for Stamp with Fun - Favourite Colours

You can't be prepared with a baby card unless you have a card for each flavour! So here's the boy version! I wanted to use the same layout but added stars instead of hearts - still cute!
I'm entering this into Colour Create - Yellow, Blue & White

Last but now least is a card for the lovely ladies that have these babies! I LOVE this image and the backing paper to go with it, I can definitely see myself using this alot! The paper, topper, button and sentiment banner are all from the CD.
I'm putting this in for Crazy 4 Challenges - Buttons

Thanks for looking, I'll be back same time tomorrow!

60th Birthday Card!

Afternoon all! Just popped on to show you the card I've made for my Auntie's 60th Birthday in a few weeks, it's going to be passed around so all the cousins can sign it so I've had to be organised for once! I absolutely adore these papers but have just gazed at them til now! I thought they went quite well with a spare bit of fabric I had left from some trousers I made shorter - I'm only 5'3 so this tends to happen a lot! ;-) So I made a little shabby fabric flower from them, some felt and a brad I had in my stash but can't for the life of me remember where it's from - sorry! Thanks for looking!

Ooh, and incase you didn't see, I've decided to open a little Etsy shop, not sure how much will sell but I'll never know if I don't try - plus I need more room and money for stash! Hee hee! Bye for now!

Challenges;
My Favourite Things - This sketch -->
Daring Cardmakers - Material Girl
The Shabby Tea Room - Homegrown Flowers
Allsorts - Photo Inspiration
Papertake - Anything Goes
Stamp with Fun - No Easter cards

Supplies;

Paintbox Poppets Sneaky Peaks! Day 2!

Hello again! We're onto day 2 of a week of Crafters Companion pre-launch sneak peaks before the Create & Craft Pick of the Week launch on friday! And here is my card for today! I've used this gorgeous little image of a girl making a daisy chain with her kitten - if that was anything like my kitten, she'd be shredding it up!! The papers are from the Paintbox Poppets CD, image and sentiment from the new stamp sets and the little hearts making the flower centres are using the fab Epiphany tool! It's quite a big card for me, almost A5! But I wanted to show off these papers and I thought it would make a nice springtime, Mothers Day card!

All this week, every comment left on any of our sneaky peak posts will be entered into a draw to win a copy of the Paintbox Poppets CD Rom, not just one though, each design team blog will be giving one away! Winners will be announced on Friday morning at 10am! Everytime you leave a comment is one entry so if you comment everyday, that's 5 chances to win! Good luck!

I hope you like it and thanks for looking! I'll be back later with another card! xx

Challenges;
Stamp with Fun - Pink & Green
PaperPlay - Something Old & New (new image & papers, old punches)
Cute Card Thursday - Signs of Spring

Supplies;

Baby cards!

Hello! Just a quickie post, I've got tonnes to do today! It's to show these little baby cards I've made using MFT Notched Tag Die-namics. I'll add the rest of the details later - bye for now! :-)

Less is More - Die cuts or punches
Stamp with Fun - Shapes
Allsorts - Anything Goes
Die-ing for a Challenge - Anything goes (using die cuts)

Beau-Tea-ful day!

Hello and Happy Monday! I've quickly popped on to show you this card I made at the weekend, I think I'm going to give it to Jamie's mum for her birthday at the weekend but I'm not sure it's 'her' so I may make another one! I'm loving my die-cuts at the moment, especially these cute MFT ones! I made the sentiment on my pc then printed onto Safmat film. I stuck the film over the whole panel instead of just cutting around the sentiment as I thought it would show, I'm glad I did as it gives the pink panel a lovely sheen! I hope you like it, thanks for looking!

Here's the challenges;
My Favourite Things - this sketch -->
Stamp with Fun - Cute Vintage
Colour Create - Pink, Green & optional extra Handmade flowers
Daring Cardmakers - Kitchen-alia
Winter Wonderland - Easel card

Penny Black Saturday #176!

Good morning! I hope you're all well! It's time for this weeks Penny Black Saturday challenge and today is the first of a month of Christmas challenges. To kick things off, the theme this week is Silver and Snowflakes/Snow. It doesn't need to be totally silver, just prominent.
We're sponsored this week by 2 fab companies: The Ribbon Girl with a gorgeous bundle of ribbons and Penny Black Inc with 2 fantastic stamps!
Here's my card using a new Christmas stamp I bought, I thought it would be great for winter birthdays too. The pink snowy paper is a digi one printed onto shimmery paper, and the grey card is the same so looks quite silvery, I hope it shows in the last picture.
Thanks for looking! Have a great weekend!

Here's the challenges I'm entering this into:
Sketch and Stash Challenge - this sketch (this stamp is a newbie!)
Stamp with Fun - Buttons
Papertake - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp - Buttons
PaperPlay - Button Up

Truly Scrumptious #66!

Good morning! Welcome to another Truly Scrumptious challenge! I can't believe 2 weeks have flown by already! This time the theme was mine to choose, and I've gone for Clean & Simple - then my mind went blank! But I decided to make a fun little Halloween card, they're the only kind of card that I make just for fun - and I love them! I've made it from more digi bits, even though I should probably be using up some of the tonnes of stash I own! I'm not happy with how they've printed though, they don't normally do this so I'm not sure if it's the program I used or my printer, grrr!

These are the other challenges I'd like to enter this card:

Clean & Simple - this sketch

Crazy 4 Challenges - Pumpkins

Totally Gorjuss - Anything but square

Cute Card Thursday - Anything Goes

Stamp with Fun - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies-

Image & papers - Pink Petticoat 'Spookie Doodlies' & 'Woodgrain' in Tangerine

Ribbon - from a bag of meringues!!

Sentiment - Personal Impressions

Pearls - Kanban

A digi thank you!

Hello all! I hope you're having a good tuesday - whatever that may be! I've just popped on to show you a little thank you card I've made. It's a bit of a 'CASE' card as I always love the cards Lucy Abrams makes so I thought I'd take a leaf out of her book and play with the many (many...many) digi bits and bobs I've collected over the years! This flower is a digi from Rhonna Farrer @ Two Peas in a Bucket but I think it must be retired as I can't find it anymore. And it's paper pieced onto papers from my joint fave designer Zoe Pearn (along with Pink Petticoat!) Here's the challenge list:
PaperPlay - Punches & dies
Cute Card Thursday - Anything Goes
Creative Inspirations - Anything Goes
Allsorts - Alter/Recycle (the ribbon is from a box of chocolates)
Stamp with Fun - Anything Goes

Thank for looking!

Supplies-

Image - Rhonna Farrer digi stamp

Papers & tag - 'Delightful' by Zoe Pearn

Pearls & ribbon - Stash

Border - X-cut scallop punch

Sentiment - made on the PC

Truly Scrumptious Challenge #64!

Hello! I hope you're all having a lovely week so far! I'm a bit busier than last week so I'm not managing to post or make cards as much :-( Other than that it's ok! I'm back for this fortnights Truly Scrumptious challenge, the theme is Rocked Up Pink! And we're aptly sponsored by Digi's with Attitude!
Here's my card, I wanted to go down the 'rocked up' route so who else other than a Kenny K image! Mixed with some digi papers and voila!

Here's the challenges:
Sketch Saturday - this sketch
Spoonful of Sugar - Happy Birthday
Papertake - Die Cuts
Stamp with Fun - Summer
Kenny K's Krafty Girlz - Layers
Thanks for stopping by, I hope you can join us!

Supplies-

Image - Kenny K 'Troublemaker'

Colouring - Copics

Papers - Summer Driggs 'So this is Love'

Ribbons - stash

Stars - Woodware punches

Sentiment - Daisy Bucket

Gems - birthday stash!