GD Card for Inspirational Card Sketches

Hi everyone,

How are you? I am doing just fine today. Again I will be away for work for the rest of the week so have scheduled this weeks posts. Today is my 3rd week as GD at Inspirational Card sketches, so next week is my last :( I am rather sad as I love following sketches, but don't worry like the rest of you I will participate in the challenges instead. Before I carry on, I just wanted to thank all you lovely people who have left me comments, I really appreciate them all and love reading them all too-Thank you. If you visit my blog, please do leave me a comment so I can hop over to see your work also.

Right onto this weeks card then. The sketch is really simple and I am sure you can use it for many themes. I am short on cards for men so this is what I came up with:

And the artistic shot:

The image is a Cocodingo digital image, my favourite from here range, coloured using Promarkers. The music script I just printed off the Internet and distressed the paper, the embossing was done using the 'Happy Birthday' folder in my cuttlebug and the sentiment is an old Hero Arts. I went over the embossing, sentiment and image with blue chalk to give it a nicer finish. A few gems and there you go, job done.

Right off to schedule some more DT posts, see you soon guys

x x

For Fun Challenges DT card - Colour Challenge

Hi guys,

How you all doing today? Today is officially supposed to by my first DT card for For Fun Challenges, however as you know I have been making DT cards for this challenge since the end of Dec now. I was so excited when I was accepted that my mojo made me participate in every challenge so far lol.

Today we have a colour challenge for you, all you have to do is use 'Black, Purple and Olive'. I must admit I have never made a card using these colours so I was very excited when I saw this. I wasn't quite sure how it would turn out but I am pleased with the outcome. What do you think?

Before I started, one thing I knew for sure was I had to ink up one of my Tilda's. After all those Christmas cards we've all made it feels nice to be making everyday cards again. Well that's what I think anyways lol. The image is Fairy Dust Tilda which I coloured with my Promarkers, I inked the edges of the image and added some glitter to the fairy dust. The flowers and pearls are from a blog candy I won some time ago now. The ribbon is stash. The butterfly border punch is Martha Stewart and the DP is a mixture of different Papermania.

Challenges:

Cupcake Craft: #124 Something New Flowers

Top Tip Tuesday: #17 Anything Goes

Come on, now it's your turn. Let's see what you can come up with using this beautiful colour combo.

Have a magical day everyone

x x x

GD Card for Inspirational Card Sketches

Hi Guys,

How are you all? I am slowly recovering from my bug. I don't think I have ever had the flu but on this occasion I may even say I did :/ The docs said I have a chest, ear, throat and sinus infection. I feel like someone has been kicking my head in all the time, it is so sore. I have never been so down before, I just can't wait to get back to normal. Anyway enough of my moaning. Even though I have been ill, I have been crafting, mainly to distract me and I think in most cases it worked.

Today I am sharing my GD card for ICS. I love how this turned out, what do you think?

The sketch to me was crying out to use the Martha Stewart Garden Trellis punch. I folded the sides behind the image to act as an opening gate, I think this turned out lovely. There are 2 images on this card, both by CC Designs, one is Sweater Brigitta and the other is Field Fence. Both have been coloured with Promarkers. I distressed the edges a little and added a huge flower with a tiny flower in it and a happy birthday sentiment. I am running short on birthday cards after the Christmas rush.

Challenges:

Cupcake Craft: Something New-#124 Stamp and flowers and punch

Top Tip Tuesday: #17 Anything Goes

Right guys, I am off to visit some of your blogs.

Thanks to everyone who takes time to leave me comments, I really appreciate them all x Also I do try and visit everyone who has passed by to see what you have been up to x

Have a nice day x And don't forget to come and play along with us this week at ICS, I'd love to see what you come up with x

An Accordion file project

Hi Guys,

Poorly old me has spent most of the weekend in bed or in my new craft room. Hubby and I spent hours before Christmas cleaning and sprucing up my spare room into a guest/office/craft room. With all the hard work that went into it, I thought I better use it before he changes his mind and decides to turn it into a man's room again lol. I won't go into the details but I bet you can guess what I mean. Anyways one of my New Years resolutions was to try other methods of paper crafting-not just cards. So today I have made an accordion file. I have never made anything like this before so was really pleased with the way it turned out.

This is how it looks on the outside

And this is the inside, lots of storage space.

I have a habit of inking up images and colouring them in while I watch TV etc, so decided to use this to store images in. But I am sure you can find plenty of things to to with it. The size of this file is 4x6', for a tutorial on how to make this really simple project please visit the oh so talented Maria Bell. Also if you are interested, I have been playing around with the dimensions so if you would like to know how to make a larger file, visit me near to the end of the month where I will share this with you as partof one of my DT projects.

Challenges:

Fab 'n' Funky - #54 Anything Goes

Lady Bug Crafts Ink - #9 Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Paper Sundaes - #51 Circles

Creative Inspirations - #50 Something New (new project I have never tried before)

Enjoy the rest of your weekend. I'm off to spend some time with the hubby now before he thinks I've neglected him in my craft room lol xx

Teddy Stampers DT card - Celebrations

Hi all,

How are you today? I am a little sad, I'm in sales so January is a scary time of the year, this is when we get our targets for the year and our figures go back to ZERO!!! How scary is that?

Anyways, on a happier note, today I am sharing my first DT card for Teddy Stampers. How exciting. This fortnight we are being sponsored by Whimsy Stamps so we were given some images to play with. I chose the chilly bear, I flipped one of the bears and balanced a heart on their noses. This card if for my DH, we've been together for 8 years now so I thought I would give him a cute card to celebrate our anniversary. This is just perfect for the occasion. On that note, the challenge at Teddy Stampers is 'Celebrations' As it is for him I couldn't add too many embellishments lol, although I almost did put some flowers on but then it would have turned out too girly lol.

The heart was coloured on the computer. The DPs are Papermania and Dovecraft. The border punch is Martha Stewart. The sentiment is again from the computer. I added some glittery stickers to the corners and a bow as it was lacking some embellishments, I always find cards for men difficult to jazz up but I think this turned out just right.

Right guys, I better be off, we've had 2 solid days of team meetings before the year starts properly so now it's off to get the numbers rolling in. Wish me luck. I will let you know how I get on as the year goes by.

Bye for now, take care everyone xx

For Fun Challenges DT card - Recipe

Hi all,

I'm going to have to make this a quick post. Firstly where have the holidays gone :( It's straight back into work now isn't it? I am away for team meetings with work so I must scoot but before I go I wanted to share my For Fun Challenges card with you:

This week we have a recipe for you to follow, really simple all you need is: 1 image, 2 buttons or brads and 3 DPs. Simple right? So come on over and join in. My image is from Wild Rose Studio-coloured with Promarkers, I love these images, just adorable. The buttons are from stash and the DPs are Dovecraft.

Have a fantastic day all. I will be back soon and will be back to my chatty self, just work calls so I must go today.

Take Care everyone xx

GDT For Inspirational Card Sketches-January

Hi all,

How are you this lovely Tuesday? It's my first day back to work having had almost 2 weeks off. So on a brighter note, I have some fab news to share with you. I applied for the DT for Inspirational Card Sketches, however unfortunately I was unsuccessful. However the lovely Dawn asked if I could be GD for January!!! Obviously I said YES lol, so here is my first GD card for ICS. Hope you like it.

I am trying to make a range of different romantic cards ready for Valentines so here is one design to share with you. Both DPs are from stash, the ribbon is also stash. The sentiment is from Graphicus, I love the font on this stamp. The corners are glittery stickers.

I hope you like this card and more importantly come and join in with this beautiful sketch. I'd love to see what you come up with.

Have a fab day xx