just a quickie to say...

Today's the day I can officially announce I've been asked to join the team over at AUD Sentiments! I'm so excited and can't wait to get to work for them :) so watch this space...!

CRAFT #100 a Recipe!

Yes you heard correctly, it's our 100th challenge over at CRAFT!! in a few weeks we also have our Blogoversary coming up so be sure to take part in the exciting stuff we have planned for you!

Back to today though, for this weeks challenge we want you to use a recipe of: Ribbon, Tag, 2 Squares and a Circle. I've used this cute image by Lia Stamps called Possie, coloured with Promarkers.

The paper is from Dovecraft Back to Basics range, and the tag is made with a die which I think is sizzix. I've used Cuttlebug Swiss dots embossing folder on the purple card. The gems and ribbon are from stash and the sentiment is a stamp by Personal Impressions. I've added a touch of stickles to the umbrella for some sparkle!

Thanks for stopping by :)

Wednesday
Amber's Crafts and Stuff - 1/1 - use a digi
Simon Says Stamp - anything goes plus blog hop
Tuesday
Partytime Tuesdays - 1/2 - Anything Goes
The Stamping Boutique - 1/3 - Winged Things
Monday
Stamping Scrapping Central - 1/1 - Anything Goes
Sunday
Corrosive Challenges - 1/2 - Animals
Creative Inspirations - use a Digi.
Sparkles Forum - Anything goes.
Saturday
Allsorts - 1/1 - April Showers
Crafty Emma - Spring Colours/Images

Creations by Gill M - Birds in Your Garden 

Little Claire's  - 1/3 - Animals

Stamp, Scrap and Doodle - Add A Tag to your Project

Totally Gorjuss -  Bling it On

Friday

Card Makin' Mamas - 1/2 - Spring colours.
Delicious Doodles - 3/3 - Anything goes.
Fabulous Friday - Birds and/or butterflies.
Fairy Fun Fridays - April showers bring May flowers (showers or flowers).

IDIC - A recipe!

Happy Easter everyone! Hope you're all having a nice Bank Holiday weekend! This week at I Did It Creations, we have a lovely receipt for you to follow! We want to see 1 image, 2 Papers, and 3 embellishments!

Our lovely sponsor this week is Sylvies stamps, and I got to play with this lovely Kokeshi Dolls image for my project!

I've used Acetate for the front panel of this card, together with two papers from the Dovecraft Eastern Promise paper collection. The image is coloured with Promarkers, as usual! I've used a stamp by Fiskars for the greeting, which is cut with Nestabilities labels 7 along with the paper underneath it. I've inked around the edges of the papers with Antique Linen Distress ink. The ribbons are from stash, (red underneath and gold stripey on top) the tree branch is a Sizzix Die, and the little blossoms on the branch are made with an x-cut punch.

Thanks for visiting :)

Sunday

Card Cupids - use Punches

Creative Inspirations - use a Digi.

Pile It On - 2 or more ribbons

Sentimental Sundays - Lots of Punches

Sparkles Forum - Anything goes.  

Friday

Delicious Doodles - 2/3 - Anything goes.

Digi's With Attitude! - Asian.

Fairy Fun Fridays - April showers bring May flowers (showers or flowers).

Thursday

Aud Sentiments Challenge - Anything goes.

Shelly's Images - Show us what you got.

Wednesday

I Love Promarkers - Must use Promarkers - anything goes

Truly Scrumptious - vintage

Tuesday

A Spoonful Of Sugar - 1/1 - Lets Celebrate

Creative Craft Challenges - 2/3 - Embossing

Digital Tuesday - include a digital element - Pretty Punches

Going Grey With Scrap-Creations - 2/2 - Digital Image

Monday
Simon Says Stamp and Show... - A Tim Holtz Technique

Stamp with Fun - Birthday

Tatty Ted

I went to my local garden centre yesterday and was so excited when I found they had lots of the new Tatty Ted range in stock! I bought a stamp and some papers (I already have some stamps on the way via internet) but couldnt resist this little guy!! I've added touches of colour to him with Promarkers and inked aroud the image and the paper with Tumbled Glass Distress Ink. The greeting is a Personal Impressions stamp and the ribbon and gems are from stash.

Thanks for visiting!

Friday

Delicious Doodles - 1/3 - Anything goes.

Inspire Me Fridays - Anything goes

Thursday

Aud Sentiments Challenge - Anything goes.

Meljens Designs - Masculine.

Wednesday

Amber's Crafts and Stuff -1/1 - ribbons and bows

I Love Promarkers - Must use Promarkers - anything goes

Monday

Ooh La La Creations - Aqua, Bling and a Sentiment

Simon Says Stamp and Show... - A Tim Holtz Technique

There She Goes - Monochromatic

Sunday
Card Cupids - Pastels.
Pile It On - Use a rubber stamp (no digis)

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge #99 - Flowers

Flowers are our Theme for this weeks CRAFT Challenge, and we are sponsored by the lovely folks at Some Odd Girl and  Bows and Berries Digital Stamps.

I've used peel off's and Mirror card to create this clean looking card.

I've used:

Silver Mirror Card, White Flower Peel Off's,

Sizzix flourish dies and scalloped circle nesties,

Spellbinders Impressabilities embossing folder,

LOTV stamp and X-cut circle punch.

Simon Says Stamp - embossing

Claudia & Co - 1/1 - Clean & Simple

Creative Craft Challenges - 2/3 - Embossing

Totally Gorjuss -  No Patterned Paper
Aud Sentiments Challenge - Anything goes.
Shelly's Images - Show us what you got.

DS4J - Pearls and Swirls

Hi all, it's time for another challenge at Digistamps 4 joy! This fortnight, we want to see Pearls and Swirls on your creations!

I've used this gorgeous daffodil digi stamp which you can get from the Digistamps 4 Joy shop.

I've used:

Promarkers, Scalloped Square Nesties,

Distress Inkpad in Scattered straw,

Basic Grey papers, Divine Swirls embossing folder,

Stickles, Pearls and a stamp for the Greeting.

Wednesday

Creative Card Crew - Spring
I Love Promarkers - Must use Promarkers - anything goes
My Mum's Craft shop - 1/3 - glitter
Penny's Paper-Crafty - Easter
Simon Says Stamp - embossing
Sisterhood of Crafters - 1/3 - Easter

Tuesday

Creative Craft Challenges - 1/3 - Embossing

Everybody-Art-Challenge - Pearls

Going Grey With Scrap-Creations - 1/2 - Digital Image

Monday

Die Cut Dreams - Easter

Incy Wincy Designs - Bright and Bold

Simon Says Stamp and Show... - A Tim Holtz Technique

Stamp-N-Doodle - Easter

Woodware USA - 2/2- Die Cuts/Punches

Sunday

Crafty Pad - Easter.
Creative Inspirations - Easter.
Dream Valley Challenges - 2/3 - Easter
Scrappy Frogs - Happy Easter
Sentimental Sundays - Celebrate Easter
Sparkles Forum - Easter.  

Saturday

A Gem of a Challenge - Pearls and/or swirls 

Catch The Bug - 2/3 - Easter

Craft Your Days Away  - Easter

ECP Challenges - Easter

Friday

Digi's With Attitude! - Spring has sprung

Stamp Man - 1/1 - Embossing.

Totally Papercrafts - Springtime.

Dreamweaver tree stencil

I finally got round to using one of my new Dreamwaver stencils...not with the Embossing paste I bought it with though! I'm not quite brave enough to try that yet in case it goes horrible wrong, so I inked through the stencil with black ink onto card instead. I then added stickles to each of the dotty leaves, I think it has a fab effect. You could use gems too...if you want to use that many up on one card!

I've used:

Dreamweaver stencil and DI ink Black Soot

Personal Impressions greeting stamp.

Laurence Lewellen Bowen papers

Ribbon, stickles and black gems from stash.

Ladybug Crafts Ink TLT Challenge - 1/1- Anything Goes

Magical Mondays - Monochromatic

Stamp Fairy - For the Girls with a Sentiment

Stamp with Fun - Birthday

There She Goes - Monochromatic

Our Daily Bread Designs - 1/1- No Colouring

Sugar Creek Hollow  - 1/3- Monochromatic

Raise The Bar - Tree-mendous (include trees).

Aud Sentiments Challenge -  Anything goes.

Fab 'n' Funky - 1/1, C10 - spotty and dotty

How much is that doggy in the hole?

This is a card I managaed to make by 'accident' a few weeks ago, when I was following completely the wrong theme and sponsor for a DT challenge project...I'm still not sure how it happened but thought I may as well share the card!

Image: Meljens coloured with Promarkers.

Textured card: Papermania Capsule collection

Punches: Corner rounder and X Cut punch

Card Candy: Craftwork Cards

Sentiment: Personal Impressions stamp

Tweedy ribbon: Stash

Monday

Bunny Zoe's Crafts - 1/1 - One for the Boys

Crafty Cardmakers Spotlight Challenge - C10 - for teenage boys

Incy Wincy Designs - Bright and Bold

Simon Says Stamp and Show... - A Tim Holtz Technique

Stamp with Fun - Birthday

Woodware USA - 1/2- Die Cuts/Punches

Saturday

Card Ideas - 1/3- Let's Hear It For the Guys 

Little Claire's  - 1/3- Animals

Totally Gorjuss -  No Patterned Paper

Friday

Crafty Catz - 1/1-  Furry friends.

Fussy and Fancy - Card for a child.

Thursday

AiFactory - 1/1: Party animal (include an animal).

Aud Sentiments Challenge -  Anything goes.

Pixie Dust Studio - Say it out loud (include a sentiment).

Some Odd Girl - CAS.

Wednesday

Simon Says Stamp - Card for a child

Tuesday

Paper Take Weekly -  Dimension somewhere On Your Card

IDIC #51 - Easter

Another Sunday, another challenge at I Did it Creations! This week we are sponsored by the one and only Robyns Fetish, and we want to see your Easter creations!

I've used this beautiful Easter egg digi stamp, coloured with Promarkers. I've used Go Kreate ovals and Scalloped Ovals to layer up the image, and papers from the Papermania Birds and Butterflies paper pack. The flat backed pearls are from stash, and I've added some glitter to the flower on the egg to give a bit of sparkle :) The sentiment is a stamp.

Thanks for visiting!

Saturday

Sunday

Card Cupids - Pastels.

Crafty Pad - Easter.

Creative Inspirations Paint - 1/1 - Eggs.

Dream Valley Challenges - 1/3 - Easter

Scrappy Frogs - Happy Easter

Sentimental Sundays - Celebrate Easter

Sparkles Forum - Easter.  

Catch The Bug - 1/3 - Easter

Craft Your Days Away  - Easter

ECP Challenges - Easter

Shannon's Sentiments  - Easter

Friday

Fairy Knoll - 1/2- Eggs or ovals.

Inspire Me Fridays - Anything goes

Simply Create - Eggstra special (all about eggs).

Tellen's Place - 1/1- Easter

Thursday

Aud Sentiments Challenge -  Anything goes.

Delightful Challenges - 1/1- Easter.

Digi Doodle Shop's Best - Stripes (on the egg)

Do You Stack Up? - 2/3 - Scallops.

Some Odd Girl - CAS.

Wednesday

Penny's Paper-Crafty - Easter

Sisterhood of Crafters - 2/3- Easter

Tuesday

Anita Be Stampin' - Anything Goes

Paper Take Weekly -  Dimension somewhere On Your Card

Monday

Die Cut Dreams - Easter

Ooh La La Creations  - Happy Easter

Pink Elephant - Easter

Pollycraft - Easter

Some Exciting News!..

...which is that I've been asked to join the Gingerloft DT! how flattered am I? Well very :) They have such gorgeous images which I am so excited to play with!

This week a new challenge is starting which is a Sketch

I've used this gorgeous image called Flowering Tree by Gingerloft 

What I've used:

Promarkers and Whispers pens.

Papers: Papermania Pampered Pets pad.

Go Kreate Oval and Scalloped Oval Dies. Sizzix Corner die.

DI Inkpad in Tumbled Glass and brown Versamark Dewdop Inkpad.

Punches from EK success, MS and X-cut.

Tsukineko Shimmer Mist.

Personal Impressions Stamp.

Ribbon, gems, glitter and foam pads from stash.

Thanks for visiting :)

Sunday
Card Cupids - Pastels.
Kenny K Krafty Girlz - 1/1 - Anything goes.
Quirky Crafts - Sparkly, Punchy Easter/Spring.
Saturday
A Gem of a Challenge - Pearls and/or swirls (swirly corners)

Friday

Digi's With Attitude! - Spring has sprung.
Fabulous Friday - Homemade/handmade embellishment.(flower)
 Inspire Me Fridays - Anything goes
Raise The Bar - Tree-mendous (include trees).
Totally Papercrafts - Springtime.
Thursday
Aud Sentiments Challenge -  Anything goes.
Do You Stack Up? - 1/3 - Scallops.
Little Miss Muffet Challenges - 1/1-  Glitter & shine.
Pals Paper Arts - Use flowers.
Paper Crafting Journey - 1/1 - Use a freebie (image as part of DT)
Paper Romance - Paper flowers.
Pixie Dust Studio - Say it out loud (include a sentiment).
Rainbow Lady's - 1/2 - Springtime .
Sassy Studio Designs - Spring theme.
Stamp Insanity - Flower power.
Wednesday
Crafts and Me - Ribbon
Creative Card Crew - Spring
Tuesday
Anita Be Stampin' - Anything Goes
Flourishes -  Flowers, flowers everywhere
Ladybug Crafts Ink TLT Challenge - 1/1 - Celebration
Paper Take Weekly -  Dimension somewhere On Your Card
Tuesday Throwdown - Sparkle & Bling
Monday
My Partner in Crafting Crime - Layer it up

Yet more new stash...

Ok, so I have a serious stash buying problem... but come on, when you're on holiday in the US it's crazy not to buy as much as you can pack! Some of the prices over there are just insane, plus there are coupons to be had online which save you even more. I think if I lived over there I would spend more time shopping for stash then I do actually crafting! (whats that you say, I already seem to do that? hmm...!)

So here's some pics for you to feast your eyes on of my most recent haul:

A selection of paper pads, I love the designs on the MAMBI one, I think I'm going to find it veyr hard to use those ones!

Punches from MS and EK Success

Embossing folders

Nesties! These retail over there at about $26 per set which is about £16, so I made sure to use my 40% off coupons on those which brought the price down to about £9.50.  Also some sizzix dies.

Just a few stamps...

Some basics. I love the MS Bone folder which hasnt come out in the pic too well... its pink with darker pink swirls and gems...I just HAD to have it lol ;) The other exciting things in this pic are some Tim Holtz glass fragments, silver foil leaf ribbon, and Tsukineko shimmer mists, I've already used one of these and the colour and shimmer intensity I got is so much better than the Glimmer mists I already have.

Stickers and rub ons... just because! 

The Prismas were all on offer at 50% off so I took my opportunity to get a set. Never used them before but I've seen other people get beautiful results from them... I just need to learn how to use them myself now! lol :)

and I couldnt go all that way and not get some lovely beads to play with!

Now watch this space...!

Charisma #15 - Pink, Green and Black

We've got a lovely colour combination challenge for you this week at Charisma- Pink, Black and Green!

We are sponsored by the lovely Make it Crafty!

I got to use this gorgeous image from them for my DT project this week. I've coloured her with Promarkers, as usual! The Papers are by Kate Knight and I've used a MS Doily Edge border punch. The flowers are from stash and the dewdrops are from Sarah's cards. I've added stickles around her wings and some green flat backed pearls to finish off :)

Thanks for looking and dont forget to visit the rest of the DT's fab creations!

Thursday

Aud Sentiments Challenge -  Anything goes.
Pals Paper Arts - Use flowers.
Paper Romance - Paper flowers.
Stamp Insanity - Flower power.
Wednesday
The Paper Variety - 1/1- flowers
Tuesday
Anita Be Stampin' - Anything Goes
Digital Tuesday - include a digital element - Female Image On Card/project
Flourishes -  Flowers, flowers everywhere
Paper Take Weekly -  Dimension somewhere On Your Card
Sweet Stamps - 1/1 - For The Ladies
Tuesday Throwdown - Sparkle & Bling
Monday
Incy Wincy Designs - flower frenzy
Stamp-N-Doodle - Girly
Woodware USA - 1/2 - Anything goes
Sunday
Dream Valley Challenges - 1/3 - Things with wings

CRAFT #98 - Easter

Time for another challenge at CRAFT! This week the theme is Easter! We are sponsored by Whimsie Doodles, who have provided a $10 Gift Certificate to their Online Store, and  Your Special Delivery.

The DT were provided with some gorgeous images to use for this challenge! I chose to use the Simply Bunny image,  to which I've added a touch of colour with Promarkers and cut out using Go Kreate scalloped circle dies. The Paper is from FF springtime pack and the border punch is MS. The ribbon, flower and gems are from stash, and the greeting is a LOTV stamp.

Thank you for visiting me! :)


Wednesday
Crafts and Me - Ribbon
Creative Belli - eggs/bunnies
Creative Card Crew - Spring
Little Red Wagon - Easter
Penny's Paper-Crafty - Easter
Sisterhood of Crafters - 1/3- Easter
Tuesday
A Spoonful Of Sugar - 1/1 - All Creatures Great & Small
Anita Be Stampin' - Anything Goes
Paper Take Weekly -  Dimension somewhere On Your Card (image raised on foam pads
Top Tip Tuesday - 1/3 - Spring Has Sprung
Tuesday Throwdown - Sparkle & Bling
Monday
Crazy Challenge - 1/2 -  Easter
Die Cut Dreams - Easter
Ooh La La Creations  - Happy Easter
Pink Elephant - Easter
Pollycraft - Easter
Stamps R Us - 1/1 - Easter
Woodware USA - 1/2 - Anything goes
Sunday
Aly's Sunday Challenge - 1/1 - Bunnies
Card Cupids - Use 2 colours only (green and yellow)
Crafty Pad - Spring.
Creative Inspirations - Easter.
Dream Valley Challenges - 1/3 - Things with wings (chicks on paper)
Quirky Crafts - Sparkly, Punchy Easter/Spring.
Sparkles Forum - Easter
Saturday
2 Sisters - Spring
Bee Crafty - M, must use digi - Easter
Card Creations & More By C - 1/1 -  Spring related
Creative Inspirations - Easter

Secret Crafter - Our Feathered Friends (chicks on paper)

Shannon's Sentiments  - Include an Animal

Totally Gorjuss -  Anything Fluffy

Friday

Cardmadfairy's Digi Days Challenge - 1/2 must use a digi - Easter.
Delicious Doodles - 1/3 - Ribbons for Easter.
Digi's With Attitude! - Easter.
Fairy Knoll - 1/2 - Eggs or ovals.
Fashionista Friday - Spring.
Paper Cutz - Bunny, lamb, chicks or Easter eggs.
Phindy’s Place - 1/3 - Easter.
Stampin For The Weekend - 1/1 – Easter.

IDIC #50 Based on a song

This week at I Did It Creations, we want to see your creations inspired by a Song.

We are sponsored by the lovely JLJ Designs, and I've used her very pretty 'Pink and chocolate' paper pack for my project this week. I've chosen the song 'Flowers in the Window' by Travis as I think its a beautiful song.

The large flower was a prize from a challenge I won a while ago. The mosaic tiles were from a bargain bin at Craft Central some time ago! I dont make many Get Well soon cards so I thought it would be handy to have one in stock ;) lol. The sentiment is a Personal Impressions stamp.

Thankyou for visiting me! :)

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Sunday
Card Cupids - Use 2 colours only.
Saturday
Our Daily Bread Designs - 1/1 - No Ribbon

CRAFT #97 - Animals/Pets

My first post today is to tell you about the new theme at this weeks C.R.A.F.T Challenge! We want to see Animals or Pets on your creations!

Our sponsor is :

who are offering a fab digi stamp as a prize to our lucky winner!

I've used one of my absolute favourite stamps, Lili of the Valley Thomas with Flowers :) Coloured with Promarkers and inked around the edges with Distress Inks (Milled Lavender). The Flowers are from stash and the leaves are made with a MS Punch. The Papers are from the Sweet Owl collection (by Papermania I think) and the edges of this have also been inked to soften them up. The ribbon is from stash and the greeting is also a LOTV stamp. I've added some gold glitter to the centres of the flowers for just a touch of sparkle :)

 

Thanks for visiting! :)