February Colours

Kathy dared us this week at Daring Cardmakers' and as it's the first Friday of the month it's Colour Combo Challenge Week!

Valentines Day is not far off and I thought this gorgeous montage would help get us all in the mood for romance. Of course, these colours are fantastic for any kind of card, not just Lovey-Dovey ones, so just let your imagination flow with.....

Cranberry, Slate Grey, Pale Grey 

and White

Here's the montage to help get you thinking  

We're looking forward to seeing what you come up with, but for some extra inspiration here are the cards made by our wonderful design team this week

and here's my card;

I used Crate Paper papers, and chipboard, American Crafts date stamp, leaf punch from stash, Button Twine, seam binding and flower from The Ribbon Girl and hand crocheted the flowers using the pattern in the first issue of Simply Crochet.

Don't forget to pop by the Daring Cardmakers' blog where you can see all of the beautiful cards made by the DT and find out who was the winner of last week's sponsored dare!

Ribbon Girl September card challenge

It's September (already!)  Which means that's time for a Ribbon Girl Monthly card challenge;

 

 

The card challenge this month is simple - just add pearls! It's really as easy as that! As usual, the challenge is sponsored by Lili Of The Valley who are offering a stamp of choice to the winner and Ribbon Girl who are offering a £10 voucher to their online store

 

 

 

and we have a new Ribbon Girl Design Team member -the very talented Sara Winter. You can see Sara's and all the DT's beautiful cards, and check details of how to enter on the Ribbon Girl blog.

This is my card;

Made using Pearl Lace, Flat Back Pearl, Petite Round Head Pearl Pin, Diamante Spacer, Adhesive Pearls, Dew Drops, Button Twine, flower and leaf from the Ribbon Girl, Crate Paper papers, chipboard and stickers and a peg and doily from stash.

TFL!

Movember Madness

Samm's turn to dare at Daring Cardmakers' this week-

It's the month of Movember so what better time than to show us some Moustaches, Tashes, Mustaches, Furry Facial Hair on your cards this week!

Not having any Moustaches to hand, I made mine digitally and added it to this card;



Made using Bazzill cardstock and brads,

This is the image that I used; (click it to big it!)



and as it is the 25th - one month 'til Christmas! It is the last Ribbon Girl Jingle All The Way To Christmas;



There is a fantastic Christmas Ribbon Kit up for grabs - you can see all the details of how to enter here;



and this is my Christmas themed card;



Made using; Ribbon and Berries from The Ribbon Girl, a Printable from CraftsUPrint, MME papers, Washi Tape, inking and stitching.

TFL!

Ribbon Girl Colour Challenge #12

The Ribbon Girl's fabulous colour challenge for October is sponsored by Ribbon Girl and Lili Of The Valley. This month my lovely teamie Kath chose the colours and she picked shades of Lilac and Green.

The Ribbon Girls have been super generous and there is an amazing prize on offer consisting of ribbons from the Ribbon Girl and also a £10 voucher from Lili of the Valley

This is my card;

and I used; Lace, Twill, ribbon, button, pom pom trim, flowers and seam binding from the Ribbon Girl, Melissa Frances stickers, Studio Calico paper, and Kraft cardstock.

The challenge runs until 9pm on the 29th October and you can check out all the DT's beautiful creations and see the details of how to enter on the Ribbon Girl's blog.

TFL!

(What'sThe Story) Morning Glory?

This week's dare at Daring Cardmakers' is a team one;


It's the 2nd day of September and the first dare of the new month so we're looking to the flowers associated with September for our card-making inspiration, they are:
Asters and Morning Glory

and I may have gone off at a tangent with this one but it was the first thing that came into my head when I saw the title of this week's dare;



I used a album cover found on t'internet - printed onto photo paper to make it shiny, a vinyl record and sleeve from fuzzimo, Papermania paper, Lace from The Ribbon Girl, Homemade Washi tape, peg, pearl and twine from stash.

TFL - and don't forget to checkout the rest of the DT's beautiful floral creations here.

Home Baked

Vanessa picked a rather awesome dare this week at Daring Cardmakers


You have to create at least one of your own embellishments for your card and thats it, nice and simple!

I love making bits and bobs for cards and made a rainbow for this one;



I used a mix of American Crafts, Basic Grey and October Afternoon papers,Thickers, Papermania pearls, Lace from The Ribbon Girl and a silver pen.

Don't forget to check out the other home baked elements that the rest of the very talented DCM team have made.

Thanks for visiting.

Thinking of You...

A sympathy card made with more scrunched tea dyed seam binding from The Ribbon Girl;



Papers are Prima and Image is a digi Hero Arts stamp.

Thanks for visiting!

Good Times (and some cards too!)

Two really fantastic bits of news this week;

1)I made it into the Papercrafts Gallery Idol top 20! There were so many amazing cards entered into the auditions gallery, I am so excited that one of mine was chosen!

You can see all the fanastic entries here, and the top 20 announcement here :)

2)I made it through to the top 5 in the 2Sketches4You Ultimate Card Showdown!

a good week so far!

and some cards I have made this week;

I used Cosmo Cricket papers, Poppicrafts Ribbon, Docrafts letter stickers and die, Prima flowers.

I used Cosmo Cricket papers and Paperchase papers, Bo Bunny ribbon, Poppicraft flower, Basic Grey button, hand stitching and inking

A Christmassy one using more Cosmo Cricket papers, BG button, stash ribbon, cardboard box, Melissa Frances rub on and inking.


and a final one using (more) Cosmo Cricket papers, Tigerfrogg image, Doodlebug rub on, Prima flowers, Papermania and Bo Bunny ribbon and a paperclip.

TFL :)

Cards, cards, cards!

My DCM card this week - a very fab dare set by Vanessa to use circles on a card....


October Afternoon papers, Bo Bunny ribbon, Queen and Co Brad, doodling and inking

A little card made for Laura's brilliant sketch 20 over at 2sketches4you

Basic Grey papers, John Lewis lace, Bo Bunny ribbon, Basic Grey button and brads, Melissa France Rub on

And 2 cards made using Kirsty's most fab Patti Picklicious papers and images...


The CD containing all of Kirsty's most wonderful images should be available next week *excited*

TFL :)

Daytripping

On Tuesday, we travelled with;
to get to;and visit;
to see;
(and lots more).

We used this;(a lot)

and visited;and
and had a fab time.

I have been working on a few commissions this week but have made these as well;

Felt, Cardboard, CI ribbon, BG letters, Scenic Route heart, Luxe rub ons, notepaper.

(For J for Valentine's)

and a commissioned card for J's Mum;

K&Co papers, Papermania brad, Primas, Doodlebug and October Afternoon rub ons

and a this week's Dare card; It's Rein here this week with a new dare: I want to see a fish or a frog on your cards.



Not technically either but it does have 'fish' in its name.

Scenic Route and October Afternoon papers, brads from Poppicrafts, Hand cut jellyfish, press stud, inking and printed sentiment.

Have a fabulous weekend and TFL :)

2Sketches4You - Laura's sketch 19 and Card*a*licious

Laura has created another magnificent sketch over at 2sketches4you this week, I combined this with the challenge set at Card*a*licious to make a thank you card using something felt, some sort of stitching and use the color pink, and created this;
Old cardboard, Die cut pink flower, October Afternoon journalling card, Papermania felt, MM letter stickers, Bo Bounny butterfly rub-on, hand stitching and inking.

Hope you are all having a fab Valentine's Day :)

Prints Charming

Lythan set an amazing dare for Daring Cardmakers this week;

I just love, love, love patterned paper so this week I dare you to join me in Patterned Paper Passion I want to see 3 different patterned appers on you card. And to be extra daring, why not see if you can use 3 different lines of paper!

I seem to remember a fantastic LO featuring Lythan and her huge love of patterened paper *wink*
Digging out some old stash this week, I created this;


Paper is Daisy D's, KI Memories and K&Co so three different papers by 3 different manf. :) October Afternoon rub on, SEI ribbon, Prima flowers and Cord brad from the Range.

It was also brilliant to have my card chosen as one of the fab 5 this week :) Thank you for picking my card, Kazan and Laura, it is an honour.

TFL :)

Give it Some Heart

Keryn's wonderful DCM dare this week...


My dare for this one is the predictable, someone had to do it, theme of Valentines. Although I don't want you to feel you just have to make Valentines Day cards, feel free to make a card fitting any theme you like as long as it has a heart somewhere on it. Stamped hearts, punched hearts, diecut hearts, heart embellishments, cut from patterned paper, whatever, whenever as long as it has the right shape.


Basic Brey Bittersweet papers, Prima flowers, Brad and crocheted flower from The Range, ribbon from stash, Melissa France rub on, hand stitching and inking.

TFL :)

Birthday Girl

Made a card for Jase's niece....

Basic Grey papers, brads and rub ons, spotty ribbon is (I think!) from Hobbycraft.
TFL :)

Quoted by...

This weeks dare....

This week we'd like to introduce our new DCM Guest Designer - Jozza This is her first dare and a fantastic job she's done too. Jozza will be with us for the month of June.
The most brilliant Jane this week has dared us all to include a quote on our card. Stamped, Computer Generated or Rub Ons it doesn't matter and choose your own style or occasion.

Random left over papers - Basic Grey, Doodlebug, Bazzill, Papermania, Computer generated sentiment, Primas, DCWV brad, peel offs, Ribbon recycled from an ages old wedding favour....

TFL!

Meet Henrietta....

She is a hippo with a rather large bottom.... but oh so cute! :) She is part of the latest Pink Petticoat image stamps colllection...



All Pink Petticoat papers, Circle is DB Journal doodlebat, Paperarts Ribbon, Prima Flower, MM Brad, Poundland bling.

TFL :)

Foiled....again!

Made another card yesterday for this week's dare using foil....rather appropriate as Josh came out of school as 'star of the day' :)

I used Basic Grey paper, Sizzix star die - used the negative to cut out the outlines, MM rub ons and ribbon, Papermania brad, more foil, scrunched and coiled, doodling and inking.

TFL :)

Hide and Seek

Kathy's dare this week...

Okay, for my dare we're heading to the playground for a game of
Hide & Seek
I'd like you to make a card which has a hidden component of some sort.
The hidden part could be a tag, a concealed photo, message or something along those lines, maybe a pull-out or pop-up.
Anything goes as long as there's something extra for the recipient to find on your card that's not immediately visible when they open the envelope.
The Design Team have made some fab cards to help get you thinking - but you'll have to visit their personal blogs to see the hidden extra!

Still not understanding the new camera - seem to be taking very grainy pictures at the mo so apologies for the piccie quality...

remove the ribbon banding et voila...


I used Pink Petticoat papers, Doodlebug chipboard, Paperchase and CI ribbon, Poundland gems, American Crafts rub ons and a MM brad.

If anyone knows how to make photo's less grainy - please let me know lol!

TFL :)

This week's Dare....

Hiya fellow darers, Jane here ! How are you all ? This weeks dare is a hard one !! Sorry everyone, but it had to be done !! :)


I want you to create not just one but TWO cards ! But wait........there's more ! I want both cards to contain the same embellishments and papers, ribbons etc- but arranged in a different way for a different occasion....the only thing being different is the wording....I'll let you have different wording ! (How nice of me eh?) I'm well aware this is a really hard challenge, and that I have thrown everyone into 2008 off the deep end....but go on- give it a go - I DARE YOU !

We have the very talented Sue Hyde as our Guest Designer for the next couple of weeks, Sue's work is always beautiful and her attention to detail is second to none.

I made these two cards....apologies for the photos not being the best, the old and trusty camera finally gave up just before Christmas and I am struggling a little with the new one :)



I used
Ki Memories papers and matching Bazzill
MM brads
Prima flowers
Dymo and rub on lettering
Inking and Doodling

TFL :)

Hello...

A rather belated......to everyone :) We had a fairly quiet lager and curry night with our friends in Leamington.

I have (as per usual:)) been busy I finished 2 commissions for Friday and another 2 for Monday. We all had a touch of the flu probably more of a heavy cold but one of those that seems to linger - and flu always sounds better :)...

I have made these though that I can share, the first being for the current Daring Cardmakers Dare - New.



and another for the little extra to use some Santa sent stash - the stash that arrived was from a secret santa type *waves at Lythan* and was amazingly super bright lush and amazingly strokingly gorgeous - thank you Santa :).



One for my BIL who passed his test this week *waves and says yay* - mainly made with fonts and photoshop.



And a little card just to say hello :)



and finally some really fantastic news - my little tag was chosen in the Papercrafts Gallery as one of their projects of the month :)