Kind and Caring Thoughts - CD Sunday DT

At last I can get onto Blogger, I'm only a day late for this posting, I wasn't able to get it to load all last week for some reason, so frustrating.

This time at CD Sunday our theme is Kind and Caring Thoughts, I made a Get Well Soon card using images and papers from My Craft Studio's Papercraft Library, the edges are punched with an MS punch and the bow is made from ribbon in my stash.

Round Again - CD Sunday DT

Good morning, I'm back again after a couple of months away due to some medical problems with my OH George, it was a worrying and stressful time for both of us, thankfully all appears to be resolved and well again.

One of the other good things for me is I didn't put my PC on very much during the past couple of months and I'm trying to stick to only switching it on a couple of times a week, it's so easy to find I've been faffing about on the thing for ages and wasted several hours and achieved nothing at all.

I have absolutely no mojo or inclination for card making at the moment, so I spent some time going through photos of my previous cards for some inspiration.  

This time at CD Sunday our theme is 'Round Again' - re-cycled, chosen by team mate Carol.  I've not been as adventurous as some of my team mates and I've stuck to just making a card.  My recycled bits are the ribbon which I saved from something I received years ago, it's more like a strip of upholstery fabric than ribbon and has on 'odd' feel to it, whilst not re-cycling as such the turquoise paper and the image are from my paper bits box, something I printed off and used parts of previously, so that's two bits of paper/card less in the box !! - but there is a long way to go to used them all up, the image is from Thomas Kincade CDs by Joanna Sheen.

Easter/Spring - OLLCB DT

Time for another new challenge over at Ooh-La-La Creations, this time our theme is Easter/Spring.  I went with Spring and made this card for a friend in the UK for her birthday, all the images/papers are from the Shawn Jenkins CD by Ooh-La-La, I added some glitter to the flowers with a Sakura glitter pen, and the addition of some cream coloured card for the layering, ribbon from my stash and a die cut senti in copper coloured mirri card.

7/8 - Year of the Horse - CD Sunday DT

Apparently it's the 'Year of the Horse' this year, and that's theme we've chosen this time over at CD Sunday. My image is from a CD of 6,900 Animal pictures I bought from an ebay seller when I first started paper crafting  years ago, my BP is from Bearly Mine Designs, I used various die cut scrolls/flourishes which I linked together, all finished off with some dotty ribbon, pearls and  some little flowers from my stash which I coloured with Pro-Markers.

F Is For ?

Well in my case F is for ?   Furry Friends, that's our theme over at CD Sunday this week, it's going to be a very brief post today as I am using a different computer, my laptop had a hissy fit a couple of days ago and I'm in the process of re-installing everything.

I used images and papers for this little set from Faithful Friends CD by Ooh-La-La, with the addition of a punched border into Linen effect mirri, ribbon, and dew drops.

Don't forget to pop over to the challenge blog and see what all my teamies have been up to.

Simply Square - CD Sunday DT

Hello, I'm back again at long last.  Back in August I had a fall and injured my right arm, I also dislocated my index finger on my left hand, just as they were improving a few weeks later I had another fall doing exactly the same thing again, my right arm is now much better, but the finger will never be the same, it's crooked and also numb at the end, the knuckle joints are still painful, so i'm having to change how i do things, you don't realise how much you use the finger till it's out of action.

This week at CD Sunday our theme is 'Simply Square', my card was a quick and easy one, it Suses image and papers from Mulberry Wood CD by Crafters Companion, I have decoupaged some layers, and finished off with some Card Candi, Sakura Glitter pens and Christmas ribbon from my stash.

Challenges:

Crafty Girls

crafty ribbons

crimbo-crackers

abc christmas

Creative Moments

creative corner

Jingle Belles

Sister Act

Dance - CD Sunday DT

Our latest theme over at CD Sunday is 'Dance', I love this image from Crisalis Classics by Crafters Companion, I sprayed with iridescent glitter spray/varnish, I used Marianne dies for the flowers and cut from papers and card, then added the ribbons and finished off with gems, the leaf flourish was a Memory Box die, I've had the lace for ages and thought it would go well on this card.

Challenges:

polly craft - anything goes

pennys Papercraft - Girl Power

crafts and me  - anything goes

crafting for all seasons - girly

crafting by designs - anything goes

crafty ribbons - ribbons

A.R.T. - anything goes

sister act  - anything goes

crafty catz  - flowers

Inspire Me Fridays - anything goes

allsorts - Lavender and Lace

Time for another challenge over at CD Sunday and this time we have the theme of Kimono, handy for me as I recently got some new oriental dies in a sale,   which went perfectly with my image and papers from Joanna Sheens Eastern Treasure CD, I love the stork die cut even though it was a little fiddly,I finished off with some ribbon threaded through another die, added a bow and some gems

Bookmark - MTTC DT

This time at My Time To Craft we have the challenge of  'A Bookmark' mine is a recent make as a sample for Ooh-La-La Creations release of their latest CD Faithful Friends. I used some bronze linen effect mirri card for the base and the rear, and punched another piece for the centre band, just added the doggie topper and sandwiched ribbon in between the layers.

Sentiment as the Focus - MTTC DT

This week over at My Time to Craft our theme is 'Sentiment as the Main focus'  a bit different for me as virtually always use a piccy as my main focus, quite pleased with how this came out I used one of my new dies for the background paper and the shapes.

Bundle of Joy - CD Sunday DT

This week we have the theme of 'Bundle of Joy' over at CD Sunday, although the team have all gone for new baby cards it can also be such things as puppies or kittens, I know our new fur babies are bundles of joy, well most of the time !! 

My card was a quick and easy one as I'm still not up to doing much, it uses images and paper from Crafters Companion Paintbox Poppets CD and the stripes paper is from a Joanna Sheen CD.

Art Nouveau - CD Sunday Dt

Morning all,  It's the first challenge of the new year over at CD Sunday, as it's also the first challenge of the month it's also a sponsored one, this time we have Peerless Designs as our generous sponsor and the prize is their Floral Jewels CD. The DT were given various images and papers to play with, I hope you like my little creation, it's not a great picture their is some pale lemon gingham ribbon down the right hand side and pale lemon BP behind the main image, I'll have to put it down to the awful light at moment, makes it so hard to get a decent picture of the lighter colours.  

Challenges:

atcs and cards with attitude

lady annes challenges

forever friends

Reflections - OLLCB DT

Morning all, a lovely bright and sunny morning here, it's time for the last challenge of 2012 over at Ooh-La-La Creations Challenge Blog, and the theme this time is 'Reflections' so you a few options here, I decided to go with the mirror type reflections as opposed to the thought type of reflection.  So my reflection is in water, my image and co-ordinating papers are from the Carnival of Colour CD, I also used a Spellbinder die to frame the image, and Britannia 'happy birthday' dies and finally added some ribbon and dew drops to embellish.

Non Traditional Christmas - MTTC DT

It's a non Traditional Christmas Colour day to day over at My Time To Craft. so I thought I would do this snowman one in Purple, it's just a quick and easy one, the cheery little snowman image and papers are from Debbi Moore and the corners on the gold mirri are made with an MS punch.

Vintage Christmas - MTTC DT

I haven't used this style card for ages, so thought it would be good for this weeks DT card over at My Time To Craft where we are having the theme of Vintage Christmas.  papers and image are from Debbi Moore, I used an MS punch for the borders and the swirl is from Marianne Creatables.

Apologies for the standard of picture this week it's a little washed out, and I have lost my normal white backing, we are baby kitty sitting for a friend at the moment and he likes to try and wreck that area of the craft room and particularly likes nibbling paper and card, his favorite trick is to tip the bin over and drag bits of paper out all over the place, and likes to empty the filing tray everywhere, I also think he is going to be a mountaineer, he seems to love scaling the shelves and eventually getting onto the top of our wardrobes, then sits there crying because he can't get down, it's been fun having him here, but normal peace and quiet will return to the house later today as he is being collected and going back to his home.

C... Christmas - OLLCB DT

Time for another challenge from the team at Ooh-La-La Creations Challenge Blog, this time the theme is very topical and is  'C...Christmas' my creation was made using images papers from the latest CD   Yuletide Wishes it has lots of fabulous images, papers and embellishments on it.  In addition to the bits from the Cd I also used a tree die from Marianne Creatables and a corner die from Memory Box, some gems from my stash and white glitter on the fur trim of the hats and jackets.

Beautiful Blue - CD Sunday

Partly back again after my break and to start here's one I made for this weeks challenge at CD Sunday which is 'Beautiful Blue', the paper is from DoCrafts Me to You CD, and digi image and senti are from Delicious Doodles, the base card is Centura Pearl from CC.  Hope you like it.

Recipe - MTTC DT - 5/8

This time I'm showing you my DT project for My Time To Craft, on their new regular Saturday spot.  I imported in to Craft Artist images and papers from Joanna Sheens Jane Shasky CD's and had a play around with them.

This number 5 of my 8 scheduled postings whilst i'm offline, so by now I will probably being going a little more dotty than ever at not being online for so long !!

Santa - OLLCB DT - 3/8

 Time to get on with Christmas Cards apparently, where has the year gone, I'm really behind with my cards for Christmas this year and have only made a couple so far, will have to get a move on when I get back home.  So this week we want to see your Santa cards over Ooh-L-La Challenge blog, hope you like mine which has image/papers from Christmas Presence CD.  I also used my Snowflake punches from MS and ribbon from my stash.  See you all soon.

Exotic Birds and Blooms - CD Sunday DT

Good Morning, I must aplogise to my followers who have left me lovely comments recently, with one thing and another I've not managed to visit and comment on your postings lately, life just seems to get in the way at every turn these days, it's as much as I can do to get my DT cards made, let alone much else, I do promise to try and improve over the next few weeks as things settle down and my health is less of a problem.

This week over at CD Sunday the theme is Exotic Birds and Blooms, So Joanna Sheens' Eastern Treasures CD to be the obvious lace to look for something suitable, and unusually I decided to go purple, the colours  jumped out me, I know it's my fav colour, but I do try to avoid making purple creation as otherwise they would all end up being purple.  Don't forget to pop over to my teamies blogs and see their creations.

Challenges:

ATC's and cards with attitude - anything goes

Clearly Inspired - Wings

crafty catz - anything goes

4 crafty chicks - up up and away

charisma cardz - flowers and fauna

digi doodle shops best - wings