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.

152 A Special Lady - OLLCB DT

Our latest challenge over at Ooh-La-La starts today, with the theme of 'A Special Lady' I decided to use image and papers from Ooh-La-La's Shawn Jenkins CD. I do love cards with flowers and butterflies. My doily was lightly inked with some purple ink as were the edges of the BP, the two little scrolls are made from Martha Stewart paper clay and moulds, they give some depth,  I also cut some extra butterflies for a bit more dimension and finally finished off with a purple bow and a 'for you mum' sentiment.

Challenges:
CD Sunday
polka Doodles
scrapping 4 fun
bearly mine
crafts and me inspiration
seema crafts
pink gem
Kitty Bee Designs

Quotations - CD Sunday DT

Good morning, at last a beautiful sunny day, even though it's cold,  it's been so wet here since we got home a few weeks ago, so nice to see some sunshine at long last.

Our latest theme over at CD Sunday is 'Quotations' I did struggle a little with this one at first, probably because I rarely use words on the front of my cards, I did a search through my CD's and found this one on Debbi Moore's Shabby Chic Butterflies and Flowers, it gave me a chance to use my favourite large butterfly die and a couple of smaller butterflies using a Martha Stewart punch.

Hope to see your entry over at the challenge and don't forget to pop over to my teamies blogs and see what they have made.

Love Always - CD Sunday DT

Hello, I'm back this week from our holidays at Antibes in the south of France with the Camping Car, the weather was lovely and warm and sunny most days, so nice to sit out in the sun,  the two months really flew by, I must say we are not liking all this rain and wind and cold that we have here at home in Western France, the Atlantic winds are battering the coast here similar to those in UK, so much damage all over the place.

As I prepared and scheduled  all my posts for the period we were away before we went, I almost forgot to do this one, so it's 3am and I'm quickly writing this.

Our theme this week at CD Sunday is Love Always, well it is that time of year again.  I used Shabby Chic Time Flies CD by Debbi Moore this was such a quick and easy card to make.

Hope to see your entry on the CD Sunday Blog, don't forget to pop on to my teamies blogs and see what they have come up with.

8/8 - Use a Heart - OLLCB DT

An easel card from me this time for the latest challenge at Ooh-La-La, the papers and image are from their Shawn Jenkins Collection CD, I added some die cut flourishes, a die cut heart, some gems, and little white flowers which I coloured with Promarkers.

Masking - MTTC DT

This week our theme at My Time To Craft this week is 'Masking' .  I am showing you some ATC's I made recently for a swap, I masked together the various flowers, butterflies and birds from various Daisy Trail digi kits using Craft Artist 2 before printing and cutting around the top of the images and layering onto the backgrounds.

Challenges:

A.R.T.  - anything goes

paper-crafting journey - anything but a square card

flutter by wednesdays - Summer

rubys rainbow - Things with wings

whimsical designs - ATC's

ATC's with attitude bright and cheerful

digi haven - flowers

Thank You - CD Sunday DT

Good morning, I'm hoping for a sunny day today, well it's forecast, so we will see what the day brings

This week at CD Sunday our theme is 'Thank You'  this was a good opportunity to use some of  my new dies, from Rob Addams and also his Stretch Cards CD, for my butterflies and dragon flies I used various Memory Box and Marianne dies and a couple I cut on my Craft Robo a while ago. The 'thank you' is also a die I got from Joanna Sheen

In the Sky - MTTC DT

A digi card from me today, Over at MTTC this time we have the theme of 'In the Sky', I chose to use Butterflies, made with digi elements and papers from Caroline Rawcliffe in Craft Artist 2.

It's a brief posting as we have visitors this week, so nice to see friends from UK I haven't seen for a couple of years.

Wonderful Wings - CD Sunday DT

Back again at long last, what a few weeks it's been, firstly we had no internet for a couple weeks or so, we also managed to get the awful flu bug that's doing the rounds over here and lasts for weeks, just when we thought we were improving it all got worse again, still have the chest and ear infection, so fingers crossed we keep on getting better, because i'm so fed up with it all.

There will be three postings today, bringing me up to date with my DT's.  My first card for CD Sunday  was made for a friends birthday and uses papers and image from Debbi Moores Shabby Chic Victorian Botanical I also used a MS punch down the front edge

A digi scrapbook page this time for my DT posting today over at My Time To Craft, where the new challenge this week is for 'Domestic Pets',  the piccys in this page are of our 18 year old girl who unfortunately died back in the summer, I used Craft Artist 2 software to assemble this and various elements and papers from Diasy Trail.

Delicious Damask - CD Sunday DT 1/8

This and my next few post will pre-scheduled as I won't have any internet for a while. This one is a birthday card for a good friend, lets hope she likes it, and also my DT card for CD Sunday, this week our theme is Delicious Damask, my papers and image are all from Shabby Chic Flowers range by Debbi Moore. i added some sparkle with my Sakura Glitter Pens, gems and ribbons are from my stash.

Make it Girly - OLLCB DT

This time for the OLL challenge blog the theme is 'Make It Girly' my digi image and papers are from the Ooh-La-La CD Dreams of Tranquility, such a restful image I layered it onto part of a doily and part of a BP punched with MS punches which I also used on the corners of the main BP and then inked the edges, to finish off I added some butterfly cut from kanban holographic mirri card using Memory Box and Marianne Dies.

Challenges:

craft a scene - spring flowers

that craft place - trees and nature

crafty calendar - things with wings

atc's and cards with attitude - anything goes

card makin mamas -get punchy

make it monday - anything goes
Crafters Companion - here comes summer 

Easy Elegance - CD Sunday DT

Morning all, what a horrible wet and dismal week we've had and it looks like set to last this week as well, come on summer where are you ?

As it's Sunday it's time for a new challenge over at CD Sunday, this week the theme is Easy Elegance, I used  Marianne dies for the Butterfly and the circular outer die cut into Kanban patterned mirri from my stash, the inner to the fancy circle was cut with a nestie,  the light blue satin effect card they sit on is printed from an Embossibilities CD, corners with shaped with a punch and i added some gems to finish off with, hope you like it, hope to see your entry over at CD Sunday, have a good week.

Challenges:
craft your days away - creatures great and small
crafty calendar - wings
crafts 4 eternity- wings
fairy tale - wings
hotshot craft - die cuts
marianne design divas - wings
bearly mine - dies
IDIC - Anything goes
OSAAT - Anything goes

Trees & Shrubs - CD Sunday DT

Such a wet and cold week it's been again, so far we've resisted putting the heating back on again, but it's come close a couple of times, particularly as yet again we both have sore throats, earache and painful chest, just hope i'm not going to get another bout of pleurisy.

This week our theme over at CD Sunday is Trees and Shrubs, my mojo doesn't seem to be working too well at the moment so I kept it easy and it's not one of my better creations, as you can see I steered away from my original thought of lots of greens,  my image and papers are from MCS Setting the Scene.

Challenges:
poodles parlour
2 sisters
catch the bug
crafty calendar
crazy 4 challenges
alphabet challenge
crafts 4 eternity
great impressions
opus-gluei
Crafters Companion
just tracys
fresh brewed designs

Wings & Legs - CD Sunday DT

Morning, another Sunday is upon us already, at least it's warmer now, the temp's are staying a little above freezing, but a long way to go till summer.

This week at CD Sunday we want to see Wings and Legs, I chose to go with Flower Fairies from Crafters Companion for my card this week, it doesn't show on this piccy but the wings and dress have some glitter for a bit of sparkle.

Challenges:
card makin mamas - birthday 
flutter by wednesdays - anything with wings 
crafty catz - fav things 
totally papercrafts- ribbon 
cute card thursday - flower power 
shellys images - anything goes 
sj paper crafts - flowers 
bunny zoes - celebrations 
divas by design - wings 
sparkles forum - wings 
paper sundaes - birthday 
crafters companion - anything goes 

Enchantment - CD Sunday DT

Morning all, another gloomy and cold day, I really could do with some sunshine even for just for a couple of hours, we seem to have been shrouded in fog for ages now and have had to have the lights on all day this past couple of weeks.

This week our challenge over at CD Sunday is enchantment, I thought this decoupaged Fairy from Debbi Moore seemed quite enchanted with the flower and butterfly and would suit the theme perfectly. The BP is also from Debbi Moore, printed onto Hammered card and the borders were made with an MS Punch.

Have a good week everyone and hope to see your entry over at CD Sunday.

Challenges:
abc-challenge - Happy Bithday 
flutterby wednesdays- bright colours 
catch the bug - Birthday 
Winter wonderland - Birthday  
card crafters circle - birthday 
marks finest papers - border punch
Joanna Sheen - Celebration  

New Beginnings - OLL DT

Yay!! my first posting as a member of the DT over at Ooh-La-La Challenge, our challenge for this fortnight is New Beginnings, so for me it was good to make a calendar.  My Ooh-La-La  gorgeous image is from the Carnival of Colour CD, I took the image into a calendar making program that came with my printer, I layered onto dark green mirri and Centura Pearl card, my new corner embelishments and the butterflies which I have for ages are made from Marianne Creatable dies.

Ooh-La-La  have recently launched their new CD called

Shoes In Bloom Part 2 and the winner this fortnight will receive this as their prize

Challenges:

crafty catz - New Beginnings

jelly park - Old/New (corner dies new, butterlies old)

paper cutz - brand new year

my mums craft shop - something new

whimsy inspiresiations - new beginnings

party time tuesdays - something new ( Corner dies)

by the cute and girly - new year

bling it on - new beginnings

cup cake craft room - anything goes

crazy 4 challenges - new year

craft your days away - new beginnings
dream valley - anything goes 

Paisley Fun - CD Sunday DT

Yay, I'm back online at last, had a couple of problems which forced me to be offline longer than originally intended, so lots of catching up to do with all sorts of things now.

This week our theme over at at CD Sunday is Paisley fun, my CD elements are from MCS Tattered Lace for the main paisley background and MCS Simply Sillhouettes for the background to the topper, the stamped image is from a stamp set we were provided with a few weeks ago by Sue Wilson.

Challenges:
Penny Black & More - All creatures great and small
2 sisters challenge - anthing goes
stampavie and more - anything goes

Sunset - CD Sunday DT - 6/7

 

It's a sponsor week over at CD Sunday this week and we are sposnored by CaroLines which is where the papers and most of the images are from, aren't they fabulous,  I also used MCS  Countryside Garden for the silhouette plants and butterfly.   Still offline so a brief posting i'm afraid.

Natures Wonders - CD Sunday DT

Another month gone again, cannot believe it's October already, and yes I'm late with posting today as I overslept mostly because I finally got to sleep at around 6.30 this morning.  

As it's the 1st week of the month it's sponsor time over at CD Sunday, this month we are being sponsored by the lovely Sue from Creative Expressions, I love watching her demo's on the TV she always has such wonderful ideas, if you have watched her demo's you may  recognise the concertina folded die cut which she did in August,  I wanted to have a go at this and thought what better time to do it than now, although mine is no-where near as stuniing as Sue's, but it was my first attempt and it looks much better in real life.  My CD bit is the backing paper from MCS Simply Sillhouttes, The butterfly and word stamps were part of the Natures Wonder stamp sheet kindly given to the DT to use by Sue. Other bits I used were: my MS butterflies punch, Waco Pearly drops, linen effect blue mirri.  Hope to see your entry on the CD Sunday blog this week, just don't forget to use a little something from a CD.

Challenges:

theres magic in the air
crazy challenge
critter challenge
ooh-la-la-creations challenges
stamps & fun
creatalicious challenges. - anything goes
catch the bug blog - anything goes
crafty catz weekly challenge - wings
crafts 4 eternity - anything goes
sew many challenges - anything goes
4 crafty chicks - anything goes
paper-crafting journey - die cuts/punches
flutter by wednesdays. - anything goes
the house that stamps built - animal
inky impressions challenges - punches/dies
pennys paper challenges- anything goes