New Challenge Blog + Link to Candy

Hello, I have had a mad week and not managed to get any challenges done since the weekend. Hoping to get caught up today and tomorrow but before I go stalking the challenge blogs I just had to tell you about a new challenge blog - Passion For Promarkers. They are offering blog candy at the moment too, which might be a great way to top up your collection of these fabby pens. If you have lots of the pens already you might be interested in joining their design team, there is a post on the blog about that too.

Back soon.

365 Cards - Day 64 A Sketch

We were given a sketch to use today for 365 cards. So, I had a rummage around in the scraps box I mentioned earlier and decided I wanted to make a man card for this sketch. I used some kaisercraft papers and cut matching stars inside circles using the Christmas Cheer Cricut cartridge.

The starry bits were mounted on foam pads to give a bit of definition. I then cut another star/circle from another piece of paper and attached it to the card on foam pads too, hanging it off the edge.

Got an ink smudge on the back though, grrr. Will keep it in my box for another nephews birthday as he won't notice/care lol.

Thank you for looking.

365 Cards - Day 63 Floral Fest and Blog Candy

First of all, Fiona is offering some fab blog candy in celebration of her sons birthday in May, so pop on over and check it out.

Now onto todays card. I am still catching up on 365 cards, this is yesterdays challenge to use 8 blooms on your card. I also took the sketch idea from somewhere but for the life of me I can't find it now, I have spent ages trawling through my history, so if you recognise it please let me know so I can give credit where its due.

I used some more crate Katlin and blooms from poppicrafts. I have spent a wee while today decluttering my craft desk and and determined to work my way through a box of odds and ends paper wise hence using the katlin papers again.

Thank you for looking, might manage another card later, headache depending.

Piggin' Tired

As you know I went to a local farm yesterday with my sis-in-law and my nephew. Got lots of photos, all outdoors but this was the first one I wanted to scrap as the title leapt out at me as soon as I saw the piggy. He was so cute, snorting in his sleep and everything, must have been chasing truffles lol.

I used some old K&Co Berry Sweet which I am trying to use up.

Thanks for looking, hopefully be back later with some cards, got some shopping and housework to do first.

CP#13 and 365 Cards Day 62

As soon as I saw this weeks Card Patterns sketch I knew I could combine it with Day 62 from 365 Cards to help me get caught up on challenges a bit. I made this card for my nephew's birthday (which is in August! I am so organised!!)

It is a 5x7 card, so I covered the card front with the back of some fancy pants papers and doodled a wee bit on it. I then took some more from my new Lime Rickey pad and ran the plain piece through a cuttlebug folder in my big shot to make it a bit more interesting. I painted the chipboard number and added some glossy accents before adding it to the 5. The image is another from that Woodware set I used earlier.

Thank you for looking.

Sketch Saturday - Sketch #49

Here is the card I made using this weeks Sketch Saturday sketch.

I used some BG Lime Rickey papers which I have been itching to use and an old Woodware clear stamp was dusted down for the image. I carefully handcut the rounded frame by first cutting a circle with my cricut to use that as a template for the arch. The stars were cut on my cricut and the sentiment is an old Elzybells stamp.

Thank you for looking.

Digital Tuesday Challenge

Stumbled across another digi challenge blog earlier on today called Digital Tuesday so I thought I would enter a card in this weeks challenge:

Since April is a very wet month for most of us in the United States, your challenge this week is 'April Showers Bring May Flowers'. Create a card or project using your digital images that has rain or flowers on it, or simply gives a 'feeling' of a storm or a beautiful spring day.

I used a Lizzie Image from Digistamp Boutique and coloured her with promarkers. Layered up on some Crate Katlin paper and added a ribbon. I thought it would make a good Get Well Card for my mum.

I am going to work my way through some more challenges this afternoon. Got a bit of a sore head just now though so not sure how much I will get done.