Green & Purple - Simply Create Too

What am I going to make for a green and purple colour combination challenge? I thought to myself but then I saw a bendy card design in the silhouette store. This paired with my mum asking me to make a card for a new neighbour and this card was born! I actually love this card and the colour combination.

Pop over to Simply Create Too and join in our challenge!

Paper - Core'dinations card
Sentiment/Image - Silhouette store

I'm entering my card in the following challenges:

Luck / St Patricks OMC DT make

Our Challenge this month over at Open-Minded Crafting Challenges is:

We have some amazing sponsors for this challenge! Just take a look at what you could win:

A Day For Daisies (http://www.adayfordaisies.com) - $12 Gift Certificate
Bugaboo (https://bugaboostamps.3dcartstores.com/) - 7 digis
KennyK (http://www.kennykdownloads.com) - 4 digis
Sassy Studio Designs (http://www.sassystudiodesigns.blogspot.com) - 4 digis

I got my amazing Digi from Kenny K! As soon as I saw her I knew she was made to lean on a pint of Guinness. I coloured her up with ProMarkers adding lots of green in the spirit of St Patrick's day. I found a pint file and the sentiment in the silhouette store and paired them. I cut the glass from acetate which you can see she is leaning on. I finished my card with more files from the silhouette store and some candi.

For the inside of my card I used another silhouette store file to create a pop up of four leaf clovers.

Paper - Craftwork cards
Embellishments - Silhouette store and candi from Craftwork Cards
Sentiment - Silhouette store
Image - Kenny K coloured with ProMarkers and fussy cut

I'm entering my card in the following challenges:
Creative Knockouts - #132 die cuts/punches
DRS Designs Rubber Stamps - cut it out
Sassy Studio Designs - #324 shades of green
Fusion Card Challenge - lucky days
Simon Wednesday Challenge - a bit o' green
Double D Challenges - feeling green
The Card Concept - Shamrocks, Patterns and Greens
The Crafty Addicts - ag/card for a man

What are you waiting for come and join us!

Green Dragonfly - #104 Simply Create Too

For Simply Create Too's challenge this month - #104 Use Green Only, I created this simple card. I love my brusho backgrounds at the moment so decided to make one for my green only DT make. I used leaf green and sea green and spritzed with water, I love the result! After it had dried I used an edge'ables die for my sentiment. My die cutter has been a little neglected since I got my cameo so I had to blow off the dust first!

I cut my dragonfly on green glittered cardstock and added my gems to the bottom corner. I wanted to give effect of the dragonfly moving so I added a crystal swirl to finish it off.

I hope you like my card! Pop over to Simply Create Too to see the other DT makes and join in the challenge yourself!

Embellishments - say it in crystals swirl & gems
Sentiment - Crafters Companion Edge'ables
Image - Tonic Dragonfly Brooch

I'm entering my card in the following challenges:
Kitty Bee Designs - #66 in the garden
Pattie's Creations Design Challenge - #120 anything green goes
Stampin' Royalty - #319 going green
Crafting for all Seasons - #121 add some sparkle
Create and Inspire - #40 anything goes
The Sisterhood of Crafters - think spring
Double D Challenges - feeling green
The Card Concept - #50 shamrocks, patterns & greens

Love - Open-Minded Crafting Fun Challenges

We have a new challenge over at Open-Minded Crafting Fun Challenges!

Our Challenge this month is: love / valentines 

We have some amazing sponsors for this challenge, again offering some amazing prizes! Look what you have a chance of winning:

All dressed up - www.etsy.com/shop/alldressedupstamps - 2 images

Ppinky Dolls - www.etsy.com/shop/ppinkydollsart - 3 images

SLS Lines - www.etsy.com/shop/SLSLines - 3 images

Zuri Artsy Craftsy - www.etsy.com/shop/ZuriVicePresidentJr - 3 images

My digi is Cupido from Zuri Artsy Craftsy and is adorable! I decided to colour this little cutie and pop him in a pop up card. I did this by using a blank template, mounting some coordinating paper and adding some hearts. I put Cupido and the hearts onto some acetate to make them appear as if they are floating. I finished my card with a love sentiment on glitter cardstock.

Paper - Craftwork Cards
Embellishments -glitter hearts cut with my silhouette 
Sentiment - silhouette store
Image - Cupido from Zuri Artsy Crafty

I'm entering my card in the following challenges:
Digi Choosday Crafting Challenges - All you need is love
Fan-Tastic Tuesday - anything goes with a twist in love
Creative Card Crew - #106 love
Unicorn Challenge Blog - #6 lots of love
Dream Valley Challenges - #124 Valentines day
Incy Wincy designs Challenges - Love is in the air

What are you waiting for come and join us!

Simply Create Too - #102 Love / Valentines

This fortnights challenge over at Simply Create Too is #102 Love/Valentines. I found this fantastic little guy over at Treasure Box Designs. I cut him out on my chosen cardstock and distressed the edges using Tim Holtz faded jeans and worn lipstick. I gave the love bug some dimension by layering him up using 3d foam. I wanted to give my card some extra bling so I cut the heart in red mirror board. I cut some extra for added embellishment.

Why not pop over to Simply Create Too to see the other fantastic DT makes and join in the challenge!

Paper - Coordinations
Embellishments - mirror board
Sentiment - typed by me
Image - Love bug by Treasure Box Designs

I'm entering my card in the following challenges:
Unicorn Challenge Blog - #6 lots of love
Dream Valley Challenges - #124 Valentines day
Incy Wincy designs Challenges - Love is in the air

Take off the mask - Open Minded Challenges DT

I have been lucky enough to join another amazing design team and am honored to be working with Open-Minded Crafting Challenges!

Our Challenge this month is:

We have some amazing sponsors for this challenge! Just take a look at what you could win:

$10 Gift Certificate

$7.50 Euros Gift Certificate




$25 Worth of Digis




$10 Gift Certificate

I got my amazing digi from Smeared Ink! I coloured it with two tones of blue ProMarkers. I was very lucky because Santa brought me a Silhouette Cameo for Christmas so I created a bendy card template and cut it out to create my card blank. I then used a scalpel to follow the bendy lines to cut my patterned paper. My lovely neice made me some homemade sugar scrub so I reused the pheasants feathers from there. Finally I added some gems at the top and a perfect sentiment.

My new things for this project are:

1. A new fold
2. Using my cameo to create the card blank
3. A new image from somewhere I hadn't heard of
4. Using feathers 
5. A brand new paper pad

Paper - Venetian paper pad from Craftwork Cards
Embellishments - Three blue gemstones & recycled feathers
Sentiment - found on Pinterest & typed by me
Image - from Smeared Ink coloured with ProMarkers

I'm entering my card in the following challenges:
Creative Knockouts - #123 anything goes
As You Like It - anything goes
Simon Says - something new
Crafting for all Seasons - #117 monochrome

Create and Inspire - #36 anything goes

Inky Impressions - #281 all things new
Passion For ProMarkers - #327 monochrome
That Craft Place - anything goes
Crafty Gals Corner - #53 anything goes
Creative Fingers Challenge Blog - anything goes

What are you waiting for come and join us!

Simply Create Too #100 Its Party Time

I created this card for the new challenge over at Simply Create Too where our theme is "It's party time!" which runs from the 8th-22nd Jan. I loved making this card as I created my own card blank by cutting down some foiled card stock to 6x6 then mounting my image on corresponding pink mirror board. Finally I used my new Cameo to cut out the sentiment and added some stickles glitter and gems.

Paper - Hunkydory
Embellishments - gemstones &gold stickles
Sentiment - Cut with my cameo
Image - Party Penguin by Meljens coloured with ProMarkers

I'm entering my card in the following challenges:
In The Pink - #85 anything goes
Creative Knockouts - #123 anything goes
As You Like It - anything goes
Create and Inspire - #36 anything goes
The Crafty Addicts Challenges - #6 anything goes/celebrations
Shopping Our Stash - #233 colour me monochromatic (or pink)
Ike's World Challenges - #54 new beginnings
Lemon Shortbread Challenge Blog - #6 anything goes
The Cat's Pajamas - #305 anything goes
Oh La La Creations - #195 girlie