The Creative Cottage Challenge #10 - Fancy Fold

Hello to all my blogging friends! Sorry I've been a bad blogger lately, I just haven't had a minute to get round all your blogs to say hello... I shall try my best to pop by before the end of the week! The only excuse I have is work... I seem to live there at the moment!


It's challenge #10 over at The Creative Cottage Challenge and this week the theme is 'Fancy Fold'! Well I have to tell you this took me out of my comfort zone of square cards yikes... I was stumped at first then remembered I had a little 'Milk Carton Template' from Papermania and thought it would make a cute sweetie box. Great, but once I'd made the box I just didn't know how to embellish it, and I didn't want to cover the lovely paper I used from The Creative Cottage 'Bella Ballerina' digi kit. I printed the design onto 250gsm smooth white card and then made the box up from that. Anyway, I've gone for a less is more approach and just added a bit of sticky ribbon, a cute flower and charm, and a mini tag. I thought it'd be a sweet little gift to give to my friend's little girl. I have to admit though, I did eat one or two of the sweeties when I was taking the photo, there just seemed too many for the composition to look right lol :)


This week there's a lovely prize up for grabs, the 'Bags of Style' digi kit from The Creative Cottage. If you pop over to the blog you'll see that my fellow DT buddies Linda and Teri have used this kit in their creations, and then there's all the other lovely cards and projects from the rest of the Design Team to feast your eyes on! Hope you can join in the fun!

I thought I'd enter my box into the 'Metal Mania' challenge at Fab 'n Funky this week as I have a metal charm.

Cupcake Craft Challenge - Buttons

Hi peeps! Doesn't Monday come around quickly!? Well, it's time for the Cupcake Craft Challenge again and this week the theme is 'Buttons', chosen by the talented Liza! So obviously we'd like to see you using multiples of buttons on your cards/projects. We're sponsored this week by Digital Delights, who kindly gave the DT some digi images to work with... I chose this cute scottie dog! He's coloured with Promarkers, my paper is from The Creative Cottage 'Christmas Wishes' digi kit (thought it fitted the Scottish theme well) and the buttones/ribbon are all from my stash. I've used a Martha Stewart punch along the bottom of the card to give it a little interest. Don't forget there's a prize for one lucky winner, and we'll be choosing the Top 5 as usual so why not have a go?! Hope you can join in with us this week!

I'm entering my card into the Totally Papercrafts Challenge which is stitching (I've done faux as my sewing machine is collecting dust lol).

Penny Black Saturday Challenge Reaches 100

Hi folks! I've just arrived home from work and thought I'd say a quick hello! I've a little card to share with you, which is for the Penny Black Saturday Challenge. They have a super sketch by Kath, very clever as if you look carefully you can make out the number 100! This is to celebrate their 100th challenge, and as this was the very first challenge I took part in I just had to make a card. I've used papers from Basic Grey (Cupcake)... these are fab for birthday cards! The image is of course Penny Black coloured with Promarkers, and the birthday sentiment is from Papermania! I'm also entering this card for the challenge at Stamp Something as it's Birthday Somethings and Cute Card Thursday which is 'Boyz to Men'. Well, I did say it was a quick hello so that's it from me... have a lovely Sunday evening! Thanks for popping by!

Friends Forever

It's Friday already and I just don't know where the time has gone... I wish I could work part-time as I never seem to have a minute to myself these days! You may (or may not) have noticed that I tend to only put my DT cards on my blog, not through choice but lack of time :( However I was eager to use one of my new images from Di at Di's Digi Downloads, as I was chosen last week to be part of her DT. Here's the card I made...

I've used the 'Friends Forever' digi image, aren't these two so sweet?! It's coloured with Promarkers, still my fave colouring medium! The papers are from Dovecraft, sentiment is from a clear Woodware stamp set, embossing is using Cuttlebug (Morrocan Screen), the butterfly is from Papermania and the ribbon and felt flowers are from my stash. Here's a little close up of the cute image...

I've used the sketch by Denise at Stamp Something, it's a good one! Hope I'm not too late to enter the challenge, last minute as always! I'm also entering in The Secret Crafter Challenge which is Friendship, the challenge at Dare U 2 Digi Stamp which is Anything Goes and finally the Sweet Stampin Challenge where you have to do a summer project (hence the flowers and butterfly) . Well, that's it for today, back to work in an hour or so, better get cracking with a few jobs! Thanks to all my blogging friends for the wonderful support and comments... I feel as though I'm neglecting you all at the mo!

The Creative Cottage Challenge #9 Food & Drink

It's challenge time again over at The Creative Cottage and this week we're feeling a little peckish... well I'm trying to diet (more like stop eating rubbish) but we'd like to see 'Food &/or Drink' on your creations this week! I've used a little Penny Black stamp, one of the Slapstick ones, coloured with Promarkers. My paper is from The Creative Cottage 'Come Rain or Shine' digi kit, lovely and bright don't you think? The ribbon is Doodlebug, which I stamped on with Staz On ink using a Woodware clear stamp. I've added the little button flowers etc for a bit of extra detail. I'm entering my card into the challenge at Simon Says Stamp which is Birthdays/Celebrations as they're celebrating their 1st blogaversary!

Don't forget you can use any products for the challenge, but we love seeing your Creative Cottage creations too! The other DT girls have come up with some extra yummy cards for this challenge so pop over to the challenge blog and take a peek, don't forget to say hi! There's a prize for one lucky winner too! Oh, and if that's not enough there's a fabulous freebie out this month, so what are you waiting for?

Cupcake Craft Challenge #89 - All The 3's

Good morning blogging friends! For those of you living in the UK, I hope you're having a relaxing Bank Holiday weekend (I'm so so jealous cos we don't have Bank Hol Mon here in France)! That's something that I really miss about home :( I used to love having a long weekend!

Anyway, as it's Monday, then it's time for the Cupcake Craft Challenge and this week the challenge has been set by the talented Kathrin who has chosen 'All the 3's' as the theme. We'd like to see cards or projects with 3 flowers, 3 papers and 3 ribbons. I really enjoyed this challenge and went to town with the pastels this week, not to mention my little Tilda who was feeling rather neglected of late! I've used Michele's sketch over at Passion for Promarkers and made my own flowers using my Woodware Daisy Punches and brads as centres. Tilda is of course coloured with Promarkers. The papers are from my stash... these were the very first papers I bought! The sentiment is from a Studio G set, I thought it went well with the image. To be honest this little character kinda reminds me of myself when I was younger... bit of a tomboy but I loved to skip! I'm also entering my card in the Cute Card Thursday challenge which is 'make your own'... in my case flowers.

The challenge this week is sponsored by Simon Says Stamp, one lucky random winner will receive a $20 gift voucher plus free shipping! There's some scrummy things in their shop so you won't have any trouble spending this!

Check out the other DT cards for inspiration, as always the girls have come up trumps!

Good News!

Good evening... just a quick post tonight to share my good news... I'm proud to announce that I have been chosen by Diane to be part of her new Design Team and I'm so chuffed! Thanks Diane! For those of you who aren't familiar Diane has a fab blog 'Di's Digi Downloads' where you can find the cutest digi stamps, just click on the link to check it out! So I'll be back very soon with a card or two using Diane's fab illustrations!