CD Sunday - O is for Olympics

Good morning all and a very Happy New Year to you all, this week over on CD Sunday we are being sponsored by the lovely Sharon Duncan with a fab prize of  Embossibilities Elegance and Embossibilities Texture Prints CD with some printable papers and embellishments.

Sharon gave us some files to work with and I used the one with the roses on but changed the colour in Craft Artist to fit in with my theme. I found the main image on the internet and the rest followed on from there.
I do hope you can come and join us and maybe win this great cd, and hopefully you won't have the issues that I have had trying to get these posts done, blogger is driving me daft these last few days, it's taking me hours just to do one little post.

Rainbow Lady's Challenge - Your choice

Over on Rainbow Lady's this week the theme is so easy that you have no excuse not to join us, Cynthia decided to give us a bit of a break and chose the theme of Your Choice.

For my card I used a stamp set from Joanna Sheen, this cat image comes with the flower so I stamped it all over and added a hint of colour with Promarkers making a pretty background, the cat image is coloured with Promarkers and I used a Sakura pen to do the eyes giving them a touch of glitter. I used the Weatered Wood Distress Ink around the edges and stamped the sentiment which also comes on the sheet, added a bit of ribbon and some gems and it's finished.

I do hope you can come over and join us, we love to come visit you. 

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to all my blogland friends. Have a lovely holiday and a very Happy New Year. xx

Rainbow Lady's challenge - White Christmas

Over at Rainbow Lady's this week we want you to dream of a white Christmas, for my card I've used the wonderful Thomas Kinkade cd, printed onto some lovely matt photo paper and plenty of glitter added but that doesn't really show in the picture. The ribbon is coloured with Promarkers and the slider stamped and embossed with WOW glitter embossing powder.

I hope you come over and join us for our final Christmas challenge of the year, there will be one other one before the new year though so hopefully you will find time amongst the madness for a bit of crafty down time.

CD Sunday - Fifties Fun

Good morning everyone, it's two weeks since the last CD Sunday challenge and this time as we are so busy over the christmas period it's another two weeker. The challenge this time is Fifties Fun and judging by the teams efforts this was popular with them so hopefully it will be with you too.
For my card I used My Craft Studio, A Carousel of Classics I don't use these discs very much but knew there would be something on there to fit the bill and I didn't even change the colour.

The trim at the bottom is done with a Martha Stewart punch and what looks like a thin ribbon is a piece of the backing paper.

Please come and join us we love to visit you in return.

Rainbow Lady's Challenge - Angels

Over on Rainbow Lady's this week we want you to think of angels. For my design I used Craft Artist and an image from Joanna Sheen's Angels and Fairies cd which I have had for years.  This is an 8inch square and I have used various digi kits to get the look I wanted, I do hope you can come over and join us.

Things with Whiskers week 2

As we are being sponsored by Elegant Inspiration for two weeks I have made another card to go onto the blog. A fairly simple decoupaged card but time is tight at the moment.

Rainbow Lady's Challenge - Trees and Baubles

What an eventful week I've had, on Sunday my pc died, it was quite old and had had a hard life but it was so sad to see it go. I have been saving for such an event so happily I could afford to go out and buy a new one so was only without for a few days. The only thing is all my favourites and contacts and lots of other things are still stuck in the old one, I do hope my friends lovely hubby can manage to get something sorted for me so I can retrieve the things I need.
Anyway on to this week over on Rainbow Lady's challenge blog, she has asked us to do Trees and Baubles and I decided to use a LOTV image as they are so cute and most of my friends and family are into cuteso this kind of card goes down really well.
The backing paper is from a Polka doodles cd and the the stamped sentiment is also a LOTV embossed with WOW powders.

Hope to see you over on the challenge blog so we can visit and see what you've been up to.

CD Sunday - Things with Whiskers

Good morning all, it's Sunday so another challenge from us over at CD Sunday and this week we are looking at Things with Whiskers.  This being the first Sunday of the month we are once again doing a sponsored challenge and this time we are running the challenge for two weeks so plenty of time to get your brains working and add something to the challenge.  I know some people are still doing Christmas cards and there are so many with mice and rabbits that I'm sure you could come up with something, in fact Santa himself has whiskers, lol.

My card didn't start out as a valentine's card but it sort of evolved into one, I have used an image from Lili of the Valley and the backing paper is from the Faye Whittaker collection from Joanna Sheen. I have used the fleur de lis  die from spellbinders but it wasn't large enough to do what I wanted so I cut out two one white and one red and cut them into four. I then fastened them to the back of the topper so it looks like the are just layered on top of each other. I then cut the corners from the same die set and put some gems on them. Once I'd done all that it looked like a good card for valentines day so I stamped the greeting and used the WOW embossing powders which I'm loving and it was complete.

We are giving away the fab Rachelle Anne Miller cd for this challenge and although the team got a cd each from the very generous Jo they arrived a little late for some of us so we will be showing you some more of the designs on the cd on the challenge blog next week but if you would lilke to see a few things I've done previously you will find them here

Hope to see you over at CD Sunday with some fab projects for us, see you there!

Rainbow Lady's Challenge - Christmas Carol

Over on Rainbow Lady's challenge blog this week we want you to think Christmas Carols, after all it's not too long to go now and I think it's ok to start getting a little excited.
For my card I have used a stamp from Artprints by Hero Arts which I have had for years, I have stamped and embossed in glittery gold powder and matted it onto gold card, the swirly embossed background was done with a mask through the Cuttlebug. A plain and simple card but it works for me. Hope you can come and join us as we are offering a voucher from joanna Sheen again this week.

CD Sunday - On Safari

It's time for another challenge over on CD Sunday and this week the theme is On Safari, I was going to use one of the big cat images on the JNM collections from Joanna Sheen but then I remembered that I had this image on one of the Cupcake cd's, this one is Walk on the Wildside.  I have used JNM for the backing paper which I'm not sure if you can see properly but has zebra's all over. I have used some of my precious tapestry card which I have punched with a deep punch from Martha Stewart.

I am quite pleased with the look of this card as I think it could quite easily be used for male or female birthdays, the sentiment is from a set by Lili of the Valley stamped in black and clear embossed.

Rainbow Lady's Challenge - Cards for Men

Over on Rainbow Lady's this week the theme Cynthia has chosen is cards for men, well we all know that men can be tricky but recently I have been buying some stamps that fit the bill perfectly.

This card is made with a fairly new set of stamps from Chocolate Baroque, I found the check background on the net and used Distress Inks to colour it, I liked the fack that it was already looking a bit grungy. The main image was stamped in black and embossed with clear then the bits of colour were done with more distress ink, I like the bigger chess pieces so wanted to use them so decided to ue them as focal points on the card. 

When I was putting the card together I noticed I had cut the background a tad too short so used a punch to do a border and hope it looks like it was designed that way. 

CD Sunday - Trees

Over on CD Sunday this week we are using trees as our theme for the challenge, I have chosen to use a stamp set from Glenda at Chocolate Baroque for my card. I know my card is a little plain but it is for a man and when I went to get my card candy I only had brown or blue and niether of these colours looked right so I have left it as it is, just the excuse I need to go shopping. The backing paper is from the Artylicious cd Decadent Brocade, I wanted something that would look as if it fitted in with the tree, not sure if it totally works but it's not bad.  The inked background is done with Distress inks, I used Stormy Sky, Scattered Straw and Forest Moss.

I hope you can come over and join us and have a look at the rest of the teams cards, some really nice things this week.

Rainbow Lady's challenge - Thanksgiving

Over on Rainbow Lady's challenge blog this week we are thinking about our american cousins so the theme this week is Thanksgiving. For my sample I used Craft Artist, not sure where I'd be if I didn't have this fab little programme.

I guess if you have no need for a special thanksgiving card then you could just do a thank you, but please join in with us as we love to visit and see your wonderful ideas.

CD Sunday - Paisley Fun

Over at CD Sunday this week the theme is paisley fun, well it may be fun for some but as it's not my favourite design type it wasn't really fun for me. I didn't have a clue what I was going to do so this card is done in a bit of a panic as I only finished it yesterday.

I found the image on the internet by googling paisley images so I don't know who did it originally but I won't try to claim it as my own. I printed the backing paper from Joanna Sheen's Enchanted Dreams and the lace is some I bought earlier in the year and have been using it sparingly, I really need to get some more.  The sentiment is Lily of the Valley and is embossed with Sparkle and Sprinkle in Blueberry.

I do hope you can come and join us and I'm sure you will have far better ideas than I have, just check out the rest of the team.

Rainbow Lady's Challenge - Inspired by a picture

Over on Rainbow Lady's this week we want you to do something that has been inspired by the picture that Cynthia has taken. The picture is of a beautiful pink pointsettia so we really needed to use something with pink and green.

My choice for this week is a pretty stamp that I've had for years and I'm not sure where I bought it but it's an Inca stamp, I have hardly used it but decided to give it another go and it has turned out all right this time, I stamped it in Versamark and then used green WOW embossing powder, I bought a kit at the NEC and it was a real bargain so am well pleased with it, I will be buying more of these powders.

I have used a Marianne folder to do the background and the sentiment is from LOTV, another NEC purchase.

I do hope you can come and join us we love seeing the beautiful things you produce.

CD Sunday - Sunset

This week on CD Sunday we have a great sponsor and she has given the design team a kit to play with, I have been playing with the images and all the bits and pieces but as soon as I saw these stamps from Glenda at Chocolate Baroque I knew I wanted to include them into my card for this week.
I used the backing papers in the kit for both the piece behind the stamped image and the backing paper I used as a base. I also used a sentiment from the JNM cd as it was already done and the colour matched perfectly.

I love the little kit Caroline has given us and I will be buying more as everything matches so well. I do hope you can join us and as Caroline is offering a digi image of the winners choice then it is worth giving it a go.

Looking forward to seeing you during the week.

La Blanche Stamped Card

I got a couple of new stamps today, I have seen them around but never tried them and now, well I'm going to be hooked I think. The stamps are so fine and stamp perfectly, this one is the first image and it's so crisp I am blown away with them.

The backgound is a piece of paper from the Basic Grey pad Indian Summer which I have overstamped with a small swirly design using Frayed Burlap Distress Ink. The wordy backing is a stamp from Creative Impressions stamped in black and then tinted with the Frayed Burlap, the bits of colour are done with Promarkers. I am quite pleased with this so wanted to show you all.

CD Sunday - Puss Cat

Over at CD Sunday this week we have a great theme, this week we are thinking of Cats. I have recently been adopted by a cat and we are trying to get the dog to accept her, not with a lot of luck at the moment but given time I know we will get there.

I decided that as it's so close to Christmas that I would make a Christmas card, I don't know where time has gone as last year I had all my cards made by November but this year I've done very few. This image has come from Joanna Sheen's Ivory Cats cd, I just love the look on the cats face but then all the cats on this cd are lovely and I could have opened up any of the sections and found something I could have used.

I hope you can come over and join us, you know we  love to see you and this week we are saying goodbye to Pamela who has been a super guest this last month and has made something a little bit different this week.

More Halloween - Rainbow Lady's Spooks and Witches

Over on Rainbow Lady's blog this week we want you to think Spooks and Witches as it's is almost Halloween and it's time to celebrate.
For my card I have used a few free downloads, the background is from last year from Glenda at Chocolate Baroque and the words and the little witch with her cat is from the Polkadoodles web site.  The card is coloured with rusty hinge distress inks then stamped with Paris Dusk Memento ink. I do hope you can come on over and join us, I'm also entering this into the Polkadoodles challenge too which this week is Halloween.