Something exciting......

Hi all, it's a bit late for me here today - but I just had to prepare this post to share a bit of exciting news with you.

I have been lucky enough to have been accepted onto the design team over at Sunday Sketch & Stamp.

I am really looking forward to joining in with the other designers there, they create some wonderful cards, and I hope to learn alot too.

Here is my card for their challenge, using Donna's  sketch #104

Card Recipe

Craftword cards 8x8" base card

Papermania, tourquise cardstock

Kaisercraft - Black & white velvet spotty paper (Chapter One collection)

Rubber Stamp - S.W.A.L.K 'Deserve a Treat'

watercolour pencils

I am also entering this card into the Mothers day challenge over at Sugar Creek Hollow

Thanks for taking the time to look.

Celebrate........

Hello, I havn't crafted all week and I was getting itchy fingers, so I made this card just because I wanted too !!! hehe

Also I bought this cute dinosaur digi stamp from Christine Gray, and he has been looking and smiling at me all week, with that twinkle in his eye - and I simply could not resist him any longer.

Card Recipe

Card base - Craftwork cards, 8x8" (white)

Backing papers - Cricut Imagine Cartridge Enjoy the Seasons

Layers & Frames - all cut with Cricut Elegant Edges cartridge (eyelet 2 cuts pg 52)

- cut at incremental sizes from 6.8" to 7.5"

Bakers twine and green snaps from stash

Thanks to Christine for drawing such a cute Dinosaur, keep an eye here, he will have a little pink friend soon too.

Thanks for taking the time to look.

A few Bows and a few Ribbons......

The Stamp-n-Doodle challenge has ended up quite girly for me this week, and I thoroughly enjoyed putting together all the colours, and is a bit of a departure from the more serene cards I have been making of late.

The image of the girl from Stamp-n-Doodle really depicts how I see a modest young girl/teenager, who has just gained that little bit of freedom to shop with her friends.

I really enjoyed colouring her, and I think I am finally gaining some confidence and dare I say it 'the knack' of promarkers. Though I have to say using the right paper helps enormously with the blending of the colours.





Card Recipe

8x8 inch white base card

Patterned papers - Basic Grey, Out of Print collection

Cricut cartridge - Elegant edges, Eyelt3 cut (pg68)

-regular shape (lilac shape) cut at 8"

- dark purple shape, is oblong cut at 5.5"

Digital Stamp-n-Doodle stamp - Chatty Teen

Distress Inks - Dusty concord, worn lipstick

Martha Stewart punch

Ribbons, plain cardstock and rubber stamp all from stash

Just a reminder of our 25% off DIGI OF THE MONTH happening right now at STAMP-N-DOODLE SHOP. Our April image will be featured all month at SPECIAL SAVINGS, so go check it out:) If you haven't visited our SHOP yet, make sure you cruise on over to STAMP-N-DOODLE SHOP - Lynne has so many wonderful digi and rubber stamped images as well as her FABULOUS line of Crafts U Print items and NEW ITEMS being added all the time! Also, make sure you check out the work of our FABULOUS NEW Tutorial DT members at THE LEARNING CENTER part of the shop.

Christine's Hibiscus

Hello, today I have a card with an image drawn by Christine Gray, this gorgeous hibiscus reminds me of a plant that we had in our garden in Wales. We inherited it with the garden, and for about 2 weeks each year it would be full of beautiful white blooms, very much like I have coloured here. It was beautiful.

The flower is coloured with promarkers, and then masked so that I could colour tint and stamp the background with Tim Holtz scattered straw ink, and his butterfly stamp. The music and swirl stamps in the background also are by Le Blanche.

You can click on Christine's link above to see more of the images that she has been drawing.

 I would like to enter this card also into challenge #102 on the Sunday Sketch and Stamp blog.

Thank you for taking the time to look.

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April Showers and Spring Flowers

Being Tuesday this is of course the title of the Stamp-n-Doodle challenge this week.

But actually its rather apt because as I was making the card, and now writing this post, the april showers are blowing their way over my garden - travelling in an almost horizontal fashion as the winds are so strong. And my poor spring flowers, the lovely scented broom and almost opened poppy are taking a real battering !!!

A stark contrast to the brilliant blue skies (and chilly breeze)  we had for the last week of the easter half term. 

Onto the challenge, pop on over to the Stamp-n-Doodle blog to see more inspiration for this week and see how my team member have interpretted April Showers and/or April Flowers.

Ive dithered over these two photos for hours, the top one is a truer colour, but the one below shows the glossy accents off. Easiest thing was to put both on (sorry for duplicating).

I used Ranger glossy accents as a finishing touch over the bird and the flowers to give the impression they had just been in an april shower.

Thanks for coming to take a look.

Nature's Garden

Good Morning, this is a quick post from me today before I take the boys out to the cinema. I used the sketch over at Sunday Sketch & Stamp challenge blog. I was a chance for me to use the paper pack from Prima called Nature Garden, and as their flowers thieir papers are equally as beautiful.

The dragonfliy is a stamp I have had for a number of years from an oriental set from the Stamp Man, I had forgotten how delicate and pretty is was. It is stamped in black momento ink and coloured with promarkers, before being masked and sprayed with the Crafters Companion irridescent spray and sparkle.

Thank you for looking, enjoy your weekend.

Elena's Birthday Card

Hello all, this week sees me back from holiday, all in one piece, as we as as a family tried skiing for the first time. We had 2 days at a resort in the mountains of Spain where both of my boys done really well on their ski's. Tom my eldest was whizzing down the slopes on his own, and Stephen my 4 year old had little ski's and tackled the nursery slopes with the aid of his Dad. We shall all definatly be going again. Being Spain we then of course popped along the coast from Granada down to Mum & Dads where we then enjoyed numereous tapa lunches (for the adults) and ice-creams for the kids on the fairly windswept beaches.

Well back to the business in hand, STAMP-n-DOODLE challenge this week is to use bold bright colours, Use bold and bright colors - reds, hot pinks, bright blues, greens, yellows and oranges.

I have to admit to making this card in February for my nieces 7th birthday and I know she'll be chuffed to be mentioned.

So Hello Elena, do you recognise this card?, how are you and are you enjoying the Easter holidays xxxx

Just a reminder if you haven't visited our SHOP yet, make sure you cruise on over to STAMP-N-DOODLE - we have some unique digi and rubber stamped images with NEW ITEMS being added all the time! We also have just added SCRAPBOOK Embellishments and Quick Pages.

Please, make sure you check out the work of our FABULOUS NEW Tutorial DT members at THE LEARNING CENTER part of the shop or on the Blog.

The rest of the design team have made some lovely cards too, so why not pop over to see what they have been up to, and then maybe join in the challenge yourself this week.

Audrey, Vickie, Lisa, Wendy, Anne-Marie, Chana, Qadirah, Angela

Thanks for taking the time to stop by and have a look.

Jumping in Puddles....

Who can resist jumping in a puddle, at some stage our lives, just to test how deep it is ? :-)

Funnily, it is my eldest son (10 yrs old) who is the worst for getting wet feet, my youngest does like a puddle, but because Peppa Pig only wears welly boots to jumps in puddles, then that is what he does. I'm very sure that will change one day.

The beginning of the month sees another stamp highlighted at 'Stamp of the Month', at the Stamp-n-Doodle website, where the above image, named Puddlejumper is offered at a 25% discount.

 Lynne has so many wonderful digi and rubber stamped images as well as her FABULOUS line of Crafts U Print items and NEW ITEMS being added all the time! Also, make sure you check out the work of our FABULOUS NEW Tutorial DT members at THE LEARNING CENTER part of the shop

Why not visit the Stamp n Doodle BLOG to see what my  team members have created with this image, I'm sure you'll find plenty of inspiration.

Thanks for taking the time to visit.