Winnie in Red, White and Blue

Good morning, it's time for another Willow Sketchie Challenge and this is the card I have made following Hazel's great sketch:

I have used the gorgeous image 'A spot of gardening' - available from the Willow Designs Store and coloured her with ProMarkers.  The papers are NitWit 'Tour London' and the card stock my usual preference - Core'dinations.  I enlarged the little bird and printed him out several times, I then decoupaged him up and sprayed him with some spray and shine. The ribbon, buttons and twine are from my stash and the sentiment is a stamp from the Forever Friends Retro Collection.

As usual I have decorated the inside of my card:

This is Hazel's sketch:

 and she has chosen a colour theme:  Red, White and Blue.

You don't have to follow both the sketch and the theme unless you want to, one or the other will do just fine.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

The Pink Elephant Challenge 149 - Buttons Galore

Allsorts Challenge 155 - Buttons and Bows

Craft Your Days Away Challenge 45 - All Creatures Great and Small

Crafty Calendar May Challenge - Things with Wings

Just Some Lines Challenge - Tweet, Tweet

Sundays with Crissy Challenge 29 - Things with Wings

Pattie's Creations Challenge 44 - Recipe (buttons, ribbon, sentiment)

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge 186 - In the garden

Crafter's Companion Monthly Challenge 24 - Here comes Summer
Oldie But A Goodie Challenge - Things with Wings (ribbon, buttons, twine and card stock all over six months old)

Make sure you pop over to the Willow Sketchie Challenge Blog and have a look at the DT inspiration, you have until 20:00 hrs on Wednesday 30th May to enter and the prize is a voucher to spend in the Willow Designs Store.  Don't forget you can either follow the sketch and/or the theme.

Thank you for visiting today.

Pauline

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Vintage Dress Form

I was lucky enough to win the challenge over at Use it Tuesday the other week and was invited to be guest designer for Challenge 32.  I was asked to create a card 'using 2 hoarded items' - I used some BoBunny papers that I have had for about a year and could not bring myself to cut into and also some lace that I've also had for about a year.

I got the idea for my card from one of my magazines, as soon as I saw it I thought I know just the image that would work with this design.

The image is The Crafty Pad - Dress Form Trio and the papers are BoBunny - Gabrielle, full details of everything I have used are listed below.  I inked the image, ribbon, flowers and lace with old paper distress ink to tone them down a bit and match them in with the papers.  The image comes as three separate dress forms, I layered two of them up and mounted them onto the hand cut tag.  The sentiment is cut from one of The Crafty Pad - Ticket style sentiments and mounted onto the same Core'dinations card stock that has been used throughout.

I used the same two dress form images, greatly reduced, to decorate the inside of my card:

CARD RECIPE

Image:  The Crafty Pad - Dress Form Trio

Papers:  BoBunny - Gabrielle

Card Stock:  Core'dinations

Tools:  Spellbinders - Floral Flourishes, Classic Rectangles (inside card),

Punch Bunch - Flower Punch, Japanese Screw Punch

Embellishments:  flowers, ribbon and lace from stash

Sentiment:  The Crafty Pad

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

PaperPlay Challenge Week 20 - Destruction
Creative Craft Challenge - Distressing
Emergency Crafters Challenge - Spots and Stripes
Simply Create Too Challenge 13 - Mother's Day  (or Feminine)
Crazy 4 Challenges C4C137 - Anything Goes as long as it's a Birthday Card
Inky Impressions Challenge - Use Lace or Trim
Stamp and Create May Challenge - For the Ladies
The Glitter Geeks Challenge Week 20 - Polka Dots
Robyns Fetish Challenge 108 - Anything Goes
Kaboodle Doodles Challenge - Dressed for Success

Make sure you visit the Use it Tuesday Challenge Blog to take a look at the DT inspiration and join in with the challenge


Thank you for joining me to today.

Pauline
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Watering the Flowers

Good morning, it's time for another Willow Sketchie Challenge and this is the card I have made following Claire's great sketch:

I have used the gorgeous image Busy in the garden - available from the Willow Designs Store and coloured her with a combination of ProMarkers and FlexMarkers.   The papers are Echo Park - Springtime and I used some of the flowers to make the embellishments using my Epiphany Shape Studio.  The sentiment has been cut down from a sentiment ticket from The Crafty Pad.

As usual I have decorated the inside of my card:

This is Claire's sketch:

and she has chosen the theme:  Use 3 different papers.

You don't have to follow both the sketch and the theme unless you want to, one or the other will do just fine.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

2 Sisters Challenge 91 - Make It Girlie

Jellypark Challenge - Girlie Girl
Di's Digi Downloads Challenge - Spring
Papertake Weekly Challenge - In the Garden
The Crazy Challenge 119 - Outside
Daisy Doodles Creative Challenge 59 - May Flowers
Tammy's Scrappin' Corner Challenge 10 - Show us your Flowers
Stamping with the Dragon Challenge - Two for the price of one

I Love ProMarkers Challenge 117 - Anything Goes

Cupcake Inspirations Challenge 160 - Inspirational Photograph (I was inspired by the colours)

Make sure you pop over to the Willow Sketchie Challenge Blog and have a look at the DT inspiration, you have until 20:00 hrs on Wednesday 23rd May to enter and the prize is a voucher to spend in the Willow Designs Store.  Don't forget you can either follow the sketch and/or the theme.

Thank you for visiting today.

Pauline

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Crafting for all Seasons 1st Birthday Challenge and Blog Hop

It's Birthday time at Crafting for all Seasons, the challenge has been going for a whole year and to celebrate we are having a Blog Hop.  But first thank you to everyone who joined us for our Handmade Flowers challenge we had so many beautiful entries, I do hope you will all join us again this week for our Birthday Celebrations.  The challenge this week is 'It's a Celebration' with Buttons - we would like you to use some buttons on your project.  This is what I have made:

I wanted to do something a little bit different for our 1st Birthday so I made a 1st Birthday card and matching Gift Bag.  The image is from TeddyBo and the papers are Echo Park - Little Boy, they have been hiding in my ever growing paper stash for ages.

I coloured the image with ProMarkers and paper pieced the number one and added some Crystal Lacquer to it:

The border was cut using Spellbinders Edgeabilities Classic Ric Rac, I cut the sentiment from a Crafty Pad Ticket Sentiment and backed it on the same red Core'dinations card stock that I used throughout.  The buttons and thread are from my stash:

As usual, I have decorated the inside of my card to complement the front:

I used the same image, papers and layout for the gift bag:

and also decorated the back to complement the front:

I apologise for the number of photographs but I wanted to show everything, it took me so long to make it all I was nearly late for the challenge.

I would like to enter this card and gift bag into the following challenges:

Lollipop Crafts Challenge 80 - Just for Him
The Pink Elephant Challenge 148 - Polka Dots and Stripes
Sentimental Sundays Challenge 102 - Birthday - Buttons
Joanna Sheen Challenge - Happy Birthday
Cupcake Craftroom May Challenge - Photo Inspiration
Robyn's Fetish Challenge 107 - Paper Piecing
LEJ Designs Challenge 3 - Lots of Layers
Totally Papercrafts Challenge 116 - No Pesky Girls Allowed
Little Claire Monthly Challenge 21 - Male Theme
Desert Islands Crafters Challenge 31 - Angela's Itinerary (For a Boy/What's your number/Something Old - papers/Something Blue)

Now on to the Blog Hop - as it's our FIRST BIRTHDAY at Crafting for all Seasons we are having a blog hop to celebrate.  The hop begins and ends on the Crafting for all Seasons Challenge Blog.  If you've arrived from Lizy's blog you're on the right track, if you are just popping by to say hello you may want to pop over to the Challenge Blog to join in the whole hop.

At each of the DT's  blogs you will find a letter, once you have collected them all, leave a comment on the challenge post telling us which word the letters spell.  You must leave a comment on each DT blog as you hop and one commenter on each of the blogs will win a prize, my prize is:

A set of Kanban Damask Divas - Let's Go Shopping Clear Stamps

My letter is A, now all you need to do is pop back to the Challenge Blog and leave a comment telling us the word.  If you get lost along the way there is a full list for the hop on the Challenge Post.

Good Luck!  Make sure you pop over to the Crafting for all Seasons Challenge Blog and check out the DT inspiration, we would love for you to join us for our Birthday Celebrations.

That's it from me for today, I hope I haven't bored you to tears, see you again soon.

Pauline
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On the Garden Wall

This is my second DT card for the Bearly Mine Designs Challenge and I'm still in shock at being invited to join this fab team.

The theme for our challenge this week is 'Dies' and we are sponsored by Cheery Lynn Designs.

who are offering this fab Waltzing Matilda Doily Die as a prize for one lucky winner

For my card I have used the lovely LOTV Die Cut Design 'On the Garden Wall' and papers from Bearly Mine Designs 'Simply Dots and Summer's Roses' - I just love the way all of the Bearly Mine paper sets co-ordinate with each other.  Full details of everything I have used are listed below.

I have decorated the inside of my card to complement the front:

CARD RECIPE:

Image:  LOTV - On the Garden Wall

Papers:  Bearly Mine Designs - Simply Dots and Summer's Roses

Card Stock:  Core'dinations

Tools:  Cheery Lynn - Lattice #2, Spellbinders - Standard Circle and Scalloped Circle,

FrisKars border punch, Woodware corner punch

Embellishments:  flowers, ivy and ribbon from stash

Sentiment:  computer generated

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Crafty Ribbons Challenge 19 - Flowers

Lili's Little Fairies - Your favourite craft tool (Cuttlebug and border punches)

Crafty Creations Challenge 169 - Frame It!

Deep Ocean Challenge 25 - What a wonderful woman!

Papertake Weekly Challenge - Cute, Cute, Cute
Crafts and Me Challenge 83 - Punches and Die Cuts
Ooh La La Challenge 103 - Ribbon or Twine (or both)
Love to Create Challenge 15 - Bingo (ribbon/punches/flowers)

S J Crafts Challenge 4 - Favourites (favourite colour - purple and favourite papers - Bearly Mine Designs)

Crafts for Eternity Challenge 71 - Colour Recipe - Awakening

Make sure you visit the Bearly Mine Challenge Blog to take a look at the DT inspiration and join in with this weeks challenge, don't forget we have Cheery Lynn Designs as our sponsor this week.

Thank you for visiting today, please come back soon.

Pauline
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Spring Colours

I think my title should really be 'Spring COLOUR' as I seem to be in a bit of a 'tone on tone' rut at the moment.  This is my card for this weeks Whoopsi Daisy Challenge - Spring Colours:

It turned out rather green didn't it!  The image is from Whoopsi Daisy - sheet 137, coloured with my usual combination of ProMarkers and FlexMarkers.  I have just ordered four more sets of FlexMarkers, I love the brush tips and find them so much easier to blend with than other alcohol markers.  The papers are from Bearly Mine Designs, full details of everything I have used are listed below.

This is the inside of my card, decorated to complement the front:

CARD RECEIPE:

Image:  Whoopsi Daisy - sheet 137

Papers:  Bearly Mine Designs - Simply Dots and Spring Delights

Card Stock:  Joanna Sheen (along time ago)

Tools:  Spellbinders - Standard Circles and Scalloped Circles, Marianne CreaTables - LR0131,

FrisKars border punch, Woodware - corner punch

Embellishments:  button, ribbon and twine from stash

Sentiment:  computer generated

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

2 Sisters Challenge 91 - Make it Girlie
The Paper Shelter Challenge 63 - Anything Goes
Di's Digi Downloads Challenge - Spring
Card Makin' Mamas Challenge 45 - Spring Flowers
Crafty Catz Challenge 132 - Happy Birthday
Simply Create Too Challenge 13 - Mother's Day (or Feminine)
Do You Stack Up Challenge 71 - Use a Flower
Little Miss Muffet Challenge 34 - May Flowers
Stamp and Create May Challenge - For the Ladies
Digi Doodle Shop Challenge 107 - Bingo (Button, ribbon, flowers)

Make sure you pop over the the Whoopsi Daisy Challenge Blog, check out the DT inspiration and join in with this weeks challenge.  Don't forget we are now an open challenge and will be accepting entries with non Whoopsi Daisy images.  The winner will be picked at random and the prize will be one sheet of Whoopsi Daisy images, however if you do use a Whoopsi Daisy image and you are the random winner you will win TWO sheets of Whoopsi Daisy images and there are four images on each sheet.

Thank you so much for looking in today, please come back soon.

Pauline

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Doodle It!

It's time for a new challenge at The Crafty Pad and this week the theme is 'Doodle It', well as those of you who know me will realise - I do not do doodling - so this one was not easy for me.

This is the card I eventually made:

I used two of the images from The Crafty Pad 'Dress Form Trio' and the sentiment is from The Crafty Pad 'Sewing Sentiment Tickets' set.  The backing paper is from Debbie Moore's Shabby Chic Haberdashery CD and the card stock is Onyx Stardream from Joanna Sheen.  I have distressed the edges of the papers, images and sentiments with weathered wood Distress Ink and added a seam binding bow and some buttons to embellish.

I have also decorated the inside of my card with the same papers:

This week we are sponsored by MeiFlower

who are offering one lucky winner a £20 voucher to spend in their online store.

So get out your pens and add some doodling to your project - it can be some faux stitching, some scribbles - anything you like - as long as you take a pen to your creation somewhere.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Paper Crafting Journey Challenge 9 - Black + one other colour
Fab 'n Funky Challenge 120 - Buttons and Bows
Digital Tuesday Challenge 159 - All about ribbons and buttons!
Digi Doodle Shop Challenge 107 - Bingo (ribbon, something new (image), ink)
Polka Doodles Challenge Week 19 - Monochromatic Shades
Delicious Doodles Challenge 19 - Try Something New (doodling)
Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Challenge 53 - Feminine Card
2 Sisters Challenge 91 - Make it Girlie
CES Farewell Challenge 85 - Anything Goes
One Stop Craft Challenge - Monochrome

Make sure you pop over to The Crafty Pad Challenge Blog and check out the other DT inspiration and have a go at the challenge, don't forget to get out your pen and do some doodling.

Thank you for visiting today, please leave me a comment and let me know what you think, I do enjoy reading them all.

Pauline
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