Daisy Doodles #51 Anything Goes

At Daisy Doodles Creative Challenges we have a new challenge today

Anything Goes

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For my card I have used this cute image of Sidney the Koala. You will receive it in 3 formats for only $2.  Head over to the Daisy Doodles Store to check them it out !

I coloured the Koala with Promarkers & Flexmarkers using the blender to pen to add some stippling to the fur and some longer tufts on his ears. I added a second layer for his head and decoupaged it using 3d foam. I love his little adorable face J

The image is matted onto a scrap of brown card and I used some handmade paper which has flocked leaves on it for the background. As Sidney is hugging the tree I thought a sentiment featuring the word hug would be appropriate and used a ticket that was a freebie from SGT Stamper.

When I was younger my maternal Grandad gave me a real Koala which he had brought back from Australia when he was in the Navy. It had been stuffed and I loved to touch the fur as it was so soft. I guess as kid I never realised it was wrong to have a real stuffed animal and wouldn’t dream of doing so today. I would much rather see a real live one than a stuffed one, and maybe one day I would be lucky enough to hold one…..

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I hope you will pop over to the blog to see the lovely creations on there from the rest of the DT and we look forward to seeing your entries in for our Anything Goes challenge.

I'll see you again next time with another lovely Daisy Doodles design.

  

Materials Used in this card are as follows:-

Card Size – A6

Image – Sidney The Koala by Daisy’s Digi Doodles

Patterned Paper – Handmade flocked paper

Sentiment – SGT Stamper

Tools - Scissors, 3d Foam pads, Promarkers & Flexmarkers

Techniques – decoupage

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order):-

• Bizzy Becs – Anything Goes
• Crafty Creations #152 – Something New (digi)
• Crafty Purple Frog – Anything Goes
• Fresh Brewed Designs #77 – Something new (digi)
• Gingerloft #31 – Anything Goes
• I Love Promarkers #99 – Cute & Cuddly
• Pile It On #3 – Fuzzy Friends
• Stamping With The Dragon #1 – Frames
• The Squirrel & the Fox #9 – Critters

CDAC PC10 Beary Sweet Winter

It’s Round 10 of the Progressive Challenge at CDAC  and we have some lovely

Bringing In The New Year

 themed images for this round. Team A have the pleasure in bringing you some gorgeous samples for the images for this round. 

My card is using a cute image called Beary Sweet Winter from Digi’s by Phooka.

I have combined 3 digital images together to make this card. I used a previous freebie Fireworks design by Anne Fenton for the background, placed the cute bear in front and used a sentiment stamp from Shannon’s Sentiments adding the 2012 with a font in the graphics programme. I love the flexibility you have with digis and that you can combine images to make something unique for your own cards.

The image is coloured with Promarkers and I have used a clear Sakura glitter pen on the stars, adding lots of star shaped and small gems from Papermania in clear and blue.

I have used a sheet of pearlescent card for the base card, adding a piece of metallic card with embossed silver stars. The image is matted onto some more card and raised on 3d foam. The holographic stars have been in my stash for years and I threaded some metal brads from Papermania through, adding them to the top of the card to look like they are part of the fireworks.

I would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a Happy New Year, I hope that 2012 has started off well for you and will bring you much happiness and good health.

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If you have taken part in the last challenge you will be receiving your images to work with for this part. If however you didn't enter all is not lost. For the paltry sum of only $1 you can buy back into the challenge and you will receive the images.

The deadline to enter your cards is 31st January. For all details on this challenge, the rules and how it works please pop over to this thread at the CDAC

Materials Used in this card are as follows:-

Image – Beary Sweet Winter by Digi’s by Phooka, Fireworks by Anne Fenton

Sentiment – Shannon’s Sentiments

Paper – Kanban

Embellishments – Gems & Brads by Papermania

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order):-

• Bizzy Becs – Anything Goes
• Card Makin’ Mamas – Happy New Year
• Corrosive Challenge #140 – Ring In The New Year
• Craft Garden – Monochrome
• Crafty Boots Challenge – New Beginnings
• Crafty Creations #152 – Something New (digi)
• Crafty Purple Frog – Anything Goes
• Diva’s By Design #18 – New Beginnings
• Gingerloft #31 – Anything Goes
• I Love Promarkers #99 – Cute & Cuddly
• Fresh Brewed Designs #77 – Something new (digi)
• House of Gilli #24 – Anything Goes
• Kaboodle Doodles #101 – Fireworks/Celebration
• Lexi’s Creations #56 – Anything Goes
• Ooh La La Creations #96 – New Beginnings
• Paper Cutz #120 – New Year
• Pile It On #3 – Fuzzy Friends
• Simply Create Too #4 – More Than 2 Layers
• Some Odd Girl – Bling it Up
• Stampin’ For The Weekend #24 – Out With The Old (had the embossed card for years!)
• The Squirrel & the Fox #9 – Critters
• Truly Madly Crafty – Anything Goes

OSAAT #96 Anything Goes

There's a new challenge today at One Stitch At  A Time and the theme is

Anything Goes

We are sponsored this week by the fabulous Joanna Sheen and have a £10 gift voucher up for grabs for her store.

The DT are all using products from the new Collaboration pack. There will be a new one available every 2 weeks and it will be free with a purchase from the store of only $7. If you take a look at the preview below you will see there are some fabulous designs.

Please head on over to the Stitchy Bear Store

to check out all the lovely digis on offer from our great designers. Also, to keep ahead of all the latest news you can become a follower at the new 

Stitchy Bear Store Blog

Stitchy is offering some great time sensitive offers so please make sure you are signed up to the newsletter to be the first to get the gossip!

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Myself and Choccy have used this gorgeous Baby Sleeping image from Sylvie Stamps and I have made my card suitable for a baby girl. The image has been coloured with Promarkers and Flexmarkers.

I covered my card blank with a new paper from the Papermania capsule collection that came in the new goody bag. I loved all the different pink papers and thought it would be perfect for this gorgeous image. I raised it from the main card on 3d foam squares.

The mat has been cut from an offcut of Cloud Nine paper from Fiskars and I used a strip of white card, punched with a Fiskars border punch and cut a strip of the striped paper that is from the same Cloud Nine baby girl pack. The ribbon is self adhesive and I used and embroidered pink bow from my stash. The 2 hearts and the sentiment are gel stickers.

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Please pop over to OSAAT to see the fab cards from my colleagues on the DT. I look forward to seeing your entries for this challenge

Materials Used in this card are as follows:-

Card Size – A5

Image – Baby Sleeping by Sylvie Stamps

Paper – Papermania Capsule collection & Cloud Nine Baby Girl papers from Fiskars

Embellishments – Embroidered bow, self adhesive ribbon and gel stickers by Cloud Nine

Tools – scissors, 3d foam, Promarkers, Flexmarkers, Fiskars border punch, Nellie Snellen Die

Techniques – Punching, diecutting, faux stitches

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order):-

• Alota Rubber Stamps #75 – Hearts
• Anything Goes #58 – Anything Goes
• Bizzy Becs – Anything Goes
• By the Cute & Girly – New Beginnings
• Card Makin’ Mamas – Use Something New (main paper)
• Crafty Boots Challenge – New Beginnings
• Crafty Catz #115 – Use Something new (main paper)
• Crafty Creations #152 – Something New (digi & paper)
• Crafty Purple Frog – Anything Goes
• Cupcake Craft Challenge #174 – Something New (new baby & new paper)
• Cupcake Craftroom – Anything Goes
• Diva’s By Design #18 – New Beginnings
• Fresh Brewed Designs #77 – Something new (digi & paper)
• Gingerloft #31 – Anything Goes
• Heartsong Inspirations #30 – Border Punches
• I Love Promarkers #99 – Cute & Cuddly
• Lexi’s Creations #56 – Anything Goes
• My Mum's Craft Shop #39 – Girls
• Ooh La La Creations #96 – New Beginnings
• Paper Creations Ink #16 – Die cuts or punches
• Papertake Weekly  – Use a Die cut and Cute
• Scrappy Frogs – Lace (bow)
• Sentimental Sunday #85 – Ribbon
• Stamp & Create – Anything Goes
• Stamping With The Dragon #1 - Frames
• Stamps R Us – Anything Goes
• Top Tip Tuesday #67 – Anything Goes
• Try Stamping on Tuesday #48 – Sketch for Layout
• Truly Madly Crafty – Anything Goes

OSAAT #95 3 Embellishments

There's a new challenge today at One Stitch At  A Time and the theme is

Use 3 Embellishments

You can either use the same 3 embellishments or all different, the choice is yours.

We are sponsored this week by Crimson Cloud 

The prize is 3 sets of die cuts of the winners choice.

Please head on over to the Stitchy Bear Store to check out all the lovely digis on offer from our great designers.

Also, to keep ahead of all the latest news you can become a follower at the

Stitchy Bear Store Blog

Stitchy is offering some great time sensitive offers so please make sure you are signed up to the newsletter to be the first to get the gossip!

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This week I had the pleasure of working with a digi from Barbara Jensen and I chose this fabulous design called Poison Ivy. I really like the more racy designs that she does but I am really nervous of working with them as I am not sure that I can do them justice. I was however drawn to this one as I love the intense look she has in her eyes. I felt that she suited a fiery mane of hair so colouring with my Promarkers I used oranges and reddy browns to shade it in and complimented it with a pale body tone being careful with my shading and blending.

I used a Nestabilities die to cut it out and a mat in dark brown. I used a sheet of  dark green card for the base and added a copper metallic card which has a swirl design embossed onto it and a piece of handmade paper with a fern leaf flocked onto it. I added a brown suede ribbon to cover the join adding a couple of leaf brads and a self adhesive gold fabric glittered butterfly to complete the card.

This image reminded me of a Garden of Eden type image as she looks a bit like a maneater and so I used a sentiment which would entice a man to meet her in the garden. Dressed as she is I am sure no man could resist………

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Please pop over to OSAAT to see the fab cards from my colleagues on the DT. I look forward to seeing your entries for this challenge

Materials Used in this card are as follows:-

Card Size – A5

Image – Poison Ivy by Barbara Jensen

Paper – Metallic Swirl card by Kanban & Flocked paper from Poundland

Embellishments – Papermania Brads & glittered fabric sticker from Hobbycraft

Tools – scissors, 3d foam, Promarkers, Nestabilities die

Techniques – diecutting

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order):-

• ABC Challenge – G is for Green
• Alota Rubber Stamps #74 – A B or C (butterfly)
• Art Impressions Stamps – Anything Goes
• Craft Room Challenge – Anything Goes
• Craft Us Crazy – Anything New (new digi)
• Crafty Ann’s #56 – Let’s Think Hot
• Cupcake Craftroom – Anything Goes
• Dare to be Sassy #106 – Use Something New (digi)
• Digistamps 4 Joy #34 – Something Old (papers) & something new (digi)
• Dream Valley Challenge #23 – Anything Goes
• Fresh Brewed Designs #77 – Something new (digi) & Hoarded is the flocked fern paper had for 2 years and not opened
• Gingerloft #31 – Anything Goes
• Going Grey With Scrap Creations – Something Old (papers) & New (digi)
• Heartsong Inspirations #29 – Anything Goes
• House of Gilli #24 – Anything Goes
• Inky Impressions – Anything Goes
• Ladybug Crafts Ink TLT #51 – Use something New (digi)
• Little Miss Muffet #26 – Something new (digi)
• Paper Creations Ink #16 – Die cuts or punches
• Papertake Weekly  – Anything Goes
• Partytime Tuesday #49 – Something New (digi)
• Pink Elephant #129 – Anything Goes
• Scrapbook Sisters #66 – Anything Goes
• Shelly’s Images TTT – Use something less than month old (digi)
• Simon Says Stamp – New Something (digi)
• Simon Says Stamp & Show – Something old (papers) & New (digi)
• Simply Create Too #4 – More Than 2 Layers
• Stamp n Doodle – Anything Goes
• Stamps R Us – Anything Goes
• Top Tip Tuesday #67 – Anything Goes
• Truly Madly Crafty – Anything Goes

OSAAT #94 Use a Digi

There's a new challenge today at One Stitch At  A Time and the theme is

Use a Digi

The DT are all using products from the new Collaboration pack. There will be a new one available every 2 weeks and it will be free with a purchase from the store of only $7. If you take a look at the preview below you will see there are some fabulous designs.

Please head on over to the Stitchy Bear Store

to check out all the lovely digis on offer from our great designers. Also, to keep ahead of all the latest news you can become a follower at the new 

Stitchy Bear Store Blog

Stitchy is offering some great time sensitive offers so please make sure you are signed up to the newsletter to be the first to get the gossip!

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Myself and Choccy have used this fabulous Ice Cream Cottage digi from Hope Jacare Doodles. It reminds me of the iced gem biscuits I used to have when I was a kid and I used pink and brown as the main colours. I coloured the image using Promarkers and Flexmarkers and used a Nestabilities die to cut it out and created a matter layer with brown cardstock. The main base of the card is the same colour brown cardstock and I covered this with a spotty paper from the Sweet Owl First Edition pad by Dovecraft. The glittery patterned paper down the side is an offcut from another sheet in the pack. My first official use of a snippet in 2012 J The sentiment from my stash was trimmed down a little and then matted onto scraps of cardstock. Both the main image and the sentiment are raised on 3d foam and just to finish off I added a little punchie from a house shaped punch. Perfect card for a new home

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Please pop over to OSAAT to see the fab cards from my colleagues on the DT. I look forward to seeing your entries for this challenge

Materials Used in this card are as follows:-

Card Size – A5

Image – Ice Cream Cottage by Hope Jacare Doodles

Paper – Sweet Owl First Edition pad by Dovecraft

Embellishments – Die cut sentiment from stash

Tools – scissors, 3d foam, Promarkers, Flexmarkers, House punch, Fiskars border punch, Nestabilities die

Techniques – Punching & diecutting

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order):-

• 4 Crafty Chicks – Use something new (digi)
• Allsorts #135 – New Beginnings
• Cooking It Up With Katie #86 – Anything Goes
• Craft Room Challenge – Anything Goes
• Craft Us Crazy – Anything New (new home & new digi)
• Creative Inspirations Paint – Something new (New Home theme plus new digi)
• Delicious Doodles – Anything Goes
• Digi Doodle Shop’s Best #88 – Anything Goes
• Di’s Digi Designs – New Home
• Everybody Art #173 – Anything Goes
• Frosted Designs Fabulous Friday – Use Something new
• I Love Promarkers #97 – Anything Goes
• Jellypark Friends – Old Papers & new Image
• Little Miss Muffet #25 – Anything Goes
• Little Red Wagon – Something New (new home)
• My Mum's Craft Shop #37 – Anything Goes
• Partytime Tuesday #48 – Anything Goes
• Passion For Promarkers #129 – Celebrations
• Pile It On #1 – Anything Goes
• Robyn’s Fetish #88 – Anything Goes
• Scrapbook Sisters #66 – Anything Goes
• Secret Crafter #166 – Anything Goes
• Sentimental Sunday #83 – Anything Goes
• Simon Says Stamp – Anything Goes
• Stampin’ For The Weekend #23 – Anything Goes
• Sweet Stampin’ Challenge – New beginnings (new Home)
• The Squirrel & the Fox #8 – Something New (New Home theme plus new digi)

SBDS End of Year Sale

Stitchybear Digital Stamps has a fabulous sale on until December 31st with a MAHOOSIVE 35% off all products !!!!!

Head on over to the store to pick up those digis you have always wanted as this is an amazing bargain. 

You can also use one of your new stamps to enter the special Christmas Day challenge which is to use a stamp from the store, easy as that!

I'll see you back on the 1st January 2012 with a DT card for our new challenge.

OSAAT #93 Anything Goes

There's a new challenge today at One Stitch At  A Time and the theme is

Anything Goes

We have a fabulous prize this week which is a $10 voucher from Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps

Please head on over to the Stitchy Bear Store to check out all the lovely digis on offer from our great designers. Also, to keep ahead of all the latest news you can become a follower at the Stitchy Bear Store Blog

Stitchy is offering some great time sensitive offers so please make sure you are signed up to the newsletter to be the first to get the gossip! In the spotlight this week is Gert from Digi Blessings. There is an amazing 50% off all her designs in the store and if you spend $5 you get a fabulous freebie too J Run to the store as this offer ends Midnight EST on Monday evening.

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I made my card this week with a combo pack called In the Meadow We Can Build a Snowman from Reece’s Scrap Pieces which has the digi image, a coloured image and 5 different patterned papers in a blue and purple colour palette.

I selected the snowman paper and the marble blue one and then coloured the image with Promarkers and Flexmarkers to match. One of the papers has the repeating phrase on it so I isolated one to print out for the sentiment. I used a punch on the blue paper and matted the image on some scrap navy blue card and mounted with 3d foam. The sentiment has been cut with a Quickcutz die, mounted onto the dark blue and raised on foam pads. I used some stickles glitter glue on the snowflakes and snowdrifts and around the sentiment panel.

This is the last challenge for the year and we will be back again with challenge #94 on January 1^st 2012 however, if you are up for it there will be a mini challenge on Christmas Day so you can pop on over and see us if you fancy a challenge after stuffing yourself full of lovely Christmas goodies.

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Please pop over to OSAAT to see the fab cards from my colleagues on the DT. I look forward to seeing your entries for this challenge

Materials Used in this card are as follows:-

Card Size – 6” Square

Image & Paper – In the Meadow We can Build a Snowman from Reece’s Scrap Pieces

Embellishments – Stickles Glitter Glue

Tools – scissors, 3d foam, Promarkers, Flexmarkers, Martha Stewart Punch, Quickutz Cookie Cutter die

Techniques – Diecutting & Punching

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order):-