Daisy’s Tableau Tuesday #16

At the halfway point of our challenge  we have Tableau Tuesday and that is a way for the designers to showcase some of the fabulous Digis available from the store.

Let me introduce you to Twas The Night Before Christmas. This amusing image comes in 3 different formats for only $2 from the Daisy Doodles Store

I have coloured the digi with Promarkers & Flexmarkers  and used some Woodware applique puffy paint for the fur trim on Santa’s outfit (loving that soo much at the moment)

The main paper for the base of the card is from my bargain £1 paper pad from the NEC and the stocking paper is from an old DCWV pad. I kept the card quite simple as I love the humour in the image and it should have centre stage J

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I hope you will pop over to the blog to see the lovely creations on there and please remember that you have another week to get your challenge entries in for our 

Christmas without a ribbon challenge

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

Materials Used in this card are as follows:-

Card Size – 6” Square

Image – Twas The Night before Christmas  by Daisy Doodles

Patterned Paper – Papermania & DCWV

Embellishments – Woodware Applique Paint

Tools - Scissors, Promarkers/Flexmarkers,

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges 

(in Alphabetical Order):-

Crimbo Crackers #3 – Santa

Delightful Challenges – Red & Green

Fairytale Challenge #29 – Christmas

Gingerloft #30 – Christmas & Winter

Inspire Me Fridays #34 – Link Up Party

Pan Pastel UK #10 – Animals

Paper Crafting Journey – Anything Goes

Pattie’s Creations #34 – Christmas

Shelly’s Images TTT – Red & Green

Simply Create Too #1 – All About Christmas

Stamping With The Dragon – Christmas

Stamptacular Sunday #140 – Anything Christmas

Totally Papercrafts #94 – Christmas

OSAAT #90 Seeing Red

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

Seeing Red

We have a fabulous prize this week from our Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps

Please head on over to the newly re-vamped 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! In the spotlight this week is Donna from Lil Diva.s  All her digi’s are 10% off 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 Sunday evening.

Just to give you the heads up as well Stitchy is having a storewide sale on Cyber Monday 28^th November. Start getting your wishlist together as there is a massive 50% off all digis purchased from 5am to 5pm EST. This is definitely the right time to take advantage of a fabulous saving !

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For my card this week I wanted to make a Christmas card. When I think of red it is either for Christmas or a card for a man, in this case it could well be for both!

I coloured the image Christmas Fairy with Promarkers and Flexmarkers. I created a second layer for the top of the gift box and the hat so I could decoupage them. I then added a further layer of just the bow on the top of the gift box. I use Stickles glitter glue all over the wings and the ribbon and Woodware applique snow for the fur trim on the hat.

The base of the card has been covered with a glitter paper from Imaginisce. I used scraps of gold and black card for the layers and used my Martha Stewart trellis punch for the black layer but only left the bottom of it on show. I added a Papermania glittered self adhesive ribbon and a die cut sentiment from my stash.

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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 – Christmas Fairy by Stitchy Stamps

Papers – Imaginisce

Sentiment – from stash

Embellishments – stickles glitter glue, woodware paint applique, papermania ribbon

Tools – scissors, 3d foam, Promarkers,Flexmarkers, Marth Stewart punch

Techniques – decoupage

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

• Aud’s Sentiments #42 – Winter Holiday Sentiments
• By the Cute & Girly – Christmas Girls
• Card Makin’ Mamas #34 – Sentiments
• Cheerful Stamp Pad #30 – Santa’s Hat
• Create Me Pink #4 – Use a Digistamp
• Creative Craft Challenge – Free For All
• Deep Ocean Challenge #13 –  ‘C’ is for Christmas
• Digital Tuesday #138 – Sparkle & Shine
• Dream Valley Challenge #21 – Sparkle
• Everybody Art #169 – Christmas
• Fairytale Challenge #29 – Christmas
• Gingerloft #30 – Christmas & Winter
• Hiding In My Craftroom  #22 – Holiday
• Hybrid Chick Card Caravan #7 – Make It Sparkle
• Inspire Me Fridays #34 – Link Up Party
• Lollipop Crafts #59 – B is for Bow, box, bling, black
• One Stop Craft Challenge #159 – Christmas Fairies
• Outlawz GC112111 – Gift Wrapped
• Paper Crafting Journey – Anything Goes
• Paper Creations Ink #13 - Christmas
• Paper Playtime #61 – Sentiments
• Papertake Weekly  – Christmas Crackers
• Passion For Promarkers #127 – Swirls & Sparkles
• Pattie’s Creations #34 – Christmas
• Pollycraft #120 – Christmas Fun
• Poodles Parlour – Christmas
• Sassy Cheryl’s #91 – Anything Goes
• Simply Create Too #1 – All About Christmas
• Stamping With The Dragon – Christmas
• Stamptacular Sunday #140 – Anything Christmas
• Sweet Stampin’ Challenge – Punches & Dies
• Totally Gorjuss #108  - Sparkle
• Totally Papercrafts #94 – Christmas
• Wags n Whiskers #68 – Angel or Fairy

CYP Holiday Havoc Blog Hop

I have the great delight to say that I am joining in with the 

Holiday Havoc Blog Hop

at Craft Your Passion Challenges on 17th and 18th December

There are lots of lovely ladies joining in so I hope you will join us for the fun

Daisy Doodles Challenge #47

At Daisy Doodles Creative Challenges we have a new challenge today

The Spool That Stole Christmas

We want to see a card without any ribbon

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For my card I have used Christmas Praise which is a fab image for cold and frosty Christmas Cards. You can will receive this image in 3 formats for only $2.

Head over to the Daisy Doodles Store to check it out !

I have used the latest sketch from Pals Paper Arts for the layout. The base card is a dark blue irridescent cardstock that has a lovely shimmer to it. I used a snippet of snowflake paper that is actually a wrapping Paper from Paperchase. It is one of my fave ‘go to’ papers for blue Christmas cards J

The image has been coloured with Promarkers and Flexmarkers. The pale blue is one of the new Flexmarker colours and I love using the flexible brush for large areas as you get this really textured look that you would with a watercolour brush. The snow is the new antique white, love the faint hint of colour that dulls down the bright white the paper was originally. I created extra layers of the church, the star and the tree so I could later the images. I used Woodware puffy applique for the snow on the church room and along the edges of the path, added gold stickles glitter glue to the star in the sky and on the tree and lots of twinkly spots to emulate snowflakes falling.

The sentiment is a wooden plaque that I got from the Hobbycraft sale in January. I got 6 of them for only 49p, bit of a bargain for use on larger cards I thought. I just dressed it up with some stickles glue and called it finished. Quite a simple layout but this them gives the image the emphasis that it deserves. 

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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 ‘Spool That Stole Christmas’ challenge.

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

Materials Used in this card are as follows:-

Card Size – A5

Image – Christmas Praise by Daisy’s Digi Doodles

Patterned Paper – wrapping paper by Paperchase

Embellishments – Gold and Diamond Stickles glitter glue, Woodware puffy applique, wooden sentiment plaque

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

Techniques – decoupage

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

• 2 Sisters Challenge #66 – Let It Sparkle
• ABC DT Challenge – Christmas Card
• CES #62 – Snowflakes
• C.R.A.F.T. Challenge #129 - Stars
• Creative Craft Challenge – Minimalistic
• Crimbo Crackers #2 – Make It Sparkle
• Do You Stack Up #46 – Add Some Blue
• Drunken Stampers #78 – Up In the Air
• Floweret Stamplar #8 – Christmas Card
• I Love Promarkers #92 – Christmas Trees
• Just Some Lines – Tic Tac Toe (glitter, digi, punch/die cut)
• Lollipop Crafts #58 – Anything Goes
• Make It Monday #64 – Link Up Party
• Moving Along With The Times #125 – Let It Snow
• One Stop Craft Challenge #158 – Use Some Blue
• Pal’s Paper Arts #120 – Sketch for layout
• Paper Playtime #61 – Sentiments
• Paper Pretties Wednesday #180 – Non Traditional Christmas Colours
• Paper Shelter #40 – Snowflakes
• Shelly’s Images TTT – Anything Goes
• Stamp n Doodle – 3 in a Row (digi, die cut, glitter)

OSAAT #89 Use a Digi Part 2

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 from our Sponsors Creative Craft World

Please head on over to the newly re-vamped 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! In the spotlight this week is April from Reece’s Scrap Pieces  All her digi’s are 10% off 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.

Just to give you the heads up as well Stitchy is having a storewide sale on Cyber Monday 28^th November. Start getting your wishlist together as there is a massive 50% off all digis purchased from 5am to 5pm EST. This is definitely the right time to take advantage of a fabulous saving !

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I created an extra project this week to help out our fabulous Team Leader Choccy and used this gorgeous image Festive Friends by Sylvie Stamps. I adore animals and was drawn to this fun image of a girl playing dress up with her faithful companion.

I coloured the image with Promakers and Flexmarkers. I added some puffy snow but instead of puffing it up I sprinkles iridescent glitter on it. I also used some stickles glitter to add some more depth to the snowdrifts and some gently falling snowflakes in the background.

The card base is covered with a sparkly paper from Craftwork Cards and then I used a snowflake paper from DCWV. The paper is snippet from a 6” square pad and was just a little bit too small for the width so I cut it in 2 pieces as I was planning to put a contrast strip in there anyway. This is just a leftover snippet of striped paper from the same pack, edge with a Martha Stewart punch and some sheer blue and silver ribbon over the top. To finish I added a tag from Dovecraft embellished with some peel offs and Bakers Twine

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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 – A6

Image – FestiveFriends by Sylvie Stamps

Papers – Snippets of DCWV and Craftwork Cards

Embellishments – chipboard tag Dovecraft, Woodware puffy snow, iridescent loose glitter, Stickles Glitter glue, sheer ribbon, Peel off stickers Docrafts & Baker’s Twine

Tools – scissors, 3d foam, Promarkers, Flexmarkers, Martha Stewart Punch

Techniques – Punching

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

• 2 Sisters Challenge #66 – Let It Sparkle
• ABC Challenge – D is for Dazzle
• ABC DT Challenge – Christmas Card
• Cards For Men #23 – Christmas card suitable for a man
• CES #62 – Snowflakes
• Craft Your Passion #84 – Christmas with Snowflakes
• Crafter’s Companion #18 – Let It Snow
• Crafty Calendar Challenge – Wrapped up in Winter Clothes
• Crimbo Crackers #2 – Make It Sparkle
• Cupcake Craftroom – Sweet Christmas
• Delightful Challenges – Bingo (Tag Ribbon Punches)
• Do You Stack Up #46 – Add Some Blue
• Floweret Stamplar #8 – Christmas Card
• Forever Friends – Christmas is Coming
• Forever Friends Monthly – Use Something old (papers, tag) & new (digi)
• Incy Wincy Designs #120 – Tic Tac Toe (red, pop it up, ribbons)
• Just Some Lines – Tic Tac Toe (glitter, digi, punch/die cut)
• Moving Along With The Times #125 – Let It Snow
• My Time To Craft #166 – Take 2 (2 characters, 2 types of glitter)
• One Stop Craft Challenge #158 – Use Some Blue
• Outlawz PAM111911 – Christmas or holiday card
• Pan Pastel UK #9 – Frosty & Bright
• Paper Pretties Wednesday #180 – Non Traditional Christmas Colours
• Paper Shelter #40 – Snowflakes
• Pollycraft #118 – Friends
• Shelly’s Images TTT – Anything Goes
• Stamp n Doodle – 3 in a Row (glitter, die cut, digi)
• Stamping Boutique Monthly - Holiday or winter card
• Stamps R Us – Bling It On
• Tuesday Throwdown #75 – Lots of Circles

OSAAT #89 - Use a Digi

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 from our Sponsors Creative Craft World

Please head on over to the newly re-vamped 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! In the spotlight this week is April from Reece’s Scrap Pieces  All her digi’s are 10% off 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.

Just to give you the heads up as well Stitchy is having a storewide sale on Cyber Monday 28^th November. Start getting your wishlist together as there is a massive 50% off all digis purchased from 5am to 5pm EST. This is definitely the right time to take advantage of a fabulous saving !

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This week I had the pleasure of working with a paper pack from Panda BearDesigns called Chocolate Valentine 2. I was particularly drawn to the colours of pink & brown and the swirly paper. I used an image called Sweet Treats by Stitchy Stamps and used the papers to create a paper pieced image. This is not something I tend to do very often but it is really effective and I think it works really well with this project.

I coloured the top of the cupcakes with Promarkers and added some glossy accents all over it to to make it look like a shiny glaze. All the papers are printed out onto photo paper and they are crisp and were fab to work with. It was simple a case of cutting out all the elements and assembling them on the image. I used Promarkers to colour the base of the stand and the edge so it gave better definition to stand and then mounted the whole image with 3d foam pads.

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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 – Sweet Treat by Stitchy Stamps

Papers – Chocolate Valentine Paper Pack 2 by Panda Bear Designs

Sentiment – from stash

Embellishments – glossy accents

Tools – scissors, 3d foam, Promarkers,

Techniques – Paper Piecing

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

• Anything Goes #54 – Food Related
• Hybrid Chick Card Caravan #6 - Birthdays
• Little Red Wagon #107 – Paper Piecing
• Squigglefly #124 – Happy Birthday
• Sweet Stampin’ Challenge – Birthday
• Totally Gorjuss #107  - Swirls (on paper)

Poinsetta

There is a new Progressive Challenge at Outlawz  and both Sandi and Anne have provided us with some lovely Traditional Christmas images for Round 1, thank you ladies. You have to make only one card to progress onto the next round

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My 3rd card is using the Poinsetta image by Anne and I have coloured it in using Pro/Flexmarkers adding some Glossy Accents to the berries and leaf veins and gems to the poinsettia centre. I used a Nestabilities die to cut the image and the mat.

The patterned paper is by DCWV. I rimmed an offcut of cardstock with a punch and added some Papermania self adhesive gingham ribbon to the centre. The sentiment is a diecut from a Lets make Cards pack with small gems on it.

Materials Used in this card are as follows:-

Card Size – A6

Image – Poinsetta by Anne Fenton

Sentiment – Diecut from LMC pack

Paper – DCWV

Embellishments – small gems DCWV, Self adhesive ribbon Papermania,

Tools –Promarkers, Flexmarkers, Fiskars punch, glossy accents, Nestabilities

Techniques – Punching, Die cutting

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges 

(in Alphabetical Order):-

• Christmas Card Challenge #50 – Holly or any Christmas Card
• Incy Wincy Designs #120 – Tic Tac Toe (red, christmas sentiment, ribbon)
• My Partner in Crafting Crime #35 – Use a freebie (image)
• Ooh La La Creations #93 – Bingo (gems, diecut, flowers)
• Pile It On #46 – Traditional Christmas
• Stamptacular Sunday #138 – Punches or dies