Daisy Doodles Challenge #54

 At Daisy Doodles Creative Challenges we have a new challenge today

Colour Your World

We would like to see lots of colour with no black or brown

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For my card I have used the image from the Ryan The Footballer pack. You get the fab image and four digi papers for only $3.  Head over to the Daisy Doodles Store to check out this and all the other great digi’s that are available !

I have coloured the image in with Promarkers and Flexmarkers mostly in shades of blue to match the papers which are from a Papermania pack. I have used scraps of blue card to mat the image and the birthday sentiment banner.

The ball, football shirt and cup are from a little pack of goodies I bought from Poundland. They are supposed to be little clips that you can decorate your flip flops with and there are about 10 embellishments in the pack. I love re-purposing things that are intended for a completely different use and these were ideal for this card.

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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 Colour Your World challenge.

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

Materials Used in this card are as follows:-

Card Size – A5

Sentiment – Ryan the Footballer by Daisy’s Digi Doodles

Patterned Paper – It’s a Man’s Word pad by Papermania

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

Embellishments – rubber shapes from Poundland

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

• 2 Sisters Challenge #80 – Anything Goes
• Aud’s Sentiments – Sentiment with Happy in it
• Bunny Zoe #21 – Any Celebration
• Crafty Catz #121 – Something beginning with B (ball, boy, blue)
• Crazy Challenge #108 – Anything Goes
• Creative Monday’s #2 – Anything Goes
• Cupcake Craft Challenge #181 – Boys & Their Toys
• Dream Valley Challenge #26 – Just For Men
• Go Fish #11 – Text paper
• Hotshot Crafts #4 – One For The Boys
• Inspire Me Fridays #47 – Link Up Party
• Lexi’s Creations #59 – Monochromatic
• Make It Monday #78 – Link Up Party
• Mami Doodles – Use 3 Patterned Papers
• Moving Along With The Times – Lots of Layers
• Paper Shelter #52 – Add a Sentiment
• Penny’s Paper Crafty #73 – Anything Goes
• Robyn’s Fetish #96 – People
• Scrapbookaholic by Abby #3 - Birthday
• Shelly’s Images TTT – Triple something (3 embellishments)
• Simon Says Stamp – 3 Different Papers
• Sisterhood of Crafters – Use a DigiStamp Scrap & Doodle – Manly Card
• Sweet Stampin’ Challenge – It’s a Man Thing
• That Craft Place – Anything Goes
• Tuesday Throwdown #86 – Use Some Blue
• Unscripted Sketches #147 – Layout of Card
• Wags n Whiskers #73 – Male Birthday
• Whimsy Inspirations #27 – Monochromatic

OSAAT #102 Spring & Easter Mega Collab

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

Spring or Easter

This is in honour of the Mega Collaboration that all the Store Designers have contributed to. One lucky winner of our challenge will receive this as their prize donated by our sponsor 

Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps

The DT are all using products from the new Collaboration pack. There will be a new one available every 2 weeks. This Mega Collaboration is free with a purchase from the store of only $12

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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I was given this fab image Beetle by Reece’s Scrap Pieces to work with and I decided to make it into a flower doodled car. I had already decided I wanted to use the main colours of green & purple and the card sort of grew from there really. Using the sketch from Mojo Monday I selected 2 papers that I wanted to put together. I really liked the different colours in the floral paper and added the swirled green to link in the car better.

The image was coloured with Promarkers and Flexmarkers. I drew the large flowers on first then coloured in around them. I used a fine nib to doodle the smaller flowers and add definition to the larger ones. I then added lots of gems and glitter domes to make it really sparkle.

I mounted the image on a scrap of dark purple card and added the ribbon. The flower is from a strip that I bought when I first started making cards in 2002 so it is proper vintage! The centre of the flower is pale blue so I have covered it with a purple glitter brad and this provided me with a great way of attaching it to the card, win win J

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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 – Beetle by Reece’s Scrap Pieces

Paper – Dreamcatcher & Spring Leap First Edition pads by Dovecraft, other card from scrapbox

Sentiment – Card banner from stash

Embellishments – Papermania ribbon, lace embroidered flower from Haberdashery, self adhesive gems K & Co, glitterdomes and glitter brad from Papermania.

Tools – 3 d foam, scissors, Promarkers, Flexmarkers,

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

ABC Challenge – J is for Jazz It Up

Bunny Zoe #21 – Any Celebration

Cards & More #48 – Glitter & Sparkle

Crafter’s Companion #21 – Anything Goes

Crafts and Me #72 – Shades of Spring

Creative Monday’s #2 – Anything Goes

Digital Tuesday #148 – Make It Sparkle

Diva’s By Design #23 – Bling

Mojo Monday #229 – Sketch for Layout

My Graphico #122 – Flowers

Outlawz GC22012 – Recipe, 2 papers, 2 bellies, 1 ribbon

Paper Pretties Monday - Spring

Sew Many Cards #82 – 2 DP’s & 4 Gemstones

Stamping Boutique #26 – Stitching Real or faux

Truly Madly Crafty – Ribbon & Bling

Rudolph Day

It’s Rudolph Day over at my friend Sarn’s blog Stamping for Pleasure

Basically in an attempt to make a decent dent on your Christmas cardmaking Sandra has for many years designated the 25^th of the month as Rudolph day and to join in we simply need to make a Christmas card for it.

I would normally put all my Christmas stuff away in January for it not to come down from the top of my bookcases until September but I am trying to keep Christmas crafting through the year, it is far less stressful and ther isn’t the same pressure for time so it is worthwhile doing and a person can try can’t they?

Anyhoo, this image was already coloured in and was supposed to be for last Christmas but I didn’t quite get there….. The image is by Happileigh Scrappin’ and I have created decoupage layers for dimension and added glitter to the clothing. The papers are from various pads and are Papermania, DCWV and Dovecraft. I think the chipboard shapes on the tag are from a Let’s Make Cards pack, ribbon and brad are from stash.

If you fancy taking part in Rudolph day too Sarn has added a linky to her blog post here

Materials Used in this card are as follows:-

Card Size – 6” Square

Image – 3 Snowmen by Happileigh Scrappin’

Papers – Papermania, DCWV and Dovecraft

Sentiment – Let’s Make Cards

Embellishments – Chipboard shapes LMC, ribbon from stash, gem brad from American Crafts, Stickles glitter glue, peel off stickers snowflakes

Tools – Scissors, 3d foam

Techniques - Decoupage

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

• 2 Sisters Challenge #80 – Anything Goes
• Allsorts #143 – Anything Goes
• ATC’s & Cards With Attitude #7 – Anything Bling
• Bunny Zoe #21 – Any Celebration
• Cooking It Up With Katie #90 – 3 Fave Things (digi, patterned paper, glitter/bling)
• Corrosive Challenge #143 – Another Dimension
• Crafter’s Companion #21 – Anything Goes
• Crafty Ann’s #59 – Bold & Bright
• Crafty Hazelnut’s Christmas Challenge #61 – Ribbon and/or charm
• Crazy Amigo Challenge – Use a Tag
• Creative Inspirations Paint – Polka Dots
• Creative Monday’s #2 – Anything Goes
• Dare to be Sassy #113 – Christmas Card in traditional colours
• Delightful Challenges – Use patterned paper
• Digital Tuesday #148 – Make It Sparkle
• Diva’s By Design #23 – Bling
• D R S Designs #13 – Use a Tag
• Inspire Me Fridays #47 – Link Up Party
• Jingle Bells – Use some stickers
• Lollipop Crafts #68 – Anything Goes
• Make It Monday #77 – Link Up Party
• Mami Doodles – Use 3 Patterned Papers
• Moving Along With The Times – Lots of Layers
• Paper Creations Ink #19 – Show your style with fave technique (bright & colourful decoupage a digi image)
• Paper Shelter #52 – Add a Sentiment
• Penny’s Paper Crafty #73 – Anything Goes
• Sassy Cheryl’s #103 – No Embossing
• Shelly’s Images TTT – Triple something (3 snowmen)
• Simon Says Stamp – 3 Different Papers
• Sisterhood of Crafters – Use a Digi
• Stamping For Pleasure – Rudolph Day
• Truly Madly Crafty – Ribbon & Bling
• Tuesday Throwdown #86 – Use Some Blue
• Winter Wonderland – Glitter & Bling

Daisy's Image Inspirations

We have a new feature over at

Our challenges run fortnightly so on the off Wednesday the Designers will be creating with a specially selected digi from the Daisy Doodles Store.

The image we are working with today is Digger and it is available from the store at the very special price of only $1

This image screamed JCB to me so I have coloured it in bright yellows with my Promarkers. It is quite an intricate design but very easy to colour and perfect for boys of all ages J

I have used papers from magazine freebies and used a Martha Stewart lattice punch on the yellow paper, adding a Craftwork Cards sentiment raised on 3d foam.

I hope you will pop over to the blog to see the lovely creations on there and please remember that you have until Sunday night to get your entries in for our Sketch challenge.

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

Materials Used in this card are as follows:-

Card Size – A6

Image – Digger by Daisy’s Digi Doodles

Patterned Paper – Magazine freebies from Creative Cardmaking

Tools - Scissors, Promarkers Martha Stewart Lattice punch

Techniques – Punching

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

• Aud’s Sentiments – Sentiment with Happy in it
• Bunny Zoe #21 – Any Celebration
• Card Makin’ Mamas #39 – Happy Birthday
• Cheerful Stamp Pad #36 – Happy Birthday
• Crafter’s Companion #21 – Anything Goes
• Crafty Sentiments – 2 Designer Papers
• Crazy Challenge #107 – Die or Punch
• Creative Card Crew #4 – Masculine
• Creative Monday’s #2 – Anything Goes
• Do You Stack Up #59 – Layers
• Dream Valley Challenge #26 – Just For Men
• Hotshot Crafts #4 – One For The Boys
• Incy Wincy Designs #134 – Birthday
• Lollipop Crafts #68 – Anything Goes
• Make It Monday #77 – Link Up Party
• Paper Pretties Wednesday #194 – Punches/Die Cuts
• Paper Shelter #52 – Add a Sentiment
• Penny’s Paper Crafty #73 – Anything Goes
• Scrapbookaholic by Abby #3 – Birthday
• Sisterhood of Crafters – Use a Digi
• Squigglefly #7 – Bright & Sunny With Yellow
• Sunday’s With Crissy #26 – Happy Birthday
• Wags n Whiskers #73 – Male Birthday

OSAAT #101 Digi or Don't

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

Digi or Don’t - Either use a digi or don’t use an image

Our sponsor this week is Joanna Sheen and they are offering the winner a £10 gift voucher for the store.

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

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This week I am using a fab image from Floppy Latte Designs called Clown Doll. Now I have to admit that proper clowns really freak me out. I honestly don’t know where it comes from but I have always felt they were quite menacing and would rather not have anything to do with them thank you very much. However, this little cutie I really rather like J I love the cute expression on the face and the outfit inspired me to make a colourful card suitable for a child’s birthday card.

I have coloured the image with my beloved Promarkers & Flexmarkers and used bright fun colours to suit his patchwork costume. I cut the image out as I wanted to place him sitting on the edge of my nestabilities mat. I cut one in white and embossed it with a Papermania folder which has birthday words and images on it. I then cut a larger one in blue to provide a contrast to the bright papers which are from HOTP and a magazine freebie. The colours are such a good match it is amazing that they are not from the same range! I used a scrap of blue to cover the join and this has been punched with a Fiskars edge punch.

I used my Sizzlits die to cut a balloon and added some gold string. This is anchored under his hand and the whole clown is raised on 3d foam. The sentiment has been recycled from an old greetings card.

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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 – Clown Doll by Floppy Latte Designs

Paper – Top paper HOTP and the bottom one is a magazine freebie

Sentiment – recycled from a greetings card

Embellishments – gold string

Tools –3d foam, scissors, Promarkers & Flexmarkers, Fiskars punch, Nestabilities die, Sizzlits balloon die, Papermania Embossing Folder

Techniques – Punching, Die cutting, embossing

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

• Aud’s Sentiments – Sentiment with Happy in it
• Bunny Zoe #21 – Any Celebration
• Cardmadfairy’s Digi Days #27 – Don’t be Square
• Card Makin’ Mamas #39 – Happy Birthday
• Cheerful Stamp Pad #36 – Happy Birthday
• Corrosive Challenge #143 – Another Dimension
• Crafter’s Companion #21 – Anything Goes
• Crafty Ann’s #59 – Bold & Bright
• Do You Stack Up #59 – Layers
• Hotshot Crafts #4 – One For The Boys
• Inky Impressions – Punches or Dies
• Kaboodle Doodles #106 – Boys or Masculine
• Karen’s Doodles – Celebrate
• Paper Crafting Journey – Make It Cute
• Penny’s Paper Crafty #73 – Anything Goes
• Scrappy Frogs – Die Cuts
• Scrapbookaholic by Abby #3 – Birthday
• Simon Says Stamp & Show – Anything Goes
• Stamps & Fun = Creativity #86 – Happy Birthday
• Stamps R Us – Anything Goes
• Sunday’s With Crissy #26 – Happy Birthday
• Use It Tuesday #25 – Birthday (Papers are years old and used lots of scraps)

CDAC Progressive Challenge Round 12

It’s Round 12 of the Progressive Challenge at CDAC  and we have some lovely

Green, Great & Gorgeous

Images from some fabulous creators. Team A have the pleasure in bringing you some gorgeous samples for the images for the final round of this group.

My card is using a fab image called Hanging In There from Happileigh Scrappin’

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It was a total pleasure to work with this image. I was on the DT for Happileigh Scrappin’ Challenges and had the opportunity to work with many of Leigh’s fab images but hadn’t previously done so with this one.

I started with colouring the image in Promarkers & Flexmarkers and created decoupage layers fro the tummt and head and a separate layer for the head and the little birdie. I also added googly eyes and layered with 3d foam. I added some stickles to the birdie and used a Nestabilities die to cut the whole image out.

The paper used for the background is from a pad of papers that came free with a magazine and I added it to a scalloped edge card blank. The sentiment has been matted with a scrap of olive card and raised up with foam pads.

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 29^th February. 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 & Sentiment – Hanging In There by Happileigh Scrappin’

Paper – Magazine Freebie

Embellishments – Googly eyes & Stickles glitter glue

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

Techniques – Diecutting & decoupage

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

Diva’s By Design #22 – Wings

I Love Promarkers #104 – Nature

Paper Variety – Photo Inspiration (green & leapfrog)

Penny’s Paper Crafty #73 – Anything Goes
Scrappy Frogs – Die Cuts

Simon Says Stamp & Show – Anything Goes

Stamps R Us – Anything Goes

Truly Scrumptious #74 – All Creatures Great & Small

OSAAT #100 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 Creative Craft World who are offering 3 Promarkers

And the fabulous  Stitchy Bear Store  who is offering a Mini Collab for the winner

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.

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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Myself and Choccy have used this lovely image called Dolphin Kiss from Gingerloft. The image has been coloured with Promarkers and Flexmarkers and I really enjoyed shading the dolphins in the different shades of blue grey. I used a Nestabilities die to cut the image and distressed the edges with a small black inkpad.

The base card is a sheet of white card with a pale blue wavy paper from by Dovecrafts. I used a 4” wide brown lace with a strip of blue card which had been trimmed with a Martha Stewart bubble punch and overlaid this with a metallic ribbon.

The heart die cuts are from Let’s Make Cards packs and the sentiment is from Kanban mounted onto a scrap of blue card.

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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 – Dolphin Kiss by Gingerloft

Sentiment – Kanban

Paper – First Edition range by Dovecraft, other card from scrapbox

Embellishments – Lace, metallic ribbon, die cuts

Tools – scissors, Promarkers, Flexmarkers, Martha Stewart border punch, Nestabilities Die

Techniques – Punching, diecutting,

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

• Anything Goes #60 – Bingo (Distress, Your Choice (patterned paper) & Ribbon/Lace)
• Crafter’s Companion #21 – Anything Goes
• Crafting For All Seasons #20 – Love is In The Air
• Crafty Calendar Challenge – Love & Marriage
• Creations by Gill M #2 – Blue & brown Colour Combo
• Digistamps 4 Joy #36 – Love
• Forever Friends Monthly – Valentine
• Fussy & Fancy  #56 – With All My Heart
• Little Claire Designs #18 – Romance
• Oldie But Goodie – Lace (old stash is hearts die cuts and blue ribbon 10 yrs old)
• One Crazy Stamper – Love Is In The Air
• Ooh La La Creations #98 – Be My Valentine
• Pattie’s Creations #37 – Valentine & Love
• Scrapper’s Delight – Love
• Scrappy Frogs – Die Cuts
• Sisterhood of Crafters – Valentines
• Stamp & Create – Valentines/Love
• Stampavie & More #162 – Love
• Stampin’ For The Weekend #3 – Colour Combo/Photo Inspiration
• The Squirrel & the Fox #11 – Valentine’s Day