Dearest One

This is my card for this weeks CD Sunday Challenge - Poetry Corner, I decided to use this cute little House Mouse image from Joanna Sheen's Just the Two of Us Decoupage set.  The CD part of my card is the papers - they are from Joanna Sheen's House Mouse Inserts CD, the base has large hearts on it - I've been quite successful at covering them up completely and the smaller hearts are from one of the inserts on the CD.

You would not believe the problems I've had trying to post this card, first when I downloaded the photographs I had taken, because of the angle I had taken the shots at, the little mouse looked like he had four ears and then when I tried to insert my watermark it kept coming up really huge, almost obliterating the entire image, even though the settings were all the same as usual.  So back to the drawing board and start again.

I followed the sketch from Sketch 'n' Stash, I really like this sketch and this is the second card I have made using it.  My card stock is Core'dinations and the sentiment tags are LOTV, I used my Fiskars edge punch on the central border and corner - the buttons and twine are from my stash.

This is a close up of the little poem for those of you who have not seen it before:

You can see the inside of my card and a little of the decoupage layers in this photograph:

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

The CD Sunday Challenge - Poetry Corner

Sketch 'n' Stash Challenge 99 - Sketch (House Mouse Decoupage and buttons are both old stash)

Charisma Cardz Challenge 42 - Don't be Square!!

The ABC Challenge - Z is for Zoo

Southern Girls Challenge 56 - Animal Crackers

Fab 'n' Funky Challenge 144 - Animals

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge 99 - Ribbon and/or Buttons (heart shaped buttons)

Stamp N Doodle - Ribbon/Twine (twine in buttons and tags)

Ladybug Crafts Challenge - I need a P! (pink, poem, punching)

Pan Pastel Challenge 41 - Animals

Well I got there in the end - minus the watermark - a job for hubby this evening!   I wish you all a lovely weekend - yes, it's nearly here!

Pauline

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Pearls and Lace

Good morning, I hope everyone is well and enjoying the new week. We have a new challenge for you at Bearly Mine Designs and this week the theme is ' Pearls and Lace'.  This is my card using gorgeous papers from the Bearly Mine Designs Stripes and Flower Delight sets and featuring a fab Whoopsi Daisy image from sheet 358.

We are sponsored this week by:

Cheery Lynn Designs

I punched the back edge of my card to create a lace effect and layered my papers and image onto Core'dinations card stock.  Full details of everything I have used are listed below.

This is the inside of my card, I have decorated it to match the front:

Card Recipe:

Image:   Whoopsi Daisy - sheet 358

Papers:   Bearly Mine Designs - Stripes and Flower Delight 

Card Stock:  Core'dinations

Tools:  FrisKars edge punch

Embellishments:  Ribbon, lace and pearls from stash

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

The Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge 193 - Pastel Colours

Southern Girls Challenge 48 - Pearls

Crafty Mess Challenge 12 - Ribbons and Lace

The Cupboard Trilogy Challenge 1 - Colour Palette
The Ribbon Girl July Card Challenge - Create a Girlie Card
Tammy's Scrapin Corner Challenge 18 - Anything Goes with Any Artist
Creatalicious Challenge 35 - Anything Goes
Mema's Crafts July Challenge - Anything Goes

Crafts and Me Challenge 91- 1-2-3 (1 image, 2 patterned papers, 3 embellishments - pearls, ribbon, lace)

Crafty Ribbons Challenge 23 - Photo Inspiration (I was inspired by the colours, the flowers and the pretty dress)

Make sure you visit the Bearly Mine Challenge Blog to take a look at the DT inspiration and join in with this weeks 'Pearls and Lace' challenge.

Thank you for visiting today, please come back soon.

Pauline
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Bubbles

Good morning, I hope everyone is well and enjoying the new week. We have a new challenge for you at Bearly Mine Designs, this time it's everyone's favourite 'Anything Goes'. This is my card featuring the fab Saturated Canary image 'Bubbles'.

We are sponsored this week by the talented Krista from Saturated Canary

I love these images but I rarely use them because I find the hair a bit daunting.  I started following the sketch over at CLP but stopped half way through because I just couldn't make it work for me.  The papers are both from one of the Bearly Mine Designs Designer Extreme CD's, I'm sorry I don't know which one because I just loaded them all onto my laptop and grouped them by colour.

I punched the edges of the centre panel with my FrisKars edge punch, attached two LOTV sentiment tags with a small white flower brad and glazed the bubbles.  The only other embellishment is a small glittered flower with a gem in the centre - I spent about and hour trying to find some other embellishments, but nothing seemed to look right, so I just kept it simple.

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

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

Crafty Catz Challenge 138 - Pastel Colours

Fairy Tale Challenge 44 - Pastel/soft colour tones
Di's Digi Designs - Spots and Dots
One Stitch at a Time Challenge 119 - Summer Dresses
Bunny Zoe's Monthly Challenge 25 - Girls, Girls, Girls
Alota Rubber Stamps Colour Challenge 85 - Blue + 1
Sentimental Sundays Challenge 108 - Cute and Girly
Paper Playtime Challenge 77 - Say it with Sentiments - Anything Goes
Love to Create Challenge 21 - Anything Goes
Tammy's Scrapin' Corner Challenge 16 - Anything Goes Any Artist

Make sure you visit the Bearly Mine Challenge Blog to take a look at the DT inspiration and join in with this weeks challenge.

Thank you for visiting today, please come back 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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Lace and Pearls

It's time for a new challenge over at Whoopsi Daisy and this week we would like to see Lace and Pearls on your projects.  Make sure you use a Whoopsi Daisy Image, either from the Whoopsi Daisy Digi Shop or the Daisy and Friends CD, to be in with a chance of winning two sheets of  digis.

I have used an image and paper from the Daisy and Friends CD, full details of everything I have used are listed below.

I chose this image because of the lace on her skirt, I felt it was perfect for this challenge, I have also used lace on the border and a lace doily.

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

Card  Recipe:

Image:  Joanna Sheen's Daisy and Friends CD - Rosie

Papers:  Joanna Sheen's Daisy and Friends CD

Tools:  Fiskars Border Punch, Punch Bunch Flower Punches and Leaf Punch

Embellishments:  lace, pearls, ribbon, doily, buttons and twine from stash

Sentiment:  LOTV ticket stamp

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

Little Darlings Challenge 18 - Pearls
A Gem of a Challenge 41 - Perfect Pastels
Crafts and Me Challenge 73 - Pretty in Lace
Ladybug Crafts Ink - Pink and Girly
Crafty Catz Challenge 122 - Punches and Dies
One Stop Craft Challenge 172 - Button It
Stamp, Scrap and Doodle - Use your Stash (lace, pearls, ribbon, doily, buttons and twine are all from my stash)

Please pop over to the Whoopsi Daisy Challenge Blog and have a look at the inspiration, make sure you use a Whoopsi Daisy image when you enter the challenge to be in with a chance of winning.

Thank you for joining me today, I hope to see you again soon.

Pauline
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Winnie in Pink

It's time for another challenge over at Willow Sketchie and this week Anne Marie has provided the gorgeous sketch.  I decided to use one of the fab new images Sharon has over at the Willow Designs Shop called 'Be My Valentine Winnie' and this is my card:

This is Anne-Marie's great Sketch, I decided to rotate the sketch for my card:

I coloured the image with ProMarkers and inked around the edge with distress ink.  The papers are from NitWit Collections and the base card stock is Kraft, I also cut the little fence, corner and border from the same card stock.  Full details of everything I have used are listed below.

I got the idea for the little fence from a card on someones blog but for the life of me I can't remember whose it was and have been unable to find it again.

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

Card Recipe:

Image:  Willow Designs - Be My Valentine Winnie

Papers:  NitWit Collections - Affection

Tools:  Spellbinders - Classic Squares,  Marianne Creatables - LR0205, FrisKars Border Punch

Embellishments:  ribbon, button, flowers, ivy and gems from stash

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

Card Crafter's Circle Challenge 9 - Valentine

Card Makin' Mamas Challenge 38 - Valentine

Cardmadfairy's Digi Days Challenge 26 - Hearts 

Catch the Bug - Photo Inspiration

Clear It Out Challenge  - Valentines (use your pink/red scraps)

Crafty Calendar February Challenge - Love and Marriage

Digital Tuesday Challenge 147 - Use your Stash
Divas by Design Challenge 22  - Wings and things
Incy Wincy Challenge 133- Recipe - 3 embellishments, 2 papers, 1 image

I Love ProMarkers Challenge 104 - Nature

Just Inspirational Challenges Week 16 - Inspirational picture

Don't forget to pop over to the Willow Sketchie Challenge to have a look at the DT inspiration and join in with this weeks challenge.  Sharon currently has a SALE over at the Willow Designs Shop so make sure you grab a bargain.

Thank you for looking today, please visit again soon.

Pauline
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Love, Love, Love

Time for another Crafting for all Seasons Challenge and this time the theme is 'LOVE IS IN THE AIR' and we have three great sponsors again:

Bugaboo Stamps Prize - 7 digital images

Lili of the Valley Prize - £10 voucher

Digi Doodle Shop Prize - $10 gift card

This time I used the lovely image Fancy SB Love from Bugaboo and this is my card:

I coloured the image with a combination of ProMarkers and FlexMarkers and cut it out with my Sizzix heart die.  The papers are from Polka Doodles 'Love and Cherish' and are layered onto Kraft card stock.  I layered some polka dot paper onto a border cut with my Fiskars border punch and added some white organza ribbon and a small heart.  The heart sentiments were also cut with my Sizzix heart die and stamped with a LOTV stamp, I then glazed them with Crystal Lacquer.  Finally I embellished my card with heart shaped pearls.

I decorated the inside of my card to compliment the front:

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

Truly Scrumptious Challenge 73- Love and Hearts
Deep Ocean Challenge 18 - Love You
Top Tip Tuesday Challenge 69 - Valentines
Mami Doodles Challenge 42 - For a Loved One
Digi Days Challenge 26 - Hearts
Dream Valley Challenge 25 - Valentine
Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Love is in the Air

Thank you for looking today, don't forget to pop over to Crafting for all Seasons and take a look at the cards that the other DT members have made, you have until Tuesday 21st February to enter the challenge.

Pauline
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