Congratulations

My eldest son's girlfriend passed her driving test earlier this week - well done Gemma.  This is the card that I made to congratulate her.

I saw this fabulous Saturated Canary image quite a while ago and knew that it would be perfect for Gemma.  I coloured her with ProMarkers and used papers from LOTV, the sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp.

I added a punched border and some seam binding from my stash.

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

The Crafter's Cafe Challenge 97 - New (New Driving Licence)

I ♥ Promarkers Challenge 250 - Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Stampavie and More Challenge 228 - Ribbon

PDE Linky Party - Celebrations (Passed Driving Test)

Monday Morning Challenge 2 - New Somethings (New Driving Licence)

Shopping Our Stash Challenge 182 - Thrice as Nice (Papers and Seam Binding from stash)

Thank you so much for visiting me today, I always appreciate you taking the time to pop in.

Pauline
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Distressed Fairy

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 it's an easy one for you  - Digi Days.

I've used Donna's latest Steampunk papers - Steampunk Fantasy 2.

These papers really are fabulous they are brilliant for both male and female cards.

I have used the gorgeous Saturated Canary image 'Sweater Socks' Fairy' and coloured her with ProMarkers along with some Stickles on her wings.  Everything has been layered onto Kraft card stock and the edges distressed and inked.  I coloured some seam binding for my bow and punched some flowers from the Steampunk papers and leaves from the Kraft card stock, the punched flowers have been topped with some blue flowers from my stash.

We have three fabulous Sponsors this week:

Alota Rubber Stamps

$15 Gift Certificate

Quixotic Paperie



£10 Gift Voucher

and

our very own Bearly Mine Designs

£10 Gift Voucher

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

Saturated Canary Challenge 50 - Winged Things
Addicted to Stamps Challenge 62 - Shabby/Vintage
Digi Sketch Challenge - Vintage
Card Mania Challenge 28 - Ribbon
QKR Stampede Challenge 53 - Anything Goes
Patties Creations Challenge 74 - Anything Goes
Stamping Sensations Monthly Challenge - Wings and Things and a Touch of Vintage
Creative Creations Challenge 17 - Bingo (Flowers, Image, Distressing and Ribbon, Distressing, Kraft)

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

Thank you for visiting today, please pop in again soon.

Pauline
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These boots .....

It's time for a new challenge at Crafting for all Seasons and our theme for you this time is 'Make it Girly'.  I have made a card using a fabulous image called Honey from Saturated Canary our sponsor for this challenge.

I have coloured her with a combination of FlexMarkers and ProMarkers, the card stock is Core'dinations and the papers were free with Quick Cards.

I punched the border and die cut the corners and flowers, the pearls are from my stash.

Our sponsor this week is Saturated Canary

and the prize is 2 digital images

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

Kaboodle Doodles Challenge 177 - Pastel Colours
Platypus Creek Digitals Challenge 35 - Anything Goes
My Heart Pieces - Use a digi stamp
Crafty Sentiments - Girl Power
Digi Haven - Flowers
Send A Smile 4 Kids - For the Girls
That Craft Place - Flowers
Red Carpet Studio Challenge 42 - Going Digital
Divas by Design Challenge - Pretty Pearls
Passion for ProMarkers Challenge 204 - Name that Tune (These Boots are made for Walking)

Make sure you pop over to the Crafting for all Seasons Challenge Blog and check out the DT projects, we would love for you to join us for our 'Make it Girly' challenge.

Thank you for calling this morning, please come back and visit again soon.

Pauline

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Love Letter

Good morning, I hope everyone is well and enjoying the new week.  I would like to extend a very warm welcome to my latest follower - thank you so much for joining me Flora.

We have a new challenge for you at Bearly Mine Designs and this week we have a sketch for you.  I have used a Saturated Canary image, many thanks to Krista for letting me choose one of her fabulous images to work with.

At first I tried to colour her top in red, but after lots of failed attempts (I find red such a difficult colour to use) I had a look around the internet for inspiration and found a fabulous image on the Copic Marker Europe Blog with her Top left white and so that is what I did. My papers are from one of my Bearly Mine Designs CDs, full details of everything I have used are listed below.

Card Recipe:

Image:  Saturated Canary - Love Letters

Papers:  Bearly Mine Designs - Designer Extreme CD

Tools:  Spellbinders - Labels Eighteen, X-cut - Scalloped border punch, Crafter's Companion - Epiphany Shape Studio Heart, Punch-Bunch - Medium Oak Leaf

Embellishments:  Flowers, leaf, pearls, ribbon and twine from stash

Sentiment:  Rub-on from stash

This is the sketch we would like you to follow:

We have three fabulous Sponsors this week:

Saturated Canary

2 Digi's of the Winner's Choice

Elphine House Australia

Precious Child - It's A Girl Stamp

and our very own Donna

Bearly Mine Designs

£10 Gift Voucher

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

2 Sisters Challenge 130 - Hearts

A Gem of a Challenge 66 - Hearts/Valentines

Di's Digi Designs Challenge - Valentines and/or Love

Mark's Finest Papers Challenge 146 - Love

Totally Gorjuss Challenge 170 - Love

Totally PaperCrafts Challenge 153 - Valentines or Love

PanPastel Challenge 6 - Love and Romance

The Corrosive Challenge 167 - Hearts and Flowers

Red Carpet Studio Challenge 23 - Where the Heart Is

Alota Rubber Stamps Challenge 100 - Romantic Movie Title (The Love Letter)

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

Thank you for visiting today, please pop in again soon.

Pauline
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Pretty in Pink

It's time for a new Forever Friends Monthly Challenge and this month the theme is Animals, Birds or Butterflies, we would like to see at least one of these on your cards.

I have made two cards - this one using an image from Saturated Canary who are sponsoring our Forever Friends Favourite winner this month.

This gorgeous image is called Harley and Haley and I have coloured them with a combination of ProMarkers and FlexMarkers and added Frosted Lace Stickles to the frills on their dresses.  My papers are from the My Mind's Eye Lost & Found collection and my card stock is Kraft.  I coloured some seem binding and a flower to match and added a button and some pearls to finish.

I have decorated the inside of my card using the same papers and layout as the front:

Please make sure you take a look at my next post which features a lovely Forever Friends Bear.

We have two fab sponsors this month, the sponsor for the randomly selected winner is::

Joanna Sheen

and The Forever Friends Favourite is sponsored by:

Saturated Canary

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

Anything Goes Challenge 85 - Monochrome
Allsorts Challenge 192 - Lets Get Cute
Scrappy Frogs Challenge - Use Red or Pink
All that Stickles Challenge - Anything Goes
Desert Island Crafts Challenge 47 - 3, 4 and 9
Ladybug Crafts - Girly/Female
Creative Moments Bloggers Network Challenge 10 - Buttons & Bows/Anything Goes
Oldie But A Goodie Challenge - Red and Pink (ribbon/flower/button/pearls all over 6 months old)

Make sure you pop over to the Forever Friends Challenge Blog and take a look at the fabulous DT inspiration, we would love for you to join us for this months 'Animals' challenge and don't forget that the new Monthly Give-Away started yesterday.

Thank you for joining me today, please leave a comment so that I know you've been and will be able to come and visit you.

Pauline

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Birthday Wishes for You

Well it's Wednesday afternoon again and that means it's time for a new challenge at Crafting for all Seasons and our theme this fortnight is 'USE FLOWERS'.

We have three great sponsors for this challenge:

Di's Digital Downloads
Meljen's Designs
and
Saturated Canary

I have decided to use the beautiful 'Nevaeh' image from Saturated Canary  I rarely use Saturated Canary images because I feel I cannot do justice to the gorgeous hair - my colouring skills need much more practice - I feel a New Years Resolution forming here!

I have followed the sketch from the Saturated Canary Challenge, coloured her with ProMarkers and my papers are one of the Nitwit Collections, I had printed them out ages ago and found them when sorting out my Craft Room (which is still ongoing).  Full details of everything I have used are listed below.

I have decorated the inside of my card to complement the front using the same layout and papers but I'm afraid there is no photograph today as I just couldn't get one that was good enough to show - for some reason the colours were not coming out true.

Card Recipe:

Image:  Saturated Canary - Nevaeh

Papers:  Nitwit Collections

Card Stock:  Crafter's Companion - Core'dinations

Tools:  Spellbinders - Floral Oval, Whimsy Stamps - corner die,  Marianne Creatables - flourish die, X-Cut - border punch (inside card)

Embellishments:  ribbon, lace, flowers and pearl heart from stash
Sentiment:  LOTV

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

Saturated Canary Challenge 31 - Lou's Sketch
Digital Tuesday Challenge 188 - Girly
Crafts and Me Challenge 112 - Ribbon or Trim
I Love ProMarkers Challenge 145 - Anything Goes
Paper Pretties Wednesday Challenge 234 - Girly Cards
Ladybug Crafts Challenge 3 - Monochrome/Tonal
The Ribbon Girl November Colour Challenge - Lavender Hues
Sweet Stampin' - Flowers
Papelitos Challenge 21 - Girls
Tuesday Throwdown Challenge 125 - Lots of Layers

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 'ADD FLOWERS' challenge.

Thank you for calling this afternoon, please come back and visit again soon.

Pauline

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Dawn's Challenge - Think Pink

This is another very special post to support my dear friend and fellow Crafty Pad DT member Dawn who has had her head shaved to support her Mum who is in the midst of Chemotherapy treatment for Breast Cancer and is loosing her hair.  She is raising funds for the Breakthrough Breast Cancer Charity, chosen my her Mum.  You can read more about it on her blog and Just Giving Page please do pop over and take a look.

Dawn is having a month long challenge over on her blog and I am honoured to guest design for her,  there are lots of fab prizes to be won and she will be using a random number generator to select the winners so everyone has a chance.

We are also having a Special Month Long Challenge over at The Crafty Pad with the theme Breast Cancer Awareness and /or Think PINK not just a little pink but lots of PINK so please visit The Crafty Pad Challenge Blog and join in, there are even more fab prizes on offer there

This is the very pink card I have made using a gorgeous FREE image that you can download from Saturated Canary

I coloured her with ProMarkers and my papers are some that I have had since I started crafting over two years ago.

I have decorated the inside of my card as well

Card Recipe:

Image:  Saturated Canary - Boobie Love

Papers:  Docrafts Papermania - Red Hot Paper Pack

Card Stock:  Crafter's Companion - Core'dinations

Tools:  Spellbinders - Large Scalloped Oval, Fiskars - Edge punch,

Punch Bunch - flower punches, Docrafts - Midi flower punch

Hobycraft - Butterfly punch

Embellishments:  heart button, seam binding, twine and pearls from stash

Sentiment:  The Crafty Pad - FREE Sentiment Ticket

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

The Poodles Parlour - Here Come The Girls
Totally Papercrafts Challenge 133 - Butterflies, Bows and Buttons
Emergency Crafters - White with One Other Colour
Crafts and Me Challenge 100 - Add a Flower
Card Makin' Mamas - Hearts (heart shaped button and hearts in border punch)
ATC's & Cards with Attitude Challenge 22 - Anything Goes/Buttons and Bows
Catered Crop - In the Pink
Craft Your Passion Challenge 127 - Blast From The Past (I chose #103 Monochromatic)
Digi Doodle Shop Challenge 124 - Handmade Flowers (my flowers were made with a selection of punches)
Oldie But A Goodie Challenge - 1 Image, 2 Papers and 3 Flowers (my papers are about 2 years old)

Thank you for joining me today, please make sure you pop over the Dawn's Blog and join in with her special challenge and there is still time to enter the Breast Cancer Awareness and /or Think PINK challenge at The Crafty Pad.

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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Blue is for Boys!

Good afternoon, time for another Crafting for all Seasons Challenge.  The theme for Challenge 19 is 'Blue and White' and this is my card:

We have three great sponsors this week:

Di's Digital Downloads who are providing a $10 gift card for one lucky winner

Pink Cat Studio who are providing a prize of 5 digital images for our second winner

and

Saturated Canary - who are providing a prize of 2 digital images

I have used the image 'Smitty Schoolboy, A Ragamuffin' from Saturated Canary and coloured him with a combination of ProMarkers and FlexMarkers.  The papers are  'Assembly Required' from NitWit Collections and to keep in the blue and white theme everything has been layered onto white card stock.   Full details of everything I have used are detailed below.

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

Card Recipe:

Image:  Saturated Canary - Smitty Schoolboy, A Ragamuffin 
Papers:  NitWit Collections - Assembly Required

Tools:  Spellbinders - Ric Rac Border, Pinking Circles and X-Cut - Nesting Stars

Sentiment:  Crafter's Companion - 3 Birds stamp

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

Creative Craft Challenges - Blue

Paper Makeup Stamps Challenge 20 - Winter Blues

Totally Stampalicious - For the men

The Crafty Pad Challenge 154 - Let's see something for the Boys

Celebrate the Occasion Challenge 47 - Masculine Birthday

Stamps R Us - Just Kidding Around
Crazy 4 Challenges - A Child's Birthday Card
Saturated Canary Challenge 9 - Dies and/or Punches

Thank you for looking, don't forget to pop over to Crafting for all Seasons and take a look at the wonderful creations the other DT members have made and enter the challenge, you have until Tuesday 7th February.

Pauline
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