Pink and Brown

Well, another weekend is over, that means it's time for another Whoopsi Daisy Challenge. Did you see the fabulous CD Joanna Sheen launched on Create and Craft on Saturday - Daisy and Friends:

It's full of Linnie's Whoopsi Daisy images.  There are coloured and non-coloured versions of every topper and it also has backing papers, inserts, bookmarks, stationery sets, mini cards and some fabulous templates for door hangers and plaques, you can buy it from Joanna Sheen's online shop HERE.

OK, now onto my card for this weeks challenge which is 'PINK AND BROWN' what a gorgeous colour combination chosen for us by Bonnie.

I chose this fab image from sheet 212, each sheet has at least four images on it and they are available from the Whoopsi Daisy Shop HERE.

I coloured the image with a selection of ProMarkers and FlexMarkers and cut it out with a Spellbinders Die.  I have inked the edges of everything with distress inks and layered the papers and image onto Kraft card stock.  Full details of everything that I have used are detailed below:

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

Card Recipe:

Image:  Whoopsi Daisy - Sheet 212
Papers:  Willow Designs - Polly Pickleberry CD

Tools:  Spellbinders - Large Labels, Die-namics - Butterfly Die,

Marianne CreaTables - LR0164, Martha Stewart Border Punch

Sentiment:  LOTV ticket stamp, Wild Rose Studio sentiment stamp

Embellishments:  seam binding, button, twine, doily and gems from stash

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

DYSU Challenge 56 - Ribbons

Cardmadfairy's Digi Days Challenge 25 - Ribbons and Bows 

Charisma Cardz Challenge 3 - Pretty in Pink

Crafting When We Can Challenge 10 - Something not intended for Crafting (button and doily)

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge 139 - Recipe (digital image, ribbon, buttons)

Make sure you pop over the the Whoopsi Daisy Challenge and have a look at the other Daisy Divas projects.   Have a go at this weeks 'PINK AND BROWN' challenge, you could win two sheets of Linnie's fab images if you use a Whoopsi Daisy image on your card and Linnie always has a freebie available for you to use if you don't have one of your own.

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

Pauline

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Flower Power

The challenge over at Polka Doodles this week is to use a template in your project, it can be a physical one or a digi template.  I decided to delve into my Paper Boutique CD collection and chose Floral Bouquet from Volume 1.  I love these shaped card templates, you can achieve so much dimension with them.

They take a while to make, cutting out all the separate parts and layering them up but well worth the effort I think.

These cards are quite difficult to photograph, you can't really see the dimension.  I decorated the inside of the card as I normally do.

Everything used to make this card was printed from the CD.

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

Polka Doodles Week 4 - Template

Card Makin' Mamas - Something Old (I've had this CD for ages)

Speedy Fox and Friends Challenge  92 - at least 4 layers

Hotshot Craft Challenge 3 - Flowers

Moving  along with the Times Challenge 133 - Blooming Marvelous

Craft Your Passion Challenge 94 - Colour Bingo (pink, purple, green)

Thank you for looking.

Pauline

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Gemini

This is my card for this weeks CD Sunday Challenge, they would like to see your Zodiac creations.  My first thought was to reach for Joanna Sheen's Enchanted Dreams CD again, but then I remembered that her Ivory Cats CD has a Zodiac section and as my Mother loves cats I could get really organised and make a birthday card for one of the boys to give her.  Thank you so much CD Sunday for helping me to get ahead, I usually leave all my cards until the last minute.

I'm really struggling to take good photographs at the moment, it's either raining and really dark or so sunny that everything looks bleached.  It was the latter when I took this photo, the backing papers are actually quite yellow, the dotty one is from Willow Designs Polly Pickleberry CD and the one with butterflies on it is from the Ivory Cats CD.  I went for a contrast with the base card stock and used some bright blue that has been in my stash for some time.

I punched the border with a Martha Stewart Punch and the butterfly is a Die-namics die cut.  The sentiment stamp is from Wild Rose Studio and is stamped onto a CREAlies die cut label.  The flowers, ribbon, lace and gems are all from my stash.

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

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

CD Sunday Challenge - Zodiac
Little Darlings Challenge 16 - Polka Dots
PaperPlay Challenge Week 4 -  Lovely Lace
My Mum's Craft Shop Challenge 41 - Flowers
Hooked on Craft Challenge 16 - Something Bright
Moving along with the Times Challenge 133 - Blooming Marvelous
Cute Card Thursday Challenge 201 - You're a Gem

Thank you for looking today, please leave me a comment and let me know what you think.

Pauline
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Anyone for Tea?

Time for another Willow Sketchie Challenge and this week it's Shell's turn to provide the sketch and here it is:

It's another relatively simple sketch with lots of potential for you to embellish it as you please, just make sure that we can still recognise the sketch.

This is the card that I have made:

The Design Team have all used the new Polly Pickleberry CD again and I have chosen my favourite - decoupage.  Both the image and the papers are from the CD, I have layered them onto some mat gold card stock that I had languishing in my stash pile.  The sentiment is LOTV mounted onto a scalloped circle die cut.  The flowers, gems and leaves are also from my stash.

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

Secret Crafter Challenge 169 - Food and Drink

Papertake Weekly - Happy Highlights - Decoupage

Critter Sketch Challenge 99 - 3 Embellishments

My Mum's Craft Shop Challenge 41 - Flowers

Hotshot Craft Challenge 3 - Flowers

Clearly Inspired Challenge 44 - Pastels

The prize is a voucher to spend in the Willow Designs Shop, so pop over to the Willow Sketchie Challenge Blog, have a look at the DT members gorgeous cards and have a go.  You have until 20:00 on Wednesday 1st February to get your entries in.

Thank you for looking today, please leave me a comment and let me know what you think.

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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Bling It!

Wow!  That week has gone so quickly, it's time to show you my second DT card for The Whoopsi Daisy Challenge.  This week we have the theme ‘BLING IT’, we want to see everything sparkle and shine.

I chose to use this fab image from sheet 202, don't forget there are four lovely images on each sheet.

There is glitter on the flowers, gems in the corners and her shoes are glazed, none of which show up particularly well in the photo unfortunately.

I coloured the image with ProMarkers, I tried to colour the stockings black to start with but they ended up looking more like woolly tights, than sexy stockings, so I started again and used grey instead of black.

The card base and mats are all black card stock, the image, panel, corners, border and leaves were cut with Spellbinders dies and I made the large flowers by taking apart some old blooms from my stash, colouring them with a black ProMarker, adding glitter to the edges and layering them back up making them bigger.  Full details of everything I have used are listed below.

I have decorated this inside of my card quite simply, I thought there was probably sufficient detail on the front.

Card Recipe:

Image:  Whoopsi Daisy Sheet 202

Papers:   The Paper Shelter - Gothic Girl

Tools:  Spellbinders - Reverse Wonky Rectangles, Ironwork Accents and Eyelets Pendants

Embellishments:  flowers, lace, glitter, gems and pin  from stash

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

Deep Ocean Challenge 17 - Sparkle and/or Glitter

Paper Pretties Challenge 189 - Use Glitter

The Paper Shelter - DT Call

Crafts and Me Challenge 67 - Use PINS

CLP Challenge 43 - Sketch

Card Makin' Mamas - Something Old - Papers, Flowers and Lace

Lothian Crafts Challenge 22 - Die Cuts

PaperCrafting Journey Challenge 1 - Floral

Papertake Weekly Challenge - Buttons, Bows, Bling and Blooms

Pile It On Challenge 4 - Add Lace

Make sure you pop over the the Whoopsi Daisy Challenge and have a look at the other Daisy Divas projects.   Have a go at this weeks BLING IT' challenge, you could win two sheets of Linnie's fab images if you use a Whoopsi Daisy image on your card and  Linnie always has a freebie available for you to use if you don't have one of your own.

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

Pauline

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A Quick Reminder .....

Good afternoon everyone, just a quick reminder about the challenge going on over at Willow Sketchie, it's my turn to host again this week and this is my sketch:

It's quite a simple sketch to work with and you can embellish it to your hearts content.  The challenge runs until 20:00 on Wednesday 25th January, so come on have a go you could win a voucher to spend in the Willow Designs shop, there are loads of Willow Designs goodies there including the new Polly Pickleberry CD and other items like ProMarkers.

This is a Tissue Box Cover that I made for the recent Create and Craft launch of the CD:

The papers and the image are all from the Polly Pickleberry CD, all I have done is ink and distress the edges and layer everything up.  I coloured the image with ProMarkers and cut it out so that I could mount it onto an embossed Spellbinders shape.

I added some ribbon around the edge of the lid, die cut a hole and added the scalloped edge with a smaller version of the Spellbinders die that I used for the image.  To finish I added some ink to tie everything together.

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

Digi Days Challenge 25 - Ribbons and Bows

Craft Your Passion Challenge 93 - In the Bag/Box

DYSU Challenge 55 - Patterned Paper

Ladybug Crafts Challenge 52 - Bows

Little Claire's Challenge 17 - Anything but a card

Little Darlings Challenge 15 - Favourite Colour - Purple

My Mum's Craft Shop Challenge 40 - Favourite Colour Combination - Purple and White

Paper Play Challenge Week 3 - Ribbon
CES Challenge 69 - Anything but a card

Thank you for looking today, don't forget to pop over and have a go at the Willow Sketchie challenge.

Pauline

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