Life's A Beach!

Happy Friday The 13th! A Good day...until my tooth cracked again (oh poo!) Obviously the super glue trick didn't work! (** Hamish called it 'magic glue!' It was only temporary, but I think even he thought it would last longer than a week! but!! it was Friday the 13th! and I wasn't eating thick lumps of chocolate, honest!!)

Back to the card!! I made this card for Bugaboo's first Wacky Wednesday Challenge over on Bugaboo Stamps- Crafter's Digital Art Center. It's a Colour Challenge this time, red, yellow and turquoise. So I thought I'd have ago.

Here's my card with that cute little monkey having a swim, although I always thought monkey's didn't like water. The stripy boarder was just scribbled round the edge of the card and coloured with Promarkers. I added a bit of reddish/pink spotty paper and although I was looking for some buckets and spades, I did find a seagull, so fixed that on with a dob of silicone glue. (Cut it's button legs off first) Then did a bit of 3D-ing on the monkey, printed him out four times, so there's a whole image of him cut out using a scalloped Nestie and then one minus ears and tail ( It's a digi! It didn't hurt him!) one with just his head and then just his nose.
I've added a bit of my own background, coloured that with Promakers too.
The font is a freebie. I rather like this one! It's called Pea Johanna Script, link to this site is always on my side bar but I know how lazy you are so you can download it from Kevin and Amanda's blog

Anything else? The pale blue boat paper you can just see inside is a freebie, (I'll probably change it as it doesn't really go with those bright colours on the front)...you can download it from Mad About Cards... and that I think, is it!
Phew, second time I've typed this out, so glad blogger is up and running again!
Once more, as the post below this one, there were a few challenges I had added, but I'll have to check them out again, so will add them later. Happy Friday everyone, have a great week end! Thanks for stopping by. A Card For Dylan is HERE

Challenges
Catchthebugblog-anything goes
Bugaboo Stamps- CDAC- colour challenge
Tuesdaythrowdown- die cuts
Kaboodles Doodles- Layers

Sew Many Cards - Anything Goes

Mami Doodles - Spots and/or Stripes

Stamp Something - Anything Goes
Craftycreationschallenges-anything goes

Passion For Promarkers-theme (Teenager)
okay, maybe a very young teenager!
Make it colourful - dotty backgrounds

What's Cookin'...Good Lookin' ?

I used this cute little image on a card from Mo Manning called 'What's Cooking?' a few weeks ago but, it didn't go as well as I'd hoped. 1, I couldn't find the papers I wanted to use with it. (These ones) 2, the printer ink made a smudgy mark when I coloured in the image and 3, I coloured her arms and neck the same colour as her dress to cover the bleeding ProMarkers. Sorry, that should read, to cover the bleeding and then, made by the ProMarkers! (I wasn't swearing honest!)

My old printer clunks and groans, eats my paper and draws lines that aren't there but the ink never smudged!

I put this card onto FaceBook last week and someone wanted to know where the papers came from. They are freebies from Paper Craft Inspiration Magazine, and yes, I hunted them out and they are still available to download from way back in 2008!
There's four 'short' papers in the set, called *Domestic Goddess (I've used two of them) there's a choice of PDF or jPeg. (*SORRY LINK NOW CLOSED...but other downloads available)The font is also a freebie, I'm sure I haven't linked it before. It's called Cutie Pop and you can download it HERE

The cake (inside) is also a freebie, it comes coloured or black and white from Dustin Pike.

So, I've coloured with Promarkers, Inked the background with Tim Holtz-tumbled glass. I used my Black ProMarker around the edge of the card, as it's pearl and doesn't bleed through to the other side. The black around the image too, is also ProMarker coloured paper, not black card. The arrow and wording inside it was done on the computer in Word. The cooking embellishments are from my stash.

(some I brought back with me from USA)
I coloured two images, cut the best one out, minus her spoon and pan, and the wispy bits of hair and fixed her over the top of the first image using silicon glue, so that she popped out from the page. (I've just made a tiny mistake on one of her pig-tails, but we won't mention that!) Otherwise I'm quite pleased with this one! Oh one more thing, who can guess what that sticky strip is behind the image??? No? It's for carpets or rugs! You stick it under them to stop them from slipping, only it didn't work and got thrown away...well, almost, I nabbed it!! I think it looks a little like kitchen tiles. I was hoping to find a 'recycle' challenge but so far, haven't!

New Follower (out the back and in the dark, with no link) Hi and a big {{wave}} to hoptownrace1. Thank you for stopping by!!

(Click on the photos to make them bigger)

ChallengesAlso Backlinked to Mo's Challenge Dec 2011
By the cute and girly-cute and girly April Challenge
Mo's digital pencil - Start of something new. (first time your little offspring starts to cook!!) I remember that!
Freshbreweddesigns-cute and sweet
Mygraficocrafts- anything goes
Doitwithdigischallenge. recipe-1 digi, 2 patterned papers, 3 embellishments.
Joyfulstamper-anything goes
Papertakeweekly-truly dimensional

It's A Quirky Stitchy Sketch!

A very Quirky quick post! (as I'm not really here...) which means it'll go on forever!! This is my Quirky Craft's DT Card for the challenge that has started over on Quirky Craft's Challenge Blog! (Or should have done if I've pressed the right button...)

This time round it was my turn to set the challenge so you know it's going to be nice and easy and I've chosen to do a

Sketch!
(You always do a sketch Lyn)

Ok! So because it's nice and easy, we expect hundred's if not trillions of you to join in!
It's up to you what you do with the sketch, turn it, poke it, reverse it, jump on it, (Just checking that you do read this!) just so long as we can still see you've used the Sketch. This time our Challenge is being sponsored by

Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps!!

Which means prizes!! So of course all of us on the DT and GDT have used Images found in the Stitchy Bear Store, but you can use anything you like! (But not Grand dad's old socks...please!)
I've used Busy Bertha and made a Tweet Bird-Day card! Couldn't make up my mind on what colour to do the little tweet bird... but decided on yellow in the end. This would make a nice Easter card or New Home card as well as a Birthday or Just Because card... (or... Love you new hat card!!)
I was going to 3D the bird, and I might still do that, so watch this space! I've used Promakers, Peel off's, (very rare for me!) and backing papers from Papermania's Honey& Hugs paper stack. Candy, brads, ribbon and flower from stash. The deckled edged cream hammered card was from Craft Creations.
The font of course is a Freebie! It's called Witched. You can download it from loads of font websites (just Google the name) or go HERE
I've found a few challenges for my Tweet card... hope it fits in. Thanks for stopping by!

Challenges
Pals PaperArt - Spring or Easter inspired
PaperPlay - Green
Wee Memories- Spring or Green Theme
doyoustackup (DYSU) -layers

Craftuscrazy-one with nature

500 followers freebie here.
Spot The Difference Here! (win a digi!)

Another 'I'm Late!' Quirky Card!

 

 

Oh My Goodiness! It'll soon be time for a 500 followers freebie!! (Blogger keeps changing his mind tho, he's not very good at counting) In the meantime, I forgot all about showing you that other DT card I did for lQuirky Crafts last week! Here it is. We're doing Alice In Wonderland and there's still a whole week left to join in. Anything connected to The story would be fabulous! I've used this cute birthday bunny (white Rabbit, un-birthday cake) from our sponsorsThe Stamping Boutique 

I've done a bit of 3D-ing, used my nesties to cut out the first bunny with it's background and fixed another bunny over the top. So that's two bunnies, and if you blink there'll probably be another two! (bunnies are like that!) I've coloured him with ProMarkers.

Freebies! The backing paper's I've used are called 'Time For Tea' They were free with Quick Cards Made Easy last year (years back) but you can download them from CardMaking & PaperCraft download page, now called Gather. There's teapots and cake, just right for A Very Merry UnBirthday.

I printed these out on 160gsm white paper, with my printer running out of ink, and they still turned out really nice I think! The flower was printed on thinner paper and crunched up. I did the sentiment on the computer. (You can never have too much cake!) The font is a freebie too. (The ink just about gave out!) I'm sure I've already linked it. It's called Pea Faye. I'm sure you'll find it if you google the name. You'll love it, as the brackets make these funny little bee's and the $ sign is a happy face and I think the + is a heart. (Click the pictures to make them bigger) New Followers! Hi and a (((big wave)))) to Diane Rivers and Ikesart, no links but here's Ikes World Lovely cards, pop over and say hi! I did have some Challenges for this card but seeing it's a week late getting posted, I'll check them out first! Bye For Now!

Challenges 

The stamping boutique- monthly 

Paper Playtime - digi

 Critter Challenge - sentiment on the front

 Wild Orchid Challenges - anything goes

 Digital Tuesday (must use something digi) - celebrations

 Charisma Cardz: 4 Legged Friends 

Papercraft Star - Songs, Movies or Books Inspiration (Alice)  

Pop over and vote for me!  

Simonsaysstamp-no cook recipe-1 image, 2 backing papers, 3 embellishments, (I hope mine counts as I have used another strip of paper for the 'ribbon' and have more inside)

Off With His Quirky Head!

Or maybe not!! It would be a bit messy! But it's a good clue to the theme of the new challenge, which has already started over on The Quirky Craft's Challenge Blog It should get your brain juices thinking hard (mine shrivelled up and still hasn't quite recovered yet! but no one will notice!) This time the new Challenge is being sponsored by...dah dah dah daaaaah!!

**The Stamp Boutique**

The winner will receive 5 digital stamps of their choice from Tracey's Boutique!

Well, what's the challenge then? Oh yes, I forgot!! This fortnights challenge over on Quirky Crafts has been set by Cazzy and the theme is...

Alice In Wonderland!

I'm sure even those of you who have never read the book or seen the cartoon or even the films, still know the basic story. Girl, sees a white talking rabbit (with watch) follows it, (as you would) falls down a very deep hole (survives) and meets all kinds of weird people and very strange animals... (sounds like my every day life!) Some freebie Alice images can be found HERE. Can't be made any bigger but they are fun to play with!
So what we'd like to see in your crafty makes this time is something you'd find in the story. A white rabbit... a watch, a smiley cat or a Mad Hatter! Teapots, mice, caterpillars, turtles or even a Jabberwocky!
Now, I've made two DT cards for this challenge. One using an image from our lovely sponsors (That's a rabbit too!) and this one using the White Rabbit cartoon image you can buy from Bugaboo. I'll show you the other card when I've finished it!
The backing paper was a freebie, (some time ago) from the Simply Cards and PaperCraft Magazine.
I made the Drink Me bottle and the paint brush and my own back ground scene, then coloured everything using Promakers. The flowers where punched out of scraps of white papers, which had been half coloured red (They painted the white roses red in the story) There's a dollop of red Stickles glitter on the 'roses' too and some fine micro glitter on the white rabbit's bow-tie. The rabbit was printed out twice, and the second one fixed over the first to give him a 3D affect. (effect?)
The key was a brad (by Woodware) but I cut it's legs off (ouch, cruel beast!) and used a bit of florist's wire to attach it to the sentiment.
The font is a freebie, GoodDog Cool. There's a link on the post below this one to where you can download it, along with GoodDog.
Please pop over to the Challenge Blog and have a look at what the rest of the Design Team have come up with, including of course the fabulous make from our Guest designer!
Thanks for stopping by!

Challenges...

Sentimental Sundays- Anything Goes
Party Time Tuesday -Anything Goes
Catchthebug-Anything goes (use Bugaboo image)
Flourishes - Timeless Tuesday - Birthday
A Spoonfull of Sugar - Birthday
Stampin with the Dragon - Birthday
The Fuzzy Wuzzy - Birthday / Animal
Crafty Anns - Birthday
Card Makin' Mamas - Birthday
Allsorts -Make your own flowers
Crazy 4 Challenges - Flowers
Simply Create - Flowers
Lexi's Creations - Flowers
Sweet Stamps - #3 - Flowers
Stamp Something/Stamp Challenges - Flowers
Stampin' B's - Flowers
Bunny Zoe's Monthly Challenge - Flowers
Whimsie Doodles - From the Garden
Crafty Creations - In the Garden

DYSU challaenge-Anything Goes
Sugar Creek Hollow - Finish Inside/Outside
Frosted Designs - Use Metal (Brads, Key, Wire)

Take It Easy, Card For Dad

Wouldn't we all like to, take it easy, that is. Swinging about in a hammock all day. My Dad always wanted a hammock, now he has one, he says, 'I can't get in the flippin' thing now, without falling out the other side!' So of course, this card will be put by for him, probably Fathers Day (in June) as his birthday isn't until November, and it's a bit cold in November to be swinging about in a hammock! I've left the sentiment simple so I can change them if need be!

The Penny Black image was stamped and embossed, coloured with Promakers and I've done a bit of 3D-ing too. The papers are a mixture of Pink Petticoat, (the stripes) and My Minds Eye. (both came free with magazines) The key and key-hole are brads. They're by Woodware. Bit disappointed they didn't include hinges too! Or perhaps they do in another set. The font is a Freebie, it's called GoodDog and you can download it HERE where you'll find two downloads, one with extra dots! (GoodDog Cool)

A bit of a sad day today Frog the Cat passed away. She would've been 19 in September.

New Followers! Hi and a big (((wave))) to Sam from Hettie craftcz, then there's Sharon, elvira.Ketterling and Vintage Paper Art, with no blogs yet or links. Shamela from Shamela's Stamp n Scrap, great use of recycled stuff going on there! Made By Mandy, always a good sauce of challenges! Teresa Jenkins I found here at Mama Pickle's Paper, then Anna Corin!, but no link. Also, scrapymommamouse who I must have missed, fabulous baby Diaper cake!! Then out the back and in the dark, greatdays7406 and kimbob27 with no links, but after a lot of detective work I found find Kim over on Canadian craft corner That's me done for today...

Challenges
Penny Black Saturday Challenge-Men's Cards
Crafty Creations-at the bottom of my garden lives..yep, hedgehogs!
Paper Sundaes- Masculine Colours
Green?
Passion For Promakers- One for the Boys
Craft Your Passion-A male card
Allsortschallenge-inspired by nature.
Crazy For Challenges-use a die (nestie and corner)
Drunkenstampers-to-die-for (nesties and corner)
Peartreedesigns-one-colour
green

Relax! It's Only A Mouse!

Aw, look at this little House Mouse relaxing on a sunflower in the sun. (Sun; bright yellow thing that shines in the sky, often seen in summer, never seen at night.) Thank you to Sue for the image (I won some of the House Mouse blog hop candy a little while back!) Just a quick card, as I've been a bit busy and haven't made any cards, which I can blog about, for ages...

I've cut a 5½ x5½ square card down a snip as I only had a tiny bit of this green 'grass' backing paper, from Craft Creations. Green and cream seem to be my favourite combination whenever I've used these House Mouses!

I've use Promakers to colour the image as well as the flowers and some of the leaves. The font is a freebie, it's called Pea Anna-Banana and you can download it HERE. Look out for all their other fabulous fonts while you're there. Thanks for stopping by!

Challenges
House Mouse & Friends Saturday Challenge-use your favourite HM stamp.
Hope this one counts as the only ones
I've just bought aren't mounted with Kling-on yet!
Scrapcreations-Spring Fever

Digi Doodles Shops Best-Anything Goes

Charisma Cardz-Spring Has Sprung

If The Shoe Fits Scrap I-Happy Birthday

Wags N Whiskers- Punches (Woodware & MS)

More Fat Cats with a Freebie Link..

I never know when to stop, actually no, I mislaid a few and then made more and then a few more...

I was sure the words Party Time and Cheers were on the download somewhere, but no ...so I did them, not so good, but! on the good side, while hunting through all my saved stuff on my poor old computer, I did find 2009 saved Fat Cats from PaperCrafts Essentials and they are the same as the one's I've used in my ATC's here and in the Post below (from the CardMaking with your PC CD.) So, for those of you who asked, here's the link!! this includes Fat Cat papers as well!

Six or Three Book Marks

Haven't made a book mark since I did play school, years and years ago, when my girls were little. I've used Dustin Pike's Freebie images coloured with ProMarkers and then (dramatic pause!!) everything seemed to go wrong! I wanted to cut a line around the head, just enough so it could clip over the book page, and not slip out. Tip, always use a sharp craft knife! or all you'll do is tear your paper/card. Once finished I covered them in Sticky Backed plastic, (re-cut through the plastic on the one that I cut) which wrinkled on some of them, this stops the bit you've cut out from tearing off. Anyway, I ended sending just three off, (The ones on your right) for the swap over on CardMaking and Paper Craft forum, run by MotherDuck. Click the link to see Dorothy's and Caro's lovely book marks!

Here's the one where I cut under the snakes chin. The idea is, he's supposed to be peeping out and at the same time, this stops the bookmark falling out of the book, but as you can see, my craft knife just torn the plastic /paper and card, so I left the others as they were. (There's another piece of 160gsm paper on the back so you can't see the cut) They really didn't need the plastic backing, seeing I wasn't going to cut round their heads, but I put it on anyway...and it wrinkled!
I suppose they didn't turn out that bad.. but I won't be giving up my day job!
Now..... Who can guess, what's the book I've used in the picture??
New Followers! ((((wave!!)) Mucca Gufo pop over and see her fab Baby Gift, made to look like a pram! And Dawn B, but sadly no link.. Thanks for stopping by!

It's A New Quirky Challenge!

Quirky Craft's fortnightly challenges have started up again! This week we have some lovely Guest Designers showing you their fabulous makes. Claire Easson's pretty new baby card. Ali's (Aqualeiga's Escape) funky Happy New Year Card and Denise's Beautiful Day 2011 calendar! So please pop over and have a peek!

This New Challenge, first of the New Year, has been set by the lovely Caro

New Beginnings

You can take that in any way you want. Your project can be about something new, the New Year, (Of course) a new baby, a new home, a new job, new engagement, in fact anything NEW or a celebration of something new. (Maybe not the new socks you had for Christmas... but on second thoughts, that would fit in!) And as it's the first challenge of the New Year you can also use any of your new crafting stash, but be sure to tell us what the new items you've used are. (see I told you it was easy!)

Here's my DT card. I've gone for New Home. All the papers I've used are new and are by Forever Friends. I've cut them with my new pink maxi guillotine and my new deckled edged Nesties. I also won some clear stamps, some Promakers and a £10 voucher just before Christmas, so have used this cute kitty, Molly Cat with Bird House from The Crafty Pad Stamp Designs. (Thank you!!) I 3D-ed the kitty, bird house and bird and coloured them with the new Promakers! (I bought a few more Promakers with the voucher)
The sentiment was done on the computer. The font is a freebie, it's called MTF PlayTime, and it's from Miss TiinaFonts, (Link is always on side bar) So, all you have to do now is pop over to the...

Quirky Crafts Challenge blog

and join in!! Thank you for stopping by!

Challenges
Sparkles forum challenges-New things
MTTC challenge-Brand Spanking New.
I Love Promarkers - Anything Goes.
Lots to do challenges- New Beginnings
Ellephantastic challenges-New Beginnings (monthly til 4th Feb)
Mark's Finest Papers - Something New
Paper Sundaes - Something New,
Creative Inspirations -Something New.
Craftycatz- your choice, from past Challenges.
( I've chosen #45 Animals)

Happy New Year!! 2011 Mini Shaker Card

01.01.11. The start of the New Year!! I wonder what we'll all be up to in the coming months?
Here's my first card of 2011. Happy New Year, which I made for my Mum and Dad. I used the same Forever Friends papers as their Christmas Card so they would match (sort of) but used my own 'Happy New Year' digi (freebie until midnight tonight) The little cat started life off as a rabbit, would you believe, but I just couldn't get his ears to look right with that hat. So glad I changed it!

It's a sort of a mini shaker card too. I folded the front of the card back, and then punched out two shapes with a Woodware punch, so they matched up once folded back again. Made a sort of acetate pocket inside the fold and filled it with some chunky gold glitter and stuck it all down.
My little elf has been coloured with Promakers and splattered with micro fine glitter then fixed to the card with DS sticky tape. The font I used on the front is called PC Sunny Day, at the moment I can't find a free down...but there must be a freebie out there somewhere so I'll keep looking! (The freebie you can get isn't this one)

New Followers: Hi and a big (((wave))) to CT Girl no link here, but I think this is you! Life in the Craft Lane and Bonny C, with A Scrap Above

Now, I found a load of Happy New Year Challenges the other evening, but do you think I can find them now? nope, never mind. I'll go on another hunt!! Thank you for stopping by!

Challenges.
SweetstampinChallenge- Your Favourite Song.
(Kool and the Gang-Celebration)
Pixie dust studio pixie challenge-Happy New Year and to use gold/silver
(Silver Micro glitter and Gold glitter in the shaker)
Dutchdare card challenges-New Beginnings
(New Year)
Totally Papercrafts-Time To Party.
Sew Many Cards - New Things.
(New Year)

For Fun Challenges - Anything Goes

Crafts and Me - Anything Goes
Opus-gluei.-Anything Goes
(No food but drink!?)

Oh! Snow more Snowmen cards!!

One more Snowman card? Are you bored with them yet? (yes!) Oh well, hard cheddar, coz here's another one!

I didn't post this one, as the person I sent it to said they hadn't received it yet...(That's probably why they didn't get it Lyn) No, no, I posted it-with a stamp, what I mean is, posted it on here, but they must've got it by now as it was one of the first ones I sent off ages ago, which was rather good for me! What have I used?? Oho, Stamping Up! papers and stickers (I won them last Christmas!!) Promakers, Micro and Stickles Glitter, Woodware and MS punches, and inside a very pretty corner punch by Docraft's Xcut. The ribbon's from my stash and that might be DoCraft's too. I've also added some sequin holly and a tiny bow to the flowers.
The two main pictures look the same but one has micro find glitter added to the middle snowman's scarf and the other one hasn't! I've 3D-ed the snowmen again, I like them 3D-ed! Makes them pop out! You can't really see the inside font, but it's a freebie called English 111Vivace BT and you can download it HERE
That's it! I was trying to be very clever and do 365 post's this year...(359 plus one in draft) so I haven't quite made it (aw shame) but I'm not far off and there's still time!!

Challenges
Crafty Emma's Store - anything goes
Crafts and Me - anything goes
Aly's Sunday Challenge - anything goes
Crafts and Me - anything goes

Another Christmas Card

I forgot all about this one, so here it is... Very simple, using those three little (almost drunken) Snowmen again! Not quite done in the same way. I've still 3D-ed them but have cut round both images (so there's no fiddly bits) fixed the first image over the pale blue snowflake backing paper (Forever Friends) leaving on enough paper to act as the 'snow' at the bottom and then fixed the other image over the top using silicone glue. Coloured them with Promakers, added micro and Stickles glitter and lines of that Liquid Applique, which fluffs up when you zap it with the heat gun! I've used, MS fern punch and for the snowflakes and holly, Woodware punches. I've added a few tiny gem stones too.

New Followers! Hi and a ((big wave)) to, Jill B (no link) Loz, with a lovely blog called Laurel's Crafty Retreat Then there's Victioria is very busy with Abc-challenge.blogspot Little angel drummer boys and loads more!! Then there's Cindy Barnes Craft Creations and Terri Deavers with My Need 2 craft

Challenges
Passion For Promakers -Anything Goes
Woodware usa-Anything-goes.
Ceschallenges-Anything-goes
I Love Promarkers - Anything Goes
Aud Sentiments #18 - Anything Goes
For Fun Challenges - Anything Goes
Creative Craft Challenges - Anything Goes