Winter Wonderland Challenge

I came across this challenge blog a couple of weeks ago and thought it was a great way to start buliding up the Christmas cards, and avoid going in to Christmas overload, around about November.

So the challenge this week was a theme of Pink.

So here is my entry for the challenge. It gave me the opportunity to pull out my old DCWV 6x6 pad which I really love, and also a couple of Magnolia stamps that I picked up at the NEC a couple of years ago.

To create this image, I stamped the little girl, masked her, and then stamped the bench for her to sit on. This time round I have avoided alcohol (of the pen variety!) and coloured her in with my Whispers watercolour pens, and I am quite pleased with the effect.

I'm also entering this card for two other challenges:

• Pear Tree Designs - Stamp Something http://peartreedesigns.blogspot.com/
• My Mum's Craft Shop - Something Old Something New (the old is the stamps and papers, and the new is my Whispers Pens.)
  
  

Well there we have it - still in June - one Christmas card down........one hundred more to go!

Ho! Ho! Ho!

Sharon x

Challenge Number 2......

Here's my second challenge card of the day. It took a while to make but I am quite pleased with the result!

I have useda gorgeous Eliza digital image from Cuddly Buddly, and I have coloured her with pro markers and decoupaged here up with three layers.

I was following a sketch fro this challenge, but unfortunately I didn't have room for the sentiment in it's proper place under the image, as the image itself is quite big (note to self to load up Serif Scrapbooker so I can size my digi images better!) So - with a little bit of artisitc licence, I stamped the sentiment just to the side of Eliza's feet which I think looks quite nice!!

I have done my usual promarker edging and the lovely papers are some freebies that I found in a magazine that was just about to head for the recycle bag!

Finally, I have forced myself to use some of my Wild Orchid flowers as embellishments........and I do mean forced, as I bought the darn things but can't bear to part with them so I rarely use them on my cards (a common affliction for crafters I beleive!)

So - I'm going to enter this card in to two challenges:

• Pink Gem Sketch Challenge
• Allsorts - Lemon and Lime.

Thanks asalways for looking.

Sharon x

A challenging day.....

Today I have two cards to laod up for challenges and here is the first one.

I came across a site called 'Less is More' where the themes are exactly what is says on the tin. This week it's a sketch, so I pulled out some of my old Denami flower stamps and matching papers to make the card below.

I'm not sure that this is one of my best cards but I will definitiely go back to that sketch again so that I can make use of some of my cute little tiny stamps.

Back in a minute with another card.

Sharon x

Pink and Brown......

.....not a colour combination that would immediately come to mind for me, but I have to say that, once I tried it, I really loved it!

So here's my little offering as the DT sample for the new Little Claire's challenge which is, you guessed it - Pink and Brown.

For my sample, I have used a Little Claire's Digi Stamp this time - I think this bird table is so cute. I have coloured with Pro Markers as usual and used my nesties for the matting. The lovely papers are from my Polka Doodles Sundae of Seasons CD. As Nicky Hall would say - there are some lovely 'ditsy' papers in there!

Anyway I hope you like the card and thanks for looking. Don't forget to pop on over to the Little Claire's website to see the other lovley DT cards.

I'm off now to enjoy the last little bit of sun for the day - you never know - we may not see any more for a while!

Sharon x



The last of the Father's Day cards

Well here it is - the last of the Father's Day cards: and with Father's day and all the men's birthdays out of the way, I think I can safely see that this is the last male orientated card that you will be seeing on my blog for some time!

This is another lovely image from Digistamp Boutique coupled up with that paper from the NitWits Just Hatched set once again. I don't know if you can tell from the picture, but the image is decoupaged to give a little 'lift'. Other than that, this card is very basic, with no fancy frills as they say.

Well I'm off now to look at some other lovely blogs. There are loads of challenges that I want to enter this week - wonder if I will be able to find the time make the cards without resorting to another midnight crafting session?!

Sharon x

I managed to do that challenge card!

Well it took me till midnight last night (by the time I had finished all my womanly duties!), but, by hook or by crook I was determined to get this challenge card done and entered in to a few challenges.

This card followa the theme of 'Here comes the Summer' and I have followed the sketch from the Sketch and Stash Challenge.

Stash wise I have got out one of my original SWALK stamps and used the papers from the SWALK CD number 1.

I have thrown in a bit of distress ink for good measure and the lovely sentiment comes from a very useful set that my sister gave me for my birthday last year. It's the Personal Impressions Everyday Words Happy Birthday clear stamp set which has a whole bunch of greetings which cover much more than just birthdays.

So today I'm entering this card in to 3 challenges:

• Sketch and Stash


• Papertake - Here Comes Summer


• Crafters Companion - Here Comes Summer

Thanks for looking

Sharon x

Pastel Flowers

Thought I would go back to something a little more girly today and I have decided to go the whole hog with flowers and soft pastel colours.

This is another example using the lovely vase of flowers stam from Little Claire's which I showcased a couple of weeks ago. This time I have paired it with papers printed from my Wild Rose Studios Spring CD. And how cute are those tiny little buttons in the corner? For some reason they look like little sweeties to me and I have to resist the urge to try and eat them (wierd I know!)

Anyway, because those papers are so lovely, I thought I would enter this card in to the Stamp Something challenge this week, which is 'pretty papers'.

I really want to enter a couple of other challenges this week so I'm going to do my best to stay awake tonight and get creative, instead of collapsing in front of the telly. Trouble is, I'm 600 pages through a 900 page book which I started reading on holiday and I'm getting hooked back in to it again. Last night I was reading it till past midnight.......if only I could read and craft at the same time!!(maybe I'm not such a multi tasker as I thought!)

Thanks for looking and hope you will visit me again soon.

Sharon x