Stiggys Crafts

This months challenge on Christmas Cards All Year Round is mostly green and snowman I have used an assortment of snowmen from Charmed Crafts and the Digistamp Boutique Two were pre-coloured images the rest I coloured using ProMarkers All the paper is from my stash that I have had for ages so sorry cannot remember makes Struggled with this challenge hence why I only made them tonight! Green is not my choice of colour to work with lol.

This sketch comes from the Friday Sketchers challenge I have turned the sketch round (hope that is ok) On the base card I have stamped the House Mouse stamp 'Mudpie Contented' using pearlized ink pad The papers are all from the local craft shop The main image is the House Mouse stamp 'Birthday Cupcake' Coloured using some Promakers and a little bit of glitter Sentiment was done in word and flowers from stash

This week on Mo's Digital Pencil Cathy has come up with a wonderful sketch to follow The image has been coloured using my tria markers Then cut using my circle spellbinder dies The papers all have come from my local craft shop The sentiment was done in word then again cut using my spellbinder dies I love this image of Mo's

Challenges Dotties World - Step into Spring Pollycraft - Sparkly Things Simon Says - Spring & Glitter Sketch from Sketch Saturday Secret Crafter - Pink, Green and Flowers This card has been design using the sketch from the Sketch Saturday Blog The image is one of the Front & Back collection from Charmed Crafts Dotties is coloured using my Letraset Tria Markers Then cut out using my Spellbinders Circle Cutters These were also used to cut the sentiment which was made using the Quickutz Letterpress Paper are all from my stash as are the gems The beautiful flowers were from some blog candy I won My sparkly bits are the gems, and glitter on flowers and down the strips of paper Thanks for looking

Cards for Men challenge is simply 'Happy Birthday' Sketch I have followed is from Sketch and Stash My Time to Craft - Make it Manly Cute Card Thursday wanted dimension! This card using a new download image I brought from SquiggleFly.com I printed him firstly onto some blue paper The 3 times onto plain white card I coloured him using my Letraset Tria markers Then cut him out so I could decoupage him and add dimension to the card All the papers are from my new All About Men Papermania pad The sentiment was done in word Thanks for looking

The challenge on Simon Says is St Patricks Day/A Little Green The Secret Crafter Challenge is Spring is Sprung The image is a House Mouse stamp called 'O Lucky Day' I have coloured him using my trusty Letraset Tria Markers I have cut out the shapes using my Nestabilitles Sentiment was printed in word Gems came from Hobbycraft Flowers are blog candy I won Thanks for Looking

The challenge on Dotties World this week is add ons You have to use 3 flowers 2 brads 1 button 1 charm The image on this is a pre-coloured Holly in the Garden I have cut her out using my nestabilities The papers, flowers, brads and button are all from the Docraft Goodie bag I got the other month The three flowers I decided to layer up into one multi coloured flower (hope this still counts) The butterfly charm has been in my stash for ages Thanks for Looking

Just thought I would drop a quick note as I have not had much time for crafting this week Its being one of 'those' weeks too much to do and not enough hours to do it in Hopefully be back doing some more at the weekend Hope you are all having a better week than me!

Dotties World Challenge Pastels & Brights & Cards for Men - Paper Piecing The challenge on Dotties World set by Adele is Brights or Pastels So I have used Mickey and coloured him with my Tria Markers I have done one card with brights and the other pastel I am quite amazed at how different it makes the same card look I have paper pieced the images and mounted them on silicon glue for depth Some of the papers have come from my new papermania pad 'Its a Man World' The rest is all bits from my stash DO CHECK OUT ADELES BLOG FOR SOME BIRTHDAY CANDY!

This sketch is from Maya over on Sketch Saturday I love the layout of this sketch but I am not happy with my finished card I feel something is missing but I am not sure what?! The image is a lovely freebie from Motivet I have coloured him with my Letraset Tria Markers The papers are from the Forever Friend Parfait Pad The text was done in word Then cut using Nestabilitles on my Epic 6 as was the rectangle

The challenge on Cute Card Thursday is Lucky Green The ideas is to have Green as the main colour but other colours are allowed The image is one of my House Mouse stamps I have coloured him using my Brilliance Pearlized ink pads with water brush The circles were cut by drawing around the inside and outside of my adhesive tape! The base card is green The green leaf paper is from the Forever Friends Parfait Pad Flowers from my stash Finished with gems in the centre

Simon Says - Mothers Day/Girly This mothers day card is for another of my friends The image is from Victoria Case She is coloured using my Letraset Tria Markers The papers are from the Forever Friends Parfait Pad The text was done in word Then cut using my Epic 6 & Nestabilities Circles was cut after drawing around my Tape!

The challenge on My Time To Craft is JUST FOR MUM! I have made this card for a friend The image is from Karen's Doodles I have coloured him using my Tria Markers The Square and the mats behind have been cut on my Epic 6 using Nestabilitles and my Quickutz Cookie Cutters The papers are from the Quickutz Pad Last Month Docrafts Goodie bag and a Pad for Men Ribbons, Flowers, Brads and Buttons are also from last months Docrafts Goodie bag The text I did on by Brother Labeller

This card covers too Challenges Both of which I have found a real challenge (I suppose that's the idea lol) The first challenge is the Pollycraft one this fortnight its to use distressing I find this really difficult as I tend to be a nice clean line person I have done some tearing on all the papers The other challenge is from the Secret Crafter and this is to use Shades of Grey the only other colours allowed are skin and hair! Again I struggled with this as I kept wanting to add just a little colour! The image is Pollycraft Download 'Ginger Tea' She is coloured using my Letraset Tria Markers The papers I have used were a set I brought from Hobbycraft but I cannot remember the make sorry The black piece of paper behind Ginger is from B&Q's and is a piece of wallpaper! I finished the card with some black gems in the centre of the flowers.

This card has been done using the colours from the challenge on Mo's Digital Pencil and the sketch I have followed is from Friday Sketchers The image is called 'Between' and comes from Mo's Digital Pencil I have coloured it using my Letraset Tria Markers The circles were cut on my craft robo Sentiment was done on word Flowers from my stash The ribbon came on a box of smellies! Pearlized hearts came free with a magazine Gems were from Paper Mill shop Thanks for looking do check out the challenge blogs lots of inspiration there

This card was done using the sketch on the Sketch & Stash Blog The papers are from my stash and are papermania ones The image is my new stash from Bugaboo Stamps Coloured using Letraset Tria Markers Finished with a bit of free hand doodling and gems Do check out the blog there are some great cards on there Thank you Sketch & Stash for having me as the GD this month