Christmas Cards All Year Round - March

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.

Friday Sketchers Challenge 95

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

Mo's Digital Pencil Challenge 24

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

One Card Five Challenges!

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

One Card Four Challenges!

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

Simon Says and Secret Crafter Challenges

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

Dotties World - Add Ons

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

No Much Card Making Time

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 & Cards for Men

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!

Sketch Saturday - 93

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

Cute Card Thursday - Lucky Green

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

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!

My Time To Craft - Just For Mum

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

Feeling Grey and Distressed!!!

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.

Birthday Card !

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

Tequila!

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