Rocket Man

It's my lil brother's birthday today and this is the card I made for him. I've used a cute Rocket image designed by Lia Stampz and gorgeous sentiment from Raindrop Echo Designs. My brother is an unfussy sort so a few stars is all that was needed...

Supplies:
Image - Rocket coloured with Promarkers & Flexmarkers
Sentiment - from the Amongst the Stars set
Paper - Back to Basics Modern Christmas by Dovecraft (yep I have used Christmas papers on a birthday card...)
Buttons - stash
Other - Deckle edged rectangle Nestabilities dies, Quickutz star dies

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:
Cards for Men - Transport
Here Come The Boys - Bingo (blue, free, image)
I Love Promarkers - Anything Goes

Beside the Sea...

Good morning to you all, it's time for a new challenge at Allsorts challenge blog. Our theme this week is Masculine. I know some people don't like making cards for men but I'm not one of those ;-) We are sponsored this week by Digi Darla Designs and The Craft Barn.

So onto my DT card, I have used a lovely scenic lighthouse image from our sponsor Digi Darla Designs and added a personal sentiment before printing. I also added 3 birds flying in the sky with a Letraset fineliner...

Supplies:

Image - Lighthouse 3 from Digi Darla coloured with Promarkers & Flexmarkers
Paper - Bear Boys Too from Nitwit Collections
Twine - stash
Other - kraft card, brown chalk inkpad, Letraset black Fineliner

Please do come and join us over at Allsorts this week for our challenge x

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

Cards for Men - Transport (boat)

Here Come The Boys - Bingo (blue, free, image)

I Love Promarkers - Anything Goes

Just sentimental...

Here's a quick and easy card using a beautiful Raindrop Echo Designs sentiment...

Supplies:
Sentiment - from the Smile Sentiments set by Raindrop Echo Designs from Whimsy Stamps
Papers - Tea for Two by Cosmo Cricket
Lace - The Ribbon Girl
Flower & pearls - stash
Other - Woodware leaf punch, Marianne Designs butterfly die, Quickutz corner die, kraft card, brown chalk inkpad

Our challenge at the moment at Whimsy Stamps is Fancy Edges. Come and join in here x

Birthday Bear

Morning peeps, it's my gorgeous nephew's 2nd birthday today and this is the card I made for him. I've used a super cute Stamp Fairy Toby bear image and kept the details simple...

Supplies:
Image - from the Toby Busy Winter range coloured with Promarkers & Flexmarkers
Papers - Happy Days by Papermania
Other - C.C. Designs Cutters Buttons die, brown chalk inkpad

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:
DCC & Friends - Button Up
MAWTT - Happy Birthday
Crafty Sentiments Designs - Winter Fun
Totally Gorjuss - KISS

Flower Power!

Good morning to you all, it's time for a new challenge at Allsorts challenge blog. Our theme this week is Flower Power.

So onto my DT card, I have used a beautiful image designed by Dana's Digis for Whimsy Stamps. I have decorated the card simply to draw the eye to the gorgeous image...

Supplies:

Image - French Tulips by Dana's Digis coloured with Promarkers & Flexmarkers
Paper - Garden Party by Dovecraft
Pearls & buttons - stash
Other - Oval & scallop oval Nestabilities dies, Marianne Design Creatables butterfly dies, Quickutz corner die

Please do come and join us over at Allsorts this week for our challenge x

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

Divas by Design - Make It Girly

I Love Promarkers - Layer It Up

By The Cute & Girly - Cute & Girly
Dutch Dare - Buttons, Buttons!

We are being fancy at Whimsy Stamps...

Morning crafters. It's time for a brand new challenge at Whimsy Stamps and it's a really lovely one - Fancy Edges. Ooohhh I can hear you thinking!

I've chosen to make a card with one of the new January release images, designed by a new designer to Whimsy, Fairydust Images and is called Faithful Companion. I absolutely love this image and thought she'd look beautiful in lilac. My fancy edges are scallops on my card blank and my Nestie scalloped circle...

 Close-up of the gorgeous whimsical image...

Supplies:
Image - Faithful Companion by Fairydust Images coloured with Promarkers & Flexmarkers
Paper - Promises from Lili of the Valley
Pearls & flowers - stash
Other - Circle & scallop circle Nestabilities dies, Marianne Design Creatables butterfly die

Don't forget you don't have to use a Whimsy item to enter the challenge (it would be great if you did though!).

Don't forget also...as well as 3 random winners (yep I did say 3!) being chosen each challenge one lucky player who has used a Whimsy Stamps image (rubber or digital) will have the opportunity to be a Guest Designer for a future challenge. If you have used a Whimsy Image and would like to be a future guest please add GDT to your name when entering. The Guest Designer will be able to choose a digi stamp of their choice from the store to create their guest card too!

Remember anyone can enter our challenge and we don't mind you combining with other challenges either! All we ask is that you add a link in your blog post to tell your friends you entered the Whimsy Stamps Inspirations Challenge.
 

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:
 Sparkles Monthly Challenge - Die Cuts & Flowers
Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Anything Goes
Crafty Cardmakers - Fairytale Scene

Cute Cat

I bought the Playful Kittens stamp set as soon as it was released at Whimsy Stamps, the images are so sweet and perfect for CAS or smaller cards. This is one of the 4 images in the set, adorable or what...?

Supplies:
Image -from the Playful Kittens rubber stamp set by Wee Stamps
Other - card blank from Craftwork Cards

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:
The Squirrel and the Fox - Anything Goes
Crafty Calendar - What's New (stamp)
Corrosive Challenges - Out With The Old (new stamp)

It's all about Dies and Punches at Allsorts this week...

Good morning to you all, it's time for a new challenge at Allsorts challenge blog. I am the host for this week's challenge and I have picked a nice and easy challenge of Dies and Punches.

So onto my DT card, I have used a beautiful image from our regular sponsor A Passion for Stamps called Stargazer Lily. This is for my MIL for her birthday and as it's a special card I decorated the inside too...

 

Supplies:

Image - Stargazer Lily from A Passion for Stamps coloured with Promarkers & Flexmarkers
Paper - Petal Fresh Collection from Nitwit Collections. I layered a digi ribbon trim from the kit over the paper
Buttons - from a lovely friend, thank you Ali x
Pearls & flowers - stash
Other - Circle & scallop circle Nestabilities dies, Marianne Design Creatables butterfly die, Star Dust Stickles

Please do come and join us over at Allsorts this week for our challenge x

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:
Cute Card Thursday - Beat The Blues

Cupcake Craft - January Blues 
Crafts 4 Eternity - Moody Blues

MAWTT - Floral Delights

Dream Valley - Anything Goes

CAS cards

Good morning well all I can say is thank goodness it's Friday, been a rather long and strange week back at work. Only 4 more then I can have some more time off, yippee! I think I've already mentioned my plan to make more CAS cards... well you can't get much more CAS than these. I have used a cute set of Paper Smooches stamps called Chubby Chums. I bought these weeks ago from My Mum's Craft Shop and only just got round to using them, they are sooooo adorable. I have stamped the images and sentiments directly onto the card blanks...

Sorry got some rare sun rays on this pic...

 

 

 

Supplies:
Images/sentiments - Chubby Chums by Paper Smooches from My Mum's Craft Shop coloured with Promarkers & Flexmarkers
Other - nothing but card blanks ;-)

I would like to enter my cards into the following challenges:
My Mum's Craft Shop - Anything Goes 
ABC - CAS cards
Dream Valley - Anything Goes
Divas by Design - Anything Goes

Just sentimental...

I have a sentiment card to show you today. I love cards where the sentiment is the focus and you can't beat Ann Vento's sentiments imho. I have had this faux-silk ribbon for a while, think it looks perfect here. I absolutely loved making this card, it all came together so easily...

Supplies:
Sentiment - from the Smiles Sentiments set by Raindrop Echo Designs
Paper - Tea for Two by Cosmo Cricket, just love this pad thank you Tams x
Flowers - The Ribbon Girl & stash
Ribbon - Ivory Silky Crush from Pretty Little Ribbon Shop
Pearls - Melissa Frances
Other - Circle & scallop circle Nestabilities dies, Quickutz corner die, Woodware leaf punch, brown chalk inkpad

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:
Pretty Little Ribbon Shop - Flowers and Ribbon
Crafty Bloggers Network - Flowers
Totally Gorjuss - Anything Goes with a Ribbon
Creative Creations - Anything Goes

Love,

Thomas Wizard

It's my lil man's birthday, 6 today! The boys and I are heading back to school, them to learn and me to work ;-) We've had a fab couple of weeks off and will have another week off in about 5 weeks so not long to go! Already got things planned for that week - 2 days in Manchester and to the Harry Potter Studios near Watford.

Anyway back to the crafting... this is the card I made for Thomas for his birthday. He loves Harry Potter and I went looking for images and found the most gorgeous set of cute wizards at Stamp Fairy, this chaps name is Tommy. I bought a few and have used 3 images and one sentiment on my card, the sentiment is actually a free download ;-) I glued 2 card blanks together to make a 3-sided zigzag card. Sorry about the poor photos, believe it or not it was incredibly sunny when I took these so they look a bit washed out...

 

 

 This is on the reverse on the middle section for our message...

 

Here is the card my son Jack made for his brother, he too liked Tommy the wizard. He coloured Tommy with Promarkers and chose his own colours, papers and die cut shapes. I think it looks great...

Supplies:
Images - Tommy Wizard from Stamp Fairy coloured with Promarkers and Flexmarkers
Sentiment - freebie from Stamp Fairy
Papers - Back to Basics Modern Christmas by Dovecraft (yep using up my Christmas paper!). The gingham paper on Jack's card is by Craft Creation
Buttons - stash
Other - Nestabilities circle, scallop circle & labels one dies, Quickutz star dies, brown chalk inkpad

I would like to enter my zigzag card into the following challenges:

2 Sisters - Anything Goes
Sparkles - Anything Goes
Crafty Creations - Anything Goes
Challenges for Everybody - Anything Goes
Dream Valley  Anything Goes

It's Clean and Simple at Allsorts...

Good morning to you all, we are headed to Stratford, London today to visit the Lego shop for Thomas' birthday (it's on Monday). I expect to be sitting down for much of the day (drinking nice coffee hopefully) while the boys and their dad decide what they are going to spend their cash on ;-) We're going to have tea at TGI Fridays - Thomas' choice. I am going to sneak a cake in and ask them to bring it out at the end of the meal so we can sing happy birthday.

It's time for a new challenge at Allsorts challenge blog, our first of 2013! Our theme this week is hosted by the lovely Emma and is Clean and Simple (CAS). Now I want 2013 to be the year where I crack CAS cards as I love them when made by other people but when making them myself find them sooooo hard, I find all the blank space intimidating.

So onto my DT card, I have used a fab image/sentiment set from Digistamp Boutique. I have chosen to use the coloured image supplied rather than colour my own (yep, lazy I know). Without any colouring to do the card took no time at all to put together. I've just added some Stardust Stickles to the image and used a border punch down the side of the card...

Supplies:

Image/sentiment - from the Simply for Valentines A4 set from Digistamp Boutique
Other - Fiskars Apron Lace border punch, Tim Holtz pink cardstock, brown chalk inkpad, Stardust Stickles

Please do come and join us over at Allsorts this week for our challenge x

 

I would like to enter my CAS card into the following challenges:

Crafty Catz - Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
Divas by Design - Anything Goes

It's Blog Hop Time At Whimsy Stamps!

Welcome to the Whimsy Stamps January digital release blog hop and big Happy New Year wishes to you all x

We have lots of new images to share with you today created by…

Marika Collins Collection

Moon Cookie Gallery

Stamp Art Design

Lia Stampz

Dana's Digi's

Fairydust Images
The Doodle Divas

Raindrop Echo Designs

All Whimsy Stamps digital images are 300dpi for high print quality. You can re-size, flip, or rotate to fit your own project.

To find all of today's new releases please visit the Whimsy Stamps Store.

Onto my card for the blog hop, I made a springtime card with a gorgeous new image from Dana’s Digis called Chickadee. He is so cute…

 A close-up of the image…

Supplies:

Image – Chickadee by Dana’s Digis coloured with Promarkers

Paper – Tea for Two by Cosmo Cricket pressie from a lovely friend

Flowers – stash

Buttons – gift from another lovely friend

Don't forget to leave comments along the way as there will be 2 mystery DT Members who will each be choosing a winner from the comments left on their hop posts! These winners will each win a Whimsy digital image of their choice. The Grand Prize winner of the hop will be chosen from the very last stop, which is Laura’s Blog. This winner will receive 5 digital stamps of their choice from the Whimsy StampsStore. The hop will run for 1 week and end on Wednesday 9th January at 12 Noon EST, when the lucky winners will be announced on the Whimsy Stamps blog.

Below is a complete list of the hop in case you get lost along the way…

Tammy Ortiz

Anne Cullen

Charlene Brown

Debbie Dunn

Judith Hall

Kelly Mannix

Kim Taylor

Lisa West

Sarah McLaughlin (me!)

Laura Palmer

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:
Totally Gorjuss - New! (image, buttons & paper)
Emma's Cards UK - Animals 
Simon Says Stamp - New Something (image, buttons & paper)
MMCS - Anything Goes 
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Happy New Year!

Hope 2013 is a good one for everyone x