Bunnies & Chicks with the Cutie Pies

Hello,

A late post from me.  It's been a busy couple of days and I'm finally sharing my DT card for the Cutie Pie Challenge our theme this time is Bunnies and Chicks so why not dust off your favourite Easter Stamps or grab yourself a digi (you'll find lots of suitable ones from our sponsor Pink Gem Designs) and play along!

I've chosen one of their fab designs called Bunny Chloe for my DT card and coloured her with Promarkers to match my papers.  

I found a sketch for the layout on Pinterest and added a die cut flower and a ready made sentiment to finish my design.

Materials used:

Pink Gems Designs Digi - Bunny Chloe

Promarkers

Black Cardstock

Forever Friends Spring Time papers and sentiment

Magazine freebie flower die

X-cut circle die

Unknown scallop circle die (bought secondhand)

Ribbon, button and gems from stash

Thanks for stopping by today, hugs, Shona xx

I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges:

CHN Patterned Paper Challenge - April
Crafty Sentiments - Flowers (papers & die-cut)
Crafty Creations - #338 Anything Goes
Pattie's Creations - #133 Shades of Purple in your image

DT Post for The Holly & Ivy Christmas Challenge #3

Good morning,

Thanks for taking the time to stop by and take a look at my scheduled post today.  As ever I really appreciate all the comments that you leave for me as I know that it can be time consuming.

Todays blog post is to share my 3rd DT card for The Holly & Ivy Christmas Challenge.  For those that haven't joined in before it's always a just for fun anything goes challenge (as long as it's Christmassy!)

This time I'm sharing a Christmas card with one of my favourite techniques - patchwork made using a swatches die complete with faux stitching.

Materials used:

Craft UK Kraft Cardstock

Magazine freebie papers and sentiment die

Spellbinders nestabilities square swatches and heart circles dies

Button & twine from stash

That's all from me for the moment.

Hugs,

Shona xx

I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges:

CHN Patterned Paper Challenge - April
CHN Christmas Challenge Extra - April
Christmas at Sweet Stampin' - March Anything Goes

The Holly & Ivy Christmas Challenge DT #2

Good morning,

A scheduled post from me today so I can share my DT card for the Holly & Ivy Christmas Challenge we had a great response for our first challenge but if you've not checked us out yet pop over and join in our new challenge, the theme is always anything goes as long as it's Christmas and we would love you to play along!

As we're not tied to sponsors the DT can pick whatever kind of image they wish.  I've gone for a LOTV stamped image and coloured it with Promarkers to match my papers.

Materials used:

LOTV stamped image - James With Cracker

Promarkers

Papers - Docrafts/Papermania Home For Christmas

Craft UK Kraft cardstock

Magazine freebie sentiment stamp

X-cut snowflake die

Button, twine, pearls, ribbon all from stash

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Hugs,

Shona xx

I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges:

CHN Patterned Paper Challenge - March
CHN Christmas Challenge Extra - March
CHN Christmas Challenge - #325 Anything Goes
Seasons Greetings Christmas Challenge - #3 Anything Goes
Glitter n Sparkle Challenge - #231 Anything Goes
Christmas at Sweet Stampin' - March Anything Goes

Dies & Digis with the Cutie Pies

Good evening,

Hope you had a good weekend.  I had a busy one away at a Cheer and Dance Competition with my daughter and I'm really pleased to share that not only did her youth cheer team come first but they were also grand champions!  Her other teams did well and she also got second place for her hip hop duet so a successful weekend indeed!

Ok, back to my DT duties!  Today we have a new challenge starting over at the Cutie Pies, our theme this time is 'Dies & Digis' and of course as always your creation must feature a cute character!

We are sponsored this challenge by Little Miss Muffet who kindly gave the design time some super cute images to play with.

I went with this gorgeous kitten image, as it had some daffodils and looked quite Spring like I decided to make an Easter card.

I used lots of different dies to fit the theme of the challenge.

Materials used:

Digi image - Little Miss Muffet

Promarkers

Craft UK kraft card

Docrafts Capsule Collection papers

LOTV sentiment

X-cut circle and scalloped circle nesting dies

Flower die - magazine freebie

Flower pot die - First Edition

Lacey Circle nesting die - Spellbinders

Border die - Sizzix/Craft Asylum

Ribbon, buttons, pearls and twine from stash

Thanks so much for stopping by and taking a look!

Hugs, Shona xx

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:
Little Miss Muffet Challenge - #158 Anything Goes
Aud Sentiments Challenge - #175 Easter or Spring Sentiment
CHN Patterned Paper Challenge - March

Birthday card with a winter sports theme!

Hello,

Just popping on to share this commissioned card I made recently.  The brief was a 60th birthday card with a Ski-ing theme!  When I agreed to make it I didn't realise it would be so difficult to come up with something that wasn't too Christmassy.  The task was made even more challenging as it couldn't be cute or girly!  I'm always up for a challenge though and thankfully managed to find this image on Etsy.

As the image was quite large I kept the layout simple and picked out some non girly colours and matched the papers to them.

Materials used:

Precoloured image - part of a downloadable set from Etsy

Number Dies - First Edition

Papers - Docrafts Hot Diggity Dog

Cardstock, button, twine and gems all from stash

Thanks for dropping by, have a great weekend whatever you're up to!

Shona xx

I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges:

CHN Patterned Paper Challenge - March

My first DT card for The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge

Hello!

I'm really excited to share my first DT card for The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge which launches it's first fortnightly challenge today!  We are a just for fun challenge where the theme is always anything goes for Christmas!  We'd love you to play along with us!

As we don't work with sponsors the DT members had a free rein on their creations so I chose to make a card using a Sugar Nellie rubber stamp.  

I love this cute wee stamp - it's one I keep coming back to!  As I've not used any cardstock for matting and layering I've added some faux stitching to the papers for extra definition.

Materials used:

Stamp - Sugar Nellie, Furry Friends

Sentiment - LOTV

Promarkers

Papers - Boofle Christmas

Snowflake die - X-cut

Buttons, pearls and twine from stash

That's all for now, see you again soon.

Hugs, Shona xx

I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges:
CHN Patterned Paper Challenge - March
CHN Christmas Challenge - #323 Anything Goes
CHN Christmas Challenge Extra - March
Crafty Sentiments - Anything Goes
Seasons Greetings Challenge - #2 Anything Christmas Goes

Share An Oldie For Friday - Talent Spot @ Creativity Magazine

Hi there,

It's been a while since I joined in with 'Share an Oldie' started by Erika at Snappycrafts.  I know she is currently taking a break from blogging and I'm not sure if anyone else is still taking part but I thought I'd put this one on anyway as I found it while having a camera clear out!

This is a card I made back in early 2015 for the 'Talent Spot' in Creativity Magazine after they spotted a card of mine in the Docrafts online gallery (which I wan't even keen on!) and asked me to make a card for the magazine.  Sadly I no longer have time to post on there as well as on my blog but it was lovely to be asked at the time.

Docrafts provided most of the materials so it was really just a case of coming up with a layout.  The decoupage, papers, buttons, lace, ribbon, etc are all from Docrafts Simply Floral collection.

And here's the article in print

I'm really happy with how it turned out and it was fantastic seeing it in print - the only downside was that I didn't get the card back after it was photographed for the magazine.

Anyway, that's all for my Friday Oldie, have a fantastic weekend whatever you have planned.

Hugs,

Shona xx