Crafty Sentiments - Male Card

Hi all this is my latest Crafty Sentiments DT card.  This week's challenge is to create a male card.  To be perfectly honest I was struggling until I was sent the Crafty Sentiments new releases and I think you'll have to agree that 'Mike' is absolutely adorable!


I've done my usual CAS styley with this one.  A simplistic, stamp, colour with copics and then write the sentiment (as I don't have many 'male' sentiments) oh and then the hardest bit was embossing this, but I like the embossed lines, especially as they eventually worked!


All you need to do now is pop on over and check out the rest of the teams amazing creations. Oh and if you can why not enter this month, there is a super prize on offer!

A tutorial

I created a cloud tutorial over on the Crafty Sentiments Tutorials blog today.  It shows you how I created the sky background on this card, so if you want to check it out, pop on over!

Crafty Sentiments - Anything but a card

Hi all, another Thursday another Crafty Sentiments Challenge but with a twist!!  This week we are all doing a bit of hopping (very appropriate in our house as my little Jess has told me she's just learnt to hop!)

Come an join us for some hopping and you might be the lucky recipient of two of the new releases, some absolutely gorgeous Christmassy characters.  The new stamps are absolutely adorable not to mention checking out the amazing new papers.

If you've arrived here from Axa's blog then you're in the right place if not why don't you start at the beginning at the Crafty Sentiments blog.

 This week's theme is to make something that isn't a card.  I often get bogged down in making cards so this week I made a bookmark using Christmas Amy.  I decided this would be a great Christmas pressie (we're doing things on the cheaper side this Christmas!)  I used Crafty Sentiments Christmas Amy (isn't she just adorable!!) I stamped her on kraft card and then coloured with my copics (after careful testing to see which colours work on kraft!) And I just had to make her pop by using plenty of Stickles.  I finished her off with a Papermania sentiment and a ribbon from my stash (I think it was one I cut out of a t-shirt - you know, the ones that keep it on the hanger but tickle your neck like crazy!)

Right now pop on over to Bev's blog and share some love :)

It's a bug's life

This is a card for my nephew, I used a Crafty Sentiments digi - isn't it cute! He was a freebie which you can still find here.

This card is for these challenges:

Cute card Thursday - Bugs

Crazy 4 Challenges - Autumn

Fairymoon Challenge

I've been told about this challenge and I just loved the sketch so much I just had to do a card.  Fairymooncrafts (what a cool name!) and don't forget to check out their shop.  


I've used a DigiSparkle digistamp, the cartwheeling boy from the Anyway Up set. I created the background by masking and used the sunrays technique.  I coloured the boy with a mix of copics and a whispers blender pen, so I could use the same inks as the background. I added the border with a black gel pen and added a Papermania sentiment.

Christmas at DigiSparkle Challenge

Just a quick reminder that there are only 4 days left to enter your Christmas card over at the DigiSparkle Challenge.  Remember the winner gets 3 digistamp sets of their choice!


I thought I might leave you with a bit more inspiration, this card uses my Christmas Elf digistamp and you can pop over here for more digistamp Christmasness.

Crafty Sentiments - White

Sorry it's not the best photo in the world, but you get the idea!  I heat embossed flowers on the card base, and used my nesties to layer this cute image from Crafty Sentiments.

Pop on over to the Challenge blog to check out the rest of the teams amazing images.

Rudolph the Red nosed Reindeer

♫Rudolph the red nosed Reindeer had a very shiny nose♫

and if you look closely so does my Rudolph! (thanks to the miracle that is glossy accents)  

I also added some liquid pearls (using my flicking technique to get the pearls rounded - you just flick the other side of the card to help the blobs settle into a pearl rather than a mountain). I used a Pink Gem free digi - pop on over to check out her latest one.

This card is for these challenges

Pink Gem - Sketch

Allsorts - Song title

Pink Gem Candy time

Look at what Janet's cany is, isn't she good to us! Pop on over to see her candy.

A touch of Kraft

I seem to have got my mojo back (yeah!) and so here's a card I really enjoyed making and is for quite a few challenges!  I've used one of  Sliekje's images, they're so cute you just gotta check them out!

This card is for these challenges:

Mad for markers - Digi image
Colour me copic - Clothes
A crafty Little Place - Sketch
Papertake weekly - Cutie Patotie (July)
Pollycraft - Anything goes

DigiSparkle Challenge - Christmas

How would you like to win 3 DigiSparkle digistamps????

Well all you need to do is enter our DigiSparkle Challenge.  This fortnight's theme is Christmas and there are plenty of Christmas themed stamps here.

Here is another Christmas inspired card (pop on over to the challenge to see another!)

Crafty Sentiments Challenge

This is my card for this week's Crafty Sentiments Challenge - Fall colours

Why don't you pop on over and check out the the rest of the team's amazing creations

Digi Blog Hop

How do you feel about winning  load of Digistamps?  All you have to do is join in with our Digi blog hop.

Just in case you're new this is what you have to do! (Ooo, that was almost poetic!)  Start here at the Digi blog hop and then hop round our hoppetts leaving them a little comment and collecting the letter they each have for you.  Once you've collected your letters to make a word pop back to the Digi blog hop and tell us and then you're in the running to win some amazing digis.  

If you've arrived here from Adrina's blog then you're in the right place. If not then hop on over to the Digi Blog Hop and start from the beginning.

So, here is my card:

I've used one of my own DigiSparkle creations, Anyway Up which I coloured with my copics I then used my nesties to cut out different papers along with a little heart punch to create the background.  I finished it off with a Papermania sentiment.

Yes my letter is E,you guessed it!

Right, now it's time to pop on over to Vickie's blog and see her super creation.