Boys for the Toys - imac G4

This is for my husband's boss, as with all in the office they like their technology and apparently this computer is iconic design! Don't see it myself but hopefully this image will appeal to him. This is one of the new images from DigiSparkle, we're trying to get more 'Toys for the Boys' stamps - keep an eye out for these!
White square card blank
Image - imac G4 from DigiSparkle
Silver card embossed with cuttlebug embossing folder - swiss dots (using the big shot)
Black card
Silver peel off

A baby giraffe

A neighbour has just had her first baby this week and I just couldn't resist using the new Animal faces digistamps from DigiSparkle, the only problem was deciding on which animal to use. I eventually settled on the giraffe (why a giraffe says baby I don't know, but it works!) cut it out with my oval nesties, glued on a blue gingham digipaper (free from somewhere!) and finished it with a ribbon (again, I seem to be really getting into ribbons at the moment!). It seems like a really simple baby card, but I like it!

Oh, and this is for the Bee Crafty challenge which is to use digipapers.


Image: Animal faces from DigiSparkle
Paper: Blue Gingaham digipaper (free from somewhere!)
Other: Blue ribbon from my stash, Derwent coloursoft pencils with sansador, baby stickons from anita's and of course my nesties!

A thank you

I took inspiration from this card from Simplicity, not convinced it's worked though! I think the original was twenty times better! Oh well, here's to the next attempt.

A little thank you

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Pile on the fairies

This is a card that is piling on the challenges! I really like this Woodware fairy rubber stamp but have always used it in the same way - a basic stamp! I got the idea of using part of the stamp from this Clean and Simple card and then I've just linked it in with several challenges.

So here is my pile:

Pile it on : Round - My fairy spots are round!
Papertake Weekly: Angels or Fairies
A Spoonful of sugar : Distressing - I distressed the edges of all my paper and my fairy spots
Lord have Mercy : Sketch challenge

And here is my card:

Christmas Hedgie

I love this Chrsitmas Pnny Black hedgie. As I seem to have been thinking clean and simple recently I tried to make this hedgie simple, and I think I've made it simple. The thing I like most about this card is the glitter, I've coloured the stocking and presents with glitter gel pens and the white has stickles on.

I've managed to squeeze 2 challengs into this card:

Penny Black Saturday Challenge: Christmas
Christmas Stampin: Green, Red and silver or gold.

First birthday

It's my nephew's first birthday this weekend and I needed a card quickly as I had to get it in the post (why do these dates always spring up on us?) I had already coloured a Jolly Nation toddler so I used that and then added his name.

However, this card just didn't want to happen. I couldn't seem to line the oval up with the scalloped oval so after about 8 attempts I decided to use tacky glue and in squeezing the tube it exploded all over my work luckily the image escaped! So, here is my card, glue free!


I decided this fitted into the Anything baby goes at Stampin' for the Weekend.

Card blank - white square
Image - Jolly nation coloured with Derwent Coloursoft and sansador
Name - Papermania acrylic stamps
Other - nesties, silver gel pen