Winter wishes

Don't you just love this stamp! I've seen it around recently and really liked (but not thought about it because I'm trying to be good and not buy any more stamps at the moment!). I was looking at some magazines the other day and saw it came free with Cardmaking and Papercraft, well no decision needed! I'd been struggling with Mercy's latest sketch as I didn't seem to have and rectangular stamps that I thought would work, but my new acquisition does!!!

White card blank
Image: Bentley Bear stamp free from Cardmaking and Papercraft
Other: Purple card, handmade white paper, snowflakes

I did it ...

... I got 5 S's on the card!

The challenge for Pollycraft Monday Challenge was to use at least 2 of the following S words : SNOWFLAKES, SPARKLE, SPOTS, STRIPES, SWIRLS

I have managed to get all 5 on to my card but you might hav to look closely!

The background paper has got spots, stripes and dotted swirls, there are spots on the borders, snowflakes around the edge of the nesties and sparkle on the teddy's hat and sentiment - phew!

Really enjoyed this challenge and I've ended up challenging myself by using colours that I wouldn't normally use for a christmas card. Hope you like it!

Card blank: square white
Image: Clear stamps designed by Adam Pescott free from a magazine
Other: Paper free from magazine, big shot and nesties, snowflakes, card from stash, gel pens

A Blue Christmas

My card for Mojo monday. I like this sketch but I thought I'd make it a bit clean and simple. hink it works, although it's a shame I mucked up the sentiment - got one bit wrong and went over it - you know when you just want to shout at yourself - STOP!!!

Card blank: white square
Image: Penny Black 'T for transparent' Christmas set
Other: Paper free from Quick cards made easy, ribbon from ikea, blue gel pen.

U Rock

Boys cards, inspiration always seems to be lacking! I was going for a teenage boy card, shouldn't have used the oval nestie but I'd already cut it! Must get the square and rectangle nesties soon! The image is another one from Digisparkle and I wrote the sentiment myself.

This is for a couple of challenges:
Digital Tuesday - music
Crazy 4 Challenges - stitching (I hope faux stitching counts!)

Card blank: white square
Image: Punk from DigiSparkle
Other: big shot, nestie, red ink, black gel pen, card from my stash

Lord's heart

Sorry I've not blogged in a while - things seem to be a bit hectic without a real reason! Anyway here's a card I've done for the SCS Divine Design Bible Verse Challenge. It's another digistamp from Digisparkle (you know me!) and I've continued with my black theme - I do like this black base and once I get started on one thing it takes me a while to change course!

Card base: black card from WHS
Image: bible sentiments from DigiSparkle
Other: heart punch, pink card, Pink grosgain ribbon (from the market!), big shot, nesties

Fall to Layout

This is my go at the Fall to Layout at Clean & Simple. A beautifully simple sketch and I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it. I used a DigiSparkle stamp from the Beer selection. I always find male cards hard but this one seemed to come together really easily. I wrote the sentiment myself as I didn't have any suitable stamps!


Square card blank
Image: Beer from DigiSparkle
Paper: Ikea
Other: Ribbon from ikea, nestie, bigshot, black gel pen

Birthday Book

I wanted to do this for this Project Tuesday Birthday Book Challenge, but I missed the date (by quite a lot - I need to be more organised!) I created this book as a traditional sewn book, I printed off the pages and trimmed them before sewing them into the black card. I then decorated the front with these free digipapers and a DigiSparkle image.

Black card from WHS

Image: Present from Digisparkle

Papers: Free digipapers from papercraft inspirations

Nesties, bigshot, red paper from ikea, black ink