OWH sketch challenge

If you are in the USA and want to make cards to send to your armed forces serving abroad, head over to Operation Write home via this link 

If you are in the UK and want to make cards for our RAf personnel, go to www.obws.webs.com and check out the details there 

The image & backing paper for this card came from the "My Card Studio" range of CD's and were originally painted by Stephanie Weightman

Hope you like it and thank you for looking xxx

Sketch Saturday challenge #80

Here is my entry for the 80th challenge over on Sketch Saturday. I have again used Marjie gorgeous little girl as in my previous card (as I had an image left over - waste not want not lol) 

Hope you like it and thank you for looking xxx

Dunkers ATC Swap January 2010

Here is the collective set of ATC's for January ATC swap on Sharon Duncans Forum. The theme was Art Deco / Art Nouveau and we have a beautiful collection this month, I think you would all agree

Hope you like it and thank you for looking xxx

Friday sketchers Challenge card 29th Jan

Following the sketch on Friday Sketchers Challenge blog this week I have come up with this card made from an image by Marjie 

Hope you like it and thank you for looking xxx

Fred she said inspired card

As a lot of you know, I love Fred, She Said designs and I had some odds & ends from a previous card so not wishing to waste them, I made this card x

Hope you like it and thank you for looking xxx

Moving along with the times challenge #30

The challenge this week is to follow the sketch and to use a digi-image at some point so here is my entry for this weeks Moving Along With the Times blog challenge. I have used a digi-stamp from Polkadoodles

Hope you like it and thank you for looking xxx

Cup Cake Craft Challenge #74

Here is my entry for the cupcake blog challenge #74

Hope you like it and thank you for looking xxx

papertake "Pretty Pink" weekly challenge

Pretty pink papertake is the theme this week over on Papertake weekly challenge so here is my interpretation of the theme. The digital stamp images, backing papers and flowers are all from Fred, She Said designs

Hope you like it and thank you for looking xxx

Polka Doodles Week 2 challenge - love

Here is my card made for the Polka Doodles LOVE challenge over on Polka Doodles Blogpage

Hope you like it and thank you for looking xxx

FairyMoon Blog Challenge #2

Fairy Moon crafts is a relatively new blog so please pop over and follow them and join in with their blog challenges which will be bi-weekly. Here is my entry for week 2

Hope you like it and thank you for looking xxx

ATC's

The theme for the January swap over at ATC swappers is TEARING so here is my interpretation of the theme - I'll be honest, I don't know if I like them or not so I will see how they appeal to me in the morning before I post them

Hope you like it and thank you for looking xxx

Moving along with the Times blog challenge # 29

Here is my card for this weeks Spring card challenge over on Moving Along With The Times

The image if from a friend on Imag-e-nation.com and 2 of the backing papers are from Sharon Duncan's' embossibilities CD

Hope you like it and thank you for looking xxx

Rainbow Lady "TEA" challenge

A quirky card for the challenge over on RainBow Lady this week

The tea-pot & cup image is from one of Joanna Sheen's cd's. I took a screen shot and cut it out to suit

Hope you like it and thank you for looking xxx

Papertake weekly challenge 12th jan 2010

I have followed the sketch over on Papertake weekly challenge and made this simple card using Cuddly Buddly teenage techies images

Hope you like it and thank you for looking xxx

A spoon full of sugar recipe challenge

Over on A spoon Full Of Sugar the challenge this week is to follow the recipe and this week it required

3 pieces of designer paper

3 flowers

3 buttons

1 piece of ribbon

and as I had a card to make for an order, this is what I have come up with

Hope you like it and thank you for looking xxx

Card for a mans birthday

Made from a design on Rob Adams Vintage transport cd

Hope you like it and thank you for looking xxx

Cupcake Crafting Challenge 11th jan 2010

This week the challenge was to make a girly card so here is my entry for this weeks theme on Cupcake Craft Challenge 

Its from a die-cut kit by Kanban and is for a ladies birthday card that I had to make to fulfill an order

Hope you like it and thank you for looking xxx

Moving along with the Times blog challenge

Lovely Hazel from DidoDesigns told me about the challenge over on Moving Along With The Times so following the sketch designed by Hazel herself, here is what I have come up with xxx

Hope you like it and thank you for looking xxx

Cute card thursday Challenge blog

Here is my entry for the challenge over on Cute Card Thursday

The design is from Sharon Duncan's baby Layette CD  and the shimmer back at the back is actually yellow toned but doesn't photograph very well

Hope you like it and thank you for looking xxx

Friday Sketchers Challenge card

Here is my card made for the Friday Sketchers Blogspot weekly challenge 

Hope you like it and thank you for looking xxx

Stamp something Saturday Challenge

Stamp Something Saturday challenge this week has a sketch for you to follow so here is what I have come up with. Complete Cardmaking issue 21 has a free CD and there are some beautiful papers from PolkaDoodles so I have used them for this card.

Hope you like it and thank you for looking xxx

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge 10th Jan

The challenge this week on Secret Crafter is to follow the sketch so here is my interpretation of the sketch. The digi-stamp is from The Clip-Art Fairy

Hope you like it and thank you for looking xxx

Combining 2 challenges in 1 this week :-)

For this card I have combined 2 blog challenges into 1. The first challenge is on A Spoon Full of Sugar and they asked to see hearts on their challenge and the second challenge is on 2 sketches for you and I used the sketch provided for the template. The digi-stamp is from The Clip-Art Fairy . The backing papers are from a free cd that came with Complete Cardmaking magazine 
Hope you like it and thank you for looking xxx

Rainbow Lady Recycle challenge 7th Jan 2010

The challenge this week on Rainbow Lady is to make something with recycled items on it. So I have made this ATC using card recycled from my brothers wedding invitations, copper foil from a chocolate (& yes it was very tasty) and a ribbon from the chocolate box itself :-)

Hope you like it and thank you for looking xxx

Cupcake Crafting Challenge 4th jan 2010

It seems like ages since I have joined in with a blog challenge so today i decided to have a go. The challenge over on Cupcake Crafting this week is to make a baby card so here is my entry

I used images & backing papers from My Craft Studio Porcelain Plates cd & some ribbon & prima flowers

Hope you like it and thank you for looking xxx