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Thursday 30 May 2013

CAS New Home

Evening all :)

Hope you're all well and have had nice weather! :D It's been so sunny here today, so I'm happy for now :)


My sister and niece moved house a little while ago, so this is one of the new home cards I made for various family members to give them :) 

Ingredients
Medium - Promarkers
Bling - Ribbon Girl
Sentiment - printed off the computer 
Everything else - Stickles, Fineliner, Glossy Accents

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:

Thanks for looking :)
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Monday 27 May 2013

Birthday Boat

Evening all

Today over at The Cutie Pie Challenge Blog, I'm Guest Designing again! This is my last day GDing for them, so I'd like to say a huge thank you to the whole team for having me - it's been a pleasure :)

The theme this time is a 3, 2, 1 Recipe Challenge!
The sponsor for the challenge is Di's Digi Downloads, and they're providing the winner with a $10 voucher for the store!


So here's the card that I made :) I used three pearls, two papers and one image :) 
Ingredients
Medium - Promarkers
Pearls - Ribbon Girl
Hessian mesh - Ribbon Girl
Twill tape - Ribbon Girl
Button - Ribbon Girl
Cheesecloth - Ribbon Girl
Ribbon - Ribbon Girl
String - Ribbon Girl
Everything Else - Glossy Accents, Stickles

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:

Thanks for looking - and do head over to the Cutie Pie Challenge Blog and have a look at the fabulous DT creations :)
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Sunday 26 May 2013

Sweet Stampin GDT - Doilies and Dies

Whoops, just saw that this was sitting in drafts, my mistake! Sorry this is late!

Hi everyone
This is my last week Guest Designing over at Sweet Stampin Challenge Blog, and this time, 
the theme of the challenge is 
Doilies and Dies.

The sponsor is Cuddly Buddly, who are giving the lucky winner a £10 voucher to their store. The monthly sponsor is Ribbon Girl, who at the end of the month provide a £10 voucher for their store, so get entering :)


Here's the card that I made for the challenge, hope you like it, and thanks to all the girls over at Sweet Stampin for having me as Guest Designer for the month! <3

Ingredients
Image - LOTV Moving Day
Medium - Promarkers
Cheesecloth - Ribbon Girl
Hessian Mesh - Ribbon Girl
Ribbon - Ribbon Girl
Pearls - Ribbon Girl
Corner Die - Whimsy Corner Die Set
Everything Else - Stickles, Glossy Accents, Distress Stickles

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:

Thanks for looking!
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Friday 24 May 2013

Just For You

Evening everyone :)

The sun is shining here, I love this time of year :) New growth and baby animals everywhere, so idyllic!



Anyway, I was asked by my neighbour to make her a card for a girl, so this is what I made :) I love this image so much :)

Ingredients
Medium - Promarkers
Everything Else - Stickles, Fineliner

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:

Thanks for looking :)
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Wednesday 22 May 2013

Howdy

Evening everyone :)

Hope you're all well...my heart goes out to everyone in Oklahoma, whose lives have been interrupted and torn apart...stay strong...


I made this card yesterday, the image had been sitting on my desk all coloured in waiting to be used for such a long time! For some reason the colour on the photos looks a bit washed out...they're far more vivid in real life. I paper-pieced her necktie too, it's not very obvious from the pics maybe.
Ingredients
Ribbon - Ribbon Girl
Lace - Ribbon Girl
Baker's twine - Ribbon Girl
Cheesecloth - Ribbon Girl
Twine - Ribbon Girl
Hessian - Ribbon Girl
Stars - Darice
Letters - stash
Medium - Promarkers

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:
Pile it on - Add fabric or felt (cheesecloth and hessian)

Thanks for looking :)
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Monday 20 May 2013

Final Forever Friends DT card - for a child

Hi everybody

This is my last DT post for Forever Friends Challenge Blog
it was a difficult decision to make, but we've decided that it's time to say goodbye to our beloved bears, so we're going to close the challenge blog. 

We do, however, have some good news - myself, Diane and the entire design team are moving to a brand new challenge blog! 

is the newest weekly challenge blog on the block!
The first challenge will go live on June 1st, and between now and June 30th, we have a fabulous welcome candy going on over there, so please do head over, follow the blog, enter the candy and come back again on June 1st to enter our first challenge! 

We're all very excited about this brand new venture :) We have our fantastic design team, some amazing themes lined up, and of course amazing sponsors too! One door is closing, but another amazing door is opening right up :)

So anyway, onto the details of our last ever Forever Friends Chllenge!

Our theme this time is

For a Child


We have two sponsors for this last challenge.

Our randomly selected winner's prize is sponsored by
who are providing our lucky winner with this clear stamp set:

Code: BASET2 Baby Pram & Toys 
Pack Size 10cm x 15cm
Contains 8 seperate clear stamps
Size of Pram 5.6cm x 5.3cm

Plus...
A handmade stamp of the winners choice
Here is an example of what is on offer.

Our Forever Friends Favourite, as chosen by the design team 
from all cards using Forever Friends products, 
is sponsored by 
who are providing our lucky winner with a $12 voucher for the store.

So here's what I made, using A Day For Daisies "Umbrella Splash".


Ingredients
Medium - Promarkers
Border - Martha Stewart punch
Ribbon - from stash
Bakers twine - Ribbon Girl
Clouds - Memory Box
Everything else - Glossy Accents, Stickles

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:
Fab n Funky Challenges - Favourite Embellishment - has to be glitter. I actually don't think I've ever made a card without stickles on it haha :P 

Thanks for looking! Do head over to Forever Friends, leave us some love, and enter the challenge :)
Tanya xx

Saturday 18 May 2013

Sweet Stampin GDT - Oodles of Doodles

Hi everyone!

Today I'm Guest Designing over at Sweet Stampin Challenge Blog, where the theme for this week is Doodles!

Simple as :) I only recently discovered doodling on my cards, so this is pretty new to me! But boy do I like it :D Pretty much every card I've made this week has been doodled on haha, it's addictive :D

The sponsors for this challenge are
who are providing the lucky winner with a £10 voucher for their store :)

AND
who are providing two rubber stamps :)

The monthly sponsor is 
who are providing a £10 voucher for their store, which is up for grabs at the end of the month :)

So here's the card I made :) I've never been one for CAS (because I'm terrible at it, haha) but I've been enjoying making simpler cards the last little while :) I had to have my customary sparkle in there though, I don't think I have EVER made a card without some Stickles, haha!
Ingredients
Medium - Promarkers
Everything else - Fineliner pen, Stickles

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:

Thanks for looking, and head over to Sweet Stampin and look at all the fabulous DT inspiration :)
Tanya xx

New Challenge Blog! Crafty Friends!

Hi to all my Crafty Friends :D (see what I did there? :P)

We have a new challenge blog starting! We're called Crafty Friends, and we're a weekly challenge blog, with fabulous sponsors, fabulous challenges and fabulous prizes :D What's not to love?!


Our first challenge is on
Saturday 1st June 2013



And we have fabulous opening candy too! 

The candy is sponsored by the fabulous
Offering 1 lucky winner a pack of Giordano Decoupage Sheets, Forest Friends Two.
Offering 1 lucky winner a Thomas KinKade Project Book with CD (see here for more details)

AND 
Offering 1 lucky winner the choice of 2 digis from their web-store.

Help us to spread the word, this is a challenge blog not to be missed :)

Tanya xx

Tuesday 14 May 2013

Cutie Pie GDT card

Evening all

Today over at the Cutie Pies, I'm Guest Designing again! The challenge this week is a photo inspiration challenge! The sponsor for the challenge is Crafty Ribbons, who are providing the lucky winner with a £10 voucher for the store.

Here's the picture:
I LOVE balloons. 


As soon as I saw it, I thought of this gorgeous stamp by Lili of the Valley :) It's called The Lost Balloon.

Ingredients
Embossing Folders - Petite Dots and Lattice, both by Embossilicious
Ribbon - Ribbon Girl
Baker's Twine - Ribbon Girl
Pom Pom Trim - Ribbon Girl
Button - Ribbon Girl
Cloud Die - Memory Box
Corner Die - Whimsy Corner Die Set
Gems - Ribbon Girl
Medium - Promarkers
Everything Else - Glossy Accents, Snowtex, Stickles

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:

Thanks for looking :)
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Saturday 11 May 2013

Sweet Stampin GDT - Clean and Simple

Hi everybody

I'm Guest Designing over at Sweet Stampin Challenge Blog for the month, and this week, their challenge is Clean and Simple. Not my strong point haha, but I did my best :P 

Their sponsor this week is the fabulous 
who are providing the lucky winner with a £10 voucher for their amazing store :)

The monthly sponsor is the amazing
who are providing one lucky winner with a £10 voucher for their fabulous store at the end of the month :)

So here's my CAS card. This is the first time I've tried real stitching on my card, and I kind of like it! I don't have a sewing machine though so it's not the neatest haha :D

Ingredients
Medium - Promarkers
Pearl - Ribbon Girl

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:

Thanks for looking, and do head over to Sweet Stampin and see what the DT have made!
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Wednesday 8 May 2013

World of Warcraft Birthday Card

Hi everybody

A while ago, one of my boyfriend's friends asked me to make a birthday card for her World of Warcraft obsessed boyfriend. I could find NO WoW digis, images, colouring pages etc, so it took a while for me to think of what to do lol, so eventually this idea came to me...There's loads of WoW pictures out there designed for use as computer desktop backgrounds, so I found a suitably impressive image of Deathwing, a boss that you have to beat in the game.

I added some white gen pen to his scales to brighten it up a bit, and some Stardust Stickles and Scattered Straw Distress Stickles on the firey bits. I printed the picture out twice and decoupaged the dragon and the mountain he's standing on.

Then I went onto the WoW website, armed with the names of the recipient's characters and printed them out too: this is his warrior.
I printed him out twice and printed the sword out an extra time and decoupaged them; I added gold gel pen and Scattered Straw Distress Stickles to his armour, and gold gel pen, silver gel pen and Glossy Accents and a gem to the sword.

This is his Death Knight.
I printed him out twice and the sword an extra time as well, and used lots of gold gel pen and Scattered Straw Distress Stickles on the armour and sword along with Glossy Accents on the sword.

I came up with this sentiment, I think I must've seen it somewhere before, but it's perfect for any gamer cards! I found a free font online that looks like WoW font.

And here's the finished creation, the characters are mounted on black card so they can open to show off the background. The customer was happy with it, so I hope her boyfriend is as well. 

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:

Thanks for looking :)
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Monday 6 May 2013

2nd Forever Friends DT Card

Hi everyone

Me again with my second Forever Friends DT card. Our theme this fortnight is PASTEL COLOURS, and we're sponsored by
who are providing our Randomly Selected Winner with 4 sheets of digis :)

and

who are providing our Forever Friends Favourite with 2 digis from her store :)

I posted up my OPC card, which you can find HERE and this post is for my Whoopsi Daisy card :)
I used the Whoopsi Daisy image from Sheet 370, isn't it so cute :)

Ingredients
Medium - Promarkers
Embossing Folder - Lattice by Embossilicious
Butterflies - Martha Stewart Butterfly Punch
Ribbon - From stash
Pearl - Ribbon Girl

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:


Thanks for looking :)
Tags xx

Forever Friends DT Card


Hi everybody

Please excuse my not so fantastic cards today, I've been ill all week and it took all my energy to make these, so they're not top notch unfortunately :( Hope you're all enjoying your bank holiday weekend!

Today over at Forever Friends sees the latest Fortnightly Challenge going live. 
Our theme this time is Pastel Colours. 

We have two lovely sponsors: our Randomly Selected Winner is sponsored by 
who are providing our winner with 4 digi sheets of the winner's choice.

Our Forever Friends Favourite prize is sponsored by 
who are providing our lucky winner with 2 digis of the winner's choice.

This post is for my Oak Pond Creations card, I'll be back in a while with my Whoopsi Daisy card :) 
I used the image Reading Rabbits for this card, and I thought it would be a suitable mother's day card, it looks like Mummy Rabbit is reading Baby Rabbits a story :)

Ingredients
Medium - Promarkers
Ribbon - from stash
Pearls - Ribbon Girl
Sentiments - LOTV Sentiment Tags

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:
As You Like It Challenge - Dies/Punches - my corner die appears on nearly all my cards haha :) I'm still trying to develop my style, I have a couple of styles that work for me - one is distressed, shabby chic, messy; and this is more clean cut and tidy :)

Thanks for looking, be back soon with my Whoopsi Daisy card :)
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