January's ATC Swap

The ATC swap that I joined in with last year has started up again and January's theme was Anything Goes. I chose to use the sentiments from Pink Petticoat and teamed them with a punched butterfly.

I inked all the edges with distress inks and added some gold stickles applied with a brush to the edges of the ATC. I put 3 gold gems down the centre of each butterfly and dotted some pearls drops randomly around.

Aimee enjoyed making the ATC's for her homework so much last year that she wanted to join in with the swaps again this year here are her ones.

She made them all basically the same just changeing the background colour and the layout of the stars.

Distressing at Incy Wincy

It's Monday morning, back to school after the half term holidays here and time for a new challenge at Incy Wincy. This week we want to see some distressing on your projects, our fantastic sponsor this week is Aurora Wings .

I have used this cute image called Dragon Babies from our sponsor, coloured with promarkers.  I added a few dots with my blender pen to give the idea of scales and added crackle accents to the top edges and cracks in the eggs. The paper is from Fancy Pants Dapper Dan pad and I have distressed the edges of everything with my tim holtz paper distresser.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

4 Crafty Chicks - Things With Wings

CRAFT Challenge - CAS

Less Is More - Wings

Retro Sketches - Sketch ( hope it's ok that I spun the sketch round)

The Corrosive Challenge - Things With Wings

White On White with a Touch Of Colour at Incy Wincy

Good morning this week challenge over at Incy Wincy is White On White With A Touch Of Colour and our sponsor this week is Milk n Coffee stamps. I have used the lovely Lisbeth Loves Sunflowers stamp from our sponsor, coloured her using my pro markers. The background id made up of pieces of white card embossed with different embossing folders on my cuttlebug.

New Baby Boy

My lovely friens Emma & Dave have just had a new baby boy Logan and this is the card I made for them. I used a free digital stamp from here coloured in promarkers, with glossy accents on the balloons and some stickles on the bow. The spotty paper is a digital download from Pink Petticoat. 

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Stamp Smiles - Oh Baby ( my embossing folder and the digi paper is over a year old)

Hanna & Friends - Embossing

Whimsy Inspiration Blog - New Beginnings

Stampavie And More - Blue & White

Penny's Paper Crafty Blog - Embossing

Love You

Today's card is a Valentine one that I made for Shannon to give to her boyfriend. I have used a sock monkey image from Bugaboo Stamps coloured with my pro markers with glossy accents on the heart. I saw this fab card last week and used it as inspiration for my layout. The heart paper is a download from Pick Petticoat and the sentiment is from a cuttle bug die.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Bugaboo - February Anything Goes

Creative Moments - Anything Goes with added twist of Love

Crafting For All Seasons - Have A Heart

The Crafters Cafe - Hearts

Deep Ocean Challenge Blog - Love Is All Around

Cuttlebug Mania - I (HeaRT) You (die cut words are a Cuttlebug die)

Use A Punch Or A Die Cut At Incy Wincy

Good morning wow the weekend has flown by again, Monday mornings mean two things back to work ( boo) and a new challenge at Incy Wincy :-) I know which I would rather. This weeks challenge is a nice easy one for you we want to see you using your dies and or punches. Sponsoring us this week are Polka Doodles.

Both my image and the papers are digital downloads from our sponsor. I coloured the image with promarkers and added glossy accents to the cherries on the cake. I used a new set of dies that I bought this week for my card they are Die-namics  Blueprints 18.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Tic Tac Toe at Incy Wincy

Time for a new challenge over at Incy Wincy this week we are playing Tic Tac Toe here's the board for you to choose from

Our sponsor this week is Stitchy Bear Stamps I choose to use this fun shark which is called  Cartoon Smiling Shark  by Ken Benner who is one of the many artists you will find in their shop. I coloured the image with my promarkers and used my circle nesties to cut it out. I added some clear dew drops to the bubbles above the shark.

From the bingo board I choose to use brads/twine/punch. I punched a tag for the sentiment which I stamped in white ink and attached to the twine using a brad. The background has been embossed with Spellbinders So Trendy embossing folder and then I swiped the white ink pad over it,

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Come and Get It Challenge - Texture
Crazy 4 Challenges - Masculine Birthday
Open Minded Crafting - No Red or Pink
Cut It Up Challenge - Embossing
Crafts 4 Eternity - No Patterned Paper
Brown Sugar Challenge - 3 Different Embellishments