Two blue cards

Ack I've no mojo :(  Reckon it's just because I've been so busy recently there's no energy left for creativity.  The weather has been so good recently, with only the odd drop of rain, that it's almost a sin not to be working outside!

Anyway, this card is for our boss in work.  I just couldn't think what to put on it!  All my flowery stamps have been used for various cards in work and she's seen them all, I figured she likes a bit of cake (don't we all) so I used good old Henry Mouse.
I've also had this lovely sparkly card in my stash for a while so thought I should cut into it.  For my background I chalked up a stencil in purple, green and blue and then coloured my image to match.  Image popped up on foam pads.  Some blue enamel dots to finish.

• General card design based on Bharati's beautiful card over at the Muse Challenge #276
• Make My Monday #76 - colour an image
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - use a die or punch

This one kinda looks better in real life.  I should really have got my lamp out for a better photo!

I smooshed my background with several different blue watercolours.  I also went over it with my waves stencil.  My little girl is an oldie from CC Designs - coloured with watercolour pencils and popped up on foam pads.  Sparkle added to her bathing suit and clear gloss to her flippers, snorkel and goggles. I also stamped some little blue fish in the background but they're hard to see here.

• The Library Challenge #12 - The Little Mermaid - I don't have any mermaid stamps so this is the closest I could get! 
• Addicted to CAS #141 - summertime
• Crafty Cardmakers #216 - holidays / vacations

A 2nd Birthday and some Christmas Penguins

It's been a day of two halves today ... sunshine and gardening in the morning and heavy showers and crafting in the afternoon!

This is a special request card - I'm hoping she's got the name right as I've never seen Anabel spelt like that!
My stamp is an oldie from CC Designs that I don't think has seen ink before! Coloured with watercolour pencils and swimsuit paper pieced.  Clear gloss and glitter added to the '2', her lolly and flowers on her sandals. Sentiment and number popped up on dimensionals.

• Layout from The Sketchy Challenges #97
• My Time to Craft #322 - paper piecing
• Seize the Birthday - add dimension
• AAA Cards #65 - 2nd Birthday bash
• Allsorts #364 - Happy Birthday

My second card uses these fab penguins from Eat Cake Graphics ...

5076-E Left foot up penguin

5077-D Right foot up penguin

coloured with watercolour pencils and clear gloss added to their beaks and feet.  Penguin in foreground popped up on dimensionals.

Simon Says Stamp falling snow stencil, and christmas sentiment die.

Sentiment and corner accent cut from shiny silver card.

The inside of my card was inspired by my bloggy buddy Cheryl's gorgeous card here :)

I used an old cuttlebug embossing folder, but I managed to leave a mark so used a silver strip to cover it up.

• Sweet Stampin Christmas - Winter fun
• Tuesday Throwdown #294 - embossing
• Layout based on Cornelia's beautiful card at Muse Christmas visions #45
• Creative Knockouts #142 - finish the inside
• Sparkles Christmas Challenge #64 - Christmas Cuties
• Crafty Calendar May - things with wings

Dodgy Engagement card

Aaarrgh a dreaded love themed card!  I was asked to make an Engagement card as a quick order, so I used these stamps that I won ages ago from CC Designs but have never inked up.  (sorry, but I have issues with faces with no mouths!)

If I had time I would remake this card ... my colouring on this is absolutely pants and their positioning isn't right either.  I think I should have stamped the groom to the left instead of to the right of his intended ... at the minute their body language doesn't bode well for a happy relationship LOL

Coloured with watercolour pencils.  Clear gloss and glitter added to her diamond ring.  Silver peeloffs from stash.  Oldie embossing folder from Ellison.

Sister Act Card Challenge #97
A Gem of a Challenge #130 - pretty in pink
Papertake Weekly - Happy Anything
Addicted to Stamps #136 - anything goes
Creatalicious #73 - anything goes
Day 15 of Kathy's 30 day colouring challenge #thedailymarker30day

A swimmingly good birthday!

I won this wee stamp from CC Designs aaages ago and don't think I've ever inked her up!  Oops!  I wish the sparkle had shown up in my photo ... I added glitter to her flippers, snorkel and glasses, and the sentiment and stars are sparkly too :)  I also used another couple of oldies ... my dotty embossing folder and my Tim Holtz edge die.

Layout inspired by the photo over at The Cutting Edge #6
A Gem of a Challenge #125 - embossing
CAS-ual Fridays #134 - Tic Tac Toe - I used dots / white / sequins
Stamping Sensations August - anything goes
Colour theme from The Card Concept #15 - clean and layering
Creative Inspirations #275 - here comes summer
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - anything goes

Ruth's Birthday card

The last of my days off today, boo hoo.  Still warm but not so sunny, at least my itchy rash got a bit of a rest from the sun LOL!  Of course our chemist was closed today for the bank holiday, so I haven't been able to get my hands on some antihistamine yet :(

The postie brought me some new Dienamics dies this morning so it was a great excuse to have a play!  I won this cute little girl 'Snorkles' a while back from CC Designs so thought I'd ink it up for my sister's birthday.  I paired it with some fishy images from High Hopes - Starla Starfish and Puff Fishy.  All coloured with copics and some orange stickles added for a bit of sparkle.  And as I'm trying to use my unloved stash, out today came these dew drops which I haven't used for maybe a year or more!

• Layout from Sunday Sketch and Stamp #165
  
• Crazy 4 Challenges #194 - marine life
• MarkerPop #26 - anything goes
• Polkadoodle #28 - summer fun
• Colour combo from Color Throwdown #250

New Goodies

I was lucky enough to win some candy from All That Scraps a few weeks ago, and chose this cuuuuute Kitty set from Paper Smooches and this fab fence die from CC Designs.

I was following the colour theme from the 10 minute craft dash for this one ... the trick of this challenge is to have a definite idea of your layout (mine usually changes as I go along, so this is a toughie for me) and have all your dies and stamps ready to use.  (Though I must confess that I have a stash of these clouds pre-cut)
Total time: 9 mins 34 seconds.
I decided later that it needed 'something' so added a couple of pink butterflies up in the top right corner, but I took my pic before I added them as that would have put me outside the 10 minute deadline.

Colour theme from 10 minute craft dash #12
Sweet Stampin - it's all embossing
Simon Says Stamp - anything goes

Xmas Tags

I made a load of these Christmas tags with these cute images from CC Designs.  Couldn't get a decent pic though with the shine off my lovely wrapping paper!!

I just stamped my images, coloured with copics / promarkers, rounded the top corners and added a bit of washi tape to the bottom.  Simple and super quick! (... I made 4 of these in under 20 minutes!)



Ribbon Carousel RCC75 - Holiday Spirit
Do You Stack Up #102 - Christmas
Willow Sketchie Challenge 13th Dec - quick and easy
All that Scraps - Clean and Simple
There she Goes TSG185 - Season of Giving
Stamptacular Sunday #193 - anything but a card
10 minute craft dash #8 - feature red (my tags averaged out at under 5 minutes each!)

Xmas card #26

Christmas arrived today!  We got our tree and deccies up, and the weather's certainly cold enough too!
It's Movie Night, so no chat in me tonight.  Showing tonight is "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen" ... it'll be my fault if its rubbish, though an hour or two looking at Ewen McGregor is never wasted!!!

Layout from MFT Wednesday sketch challenge MFTWSC101
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas challenge #102 - reindeer
Totally PaperCrafts #146 - one for the boys
Crafts 4 Eternity R#101 - colour theme - red, brown, green, gold
Charisma cardz #48 - Christmas
CRAFT #184 - Christmas
Simon Says Stamp - snowflake
Top Tip Tuesday #91 - Christmas

CAS Christmas

Another super quick card (yes, it's the usual last minute Christmas rush for me!)  I used my washi tape again and die cut a star border, the bits that popped out of the middle of the border were used in the sky.
Image from CC Designs - coloured with promarkers and popped up on dimensionals.
Paper Smooches sentiment.
Dienamics Star border die

Layout from Clean&Simple 220
I love Promarkers #146 - anything goes
Creative Card Crew #25 - Star
Die-ing for a Challenge - Christmas

Hellooooooooo!

Hi and welcome to my new blog!  If you've popped over from my old blog I'd love it if you signed up to be a follower, its horrible starting from scratch again!
It's gonna take me a while getting all my links over from my old blog, but sure there's no rush!

My mojo's been playing hide-and-seek again, but I have to plough on with my Chrissy cards regardless!

This wee cutie is Chrissy from All That Scraps - coloured with copics and a bit of sparkle added to her boots and bows.
Marianne holly dies coloured to match, and some pink bling to pull it all together.
I'd been concentrating so hard on the colour combo from The Play Date Cafe, but then I started using some old scraps of DP up and some blue slipped in, so I hope it's still OK!

Sketch from MFT Wednesday Sketch Club MFTWSC99
All that Scraps - anything goes
Colour theme of Rose...Eucalyptus...Slate from the Play Date Cafe #158
The Squirrel and the Fox #31 - anything goes
Crafty Cardmakers #79 - more than one punch or die
MarkerPop #11 - colour skin (I used E00, E02 and )
Creative Card Crew #24 - anything goes
Divas by Design #62 - use 2 or more patterened DP