Strawberry Ted...

Hi there, Susan here with another card to show you.

I have made this card using a great sketch from Sketchy Colours, and because my digi image is holding a rather large juicy strawberry I did my colours and backing papers to match.

The backing papers are from Crafters Companion, cute companion - summer stories, this is a rather cute CD with fabulous backing papers. All the edges of the papers were distressed.

The ribbon is from my local market, as you all know we get all our ribbons and lace from here. The little butterflies I made using a punch and inks to colour. I glittered them to bring them to life!!!

The image is a digi from Pollycraft.... I used Pro-Markers to colour the image and inked the background before distressing the edges.

My flowers were a mixture as usual, the smaller ones from Wild Orchid Crafts and the larger pink and cream one I made myself using a five petal flower punch.

The sentiment I made myself on the computer, I inked the background and edges before distressing to match the backing papers.

The cute little silver strawberry just finished it off, this was from Bunny Zoes Crafts.

I am entering this card into the following challenges....

1. Sketch Colours #30 - Sketch
2. Just Cute Bears Challenge #23 - Open Theme
3. Aud Sentiments - Love
4. Dare U 2 Digi #40 - Blooms and Butterflies
5. Digi Doodles Shops Best - Anything Goes
6. Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge #89 - Strawberries and Cream
7. Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge #38 - Lets Go Digital

Thank you for taking the time to look at my card, I hope you liked it.

Love Susan

xxx

I love you kitty....

Hi, Susan here again, wishing you all a happy day today.

I have used a great sketch and colour scheme for this card from Truly Scrumptious, I love cream and pink together they are a gorgeous combination in my mind. haha!! And just right for a great girly card.

The backing papers are from Nitwits and some from our stash. I have distressed all the edges and glittered them, well you have to have glitter when its a girly card, don't you!!!!

The ribbon is from our local market.

This little girl with her kitty is from High Hopes, its one of our new aquisitions, we fell for her straight away!

I coloured her in with Pro-Markers and then inked the background, before distressing the edges and glittering them to match the backing papers.

I think I caught the glitter bug from Emma with this card. My flowers are a mixture of my own handmade one and some from Wild Orchid Crafts. I glittered all the edges, and also found some small crystal blossoms in our stash and added these in the spaces.

This is my handmade flower made from pink and cream card, I made it using a five petal punch, the centre is a clump of flower stamens. You can see the crystal blossoms clearer here.

The sentiment is made using the computer, the background was inked in pink, I mat and layered it on cream and pink, then I distressed the edges and glittered them to match the rest of the card.

I am entering this card in the following challenges....

1. Truly Scrumptious #35 - Sketch and colours strawberries and cream
2. Simon Says Challenge - Friends
3. Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge #89 - Strawberries and cream
4. Fun with shapes and more #59 - Distressing
5. Aud Sentiments - Love

Thank you for taking the time to look at my card, I hope you liked it.

Love Susan

xxx

Dressing up time!.....

Hi there, it's Emma here!

I absolutely love Lili Of The Valley stamps, and this little girl is one of my favourites!! I have used the sketch from The Lili Of The Valley Challenge and rotated it. My papers are all from my stash and I've distressed and glittered all edges as usual!...

...I've coloured this gorgeous girl with Promarkers and chalks and then glittered all the edges, I also used a tiny bit of Glossy Accents on the mirror...

...My gorgeous flowers are from Wild Orchid and they are all glittered...

...I did the sentiment on the computer and glittered it up!!

Challenges I am entering with this card:

• Lili Of The Valley Challenge #56 - Sketch
• Bee crafty Challenge #32 - Pink and Girly
• Passion for Promarkers - your fave things
• Aud Sentiments - use 'Love' in sentiment
• Bunny Zoe's Craft challenge - Nice and girly
• Aly's Sunday Sketch #20 - Flower power
• Corrosive Challenge #70 - Flowers
• Quirky Crafts #31 - Ribbons
• A pocket full of posies #1 - one for the girls

Thankyou for looking!

Love and hugs

Emma xxx

Daisy Doodles 'Name Me' Contest

Jules has created another fab digi stamp. She needs help with naming it though!!!!

If you would like to join this contest and win this great digi stamp - hop over to Daisy Doodles Challenge Blog and leave a comment with the name you think the stamp should have.

Jules will decide on the winning name, you will have to be quick though the contest will only be open until Wednesday!!

Good Luck!!!

Princess Izzy....

Hi there, Emma here!

I decided to go MEGA girly with this card, as you can see!....

I had a great sketch to work with from the Sketch Saturday Challenge. My papers are all from the fabulous Nitwits and I have distressed and glittered all edges. I used lots of lovely netting around the full card front for extra girliness!!!...

...My fabulous little kitty image is a freebie from HERE, Sliekje offers loads of great digi stamp freebies on her blog and they are just gorgeous images. I have coloured this cutie with Promarkers and chalks and added some some bling for her necklace!!! I've used the same netting again around the image...

...I've made my own tissue paper flower and used some flowers from Wild Orchid - they have all been glittered. I used a gorgeous pink feather behind the flowers for a little extra fluff!!!...

...a big pink bow and a beautiful charm from Bunny Zoes...

...I did the sentiment on the computer and distressed and glittered the edges!

My inspiration for this card....

....Princess Izzy Herself!!!!!

Challenges I am entering with this card:

• Sketch Saturday #109 - Sketch
• Passion for Promarkers - Your fave things
• Bee Crafty Challenge #32 - Pink and girly
• Aud Sentiments - use 'Love' in sentiment
• Digi Doodles Shops Best - Anything goes
• Crafty Catz weekly Challenge #38 - Lets go digital
• Bunny Zoe's craft challenge - Nice and girly
• Fun with shapes and more #59 - distressing
• Aly's Sunday Sketch #20 - Flower power
• The crazy challenge - all things spotty

Thankyou for looking!

Big hugs

Emma xxx

Baby Love

Hi, it's Susan, I hope you are all enjoying a beautiful sunny Sunday!!!

This card includes two of my favourite card making techniques, sketches and easel shaped cards.

I have used a great sketch from Stamp with Fun, a great inspirational sketch!

The backing papers are from Nitwits, all the edges have been distressed.

The cream card at the back of the central image has been embossed using a cuttlebug embossing folder.

The ribbon is from our local market.

This cute little image is from Lili of the Valley, I have coloured her in using Pro-Markers, and then inked around the edges and background, before distressing the edges to match the rest of the backing papers. I have mat and layered the topper with a piece of card that I punched a pattern all around the edges.

The sentiments I made myself on the computer.

The large flower I made myself, using a five petal punch, the smaller flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts. One of my favourite things is to try and make my own flowers for my cards.

The pretty little silver coloured strawberry is from Bunny Zoe's Crafts.

This is the second of my computer generated sentiments, the flowers as before, I made the large one and the other is from Wild Orchid Crafts.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:-

1. Stamp with Fun - Sketch
2. Create 4 fun Challengge #47 - Make a baby card
3. Creative Card Crew #53 - Easel Card
4. Passion for Pro-Markers - Your favourite things
5. Bee Crafty Challenge #32 - Pink and Girly
6. Cupcake Craft Challenge #96 - Strawberries and Cream
7. Tuesday Throwdown #5 - Dry Embossing
8. Aud Sentiments - Love
9. Allsorts Challenge #58 - Embossing
10. Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge #89 - Strawberries and Cream

Thank you for taking the time to look at my card, I hope you liked it.

Love Susan

xxx

Little Mouse!!!..........

Hi there, its Emma here!!

I hope you are all enjoying the warm weather!

There is a great sketch at the Allsorts Challenge to work with this week, I really enjoyed working with it and I couldn't resist using this fab image from Daisy Doodles called Spring mouse, he is so sweet peeking out of the top!!! My papers are from my stash, and I have distressed and glittered all edges...

...My image 'Spring Mouse' has been coloured with Promarkers and chalks...

...I've used some gorgeous flowers by Wild Orchid Crafts and the big one is by Petaloo, they have all been glittered...

...I designed the sentiment on the computer and distressed and glittered the edges and also added a big satin bow!

Challenges entering with this card:

• Allsorts Challenge #57 - Sketch
• Crazy 4 Challenges #42 - Paper flowers
• Aly's Sunday Sketch #20 - flower power
• Charisma Cardz Challenge #24 - All about bling

Thankyou for looking!

Big hugs

Emma xxx

Anyone for a swim!!

Hi it's Susan here, well I couldn't resist this frog, just had to make a card to show her off.

I have used a great sketch from Cute Card Thursday, love sketches!!!!!

My backing papers are a mixture, the flowery one is from a Papermania pack that we bought ages ago. The beautiful green and pink muted papers are from Daisy Doodles. These two particular papers are from the Summer Collection, what a beautiful selection of colours in the collection, you will love them, go over and see for yourself!!

All the edges of the papers were distressed, just because I like doing it and like the effect it has on the finished card!!

The ribbon and lace is from our local market.

Isn't she just the most adorable goddess of a frog!!!!

Her name is Beach Baby Jayme, and she is a free download, she was designed by Crissy Armstrong. I coloured her in with Pro-Markers, and slightly coloured in the edges of the background with inks. I distressed the edges to match the rest of the card.

The flowers were from Wild Orchid Crafts, I slightly coloured the edges with inks before gluing them in place. The small blossom flowers I made myself.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:-

1. Cute Card Thursday #117 - Sketch
2. Bunny Zoe's Craft Monthly Challenge #1 - Nice and Girly
3. Everybody Art Challenge #96 - Green and Pink

Thank you for taking the time to look at my card, I hope you liked it.

Love Susan

xxx

My little geisha girl...

Hi, it's Susan again!!!

I couldn't resist making this card!

I love working from sketches, and this one looked so good with all those layers, it made me think Asian straight away, and then I found a challenge or two to go with it.

My backing papers were all from our stash. I used a ridged card for the main backing as I wanted some texture next to the shiny black and the silver mirri.

The ribbon is from our local market. I used a punch to make the silver strip.

This darling little image is one of many that 'Sliekje' gives away free on her blogsite, this little image is called Japans - meisje. She has the most beautiful collection of digi stamps each one is adorable.

I coloured it in using chalks, then inked the background slightly to age it.

The flowers are my own handmade flowers using a five petal punch, the centre brads we have had in our stash for ages they are silk covered.

The satin ribbon is from our local market.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:-

1. Digi Doodle Shop's Best #12 - Sketch
2. Pixie Dust Studio Challenge #27 - Red, white, black and silver

Thank you for taking the time to look at my card, I hope you liked it.

Love Susan

xxx

Summertime and the living is easy....

Hi, it's Susan here.

I have worked this card from a great sketch from 'Delightful Sketches' it is such a nice one and lends itself perfectly to a garden theme. There is always such a lot of challenges to follow at this time of the year with a summer theme, and when the sun is shining it is nice to be able to design with the gorgeous colours that are ideal for garden themed cards.

The backing papers are from a CD rom by Crafter Companion called Cute Companions - Summer Stories, beautiful backing papers on this CD rom. All the edges were distressed.

Can you spot the little wooden 'ladybirds', these little insects are my favourite summer bugs! They brings lots of memories of when Emma and my other daughter Jeni used to go on ladybird hunts in the garden in the summer!

The digi image is from Daisy Doodles store, it is such a cute little image and is perfect for a beautiful summery card. The image is called 'Wheelbarrow'.

The images are really good and print off perfect, any size you wish to make them. They are well worth a visit.

I coloured it in with Pro-Markers, and then distressed the edges to match the main papers.

The large yellow flower is my own handmade flower, made from a flower punch and coloured with inks, shaped and finished with stamens, the other flowers are Wild Orchid Crafts, which I coloured with inks.

The tag I made myself on the computer, I ink aged the background before distressing the edges.

I used raffia from Papermania this time instead of ribbon, simply because I thought raffia blended in more with a garden theme.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:-

1. Delightful Sketches - Sketch
2. Quirky Crafts Challenge #30 - Summer
3. Crafty Calender Challenge #9 - Bugs and Beasties
4. Stamp Something - Summer

Thank you for taking the time to look at my card, I hope you liked it.

Love Susan

xxx

'Summertime' My 1st DT card!!......

Hi there, Emma here! This is my first DT card for Daisy Doodles!!! The challenge which starts today is 'Summertime', so I have used this fabulous image-'Hammocks with palm trees' from the 'Summer Fun' pack, it reminds me of the fabulous holidays we have had in Florida!!! My papers are a mix from a CD rom-Peacock Summer Party, by Artilicious, and Basic Grey. The edges have all been distressed and glittered....

....I've coloured the image with Promarkers and chalks....

...My gorgeous flowers are a mix; some from Bunny Zoes and some are by Prima and they are all glittered!!! The little shells are real and come all the way from the FABULOUS Cocoa Beach in Florida!!...

...I have used raffia which to me, always looks 'beachy' and summery! The bottle cap is from my stash...

...the sentiments are also from my stash and they have been distressed and glittered!!

Challenges entering with this card:

• Delightful Sketches - Sketch
• Stamp Something - Summery
• Quirky Crafts Challenge #30 - Summer
• A Spoonful of Sugar #108 - Sunshine Inspired

Thankyou for looking!

Big hugs

Emma xxx

Lemonade Anyone!!! DT Card

Hi, it's Susan here on a bright and sunny Monday morning. Hope everyone had a glorious weekend.

I am very excited to show you this card as it is the first DT card I have made for Daisy Doodles!! The Challenge started this morning and the theme is 'SUMMER', why not have a go yourself, go to their store, the digi images are so good.

I used a great sketch for this card from Everybody Art Challenge.

My colours for this card were chosen with summer in mind reminding me of beautiful sunny days, and ice cream flavours!!

The backing papers are from a CD rom from Artylicious, Peacock Summer Party, beautiful CD with the most delicious papers!! I have distressed all the edges and glittered them to make the sun sparkle off them.

The ribbons were from our local market!!

This is an image from Daisy Doodles, it is called 'ice n a slice', such a good name, conjuring up a cool drink in the summer!!

The topper edges were all distressed and glittered to match the main theme of the card. I used Pro-Markers to colour the image in, and highlighted the bubbles with Glossy Accents.

The tab I made on the computer, edges have been distressed and aged with inks, then glittered.

The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts, and Petaloo, the edges of course were glittered to match the rest of the card.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:-

1. Everybody Art Challenge #95 - Sketch
2. Papertake Weekly Challenge - Ice cream flavours
3. A spoonful of sugar #108 - Sunshine inspired

Thank you for taking the time to look at my card, I hope you liked it.

Love Susan

xxx