Pink Petticoat

Good morning from an absolutely miserable and very wet Scruff's Corner! Pink Petticoat have a challenge on their blog for the month of November and the brief is
To win them you need to make a pillow box using your Pink Petticoat goodies!

If you need a template, there is even a free one you can download on the blog. Below is the scrummy prize Liz has on offer.........now who wouldn't want to win these :) I only popped over to the blog to leave her a comment on the gorgeous new penguin digi stamps she has just released. It was just coincidence that I needed a couple of quick gift boxes (the pyramid box template is on the Pink Petticoat blog too) and cards. Materials used are Snowflake papers and Penguin digi stamps - Pink Petticoat, satin ribbon - Ribbon Oasis,
Sakura Gelly Roll and Glaze pens, Glamour Dust, flower - Prima, DewDrop from stash

The red box is my entry to the competition.
I am entering the blue one into three challenges.
Colour Create - the colours this week are blue, white and silver and the extra challenge is winter and glitter

Papertake Weekly - Digi Sparkle, So we want to see a something digi on your card - could be an image or paper, whatever you want to use - plus a bit of something nice and sparkly and blingy. I think Glamour Dust is wonderfully sparkly and blingy!

Secret Crafter - Four seasons, Now you could use all four or just one season - it's up to you!

Thanks for looking.

The triathlon!

Well not quite, it's far too energetic for a Sunday morning (it's actually too energetic for any time lol) but I have just made a card to enter into three challenges so I'm sure I qualify :)) My three challenges are:
Passion For Promarkers......Right onto this week’s challenge, which has been chosen by Helen. You can use any colours this week, but Helen would like to see animals somewhere on your creations.

Colour Create.......Okay, Okay, there is no picture. Why? because the colours Heather picked is ALL WHITE. So we'd like to see your makes with colour on the image only.

Penny Black Saturday challenge.....White on White Now its not as difficult as you think and after a little panic.....I'm sure your all going to love this one.... as we all did. We'd like to see your creations in WHITE....WHITE papers, WHITE embellishments - the only colour we want to see is on your image.

Materials: image Penny Black, Promarkers, Glamour Dust, ribbon - Ribbon Oasis, self adhesive pearls

Thanks for looking

Colour Create

The colour combination this week is grassy green, apple green, sunflower yellow, lemon and white
It's a lovely fresh looking combination and when I first saw I definitely didn't see a man's card however once I chose my image I could see how it would look and I'm quite pleased with the outcome! The optional extra is to decorate the inside of your card which I haven't done as my cards are on general sale and you can guarantee someone will ask for the same card but with a plain inside, so I've played safe :)

I also used the Friday Sketchers sketch by Claudia


The image is called Jim-Just Chillin (beer) by Sally-Ann Hancock and is available from DewDrop Craftz, coloured with ProMarkers. The green wavy paper and sentiment are from Kirsty Wiseman's Patti Picklicious cd and the brads and other pieces of card are from my stash.

TFL xx

It's the weekend!

If anyone finds the last few days of my week could you please return them? They passed me by in a blur of work and appointments! I even have a bride and groom coming this morning as I couldn't fit them in during the week.

I have managed some challenges though as I needed some Father's Day cards plus a couple of others.

I did the last two sketch challenges on ICS together LOL


Image is from DewDrop Craftz
Paper is from an old Father's Day kit by Summer Driggs
Everything else is from my stash.

This next card is also for the Colour Create challenge this week which is to choose ANY THREE of the following colours; Strawberry, Raspberry, Kiwi, Tangerine and Blackberry. And now for the optional extra...... we're staying with the fruit theme for this one, so we would like you to incorporate fruits somewhere into your design, be it the papers, the image, the embellishments or the sentiment.
I've used strawberry, tangering and kiwi although my green is a bit darker than a kiwi fruit, it isn't as dark as it looks here!

Papers are Bloom and Grow from My Mind's Eye and Bazzill Bling
Books and apple are Cuttlebug die cuts
Brads from stash

Sketch and Stash

Challenge 10

But as you can see, I flipped it round. My 'new' for this week is the pale blue paper from Baby Bee collection by Crate Paper. I've had it for over a year now but this is the first time I've cut into it *blush* :))
It fits the Colour Create challenge this week too where the colours are Sky blue, Tan and Ecru
It is also my card for this week's DCM Dare. It's Kathy's turn to set the dare this week and she says "This week I'd like you to do a bit of "singing in the rain" and make cards on the theme"Wet, Wet, Wet"I'd like to see cards featuring water of any kind, and if you can actually USE water in the making of them - then you can claim an extra bonus point lol.So if you're ready to get splashy off you go...." I've used 'Jim-just chillin' by Sally-Ann Hancock and available from DewDrop Craftz as he is perfect for this challenge. He is coloured with Promarkers. The sentiment was cut from a piece of Dovecraft (I think) paper.

Colour Create

...have another super colour challenge up this week and it is Duck Egg Blue and Rose Pink and the little 'extra' is to add some stitching to the card.

There is real stitching where the lace is gathered onto the hood (I didn't actually put it there, the manufacturer did) but I did add it to my card ;)) I love this pale blue card, it has almost a satin sheen to it and you can just make out the self coloured flowers. It was, when I bought it, perfumed but I have had it for ages and the perfumed smell has now gone-still nice though. The pram was hand cut from Nestability circles, the buttons and pearl brad are Papermania, the stamps and blue brads are Doodlebug and everything else is from my stash.

I've made another challenge card this evening too but that will have to wait until tomorrow as I'm bushed and am taking my mum to Country Baskets tomorrow morning to get some stuff for my daughter's wedding. Well actually my dad is taking us both..........time I went to bed :)

Night all

I'm back and challenging!

Another 10 days has passed in a blur since I last blogged, four of which were spent in New York (but more of that later ;)) The phone hasn't stopped, the orders are still coming in and I have appointments coming out of my ears, anyone would think we had been away for four weeks not just four days!

I'm still making cards for Kirsty and onto the last few now so am using them for the challenges too. So here we go. The first one is for Colour Create and the challenge colours this week are Navy, turquoise and lime

The image is a stamp from Clever Cuts (and one I use a lot for men's cards), the turquoise Bazzill Bling has been embossed with a Cuttlegug embossing folder and everything else is from my stash/left overs box.

Colour Create

Week #7

This week's colours (red and green) might steer you towards Christmas which is fine as you will be able to tick another card off your Christmas list and that always feels good. For this week's extra option we would like you to add wings, but please remember that this is not compulsory. You could use animals and insects that have wings, but many of our well-loved characters also have little wings tucked away

I just can't bring myself to make Christmas cards at the mo so my card can be used for any occasion. The frog is from a download from one of my favourite people, Sally-Ann at Grab-a-Doodle-Do The dragonfly is a brad, the red felt ric rac is from Ribbon Oasis and the assorted papers and card are all off cuts.
TFL

Papertake Weekly

My next card was a very difficult one to make as it is going to be put on a grave. Those of you who regularly read my blog will know that we lost a very special auntie just before Christmas. It would have been her birthday on Wednesday and we are going to put flowers on the rave tomorrow. I avoided doing it on Wednesday as I wanted her own children to be able to visit in peace. I'm going to laminate the card and attach it to the flowers. You might think it's a strange choice of image but both Florence and Cec (see the PB card below-it's Cec's birthday on Tuesday) collected hedgehogs!

Anyway, I used Dawny's sketch #9 for this one but turned it on it's side.

The grey paper is by Pink Petticoat, not sure what the pink paper is but I love it and have only got a couple of small pieces left now, image is PB again, the little butterfly was punched (not literally!) and the ribbon is again from Ribbon Oasis.

This card also fits with the Colour Create challenge this week which is

As well as the colours being grey and pink, the other part of the remit is For this week's extra option we would like you to think 'cute and cuddly', but please remember that this is not compulsory. So again, I think I've managed both elements. I'm really loving this challenge blog :))

Colour Create

Challenge #3

We would like you to make your card or project this week using the colours red, white and blue. There is an extra option available which you can use if you wish, although this isn't compulsory. This week's option is 'Holidays and Travel'

I don't think I can claim the extra option this week although people DO play football on holiday and you DO have to travel to get the ball! No? Ok then we'll just go for the colours LOL The image is one of Sally-Ann's downloadable images from Grab-A-Doodle-Do coloured with Prismas and Sansador, the football is Quickutz and the ribbon and buttons are from my stash.

My darling hubby has just booked me a late birthday pressie.........he is taking DD2 and myself to New York for the weekend on 20th March, it's actually 10 days after my birthday but who cares! :) We are already booked to see Simply Red in concert at the end of March (he's taking myself and a friend) so I shall be thoroughly spoilt this year.

DD has been whinging for a couple of weeks about going on holiday and how she can't wait till August when we go to Cornwall (typical teenager!) Anyhow, he has said for year that he would like to take me as he went in a previous life ;), he asked me last night, I sat here until 2 am trying to make my mind up.......then he came home tonight and booked it. Looks like I'm going now LOL

Right, it's almost bed time so that's me done for another day.

Take care, speak soon.

Di Hickman

Card Sketch January #4

The green floral paper is from one of the K & Co mat stacks, not sure what the pink paper is and the brown is just leather look card, flowers are Prima and the brads are Doodlebug. This card also fits a challenge on a new challenge blog Colour Create where the the colours this week are brown, pink and green.