Here Come The Boys Challenge #59 Lazy Summer Days

Hi everyone, it's challenge time once again over at Here Come The Boys, and this time we are sponsored by the fantastic DR DIGI HOUSE OF STAMPS

Our theme this fortnight is Lazy Summer Days. 

I chose Hole in One Hal from Dr Digi found HERE to use for my DT card 

The papers are from the Country Gent paper pack from Lili of the Valley found HERE 

I coloured the image with a mixture of copics and promarkers 

Skin, T-shirt, bag - Promarkers

Shoes, shorts, hair, clubs - Copics. 

Head back over to Here Come The Boys challenge blog to check out my fellow DT members cards for lots more inspiration and details on how to enter. 

I look forward to seeing what you come up with.

Challenges I would like to enter this into:

C.R.A.F.T Challenges - Sketch 

2 Sisters challenge blog - Square Cards

Colour Me Creative - Anything Goes

Hiding In My Craft Room - Masculine Birthday

My Time To Craft - Sports

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Redonkadoodles Shy Fairy

Hi everyone, well I'm currently off work for a week so in between days out with the kids I'm getting lots of crafting done. I wanted to share this card with you that I made yesterday. It was another one of those 'Just for fun' cards. I wanted to try out my new purple copics. Up to last week I only had 4 brown and 4 pink copics to try them. I have ummed and aahhhhed for a while as to whether I should continue and get anymore. I took the plunge and after selling off some craft items I don't use or have bought and then decided I don't like, I went ahead last week and ordered quite a few more and now have 115 copics in a mixture of ciaos and sketches. I bought a few from each colour group and then went for my favourite colours and finished off the collection in that colour group. (I am really struggling to get a skintone that works for me though so if anyone could help me with this pleaseeeeee leave me a comment below - much appreciated) 

My absolute ultimate all time favourtie colour is purple. So first out of the box was the purple shades. Before now I have been a promarker girl through and through but I found purple promarkers just didn't cut it for me. BUT copics - wow!  I decided to stick to promarkers for the skin (Coral, Sunkissed Pink and blush) I just love this combo and cant seem to match up an equivalent so I may just stick to using PMs for skin. 

Anyway enough of me waffling on lets look at the card. 

The image is The Shy Fairy from redonkadoodles found HERE

The metal corners, pearls, and cheery lyn butterfly dies are from That Craft Place

The card shape, rolled flowers, tag, and banner are all cut on the Silhouette Cameo also available from That Craft Place

I am really happy with her wings BUT I did intend to glitter them a bit but I forgot! 

I finally got round to using the spiral stems Manda sent me in her amazing blog candy that I won, I think I will be off to get some more of these I think they look great. 

Thanks for stopping by. I will be back on Sunday with another DT project for Here Come The Boys so come back then! 

Challenges I would like to enter this card into:

365 cards - SO BIG (my card is 8x8 inch)

Copic Marker Europe - Favourite colour (purple)

Through The Purple Haze - Bingo (Flowers, Pearls, Sentiment) Team Face Off

My Heart Pieces - Use a piece of metal (metal corners used)

Digistamps 4 joy - Anything Goes

Repeat Impressions DCC814 ~ Things With Wings

Colour Throw Down - CTD256

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Hi everyone, it's challenge time over at Just Inspirational Challenges and this week it is team B's turn to bring you some great inspiration. 

This week we were sponsored by the fantastic Sassy Studio Designs stamps who are offering  the winner 4 digi stamps of the winners choice

and the inspiration photo we used for this time is:

 

It was really hard choosing one of the beautiful images to work with as there are so many from Sassy Studio. Here is my card:

The image is called 'Russia Honey' and is available from Sassy Studio HERE

The image is coloured with Copics. 

The silver trim, silver corners, pearl flowers and pearl swirl are all from That Craft Place. The card shape, rolled roses and leaves are all cut on the Silhouette Cameo also available from That Craft Place

Links

That Craft Place Facebook Shop

That Craft Place Onlie Shop

Head on over to Just Inspirational Challenges Blog now for full details on how to enter this weeks challenge.  

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That Craft Place - Stitching Real or Fake

Hiya everyone, it's challenge time again over at That Craft Place 

The theme this time is  Stitching - Real or Fake

I have only tried sewing a few times and ended up with fingers like pin cushions so i'm afraid I have taken the fake option. Here is my DT card:

The image I used was Sewing Rosie from Digistamp Boutique found HERE

The image was coloured with promarkers and copics. 

The card base, wording, scissors, needle & thread and spool were all cut on the fabulous Silhouette cameo (available from That Craft Place) 

The flowers, lace and tulle were all from my stash. 

The cut file for the card base was a free file from Birds Cards

 

Now its your turn. Check back to That Craft Place challenge blog for details on how to enter this weeks challenge and to see lots more inspiration from my amazing DT Teamies. 

Links you may find useful:

That Craft Place Facebook

That Craft Place Inspiration Group

That Craft Place online shop

That Craft Place Challenge Blog 

Lili Of The Valley - GOLF TIME

As some of you may know I LOVE Lili of the Valley but recently I find myself turning to digi stamps more and more as I prefer doing 8x8" cards and I like resizing the digis to fit my cards, something you can not do with rubber stamps, so the Lili of the Valley stamps were abandoned for a while (and I even sold some to raise some money to buy my new Cameo - Sorry LOTV :/) 

Anyhow, I recently bought a sketch pad of the vintage boys collection, I wasn't sure about these they save the mess of inking up a stamp but I missed that triumph feeling of stamping an image out myself - daft i know but there ya go! 

I worked with this little guy today and really enjoyed colouring him up. Can you spot the bit I missed? HAHA 

The card truly is a Lily of the Valley card as everything on there apart from the 6 card cando is from LOTV. The image as I said is from the vintage boys sketch pad found HERE. The papers are from LOTV Country Gent 8x8 paper pack found HERE and the sentiments are from the sentiments stamp set from LOTV found HERE

Right I think 4 blog posts in one day is quite enough so its over and out from me for today!

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Monochrome Madness

So up until a few weeks ago I hadn't tried doing a Monochrome card, now I seem to be doing loads! Quick post here to catch up with some cards ive made recently, this one was one I made my daughter for her 12th birthday from my son to give to his sister. 

The image is All That Digital Stamp from Kenny K found HERE and coloured with Ice Grey 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 Promarkers. Everything on the card was cut on the Silhouette Cameo which I bought from That Craft Place

Stay tuned I have one more post coming up for today and then its off to the grown up world of work (Im not complaining as I actually like my job :D) 

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Kenny K facebook Twilight competition

Another post from me today to show you something I've made my 12 year old daughter for when she returns to school next month. She is Twilight MAD and so when I saw this competition on facebook I knew I had to enter and give her the book I made. 

Kenny K digi stamps is running a competition over on their facebook page 

Kenny K; Digi & Rubber Stamps Facebook page:

The link to download the free Edward digi is on the Kenny K facebook page. Here is what I came up with. 

I coloured the image with promarkers using only the 5 Ice Grey shades. I cut the apple, star border and corner on the Cameo and used a notebook I got from That Craft Place HERE. The diamante trim and a huge range of ribbon is also available from That Craft Place. 

My daughter was over the moon and showed it to her friends and now I have 2 more to make for her to give to her friends for their birthdays. I better get busy.... 

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Here Come The Boys challenge # 58 Only Squares

Hi everyone, Yes it's challenge time again over at Here Come The Boys and this weeks challenge theme is Only Squares (for a boy/man). Our sponsor this time is Bugaboo who are offering 7 digi stamps of the winners choice to the winner of this weeks challenge. 

Well those who know me know when i'm asked to do a Bugaboo challenge and especially for a man theres only one guy for me - GUS!!! I love GUS! 

So heres my square Gus card:

The image I used is a favourite of mine (I just love that cheeky sentiment hehe) called Gus Golf available HERE

The image is coloured with promarkers and the clouds are Broken China distress inks. 

See my tutorial on clouds here:

The papers I used are Country Gent from Lily of the Valley found HERE. 

Head on back over to Here Come The Boys now for full details on how to enter this weeks challenge and more inspiration from my fellow DT members. 

I cant wait to see what you all come up with 

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Hi everyone, it's challenge time over at Just Inspirational Challenges and this week it is team B's turn to bring you some great inspiration. 

This week we were sponsored by the fantastic Bugaboo stamps who are offering  the winner 7 digi stamps

and the inspiration photo we used for this time is:

 with the additional sketch:

I chose a fun image from Bugaboo that I couldn't wait to use. Here is my card:

The image is called 'Fancy SB Beach' and is available from Bugaboo HERE

The image is coloured with promarkers.

Head on over to Just Inspirational Challenges Blog now for full details on how to enter this weeks challenge.  

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I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
C is for Challenge - fresh and bright
Craft your passion Challenges - All at Sea
Paper Makeup Stamps - Sunny Days

NON-DT cards!

Hey everyone, I wanted to show you this card i've been working on over the last few days. I decided to have a break from following themes or doing DT work and just sit at my craft table with a bunch of digis I had already printed and picked one at random and just made it up as I went along! Im pretty chuffed with the result. It's been a while since I have just 'played' and made a card for the hell of it - don't get me wrong I LOVE doing all my DT work but it was lovely to just go with the flow. So I used Princess Honor from Saturated Canary - found HERE

I coloured her with a mixture of Promarkers and Copics. I only have 8 copics (4 x browns and 4 x pinks) so the skin, grass, bow & arrow and ground are all promarkers. The more I use copics the more I am liking them and despite having every promarker I have decided to expand the copics collection so have ordered some blacks as well so I'm now stalking the postie again waiting for my happy post. 

I used some lace I had in my stash along with a patterned button and a sentiment tag from Lily of the Valley found HERE. A range of lace, buttons and pearls are available from That Craft Place

The clouds were done using a stencil brush and a cloud template with Broken China distress ink. 

I did a video tutorial 

As always I used the same papers inside as I did on the front and added a simple Happy Birthday stamp. Papers are Sweet Owl from First Edition papers and the stamp is by Clarity Stamps. 

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

Saturated Canary - set your creativity free

Avenue 613 - anything goes

Challenges 4 Everybody - always anything goes

Creative Inspirations Paints - anything goes

Paper Makeup Stamps - Sunny Days

Great Impression Stamps - Square Cards

Addicted to stamps - anything goes

Crafting By Designs - anything goes

Crafts and me challenges - Anything goes

Crafty Creations Challenges - use an arrow (bow & arrow)

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