Sketch N Stash #146

Morning all, time for another Sketch N Stash challenge.

We have a brand new sponsor today and they are Sparkle N Sprinkle
 

Made of deeply-etched rubber, our exclusive rubber stamp line is comprised of images designed by several artists, enabling us to offer a variety of image styles and themes to crafters.  We also carry hundreds of digital images. With more than 200 unique, hand-blended embossing powders and over 100 distinct, hand-blended glitters, the majority of our colors are exclusive to Sparkle N Sprinkle. We have been perfecting our methods over the past decade and have created several unique formulas which often contain glitter and other ingredients, giving our products that unique characteristic for which we are internationally known.  We are proud that our products are all created and packaged here in the USA.

They are offering our winner 4 digis from their SNS Exclusives Line as the prize.

I used one of their lovely images called 'Wine Tableau' for my card. My main paper is K & Co and the image was coloured with Promarkers.
I thought this would be a nice image for a friend's card and would suit either male or female. It's not often you can make that claim is it?

I hope you can find time to join in with us, our wonderful DT have some fabulous inspiration for you again on the challenge blog.

Sketch N Stash #145

Morning all, I'm here to share my card for the latest Sketch N Stash challenge. We are being sponsored by Delicious Doodles who are offering 4 images of the winner's choice as their prize. I have used their image called Tropical Masquerade for my card.

This sketch is a great one whether you want to dress it up or keep it simple. As you can see, I've ditched the CAS this time and gone for a 'sunglasses required' look instead ha ha! I tried to keep the background as monochrome as I could to counter balance it.
This was WAY outside my comfort zone as I usually tend to stick to pastel and muted shades and leave the vibrant colours alone, but hey, it's supposed to be good to challenge yourself now and then isn't it?

It was my turn to select the Top 3 this time and you certainly gave me some difficulties. The entries were gorgeous and I had a hard job choosing my final 3.
We'd love it if you could join in with our challenge and if you're in need of some inspiration, why not take a look at what the other DT girls have come up with.
 

Sketch N Stash #144

Morning all, gosh where is the year going? Have you noticed that the older you get the faster the time flies by? I can't believe we're in August already.
Anyway, enough of my waffling it's time for another Sketch N Stash challenge where our regular sponsor A Day For Daisies is with us again and, as usual, they are offering our lucky winner a voucher for use in their store.

I do love the delicate look of these images, feminine with a touch of vintage, my favourite style. I have to admit I had a hard job choosing my image as I wanted ALL of the 'Fashion' digis but I ended up selecting 'Fashion Shopping' I hope you like it as much as I do.
Again, I have raided my much underused stash for my papers, I think they may have been in a Papermania pad (but I could be wrong) Anyway, I wanted this card to be a very neutral colour palette in conjunction with black.
As you can see I'm still in a CAS mood but I think that the simpler cards have more impact (well that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it lol!)

Please take a look at what the other girls have come up with, they are SO clever! We'd love it if you could manage to join in with us for our challenge.
I hope you enjoyed having a month for the last challenge but we're back to just two weeks again now.

Midway reminder for Sketch N Stash

Morning all, just popping by to remind you that there are another 2 weeks to go before this challenge ends, so still time to get your entry in for the chance to win one of TWO fabulous prizes.
Our wonderful sponsors are:
Stitchy Bears who are offering a prize of $10 to spend in their store

and Buttons For Brains whose prize is £10 to spend in their store

For my card this time I have used BB Kakes -  4 You Boy & Girl 2 Pc Set 
I 'flipped' one of the two digis for this design to give a mirror image and used some of the Do Crafts 'Portobello' papers and I chose Sketch #42 from our archive this time.
Don't forget, you have the choice of which sketch you'd like from our archive, just make sure you post a copy of the sketch you've used.

Sketch N Stash #143

Morning all, well another fortnight has flown by and here we are again with a new challenge at Sketch N Stash Challenge and you have a choice of sketches from our archive, so couldn't be easier! Just don't forget to say which sketch you used and add a photo of it on your post.
I chose Sketch #92 but rotated it 90' in order to fit my image better.

This time we are being sponsored by 2 companies again and they are:

Stitchy Bears who have a $10 voucher up for grabs

 and Buttons For Brains who are offering a £10 voucher
Two prizes definitely worth winning so join in and see if you're lucky!

For my card I have used the gorgeous 'Beach Huts' image (Delicious Doodles

Beach Huts) from Stitchy Bears
I've got a bit of a 'thing' for beach huts actually and I also thought this would be a lovely image for a male OR female card, not often you can make that statement is it? I really like these 'sketchy' images too as the shading is already there when you colour, so, easy peasy. I made it look like a bit of an overcast day, well I'm in the UK so these are the type of summer days we're used to here lol!

My papers are from my unused stash and have been there so long I have no idea where they originally came from and the little chipboard flower matches a set of papers I have which (I think) were Laura Ashley. The image was, as always, coloured using my beloved Promarkers.

Please pop over to the challenge blog and see what the girls have come up with. There are not so many of us this time as some of the team opted for a break, but you know what a glutton for punishment I am, so I decided not to join them.

Sketch N Stash #142

Morning all, just popping by to share my card for this fortnight's Sketch N Stash Challenge.
We are being sponsored by Crafty Individuals

 and Delicious Doodles

so another chance to win one of two fabulous prizes, check out the blog for more details.

I have again used the stunning 'Vase of Roses' from Delicious Doodles, this has to be one of my favourite images. The papers are 'La Blanche' and I have used some rose and border peel offs to complete the sketch.

We'd love to see your takes on this sketch if you could join in with us, and just take a look at what the other members of the DT came up with!

 

Sketch N Stash #141

 Morning all, here's today's DT card for the Sketch N Stash Challenge where this fortnight we're being sponsored by Inky Impressions who are offering our winner $10 to spend in their store.

I don't quite know what happened to the colours in my picture as in real life the blue dotty background paper matches the blue in the image, ah well.
I've given the sketch a bit of a LIM look as I haven't added any embellishments other than the ribbon and sentiment (yes, I'm still in my 'plain jane' phase folks!)
The dotty papers are freebies downloaded ages ago, I think they were from Jak Heath and I have them in more colourways than you can shake a stick at.
The image was another freebie, this time it was from a set of baby images and I think was from Charmed Cards, however they don't seem to have it anymore.

We'd love it if you could join in with our challenge and if you joined us last time, don't forget to check the blog to see if you were our lucky winner or one of our Top3.

Birthday Humour

Morning all, I thought it was time to enter some more challenges. I'm hoping I may be lucky enough to win one soon!! ha ha!

This was a card I made for a dear friend, obviously she has a fabulous sense of humour or I would never have dared. She also has a love of all things sparkly, hence the glittery rollers and slippers.
I'm lucky enough to have 2 fabulous best friends who live near me. We started off as just neighbours when I moved here about 3 years ago, but it's turned into 'best friendship' as we all enjoy the same sort of things, mainly a wicked sense of humour and a love of 'girly days out'

The card was designed in CAP2 and uses one of the fabulous Rick St Dennis images. I love his work and find it perfect for the cheeky cards I like to make for my friends.

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:
4 Crafty Girls - Challenge 19 - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp - Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes
Challenges 4 Everybody - Challenge 41 - Anything Goes
Sister Act Card Challenge - Challenge 58 - Anything Goes

Sketch N Stash #140

Morning all,and welcome to another Sketch N Stash Challenge. The team would love it if you could join in with us. I rotated the sketch this time so that I could fit my sweet image in properly.
I've used the beautiful 'Pearls In My Hair' for this card, I just love the delicate look of her,don't you? I finished the card off by doubling up my butterflies and using vellum embellished with glitter for the top layer, along with some pearls and gems.

We are being sponsored by A Day For Daisies and they are offering our lucky winner £10 to spend in their store. Such a wonderful prize as I just love their beautiful images.

Don't forget to pop over to the challenge blog to see if you won last time or were picked as one of our Top 3 and check out the wonderful cards from the DT if you are in need of any inspiration.

A Touch of Shabby Chic

Afternoon all, I made this 8x8 decoupaged card for my best friend's birthday, I do hope she'll like it.
She's one of those wonderful people you very rarely find, she and her hubby love nothing better than having friends round for dinner or little drink evenings, she's a fabulous hostess, a true rock and I treasure her as my friend for these and a thousand other reasons.
I usually make her a funny card with a cheeky sentiment, but I hate to be predictable so thought I'd do something different this year.
She has a couple of lovely pictures in her kitchen which are very similar to this, so I know the image will be her taste (not sure about the lace paper though). Both the decoupage and paper are from Joanna Sheen's store.

I've had a wonderful few weeks, firstly my youngest son came to visit for a long weekend and brought his girlfriend. It was the first time we'd met her and she's simply lovely so we had a fabulous time with them.
They went home on the Sunday, then on the Monday my eldest son phoned to say he was coming on Tuesday to stay for 10 days. He went home yesterday so I'm now trying to get back to normal again.

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:
Sister Act Card Challenge - Anything Goes
Crafty Girls Challenges - Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly Challenges - Pretty Pastels
Fab 'n' Funky Challenges - Photo Inspiration

Sketch N Stash #139

Morning all, it's that time again, welcome to another Sketch N Stash challenge!
For my card I've used another of Mo Manning's fabulous images, this one is called 'Yeehaw!' As you've probably gathered I have quite a few male birthdays at the moment and mostly for gentlemen of a 'certain age'
I thought this brilliant image went quite well with the Portobello Road papers, very patriotic!

 We have another of our regular sponsors for this challenge, the wonderful Ooh La La Creations are offering our lucky winner a CD of their choice, now there are not many places you could win a prize like that, so please try to join in with us.

Why not pop over to the challenge blog to get some inspiration from our wonderful DT creations and while you're there see if you were one of our TWO lucky winners from the last challenge or one of our Top 3.

Put Your Feet Up

Morning all, another card from me today, this one was made for a special friend's birthday.
I very rarely seem to use stamps these days, I always tend to go straight for the (hundreds of) digi images I possess, but I thought this time I'd use a stamp that I purchased ages ago from Joanna Sheen, the sweet sentiment comes with it.
I wanted to make it a pretty, girly card as my friend is pretty and girly (make sense?) so I used some K & Co papers together with a Martha Stewart lacy punch.

I'm ashamed to say that this is the first time it's ever seen ink, I'm even more ashamed to say that it's one of a HUGE set of Diva stamps that I purchased from Joanna's shop and I think I've only ever used one of them!!!

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
Passion for Promarkers - Yummy Food and Drink

Art Deco Chic

Morning all, I'm back with another couple of cards to show.

These were made for a friend in the village who just loves Art Deco (I know the feeling!) I made a number of cards for her birthday as all of my other friends wanted to send something in this style for her too.

Both of these cards were made using CAP2 for the layout, backgrounds and embellishments etc.

See, I told you I'd been busy recently didn't I? No doubt I'll be back to post some more of my stuff in a few days time.

I'd like to enter these cards into the following challenges:
Sister Act Card Challenge - Anything Goes
Crafty Girls Challenges - Anything Goes

 

To Have and To Hold

Morning all,it's not often you see me these days unless it's a Sketch N Stash week but I've been busy making lots of things, just not had a lot of chance to share them with you.
Today I wanted to share a wedding card order that I recently made.
The brief was for a black and white/grey card featuring a bride and groom, with just a splash of red for the bride's bouquet and the groom's buttonhole, so this is what I came up with. It's an 8 x 8 card so I decided to make a box for it as well.

The image was googled and changed to greyscale in CAP2 where I also added the chandelier, floral corners and the scrolled paper frame containing their name.
I used Joanna Sheen's black Stardream card, lots of stickles for sparkle and finished off by using some lace, pearl embellishments and flowers from my stash.

The client was very pleased with the finished card so that was a relief!

I'd like to enter this into a couple of challenges:
Creative Corner Challenges - Wedding Bells
613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes