Birthday wishes to you

Hi everyone and thanks for stopping by my blog.

Over at Brown Sugar  we have a new challenge starting today.

Theme: Anything Goes

My card this week I took the simple approach and kept it flat.  Coloured the image with pencils and layered it with co-ordinating papers

Items Used

Sentiment and die from Tonic Verso Live, Laugh, Love/ Single Banner

Lace from my stash

Bling gems - Docrafts, Hawthorn & Bramble

Distress Ink - Wilted Violet

Pink paper from my stash

Patterned paper from first edition - Dreamcatcher 8x8 pad

white cardstock

image from Lacy sunshine - Rory's Butterfly

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Karen Xxx

Sending you a note

Hi everyone and thanks for stopping by my blog.

Over at Brown Sugar we have a new challenge starting today.

Theme: One for the Boys

So here is my card for this week

This card is made up off a pece of A4 white card stock folded in half, I cut the front in half and attached a piece of project acetate.  Using some blue card stock I layered into my card and then place patterned paper on top.  My image was already coloured which was a help as to what coloured scheme i chose.  I cut it out using a spellbinder die and again matted and layered into with the same colour scheme as the base card.  Finished it up with a sentiment that came with the image and a few black gems in each corner.  i matted and layed the inside from cover the same way as I done the front which meant it hid the glue which I attached the acteate with and the inside of the back which with the sctate show through.

Items used:-

White, blue cardstock

blacka gems

Patterned paper by My Minds Eye - Big Boy Stack

project acetate

Collall photglue

Spellbinder die - Labels 26

Coloured image from 

Sponsor - Imagine That

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Blog - http://imaginethatdigistamp.blogspot.co.uk

Prize - $10 gift certificate 

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Happy April Fools

Hi everyone and thanks for stopping by my blog.

Firstly can I apologise for this blog post being late, its been a little hectic in our household this week, packing the husband off for a few days and then one of my fur babies getting herself hurt.  This meant multiple trips to the vets, resulting in surgery on Monday morning.  So here is my card for this week Brown Sugar Challenge.

The card base was 6 x 6 white and layered with patterned paper.  The image was coloured with pencils and cut with a spellbinders lacy die and using a pair of scissors I cut the lace part off.

I handmade the flowers from a spellbinders bloom die and added a little glitter glue to the tips of the petals to make them sparkle.

Sponsor - Sassy Studio 

Store - http://buysassystudiodesigns.blogspot.co.uk/

Blog - http://www.sassystudiodesigns.blogspot.co.uk/

Items Used

white, orange and white cardstock

patterned paper - Papermania Hampstead, A warm welcome

crayola and steadtler coloured pencils

spellbinders - lacy circles and Blooms Number 3

tattered lace - beautiful blooms

cosmic shimmer glue

1mm foam tape

dovecraft glitter glue

8mm flat backed pearls

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Karen Xxx

Baseball Cuties - Happy Birthday

Hi everyone and thanks for stopping by my blog.

Over at Brown Sugar we have a new challenge starting today.

Theme: Anything goes

So here is my card for this week

I the photo below I used a sentiment die "Happy Birthday" from Cheery Lynn, cut out in black card and using cosmic shimmer glue to the bottom right hand side of the card.

The green and brown patterned paper was from My Minds Eye, Totally Girl 2009 collection and the border was "Doily Lace" from Martha Stewart.

In the top left hand corner I put a bling swirl.  It was a crystal clear and by using a promarker in the colour gold I changed the colour to match the bling on either side of the image. 

A piece of white card was used and coloured with a distress ink "Victorian Velvet".  I used a die which I got free from a magazine, it was a 3D swirl then rolled into the flowers.  The leaves were from a set from Tattered Lace, "Lavish Bloom Leaves"

I coloured my image with Crayola Coloured pencils and layered onto a rusty brown patterned paper.  

Sponsor - Oddball Art Co.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/OddballArtCo

Items used

Image - Ya Goin Down Baseball Cuties

Cream hammered card stock

Martha Stewart border punch - doily lace

Zva Creative self adhesive crystal swirl

Promarker - Gold

5mm Clear Gems

Crayola coloured pencils

patterned paper - MYE, Totally Girl 2009 Collection

from Jen Wilson

Tattered Lace - Lavish Bloom Leaves

Flower 3D Swirl - free from magazine

Cosmic shimmer glue

white card stock

Distress ink - Victorian Velvet

Gold Diamante Ribbon

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Karen Xxx

Winter Wonderland

Hi everyone thanks for stopping by.

Over at Brown Sugar we have a new challenge starting today.

Theme: Buttons

My card is made from a piece of white card stock 15cm x 15cm layered with a piece of purple card and pattern paper.

The poinsettia and foliage is cut out of glitter card, the centre I made out of faux pearls and a little wire.

My digi image is coloured in with Spectrum Noir Pencils and I used a Glitter clear gel pen to glitter up the fur of her hood and the cuffs on her sleeves.  

Down the side of my card I embossed a row of buttons and attached a small button at either end.

Our sponsor this week is

Morgans Art Stamps

Store - http://www.artstampsstore.com

Items Used:-

Winter Didi Image from our above sponsors

White and purple glitter card

Pattern paper from Trimcraft - Dreamcatcher

Spellbinders Dies - Layered Poinsettia, Floral Ovals

Tattered Lace - Lavish Blooms Leaves - Beautiful Blooms

Buttons from my stash

Provocraft embossing board - Just my types

Spectrum Noir Pencils

Double sided Tape

Cosmic Shimmer pva glue

Dovecraft Crystal glitter glue

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Karen Xxx

#121 Challenge

                                                      

Hello everyone and welcome to my blog.

Here is my project for

Brown Sugar 

Our theme this week is - Use 2 or more colours

Here is my card for this theme - I was at a demo day in Paperworks, Dungannon on the 8th November and our fab demostrate was Ruth Hamilton.  She demostrated this card and I asked her if I could use it with my Dt project this week. 

Items used - 

Spectrum Noir Blendable Pencils

Red and White cardstock

Blue Stampin up ribbon

Clear Gems

free pattern paper from a magazine

Digi image from our sponsor below

Sponsor - Stitchy Bear Digi Outlet

 

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Karen Xxx

Little Pixie

Hi everyone

Its long past Friday, but its a new challenge for 

Brown Sugar Challenge Blog

Apologies for being so late with my DT post,  I couldn't find my digi image, then I couldn't decide what colour scheme I want and finally deciding what to do with the image.

So here what I have come up with

Our theme this week is Triangles

This week I thought I would do a layout just using the digi image, which you will find in our sponsors website.

The triangles in my project are my flowers are formed in the shape of a triangle and the pearls in the top right hand corner as well

The items I used in this layout are

12 x 12 paper from Trimcraft Santoro Merigirl

Promarker to colour image - Lime Green, Ivory, Blush and Caramel

Fleximarkers - Surf Blue, Soft Mauve,Tea Rose

Flowers - Wild Orchard Crafts

Bling - Creative Expression Pearl Swirls

Ribbon -Grosgrain from Stampin Up - Crushed Olive

Lace from Stash

Glue - Hot Glue and Cosmic Shimmer PVA

Die - Spellbinders - Grand Decorative Ovals

Distress Ink Pads - Shabby Shutters, Victorian Velvet, Milled Lavender

Our sponsors this week is

Scrapper Delights

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Happy Birthday Princess

Good morning everyone and welcome to my blog.

Its starting to get a little colder here and its well seen as I have the pleasure of a sore throat and a bit of a cough. 

Well were at the end of another week and that means we have another wonderful challenge from 

Brown Sugar Challenge Blog.

Our theme this week is - Anything Goes

My image this week is  BBKakes - Flora Fae and colour

with my promarkers.

White card is used for the base card and for my image and sentiment.

I used blue card stock using stormy sky distress ink around the edge, embossed

with tiny dot from spellbinders.  Stamped and embossed with a christmas reindeer, believe is or not as I started out making this as a christmas card.

the flowers and made from blue and white card stock using the bity blossoms die from spellbinders, the folage is a tattered lace die also cut out of blue and white card.

The bow is made with cream seam binding coloured with the stormy sky distress ink with a wild orchid bling in the middle.

I used little bling gems above and below the sentiment.

Our sponsors this week is 

Stitchy Bear Digi Outlet

Store - http://stitchybearstamps.com/shop

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Karen Xxx

Happy Birthday - #107 Anything Goes

Hello everyone and welcome to my blog.

It's Friday and that means it time for another challenge with

Brown Sugar

Our theme this week is Anything Goes.

Here is a list of supplies used to make the above card

White base card - size 6 x 5 1/4 

Spellbinder Dies - blooms 3

Tattered Lace - Foliage and Beautiful Blooms

Sizzix Frame Die

Stampin Up scallop circle punch

Faux pearl beads sizes 6 & 4 mm

Pearl flourish from Zva Creative

Versatile ink pad - sepia

Papers were free from a magazine I bought

Glue - Cosmic Shimmer

Promarkers to colour the image in

Image - Travelling Madeline from

MilkCoffee Digi Stamps

milkcoffeestamp.blogspot.com

www.etsy.com/people/milkcoffee

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Karen Xxx

#105 Brown Sugar Challenge

Hi everyone and welcome to my blog.

Its hard to believe that we are into a new month already, is it me or does anyone else think this year is flying by.  Well dear I say it, its Friday again and its time now for another challenge for Brown Sugar.

Our theme this week is Colour.

So here is my project -

The size of this card is not quite 6x6.  I am trying to use up what I've got in my stash so I apologise for not knowing the brand of the patterned paper I used and I thought it was the closet to the colour palette we had to used.  The image from our sponsors was coloured in with my promarkers and I attached yellow card candy to highlight the flower centres.  It was mounted onto a decorative circle from Spellbinders and then mounted onto blue card stock from my stash.  The flowers are from wild orchid crafts.

The kraft and blue flourishes are from a Spellbinders D-lites die - Corner Sprigs and the little flower in the bottom right had corner was made with Spellbinders D-lites die - Blooms 2 the centre is a blob of 3d collal glue with glitter over the top.  The birthday wishes stamp is from a freebie collection I received in a magazine stamped onto kraft card and punched out with a stampin up label punch.  The bling swirl is from a set I got out of Works bookshop ages ago and never used.

 Our Sponsors this week is

Robyn's Fetish

  Store - http://robynsfetish.com

Blog - http://www.robynsfetishchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/ 

Prize - 3 digi images of winners choice

Entered challenges -           Sister Act Card Challenge

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Karen Xxx

#103 - Brown Sugar Challenge - Sand and Sea

Hi everyone and welcome to my blog.

Its Friday and its time for another challenge from 

Brown Sugar Challenge Blog

By the time this is uploaded to the site I will probably be sitting in a lovely boring airport waiting to fly home from my holidays in tenerife.  The weather was fantastic and with limited wifi access I have eventually got this post wrote.

Our theme for this weeks challenge is

Sea & Sand

In this weeks card I used an image from our sponsors and coloured in with promarkers.  It was cut out with Spellbinders die and mounted onto blue card.  The pattern paper comes from a selection of DCWV papers I got through QVC embellished with some self adhesive stickers and gems, mounted onto kraft card stock.

Sponsors - Stitchy Bear Digi Outlet

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Karen Xxx

Hi everyone

Its Friday again and oh my its been a hectic week, with work, getting our pre-schoolers ready for their graduation, and then my laptop crashing.  I have been using my ipad to do work, but I really missed my lappy, now I have it back and I think touch wood I will have no more problems.

Here is my card for

Brown Sugar Challenge  #99

Theme  - Dots and/or Stripes

I used and image from our sponsors and coloured it in with my promarkers.  The papers used were free from a Magazine I purchased and the flowers are from a Spellbinders Di-Lites Blooms 3 and Mini Blooms from Tattered Lace.

Store - http://lacysunshine.weebly.com/

Blog - http://www.lacysunshinechallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/

Prize - 3 Digi images of winners choice

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Karen Xxx

Brown Sugar Challenge #97 - Bookmark

Welcome to my blog, please stay and have a little look through my posts.

Its Friday and it means its time for another challenge from

Brown Sugar.

Our theme this week is BOOKMARK

Here is my project for this challenge

The materials I used to make this are

1mm gold wire 

jump rings

beads

shrink plastic digital image from our sponsors

To make the book mark I took a piece of wire and bent it over my fingers to make the hook to go over the edge and with the longer lenght I hammer it to flatten and this will also strengthen the wire.  At the short end of the wire I made a small loop at the end and attached a few jump rings and attached the beads into one of the jump rings.  I printed the image onto shrink plastic and coloured it in with my promarkers and used my heat gun to shrink it down.

I always maintain that if I had any sort of brain in my head I would be dangerous, lol.  If I was to admit my mistakes I had a card (see below) made with this image to start with,  When I was posting it onto the design team blog I realised that it should have been a bookmark I could have kicked myself, lol.  And I also have to admit that  this is my second book mark I have made for this post.  I had another one made and photographed ready to submit when I realised that it wasn't the right image let alone from the right sponsor, so I had to remake it again.

Our sponsor for this weeks project is

Robyns Fetish

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Karen Xxx

Sock Hop Sweetie Friday

Hi everyone

and welcome to my blog

Well its that Friday and my first week of my new job is nearly over, I can safely say I did enjoy it but a little tired.

Here is my card project of this weeks challenge over at 

Brown Sugar Challenge Blog

The Theme this week was - Pastel Colours

The card shape is made out of one sheet of A4 white card and made into a kind of stepper card.

This image I used for this was Sock Hop Sweetie My Besties available from our Sponsors below.  I coloured it in with my promarkers and cut it out with a Spellbinders Grand Decorative Oval and went round the edge of the die with a ink spot that I had in my stash, it was a nice light lilac colour.  I them made a faux oval by drawing round the inside of the next size and cut it out with my scissors.  I apologies I do not know the name of the paper design as I have it made years in my stash, I backed it with pink glitter card.  The border strips were cut from lilac card from my stash and the pink ribbon strips are from Red Hot Bed.  A company that appeared on Create and Craft years ago, demonstrator was Michelle Marsden at that time.  Clear gems were put into the middle of the little flowers.  The flowers I used on the front of the card were a mixture from Prima, Wild Orchard Crafts and artificial flowers I bought and took apart.  I used dew drops and flat backed pearls for the centres of the flowers.

Ours Sponsors this week are

Sassy Design Studios

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Karen Xxx

My Bestie Challenge - Card 3

Hi all

Here is my third card for the

My Bestie UK Challenge and DT call

The image again is one of Sherri Baldy digi images and was coloured in with my promarkers, you can get the image from her 

My-Besties Website

Etsy Store

Scrapbook Stamp Society

The the fur collar of the images dress I put some glitter on it as well as her ear-rings and I used a Spellbinder die to cut the image out and backed onto red card.  The pattern paper is from a set of papers I received free with a magazine from a designer range called Damask Rose.

The flowers and leaves are from Wild Orchid Crafts trimmed with stickles glitter glue.  The bling ribbon is mounted onto a red ribbon which is from Stampin Up, this is then mounted on some white glitter card mounted onto red card. 

I would like to enter this in the My Besties UK Challenge blog 

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and all the rest of the blogs from around the world.

Karen Xxx