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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

 Store Blog - http://www.imaginethatdigistamp.com 

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

Prize - $10 gift certificate 

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Karen Xxx

To the Birthday Girl

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

This weeks card is has a white card base size 7" x 7" matted with pink card stock and then layered with patterned paper from the Big Girl collection.  The image is from our Sponsors below and coloured in using a few different brands, Spectrum Noir blending pencils and Steadlter ergo soft pencils blended using the Spectrum Noir Blending fluid.  The flowers are made from a Spellbinder floral dies with a red gem in the centre.  The sentiment is stamped using Versafine Vintage Sepia.

Items used

Image from our Sponsors -

Stamps Big Eye Big Head Dolls Messy Bessy IMG824 My Besties By Sherri Baldy

Pink, Brown, White card stock

Pattern paper from My Minds Eye, Big Girl collection

5mm Red gems

Versafine Vintage Sepia ink pad

Spectrum Noir Blending Pencils

Steadtler Ergo Soft Pencils

Sentiment stamp from Creative Expression 

Spellbinders Blooms 3 and flourish is from Jewel flowers & flourishes

Tattered Lace Beautiful Blooms

Vintage Lace

Collall Photoglue

Our Sponsor this week is

My Besties

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Karen Xxx

Meet Allistair the Alligator

Hi everyone and thanks for stopping by my blog.

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

Theme: Spring

So here is my card for this week

Say hello to Allistair the Alligator, he is a digi image from our sponsors this week, (details below).  He is coloured with Steadtler and Crayola pencils and blended with Spectrum Noir blending solution.  He is cut out using Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics B, and if you can see from the photo I cut around the end of his tail and slipped the die undersneath so its hanging of the page, then I matted it onto a distress yellow patterened paper and olive green cadstock.

My background is done using the same distress yellow paper with a co ordinating patterened paper from the same stack.  the harlaquin was cut using the sizzix thinlets mixed media dies.  The both of these are then layered on the olive green card stock.  Finishing off with three black gems on two of the opposite corners.

Items used

Patterned paper - My minds Eye - Complete Boy 2009 collection by Jen Wilson

Olive green card stock

Black gems by Great Expressions from The Works

Sizzix thinlets mixed media dies by Tim Holtz

Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics B

Steadtler and Crayola coloured pencils

Spectrum Noir pencil blending solution

Digi Image Allister the Alligator

Our Sponsor this week is

Dr Digi

Store - http://www.doctor-digi.com

Blog - http://doctor-digi.blogspot.co.uk

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Karen Xxx

Charity Cards

Hi everyone and welcome to my blog.

Here are a few cards I have ready for my local charity shop

Marie Currie

I don't know whether its my area but I find handmade cards so hard to sell here, so I decided to donate them to charity.

My mother had bowel cancer about 14 years ago and thankfully it was caught in time and she didn't need any treatment.  We didn't need these lovely nurses, but you never know, and as they are not government funded they need all the donations they can get.  Also my aunt but she wasn't so lucky and palliative care was needed.

These will be dropped into my local shop and hopefully when they put them out they have a higher success rate than myself.

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Karen Xxx

Gone But Never Forgotton

Hi everyone thanks for stopping by.

I must admit this layout was very difficult to do and believe it or not took me well over 3 weeks, lifting it to do it and then just looking at the photo and putting it aside again.

This is a layout of A Special Lady my Aunt Minnie.  She passed away about 5 weeks ago and it broke my heart. She was a right old age of 92 and if she had've lived till the end of next month she would have seen her 93rd birthday,

 This woman has touched so many families hearts.  She lost her husband over 18 years ago and they were self sufficient couple they grew there own vegetable and fruits and anyone one who knew her, knew her for her knitting, crocheting, jam making, her love for flowers and gardening, sewing and baking.  This lady was so good to me as a child and an adult and I always said she was my second mum,  She didn't have any girls just a son but she had a great granddaugther, So this layout is going into a box frame so I can put it up on my wall.

Under the main photo I have put a journalling spot trimmed with paper lace trim using a spellbinder die. 

The bling is a champagne colour swirl gems from Zva, the pattern paper was from a Recollections paper pad.

The flowers and leaves are from Wild Orchard Crafts.  The dates were created using my little Sizzix side kick using the plates from the Sapphire.  The dies were again from Quickutz alphabet and

I used Sizzix alphabet to do her name. I went round the age of the cream card with Vintage Photo Distress Ink to tone down the colour of the cream card.

 I am hoping to do a 8 x 8 version of this only using a photo of my mum and Minnie together and put it into a box frame for my mum.  My mum was devastated when she passed away and my way of thinking is that she can look and treasure this till the day she will meet her again.  Right sorry folks this post has got a little bit morbid, 

List of items used -

Wild Orchard Crafts - Opens Roses 25/15mm, Rose leaves, Cherry Blossoms and Sweetheart Blossoms

Bead Spray

Recollections Paper Pad - Graceful

Spellbinders Dies -  Labels One and Vintage Lace Border

Distress Inks - Vintage Photo

Sizzix Cute Girlie Alphabets

Quickutz Script Alphabet

Lace from my stash

Green and Cream cardstock

Self adhesive crystals from Zvacreative.com

Cosmic Shimmer pva glue

Double sided tape

Collall 3D glue

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Karen Xxx

Take Flight

Brown Sugar Challenge #168

Hi everyone thanks for stopping by.

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

Theme: Purple and Green

I used a die to cut this design out of green card stock from my stash and then I backed it with purple card behind.  I also did a second cut of this die out in the same purple card and just used the pop out of it for the centre.  I also embossed the dies to bring out the little flowers and swirls that are on the die.

I stamped the feathers using distress ink on the same purple and green card stock and attached them with Cosmic shimmer pva glue.  I curled the tops of the feathers to give them a 3D affect and the same with the butterfly, using the glue on the body leaving the wings to 3D.

I used dies to cut my butterflies out and the large die was cut from again the same purple and green card stock.  I took the green butterfly and cut it down and attached it to the purple one applying the glue down the body of the butterfly.  The same idea was done with the smaller one and I cut the body of the small green butterfly and attached it to the purple one flat with pva.  I also placed little lilac gems around the card on the centers of the embossed flowers.

I stamped with a distressed ink and then using a spellbinders die cut out the same, before taking it out of the die I went around the edge of it with the same ink, this enhanced the border of the die.  I used the next sized die up and cut it out in the purple card stock and used my pva glue to attached the two layers together and to my card.

List of my items used:-

Spellbinders Labels 4 (large and small)

Crafters Companion Die'Sire Floral Melody die

Ranger Distress Ink Pad - Dusty Concord

Creative Expression Cosmic Shimmer pva Glue

Emerald Dies from Hochanda - Butterfly Dance EDIC-BDAN - using both dies

Hot off the Press - Feathers stamp set and die

White Card Stock for base

Purple and Green Card Stock

Lilac gems from stash

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Karen Xxx

Flight night card

Hello everyone and welcome to my blog.

Here is my project for

Brown Sugar 

Our theme this week is - Anything Goes

Cardstock from stash - green and orange

Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts

Spellbinders No 1 Labels

Cat and spiders cut from doodlecharms cricut cartridges

Green Flourish - made from air dry clay

Digi image - Night Flight - https://www.zibbet.com/rick1949/night-flight-new-for-2013

Our Sponsor this week is

Rick St Dennis

Shop - www.zibbet.com/rick1949

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

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Karen Xxx

Ribbons and buttons card

Hi everyone and welcome to my blog.

It Friday and its time for another challenge from

Brown Sugar.

To be honest this isn't my week for a DT post but because I was so late with last weeks project I thought it would be only fair I done one for this week challenge.  So here it is:-

Ribbon - Stampin Up

Card stock - pink and blue

Pattern Paper from Stock

Die - Spellbinders

Clear Gems

Button

Our sponsor this week is

Lace Sunshine Stamps

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Karen Xxx

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

#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

My Besties UK Challenge

Hi Everyone 

Here is my card which I am entering into

 My Besties UK

Purple Challenge

Promarkers to colour image 

Spellbinders dies - A2 Fancy Postage Stamps, foliage, D-lites Blooms 3

Tonic dies - Deco frame - Emily

Paper - purple & white cardstock, 8x8 Dreamcatcher fromTrimcraft

Embellishments - Purple gems, Stickles glue

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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

Happy Mother's day - BSC #89

Happy Friday everyone.

Oh my the weeks are getting shorter or is it just Im getting older and I may even get this post up on time this week, anyway

its Friday and that means its time for the

Brown Sugar Challenge #89

Our theme for this week is

Mother's Day

I used promarkers to colour my

Image - Lisabeth Butterfly Kisses

Paper/card - 8 x 8 Dreamcatcher

Distress Ink Pads - Dusty Concord

Punch & Dies - Tonic range

Embellishments - Card Candy and purple flower gems 

Sentiment - Hero arts clear stamps.

Our sponsors this week is

Lacy Sunshine Stamps

Thank you for dropping by and for all your lovely comments,

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Brown Sugar Challenge Blog

and see the cards from the rest of the design team.