Pinspirational Challenge 95 - Anything Goes

Here's my DT card for this week's Pinspirational Challenge  and this week it's everyone's favourite, anything goes.

For my card, I used a digi-stamp called 'Pip', kindly supplied by our sponsor A and T Digital Designs.

We'd love you to come over to Pinspirational  and join in.

I'd like to enter :
Love to Scrap  Anything goes
Simply Create Too - Use Green

Inkspirational Challenge 50 - Tic Tac Toe

This week we have a Tic Tac Toe (or bingo) board at Inkspirational Challenges .

You have to choose 3 in a row and I chose pearls, ribbon or lace (both!) amd flowers.

The vintage photo is from Joanna Sheen Fashion CD - my printer is running out of black ink and so it printed with a pink tinge - and I just decided to work with it! The die cut heart and 'cherish' are Docrafts Vintage Love Notes and I stamped the background with a Penny Black floral stamp.

I hope you will pick a line off the board and come over to join us at Inkspirational. 

I'd like to enter:
CD Sunday  Love Always
4 Crafty Chicks Use Pearls
Make My Monday  Love is in the air
Clear it Out Challenge Love and flowers
Craft Room Challenge ribbons and lace
Alphabet Challenge Always and forever

Festive 48 - Week 5

I'm keeping up with my plan to get smug for Christmas 2014.

Just to recap, I have challenged myself to make a Christmas card every week , and post it here (to make sure I do it!) . If I do this, by the beginning of December I will have 48 Christmas cards. I have also issued an invitation to anyone who would like to join me.

This week, I made a really traditional card using an image from a Debbi Moore CD. It's a great vintage- style image, so I grunged it up a bit by adding distress inks and ragging up the card etc.  The 'naughty' and 'nice' were printed from my computer and I added gems and glitter brads for a bit of sparkle. 

Thank you to those who joined me last week with their beautiful cards - especially Chrissie who is keeping up with me. 

I really liked the details on this card by Tracy F :

by Tracy F 

If you'd like to join me in being well-prepared for Christmas, please link a Christmas card below.

I'd like to enter:
Winter Wonderland No stamping allowed 
Crimbo Crackers Christmas Happiness
Delightful Challenges Anything Goes 

Orange and Yellow

I was playing Trivial Pursuit the other night, and I had a yellow 'pie' with an orange segment in it and I thought - ooh - I like that colour combo! (Maybe that's why I lost the game as I should have been concentrating on the questions!)

This stamp is by Stamping Bella.

I'd like to enter:

Stamplorations  sketch
Daring Cardmakers  Grey with orange and yellow
Alphabet Challenge z for zesty

Festive 48- Week 4 - Softly Fell the Silent Snow

Wow! Week 4 already!

For this card I used random (magazine freebie) patterned papers and a sentiment stamp . The trees, reindeer and snowflake are die cuts and I sprayed everything with white mister. The mist made everything look pale and smudgy but it really wasn't white enough for the snow on the trees, so I sponged white ink as well.

Just to recap, I have challenged myself to make a Christmas card every week , and post it here (to make sure I do it!) . If I do this, by the beginning of December I will have 48 Christmas cards. I have also issued an invitation to anyone who would like to join me.

Thanks to all those who joined me last week, including Nikki C who linked up this great card:

by Nikki C 

I loved the metal angel wings and the tab-shaped sentiment. 

I hope you will join me this week, and get smug for Christmas 2014. 

I'd like to enter:

Shopping Our Stash cabin fever

Jingles Belles Rock Text Me  

Cut it Up Challenges Through the woods

Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge Christmas

Love is in the Air

Another Valentine's card. Honestly this doesn't look wonky in real-life, just in the photo.

The images are hybrid - most of them are printed and cut on the Cameo, using the 'fill pattern' feature . The sentiment  was from a digikit and I offset it, fill patterned it, added text and printed and cut it. The houses are cut from some leftover scrapbook paper . I cut the bottoms off them so it is clear that the spotty paper is the sky!

I'd like to enter
Twisted Tuesday  something in the sky/ something that flies
4 Crafty Chicks flags/banners
Cut it Up Valentines Day
Ooh La la Creations  Use a heart
Little Red Wagon Love 

City Crafter Guest Designer

I'm proud to say that this week, I'm a guest designer at City Crafter! Please pop over to the City Crafter Challenge Blog  to see a photo of me (!) , find out about the challenge and see the work of the talented Design Team.

This week's challenge is black and white with a splash of colour:

For my card, I used an Art Journey image of a girl with an umbrella. I coloured parts of the image with a purpley colour and then covered the umbrella in glossy accents. I stamped the background with two different water droplet stamps by Designs by Ryn and a perspective stamp (unknown). The sentiment is a Unity stamp.

I'd like to enter:
Use your Stuff Song Inspiration
Dream Valley no designer paper
Scribble Scrap Anything Goes
My Craft Creations  Anything Goes

Pinspirational Challenge 93 - A Day for Daisies

It's time for another challenge at Pinspirational and here's the photo:

For my DT card I used an image kindly provided by our sponsor A Day for Daisies  and  a fairytale themed paper stack by DCWV . I paper-pieced the dress and the book cover. Are the fairies in the background just her imagination or have they escaped from the book?

What ideas does this photo give you? Please come and join in at Pinspirational challenges.

I'd like to enter
Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge 
Stamping Sensations Wings, fantasy and fiction
Scribble Scrap Anything Goes
Digi Darlas Your personal style ( paper piecing)
Card Mania Fairies

An Alarming Valentine

Sometimes in magazines you see articles on 'ten minute cards'. This card is more like a ten hour card, taking into account the time it took to get my ideas together and then to make them work!

It all started with a challenge at Red Carpet Studio - create a project inspired by the morning. I played with a few ideas then settled on the rooster and the alarm clock. But then I had this old song ' I want to wake up with you..' (Boris Gardiner) going round in my head and decided to make it into a Valentine's card.

I really do think this is a card to give to someone you are already in a relationship with - if you gave it to the handsome guy at the office, he might be quite alarmed!

The papers I used are all from a magazine freebie pack . The rooster was a magazine freebie stamp too and I paper pieced it with two papers. I cut the clock, hearts and tags on the Silhouette Cameo.

As well as Red Carpet Studio, I'd also like to enter:
City Crafter Love Story
Love to Scrap Tag You're it
Addicted to Stamps Photo inspiration
Jellypark  Lots of love
Rogue Redhead Paper piecing

Inkspirational Challenge 49 - We CASE Yvonne

This week at Inkspirational  we're challenging you to CASE any card on DT member Yvonne's blog .

CASE means copy and share everything and that is what I've done with this card by Yvonne:

Yvonne's original

There are so many fantastic cards on Yvonne's blog, Journey into Artistry ,why not pop over there, choose one and join in? For more ideas, please visit the other DT members' blogs.

I'd like to enter:
Christmas Card Challenges Anything Goes
Fab n Funky  Christmas
QKR Stampede Anything Goes
Crafty Catz Anything Goes