Make My Monday - Let's Go Fly A Kite

This week's challenge at Make My Monday is to use a kite.

For my DT card I used kite and cloud stamps from October Afternoon, and the sun from Hero Arts. The sentiment is from Stamping Bella.

We'd love you to pop over to MMM, see what the DT have done and enter your own kite themed creation.

I'd like to enter:
The Paper Girls  show some sunshine
Ooh La La  add a sentiment
Eureka clean and simple
The Craft Barn clean and simple
Addicted to Stamps  make your mark
Pinspirational  photo

Farmyard Birthday

Here's a one-layer- card using stamps from two sets of The Alley Way stamps (and the 'birthday' from Papermania). It would have fairly quick if I hadn't had to abandon some attempts due to excessive smudging.

I'd like to enter:
Shopping Our Stash - one layer
My Time To Craft - one layer
Fantastic Tuesday - add an animal
Mod Squad animal fun

Inkspirational - Geometric

Pia chose our new challenge at Inkspirational - Geometric .

Although I thought long and hard , and tried out several ideas, for this theme, in the end the cards I made were very clean and simple.

I used a cutting file on the Silhouette and teamed it with a pre-cut foiled 'hello' from Like For Ever's Feb kit (which I reviewed here).  For the second card, I used some of the triangles cut from the first card, together with another die-cut from the kit and a stamped sentiment (Hero Arts).

I hope you'll visit us at Inkspirational, see the work of our fabulous Guest Designer Justine  and our Design Team, and link up your own geometric creation.

I'd like to link the card with the butterfly at:
QKR Stampede birthday cards
Winter Wonderland must use a sentiment
Seize the Birthday  anything goes

Pirates

For this card I'm using the new Clearly Besotted pirates set, which I blogged about here.  I've also used a sentiment set from Waffle Flower.

This was going to be a one-layer-card, but I had so many failed attempts I feared I would run out of cardstock! I really don't know where all those smudges came from!

I'd like to enter:
Cupcake Inspirations colour
Addicted to Stamps  make your mark
Stamp Ink Paper  cardmaker's choice
Seize the Birthday  anything goes

City Crafter Challenge Blog - Polka Dots

This week at City Crafter, Stella wants to see polka dots on our projects.

I used a digi stamp from A Day for Daisies and sentiment stamps from Waffle Flower.  I coloured in with alcohol markers and paper-pieced with polka dot paper.

Our special Guest Star, Andie , is still with us - and doing an amazing job! - so please visit the City Crafter blog to see what she , and the DT, have made ...and join in the challenge!

I'd like to enter:
Crafting when we can use a digi
Naughty or Nice  see red
Allsorts  birthday wishes
Get Creative  lots of red

Make My Monday - Through the Window

Our challenge at Make My Monday is 'Through the Window'.

For my DT card I die-cut a window and created a view using My Favourite Things 'Ewe are the Best' stamps. (And not a sheep in sight!) . The chair is an svg e-die cut from Lettering Delights and the sentiment is Little Claire. The wallpaper is a Basic Grey design from my paper mountain. 

I hope you'll visit Make My Monday, see what the rest of the DT have made and join in!

I'd like to enter:
That Craft Place anything goes
The Challenge  photo
Addicted to Stamps  die cut
Polkadoodles lucky green
Penny Black and More stamp and die 

Balloon Ride (Conquering Paper Mountain #6)

This card uses stamps from W plus 9 and sentiment stamps by Clearly Besotted. The My Mind's Eye papers I've used are from my paper mountain - I think I won this pad and I do like them so I'm not sure why they've been hanging around for years!

I'd like to enter:
Fairytale balloons
ABC Challenge b is for ...balloon and birthday
Allsorts  birthday wishes
Crafting with Dragonflies birthday card

Sweet Macarons

I'm missing my local crop (Scrapbags) today because my son has been away at his grandparents' this week and is due back any minute. So I'm just taking the last opportunity to scrap at home, and enter a few challenges, before I go back on mum duty.

Most of the stuff  I used here is from the Like for Ever February kit. (I reviewed this kit here ) . I also used paper from Craftwork Cards (esp the eiffel tower) , Pink Paislee (the script bottom layer paper). The macaron stamp is this month's freebie with Craft Stamper magazine.

I am pleased to enter the Abba-themed challenge in the ATDML cybercrop - I used 7 patterned papers. (Apart from the obvious, I have used 2 to paper-piece the macarons). Voulez vous?

I'd like to enter Another Freaking Scrappy Blog  - only one sheet of paper is completer and I didn't think I'd use the 'sweet' embellishment - it originally said 'sweetie' , so I cut the end off and voila!

I'd also like to enter:
Craft Stamper  two text papers included and the CS freebie stamp
Time Out  photo - hope it's okay to enter a scrapbook layout. Congrats on 50 challenges - whooshed by!

Green Outdoors

My craze for one-layer-cards continues and my craft room is littered with the bodies of olc’s that didn’t make it. 

For this card I used stamps from Docrafts, Clarity, Paper Artsy and Clearly Besotted, and 3 shades of green Distress Ink. 

(While I've got you, I'd love to invite you over to my new crafts consumer blog, We Want Craft stuff UK. )  

I'd like to enter: 

Mod Squad  great outdoors

Less is More  olc/ stem ....it's certainly simple but is it clean enough for LIM???

The Male Room  monochromatic

Crafting Musketeers  monochrome 

Fantasy Stampers  just one layer 

Gold embossed Trees

I'm trying out a new (for me) technique here, using stamps from Neat and Tangled.  I gold embossed the trees and sentiment onto white card, then covered them over with Distress Ink. Then I 'bleached' the middle tree with water and, when it was dry, covered it with Wink of Stella.

(While I've got you, I'd love to invite you over to my new crafts consumer blog, We Want Craft stuff UK. )  
I'd like to enter:
52CCT  blue, cream, gold
Holly Jolly  emboss
Stamplorations triplets