Spring Frog

Now it's spring, the pond at the end of our garden is jumping with frogs. My partner likes to go down there at night with a torch to watch them. This card is for his birthday at the end of the month.

The frog and bounce stamps are by Newton's Nook, the triangles are Stamp Addicts and the sentiment is Hero Arts.

I'd like to enter:
Less is More - one  layer, geometric
Penny Black and More birthday
Addicted to Stamps cas 

City Crafter- Case Me if You Can - Blog Hop with Prizes!

It's our 6th birthday at City Crafter Challenge Blog! And we have presents! All you have to do to be in with a chance of winning a 'present' is leave a comment here on my blog post.  This is a blog hop - the more blogs you leave a comment on, the more chances you have to win a prize. The blog-hop list is:

Marina - you are here 

City Crafter Challenge Blog 

Kirsty Vittetoe

Ros Crawford

Stella Schenkel

This is the prize I'm sponsoring (see the other prizes on the DT blogs):

And now onto the challenge, which is to CASE any one of the four DT cards on the City Crafter Blog.

The DT were all entered into a secret draw to assign which card they were to CASE and I drew this fabulous card by Stella : 

You can see my interpretation at the top of the page. My main twist on Stella's card was to use large flowers instead of a small heart. I clear embossed a Stampendous flower stamp onto kraft card and then coloured it with Distress ink. Then I created shading by lifting some of the colour with water. 

I hope you'll go over to CCCB , choose a card to CASE and leave a comment on all our blogs - we can't wait to see your interpretation of our cards. 

I'd like to enter:

Use Your Stuff - kraft - the flower is embossed on kraft

Lawnscaping  flowers

CAS on Sunday flowers 

Ship Shape

Here's another layout from the weekend. This time it's using the sketch from Scrapbooking Top 50 .

(While I've got you, I'd love you to visit my craft consumer blog 'We Want Craft Stuff UK ', where I've posted a review of British craft TV. )

Hello Love U

I had a wonderful weekend at the Scrapbags retreat and while I was there decided to do some scrapbooking challenges.

This one is for Scrap it With a Song , and the song is 'Hello, I love you" by The Doors.

I used papers from Kaisercraft and My Mind's Eye.

(While I've got you, I'd love you to visit my craft consumer blog 'We Want Craft Stuff UK ', where I've posted a review of British craft TV. )

Make My Monday - Pets

Our new challenge at Make My Monday is 'pets'.

For my DT card I created a scene using several different sets of stamps. The dog was from a magazine freebie and the fence is Molly Bloom. The sun is Hero Arts and the sentiment is Mama Elephant.

I hope you'll come over and see what the rest of the DT have made and enter our challenge.

(While I've got you, I'd love you to visit my craft consumer blog 'We Want Craft Stuff UK ', where I've posted a review of British craft TV. )

I'd like to enter:
Crafting when we can based on a song. Sentiment is quote from 'I can see clearly now..'
Dream Valley anything goes
Come and Get it  bright colours
Incy Wincy  fave colouring medium - markers

Inkspirational Word Prompt - Rock

When this scheduled post publishes, I'll be away for the weekend. But if you're thinking of burgling my craft room while I'm away ..forget it ....I've taken most of my stuff with me as it's a crafty weekend!

Anyway, here's our challenge at Inkspirational :

As you can see, I interpreted this as 'rocks' meaning precious stones.  I used gold rub-ons, on vellum, coloured with Promarker. I stamped the 'you're a' and die-cut the 'gem'. I mounted it on gold mirror card and glittery paper.

There are so many ways to interpret this word prompt, and you can get some great ideas from visiting Inkspirational and seeing the work of our brilliant Guest Designer Sathya, and the rest of the design team. See you there!

Long Cat

It's navy , not black! 

Here's something a bit different for me ..not sure if it's good-different or just different!

The text background is Hero Arts, the long cat and the sentiment are by Waffle Flower.

(While I've got you, I'd love you to visit my craft consumer blog 'We Want Craft Stuff UK ', where I've posted a review of British craft TV. )

I'd like to enter:
Stamp Ink Paper colour  (sorry I tried to cut and paste the graphic but it wasn't working for me)
Less is More white but not white space
Alphabet Challenge c for cats

City Crafter - You are my Super Hero

Our new challenge at City Crafter  is to use a superhero, a comic strip or the word 'super'.

For my DT card I used an ADFD digi of a super-hero Santa, which I coloured using Promarkers. The sentiment was made using amix of stamps and die-cutting. I mounted it on red glitter paper.

I hope you'll come over to the challenge blog and see what the design team and our Guest Designer Melissa have made- and to join in our challenge.

I'd like to enter:
Sparkles Christmas  CAS Christmas
A Day For Daisies  add glitter (glitter paper)
Jingle Belles santa baby
Christmas Card Challenges anything goes
Holly Jolly santa

Make My Monday - Watercolour

Our new challenge at Make My Monday  is 'watercolour' . I hope you'll take a look at what the DT has done as they have used watercolour in loads of different ways.

For my DT card, I scribbled different shades of markers (Le Plume) onto a Paper Artsy stamp and sprayed it with water before stamping. I like how it blends the colours and softens the edges . The 'Hello' is a Waffle flower stamp.

I hope you'll join us.

I'd like to enter:
Little Red Wagon  water
Lawnscaping  florals
Retro Rubber anything goes- I've had the stamp for about 3 years I think (def over 3 years)

Daffodil Dress

Spring flowers - tulips and daffodils - are my favourite flowers of all . They are so full of personality! Here's my attempt to make a really spring-y card.

I'd like to enter:
Crafty Boots  spring is in the air
Eureka spring is in the air
Fairytale  spring cards
A Snowflakes Promise  touch of spring
Cards4galz springtime