All Dressed Up - Country Girl

 It's Monday which means there is a new challenge at Dream Valley Challenges ...

This week we are being sponsored by the lovely Wendy at All Dressed Up stamps who has kindly provided images for us to use

As always the design team have come up with some inspiration to get your creative juices flowing - here's my card:

What I used:

Digi - Country Girl from All Dressed Up

Coloured with Spectrum Noir markers

Papers - from a Kay Miller Scrapbook kit

Greeting - computer generated using Chickens Lovers font

I'm entering this card into the challenges at:

Crafty Sentiments - anything goes

Crafty Gals Corner #219 - for the ladies

Addicted To Stamps #406 - make your mark HONORABLE ADDICT

Simon Says Stamp - anything goes

As You Like It - favourite colouring medium - always markers -  I use a couple of brands (Spectrum noir and Pro-markers) that mix and match well and there's such a wide choice of colours. Also they dry immediately and are easy to store. 

So have a pop over at the Dream Valley Challenge Blog to see some more lovely inspiration from my teamies on the design team and have a chance at winning Marlene's prize.

Thanks for visiting

Sharon

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Cherry Blossom

 I've been bitten by the stamping bug - thanks to Tim Holtz!

I very rarely do rubber stamping as I tend to have two left hands - I get smudges everywhere! But when I finally used a stamping platform (Christmas prezzie) last week, and got pretty good results I dug out all my stamp sets that I've gotten free with magazines... 

What I used:

Stamp and Die set - free with Simply Cards and Papercrafts #215

A5 linen card base

Pink patterned paper - from stash

Sentiment - free with a magazine

Flat backed pearls - The Range

I'm playing along with the current challenges at:

Stamping Sensations (May) - beautiful blooms

Paper Players Challenge:

Handstamped Sentiments Challenge #364

Thanks for looking

Sharon

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Cheers!

 So today I had a day off work and as the weather has been dreadful, I played with some unused stash...

Some time last year I won a blog challenge and the prize was a voucher for Clearly Besotted. Now I'm not a natural rubber stamper but their images were so cute I couldn't resist the Mix It Up set with matching dies.

Today they had their first inking!

I'm not a confident stamper but I find using Tim Holtz's Stamp Platform greatly helps!

What I used:

Stamps - Clearly Besotted - Mix it Up (with matching dies)

Coloured with - Spectrum Noir markers

Patterned striped paper - The Range

Circle dies - Spellbinders nesties

Die sentiment - Paper Smooches

Embellishments - flat-backed pearls - The Range

Perfect for a girly birthday!

I'm playing along with the challenges at:

Stinkin' Inkers - Girls just wanna have fun

Aud Sentiments #275 - for the girls (with sentiment) 

Passion For Markers #592 - use spots or stripes WINNER

Addicted to Stamps #405 - dies or stencils

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - use die/punches

Thanks for popping in

Sharon

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Rory's Showers

 It's Monday which means there is a new challenge at Dream Valley Challenges ...

Today's theme is:

Favourite Colours

and the challenge is sponsored by Colour Of Love - fabulous artwork and designs by Heather Valentin.

Well my favourite colour for cards is always going to be pink! I make so many cards for ladies and girlfriends it seems to be my go to colour. I usually use it with grey, black or green.

As always the design team have come up with some inspiration to get your creative juices flowing - here's my card:

I just love her hair! I chose the pretty pink polka dot patterned paper first then coloured her raincoat to match.

What I used:

7 x 7 card base

Grey card

Grey flat-backed pearls

Digi - Colour of Love - Rory's Showers

Coloured with Spectrum Noir markers

Papers - Craft Sensations - Pink Highlights collection

Greeting - computer generated using Splendid

I'm entering this card into the current challenges at:

Crafter's Castle - AG May Challenge #41

Crafter's Cafe #266 - girls or ladies

Creative Crafters #40 - AG

Creations In Pink #34 - AG (in pink) TOP 3

Papercraft Challenges #70 - AG

Polkadoodles #20 - AG

So have a pop over at the Dream Valley Challenge Blog to see some more lovely inspiration from my teamies on the design team and have a chance at winning a great prize.

Thanks for visiting

Sharon

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On Safari

I finally had some time to make a card today and had a play with the gorgeous pastel papers and decoupage toppers from Papermania's On Safari range.

My main inspiration was one of the sketches at the current Sweet Sketch Wednesday Challenge :

This is what I made:

These images are so sweet - they would also be great for baby cards/nursery decor.

What I used:

15cm x 15cm white base card

On Safari decoupage and papers - Papermania

Blue and peach flat-backed pearls

Unbranded bow die

I'm also playing along with the challenges at:

Creative Knockouts #400 - anything goes

Cute Card Thursday #685 - anything goes

Creative Fingers #207 - anything goes

Just Us Girls #583 - layers

Thanks for visiting

Stay safe

Sharon

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Snappy Birthday

 After a stressful week dealing with family stuff it was nice to do something crafty this afternoon. My head is all over the place and this certainly influenced my card!

Firstly I was inspired by the unusual challenge at Less Is More

So I really sat and (over) thought about this one. I remembered I had a crab die and some glittery crab patterned paper. Being mindful to leave plenty of white space I created this...

Obviously the blue patterned card with glittery crabs represents the sea and the yellow circle represents the sand! After googling 'crab cards' I could see that 'snappy birthday' is the go to greeting for crabs so I used that for my greeting.

And of course coming up to June Birthdays this may be useful for someone whose star sign is Cancer (the crab). Yes - I thought a lot about this one!

What I used:

Linen card base

Crab patterned card - Deco Time

Crab die - Cut and Make

Greeting - created using KG Payphone font

Embellished with 2 googly eyes.

I'm also playing along with the challenges at:

Creative Friday #280 - clean and simple

2 Crafty Critter Crazies - AG with a critter

Pearly Sparkles #62 - clean and simple

Thanks for visiting

Sharon

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