Milly - Me And My Cat

This is another of the adorable images from LOTV called "Milly - Me and My Cat" which has been coloured used promarkers.

I've already decided who will be receiving this for their birthday as I've got a good friend who loves cats but her birthday is not until December so will have to store this one away safely until then.

Materials used:

Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts

Sentiment - Woodware Janes Script

Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Spun Sugar

Nestability - Classic Scallop Circle Small

Magnolia Doo Hickey Die - Heart Swirl Branch

Glitter glue and backing papers from my stash

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Card Makin' Mamas - pink
The Outlawz - promarkers
Sketches By Carly - sketch

Art Impressions - summertime

Aud's Sentiments - anything goes

Crafts Us Crazy - anything goes

Digi Doodle Shop's Best - anything goes

Hanna & Friends - LOTV

Paper Crafting Journey - anything goes

Crafting For All Seasons - bingo (die cuts / stitching / glitter)

Paper Shelter - die cuts

Sisterhood Of Crafters - flowers

Truly Scrumptious - pink

A Spoonful Of Sugar - happy birthday

Bearly Mine - bring on the bling

Stamping Boutique - stripes and dots

Happileigh Scrappin' - girly

Stamps R Us - anything goes

The Outlawz - anything goes

Victorine Stamps - summer

Birthday Sundaes - colour challenge

Kenny K Krafty Girlz - layers

One Stop Craft - bright and bold

Disco Tween

It's challenge time again over at the Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge and the theme for this fortnight is to use 3 or more of your favourite embellishments.  You have until 25th August to enter and you could be in with a chance of winning either a $10 gift voucher to spend on digis from Digis with Attitude or a stampset from Inspired Stamps.

For my DT card I've used Disco Tween from Digis With Attitude and coloured her with my promarkers.

Materials used:

Embossing folder - birds and flowers set 

Classic scallop circle die

Core'dinations card

Sanding block

Distress ink - tattered rose

Flowers

Ribbon, pearls, glitter glue, gems and lace from my stash

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Card Makin' Mamas - pink

Crafty Ann's - scallops - WINNER

Digis With Attitude - anything goes

Poodles Parlour - anything goes
Simply Create - distress
Stamp Man - anthing goes using summer colours
Paper Crafting Journey - anything goes
Paper Play - recipe
Pixie Dust Studio - tween teen's dream
Truly Scrumptious - lace it up
Bearly Mine - bring on the bling
Papertake - bingo (gems, free, lace)
Crafters Companion - glitter and glitz
Desert Islands Crafts - choose 3 (1,2 & 8)
Freshly Brewed - hot colours
Glitter Fairies - pretty in pink
Paper Playtime - anything goes
Pink Elephant - stitching
Pollycraft - distressing
Shabby Tea Room - polka dots
Pixie Dust Paperie - that's my girl

Fussy & Fancy 1000 Followers Celebration

We have a special announcement today over at the Fussy and Fancy challenge blog - we have reached 1000 followers - yeah!!!!!

We have decided to have an additional challenge to celebrate and have some wonderful sponsors who have given us some fantastic prizes for you to try and win - check out the challenge blog for all of the prizes on offer.  Here are the details of how to enter our celebration challenge:

• Create a project that celebrates something!  It can be a wedding, birthday or any other event that you have need of a card or project for.  As an extra fun challenge, use the Fussy and Fancy Friday color scheme
• You have until 12 a.m. PST on 16th September to enter your project to make sure you have a chance of winning one of these prizes

Here is the card that I have created for your inspiration:  (my tutorial for the exploding box can be found here)

I am entering this into the following challenges:

Allsorts - anything but a card

Outlawz - anything but a card

Craft Your Passion - anything but a card

Happileigh Scrappin' - keep it cool

Karens Doodles - fancy folds

KB Cute Mondays - babies

Paper Playtime - anything goes

Pink Elephant - stitching

Pollycraft - distressing

Stamp-N-Doodle - fancy folds

Crafty Pad - cute 'n' girly - TOP 3

Dream Valley - distressing

Stamptacular Sunday - fancy folds

Craft Us Crazy - anything goes - TOP 3

Paper Crafting Journey - anything goes

Shelley Images - anything goes

Stamp Insanity - anything goes

Anything Goes Challenge - celebration

Creative Craft Challenges - anything but a card

Papertake - bingo (pearls, ribbons, free)

 

Lia Stampz New Challenge and Blog Hop

Hi everyone and welcome to a brand new challenge which starts today over at Lia Stampz and to celebrate we're kicking off with a blog hop to introduce you to the design team members who have a few things of their own to give away on your hop to the prize at the end on Lia's blog.

If you didn't start at the beginning you may want to go back to ensure you collect all of the letters.

To join in the hop here are the blogs that you have to visit and the few simple rules that you have to follow to be in with a chance to win the prize and you can get a maximum of 3 entries if you follow all of the rules:

1. Laura

2. Mo

3. Heather

4. Cely 

5. Tina

6. Georgia

7. Sally  (you are here)

8. Ashley  (you need to go here next - good luck)

9. Jennie 

10. Lia 

1)   Comment on all the blogs along the hop and leave a comment on Lia's blog with the secret word
2)   Post the Lia Stampz blinkie on your sidebar (leave a 2nd comment on Lia's blog)
3)   Follow Lia Stampz on Facebook (leave a 3rd comment on Lia's blog)

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The first challenge on Lia Stampz is "add a charm"and here's the card that I've made using one of Lia's stamps which is called June and I've also used the sentiments sheet that goes along with this image.

Materials used:

Tim Holtz distress ink - dried marigold

Promarkers

Nestability die - lacey circles

Martha Stewart edge punch - doily lace

Cuttlebug embossing folder - swiss dots
Ribbon, charm, gems, papers, card scraps from my stash

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Sir Stampalot - whatever you fancy

Crafty Pad - cute 'n' girly

Kenny K Krafty Girlz - summer sparkle

Crafty Calendar - hot colours

One Stop Craft - at the beach

Cooking It Up - recipe

xx Happy crafting and glittery hugs xx

The Hotspot Challenge - Subrina

It's time for another challenge over at:

I can't believe another month has just flown past, can you?  This month we are going to be using Pantone's top color trends for fall and winter 2011.  You can enter your card or project using one, all or any combination of the colors below.

Here's my DT card for some inspiration or why not pop over to the other DT's blogs for even more inspiration.

This challenge is open until the end of the month so why not come and join us?

Material used:

Image - Subrina  - McMahon Five Designs

Coloured with promarkers

Martha Stewart around the page corner punch

Tim Holtz distress ink - antique linen

Pearlescent card - PaperMill Direct

Marianne Design Creatables Die - Doily Square

Edged with a quickie glue pen and sprinkled fine glitter 

Ribbon, papers, pearls and bow are all from my stash

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Bling It On - A, B, C (Antique linen, Bow & Circles
Passion For Promarkers - diva's with glam & glitter - TOP 5
Sweet Stamps - bling it up
Cupcake Crafts - sew mad
Incy Wincy Designs - something old (ribbon), something new (image)
Stamp 'n' Doodle - recipe
Corrosive Challenge - earth tones
One Stitch At A Time - use a digi
Stampin Sisters In Christ - forgotten stash (bow & paper)
Catch The Bug - anything goes

xx Happy crafting and glittery hugs xx

Ava - Mistletoe Fairy

It's challenge time again over at the Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge and the theme for this fortnight is Christmas in July, so come on drag out all of those Christmas papers and see what you can create.  You have until 11th August to enter and you could be in with a chance of winning either 7 digis from Bugaboo Stamps or a stampset from Inspired Stamps.

For my DT card I've used Ava - Mistletoe Fairy from Bugaboo Stamps and coloured her with my promarkers.

Materials used:

Embossing folder - snowflake

Tim Holtz distress ink - tumbled glass

Quickie glue pen

Ultra fine glitter

Spellbinders Nestabilities - classic scallop circle small 

Sentiment and ribbon from my stash

Backing card taken from a flyer I received through the post 

(see I'm a crafter through and through)

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Catch The Bug - anything goes

CES Challenges - water it
Little Claires - things with wings
Clearly Inspired - things with wings
The Stamp Man - stitching
Stamp Something - use a digi
Wags 'N' Whiskers - sparkly
Aud's Sentiments - merry christmas
Craft Us Crazy - anything goes
Crafty Sentiments - christmas
Delightful Challenges - stitching
Paper Play - christmas in august
Sassy Studio Designs - use a sentiment
Ambers Crafts - sparkle and shine
Crafts And Me - anything goes
I Love Promarkers - things with wings
Simon Says Stamp - christmas in august
Papertake - anything goes
Passion For Promarkers - hugs and kisses
Crafters Companion - glitter and glitz
Craft Your Passion - anything goes
Happileigh Scrappin' - anything goes