Dies and Punches at Cardmadfairy's Digi Days

Over at Cardmadfairy's Digi Days Jenni set us the Challenge of using our Dies and/or Punches.

We are sponsored this time by Debbie from The Paper Creator ~

and she very kindly offered the DT some of her fab goodies to play with. The winner of this new Challenge will receive a £10 Coupon to spend online in Debbie's store. Even if you don't win this challenge, do pop along and view Debbie's fab kits as there is something for every single occasion. Here is what I came up using her Butterfly Joy Kit ~

This kit was very simple to use and includes a great box but sadly for me my naughty wee cats sat on it and I am ashamed to say the poor box looks rather the worse for wear.  You can see the finished project on The Paper Creator tho and it is stunning I can assure you.

 I am going to make several of these and give them out as Xmas presents this year as they are perfect for desks/tables/workstations/craft rooms.

Do come along and join in as we are all impressed by the number of entries we had last time and we know you ALL have punches and dies that are hidden away in your cupboards etc.

New Challenge over at Cardmadfairy's Digi Days!

This should be a scheduled post as we are away in the Dales for a week of walking so fingers crossed my posting works this time - follow the instructions by the book but never seem to post as planned.

Jenni set the DT the challenge of.....

Add A Sentiment......

this time so do come along and join in with us at Cardmadfairy's Digi Days.

I have used one of Jenni's earlier digis - Flirty Fairy - and I coloured her with my Promarkers and Flexmarkers.  The DP is from Paper Cellar Ltd - dunno where I got it sorry but the pack is beautiful.  My sentiment is Computer Generated.

Thanks for visiting today and happy crafting!

Sorry so late with this one

Over at Cardmadfairy's Digi Days this fortnight Jenni is getting us into the LOVE mode with the theme of Hearts - its that time of year folks when we are all thinking of love and spending loads of money on that special person - me? well no I am a firm believer in treating that special person (Graham in my case) each and every day and NO I am not a big softy -   I simply feel that all these 'special' days are just a commercial rip off :(

I am one day late with this card posting so apologies to all who were looking for this yesterday and a huge welcome to my new followers too!! HULLO GUYS :)

The winner this time around will get 3 digi images from the fabulous Crafty Sentiments Designs -

so do come and play along as we all have something with hearts on don't we?

I wanted to do something completely new to me so used my new Serif software here - I imported Jenni's fab digi image and printed directly onto a 5in square card.  I added a sentiment using the same package and then coloured the fab hearts with my Prisma pencils.  The lines around the outer edge are simply drawn with a Fineliner pen.  I have to say I am rather pleased with the result and hope you like it too.

I don't have time at the mo to link any challenges but will come back later to do this.

Bye for now guys:)

Ribbons and Bows at Cardmadfairy's Digi Days

Jenni has set us a new challenge this week so I have used one of her fabulous new images - Bird on a Branch - and it was such fun to use. I can't wait to experiment with them all!  You can find them here.

I have to say sorry for the out of focus pic - dunno why it is like that despite taking several - not too hot on photography but it is likely the light - that is my excuse anyway!!
DPs are from  my stash and I love the slight colour clash so wanted to keep the card simple to show off that clash and Jenni's new digi.

Do come along and join in.

New Challenge at Cardmadfairy's Digi Days + DT call

Good morning fellow crafters....over at Cardmadfairys Digi Days today Jenni has set us a new challenge so say 'Thank You'.  If you join in you could be in with a chance to win some of Jenni's fabulous digi images so do come along and play......

I have used one of her Stylised Flowers for my DT card but her DT have used several of her other images so go check them out too please...I coloured them with my PMs and matted and layered onto crisp white card edged in blue then used a Die to cut that fab shape.  The sentiment is CGd.

We are sad to announce that we are losing one of our original dt members, Carol Ann has been with us from the beginning and we are very sorry to be losing her but wish her much luck in setting up her own new business this year. Another member is taking a little bit of a back seat at the moment due to family pressures, so we are looking for a couple of new dt members to boost our numbers. If you think you might be interested in joining our team where you will be able to choose free digi images to play with and will be asked to contribute a card/project once a fortnight, please just email Jenni with a link to your blog so we can pop over for a look.

Cardmadfairy DT card

Over at Cardmadfairy Digi Days this week Jenni has set us the Challenge of Friendship - now that's an easy one isn't it?
We had some fab entries last time so thanks for joining in and do come and play this week too.
I have used Jenni's 'Birdie' digi for this one and I have paper- pieced it onto Pink Petticoat DPs.

I am loving sentiments right now..........

 ...I inked the edges with TH Distress Ink Antique Linen......

..and added lovely pink flowers to coordinate.

Do come along and join in with this very simple challenge - the winner of this challenge will receive their choice of 5 of Jenni's digis and as a bonus if you use of of Jenni's digis will be entered into a draw to win another 5!!

I am entering this into the following challenges:~

The Paper Shelter Anything Goes;
Papercrafting Journey No 22 Use A Digi and
Charisma Cardz Anything Goes.

Cardmadfairy's Buttons Challenge

Thank you all so much for joining in last time on Jenni's Summer Holidays Challenge.

This time the theme is 'Buttons' and we are being sponsored by Hope Jacare - some fabulous digi images up for grabs.

You will see I have managed to create a  watermark in Photoshop on the new desktop in my new craft room!! Was easy enough to achieve so if anyone would like to know how, I can do a tutorial.

Using the fab Zac digi, here is my card - aint he just perfect for any age?

I am entering this into the following challenges :~

Wee Memories Masculine;

Pollycraft Distressing;

One Stitch at a Time Anything Goes;

Dream Valley Distressing and

Sketch Saturday.

Ingredients:~

Zac digi image from Cardmadfairy Creation;

PMs ~ Blush, Dusky Pink, Sandstone, Buttercup, Mustard,Mint Green, Soft Green, Pastel Blue, Denim Blue, Cornflower, Cool Grey 2 and Flexmarker Soft Aqua to outline;

DPs from Funky Hand (think they were freebies some time ago);

Rock Star gel letters from kimemories;

Ribbon, buttons and string (coloured with PM) from stash.

Many thanks for looking today and do come along and join in.

Cardmadfairy's Digi Days DT card

A TASTE OF THE ORIENT CHALLENGE

Over at Cardmadfairy's Digi Days Jenni has set a fabulous challenge for you this time .......we are looking for 'A Taste of The Orient'.  Over on Jenni's site she has produced some brand new beautiful digi images just perfect for playing along and being in with a chance to win some gorgeous images from our sponsor, Little Claire's.

 Have a sneak at these images ~

Aren't they just fabulous?  I have to say when I read 'Orient' I nearly had a fit as I am not a 'lover' of that but when I saw Jenni's Blossom, I knew I could make a perfect card for the Challenge. I kept the card simple as I wanted the image to be the centre of it so all I added was a dictionary definition of 'blossom' which I think has worked out fine.

The pink handmade paper is from a pack I bought in The Works some time ago but fitted in perfectly with the digi image and the burgundy layer is white card coloured with PMs to be an exact match.  I printed the image off twice and decoupaged one on top of the other after colouring with my PMs - I just love how Jenni kept the image uncluttered and very clean.

I added some wee floral gems in pink and then made an oriental style tassle using embroidery thread and a bead I got off a pair of flip-flops that fell apart after one use!! Knew those beads would come in handy one day!!

I would like to thank you for coming here and having a browse and look forward to visiting you back to see your work.

Cardmadfairy's Digi Days DT card

This was meant to post at 10am but gremlins in blogland again?  I do hope not as I have just managed to sort out my PC to comment etc..........................

Over at Jenni's Cardmadfairy's Digi Days this time, we are sponsored by the fabulous Glitterbabe of Glitterbabe Digis.  This week the challenge theme is a sketch and there is also a twist, we'd like to see the colours below and the sketch as the predominant colours on your creation. The sketch can be flipped or rotated just so long as we can see the basic design in your project.  Do come along and join is girls and guys of course...................

Jenni has some fabulous new images that are so versatile - perfect for paper piecing, colouring with amy medium and able to be resized, rotated, etc.

Here is my DT card using Daisies coloured with PMs; DP from Pink Petticoat and ribbon from my stash.

Aren't Jenni's new images utterly fabulous?

Thank you for all your comments and welcome to my new followers!  Do try to get back to you all but not always possible every day so sorry! :)X

Men's/Boys' Challenge at Cardmadfairy's Digi Days

Hello friends,
Well we are finally able to blog again way hay!!

Over at Cardmadfairy's Digi Days today we have the start of a new challenge ~ Men's/Boys' Challenge is being sponsored by MeiFlower who is very kindly offering a £10 voucher to the lucky winner.  Remember too you could be one of our favourites and get a brand new blinkie for your blog!

My DT card this time is very different for me ~ its kinda CAS but I wanted Jenni's fabulous new images to BE the card not just be part of it.

Using 'Zac' and 'Rock Star' I coloured them very simply with my PMs, then printed 'Fender' directly onto my card.  I then mounted both the coloured images onto faom pads to lift them off the card.  I wanted to show everyone that digi images do not necessarily need to be coloured in and stuck onto DP.  Jenni's images are so different to the normal digi images available on the crafting market and are so versatile. Just take a look at this ~

 

Aren't they just fabulous and perfect for the male in your life?


I am entering this into the following challenges:~
Pollycraft Boyz to Men;
Here Come The Boys.

Wedding Challenge at Cardmadfairy's Digi Days!!

Update:~

For some reason this post did not post as scheduled on Friday so here it is now bloggers! 

Well it is a very special day for a very special Royal couple today and over at Cardmadfairy's Digi Days we are having a Wedding theme in our challenge this time......and we are sponsored this time by Whoopsi Daisy.

It is also a special day for me as Graham and I are off to Norfolk (after the wedding of course!!) til Monday.  It is the first break where I will be able to walk in comfort and do the things I want to do without being in pain.  For those of you who are interested I am now on NO painkillers at all - not even Paracetamols - tho I have them on me wherever we go.

Using Jenni's fabulous Button Heart Digi image, I created a background paper which I coloured parts of with Promarkers; this was mounted onto a very textured ruffly red paper.  The digi image I used is from Pink Petticoat and is a Lola Rose one; this too was coloured in parts with PMs then mounted onto the same red paper.  The silver ribbon was also mounted onto the red paper (difficult to see in the pic but it is so textured and I could stroke it all day and night!).  The sentiment was made in Word using an Autoshape in which I put text that I then cut around and once again put onto the red paper.

I glammed the whole thing up a wee bit by adding lovely pearl shapes. God knows how I managed to get them in the heart shape but I am rather impressed with my skill there, he he.

I love the Lola Rose images but they seem to have disappeared from the cardmaking scene but I wanted to let you crafters see how versatile Jenni's digi images are - you can see here how I used the Button Heart to creat my own paper; I could also have coloured it in Paint; resized, flipped, etc in various other software programs.  Hard to see but I actually fadded the edges of the paper square.

I am entering this one into the following challenges:~

Tip Top Tuesday Open Challenge;

Incy Wincy Designs Buttons and Bows.(too late for this one)

Ingredients:~

Backing paper made using Button Heart from Cardmadfairy's Creations;

PMs used ~ Blush, Ivory, Satin, Caramel, Sandstone, Marsh Green, Poppy, Ruby, Cool Grey 1, 2, 3 & 4;

Red textured paper from The Works;

Lola Rose digi stamp from Pink Petticoat;

Pearl gems and silver ribbon from stash.

Recipe Challenge DT card

                     

Hello my friends,

I am back doing my DT work again for the fab Jenni over at Cardmadfairy Creations and her great Digi Days Challenges and here is my card for this fortnight's challenge ~ following the recipe of 1 image, 2 papers and 3 embellishments.

This time we are sponsored by Waxfruit so do come and join in. (Apologies for the quality of my pic - camera a bit heavy after my op but promise to get a better one next time!)

I used the ever so gorgeous Chloe digi image available here.  Colouring her with my PMs, I mounted her onto torn lilac card edged with ink, then mounted that onto 6X4 card covered with lilac striped paper.  The stripe across the card is using another lilac paper - this time with tiny wee white flowers on.  The embellishments all came from my stash - the 3 flowers are actually white but I inked them up with my lilac Whispers Archival Ink.  The ribbon is also from my stash and I tried to fix it to look less normal and I think it worked.

I hope you are all well and I hope to get along and do some more commenting this week now that I am feeling so much better!

All Dressed Up in Distress!

                             
Over at Cardmadfairy Digi Days we have a new challenge running and the fabulous Sketching Stamper is very kindly sponsoring this time with the fabulous prize of 6 digi images to be won!

My card for this fortnight is this one with All Dressed Up ~
                            

I coloured her with Promarkers in Primrose, Ivory, Blush, Satin, Cool Grey 1, 2 & 3 and used DP from Pink Petticoat's Perfect Papers.  I also used my new XCut edge punch which I have fallen in love with  (it was only 3.99).  The ribbon is from my stash and the charm I got in The Works in a pack of 6 for 99p!!

DO pop along to visit my other DT buddies as they have produced some fabulous work also and you can see them here!

Apologies for this short post but my neck is awfully painful once again.

Happy crafting girls and boys!!

Cardmadfairy Creations 'Love' theme

I promised I would be back to show some more cards I made using Jenni's fabulous new digi images - YOU CAN WIN THE COMPLETE SET (shown below) BY ENTERING THE CHALLENGE HERE - so here they are girls!

You will see from these cards and the other DT work that Jenni's images are SO versatile and can be resized easily, coloured using any medium, used on Shrink Plastic & various other types of paper etc, so we do hope you are encouraged to pop over here to see them for yourself.

Cardmadfairy's Digi Days Challenge No1

Welcome to Cardmadfairy's Digi Days Challenge No1!

 We hope you will pop along and join in the fun - all you have to do is use a digi image ~ any digi image but if you use one of Jenni's then you get two chances to win ~ SIMPLES!!  Make you card, project etc and enter into the Challenge eto be in with a chance to win Jenni's fabulous new Love related Digi Set - I can assure you IT IS FABULOUS!!  This challenge runs for 2 weeks so come on and join in the fun!

Jenni's DT have been working with her new images for a few weeks now and for the challenge this fortnight ~ Romance ~ this is what I came up with ~

Using the ever-so-pretty 'Valentine's Vase' from Jenni's new range and design papers from Pink Petticoat I made this anniversary card for my son and his lovely wife (cannot believe its been a year).
I coloured the image using my Promarkers ~ Poppy, Ruby, Pear Green, Marsh Green, Ivory & Cool Grey 2 ~ and simply layered it onto card printed from Pink Petticoat's Perfect Papers range and handmade papers from The Works.  I added the ribbon, gems & sentiment (made using Bigshot and Sizzix Greetings Dies and font paper from Pink Petticoat.

I am entering this into Moving Along With The Times Red Challenge.

I will be back later to post lots more cards I have made using Jenni's fab new images so do come back..............

ONLY TWO DAYS TO GO CRAFTERS!!

Friday 4th is fast approaching for Cardmadfairy Digi Days brand new challenge and I can assure we are going to have lots of fun - Jenni has created some fabulous brand new images available from Friday too!  And the DT have had loads of fun with them I can assure you - come to Cardmadfairy's Digi Days Challenge on Friday and you will see what we have done!  If you pop along now you iwl get a sneak peak at some of out work!

Insight from Cardmadfairy Creations And Blog Candy

Well folks I have been missing for a few days - had to go home to Scotland to attend the funeral of a close family friend with my Mam.  At least it let me spend some time with her which I cherish immensely as you all know from previous posts.

As some of you may already know the very talented Jenni from Cardmadfairy Creations had put together a DT for her soon-to-be-live Challenge (see post on sidebar) and she has some beautiful new digi images being released very soon so please come along and join in.

Jenni has some fabulous Candy up for grabs here and all you have to do is comment and spread the word about Jenni's fab new Digi Challenge starting on Friday 4th February! 

And WOW Jenni is offering not only the pictured candy but a set of her NEW Love Related digi images (and I can tell you they are FABULOUS girls!)

Using one of Jenni's current images, I have created this card ~

I printed off the beautiful image and coloured parts of it with Promarkers, stuck it onto a piece of Rainbow Jute Mesh that I picked up somewhere (not sure where tho') and then placed them onto black shiny paper.  The flowers and ribbon  are from my stash, and the sentiment is from a rubber stamp I got as a present from my buddy Mandy.

I am actually quite happy with this one - I am trying to find a style of card or a genre that I like to concentrate on rather than skipping around with everything.  But I am hoping to move into my daughter's old room quite soon so then I can dedicate the space to my cardmaking rather than using the dining room/kitchen tables!!