Christmas Foliage

I have had a few problems with trying to make my ideas work out recently, lots of stuff has ended either in the bin or lying around unfinished. I did just about manage to get this one done however. It's just as well as it's my DT card for the Creative Card Crew Challenge this week, sponsored by One Stop Card Crafts and Doodle Pantry. Check out the challenge blog for great prize details. This is to be my last card on that team as I have decided to step down.
I made the backing paper using a Rollagraph Tiny Leaves wheel with SU Mellow Moss ink. The image is from Artemio, which I partly inked with Stazon Olive Green, leaving the cone to be inked with Versafine.
After stamping I embossed the cone detail with gold embossing powder. When it had been die-cut, I sponged it with Mellow Moss ink, whilst still in the die to leave a white border.
The sentiment is part of a Papermania clear stamp which I chopped up and the panel is edged with a Martha Stewart border punch. I punched out a couple of ribbon slits so that the ribbon could be threaded behind the sentiment. I tied the ribbon using my bowmaker but tying the last wrap around the flat piece of ribbon which I had already attached to the card, making it look as though it is an actual fastening!
I love this image and I think that the sentiment style suits it quite well!
Sweet Stampin Challenge - Make your own backing paper
Crafty Catz - Happy New Year
Alphabet Challenge - Foliage

A Treat for Daisy

Here we have a treat bag filled with Reindeer Drop(ping)s... a little treat for my Granddaughter Daisy!
She loves chocolate and like her mother, can sniff it out from 50 paces. This is a little something for her Christmas stocking.
The bag is made from a cello' card bag and the tag is made from Nesties Labels 17. The tree is from an All Night Media stamp and the reindeer is a digi from the Little Paper Shop.
The sentiment is from a very old cheapy set of clear stamps which were about 99p, sadly I don't remember the make.
The Challenge over at the Creative Card Crew is for a treat bag or box, so do join in the fun and show us your creations, we'd love to see them.
Have A CREATIVE DAY!

Thanks so much!

I've just realised that the leaf doesn't come from the same tree as the acorn... but I like the image from Mel Jennings anyway! It's my DT card for the Creative Card Crew this week. The theme is Giving Thanks, but as we don't have the celebration of Thanksgiving in the UK, I just did a regular thank you card.
I love this backing paper which I found in the drawer, but couldn't find the source... It's a digi but I couldn't  find the file on my computer... very strange! I added a little faux stitching and coloured a few adhesive pearls with a Copic marker to balance the sentiment  which is from Hero Arts.My daughter just called to say that her
28 month old daughter had done something to her computer which caused all the keys to perform their secondary function, unless she held down the Fn key. Guess what! I sorted it out for her!
Granny triumphs again!
(Actually I looked online for a solution and got one first hit!)

Watercolour crocus

I recently bought a huge box of lovely white card from the Paper Mill Shop. It feels lovely, is a good weight, but is useless for colouring with Copics or Promarkers as it is so absorbent that the colours won't blend properly.
Hence the use of watercolour for this card. The image is from Fred She Said, who are sponsoring our challenge at the Creative Card Crew this week. It is part of a lovely spring flower set and I really like them.
The challenge this week, is to include punching on your card. Here I have used a border punch from Stampin' Up.
As the ribbon is so skinny, I decided to make a double bow. I have devised a method of using my Bow-maker so that I can actually tie it onto the ribbon which I have previously attached to the card. It makes it look as though the ribbon is actually joined by the bow. I could do a tutorial of how I do it should anyone be interested.
The pinstripe paper was a freebie set from Fred She Said and I find it really useful.
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the posting on the CCC site will be a little late this week, but you can get your card ready for linking as soon as it appears.
A spoonful of sugar - Get Punchy

Fairy Tales

The challenge at the Creative Card Crew this week is sponsored by Digital Delights and boy do they have some cute images for our theme this time of Fairy Tales.
I chose this cute dragon, but other DT members have chosen knights and princesses, etc, so do hop over and check them out... and then join in the fun of course.
I used My Mind's Eye papers and a Hero Arts sentiment stamp for this card. The border punch is from Martha Stewart.
My husband and I went for our flu jabs on Saturday, we felt quite young looking at some of the clientèle who were there. We were asked if we would like a 'one off' pneumonia shot at the same time, to which we agreed, however the arm I had this injection in  has become very painful and red.  It hurts to raise it and I went back to see the nurse last night who drew around the extremities of the redness with a ball point pen. This morning the inflammation is outside her drawn line. I have to take paracetamol and wait for a couple of days, she said it should settle. I hope it does!
Cupcake Challenge - Scary Creatures
Pollycraft - Fairy Tales
Tuesday Taggers - More than 2 legs

Lily of the Valley

I printed this image from Fred She Said, the sponsor of our 'Bloomin' Marvellous' challenge at The Creative Card Crew this fortnight, directly onto my Fred She Said Pinstripe digi paper, before colouring it with Copics. I haven't actually tried this before, but with a little white watercolour for the blossoms, it seemed to work quite well.
I used my Spellbinder tag a little differently on this card. I wanted the white to show up the delicate colour of the organza ribbon, which I'd coloured with my Copics, so I cut the tag in two and used it as a means to get the ribbon to run behind the image.
Once more I have used my gorgeous new Fiskars Upper Crest border punch and added a sentiment from Hero Arts.
I've had an email with a request for a couple cards this morning, so I'd better press on!
Tuesday Throwdown - Punches

Anyone for Pizza?

The sponsor this week at the Creative Card Crew is Sassy Cheryl and the crew were fortunate in having some digis to work with. I decided on a stepper card for this cute little lady spinning round the pizza dough. I thought of her the other day when my husband made pizza dough for the first time in our new breadmaker. The amount was slightly less than the recipe from our previous model and I was trying to do this, very badly, I might add, in order to stretch the dough enough to cover the base of the pan.

It's odd, I always associate pizza with autumn, I think it may have something to do with the colours. I always add pepperoni, so there's the brown, plus peppers, which are all in autumnal shades... green, yellow, orange and red. The last one I made also had a liberal sprinkling of anchovies too... mmmmm yummy!

This maybe the reason I chose this image for the challenge, which has the theme of autumn. The paper is from Cuddly Buddly and the sentiment was computer generated.

I'm off to take my husband to the hospital for an outpatient appointment this morning, I'd better get my skates on.

Our Creative Corner - Fun with Folds

Raise the Bar - Orange, Brown & Green

Creative Card Crew meets My Time to Craft

This particular shade of pink is really difficult to photograph as it is SO pale. It's called blossom from Pink Petticoat and is another of the papers I discovered when transferring files from my old laptop.

It's really pretty isn't it!

The image is from Meljen Designs, sponsor of this week's challenge at the Creative Card Crew, where the challenge is entitled Cute and Girly. This is my first card as a member of that illustrious DT, so do check out the blog and join in the fun.

It's also my DT card from My Time to Craft, where the challenge is Eat Cake!. There were technical problems last week meaning that the challenge was not published, so this week you can have a choice of two topics. 'Eat Cake' or' Drink it Up'... my card for the latter can be found here.

Over at the Pink Elephant the challenge is Something Yummy,I think this heart looks pretty sweet! Lots of die-cutting and punching on this one, Cuttlebug, Mariannes and Nesties, with a Martha Stewart border punch.

Simples!