Candy Cane

Here is a digi image from Dustin Pike. I've had it for quite a while and it took a bit of searching through the files on my computer to find it, as I couldn't remember what heading I had filed it under. Anyway all's well that ends well and here it is coloured with alcohol pens and simply mounted onto the deep red card base. I double stacked the sentiment, as the card seemed rather flimsy!

It's my DT card for the challenge at Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge.

Hopefully I am ahead of the game this year as far as Christmas card production goes... I haven't actually done a count, maybe I should and hope that suppositions are correct!!

Wild Things

When I saw the theme of 'Wild Things' for this week's challenge at My Time to Craft, the Trogg's song, 'Wild Thing' jumped into my head... hence the reason for choosing the words for the sentiment on this card, which were computer generated.

The image is from the wonderful Dustin Pike and coloured with Copics. The papers are mainly Cuddly Buddly, with a glimpse of a piece from Pink Petticoat.

I used the sketch from Friday Sketchers as the basis of this card.

I was surprised how similar the two hearts were; the symbol I added to the sentiment is almost a mirror image of the one on the drawing!

I still have to make a card for my daughter's friend, but I'm gradually catching up with things!

Bears everywhere

I came across this Dustin Pike image today, which is just perfect for Teddy Stampers Challenge of Bedtime Bears.

I used the colour theme of Teal and Brown from Crafty Angels, and as I think that the subject matter is suitable for a chap, I have also included 'The boyz are back' from Crafty Cats.

I did think that I would enter it for Pollycraft's challenge too, but when I came to link it, I realised that I was too late and a new challenge has been posted! Hey Ho! Time is running away with me!

I've still got some commission baby cards to do.... I'd better press on!

A trio of cards

I saw the challenge of April Showers at Ooh La la Challenge blog today and thought of this little chap by Dustin Pike. I love his images and this is no exception.

The sentiment and backing paper are from Cuddly Buddly. The layout is rather simple, but I think it works.

Sophisticat's Challenge is Raining Cats & Dogs so this will qualify for that challenge too!

This second card uses the sketch from Clean and Simple this week. Again, the paper is a download from Cuddly Buddly and the sentiment is from Unity Stamps. The paper pieced flower uses a cheapy 99p stamp from Hobbycraft.I'm adding this last one to the challenge of Just Girls from Stempeltraume's challenge and for Stamp Something's challenge of Pink. In fact it is the card that was on my WOYWW this morning and is for my granddaughter to give to her friend Freya at her princess party on Saturday. It's covered in Glitter from top to bottom, so hopefully will appeal to a 2 year old! I think that the stamp is Woodware, but the packaging from the set of clear stamps has long since departed. The letters are cut from Cuttlebug's Olivia alphabet. The crown edging was done with a Martha Stewart set of border punches.

My Time to Craft - On the Spot

I love this image by Dustin Pike, which is perfect for a get well well card following an accident. I just used one for a member of our choir who took a bad tumble whilst skiing and broke his hip. His wife always said he went too fast!

So here is the spotty old dinosaur again, (the image, not the choir member) for the challenge of On the Spot, from My Time to Craft.

Not only is the image spotty, but so is the paper, which is a digi download from Cuddly Buddly, called Fairy Fun - Willow. It really is a lovely shade. I coloured him with my Copics and mounted the image on Nesties.

I'm also entering it into the Challenge from Charisma Cardz, whose theme this week is Animal Magic

The Spellbinder tag has 10mm ribbon slits and I didn't have any ribbon of a suitable colour in the appropriate width, so I used two narrower ones and overlapped them slightly to go through the holes and then opened them out to be side by side at the edges. I quite like the effect and I shall probably be trying that again sometime!

Do join in the fun with our challenge this week!