My First Design Team assignment!

Tracy at First Class Crafts has send me my first assignment as a Design Team member. I've received these goodies from her, a Stamping Bella, some flowers, ribbon, bazzill card and Lasting Impressions paper and given us free rein to create cards!!!!! For a list of the bellas she has in stock and prices, please see her blog http://cuteycrafts.blogspot.com/ and for the other items check our First Class Crafts for details.

Well after seeing Michelle's fantastic creations, I'm afraid she has put me slightly to shame!

Stamp - Stamping Bella
Ribbon - First Class Crafts
Jewels - Papermania
Pens - Marvy Le Plume
Paper - Papermania
Buckle - Stash
Sentiment - Pink Petticoat

Stamp - Stamping Bella

Paper - Lasting Impressions Wild Rose Twill

Jewels - Papermania

Glitter - Stickles

Pencils - Derwent

Sentiment - Dawn Bibby Peel Off

Cute Card Thursday 2 - All Creatures Great and Small!

The second challenge over at Cute Card Thursday is All Creatures Great and Small!

Stamp - Penny Black Spring Air

Paper - Papermania Retro Flowers

Ribbon - Stash

Glitter - Stickles

At last some cards

I've had a couple of cards to make in the last 2 days and can't fnially get them on my blog before hubby phones AOL - again!

Stamp - Penny Black Snuggle

Paper - Stash
Gems - Papermania

Blue Paper - Stash

Football Kit - Ellison Thin Cut

18 - Eliison Thin Cut Block Party Alphabet
Sentiment - Pink Petticoat

Paper - Stash

Ribbon - Ribbon Oasis

Embellishment - Stash

Gems - Papermania

Sentiment - Pink Petticoat

Tilda & Co Challenge - Spring is in the Air

I've not managed to take part in the last couple of Tilda Challenge's, so I wanted to make sure I got in early for this weeks. "As spring is almost upon us, the first signs are there now, the spring bulbs, the baby lambs are out already, I thought it was time to get those spring and Easter projects under way!" I'm not one for Easter cards, but I had this image from Hans which is gorgeous and I thought I'm make a card for my Aunty and Uncle who live in America.

Sorry the top paper isn't very clear, but it has lovely spring says all over it. Just a nightmare to get a decent picture!

Stamp - Magnolia

Papers - DCWV Spring Stack

Watercolour Pencils - Derwent

Glitter - Stickles

Sentiment - Pink Petticoat

Papertake Weekly - Squares

This weeks challenge over at Papertake Weekly is Squares! Square cards, square patterns or squares on your layout!

Stamp - Penny Black Lazy Days

Watercolour Pencils - Derwent

Papers - Papermania Retro Flowers (thanks Natty K!)

Glitter - Stickles

Sweet Sugar Challenge - Dress up your Nellies

It's the second challenge over on Sweet Sugar Challenge and this fortnights is to Dress up your Nellies. There are some great cards my the design team, so if you love Sugar Nellie make sure you join in! Well I thought Dressing-up Maggie would be perfect and I haven't used her yet! Decided to keep it really bright and fresh for spring!

Papers - Doodlebug
Stamp - Sugar Nellie - Dress up Maggie

Watercolour Pencils - Derwent
Sentiment - Pink Petticoat

Sue's Blog Candy

Sue over at Slumber Cards has a great blog candy to win a couple of the next Sugar Nellie stamps. The challenge is to make a card in Sue's favourite colour lilac, which is also mine along with pink!

I covered a square card with lilac paper from Pink Petticoat and then added a strip of lilac c.s. and another lilac paper from Pink Petticoat across the centre of the card. I then stamped maggie with her flowers and used a mixture of watercolour and paperpiercing. She is then mounted onto lilac card and added to the left had side of the card. Finished with a Craftwork card greeting and white flower secured with a papermania jewel brad.

Kimmies Challenges - # 2 & # 6

I love Kimmies Blog and she has been having a week of challenges to celebrate her birthday. I made this card for the Sketch Challenge # 2, but thought it would also work for Challenge # 6, which is to make a Thank You or Thinking of You or You are Special to Me card as this magnolia image just says thinking of you!

I used an image from Jo at Only Joking, coloured using Derwent watercolour pencils and then cut out. I mounted her to white c.s. and then pink c.s. and glittered her wings. I then added bright pink c.s. to the left hand side, black chiffon ribbon from this months Little Silver Hat kit and pink heart buttons. The swirly paper is from Pink Petticoat and I cut it with the attachment on my new guillotine/paper trimmer. The sentiment is from Craftwork Cards and I added 3 little heart jewels to the bottom right hand corner.

My Paper World - sketch 2

I decided to make a card for http://mypaperworld.blogspot.com/ Nicola second sketch challenge.

I used an image I got from Julie at JulesJapes and coloured with watercolour pencils, inked the edge brown and added to a brown scalloped circle. This was mounted onto ribbed card, a happy birthday brown peel off and brown buttons finish the card.

Kraftin Kimmies Blog Candy

Kraftin Kimmies has a fantastic blog candy to win a lovely Magnolia stamp, so I just had to enter! You had to make a card or layout inspired by the layout on her blog.

I covered a square card in my favourite paper from Pink Petticoat. I then mounted some pink spotty paper from Pink Petticoat onto pink card (it does look slightly red in the photo!) and tied some white organza ribbon round it before adding this across the middle of the card. I then used this Magnolia image from Michelle and coloured using my Derwent watercolour pencils and mounted her onto the same pink card and added little jewels to the corner. This was then mounted with foam pads to the right hand side of the card and I little Happy Birthday sentiment was mounted onto pink card and added to the bottom left hand side.

I'm a happy bunny

I've been complaining to my hubby that the pictures of my cards aren't that great as we have to use his mobile. So over Christmas we got a digital camera, so I can take better pictures of my cards and we are always the couple that never have any nice photos of themselves. He's spent this afternoon loading up the software and we are now ready to go. The last few posts that I've done I have now added new pics that were taken this afternoon and they are soo much better.

Anyway, I decided to make a get well card using this brilliant image that Michelle at Card Grotto sent to me using this lovely A Muse Art stamp. I cut him out using my Nestabilities and I then added a bit of colour with my watercolour pencils. He's then been mounted onto a scalloped rectangle, again using my Nestabilities. I've then covered the left hand side of a tall thin card with blue card and mounted the image in the middle of the card. A black Get Well Soon peel off has been added to the bottom right hand corner.

PTW - Shop til you drop

I decided to try the Papertake Weekly Challenge now the Christmas cards are out of the way, going to try and do more of these in the new year.

'This weeks challenge is 'Shop 'Til you Drop'. Anything to do with shopping this week, what with the sales round the corner lol!! Handbags, shopping bags, dollar/pound signs etc etc!!'

I had been sent this image by Sue at Slumber Cards and I hadn't got round to using it. I coloured it with my Derwent Watercolour Pencils (I've only just got these and they are my favourite at the moment). She was mounted onto lilac shimmer card and papermania glitter brads added to the corners. The card was covered with some paper I have had for ages and never used and I have added a craftwork cards greeting with lilac ribbon feed through it.

Baby girl

I love this Penny Black stamp and Natalie kindly sent me an image. I've coloured it with my Derwent watercolour pencils and cut it out. Then mounted it onto white and pink card and added stickles to the bow. I've added some baby paper I had in my stash onto pink card and added this across the middle of the card. Pink ribbon and bow has been added down the left hand side and the sentiment is an A Muse Art stamp mounted onto pink card. I've added 3 small pink gems to the bottom right hand corner.

It's not the greatest of pics, but the pink paper and ribbon is a nicer baby pink, that it looks in this. Might try to get a better one later, but I don't think we will be seeing any nice weather here in Cheshire today!!!!

HAPPY CHRISTMAS

1 more sleep to go

First Sugar Nellie

Well like everyone else I am loving the Nellie stamps and this is my first chance to have a play. I've stamped the Balloon boy and coloured with Derwent watercolour pencils. I've then mounted him onto blue card. I've embossed the same blue card using the Happy Birthday Cuttlebug folder and added this to the left hand side of the card. The sentiment is from Craftwork Cards and I've added stickles to the edge and also to the balloon.

Daring CardMakers - I'm Free

Decided to take part in this weeks Daring Cardmakers challenge.

'Christmas is an expensive time of year (although every day of the year can be potentially expensive to us Crafters ! ;) Anyway, we thought it would be a good idea to run a dare that was 'inexpensive'..This week, we the DCM team, would like you to design a card using a magazine 'freebie' . Either a craft magazine freebie, or indeed any other magazine freebie, papers, embellishments, tools, etc. anything really, as long as it came from a magazine.'

I loved this challenge as I am one of those people that is attracted to a magazine by the freebie and have loads of free papers that have never been used.

The first card I used a Craftwork Cards glittery blank and added the spotty paper (from Just Great Papers Mag) and lilac paper across the middle of the card. The Penny Black image was from Julie at Julesjapes and I used my new Derwent watercolour pencils and mounted her onto lilac paper. The sentiment I got free with a Craftwork Cards newsletter when I was a member awhile back and I overlapped it onto the image, as I'd got a little smudge and it covered it up beautifully!!!! I've added gems to the corner and stickles to the image and edge of the sentiment.


This scalloped card black was also free with a Craftwork card newsletter. I covered the bottom have with paper from this months Papercraft Essentials that I got yeasterday and added a pink flower embossed sticky ribbon from Anita's. The magnolia image was from Michelle at CardGrotto and she is coloured again with my new Derwent pencils. I've added another Craftwork Card sentiment and added stickles to this and the image.

I'm off now to see what other freebies I have that I can use this afternoon!!