A Spoon Full of Sugar Challenge

Another card, another challenge! This time's it's a fab sketch by Nikki at A Spoon Full of Sugar.

Although I have loads of the Sugar Nellie, this little boy with his balloon has to be the one I have used the most.

Stamp - Sugar Nellie

Paper - Dovecraft Masculine

Embossing - Cuttlebug Swiss Bots

Sentiment - Pink Petticoat

A Spoon Full of Sugar Challenge

This weeks challenge over at A Spoon Full of Sugar challenge is to use circles on your card. Well my card ended up being dominated by my circle, as I cut is out a bit too big on my cricut, hence the fake stitching to try and make it a bit smaller!!!

Stamp - Sugar Nellie

Paper - Papermania Retro Floral

Ribbon - Little Silver Hat

Gems - Papermania

Sentiment - Craftwork cards

Friday Sketchers & Papertake Weekly challenge

This weeks challenge over at Papertake Weekly is to use die cuts on your project, so I thought I would incorporate this with the Friday Sketchers sketch from last Friday.

Stamp - Sugar Nellie

Paper - Dovecraft Mens

Fishing Rod & Fish - Sizzix dies

Friday Sketchers - Sketch 3

This my take on the third Friday's Sketchers done by Carole.

Stamp - Sugar Nellie (courtesy of Gina)

Scalloped Circle - Cricut Accent Essentials

Papers - Dovecraft Laura Ashley Contemporary

Flowers - Michelle's B'day pressie

Brads - Papermania

Sentiment - Pink Petticoat

Sweet Sugar Challenge 6

This weeks challenge over at Sweet Sugar Challenge is to make a card without using all your lovely backing papers!!!

Being told not to do something was like being a teenager again and I wanted to fight back, so I cheated a bit and created my own backing paper with a Hero Arts background stamp and my versamark ink pad.

Stamp - Sugar Nellie

Background stamp - Hero Arts

Ribbon - Ribbon Oasis

Embossing - Cuttlebug Swiss Dots

Buttons - Papermania
Sentiment - Pink Petticoat

Sweet Sugar Challenge 5

The 5th challenge at Sweet Sugar is to make TWO (yes two!!!) cards for those very hard people in our lives - men and boys! So get your creative thinking caps on and make two male themed cards.

I really loved this challenge, I think the Sugar Nellie range have some fantastic male stamps and really enjoyed using them.

Stamp - Sugar Nellie

Papers - Dovecraft Kids

Embossing - Cuttlebug Tiny Bubbles

Anchor - Quickutz

Stamp - Sugar Nellie
Papers - Dovecraft Masculine

Sentiment - Pink Petticoat

Cute Card Thursday

The challenge over at Cute Card Thursday this week is to use People on your cards. I've done this card for one of my hubby's work colleagues, so i hope they like it. Really didn't know what to do for a 1 year old boy!

Stamp - Sugar Nellie

Paper - Frances Meyer

No 1 - Cricuit Plantin Schoolbook

Harvey - Sizzix Extended Cut Skittle Dee Do

Sentiment - Pink Petticoat

Sweet Sugar Challenge - Easter

This weeks challenge over at Sweet Sugar Challenge is to make an easter card. Her is mine, for my mum & dad.

Stamp - Sugar Nellie

Paper - Papermania Retro Flowers

Sentiment - Pink Petticoat

Flower - Prima

Brad/Jewel - Papermania

Kimmie's Blog Candy

Kimmie has another fantastic blog candy on her blog and to be in with a chance of winning it, you need to make a spring card. This is for my gran, otherwise she will be upset my Aunty and Uncle have a card and she doesn't!

Stamp - Sugar Nellie

Paper - Papermania Retro Flowers

Sentiment - Pink Petticoat

Buttons - Papermania

Sweet Sugar Challenge - Black, White & Pink

This weeks challenge over on Sweet Sugar Challenge is to use Black, White and Pink on your card, along with a Sugar Nellie!! If you love Sugar Nellies (and who doesn't), make sure you play along with us.

Stamp - Sugar Nellie

Papers - Pink Petticoat

Sentiment - Pink Petticoat

Ribbon - Ribbon Oasis

Gems - Papermania

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.

First Sweet Sugar Challenge

The first challenge is over at Sweet Sugar Challenges, for all you lovers of Sugar Nellie stamps - the link is under challenges on the left hand side.

'Here we are, welcome to the very first challenge at Sweet Sugar Challenges! We hope that you will find our challenges and cards inspiring and that you will all join in!So, to our very first challenge, it is.......stars and stripes. The challenge team have made some fabulous cards! Isn't funny how we have all used the rock star stamp! Remember that you don't have to use this stamp, you can use any of the Sugar Nellie stamps!'

We have all grabbed the same stamp for this challenge, I did think about the cowboy but thought that was too obvious. Good job I didn't use a big star as well, but decided to use my star as the'A' in Rockstar. The strippy paper is from pink petticoat, the embossing has been done with the Spots & Dots cuttlebug embossing folder, rockstar has been cut out using the Plantin Schoolbook cartridge on my cricut and the sentiment is from Pink Petticoat.

Sweet Sugar Challenges Design Team

My fellow SBSista Claire has set-up a challenge blog for lovers of Sugar Nellie stamps and I have been selected to be one of the Design Team!!!!!!! This first challenge will be this Monday and a new challenge will be set fortnightly. I know there are loads of you out there who love a bit of sugar, so please come and join us at http://sweetsugarchallenges.blogspot.com/

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Michelle's blog candy

Michelle at Card Grotto is doing a Blog Candy, I like many others have loved Michelle's cards since Do Craft and have stalked her blog since the beginning!!!

The mission, should you choose to except it, is to make a new thank you card, one that has not been used in any other challenge.

I covered a square card with this spotty and flower paper from Pink Petticoat. I then embossed some lilac card with the Cuttlebug folder, used my new corner punch and added a couple of prima flowers with brads to the top left hand corner. I then stamped my favourite nellie and used a combination of watercolouring and paper piecing (using the same shade paper from Pink Petticoat). My nellie was cut out and added to the right hand side and then a Craftwork Card Thank You greeting added to the embossed card. To finish off stickles was added round the edge of the greeting and also to my nellie's dress and headband.

More Cards

I've been colouring a few images I'd been sent by Julie at Julies Japes the last couple of nights in front of the telly and I've managed to make them into cards this afternoon.

The swirl paper is from Pink Petticoat and has been added to the base of the card. I've then added a strip of pink card across the middle and tied some pink ribbon to the left hand side. I've added a Pink Petticoat greeting mounted onto the same pink card to the bottom left hand corner.

With this card I have added pink card to the left hand side of the card. I've used a strip of the same paper as above mounted onto pink card. Pink spotty ribbon has been tied round it and this has been added to the middle of the card. The sentiment is from Craftwork Cards and I've added 3 little gems to the bottom right hand corner.

The paper on this card was from the kids Dovecraft pack, I've mounted the image onto red card and also a Happy Birthday sentiment.

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.