Don't You Just Love Bugaboo Characters???

Here it is Friday evening in New Zealand and hopefully we'll have a nice fine sunny weekend.

Tonight I'm sharing a card with you a made for a friend and colleague of my husbands that was turned 60 recently.  He has a great sense of humor and has gone through a lot recently with cancer.  This card was for you

 Rod

Happy 60 th Birthday.

With his great sense of humor I knew I could use a wonderful Bugaboo Image as I just adore Gus and knew he would be perfect for the occasion. 

I'm entering this card into some challenges that Bugaboo are sponsoring this week.

Love to Create #27 Punches & Dies

Make It Mondays Challenge #101 Bugaboo Images

Tammy's Scrapin Corner "Show Us Your Bling"

Bearly-Mine Challenge "It's All Sparkle & Shine

Craft Your Passion Challenge #122 Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly Anything Goes

Fab 'n' Funky Challenge #133 Use Pearls or Rhinestones 

Card Ingredients:

1. Base: White SU

2. Coloured Card: Navy Blue Bazzill

3. Paper: Gold Paper

4. Card: Glitter from Roses Creations

5. Deign Paper: Pavalova Papers printed in New Zealand

6. Images: Gus's Birthday Collecting Wrinkles and Spontaneous

7. Colour Medium: Copics and Black embossing pen, gold glitter pen

8. Sentiments: From Bugaboo and my own computer generated using Papyrus.

9. Tools: Cuttlebug, Nestabilities Rectangle, Scalloped Rectangle, Fancy Labels, Pop Dots, Glue Dots, Glossy Accents, Martha Stewart Punch

Inside the card left and right sides.

Sentiment on the outside of the card computer generated. 

10. Embellishments: Fancy Label from Spellbinders, gold braid, and gems all from my stash.

11. The back of my card my finishing touch.

Take care everyone wishing you a happy weekend and a great week crafting.

Hugs

Sweet Sketch Wednesday Sketch #156

Sponsor Meljen's Designs

Image is Sweet Sundae

Good morning everyone and happy Wednesday to you all.  Well if my scheduler is working correctly this posting hopefully is now posted on my blog.  I'm currently in Australia on a business/pleasure and shopping trip and return home tomorrow.

Today is Wednesday the best day of the week because it's 

Sweet Sketch Wednesday 

and that means we announce the winner and top 3 from last week  so congratulations everyone and there's a new sketch to work with.

This week Arlana has another great sketch very quick and easy to put together, it was so quick I thought I had made a mistake and forgotten a layer.

Sketch # 156

This week our Sponsor is Melissa Jenkins the owner and illustrator of Meljen's Designs.

Meljen's Designs is a lovely stamp company owned and illustrated by Melissa Jenkins. She illustrates whimsical rubber and digital images inspired by her kids and family. Meljen's Designs has new releases along with a new challenge every Thursday, a Guest Designer each month at the Meljen's DesignsBlog, and freebies and promos now and then on our facebook FAN PAGE! Please visit the Meljen's Designs line of stamps at our store HERE to browse through all of Melissa's lovely designs! You can also see Melissa's rubber stamps at her corner of Whimsy Stamps, too!

This week Melissa is offering our very lucky winner

4 Non Colour

Digi Images of the winner choice 

from her online shop. 

You can check out Melissa store here 

  http://meljensdesigns.com/

         and look at her amazing images there are so

 many to choose from.

Don't forget to stop by Sweet Sketch Wednesday and look at what our amazing Design Team Diva's have created for you this week.         

Card Ingredients:

1. Base: White SU Card

2. Coloured Card: Red and Green Bazzill

3. Design Papers: Red Gingham which is a download from my computer and the Cherry Paper is called Cherry Blossom from Scrapping Mad

4. Image: Sweet Sundae from Meljen's Designs

5. Colour Medium: Copics and a Silver Gel pen.

6.Tools: Cuttlebug, Oval Lace Nestabilities, Pop Dots, Glossy Accents

7. Embellishments: Red satin ribbon, Green Ribbon, Cherries, Google Eyes and Red Gems all from my stash.

Take care everyone happy crafting and I do hope you enjoy this sketch it's quick and fun.

Happy Crafting

Hugs 

Sweet Sketch Wednesday Sketch #154

Sponsor: DigiStamp Boutique

Image: Rosie on a Swing

Welcome everyone to another wonderful Wednesday.  Well it's not wonderful in Auckland today it's a little nippy, with thunder, lightning and very heavy rain oh and then the sun comes out.  Oh I do wish I was crafting all day today but I've got other thing to do.

I've just received a telephone call since I started typing this posting.  On Sunday my hubby and the boys took me out to lunch for Mother's Day  we went to a bar and restaurant where they had a colouring competition for the children to do for mum.  My youngest thought he would enter he's 10 years old and colours in quite well, but on the back he had to write a story why his mum was the best in the world which he did.  Out of over a 150 entries his was chosen and he won this amazing hamper for me, I so excited as I never win anything.  They told me they chose his entry because of the great colouring and his story he had written about me was amazing and sounded a lot older than a 10 year old that brings tears to my eyes.  He told me that if he won it for me that I had to give him a glass of wine as there is a Magnum of Sparking Wine in the hamper yes right a glass a sparkling grape juice I think......I'm so excited I pick it up on Saturday when I go to the boys Soccer games.  I'll tell you next week what is in it.......

Today is Wednesday that's right it's

 Sweet Sketch Wednesday

 and congratulations to last weeks winners awesome cards ladies.

Here is this weeks 

Sketch # 154

This is Rosie on a Swing

another image from the Rosie set.

This week our sponsor is the fabulous Sally-Ann Hancock from DigiStamp Boutique

A note from Sally-Ann

All images/designs are created and copyright owned by Sally-Ann Hancock. My work means the world to me - it allows my passion to draw and create, to fit with my family life too - often the inspiration for my designs. Hope you enjoy as much as I enjoy creating.

Sally-Ann is an amazing sponsor and so generous with her prizes and is also our regular monthly sponsor and has been since Sweet Sketch Wednesday started!!! Isn't that amazing?

Sally-Ann is offering our lucky winner this week 

6 Digi images

 from her online store for you to choose from.  She has so many amazing images and if your anything like me you won't know what to choose and you'll be spoilt for choice.

She also offers a monthly freebie for you to download and try before you buy these are such awesome images.  So please support Sally-Ann at DigiStamp Boutique.

http://www.digistampboutique.co.uk/catalog/

http://www.digistampboutique.blogspot.com/

http://www.lovetodoodle.blogspot.com/

Sit down relax take a load off you feet and have some my time and let your fingers do the walking and pop over to 

Sweet Sketch Wednesday 

and check out what the rest of my team have created especially for you this week using Sally-Ann's images from 

DigiStamp Boutique.

Card Ingredients:

 1. Base: White SU

2.Card: Purple, Green, Yellow and Mauve Kaisercard

3. Design papers: Digi download from Cuddly Buddley Peppy Papers

4. Image: Rosie on a Swing from DigiStamp Boutique

5. Colour Medium: Copic's Black and White embossing pens

6. Sentiment: Computer generated Papyrus font

7. Tools: Cuttlebug, Nestabilities rectangles and labels, Tacky glue, glue dots and pop dots

 8. Embellishments: Lace with little white flowers yellow satin ribbon, lace flowers from my stash, purple gems and cream pearls all from my stash.

Challenges:

Love to create Challenge #15 Bingo (Ribbon, Punches, Flowers)
Craft your passion Challenge 110 Colour Combo  Shades of Purple and Green
DigiStamp Boutique May Competition 

Wishing everyone an amazing week and I'm so looking forward to seeing your cards.

Happy Crafting.

Schedule

Sweet Sketch Wednesday Sketch #149

Sponsor

 Digi Doodle Shop

Good evening followers this posting was meant to be scheduled and due to be posted at 12.01 am on Wednesday morning.  I completed my posting last week and scheduled it for 11th April 2012 before going to our beach house for an Easter break and extended holiday with my family.  Just before it was due to be posted Wednesday evening New Zealand time I realised I had a spelling error in my post so decided to edit it and I don't know what I did but I edited all the contents to blog land and all that posted was my title.  I did this from my iPhone as I was still up at the beach house, I was completely gutted, I then thought I would try to edit last weeks post and see what would happen to that YES I lost all the contents of that as well into blog land.  By then I wanted to pull my hair out.  As it had started to rain I told the boys we were packing up and coming home where my reliable computer was sitting.  

I apologise for this posting not being on my site when it should have been.  So now I know from experience don't even try to edit from your iPhone BIG MISTAKE.

It's Sweet Sketch Wednesday and congratulation's to last weeks winners, I commented on so many beautiful cards you all surprise me every week with your amazing creations.

Arlana has another amazing sketch and I just adore this one as it really shows off our amazing images and our wonderful design papers.

Sketch # 149

Isn't this image just beautiful it's called

A Field of Flowers

Our Sponsors this week is

Digi Doodle Shop

A Note from Judy and Joy

Digi Doodle Shop

Digi Doodle Shop is the results of a mother and daughter’s love for the arts and crafts.  It was started a little over 3 years ago with a little more than 100 stamps, and has since then grown to almost 500 stamps.  Joy (the mother of this team) designs realistic images, while Judy (aka/daughter) loves the “fun side of life”, and create images with a cartoon flair.  Having these two complimenting styles have enabled

Digi Doodle Shop to offer a wide variety of stamps.

 It is a real honor and pleasure to sponsor this challenge, and we look forward to seeing all the amazing creations.  We thank the design team for their incredible creations, and wish all the participants the very best of luck in this challenge.

  
Thank you so much for having us, and again the very best of luck to all of you.
  

Sincerely,

Judy and Joy

  

Digi Doodle Shop are offering our very luck winner 

$10.00 Gift Certificate

Don't forget to check out Judy's and Joy's amazing images

here at

http://digidoodleshop.com/

 http://digidoodleshopsbest.blogspot.com/

Don't forget to drop by and check out what our amazing design team have created for you this week with their selected images from Digi Doodle Shop 

they look AMAZING

here at Sweet Sketch Wednesday

Card Ingredients:

1. Base White SU

2. Peach Bazzill

3. Design paper by Kaisercraft Tea at Elsie's Collection Darleejing

4. Image is A Field of Flowers by Digi Doodle Shop

5. Colour Medium Copic's

6. Tools: Cuttlebug, Nestabilities Circle, Circle Fancy Lace, Carnation, Martha Stewart Leaf Punch, pop dots, glue dots, hot melt glue gun.

 7. Embellishments: Lace, Peach and Silver Satin ribbon, Kaisercraft Pearl Brad and my flower is from Spellbinders which is a Carnation but I'm unsure if this is what it should look like.  Please let me know if you have it and is this the way it should look????  I haven't used the leaves from the set I've used a Martha Stewart punch.

This card is one of my very favourites I've made I'm just so happy how it turned out and they colour combo was perfect.

Challenges I'm entering:

Love to Create Challenge #10 Birthdays

Digital Tuesday Challenge #155 Birthdays

One Stop Craft Challenge #177 Pastels and Die Cuts

Cupcake Craft Challenge Cupcake #187 Spring in the Air

My Mum's Craft Shop Challenge #52 It's a Celebration 

Wishing everyone a wonderful week crafting and thank you for all your lovely comments and emails they are all very much appreciated.

Hugs

Sweet Sketch Wednesday Sketch #147

Sponsor

Fresh Brewed Designs

Dipped Strawberry

Good morning everyone, and what wonderful morning it is.  Well the first term of school has passed by so quickly that my boys will be on holiday on Friday for 3 weeks I just can't believe it........it's happened all so soon.

Today is Wednesday and that mean it's another wonderful 

Sweet Sketch Wednesday.

Thanks to all our followers this week, awesome work as usual and what wonderful cards you've made.  Congratulations to our winner and our top 3 cards amazing work as usual.

Our new Sketch for this week is

Sketch #147

 This is a great sketch for large objects or paper piecing images as it really show off your design papers.

My finished card which is dipped in brown chocolate I also coloured up a strawberry using white chocolate and couldn't make up my mind to which image I should used???

This week we have Heather Dennis sponsoring us from 

Fresh Brewed Designs

I am Heather Dennis, the artist and owner of Fresh Brewed Designs, but first and foremost I am the wife of one amazing husband, mother of two sweet and talented kids. I homeschool and LOVE coffee, creating and chatting with my friends. Fresh Brewed Designs is an online shop that opened in November 2010. We sell a wide variety of rubber and digital stamps as well as specializes in many coffee themed images. 
It started with a dream and turned into something bigger. With the prodding of a very supportive husband, family and friends, with a lot of help and a lot of headaches:) and a lot of lessons and prayers....

Fresh Brewed Designs has become a place to share, create, laugh and build lasting friendships.

Out motto: Fresh Brewed Designs... where creativity is brewed fresh daily.

We always have a pot brewing, so stop by and join us for a cuppa whenever you want!!!

 Heather is offering our very lucky winner 

3 Digi Images

of the winners choice. 

Heather has so many lovely images.. you can visit Heather here for her images and check out her blog.

http://freshbreweddesigns.com/
http://freshbreweddesigns.blogspot.com/

Don't forget to drop by Sweet Sketch Wednesday and check out what the rest of the design teams cards.


Card Ingredients:

Base: White SU
Coloured Card: Green and Red American Crafts card.
Design Paper: KaiserCraft Nan's Favourites Collection Marmalade 
Image: Dipped Strawberry from Fresh Brewed Designs
Colour Medium: Copic's
Tools: Cuttlebug, Nestabilities, Pop Dots, Glue Dots, Hot Melt Glue Gun
Embellishments: Ribbon from a pair of shoes I bought they were wrapped in paper and then this ribbon.  Leaves from Martha Steward punch, Strawberry button from my stash and the satin flowers from my stash and yellow gems.

  Embellishments: I love these little satin flowers you can colour them with
copic's and they look like Strawberries Flowers. 

Challenges I'm entering:

Digital Tuesday Challenge: Challenge #153 Your favourite Colour

 Strawberries are my favourite fruit and I just adore Red and Green together 

Cute Card Thursday: Challenge # 209 Anything Goes

Crafty Purple Frog Challenge: Challenge #37 Anything Goes 

Milk Coffee Challenge: First Challenge Anything Goes

Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge: Challenge #125 Spring is in the Air

Sweet Stampin: Anything Goes at Sweet Stampin 

2 Sisters Challenge: Challenge #84 Spring is in the Air

Bearly-Mine Challenge: Challenge #28 3-2-1 

3 Flowers, 2 Design Papers and 1 Ribbon

Take care everyone wishing you a wonderful week and happy crafting.

Sweet Sketch Wednesday Sketch #145

Sponsor 

A Day for Daisies 

Good morning everyone and welcome to another wonderful 

Sweet Sketch Wednesday.

Congratulations to our winner and our Top 3 cards,

 I looked and commented on so many awesome creations this week.

This week our sponsor is Tammy from 

A Day for Daisies.

I've fallen in love with Tammy's vintage collection of images which makes me think outside the square especially with my colour combinations as these aren't usually colours I would use.      I try to think of the era of the image and what colours would have been available in those years.  I love using bright colours so this really makes me think.

Sketch #145

Another wonderful sketch from Arlana I do love this one as it really showcases your design papers and embellishments.

Sponsor

A Day for Daisies

 DAY FOR DAISIES provides themed categories of over 1000 fun and whimsical digital images, including fairy tales and magical mermaids, cutie kids, vintage illustrations, sentiments and lovely designs for all occasions!

ADFD WEBSITE: www.adayfordaisies.com

ADFD BLOG: http://adayfordaisies.blogspot.com

ADFD FACE BOOK: http://www.facebook.com/pages/A-Day-For Daisies/142905905744876?ref=ts

ADFD ETSY: http://www.etsy.com/shop/adayfordaisies

Tammy is offering our very lucky winner a

Prize:  $12 Gift Card

to

 A Day For Daisies Shop

Don't forget to check out what the design Diva's have created just for you this week using Tammy's images from 

 A Day For Daisies

here at

Sweet Sketch Wednesday

Card Ingredients: 

Base: White SU

Coloured Card: Taupe Paper from Rosie's Studio's

Coloured Paper: Gold Paper from an unknown source.

Design Paper: Upstairs Downstairs called Mistress. Striped and Taupe Flowers from Rosie's Studio's

Image: Scent of a Vintage Rose from A Day For Daisies

Colour Medium: Copic's

Tools: Cuttlebug, Nestabilities Circle, Scalloped Circle, Pop dots, Glue Dots, Hot Melt glue gun, Martha Stewart Rose Leaf punch.

Embellishments:

Pink Satin Ribbon, Pink Roses, and Pearls all from my stash.

Challenges:

Love to Create Challenge #6 About the Ladies

Digital Tuesday #151 Think Spring

Paper Take Weekly For the girls or Mum

One Stop Craft Challenge Mothers Day with Ribbon

My Mum's Craft Shop Challenge #48 Mum's the word

Wishing everyone a wonderful sweet week crafting.

Hugs

Sweet Sketch Wednesday Sketch #142

Sponsor

Bugaboo Stamps

Stella Peeker Braless 

Wow I'm so excited this week one of my cards is going to be show cased over at Bugaboo Stamps how exciting is that?  Well it's Wednesday and I've down all day at my son's swimming sports.  I don't know who is more nerves them or me?  I love watching both of them swim but at the end of the day, it's the best swimmer on the day.  It's also Sweet Sketch Wednesday and Arlana has another wonderful sketch for you to work with which it's totally awesome.  Congratulations to our winner this week and our Top 3 cards, it was lovely seeing and commenting  on a lot more cards this week.

Sketch #142

I've made two cards with the same image as I couldn't decide which one I liked the most so posted both of them.

Here's Stella with her

Incy Wincy Polka Dot Bikini or Bra and it's not so

Incy or Wincy is it????

This week we have one of my favourite sponsors which is 

Jodie from Bugaboo Stamps.

The design team are lucky enough to select our own images, use  Arlana's amazing sketch and see what we created.

Bugaboo Stamps:

Everything That You Ever Wanted to Know About Bugaboo Stamps: As if raising five children in the frozen land of the North was not enough of a challenge, Jodie Mackrell decided to dip her cold little Canadian toes into the world of papercrafting by opening an online store full of her illustrations. That was two years ago. Today Bugaboo Stamps is one of the leading companies in digital images, and we're still growing! From seriously snarky to sugary sweet to sublimely soulful all the way over to the other side of the super sexy spectrum, you're bound to find all that you need and more to create your paper projects. Jodie works very hard to provide New Releases and Freebies every week!

If your taste runs to rubber (and you know who you are), you can find Bugaboo Stamps stamps at Totally Stampalicious. And finally, join the Bugaboo Stamps DT for weekly challenges at Catch the Bug.

Our links are:

Store : http://www.bugaboostamps.com/

Catch the bug Challenge blog:http://catchthebugblog.blogspot.com/

Jodie's generous prize this week is 

Prize: 7 digi stamps

 that value $21

What an awesome prize.

I really can't wait to see what you all create

 this week using this awesome sketch and if you 

have a Bugaboo Stamp that would be good to

 see that as well.

When you have a moments don't forget to drop

 by Sweet Sketch Wednesday and see what our

 wonderful design team have created just for

 you this week.

Card Ingredients:

Base: White SU card stock

Coloured Card: Black and Hot Pink Bazzill

Design Papers: Black and White Gingham is printed off a free download I have on my computer, and the black white and grey is unknown with no name, Bra Paper Pieced using Pavlova Papers

Colour Medium: Copic's and Black Embossing Pen

Image: Bugaboo Stella Peeker no Bra

Tools: Cuttlebug, Nestabilities Square, Scalloped Squares, Hot Melt Glue Gun, Pop Dots

Embellishments:

 Flowers, Lace and Hot Pink ribbon and gems from my stash

Card Ingredients:

Base: White SU

Coloured Card: Mauve and Lime Green Bazzill

Design Papers: Mauve and Lime Green Pavlova Papers, Kaiser Paper for Stella's Bra which is paper pieced.

Colour Medium: Copic's and Black Embossing Pen

Image: Bugaboo Stella Peeker no Bra

Tools: Cuttlebug, Nestabilities Square, Scalloped Square,Hot melt glue gun, pop dots.

Embellishments:

Flowers, Mauve Ribbon and Lace, Pearls all from my stash

I just love this image it was so much fun creating these cards and I hope you like them too.

Wishing everyone a wonderful week crafting and I'm looking for to seeing your creations.

Hugs