Bobbi and His Present

Good morning and welcome to another wonderful Wednesday.

Here it is 21st May already we're nearly half way through the year .

Today is Wednesday and that means it's another wonderful Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2, congratulations to our winner last week and to our Top 3 cards well done everyone.

This week Sally has another great sketch to work with and again it's very easy peasy and looks great finished.

Sketch #015

This week our sponsor is 

Sally-Ann Hancock the owner and design of 

DigiStamp Boutique.

Do you know that the first digistamp image I ever purchased was from 

DigiStamp Bouitque and I've been working with these wonderful images ever since.

DigiStamp Bio:

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 my images as much as I enjoy creating them.

Sally-Ann is offering our lucky winner

Prize:   £10 voucher 

to spend in her online store.

Now its time to pop over to Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 and see what the rest of the design team have created for you this week using Sally-Ann's wonderful selection of images from DigiStamp Boutique online store.

Challenges I'm Entering:

Through the Craft Room Door Anything Goes

Crafty Sentiment Challenge Inspired by A Song

The Mamas & The Papas – Dancing Bear (1968)

Lacy Sunshine Challenge # 33 Anything Goes

Craft for the Craic May Challenge Something for a Baby

Crafty Boots Challenge Blue and White Challenge

Eureka Stamps Challenge #90 Birthdays

ABC Challenge L is for Lots of Layers

2 Sisters Challenge #176 Baby

DigiStamp Boutique Challenge May Anything Goes

The Paper Nest Dolls Challenge #10 Anything Goes

Card Recipe:

1. Base: White SU

2. Coloured Card: Blue American Craft Card

3. Design Paper: Bella Join Together

4. Image: Bobbi sitting a present by DigiStamp Boutique

5. Colour Medium: Copics

6. Sentiment: PC generated using Papyrus font.

7. Tools: Cuttlebug Classic Squares from Spellbinders, Cherry Lynn leaf die, and Fancy Labels die by Spellbinders, Pop Dots, Glue Dots and Real Tacky Glue and Glossy Accents.

8. Embellishments: Blue and White ribbon, flowers, blue gems all from my stash.

9. Inside my card.

Thanks so much for visiting my blog, wishing you all a wonderful safe week and happy crafting.

Little Birdie Told Me

Good morning and welcome to my blog.  As I'm sitting in my office typing this posting the heavens have opened up and we're having heavy rain and thunder but no lightning thank goodness as my cat hates lightning.

Today is the middle of the week and that means it's Wednesday which is another wonderful Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2.

Congratulations to our winner and to our Top 3 cards it was lovely this week commenting on so many wonderful creations from our followers and also some new entries this week so welcome.

This week we have another great sketch by Sally.

This week its easy peasy and looks great.

Sketch #014

Here's my card using Little Birdie Told Me by Broken Box Stock.

This is a great image for sending a quick note to someone you need to catch up with, without having to write a long tedious letter.

 This week our sponsor is 

Broken Box Stock

We are so happy to welcome Broken Box Stock as our sponsor this week. Broken Box Stock is a fun, imaginative and unique clipart shop featuring hand-drawn stock illustrations and one-of-a-kind designs by Wendy Sefcik.  Broken Box Stock's illustrations & designs "break the box," bursting with life, energy, color and originality. The shop offers clipart in a variety of graphic styles: whimsical hand-drawn illustrations, vector graphics, cartoons, pencil sketches, line drawings, architectural and intricate patterns and backgrounds. 

To see more of adorable images from Broken Box Stock, visit the Broken Box Shop,Broken BoxBlog and Broken Box Facebook page.  Thanks Wendy!  We loved creating with your wonderful digi stamps this week!

http://www.brokenboxstock.com/

Don't forget to check out what our wonderful Design Team created this week using Broken Box Stock over at Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2.

Challenges I'm entering:

Love to Create Challenge #115 Friendship

Through The Craft Room Door Anything Goes

Crafty Sentiments Flowers

Brown Sugar Challenge #93 Pastels

Bearly Mine May Monthly Challenge Flowers

Paper Crafting Journey Spot and Or Stripes

Lacy Sunshine Challenge Anything Goes

One Stitch At A Time Challenge #212 Use A Digi

Inky Impressions Challenge # 159 Flower Power

Card Recipe: 

 1. Base: White SU

2. Coloured Card: Aqua Card by Kaisercraft Sea Breeze

3. Design Papers: By Magnolia Set

4. Image: Little Birdie Told Me by Broken Box Stock

5 Colour Medium: copics

 6. Sentiment: Computer generated using Papyrus Font and the music notes were from clip art.

7. Embellishments: Flower is a spellbinders die Jeweled Flower, pearl brad, ribbon and gems from my stash.

8. Tools: Cuttlebug, Spellbinders Classic Square large, Scalloped Square large, pop dots, glue dots, ink and sponge for the edges.

9. Inside:  Decorated the same as the front without the embellishments and left blank.

Take care everyone wishing you all a wonderful week, happy crafting and I'm looking forward to visiting your blogs to see your amazing creations and commenting. 

Flowers In My Pocket

 

Welcome to another wonderful Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2.  Life has been a little chaotic in my home in the last 4 days with the boys finishing their school holidays and getting them ready to go back to boarding school.  My head is down and my bum is up for a couple of days to make sure they have everything and its ticked off my check list.

Congratulations to our winner and our top 3 cards there were some really lovely cards this week and it was nice to see that you had a go at the 

Tic-Tac-Toe for our end of the month Twist.

Happy Mother's Day to all the counties that celebrate Mother's Day this coming Sunday.

This week Sally has another wonderful sketch which is just so easy:

Sketch #13

Here's my card using Flowers In My Pocket.

I tried to make it look like an old pair of faded jeans.

This week our sponsor is Melissa Jenkins the creator, artist and owner behind these wonderful images at

Meljen's Designs

Melissa's Bio:  My name is Melissa Jenkins, and I am a homeschooling mommy and wife to my best friend. We have two children, two cats and three hermit crabs. When I'm not drawing, I love spending lots of time with my family cuddling on the couch, playing games, going for walks, fishing, visiting the park & the zoo, collecting postage stamps, or just plain watching movies.

I've been an artist as long as I can remember - and I am inspired by everything around me. All of my digital stamp designs are inspired by my children (and husband!) and things they do, our cats, things we see on nature walks and daily 'adventures', or memories I have of my childhood. Animals too - I love animals! Art is an uplifting thing for me, and I love designing cute tidbits of art that makes people smile.

I draw all of my little creations by hand. A lot of love goes into my art! Each of my designs is sketched in pencil, inked with a black Micron pen, then scanned in and lightly cleaned up so it will look crisp when you print it.

I LOVE inspiring crafters. I am not very talented at making cards myself, so I LOVE seeing all of the beautiful things that you make with my digital stamps. I couldn't ask for a better blessing!

Melissa is offering our very lucky winner 

Prize: 4 images (non-colored) 

from her online store which you can visit here

http://meljensdesigns.com/

Don't forget to drop by the DT's over at Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 and check out what they've designed using Sketch #13 and Melissa's images.

Challenges I'm entering:

Love to Create Challenge #114 Say it with flowers
Through The Craft Room Door Anything Goes
Card Mania Challenge #46 Emboss It
(Dark blue circle is embossed)
Dream Valley Challenge #81 Anything Goes
Crafty Sentiment Anything Goes
Challenges 4 Everybody Anything Goes
Chocolate, Coffee and Cards Challenge #64 Circles & Squares
Brown Sugar Challenge #92 Patterned Paper
Milk Coffee Challenge Use Those Bright Colours
Inky Impressions Challenge #158 Mother's Day 
Crafting for all Seasons Challenge #76 Lots of Layers

Card Recipe:

 1. Base: White SU

2. Coloured Card: Blue and Apple Green American Craft card.

3. Design Paper: K & Company

4. Image: Flowers In My Pocket by Meljen's Designs.

5. Colour Medium: Copics, Blue Gel Pen

6. Tools: Cuttlebug, Spellbinders Square, Circle and Lacy Circle, Pop Dots, Real Tacky Glue. 

7. Embellishments: White and Blue Grey flowers from Wild Orchid and some green gems for the centres of the flowers.

 

 8. Inside my card which I've left blank.

Take care everyone thanks for visiting my blog during the week, wishing you all a safe and happy week and have fun crafting and I'm looking forward to visiting your blogs.

Happy 70th Birthday

Hi there and welcome to my blog I hope everyone's having a great week and your enjoying your crafting.

A little while back I was asked to make a card for a friend of mine her older sister was turning 70 years old/young and for her special day she wanted a special card with a twist.

Her sister that was turning 70 and had just started dancing classes, you name it she was doing it and the she was enjoying most of all Ceroc  and Line Dancing.

So here's the card I made for her......

Card Recipe:

1. Base White SU

2. Coloured Card: Aqua and Seagreen Bazzill

3. Design Paper: Kaisercraft Fairy Tale set and aqua sparkly paper.

4. Images: Wine Bottle and Glasses I can't remember unknown source.

Karen Doodles Image Dance Lady forever

5. Colour Medium: Copics and a silver and gold pen

6. Tools: Cuttlebug, Spellbinders Oval, Oval Lacey, Fancy Tag, glossy accents for the bottle and glasses, Kindy Glitz for her trousers and top.

7. Embellishments: Red gem for the bottle, aqua stain ribbon, lace, gems, pearl pin, roses, carnations all from my stash.

8. Inside the card: Using Dance Lady Forever from Karen Doodles.

9. Inside wording in the card

I found out after her 70th birthday she really loved her card and wanted to frame it.

Take care and have a wonderful week and happy crafting.

Challenge I'm entering:

Whoopsi Daisy Challenge Hand Coloured Image Challenge

Crafty Boots Challenge Milestone Birthday's

Love to Create Challenge # 113 Pearls and Bling

Bearly-Mine Challenge May 2014 Flowers

Creative Card Crew Challenge #60 Girly

Fan-Tastic Tuesday Challenge #33 Floarl

Through The Craft Room Door Anything Goes

Creative Moments Challenge #41 Anything Goes/Spring

My Mum's Craft Stop Challenge # 17 Lots of Layers

Penny's Paper-Crafting Challenge #175 Pastel Colours

Snow Angel Dearie

 Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 with a twist.

Good morning and welcome to a wonderful Autumn sunny morning here in New Zealand.  I can feel the temperatures dropping especially in the evenings but last week we spent the first week of the school holiday break at our beach house, the water was so warm the boys were swimming and biscuiting off the back of the boat and having a blast and wanting to go faster and faster.

I was so excited to comment this week on so many lovely cards created using Sally's sketch.  Great work everyone and congratulations to our winner and to our top 3 cards.

Today is the 30th April which means it's the end of the month and we have our twist.  We've decided to supply the sketch and this month the twist is Tic-Tac-Toe.

Sketch #217

A Blast From The Past

 Here is my card using Dearie Dolls image 

Snow Angel Dearie

I've used:

1. Stitching, Design Paper, Jewel

2. Charm, Jewel, Ribbon

3. Charm, Design Paper and Stickles

Here's my blast from the past.

This card is one of my very favourites I've ever made

I think its this sweet image and

 I just adore this design paper and colours.

This week our sponsor is Mary Ellen's Dearie Dolls.  Everyone of Mary Ellen's digi's are free on her site and there's so many to choose from which is very generous.

Dearie Dolls 

Bio:  

Mary Ellen's Dearie Digis are inspired by the wooden dolls she and her husband Kip made together for 25 years. She likes to tell a little story with each illustration. Some of her favorite subjects are snowmen and children.

http://freedeariedollsdigistamps.blogspot.com/

So if you haven't popped over before now it's time too and see what you like and once each one of them are coloured up they look so different as you'll see if you visit Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 and see what the DT's have made using these sweet images.

http://sweetsketchwednesday2.blogsot.com/

Challenges I'm entering:

Through The Craftroom Door Anything Goes

Love to Create Challenge # 113 Pearl & Bling

The Paper Nest Dolls Challenge 9 Anything Goes
Fab 'n' Funky Challenge #214 Christmas
One Stitch At A Time Challenge #210 Anything Goes
Whoopsi Daisy Challenge Hand Coloured Image

Card Recipe:

  1. Base White SU

2. Coloured Card: Kaisercraft card Bottlegreen

3. Design Paper: Deck The Halls Ivy by Kaisercraft

4. Image: Snow Angel Dearie

5. Colour Medium: Copics, Black embossing pen

6. Tools: Cuttlebug, Spellbinders Circle, Picot Edge dies, Stickles, pop dots, glue dots, real tacky glue, Bernina sewing machine with red thread.

 7. Embellishments: Chain, Brad, Christmas Tree, Gems, Red Braid or ribbon.

 8. Inside my card.

Take care everyone wishing you all a wonderful week

 and happy crafting and I'm so looking forward to seeing and commenting on your creations.