Tender Thoughts

I do hope everyone had a wonderful Easter with your family and friends.  We had an amazing few days at the beach house and the weather was just beautiful.  It was so good that the boys were still swimming as the water is still very warm.   My boys are on a two week school holiday break so it's lovely to have them at home.

Today is Wednesday which means we have another wonderful Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2.  Congratulations to last weeks winner and to our top 3 cards everyone really like that great sketch from Sally and it was great to be able to use up some of those scrap pieces of design papers.

This week Sally has another lovely sketch

Sketch #50

Here's my card using this very simple but elegant sketch.

This week our sponsor is

A Day for Daisies

Bio:

A Day For Daisies began as a small token to a constant need to create. Pairing a love of whimsical illustration, with a tidy graphic design background, Tammy S Thompson, produced her first stamp designs, introducing irresistibly sweet stamps to crafters around the globe. Drawing inspiration from the beautiful world around us, she strives to express the happiness and gratitude she feels in each stamp design she creates.

Presently, A Day For Daisies has grown to over 3,000 Digital Stamps with a quickly expanding line of Best Loved Clear Polymer. A Day For Daisies has been published and awarded over the years for innovative and unique designs created to inspire the crafting community. With a whole team behind her now, she remains passionate about illustration, obsessed with quality, and dedicated to her customers. A Day For Daisies thanks you for your ideas, comments, and creativity!

Our lucky winner this week will receive 

Prize:  $12 Gift Certificate

Don't forget to check out 

A Day For Daisies Store

and 

A Day For Daisies Blog

Don't forget to check out what the rest of the the design team over at Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 have created this week.

Challenge's I'm Entering:

Crafting from the Heart Challenge #54 Anything Goes

Pile It On Challenge # 63 Die Cuts and or Punches

Colouring Crazy Challenge Springtime

Through The Craft Room Door Anything Goes

Just Us Girls Challenge #287 Word Week SPRING

Glitter n Sparkle Challenge #131 Anything Goes

Craft Your Passion Challenge #256 ~ Anything Goes

Crafty Catz Challenge #273 Anything Goes

ABC Challenge G is for 'Go Digital' 

Just Add Ink Challenge #257

Card Recipe:

1. Base: White SU

2. Coloured Card: American Craft Pale Blue

3. Design Papers: By Kaisercraft Tea At Elise's Collection

4. Image: Tender Thoughts from A Day For Daisies

5. Colour Medium: Copics

6. Tools: Cuttlebug, Die is by Culture Creations Vintage Designs

 7. Embellishments: Grain weave ribbon and pale blue gems all from my stash.

8. Inside the card is the opposite from the front as I didn't want to waste these wonderful papers.

9. The back of the card the finishing touches.

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

Crocus Flower from Spring Blocks

Good morning and welcome.  Another week has past and here it is the 1st April already.  Where has the last 3 months gone too?

This week I've had the week from hell not having my computer as we rely on them so much now days.  Today I'm having my new desk top delivered and printer how exciting is that. I'm currently using my sons old tiny Think Pad but I'm nearly over it.  Far too small and such a little key pad.

Wednesday means it's another wonderful Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2. Congratulations to our winner and to our top 3 cards, awesome work everyone and so much creativity from everyone.  This week we have another great sketch by Sally Dube, love this sketch Sally I can use up all those scrap pieces of paper we all have.

Wishing you and your families a very

Happy Easter break.

Sketch #49

Here's my card using the Crocus Flowers out of the Spring Block set from this weeks sponsor.  This set has the outline images as well as the coloured version.  I coloured my Crocus Flowers myself and I was so happy how they turned out.

This week we have a new sponsor which is

Deedee's Digis.

 Deedee's Designs

We welcome a new sponsor this week, Deedee’s Digis. Owned by Deedee Anderson, the company offers wholesome digital stamps and papers that will make you smile.  We are thrilled to highlight Deedee’s images this week and are grateful for her sponsorship. Now here is a little info about Deedee’s Digis:

Deedee's Digis offers wholesome digital "stamps" and printable digital papers that are the original creations of Deedee Anderson. All of our sets include both outline and pre-colored images, in both JPG and PNG formats. Our products are offered in high 300dpi resolution so that they are fully resizable to meet your crafting needs. We are a Christ-centered company, and you will find that many of our sets include KJV Scripture verses, in addition to encouraging sentiments of all sorts. We feel very blessed to be part of such a talented community of paper crafters, and thank you for allowing us to sponsor your challenges!

Deedee’s Digis Shop

Deedee’s Digis Blog

Deedee’s Digis Challenge

Prize:  $15.00 Gift Certificate

Thanks Deedee!  We just love your wonderful digi stamps!

Don't forget to drop by the rest of the team and check out what they've created using Deedee's wonderful images.

Challenges I'm entering:
Crafting from the Heart Challenge #53 Anything Goes
Pile It On Challenge #62 Easter/Spring

Crafter's Cafe Challenge #110 Easter

Digitally Sweet Challenge #133 Anything Goes

Week 13 Colouring Crazy Challenge by the Graph Design Team

Creative Corner Challenge Spring has Sprung
Through The Craft Room Door Anything Goes Challenge
Just Us Girls Challenge#286  Photo Inspiration Week 

Glitter & Sparkle Challenge #130 Easter Flowers

Card Recipe:

1. Base: White SU

2. Coloured Card: Grape by Kaisercraft

3. Design Papers: Kaisercraft and Magnolia papers.

4. Image: There are 4 images to the set plus sentiments which are amazing.

5. Colour Medium: Copics

6. Tools: Cuttlebug, Small Classic Circle, Lace Circle, real tacky glue, glue dots, and pop dots.

7. Embellishments: Matching ribbon and a wee silver buckle slide for the ribbon.  Large mauve diamante's from Kaisercraft. 

 

8. Inside my card which is very similar to the front of the card.

9. Here's the back of my card just the finishes touches I do.

Fluffy Bunny

Good morning and welcome to my blog.  Today is the most wonderful Autumn's morning here in New Zealand and the sun is shinning. The temperatures have dropped a little in the evenings but our days are still beautiful.  The water temperatures are still very warm as the boys were thinking of going swimming at our beach house on Saturday, thank goodness they both have waterproof casts on their broken bones.  My boys and the other boys in their boarding dorm at school have been fund raising for Cancer and last night and today is the big day for having their heads shaved.  The last time I saw them bald was when they were born and they did have a little bit of hair then.  Watch this space in the next couple of weeks for their bald photo's.

Congratulations to our winner and to our top three cards I'm sorry if I haven't commented on your blog this week but I've had a lot of computer issues.  My laptop crashed last Friday morning and I lost everything that was on it and on Saturday morning my desktop crashed and it won't re boot.  I have someone coming out to look at them tomorrow.  I do have a back up with an external hard drive for my desk top it has all my wonderful images that I've stored over the years I'll cry if I can't retrieve these images and my husbands financial accounts for our business. I'm currently typing this post on my son's old Think pad, it's so tiny especially the key board but beggars can't be choosers at the moment.

This week Sally is using a sketch a blast from the past

Sketch #183

Here's my card using this cute image that's great for a babies card or for Easter.

This week I rotated the sketch by 90 degrees to the left to fit my image in.

Here's my blast from the past and isn't it funny Meljen's Designs were our sponsor that week as well.

This week Melissa Jenkin's the owner and illustrator of Meljen's Designs is our sponsor, thanks Melissa so much I love working with sweet designs.

  

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!

This weeks prize is

Prize:  4 images (non-colored)

Melissa has so many amazing images to choose from.

Don't forget to drop by the rest of the design team and see what they've created for you with her wonderful images over at Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2.

Challenges I'm Entering:

Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge #177 Anything Goes (Daisy Die)

Crafting from the Heart Challenge #52

Craft Your Passion Challenge #254 Anything Goes

Creative Corner Challenge For A Boy Challenge

Sentimental Sunday Challenge #251 Buttons,Brad, and or Bling

Crafty Sentiments Challenge Inspired By A Song  Art Garfunkel – Bright Eyes

Card Recipe:

1. Base white SU

2. Coloured Card: Navy Blue American Craft Card

3. Design Paper: Lullaby Collection New Arrival by Kaisercraft

4. Image: Fluffy Bunny by MelJen's Designs

5. Colour Medium: Copics

6. Tools: Cuttlebug, Dies  by Culture Creations, Martha Stewart Lace punch, Cherry Lynn Daisy die, pop dots.

7. Embellishments: Daisy made using Cherry Lynn die, Navy and white brad unknown source, Martha Stewart Lace and frilly ribbon from my stash.

8. On the other side in my card, I used the poem Monday's Child seeing it's for a new born babies card.

9. Lace punch, ribbon from my stash and daisy embellishment.

10. Daisy created using the Cherry Lynn Daisy die.

11. Sentiment: PC generated using Papyrus font. 

12. The back of my cards finishing touch.

Take care everyone wishing you all a wonderful week and happy crafting and hopefully next week I might have one of my computers fixed or even a new one.

Dinky and Flowers

Good morning and welcome to Kathie'z Kardz.  I do hope you all had a lovely week and with what I've commented on over at SSW2 you've all been busy with your amazing creations.  Congratulation to our winner and to our top 3 cards great work everyone.

Well they say Boys will be Boys.  That's right I've had a week of my two, one of them got tackled at school last Friday and he has a broken left arm and the eldest was playing Water Polo the other night and broke his ring finger on his left hand and he happens to be left handed.  Say no more but I've seen enough of doctors and A & E clinics this week for a lifetime.

This week Sally had another great sketch which is really easy and looks great finished.

Sketch #48

Here's my finished card.

I used Dinky and Flowers a wonderful image from this weeks sponsor

Sally-Ann Hancock the owner and illustrator over at 

DigiStamp Boutique. 

Sally-Ann has been sponsoring Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 and Sweet Sketch Wednesday once a month since these challenge blogs started which we all really appreciate and just love working with her amazing images. 

  Digi Stamp Boutique

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.

This week our lucky winner will receive a

Prize:   £10 voucher 

So the winner can choose images from Sally-Ann's online store, she has amazing images that are added to every month and there's something for everyone.

DigiStamp Boutique 

Don't forget to drop by the rest of the design team over at Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 and see what they've created using DigiStamp Boutique images.

Challenges I'm entering:

DigiStamp Boutique Challenge March Challenge

Crafting From the Heart Challenge #51 Anything Goes

Crafty Boots  Challenge Spring

Craft your Passion Challenge #253 Always Anything Goes

Whoopsi Daisy Challenge Add a Sentiment

Glitter n Sparkle Challenge #128 Glitter n Sparkle
Through The Craft Room Door Challenge Anything Goes
Create and Inspire Challenge #17
Creative Corner Challenge Girl Friend
Pile It On Challenge #60 Use Three Of Something
Embellishments = Brad, Flowers, Gems

Card Recipe:

1. Base: White SU

2. Coloured Card: American Craft Spinach Green

3. Design Paper: Kaisercraft La De Da Collection Skip

4. Image: Dinky and Flowers by DigiStamp Boutique

5. Colour Medium: Copics

5. Tools: Cuttlebug, Spellbinders Floral Oval on of my favorites, Spellbinders label, Martha Stewart Lace punch. EK flower punch, pop dots, glue dots, Real Tacky glue.

6. Embellishments: Gold coloured Daisies from my stash.  

7. I didn't have any flowers in my stash that were the right colours so I made the center flower using the large EK flower punch.  Each layer was cut from scraps of Bazzill, or American craft card, there were 5 layers in total 1 green, 2 mauve and 2 purple.  They were spayed with water and I scrunched each layer up and I waited for them to dry then I undid them and layered them together and added a mauve moonstone brad for the center of the flower.

8. Embellishments: Gold gems for the flower centers, yellow daisies, and mauve moonstone brad.

9. Sentiment: I used a Spellbinders die on white SU card and the sentiment is computer generated using Papyrus font.

10. Inside my card the same as the outside but there isn't any added embellishments only the sentiment.

11. The back of my card the finishing touch.

Wishing you all a wonderful week and happy crafting.