RAK Card for Jayme

While I was looking at all the fab entries last week for Sweet Sketch Wednesday, I came across Ann's blog and she had a beautiful card with a frog on it. Her post explained the reason for the frog and this is why, she had come across Lisa's blog and this is lisa's story:

"I am having a special event for my sister Jayme. She is in her early 50's and has terminal lung cancer. To make it worse, her sweet dachshund Molly passed away a couple weeks ago. Today we learned her cancer has spread to several other areas and her time is running out. I am asking for all my card making friends to send her a fun card...not really get well cards obviously, but something pretty or funny that will make her smile. She is a frog collector so frog cards would be awesome!"

To find out more details head off to Lisa's blog. She is also offering a load of goodies for your time to create something for Jayme. This is my card for her.

Got the image from Digi Stamp Boutique especially for Jayme as I had no froggy images. There are two blogs offering free frog images to use for Jayme. Here and here.

Hope a few more of you can join in. Off to the post office now :-D

Sweet Sketch Wednesday No. 51

Only one more challenge to go after this one before our Blog Hop! Woohoo! Very excited about it all! The sketch this week was fantastic as always, had a bit of fun with it too of course. Here it is:

Our Sponsor this week is Prairie Fairy Designs

Roberta is offering one lucky winner their choice of 5 single images! *double images count as 2*
She also gave us some awesome images to create some sweet designs.

I used the Summer Papermania Capsule Collection papers for this. Coloured the Honey Bear with my promarkers as well as the little bee stamps. There are some stickles on their wings but it didn't photograph too well. I used some chalks behind the bear to make him look like he was sitting on the grass. Great fun sketch this week Arlana. Thanks a million. My little man really liked this one because he has a little teddy bear very similar in a green t-shirt, guess where I got my inspiration from. LOL!!

Hope to see you all again this week at Sweet Sketch Wednesday and

remember the blog up is only one sketch away. Woohoo!!!

My Partner in Crafting Crime Challenge 3

New challenge today at My Partner in Crafting Crime and it's an easy one for ya after last week's tough colour challenge. All you've to do is create something with Happy Birthday as a theme for it. 

As you've probably noticed i'm a bit addicted to Anya at the mo so i've used her again in this card. Blue is not a colour I would normally pick for a girly card but I think it works ok. The swirl flourish thingy is a Marianne die as is the scalloped circle, yes, also addicted to these! :-) Got a great tip on Bah Humbug on how to get these out. Check it out here and thanks girls!

Looking forward to seeing all the entries for this challenge. 

Get all the details over at My Partner in Crafting Crime.

Sweet Sketch Wednesday No. 50

It's that time again folks, Wednesday is here and with it comes another fab sketch from Arlana at Sweet Sketch Wednesday.

This week our sponsor is the very generous Sally-Ann at the Digi Stamp Boutique and the uber, lucky winner this week gets to pick 10 images from the store. How generous is that!!

Sally-Ann is also the sponsor of our blog hop coming up in a couple of weeks. There'll be oodles of prizes for that too so pencil in the dates now! :-D June 9th - 15th.

Onto what I've come up with this week.

The stamp is one I won at the last blog hop at Sweet Sketch Wednesday obviously this was pre-DT position and I adore her. She's called Shelly Turtle and cake and you can get her here. I've used the new Papermania Hampstead papers for this, they're quite masculine but I thought Shelly could pull it off with her little bow! She's coloured in with the oul promarkers of course and i've started using that evil blender now, can you tell?? The organza ribbon was from my Ribbon horse stash, wishing now that I would've put something behind it to stand out some more, it really is shimmery and a lovely orange. Oh well, lesson learned.

Hope you can join in the fun this week at Sweet Sketch Wednesday and I look forward to hopping over to all your blogs for a looky-loo.

More Anya fun

This is the second creation of the day, loving the way her hair turned out. All those you tube videos are finally paying off. Have finally learned not to be so heavy handed with the Promarkers and how to use the blender. Yes Robin, I said blender. LOL!! I've officially been converted. :-p

I came across the Raise the Bar blog and really liked their colour combo of Yellow Gray and White. It's not  something I would normally pick myself so thought it would make a great challenge to try complete. Then I found a sketch over on Coops blog that I really liked so had a go at that too, the sketch is from the Allsorts Challenge Blog go check it out, i'm gonna be entering every week now. LOL!! And can you believe this it fits into one more challenge, over at A Spoonful of Sugar they've set the challenge this week to use three designer papers and three buttons, so my papers are two from the Summer Papermania Capsule collection and the grey one is from the Jesse Edwards papermania range. 

So the challenges for this one are:

Raise the Bar No. 18 - Colour combo, Yellow, Gray and White

Allsorts Challenge Blog Week 51 - Sketch

A Spoonful of Sugar Challenge 103 - Recipe - 3 Designer Papers and 3 Buttons

Hope you like today's creations, really had a lot of fun creating them. Challenges have helped in the inspiration front greatly so thanks to all the wonderful challenge blogs out there and all the talented designers.

Anya Madness

Ooh I have been having fun all morning. We've taken a break from Fort construction as we ran out of timber, delivery just arrived though so back to it soon enough i'd imagine. (Will post pic of end result). Anyway after construction ended last night I came in and got all my Anya's out and stamped a full page of them. I managed to colour hair and skin on 6 and this morning I went challenge hunting. So this card and the next one are the end results of what i'd consider to be a rather productive evening/morning.

For this summery creation I used the two of the new Papermania Henbury Lane papers and i think the striped one is from Pink Petticoat but would have to check that out. I coloured Anya in with the wonderful promarkers. I used the MS Doily punch for the middle border and for the big circle I used my Xcut pink circle thingy. Buttons were dug out from stash and some East of India twine was threaded through two.

I'm going to enter this into the following challenges.

Friday Sketcher's Blog - Sketch

Cupcake Craft Challenges No. 90 - Buttons

Totally Gorjuss Challenge 29 - Pink and Green

Crafty Angels Week 34 - One for the Girls

Passion for Promarkers Week 51 - Strawberries and Cream

Sweet Sketch Wednesday No. 49

It's Wednesday again!?!? Where do the days go? That means only one thing, it's time for a new sketch from Arlana at Sweet Sketch Wednesday!

Have a few things to tell you this week too. Next month Sweet Sketch Wednesday will be turning ONE!!! To celebrate we're having a huge blog hop with 12 prizes and an overall prize, how sweet is that!

Hope you can join in the fun to win. It's going to be brilliant! I'm extra excited about it because it's my first big blog hop to be a part of and I just can't wait to see all the girls creations as well as everyone who enters.

Right so back to this week's sketch. Really enjoyed this one Arlana, thanks again. This is the sketch.

Our lovely sponsor this week is Kathy from Pixie Dust Studio, her images are just lovely as you can see from my DT girls cards. Excellent digi-stamps! This week the winner will get 2 digi stamps from Pixie Dust Studio and boy will they have a tough time picking :-) Go check it out and tell me you don't agree.

This week Kathy gave me the lovely image called 'Pals of the Past'. 

With a name like that I just had to vintage it up.

He reminds me of a singer some people might know, called Gilbert O' Sullivan, way back when he was younger, he had a hat just like that. He is my Mam's all time idol, so guess who's getting this card??  

(It's only because he is her idol that I know all this by the way. LOL!!)

The papers are all from the new Victoria & Albert range, I just love them. Wee Gilbert is coloured in with the trusty Promarkers and on the fence I added some crackle accents to make it look like a white picket fence. It sorta worked right??

I distressed nearly everything with some Antique Linen to really get the vintage look. The flower is a new Marianne die that is just awesome, it cuts a slit at the top of the second flower so you can thread the ribbon through to match any card at all. Genius. The button brad is from a Laura Ashley collection I think. The heart ribbon behind is East of India, I got this at the weekend with Mam when we went trim shopping. Yes, it is fair to say we are obsessed!

Hope you can join in the fun at Sweet Sketch Wednesday this week i'm off to build a fort. 

(My dad's idea for my little boy, all will be revealed shortly, I hope)

My Partner in Crafting Crime Challenge 2

It's time for another challenge at My Partner in Crafting Crime. The challenge this week is much harder, mwahahahaha! It's a colour scene and you've to solve the colour scene with these clues.

 Ok i'll simplify, make a card, scrapbook page or alterable item with the following colours

Brown

Gold

Pink

Hop over to Robin's blog and see her fab card.

It's open for two weeks so you've plenty of time for inspiration to come knocking.

Hope you can solve the colour scene!

Sweet Sketch Wednesday No. 48

It's new sketch time over at Sweet Sketch Wednesday. Arlana has come up with an awesome sketch this week, I hope you can play along.

This is the sketch.

Our sponsor this week is the wonderful Jodie from Bugaboo Stamps

and the lucky winner gets SEVEN digi stamps worth $21. How cool is that!

Jodie very kindly let me pick this gorgeous Ladybug Stamp and isn't she just a lady!

I really liked colouring her. I used the beloved ProMarkers and

on the dots I added some glossy accents to make them shine.

There are some frosted lace distress stickles on her wings too to make them sparkle.

The cardstock is Core'dinations Scarlet and Midnight Black.

The papers are a mix of free downloads, Laura Ashley and Papermania Capsule.

Hope you like the Ladybugs, these were one of the first things I bought way back when I placed my first ever order for card stuff. I thought i'd used them straight away and of course never did but I knew i'd need them someday and voila, here they are!

Check out my Design Team girls cards, the images are amazing and their cards are wonderful.

Hope you can join us this week at Sweet Sketch Wednesday.