INTERNATIONAL ART AND SOUL CHALLENGE NO 3 - FANCY BORDERS

Good morning everyone - here's my next card for the IntAAS Challenge this fortnight and, as you can see above, our theme is Fancy Borders - another chance to play with my dies (whoopee).  For once there's not a digi in sight, just wonderful dies and a few pearls.

Ingredients

6" x 6" Ivory card blank - ancient stash

Die'Sire Create-a-card Dies - 'Elizabeth' die

Spellbinders Dies - Deckled Mega Rectangles Small die

Spellbinders Dies - In'spire 'Celebration Two' die  (sentiment)

Creative Expressions Dies - Finishing Touches 'Cape Daisy' die

Creative Expressions Dies - Finishing Touches 'Chrysanthemum' leaf die

Thank you for your comments on my cards recently, you are so kind and I love reading them - of course.  Now let's see what you come up with - find all those dies and punches .... don't forget those punches in the cupboard!  Nip on over to the IntAAS Challenge site to see what my teamies have made, they are really talented ladies.

Lots of big hugs to you, keep warm and dry this is definitely crafting weather!

Love Suexxx

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges -

Bit More Time to Craft Challenge No 39 - Anything Goes  (2)

Classic Design Team Open Challenge No 12 - Anything Goes  (2)

Crafting with Friends Challenge No 38 - Anything Goes  (2)

Crafty Awesomeness Challenge (Mar) - Anything Goes  (2)

Crafty Girls Creations Challenge No 34 - Anything Goes

Creative Sketchy Girls Challenge No 9 - Use Die Cuts (3)

Dies R Us Challenge No 68 - Something New (2) (New Cape Daisy die)

Perfect Time To Craft Challenge No 3 - Anything Goes (3)

Simply Papercraft Challenge No 44 - Anything Goes (2)

Sparkles Monthly Challenge No 89 - Love                                                         

CRAFTY CALENDAR CHALLENGE - MARCH - MOTHER'S DAY/SPECIAL FEMALE

Afternoon peeps - this month over at the Crafty Calendar Challenge we are preparing for Mother's Day or for a Special lady/girl in your life so we'd like you to create something with this theme in mind!    Here's my DT card, I used an image from Elisabeth Bell and (just for Sue J's info 😊) my new Chrysanthemum die from Creative Expressions - think this might become a favourite - until the next one of course.

Ingredients

Image - 'Summer Sweetness' pad by Elisabeth Bell

7" x 7" white card blank - Anna Marie Designs

Paper - DCWV 'Citrus Stack' card pad

Crafts-Too Dies - Presscut Rectangle Stitch Hole die

Joanna Sheen Signature Dies - Helena Lace Ribbon die

Creative Expression Dies - Finishing Touches Chrysanthemum die

Sentiment typed and foiled on my Minc machine

Copic markers

This month we're being sponsored by WOC and the winner will receive a voucher to spend in their online store - they have some fabulous products in the shop!

The challenge lasts all month so I hope you can find time to enter, we love seeing your creations.  Try checking out the Crafty Calendar blog to see what my teamies have made.

Lots of big hugs to you and please take care as usual.  Thanks again for all the comments I received on my last card, really enjoyed reading them.

Love Suexxx

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges -

Bit More Time to Craft Challenge No 39 - Anything Goes

Classic Design Team Open Challenge No 12 - Anything Goes

Crafting with Friends Challenge No 38 - Anything Goes

Crafty Awesomeness Challenge (Mar) - Anything Goes

Creative Sketchy Girls Challenge No 9 - Use Die Cuts

Dies R Us Challenge No 68 - Something New  (Chrysanthemum flower die)

Elisabeth Bell's World Challenge (Feb/Mar) - Favourite EB image

Paper Creator's Crafts Challenge No 57 - All About Mum

Perfect Time to Craft Challenge No 3 - Anything Goes

Simply Papercraft Challenge No 44 - Anything Goes

CRAFTS GALORE ENCORE - MARCH - ANYTHING GOES

Good morning everyone - just here to post my card for the CGE challenge this month.  Our themes are always Anything Goes - I love these 'cos they enable us to be as OTT or as CAS as we want to be.

Ingredients

Image - 'Air Fairy' from Fabrika Fantasy (pre-coloured)

7" x 7" pearl white card blank - Anna Marie Designs

Papers - old stash

Marianne Creatables Dies - Fancy Square die - LR0242

Memory Box Dies - Darrington Corner die

Memory Box Dies - Pippi Butterfly die

Elizabeth Craft Designs Dies - Happy Birthday sentiment die

Spellbinders Dies - Resplendant Rectangle dies (smallest one)

Copic markers (used to enhance image)

Wink of Stella marker (on wings)

White glitter on butterflies and corner dies

This month we've been sponsored by Fabrika Fantasy - they have fabulous images, both outline and pre-coloured.  I used a pre-coloured one this time only because I wanted to use blue anyway so I printed her off and then I just added a few bits of extra colour with my Copics.

I hope you can join in this month, Anything Goes is a popular theme, so we can't wait to see what you can make for our challenge.

Thanks for nipping over and checking out my blog and thank you in advance for any comments you may leave, I certainly enjoy reading them.  Biscuit has to have a tooth out today so I'm feeling really nervous for him, keeping everything crossed though.

Take care, sending you big hugs -

Love Suexxx

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges - 

Crafting from the Heart Challenge No 148 - Anything Goes

Crafts and Me Inspiration Challenge (March) - Springtime

Crafty Creations Challenge No 336 - Anything Goes

Crafty Sentiments Challenge No 28 - Anything Goes

Creative Moments Challenge No 112 - Anything Goes

Creative Sketchy Girls Challenge No 9 - Anything Goes

Digi Choosday Challenge Week 9 - Anything Goes

Inky Chicks Challenge No 79 - Happy Birthday

Perfect Time to Craft Challenge No 3 (Mar) - Anything Goes

Tuesday Throwdown Challenge No 332 - Things with Wings

INTERNATIONAL ART AND SOUL CHALLENGE NO 2 - RECYCLING

Good afternoon fellow bloggers out there - this is the second challenge of the INTAAS blog and this fortnight we are recycling - so here's my 'recycled' Christmas card.  Many crafters can't bear to throw away all of the cards they receive at this time of year and I'm one of them!  

I used the front of the card - 'chopped' just slightly smaller than the original.  Although you can't tell from this angle, there are several snowflakes on the Christmas tree that have been mounted on foam squares just to add extra dimension.

Ingredients

Recycled Christmas card front
7" x 7" White Card blank - Anna Marie Designs
Creative Expressions Embossing Folder - Snowflake Lattice
Elizabeth Craft Designs Dies - Garden Notes 'Holiday Holly and Berries' dies
Apple Blossom Dies - Leaves DIOB0267
Pearls - stash

I hope you like this early Christmas card - my favourite type of card to create I have to admit!!  Our Challenge is 'Just for Fun' but we have wonderful badges to display on your sidebar if you are one of our lucky winners/Top 3 - all chosen by the DT.   Don't forget you can make anything you like just as long as you recycle!

So glad that you have popped by again, and I hope you find time to check out the creations of my Teamies on the INTAAS blog.

Lots of hugs to you all and please take care.

Love Suexxx

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges -

Allsorts Challenge No 403 - Anything Goes
C.R.A.F.T. Challenge No 403 - Christmas
Craft Rocket Challenge No 33 - Anything Goes
Crafting with Friends Challenge No 30 - Anything Goes
Crafty Creations Challenge No 335 - Anything Goes
CHNC Challenge No 321 - Anything Christmas Goes
Happy Little Stampers Challenge (Feb) - Christmas
Hiding in my Craftroom Challenge No 289 - Embossing
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge No 52 - Anything Goes
Winter Wonderland Challenge (Feb) - Anything Christmas Goes

CHRISTMAS CARDS ALL YEAR ROUND - FEBRUARY - USE RED AND/OR PINK PLUS A HEART

Hi there everyone - I'm just posting the mid-month reminder card for CCAYR where our theme is 'Use Red and/or Pink and a Heart'.  I bought a few of the LOTV digi images when they came out and James Snow Angel is one that I thought would fit in really well with the heart.

 The sentiment reads 'May there always be an angel by your side'.  As you can tell from the pic on my blog I love Snow Angels!!!

The maestro took several pics of the little sentiment but the light was so dismal and the flash just made it glare so he had to leave it like this.  Bless him, he honestly did his best for me as usual.  This is for him for Christmas but as it is only February I know he won't remember it by the end of the year ('cos of all the cards he has to photograph for me!!)

I've never used pink and red together like this but I thought it worked with the pink in the scarf and on the boots - I might have changed James into a girl though!!   Oooops!

Ingredients

Image - LOTV 'James - Snow Angel' digi 

7" x 7" White linen texture card - Anna Marie Designs

Presscut - Crafts Too Dies - Heart Nesting dies

Presscut - Crafts Too Dies - Round Nesting dies

Ebay - Demiawaking - 'Snowflake Dies'

Craft. Comp. Signature Coll. - 'Festive Wonder' Embossing Folder

Marianne Designs - 'Snow' (DF3410) Embossing Folder

Sentiment -Craft. Comp. 'Christmas in Moonbeam Meadow' stamp

DecoArt - Glamour Dust glitter

Craft. Comp. - Stick and Stay

Stardust Stickles

Copic markers

Flowersoft - 'Polar White'

Adhesive corner beads - The Range

Although you can't really tell from the picture, I've put the sentiments and the heart focal point on the card with 3mm sticky foam tape so that it does stand out - in real life that is!!

I hope you can enter our challenge this month - it doesn't close for another two weeks yet so you have plenty of time.

The prize for the lucky winner is -

Thank you so much for stopping by - why don't you pop over to the CCAYR site and check out the work of my teamies - you can never start too early for Christmas - :)

Anyway I must be off and start dinner - take good care of yourselves and as I usually say - please keep warm, especially when you take your furbabies for walkies!

Big hugs to you all.

Suexxx

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges -

ABC Christmas Challenge (Feb) - C for Creature/D for Dimension
Christmas at Sweet Stampin' Challenge (Feb) - Anything Christmas Goes
Crafty Creations Challenge No 335 - Anything Goes
Creatalicious Challenge No 109 - Anything Goes (Option add ribbon or twine)
Cutie Pie Challenge No 108 - Simply Love
Cuttlebug Mania Challenge (Feb) - Roses are Red
Deep Ocean Challenge No 148 - Hearts
Die Cuttin' Divas Challenge No 304 - Valentine Colours
Paper Girls Challenge No 121 - With Heart
Season's Greetings Challenge No 1 - Anything Goes with the option 'Love'

INTERNATIONAL ART AND SOUL CHALLENGE NO 1 - LOVE IS IN THE AIR

Hello peeps - I'm totally excited about this post 'cos I'm showing my first card for the International Art and Soul Challenge DT!  This is a brand new 'just for fun' challenge blog although we do have some fantastic badges for the winner and Top 3 (chosen by the DT members).   Our first theme is 'Love is in the Air' but you really must watch out for future challenges, we have some great themes coming up.

Ingredients

Image - LOTV (outline digi free in a pad from a magazine)

7" x 7" Pearlised White card - Anna Marie Designs

Papers - ancient stash

Tattered Lace Dies - Hexagon Layer die

Creative Expressions Dies - Mini Gemini die - Indus

Flowers - WOC

Copics markers

Pearl swirls - stash

'Gelly' heart stickers - stash

I'm hoping you will join us in our first challenge - they're run fortnightly by the way - and we are really looking forward to seeing what you create for us to check out.  Why not pop over to the IAAS blog and see what my teamies have made.

Lots of big hugs to you all and please take care.

Love Suexxx

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges -

Addicted to Stamps Challenge No 141 - Love

Cardz for Galz Challenge No 40 - Love is in the Air

Come and Get It Challenge - Valentine's Day

Craftaholics R Us Challenge (Feb) - Love/Romance (2)

Crafting When We Can Challenge No 137 - Flowers

Crafts and Me Challenge (Feb) - Anything Goes

Dragonfly Dreams Challenge (Feb) - Hearts and Flowers

Dragonfly Journeys Challenge No 85 - Love is in the Air

Eastwind Challenge No 70 - Love and Romance

Simply Create Too Challenge No 124 - Love (2)

CRAFTY CALENDAR CHALLENGE - FEBRUARY - 'LOVE IS IN THE AIR'

Good morning peeps, here I am with our next challenge for Crafty Calendar - this month (being February ta da!!) the theme is 'Love is in the Air'!  Doesn't have to be a Valentine card of course, you can make anything to do with a 'Lurve' theme.

Ingredients

Image - 'Hedgehog'  - Pink Gem Designs
7" x 7" White card blank - Anna Marie Designs
Papers - Hunky Dory (free from a magazine)
Crafts-Too Dies - Presscut 'Heart' Nesting dies
Tonic Dies - Topnote Trellis die set
Die'Sire Essential Dies - Flowers for all Occasions 4 dies
Card-io Majestix stamps - Pottery Petites
Judith stamps - various peg stamps
Sentiment types then Minc'd
Copic Markers
Gems - stash

We are being sponsored by Pink Gem Designs  and Crafty Ribbons,  so two prizes are on offer -

Pink Gem Designs is based in Stourport on Severn, Worcestershire UK.

Began trading in Nov. 2008 to design cute and whimsical craft stamps in clear polymer.

As digi products became more popular Pink Gem Designs also started to produce digital stamps/Card Topper Kits and other digital products such as downloadable papers, clip art etc..

The prize from Pink Gem Designs is -

2 'Single' digi images or 2 'Card Topper Kits' of your choice  OR you can choose one of each of the above.

Crafty Ribbons are offering -

Fabulous prizes so come on and let us see your creations - my teamies have created some gorgeous projects so pop over to Crafty Calendar and check them out - they're always good for a little inspiration when your mojo is on holiday!!

I'm off now to do a bit of colouring so I'm sending you big hugs and lots of love.

Take care.

Love Suexxx

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges -

Alphabet Challenge (Feb) - 'X' marks the Spot or Dots
Craft Rocket Challenge No 32 - It's  love Thing
Craftaholics R Us Challenge (Feb) - Love/Romance

Creative Corner Challenge - Perfectly Pink

Cute Card Thursday Challenge No 463 - Be My Valentine

Di's Digi Designs Challenge - All about Love
Dragon's Lair Design Challenge (Feb) - Hearts a Flutter
Making Memories Crafting Challenge No 2 - Valentines - use red or any Val. Colour
QKR Stampede Challenge No 229 - Valentine
Simply Create Too Challenge No 124 - Love