Christmas Garland

I have another Christmas card to share with you today and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed  making it. I started with the lovely sketch at Sketch Saturday which I turned round. The image is the Christmas Garland and is just new on the website and has been coloured with coloursoft pencils and sakura pens then highighted with crystal glitter. It’s much more glittery in real life than the photo shows. The bp one of my own. A scalloped mat cut on the robo, ribbon and a few gems finish it off and make it suitable for these 5 challenges too:

By The Cute and Girly – Winter Wonderland

Penny’s Challenges – A Winter Theme that must include glitter or sparkles and ribbon

Digital Tuesday – Holiday Wishes

Papertake Weekly – Digi Sparkle – use a digi image and something sparkly

Creative Card Crew – Ribbon and Gems

Thank you for your visit today and don’t forget that you still have plenty of time to enter the new challenge at Crafty Ann’s Challenge Blog - you don’t have to use Crafty Ann’s products to enter and there’s a lovely prize to be won.

Wild Thing!

Well okay, I’ll concede that she doesn’t look very wild now – but I bet she’d turn into a tigress if she had to defend the goodies I’ll be putting in here for Christmas! lol!

It’s Cute Daisy May Challenge time again and this week Net has asked for animal images in our projects. (It was Net that called it Wild Thing – honest!) Linnie has some really cute little animals to choose from and I love this one and as you’ll know if you’ve read the previous post, I’m in Christmas mode just now so it’s perfect!

I’ve decided that we won’t have crackers this year, I’m going to make some small boxes to put goodies in for us to enjoy over the festive period and they’ll look nice under the tree – because of ongoing renovations, we haven’t room for the big tree but these will look perfect under the smaller one we have that sits on a table in the living room. I’ve used the instructions from a project in the november issue of Craft Stamper magazine to create the box and the beauty of it is that it will hold together without being stuck so if I want to keep them to use again next year, they’ll flat pack for storage.

The image is from sheet 17 and I’ve coloured it using a coloursoft pencils and sakura pens having printed it onto linen effect card. The box itself uses the sky blue paper from the embossed stars pastel collection printed onto light card stock. I’ve used silver mirri card which has been put through the snowflakes cuttlebug folder to back the image and edged the lid with sparkly peel offs – gotta have glitter at Christmas!

I’m entering my goody box into these two challenges too:

Stampin’ for the Weekend – ‘Festive Goody Box’

Colour Create – ‘Blue, Silver & White’

Thank you for popping by today and I hope to be returning the favour – remember that you can use any animal image on your project this week for Cute Dasiy May and we would love to see it so please come and join in the fun.

Christmas Glitz

I’m in Christmas mode at the moment as I seem to have got a bit behind so went looking for some appropriate challenges to inspire me and found quite a few. Some I’m entering today and some I have another card in mind for.

The first challenge to inspire me was DU2DS with this fabulous sketch and because I’d just finished these bauble digi stamps it seemed to be tailor made for them – thank you Larissa . It all came together with help from Allsorts Challenge wanting bling, Saturday Surprise with ‘in the round’, MTTC who want ’so many scallops and Cooking It Up With Katie who has come up with a yummy recipe – ’start with a Christmas theme, add some sparkle and finish with a border’.

The bp is from my Polished stone brights collection and I’ve used sakura stardust pens and twinkling H2Os to colour the small baubles and Art institute glitters for the larger one.

Thank you for visiting today and I’d also like to thank you for the lovely and much appreciated comments you leave.

WOO-HOO!!

 

At long last, the day of the first  CACB challenge is here and I’m so nervous, it’s untrue! I have a fantastic DT so do check all their samples out. I’ve wanted to do this for ages and really hope you’ll pop over and play along with us.

Because I’ve been wanting to do this for so long, CELEBRATE seemed to be the perfect choice for the first challenge and you can celebrate anything you like . I’m a bit behind on Christmas projects so had planned something Christmassy and then I realised that I had scheduled the first challenge for the day before our eldest GS turns 18 so really there couldn’t have been any other choice for my project could there? He’s just coming to the end of the second week of basic training with the Royal Engineers though so whether he’ll have the energy to celebrate tomorrow night could be a moot point!!

On to the card, it’s 20cm x 20cm so it’s quite large. The black and silver cards are from my stash and the blue embossed stars BP is one of my own and will be up on the website today. The image is Electric Guitar 1 and has been coloured using coloursoft pencils and a silver sakura stardust pen then mounted onto an old CD.

I’m also entering my card into the Theme Thursday Challenge which is to add borders to your project – I’ve used the silver card and peel offs to create mine, and the Tanda Teaser Challenge which is to use metal and I’m hoping the foil on my CD will count here.

I hope you will pop over to CACB and join in with our first challenge – it runs for two weeks and you don’t have to use Crafty Ann’s products to enter but you could win some if you join in!

A Little Witch for Four Challenges

Now before you say anything, I know Halloween is over, but in my own defence, there are still four current challenges that this card fits! It’s actually a swap card for a forum buddy and is the first halloween card I’ve ever made so I had to share it with you.

I must admit that I did enjoy making it and also using these colours which I don’t tend to do very often. My image is a Cute Dasiy May from sheet 7 and isn’t she just the cutest little witch you ever saw? She’s been coloured with coloursoft pencils. The sketch is from Sketch and Stash which I liked as soon as I saw it – the stash part of this challenge is the Dasiy May image and the corrugated orange card which I’ve had in my stash since Adam was a lad and just cried out to the used on this card.

The other challenges that this is for are:

TGIF – Little Witches

Saturday Challenge - Halloween

C.R.A.F.T – also Halloween.

Thank you for popping by today, your visits and comments are always appreciated.

Don’t forget the new challenge starting on Friday at Crafty Ann’s Challenge Blog – hope to see you there!

Brand New Challenge

This post will remain at the top of the blog for a couple of weeks, please scroll down for new posts

I’ve been champing at the bit for ages to get this new challenge started but have had to wait for various things to be in place first and at last they are!!

The new challenge will start on the 6th of November and to find out about the prize on offer and how you can have three chances to win it, either click on the picture above, or click here.

Hop on over to the challenge blog to get acquainted with the Design Team too.

I do hope to see you there.

Love is…….

Monday again already!! Still, at least that means Cute Daisy May time and this week the challenge is to make a card to express love for any occasion. I loved doing this because it gave me the excuse to use this fabulous image from sheet 8 and one of my absolute favourite sentiment stamps. I hope you can read it ok but in case you can’t, it says “Love is the shortest distance between two hearts”. I think this is a wonderful sentiment and if only we could live by it  from the pettiest sqabbles to negotiations between those in positions of power, I’m sure the world would be a better place.

Ok, I’ll get down off my soap box now and on to the card details. Once I had decided what I wanted to do, it came together quickly and easily. The bp’s are from my polished stone brights and pastels collections and the top two thirds of the large piece were put through the c/bug texture folder which gave it rather a nice distressed effect. The two hearts behind the fairy are from an elusive images set and the image has been coloured with whispers strokes pens and sakura stardust pens. The only embellishments are the grossgrain ribbon – which incidentally is purple and not blue as it looks in the pic – and the three baby’s breath flowers. I like the multi tone effect with these but once again have more purple in them than the pic shows.

I’m also entering this card into these challenges (thank you all for the inspiration)

Saturday Challenge – Dig Deep, use an old stamp. My sentiment stamp is one I’ve had for ages

Charisma Cardz – It’s so Distressing!

PaperPlay - Favourite Embellishment – ribbon and flowers

MTTC – Quick & Cute

ABC Challenge - F is for flying

Thank you for stopping by today and I hope that you’ll pop over and join us this week for the Cute Daisy May challenge.

As for me, well I’m disappearing to take my hubby to an emergency dental appointment – the poor soul’s got terrible toothache.

Fairy-nuff!

Good Monday morning to you all. It’s Cute Daisy May Challenge time again and this week it’s simply entitled ‘Fairy-nuff’ – this is because Linnie is really quite partial to fairies and I must say that I totally agree and she’s drawn some beauties for us to play with too. Once again, I’ve taken my inspiration from several challenges and I’ll share which ones with you as I go along.

The sketch from the card is from the current Friday Sketchers although I have changed it slightly from oval to round so I hope that’ll be ok. It’s a lovely sketch though. My CDM fairy (from sheet no:8) has been coloured with coloursoft pencils which have a lovely sheen, it’s such a pity that it doesn’t show too well on photos – and she’s sitting on the edge of a circular frame that comes complete with bow that I’ve coloured using inktense pencils and then added twinkling H2os to when the inktense was dry. The frame will be available from Crafty Ann’s – hopefully either today or tomorrow. Daisy and the frame were mounted onto a piece of white card that was put through the c’bug d’vine swirls folder. The colour way for this card came from DU2DS where we have been challenged to use ‘Yellow, Orange and Black or White’ ….erm I seem to have managed to use all four! My two bps are from K&CO and Crafty Ann’s. I’m also entering into Lots to Do who want us to use ‘Bright Colours’ and Ooh-la-la-Creations who ask us to use shapes this fortnight.

I hope you’ll come and join us at CDM this week – the other DT cards are definitely worth checking out. Don’t forget that you can use any image you like, it doesn’t have to be a Cute Daisy May – but you would be in with a chance of winning a sheet of images if you enter.

Pink Christmas

It’s monday again already! I don’t know where these weeks are going to, I really don’t. Never mind, I’ve had a lovely time making this card for no less than nine challenges.  I’d love to make a separate card for each one but it just isn’t possible at present so I like to have a good look around current challenges and let as many as possible inspire me. This week at Cute Daisy May Challenge the theme is “Pink Christmas” and the Cuttlebug Spot have “Pretty in Pink”. Now, despite being blonde, I don’t really ‘do’ pink – do you think I’ve used enough???? DU2DS have “Punched shapes or die cuts” as their theme and my die cuts are my two mats, each of which have been put through cuttlebug folders. Creative Inspirations want “Christmas in October”, Creative Card Crew want “All that sparkles”, Theme Thursday want “Wings” and ABC Challenge have “E is for embossing” this week. My final two challenges are Cooking it up with Katie whose recipe this week is to “use metal, a border punch and the image must be of something that would breathe”. Okay Katie, I might be pushing the boundaries a bit but my border punch is one that you thread things through and my metal part is the foil ribbon threaded through the punched border and the foil card I’ve used for the silver mat (hope this is ok Katie). My final challenge is Pile it on who ask for “3D and combining with at least one other challenge” You can’t see it too well in the photo, but I’ve added the image with silicone glue which makes it stand out nicely in real life and I think the second part of the challenge has been covered!

The image is from sheet 15 and I’ve coloured it with whispers strokes pens and sakura stardust pens and added some crystal glitter to the wings and the top of the stocking. The bp’s are my own.

I must confess that I tend to avoid challenges that won’t allow you to combine with others, like I said earlier I’d love to make something separate for each one but my opportunity to craft is limited and as each entry helps to keep a challenge going, I’d rather enter into as many as I can for each card I post.

I hope you will come and join us at Cute Daisy May this week, we love to see your creations and you can combine our challenge with others and use any image not just Daisy May.

Diva Daisy!

Good Monday morning visitors.  It’s Cute Daisy May Challenge time again and this week’s challenge is As Easy As 1,2,3! It’s a simple recipe of : 1 ribbon, 2 buttons and 3 flowers. Now ribbons and flowers are a doddle – use them constantly but I obviously don’t use buttons as often as I used to because I really had to search for some to go with this colour way. I finally found these and might as well ‘fess up now that they’re really supposed to be snowflakes – but if you squint a bit they could almost pass as stars lol!

The bp’s are from my stash and the grey piece has been put through the c/bug music folder and edged with silver glitterations peel offs.  If you add the peel offs before you put the card through the ‘bug, it helps to really stick them down well!

The image is from sheet 49 and I couldn’t wait to use it! I coloured it with a mixture of coloursoft pencils and sakura stardust pens. I used silver and purple on her clothes and created the ’spotlight’ with the clear one applied with a waterbrush.  For once, I’m actually quite pleased with the picture – I took it near a window with the sun coming through it to try to highlight the sparkle and it worked!!

I don’t watch the X Factor, but personally I think that all the other contestants may as well go home now – our Daisy looks like a runaway winner to me

I hope you’ll come and join us in this week’s challenge, we love to visit your blogs and you don’t have to use a Cute Daisy May image to enter but you would be in the running to win a sheet of your choice.

Autumn Birthday

Wow – two cards in one week!!!!! This one is for our daughter-in-law’s birthday next month. It’s 21cm square and has been inspired by these challenges:

The Pink Elephant for the lovely sketch which I can see me using again.

Ooh-la-la Creations, Creative Inspirations and Stamp with fun all have an Autumn/Fall theme

Digital Tuesday is falling leaves – my fallen leaves are on the main image.

The bps are all my own and the glittery ‘mats’ have been created with a very narrow DST and glitter. The burnt orange bp has been put through the cuttlebug birds and swirls folder.

The image is one of my own and is available as a digi stamp from Crafty Ann’s and has been coloured using coloursoft pencils and inktense pencils.

Thank you to all the above challenge setters for the inspiration and thank you for your visit today.

Catch A Falling Star….

I think Daisy might have trouble  putting this one in her pocket!! This week’s challenge at Cute Daisy May is texture and I thought I’d add another one to the christmas box. I’ve loved this image ever since I first saw it and it just seemed ideal for this challenge. Unfortunately, because I used a glittery ep it’s been difficult to get a photo that picks it all up. The 2 bps are my own and are actually purple and lilac but they have a but of a bluey tinge in the photo that isn’t there in real life. I’ve stamped and embossed snowflakes all over the paler bp and also the greeting at the bottom of the darker panel – which it is possible to read, honestly! lol!! It’s one of my all time favourite christmas stamps and says “May the spirit of Christmas last all year.”  Every time I use it I live in hope…….

The image is from sheet 92 and has been coloured with inktense pencils and sakura pens. I’ve used white glitter on Daisy’s clothes and  crystal glitter on the star. The cuttlebug swiss dots folder and a piece of grossgrain ribbon finish it off.

I’m also entering my card into these challenges:

Stamp Something – favourite colours or papers……purple and lilac certainly fit that bill!

Allsorts – snowflakes in september

Alphabet Challenge Blog – x is for……….Xmas in my case.

I hope you’ll all come and join us at CDM this week – we do look forward to visiting your blogs and seeing your lovely creations.

Baby – aaaahhhh!!

It’s monday and that means that it’s Cute Dasiy May Challenge time again and Net has given me the push to get ahead of myself this week.   The theme is ‘baby’ and as we don’t seem to have any new ones in the offing in the near future I decided to make our youngest Granddaughter’s first birthday card ready for next May!!

I have to say that this photo is the best of a bad bunch, this card looks much better IRL – but I suppose that’s what you get when you use white pearlescent card, guilded ivory emossing powder and white sparkly peel offs!  I decided to use a spring card and then took it a stage further and added two tiny ones for the animals. If you’d like the instructions for this type of card, along with an oval shaped variation, you’ll find them here. You  get the best results if you use a good card weight – in this case the card I used is 300 gsm. I made it from a sheet of A4 and the two small ones came from the piece I cut off so it was all from the one sheet. The measurements for the two small cards are 3cm x 6cm and I made them so that I could have the stuffed toys sitting upright. I love how it looks like Daisy is playing that game so beloved of babies of throwing her toys from the high chair for Mum or Dad to pick up lol! Daisy is from sheet 90 and the animals are from sheet 40.

I’ve coloured the images with Derwent coloursoft pencils and a sakura clear stardust pen. The diamond and base of the card have been stamped with a creative expressions corner flourish stamp and embossed with guilded ivory sparkle and sprinke embossing powder. The only other embellishments are the ribbon and the pink pearls. (I’d be lost if someone took my ribbons and pearls away!!)

I’m also entering my card into these challenges:

Digital Tuesday - It’s all about the kids

Stamp Something – Favourite embellishment (I’ve used two so I hope that’s ok)

Wednesday Stamper – open theme

I hope you’ll pop over to the Cute Daisy May Challenge blog and join in with us this week, we do enjoy visiting your blogs and don’t forget that you don’t have to use a Cute Dasiy May image to join in.

Pink and ?

Good monday morning everyone – I love mondays because it means that it’s Cute Daisy May Challenge time again…….I think this little lady keeps me sane!

This week our brief is to put pink with our own choice of colour. This was a great challenge and the hardest part for me was choosing which colour to team the pink with – I hadn’t realised just how many colours I like with pink and I’m not really a ‘pink’ person. Maybe I should duck at this point because I know many of you are lol! I finally settled on grey and the two bps are: the grey one from my stash and the pink one is one of my own. The image is from sheet no 83 and I’ve been wanting to use it ever since Linnie produced it. I’ve coloured the image using Whispers stroke pens and got the shimmery effect by going over the clothing area with a thin wash of Twinkling H2Os. I’ve used this technique before and it gives rather a good fabric effect – in this case I think it looks quite chiffony but I’ve also used it over a deeper colour where it gave a velvety effect.

I’ve kept it pretty simple and just added a cuttlebug corner, some pink pearls, silver ribbon and glittery peel offs to finish it. Hmmmmm – having read that list, it sounds less simple doesn’t it??

I’m also entering this into a new (to me) challenge that I have just found, Penny’s Challenges where this week we’re asked to use pearls.

I hope you’ll come and join us at Cute Daisy May this week. Remember that you don’t need to use a Daisy May image to enter and you could win a sheet of Daisy May images. If you need any more inspiration just check out the cards from the rest of the fabulous DT.

Thank You!

I’ll start this post with an apology because I think it’ll be quite brief. My back is playing up really badly and I’m not sure how long I’ll be able to sit here – so if I don’t get round your blogs as quickly as usual, that’s why and I’ll apologise now.

Anyway, enough of that, on to today’s card. It’s my DT card for this week’s Cute Dasiy May Challenge and we are saying thank you. I have gone for a 6″ square card and cut in top right hand corner off in a curve. The brown bp used on the front and the inside is one of my own and I was able to use up some pieces left over from another project. I’ve edged these with glitter peel offs from Anitas. I used them for the first time on a commissioned card last week and really like the effect. The image is from sheet 39 and has been coloured with Twinkling H2Os and Whispers stroke pens. The matt gold card has been put through the c/bug stylized flowers folder. I always enjoy creating anything but this particular card just seemed to come together with ease so particularly enjoyed it.

It’s also suitable for the following challenges:

Allsorts – no rubber stamping. My image is a digi image and the greeting is a peel off.

C.R.A.F.T. – embossing

ABC Challenge – C is for circles

Tanda Teaser – Floral Fantasy

Wednesday Stamper – Dogs

Stamp Something – Animals

Thank you for your visit today and I hope to visit you in turn as soon as I can (gotta have my fix!!). I hope you’ll come and join us for the Cute Daisy May Challenge and give us all lots of lovely blogs to visit – don’t forget that you can use any image to join in.

The Secret Guest

Good monday morning everyone! It’s Cute Daisy May Challenge time again and this week the theme is blue and green. My DT sample this week is the promised ’sequel’ to the Day Trip wall hanging that I posted on Saturday (see post below) and it looks as though I wasn’t the only one keeping an eye on our Daisies as they enjoyed their trip to the countryside! I’m just pleased that none of them stood on her by accident lol!

I’ve coloured the image using coloursoft pencils and a mixture of media to get the tones I wanted for the grass – namely, distress ink, brilliance ink and twinkling H2Os and I must say that I was very pleased with the result and that the green in the image goes better in real life with the green bp than the photo makes it look. We had horrendous rain here yesterday and the lighting I had to use to take the photo seems to have changed the shade of the green on my painted image slightly. The fairy is from sheet 87 and the background is the same as on Day Trip but enlarged and only a part of it used.

Both bps are my own and the double baby’s breath flowers are from a stem I bought from my local garden centre.

I’m also entering my card into these challenges:

Friday Sketchers – thank you for another lovely sketch

Lots to do – paper craze

One Stop Craft Challenge – I believe in Angels/Fairies (of course!!)

I hope you like my slightly off the wall take on these challenges and that you’ll come an join us for the Cute Daisy May Challenge this week and help us to welcome our new Guest Designer Gez for her first challenge in this role.

Day Trip

I’ve had this in mind for about 3 weeks! It’s for our card swap on the Creating Rainbows Forum and our brief this month was anything BUT a card and this has been such fun to make. I decided to go for a wall hanging and I love how Linnie draws the Cute Daisy May images in different positions which gives lots of scope for using them. Here I’ve combined 4 images from sheets 46, 54 & 71 although there are lots of others I could have chosen. I hope they’re enjoying their day out but I think I’d better keep an eye on the little one on the bridge because she looks somewhat out of her comfort zone to me! I’ve added them to one of my own scenic digi stamps and this little ’snapshot’ has been framed behind one of the new frames I’m working on. I’ve used a variety of media to colour this project – coloursoft with and without baby oil, inktense, distress ink, brilliance ink and sakura pens.  I’ve decoupaged the flowers in the corner of the frame although they are an instrinsic part of the frame so I didn’t actually need to.

I’m entering my wall hanging into these challenges:

Cute Card Thursday – Lazy Dayz

Theme Thursday – Seasons

Truly Scrumptious – anything but a card

The Pink Elephant – summer

Our Creative Corner – a colour challenge

I hope my swap partner will get as much pleasure from this as I have from making it. If you pop by on Monday you’ll be able to see the 2nd installment of this story

Daisy’s Not Lazy!

Well, I think the late Mr Hope would be rather proud of our Daisy! I thoroughly enjoyed making this card and knew I would as soon as Net set the challenge for this week at Cute Daisy May. She simply called the challenge “The Word” and wanted the sentiment or saying to be the main focal point of the card. It took all week before the idea got from my head onto card stock but that was because of real life getting in the way but I knew exactly what I wanted to do as soon as I saw this fabulous image from sheet 70. There are now 81 sheets when I looked this morning but past experience tells me that by the time you take a look there’ll probably be more!

I’m entering this card into 3 other challenges too:

DU2DS – Blue, Green and White or Cream

Lots To Do – Free Theme

ABC Challenge – A is for Anything Goes

The dp is from K & Company and I edged it with memento Blue Danube ink. The Text is computer generated and happily, almost an exact match for the ink! The frame is one of my own that I’ve started working on and everything has been coloured with twinkling H2Os. The only other embellishments are the blue flat backed cyrstals.

Thank you for your visit today and I hope you enjoy looking at the card as much as I enjoyed making it.

I hope you’ll pop along and join us for this week’s Cute Dasiy May Challenge and be in with a chance of winning a sheet of your choice. While you’re there, why not check out the Guest DT call that’s open till the 31st of August?

A Toast To A 21st And A Couple of Challenges!

I’m experimenting with putting pictures this size on instead of clickables – what do you think? Is it easier for you to see it this size without having to click on it or do you prefer a smaller one that you click on if you wish to? I’d be interested to know what you think.

Anyway, on to the card. It’s for one of my nephews who will be 21 in a few days time. The stamps are a Create – a – Scene set and make great cards for men. I stamped onto stardream card and embossed with a brown fine detail ep that was supposed to be gold and I just kept it and bought a different gold one. It’s come in quite handy for cards like this one but it’s one of those situations that when it’s gone that’s it. I’ve added a little colour to the image using inktense pencils. The sketch is from Friday Sketchers that I’ve wanted to use since I saw it and it has proved to be ideal for this card. I cut out the two shaped mats and the 21 using the robo which makes it suitable for Saturday Surprise where the theme is shapes.

The card that looks beige in the photo is actually subtly shot through with gold and I put the rectangular piece through the cuttlebug.

Thank you for visiting today.

S is for Birthday???

This card is for my sister’s birthday and 3 challenges (although I personally have doubts about the legality of baby sisters actually being allowed to turn 40 at all – but we’ll let that pass!!)

It’s a flip card with a stair fold on the inside.  I’ve kept it simple but fairly tactile – my sister has no problems with her eyesight but as far as she’s concerned the more tactile the better. I’ve used white pearlescent and gold mirri card for everything except the image inside. The image is one of my own digi stamps – tropical beach and has been coloured with coloursoft pencils. Her very own tropical island – this one is called Margaretique lol!! The challenges it’s for are:

Rainbow Lady – S is for…….in this case it’s scene

Stamp with Fun – Birthday

Pile It On – No pattern paper and combining with at least one more challenge.

I really enjoyed making the card but won’t tell you how long I struggled to get photos of it and I’m still not really satisfied with them but as I needed to get the card in the post, they’ll have to do. Thank you for your visit today and for the comments you leave, they are all much appreciated.

Floral Fantasy

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Good morning, it’s that time of the week again! The Cute Daisy May Challenge this week is called ‘Floral Fantasy’ so you have an excuse to go mad with the flowers. I often use flowers anyway so had to try to think of something a bit different for this. I used one of the flower heads from my blossoms sheet to create a kind of wreath and also printed off quite a few separate ones to add with silicone glue for dimension. I added Daisy to the wreath digitally to create the one image before printing it off. My colouring medium was twinkling H2Os.  What you can’t see clearly in the picture is that the Dasiy wreath and flowers have been added to a piece of white cuttlebugged card with silicone glue. I like using silicone for this sort of thing because I can vary the height of things and can still have the separate flowers standing proud of the rest. The image is from sheet 56 and is one I loved from the minute I saw it, although Linnie’s pencil is so prolific that there are new images to fall for constantly – at the time of writing there are no less than 74 sheets to choose from!

The two dps used are my own (have you noticed that I have elevated my papers from backing papers to designer papers?!? Well, I do design them lol!) and the embellishments are satin ribbon and liquid pearls.

I really enjoyed making this and do hope you’ll pop along to see the rest of the DT cards and join in with us this week – it could be you getting to choose which one of those 74 sheets to have as your prize this week.

Daisy at Christmas

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I can’t believe it’s Monday again already!! Last week’s entries for the Cute Daisy May challenge were fabulous and it was such a joy to visit all your blogs – I’m really looking forward to seeing what you come up with this week. If you haven’t already guessed our subject this week is Christmas so that’s another one for the box!

My DT card uses my own bp, some silver mirri card put through the swiss dots C/B folder and 3 CDM digi stamps. The tree are: Daisy from sheet 44, her front door from sheet 45 and the Lamp post from sheet 42. I’ve coloured the images with coloursoft pencils and baby oil and added both crystalina and white glitter. The white glitter is ideal for snow, the only trouble is that I don’t know where to find anymore – this was a liitle tube in a kit from QVC several years ago so I don’t know who the maker is.

The only embellishments are a white satin bow and the silver dome ‘gems’ in the two opposite corners.

I do hope you’ll join us again this week, don’t forget that you don’t have to use a CDM image to join in but you may win a sheet of them!

Daisy’s New Best Friend

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Good morning! It’s monday again and that means Cute Daisy May Challenge time – yipee!! I’m getting so little crafting time just now that I think my DT cards are keeping me sane – albeit just lol!

This week our theme is friendship…..such a lovely theme to work with as it has so many possibilities – just check out the rest of the fabulous DT cards and you’ll see what I mean.

You don’t have to use a Daisy May image to enter the challenge and I’ve taken advantage of that fact in the little scene I’ve created here. Daisy has a new BF – Willow from Whiff of Joy. I used stamps from stampscapes for the hedge, grass and sky and the rest are CDM digi stamps – Daisy and the gate from sheet 48, the front door from sheet 45 and the bird house from sheet 41. I did the masking to create the scene digitally and love how much flexibility this gives me. The masking also makes it suitable for the Stampin’ for the Weekend Challenge this week. I’ve used coloursoft pencils and blended on parts of the image with baby oil. The two dps are: artylicious for the large one and my own for the smaller piece. The flower is from my blossoms sheet and has been coloured with a sakura pen and finished with a gem for the centre. I’m also entering this card into the Papertake Weekly Challenge which is to choose your own colour combo from pink, black, white, yellow, green, grey and lilac using as many or as few as you wish.

This is one of those cards that actually look better in real life because the patterned background paper doesn’t dominate in the same way as it seems to in the photo.

Thank you for popping by today, I do appreciate your visit and all the comments you leave. I hope we’ll see you coming out to play with Cute Daisy May this week.

Hats Challenge

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This lovely image is from Cute Daisy May sheet 51 and I have sat her on the WOJ tree stump. It’s for Rainbow Lady’s Challenge which is Hats this week.

I’ve coloured the image with coloursoft pencils blended with baby oil and sponged brilliance sky blue ink for the sky. The two white triangles have been put through the cuttlebug divine swirls folder and edged with pentouch silver ink. The main bp is one of my own. The silver mat was cut out using the robo. The embellishments are a piece of satin ribbon and two butterfly crystals.

Cute Daisy May Sketch

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I can’t believe that another whole week has flown by already, but it must have because it’s Monday again! The good thing about Mondays is that it’s Cute Dasiy May time again. This week we are following one of Net’s lovely sketches. I’ve used one of Linnie’s latest images which are all fabulous – I don’t know how she does it, but they just keep getting better and better! This one is from sheet no 51. What is a first for me is that I’ve used distress inks as my colouring medium – I think I need some more practise but I can see me using them again. Both of the bps are my own and the small piece of gold matt card has been put through the c/bug birds and swirls folder. The sentiment is a gold peel off that I changed the colour of with espresso alcohol ink.

Thank you for your visit today, and I hope you’ll be able to join us again this week, we’ve had a lovely time looking at your blogs this last week – and don’t forget that you can use any image on your entry.