Crafty Catz colour combo challenge DT card

Good evening hope you are all ready for the weekend hope it is a good one for you all. They say the weather should be reasonable so fingers crossed. Just been for another walk to the field with Buddy gosh this dog will either get me fit or kill me. lol.

Today being Friday brings round another challenge for you at Crafty Catz and this time it is the lovely Linda who has just celebrated another Birthday so Happy Birthday Linda.

Well she has pick a rather fab colour combo for you all to play along with this week.

PINK & BROWN

Our sponsor this week is the fab digital company

Digital Delights

who are giving the winner 3 digi images of their choice

The team this week where lucky enough to be given some images to play with and i picked this little cutie

Papers are from a old pad think it is called the big one from papermania gosh there was soo many pages but just love them. Embossed a oval with a cuttlebug folder and sat her on a spellbinders die. Coloured with my promarkers. Touch of Satin Ribbon few candy dots and a little flower with gem brad centre to finish off. Sentiment is from a wooden stamp with no name. I have decorated the inside to match but with out the images.

Well hope you like my little card and have you checked out the rest of the team to see what image they picked to play with. Did you enter last weeks challenge are you our winner. Thank you all that entered it was an awesome turnout again.

How about combining the sketch from Guylou's below with out colour theme that would be amazing.

I will be entering this into the following challenges

Craft Us Crazy - anything goes(thur)

Kelleys kids - Pink & Brown

Guest DT for Guylou's Inimitablity challenge Card

Good morning today I am thrilled to share with you my card I made for a Guest spot at Guylou's Inimitability Blog as part of the prize for winning their Stars and Stripes challenge.

This time around, Carmen is our host and she is challenging us to make a project using this wonderful sketch she created for us.



Prize

A random winner will be selected from all the qualifying entries. Please make sure you follow our Challenge Guidelines listed on the left. The winner will be awarded a $5 gift certificate from Guylou's Inimitability Store and will also be invited to be a Guest Designer on an upcoming challenge.
This week we where given this brilliant sketch to play with. I love doing sketches as it makes life so easy. You can use any image but please checkout the fab images at the shop and they are such good prices. So please come and join us in this fab challenge. If you fancy trying the images there are is a freebie for you to play along with at the blog here. We would love to see what you come up with. You can resize or flip the sketch but as long as we can still see the original sketch that is fine with us.

My card features one of Guylou's fab digi images called Leah and you can find it here. The sentiment is also from Guylou's. Image is coloured with my Promarkers. Papers are from a Papermania pad and the flowers are from Wild Orchid a birthday present from a good friend. A few gems for the corners to finish.
Well i do hope you like my card and please come and join us we would love to come and visit you.
This card also fits the following challenges

A peep into what I did at the weekend

Well this weekend was a busy one for me because I had the most wonderful time with my friend. A friend I made on docrafts many many moons ago who has been such a good friend came up from West Sussex. Her name for peeps that are on docrafts is Queen B (Avril) she is the lady in the brown blouse say next to me. Last year I was very poorly and spent a while in hospital and between her and my 2 other friend Tillytrotter stood behind her and Jules stood behind me in the picture decided we would meet up. So this weekend she arrived on her way up north with her husband Rex lovely friendly man. Saturday they arrived and stayed in the priemer inn not far away so I could pop down and meet them taking spare cups tea bags milk and biscuits as these places never give you enough. Ended up staying for my tea which was really lovely and gosh time flew. Sunday we arranged all to meet. I went to pick Jules up and then on to pick Avril and Rex up and off to Tillys for a super nosh up. Thanks Christine was lovely she said Cake and cuppa but no table was set.

We sat chatting and it felt like we had known each other for years well we had via email. I hope that it wont be years before we get to meet again.

So a big thank you to my friend for a smashing weekend I totally enjoyed myself.

No cards were made as chatting got in the way but we did have a good nosey in Tillys craft room. Dont think she serched our bags on the way out either. lol

Fave Stamp Challenge at Creative Inspirations

Good evening from a very sleepy Manchester been to Clifton Country Park this afternoon with the dog and my 2 nephews and we walked miles in the sunshine so hence I could fall asleep as I type. Strange what a bit of sunshine and fresh air does to a person. Dog was asleep on way home and then slept for a good 2 hours and is now full of beans again. oops Chris will be walking him late tonight.

Well this being Wednesday is time for another challenge at Creative Inspirations and what a fab challenge Natalie has picked for us. Get out your Favourite Stamp and come and play along with us. Now I must say that I have so many and most have something to do with boys. lol. So i have gone with one of my new stamps from Stampavie.

Our sponsor this week is our own lovely Natalie who is giving away to the lucky winner some fab Christmas goodies

Image coloured with Promarkers. Stamp Gillian Roberts fishing fun. Papers from stash. I love fishing button. Candy dots. Satin ribbon from stash. Butterfly charm. M.S. punch.
Well hope you like my new stamp and why not pop over and check out the rest of the teams fave stamps too.
Look forward to popping by and seeing which is your current favourite.
Challenge this will fit is
Stamp something - dog days of summer
Clearly inspired- things with wings - butterfly
Raise the bar - Dog days of summer
Frosted Designs - animals
Crafts & Me - Blue or Blue/Green
Stamp with Fun -Sketch

Crafty catz - Emboss it

Good afternoon from a rainy Manchester just been to the shops for some milk with my new mate Buddy he ran me there and back. Now i thought this dog was my son's but I seem to do most of the walking mind you he is at work. lol. I think he is growing but he still doesn't eat his full portion of food but looks healthy enough.

Well enough of my drivel are you ready for another challenge. This week at Crafty Catz it is the lovely and talented Bridget's turn to set the challenge. She would like to see some embossing on your project so dry embossing heating embossing or any other type is fine by us.

Our sponsor for this week is Robyn's Fetish

who kindly gave us some images to play with.

The prize is either 5 images or 4 images & a paper pack

My card I picked this cute liitle guy just peeping over the wall reminds me of our puppy just so nosey. Papers are papermania and have used a fiskers embossing folder called bricks on the cream card. Paw print is a little stamp I have had ages but never used and thought i would stamp randamly as all puppies like to walk all over things well mine does. Some papermainia sheer ribbon to finish. The sentiment i think is a woodware set.
Well hope you like and if you need anymore inspiration you wont go wrong than to checkout the rest of the teams cards.
Do hope you ca find time to join us as we are waiting to pop by yours and see what stunning creations you come up with.

Creative Inspirations #124 - Button & Stitching

Good afternoon/evening gosh what a wet and miserable day we are having here in Manchester lets hope it keeps all the rioters at home. Well this being Wednesday means time for another challenge over at the Creative Inspirations blog you all seemed to love our lemonade challenge and we had some amazing cards so thank you all that joined in. Ok this week we would like you to add some stitching and buttons on your cards. I dont own a sewing machine yes naughty me slap my hand must get one really soon. So if like me you can always add some hand stitching or faux.

This weeks sponsor is Roybn Fetish who is kindly giving either 5 images or 4 images and 1 paper pack.

We where given some images to play along with this week and I picked this cute little lady called Angie Angel.

The papers are from Kate Knight called Totally Tropical. Sentiment is Lili of the Valley. Satin Ribbon, flowers and buttons from my stash. Image coloured with my promarkers . I have used a white gel pen from my faux stitching and the white Design paper is hand made paper with stitching on which I coloured with my pens to co ordinate.


Well think that is it hope you all keep safe and can come and join us in our little challenge.

This card also fits the following challenge
Cupcake crafts - stitching
KB Cute Monday - Anything goes using a digi
Paper creations ink - stitching

Crafty Catz Challenge94- Back to School

Oh gosh look at the time thought I had scheduled this but guess these senior moments are coming more and more. Lol. Well the sun has been shinning again and got all my washing done and a few walks with Buddy. Had to waiting for the electrican tonight he was coming after work but guess he had a senior moment to as when i phoned at 7 he said omg i forgot and came home on auto pilot. Coming dinner tomorrow fingers crossed.
Well as it is Friday that means another challenge over at Crafty Catz and this week we would like you to produce something to do with Back to School.
Our sponsor again this week is the fab company Stamping Boutique who has allowed us to play with some more images. I decided to make a book mark for mine. This allowed me to use some of my scrap papers and some cute little embellishments i had in my boxes. The sentiment is computer generated and i added a touch of twine to it.

So hope you will have a little time to spare and join us again this week. I noticed on Wikio blog we have gone up 2 places to number 16 so thank you all for making this possibel by joining in on our challenges. So for more inspiration pop over and checkout the rest of the talented team.

Have a great weekend what ever you are doing.

I will be entering this into Sir Stampalots challenge too

Hugs Sue xxx

Creative Inspirations DT Card- Lemonade

Good Wednesday Morning to you all and hope all is well in your world. Today sees another fab challenge over at Creative Inspirations and this week we would love to see you make your project useing the colours ONLY of LEMON & WHITE of course skin and hair colour is allowed.



Our sponsor this week is Simon Says Stamp and would like to thank them for their continued support. The winner will be given a $15 shopping spree.





My card I have used this fab Tilda doesnt she look adorable in Lemon. Thisnt a colour I normally colour in but must say do like her in it. No DP as I didnt have any the right colour. So I found a old papermania stamp and got the old embossing powder out to make my own, which I followed through to the inside as you will beable to see below.


Embossed some card with dots folder and added some papermania gems in the flower centres on the paper and a few gems on the flowers themselves. The sentiment came with the flower stamp.

Well I hope you like and will come join us this week we look forward to seeing lots of lovely lemon and white. Pop on over and checkout the rest of the team for more inspiration. Did you enter last week if so did you win the challenge.

Thanks for popping by and come back soon I will have some more cards for you.

Challenges this fits

Paper Shelter - flowers
Crafts & Me - anything goes

Anything Goes- Flowers

Sir stampalot - what ever you fancy

Bunny Zoe's - fun in the sun

Crafty Catz #93 - Christmas in July

Good friday morning to you all and are you ready for another challenge. Well this week it is Suzie's turn to set our challenge. So what would she like to see.

Christmas In July

Yes get out those Christmas stamps and start them you know you always need more. So if you havent started what a great excuse.

Our sponsor this week is STAMPING BOUTIQUE who is kindly giving the winner 3 images of their choice.

We where kindly given some more images to play with and here is my card for your inspiration. The papers are from a old papermania pad i have had for a few years. The snow flake is actually a leaf punch and the centre is a cuttlebug snowflake. Lots of glitter after all it is Christmas.

Well please pop by the blog and checkout the rest of the teams inspirational cards and see how this image looks so different on there cards.

Well hope you can find some time to play along and thanks for popping by. See you soon .
I am entering this into the following challenges
Pollycraft - christmas in july
Crafty Creations - christmas
Christmas inspiration- anything goes

Creative Inspirations#122 - A Sketch

Morning and gosh where are the weeks going it will be the end of summer at this rate. Hope you are all enjoying the school holidays. Well if you need to get rid of that stress then how about joining us in a challenge at Creative Inspirations. This week Nat has come up with another fab sketch (I do love her sketches). So any theme and you can flip re size as long as we can see the sketch.



This week we are sponsored by Digi Doodle Shop pop on over to our blog for more details
For my card I used a Lili of the valley stamp and used peach & green family to colour it. Coloured in my trustie Promarkers. Papers are Anna Griffin. Punch is a M.S doily round the page set. Some flowers with a few gems and my leaf punch. Satin ribbon to finish it off. The bow on the image has some stickles not sure if it shows up on the picture. The flowers are slightly less orange in real life so at least the reciprocant wont need sun glasses





Well that is my card for your inspiration so now it is your turn lets see what you come up with. Cant wait & thanks for stopping by.
I am entering this into
Simon Says Stamp & Show - anything goes (mon)
Stamp & fun=Creativity - No sentiment(mon)
There's magic in the air - Layers (mon)
Guylou's Inimitability- Recipe
The Crazy Challenge - Ribbons

Divas by design - Summer (colours) wed

I love Promarkers - Anything goes

New Member of the Family

I thought I would show you some pictures of our newest member to the family.

My son has always wanted a dog and yes I said dog not fox as people keep saying it looks like. His name is Buddy and is so far such a good natured thing and hardly ever barks unless he is playing but then it is more conversation. He is 4 1/2 months old and a shetland sheepdog will only stand about a 18inches tall. My froends think i am mad and I totally agree and soft as i kept saying No but he skips backwards when he gets excited and i just caved in.

Time to go home

So this is life with the Bennett's

Oh It's a hard life for a dog

What this is my bed at least I have my teddy

Hope he is as good tonight as last night and i get a full nights sleep again. So if I dont get round to much blogging I apolise but i need a cuddle.

Crafty Catz #92 - NO Pink or Blue

Good morning hope you are all well and the sun is shinning here in Manchester. Well today is Friday so that means another challenge at Crafty Catz and this week it is my turn to set the challenge. I do hope you will come and join us.

Ok the theme is a colour one with a difference. It is to not use these colours Pink & Blue.

So you can make lots of cards with anything else. Would be great for tradional christmas cards.


Our sponsor this week is Stamping Boutique who kindly gave the team some images to work with. They are giving the winner of this challenge 3 images of their choice how great is that.


I picked this fab image with these lovely flowers and used yellows i thought it would make a lovely card to send to someone to let them know that I was thinking of them. So this is winging it's way to a friend who is going through a difficult time. Hope she likes. Coloured with promarkers and used papermania capsule papers & ribbon. Used a few gems but kept fairly simple.




Well hope you like the card and dont forget to hop on over and checkout the rest of the teams work and please come and join us if you can we love popping by to see what you have made.
Thanks for popping by and see you soon.
I am entering this into stamping Boutque's monthly contest.
Hooked on crafts - with Love

Creative Inspirations # Around The World

Good evening a little late for posting this thought I had done it but a senior moment had arisen and I had dreamt it. Well guess better late than never and my apologies.

Well this week at Creative Inspirations it is Caroline's turn to pick the challenge and wow what a challenge. She would like you all to produce something to do with the theme

AROUND THE WORLD

Well I tell you this was completely out of my comfort zone my brain just went to sleep so after quick chat with Caroline and a few ideas floating around I managed to complete it.

Our sponsor for this challenge is Handy Hippo

Pop over to the blog and checkout the prize.

While you are there grab the code for some discount .

We also have another prize which is a Guest Dt spot.

Ok now for my card after our brain storming session and some idea's of different countries and what traditions they have. I found this digi stamp from PC Crafter with the North Pole on it well it is the other side of the world. i was looking for a digi of Santa flying round the world.

Image coloured with my promarkers. DP from last year think Dovecraft. Snowflake cuttlebug die. Sentiment sorry don't know the name of stamp. Silver mirri card and lots of glitter.

Well hope you like my card and for more idea's and inspiration please checkout the blog there are lots of different takes of the theme.
Challenge i would like to enter this into are
ABC Christmas challenge - use a stamp or digi over 12 months old.
Digi stamp4joy - Christmas in july
I love promarkers - christamas
The Crazy Challenge - christmas in july(mon)
KB Cute Monday - use a digi
Christmas inspiration - anything goes(sun)
Creative inspiration - Christmas in July

Glue or Tape

Good afternoon folks have a question for you. Do you use glue or tape to stick your card & DP together. I use double sided tape did get from papermil there own and was great price but sadly closed now and rapidly running out. I cant believe how much i use. Have used anita's glue but tend to ruin the paper.
So any tips or idea's are welcome.

A Card I didnt want to make

This is a card I made for Liz G's family some of you may know her if you are a docrafter. I was shocked to hear of her sad and sudden passing and although I generally don't make these i couldn't not send my condolences. The sentiment is a stamp I received this weekend from Laney and it just was the most perfect sentiment for this.

i am entering this into Simon says - anything goes

Crafty Catz challenge 91 Tags

Good Evening I have some bad news and some good to share with you all.
Well lets get the Bad out of the way first and hopefully the good will cheer you all up. The lovely Dawn has decided to step down from her postion on Crafty Catz and although she hasnt been with us long she will be missed and we wish her all the best. She is my twin as we both share the same birthday so i will be extra sorry to see her go but hopefully she will not be a stranger.

Now the good news I won 5 fab images at Tiddly inks from there new release wow it was soo hard to pick just 5. So if you havent checked them out what you waiting for. Also I have just found out I won Guylou's challenge and part of the prize will be a guest spot 1 week.

Also it being Friday and weekend is here so that means another challenge for you from Crafty Catz and this week it is the very talented Janette's turn to set the challenge. Must say not something i make or seem to use is TAGS so completely out of my comfort zone.

Our sponsor this week is Emma's Store, and the winner will recieve a stamp from Wild Rose Studio.

I decided to make a card and place my sentiment on the Tag so if you struggle you can do this too. I made this for Janette Daughter as a Graduation card. A little different but as i wanted the sentiment to be a large part i thought this was a good one. Anyway she has it and I believe she liked.
Image coloured with promarkers . DP Anna Griffin touch of ribbon over the lace. M.S butterfly punch. Few gems and flowers from Wild orchid and my stash.
Well hope you like and plaese pop by the rest of the teamies for more inspiration the are all so different and wonderful.








Challenges
Guylou's inimitability - receipe
Totally Paper Crafts - Girly Girls
Totally Gorjuss - Summertime ( colours and you graduate in the summer)
Cuocake crafts - fave challenge going girly
Simon says - anything goes

Creative Inspiration #120 - No Flowers

Good morning hope you are all enjoying the week half way through not long to weekend now. Today is the infants sports day at the local school so I will be going to cheer on my nephew.


Well as it is Wednesday it is time for another challenge at Creative Inspiration and this week we would love to see what you come up with as long as there are NO FLOWERS yes you read correctly so put them yummy flowers away and find some other embellishments.

Our sponsor this week is Mel Jen Designs

Who is kindly giving the winner 4 images of their choice.

Now for my card I decided to try something a little different in that I thought NO Flowers lets make it Clean & Simple. I used a Digi image from Bugaboo just love these they make me smile. The sentiment is a lot of my friends down to a Tee.

Brown shades used to tie in with the Chocolate theme and of course the lady has to have nice Pink lips. Image coloured with Promarkers and and the clouds are also done with sparkly chalks. Gold candy dots and the paper is from a Christmas pad with really lovely gold stripes. Nice coffee colour satin ribbon to finish. The inside has been decorated to co ordinate.

I will be entering this into the following challenges
Bugaboo - CAS (sat)
CCEE - In Chocolate colours (thur)
Little Claire - Pink & Brown (sat)
Deep Ocean Challenge- Cards (tues)
Pollycraft - Great Out door ( clouds) (mon)
Simon says - anything goes

In2stamps New Stamps Release & Chance to win

Hi folks have you seen what IN2STAMPS are releasing well here are sneak peeps and if you go check them out there is a chance to win these. So what are you waiting for hop on over HERE

First Christmas Card

Well another card from me today decided I should start my Crimbo cards and seeing there are a few challenges doing Christmas thought it would be good to join in. Hope you like I have done a few pictures and will try to keep this post short. Hope you like
Ingredients
image Lili of Valley
DP papermania
Flowers & metal spacer from stash
Punches Martha Stewart, leaf punch sorry don't know name
Sentiment - Unknown

Challenges this fits

Christmas challenge- sketch (wed)

House that Stamps Built christma in july( wed)

Little Red Waggon christmas in july-(wed)

The paper variety - Christmas in july (wed)

Craft Us Crazy - Christmas in July (thur)

Stampin with the Dragon christmas in july (fri)

Christmas stampin all year round - metal (fri)

Word Play Weekend Challenge - Christmas (sat)

Addicted to stamps - christmas

Harry Potters Replacement

Good evening hope you all have had a fab weekend and those of you that are Harry fans are not too sad that this is his last film. Well maybe my little fellow here could be the next Harry. This is another of my birthday stamps wasn't I lucky. Of course it is a Lili of the Valley and the layout is their latest challenge. I have coloured with my promarkers and then 3d glossed. DP is K&Co Sparkly Sweet. Lots of mirri card and the Black circle is a fabric paper which has the most amazing sparkle.Sentiment is also Lili of the Valley. Black gems to finish. The stars are done with a Quickutz die. I have done the side with the same papers to coordinate.

Challenges this card fits and i will be entering are

Lili of the valley - sketch (thur)

Paper Crafting Journey- For Him (thur)

Crafty Sentiments - Child ( thur)

Wags n Whiskers - Birthday (fri)

Guylou's inimitability - Stars & Stripes (fri)

Gem of a Challenge - Lets Hear it For the Boys ( Sat)

One Stitch at a time - anything goes ( sun)

Pollycraft - stars & stripes