Something other than pink!

Hi, Hope you all had a lovely weekend. I am looking forward to getting back to normal this week. My daughter had her operation on Thursday. She had a Liver biopsy, grommet insertion and adenoids taken out. She was the bravest girl ever. The only thing she complained about was her sore shoulder because she had to lie on her side for nearly 6 hours and because she was leaning on her shoulder it was hurting her. It was meant to be 4 hours but the nurses werent sure so kept her on her side until they checked! Yes.. took them 2 hours to check it out!! Dont get me wrong the staff were extremely good, went beyond the job description to make all the kids on that ward feel at ease and comfortable. 

Here is my card that i rattled up tonight while watching Dancing On Ice! The sketch is from the Sugar Bowl Challenge. Great sketch to work with. My cutie is coloured in with Pro markers. I am usually a pastel colour girl but really liked these bold colours together. Over at the CES challenge the challenge is no Designer Papers, it was hard not to reach into the paper stack but i managed! I distressed the edges of all the white and teal paper with walnut ink.

The swirls and leaves are die cuts from my Cricut and the flowers as usual were home made and touched up with stickles. The gems and ribbon are out my stash.

I am entering the card into the following challenges;

http://sugarbowlblog.blogspot.com/ - Sketch

http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/ - Teal and Brown

http://ceschallenges.blogspot.com/ - No Designer Papers

http://thestampmanchallenges.blogspot.com/ - Distressed

http://stampinbsdesignteam.blogspot.com/ - Die Cuts

http://paperplaychallenges.blogspot.com/ - Cutie Patootie

http://peartreedesigns.blogspot.com/ - Anything Goes

http://stampchallenges.blogspot.com/ - Anything Goes

Thats a lot of challenges with one card! I am now off to try and get a few hours sleep!

Thanks for visiting and having a look!

Sugar Fix!

First of all, sorry about the poor photo. Its 2am and possibly the worst time to start taking photos! I couldnt sleep tonight so decided to have a sugar fix! Here is my entry to "The Sugar Bowl". The theme was to use the sketch given and the colour scheme of Black and White with one other. I chose pink as you can see! The sktech was a really good one to follow. I coloured my Gorgeous girl with promarkers. I love colouring these girls in and especially love colouring their hair!

I have also entered the card into the CES challenge. The theme is Lovely Lace so i have used 2 layers of the lace overlapping and think it adds a bit more depth to it. Passion for Promarkers challenge is "Stitching and Distressing. As you can see i have used Faux stitching around the black layer and also used my pricking took  around the other layers to create the "stitched" look! As for the distressing, i used black distress ink all around each layer. I didnt go too mad with it since its not really one of my best techniques and didnt want it to end up a mess. This is a area i need to improve on..lots!

So here is the links to the challenge blogs;

http://sugarbowlblog.blogspot.com/- Sketch and Black & White + One!

http://ceschallenges.blogspot.com/ - Lovely Lace

http://promarkerchallenge.blogspot.com/ - Stitching and Distressing

Thank You for taking the time to look!

Traditional Tilda!

This is my latest attempt at playing along with some challenges! The Challenge over at Crafty Emmas Store Challenge is to create a tag, the tag shape is cut from my Cricut Plantin Schoolbook. The papers are from a Papermania pack that i bought recently and the white mat was embossed through my Cuttlebug with the snowflakes folder. The colour scheme fits with the Totally Tilda challenge which is traditional Xmas green and red. I coloured Tilda in using my Promarkers and used glossy accents and glitter to sparkle her up a bit.  Over at Papertake Weekly the challenge is 3 of a kind so i have used 3 gems on each layer to finish the tag off. My sentiment was cut from my Cricut Wild Card Cartridge. I have also played along with A Spoonful Of Sugar challenge which is Winter Wonderland.

Here is a list of the challenge blogs that i have entered!

http://totallytilda.blogspot.com/ - Traditional Red and Green.

http://aspoonfullofsugarchallenge.blogspot.com/ - Winter Wonderland.

http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/ - 3 of a kind.

http://ceschallenges.blogspot.com/ - Create a Tag.

Thanks for looking and leaving such lovely comments!

Christmas Tilda.

Hope everyone is having a lovely Sunday. Heres what i made today for the CES Challenge which is to make a Christmas Easel card. I have also played along with Just Magnolias Sketch for this week. Its a lovely sketch   to work with. The papers i used is DCWV Rose Tinted Christmas that i had left over from last year. I think i will buy some more this year cos some of the papers are great for girly xmas cards. 

 I coloured my Candy Cane Tilda using promarkers. I have embossed the circle and the bottom of the easel card using my cuttlebug and snowflake folder. The snowflakes are cut from my potpourri cartridge. This is one of my favourite cuts on this cartridge, just that bit different from my other snowflake dies is have.

The sentiment is from a pack of xmas sentiments that i bought a few weeks back. As usual i have added a few gems to finish off. 

Again my picture quality aint that great, sorry! 

Heres the link to the challenges i have entered today.

http://fabnfunkychallenges.blogspot.com/ - What eva!

http://justmagnolia.blogspot.com/ - Sketch.

http://ceschallenges.blogspot.com/ - Christmas Easel card.

Thanks very much  for looking and taking the time to comment! Its great to see what people think of my cards.

Also a quick note to say thanks to my new followers, again it means a lot.

Animal Crackers!

This is a card i made tonight for a few different challenges. The challenge at Creative Inspirations was to create a card thats anything other than a square or rectangle so i made this scalloped circle card. I cut the card base using my Cricut wild card cartridge as well as the 2 circle layers. The paper is from Bo Bunny. I really like pink and brown at the moment. The image of the rabbit is a LOTV stamp. It is meant to have a balloon in his hand but i just wanted the rabbit this time! The rabbit image fits with Pear Tree Designs challenge and also A Spoonful of Sugar challenge where animals is the theme for both. Passion for Promarkers challenge is "Sweet Treat" so the little cup cake is a perfect treat for that challenge! The flowers are punched and layered and finished with pearls. The challenge at CES is "Floral Frenzy" so the flowers and the floral paper fit with it great. This will be my first time entering at CES, its just a new challenge blog and looks great! I wanted to do something different with the ribbon on this card so i pleated it along the length of the card and put a bow at the side of the image and embellished with a couple of pins. I have also played along with the challenge over at Die Cut Dreams where they are looking for Pearls and Pins. I was going to add a sentiment to the card but i decided to leave it blank for now until i have a use for it!

Heres the links to the challenges i entered;

http://creativeinspirationschallenge.blogspot.com/ - anything except square or rectangle!

http://ceschallenges.blogspot.com/ - Floral Frenzy

http://peartreedesigns.blogspot.com/ - Animals

http://aspoonfullofsugarchallenge.blogspot.com/ - Animals

http://diecutdreams.blogspot.com/ - Pearls and Pins

http://promarkerchallenge.blogspot.com/ - Sweet Treats!

Thanks for having a look and have a good night! (Well its now actually morning!)