An Apple a Day......

Hi all,

This week at Delightful Challenges, the challenge theme is "Red, White & Blue", no doubt linking up with the 4th of July. As we don't celebrate that here in the Netherlands, I decided to make a Get Well Soon card using the lovely apple image. You know, an apple a day keeps the doctor away ;) The tear-shaped dew drops looked a bit like apple seeds to me, so I added it on there, even though the apple isn't cut in half.

I had to be in the city for a graduation ceremony of some of my students and on the way back I popped into a craft store. I bought this lovely set of stencils and had a play with one of them (the honeycomb) straight away on this card. I like the look and think I will be using it quite a few times! The set also includes handwriting, paint splashes and a brick wall stencil.

Materials:
* Digital Delights Apple digi, coloured with Promarkers & Spectrum Noirs
* Co'ordinations Vintage Collection Retro Mod Squad CS
* Panduro Design Stencil, using Chipped Sapphire Distress Ink
* Recollections Washi Tape
* Tear Dew Drops from Robin's Nest
* Personal Impressions Sentiment Stamp
* Red Glitter from stash

We are being sponsored by 

Offering a 25 dollar store certificate to the challenge winner! Now that's a nice prize :)

Challenges:
* ABC Challenge (Red, White & Blue)
* Creative Card Crew (No Designer Paper)
* Paper Playtime (Red, White & Blue)
* Created with Love Challenge (4th of July or Red, White & Blue)
* Oozak (Anything Goes with a Sentiment)
* My Heart Pieces (Use a Digi)
* Simply Create Too (Use the Colours in Your Flag)
* Get Inky (Red, White & Blue)
* Hobbycutz (Anything with H) Honeycomb pattern stencil
* Creative Inspirations Paint (Red, White and Blue)

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Sunny Barnaby

Hi everyone,

My workday is almost over, as I am off tomorrow because we are celebrating our 3rd wedding anniversary. Ever since we got together, we celebrated every year with a little outing; one year I organise it and my hubby doesn't know what we will be dong, the other year it's the other way around. This year it's my turn, it was pretty fun thinking of a place to go but I think I've sorted it :) The weather is supposed to be really great, which is always a bonus of course :)

Anyway, we are celebrating this summer weather over @ Delightful Challenges,as our challenge is to "Include a sun somewhere or use a summer theme" for your project. This month's new release is all about summer, including the cute Strawberry Barnaby. I think this image would also work very well on a gift tag for a jam jar, but I used it on a card instead.

We are sponsored this week by Digital Delights, offering a

Why not join us this week, we'd love to see what you can do with this theme!

Materials:
* Digital Delights Strawberry Barnaby, coloured with Promarkers & Spectrum Noirs
* DCWV Mango Frost, Echo Park For the Record & First Edition Spring Feast DPs
* Kars Gefeliciflapsteerd Sentiment Stamp
* Memories Direct Flower
* Vintage Berries Card Candi
* Peel offs stickers & Silver Glitter from stash

Challenges:
* QKR Stampede (Any Winged Creature)
* Crafts 4 Eternity (3 things beginning with B) Bee, Berries, Bright Colours
* Get Inky (Good Golly Glitter)
* Pink Gem (Summer Time)
* Crazy 4 Challenges (Summer Inspiration) Summer Fruits and Colours
* Robin's Fetish (Use a Digi)
* Glitter 'n Sparkle (Anything with a B) Bee, Berries, Bright Colours
* Passion for Promarkers (All that Glitters)
* Craft Room Challenge (Use Your Scraps)
* Alota Stamps (Summer Feeling)

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Getting Fruity

Morning all!

Ooh, the weather is so lovely, it really is starting to look like summer! And about time if you ask me, I'm looking forward to skirts and dresses without tights and bare feet :)

First of all, thank you all again for your lovely comment you've left me over the week and my apologies for not coming to visit you. There was barely enough time to take care of my DT duties and the entire month of June seems to be about the same. But I will come and return the favour and visit your lovely blogs, bear with me :)

In the mean time, I have a card to share with you for the new challenge @ Fab 'n Funky, where we challenge you to get your five a day by using fruit in creations. We are sponsored this week by the lovely Stamp Fairy and we received some images to play with, here's Lenny holding some cherries:

Materials:
* Stampfairy Lenny Fruits 3, coloured with Promarkers & Spectrum Noirs
* DCWV Street Lace, Echo Park For the Record & Flower Fairies DPs
* MS Doily Lace edge punch
* Card Candi Vintage Berries
* Red Twinkles
* Whimsy Stamps Summertime sentiments

I basically had to search through my entire crafty stash, as I didn't seem to have anything fruity at all in my stash! No papers, no embellishments, nothing! Safe to say, a huge oversight on my part, which I'm sure I will rectify fairly shortly ;) I finally dug up some paper from the bottom of the pile with cherries on, so I did manage after all. I hope you can join us, I am looking forward to your vitamin-C rich creations :)

Challenges:
* My Heart Pieces (Use a Sentiment)
* Whimsy Stamps (Anything Goes)
* Simon Says Stamp (Anything Goes)
* Shelley's Images (Show Us What You Got)
* Get Inky (Good Golly Glitter)
* Cutie Pie (3,2,1 Recipe) I used 3 DPs, 2 Card Candi & 1 image
* Mayzy Art (Sweets)
* Songbird (All Creatures Great and Small)
* Robin's Fetish (Use a Digi)
* Glitter 'n Sparkle (Anything with a B) Bear, Berries

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