Frilly Dillon

Hi everyone!

Happy Valentine's Day everyone! Have you got anything special planned? I baked some yummy treats and we will be exchanging cards, but that's about it. Anyway, another Thursday means another challenge @ Delightful Challenges! This week, the theme is "FRILLY", using scallops & lace. I used my Doily Lace Border Punch to include both in my card, as I wanted to try my hand at male card making. Here's my card:

Materials:
* Digital Challenges Dillon the Lion, coloured with Promarkers & Spectrum Noirs
* My Mind's Eye Fine & Dandy True Blue & DCWV Mango Frost DPs
* Vintage Photo Distress Ink
* MS Doily Lace edge punch
* Ribbons, pearls, brad & peel offs from stash

Our sponsor this week is:

Prize = 3 cutting sets from the store

Come and join us if you can!

Challenges:
* Challenges 4 Everybody (Anything Goes)
* One Stitch at a Time (Anything Goes)
* Tuesday Throwdown (Anything Goes)
* Forever Friends (Anything Goes)
* Forever Friends (Animals/Butterflies/Birds)
* Crafty Bloggers Network (Anything Goes)
* Cards Galore (One for the Men)
* My Grafico (Anything Goes)
* Paper Playtime (Border Punches)
* Pretty Little Ribbon (Anything Goes)

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Indoors Decoration

Good morning everyone!

It has been very quiet on my blog this week and I haven't been able to visit all the other blogs I love as I have been struck down with the flu :( Thankfully I am feeling much better again now, as a new challenge is starting today at Fab 'n Funky themed "WHAT'S INSIDE", one of my teamie Beccy's ideas, meaning that we want you to decorate the inside of your card. I always do that anyway, a great way of using up scraps of paper, but thought I would make a bit more of an effort this time around. I got to play with my new purchase, Card Candi, which I really enjoyed, so versatile but it doesn't add much in terms of weight to your card (very important if you want to mail your cards, which I usually will).

Here is my Christmas-themed card, both inside and out!

We are sponsored by Stampfairy this week, it would be great if you could come and play along with us!

Materials:
* Stampfairy Gingerbread Babies Hoola Hoop, coloured with Promarkers & Spectrum Noirs
* Red Glitter
* Helz Cuppleditch Pepper's Christmas Party DPs + some scraps
* Forest Moss Distress Ink & Silver Ink
* Vintage Berries Candi
* Dovecraft Back to Basics Christmas Button
* SEI Christmas Mint Vanilla Icing Accents
* Joycraft Snowflake punch
* Eline's Winterhuis Christmas Sentiment Stamps
* Pearls from stash

Challenges:
* Sparkles Forum Christmas Challenge (Anything Goes)
* Mayzy Art (Anything Goes)
* Challenges 4 Everybody (Anything Goes)
* Use it Tuesdays (Fasteners) Hoarded items are the SEI Accents & Red Glitter
* Natalie & Amy (Something Old & Something New) Old: SEI Accents & Glitter, New: Candi
* One Stitch at a Time (Anything Goes)
* Tuesday Throwdown (Anything Goes)
* Craft Room Challenges (Make Your Own Embellishments) Rosettes
* Forever Friends (Anything Goes)
* Oozak (Anything Goes with Your Favourite Colours) For Christmas, it has to be Green & Red

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Think Spring

Good morning all,

You might not get the feeling it's spring when you look out of the window (I certainly don't!) but this card was all about spring! My cousin just had a baby boy and with that in mind I wanted to make a less traditional baby card to send her. I used all my lovely DP scraps were still lying on my desk leftover from previous projects and which I hadn't cleared away yet. I am pretty happy with the way it turned out AND my desk is a little cleaner to boot ;)

As it is the beginning of the month, there is a new release over at Digital Delights. I've used Flying Roxster which I found such a cute image and perfect for little boys' cards. The Delightful Challenge theme this week is "THINK SPRING", asking you to use pastel colours (as you can see from my card, I'm a total idiot and forgot the pastel bit), if you have the time and inspiration please come and join us!

Materials:
* Digital Delights Flying Roxster & Spring Sentiment Set, coloured with Promarkers & Spectrum Noirs
* DCWV the Photo Stack 2, Echo Park A Walk in the Park & My Minds Eye Fine and Dandy True Blue DPs
* Peacock Feathers & Vintage Photo Distress Ink
* DCWV Green Stack Chipboard Bird
* Eline Vintage Sentiment Stamp Set
* Buttons & star gems from stash

Challenges:
* The House that Stamps Built (Bright Colours & Vibrant Prints)
* Crazy 4 Challenges (Smiles & Happiness)
* Color me Creative (Colour with Texture) The Little Bear
* Allsorts (Let's Get Cute)
* Catch the Bug (Anything Goes)
* Gem of a Challenge (Gingham or Checks)
* One Stop Craft (Anything Goes)
* Bunny Zoe (Anything Goes)
* Tuesday Alchemy (Anything Goes)
* Card & Scrap (Use a Stamp)

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Filled with Love

Hi there!

At the moment, Blogspot is overflowing with Valentine challenges and the new Fab 'n Funky Challenge is no exception, themed "Valentine's & Hearts"! As I have already shared my husband's Valentine's card with you, I'd thought to go with the Hearts but with a totally different theme. And this is what I came up with:

Hope you like it, come and join our challenge this week, we'd love to see your projects!

Materials:
* Stampart Design by Katherine Filled with Love Digi, coloured with Promarkers & Spectrum Noirs and Gloss on the balloons
* Create & Craft Pastel CS
* Echo Park A Walk in the Park DPs
* MS Presents Border Punch
* Personal Impressions Sentiment stamp
* Ribbon & Heart Gems from stash

Challenges:
* ATCs with Attitude (Ribbons/Lace)
* Catch the Bug (Anything Goes)
* Pink Gem Challenge (Gingham or Checks) On the present border
* Allsorts (Let's Get Cute)
* Kaboodle Doodles (Hearts)
* Robin's Fetish (Have a Heart)
* Forever Friends (Use Ribbon or Lace)
* LEJ Designs (Anything Goes)
* Love to Create (Celebrate)
* Whoopsi Daisy (Ribbon and/or Lace)

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Pretty Party Time

Back again! 

A new challenge is starting @ PCD as well today, themed "Pretty Party Time", asking for projects focusing on a female birthday or party invitation.This was my first attempt at doodling on the DP, which I first tried with a Glitter Pen. However, it didn't show up very well, so I 'retraced' with a normal ballpoint pen. Hope you can join us!

Materials:
* Platypus Creek Digitals Ulysses Butterfly, coloured with Sakura Glitter Pens
* DCWV Pastels Textured CS & The Photo Stack 2 DP
* Chipped Sapphire & Peacock Feathers Distress Ink
* Personal Impressions sentiment & Marianne Design Letters & More background stamps
* Pearls, Gems & wooden butterflies from my stash, again coloured with the Glitter Pens

Challenges:
* Crafts and Me (Use Your Favourite Embellishment) Pearls
* Paper Pretties (Square Cards)
* Simon Says Stamp (Anything Goes)
* Catch the Bug (Anything Goes)
* One Stop Craft (Anything Goes)
* Ladybug Craft (Girly/Female)
* Bunny Zoe (Anything Goes)
* Tuesday Alchemy (Anything Goes)
* Card & Scrap (Use a Stamp)
* Addicted to Stamps (Pearls & Swirls) I made a swirls from the pearls

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Bee My Valentine

Hello all!

I have so excellent news to share with you! You might remember I was asked to be a GDT for Ooh La La, well, they asked me to become a full DT member instead! Of course I said yes :) This is my first challenge as a DT member and it's a cracker: "LOVE STORY". I decided to use this challenge to make my husband's Valentine's card, I love this cute image! I've used the last layer of pyramage to decorate the inside. I hope you can join me and the other girls for this challenge, see you there :)

Materials:
* Create & Craft Pastel CS
* Ooh La La Bee My Valentine digital images & paper
* Echo Park A Walk in the Park DP scraps
* Vintage Photo Distress Ink
* Matt Gold paper
* Memories Direct Flowers
* Flower Brads and Bee & Heart Peel offs from my stash

Challenges:
* Happy Campers (Flowers & Use Something Digital)
* Hobby Vision (Valentine's Card)
* Gingerloft (Love is in the Air)
* Sassy Studio (Love is in the Air)
* Simply Create Too (Valentine's Day or Hearts)
* Ladybuy Crafts (Valentine's Day and/or Love)
* Visible Image (Love)
* Heck of a Challenge (Love & Flowers)
* Ready Teddy Go (Love is in the Air)
* Emerald Fairies (Love)

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Christmas with a Heart

Hi everyone!

Already one month has passed in the new year, it all went by in a flash! But it really is February and time for another CCAYR challenge! For this month, the challenge theme is "RED & WHITE, FLOWERS & HEARTS". Yes, another Red & White project for me :) You have the whole month of February to participate, just make sure you adhere to the theme and make it a Christmas project! I've used up another couple of decoupage images that were waiting on my desk being left over from last-minute Christmas card making. They were perfect for the red & white theme!

Materials:
* Studio Light Decoupage images
* Echo Park A Walk in the Park DP
* DCWV The Glitter Cardstock Brights CS
* Fiskars Star Border Punch
* Joy Craft Flower Punch
* Ribbon, Heart gem, Border Peeloffs and Peel off sentiment from my stash

Challenges:
* Inky Chicks (Bingo) I've used Ribbon, Sentiments, Flowers
* Creative Craft Challenges (Bling It Up)
* Little Miss Muffet (Hearts & Flowers)
* ATCs with Attitude (Ribbon/Lace)
* Whimsy Stamps (Fancy Edges)
* Bunny Zoe (Anything Goes)
* Scrap Cards (Hearts)
* Kaboodle Doodles (Winter)
* Bearly Mine (Hearts Galore)
* Shopping Our Stash (Love, Red, Hearts, Valentine) I've used Red & Hearts

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