My sympathies

Hello all,

Today I have a very sad card to show you, one of my dad's friends lost his wife this weekend after several years of illness. Of course we were going to send a card, but I didn't have any more sympathy cards in my stash. So this is what I came up with yesterday morning:

I don't really like to 'jazz up' such cards, as I don't really feel it's that appropriate, so kept it pretty plain. Hope the family likes it.

Materials:
* Kraft base cad
* Silver and bronze matted card, distressed
* Studio Light 3D image
* Flower punch
* Some scraps, ribbon, brown pearls and peel off letters from my stash

Challenges:
* Perfect Sentiments (CAS Sympathy card)
* Unstampabelles (Paper Flowers)
* Crafty Sentiments (CAS)
* Deep Ocean Challenge (Anything Goes)
* Papertake Weekly (Anything Goes)
* Creative Inspirations (CAS)
* Pile it On (Add Metal - Metal-coloured card)
* Crafty Pad (Show Some Metal - Metal-coloured card)
* Ribbon Girl (Bingo - I've used ribbon, pearls and an image)
* Catch the Bug (Anything Goes)

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Birthday Monkey

Hello Everyone!

Another crafty mile stone for me, as I can now show you my first make as a Delightful Challenge DT member! Very exciting for me, I have been playing with Wendy's images for the entire month and have been feeling really inspired by them, there's just so much choice! Which is a good thing, as this is a weekly challenge, which I have never been a part of before. I'm curious to see where this DT term takes me! If you'd like to take a look at the images for yourself, you can find a link to the shop and the challenge blog in my right side bar :)

This first challenge is nice and easy, with the theme of "BIRTHDAY". Now, we all need birthday cards in our stash, right? Well, this is the perfect time to add to your collection, because you can win a lovely prize.

We are being sponsored by 

 http://www.markerpop.com/catalog/

offering a 15 dollar gift voucher for the winner!

And the best thing is, they don't only have markers, but also gorgeous paper pads, stamps, ink, washi tape and much much more! I think I might have a little look around their website myself after I've blogged this post :) 

Everyone in the DT is working with the new August release images for this challenge, I used Birthday Maycee Monkey. What a cute little monkey this is, I thought it would work really well for a kid's birthday card and that's what I did with it. I think the DP really perfectly matches my colouring and the Distress Ink and I'm really happy using up some of the brads I've had since I started crafting! 

I love the bright colours with this image, although I think next time I'd like to try using pastels, just to see what it would look like.

Hope to see you at the challenge, I'm looking forward to see your creations and giving your blog some crafty love in return! Have a great day :) 

Materials: 
* Digital Deligths Birthday Maycee Monkey + circle sentiment, coloured with Promarkers and Spectrum Noirs
* My Mind's Eye Fine and Dandy True Blue DP
* Tumbled Glass Distress Ink (appropriately a birthday present from my hubs!)
* Orange brads from stash

Challenges
* Joanna Sheen Challenge (Animal Crackers)
* Use it Tuesday (Uncut Paper --> I've never used these DP sheets, as I always thought they were so bright and busy and would not work with my style of projects. WRONG! Really wished I'd used them sooner now)
* Fashionista Challenge (Baby or Birthday)
* Forever Friends (Anything Goes, but use an animal on your project)
* Truly Madly Crafty (Animals)
* Send a Smile for Kids (Animal cards)
* Saturday Challenge (Bright and Cheerful)
* Speedy Fox and Friends Challenge (Juvenile Birthday)
* Pattie's Creations (Animal or Insect)
* Stampavie and More (Birthday)

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Candy Cane Christmas

Hello everyone!

First of all, I keep forgetting, but a special hello to my new followers, I'm really pleased you could join me and I hope you like my creations :) And a hello to my 'old' followers too of course, thanks for sticking around :)

It's August, people! Can you believe it? Not long now and it will be a year ago since we bought our first house, it feels like we've been living here forever though , soooooooo comfortable! Anyway, a new month obviously also means a new challenge at CCAYR, Tracey's chosen the theme of  "KIDS CHRISTMAS". In other words, make a Christmas themed card for a child. Tracey give us some of her own digis to work with, I've used Candy Cane Oliver. Lovely fella to colour in, love the candy cane too! I've printed out a smaller version of the digi to incorporate in the sentiment inside to tie it in with the rest of the card, which worked out pretty well I think.

I will see you all tomorrow with my first Delightful Challenges DT card, see you then!

Materials
* Platypus Creek Candy Cane Oliver Digi, coloured with Promarkers and Spectrum Noirs
* Basic Grey Jovial DP, distressed
* Joy Flower punch (I'm using it as a snow flake!)
* Round corner & Scalloped Circle punches
* Purple Holographic card, silver brads from stash
* Sentiment stamp from Daisy & Dandelion All Wrapped Up Stamp set
* Cosmic Shimmer Red Fire Twinkles (inside card)

Challenges
* Cutie Pie Challenge (Christmas in July)
* Digi Days Challenge (Christmas in July)
* ABC Christmas Challenge (Open It Up)
* Let's Craft & Create (Scrapbuster --> Used up the leftover scraps for decoration inside the card)
* Sassy Studio (Holiday card with 3 type of patterned papers --> 2 DPs and holograhic card)
* Pixie Challenge (Christmas theme)
* Sweet Stampin' (Christmas in July)
* Splendiferous Creations (Christmas in July)
* Platypus Creek Digitals (Traditional Christmas)
* Clear It Out (Christmas in July)

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I've got some news!

Hi everyone,

I've been sitting on this news for a couple of weeks now, it was pretty damn hard to not blurt it out, but now I have the ok and can tell the world :) I've been asked to join the Delightful Challenges DT and of course I've jumped at the chance! So from now until January you can expect weekly projects from me with Digital Delight products, in addition to any other projects I might be able to make as well. You will find the link to the Digital Delight shop in my right side bar, so you can have a snoop if you're not familiar with them yet. Expect my first card for my first challenge from them in a few days time!

BTW, on a totally different subject, have you seen the enormous candy from Ingvild's blog? I couldn't believe it when I stumbled across it and saw this enormous Prima goodie mountain! With this giveaway Ingvild is celebrating her new blog design, no wonder as it's absolutely gorgeous. And what a great way to celebrate by giving presents to others ;) I love Prima products, so just had to put my name in the cup.You might want to get into the act as well, you have until the 31st of August :)

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Still alive!

Hi everyone,

Just a note to let you know I am still alive and crafting! It's been really busy at work with all the interns wanting to graduate on time and that left me with little energy to craft in the evenings and weekends. I have been working on some projects, but can't show them just yet, so I am hoping for your patience, all should be well again at the end of the month!

Enjoy your day :)

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New Kid on the Block

Hello everyone!

I don't know what they're putting in the water, but we received another baby card this week, again for a girl! Who they will be dating in 15 years time I have no idea, even at work all my pregnant colleagues seem to deliver is girls!

Still, I really shouldn't be complaining, cause what is nicer than to make a girly card, right? I had picked out a lovely design with flowers, cut everything out, started sewing buttons and just when I wanted to glue the whole thing together.........................................black smudge on the front of the card. I have absolutely NO idea where all this black stuff is coming from, what it is even, but it seems to jump on my hands whenever I want to craft. Anyway, save to say, the card was ruined, as I tried to get the smudge off with a wet cloth and proceeded to take half the colours of the base design along with it.......

Never mind, just had to come up with another idea and since the baby card had a big pink butterfly on the front, I decided to go with that theme and this is what I ended up with:

I'm still pretty pleased with the end result, even though it wasn't my original plan, combining the elements that could be saved with some other stash.

Materials:
* Create & Craft card stock (personally delivered by my FIL when they were visiting this week)
* Studio Light and stash DP
* Studio Light alphabet letters
* Karen Foster Baby Words rub-ons
* DCWV Glitter card (oh, how lovely is this stuff, no glitter falling off but fantastic sparkle)
* Wooden butterflies, gems and pearls from stash
* Rounded corner & Scalloped circle punch
* Eline Vintage sentiment stamp

Challenges:
* Moving Along with the Times (Make it Sentimental)
* Dutch Dare (For a Child)
* Sarah Hurley (Dimension & Texture - Wooden Butterflies)
* Shelly's Images (What the Text)
* Southern Girls (Pearls)
* Always Something Creative (Butterflies)
* Card & Scrap (Wings)
* Paper Pretties (Celebrate, Any Occasion Card)
* Whimsy Stamps (Anything Goes)
* Fashionista Challenge (Winged Things)

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Christmas Foliage

Hi everyone!

The last couple of weeks have been almost craft-free, as I had my parents over for the weekend and now my FIL and cousin are staying for a week! Of course we are showing them all the sights, we have already been exploring caves and visited a car museum, and today we are trying a bike ride! The weather is absolutely gorgeous, so I am sure we will be having another great day.

Anyway, yet another month has passed and it's time for a new challenge over at CCAYR. The July challenge is "CHRISTMAS FLOWERS".You need to use flowers or holly somewhere on your Christmas cards to be able to participate. Last month, I won some lovely Delicious Doodles digis and decided to use the Poinsettia for my card. One of the great things about digis is of course that you can print them any size you want and that's exactly what I did here. Before I actually stuck all the elements on my card, it has actually been lying on my crafty desk for a week, with me shuffling things around just about every time I walked past it! Still, I am very happy with the result, hope you like it too!

I hope you can join us this month, I for one am looking forward to see all the loveliness you can come up with :)

Materials:
* DL cream base card
* Delicious Doodles Poinsettia digi, printed out in different sizes and coloured with Promarkers, added brown flatback pearls to their centres and then glossed with Crafter's Companion Spray & Shine
* Helz Cuppleditch Pepper's Christmas Party & Basic Grey Jovial DPs, some of it distressed with TH distressing tool
* Scalloped Circle Punch, smudged with red ink
* Ribbon, silver peel offs, gems, sentiment and silver card from stash

Challenges:
* Holly Jolly Christmas (Bingo, I've used Red and Ribbon)
* Crimbo Crackers (Anything Goes)
* I Love Promarkers (Anything Goes)
* 52 Christmas Card Showdown (Anything Goes)
* Allsorts (In Bloom)
* Crafty Calendar (Flowers in Bloom)
* Saturday Challenge (Christmas)
* Totally Papercraft (Can You Digi It?)
* Charisma Cardz (Anything Goes)
* Sassy Studio (Christmas)

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