Cute Card Thursday

Over on Cute Card Thursday this week, the challenge is "mirror mirror", and the prize is a fab stamp set from Stampin' Up, courtesy of me!!

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Sketch Saturday & Cute Card Thursday

I've made these two cards for two challenges -
Sketch Saturday (the top one) and Cute Card Thursday which is floral fantasies. They are both based on a card I made a while ago but my mum keeps threatening to take it and send, and I won't let her because I like it so much, so she's asked me to make a batch of similar design cards for her, so here's my first two!
Stamps used: Botanical Blooms (Stampin' Up) & SU Sentiments
Inks used: coral, pink passion, ruby red, certainly celery (all SU)
Colouring method: stamped
Cardstock used: SU designer papers, pink passion, vellum, purple
Other Embellishments: ribbon
Tools: SU oval punches, nesties, scissors

Cute Card Thursday

here's my card for this weeks Cute Card Thursday challenge which this week is "Metallica"
Stamps used: edwin
Inks used:grey SU
Colouring method: watercolour pencils
Other Embellishments: hodgepodge, ribbon

all purple and pink!

Hi everyone, I haven't had much time for crafting this week, but manage to have made 3 cards this afternoon.
The first card has been made for this weeks Cute Card Thursday challenge which this week (as you can tell!) is lilac. I used some flowers that I made from fimo, along with ribbon and mulberry paper, a tag and some gems. It's going straight into the post to a friend who's fave colour used to be purple (when we were at school), so I expect it'll make her giggle!!

This second card has been made for a little girl who's 6 (obviously), but I have no challenge to enter it into, but I just had to have a go with my new Hello Kitty dies!

This last card has been made for two challenges - Penny Black Saturday Challenge which this week is funky christmas and also the A Spoon Full of Sugar challenge which is a great sketch. I coloured the image with sakura stardust, so it's lovely and shimmery, but hasn't really come out in the pic. I also used my new sizzix snowflake die and my cuttlebug die too.

Cute Card Thursday

Here's another quick make for this weeks Cute Card Thursday Challenge which this week is to use red and green. I covered the snowman with white flowersoft, and then decided to add some red glitter flock to the hat. It has gone a bit wrong - the flock went everywhere, including on his face, but I may be able to sort this out when it is completely dry - not sure - does anyone else have problems using flock - I just find that it leaves a covering over everything - with or without glue!!

Cute Card Thursday, My Time to Craft and Caardvarks

I've been really stuck for ideas with all these "autumn" themes, and also halloween - I just don't have a need for halloween cards, and that means I don't have much stash for these cards, but I've managed to come up with this card (it looks better in the flesh than in the pic), for 3 challenges - the Cute Card Thursday challenge which is "Autumn", the My Time To Craft challenge which this week is "get doodling" (I've doodled around the edges!), and the Caardvarks challenge which is "Scoring". I only have a really basic scoring board, so I scored the background paper - not sure if you can see this in the pic. I used a set of stamps from Stampin' Up (that I forgot I had), which happen to have a pumpkin option to use in the window (I bought the set because I liked the window and the interchangable bits to put in the window!!!). I used (for the very first time) my machine that prints greetings - I can't remember what it's called!!!
I used chalks to do all the colouring, hope you like! Probably the most basic card I've ever made!

Cute Card Thursday & Spoon Full of Sugar Challenges

Todays card has been made for two challenges - Cute Card Thursday and A Spoon Full of Sugar. CCT's challenge is to use ribbons and buttons, and SFS challenge is to use pink and green. I bought myself a couple of new stamps this week - one of them being this Elzybells stamp which I love. I embossed some pink vellum, added some ribbon (from Vicky), a ribbon and some buttons and a stamped greeting.

Cute Card Thursday & Friday Sketchers

I've just made this card for both the Cute Card Thursday and Friday Sketchers challenges, using the papermania christmas paper pack, a penny black stamped image coloured with water colour pencils and some SU dazzling diamonds (these are great), I had to root around my christmas box (hasn't had much use lately) and found these cute little holly leaves and ribbons and jewels. Oh, and I used my new Stampin' Up punch (the half inch one) to make the corner cut-outs!

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3 challenges in 1!!!

I bought myself a new cuttlebug embossing folder and had to find a reason to use it, so came up with this, and seeing as though the Spoon Full of Sugar challenge is to use charms, the ABC challenge is jewels, and the Cute Card Thursday challenge is lots of sparkle, I thought I'd try and combine them all together because I haven't had much crafting time lately!
I coloured the image with watercolours as well as sakura stardust pens, added glitter glue, some silver embossing and stickers, and ribbon and charm, and of course some butterfly gem "jewels"!!
I hope it fits all 3 criteria OK!

Cute Card Thursday & Friday Sketchers

I've made this card for two challenges - the Cute Card Thursday challenge which is Cats & Dogs, and the Friday Sketchers.

I used some Basic Grey paper (I love this paper), my nesties, some flatbacks, some velvet ribbon, fabric flowers and brads.

Cute for a cat lover, don't you think??

Cute Card Thursday Bright Colours!!

Here's my attempt at a card for this weeks challenge, which is to use bright colours. I just hope mine is bright enough!!

I used sakura stardust pens to colour the image, used my nesties to layer it onto the card.

Cute Card Thursday & Stamp Something Challenges

I made this card with limited materials while hubby watched footie stuff on tv and I felt really mean leaving him to go to my craft room, so just relocated a few bits and pieces for the evening!!! So, it hasn't really got any special embellies on it, maybe I'll tart it up tomorrow!! - ok, i've added a couple of buttons to it now!!!

I was originally doing the Cute Card Thursday challenge - The Two of Us, and when I'd finished the card, I noticed that it was primarily pink green and blue, which also fits in with the Stamp Something Challenge - a stroke of luck, don't you think!!
Anyway, it's a stamped image from a RAK, I think it's a sugar nellie?? I'm not sure! I used my new sweet nothings papers, and layered them onto pink and green cardstock, added the blue LOVE (also from these papers). Hope you like!

Friday Sketchers & Cute Card Thursday

Here's a card that I made with some new K&Co papers. I couldn't think what to do, and then remembered about a stamp set I had to match (almost), so thought I'd make it for the In The House theme at Cute Card Thursday, then I thought I'd use a sketch, so used the Friday Sketchers one. Quite a quick and simple card, used tearing and my versamark and chalks to colour the stamped image and greeting.

Cute Card Thursday Challenge 19

All my good intentions of coming home and tidying the house, etc etc went straight out of the window when I saw this weeks challenge. I headed straight off to make this card! Using some paper that I've had for ages, hardly ever been used, and my trusty woodware stamp set (probably one I've used more than any of the others - so that makes it more than twice!!! hee hee), my marvy and tombow pens to colour the image, a stamped tag (another fave) and a brad - but not sure about that.

Cute Card Thursday Challenge 18

Here's my entry for this weeks Cute Card Thursday. It's supposed to be "A Card for a Child", I pinched my 5 year olds stamp set for this one, and I think it could be sent to a girl aged between 5 and 10?? anyway, tried to make it all sparkly and girly, using sakura pens to colour the image, some gems, buttons, sparkly and handmade papers, and some of that stuff you knit with - can't think of the name right now. (stupid brain - does that sometimes!!).

hope you like it!

Cute Card Thursday Challenge 17

This weeks challenge is "The Great Outdoors". I bought myself the I Love My Garden set by Woodware - it's so cute, but I'm not sure about the end results of this card, but seeing how much time I spent, it's going to have to do!!
Coloured with watercolours and then sakura jelly glaze pens.

Cute Card Thursday Challenge 16

This card has been made for the Cute Card Thursday Challenge. The challenge is to use No Patterned Paper!

I used some SU cardstock and stamped it with a background stamp, adding die cut photo corners, stamped image and raffia ribbon with stamped and utee'd tag, which says best wishes, but it hasn't photographed very well. I'm really loving using my spring card template - can you tell!!??

Penny Black Challenge & Cute Card Thursday

I have made this card using a Penny Black Stamp, with a brown base and orangey type floral paper, a bit of ribbon and punched flowers. Hope you like it.

Cute Card Thursday Challenge 12

I missed last week, but liked the sketch, so I used last weeks sketch with some patterned paper!! Hope you like it!