The Sugar Bowl & Friday Sketchers challenges

I had a good sort out of my stamps yesterday, after stumbling on the The Sugar Bowl challenge again (it's been a while!!). Anyway, I couldn't remember what stamps came from where, so when I had sorted all my magnolias from my sugar nellies from my elzybells etc etc, I thought I'd better enter the challenge, so here it is...


and then I found a blog with a card made using some really cute geisha girls, so I thought I'd have a go at making some using shrink plastic, and here are the results, the first card was made using the sketch on Friday Sketchers...









N.B. I've managed to find the blog with the geisha girls card on it ...http://itsallfiddlefart.blogspot.com/

The Sugar Bowl

I found a new blog site this morning, The Sugar Bowl and this is their first challenge, with a great prize of some Copics, so thought I'd make a quick entry, but as usual, I have spent ages making this card, then looked back at the blog again to see all the amazing creations and now feeling quite disheartened with my crappy entry!! Oh well, not much I can do about it now!
Stamps used: Sugar Nellie, Stampin' Up
Inks used: Bashful Blue, Stampin' Up
Colouring method: Watercolours
Other Embellishments: punched flowers and gems
Don't forget to enter my blog candy!! (scroll down)

A spoon full of sugar & Tag You're It

I'm feeling really pleased with myself today - I went for a 10.5 mile run, which is the furthest I've done since my last half marathon in May. Hopefully I'll be able to get back to my normal running routine soon - I've not been training as much lately, and I really miss it!

I've also made a couple of challenge entries tonight - one for the A Spoon Full of Sugar challenge - I used a sugar nellie holding a rabbit to fulfil the animal magic theme (it's the only stamp I have that fits the bill!). I used some paper from a magazine freebie, and my new swirly sizzix bigz die, oh and a couple of punched flowers and sparkly jems.

The other is a tag for Tag You're It, the challenge was to make a tag using black lime and teal. This is my first entry for this challenge - I covered a tag from a pair of jeans with black paper, cut out a smaller tag in white suede which I then stamped in teal with the greeting, and added some lime flowers in the corner.

A Spoon Full of Sugar - Challenge 8 One For The Girls

This is my first ever entry to A Spoon Full of Sugar Challenge blog, and I've made this one especially. I layered small pieces of English Paper Co. Fairy paper onto the card blank, layered a sugar nellie stamp, coloured with shimmery purple paint and watercolours, added an embossed tag, ribbon and gems. Hope you like!!

http://aspoonfullofsugarchallenge.blogspot.com/

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!!??

Sketch Something CHALLENGE

I made this at my card workshop last night so I thought I'd use the sketch for the Sketch Something Challenge.

Hope you like it!

http://stampchallenges.blogspot.com/

Lola

This card uses Lola with flowers, cut out and mounted using 3d foam. Birthday wishes stamp from Circle of Friendship (SU).