Something Yellow

After the last two week's challenges at Totally Gorjuss, first sunshine, then holiday, I think Net is still hankering for some sun by giving us the challenge of Something Yellow, sunshine maybe! We are sponsored by Meljens and the DT were lucky enough to receive images to play with. I chose this cute goth girl and coloured her with Promarkers and Flexmarkers, edged in DI Wild Honey. The papers are Prima Youth Collection. I used a Viva Pearl pen on the dots on the image. The flowers were made with a Memory Box buckle die with Prima flowers and pearls and I added a couple of Sizzix die cut hearts and a Craftwork cards sentiment coloured with DI Wild Honey.

Challenges

Crafty Sentiments Bright colours

Have a great weekend everyone. Hope we get some sunshine. I'm selling at a craft fair again tomorrow. One of our local garden centres have just set up some shops and barrows to sell handmade items. I have booked in for a few so will see how they go.

Snuggled up in love

The weather has changed today, after several lovely sunny days it is pouring with rain. Nowhere near as much rain as some of you in the UK are having though. Awful floods so I hope you are all safe and dry.

My card today is for an order and I was asked for an A5 card. The beauty of digis is of course that you can resize them so I could make this cute Meljens image nice and big for the card. Image coloured with Promarkers and Flexmarkers. I used DI Victorian Velevt around the image, papers are Marianne Merry Little Christmas, sentiment Craftwork Cards. I added some lovely burgundy lace, Prima poinsettias and some gold holly leaves I found in my Christmas stash.

Challenges:

Colour Create Burgundy, gold, green and cream

DYSU Trees

Secret Crafter Wrap up warm

Creative Card Crew Fallin' in love

I know most of you are busy making Christmas cards so don't forget to enter our Christmas cheer challenge over at Squiggle Stamps where you could win a £10 voucher. There are some gorgeous new Christmas images or maybe you will spend it on some of the lovely older digis or rubber. You can enter using any image and remember, you have to be in it to win it.

I've had a lucky week, getting Top 3 at Send a Smile 4 Kids, Ladybug Crafts Ink and Crafty Sentiments.

Christmas in July

Good afternoon everyone and firstly welcome to my new followers. I hope you will visit often. I really appreciate everyone's kind comments. I must say it felt more like Christmas weather this morning than Summer. The sun has finally decided to make an appearance but this morning was cloudy and overcast. We did a car boot sale and when we got there it decided to drizzle a little which was very disheartening. We only do one or two a year trying to choose days when the weather is supposed to be fine. Thankfully it soon stopped but it was only 13 degrees. I had a fleecy hoodie and a scarf on and it is July so making Christmas cards seems very appropriate.

This is my DT card for this week's challenge at Totally Gorjuss where the challenge is Christmas in July. We are sponsored by Meljens and the DT were given some images to play with. Mine is called Cozy Little Chickadees. I used bits and pieces from some of last year's Christmas papers, mainly Forever Friends. I followed the fab sketch at Sketch n Stash and added some flowers, card candi and pine branches cut with a Marianne die.

I would also like to enter this into the Christmas in July challenges at Pollycraft, Sweet Stampin', Crafty Creations, Crafty Catz and Fussy and Fancy.

Now as you can see there are a number of Christmas in July challenges this week and not forgetting the regular Christmas challenges either. Now here's a tip, hop over to Squiggle Stamps where you will find 20% off Christmas images and 2 freebies, one of which is Lil Angel. Make a card, enter the Christmas in July challenges including the one at Squiggle Stamps blog and the fairies or angels challenge at Winter Wonderland. You could enter 8 challenges with one free image. Also don't forget to enter my candy in the post above and you could win even more Squiggle images. There are some new ones coming soon, which you are going to love.

Lavender and old lace

I came down with a cold suddenly yesterday afternoon with a really choky throat and am feeling pretty awful today so no work for me.

It's my first week as part of the DT at A Pocket Full of Posies. I was so pleased with this challenge of Lavender and Old Lace, which was set before I joined, for those regular followers will know how much I love purple. We are sponsored this week by Meljen's designs and the DT were given some of their images to play with. I matched this lovely flower design with some of my fave Papermania heather capsule papers, which I also used for the punched flowers with added pearls. The lace is actually old as it is some my Mum gave me when she had a sort out of her materials, buttons etc. I didn't have any lavender narrow ribbon so coloured a piece of white ribbon with a Promarker (orchid) to thread through the lace. I used a Sizzx die for the leaves for a change and an MS corner punch. I hope you'll come and join the fun. You have 2 weeks to enter and if you don't have any old lace then I'm sure new lace will be fine.

I am also entering my card into the following challenges:

Sweet Sketch Wednesday
Stamp Something Digi