CD SUNDAY CHALLENGE

Good morning and a Happy Easter to you all

I hope the Easter Bunny has left a few Easter Eggs for you to enjoy.

What wonderful weather we have had lately,I hope it continues for a few days more.

Thankyou for all your entries in our 1st Birthday Challenge, beautiful cards from you all, it is going to be hard for the DT's to select 2 winners as you all deserve a prize. Nice to see regulars amongst a few new faces, I hope you will continue to support us as we start our 2nd year.

Sadly for us, this is the last week for Claire as our Guest Designer. I am sure you will miss her wonderful creations, however, she has agreed to come back later in the year.

Thankyou Claire for your inspiration.

For our CD SUNDAY challenge this week we would like you to think

BUTTERFLIES

and my DT Card is shown below.

I printed direct onto Pearlised White Card a beautiful backing paper of Butterflies from

Hinny Bop

This particular CD is called - Blissful Butterflies, a beautiful CD, full of gorgeous papers, images, and templates. A must for your CD library.

Many of you may know I have a love for Butterflies and Lilac, so it is no surprise to see what I chose for this weeks challenge.

I chose a Beaded Oval Nestability Die as a background to the main butterfly. Cut out using Papermania Shimmer Textured Cardstock - Moulin Rouge.

A Marianne Butterfly Die has been cut using Vellum from my stash. Holographic Gems make up the body.

Two butterflies have been cut using my Cuttlebug and then embossed using Divine Swirls & Swiss Dots embossing folders. Again I added a few Gems for a little bling.

I hope you will continue to join in with us, our only rule is that you must use something from a CD and say which it is you have used. It can be just a small piece of backing paper to qualify.

Do pop over to CD Sunday Blog to see what my fellow teamies have made this week, gorgeous work, as always.

Next week we will have a new GDT for the month of May.

Challenge 137 - Beary Good

Good morning to you all and welcome to our latest challenge over at Rainbow Lady

This week all the DT's have been lucky enough to have Digi Images to play with, courtesy of Purple Panda Designs

The images have been drawn by Kayla who is 16 years old and are a delight to work with.

'Beary Sleepy' has been coloured using Promarkers and attached to Core'dinations Card which has the edge sanded.

My backing papers are from Papermania - Creative Tones range - Venetian Skies.

The flower is from my stash.

Thanks for your entries last week, we enjoyed looking at your blogs and leaving comments, so check out your 'bear' stamps and join in with the fun.

Penny Black Challenge - Recipe 3,2,1

Here is my card I made for the Penny Black Challenge this week.

The challenge was to follow a 'Recipe' using 3 Brads, 2 Ribbons, 1 Flower plus a Penny Black Image.

I stamped with Versafine then coloured the image with Lyra Crayons. 3 Brads were added to the large Flowerpot, this was layered onto a card which I had put through my Cuttlebug Machine using Swiss Dots Embossing Folder then attached to another strip of card, again using my Cuttlebug. The whole image I then mounted onto my card base which I had covered using Papermania Creative Tones - Equisite Paper. A large Pink Bow was attched to the top of the card with a smaller bow at the bottom of the image. As the final ingredient, a fabric flower has been attached to the bottom of my card. I decided to add peel-offs at the side of the image as I thought the hedgehogs were playing Hide & Seek.

Another Cutie - Dreamweaver

Another card using my 'present' stamps from my special friend Lorraine This is called 'Dreamweaver' and again a Penny Black Stamp. For this I used a Hammer Card Blank to which I attached a sheet of Papermania Creative Tones Paper from their Venetian Skies range. The image has been stamped with Stazon Stone Grey and coloured using Watercolour Pencils. I then attached the image to Aqua colour card which I had put through my Swiss Dots folder before attaching to the main card. I thought it needed a little something extra, so I fixed two Prima Flowers to the bottom right hand corner.

I am so pleased with the outcome especially as 'Cute' is new to me.

Please leave comments, good or bad

Christine

More Cuties - Hedge Delivery

Today I have been playing with my new Penny Black Stamps that my lovely friend Lorraine sent me as presents. This one is titled - Hedge Delivery and he is so cute. I stamped onto Hammer Card using Stone Grey Stazon,coloured my image with Watercolour Pencils before doing a matt onto Mirri Card, this was then attached onto Papermania Creative Tones Paper - Antique Cream collection and I added two Prima Flowers as a finishing touch.

I love these cute stamps and I am so pleased that Lorraine introduced them to me.

Please leave your comments, good or bad

Christine