Kind and Caring Thoughts with Christine

Hello and welcome to our latest challenge over at

CD SUNDAY

As I prepare my post the sun is shining and it is a lovely warm day, I hope it has been the same for you.

Thank you for your entries for Carol's challenge of 'Round Again - Recycling'

not so many of you but guess it is holiday season and Carol will have trouble choosing her Top 3 as the entries we did have were super.

For this fortnight it is my turn to choose the theme and I have chosen

KIND and CARING THOUGHTS.

I am sure we all need this type of card at sometime in our lives so I look forward to visiting you and seeing your take on the theme.

My DT Card is shown below

I have made an A5 Landscape Card for a change and used 200gsm Card and a paper from

'In Other Words' CD from Joanna Sheen for the base.

I haven't done my favourite colour of lilac for a while so decided this is what I would choose.

The actual topper is also from the same CD and you can change the colour and font of the verses to match.

The sentiment says 

Say Yes to Life

Say Yes to life and let it come

Bounding into heart and home

Giving all it has to give

Say your Yes to Life - and live

Patience Strong

I used a scalloped purple card as a mat and tied ribbon around the middle and down the edge of the card.

I cut out a lovely die - Raindrops on Roses - HCD 743 which was a purchase from Oyster Stamps when I attended the workshop with Emma Lou Beechy who is the Creative Director of Heartfelt Creations, here is the link to their Facebook Page

The die has been cut in half and placed either side of the mat and under the ribbon, a few gems were added for a bit of bling.

The die underneath the bow is - Arianna Lace - HCD 747, again from Oyster Stamps

A few purple pearls complete my design.

As it is my week to choose I am giving you a second card, just because I can

This time it is my favourite 6 x 6 Scalloped Card for the base.

Both the backing paper and sentiment topper is from the same CD as above.

This sentiment is

TAKE HEART

Take heart, Take comfort too,

Let time be kind to you

Think thoughts that heal and bless,

With quiet happiness.

Patience Strong

I chose to matt the topper onto a piece of Burgundy card which I had already embossed and it's from my craft box.

3 Flowers have been punched and added as embellishments along with a Burgundy Ribbon Bow

For a little sparkle on the flowers, glitter has been added.

I hope you like what I have created and look forward to seeing your designs, please remember to use something from a CD and say which it is you have used.

My fellow teamie's have beautiful idea's for you, so do pop over to see what they have designed for you.

CD SUNDAY CHALLENGE - ALLSORTS

Good morning to you all and welcome to our latest challenge over at CD SUNDAY

I think that Summer has deserted us as we are now into the month of September, we even had a slight frost a couple of night's ago. I have noticed the nights are drawing in too so nothing for it but to settle down and do some crafting, (any excuse for me).

Last week we said goodbye to Michelle and as it is the start of a new month we have another Guest Designer joining us for the month of September. This time we asked KEVIN if he would consider being our GDT and we are delighted to say he said YES.

It is different for us to have a male GDT but we, the team agree that more of Kevin's work should be shown on here.

We also have a Sponsor for you this week in the form of 'FUNKY HANDS'. Anice the owner of Funky Hands supplied all the team and Kevin with a CD from their 'Papercraft Factory' range.

As we all had different CD's to work with we decided that our challenge for this week would be called

'ALLSORTS' and one lucky person will be able to choose a CD as their prize.

My DT Cards are shown below.

For my first card I chose to use a few of the papers from 'Happy Happy Birthday' CD
I added a stamped image from LOTV which I had coloured using Distress Markers.
For my second card, again I chose different papers and a few of the Digital Images from the CD.
Matted and layered then added glitter for the bubbles, coloured the champagne glasses with Promarkers before sprinkling more glitter for a little sparkle. I used Liquid Pearls for the candles on the cupcakes.

I hope you will join in with us again, quite a lot of scope for you with 'Allsorts'
Pop over to see my fellow teamies designs, you won't be disapointed.
Just remember to use something from a CD and say which it is you have used.

CD SUNDAY CHALLENGE

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

CD SUNDAY

Last week we said to goodbye to the lovely Debs who was out GDT for August and as it is a new month we are pleased to introduce you to Hazel of Hazelshappyhouse who is this months Guest DT.

When you see what she has given us this week you won't be surprised that we asked her to join us at CD Sunday.

As it is the first challenge in the month we have a fab new Sponsor for you, none other than the lovely Glenda

You may remember Glenda as being one half of Graphicus, however when this site closed Glenda started up Chocolate Baroque.

She generously gave all the team a wonderful CD to work with and she chose our theme of

INSPIRED BY PEACOCKS.

My DT card is shown below

RECIPE:

6 x 6 Scalloped Card Base - a favourite type of card for me at the moment

Backing Papers from Inspired By Peacocks CD

Nestabilitie Die - Labels 20 - my latest purchase

I stamped this beautiful peacock direct on to the Label using Memento - Paris Dusk Ink and stamped a few peacock feathers direct onto background using the same ink.

Glitter has been added to the feathers for a little sparkle along with Gems to give some texture.

A satin ribbon from my stock was placed down the left hand side with a little Card Candi added, again for texture.

I has been a pleasure to see all the lovely designs this CD has to offer and my thanks to Glenda for her support of our blog.

One lucky person will be chosen to receive a fabulous prize of not 1 but 3 CD's from Glenda.

Remember all you have to do to be in with a chance of winning is to create a Card, ATC, Scrapbook page etc using something from a CD and say which CD you have used.

Do pop over to the challenge blog to see what the rest of my teamies have done for you this week.

Apologies from me as I lost my Internet connection both last night and this morning so hence the later post.

CD SUNDAY -SPONSORED CHALLENGE NO 2 - DECOUPAGE

Good morning to all my followers and blogging friends.

Here we are at the start of October and for our CD SUNDAY challenge this week, I am happy to announce it is time for our 2nd Sponsored Challenge.

Here is the link:

http://www.craftcds.co.uk/

Bob gave us lots of lovely stuff to play with which reflects in the image below which I have used for my DT Card

A twisted decoupage image matted onto beautiful pearlescent card.

For my base card I chose the NOEL backing paper from Thomas Kincade CD 3

I used tiny punches for the christmas trees and a larger punch for the holly. My holly berries were made using 'Ruby Red' Liquid Pearls.

As usual our DT's have made fabulous cards so do pop over to have a look.

Our Random Generator will be choosing one lucky person to win a voucher to spend in Bob's Shop.

So dust off your CD's and let us see what you come up with this week.
A small piece of paper or an embellishment from a CD is all we ask of you PLUS some decoupage of your own choice.

I am entering my card into the following challenges:

Creative Inspirations - Christmas in September

Charisma Cards - Christmas Crafting

Christmas Card Challenges - Christmas Cards Only

Forum Card Swap

Over on the Rainbow's Forum we have a monthly CARD SWAP and the card above

is the card I made for my 'Swap' partner, Doreen.

I know it is safe to post it on here as she has told me that it has been received.

I have just started to collect 'Sweet Pea' stamps and this lovely stamp is called

BLACK BUTTERFLY

It is the first time of using these stamps and I admit to being a little nervous where colouring is involved. I used Promarkers in various colours before matting her onto a lovely backing paper from Craftwork Cards. I have had this pad for some time and only came across it when I was tidying my craft room.

I added glitter onto her dress and wings for a little bling.

I have several more to play with and I guess practice makes perfect where my colouring is concerned.

TIO 10 'Say it with Flowers'

Memo to self - don't leave this challenge until the last minute.

Well here it is, my TIO Challenge 10 for Frankie

This lovely lady sets a challenge every Wednesday so do pop over to her Blog and see her beautiful works of art.

For my entry this week is used a tag, obviously, distressed it using Weathered Wood, Broken China & Faded Jeans inks from Tim Holtz. I stamped using Versafine Majestic Blue onto a stamp from Elusive Images - A thing of Beauty set.

Finishing touches were a little glitter and Organza ribbon.

Hope Frankie likes my Tag.

Get Stamping Year

As this is the year to 'get stamping again' I sorted through all of my stamps and came across this stamp from PSX entitled 'Morning Glory'

I stamped onto a cream background using Versafine Onyx then coloured the image using a mixture of Permapaque & Lrya Crayons. I didn't think the cream background went well, so I distressed the edges first using Adirondack Denim then decided to carefully add more distressing over the entire card. I added a little sparkle using my Quickie Glue Pen and fine glitter. I don't think this will show up as I scanned my card instead of taking a photo.

The image was mounted onto Silver Mirri before attaching to a 5" x 5" card blank which I had covered with free downloaded paper, courtesy of Jak