Christine Says - Layer it Up - 2

Good morning to you all, how time flies when we are having this beautiful weather. Spring is really here at the moment, the birds start their dawn chorus early and the wonderful Spring Flowers make our gardens look pretty.

Another 2 weeks has passed so of course it is time for our latest challenge from the team over at

CD SUNDAY

Jenny will have trouble choosing her Top3 and she will post in time for our next challenge.

We are continuing with our Special Challenge for Wendy and you have a further 3 weeks to enter.

This is the link to take you to our page where you can read all about it. 

Onto this weeks theme which is chosen by Me and I chose for you

LAYER IT UP - 2

Lots of scope for you to use Die Cuts, Decoupage, Layers etc, just remember to use something from a CD in your design.

This is my contribution

Presscut Step Card Cutting Die - PCD01 for the main card base

Backing Paper from Joanna Sheen CD - One Summer's Day

Lace Flower Border from Brenda Exeter 

Two Butterflies by Cheery Lynn

Central Die is from Tonic 

Two side flourishes are Anja Dies which I have had for quite a long time

My dies have been cut using Silver and Beige Pearlescent Card

I hope you like my design and I look forward to visiting you and leaving comments.

Take a moment to visit the challenge blog to see the beautiful creations my fellow team mates have created for you.

I am entering my card into the Ooh-la-la creations Blog Challenge

CD SUNDAY CHALLENGE

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

I hope the sun is shining where you live, we could certainly do with some sunshine after all the rain we have had lately.

Jenny has chosen the theme for your challenge this week, which is:

REFLECTIONS

It is the 2nd week for SUE-B as our Guest Designer this month and she has produced a fabulous card to share with you. Do visit her blog and leave comments.

My DT Card is shown below

RECIPE

5 X 5 Scalloped Card

Backing Paper and my topper are from DREAMS OF TRANQUILITY CD  - Ooh-la-la-creations.

The backing paper is from Design Set - Glacier Legacy and the topper from - Edith Reflections.

A little card candi makes the card complete.

We hope to see you joining us again this week, just remember to use a little something from a CD in your design and say which CD you have used.

Do pop by our blog to see how my fellow teamies have interpretated the challenge this week, you won't be disapointed.

CD SUNDAY CHALLENGE

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

This is a scheduled post so I am hoping Mr Blogger works.

I am sorry that I haven't been able to leave comments on your blogs for last weeks challenge - Alphabets, my eyes have to be constantly looking at the floor but I will check all your entries and leave comments at a later date.

Enough about me, so for this weeks challenge the team chose

BLACK & BLUE.

This is Hazels 3rd week of being our Guest DT and she has done us proud again.

My DT Card is shown below

RECIPE:

Black Card Blank

Backing Paper from Essence of Nature CD

Black Mat

Pearlescent Blue Card

Stamp from Crafty Individuals

Nestability Scalloped Die

Black Brads

Nestability Parisian Motif Die for the sentiment, stamped with Birthday Wishes

Card Candi

We hope you will join in our latest challenge, remember all we ask, is for you to use something from a CD in your design and say which CD it is.

Do pop over to see what the rest of my teamies have made, stunning as always.

CD SUNDAY CHALLENGE

Good morning to you all and welcome to CD SUNDAY's first challenge for August.

We have a lot to tell you so please pop over to read all about it.

Thanks for all you stunning entries last week, you certainly liked 'Bling it Up'. All the DT's loved looking at your creations and leaving you comments.

For our SPONSORED'challenge this week, we, the DT have chosen

'BUTTONS'

as our theme, and when you see our lovely sponsors banner you will see why.

All the DT and our Guest DT were provided with Grandma's Button Box CD to work with for the challenge. A very generous contribution from Katy Sue.

One lucky winner chosen by Mr Linky will win a copy of this beautiful CD, so get your creative juices flowing to be in with a chance of winning.

We are pleased to welcome DEBS as our Guest Designer for the month of August

Now onto this week, my DT card is shown below

All the design has come from this beautiful CD and if you haven't got it yet, why not?

Their are so many beautiful papers, elements, sewing things, patchwork pockets and of course Grandma herself, far too many to name.

I took a pearlescent A4 card and chose 2 different papers from the selection available and printed on both sides of the card.

For a change I made a seperated easel card with the two easels at different depths.

A border strip from another section of the CD was placed to make the easel stands and a small strip has been added along the bottom edge.

I printed out 4 different sentiments to attach to my card.

Finally 3 buttons have been added along with a couple of blue gems.

We hope you will join us again, remember you must use something from a CD in your design and say which CD you have used.

Do pop over to CD Sunday Blog to see the beautiful creations from my fellow teamies and this months Guest DT.

CD SUNDAY CHALLENGE

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

CD SUNDAY

Thanks for your entries in last weeks challenge, we enjoyed visiting your blogs.

We half way through the month of June and we still have the lovely Jocelyn as Guest Design Team member. She has done us proud so please pop over to her blog and show your support.

Our challenge this week is

TASSEL TIME

and my DT card is shown below.

I used Joanna Sheen's - Elegant Fans CD and printed the matching backing papers for the topper onto Pearlescent card from my stash.

A border has been punched using a Martha Stewart punch - Vine Leaves.

Careful scoring using, of course, my Hougie to show both of the backing paper designs.

My beautiful topper has been printed onto Glossy Photo Paper and a couple of Die Cut Flourishes from Tim Holtz are added.

I chose to add a Burgundy Tassel attached to the topper with a matching Brad.

A few holographic gems complete the card.

We hope you will join us this week, just remember our rule - use something from a CD and say which it is you have used.

Do pop over to our blog to see the rest of my teamies contributions, gorgeous as always.

Challenge 22 - Surprise Surprise Bah Humbug GDT

Good morning to my blogging friends and I am so excited as I have been selected to be Bah! Humbug's Guest Designer for the month of June. How wonderful is that.

Ann & Max have chosen a super challenge for you all this week, which is
'SURPRISE'

We want you to create a project with a hidden surprise and for my Debut DT design I chose to make an Advent Calendar which you can see below.


I have used the Christmas CD from Thomas Kincade triple CD, courtesy of Joanna Sheen

I printed the design onto an A4 White Pearlescent Card and very carefully cut out the 24 individual windows with my Craft Knife, not as easy as you think.

This is backed onto a 'hidden' second sheet and when the windows are opened they reveal a scene for each day leading up to Christmas Day.

I hope you will continue to support the lovely ladies over at Humbug Hall, I don't know how they come up with different challenges each week.
By the beginning of December you should have lots of cards ready to post and it is all down to this fabulous blog.

We hope you will join in with us all this week and look forward to seeing your interpretation of 'Surprise' and leaving comments on your blogs.

CD SUNDAY CHALLENGE

Good morning to you all, hope you have been enjoying the lovely weather of the last few days. It certainly feels like spring here.

Thanks for joining in last weeks challenge, we enjoyed visiting your blogs and leaving comments.

So, over at CD SUNDAY this week we are asking you to think about

A SONG IN MY HEART

As usual our DT & GDT have beautiful designs to show you.

It is the second week for our Guest Designer Claire and she has another lovely creation to share with you

My DT card is shown below

I chose to go with a beautiful song from the Patience Strong CD1 from Joanna Sheen

It has been printed onto Pearlescent Card and then layered onto Purple Card from my stash.

The main card is also Pearlescent and I used my 'Hougie Board' to score a few lines both down and across for dimension.

Punched flowers complete with Brads and a few Gems add the finishing touch

I am not sure if you can read the song, so hear it is below:

If the heart is Singing, you cannot go far wrong, For you will discover, there's magic in a song, That scares away the demons, that throng around us all, Wanting us to stumble, and to see us fall, If the heart is singing, nothing can get through, Only that which strengthens, and what is best for you.

We hope you will join us again this week, just remember to use something from a CD in your design and say which it is you have used.

Next week we have something special happening on our blog, so watch this space, as they say!!

CD SUNDAY CHALLENGE

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

CD SUNDAY

This week our chosen theme is

SOMEONE SPECIAL

You are in for a treat this week as not only do have have a new Sponsor for this week but also another lovely Guest DT joining us for the month of April.

Our Sponsor for this week is the lovely Linnie, who draws the most fabulous Digi Images. Our DT have been lucky to receive sets to use in our challenge.

The prize for one lucky participant will be some Digi Images of their choice.

Before I show my DT Card for this week, let me introduce Claire, she is joining us at our Guest DT for the month of April.

Now onto my DT Card which you can see below:

I chose this lovely ballerina from one of the sets Linnie kindly gave us. She has been coloured using Promarkers and a little glitter has been added to her skirt.

I cut her out using Nestability Die No 10 and mounted her onto a larger contrasting die.

The main card is lovely Blue Pearlescent from my stash. I then used a beautiful backing paper from Joanna Sheen's Enchanted Dreams CD - the flowers section. My fancy edge was created using a Martha Stewart Deep Edge Punch - Vine and I left a small border to enhance the colour of the card.

My fabulous roses are a recent purchase from the NEC, the link is HERE.

Such a good price, 20 roses for £2.99 and so many to choose from I had to limit myself as to what colours to get.

The rest of my 'teamies' plus Claire have created lovely designs this week, so do pop over and take a look.

As always, we ask that you use something from a CD in your design and say which it is you have used. We are finding quite a few new CD's from you, so thanks for telling us about them.

Thanks for taking the time to visit me and I appreciate any comments you leave.

Rainbow Lady's Challenge #145

Good morning to you all and welcome to the latest challenge from

Rainbow Lady.

Thanks for joining us last week, we enjoyed visiting you all and leaving comments on your blog.

This week our sponsor is the lovely Steph who I am sure you will know is from Create & Craft.

Steph also has her own shop stocking lots of fabulous goodies for us crafters.

Our challenge this week is:

TIE A YELLOW RIBBON

My DT card is shown below

RECIPE

Cream Pearlescent Card Base

Core'dinations Card Stock which has been embossed and sanded

Topper from Basic Grey - Mellow - Deciduous Collection

Nestability Label Die

Flowers and Yellow Ribbon from my stash.

I am sure you will all know the song 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round An Old Oak Tree' so I incorporated a few trees amongst my design to fit this challenge.

Do pop over to see what the rest of my Teamies have been up to this week, stunning designs as always.

We hope you will join us again as there is a prize up for grabs for one lucky entrant.

Thanks for popping by today, I appreciate your comments.

CD SUNDAY CHALLENGE

Good morning and a warm welcome to you all.


Another Sunday has passed which means time for our latest challenge over at


CD SUNDAY

Our chosen theme this week is:


LOVE IS IN THE AIR

My DT Card is here

RECIPE:

Cream Pearlescent Card
Core-dinations Card - the edges have been torn
Backing Papers from - Fantasy Floral CD - Script Roses Section - Joanna Sheen
Gold Ribbon
Heart made using Gold Mirri Card with smaller heart embossed using my Cuttlebug
Roses, Love Die Cut, Red Gems all from my stash

Thankyou for your stunning entries on last weeks challenge, so good to see a few more of you joining in. We loved checking your blogs and leaving comments.

Do pop over to our blog to see the rest of our DT's work.

We will have a fabulous Sponsor for next weeks challenge with a super prize up for grabs.
Make a note, CD Sunday Challenge, 6th February, we wouldn't want you to miss out.

CD SUNDAY CHALLENGE

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


CD SUNDAY

Our DT's have chosen the theme of

WATERS MEET for this weeks challenge, my DT card is shown below



My choice of CD this week is from Debs
called Waterside Watercolours - Winters Sleep
All the artwork on this CD is done by Debs Mum - Tina.

I printed one of the backing papers onto Pearlescent Card to make my base card.
The large Nestability Die is number 10 to which I added a Marianne Creatables Die, these are both new to me and I love them. They are so versatile so you will be seeing them again on future cards.
2 Swirls, again from Marianne Creatables range give a finishing touch.
The images have been printed onto Glossy Photo Paper.

Thanks to all who joined us last week, we enjoyed seeing your creations and leaving you comments.
All you have to do to take part is use something from a CD, a piece of paper, image, embellishment etc and say which CD you have used.

CD SUNDAY CHALLENGE

Good morning to all my followers, I hope you had a lovely Christmas Day with family and friends.



Our challenge this week over at CD SUNDAY is called

STITCH IT, my DT card is shown below

RECIPE

Pearlescent Card
Backing Paper from my Stash
Patchwork Paper and Topper from 'IN OTHER WORDS' CD - Joanna Sheen
Silver Mirri embossed using Cuttlebug Folder - Swirls
Flower, Pearl and Gems from my stash.

We hope you will join us again this week and look forward to seeing and commenting on your designs.
Remember to use something from a CD and say which you have used.

I would like to say a personal thankyou to everyone that has joined in with us this year and hope you continue to support us in 2011.

A Happy New Year to you all

CD SUNDAY CHALLENGE - TAG IT

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

This week we are asking you to

'TAG IT'

My DT card is shown below


All of my craft stash is still in France, so I was limited as to what I could use.
I decided to go with Artylicious - Filligree Fusion CD.
Two different backing papers are on my card which I printed onto Cream Pearlescent Card.
The tags are part of the same CD, those of you who know Glenda's CD's will know she always gives us elements along with papers.
I atached Coffee Satin Ribbon to the edge and added Gold Gems for a little sparkle. My tags also show Coffee Ribbon.
My flowers were made using Punches, thank goodness I didn't pack everything in the caravan, and Gems added to the centres.
A strip of contrasting card has been added to break up the main design.

We hope you will join in with us this week and show us your creations. We enjoy visiting your blogs and leaving comments.

Pop over to our Blog to see the beautiful designs from the rest of the DT's

All you have to do is use a little something from a CD and say which it is you have used.

We will have another challenge on Boxing Day so remember to check us out.

On a personal note, I would like to wish all my blogging friends a Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year and thankyou for supporting me in 2010.

I am entering my card into
Crafty Ann's Challenge 30 - Anything Goes.
Allsorts - Free and Easy
Crafty Emma -Anything Goes
Crafty Sentiments - Anything Goes

Christmas Song - Ooh-la-la Challenge

My apologies for my scanned photo but I wanted to take part in this week's challenge over at
Ooh-la-la

Their chosen theme is a Christmas Song.

I have limited craft stuff here in the UK as everything was packed into our Caravan ready for our 4 month trip to Spain. Unfortunately we had an accident whilst travelling through France which has resulted in our Caravan being written off. Neither of us were hurt, thank goodness but we now have to wait for the Insurers to bring it back to the UK before we can go and collect our belongings. The car is still there and we are waiting to hear the outcome.

I had printed a couple of images from Christmas Presence before we left so decided to make use of one of them to make this card. My song title is:
Santa Claus is coming to Town.

Sorry for the lack of embellies, these are also in the caravan.
I hope the team at Ooh-la-la accept my contribution for this weeks challenge.

CD SUNDAY CHALLENGE

Another week has passed so once again it is time for our latest challenge over at

CD SUNDAY



The theme this week is

SHABBY CHIC

and my DT Card is below


I used my latest CD from Debs which is called
BRYONY BEE AND FRIENDS

This particular CD is not available to purchase from Deb as it is one of her NEC Show Specials which she included when you spent a certain amount of money on her stand.
I feel priveleged to own this CD as it is beautiful.

I printed on both sides of pearlescent card with backing papers from the Claudia section.
The gorgeous image is of Claudia and I think she is both Shabby & Chic.

I tried a different fold for this card to show both of the papers and then attached beautiful brads to secure the the page folds.
I used a Nestabilitie die to show off Claudia's lovely image.

Our design team have made some beautiful samples this week so do pop over to the blog to have a look.

As usual, we ask that you use something from a CD and say which you have used.
Do join in as we love to see your creations and maybe pick up on a new CD we don't have in our collection.

CD SUNDAY CHALLENGE

Good morning to all my blogging friends. Sunday is here again which means time for our latest challenge from CD SUNDAY
Our theme this week is - JINGLE BELLS

So now you have an excuse to look out those forgotten CD's and join us in making a card for Christmas.
We request that you use something from a CD, be it a small piece of paper/topper etc and let us know which CD you have used.

RECIPE
Jingle Bells Topper from Joanna Sheen - Victorian Christmas CD
Backing Paper from Graphicus - Seasons Greetings CD
Pearlescent Card, Sparkle Stars from my stash.

Our Design Team have made lovely samples this week so do pop over to our blog to have a look.

We have exciting news for next weeks challenge as it is the start of our Sponsored Monthly Challenge. Do remember to look on Sunday 5th September to see what is on offer.

We look forward to seeing and commenting on your designs this week.

CD SUNDAY CHALLENGE

Good morning all my blogging friends.
Time for another challenge from
CD SUNDAY

Our chosen theme this week is:
MUSIC & MOVEMENT

For my card this week I chose to make a 'Springy Card' as this fits the challenge of Movement.
I covered the base card with fabulous Music paper from CRAFTY INDIVIDUALS - the range being Background Papers Book 1
I love the different tones of this paper and along with lots of Music Notes it also has a couple of songs running through the music.

My beautiful topper shows two people dancing 'The Gavotte' - this is from JOANNA SHEEN'S CD - The ATC Assistant.
As there are so many beautiful images on this CD it is worth having it in your Craft Stash.
I printed the topper onto Pearlescent Card, trimmed the edges with fancy scissors before adding 'Lettuce' Distress Inks.
The flower is from my stash with a tiny Brad attached to the centre.

I have enjoyed making this type of card for a change.

Do pop over to see all the gorgeous cards our DT's have made for this week.

We would love to see you joining in with us, our rules are simple, a small piece of backing paper or a topper from a CD is all we require. Please mention the CD you use when linking back to our blog.

We are thrilled that so many of you joined in last week, it was super to see all your creations.

Keep watching this space as we have something exciting happening, starting in September.

Rainbow Lady Challenge - Lavender & Lace

Here is my card for Cynthia's challenge this week. I have only just made it as it closes later today.
Cynthia's Guest Designer Claire chose
LAVENDER & LACE

For my card I used toppers, backing paper and actual flowesoft from their Lavender & Lace collection.
I haven't used flowersoft for quite a while and these are the only two colours I have.
The lace from my stash has been coloured using Distress Ink - Dusty Concord
I added a few gems for a little bling

I made a little mistake whilst creating this, suffice to say, the base card was upside down once I had added the toppers Oooops!!!! Well it happens to the best crafters LOL
No panic though as I have lovely pearlescent card in a matching shade, so I cut my original card in half before mounting onto the lilac card.

I hope this pleases both Claire & Cynthia.
Do pop over to both of their blogs to see some inspiring work.

CD SUNDAY CHALLENGE 12

Good morning to my blogging friends.
It is Sunday which means another challenge from
CD SUNDAY

The theme for this week is KIND THOUGHTS
We have some lovely cards from our Design Team, so do pop over and take a look

For my card I chose to use 'IN OTHER WORDS' CD from Joanna Sheen.

RECIPE

Pearlescent Gold Card on which my backing paper has been printed, I do think this sort of card gives a beautiful effect.
For the topper I used Glossy Photo Paper and chose a beautiful sentiment to complement my card. This has been layered onto card from my stash which has a lovely pattern and again is pearlescent.

My Kind Thoughts topper was done using my computer, punched flowers in matching paper and a beautiful Tassle adds the finishing touch.

Your card or project must contain something from a CD, maybe a piece of backing paper, topper or embellishment

I hope you will join us this week and we look forward to seeing your designs