We're Having A Party

Charisma Cardz is turning four and we're having a party and you are all invited.

To help us celebrate we have a number of wonderful sponsors who have generously provide some party prizes.

 

 

Prize One

The Stamping Boutique are kindly donating one lucky winner Three digi's of there choice!

Prize Two

 

Redonkulous is kindly giving a winner there choice of a free digi!

Prize Three

The Paper Shelter, are offering one lucky winner a $20 voucher to there store!

Prize Four

Card Mad Fairy

Card Mad Fairy our very own DT Jenni, is donating 3 digi's of the winners choice to one lucky winner!

Prize Five

Meiflower home to the gems and pearls of the crafting world! Meiflower are donating a £20 voucher to one lucky winner this week (excluding 99p postage)

Prize Six

 

Freckled Fawn 

 

The lovely company Freckled Fawn! 

Who are offering a $20 voucher to there online store! wow!!!

Prize Seven

Are donating 3 digi's to a lucky crafter this week!

 

The card that I have made this week would be perfect for any four year old. It features Party Hardy from Saturated Canary and she has been coloured using Copics to match some bright, fun papers from MME Lime Twist collection. I've used some simple chipboard elements which have been inked up to match to embellish the card and finished it all off with a simple circle diecut to mat the number four.

I hope that you will join in the fun and help us celebrate. I look forward to seeing your wonderful creations.

Z for Zoo Animals and a DT Call

 

Good Morning, . I hope that you have all had a wonderful holiday.  I am back from my little holiday blogging break with a midway reminder post for the current challenge over at ABC Christmas.

The theme is

Z for Zoo Animals

For this challenge we are lucky enough to have two wonderful sponsors joining us.

 

Bugaboo

 

 

Challenge Blog: http://catchthebugblog.blogspot.com/

Prize 

and 

 

 

Sweet Stamps

 

 

Prize - a $10.00 Gift Certificate for Sweet Stamp 

 

 

I still have one Christmas present that has yet to be given so I have decided to use this challenge to make a little gift bag to present it in. I've used this sweet new image from Saturated Canary and coloured her to match some papers from MME. The idea of having a mini elephant as a snowblowers is just too cute.

The layout is based on the current CLP sketch.

 

 

As we have had a few DT members step down in the last few weeks we are also currently holding a DT call so if you think that you want to join a great group and get on top of your Christmas cards throughout the year be sure to add DT beside your name when you enter the challenge.

 

I hope to see you again soon.

This will be entered into the following challenges:
CLP Challenge - Sketch
2 Sisters - Anything But a Card
Card Makin Mamas - Happy Holidays
CRAFT - Not a Card
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge - Anything Goes
Jingle Belles - What Santa Brought - New papers and image
Penny's Paper Crafty - Merry Christmas



 

 

Y for Your Favorite Dies or Punches

Good Morning, I hope that you are all well. Only just under two weeks now until the big day, I hope that you are all ready. If you still have a few more cards to go for this year or you are looking to get a head start for next year we have another challenge for you today over on the ABC Christmas Challenge. The theme this time around is

 

Y for YOUR Favourite Die or Punch

We are lucky to have two wonderful sponsors for this challenge and they have offered up some wonderful prizes for some of our lucky participants.

Stamp Fairy

 

There's also a 50% sale on at the moment so pop over there to grab a bargain...

 

and

The lovely Heidi at Simon Says Stamp who is offering one lucky entrant 

A $15 voucher to spend in her store 

 

 

 

I am all about saving time right now as I am knitting like crazy to finish off all of the Christmas presents that I have on the go while still trying to take the time to train our new pup so for my card I have used an image from Saturated Canary that I had previously coloured and accented with lots of stickles.  

 

I have used my favorite Spellbinders circles which seem to appear on almost every card it seems and I have also added what is sure to become a new favorite, my new Magnolia doohickey poinsettia.

The layout for this card was based off a wonderful sketch from this week's Sketch and Stash challenge which made it super simple to put together a great card in a flash.

 

Here is a close up of the image for anyone that wants a better look.

 

 

Thanks so much for stopping by, be sure to check out the wonderful creations from the rest of the DT over on the ABC Christmas Challenge Blog.

Have a great day and Happy Crafting!

 

I would like to enter my card in the following challenges:

Sketch and Stash - Sketch

Cupcake Crafts - Merry Christmas

Love to Create - Anything Goes

Pink Elephant - Photo Inspired

Tip Top Tuesday - Christmas

Anything Goes - Traditional Christmas Colours

Songbird Challenge - Merry Christmas Everybody

Dream Valley - Christmas

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Could it be Magic - GDT Songbird Challenge

Good Morning, I hope that you are all safe and dry this morning. The winds were something else last night and we are not anywhere near the worst of the storm which hit New York and New Jersey.

 

I am excited to tell you that I was asked to be a guest designer for the Songbird Challenge this time around. Their theme is Could It Be Magic?

 

 

For my card, I opted to use this sweet, magical little fairy Whispy from Saturated Canary. She has been in my collection of digital images for a while now but this was the first time that I have coloured her up and I just love her. the hair was a challenge but I think that I have done okay with it. I still need more practice but it does look better IRL than it does in the photo.

 

I've used some MME papers from a pad that I liked so much I recently bought it again and kept the embellishments rather simple as I have a tendency to go to dimensional on a Birthday card and then I never have any ready for the mail.

 

I hope that I have given you a little bit of inspiration. Be sure to stop by the challenge blog and see the beautiful creations from the DT. There is also a wonderful prize up being offered from

Bearly Mine Designs, so why not have a go at the challenge?

I would like to enter my card in the following challenges:
Card Makin Mamas - Anything Goes
Totally Gorjuss - Things With Wings
Dream Valley - Glitter and Bling
Crafts and Me - Fantasy Creatures
Crafter's Companion - Birthdays



 

Itsy-Bitzy, Teenie-Weenie...

You know where this is going right? The theme over on the Totally Gorjuss Challenge is

Something Yellow which got me going and I have been humming this song off and on all day!

I thought that I would stop by and show you the card that I finished off this morning.

I have been seeing so many cards using this gorgeous Cali Girl from Saturated Canary that I just had to give it a go myself. I really focused on her hair this time around as that really is what seems to bring this image to life. In the end she looks just like me. Ha ha, yeah right! Although a week at the beach does sound nice. Too bad it's back to work tomorrow.

 I have coloured her to match with these gorgeous papers from MME that I got the other week.  I had been itching to use them ever since they arrived, they are perfect for all of my summer cards and this is a colour combo that I love so I am sure that you will be seeing more of them soon. An image as sunny as this one called for some summery flowers, so I dug into my stash and went into overload mode to finish it off.

This card will be entered into the following challenges:

Totally Gorjuss - Something Yellow

Corrosive Challenge - Summertime Girls

Cute Card Thursday - Here Comes Summer

Raise the Bar - Summer

Stampin for the Weekend - Show Us Your Style

Grown Up Christmas List

Good Morning, I hope that you are all well on this beautiful sunny morning.

Today is the start of a new ABC Christmas Challenge. It was my turn to host and I have selected the theme

L is for Lyrics

We are asking you to create a Christmas Card using the lyrics of your favorite Christmas songs and carols as inspiration.

We have two generous sponsors that have offered up some great prizes.

The lovely Heidi at Simon Says Stamp are offering one lucky entrant
A $15 voucher to spend in her store

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&
The fabulously talented Krista Smith at Saturated Canary is offering another lucky entrant

their choice of 2 digis from her store

Krista has generously provided the DT with some of her gorgeous images for our cards this week. I have chosen to work with Molly the Elf. This sweet girl holding her Christmas list she reminded me of the song Grown Up Christmas list which is all about wishing for things like peace, love and joy for Christmas.

I knew right away that I wanted this to be a bright fun card so I have coloured the image to match these wonderful papers from MME which can be found at Simon Say Stamp here. The layout for my card was based on this week's sketch from Sketch Saturday. I have added only one embellishment this week, a gorgeous rosette flower that I made using my new Tim Holtz die, this thing is amazing and makes it so easy.

I have even finished the inside, I am trying hard to get into the habit of this when I know what the card will be used for. It sure beats having to go through and add all the inserts right before I have to put them in the mail.

I hope that you have been inspired to join us.  Be sure to visit the rest of the DT over on the challenge blog to see all of their gorgeous creations.

Happy Crafting!

This card will be entered into the following challenges:

Sketch Saturday - Sketch

Creative Card Crew - Song Inspired

J & C Creations - All that Glitters

Jingle Belles - Christmas Music

The Squirrel and Fox - Winter or Summer

Umbrella Girl

Wow this month has flown by fast! I can't believe that this is already my last GDT post at Papertake Weekly. Before I tell you all about this weeks challenge I just want to say thanks for having me ladies,

I have had so much fun with these challenges.

For this weeks challenge we have a great sketch from Dawny P.

This adorable image called Rainy Day is from Saturated Canary and she is such a doll to colour.  I have matched the colouring to these great papers from the MME Quite Contrary line that I picked up about a month back, so glad that I did as that raindrop paper was just perfect for this image.

Once she was all coloured up this cutie just called for flowers and I have gone all out raiding my stash of Wild Orchid pretties to embellish this card.  I have tucked in a little Umbrella charm as a final finishing touch.

I hope to see you all out to play this week, I do look forward to seeing your beautiful creations.

This card will be entered into the following challenges:

Saturated Canary - Anything Goes

Dutch Dare - Ribbon, Images, Pattern Paper and Layers

Moving Along With the Times - Ribbons and Bows



Bewitched

Just a quick  post to share with you this morning. I have been having some fun with another Halloween image. This time it is Rag Doll Witch from Saturated Canary. This little doll has been so much fun to colour.

The card has a little bit of everything on it.  I have  used papers from Basic Grey and torn the background to reveal the great script paper from Prima underneath. Pulled out the sewing machine to add some zigzag stitching to the background circle. As I didn't have any small black bling swirls I freehanded it to add some sparkle. The flowers are a mix of handmade and mulberry flowers from Michael's. As it was still missing some spooky touches I have tucked in a small bat and a bow made from the most fantastic Halloween ribbon that I could find. 

This card will be entered into the following challenges:

Saturated Canary Challenge - Stitching

Papertake Weekly - Spooky Hues (Guest Designer)

Party Time Tuesday - Spooky

Fussy and Fancy Friday - Halloween

Card Makin Mamas - Halloween

Addicted to Stamps - Halloween

Basic Grey - Halloween

Craft Our Days Away - Halloween Colours

Just Us Girls - Orange, Green, Purple, Black

Paper Sundaes - Halloween

Totally Stampalicious - Orange, Purple and Black

Charisma Cardz - In Stitches