House of Cards November Challenge - a sketch

Good afternoon and welcome to my DT post for the House of Cards Challenge blog. This month we have a great sketch challenge for you too combine with any of our card making styles.

I am on the Cute and Fun DT, so of course I went with a cute image on my card. I used the cute Charlotte and Christmas Candy Cane image from Milk Coffee. Isn't she just adorable?! I kept to more traditional Christmas colours as this one is for my MIL to use for her Christmas cards.

Recipe:

Stamps: Charlotte and Christmas Candy Cane image from Milk Coffee, Tremendous Treats: Christmas from Papertrey Ink

Papers: Ruby Red (Retired), Chocolate Chip, Holiday Treasures DSP (Retired), Whisper White all from Stampin' Up, Copic X-Press It Blending Card

Inks: Ruby Red (Retired) from Stampin' Up, Copic Markers

Accessories: Heart Border Die from Papertrey Ink, Oval & Scalloped Oval Nestabilities both from Spellbinders, Diamond Stickles

Copics Used:

Skin - E000, E00, E21, E11, E04, R20

Hair - E21, E25, E27, E29

Coat, Boots and Ribbon - YG93, YG95, YG97

Holly Leaves - G17, G28

Red - R27, R46, R29

And that's all from me for this post folks! Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to pop on over to the House of Cards Challenge blog and check out all the cards and video tutorial for this month. 

Guest Designer Post for Sketchy Challenges #76 Cordine's Sketch

A few weeks ago I was asked if I want to be a guest designer on The Sketchy Challenges blog and as this is a challenge I regularly join in with, I said yes of course! This week's sketch was designed by Cordine and there is also a Christmas in July theme running for the whole month as well. I don't do Christmas in July as a rule as it's far too early for me to be thinking about all that, but I had lots of fun making this Christmas card.

And here's the sketch by Cordine...

And here's my card using a digi I found already cut up, but obviously unused!

This card is also for Fab 'n' Funky's Challenge #222 to make a Christmas card and for Papertake Weekly's Anything Goes Challenge with the option of making a Christmas card.

Recipe:

Stamps: Snowflake from Milk Coffee, Tremendous Treats: Christmas from Papertrey Ink

Papers: Coastal Cabana, Bermuda Bay, Whisper White, Silver Glimmer Card, Winter Frost Speciality DSP (Retired) all from Stampin' Up, Copic X-Press It Blending Card

Inks: Coastal Cabana from Stampin' Up, Copic Markers

Accessories: Whisper White Satin Ribbon (Retired), Coastal Cabana Twine both from Stampin' Up, Snowflake Dies LR0123 from Marianne Creatables, Frostyville Border Die from Memory Box, Icicle Stickles, White Liquid Applique, Clear gems from Papermania

Copics Used:
Skin - E000, E00, E21, E11, R20
Hair- E21, E25, E29
Coat - BG10, BG11, BG13
Scarf & Gloves - BG11, BG13, BG15
Bow & Boots - BG15. BG49, BG18
Dress - W3, W5

And that's all from me for this post folks! Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to pop on over to The Sketchy Challenges blog and check out all the other gorgeous cards from the DT team and why not join in the fun whilst you're there too?!

Sketch Saturday Challenge #307 with Milk Coffee

Good Saturday Morning and welcome to another Sketch Saturday challenge. This week we are sponsored once again by the fabulous Milk Coffee.

Our prize this week is 5 digis from the Milk Coffee Etsy store!

Sketch #307 was designed by me!

And here's my take on it. I rotated the sketch and then went for something completely different and saw each of those strips as sunflowers with my digi image, Lisabeth loves Sunflowers being one of the strips as well. I wanted it to look like she was in a garden of tall sunflowers and totally love how this one came out! 

Recipe:

Stamps: Lisabeth Loves Sunflower from Milk Coffee, Daydreamer, Flower Fusion #9 both from Papertrey 

Ink

Papers: So Saffron, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White all from Stampin' Up, Copic X-Press It Blending Card

Inks: So Saffron, Chocolate Chip, Early Espresso, Old Olive all from Stampin' Up, Copic Markers

Accessories: Flower Fusion #9 Die from Papertrey Ink

Copics Used:

Skin - E000, E00, E01, R20, R30

Hair - E23, E25, E27, E29

Dress, Shoes & Hairband - B60, B63, B66

Leaves & Stem - YG91, YG93, YG95

Flower - Y113, Y15, Y17, E59, E57, E55

And that's all from me for this post folks! Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to pop on over to the Sketch Saturday Challenge blog and see all the other fantastic DT cards and join in the fun too!

Sketch Saturday Challenge #294 with Milk Coffee

It's Saturday morning and that means only one thing! It's time for another fabulous sketch from the Sketch Saturday Challenge blog and this week we are sponsored by Milk Coffee.

And the fabulous prize is 5 digis from the Milk Coffee Etsy store!

And here is sketch #294 designed by Alex!

And here's my card. I did turn the sketch round so it fit my image better. Totally love this Rock & Roll Star or Elvis image! 

Recipe:

Stamps: Rock & Roll Star from Milk Coffee, Background Basics: Sheet Music, Star Prints, Mat Stack #1 Collection all from Papertrey Ink

Papers: Smoky Slate, Basic Black, Whisper White, Silver Glimmer Card all from Stampin' Up, Copic X-Press It Blending Card

Inks: Basic Black, Encore Silver, Chalk Marker all from Stampin' Up, Copic Markers, Silver Star Gelly Roll Pen

Accessories: Silver Ribbon from Stampin' Up, Seeing Stars Dies from Papertrey Ink, Buttons from stash, Oyster Baker's Twine from The Ribbon Reel

Copics Used:

Skin - E000, E00, E01

Hair - C3, C5, C7, C9

Suit - C00, C1, C2

Belt, Shoes etc - C3, C5, C7

And that's all from me for today folks! Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to pop on over to the Sketch Saturday Challenge blog, check out the other fantastic cards from the DT and join in the fun.

I would also like to say a HUGE thank you to my lovely friend Louise for Guest Designing with us this month. Her cards have all been absolutely gorgeous. 

Sketch Saturday Challenge #287 with Milk Coffee

It's time for another super Saturday Sketch and this week we are sponsored by the fabulous

Milk Coffee

Our prize this week is 5 digis of the winner's choice from the Milk Coffee Etsy store!

Here is this week's sketch made designed by our Queen of Sketches Jen.

Hope you enjoy using it!

Sketch #287

And here's my offering using Charlotte and Christmas Tree - isn't she just so cute decorating her tree! 

Recipe:

Stamps: Charlotte and Christmas Tree from Milk Coffee, Boutique Borders: Christmas from Papertrey Ink

Papers: Purely Pomegranate (Retired), Crumb Cake both from Stampin' Up, Copic X-Press It Blending Card, Woodland Wishes Patterned Papers from Lili of the Valley

Inks: Old Olive, Crumb Cake, Purely Pomegranate (Retired) all from Stampin' Up, Copic Markers, Clear Star Gelly Roll Pen

Accessories: Fancy Tags 2 from Spellbinders, Pearl, Old Olive Grosgrain Ribbon (Retired) both from Stampin' Up, Paper Roses from Wild Orchid Crafts

And that's all form me for this post folks! Thanks for stopping by. Don't forget to pop on over to the challenge blog and join in the fun! 

Hope You Can Cling To Challenge #23

It's Challenge #23 of the Hope You Can Cling To Card Drive in honour of Breast Cancer Month over on Splitcoast Stampers today and today's challenge is to make a card inspired by a fairy tale. I just got this adorable little Fairy Princess digi stamp and thought she would be perfect for this challenge. I've actually made this one for a friend at work whose 6 year old daughter is going in to hospital for an eye operation next week so I made it all cute and girly with the requested brave princess sentiment on it. Hope she likes it!

And here she is...And boy did that sentiment take me forever to do! I don't have a small enough alphabet so had to keep masking letters from sentiments in a PTI set, but I kept getting them wonky or the ink would be on the next letter and get on the paper. After about 6 attempts at doing all the words together, I gave up and decided to have them separately instead. At least this way if I had a word that was perfect I could keep it instead of starting from scratch when I messed up!

Recipe:

Stamps: Fairy Princess from Milk Coffee, All About You from Papertrey Ink

Papers: Regal Rose (Retired), Pale Plum (Retired), Whisper White, Sweet Always DSP (Retired), Brights DSP Stack (Retired) all from Stampin' Up, Copic X-Press It Blending Card

Inks: Regal Rose (Retired) from Stampin' Up, Copic Markers

Accessories: Labels 14 from Spellbinders, Butterfly Border Die, Hearts Corner Dies both from Joy Crafts, Ribbon from Stash, Gold Ice Stickles, Heart Border Die from Crafty Sentiments, Gems from The Works

And that's all from me today folks! Thanks for stopping by!

Sketch Saturday Week #274 with Milk Coffee

Good Morning Sketchers! It's time for another Super Saturday Sketch and this week we are sponsored by the fabulous

Milk Coffee

Our prize, this week, is fabulous! It's the winner's choice of 5 digi stamps from the Milk Coffee Etsy store!

Here is this week's sketch designed by our Queen of Sketches, Jen.

Hope you enjoy using it!

Sketch #274

And here's my card using the cute Michelle in Hot Air Balloon digi stamp.

Recipe:

Stamps: Michelle in Hot Air Balloon from Milk Coffee, Signature Greetings II from Papertrey Ink

Papers: Pistachio Pudding, Baked Brown Sugar both from Stampin' Up, Copic X-Press It Blending Card, Everyday Electic Patterned Papers from Echo Park

Inks: Baked Brown Sugar from Stampin' Up, Copic Markers

Accessories: Regal Rose Grosgrain Ribbon (Retired), In Colour Boutique Details both from Stampin' Up, Simple Circles Border Die from Papertrey Ink

And that's all from me for this post folks! Thanks for stopping by and I hope you can join in with this week's sketch challenge.

Sketch Saturday Challenge #265 with Milk Coffee

It's time again for another fabulous sketch from the Sketch Saturday Challenge blog and this week we are sponsored by the fantastic Milk Coffee digital stamp and scrapbook store on Etsy.

Milk Coffee

The winner of this week's sketch will win a fantastic prize of 5 digi stamps of their choice from the Milk Coffee store!!! How about that for a prize?!

Here is this week's sketch designed by our Queen of Sketches Jen.

We hope you enjoy using it!

#265

And here's my card using the stunning Madeline in Retro Outfit from Milk Coffee. I love her spotty top so made some spotty background paper to go with it using the colours from Color Throwdown's Challenge #248 as well.

And here's the inside - carrying on the dots theme

Recipe:

Stamps: Madeline in Retro Outfit from Milk Coffee, Framed Out #7, Polka Dot Basics I, Embellishments, Think Big Favorites #6 all from Papertrey Ink

Papers: Pool Party, Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Subtles DSP Stack, In Colors 2011 - 13 DSP Stack, Neutrals DSP Stack all from Stampin' Up, Copics X-Press It Blending Card

Inks: Crumb Cake, Pool Party, Pretty in Pink all from Stampin' Up, Copic Markers

Accessories: Pool Party Ruffled Ribbon, Pretty in Pink Polka Dot Ribbon both from Stampin' Up, Framed Out #7 Die from Papertrey Ink, 3D Flower 1 Die from cArt-Us

So why not come along and join in the challenge!