ABC Christmas card challenge - F for Freebie

Feels kinda odd making a Christmas card in March but I guess it's only 9 months away! This one is for the challenge at ABC Christmas card challenge. This month is F is for Freebie. The freebie is a cute digi stamp from Stampfairy.com and there is a sketch to follow too.
I made this card with digital papers from Pink Petticoat. I'm not sure I like it now that I've make it....too much blue. Thats what comes of being lazy and not digging out my Christmas papers that I put away a few months ago I guess! I embossed the silver panel with a cuttlebug folder, paper pieced the image with PP papers too and added sitckles.

Last but not least challenge

I made this card for the Last but not least challenge. You need to use an embossed layer, a border punch, design paper and 3 brads to qualify to enter. This was a fun one to make (but don't look at the brads, the 3rd is wonky!) I think the design paper is from Papermania oriental pack, the embossing was done with my Cuttlebug embossing folder in my Bigshot, the punch is a Fiskars border punch and the image (coloured with promarkers) is a digi stamp from Bugaboo Stamps

Barney and Flower

This is a card that I made on commission for a friend at work. I actually ended up making two (one for my card box) because it was just so cute! I used the digital stamp 'Barney and Flower' from digi stamp boutique, I coloured him with promarkers, added some glamour dust to the rose for a little sparkle and I made the sentiment on the computer. I'm not really a 'pink' kinda girl but I was pleased with the end result.


I thought I would enter it into the month challenge at the Digi Stamp Boutique, I'm loving their images at the moment and have got a few now, so I may well enter another one!

Blue Flowers

Made for the Designed 2 delight Feb challenge. Can't link to their shop as it doesn't appear to be working at the moment but look in the last post and you will find a link there.
Coloured with promarkers and I added pearls to the flowers for a bit of dimension.

Valentines card

I made this with images I got from Digi Stamp Boutique 

I coloured the cute bear (Coco) with my promarkers, added some glossy accents on the hearts and a bow on the balloon strings. I think the DP is from a Papermania love pack but I've had it ages and don't know the name of it.

 I love this cute bear and since I had to make a cute Valentines card on commission I thought I may as well enter it into a couple of challenges.

The first is the Digi Stamp Boutique blog February challenge

and the second is LOVE, LOVE, LOVE on the Allsorts challenge blog. (I get to enter that one twice for using a DSB image!)

Made for the Designed 2 delight  progressive challenge. Check out their digital stamps at their shop.
I got the sentiment from TLC, coloured the bow with promarkers, and used digital papers for the backing and the paper piecing (but I don't remember where they are from).

The photo looks a little dark to me, I think I'm going to have to make myself one of those light tents out of a cardboard box!

7th Birthday Card

This image is from another digi stamp site that I found - Bugaboo Stamps. They have some really nice ones too, I love the 'flower gals' range!

This was a fun image to play with. I coloured her with my promarkers, added glossy accents and glamour dust in various places and added a gem for the candle flame. I made the sentiment on the computer and cut out the number with my circle nesties. Backing paper is from the 'Piece of Cake' pack by Dovecraft.

Early Fathers Day?

I was browsing for digi stamps yesterday and came across a couple of sites that I hadn't seen before. The image above comes from Designed2Delight Digital Stamps. I bought a few other images but got this one mainly to enter into their challenge. It's a lovely idea, first you get the digital stamp from their shop that they are featuring this week, then make something with it and post it to the challenge. Then following week they send you a digi free and you do it all again! It's a lovely way to build up a nice digi stamp collection and they get a lovely gallery of cards... everyone's a winner. If none of that rambling made sense then go check it out, I have a tendency not to explain myself very well!

I thought this image would be good for masculine cards (always a tricky one for me) and then I decided it would make a nice Fathers Day card (very early, I know!)

I paper pieced the present and his boots using these papers from Pink Petticoat, coloured the bear with my promarkers, added a little glossy accent to his nose, a little stickles to the gift and distressed the edges just a bit. I found the sentiment and the frame on my computer from ages ago, so I don't remember where it's from. 

Carrots for Christmas?

I made this with a seriously cute image from Joanna Sheen's 'House Mouse' decoupage collection. The digital backing paper is from Pink Petticoat and I thought the colour matched the image perfectly!
I'd like to enter this card into the challenge at http://theresmagicintheair.blogspot.com/ which calls for non-traditional colours on a Christmas card.

Serena the Mermaid

I made this with one the gorgeous mermaid Serena by Michelle Perkett and thought I would enter it into the 'anything goes' challenge
I printed her out onto patterned paper and then again on white card. I coloured her with promarkers and cut her out to stick over the first image. I added glitter and pearls and a machine stitched then beaded border.
Came out a lot better that I thought it would and I'm pretty pleased with it!