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!

Nurse Ellie

I was asked a while ago by a friend to make a few Christmas cards for her to sell at their Christmas fete to raise money for the baby unit she works in. Thanks to another friend (or two), I have quite a few to send up to her (well I will have when I finish mine!)
Since she's a nurse, I thought I would use this image from Tiddly Inks to make her a card to send up with the Christmas cards. I then decided to decorate the box too. I hope she likes it when she gets it in the post full of cards for her to sell!  I coloured my digital image using my promarkers, used papermaina papers for backing and printed the sentiment out on the computer.

I had a quick look around the challenge blogs and decided to enter my card in a few 

Teddy Stampers - following the sketch on their blog

Promarker Challenge  - Teddy bears picnic (using a bear on your card)

Cupcake Craft Challenges - Let's get digital

Bee Crafty - Anything goes (digi image)

Alice in Wonderland Challenge Blog - a card with a little girl

Iris

I made this for the challenge over at the The Sugar Bowl.

Her name is Iris from the Sugar Nellie range and she's a digi stamp. The theme was pearls and I followed the sketch -

Frankie's Bride

I've spent most of my evening colouring and stitching. It kinda makes me wish I'd gone with faux stitching but I didn't! I was happy with the outcome although it took quite a few attempts to get her hair right.

I got this image from Pixie Dust Studio and decided to enter her into a few challenges

Stitch it up challenge - .Pixie Dust Studio - Pixie Challenge

Stitches! - Stamps R Us: Challenges

Dieing for a punch! - Cute Card Thursday