Back at Stamping Sensations!!

This is my first post back as a design team member with Stamping Sensations and I slept in lol!! 

I am so glad to be back with Brenda and the girls and so glad they had me back :)

Our challenge for February is all about Wings, Fantasy and Fiction!

Lots of scope there!

This month's challenge has been sponsored by

CRAFTY DEVILS

with this lovely prize.

For my card I used

Stamp - Sweet Pea Fairies in the wind stamp, butterfly stamp

Medium - pan pastels for background, promarkers for fairy

Embellishments - ribbon and glitter

Sentiment - stamp

I would like to enter this into

Crafty Catz - anything goes

4 Crafty Chicks - anything goes

Creative Inspirations - stamping

Deep Ocean - fantasy

Card Mania - angels or fairies

Simple Create Too - mother's day or female

Fairy tale challenge - more than 2 colours (blue, pink, yellow)

Penny black and more - make it sparkle

I hope you get time to join in the fun!

My weekend has consisted of painting and laying down a wooden floor. The weather has been terrible and our new chimney had a leak.....not a happy bunny. Hopefully he will come on Monday to fix it.

Have a good week. Off to catch up on some commenting.

Blooming words...

Time for a new challenge at STAMPING SENSATIONS and this month its all about

SUMMER BLOOMS chosen by our lovely chief Brenda!

The prize up for grabs is

kindly sponsored by Heartfelt Creations!

For my card I used

Stamps - dahlia stamp by Sheena Douglas

Medium - pan pastels

Sentiment - google

Embellishments - ribbon from crafty ribbons, card candi, ms border punch, spellbinders die

Papers - craft work cards happy days

I would like to enter this into

Creative Card Crew - punches and or dies

Party Time Tuesday - anything goes

Crafting By Designs - anything goes

Simon Says - anything goes

Sister Act Card Challenge - anything goes

Rhedd and Rosie - blooming lovely

The Sisterhood of crafters - say it loud

Word art Wednesday - anything uplifting

Hobby Cutz - flowers/roses

This card was a commission for a lady who is going through a very bad separation and it had to have uplifting words to help her along. The lady was very pleased with it, thank goodness.

Can we inspire you!

 This month at Sir Stampalot we were all given two lovely kits to play with so we naturally had two projects to make but you are only going to be seeing one from each of us today. The second will be shown later in the month when they will also be some exciting news!! Shhhhh!

So for this month's challenge we would like you to take inspiration from any of the design team cards. You can use the colours, the embellishments, the card layout, whatever inspires you. Just let us know in your post where you got your inspiration:) And the reward for playing along will be.....

a surprise from the lovely people at Sir Stampalot!! Janice and Andy are back home from America with lots of new goodies so be sure and pop over to the website and have a drool!

Hope you like my card!!

Image - Country Companions stamp

papers - from Sir Stampalot kit

Embellishments - button, ribbon, pearls, swirl die cut, ms star punch, faux stitching

Medium - coloured with promarkers and pencils

Sentiment - CC Design be Happy sentiments (thanks Mary J)

I would like to enter this into

One Stop Craft - button it

Cute Card Thursday - signs of spring

Papercrafting Journey - anything goes

Simon Says - anything goes
PanPastel - use a stamped image

I hope you will join us this month and remember you can enter 5 other challenges along with ours, so 6 in total!

Remember to enter my candy HERE if you are interested in My Memories Suite!

Thinking of you

I had a request for a card for a lady to give to her sister who sadly she will not see again as she is very ill. So she wanted something very personal that she could send to let her know she was thinking of her. It took me a while to think of something and I finally decided on going with a sentiment on the front and an angel on the inside. What do you think?
The sentiment I found online, the angel is from Daisy Company, the papers are K& Co, love the vintage look to them so added lace and pearls to finish it. The die is from spellbinders which I layered up. I added some flowers from my stash and punched some leaves.
I would like to enter this into
Stampin Sisters in Christ - thinking of you
Scrappy  frogs Challenge - lace
The crazy challenge - lace and/or pearls
Incy Wincy - vintage
Alphabet Challenge - anything
Saturday Challenge - blue
CES Challenge - vintage
Paper pretties - sentiment focal point
As you can see I am up and about but can't eat or drink anything till I get my test done at 12. Just dropped my daughter off at the airport so trying to fill my hours till I have to leave for the hospital:( Funny when you know you can't drink that's the time you really really want some water:(
Have a nice day everyone.

Folded Fall!

We have a lovely challenge for you this week over at LADYBUG CRAFTS INK chosen by the fabulous AMANDA. She wants you all to produce a project with either fall colours or fancy folds or both! I went for both as I am a sucker for punishments lol. Don't forget to check out the Magnum digis too:)

Image - Teddybear Robyn
Papers - from DCWV floral pad and card from Crafters Companion
Embellishments - used gorgeous felt from LCI, brads, marianne dies, leaf punches, ribbon
Medium - image is coloured using promarkers

I would like to enter this into
Really Reasonable Ribbons - autumn creations
Ready Teddy Go - autumn colours
Woodware USA - happy fall
Incy Wincy - fancy folds
Cupcake Craft Challenge - if you go down to the woods today
Marianne Design Divas - flowers
Whoopsi Daisy - make your own embellishments (made the flowers from felt and dies)
Crafty Catz - autumn
Let's Craft and Create - fun with felt

Thinking of you

I had a Thinking of you card to make for a First Anniversary. I went for blues as its a man's anniversary and I used the butterfly as it means a lot to the family.
Image - butterfly from The Crafty Pad, Diecut from Crafters Kitchen
Papers - King Foils and paper from Crafters Kitchen
Medium - butterfly coloured with promarkers
Embellishments - paper ribbon, layered butterfly layered die cut, pearls

I would like to enter this into
DYSU - make it pop
Flutterby - Open challenge
The Crafty Pad - pearls and swirls
Claudia and Company - butterflies
Make It Monday - linky party
Totally Gorjuss - 1 butterfly, 2 papers, 3 sentiments
Craft your passion - anything goes
Divas by Design - anything goes (their very first challenge, good luck girls)
Just Tracys crafts Challenge - sentiments

Flopsy in the rain

Used a lovely FREEBIE for this card which you can all get if you pop over to PCP Crafty Sentiments and be sure and leave me a comment if you take it. I coloured the image with promarkers. The sentiment was a freebie from a mag along with the papers. I finished with a metal charm and a bow. Think it makes a lovely card to cheer someone up. I am entering this into these challenges:
1. By the Cute and Girly - animal antics

2. Stamptacular Sunday - out of this world (never saw a bunny with a brolly before did you?)

3. Creative Crafts - animal antics

4. Fab n funky - spotty dotty and stretchy stripes (only a few stripes in the sentiment)

Creative Inspirations and Sketchy colours

The one week I get to use a Forever friends image and their challenge is anything but a card lol! Anyways this is for the same sick lady as below from a younger group of kids at school. The sketch is from Creative Inspirations and the colours scheme is from Sketchy Colours.
Papers - Fred she said
Image - Forever Friends
Embellishments - circle mat from DieCutDreams, sticky lace, gems, pearls, ribbon and stickles.
Tools - cricut expressions, fancy cut scissors

Create4fun and Crazy4Challenges

This one is very bright and flowery, well out of its depth for this time of the year but its for a lady recovering from Breast Cancer from a group of students she works with so I wanted something uplifting and happy. All the elements are from Making Cards Magazine and I have added ribbons, gems, flowers and punched borders and gem corners and lots of glitter.
I of course followed the lovely sketch over at Create4fun challenge. Over at Crazy4challenges they want you to use punches.

PINKY

Thinking of You

Geared this card towards two challenges. Mojo Monday has this lovely sketch to follow and over at The Pink Elephant they have a recipe - Plaid, brads and no ribbon.

Papers - Digi papers

Oval Stamp - Anna Griffin

Lilie Stamp - Crafters Companion

Wording Stamp - StampingAllDay

Medium - copics

Tools - Fiskars border punch,

Embellishments - peel off borders, brads.

Pinky

New kid on the block!

How do you like this little cutie! This is GUS and he has just arrived on the scene. He is dressed for the summer at the moment but will be back with lots of new outfits he he. He is coloured with pms and the little scene behind is created using Patchwork Pals stamps, chalks and pms.
This card is for 4 challenges.
1. Friday Sketchers - followed the sketch
2. Simon Says - Thinking of you (remember to enter Chris's candy if you join this challenge)
3. Spoonful of sugar - create a scene
4. Quixotic Cards - stitching
papers - DCWV and red card from Papermill
Image - MizuMedia_Designs
Stamps - Patchwork Pals
Medium - Promarkers, glitter, chalks
Embossing - circles folder
This is a brand new image created by my wonderful little daughter and he will be available to buy from her site very soon. If anyone is interested just drop me a line. Watch this space!!
Pinky