Pirate Scruffles

Ahoy there!! We have a new challenge over at Lexi's Creations, we are celebrating our first birthday, so we have a nice easy theme for you this time:
'Happy Birthday'
The DT are looking forward to visiting lots of blogs this week!!

FairyDust Crafts is sponsoring the challenge and we will have THREE randomly selected winners.

First Prize: 2 Fairy Dust Rubber Stamps to the winner (Lexi's Creation's images)….The stamps are called Fairy Dust stamps in the store

2nd Prize: 3 Digi's

3rd Prize: 2 Digi's From Fairy Dust Crafts

For my card I have used Pirate Scruffles & treasure chest from Fairy Dust Crafts, coloured with promarkers and glitter pens. The skull & crossbones paper is a digital one from The Creative Cottage , the burgundy one is from The Paper Mill shop and the parchment effect one is from my stash. I wanted to get a kind of tatty flag effect on the front of the card so I tore the skull paper and inked the edges, the burgundy on has been scrunched up and inked and the edges of the image have been distressed with a distressing tool and inked too. I'm not normally one for distressing papers but actually once I got into this it was good fun!! The charms were from my stash and Ewe2cancraft.

Inside the card:

Close up of the treasure me hearties, although the camera hasn't picked up the glitter pen too well :-(

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:

Keep it simple: Charming

Paper Cutz: Anything Goes

Just Inspirational: Ink or digi stamp, anything goes

The Crafty Pad: Distressed / Torn edges

Paper Sundaes : For someone little &

Pear Tree Designs : Free for all

Thanks for looking and don't forget to come & help us celebrate at Lexi's Creations!!

Just for Ewe......

Hello Peeps! Finally managed to grab a bit of crafting time this morning and managed to get my entry for the BIG competition over at The Crafty Pad finished!!

I've used Shelley the Sheep on my card - isn't she cute!! Coloured with promarkers, papers are Papermania Capsule collection and DCVW; ribbon, flowers and buttons are also from the capsule collection. I thought the yellow was quite jolly on such a dull day!

I'd also like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge : #86 great sketch

Simon says : Recipe: 1 image , 2 papers (gingham and stitched effect) and 3 embellishments

(ribbon, buttons and flowers)

Totally Papercrafts: Animal Magic

The Corrosive Challenge blog: Die cuts (used nesties!)

See you soon!!

Party Owl

This is my second post today, so I guess you can probably tell there has been NO i***ing done !! This card was a rare flash of inspiration for me, well very rare in fact... I had some nesties laying on my desk waiting to be tidied away and also 'Birthday Hoot' from Pink Gem, waiting to be put into a CD case for storage. Anyways, I suddenly realised that the owl fitted the hexagon really well and then I remembered the crafty cardmakers challenge this week which is 'Inside out' so I thought why not put the owl inside (3rd piccy down) and make her a little window to look out of!! Not exactly genius I know, but I'm happy LOL!! Coloured the owl with promarkers and mounted onto a hexagonal piece of Bazzill bling. The balloon paper is from Dovecraft birthday stack, birthday brad and ribbon are both from my stash. Tricky bit was getting the bow right.....still not 100% sure about it. I'd like to enter Mrs Owl into the following challenges:

Crafty Cardmakers : Inside out

A spoonful of sugar: Celebrations

My time to craft: Vivid colours (hope this is bright enough!)

By the cute & girly: Celebrations

Passion for promarkers: Anything goes

Creative craft challenges: Ribbons & bows

Stampavie and more: Happy birthday for a girl

Paperplay: Up in the air (the balloons!!)

The Crafty Pad challenge: Over the edge (the ribbon)

O.S.A.A.T. : Furry friends ( & birds!)

Thanks for looking!