Saturday, December 28, 2013

LOTV Fairies and acetate...





Well that's Christmas over for another year, I hope you all had a thoroughly wonderful time. Mine was great spending time with my family which is what it's all about.
This year I made quite a few acetate Christmas cards and everyone seemed to love them, so I've decided to carry on with them and do some Birthday cards as well. For this one I have used LOTV images on the front and inside and on the back I used some fairy bubble stickers that seemed to match very well. I also decided to try some embossing on the front and I think it looks really nice. Something a little different.........

This will be my last post till after the New Year so I'd like to wish all my blogging and crafting buddies a Happy, Healthy and prosperous New Year and I'll see you all in January when I'll be back with another Challenge from Charisma...
Bye for now.........

Thursday, December 19, 2013

ANYTHING GOES @ CHARISMA CARDZ

This week it's Team B's challenge!! which will run for 2 weeks because of the festive season!

ANYTHING GOES
SUPER EASY!

Any creation from any type of craft!!!

Plenty of time to craft over the festive season and we would love to see what you all create, so why not enter our challenge and be in with a chance of winning a fabulous prize. To find out who our sponsors for this challenge are click HERE to go to Charisma Cardz.

The Charisma Gals all wish you a very Happy Christmas , a healthy and prosperous New Year and we will be back with a new challenge for you in the New Year.

Friday, December 13, 2013

CHARISMA CHALLENGE UP AND RUNNING....

 
Apologies to all our followers out there for our late challenge this week. Our boss lady Carly has had mega internet problems and I just managed to put it live.
So no more time wasting waffling on..........
 
This week it's Team A's challenge!!

This week's Challenge is...

YOUR FAVOURITE WORD


Any creation from any type of craft!!! 

As always we have some fantastic sponsors...

PRIZE ONE - 
Doctor Digi 
PRIZE TBA

PRIZE TWO -

CEDAR CHEST DESIGNS

Prize - $10 Voucher
Bio - Cedar Chest Designs 
Digital Supplies for the Craft World
Cedar Chest Designs offers quality products, bulk discounts, instant downloads

and teacher benefits on digital stamps, digital scrpabooking images and a

variety of other digital craft supplies from over a dozen unique artists.
MY DT CARD FOR THIS WEEK

I hope you find time at this busy time of the year to have a wee break and join our fab challenge. The DT will be round all your blogs again this week to see all your fab creations.
Happy crafting

HUGS

Vee xx

Thursday, December 05, 2013

All Distressed @ Charisma

Good morning crafty friends, this week at Charisma Cardz we would like to see

 DISTRESSING

No card from me this week as it's team B.s challenge but you can see all the fab work they have produced on the challenge blog.
Our fab sponsors this week include, Bunny Zoes, Time for Tea Designs, and The Stamping Chef  you can find out the prizes by visiting Charisma Cardz blog.

Hope you enjoy our theme this week.


Thursday, November 21, 2013

Christmas @ Charisma....

Good morning everyone, this week at Charisma Cardz we would like to see all your CHRISTMAS makes.

THIS CHALLENGE WILL RUN FOR TWO WEEKS


 For my DT card this week I have made another Acetate card. This time with mountain and valley folds for the base. The acetate is from Hunckeydory and has snowy dots all over. The image is of course from LOTV. Dies are snowflake from Tattered Lace, Christmas tree.. Marianne, and Spellbinders Stately Circles. Mirri card ribbon and charm are from my stash.
I've made quite a lot of these acetate cards for my Christmas orders this year and everyone seems to like them. They are fun to make, I'll show some of the others in the coming weeks.

 

The back view
 
As always we have some fantastic sponsors...

PRIZE ONE -
We'd also like to give a huge big welcome to our monthly sponsor!

Melissa from PINK CAT STUDIO!!!
We are so thrilled to be able to work with some of Pink Cat Studio's fantastic Digi's too! One lucky lady or guy!! hehe will win 5 Digital Stamps of there choice!! how fab is that!!

Pink Cat Studio is all about offering fun and whimsical stamps to inspire your creativity. They have a huge selection of super cute digi and rubber stamps to choose from and they add more each week. Owner and artist Melissa started PCS in 2005 and over the years nothing has excited and inspired her more than to see your creations with her stamps. Melissa’s goal is to continue to delight & surprise you with her designs. Stop by the studio today and get in on the fun!

PRIZE TWO - 
Time For Tea Designs is a wonderful new Digi company brought to you from a lovely lady called Jo! You can find there blog here and also her wonderful etsy shop here! And also join in the fun on her facebook page! This week Jo is offering one lucky crafter a chance to own one of her new digis in her etsy store

PRIZE THREE - 

Buy our digi stamps here...
We'd like to give a huge big welcome back to our monthly sponsor!
One Lucky winner will recieve Your Choice of SIX Digi's from Digistamp Boutique!
Sally-Ann from Digistamp Boutique! Now i'm sure you've all seen her fabulous work???!? NO?! Well head on over to her Digi shop! there's a digi for everything her work is fantastic and at such a low price too! Sally-Ann is very talented! go on! have a peek!!

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Thanks for taking the time to visit my blog I really appreciate it and look forward to reading any comments that you care to leave. Have a lovely weekend whatever you do........... Mine will be spent moving my Son into his new house.......Got my Marigolds ready and waiting as I'm on cleaning duties...lol

Happy crafting....

Sunday, November 17, 2013

Niamh's 3rd Birthday....Abi Ballerina




Happy Sunday everyone !!.
 Today I would like to share the card I made for my Grand Daughter Niamh, on her 3rd Birthday which was last week.  Here she is below with her new  pram and dollies that her other Gran bought her.

She loves dancing and always gets Grannie to join in too,  so when I saw this cute digi image Abi Ballerina from All Dressed Up I knew it would be perfect for her card.
 I used an 8 x 8in card and Spellbinder dies Majestic Labels 25 on the front and also on the inside to match.  The papers are First Edition,  Isabelle...... absolutely scrumptious papers......Silver Mirri card and pink glitter card. Other dies used are Sizzix large numbers, Fiskars border punch, Nesties ovals and circles.  Pink Tule, ribbon and flowers from my stash.

 Having a crafty day today as Hubby is in bed with the dreaded flu bug and no family for dinner so I decided to try and catch up with some orders. I hope you are having a nice relaxing day wherever you are too, thanks for popping in I really appreciate it.
Hugs

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Vintage at Charisma this week.....

Good evening everyone, Charisma's challenge this week is
 VINTAGE.


Any creation from any type of craft!!! 

As always we have some fantastic sponsors...

PRIZE ONE - 
Marker Pop
MarkerPOP.com
Marker Pop are a new sponsor of ours!! They are generously offering a $10 voucher for their online shop, be sure to pay them a visit!!

PRIZE TWO -

Stamp Fairy are generously offering our lucky winner a $10 voucher to their online store! Wow!
We have some of the DT members from Stamp Fairy joining us this week to showcase their gorgeous stamps!
Who are offering 4 digis of the winners choice!
No card from me this time as it's team B but I'll be back tomorrow with another acetate card for you. Thanks for popping in.


Thursday, November 07, 2013

Anything Goes over at Charisma....





This weeks challenge is ANYTHING GOES...The lovely Carly was at the NEC Craft show today spending all her pennies so the challenge will be up later tonight. Don't forget to pop over and see our sponsors for this week and all the fab creations from Team A for your inspiration.
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My DT card this week is a design from my Christmas card selection for this years orders. The acetate used is from Hunckydory, images from LOTV, Scalloped Nesties, Poinsettia Die from Marianne, X cut border die and ribbon from Marshmallows.
Thanks for looking, happy crafting

Thursday, October 31, 2013

Anything but a card @ Charisma this week....

This week's Challenge is...

Anything But Cards!

Any creation from any type of craft!!! 

As always we have some fantastic sponsors...

PRIZE ONE -
The lovely company Freckled Fawn!
 
Doe and Deer manage Freckled Fawn. 
They currently offer over 300 washi and deco tapes--a perfectly addicting embellishment for all your crafty endeavors.
Who are offering a $20 voucher to there online store! wow!!!

Prize TWO
Buy our digi stamps here...
We'd like to give a huge big welcome back to our monthly sponsor!
One Lucky winner will recieve Your Choice of SIX Digi's from Digistamp Boutique!
Sally-Ann from Digistamp Boutique! Now i'm sure you've all seen her fabulous work???!? NO?! Well head on over to her Digi shop! there's a digi for everything her work is fantastic and at such a low price too! Sally-Ann is very talented! go on! have a peek!!

Prize Three

Delicious Doodles is a young company with myself,
Teri, as the Sole Trader/Designer.
I have doodled and sketched all of my life.
I started making greetings cards when my last child was born, and used my doodles on them as I couldn’t find what I wanted in the usual craft places.
I only started selling my images in the Autumn of 2009.
I design and hand/mouse-draw all of the images that are sold in the Delicious Doodles Shop. Some are cutsie animals, some are sketched flowers, there are a few men's images, fairies and also some 'darker' images featuring vampires, skulls and Gothic stuff, something for everyone!
Why not pop over and take a look.


Who are offering 4 digis of the winners choice!

Great prizes again from our lovely sponsors.  I'm looking forward to seeing your wonderful crafty creations this week.  Have fun !!



Thursday, October 24, 2013

WOW @ CHARISMA......



A very simple WOW card for you this week. I have used an embossing mat free with Papercraft Mag, Spellbinders Stately Circles, Memory Box butterfly. The rest is from my stash.

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Well better late than never....lol.......... there are just not enough hours in the day for me this past few weeks. No matter how organised I try to be it just never works out...lol 
 On to this weeks challenge

WOW
WHITE ON WHITE

Any creation from any type of craft!!! 

As always we have some fantastic sponsors...

PRIZE ONE -
 

The Paper Shelter, home to some of the cutest digi's around! Are offering one lucky winner a $20 voucher to there store!


PRIZE TWO / THREE & FOUR! -



Kenny K are offering 3 prizes this week! 1st will be 3 digi's 2nd will be 2 digi's and a lucky winner will also receive 1 digi of your choice!!
Kenny K's is a fab online digi shop with fun upbeat digi's for all your crafting needs!


I hope you can find time this week to enter our WOW challenge it gives me so much inspiration when I visit your blogs to comment. One of the best things about being a Charisma Gal ..........

Happy crafting...

Thursday, October 17, 2013

A LATE CHALLENGE @ CHARISMA

Hi there, in case you were wondering what happened to our Challenge today...... the lovely Carly had problems accessing Blogger and was unable to set this weeks Charisma challenge. Unfortunately I did no know until tea time and didn't manage to do the post 'till 6.30 pm, so apologies if you were trying to take part this week. The good news is we are now live up and running and.........

This week's Challenge is...

GREED  /  FOOD 
Please state in your post the type of food used in you creation

Any creation from any type of craft!!! 

As always we have some fantastic sponsors...

PRIZE ONE - 
All That Scraps




PRIZE TWO -
"Sassy Studio Designs is a fresh new company. We have been designing and selling for a year now, and we have been kindly received into the community of digi stampers and crafters. I started designing images shortly after I started stamping, reason being...I didn't hardly like anything else out there I was a young adult woman at the time I was engaged, had no kids, I wanted fun sexy images that I would enjoy using and my friends and hubby would enjoy receiving. I designed images for 2 other digi stamp companies when my wonderful hubby kept trying to get me to go out on my own. So in June 2009 thanks to the few faithful followers I had, Sassy Studio Designs was born!  It has been a wonderful journey starting my own store. We have just grown so much these past months.I still try to keep "
Lindsay Dyer: keep with my original philosophy and reason for designing stamps, make them fun and keep them sassy...and yes sometimes even sexy!
Lindsay

Prize - 4 digis



PRIZE THREE
Doctor Digi
DR Digi's House of Samps is a site that aims to bring you digi stamps with a sense of humour. We're not your average Digi site, you wont find flowers and teddy bears. Come on over and have a browse.

PRIZE 2 FREE DIGI'S
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Thank goodness that's sorted and a big thanks to everyone for you patience, I hope you can find time to enter the challenge this week.   As always our Design Team have excelled themselves and have some super cards for your inspiration.

Happy crafting


Monday, October 14, 2013

Silver Anniversary..




Hello again ! I hope you all had a lovely weekend.
 Today I have a Silver Anniversary card to share with you and I have used die cuts for the decoration. The dies are as follows...Sizzix Goblets and Large Numbers. Go Kreate large hearts and a flourish from Marianne Creatables. Inside I have used Majestic Labels 25 from Spellbinders, love this set of dies they are a great size and so versatile. The gorgeous paper is from Sandylion and is called Roses-foil.
Thanks for popping into my blog today. Happy crafting

xx Vee

For some reason I have lost my signature on this post......and I've been having trouble with Chrome all weekend as it keeps closing down....very annoying.

Thursday, October 10, 2013

ANIMALS @ CHARISMA THIS WEEK....

Hello again, my DT card this week was made with a Digi Doodle Shop image called Birthday Buddies, just perfect for a child's card.
Please scroll to the bottom of this post to see details of our
 MINI DT CALL at CHARISMA CARDZ




This week's Challenge is...

ANIMALS

Any creation from any type of craft!!! 

As always we have some fantastic sponsors...

PRIZE ONE - 
Melissa from PINK CAT STUDIO!!!
We are so thrilled to be able to work with some of Pink Cat Studio's fantastic Digi's too! One lucky lady or guy!! hehe will win 5 Digital Stamps of there choice!! how fab is that!! 

Pink Cat Studio is all about offering fun and whimsical stamps to inspire your creativity. They have a huge selection of super cute digi and rubber stamps to choose from and they add more each week. Owner and artist Melissa started PCS in 2005 and over the years nothing has excited and inspired her more than to see your creations with her stamps. Melissa’s goal is to continue to delight & surprise you with her designs. Stop by the studio today and get in on the fun!

PRIZE TWO -
Card Mad Fairy

Card Mad Fairy  is donating 3 digi's of the winners choice to one lucky winner!

**MINI DT CALL**

We're currently looking for a few designers to join charisma cardz! If your intrested please add DT to the end of your name on this week's entry to the challenge! (Please make sure that your email address is easily found on your blog for us to contact you) alternativly send 3 pictures of your best work along with your blog address to charismachallenges@live.co.uk -ends 17th Oct at 7pm!



Thursday, October 03, 2013

Play BINGO @ Charisma this week...

 What a week....I've been chasing my tail since last Thursday and getting nowhere fast. I started a new job in a completely different office and doing work I've never done before (Staff shuffle) so I have to start training all over again. It's quite daunting at my age having to learn new things and even harder after being 10 years in the same job. It's going to take a while to be trained up all the aspect of the job so I'm just taking every day as it comes. Wish me luck...
Enough of my waffling lets see this weeks challenge.
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This week it's Team B's challenge!!

Eyes down for....

BINGO
Please pick any 3 horizontal, vertical or diagonal


Any creation from any type of craft!!! 

As always we have some fantastic sponsors...

PRIZE ONE - 

Time For Tea Designs is a wonderful new Digi company brought to you from a lovely lady called Jo! You can find there blog here and also her wonderful etsy shop here! And also join in the fun on her facebook page! This week Jo is offering one lucky crafter a chance to own one of her new digis in her etsy store

PRIZE TWO -

Our Brand New Sponsor Bugaboo are giving this week's winner...

No card from me for this one as it's Team B. I'll be posting some cards over the weekend so watch this space. I hope you can find time to join in.
Have a lovely weekend everyone