Charisma Cardz....Use Acetate

Good morning!!, first off apologies as I'm a day late posting this. Just don't seem to have enough time these days to do all the things I need to get done.

Our challenge this week is to use Acetate on your creations.  As always we have fabulous sponsors,

I do hope you can join in this week, thanks for your visit.

Happy crafting

Buttons and Bows @ Charisma

Hello again, this week at Charisma Cardz we would like to see some Buttons and Bows on your creations. Above is my DT card for this challenge. I have used a Saturated Canary image, First Edition papers, Spellbinders frame, buttons and ribbon from my stash and some glitter card. I quite enjoyed making this card and I've done some distressing on the papers, haven't done that in ages.

I hope you can join us, and don't forget you have two weeks to enter, looking forward to seeing all your wonderful creations again this time.

Thanks for popping in

HUGS

APRIL SHOWERS @ CHARISMA......

Good morning all,  I hope everyone enjoyed last weeks challenge and Blog Hop with Die Cut Crazy I had great fun visiting everyone's blogs, one of the great perks of being a designer is getting to  see all of your fabulous creations.

My DT inspiration for you this week was made with the following materials......

Image  is Umbrella Lili from Inky Impressions ...love this image and so nice to colour with Copics ..of course

Papers......First Edition

Fence and bird ...Marianne Creatables dies
I used tiny nail art gems for the raindrops 
Sentiment is computer generated and mounted on to Oval Nesties.

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This fortnight's Challenge is...

APRIL SHOWERS

Any creation from any type of craft!!! 

As always we have some fantastic sponsors...

 PRIZE ONE - 

We'd like to give a huge big welcome back to our monthly sponsor!

One Lucky winner will receive a £10 Voucher 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 TWO -

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

 

PRIZE THREE -

We are a young Rubber Stamp Company that offers some of the cutest children & animal stamps on the market today! Each and every stamp made is “Extra Deep Etched” on Quality Red Rubber for a crisp impression everytime! All our stamps are made right here in the USA!

All Inky Impressions Rubber Stamps are sold with EZ Mount just waiting to get inked! The characters LiLi, Angelica, Nicholas & Christopher are cartoon versions of our children. LiLi is a nickname for our youngest daughter MarLeigha. We truly hope that you love our stamps just as much as we have loved designing them.

  I am a stay at home mommy and wife to a very loving and supportive man.  Without the support of my family and friends, my dream would not have been possible.  This has been a long time coming and finally…I am ADRIFT on a DREAM! 
I can’t even begin to express how excited I am to share my dream with you.  We are devoted to you, our customers, so please feel free to share your artwork that is made with our stamps, or to just drop us a line to say hello!

one lucky winner this fortnight will win a $10 voucher to there online store!

Thanks for stopping by my blog today,  and also a huge thank you for all your lovely comments on my little Easter Basket last week, I really appreciate every one. It gives me great pleasure reading them.

Hope you enjoy this weeks challenge and as always the design team will be round your blogs to see all your fab creations.

I would also like to enter my card into this weeks Inky Impressions challenge which is
 Dots  and Stripes

 

Clean and Simple @ Charisma

Good morning everyone!

This week it's Team Carly's challenge which has been chosen by the lovely Caz!!!

CLEAN and SIMPLE

As always we have some fantastic sponsors...

Prize One

Joanna Sheen

Joanna Sheen are generously offering a £10 voucher! wow!! Joanna Sheen's website also offer free p&p worldwide!! how cool is that!!!

Prize Two

 Meljens Designs are generously offering one winner 4 Digis of their choice!!

For my DT card I have used Memory Box and Go Kreate die cuts and Anita's Christmas paper from a few years back and I've added a little bling. Very simple and quick to make if you need a lot of Christmas cards.
Thanks for popping in today, I'm looking forward to seeing all your lovely CAS cards this week.

BLING, BLING BLING @ Charisma...

Good morning everyone, it's Thursday again...........where did the last week go? 

 We have an easy peasy challenge for you chosen by the lovely Carrie and she would like to see lots of 

** BLING**

on your creations. So get out the gems and the glitter and go for it...lol

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My DT inspiration this week was made with a very old stamp from Sarah Kay, papers are  Dreamkeeper and they are fully glittered. The die cuts are Marianne creatables and Joy Craft, flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts and the circle sentiment is LOTV. Gems from Mei Flower.

Prize One

Emma from Crafty Emma's Store is offering one lucky winner this week a £10 voucher to Crafty Emmas store (not inc pnp)! her store is full of wonderful things why not take a peek you may grab a bargain or a few at the moment as sadly Emma is closing her store!!

Prize Two

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!!

Our DT call was a huge success and we will have four new team members joining us soon. So keep an eye out for them when you visit the Charisma blog.
Thanks so much for popping in  today . I'm looking forward to visiting all your dazzling blogs this week.
Happy crafting

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHARISMA CARDZ...2 TODAY...

Hello everyone!!! we have a really special challenge for you today as it's

Charisma Cardz SECOND BIRTHDAY...Wooohooo!!! So we are having a Blog Hop to celebrate.

This weeks challenge is
Birthdays & Celebrations

Do it with a number 2 for a second entry

We have some amazing prizes for you so what are you waiting for......

All you have to do is get yourself over to Carly's blog to start and follow the route through the Charisma DT's blogs. You need to collect a word on each blog to make up a sentence, when you have gathered all the words email your sentence to charismachallenges@live.co.uk

We are really looking forward to seeing all your amazing CARDZ as always.

If you have arrived here from Leah's blog..... then you're on the right track, if not then please go to Carly's to start at the beginning.

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I am also offering a little candy to celebrate, a really cute Rachelle Anne Miller stamp called My Prince Charming and some satin ribbon. If you would like to be included in the draw then leave me a comment, it's as easy as that.

Now your next stop is Denise. Have fun and thanks for taking part in our Birthday celebrations.

Don't forget to pop back here on Thursday the 13th January to find out if you won my Candy.I will post the winner on my Charisma challenge post.

Happy New Year to you and all the best for 2011.

UPDATE

THE WINNER OF THE ABOVE CANDY IS  #26.............MICHELLE

CONGRATULATIONS !!

WEEK # 49 @ Charisma

 

Good morning everyone, this week at Charisma it's Allison's turn to set the challenge, and she would like to see a Christmas Gift / Bag or Box.

I have made this little gift bag with papers I've had for years I'm afraid I don't have the name of them but they are heavily embossed and really gorgeous. This one is a burgundy pearl background with a pale pink embossing all over. The label came from a Christmas set I bought last year at Lakeland Plastics and mounted it on gold Mirri card. I added some gold and burgundy cord for the handles and some burgundy organza ribbon, and gold paper ribbon curled.

Please pop over to Charisma and see the wonderful projects the DT have made for your inspiration, you won't be disappointed, and as always we have some fabulous prizes for you to win.

I hope you are all keeping safe and warm in this terrible weather.

Thanks for taking the time to pop in.

Challenges:-

Secret Crafter Saturday....Christmas

Creative Card Crew.....Anything goes

Anything but square.....Charisma

Hi there, this is my DT card for this weeks challenge over at Charisma and I decided to use my Oval Nesties for this one. The images I have used are by Meljen's Designs and you can buy all Mellisa's fab digis over at Whimsey Stamps who are our sponsors for this challenge. The prize this week is a gift certificate to spend in their online shop to the value of $15.00. How fab is that.
Now onto my card this is what I used....
Image one...Fairy Tale Castle ....Meljens's designs
Image two...Mouse Princess....Meljen's Designs......both images were merged in Photo Shop. My Son Matthew did it for me.....I'm not good with Photo Shop....lol
Oval Nesties
Sentiment from Rubbernecker Stamps
Bling from my stash.

I hope you will join us again this week, and I look forward to seeing all " Not square" creations.
Happy crafting

Charisma... Thank You ! plus a few other challenges

Well here we are another week has flown by and I'm half way through my week off work already. As always I never managed to do as much as I hoped but at least I'm having some ME time for a change.
This weeks challenge over at Charisma has been set by Joanne and she has chosen
"THANK YOU"
as her theme. We have the fabulous Cutting Cafe sponsoring us again this week with a fab prize for the lucky winner. We also have a new DT menber joining us this week Martha, why not pop along to the challenge blog and see the other fab projects from our ever talented Design Team.
For my card this week I have used an image given to me from my friend ,this one is
Tilda bunch of roses. I coloured her with my Copics as usual and added a sentiment from Wild Rose Studio.
Papers are FF Pink Parfait, Roses from Wild Orchid crafts and the ribbon is from my stash. I added stickles to the roses and to Tilda's bouquet.

Thank you for taking the time to pop in, and also a great huge thank you to everyone for all the lovely comments that you leave here, it really is so wonderful to read them all and honestly does make my day.

My card fits the following challenges:
Just Magnolia.....Punch it
Paper Play challenge...happy shiny people

DT card for Charisma....late I know!!!!

Hi there, so sorry my card is so late on my blog . My Mum has been very ill and I've been ill myself flu and then a chest infection. I've been running about up and down to hospital and feeling really exhausted so I haven't had a lot of time to do cards I'm afraid. Thankfully she is on the mend and now out of hospital. She is 89 and had severe Pneumonia. So as you can imagine she still needs a lot of caring.


But better late than never here is my card for this weeks challenge which is to use something New. My new things are my image and my new little Janome sewing machine. I just love it as I don't really have room to bring out the big sewing machine and leave it up all the time, this little machine is fabulous and it does zigzag too.......
Image Tilda Loves Me..
Papers Wild Asparagus
Circle Nesties
Crochet flower I made as an experiment...and added a button
Pink organza ribbon
Flower charm...Hobby House

Martha Stewart Punch

Stitching done with Janome Mini Sewing Machine

Hopefully I will get a few cards done next week and get back to blogging again soon. Thank you so much for visiting.

FIRST CHARISMA CHALLENGE OF 2010.....

Here's a close up....isn't she just gorgeous, and a dream to colour...................

Good morning everyone and a Happy New Year to all.

This is Charisma's first challenge of 2010. I would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who came along and helped us celebrate our first Birthday, we had a fab time looking at all your lovely creations and had so many entries to our blog hop it was just incredible.

To find out who won my blog hop candy see the post below.

This weeks challenge has been set by Carly and she's got a great colour combo for you to play with.......PINK, BROWN, CREAM AND TOFFEE

My DT card this week .......

Funky Kits new digi image, Web knitting fairy, coloured with Copics

DP Papermania Simply Elegant

Poppicraft flowers

Papermania brad,

Roses, lace, ribbon and butterfly charm from stash.

Circle Nesties

I hope you enjoy this weeks challenge and here's to another fun year crafting with Charisma.

Charisma challenge Red Green White or Silver....

Hi , here we are Thursday again what a quick week!!.

This week our challenge has been set by Carly...and she would like to see a colour combo of Red Green White or Silver on your crafty projects. I decided to cover a little gift box for one of my Chrissy Pressies. I used Dovecraft paper, Ribbon from Stash and the Poinsettia was cut on my Robo. I've added a little greeting from last years left over stash and a lovely Organza ribbon. Very simple to do and makes a small gift really special.

Why not have a root around your cupboards I'm sure you'll have a few boxes form last year just crying out to be recovered and recycled. Have fun......

CHARISMA WK #47... CHRISTMAS plus WOJ

Here we are again another fab challenge over at Charisma. This week it's the lovely Sally to set the challenge and she wants to see anything Christmassy..... so that should be quite an easy one this week as I'm sure you're just like me and up to your eyes in Christmas cards....the prize this week is from Your Next Stamp. To find out what it is pop over to the blog and you can also see the DT's inspiration for you this week.

Here is my DT card and the recipe........ I am also entering this card for the WOJ challenge which is Christmas.

Papers Forever Friends

Image WOJ Herb

Sizzix snowflakes

Flower Soft Polar White

Dovecraft Ribbon

Oval Nesties

Dovecraft stamp Let it Snow

Hope you enjoy our challenge this week, have fun.....

CHARISMA #41 HOW DISTRESSING.....

Good morning everyone it's Thursday again and another challenge from Charisma.

This week the lovely Karen has set the challenge and she wants us to get DISTRESSED.

Well I certainly did.......lol.....As I've never done this to my paper before, so I got quite stressed rubbing sandpaper over my new Wild Asparagus papers. They have a little distressing on them already but I wanted it to show a bit more so I set about them with a sand block from Hubby's toolkit......eeek!!! and this is the result.

As I don't have any distressing tools, I ran a serrated edge knife round the edges too then inked them with Tim Holtz Vintage Photo Distressing Ink. The flower is one of the handmade ones I did a few weeks ago and you can find the tutorial here. I've really surprised myself with this card as I didn't think I liked the distressed look but now that I've done it I really quite like it....lol...So it just shows you that you should always try something new even if it's not really your style.

I used the Friday Sketches layout. Thanks Karen for this challenge I really enjoyed it.

So why not get yourself all DISTRESSED and take part in this weeks challenge as always we have a fab prize for the lucky winner. Looking forward to seeing all your wonderful creations.

SCRAP IT... AT CHARISMA CARDZ....

Hello again, This week at Charisma Cardz we want you to show us your scrap pages/ albums.

My page for the DT sample is one that I did for my eldest Son's graduation. You can see the layout on Vee's sketch Pad if you want to use it. It was a 12 x 12 layout and I was trying to get as many pics on as poss without overcrowding the page. Pop over to Charisma and join the fun, this week the lovely Linnie from Cute Daisy May is offering the winner a choice of any (yep ANY) 5 digi sheets!!! what a lovely prize. I'll be back soon with another card to show you that I did for Carly's Challenge for her DT on Charisma. Thanks for popping in.

Charisma challenge #30....

Wow!! can't believe were at # 30 already. Here's my DT offering for this week using Joanne's fab sketch. I needed a card for a girl in work for her Daughter's 21st and the sketch fitted it perfectly. I used Forever Friends dottie paper and HOTP pink stripes paper. The image is one of my favourites from Elisabeth Bell and it's called Claudia the Artist. I just love colouring this image....The champagne flutes are cut with Sixxiz dies and the flowers are Poppiecraft. Ribbon and gems are from my stash.
This week we are being sponsored by PINK GEM DESIGNS Why not pop over to Charisma and find out what the prize is this week from Janet. It's really cute!!!!! Looking forward to seeing all your fab creations again and thanks to everyone who did my challenge last week with Tags I hope you all enjoyed it. As always all the entries were amazing. Hope you enjoy this weeks challenge, I'm off now to get my Grandsons for the day be back later hopefully with another card this time for TWINS......