One for the Boys...

Happy Saturday everyone!

 Today I would like to share a card I made a few weeks ago for a charity event I took part in to raise money for a village in Africa. It was a Church Fete where you paid for your table and the money goes straight to the charity and the proceeds of your sales are yours to keep, so everyone's a winner   I had a very successful day and this was one of the cards I made for my stall.

I used LOTV image and tags, various star dies, Oval Nesties,Marianne corner dies and a Memory box die called Big Splash Border.

I haven't entered any challenges for ages so I decided to have a look around and found a few that fit my card.

So I would like to enter  these challenges.

Stampavie and More...  For a Boy

Stamp With Fun....Birthdays

Creative Inspirations...Anything Goes

We want to see TAGS this week at Charisma......Plus we have a DT call

Good morning crafters!!

Before I give you this weeks challenge details I have a question for you.....
Have you ever wanted to design for one of the Top Challenge blogs on the Net ?
 If your answer is YES then now's your chance
Charisma Cardz are having a DT call  and you will find all the details here. 


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Hard to believe but this week is number 14 @ Charisma Cardz, the first half of this year is just whizzing by.... so on to our challenge this week and we would like to see....

TAGS

Any creation from any type of craft is welcome so longs it fits theme!!!! 

As always we have some fantastic sponsors...

PRIZE ONE - 

Redonkulous Designs is a new store that opened up Sept. 2011.  The owner and artist behind the store is Sheryl Brown, who is a wife, a mother, and full time Senior Illustrator.  She studied animation and fine arts, and has spent 10 years of her career designing characters and working on several television shows.  Her style of characters are inspired by Disney, Warner Brothers, DreamWorks, family, and her own personal experiences which are reflected in her store.  Redonkulous Designs is filled with cute, and funny high quality images that appeals to a wide audience!  The beauty of her store is her attention to her fans' input, which helps evolve her designs to accommodated a broad spectrum of themes.  If you enjoy Redonkulous Designs' artwork and images, become a fan on her Redonkulous Designs Facebook Page and flaunt your Redonkulous creations!

Redonkulous is kindly giving a winner there choice of a free digi!

PRIZE TWO -

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 THREE-

Rick St Dennis will be kindly donating any 3 digis of the winners choice from his lovely Etsy store!!!

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This is my DT sample for this week. LOTV image, cheesecloth,chipboard flower, cord, satin flowers and heart punch from my stash. The edge of the tag was cut with the edge of a Sizzix die.

Looking forward to seeing all your lovely creations again this week, thanks for popping in.

Use Acetate on your creation at Charisma this week...

This week it's Team Gem's turn to choose the theme...which is...

Use Acetate!

Any creation from any type of craft!!! 

As always we have some fantastic sponsors...

PRIZE ONE - 

Card Mad Fairy are offering 3 Digis of one winners choice!!

PRIZE TWO -

and our second prize this week is from J&C Creations who have donated a £10 voucher!!

Hope you all enjoy this week's challenge, no card from me as I'm on Carly's team, I will be back later with a Scottish Wedding card.

Silver Wedding Card and Box....

Good Morning ! I hope you all had a lovely Easter weekend. Mine was really nice.... out and about shopping with Hubby for Holiday stuff on Saturday at Livingston McArthur Glen and we had the Family over for dinner yesterday. 

Today I finished off a 25th Anniversary card  that one my friends asked me to make for her. I hope she likes it. As the card was so elaborate I decided to keep the box very simple.

Off out and about again for a few hours with Hubby while the sun is shining...lol.. it's still very very cold but at least it's dry and the dreaded white stuff seems to have made an exit...at last.

Enjoy the rest of your long weekend.

HAS ANYONE ELSE HAD THIS PROBLEM......?

Here we go again........... this person is visiting my blog on a regular basis but is only looking at cards with no signature on them.

 Mountain View California 
  

So if you are the said person and you are a genuine visitor then please  leave me a comment and I will retract this post.

I work hard on my cards and they are all my own designs and I also have a Copyright notice on my blog.  I would hate to think that my designs are being lifted but if this is the case then I will have to report it to Google.

I just wanted to highlight this for others.......again. HAS ANYONE ELSE HAD THIS PROBLEM?

Thanks for taking the time to read my post.

Birthdays @ CHARISMA

This week's Challenge is...

Super Easy one for you this week!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

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 -

Digistamp Boutique 
Digistamp Boutique are generously offering 6 individual digis as a prize to one lucky winner!!
PRIZE THREE -

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

For my DT card this week I have used a gorgeous digi from our sponsor Time For Tea and coloured it using Copics. The papers are from First Edition and all the flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts. Border punch Martha Stewart, Circle Nesties and Marianne Heart and scroll dies. The sentiment is from LOTV.

I hope you enjoy our challenge this week and look forward to visiting your blogs.  

A couple of Easter cards....

Free image from the Stamp Fairy

A couple of Easter cards to share tonight. Both cards were made with free images and First Edition papers. Oval Nesties and assorted flowers from Wild Orchid crafts.

Thanks for looking.

A VISITOR ......SUNNYVALE CALIFORNIA

After reading a post from another blogger here tonight about a repeating visitor on their blog from Sunnyvale California I decided to check out my Fedjit and sure enough I have also been visited by this person a total of 35 times in and out of various posts in the last three days. Now that's a lot of visits ............so as a precaution against any pics being lifted and used in infringement of Copyright I have disabled the right click function on my blog.  

So if you are the said person and you are a genuine visitor then please reveal yourself as such.

I don't like having to take these measures but I work hard on my cards and they are all my own designs and I also have a Copyright notice on my blog.  

I just wanted to highlight this for others.

Thanks for taking the time to read my post.

Charisma challenge this week is Die Cuts

This week it's Team Gem's challenge and we are looking for....

DIE CUTS!!

Any creation from any type of craft!!! 

As always we have some fantastic sponsors...

PRIZE ONE - 

Pink Cat Studio are offering a prize of 5 Digis to one lucky winner!

PRIZE TWO -

Meiflower have up for grabs a £20 voucher for their website! (Winner to pay 99p postage)

PRIZE THREE -

and last but not least - My Mums craft shop have a Prize £10 Voucher on offer

No card from me this time as it's Gemma's team. Hope you can find time to enter our Die Cut challenge.

70th Birthday...Laptop

Just had to share this card before I pop off to bed.

My friend asked me to do a 70th card for a guy who likes crosswords and his laptop. So after a while ( weeks actually) thinking of how to incorporate the two onto a card and coming up with nothing......I decided that a laptop was virtually the same shape as an easel card and voila !! the mojo kicked in...thank goodness as I was running out of time on this one.  So here is the finished card, I am really pleased with the way it turned out. I ran it by my two Sons 27 and 30 years old, a pair of computer wizz kids, and they thought it was cool....good enough for me : )

I Googled all of the images and printed them on to pearlised card, except the crossword it's just on plain white card. As you can see above I have incorporated the Birthday greeting into the crossword. I just hope my friend likes it as much as I do.

Thanks for looking