Spot & Stripes at A Gem of a Challenge

Morning All. Hope you all have good weekends planned. As you read this I will be heading home after a beautiful weeks holiday in Jersey and wasn’t I lucky with the weather? We have had a fabulous time, the children have loved it and I would thoroughly recommend it as a place to visit.

Anyhoo I’ll stop waffling as it’s time for a new challenge at A Gem of a Challenge and this week the lovely Helen has chosen the theme of…

Spots/Stripes (or both)

Here is the card I made…

• Image: Faye
• Colouring Medium: ProMarkers
• Card: Joanna Sheen Elegance Ice White 300gsm and Mustard card from Papermill Direct
• Patterned Papers: Bazzill Basics Vintage Marketplace 6x6 pad
• Stamps: Sentiment - Whimsy Fanciful Birthday Notable Rubber Stamps
• Ink: Brilliance ‘Coffee Bean’ Inkpad
• Embellishments: Indigo Blu ‘Morris Dance’ Mega Flakes, Viva Decor Pearl Pen, paper flowers, glitter glue, Glossy Accents and raffia lace.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

• One Stop Craft Challenge – Summer Colours
• Totally Gorjuss – Something Sweet
• Crafts & Me – Anything Goes
• A Creative Romance – Ribbon or twine (please delete if my Raffia Lace doesn’t count)
• Totally Papercrafts – Things with Wings
• Emergency Crafters – Summer
• Country View Crafts Challenge – Summer Sizzler

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Whimsy July Digi Stamp Release Blog Hop

Monday 1st July – This is a sticky post and will remain at the top of my blog until 8th July when the blog hop ends.

Welcome to the July digital release blog hop!

We have lots of new images to share with you today created by:

 

All Whimsy Stamps digital images are 300dpi for high print quality. You can re-size, flip, or rotate to fit your own project.

Here is my card using the wonderful new Grandmas Garden 2 by Moon Cookie Gallery

I have coloured the image with my ProMarkers and have also used other fabulous products from Whimsy Stamps (the dies and the stamps). To find all of today's new fabulous new digital releases please visit the Whimsy Stamps Store.

Whilst you are hopping don't forget to leave comments on each blog along the way as there will be two mystery DT Members who will each be choosing a winner from the comments left on their hop posts!

These winners will each win a Whimsy digital image of their choice. The Grand Prize winner of the hop will be chosen from the very last stop, which this time is ME. This winner will receive 5 digital stamps of their choice from the Whimsy Stamps Store.

The hop will run for one week and end on Monday 8th July at 12 Noon EST, when the lucky winners will be announced on the Whimsy Blog.

Below is a complete list of the hop in case you get lost along the way:

1. Tammy Ortiz

2. Marjolein Dekker

3. Charlene Brown

4. Ilonka Heuverkamp

5. Kelly Mannix

6. Judith Gowdy

7. Kim Taylor

8. Lisa West

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

• Clear It Out - Theme: Make someone's day! Stash: use something sparkly!
• Created with Love – For the Girls
• Incy Wincy – Summer Lovin’
• Make it Monday - #147
• Creative Card Crew – No Designer Paper
• Card Crafters Circle – Happy Birthday
• Sweet Stampin’ – Not Cute
• The Corrosive Challenge – Summertime
• Country View Crafts Challenge – Summer Sizzler
• Emergency Crafters – Summer

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Pink & Sparkly at Sarah Hurley

A new challenge has just started over on the Sarah Hurley Challenge Blog and our theme this month is…

Pink & Sparkly

I’ve used papers from Sarah's All Sewn Up A5 Paper pack along with the Baby Feet Clear Stamp set to create this very pink and a little bit sparkly 'New Baby' card.

I have mat and layered Sarah’s papers on a mix of plain pink and pearlescent pink card and added some doodling with a black fine line pen. The stars and the Giraffe have been stamped onto the same pink pearlescent card and heat embossed with white embossing powder.  I’ve also added some glitter glue some gems and some thread and a sentiment.

There is tons more inspiration from the rest of the DT some pop over to the challenge blog and take a look.

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

• Clear It Out - Theme: Make someone's day! Stash: use something sparkly!
• Created with Love – For the Girls
• Make it Monday - #147
• OLLCB – Welcome Little One
• Dream Valley – Make your own embellishments (my stars)

• Creative Belli Challenge – Stars

• Bunny Zoes Monthly Challenge – Pink and White

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Ribbon & Lace at Whimsy

It’s time for a new challenge at Whimsy Inspirations Challenge and our theme this month is…

Ribbon & Lace

I’ve used one of the gorgeous new digis that was released on July 1st, Muffin by Lia Stampz:

The image has been coloured with ProMarkers.

This month our prizes are…first winner:

Second winner:

And third and final winner:

A Mystery Rubber Stamp

Please hop across to Whimsy Inspirations Challenge to see what the other designers have created and to check out the challenge rules.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

• Clear It Out - Theme: Make someone's day! Stash: use something sparkly!
• Created with Love – For the Girls 
• Make it Monday - #147
• Anything Goes Challenge – Checks, Stripes and Flowers (On my patterned papers)
• Card Crafters Circle – Happy Birthday
• My Mums Craft Shop – Just for Girls

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

A Day at the Seaside

Unfortunately the blog title is where I would like to be right now and not where I am. We certainly haven’t had many days warm enough to visit the beach and today is no exception as it’s been rather dull and overcast.

The blog title is also about my card for this weeks Less is More challenge, which is ‘Sand’.

I had some scraps out on my desk and some new card blanks I picked up from Anna Maries Designs on my trip to the Sincerely Yours Show in Portsmouth on Sunday. So it would have been silly not to have a little play. Here is my effort….

I cut an aperture into the front of my card blank and placed strips of card behind it to make the sand, water and sky. I doodled a few birds in the sky and used a mask, ink duster and yellow ink to create the sun. The waves were doodled with a Quickie Glue Pen and covered with clear glitter. Lastly I added a Paula Pascual for Personal Impressions sentiment using Coffee Bean Brilliance Ink and a little boat made from scraps of card cut freehand with some scissors.

Now to me it seems CAS but I’m not sure whether it has enough white space, let me know what you think.

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

• Crafty Cardmakers - Holiday
• Lexis Creations – Summer Holidays
• Incy Wincy – Summer Lovin’
• Creative Card Crew – No Designer Paper
• Country View Crafts Challenge – Summer Sizzler
• Heck of a Challenge – The Sea
• Emergency Crafters – Summer
• Crafty Calendar Challenge – Colour Challenge
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Thanks for stopping by

Lisa