The Rusty Pickle - New Release Sneak Peaks and Great Prizes!

Hello everyone,
Just a heads up to say that if you haven't already visited you should hop on over to the Rusty Pickle Digital Delights store and see what they have on offer.  They are about to celebrate their first New Release and are having three days of sneak peaks. 

Head on over to the Rusty Pickle Digital Delights site for all the details and make sure you visit all the DT blogs to be in with a chance of winning some fab prizes.
Here are the DT members with links to their blogs - please visit them all - you never know you might just win some fab digi images!

DT Leader Heather's Heavinly Stampations

Just Coffee Please... & stamps & Ribbons & Paper

Primitive Paper

My Cardstock Creations

Billies Scrappetique

Kims Whole New World

Crafty Dragons

Southern Yankee Crafter

Java Blue Stamper

 

Under My Umbrella

This is my second post for tonight and it is based on the sketch over at Friday Sketchers - sketch #7 shown below:

This is the card I decided to make following this sketch:

I used a Pollycraft image from the Cherry Kisses Frames range and this one is called Rainy Days.  I have coloured her in using metallic pencils and I also added a border of little umbrellas from my wordprocessing software.  I have also chalked the background so that the white didn't shout out at me.  The paper is from a company called Digiscraps 3 and is called butterfly kisses. 

The fibre across the middle is from a candy I won some time back and the flower is made up of a bought flower from Eminesence and some punched flowers I made myself and secured with a pink brad.

So the challenges I am entering this for are:

Cupcake Craft Challenges     -     Digital Images

Creative Card Crew              -     Strings attached

Friday sketchers                    -     Sketch #7

My time to Craft                    -     Under my umbrella

Hope you like it!

My Mantel "Piece"

First of just two posts tonight - was meant to be three but I completely messed up the third card - still have managed to save the image so will try again tomorrow.
So this card is primarily for the challenge over at Inktegrity - Joni gave us a freebie Mantel to work with and this is my submission:

I used some backing paper from a Christmas pad that I've had in my stash for ages - the cover is long gone so I can't remember whose make it is - sorry.  The sentiment is one of a batch I bought a while ago from Readicut through their online store.  The bough is made using my Rubber Tapestry Stamps and is from a set called Holly Border.  I have coloured the image using promarkers and chalks - I have used glitter glue on the door along with some peel off stars and the roof of the little building is white FlowerSoft mixed with some glitter.

The other challenges I will enter this card for are:

Cupcake Craft Challege - Digital Images

Delightful Sketches     -     Sketch number 11

Bee Crafty                 -     Add some sparkle

Please let me know what you think guys!

A child is born!!

Hello all,
Boy do these Fridays come round quick or what??  But oh I'm soooo glad they do because it means it's Freebie day at Digital Delights.  Hop on over to Digital Delights and click on the link for either SNR or Paper Craft Plant to pick up your Freebie Friday image.  This week Wendy has continued on the Christmas theme - and come up with this adorable image:

I just love this image, so beautiful!  Now I felt a bit bad about not having time to create a card with last week's freebie so I am more organised this week and here is the card I have come up with:

 

The backing papers are from a Christmas stack I bought several years ago and which had fallen to the bottom of my craft stash (shame on me!) the ribbon down the middle I think I recycled from a gift box a couple of years ago.  The sentiment is from a Readicut multipack and the gold bow is from my stash.  I have coloured the image using Distress Inks and watercolour pencils (although this time I used the paintbrush method rather than pencil to paper) and then chalked the background.  The star is glittered onto glue and the "rays" are gold stickles glue.  Here is a close up of the image for you:

 

I have used the sketch over at Delightful Sketches and will enter this card for their sketch challenge.

So hop on over to Digital Delights and pick up your "A Child is Born" freebie today!  

A Bird in the Hand

Good evening all,
I had a birthday card to make for a very good friend of mine who hasn't had the best of times over the last 12 months so I wanted it to be a bit special. 
I knew exactly which image I wanted to use and that was a Peacock that I was lucky enough to win from the fab new blog over at the Rusty Pickle - thanks Michelle!  I decided I wanted it to be primarily blue in colour so picked all my papers/gems and ink colours with that in mind.
So here is the card I made:

 I based my card on the sketch over at CraftyCatz and turned it round slightly.  I used my Lighthouse & More Shape Cutter to cut out the image and coloured it in using watercolour pencils, sakura gelly glaze pens, distress inks and a watercolour brush and promarkers.  I chalked the background with blue chalk and sprayed it all with a bit of hairspray to "seal" the chalk.  The papers are all from the same Hot off the Press paper stack called Sapphire.  The gems are from my stash and the sentiment is from a set I bought from Readicut.  The three flowers I bought from Hobbycraft yonks ago and I love them because they have pearls in them.   Here are a couple of closes ups of the image and the flowers.

This card will fit in with four challenges:

CraftyCatz    -   Sketch

Cupcake Craft Challenge   -   Digital Images

Ooh la la Challenge    -   Monochrome

Pile it On     -      3 flowers and 5 pearls (at least!!!)

Please leave me your comments - I love to read them all!

Dragonlady's candy over at Crafty Dragons!

Hello blogging buddies.
Just had to do a little post about this fabulous candy on offer over at Crafty Dragons.  My bestest crafting buddy Ali has just got her first DT post over at the Rusty Pickles Digital Delights and I am chuffed to a million pieces for her - Go Girl!!  If you haven't visited Ali's blog yet - you really should, there is some fabulous inspiration on there.  Now this is the picture that Ali has put up for now to give everyone plenty of time to join in the fun.

Now Ali will be adding to this candy and I have no doubt that there will be more piccys at a later date when she has sorted everything out.  There are a couple of rules to follow (but they are really easy) and Ali will draw this candy on 1st December (all being well) so good luck to everyone.

Candy on offer at Stampin for Sanity

Hello all,
Just a quick post this morning to let you all know that Lisa Foster has some lovely candy on offer over at Stampin for Sanity.  Now Lisa had some fab news from Paper Craft Planet telling her that she was the featured blogger of the month - how exciting is that - and much deserved I must say!!  Well done Lisa!
So here are some little pics of what she has on offer:

Lisa has also added some other stuff - so this is a lovely lot of candy to win.

Hop on over to Lisa's blog and Link with Mr Linky and become a follower if you're not already!

Good Luck!