You'd better BE MINE

My crafting has come to a halt lately due to some kind of cold I can't get rid of. It's nothing bad, I just feel under the weather and have so for the last 2 weeks. Because of this I haven't felt very creative or had the energy to craft. With that said I want to show you a card I made for this week's challenge at Kraftin' Kimmies (among others).

KK are having a GDT call and you need to enter every challenge in february. One of my crafting goals and dreams is to at least be invited as a guest designer for KK, so I couldn't give up this chance no matter how I felt. Unfortunately I don't think this card is my best work, but it's as good as I could make it concidering. I had the idea for this funny sentiment together with the stamp and although the execution might not be as brilliant I think the idea is.

I used one of the older stamps called Drucilla and coloured her with promarkers. I inked the edges with distress ink and stamped swirls with versamark ink which I then drychalked. I went over her hair with a clear sakura gelly roll to add sparkle and notice the little hearts in her eyes ;) Isn't she the cutest stalker you've ever seen, lol?
The two hearts are cut out with nesties and the red one is embossed with a sizzix folder and then rubbed with a white inkpad. The border next to the image is a Martha Stewart punch called doily heart I think. I added little dots in the corners with liquid pearls and handwrote the sentiment.

Challenges for this card:

7 kids challenge fund - I heart you
Bunny Zoe's - love is in the air
Cards for men - Valentine/love
Crafts and me - RED
Crafty catz - Valentine's/love
Creative card crew - for a loved one
Cupcake crafts - seeing red
Kraftin' Kimmies - RED
Papertake weekly - have a heart
Passion for promarkers - let there be love
Stamp and create - love
Stampin for the weekend - St Valentine's day
Stamptacular sunday - hearts gone wild
Stamp with fun - love
Totally gorjuss - love

Showering you with love

With Valentine's just around the corner I thought it was time for a LOVEly card. I got my DT package from sweetpea the other day and here is one of the stamps I chose to play with. Aren't they adorable? The stamp is one of four from plate 102 designed by Elaine Cox.

Both patterned papers are from Basic Grey's bittersweet line. The brown paper was perfect to use with the bears. The image is coloured with promarkers. I used cottoncandy glitterglue on the hearts and when they were dry I put some dimensional glaze on them. I went over with a clear sakura glitterpen on the bears' wings and cloud. The hears are cut out using scalloped hearts nesties. I dryembossed the biggest heart and inked all of the hearts with a brown distress ink. The edges are made with a Martha Stewart doily hearts border punch. Finally I handwrote the sentiment and added some glitter on it aswell. I'm trying to use my handwriting so I will like it when I start journaling in scrapbooking. I must say it's growing on me...

Challenges for this card:

7 kids challenge fund - I heart you
ABC - N is for nesties
Basic Grey - all hearts
Bunny Zoe's - love is in the air
Cinspirations - sketch
Creative inspirations - Valentine/love
Paperplay - stamp it out
Paper sundaes - Valentines
Passion for promarkers - photoinspiration (I got inspired by the clouds)
Secret crafter - Valentine
Simon says stamp - love is in the air

February blogcandy

Tara - 2:nd

Bev 3:rd

Caroline 3:rd

Dawn - 3:rd

Jacqui - 3:rd

Little Claire's designs - 4:th

Jacque - 5:th

Kathy - 7:th

Helen 9:th

Vera 10:th

Yvonne - 10:th

Maddy - 11:th

Kiki - 12:th

Mina - 12:th

Jacque - 13:th

Vicky 13:th

Tracy - 15:th

Donna - 16:th

Tanja - 18:th

Linda - 19:th

Sandy - 19:th

Liz - 20:th

Brenda - 23:rd

Claudia - 27:th

Mandy - 27:th

Michelle - 27:th

Nikki - 27:th

Bows and berries - 28:th (winner drawn march 1:st)

Heidi - 28:th

Jacque - 28:th

Mandy - 28:th

Paula - 28:th

Claudia - ?

Particraft - when they reach 1400 followers

Hats off to you

Today I would like to show you my first card using one of Nikki Burnette's stamps called Telsa from sweetpea stamps. I really like the edgy look of this stamp and thought it would be wonderful to use for a male card. I used blues and green which is my fav colourcombo for male cards. The stamp is coloured with promarkers, cut out and mounted on a piece of patterned paper. All papers are from basic grey. I didn't want to overwhealm the card with too many embellies, but still wanted to use flowers. I think the buttons help to take the cuteness away from the flowers. The sentiment is handwritten and I thought I was very clever when I came up with it.

Challenges for this card:

All sorts - recycle (I used a button that came with a piece of clothing)
Basic Grey - flower power (I used papers from BG's line Marjolaine)
Crafty catz - flowers
Everybody art - my fav thing (I used my beloved promarkers, but also BG papers)
Papertake weekly - sketch
Stamptacular - whateva

Baby giraffe in lavender and lace

So glad you stopped by my blog. Today I would like to show you my last GDT card made for the I love promarkers challenge blog. This week we would like you to use lavender and lace and since we are sponsored by digi doodles the DT members have used their stamps. I got to choose one stamp too and when I came across this baby giraffe I just had to have it. I wasn't sure how easy it would be with the theme this week, but I'm always up for a challenge and when it comes to crafting I do first, think later.

The giraffe is coloured with my promarkers in lilac, lavender and amethyst. I'm very proud to say that I looked through my patterned scrap box and used only small pieces found there. I used 2 different nestabilities to cut out the circles and used an ancient piece of lace I've been having for years around the circle. The tab is a quickutz. I used white ribbon that I coloured with a promarker (great tip). After tying the bow I attached a small safetypin and one of the bells I got at a thriftstore. Wasn't sure when I would use them, but knew they were "good to have" ;)

Finally I embossed the background cardstock with an embossing folder before attaching the rest to it.


Challenges for this card:

All sorts - boy/male
Friday sketchers - sketch
I love promarkers - lavender and lace
Simon says stamp - bingo (I used bottom line; die, emboss, ribbon)
Stamp challenges - something cute

Happy birthday Lynette and sweetpea candy

Lynette - the owner of sweetpea stamps - is having her birthday this week and to celebrate she's having lots of candy. Everyday through Jan. 28th, she will be raffeling off 5 count grab bags.  She will pick the winner the following day for the previous day's candy. When the winner is picked, you will have until Jan 31st to notify Lynette with your address. For more info and to sign up go to THE SWEETPEA BLOG.  Good luck!

Through January 28th, place any size order and you can purchase 'It's My Birthday' (seen above) for only $1.

One per person. Details on website.