Have A Hoot Of A Day

Hello

Sleep eludes me once again tonight, so I decided to spend some time making a card.  I followed the current sketch over at Tuesday Morning Sketches to create the following card:

I used a 6 s 6 fancy edged card blank from Kanban for my base card.  I added to this 2 backing papers from the Paper Boutique Hint Of A Hoot Collection from Creative Crafting World.  I cut the stitched-edge circle die (again from Creative Crafting World) into white card and added to this one of the fabulous die-cut toppers that come in this collection.

I would also like to enter my card in the following challenges:

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge - Anything Goes (Ends 20th March)

Crafty Creations Challenge - Anything Goes (Ends 27th March)

Crafty Gals Corner - Make It Green (Ends 27th March)

Creative Moments Challenge - Anything Goes (Ends 20th March)

Ellibelle's Creative Moments - All Creatures Great and Small (Ends 30th March)

That;s Crafty! Challenge - Spring Into Action (Ends 4th April)

Thanks for visiting my blog today.  I'd love to hear what you think of my card.

Jo x

Crafty Calendar Challenge - All Things Spooky

Good morning.

It's the first Saturday of the month which means it's time for a new challenge over at Crafty Calendar Challenge.  This month our challenge is All Things Spooky with the optional extra of Recycle Something.

We get quite a few trick or treaters on Halloween so I decided to make a little gift bag and fill it with sweets.

I used the digi stamp 'Cherry Kisses Witch' from Pollycraft and coloured her with my Spectrum Noir pens.
I cut an oval mat from Core'dinations card to frame my image.
I printed the paper from Joanna Sheen's Cardmakers Year cd-rom onto a light weight card.
The ribbon is my 'Recycled item', this came wrapped around some pyjamas.

I think I'm going to make a few more of these in readiness!

My card is for the following challenges:

Stamp With Fun Challenge - Autumn

Heck of a Challenge - Spooktacular

Paper Pretties Blog - Fall/Autumn

Bearly-Mine Challenge - Halloween

Shopping Our Stash - Recycle (ribbon)

Crafty Creations Challenge - Colours of Autumn

Crafty Catz Challenge - Autumn

Alphabet Challenge - R for Recycle (ribbon)

The Cutie Pie Challenge - Use a Digi

Clear It Out Challenge - Use orange, purple or black, or all three.

Thank you for visiting my blog today.  Please do visit the challenge blog and take a look at the fabby creations my teamies have made.

Have a lovely weekend.

Willow Sketchie Challenge - Summer Florals

The current challenge over at Willow Sketchie gives us a sketch to follow plus the option of Summer Florals.  I have chosen to use both the sketch and the theme and here is my card:

6 x 6 card blank

Pre-stamped LOTV image from magazine, coloured using coloursoft pencil and Distress inks.

Backing papers from Making Cards magazine.

Spellbinders floral oval die used with Core'dinations cardstock.

Martha Stewart scalloped dot punch.

Ribbons from my stash tied on the Bowdabra, flower charm from Pink Gem Designs attached to bow using bakers twine.

Joy floral flourish die, flower from Making Cards magazine.

My card is also for the following challenges:

Cute Card Thursday - Gardeners World

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge - Pastel Colours

Sentimental Sundays - Bingo - Twine, Die-cut, Charm

Make It Monday - Papercraft

Clear It Out Challenge - Anything Goes, use something yellow.

Crafty Creations Challenge - Free for all

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge - Anything Goes

Crafty Calendar Challenge - Flowers In Bloom

Good Morning

Don't the months pass by quickly?  I can't believe we're now in June and today sees the start of a new challenge over at Crafty Calendar Challenge.  This month our theme is 'Flowers In Bloom' with optional swirls/flourishes.  Our sponsor for this month is Crafty Sentiments Designs.

6 x 6 card base.

Image from Crafty Sentiments Designs, coloured with Spectrum Noir pens.

Spellbinder Picot Edge circle die cut into red cardstock from Create and Craft.

Spotty backing paper came free with a magazine, punched with an x-cut border punch.

Flourish cut with a die-namics die from Dies To Die For

Flowers created using small Picot Edge circle die and coloured paper.

X-cut Botanical punch and emboss punch used to create leaves, 

heat embossed with crystal embossing powder.

Bakers twine and star peel offs used to create bunting from my stash.

Please do visit my teamies blogs to see the lovely cards they've all created for this challenge.

My card is also for the following challenges:

Shopping Our Stash - Floral

Crafty Creations Challenge - Circles

My Mum's Craft Shop - Red, white and blue

Moving Along With The Times - Red, white and blue

Digi Doodle Shop Challenge - Use bunting

Polka Doodles - Regal Colours

Fussy and Fancy Challenge - Swirls and Flourishes

St Lukes Charity Cards Challenge - Our Little Furry Friends

Sentimental Sundays - Pocket Full of Posies