Crafty Calendar January Challenge - Make it Flowery with Sheepski Designs

Good afternoon.  I hope everyone has had a wonderful Christmas and a very happy new year to all.   I've been unwell for about three weeks but I tried not to let it spoil my Christmas and birthday (boxing day) and I received some gorgeous gifts.

We are now in January so we have a new monthly challenge over at Crafty Calendar and we start 2019 with the theme of

"Make it Flowery"

For my card I have used:

Tulip border digital stamp from Sheepski Designs coloured with Polychromos pencils.

The butterflies are stamped using Clearly Besotted Butterfly Wishes stamp set

The sentiment is from the Avery Elle Sentimental Too stamp set.

We are sponsored for this challenge by

Sheepski Designs

Pop over to Crafty Calendar and share your flowery creations and check out the gorgeous DT creations using other images from this months sponsor Sheepski Designs.

Now off to finish taking down all of the Christmas decorations as today is Twelfth Night so they need to be taken down.

Thanks for taking the time to visit my blog and I'll see you soon.

Clearly Besotted Hot Air Balloon Card

Good morning all.  I hope you are well today and the sun is shining.  Just a quick post to share a card I made using images from Clearly Besotted.

This card was made using:

images from the Clearly Besotted 'Up in the Air'  stamp set, stamped using Ladybug and Bamboo Leaves memento ink and covered in Glossy Accents.

The background the My Favorite Things Cloud Cover-Up die-cut from blue card.

The greeting is from the Clearly Besotted 'Flag Sentiments' stamp set, stamped using Ladybug memento ink.

The red dots are card candy covered in glossy accents.

Have a great day, thanks for stopping by and I'll see you soon x

Clearly Besotted Black and White Butterfly With Love Card

Good morning.  I hope you are all well today.

I have a card to share that I made for a friends birthday.  There had been a recent bereavement in the family so I didn't want to send her a jolly Happy Birthday card,  I wanted something a bit more classic, muted and understated.

For this card I have used:

The butterflies are from the Clearly Besotted Butterfly Wishes II stamp set stamped with black memento ink, die cut using the coordinating Butterfly Wishes die set and I have added self adhesive white pearls.

The DP is from the Dovecraft Back to Basics Monochrome paper pack.

The with love greeting is stamped using versamark ink and embossed using white embossing powder.

The white and black circles are die cut using the My Favorite Things Die-namics Zig Zag Stitched Circle Stax.

White scallop border punched from white card using a Fiskars Scallop Border Punch with black polka dot ribbon added from my stash.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

The Crafty Addicts - Anything Goes/Add a Sentiment

Artistic Inspirations - Anything Goes/Use a Die Cut

Crafting From the Heart - Anything Goes

Unicorn Challenge - Spotty Dotty

Crafty Gals Corner - Polka Dots or Stripes

Crafty Creations Challenge - Monochromatic

See you soon.

xx

Mother days card for Crafty Calendar March Challenge

Good afternoon to everyone.  I hope that you're all well on the rainy Saturday afternoon. Today I got up and decided to sort my wardrobe out, do you ever wish you hadn't started doing a job because it then got more involved and took more time than anticipated.  At least it's finished now.

Today is the first Saturday in March so we have a new monthly challenge for you over at Crafty Calendar.  Here in the UK tomorrow is Mother's Day so our theme for this month is 

MUM's DAY or SPECIAL FEMALE.

For this challenge I have tried a different style of card.....

I have printed the image 'A Special Flower' from A Day for Daisies onto textured card then coloured with Faber-Castell polychromos. 

I cut the textured card to a 13.8cm square with my image in the bottom corner then printed the greeting 'Best Mom' from Digistamp Boutique.

I then stamped a few flowers and coloured them, doodled a wiggly border, added some perfect pearls onto the flowers and the butterfly is from the Butterfly Wishes III stamp set from Clearly Besotted.

It was going to be a one layer card but I couldn't resist adding the butterfly and then layering onto pink card before added it to the white 6" card blank.

We are sponsored for this challenge by:

A Day for Daisies

who are offering the winner 3 digis of their choice

and 

Wild Orchid Crafts

who are offering a £10 voucher to spend in store

Pop over to Crafty Calendar and share with us your creations for this months challenge and check out the gorgeous DT creations.

Now off to visit my Mom and deliver her card...hope she likes it.

See you soon

Hugs x