For a special man...

Good morning, it's Saturday and the whole weekend stretches ahead, I hope the sun is shining wherever you are, if not just stay indoors and craft! The new challenge at Sweet Stampin' this week is 'Father's Day' or 'for a Special Man'.
I made my card for my  nephew (a car freak!!) as my Lovely Dad is no longer with us.
The image is from a  Papermania set of stamps  , coloured with a red copic, and fussy cut. The black background card is embossed using an Embossalicious folder, the star and circles for the sentiment stamp (part of a Tim Holtz set) are die cut.  A nice and simple card!
We'd love to see your Fathers' Day makes this week, so why not hop over to Sweet Stampin' Challenge Blog to admire the lovely creations from the rest of Team Fi and to add your own works of art.... you could be the lucky winner of a fabulous prize from one of our generous sponsors Di's Digis or Marianne Design.
Hope you have a lovely weekend!
Chris
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Challenges:

simplycreatetoo for a male
delightful it's a guy thing
paperpretties masculine
thepapershelter manly
rubysrainbow one for the boys
diecuttindivas  for the boys
sailingpineapple red black and white
chocolatecoffeecards embossing

Zebra and foal

Good morning, Friday again already! This year is just flying by...June is almost here!
Here's my DT card for the new challenge at  Delicious Doodles, it's a lovely theme this week,  'For the love of animals'. There are some absolutely gorgeous animal images available from Delicious Doodles, Teri is so talented! It took me ages to choose, but eventually I picked this beautiful image,  Zebras, of a zebra with her foal. I printed the image, no colouring needed!, die cut it into a hexagonal shape and mounted it onto a slightly larger green hexagon. The papers are MME, The rosette is made with a Tim Holtz Sizzix die with a brad to attach it to the card.
Well, now it's your turn! We'd love to have you join us this week, who doesn't love animal cards!
Just click here to see Team A's fabulous creations and to add your own work of art for us to admire!
Thanks for visiting!
Chris
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Challenges entered.
nutcrafters animals or insects
rheddandrosies no flowers
Whimsy Stamps 2 or more die cuts
paperminutes animals
OSAAT anything goes

Killer Heels in Monochrome

 

Good morning! There's a brand new challenge at Ladybugs Crafts Ink starting today, quite exciting for me as it's my turn to host it....a first for me! The theme I've chosen is 'Monochrome' - one of my favourites! All the Ladybugs are showcasing Killer Heels images, again favourites of mine, they're all so gorgeous. You can use any image you like to join the challenge, although we do love to see Ladybugs Crafts images and there is an extra prize for using these!

 

My card is made using the totally fabulous Hearts image coloured with copics and a bit of bling added to the dainty straps. I mounted the image in a die cut frame which was in turn mounted on an embossed circle edged with gathered tulle and bling! A tulle bow, a tiny tag and some hand made heart pins complete the card.

 

I really hope you'll be tempted to join us this challenge (or I might get the sack!!!) . Just click HERE to visit the Challenge Blog.... you'll definitely be inspired by the amazing work of the talented Ladybugs!

Have a  great day

Chris

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Challenges:
acreativeromance girly
alphabetchallenge handmade embellishment (pins)
craftitude use a die
craftycatz embossing
leftofcenter girly
stampinfortheweekend for the girls
audsentiments bingo -first column
feelingcrafty one for the girls/ladies

A baa-rilliant offer! 48 Hours only!

A quick post to tell ewe about an unmissable offer from Ladybugs Crafts Ink. To celebrate the end of the newe release challenge of the super-cute Eunice and Ramsay digi stamps, Kerry is very generously giving an  amazing 30% off of these fabewelous images! (Eunice and Ramsay only, offer ends at 7pm Wednesday 28th May!)- a great consolation if ewe didn't win a prize! Click here to see if you won and here to view the images!
Chris
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Hanna and Friends- Use die cuts

Good morning. Here is my GDT card for the new challenge at Hanna and Friends. The theme this week is a lovely easy one - use die cuts.  My card is simply made using 3 different circular die cuts, the largest is folded to make the base. The stamp (such a cutie!) is Penny Black, coloured with copics, 2 tiny bows attached with 2 little (very old!) flower brads and a tiny hand cut tag. Quick and easy!
I have to give credit here to the lovely Judy as this card is CASEd from a cute little birthday card she sent me!
I hope you'll find the time to visit the challenge blog to admire the lovely creations from the DT and it would be great if you decided to join us this fortnight- a great opportunity to use your favourite dies!
Have a great day!
Chris
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Challenges:
rubysrainbow animals
animalfriends birthday
diecuttindivas birthday
papertakeweekly cute
artisticinspirations anything goes/punches/or dies
robynsfetish shaped card

Midweek Reminder !

 

Hi! just a quick post from me to remind you of the fab-ewe-lous new release at Ladybugs Crafts Ink. Last week we showed you 11 of the images, today the last 5 are to be unveiled!!! I'd hate ewe to miss out on the fun, and the chance to win these 5 images (this is AS WELL as the fantabewelous prizes already on offer!!!! )

Just click HERE to visit the Challenge Blog for the details of how to win these amazing prizes!!!

Thank ewe for calling by!

Chris

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Milestone Birthday!

Good morning! Saturday has arrived and we've been promised a warm and sunny weekend... let's hope the forecast is correct:)! This week at Sweet Stampin' we're celebrating a 'big birthday' - the lovely Fi is 21....again! Yay, happy birthday Fi!!! Just click here to visit her blog and leave your good wishes.... you might want to check out her candy too:).
Well, our challenge theme in honour of this momentous occasion is 'Milestone Birthday', a great theme for me as this year my BIL and brother are both 60,  another brother 50, my youngest sister was 40 and my son was 30!!! Yes I do have a very large family!!!! Anyways, my card is for my brother...he has terrible taste in socks and he will never grow up!!!Hope he likes it, hope you like it! We are sponsored this week by Crafts U Love and we'd love you to join us , just click here to visit the challenge blog to add your link or to check out the inspiration from the rest of Team Fi! There is also DT call at the moment if you're interested!
Thanks for visiting.
Hope you have a wonderful weekend!
Chris
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Challenges entered:
acreativeromance -one for the boys
leftofcenter card for a male
wagsnwhiskers one for the boys
paper-craftingjourney special man
crafting-with-dragonflies celebrations
handmadeharbour having fun
incywincydesigns birthdays
throughthepurplehaze for a male