The challenge from CD Sunday this week is 'Meow' - cats are my favourite animals so not difficult for me. I decided to use a Pamela West cd to create this simple ATC and envelope using a DCWV chipboard tag on pink velvet ribbon for the Meow. Do have a look at the other wonderful DTcreations - they may inspire you to enter the challenge yourself.
This week Wendy over at CD Sunday has asked for 'Looks Like Summer' as the topic for this challenge though looks more like autumn outside here today . Well, I think this fits the bill for my DT card. I used the Pamela West CD from Joanna Sheen to print out the images and the backing papers. I cut the corner off the front of the white square card and placed the backing paper underneath so a section could be seen. I simply mounted the topper on foam tape over torn backing paper and added the small image in the corner. The stamped summer word is from Stampscapes.
I created this image using MCS Professional - I truly love it as it is very much the scene I see up here in the winter time. I added the lattice edging from the Martha Stewart punch and chomped the corners before adding lots of blue and silver Stickles to make the snow glisten. Mmm Christmas is not that far away.
Again another simple watercoloured and stamped card - a relaxing way to end our retreat on the Sunday afternoon. Not sure where the stamps are from as I did not buy them - bought too much already. Highlighted with the small dots stamp and the Millenium pen round the edges and mounted onto square card with distressed edges.
Delicious, delightful and delectable were these pear stamps again from Stamp in the Hand. Simple and relexing stamping for late Sunday afternoon.
Simple stamping here using some lovely fruit stamps from Stamp in the Hand and background blocks. Coloured and stamped with pens painted on to the stamp. Simple matting and layering onto gold mirri card onto a brown - yes brown card - I don't do brown but do like this effect.
A little phone charm created using the black clay and cookie cutters and the Clay Squishers dabbed over with Silver Metallic Stazon.
Some lovely new Clay Squisher plates by Judy Kins are now available from Stamp Addicts and we were amongst the first to try them out. There are 6 designes per plate - in this case four were inked then the card placed over the top to get the impression. This was mounted on black card onto the white creased card. The black clay circle in the centre was made using black clay pressed into the squisher then run over with the silver Metallic Stazon ink pad. The butterfly was created the same way and cut out using a little cookie cutter then highlighted with silver again and mounted onto the card. These squishers are very useful and can be used in many different ways with or without clay - nice.
Here is the first of my creations done at the Stamp Addicts retreat last month. There will be more on following days. Lots of distressing here using a number of different colours including Spiced Marmalade I think. The cream card was stamped in black with the crackle effect stamp - I love this stamp and already have it. After the orange and yellow distressing the Venice scene was overstamped in black then the script stamped over the top. Then the crackle was again stamped this time using gold ink. Sections were then highlighted using General's pastel chalk pencils which are lovely. 
The challenge this week over at CD Sunday is to make a 'Just for You' card - useful for any occasion. I printed out all the images and backing papers from Debbi Moore newGlitter and Glitz cd - I love her images. I decided to use different colours for me this time chosing brown and creams with a touch of black and orange - no purple to be seen. The base card is one of those double pull out cards but I think it looks better scanned than photographed for the computer. I simply pyramged the main image and layered over the lovely varied backing papers to give a nice raised effect. A couple of gold peel offs to finish off.
Here is my entry for this week's Bah Humbug challenge 'Less is More'.
Here is my Art Deco card made for my challenge this week.
Crafty Ann asked us to produce a new and different shaped easel card this week so here is my DT card. I really don't like making shaped cards for DT cards as they never come out on a photo as well as they do when you scan them but hey ho this is the best I can make it come out..... I cut out the strange shaped diamond card after playing around with some paper and quite liked the result. The background card is from Kanban and as you see the light is reflected off the wonderful mirri swirls. I added some glitter sparkle paper to the bottom of the card and added the cut out corners from the diamond shape to the corners. The image is from Crafty Ann manipulated in MCS to make the tower of cupcakes , embossed with clear sparkle meltdust and coloured using Copics and Promarkers. I added the flowers from Prima to the base of the card.
