4th July

My challenge this week is '4th July' in honour of Independence Day in the States.  I am very fond of visiting so feel an affinity to the US - have been to lots of States but not all yet.
My card was created totally in Craft Artist this week..... lots of images added and layering taking place.
Do pop over and join in the challenge.... the prize this week is some fab stamps and books from Crafty Individuals.... I would like to win them.

A walk in the park

Here is my Digi Day DT card for my challenge this week.  The lovely little girl is a digi from Marisha who is sponsoring the challenge.... digis for the prize.
I created the background using Craft Artist then added the girl... decoupaged her and the trees and the butterflies and the right hand bird as well as the pathway through the park.
I hope you like her..... if you fancy winning some lovely digi images yourself do pop over to my challenge blog and enter the challenge.

From far away a friendly light

My challenge this week on my Challenge Blog is 'I am sailing'... yes another song title.
I loved this stamp and had to have it as I have a friend who lives in a wonderful Lighthouse at Dunnet Head in the North of Scotland - the stamp reminds me of how great a job the Lighthouses do.
The background was created using Mica Sprays.... greens and blues mixed then punched the edge with the Bubbles punch and distressed underneath the holes on the inside of the card. .  I stamped the image and coloured using a mix of Promarkers, Copics and... pens.  I cut the edges with my trimmer wavy blade and distressed the edges with Distress Inks.  I mounted the image onto the card and added a little felt flower I found in my stash.
The blue and turquoise ribbons are from the Ribbonbox.
I hope you enjoyed your sailing trip with me this week.  Please pop over to my blog and enter the challenge for the chance to win some lovely stamps from 'Time To Sow'

'Ticket to Ride' my 'Yellow Submarine'

My challenge this week over on my Challenge blog is 'Ticket to Ride' yet another song title.... here is my DT card featuring two songs, the Beatles 'Ticket to Ride' and 'Yellow Submarine'.
The background is a photo of the lovely blue ocean in Bermuda and the strange looking fish in the centre was actually swimming around... we still don't know what it was.... it is decoupaged.  I added the seahorse and octopus stamps and all the seaweed and nets from a Joanna Sheen set... I love it.  The main submarine is a lovely digi image from Chi Chi Memories who sponsor the challenge this week.  I coloured it with Promarkers and added some epoxy bubbles for effect.  The tickets are from my lovely friend Crafty Ann..... I added the typing and coloured again with the same Promarker.  I added some gems and little jewels to make it sparkle in real life.
I hope you enjoyed your 'Ticket to Ride' my 'Yellow Submarine'..... do enter the challenge you may win some digis for yourself.

Sunrise Sunset

 My challenge this week is another song... Sunrise Sunset and here is my DT card.  The background sunset is an actual photograph I took from our house in Bermuda last month - this was my starting point.  On the scalloped card I added some Distress inks using the double ended brushes from Inkylicious and stamped the hills with a Stamp Addicts stamp. The trees and elephants are black peel offs as is the Safari word.  I created the flower and overstamped with text then added the same colour orange distress ink and a gold centre gem.  The leaves are cut from brown paper using a Tim Holtz die.  I added the bow making it out of some raffia I found in Tesco and a piece of brown string.  I mounted this onto the black card cut with a scalloped edge from my cutting machine.  Everything was then mounted onto an A4 cream card and again with scalloped edges.
Will someone now please tell me to stop making these large cards.... two in two weeks ahhhh... they are taking over.
I hope you like my creation and please do pop over to my challenge blog to see the lovely DT creations and enter yourself..... A Joanna Sheen voucher is up for grabs this week.