FAIRY DOORS

In the town of Ann Arbour in the States lots of Fairy Doors have appeared in various places over the years.  You can click the link to read about them.  I have always been fascinated by the story so thought this would make a nice topic for my Challenge blog this week.  I created the background using Mica mists sprayed onto a white card and adding a few drops of water to get the lightness in the sky and the moon.  I then overstamped using Lavinia stamps in black, purple and blue inks, chomped the corners and hey ho my card was made. Hope you like it and maybe you will go away and make your own fairy door for my challenge.

Kind Thoughts

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.
Wendy asked for Kind Thoughts this week for her challenge over at
CD Sunday so I thought this would fit the bill nicely for my DT card and add to my list of cards ready for the festive season.
Do join in the challenge if you get chance, check out the other DT cards and have fun.

A jolly happy soul

Here is my entry for this week's Bah Humbug challenge 'Less is More'.
Simply stamped, from Hampton Art Stamps,  and coloured using Copics and Sakura pens with some nice chomped corners (not too visible on the scan sorry should have put a black background on the scanner) . Plain and simple.

Football challenge - yes really

Crafty Ann has asked for a football related colour scheme, the colour of your National flag,  this week so here is my DT card.  Firstly football is certainly not my game of choice - wrong shaped ball - secondly I do not support England as they are useless in my opinion. So... this started off as Blue and White for Scotland until I realised that they are not in the World Cup this time so I opted for Red White and Blue for New Zealand. Yes - their flag is not Black and White as some people may think. I lived there for some years and am a huge supporter of the country - hence my choice.
So to begin I covered a square card with blue and white flowery vellum and scored a few lines with my Martha Stewart scoring board, chomped the corners (yes again Beryl!) and distressed the edges. I cut two mats using my new Tim Holtz Alterations die - one out of blue glitter card, the other plain white.  I sponged Broken China Distress inks over the white card and stamped the red sentiments, then covered with blue glitter film and mounted over the vellum. I printed out the lovely mask image from Ann, coloured with Copics and added some gems and pearls.  A couple more pearls at the side to complete the card.
Next time Ann please have Rugby as your theme....... lol then I really can do black and white.....All Blacks forever.....
Do pop over and enter Crafty Ann's challenge yourself - you may win some digi images. Have fun with the the challenge and with the football too if you are a fan.

Artfully Asian - CD Sunday

Here is my DT card for CD Sunday weekly challenge - this week the topic being 'Artfully Asian'. I created the backgrounds using MCS Professional and swirled the symbol for happiness using  pink on blue background for the inside and purple on pink for the main outer section of the card.  After adding Flower Soft to the trees and blossom I printed them out and created a different fold - just made it up using the scoreboard - then added the blue sheet as an insert.  The main image is Pyramage from Debbi Moore Oriental cd stacked onto blue sparkly mirri card.  I Cuttlebugged using the new Oriental designs on silver mirri and attached to the left hand side of the card and added pink and silver ribbon.  A pink velvet ribbon tie and a chipboard sentiment from DCWV complete the look ooh and chomped corners too.
Do pop over and check out the challenge and have fun.

SANTA...........claws!!!

The challenge this week over at Bah Humbug is 'Furry Friends' - well mine are feathered ladies but they do make me go ahhhhhh!!! even though they don't actually have paws. The main image is from a set I bought from Create and Craft mounted onto some tartan background paper with chomped corners.  I cut the red and gold star paper using the Martha Stewart punch, and added a couple of peel off stickers for embellishment. A really simple card but one more done for Christmas. Hope you will accept the claws instead of paws.

Wings and Things - CD Sunday

I am delighted to be a member of the DT for a new challenge blog - CD Sunday which starts today. The challenge is to always use something from a cd be it image, background paper or even just an embellishment and the first topic is Wings and Things.
I printed the lovely blossom background card from the Debbi Moore Cardilicious Oriental collection and rounded the corners with the Corner Chomper.
The bookmark is also from the same cd.  I added dragonflies printed and cut from Little Big Tree - Wings and Flowers cd and added some red ribbon to the bookmark.  Do pop over and check out the new challenge, make use of your cds  and have fun with your entries.

Peel Off Christmas Card

Another Christmas card for Bah Humbug challenge this week the topic being to use our 'Peel Offs'.  Yes, like everyone else I have stacks of them and never use them so nice to do so for a change - thanks ladies. I coloured the gold scenic peeloff using Promarkers and Copics then mounted onto a Nestie circle and distressed the edge with Distress Inks.  I Cuttlebugged a piece of white card using Snowflakes and Snow dots, one half embossed the other debossed then distressed using Broken China and Faded Jeans making the top darker than the bottom.  Adding a piece of gold ribbon over the centre and a blue bow I mounted the circle on top.  I chomped the corners and added the gold star and Merry Christmas peel off for embellishment.