Sweet!

Supplies:  PP & cardstock sticker - Vintage Bliss - Simple Stories, 

SRM Sentiment Sticker, heart shaped doily, aqua cardstock - 

Canson, Card Blank - Craftworks, machine stitching and 

roller adhesive.

A Birthday Card to share today.

I love this collection by Simple Stories and you will have seen it pop up in my last few posts.  I paired it with a chipboard sticker today and an SRM sentiment sticker.

Thanks for peeking.

Welcome Baby

As you know I am a huge fan of Jane's Doodles and purchased this image over on Squigglefly a while ago and have made a few cards with it.  When I saw the DT use it on Jane's Doodles new blog - I reprinted and got colouring.

It is such a fun image to colour/paper piece etc.  I had to make a baby boy card and personalised it be running the patterned paper through the printer before running it through my Big Shot and machine stitching.

I was going to add ribbon/buttons etc. but decided to let the image and wonderful pp colours do the work.  So in the end I just layered it on a white watercolour card blank.  I added Ranger black enamel on the eyes after colouring for added dimension.  I added layers of torn paper including kraft into the card and matted/layered on kraft which I cut by hand.

Challenges

Squigglefly - Kraftastic

This card was similar but I didn't machine stitch and added an SRM sentiment sticker - keeping it in my stash as I think it could be used for a boy or girl.

Thanks so much for peeking.  Hope you have a wonderful day.

Cardmaking & Papercraft Magazine - thank you!

Happy Day! I missed a mail delivery on Monday so off I trotted to the Post Office yesterday.  The package turned out to be the Kaisercraft goodies I won recently on the Cardmaking & Papercraft Magazine facebook page.

Supplies:  Kaisercraft Bubblegum Hills Collection pp and die cut elements, 

Papermania and Folia cardstock, X-cut scallop border punch, 

Walnut Stain Distress ink and blending tool, SRM Stickers and pop dots.

I need to make a couple of card sets and thought that this bright, cheery and glittered patterned paper would be just perfect.  It's called "Bubblegum Hills Collection" - isn't that just the cutest?

Thanks to Alice and the Team at Cardmaking & Papercraft Magazine for the wonderful Kaisercraft goodies. 

Thank you for stopping by today - I need all the cheering up I can get - it's July 6th and RAINING!.  Seriously! Where is our Summer????

Challenges
Wee Memories - Summertime (reckon you can't get more Summer than butterflies!)

Hope you have a wonderful day and it's warm where ever you are!

Happy Birthday to me!

Supplies:  Pink Petticoat Digital image {with heart}, We R Memory Keepers 

- Hippity Hoppity 12x12, SRM Stickers, Fiskars Upper Crest border punch, 

Bazzill Basics Kraft cardstock, black fineliner, Stickles, copics, glossy accents, 

ribbon from stash, pop dots and 6x6 card blank.

A happy, glittery and fun Birthday Card.  Thought I would share this card today as it's my Birthday ...woohoo!!! I am now counting back to 21!!! LOL!!!

Just a quick post today - off out to play!  Hope you have a wonderful weekend and thanks so much for stopping by.

ppppsssttt.... did you spot the new "pad" in town??????? BIG NEWS ..... make "Lily Pad Cards" your friend on Facebook and after they accept it..... write on their wall to get entered into a draw for a $25 GC to Simon Says Stamp.... you gotta love that?

Also...  there's a blog hop (starts Monday) with over $600 in prizes! - you can also follow on twitter @lilypadcards!  Be sure to tell them that Deirdre sent you!

Love and Kisses - using SRM Stickers!

Supplies:  Black cardstock, pink cardstock, black glittered chipboard 

heart by Pebbles, SRM Sticker, Paperchase ribbon, Fiskars Upper Crest punch 

and machine stitching.

You will know that I am a HUGE fan of SRM Stickers and I made this card above using a sentiment from this set.  Quick and easy... except for the machine stitching which I had to slow down a little for! LOL!

Challenges:

Simon Says Stamp - Love is in the Air

Creative Craft World - Love Card Challenge

Bunny Zoe Crafts - Love is in the Air

Paper Sundaes - Valentine's

Simply Create - Give your heart away

Tuesday Throwdown - Stitching

Mami Doodles - magic of love 

 

Hope you all have a great weekend and thanks so much for stopping by.

Mini Card Challenge - CREATE blog

Supplies:  SRM Sticker, Papermania textured cardstock (red), 

Bazzill dotted swiss cardstock, white gel pen, black pen and adhesive!.

I like to try and play along with different challenges and when I saw CREATE blog had a "mini card" challenge I knew I had to play along.  Believe it or not this card only measures 3x3 inches.  Used stickers by SRM - you gotta love that they are now doing them in different colours.  Love the white sentiment against the coloured cardstock.

I added some doodle lines - drawn by hand intentionally, so that if they wobble it's okay! LOL!!! as opposed to using a ruler and not getting it straight!

Edited to add... I got featured - woohoo!  To check out the wonderful mini creations just click here.

Thanks for peeking.  Hope you have a wonderful weekend.

Many thanks Card

This is one of my card's for this month's challenge over on Hero Arts.  The Challenge this month is "Everything Autumn!".  I played around with the new digital kit by Hero Arts called Basic Tree - available here. 

I used Papertrey Ink Dark Chocolate cardstock for the base, matted on a cardstock from my LSS in an orangey/red colour which I ran through my new embossing folder - Woodgrain by Tim Holtz.  Sticker is a sentiment sticker from SRM Stickers.  The buttons are dark chocolate and from Papertrey Ink too.  I coloured the image with copics and added glossy accents to the red leaves only for added texture. 

I am also entering it into the Wee Memories Challenge - "Fall into Autumn" - be sure to check out their DT creations - wow, just amazing.

Pollycraft Monday Challenge is also "Autumn Colours".  Paula and the DT have amazing autumnal goodness on show too.

Thanks so much for peeking.

{Happy} Card using SRM Stickers

Supplies:  Greeting Farm Digi, Coloured Card Blank, 

Bazzill dotted swiss cardstock, Sentiment sticker from SRM Stickers, 

pink gems in various sizes and copics.

I just love this image - Loli Anya from The Greeting Farm.  I had it all coloured and ready to go but was awaiting the inspiration!.

I paired it with this pre patterned card base by Dovecraft, added an SRM sentiment sticker from this set - 52003

I then added pink gems in various sizes and it's ready for any Birthday Girl!.

Thanks for peeking.  I hope you get a good start to your week. 

Baby Card using SRM Stickers

Supplies: pp October Afternoon, Digi by Tales from Pollycraft, Fiskars border punch, 

yellow fimo button I made, Large white card blank, textured cardstock by 

Papermania, copics and pop dots.

Love how this digi by Paula over on Tales from Pollycraft marries so well with the paper range from October Afternoon.  Made this card a while ago (may have shared previously... apologies if I have) but I didn't have a sentiment on it.  I found the perfect thing to finish it off in my SRM Stickers ... just LOVE these stickers.

Hope you have a wonderful day.. and thanks so much for stopping by and if you leave a comment - thank you.  They all mean so much to me... Cheers, Deirdre

Paperplay - Autumnal Colours

This week's challenge on Paperplay is Autumn is a comin' - use an "Autumnal" colour scheme on your project/card.

The Design Team has split into two - so this week is my "off" week!!!  Be sure to stop by Paperplay to see the wonderful creations by the Team.  We are very kindly sponsored by Simon Says Stamp again this week and the random winner will receive a $15 gift certificate.

Our Guest Designer for Sept - Heather and the rest of the DT * Julie * Sandie * Heather * Liz  * Vera * Kathryn * Evonne. * and Mandy.

Made this very quick card for my SIL - patterned paper, border sticker and buttons are from Basic Grey Sugared collection.  The sticker is from SRM and I adhered it to white cardstock and stitched to the card base.  Added brown machine stitching and hey presto job done!!  Congrats Anne... still doing the happy dance for you!!

This is the sticker set I used - just put in an order for a whole bunch yesterday...... am LOVING SRM. 

Stickers are available here and be sure to check out their daily blog here.

Thanks so much for stopping by.  I hope you have a wonderful day and get a chance to play along with Paperplay this week.

Happy Birthday Card

Supplies: The Greeting Farm digi - Charlotte, SRM Sticker - Happy Birthday,

pp Cosmo Cricket Joy Ride, Papermania gems, machine stitching, 

copics, glossy accents and pop dots.

Entering this card into this week's Colour Me Farm Fresh over on The Greeting Farm.  A smattering of other colours in this card - but hopefully I have managed to incorporate enough of the required palette.  Love this girl with attitude - "Charlotte"!

Thanks for peeking.  Hope you are having a good week.

Mami Doodles - new release/challenge and FIRST EVER blog hop!

Welcome to the FIRST EVER Mami Doodles Blog Hop.   In order to win the digital stamp that I used please make sure you leave a comment to be entered into the draw - (winners will be drawn on Tuesday evening and posted on Wednesday).

Elisa (Mami Doodles) has outdone herself again and created some new wonderful digis released yesterday - check them out here.  As a member of her DT, I got to play with some of them and had lots of fun colouring and creating.  I paired this "bunch" with the Spellbinders blossom die cut and added an wonderfully appropriate SRM Sticker.  I just adore these stickers - be sure to check out the SRM Blog here for wonderful inspiration.

Elisa's challenge on Mami Doodles is "Shaped Cards" - so get your thinking hat on and create a non standard card and post it here with a chance to win some of Mami Doodles wonderful digis. 

The next stop on the hop is Elisa B - just click here and just in case here's the hop order


Claudia
Deirdre (you are here!)
Elisa B
Jackie
Lily
Vera
Trinh
Mami Doodles

Thanks for stopping by and looking forward to seeing what you create.  Remember... leave a comment!

Paperplay - Colour combo

 It's Paperplay time again ... and this week's challenge is a colour combo of blue, cream +1 (one other colour of your choice).  This week's challenge is very kindly sponsored by Craft Brulee.

We got some goodies to play with...... some yummy wonderful goodies.... I didn't want to use them!  Thanks Jennifer.  Craft Brulee are very kindly giving the winner of this week's challenge $10 gift certificate.

Here is what I created - I matched the beautiful flower to some textured Papermania cardstock and matched the stitching on the cardstock to the cream ribbon.

I used a cream card blank, pearls and the wonderful ruffled ribbon that Jennifer sent to me.  Sentiment is a sticker from SRM Stickers and some pearls added.  My extra colour is the black in the sentiment!

Thanks so much for peeking and I hope you will get a chance to play along this week.  Be sure to check out the rest of the DT members creations here.

New Baby Girl Card with SRM Stickers

I made this card using a wonderful baby sentiment from SRM Stickers - thanks Jenyfur.  I followed the current trend of ruffled tissue/crepe paper and made a paper ribbon with stitching which I ruffled whilst stitching... not clearly evident from the photo.  The light is AWFUL here today... raining, overcast, cloudy, dull ... more like a November day.. so sorry about the colour tones!

The patterned paper is Basic Grey - sugared (from my stash) with the matching chipboard and buttons.  I layered it on some Bazzill dotted swiss cardstock and stitched the edges.  Added some fine cotton thread around the neck. 

Thanks for peeking.... off to make more cards with SRM Stickers - they ROCK!  You can buy them online or find a stockist near you.  Hope you have a wonderful week.

A couple of things and a freebie!

I want to post about a couple of things today!.  Firstly - as you know I have been Guest Designer for Sketch Saturday for the past few weeks as a result of Paula's invitation.  Paula is ULTRA talented and does freebie digital images on her site on Fridays.  I just HAD to post today's - she is called "Flo - the simple things". 

If you would like to download Flo - just go to Paula's site - Tales from Pollycraft.  Wouldn't she make the perfect Dad's card from a little girl?.

Secondly - SRM Stickers are doing a blog hop and featuring the new Cosmo Cricket Range - Delovely and boy is it LOVELY!!!!.  Be sure to check it out and start on Jenyfur's blog here.

My DS's are winding down from school, although over a week still left to go... I may not get a chance to post here as much as I would like but will still be keeping an eye on all my friends blogs!.... my craft space is in the attic and boy, is it hot here in the Summer.  So I am going to try and get out and have fun with the boys during their holidays.

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful Friday/weekend.