Final Day of Voting....... Thank you Card

Yes, it's Tuesday so that means... FINAL day of voting for your favourite over on The Greeting Farm - Royal Battle Week 4.  If you are reading this and haven't voted for me, Kathy & Fika aka The Dream Team yet (feel guilty??) please click here if you would like to cast your vote/comment.  (Your comment under our entry is considered a vote).  Thank you soooo much, we really appreciate it.

Now... onto a card.  Didn't post yesterday as to be honest.... I was a little wrecked after last week's efforts of candy packaging!. 

This card I made with one of Paula's beautiful digital images - "Bridget" available over on Tales from Pollycraft.  It was a freebie image a number of weeks ago - Paula very kindly does freebies on Friday.  It is a thank you card which I made to thank you all for your support over the past number of weeks and particularly this week - The Dream Team really appreciates it.

I coloured Bridget with copics, added a scalloped circles cut out of bright pink Bazzill Dotted Swiss Cardstock and a vintage puffy flower and fimo button (the flower is made out of an old English/French Dictionary!).

Thanks for peeking and I hope you have a great day.

Greeting Farm - Week Four

For some reason, despite numerous uploading attempts with different size files our photo will not display over on the Greeting Farm gallery in a large format.  So sorry if you had to stop by here to view.

Hope you like our candy packaging and and thanks so much for taking the time to stop by.

Hugs from Deirdre, Kathy and Fika.

Click here to return to our entry in TGF gallery and if you wish to vote - please leave a comment under the entry (even though it isn't displaying that is still how to vote - thanks so much).

(p.s. for the back story and more photos on how I created this candy wrapping/packaging - click here.).  Hope you have a wonderful day.

Royal Battle - Week Four

Where has the week gone?  Oh yah... I know... in blind panic!!!!  I kid you not...

This week's challenge over on The Greeting Farm is candy packaging.... and it was my turn to complete our entry for this week's challenge.... so I started with this!

Very important to have the right product to work with right? and decided to choose this....

 

I had LOADS of ideas floating around in my head for this challenge but getting them completed in the time frame was the difficult part... I could have produced many lines of packaging - different colours, themes, baby shower favors.. you name it... I could package it with the wonderful Greeting Farm images.

Anyhow... I only had since Wednesday morning and I came  up with the idea of an easel card/scene sitting on top of a candy bar!!!  And to the execution of said idea... here is my "hansel and gretel" house.... with some friends!.

I just had to use Ivy Morning... and layered a second flower box on top, added tiny little flowers and gems I had in my stash and white gel pen accents to the coloured flower centers.  

Had to include a sweet shop sign (candy store!!)... used the top of the Ivy Morning window and free-handed the rest!... little punched heart for good measure with a doodle!  The owl is from this set.

And for the main card... I enlarged a stamped image of one of the houses from this set.

I used my recent win over on TGF blog (thank you Marie) - "Laurie Cookies" with her tray of yummy delights - cut and layered (very apt given the chocolate bar was cookie crumble!).

Now, do you want to sing along.... "Sweets for my sweet.... sugar for my honey"!! - the sentiment is a computer generated font called "Scrubble".

I really hope that you like our entry.  There are lots of tiny details/layers that are difficult to capture.  However, I will post some more details tomorrow.  Hope you like our entry enough to vote for us here.  

Only one vote per person this week (new rules).  Voting - let me explain how it works - you add a comment under our entry to cast your vote (you do need to be registered with TGF but that only takes a couple of minutes).

Many many thanks... we really appreciate each and every vote.  A BIG THANK YOU FROM KATHY, FIKA & ME.  We are thrilled to be participating in this fun challenge.  Fingers and toes crossed for this week!.

April Card Chain Challenge

I took part in Deborah's Card Chain Challenge again this month but won't post my card until Corey - the recipient! has received it.  I however, got this AMAZING card in the post during the week from my super talented friend - Sally.

It really is a super challenge to be involved in - keep an eye on Deborah's blog for sign up.  Everyone wins as you get a beautiful card like this with a lovely message to brighten your day (and it could be from anywhere in the world!).

This beauty has amazing layers of paper but also of texture to it and it is hard to show in the photo.  The embossing and stamping is just amazing.

Sally - thank you so much for the beautiful card that is sitting on my mantlepiece and the beautiful goodies too.  Hope you all have a wonderful weekend.

Mami Doodles New Digital kit released

I am so thrilled to be part of this wonderful Design Team.  Elisa creates amazing digital images and digital kits.  This is the "Midori" Digital Kit and here is what Elisa says about this kit - "Midori is one of my favourite names, it means "Green" in Japanese.  This girl likes to dress up, so I have her in 3 different outfits, and also a template for paper piecing or cutting.  Print the girl undressed and colour it. Then use the template to make the dress in patterned paper. It is a great way to use paper scraps, specially one with small patterns".

I used her in her purest form - didn't paper piece or colour her too much.  Created a set of Thank You cards using the various digital images and enhanced with copics, gems and stickles.  LOVE her.

The kit is available here.  Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you like "Midori" as much as I do.

Now onto Mami Doodles First Challenge - create a card/project using the colours in this photo for inspiration.

 Here is what I came up with for the Challenge

I coloured "Midori" with my copics in the sky blue/aqua green colour, dull ivory and red, matted and layered on matching cardstock.  Then I used Cosmo Cricket pp and cut out section and added faux stitching and gems.

Thanks so much for peeking and really hope that you will play along with the Challenge.  Full details are here.

Paperplay - "Use Stickers"

So, it's Thursday again... where does the week go?  This week I set the challenge over on Paperplay to use stickers (chipboard stickers, quote stickers etc.) on your card/project.  I reckon we all have a couple in our stash and they so frequently go overlooked.

So... I checked my stash ... .and boy do I have a LOT of stickers.  I found these by DCWV - they are "saying stickers" that I think I have had for quite a while.

This week's challenge is sponsored by The Scrapbook Store and you could win €10 store credit.  They have a great selection of everything... including stickers!.

So I peeled a sticker off my sheet - they are printed on a see through vellum type surface - added it to my card... and hey presto...

I decided to leave my Forever Friends Bear stamped on white cardstock with only his hat coloured red with copics and the glossy shine is from glossy accents which I added on top.

Thanks so much for stopping by.  I hope that you will dig out some of your stickers and give the challenge a try this week.

Birthday Card Share

Supplies: kraft cardstock, white card blank, copics, sentiment from Papertrey ink, 

digital image from Some Odd Girl and machine stitching.

I had this girl coloured but hadn't done anything with her.  I won her recently over on Chrissy's blog.  She is a digital stamp by Some Odd Girl called Lounging Kaylee.  Some Odd Girl has just started a challenge blog - so be sure to check it out here.  Chrissy has a lovely freebie over on her blog too at the moment - so be sure to pop over.

Some Odd Girl also has a wonderful freebie called Mae....super cute.  Check it out under freebies here.

It's the start of Week Four over on The Greeting Farm of the Royal Battle - fingers and toes crossed that the Dream Team make it through..... editing to say that yipee... we made it through... 14 teams through this week.  Thank you all for supporting and voting for us... only one vote per person this week.  Off to put my thinking cap on.  Doing the happy dance.... go Dream Team!

Entering this card into Lucy's new challenge - add stitching to your card.

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Hope you have a great Wednesday.