Craft Your Passion Challenge

This is my last post as a DT member of Patties Creations.
Pattie is sponsoring the challenge over at Craft Your Passion and her DT members were invited to 'play along' and make a card for this new challenge. The theme for this challenge is "Hip to be SQUARE"... must be a square shaped card, and the challenge starts 8th October.

I used Pattie's gorgeous little "Hermit Crab" image from her store and coloured her in with my Spectrum Noir pens.  The dots on the shell were made with a white gel pen.
Don't forget to head on over to the Craft Your Passion blog and enter your card!

BIRTHDAYS challenge at Patties Creations

The theme for the new challenge at Patties Creations Challenge is BIRTHDAYS. Pattie recently put up a whole alphabet with matching images in her shop, and as my grandson's names starts with "E" I used this letter.

I went for bright oranges and greens and coloured the image with my Spectrum Noir pens. The orange and green paper pieces are from my stash (always good to use that up hey!), and the flower and leaf are cardboard stickers I have had foeeever.

The challenge starts today, and ends in 2 weeks time, so hurry on over to the Patties Creations Challenge BLOG and enter your card under Mr Linky! Remember, you MUST use a digistamp, and if you use one of Pattie's stamps, you put yourself in line to win her special prize!

Patties Creations Challenge #49 - Animals and Insects

The theme for the new challenge at Patties Creations Challenge is ANIMALS & INSECTS, and Pattie has many gorgeous images in her store that could be used for this theme. I was a Girl Guide Leader for 15 years and my name was "Ladybird" so what better image to use as a reminder than the LADYBUG image in her store!

 I coloured the image with my Spectrum Noire pens and added a few highlights with a white gel pen. The papers are from a packet of matching black and white papers. The sentiment is handwritten with the white gel pen, and I captured the red in the beetles with a bit of red cardstock peeping out behind the sentiment. Could not resist adding the little ladybird embellishment!

The challenge starts today, and ends in 2 weeks time, so hurry on over to the Patties Creations Challeng BLOG and enter your card under Mr Linky! Remember, you MUST use a digistamp, and if you use one of Pattie's stamps, you put yourself in line to win the special prize!

Patties Creations Challenge #48 - SUMMER

As it's summer time in the northern hemisphere, Pattie decided to celebrate it with a SUMMER theme for the challenge at Patties Creations Challenge.  Pattie has many gorgeous images in her store that could be used for the SUMMER theme, BUT when I saw this new image in her store called Dragonflies Fly, it reminded me of my university days when I used to go out with friends to wade in dams to catch the larvae of dragonflies for research purposes!
I coloured the image with my Spectrum Noire pens and added a few highlights with a white gel pen, and added bling to the wings. The words were created on my 'puter. This is a basic easel card, but the image makes the whole card come alive! Come summer please, to the southern hemisphere! I'm very happy with the way the card turned out.

The challenge starts today, and ends in 2 weeks time, so hurry on over to the Patties Creations Challeng BLOG and enter your card under Mr Linky! Remember, you MUST use a digistamp, and if you use one of Pattie's stamps, you put yourself in line to win the special prize!

Patties Creations Challenge - RED, WHITE and BLUE

It's time for another challenge at Patties Creations Challenge.  Challenge #47  is such a super challenge with the theme RED, WHITE AND BLUE.  As I have Dutch roots (my mom), and Pattie has this gorgeous  image in her store called Wooden Shoes with Tulips, I decided to do the Dutch red, white and blue colours. You know I love to try out different card folds, so when I saw another card made up with a unique fold, of course I had to try it out. And, what's more the template is on a Dutch card making site!! Now howz that for all coming together!! If you want to see the template ('trapjeskaart') take a look HERE. My first attempt was a bit of a mess, but my second attempt folded much neater. I coloured the image with my Spectrum Noire pens and added a few highlights with a white gel pen. The words were created on my 'puter, flowers created with 2 punches, and a normal doily added as a decoration behind the image. I'm very happy with the way the card turned out.

The challenge starts today, and ends in 2 weeks time, so hurry on over to the Patties Creations Challeng BLOG and enter your card under Mr Linky! Remember, you MUST use a digistamp, and if you use one of Pattie's stamps, you put yourself in line to win the special prize!

Dad's Western Boots

The current challenge at Patties Creations Challenge, starting today and ending 15th June, is perfect if you are celebrating Father's Day in June. All you need to do is make sure your card has a masculine feel to is, and is targeted at DAD.

 Here is my card, made up with the Western Boots image available here. This was such a fun image to colour, and I used a combination of Copics and Spectrum Noire pens, together with my trusty white gel pen. The card is a middle-stepper card which I think is much easier to make than a side-stepper, but that's just my opinion of course. I added some punched flowers, a die-cut fence, and a little twine hopefully wrapped to look like a lasoo. So whatever cowboys says .... heehaa, yahoo (no that's a search engine!), yeehah or giddyup, here's my card for one lucky man on Father's Day (one of my son-in-laws!)

DO pop into Patties SHOP, as she has some gorgeous new new images there. When you've made your card, head on over to her BLOG and enter it under Mr Linky to put yourself in the winning line! The challenge closes on the 15th June.