January blues

Good morning blogworld,

The Cutie Pies are back!  The challenge this fortnight is 'January Blues' - so projects with blue tones on them please

We are lucky enough to have two wonderful sponsors for this challenge:

are offering 4 images of the randomly chosen winners choice from their online store.

and we welcome back to the Cutie Pies

who are offering a £10 gift voucher for their online store, to our DT chosen winner.

This is my card:
Front Shot:

Arty Farty:

Close up of a sparkly snowflake:

I used:

Digi Stamp:

Just some lines - Emo Snowflake

coloured with Copics and ProMarkers

chalk for the background

Paper:

Basic Grey - Figgy Pudding

Dies:

Nesties - image

Memory Box - snowflakes

My Favourite Things - border

Sentiment;

Polkadoodles

Anything Else?

Prima - flowers

Wild Orchid Crafts - blue/white flowers

Stickles Glitter Glue

Martha Stewart glitters

So far January has been OK for me.  Exercise routine started and some weight lost but, oh dear!, I also appear to have lost me Mojo.  Again!  I'm beginning to wonder if it's being cramped in a corner of the dining room / office that's doing it to me - or whether I'm just having a bad few months or so!  So very few cards made.

Hi ho - cheerful thoughts!

See you again soon,

Sarah

A cute birthday!

Hello blogworld

Over at The Cutie Pies it's a new challenge day and our second birthday!

Firstly the challenge, as it's our birthday the theme is 'birthdays' and we have a sketch for you to follow:

Then as well and not only do we have some Followers Candy up for grabs and we have some Birthday Candy on offer too for all our lovely followers!  Woo is offering a paper bundle and stamp for our 700 followers and to help us celebrate our second Birthday, she is offering a Paper Bundle, Card Stock Bundle, Stamps, Die Cuts and Cute Digi Stamp from Pollycraft for our Birthday Candy Winner!  The Birthday Candy and Followers Candy Mr Linkys are in the sidebar of the challenge blog for you to enter and this will run alongside this challenge.  The winners of the candy will be chosen in 12 days time and we will post the winners with our next challenge, so make sure you're a follower and get your name in the draws - see the sidebar on the right of the challenge blog!!
  

And onto this fortnights challenge, we are lucky this challenge to have two fantastic sponsors.  Our first

generous sponsor is the Fabtabulous etsy shop FLAT FRIENDS BOUTIQUE who have a fantastic selection of Digis on sale over at their ETSY Store, one lucky winner will win 4 digi stamps, so if you can't wait, then why not pop over and see if there's something that inspires you!?! 

Our second sponsor is the wonderful JUST SOME LINES

and one lucky winner will win a $12 gift certificate! 

OK, so all the news out of the way and now on to my card for the challenge, the DT were very kindly allowed a choice of images from either Flat Friends or Just Some Lines and I chose this very sweet image from Just Some Lines (as I'll be sharing a Flat Friends card later this week):

Front Shot:

The close up:

The Arty Farty:

I used:

Digi image:

Just Some Lines - Emo Emma walk with little friend

coloured with my Promarkers, Copics and chalked background

Dies:

Go Kreate

La La Land - banner

Die-namics - buttons

Papers:

My Mind's Eye - Lost and Found: Blush

Anything else?

Papermania - sentiment

paper ribbon and button - from my stuff

So why not come over join us in our birthday bash and create something super cute!!!

See you soon,

Sarah

A challenge or two:

Crafty Catz - 'Happy Birthday'

I don't know..

both about what to put for a post title and about this card!

Good morning blogworld,

Another Monday morning and that means it's a new challenge at The Cutie Pies, for this challenge we would like to see your super cute makes that use 3 different textures - so that could be embossing, ribbon, twine, buttons - etc!

We are lucky enough to have two wonderful sponsors this time

The Pretty Little Ribbon Shop is an online store supplying a wide selection of gorgeous ribbons, twine, embellishments, rubber stamps and mulberry paper flowers for all of your cardmaking and crafting needs. We currently have a sale on where you can pick up lots of bargains! Free postage on all UK orders over £25 (international orders will receive the equivalent discount).

One lucky winner, chosen by our Cutie DT Susan, will receive this gorgeous prize

also

Just Some Lines is a digital stamp shop where lines bring characters to life. It has over 250 digital stamps available for purchase, including sentiments. The images are drawn by Jehanne, the owner. Jehanne is a self taught artist who enjoys drawing whimsical characters including fish, turtles, dogs, cats, fairies, angels, ballerinas, chefs, firefighters, and more! One lucky winner, chosen at random will win a $12 gift certificate for Just Some Lines.

So there you go, that's the sponsor info dealt with.  The DT were lucky enough to be allowed to pick some digi images to play with and this is the card that I made with my pick.  I'm just not so sure about this one, it looks too busy and uneven to me - I was trying for lots of layers, hmmm not right this time I think!!

Front shot:

Detail of image:

The arty farty:

I used:

Digi image:

Just Some Lines - Fairy Kiss

coloured with my Promarkers and chalks

Dies:

Nestie

Memory Box

Papers:

First Edition - New Leaf

Anything else?

Buttons - stash

Craftwork Cards - Sentiment

Ooooh and my textures are the patterned paper is embossed, tho that is very difficult to see from this picture, ribbon, buttons and paper twine in the buttons.

Cheerio

Sarah