A four legged friend......

Hello all!
             Happy 1st of the month to you all and I hope it's the start of some spring-like weather to replace all these awful storms and snow here in the States.  Also Happy St David's Day to any Welsh followers I may have!

              Friday means a new challenge over at The Outlawz alcohol markers group and for this week, our theme is pets - although my title says a four legged friend, you don't have to limit yourself to that as plenty of pets have less or more than four legs (or even no legs!).  So before I wander too far from the path, here's the card details - very easy as it's yet another CAS card.  For this one I used one of my own digital stamps called Deefur.  I drew him based on a photo of a very cute dog I used to share my life with, a Jack Russell Terrier called Oscar.  He was such a cutie and a real character - loved him to bits :)

                           This is sort of a one layer card apart from the fact that I matted the image layer onto brown cardstock and then on to the card base - so a three layer card really!  I coloured the image using the dot technique as I wanted to give him the look of texture.

                    I would like to enter this into the challenges at Simon Says Stamp , Through the Craftroom Door , The Paper Shelter , Divas by Design  and Craft Us Crazy .

Thanks for popping in :)

Valentine's Girl

Hello all!
It's bitterly cold here today so I'm very glad I didn't have to go outside but I must say, it seems very strange to have this cold without the snow.  The first two winters I lived here in New Jersey, the winters were pretty impressive with the cold and the many feet of snowfall but the last two years have been mild with hardly any snow.  I'm not complaining as I'm not a cold-lovin' gal but it sure doesn't feel like winter!

        Anyway, February will soon be here which means Valentine's cards for all us card-makers - for this card I have used the fabulously glamourous Freya , the Valentine's Day girl from The Octopode Factory .  Don't you just love her heart-shaped glasses?
                                Obviously I had to colour her dress in red, using my Copics and I kept it all very CAS yet again!

I would like to enter this into the challenges at - 

Addicted to Stamps

The Paper Shelter

Ruby's Rainbow Challenges

Through the Craftroom door

Creative Creations

    If you head over to The Octopode Factory , you can see all of the wonderful new digis from Lily, including some gorgeous Flapper Girls and some very cute LoveCats .  I can't wait to do something with these :)

New designs at CYDI.

Hello all!
back with a sneak preview of my new digis which will be available from LilyPink Designs @ CYDI from this Friday 21st September. 

 

And here's a couple of cards I made up using the Halloween scene and the penguin parade -

 

 

I would like to put this in for the Fall/Autumn challenges at http://www.bellichallenge.blogspot.co.uk/ , http://thepapershelter.blogspot.co.uk/ and http://scrapbitzcopics.ning.com/group/cmccopicchallengegroup .

 

I would like to put this card into the challenges at http://craftingforallseasons.blogspot.co.uk/, http://digitaltuesdaychallenge.blogspot.co.uk/ and http://fabnfunkychallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ (all things with wings).

 

Thanks so much for popping in :)

Mermaid and robots???

That title sounds like a really bizarre combination but that's what this post is about!!!

I was contacted by another Etsy seller the other day with the offer of a free digi if I would make a card with it - well, how could I refuse???   I was even more pleased when I visited the shop here and saw the digis available :)
             I couldn't make up my mind so asked the artist to pick one for me and here she is -

I do hope I've done her justice - she was a real pleasure to colour and I'm thinking I may use her again for a spot of paper piecing on her tail.

I would like to enter her for the following -

http://simonsaysstampschallenge.blogspot.com/ - green

Now my other card was done as a sample for Lily, the owner of The Octopode Factory.  She sent out some new artwork to the DT and I came up with this creation!  I do love that little robot - he seems to have a retro feel to him (retro sci-fi, is that even possible?).

I would like to put "Hank" in for this masculine challenge - http://thepapershelter.blogspot.com/.

Thanks so much for stopping by - hope your day is as sunny as mine is today :)