Tea Time at CD Sunday

It's here again, yes it's Sunday and i must be getting old as the week just flies by and every where you look they are telling us how many more days til Christmas. 

But never mind all that because it's time for CD Sunday .

Last week we had so many beautiful cards and Carol will be picking her top three so good luck to all.

We still have our very talented Kevin with us and he made a beauty of a card for you this week, so be sure to check out his blog.

For my card this week i have used two Cd's and a image from the net, i used My craft studio's  Walk in wonderland and Artylicious Floral cd. I have enlarged a couple of the flowers , added a glaze and curled the petals. I hope you will all be joining in again this week and if you have time please  visit our blogs and leave a comment  and we shall be calling on you too.

time to smell the flowers

This page is for the latest challenge over at Digitally sweet, the theme this week is ribbons so i have enough on this page. again i using an image of my eldest granddaughter Chloe

Buttons and bows The happy scrappers

I almost forgot about the challenge over at The happy Scrappers challenge blog, it's a monthly challenge so i will just make it in time.

I have used a photo of my granddaughter Chloe for this page, the photo was taken about two years ago,..............  they grow so fast. the theme this month is buttons and bows . So anyone looking for a scrap challenge why not do a page and pop it into challenge, it's only challenge 5 so quite a new one, don't know how i missed it on my reading list,

 here is my entry and a link

Make and Recycle

Do you have any old washing tablet boxes , if you do why not recycle and make use of it. It takes less than two 12x12 sheets of paper, in fact the next one i do will be in old news paper or magazine to keep my word stamps.

This box is just the right size to hold 14 stamp pads, i have not added anything to the top, that way they are stackable too. Time to make , maybe one hour. I have made these for my daughter who keeps all the small odds and ends in, it would also make a nice little sewing box, may do that next............

Charisma Cards Challenges

I have made this card for the challenge over at Charisma cards. This is challenge 38 and it's something for the guys.  I have made a boys card today using The Guys 'n' Gals cd from Crafter's companion , it reminds me of the where is spot books my kids used to read. All the elements are very easy to cutout on this cd and has lots to appeal to children.

The love of a child

Another page for the challenge over at Digitally Sweet,  You have up to Friday to get your creations in. This page was made in CAP2

Sketch , Digitally Sweet Challenge

This is a an 8x8 scrap page created in craft artist for a challenge over at Digitally Sweet challenges. this week we have been given a sketch to follow and this in its self is a challenge for me, i usually just play about until i like what i see. The photo i have used is one of my Grandson Jake , it is a group shot taken in school by his teacher at Christmas 2011.  I'm so pleased he had this teacher as all the other classes just had the usual very ordinary photo's taken. Well i hope you can still make out the sketch from this page .

sue-b xx

Cd Sunday Challenge, Awash with flowers

Good morning crafters, Sunday brings us a new challenge from CD Sunday.

This week we have our lovely Carol's choice....Awash with flowers.

Our guest Kevin from McCrafty's cards has done a fabulous card for you this week and all the design team have come up with a great selection to inspire you once again.

your entries last week where inspiring to me, loved them.

For my card i have used a 6x6 scalloped edge in a tent fold, the silhouette image is from Joanna Sheen's Dancing with shadows. I have also used a couple of craft artist cd's from the Butterfly range, 5 cd'd in total, i have picked the backing paper from them and also the flowers and butterflies. 

Had a lot of fun doing this card as apart from printing out the elements i wanted, there was a lot of cutting out, painting with cosmic shimmer water colour paint. Adding liquid pearls (copper) and stickles and also using colour box cats eyes Fancy blue for the edges.

I hope you like what the team and guest have brought to you this week and you will come along and join us. Remember you only need to use a small item from a cd and tell what cd you have used for your creation, it doesn't have to a card, it could be a scrap page , or an item you have you decorated using something from a cd. Whatever you make i look forward to seeing what you come up with this week.

sue-b xx

 

forest fruits

Well i have had a busy week but unfortunately not with crafting, in fact this is the first page i have completed this week, and i also need to get a couple of birthday cards done as soon as possible, but for now i'm happy just to play and relax.

This page is the start of my relaxation, love the the autumn colours, the kit was a freebie a collab called Forest Fruits, really beautiful.

8x8 scrap page made in serif craft artist.

Hush little baby

I have made a new page for my Granddaughter Izzy who was born in May this year.

this is an 8x8 page , I like to do this size it's easier for me sending books. I have used Serif's craft artist and also a craft artist  kit "Butterfly garden " . The butterfly kits are gorgeous, 5 in total, this one is a pale kit so just right for a baby.

I hope you like it.

sue-b xx

I will be entering this into the following challenges

Digitally sweet : Anything goes with flowers.

Digitally 'sweet' challenge no2 A rose

It's time for challenge no 2 over at Digitally 'sweet' challenges and the theme this week is  "Anything goes with flowers".  I have been trawling through my kits, but as you know most have flower in them, any way i came across this one BCS Marissa, i don't know how long i have it or where i got it. The photo was with it's files but not too sure if it is part of the kit or not, sorry just been back and yes it is , it's called a charm.

 I love dark backgrounds and grungy ones so is what has attracted me to this kit. 

i hope you like my page with it .

 

CD Sunday ,Feline friends DT

Morning all,  yes I'm late today, i have been distracted , must say it doesn't take a lot to do that.

Thank you for your lovely entries last week, had quite a few thinking outside the box and i love that.

This week at CD Sunday it's all about feline friends, big cats, small cats, any cats you like.

Just to remind you to use a cd, it need only one item or piece of paper, even a tag or button and tell us the CD you have used.

We still have our lovely guest Kevin and his card this week is just so lovely,  and all my team mates have made super cards to inspire you. So please be sure to pop over to CD Sunday to check them out or visit their blogs.

For my card i have used the Moorheads animals - crafters companion and an image that i love from i no not where, had it ages .  I have used a 6x6 white scalloped edged card in a tent fold. I used a promarker to colour around the edges and a very fine silver peel-off. 

I hope you can join us this week, i think that you will find this a very easy challenge to do and look forward to visiting you and seeing your designs.
good luck,  sue-b xx

I would also like to enter this into the following challenges.
Craft punked Pets
The Corrosive challenge blog.... animal companions

Need for speed

What a beautiful week we have had, i have really enjoyed this sunshine and hope we can have some more please.

Well it's sunday so time for a challenge at CD Sunday.

We had fabulous cards and an exploding box last week, so thank you all for joining in.

Our lovely guest Kevin made a  beautiful  word book last week and this week he has another beauty for you.

The theme this week is " Need for speed " and all the design team have made fabulous cards to inspire you.

Remember you  have to something from a CD even if only a small piece of paper or tag and just tell us what Cd you have used.

For my card i have used Tinkering with steam punk from My craft studio and an image from the net. 

Most of our creations seem to be male themed so it would be great to see what you come up with, with a more girly theme .

A page for Izzy

A page for Izzy my Granddaughter, this is 8x8 scrap page, i prefer to do this size for printing as only have a standard size printer and i can pick up cheaper frames for this size. The kit i used is from Gracie and Tracy Designs " and called The Mix, you can get this from e-scrapeandscrap.net . I have used Serif Craft artist to  make this page and will enter it into Digitally sweet challenges

I hope you like, you can enter as many times as you want as long as you do not have a sponsor.

When i grow up

Just made a quick page of Jake with his beloved tractors and trucks, so far this is his ambition to drive all these monster machines.

This is an 8x8 scrap page made in Craft Artist and using cutout studio, i will enter this into the new  Digitally  'sweet' Challenges

Teenage card

I have just been to look around the paper shelter and found this lovely digi stamp set, two images, one colour, a backing paper and a backing paper with the coloured image already on it.  I have used the backing paper and the coloured image from the set and added a further two papers also some word art and embellishments.  I have CAP to compile it and then printed it out flat for ease of postage . This will be going to one of my nieces for her birthday.

Allsorts Funkyhands

Sunday's are coming around so fast or am i just getting old.

Well we have had to say goodby for now to Michelle who has given us so many beautiful cards through August, so a big thank to you Michelle, I'm sure she will be back soon .

This month we have a new guest for you and I'm sure many of you will have seen his creations on many a blog challenge, it is the much talented Kevin of McCrafty cards.

This month we are being sponsored by Funkyhand, we have been given a CD to play with, the one i used is Wishes and Kisses,  for your special occasion crafting. With New baby, New job Engagement , new home , get well to name but a few, I'm sure there is something for each occasion . You have backing papers, digi stamps, word art, bunting and tags   and a built in work platform to arrange your work that makes it so easy to use.

My card is for a new baby boy and i hope you like it and that it gives you a small gimps of what is on this Cd. I have made an a5 tent fold on white card, picked one of the papers in blue and lemon. The pram and stork where printed out a couple of times and i have decoupaged them up and placed the pram onto a scalloped mat, added a ribbon and a few sequins . 

So why not pop over to funky hand and all the DT's for more inspiration 

The MIx from D&G designs

A page for my Granddaughter Izzy who was born in may this year.  I have used the new kit from Gracie and Tracy called The mix.https://www.e-scapeandscrap.net/boutique/https://www.e-scapeandscrap.net/boutique/, and its a brilliant mix . I am just loving the kits these girl make, two talented ladies who became friends on daisy trail and the rest is history as they say

After a day of clearing out the garden and removing the old shed, and having to rescue my plants from Ray who doesn't know a plant from a weed, i really felt in the need to to scrap a page and calm myself.

I have used a lovely kit called Dream catcher from Gracieandtracydesiigns.blogspot.co.uk. Take a look on their blog for some fabulous inspiration and beautiful pages. You can purchase the kit at e-scrapeandscrap .

Game on

Morning all,

 well that went quick, a whole week has flown by, in fact this year has flown, is it because I'm getting old, no i don't need you to answer that............

On to this week and a thank you for joining us last week, great entries from everyone.

This week it is Jocelyn's turn to pick the theme for the week and she has chosen "Game on".

A great theme for everyone to have a go at, the DT ladies have come up with lots of inspiration for you as usual and the they are all excellent.  

We still have our Guest Michelle with  us who has done a lovely card again this week.

For my card i have used "Artylicious, Damask Delights" the main image is mostly grey and black so i have used a pale damask delights paper for the back ground on a 6x6 card.

So please come along and join us this week, we look forward to seeing what you come with.

The inner storm

I have been looking for my mojo, if i ever had one, lol.

I have been looking through my kits and came across this one , it is "Inner Storm " but sorry i don't who it is by or where i got it. The girl is picture off the net that i really like so want to scrap a page and this is what i came up with. xx

Catch a falling heart...

I was just having a play in CAP, i have not done very much of late in it. This page is made up of a couple of net images and a few bits out of kits.

Cute Christmas

Hello and welcome to Cd Sunday

Thank you for all the beautiful entries we had for last weeks  "Birds and Blooms" the theme chosen by Christine.

This weeks theme is "cute Christmas" chosen by jenny.

The design team have all been treated to a new CD From " Elegant Inspirations called Christmas Comforts " .

We have all made something from this lovely Cd and if you already have it in your stash we would love to see what you come up with too. If you don't already have it that's not a problem as the theme is Cute Christmas and i know you will have a CD to hand for that. The winner of the top three will receive a Cd from Elegant inspirations so go get crafting, it could be you. Don't forget to use at least 1 item or piece of paper from a Cd in order to be eligible for any prize that may be on offer,   Good luck.

This is my card, everything has been printed right of the cd to make this easel card,  "Christmas Comfort"  is a  Craft'n'Cut Compendium  PC CD ROM-2 Disc set crammed with everything you need to make beautiful Christmas cards,  from instant cards to template designs for both digital die cutting machines and hand cut projects . Just click on  the  link to take a look at whats on offer from Elegant Inspirations.

I look forward to seeing what you all come up with, it's never to early for you crafters to make Christmas cards.

Exotic birds & blooms

Welcome to CD Sunday.

Last week we played bingo and what beautiful creations you all made.  As i chose the theme for last week i will also have pick a top three.  This is not going to be easy as i loved each and everyone, so thank you all for your support.

On to this week and the lovely Christine has picked Exotic birds & blooms, so we would love to see what you come up with this week.

Our guest designer is Michelle and once again she has made a stunning card as have all the girls on the team, so please drop by for some lovely inspiration.

Just one thing to remember this is a CD challenge but you need only to add one item or piece of paper from a CD to qualify for any prize that may be on offer.

My card this week was made using CD1 from the Jayne Netley Mayhew collection. I have printed off the images and backing paper and layered them on to a DL card, i have added flowers and a small butterfly.  A nice quick and easy card for me this week but I'm pleased with the result and i hope like it too.

Bingo CD sunday

This week is my turn to pick a theme  and i have chosen BINGO. I hope you will all join in and play along.  All you have to do is select any 3 in any row and use something from a CD, simples....there is a chart on CD Sundays blog with all the choices .

Also this week we have a lovely new Guest, Michelle is joining us and i know you are going to love her creations .

 Here is the card i made with the row of 

Pearls, Sentiment and Ribbon, 

the CD i have used is from Polka Doodle.

hello polly

I have just been having a play with Serifs steampunk kits, i am spoilt  for choice with so much in these kits, this is one of my favorite images.  No doubt i will be playing with them for some time yet.

I hope you like her..

Mainly Men

Good Morning all and welcome to another great challenge at CD Sunday, this week it is  Mainly men .  I know a lot of people find it harder to make male cards so take a look at what the girls have come up with this week. Our Guest Clair has been with us all month bringing you her beautiful creations and this week she made yet another stunning card.   I do hope we will be having her back really soon, so thank you Claire for your crafty input of fabulous cards.

For my card i have used a My craft studio Cd  " Tinkering with Steampunk ". I have used a Kanban card for the base and a row of copper brads across the front as a stopper to keep the card in place. The open book is from one of my kits, enlarged to the width of the image and cut out.

  I hope you like what everyone has done this week to inspire you,  I look forward to seeing what you create for us this week.

also entered in..........
anything goes challenge blog 
Fat pages and cards with Attitudehttp://fatpageswithattitude.blogspot.co.uk/
The poodles parlour 
Alphabetchallengeblog 

Isabella

I have just made this scrap page for my Granddaughter Isabella , she is know as Izzy. I like to scrap pages as they grow and alter so fast.

Already at two and a half months she has changed so much.

A is for ..........

Good morning to you and welcome to another CD Sunday challenge. I'm sure you will enjoy this weeks challenge, This weeks theme is Wendy's choice and it's  " A is For....." . So it's a very open one with lots of scope for your imagination . The design team have come up with lots of things to get you thinking and i hope joining in.

So here is mine..

A is for................ Apple

The CD i used is  " AnnaMarie Designs Templates Vol 1 ", Her designs are all very easy to follow and cutting out is easy as there are not many fiddly bits . This can be made as a card but i have made this as a plaque with a stand at the back. It fold down flat so will go into an envelope for posting.

I hope you like what the design team have come up with and you join us this week. Thank you everyone who entered last week, all beautiful creations and I'm glade i don't have to pick the winner . 

Less is more

Less is more

I don't find this easy to do clean and simple lol, i am so used to lots of things together and i never know when to stop, anyway at less is more this week the challenge is a one layer challenge and that for me is a challenge, so  one layer with 3 of anything , ie, colours images , stamps words , you get the picture. 

So i have used a scalloped edge card, one sentiment stamp with three words and a flower stamp that i used a mask over and stamped it three times, to finish off i used three colours of flex markers on the flowers and used the same  colour as the petals  to just edge the card.

there's an awful lot of white showing so i hope it meets requirements.
So this is for the following challenges

Simplylessismore.blogspot 

Pearls and swirls

At CD Sunday this week it's  Beryl's choice and she gives you pearls and swirls, what more could you ask for on a Sunday morning.

For my card i have used the CD  "Tinkering with steampunk"  from my craft studio and made it in craft artist.  The pearls are a brush i made in craft artist some time ago and they always come in very handy and I also love to make brush's , i have used the emboss tool for the butterfly's and added just a simple word art .  It printed out beautifully and i then added it to white card.

 You are in for a treat with all the fabulous and varied  cards the DT girls have made for your inspiration this week, so i hope you can all join in and if you can visit each others blog and leave a comment, it does mean a lot.
happy crafting, sue x

Revamp of the box

 I have had this card index box for many years and have decided to give it a revamp.

 I started with the lid and applied this paper

 I have lots of small images and i sorted a few i thought would look good with paper.

 I have used collall glue and have no problems at all , no warping I'm pleased to say.

 Now that i have glued on my images i decided to use a adhesive clear film on the box as it's in regular use. 

 I was going to put paper flower on the lid but as i use it a lot and i tend to put other thing on top of it it's better left flat.

i have entered this into the following challenge

Joyful stamper , inspire me Fridays
Charisma cards: Recycle

Birds of a feather

Today i have done " the beginners and all 6 blends" challenge on Daisytrail. This challenge has been put together by Hilary aka  "Sunset" who has a wealth of knowledge on all things craft artist.  So this is some altered art done in craft artist, in the top left hand corner is the original picture, it is a Moorecroft card and as you can see quite a difference between the two, in the corner bottom right is a picture with out anything being done to it, so using your blend mode and layers you can achieve quite a different look, the word art is also part of the challenge to do it using the freeform brush. I have enjoyed doing these challenges as it's been a while since i did any pages on daisytrail.

In the land of make believe

This is the page i made in craft artist. It is for the  " Focus on threshold"  challenge.  The challenges are usually put together by the moderators and can be a very a good way of learning just what you can do with craft artist. At the moment they have 3 challenges that you can treat as tutorials , " Effects, Threshold and blends ". All three very useful things to learn. The second picture is the original before threshold was applied.

Ode to Van Gogh Friday fantasy @ daisytrail

The housework is screaming at me so I'll just have to use earplugs for a while.

Daisy trails Friday fantasy this week  is " Ode to Van Gogh".,   A single chair in a lonely room,   black crows against a field of wheat,   A bandaged ear a sign of doom,  A vase of iris in last bloom,  Madness rages, can paint repeat,   A single chair in a lonely room.

So the idea is to create a page based on that ode.

I have used 2 kits for this "poet keepsake" i love this kit, and "inner fire" again another fabulous kit. I have used two images from Google, one i took into cutout studio and the other has added effects,  the word art is also from the "inner fire" kit.

Right now that's done i will go and talk to the hoover who seems to be screaming the loudest.

Down the rabbit hole....OOB

I have been back to daisy trail and just could not resist doing a page.  It's been a while since i did any pages and have not used CAP as much as i have been doing cards. This image i found on the net and is perfect for one of there challenges "fun with effects, 3". The challenge is to create an OOB " out of bounds", you take your photo into the cutout studio and cut away every thing you don't want to use then place it back into your work space and find another suitable image or frame to make it look like it's coming out. You have to place your original photo into a frame and have that also on the page for the comparison to be made . I had fun doing this one and used a photo of my grandson Jake. I will print this off and will be put into one his albums.

added to daisytrail

Sitting fairy

Hello and welcome to my card for today, this card has been made with three challenges in mind so i hope i have covered all the requirements for each of them.

I have used three papers for the card from "Crafty individuals" background papers book 1 and background papers book4 (trees),  beautiful papers in these books. the stamp is from Sugar Nellie and coloured with promarkers and the ribbons where also coloured using promarkers. I have used the sketch to enter this into the Carismacardz challenge , the ribbons and buttons for the "crafting when you can" and  promarkers for the "I love promarkers" challenge. Sorry the pic is a little dull as the papers look quite dark in this.

 I hope you like it

carismacardz - sketck 
crafting when we can 
i love promarkers challenge blog