Dottie's World Challenge.

This weeks Dottie's World challenge is to make a Christmas card using non traditional colours. Ironic when all my cards below are exacxtly that!

 I have chosen to use A Dottie Christmas download for this challenge and gone for purple and blue.

Sunday Dottie's World challenge.

This week over on Dottie's World the challenge was set by Karen and she challenges us to frame it with a few dots!

So for this week I have used a Nellie Snellen die to frame this gorgeous Pixie chick and definitely one of my faves! I have surrounded her with pearly beads for my dots and a few roses.

My good news!

I won a charmed download collection on Dottie's World! I love my downloads and Louise's drawings are some of  the best digi designs out there! I  just love the new fairy tale collection and have a list of the digi stamps I want to own! I have chosen Sugar and Spice and am looking forward to these coming my way very soon! xx

This weeks LGS group challenge on Craftbubble.

This week on the LGS group Karen set the sketch and asked us to make our own paper flowers. I have made quilled flowers. This also fits in with the Dottie's world challenge this week which is to use sewing on your cards. This also fits in with the challenge on die cut dreams which is to use handmade flowers!!

Dottie's world challenge

This week the Dottie's world challenge is to make a card with a spring feel. Here's mine. I love these Holly and Madison downloads and a basket of tulips certainly makes me think of spring. I have made this nice and simple to show off the central image.

Dottie's world challenge..blood, sweat and tears!!

Thios week on the Dottie's world challenge we were asked to use something old and something new as well as a charmed download. This turned out to be a real labour of love as I sliced open my finger on my paper trimmer which bled all over my papers so I had to bin them and start again! Then my sewing m achine jammed and continued to jam and several hours later I found it was something so very simple! I had put the wrong bobbin in it from a differnet machine and it was therefore loose! Oh I cried!! Tears of joy that it was working again and anger because it was something so silly!
Anyway, the something old is the papers, twinkling H20s and sewing machine ( 17 years old!) and the something new are the paper flowers and fibres.

Lets get stamping group and Dottie's world challenge

This week on the let's get stamping group, Maddie provided the sketch with the added twist of adding spots and stripes. The Dottie's world challenge was to make a card for a boy.

Dottie's world win!

Oh I'm so delighted to have won the pixie chick stamps over on the dottie's world blog. I'm sooooo lucky! This weeks challenge was to make a card for a child. Here's one I have made using the pixie chick downloads, coloured with H20s and I have also used Pink Petticoat papers . Can't remember which collection as it was an off cut from another card I made. I think this card would also make a lovely card for a lady too!!

Last Sundays Dotties world challenge.

I am so behind! Have been having a difficult time of late and so am desperately trying to catch up with as many challneges and things as possible, but it's not working! Last weeks Dottie's world challneg was to use a charmed download and use either Halloween colours or make a halloween card. I have two cards here that fit the bill. The bright one was the card I made for my friend Teresa and the bottom card will be for my brother who is usually always away from home on Halloween. It's also a day of mixed emotions for me as it's the anniversary of my favourite uncle's and my hubby's brother's deaths.

Dottie's world challenge

This week over at Dottie's world the challenge was circles. I have had to scan it as it's so dark here that when I photographed it you could barely see it!!

just because

Finally for now a couple of cards that will go in my pile which can be used in emergencies!

Dottie's world challenge

This weeks challenge on Dottie's world is to make a card for a teenager. I found a great quote

" Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years!"

With this in mind I tried to capture changes in this card. Hence change of hair colour and style.

Christmas! New Dottie's world challenge.

Ok so the sun might be shining and you might be thinking holidays, bikinis ( or not!) but over on Dottie's world Christmas has landed early and we have been challenges to make a Christmas card! Well, this meant unpacking a box as I tend to put my Christmas craft box away in January! I had already printed this background and it was in my file it was form the cute companions christmas cdrom I think! All I added were the delightful cats, coloured with my promarkers and some red paper and a pink petticoat download paper. The sentiment I generated on the computer. It's certainly a very cosy feeling ! I ended up having to scan this one as the shine from the card seemed to blur the rest of the picture.

Dottie's world challenge

The challenge this week over on Dottie's world was to use a charmed cards download with everything handmade so all the embellishments and backing papers etc had to be handmade. Here is my effort. I have had a bit of a recycling frenzy on here!

I made the flower embellishments using my big shot and some cardboard packaging that I had through the post this week. I found a material scrap that I had and I made the bow with a shred of the cardboard that backs the image. I know it said no backing papers unless handmade but it's card and I didn't have any flower things that I could use!! I used my H20s to colour the birds and computer generated wording of Happy anniversary. The embossed, stamped groovy wording comes from an old set I have from Rubadubbadoo. I chalked the grass, drew the musical notes and doodled the edging. I think it's ok but now I need to buy either some green card or a small flower stamp!!

Dottie's world challenge

Just wanted to squeeze this one in for the challenge over on Dotties world. It's making a shaped card. I have gone for simple!! No time to do anything dramatic!!