Magical card for Friday Sketchers

There is a lovely sketch by Beatrix to follow over at Friday Sketchers and I have made this card using the gorgeous Holly Fairy by Mo Manning. I have used this image a few times now and I just love her as she really has a magical feel about her. The papers are all by Heidi Grace and the flower is by prima.



We are now heading off to Aberdeen to deliver the last of the Christmas Presents and see the grandchildren. I think they are putting up the Christmas tree today so they will all be really excited.

Hope you are having a great weekend.

Karen x

Dare U 2 Digi Stamp - challenge 24 - colour challenge - Yellow, Orange and Black or White

As it's getting close to Halloween we think the challenge this week at DareU2DigiStamp might bring out some of your spooky creations. We hope you'll join us again and we're looking forward to visiting you.

We'll have a prize again for this challenge of two single image digi's from Sketching Stamper and two from Sandra Dry Digital Designs, the winner will be announced on the next challenge, 23rd October.


I seem to have had a week of making Halloween cards and I am so loving using these colours. This image is one of the new digi stamps that are now available from Pink Cat Studio and the papers are all Heidi Grace except for the black one with the spots on and I am afraid that I must already have used the bit with the name on it so I am sorry that I cannot say who it is by. The sentimnets and spider webs are all from a penny black set of clear stamps and I have almost used up all these spiders now - only 1 solitary spider left and I will try to give him a home this evening. The sketch that I have used for this card is the one over at Sketch Saturday this week and I really enjoyed this one.


As well as a card I have made a front cover for a Halloween chocolate lollipop that I bought from the supermarket. This was a really quick and easy project and I think I will probably do some more of these for Halloween night for the neighbours kids and also I have a feeling that there may be more of these come Christmas time.


Have a great weekend, and I look forward to seeing your spooky (or not) creations.

Karen x

More Gingerbread

Here is the card that I was making as my DT card for Copics Colour Challenge this week. It was only after I had finished the front and I was feeling really smug that I had got it done in plenty of time for the challege that I discovered that I had used the wrong sketch. I had printed off the one for Sketch Saturday as well as the Copics one and had by mistake used the wrong one. I then left this card and made the correct one before coming back to finish off this one.


I so love these gingerbread people and these Heidi Grace papers are just pefect with these images. As I already said, the sketch is this week's one at Sketch Saturday and what a great sketch it is. The big brads are by Imaginsce and ribbons from my stash.


I have carried the same papers through to the inside and the little recipie was printed straight onto the DP on the computer.


This picture shows the normal sized card that I had made along with the mini one that I had posted earlier for Copics Colour Challenge.
I hope you like them both as much as I do.
Karen x

Copics Colour Challenge # 22

Over at Copics Colour Challenge this week is a little different. We decided that we would have a week off the colour challenges and so Maddy kindly produced one of her marvelous sketches for us. I'm sure you will agree, it is a stunner!


This week, we have yet another wonderful sponsor for you..... Peachy Keen stamps. For those of you who have not yet visited Peachy Keen, you are in for a treat. Super cute! The DT had real problems in choosing images for their cards as they wanted them all! However, the lucky winner of this weeks challenge could seriously add to their rubbah stash with the $40 voucher that Peachy Keen are offering as a prize!

I just love these little gingerbread people. I have made a really tiny card for the challenge this week - long story, but to cut it short I used the wrong sketch and then ran the risk of running out of these fab papers, so decided to use a Stampin Up 7.5cm square card as my base. I had orignally intended making a gift tag, but decided that it looked really cute as a mini-card. I will post the original one with the wrong sketch later and take a photo of the two of them together to show the difference in size.
Papers are all by Heidi Grace and brads are by imaginsce.


I have used the same papers on the inside and the little gingerbread house is cut from one of the papers.


Same theme continued to the back.


I just love this mini-card and think there may be a few more of these in the pipeline. I have even thought that they could be used as small photo frame cards as you could substitute the gingerbread man in the frame inside of the card with a photo - baby, wedding etc. - now that has got me thinking....
Have a great week and sorry for the length of this post.
Karen x

Dutch Dare Card Challenge #2

This weeks challenge was to create a card where the main image was stamped. I have used one of the new Q.T. Hooty stamps from PinkCat Studio and Heidi Grace papers.

Karen x