Challenge 27 for Pear Tree Designs- Colourful!

Here is my card for this week's challenge at Pear Tree Designs...and this week's theme is Colourful. Our sponsor this week is Cardmadfairy's Card Creations who has 4 Xmas digis for the lucky winner!

The paper came to me first this week, I always wanted to use this but always been a bit nervous of such a bright paper lol....but it works really well with this stamp from Little Claire's. Both the paper are from a DCWV pad. I used my trusty Promarkers to colour the image and added some snowy sparkle with Stickles. I diecut some snowflakes from red card and added some snowflakes gems to the centres. The ribbon is from my stash, and the sentiment is a Lili of the Valley stamp.

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Susie xx

Challenge 26 for Pear Tree Designs- Shaker Card!

This week's challenge over at Pear Tree Designs is to make a shaker card...and the DT were all sent some images from our sponsor Cardmadfairy's Creations to have a play with!

I got this lovely digi to use, and I knew instantly which papers I wanted to use with her...they are from a Papermania paper pad which I love! I coloured the image in with my promarkers, adding some stickles for sparkle. I thought the music sheet paper was fab, and used a co-ordinating paper to make the frame for the shaker. My best friend kindly donated the seed beads to fill it with...didn't have anything like that lol. I added a poinsettia and lace from my stash, and the sentiment is a Lili of the Valley stamp.

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Susie xx

Problems over at Pear Tree Designs!

I got an email last night from Donna at Pear Tree to say that the challenge blog and email account has been hijacked by someone who's changed the passwords.....she's working on getting some answers from Blogger etc!

So please bear with her, hopefully the blog will be back up and running asap.....and this week's challenge will be posted, along with the winner of last week!

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Susie xx

November's Club Stamp from Little Claire's.

The club stamp for Novemember over at Little Claire's is a gorgeous little girl, I love this stamp, it's very me!!

The first card I made with this stamp was a birthday card, although it can also be used as an Xmas card. I coloured the image in with Promarkers and glittered the fur a little for extra sparkle. The papers are My Minds Eye Wild Asparagus pad, love them!! I inked up the edges of the image and sentiments. I embellished the card with flowers and a button from my stash...and the sentiment is part of the set.

The second card is an Xmas themed one, using festive colours for the girl. Again, she is coloured in with promarkers and glittered on the fur for sparkle. I also added glitter around the label frame...can't have too much glitter for Xmas lol. The papers are from a Papermania pad and are matted with dark green card. The poinsettia is from my stash and the sentiment is a Lili of a Valley stamp.

Wow no new cards for ages then 3 in one night lol...the girl ones were made ages ago though lol x

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Susie xx

This week's card for Pear Tree Designs.

Challenge 25 over at Pear Tree Designs this week is a fab sketch to follow, and it was fun to work with! Our sponsors this week is One Stop Card Craft, so pop over and check it out!

I decided to get another Xmas card out of the way, and had this lovely little stamp from Pink Gem Designs to ink up...and I wasn't disappointed!!! I coloured this cute snow couple in with my Promarkers and added some glitter for extra sparkle! The backing papers are from a Papermania Xmas pad, matted onto pink card. I used a band of ribbon wrapped on pink card for the side of the sketch. The sentiment is a Lili of the Valley stamp. I also cut some snowflakes from glitter card and embellished with a gem.

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Susie xx

Pear Tree Designs Challenge 24- Bonfire Night

This week's challenge over at Pear Tree Designs is Bonfire Night, and our sponsor this week is the Character Cafe....so check it out!

I had seen this lovely stamp at Pink Gem Designs and thought it would be perfect for this card, as it's called Guy Fawkes Millie...it's so sweet! I coloured Millie in with promarkers, adding highlights with a white gel pen and matting her onto label Nesties. The backing paper is from a new paper pad I bought at the Arena, can't remember what it's called though! I cut 2 squares of black card, rounded the corners, and used the star part of the stamp to make some fireworks, which I glittered up to add some sparkle! Some black gems from my stash finish the card.

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Susie xx

Pear Tree Designs Challenge 23-Halloween!

This week's challenge over at Pear Tree Designs is Halloween, and we were given some lovely digis to play with by Robyn's Fetish...this one especially caught my eye!!

I went for a distressed look as I was desperate to play with my Distress Inks that I bought at the craft show. I coloured the digi in with promarkers as normal, matted onto black card, and inked the edges with Walnut Stain distress ink. I used more of the Halloween papers from the Daisy & Dandelion pad I used last week, again inking the edges. I made a little sign to hang on the gate using part of one of the other digis we were sent, and attached it some string and a brad. I finished off with some buttons from my stash!

I hope you like it...it was a nice distraction from all the items I've been making for some craft stalls me and my best friend are doing before Xmas....I seem to be knee deep in card and ribbon every day at the moment lol....but I'm loving it :) Hence the reason I'm not posting on here as often though!

I am also entering it into a few other Halloween challenges:

Craft Challenge: Spooky
My Time to Craft: Halloween
A Spoonful of Sugar: Boo!
Creative Inspirations: Halloween/Fall
By The Cute and Girly:Spooky
Ooh Lala Creations: Scary Stuff
Stampin for The Weekend: Halloween
Fab and Funky: Things that go Bump

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Hugs
Susie xx