You Rock...

Another miserable weekend weather-wise, so perfect for spending some time in my craft space! This is a card I've put together for the following challenges:

Truly Scrumptious - sketch

Cute Card Thursday - Teen Terrors

Creative Card Crew - strings attached

I turned Dawn's sketch onto it's side so I could use this tall guitar image, which I simply stamped in black and embellished with some tiny red gems, then edged the panel with black ink and mounted it onto gold mirror card. I attached some strands of black wire with gold brads - I hope this counts for 'strings attached' as my idea is that they represent guitar strings! I finished off with a stamped sentiment and 3 punched gold stars.

Stamps: guitar and sentiment from Rock Star set by Inkadinkado
Paper: Boxer collection by Basic Grey

Nicki, xx

Snow Man...

This week over at Polka Doodles you're challenged to make a card from a sketch but with a male theme. Well, I wanted to add to my growing pile of Christmas cards but was a bit stumped for something masculine until I remembered this snowboarder stamp...I made the background panel with some ski clothes patterned paper matted onto dark blue cardstock, and added strips of blue and red. The image was stamped in blue and I used a dot stamp for the background to fill the white space, I also coloured his glasses with a glitter gel pen to give the look of some fancy reflective goggles.

The 2 small panels were cut from a sheet embossed with a folder, then mounted over punched circles, and I finished it off with some candy dots.

Stamp: snowboarder by Papermania
Paper: from Christmas stack by Die Cuts with a View
Other: candy dots by Craftwork Cards; embossing folder by Cuttlebug

Nicki, xx

Moving Along with the Times - my DT card

This week at Moving Along with the Times we have a great sketch from Hazel and a great new sponsor, Ellephantastic Cards and Crafts. Here is my DT card for the challenge...

I tipped the sketch on it's side and used one of the fab Ellephantastic images to make a 'Stop Here Santa' sign which can be removed from the card and hung up.

The 'Santa' is coloured with pencils and I used liquid glitter snow to highlight the letters. The smaller panels were made with an alphabet stamp set, and I edged everything with doodled stitches to echo the style of the main image.

I hope you can join us this week, I'd love to see what you can do with the sketch and Helen is offering some of her own digital images as a prize for the winner.

Stamps: Santa image by Ellephantastic; alphabet stamps by Hampton Art
Paper: Tis the Season pack by Dovecraft
Other: ribbon by Papermania; eyelets from stash

Nicki, xx

You can come under my umbrella...

Surprise - not a Christmas card from me today, but this one is definitely suitable for our recent weather as well as these challenges:

Sketch Saturday - sketch

My Time to Craft - "under my umbrella"

This is the sketch I used - I die-cut all the plain and scalloped circles, then I stamped cute little Maggie and coloured her with pencils but I used paper piecing to give her a spotty brolly. All the rainy patterned papers are from a co-ordinating set so it was really simple to create a background mat and some matching circles. I finished off with a strip of shimmery grey organza ribbon and a birthday sentiment tag.

Stamp: Splashing Maggie by Sugar Nellie
Papers: from the Spring Stack by Die Cuts with a View
Other: plain and scalloped circle dies by Nestabilities; sentiment tag by Craftwork Cards

Nicki, xx

Little sledging ted...

Well, I almost started the weekend with a total disaster! To celebrate my new DT position with Moving Along with the Times, I decided to give my blog a makeover last night and somehow managed to completely mess up my template and lose all my links! It was a nightmare but I've managed to get it mostly back to normal now - I think I'll just stick to changing the backgrounds in the future! So, on to a card - this one is a multi-challenge creation:

Passion for ProMarkers - sketch and any colours

Cupcake Craft - Snow Much Fun

Fab's Christmas Cards - 3 themes, I chose Wavy Frame

Secret Crafter - Four Seasons - I chose winter

Here's Ida's sketch for PFP - I used a label die instead of a circle as it fitted my image better and it also fits Fab's 'wavy frame' element. I stamped the image with Memento Black and coloured it with ProMarkers (colours below) and I stamped the sentiment with Memento Bahama Blue . The swirls were cut with an extended die and embellished with foam snowflakes, accented with shimmer dots.

Stamps: sledging image free with magazine; sentiment by Elzybells

Colouring: ProMarkers in cool aqua; cinnamon; cocoa; pastel yellow; mustard; blush; pastel blue; and warm grey 1
Paper: Christmas Blues pack by Dovecraft

Other: Labels 4 die by Nestabilities; swirl die by Sizzix; shimmer dots by Papermania; snowflakes from stash

Nicki, xx

Woohoo - my very first DT card...

I've had some wonderful news this week - the lovely ladies from the Moving Along with the Times challenge blog have chosen me as one of their new Design Team members! I was so excited I just had to create my first project straight away...Clare has given us this great sketch and it's an open theme so, guess what? - another Christmas card for my growing collection. I chose this cute stamp and coloured the image with pencils, then cut it out with an oval die and lightly coloured the background with shimmer chalks. The patterned paper is from my scraps box and I used a die cut sentiment tag for my greeting. After wrestling with various ways of fixing ribbon or cord for the crossed over part of the design, I settled on threading this flat ribbon through eyelets in the corners of the purple panel.

It was a bit of a rush to get this one finished in time for this week's challenge but I couldn't wait to get started. Come along and join us at Moving Along with the Times - it's great fun and there's a prize on offer for the winner.

I'd just like to say a big thank to you all the girls on the MAWTT team for choosing me, and congratulations to Susie, the other new member - you can check out all their fabulous blogs from the links on my sidebar.

Stamps: sledging girl by Elzybells
Paper: Xmas Blue set by Dovecraft
Other:plain and scalloped oval dies by Nestabilities; sentiment by Craftwork Cards

Nicki, xx

Remembrance...

This simple card is for the Remembrance Day challenge at Moving Along With The Times, and also fits the Blue, Red and White colour theme at Crafty Angels...I die-cut an oval panel and mounted it in the centre of my card base, then used a set of tiny flower and leaf images to stamp a frame around it. I then added a die cut white cross and 3 small punched flowers with black brads in the centre to make the poppies.

Stamps: See D's Springtime Collection
Other: oval die by Nestabilities; cross die by Sizzix; flower punch unknown

Nicki, xx