You are my Sunshine

I hope that you are having a great weekend.

Hubby is working this weekend so I have had the Promarkers and rubber stamps out.

I bought this stamp some time ago but had not had the time to make a card with it.

It is another Sugar Nellie, Home Grown stamp from their Sherbet Pip range, this one is called Posy Pip and it just cried out sunflowers to me.

I have decided to enter this card into the following challenges:

Craft Us Crazy - Favourite Colour/Favourite Embellishment (my favourite embellishment is ribbon but this rosette is really growing on me)
Crafty Anne's Challenge Blog - Bold and Bright
Paper Crafting Journey - Make it Cute
Simply Create Too - Add Sunshine to your Day

Dionne

Candy Sherbet Pip

I think you many have heard me say once or twice how much I love the Sugar Nellie's Home Grown stamps.

This one is Candy Pip from their Sherbet Pips range.

After colouring the stamp with Promarkers I mounted it on gold mirri card. The rose paper is from a Forever Friends CD and this lovely die is a Marianne Creatable Die called Branch Garden. I finished the card off with a sentiment and Candi from Craftwork Cards, some ribbon and a couple of hat pins.

Dionne

Hearts Between Us

This is something of a record, my forth post today.

This Teddy Bo & Co image was intended to be another Valentine card but at the last minute I switched the sentiment to read Happy Anniversary, after all I have already posted six Valentine cards.  (If you have just had a quick count and can only find four Valentine cards, click here to see the two I made for the current Crafty Boots Valentine Challenge.)

I am not a pink person but I really love how this very pink card turned out.  The stamp is called Hearts Between Us and I coloured it with Promarkers.  I used Glossy Accents on the balloon hearts and the centre of the 'daisy' to make them nice and shiny.

I mounted the stamp on a combination of gold and red holographic card and a paper is from DoveCraft.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Crafting for all seasons - Challenge 20 - Love is in air

Dionne

Jolly's Heart is for You

Another Valentine card and another Teddy Bo & Co image.

I cannot decide whether little Olifant or Jolly the Giraffe is my favourite, I adore them both and their friends Teddy Bo and Bea, as regular visitors to my blog will know.

I coloured Jolly with Promarkers and added some sweet little pink brads with hearts on.  The fab polka dot paper is from a Polka Doodle CD.

I have decided to enter this card in the following challenge.



The Squirrel and the Fox - #11 Valentine's Day
Dream Valley Challenges - #25 Valentine


Dionne

Love is the Word

This is my first Bugaboo stamp but I cannot image it will be my last (well, to tell the truth I know it's not, I bought two others when I bought this one!)

This stamp is called Ava and Deacon Love Word, aren't they sweet?

This design turned into something of an impromptu sewing basket, what with the ribbons, lace and pins.  The hearts are Marianne Creatable Dies.

I have decided to enter this card into the following challenges:

Craft Us Crazy - Anything Goes

A Bea Needs a Rose

Happy Saint Valentine' Day.

Here is my first Valentine card post of the day.  I do not know what I am going to do with all of the Valentine cards I have made, I only have the one husband to send them to!

I wanted to try out a few ideas on this card.  First I printed this Teddy Bo & Co image, Bea Needs a Rose, on the Crafty Boots Deluxe Crafters Card, I then printed it again on some paper with a tiny rose bud design.  I carefully cut out Teddy Bea's cloths and stuck them onto the plain image and coloured it with a combination of Flexmarkers and Promarkers.  I used only brown and sepia colours because I really wanted the red rose to stand out.

When I had finished colouring, I glued a small red rose over the rose in Jolly's mouth - I was so lucky to find a rose of exactly the right size.

I have decided to enter this card in the following challenges:

Gingerloft Challenges - #33 Love is in the Air
The Squirrel and the Fox - #11 Valentine's Day
Dream Valley Challenges - #25 Valentine

Dionne

Olifant Love

Before the day comes and goes, I need to get a move on and post some more of the Valentine cards I have made.

This cute little guy comes from Teddy Bo & Co and is called Olifant Love.

I coloured him with a combination of FlexMarkers and Promarkers, I wanted to achieve a light, washed-out effect for him and the heart, but to cap (no pun intended) this with stronger colours in his hat.

I have been looking for a good excuse to use my new lace from Wild Orchid Crafts but have struggled to get the look right (this is the first card where I have been happy with the lace).  The heart paper is from DoveCraft.

I have decided to enter this card into the follow challenge:

Dream Valley Challenges - #25 Valentine


Dionne