Fill Your Paper with the Breathing of your heart

Hello Everyone,
I am a guest designer this month at Alicia.
She has lots of lovely images. Check it out at - Alicia's little shop
For this Tuesday I used this cute image called Amy Writing

My first card for this month for Alicia's. # more to go each Tuesday.

This was colored with copics. The swirls and doily are from silhouette store and the cherry blossom was handmade with ek success retro punch. The papers are digi paper from cosmo cricket. The cardstock is gold from paperandmore. I distressed the edges with a cream paint and  gold glitter paint (tulip gold )

I love this quote by William Wordsworth so decided to use that as sentiment.

Thank you for reading.

Pretty Please ? With Cherry on Top

We have some lovely new release at DS4J today (sunday morning in SA)
I just love this little fairy!
Look at those eyes!

At last I got an image where I could play with the feathering technique from copics lol

Don't you like that button cherry? I added a heart foam behind the red button and cut out a stem/stalk (Shhh.. don't tell my son but I snipped one of my son's projects - a foam leaf he had done for fall . He won't even know the stalk of his flower is gone) to make that cherry.

Now to enter this card in some challenges

1. http://brokenboxstock.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/challenge-23-think-spring.html
2. http://craftycatzweeklychallenge.blogspot.com/2013/04/challenge-177anything-goes-gdt-call.html
3. http://www.dillybeanschallenge.blogspot.com/2013/04/spring.html
4. http://digihaven.blogspot.ca/2013/03/spring-challenge-sponsored-by-mygrafico.html
5. http://myheartpiecesdigitalstampchallenge.blogspot.in/2013/03/angels-or-fairies.html
6. http://leftofcenterchallenges.blogspot.ca/2013/04/left-of-center-challenge-3-loc-theme.html
7. http://www.totallygorjuss.blogspot.com/2013/04/challenge-178-anything-goes-with-sparkle.html
8. http://www.inklingsandyarns.com/2013/04/inky-linky-10/

Shoes

Today is monthly freebie at http://www.digistamps4joy.co.za/eshop/
So do grab the cute images
I used one of the image for this card.

I have this ribbon stash and sliders for ages so I a=decided to use them. Simple card.
Now I do have fun linking the card up for challenges and I am entering this in some challenges

1. http://craftyribbonschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/challenge-42.html
2. http://littlemissmuffetchallenges.blogspot.com/2013/04/challenge-58-and-tea-party-release-day-1.html
3. http://milkcoffeechallenge.blogspot.com/2013/03/anything-but-square.html
4. http://paper-craftingjourney.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/monochromatic.html
5. http://ladybugscraftsinkchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/new-release-and-new-challenge-say-hello.html
6. http://theseinspiredchallenges.blogspot.com/2013/04/inspired-by69.html

Mother's Love

Hi
This is Pam from Papillondigitaldesigns & TheBugbytes today on She's a sassylady
Thanks Sheila for allowing us to post in your lovely and inspiring blog.
My Show and Tell today is this card "Mother's Love"

The image/sentiment is from bugaboostamps called Just a While

Isn't the sentiment so so precious....

Oops sorry for the long pause but just had to grab a hanky!

 The inside of the Gatefold card

Now for the mundane
The embossing folder is from craftwell called Regency
The trims on the sides is from Martha Stewart Blossom punch.
I love the eyelet lace as you can weave another ribbon through it so that you can match up your projects. here I weaved a pink/apricot color? ribbon to match up (of course you can always get seam binding and color it up using copic or any other inks to match up your project too) Added some pearls and there you have it a simple card. I love using whites. Guess I am in the whites color phase now
Thank you all for reading. And for those who are so kind to leave comments which so so inspire me - A big Hug and a special thank you.

DS4J CHALLENGE # 64 – Anything Goes

Present challenge at DS4J is Anything Goes
So I decided to use a cute image from the store called Sharon
I used vellum to make the card and some tools I got from ecstasy crafts
My card

I used cuttlebug die to emboss and I think fiskar punch to get the edge and then I went over with the embossing tool. The flowers and leaves are spellbinder dies. Coloring was with copics. Image was printed on vellum and colored and cut with the 4 split perforating tool (10226). The rest was perforated with single needle tool. The tag's sentiment I deliberately made it not a print out but left it handwritten.

Do join us at DS4J
I am going to enter this in some challenges

1. http://ladybugscraftsinkchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/new-release-and-new-challenge-say-hello.html
2. http://digitaltuesdaychallenge.blogspot.com/2013/04/challenge-204-new-crafting-trends.html
3. http://outlawzchallenges.ning.com/group/colorchallenge/forum/topics/april-2nd-color-challenge
4. http://lejdesignschallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/lej-designs-challenge-no-47-your.html
5. http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/2013/04/anything-goes.html
6. http://www.craftdoormagazine.com/2013/04/april-2-8-ttcrd-challenge.html
7. http://www.ladyanneschallenges.com/vickie-challenges.html
8. http://paulaholifieldcrafts.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/our-first-challenge.html
9. http://houseofgilli.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/challenge-51anything-goes-wflowers.html
10. http://sparklensprinklecreativechallenges.blogspot.com.au/2013/04/april-challenge.html

Mesh Card - file

I saw this type of card when I was browsing through . I call this a mesh card because well it meshes when folded
So I thought I would try to make an svg file and silhouette template so I can make some cards.
The files can be downloaded from under the respective tabs
here is a look at the mesh

I did make a card from it and it looks lovely but I will share it another day as it is for a design team but I posted the template here now.

Dream

I love butterflies and so loved coloring this lovely image from karber called "girl with butterflies".
Here is a card using this image

I  of course used some of my favorite embellishments-  butterflies ,acrylic flower, stickles and rhinestones . The orange pattern  on which the colored image is mounted on is actually a white cardstock  embossed with inked anna griffin cuttlebug folder.
In the image I did cut 5  more of the butterflies on the hair to give the 3d effect

I have one more card I am planning to do with another image. Hopefully I will have time to play soon.

I do want to enter this in their challenge - http://karberschallenges.blogspot.com/2013/03/challenge-51.html

Thank you for reading.