California Girls

Morning! There's a new challenge starting today over at My Mum's Craft Shop Challenges and this week, we want to see your cards inspired by songs or movies. My card, as the post title suggests, is inspired by 'California Girls' by The Beach Boys, and here it is:

Ingredients:

Image - Saturated Canary coloured with Spectrum Noirs and Sakura pens on her earrings and sunglasses.

Papers - DCWV.

Dies - Fringed Perennial Dienamics (from Ally Pally!)

Other - Free sentiment from someone in Blogland (and I'm really sorry but I can't remember where at the moment!), Pearls and Kraft card from stash. All edges distressed with Antique Linen DI.

I'm also entering my card into the following challenges:

•  Friday Sketch Challenge - Sketch #15.
• Cardmakin' Mamas - Gettin' Girlie.

And I think that's about it! Hope you're all having a good week so far! Don't forget to check out my teamie's gorgeous cards over at My Mum's Craft Shop Challenges and join in!! Bye for now, my lovelies.....xx

It'll be All White on the Night........

Boom, boom! I've always wanted to use that as a title and being as the challenge over at Southern Girls this fortnight is 'White on White', I've finally got my opportunity! Here's my card (get ready for a few pics!!)

Ingredients:

Image - Tickled Pink coloured with Spectrum Noirs.

White Card - Bazzill Basics 'Great White', DCWV Glitter Card.

Dies - Cheery Lynn Doily Die.

Punches - Martha Stewart Butterfly and Leaf punches.

Lace Butterfly - Wild Orchid Crafts.

Flowers - WOC and The Range.

Sentiment - Craftwork Cards.

Other - Ribbon and Gems from stash, Swirls cut using Slice.

Phew, I think that's it! Sorry about the pic and ingredients overload!! I'm also entering my card into the following challenges:

• Crafty Purple Frog Challenges - Anything Goes.
• Paperplay Challenges - Week 3 Ribbon Any Which Way.
• I Brake for Challenges - IBFCC17 Fancy Folds.
• Inky Impressions Challenges - Shape It Up (Shaped Cards).
• Heart Song Inspirations - Challenge #31 Glitter and/or White on White.

Don't forget to pop over to Southern Girls, my fellow teamies have really pulled it out the bag this time around with their projects! And we'll make it worth your while to join in ;-) - our sponsors this time around are Tickled Pink (where my gorge image came from), Artfull Crafts and Meljen's!!
Thanks too - to those of you who asked after my sickly son who was off school!! It must've been a virus because he had a temperature and one bout of sickness! I've kept him off for the rest of the week but I knew he'd started feeling better when he started talking the hind legs off a donkey as usual!!! Bye for now........xxx

Christmas Traditions

It's the 1st of December and as well as only being another 10 days until my Birthday and 24 days until Christmas, today there's a new challenge over at the Cupcake Craftroom. This month, we'd like to see your creations showing 'Christmas Traditions' - that can mean whatever you want it to mean! Here's some of the cards I made:

Ingredients: Image - Crafters Companion coloured with SNs, Papers - Cupcake Cards and Crafts, Blue and Red card - Bazzill Basics, Other - Craftwork Cards Card Candy, Woodware Corner Rounder punch and Cuttlebug 'Spots and Dots' embossing folder and machine, Stickles.

Ingredients: Image - CC Designs coloured with SNs, Papers - Cupcake Cards and Crafts, Card Blank - Papermania, Other - Craftwork Cards sentiment, Snowflake punch, DCWV Glitter card and Viva Decor gold glitter pen.

Ingredients: Image - Pink Gem Designs (coloured ages ago with promarkers I think), Papers - Cupcake Cards and Crafts, Red Card - Papermania, Other - Craftwork Cards sentiment, Marianne Designs swirl die, Nesties, Cuttlebug and DCWV glitter card, Stickles.

Ingredients: Images and Sentiment - Magazine freebie coloured with SNs, Papers - Cupcake Cards and Crafts, Red/Green card - Bazzill Basics, Card Blanks - Anita's 4 x 4, Others - Nesties and Cuttlebug.

The papers that I've used on every card are part of the 'Christmas Traditions' collection that will be the prize for whoever wins this month's challenge.
Hope you like my cards - a few more to add to the collection that's growing far too slowly for my liking what with Christmas so fast approaching!! Well, bye for now........................xxx