Whoo loves Tiddlyinks?

I decided this week to have an extra day off work (it's hard going back after the holidays) so I had a little time to play with some challenges.  The first challenge I chose to join is the Tiddlyinks Challenge.  It's anything goes - as long as you use one of their images - so I had plenty of scope.  I also had a couple of new purchases that I hadn't coloured yet so it gave me a perfect excuse.  I love this little Owl in his tree and I really enjoyed this card, right up to the point when I decided it looked a bit empty around the edges.  I decided to add the pink frame.  Should be easy enough.  I have a cricut and loads of card.  It's a good job I did have loads of card.  I couldn't get it right.  I cut so many of the flippin things.  You will, no doubt, be seeing them on lots of future projects.  Anyway, this is the end result.

I'm happy with the end result, even if it didn't go quite to plan.

Thanks for reading.

Love Dawn x

A Shaped Card

Morning all.  Time for a new challenge over at Back to Basics and Beyond.  This time you have to create a shaped card.  No squares or rectangles allowed. My first thought was to go with a hexagon card and cover it with the honeycomb background I did on a previous card - here if you want to see it.  But I figured it would look too similar.  I'd already cut my card blank so I decided to simply mat and layer it.  I couldn't get the idea of Pooh Bear out of my head though so I picked a different stamp from the same set (very old and haven't got a clue who's it is, sorry) and this is how it turned out.

The mat is actually yellow but my scanner seems to be washing things out at the moment.  It's not what I usually create but I'm quite pleased with the result.  Please pop over and join in the fun.  I do like to see how everyone interprets the challenge.

Thanks for reading.

Love Dawn x

Well behaved? Not a bit of it!

Morning all.  Hope you are all ready for a new challenge in the new year.  This morning's challenge over at Make My Monday is to use a word or a sentiment.  As soon as I saw the challenge I knew which stamp to use.  I've had it for donkey's years.  It was one of the first stamps I bought.  It was wood mounted.  I'd forgotten how difficult it was to stamp without a stamp platform. 

The stamp itself has an outline of a 'Marilyn Monroe' figure on it but I only wanted the sentiment so I masked that part off.  I'd got a lovely image from All Dressed Up called 'Season to Sparkle'.  I thought it would go well with this sentiment so I paired them up.  To be fair, it looks a lot better in real life as I've added some sparkle which doesn't show in the picture.  I flung a few sequins and gems at it and this is what it looks like.

I'm having to stop myself from going back over her hair.  I've been trying to leave more highlight but it's hard to let well alone.  

Please pop over and have a look at the challenge.  We'd love to see what you come up with.

Thanks for reading.

Love Dawn x

New Year, New Beginnings

Morning all.  Time for a new challenge over at Cardz4guyz.  I was really chuffed to see how many snowmen entries we had and how good they all were.  Choosing the winners was a hard task. This time I can just relax and enjoy the entries in our 'New Year, New Beginnings' challenge.  

If I were to make any new year resolutions it would be to get more organised with my DT cards and schedule my posts instead of getting up at stupid 'o' clock on the day of the challenge.  Can't see it happening but the good intentions are there.

Here is my card.  I hope you like it.

Pop across and join the fun.  The DT ladies have some lovely inspiration for you.  Oh, and you can let me know if you've ever managed to keep your resolutions.

Thanks for reading.

Love Dawn x

Resist...the Urge to Scream

So, you get up at 5am in the morning to do your blog commenting duties and get ready to go to work.  Then, you realise that - not only is it Tuesday and not Monday, but also that you haven't yet created your DT project for Wednesday.  Argh!!!

So what was I doing at that ridiculous time yesterday.  Resisting the urge to scream when my 'resist' project started to argue the toss.  Anyway, eventually I managed to wrangle a half decent effort together - strategically placing glitter stars and greetings over the splodgy bits and finger marks (shh, they'll never notice).

Never one to keep the fun stuff to myself - please pop over to the Back to Basics and Beyond Challenge and show me how to do it properly.  Seriously, I need your inspiration.

Here's the eventual card (my failed panels will be modified and turned into stunning Christmas cards for my family, lol).

See, this blogging lark can take you out of your comfort zone.  I am literally living and learning.

Thanks for reading.

Love Dawn x

CAS Cristmas

Morning all.  I'm very excited to announce that I have joined the fabulously talented ladies on the DT over at Make My Monday.  The plan was to start in the new year but I couldn't resist the CAS Challenge going live today.  Please pop over and join in the fun.  I'm looking forward to another excuse to stalk some more blogs.

For my card I've used a sweet little puppy image from Digistamp Boutique (sadly they are no longer trading).  I had intended to use a different image but I totally messed up the colouring so it went in the bin.  I've got tonnes of the Digistamp Boutique images and anyone of them would do but I am very into cute little dogs at the moment.  I glittered three strips of double sided tape for the background and added the greeting and the gems.  Job done.  I hope you like it.

Come on over and join us.  Think of it as an excuse to get some quick and simple last minute cards done.

Thanks for reading.

Love Dawn x

Merry Kissmas Everyone

Morning all.  Rather than a DT post this morning I'm joining in at a challenge.  Get me!   Time to join a challenge.  What's going on!  To be fair the challenge is Season's Greetings over at The Alphabet Challenge so it's not taking me far from my priorities at the moment.  I've used the gorgeous Mistletoe stamp from Power Poppy.  It's one of those stamps that I saw coloured and had to buy, and I've been itching to colour it ever since.  I hope you like what I've done with it.  Now, who do I give it too, lol.

Thanks for reading.

Love Dawn x