Cupcake Craft Challenges - Summer

Monday again. And over at Cupcake the challenge this week is "It's Summer". I have made a card using a cute Annie Stamp by Leanne Ellis@ Sugar Nellie. I just don't seem to get sick of these cute little images. I have coloured her in with promarkers. I used Papermania DP and some stick on pearls, that I purchased on Ebay. Can't believe the schools break up on thursday for summer holidays. Shocking that I am going to have a Primary 2 and a Primary 4 boy in the house...time just flies by. At the moment I am just happy that there will be no school runs for a while. (not that I get a lie in or anything since all my boys are early risers...lol...) Read some sad news this morning at the Cupcake blog. Next week will be the last and final Cupcake Challege. Here is what Lauren wrote on the blog;

Hello everyone,
Before I announce this weeks challenge I have announcement to make. I have decided that I no longer have the time each week to run this challenge blog. For this reason, I have decided to close the blog down. I would like to thank you all for your entries over the past 45 challenges, it has been fun running the blog but it is time I move on. I hope you understand.

So I hope you all will join in next week for the final challenge. Such a shame but it's a lot of time and effort to run a challenge blog, and I am sure you agree with me that Lauren made a flawless job of it and deserves to have some more time to herself. Anyways thanks for popping by and have a great week.

A Spoonfull of Sugar/Daring Cardmakers

Whohhooo...another card for me today! Made this one for a lady at work, she has her 40th next weekend. This card I have incorporated in two challenges, over at Spoonfull the challenge for this week is butterflies. I got these DP a few weeks ago and one of the designs in the pad is of butterflies so I cut some out to use as embellishments. Lets hope she hasn't got a butterfly phobia...eeekkk! :D For this weeks Daring cardmakers they need some sunshine, since it's a bit dull down there. So the challenge is "sizzling hot", to use bright colours for your card, like orange, red and yellow. I used my Cricut machine to cut out the circles and "40" and for my round sentiment I used a SU stamp. I also used a couple of SU punches, circle and scalloped circle. The flowers are from Prima and Papermania. The letters for "VAL" I stamped with my little alphabet cube from Studio G. Quite a simple card, but didn't want to make it too fussy for her. Had a great time making it though, since hardly get any time nowadays. Thanks for popping by. Have a good evening.

Doubledutch/Cute card Thursday

Evening all. Having a hard time finding a slot during the day to make some crafty bits, but managed to make a couple today. It's crazy the last few weeks before the summer hols and the schools are cramming in all sorts of activities (ie sponsored walks, sportsday etc) so can't wait for the holidays so I can have some crafty time, instead of running around like a headless chicken...lol...busy this week, got a mural to do tomorrow and some bits and bobs. Here I have made a bookmark for this fornight Double dutch challenge. They always have unusual interesting challenges and I am ashamed I missed the last one AND I am really late with this one. I have combined this challenge with Cute Card thursday aswell, the challenge there is quotations. So I stuck on one from my little box of proverbs from K&Co. The papers I used are from Basic Grey and the image is an old Tilda image, I coloured her in with promarkers. The sentiment stamp is from SU and I used some SU punches for this bookmark. The ribbon I randomly found in one of my craft boxes. Shame there was only a little bit, loove the colour. Anyways thanks for poppping by. Have a great weekend.