Saturday 31 July 2010

Allsorts Week 63 - Dressing up.....

This week at allsorts we would like you to think about getting dressed up....

our sponsor this week is



I found this image in my image box and thought this would be perfect for this challenge.......



I wanted to do something a little different than just a standard card especially as this weeks theme is quite theatrical so I decided to do this ........



I made the inside look like a little compact!.... well you cant go dressing up without your make-up on can you lol.....
The card base was made using the biggest of the standard large circle nestie, then each layer was just mounted and placed inside, the 'mirror' is mirri card and a Elzybells sentiment stamp was used .......


Keep your eyes peeled over at


As there will be a new challenge coming very soon with some more amazing PENNY BLACK prizes


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Saturday 24 July 2010

Allsorts week 62 Card for a baby or child...

Hi hope you have had a good week? back with this weeks installment for Allsorts....
The theme this week is....
a card for a baby or child

Our sponsers this week are
And they have lots of fab images in the store...

ok on to my card


The image was from a lovely RAK sent by the lovely Dawny P thanks hun!...... the papers are all craftwork cards they were ideal for this card, image coloured as always with pro-markers and the pink gems were ones I collected from the tables at my neighbours 40th birthday party they were table sprinkles!

Dont forget not long left to enter  our first Challenge over at



Pop over and  link up to your burst of summer colour penny black cards....its as easy as that...!


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Saturday 17 July 2010

Week 61 at Allsorts......Summer Days

This week at Allsorts its Debs turn to choose the challenge ....this weeks challenge is Summer Days...
We are being sponsored this week by

Whimsey Stamps

They are offering a $15 gift certificate for their web site
The DT also got to play with some fab images too!

This fab image reminded me of picnicking (and red riding hood of course lol!)
so it had to be red and white gingham didnt want to lose any detil on the image so I used ony a few embelishments....coloured with pro markers as always......

Dont for get there is still time to join in this month over at

The theme is a burst of summer colour which fits in well with the challenge at Allsorts this week why not use a PB image and join in with both challenges there are some fab PB products to be won!!!!!



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Saturday 10 July 2010

Allsorts week 60 show us some July love.......

Welcome back to Allsorts this week the lovely Helene is challenging you to use a heart as the main focus on your card......

I used this gorgeous Coco image from Digistamp Boutique which you can see here 
Coloured with Promarkers and papers from stash think these may be papermania but i'm not sure.
To give some extra interest to the image I cut around the little balloon hearts to make them stand out.....

This weeks prize is from our fabulous regular sponsor

why not have a visit Sally-Ann  has just released the most gorgeous christmas offer of the month including this little chap

Isnt he sweet! and doesnt he make you just reach for those die cut snowflakes!!!!!

mmmm me thinks i ight be starting my christmas cards soon lol..........

Quick reminder dont forget the


With the challenge of  a burst of Summer colour is running till the end of this month so you still have time to enter........




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Saturday 3 July 2010

Week 59 at Allsorts..... Create a scene!

Another gorgeous week of weather in Leeds!
and to top the week off we have a great theme this week at Allsorts from Brenda and she would like you to...
Create a Scene

This week I tried my hand at merging digital images or rather using more than one on my image,
 I used


and


Both Images are from Digistamp Boutiqueand were so easy to use and resize
here is the card I made...




I really wanted to do some kind of water effect and I remember seeing this card on Emma Lockley's blog  a long time a go in one of our early Allsorts challenges  and wanted to give it a try.......

The wooden effect on the front is strips of brown paper I inked the edges and drew woodgrain on them with a sakura stardust pen for extra sparkle then cut through all the layers with a circle nestie to make the porthole.... I made a mirricard frame and embossed the 'rivets' then filled a  grip seal bag with hair gel and secured it in place with pinflair glue gel (bestest stuff ever)
i covered the reverse with a sheet of blue card with the same sized hole so you could see right through to the image on the inside of the card.....
I resized Finnley and flipped him so it could look like a small shoal of Finnleys swimming round the gorgeous Kira a bit of sakura sparkle and voila!!!!! 
It would be great to see your 
'create a scene' cards and dont forget the... 
Challenge started on thursday and the theme is a burst of summer colour so get over there and enter this month for a chance to win one of four fab prizes including a months GDT place!!!!!!!
see the previous post for my DT card for the PB at Allsorts challenge ...


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Penny Black Sat........

Quick post ........
Havnt been able to join in with PBSC for a couple of weeks to be honest havnt had much time for any crafting but i've had a few hours this aft and joined in at PBSC the theme this week is

RED WHITE and BLUE

This is also the theme at OH Alice so i'll be entering that too...


the mirrored squares are mosaics i got from the glitter pot you get loads on a sheet and the image is a stickeroo!



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Thursday 1 July 2010

The Very First Penny Black at Allsorts challenge!


Well the day has arrived and it is Penny Black @Allsorts first official challenge!!!!!!
I have been looking forward to this challenge so much as I adore PB stamps and love working with them especially the cats, hedgies and mice..........

Our first challenge theme is

'A burst of summer colour'

This is the card I made..........



The image is made from 2 sets from the 'T is for Transparent' range the cat is from 'Purrfect day' collection and the flowers and butterflies were from the 'In the Garden' collection, I masked and layered the images to make a little scene.
The papers are My Minds eye and are from the quite contrary collection...
The flower is from Wild Orchid crafts......
Sentiment is from Craftwork cards......


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