Cute card thursday ~ No patterned paper

The challenge this week at Cute Card Thursday is No patterned paper!

What this means is you can't use any bought patterned paper but feel free to make your own using stamps, inking, doodling etc.

I had great fun making some patterned cardstock, I used my Basic Grey Wintertime stamp set to make this flourishes pattern on some textured cardstock. I also added some inking to the edges.

I used more of my bits and pieces sent to me by Camilla, I have so enjoyed using these I cannot thank Camilla enough for these fabulous goodies! If you would like to win some of these gorgeous embellishments pop over and enter into Camilla's blog candy draw, she has a fab

sketch for you to use.

This week we have another fabulous sponsor, Maggie of Banyan Craft is donating some

gorgeous tear shaped card blanks for one lucky winner to be chosen at random next week!

The rest of the design team have come up with some fabulous ideas for this challenge, all amazing cards do pop over and take a peek!

Supplies: Tools ~ sewing machine, cuttlebug, nestabilities

Cardstock ~ dark brown, cream textured, DCWV white core cardstock

Stamps ~ Sarah Kay, Basic Grey, Autumn Leaves

Embellishments ~ flowers, spacers and charms in RAK from Camilla

Ismaki#23, Ooh-la-la and Caardvarks

This card was made using the Ismaki sketch for this week #23 with the option to use just 2-3 colours which I think I have pretty much achieved.

Thanks to Nicola for the fab image and to Bernie for the gorgeous papers and sentiment sticker.

I am also putting this card in for the challenge over on

Ooh-la-la-creations challenges where the challenge is to use ribbons, this one fits in nicely! They have some ribbons to give away as blog candy to the winner of the challenge!

And finally, one I haven't played in a long while but really loved the theme this week is

Caardvarks the theme is 'drink up' to add some sort of beverage to your card, well here is a whole bottle!

Supplies: Tools~ Cuttlebug, nestabilities

Cardstock ~ cream textured, brown,

DP ~ from Bernie, Autumn Leaves

Stamp ~ a bella image from Nicola

Embellishments ~ ribbon, bling and charm from stash,

Cute Card Thursday ~ Patterned Paper

This week on Cute Card Thursday the theme is Patterned Paper!

I love my new Basic Grey 'Archaic' pad for men and boys cards at the moment so I delved through it for these lovely masculine papers.

This week we have more fabulous blog candy, Andrea Miller of Kaboodle Doodles has offered one lucky winner some downloads of her fabulous paper designs.

Many thanks to my good friend Debbie for supplying me with this fabulous Hanglar image, he is so adorable! This card is for my bro, hopefully he won't see this as it is only going in the mail today! Aged it a bit by knocking the edges of the card and did some faux ageing on the stamped out paper bits.

Supplies: Cardstock ~ cream textured, olive plain

DP ~ Basic Grey 'Archaic'

Stamps ~ Hanglar'fishing boy', Magnolia 'signpost', Autumn Leaves 'ticket stamp' and 'for the record 2'

Embellishments ~ Dovecraft brads

Owl ATC

Here is my dotty ATC for Tilda & friends ATC challenge and also my embossing entry into the Saturday's workout challenge.

I ran my cardstock through the cuttlebug with the swiss dots folder, I love this look!

I cut a branch from my new Magnolia tree, the tree is so big so I was glad I could use just a branch!

The owl is Magnolia too, he is a cutie! The ticket stamp is Autumn Leaves, I just got this from papermaze yesterday, they were very quick to deliver! Only 1 day, fabulous service!

supplies:Tools ~ cuttlebug, swiss dots embossing folder

Cream and brown cardstock, Creative white smooth cardstock, DCWV textured mat stack

Stamps ~ Magnolia 'owl' 'tree' Autumn Leaves 'ticketed'

Embellishments ~ gems from stash