Cute Card Thursday - Totally Tropical

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Cute Card Thursday

The theme on Cute Card Thursday this week is

Totally Tropical

hunt out your summer stamps and images or use lovely tropical colours!

I have used this adorable digital image by Mo Manning. He is Jeffy with his bucket and shovel. AT the moment he is only in the old store but hopefully they will get him moved over soon!

Cute Card Thursday is sponsored this week by 

The Stamp Shoppe!

Make it colourful this week asked us to 

Make it Bright!

I don't usually do bright so I had to force myself to make this bucket yellow and use these busy papers!

I used Copics and Prismacolor pencils to colour this cutie!

Make it colourful is being sponsored by Whimsy Stamps this week you can win 5 of their digital images!

Because I have used yellow I can enter this into the 

DYSU challenge this week!

Also entering Delightful challenges which this week want to see Sun, Sea and Sand!

I made a gift bag for my son to give to his teacher at the end of the school year so I wanted to make it a summery themed bag as well as a thank you.  As his teacher is a man I kept the embellishments to a minimum but also because by the time he hands it over all the embellishments would have fallen off ( I am thinking after being swung around the playground, crushed up against the rucksack etc) I need it to be fairly robust!

The cute sentiment stamps are from Whimsy stamps!

I found this quote online the author is unknown but I thought it perfect! I will probably make a little matching tag for it sometime soon! I fancied it up in Word with some different fonts and quite like it!

Now I need to make one for my daughter's teacher!  Shame they don't put twins in the same class!

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Hope you can play along with this week at CCT, please drop by and check out the rest of the DT and their fabulous creations!

Thank you for dropping by!

Cute Card Thursday - Sketch by Me!

This week on Cute Card Thursday it is a sketch designed by yours truly!

It is a very basic sketch because I am very basic, but that makes it a nice easy one!

We are sponsored this week by Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps!

I used the sweet Mo Manning image 'What's Cooking' she was only $1 last week and all proceeds were to be sent to the relief aid in Japan, a very worthy cause! she raised £1000!  it was such a success that Mo will do another fundraising stamp!

I coloured this sweet image with Copics and Prismacolors and am entering this image into the 

Make it Colourful challenge which is to blend green and yellow (as on her little pinny)

Although I opted not to make a book card for this one I still wanted to give the insides a good make over too!

I used one of my all time favourite papers Basic Grey 'Lily Kate'

I added this little tag for a challenge over on Colorful Creations my jeopardy square was to add a tag to my card!  The sweet postage stamp rubber stamp is by Whimsy Stamps from the Raindrop Echo Designs sentiment selection.

I used a variety of punches to create the flowers, leaves, butterflies, edges and corners.

I tried to make the back mirror the layout on the front.

My personalized stamp is from Bunny Zoe's Crafts!

Other challenges I am entering with this card are

Cutie Sunday ~ Spring Colours

A Spoonful of Sugar ~ ribbon, pearl/rhinestones and flowers

My Time to Craft ~ Ladies Day

Papertake Weekly ~ its a mom thing/ girly

Simon says stamp challenge, ~ mothers day/girly

Everybody Art ~ Happy Birthday

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Please pop along and see the rest of the DT's gorgeous creations and I so hope you get the chance to play along!

thanks for dropping in, have a fabulous day!

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EDIT * Sparkle is donating $5 to the Japan Relief effort  for every Rin stamp sold until the end of March*

Just ordered mine!

Cute Card Thursday ~ Boys 2 Men

Cute Card Thursday has a cool theme this week

Boys 2 Men

Just as well as I needed a birthday card for my son, again in the book style.

I used Denise's fabulous sketch from Stamp Something.

I used a Mo's digital pencil image 'video boy' and hoped to squeeze into the

Mo's challenge this week but fear I am a little late!

I went a little crazy with the rub-ons but once i had almost finished the pack it seemed silly not to use up every last one!  They are Kaiser 'All Boy'.

The background was lightly stamped with Basic Grey ' Archaic' stamps.  I also used a polystyrene packing chip to stamp some grubby patches!

The punch on the front is Martha Stewart 'icicles', managing to use this year round!

please visit the rest of the DT for some amazing cards and don't forget we have a fabulous sponsor again this week!

have a fantastic thursday!

Another book card.....

This is one of my 'book cards' that I always make for my kid's birthdays.   They are expected now...oh the pressure!

I used the fabulous sketch from

Truly Scrumptious

although I didn't include the hidden message.

I am entering this card into Ann's Sentimental Sundays Challenge, this week as well as using a sentiment the theme is Someone Special!

My daughter is a very special someone and I have used the sentiments that Ann provided as freebies this week all about family!

My card is very 3d so I am entering it into the

Spoonful of Sugar challenge too!

The image is the fabulous 'video girl' from Mo's digital pencil, I used video boy  on my Son's card so watch out for that one coming later in the week!

Paperplay challenge is asking for pastel colours....check!

and here is another of Ann's amazing sentiments on the back.

Supplies

Digital images ~ Mo's digital Pencil 'video girl'

Family sentiments (freebies) by Raindrop Echo Designs

Designer Paper ~ Colorbok

Punch ~ Martha Strewart border punch and butterfly punch

Journal stamp (used on inside) ~ Prima

flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts

Cute Card Thursday ~ Fairy Fantastic

Cute Card Thursday

The theme this week is

Fairy Fantastic

I don't know why but I am not a huge fan of fairies and discovered that I had nothing suitable in my vast stamp stash! As soon as I spotted this over at Mo's digital pencil I knew I had to use it for this challenge!

The sweet little sentiment stamp is one from the Whimsy Stamps Sentiments Collection Whimsy Circle Postmarks.

I used Basic Grey Bittersweet Designer Paper and the punches are Martha Stewart, flowers all primas.

the other challenges I am entering this card into are

Stamp, Scrap and Doodle Saturdays ~ Girly

Allsorts ~ brown and pink

Creative Card Crew ~ punch it

Papertake weekly ~ pretty pink
Simon says ~ punch it

Thanks for dropping in, have a great day!