Bugaboo, butterflies and a birthday celebration

Hi guys, wow, what a week its been.    I don't really know where this one has gone.

As many of you know over on my other blog  - The Cutie Pie challenge - its our first birthday.  I have donated a prize, and there are three others to be won as well.  The challenge is use a digi.
We are being sponsored by Bugaboo and here's my card.

I made this card for my friend Tina for her birthday.  She loves butterflies.   The papers are by First Edition, the image is from Bugaboo and the butterflies were made by using peel offs on the co-ordinating papers and then cutting out with a craft knife.  She really liked it.  I hope you do too.

Crafty Hugs

Lisa

Two Dogs, One Little girl and a lot of prizes

Firstly Sorry.  I have not been around much lately.  Life just seems to have got in the way.  I have still found time to craft, although not as much as I would like.

I have had a couple of birthdays for friends recently and one lady in particular loves dogs.  So I made these two cards for her.  Both images are from Mo Manning.  I adore them and think they are just the sweetest.  I have used this card as my DT card for the Cutie Pies challenge this fornight.  (More about that later).

The papers are from Kanban and edged with Tim Holtz Distress inks and the punch is a martha stewart one.  The gorgeous butterfly was cut from the papers with a Nestie and then layered to create the 3d effect.  The ribbon is from the States (courtesy of my friend Teresa) and the sentiment is from Tulip.  I coloured the gorgeous image with promarkers.
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This gorgeous chap is also from Mo Manning and he is just too cute be too much trouble.  I coloured him using promarkers and then distressed using Tim Holtz distress inks.  He was cut out using Nesties and layered.  I have used a combination of Kanban and Papermania papers, combined with coredinations paper which was embossed using a Tim Holtz Embossing folder and then sanded.  The sentiment is Penny Black and the ribbon and flowers are from my craft box.

Hope you like them both.

My other blog - for which I am DT Lead is the Cutie Pie challenge and this fortnight I am sponsoring them with some Candy.



Over at the Cutie Pie challenge this fortnight its our birthday and there are lots of yummy prizes to be won.  Have a look.

CHALLENGE #  28  USE A DIGI and Birthday Candy

The Cuties are a year old.  It's so hard to believe, but we are.  We have had great fun throughout the year and have all really enjoyed being on the team.  So here's a big shout out and Happy Birthday to all those DT members, both past and present.  Thanks for making the Cuties Pies a brilliant success.  To celebrate we have some birthday candy in our sidebar courtesy of our Owner Woo.  As well as this some of the DT members have donated some prizes for this challenge.

Our challenge this time is sponsored by Bugaboo.  They are offering 7 digi images to the winning entry.  Check out their fantastic website for ideas and cool designs.  

Our random prize winner is being sponsored by D'Arcy's Diaries.  They are offering three lovely digi images.  These gorgeous designs are fun and contemporary, so go on over and have a peek.

Also DT Lead Lisa and Craftybird Lisa are offering these two prizes to two more lucky entrants.  The only stipulation is that you have regularly entered our challenges before.  (Please let us know when mentioning our challenge on your blog which ones you have entered)

 Lisa

Craftybirdlisa

The Challenge is USE A DIGI  It can be any digi you like.  Just print it out, get colouring and create something fantastic for us to look at.  There are so many prizes up for grabs this time, you'd be mad not to try.

craftybirdlisa

Feeling Romantic ............

Over on the Cutie Pie Challenge Blog this fortnight we are being sponsored by the fantastic Pink Gems.  The challenge this time is borders and frames.   I chose the gorgeous Pointsettia Heart for my image.  It is just so pretty, why wait and only use it at Christmas.

I coloured it in using my promarkers and dovecraft chalks, cut complimenting hearts using my Spellbinder Nesties and layered these up.  The border was created using a Martha Stewart Punch.  The papers are from my stash.  I love the very subtle colours and shades and felt this was quite a romantic card ..............

Crafty hugs for now ..