Another small step for man...

Let's fly off into space again with another card made using Bugaboo's new Astronaut image. There's a great selection of them to be found in the shop HERE.

The background was stamped using a PTI stamp set using Night of Navy ink from SU. Matching cardstock was used and the PTI eyelet border die too.

The background building stamp has a small star detail in the middle of the circles which really suits the theme and style of the image.

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

Digi Doodle ~ Anything Goes     Dutch Dare ~ Birthday

Digistamps4joy ~ Children     I Love Promarkers ~ Anything Goes

Papercraft Star ~ Anything Goes     Celebrate the Occasion ~ Blue and White

SPLASH!!!

Now, on to this week's Bugaboo challenge. Pretty apt for the weather we've been having here lately:

SPLASH!

Let us see your watery creations.

I've used Fanny for my card. Some ric rac cut from Tempting Turquoise with a Papertrey Ink die which matches the TT ink used to stamp the twinkling background.

Now remember, all the rules and details for our Weekly Challenge can be found at Catch The Bug so head on over there NOW

Am entering this card into the following challenges too:
Secret Crafter ~ Monochromatic
Cardmadfairy ~ Digi & Girly     Inspire Me Fridays ~ Anything Goes
Polka Doodles ~ Anything in an English Country Garden (well there's bound to be rain!!!)
Sew Many Cards ~ Anything Goes      Crafty Purple Frog ~ Water
Pixie Dust ~ Monochrome     Celebrate The Occasion ~ Blue and White

Shoot for the Moon

I love today's new release at Bugaboo. More fun male friendly images - YIPPEEE! Don't you just love this 'A Kids View Astronaut'?

There's a set of 7 being released but the best news is that you can pick up this image for this week for FREE as it's Bugaboo's Friday Freebie!!!

I'm just heading off now to look at the rest of the set. Head on over to the shop too to see them

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

Digi Doodle ~ Anything Goes     Dutch Dare ~ Birthday

Digistamps4joy ~ Children     I Love Promarkers ~ Anything Goes

Papercraft Star ~ Anything Goes     Celebrate the Occasion ~ Blue and White

Ooh La La #85

It's time for Challenge 85 at Ooh La La and my second project as a Guest Designer. This time, the theme is

CIRCLES

I used the Mountain Rendezvous Circular Pyramage to create the main feature. I was lazy and didn't cut them all out by hand - I used my circular nestabilities - much neater and easier!!! The background has some more circles stamped on and aged with Distress Inks. Distressed it more with Garden Green ink from SU (which is what the spots were stamped in). The stamp is from Papertrey Ink. 

Remember to check out the Ooh La La blog for more inspiration and designs from the Design Team and for all the info on joining in the challenge.

Stocking Santa

Ready for another Santa Stocking card?

I have warned you that I have really fallen for this Stocking Santa range from Bugaboo right now. There is a certain charm about him. This is the Milk and Cookie one.

If you follow my blog, you'll know I like to let the image speak volumes so my cards are quite clean and simple. This is why I love the Papertrey Background Basic stamps! I have bought a few more lately. This is the twinkling one. So easy to build effective backgrounds which look amazing but don't detract from the focal point. The sentiment is also from PTI.

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

Sew Many Cards ~ Cookies      Polka Doodles ~ Christmas in July

Class Act Inspiration ~ Christmas     Christmas Stampin ~ Fave colour (definetly red at Christmas)

Card Makin Mamas ~ Food and Drink     Simple Create ~ Christmas Time

CASE Study ~ Backgrounds     Craft Us Crazy ~ Anything Goes

Digi Doodle ~ Clean and Simple     Sassy Studio ~ Clean and Simple

Winner

Have you recovered from the Christmas in July festivities at Bugaboo? There's been a lot of things going on this week and loads of prizes to win so make sure you check out CATCH THE BUG to see if you are one of the many winners. On top of each of those prizes, each DT Member will pick a blog hop participant who commented on their post to win the image they used on their card. So I used this Santa Stocking image:

and the person who wins it is:

SAMANTHA

@ Penrith Crafts

Congratulations Samantha. Email me at paulford8@hotmail.com so that I can forward the image to you.

Anything Goes for Christmas

Today is the last day of celebrating Bugaboo's Christmas in July. It's the last mini challenge of the week and we are making it easy by doing an Anything Goes challenge. Make sure you head on over to Catch the Bug though to see all the details.

I made this easel card using SU card and papers and the Rudolph image. I've been wanting to try to make one of these using my label nestabilities for such a long time and finally got around to doing it.

This was my go to range of  images last year (replaced this year by Stocking Santa!)

Also entering this card into the following challenges:

Craft Us Crazy ~ Anything Goes     Delightful Challenges ~ Christmas in July

Forever Friends ~ Not square     ABC Christmas ~ Older Image

Digistamps 4 Joy ~ Christmas     I Love Promarkers ~ Christmas

Gus at the Beach

I love Gus' attitude - he doesn't give a second thought to what others may think! You can find him over in the Bugaboo shop. You get both the digital image and the sentiment together.

He's been made with SU's Pacific Point card and ink and Papertrey Ink's gingham stamp and ric rac die.

Made this card for the following challenges:

A Passion for Papertrey ~ Sweet, Sweet, Summertime (Gingham stamp and ric rac die)

Designed to Delight ~ Lets Go to the Beach

Secret Crafter ~ Holiday

Prairie Fairy Fridays ~ On Holiday

Off The Wall ~ Beachy

Mini Challenge Number 3

Yep, it's time for another mini challenge for Bugaboo's Christmas in July week! It's a sketch challenge today so head on over to Catch The Bug to see it.

I used this snowman snowballs image for mine and some SU stash.

Entering this into:

The Crazy Challenge ~ Christmas in July

KB Cute Monday ~ Use a Digital Stamp

Make It Monday ~ Anything Goes

Paper Creations Ink ~ Christmas in July

Stamps + Fun = Creativity ~ Use a Digi Stamp

Mini Challenges

In case you didn't know, this week Bugaboo are celebrating Christmas in July over at Catch The Bug. There is our usual Saturday Challenge (Theme is Christmas in July) plus mini challenges every day. The first one is

NON TRADITIONAL COLOURS

As you can see, I have gone for orange.

Does the snowman look like he's falling? Well in fact, he is doing a flip as it's a spinner card:

Here he goes.....

Also entered into the following challenges

Card Cupids ~ Monochromatic

Christmas Inspirations ~ Anything Goes     Crafty Pad ~ Christmas in July

Creative Inspiration ~ Christmas in July     Paper Sundaes ~ Christmas in July    

Lollipop Crafts ~ Anything Goes        Stampin Sisters ~ Moving Parts

Fairy Knoll ~ Christmas in July     Inspire Me Fridays ~ Anything Goes

Simply Create ~ Christmas Time     Stamp Something ~ Christmas in July

Stampin With The Dragon ~ Christmas in July       Craft Us Crazy ~ Christmas in July

Summer Fun

With all this rain and all the Christmas in July goings on, why not show a bit of sunshine?

Here's Bugaboo's Fanny enjoying her holidays. Used a few of my new Papertrey goodies too (gingham stamp and ric rac die). The theme at Passion for Papertrey is Sweet Sweet Summer and so I'm entering this card into their challenge

Remember, we still have a Blog Hop going over at Catch The Bug so head on over for all the details. There'll also be mini challenges each day this week but if you want a head start on things, the titles have been released over at Catch The Bug.

Made this card for the following challenges:

Designed to Delight ~ Lets Go to the Beach

Secret Crafter ~ Holiday

Prairie Fairy Fridays ~ On Holiday

Off The Wall ~ Beachy

Ready to HOP???

Yes indeed. It's time for a blog hop at Catch The Bug, the Bugaboo challenge blog. If you have started on the hop then you would have arrived here from MELISSA's blog. If you have just randonmly landed here then head over to Catch the Bug so that you can start at the beginning. Believe you me, you don't want to miss any of the projects on show.

Here's my CHRISTMAS IN JULY card for you:

I've really fallen for this stocking santa lately and I think he'll appear on my Christmas cards quite often this year. If you like him as much as I do, then make sure you comment on this post as I will be choosing one person from all those who write to give the image too.

There's lots going on this week so make sure you go over to Catch The Bug for all the details. There's the usual Saturday Challenge as well as mini challenges all week long. It's a big Christmas celebration in the sun. There's tonnes of chances to win images and prizes. The sentiment is stamped using distress ink to tie it in with the inking and is from my fave christmas sentiments set from Papertrey.

Now it's time for you to hop on and go to visit Laurie.

I'm also entering this card into the following challenges:

Bah Humbug ~ Shaped Card     Crafty Ann's ~ Embossing

Fairy Knoll ~ Christmas in July     Inspire Me Fridays ~ Anything Goes

Simply Create ~ Christmas Time     Stamp Something ~ Christmas in July

Stampin With The Dragon ~ Christmas in July     Winter Wonderland ~ Embossing

Delightful Challenges~ Fancy Folds     Craft Us Crazy ~ Christmas in July

ABC Christmas ~ N (No Nonsense - no dsp)     Amber Crafts ~ Embossing

Digistamps 4 Joy ~ Christmas     For Fun Challenges ~ Extra Fold

Freshly Brewed ~ 3 of anything (3 embossed panels

Simon Says ~ Anything Goes     Celebrate The Occasion ~ Christmas Shaped Card

Oldie But Goodie

Yes it's time for another Oldie But Goodie at Bugaboo. This is when the Design Team dust off previously released images and show them some love. For me, it was time to give Clyde another outing.

Such a clean and simple layout - which is perfect when the images are this good. The background is simply rubbed with distress ink from each orner using cut n dry foam.

Have a look over at CATCH THE BUG to see what the rest of the DT did.

Knobbly Christmas

Did you like the Knobbly Knees that were released at Bugaboo the other day? If so then you're in for a treat:

CHRISTMAS KNOBBLY KNEES

I have usesd my latest Papertrey ink dies and stamps to create the frame and some snowflakes stamped in SU Garden Green on Garden Green card for a subtle background.

The sentiment is stamped with Elzybells word stamps.

Am entering into these challenges too: 

http://christmaschallenges.blogspot.com/

http://craftyhazelnutschristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/

http://sparklesforumchristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/

http://christmasstampin.blogspot.com/

http://lilredwagon.blogspot.com/2011/07/christmas-in-july.html

http://alacardmonkey.blogspot.com/2011/07/its-christmas-in-july-for...

http://craftuscrazy.blogspot.com/2011/07/challenge-12christmas-in-j...

Clean and Simple

What's in store for this week at Catch The Bug's Challenge? Well, it's

CLEAN AND SIMPLE

Yep, that's the challenge, keep it clean and simple - strip back all those embellishments and and go for the sleek look.

My card uses the Stocking Santa with Present image. It has then been punched out with a circle punch and mounted onto my new Papertrey Ink die and stamp.

Two thin black lines were drawn around the edge just to tie the whole thing together. It looked a bit too bare without them.

Although this is a challenge in conection with Bugaboo Digital images, it is not essential but we'd love to see you using the images. If you haven't got one, check out the shop as there is a freebie each week. Now you don't have any excuse : )   And make sure you visit the challenge blog at CATCH THE BUG for all the details and more inspiration from the Design Team.

Also entering into the following challenges:

Tuesday Throwdown ~ Christmas in July

Digis With Attitude ~ Anything Goes

Inspire Me Fridays ~ Anything Goes

Stampin With The Dragon ~ Christmas in July

Craft Us Crazy ~ Christmas in July

Moving Along With The Times ~ Christmas in July

Stamp Insanity ~ Anything Goes

House That Stamps Built ~ Christmas in July

I Love Promarkers ~ Clean and Simple

ABC Christmas ~ Nonsense (No DSP)

Little Red Wagon ~ Christmas in July

The Paper Variety ~ Christmas in July

Craft Your Passion ~ Anything Goes

KP Cute Monday ~ Anything Goes

Make It Monday ~ Anything Goes

Make For The Border

So excited that my latest Papertrey order has arrived safe and sound. Haven't even finished unwrapping it all yet and sorting the stamps out but just had to use the circle border and stamps as I have been wanting these since they were released!

I made this card for the Passion for Papertrey challenge which is Make For the Border.

Exciting News...

Check this out:

That's right, I'm going to be a guest designer for Ooh La La for July and August. How cool is that. And so here's my first challenge entry as a Guest Designer. The theme for this challenge is

TAG IT

I used a Lauren Meader template to create a take out box using some Ooh La La papers. The handle has a load of tage attached. I thought the good luck sentiment would match the Chinese Take Out style box as luck is a big part of the culture.

I uesd a Martha Stewart Punch to for the borders. You can purchase Ooh La La products from the shop HERE and also visit the blog for more inspiration from the Design Team.

Door Hanger with Nestabilities

If you didn't already know, over at Catch The Bug, the Bugaboo challenge blog, Mondays are Anything But A Card day. This is when we, the Design Team, use Bugaboo images on a variety of projects other than cards. Today is my turn! I have made one of my DOOR HANGERS which hold a treat. A tutorial for this can be found on the right hand sidebar or by clicking HERE.

This is a slight variation as I have attached a large nestability die cut onto the front so that I could showcase a larger image. I chose this cute chick image for this one.

I'm entering this into the following challenges:

One Stitch at a Time ~ Use a Digi

Allsorts ~ Free and Easy

Inspire Me Fridays ~ Anything Goes

Fuzzy Wuzzy ~ Animal plus Punches

Digis With Attitude ~ Anything Goes

A look ahead...

Plus today there's the start of an Anything Goes Challenge at Catch The Bug, the Bugaboo Challenge Blog