Still Dancing

Here are a couple more cards made for this month's Die Cutting Essentials Magazine, using the First Edition Dancing dies. The needle and cotton came out again to make a pretty organza ribbon skirt for the bottom card.

First Edition Dancing die set

Stardream Pearl silver card - Craft Creations

Pink glitter card - The Range

Gem - Meiflower

First Edition Dancing die set

First Edition nesting doily set

Tonic layering circles die set

Paper - Craft Sensations Romantic Pink 14.8 x 21cm design pad

ribbons and gems - Meiflower

Dancing

Here are a few cards I made for the latest edition of Die-cutting Essentials, which hit the shops yesterday, I got to play with some fab First Edition dies- a dancing set, and a set of nesting doilies, the dies cut beautifully and were a pleasure to work with.

First Edition Dancing die set

First Edition Nesting doily dies

Papers - Craft sensations Looks to Love - The Range

Silver glitter card - The Range

Tonic Layering circles die set

Signature Collection - English country garden -  Floral duo

Papermania glitter dot stickers - Flourishes

Ribbon and pearls - Meiflower

I even dug my needle and cotton out a did a little bit of sewing (and when I say little, I mean about 10 stitches), to make my dancer a floaty organza skirt.

First Edition and Tonic dies - as above

Pop up box die-cut card blank - Craft Creations

Craft Sensations Romantic pink 12.8 x 21cm design pad - The Range

X-cut medium daisy punch

Ribbon and gems - as above

First Edition Dancing die set

Tonic layering scallop square die set

Romance and Roses digital scrapbook collection - Nitwits

Lace - Abakhan

Ribbon, satin rose and stick on gems - As above

Thanks for stopping by,

hugs,

Colette xx

For the birthday girl

The theme of  the new challenge starting today at the Paper Shelter is...

Birthday Girl

a pretty easy, self explanatory theme I think.

There are great prizes up for grabs! If you are our randomly selected winner and play with a TPS image then you have a chance of winning a $30 gift certificate, any other image and you will win three digis of your choice.

As I am mega busy at the moment I decided to use an image that I had coloured previously and pair it up with a fabulous word art that I cut on my Silhouette Cameo. I had cut the background image away from the digi stamp before printing and knew that she would be just perfect for perching on the top of one of the letters in the word art. I printed the rest of the sentiment straight onto the background paper, added the Fabulous word art and used foam pads behind the digi-stamp to give a bit of dimension. I then punched out, shaped and layered some daisies before finishing it all off with bling and a bow.

Digital stamp - Retro Chic (altered) - The Paper Shelter

Paper from my scrap box

Fabulous - Silhoutte digital cutting file

X-cut med and large daisy punch

Ribbon and gems - Meiflower

Don't forget to pop over to the Paper Shelter challenge blog and check out the fabulous inspiration from the rest of my teamies.

Thanks for stopping by,

hugs,

Colette xx

Peeking Bella

I'm off to see Olly Murs at the Livepool Echo Arena tomorrow evening and then early Friday I'm heading to Bournemouth for a weekend break, we are going with a group of people we became friendly with on our holiday to Lake Como last year and have kept in touch since, (we are actually going to Lake Garda with them in September this year too).

While I'm away I thought I would leave you with a mid-challenge reminder for the Paper Shelter and our All About Mum theme. I have once again made a Mother's day card, this time using one of the Sassy Cheryl pre-coloured images, called Polka Dot Bella.

I re-sized and printed Bella out 3 times and then fussy cut her so that I could arrange her in die-cut windows across the front of my card.

Polka Dot Bella - Sassy Cheryl at Paper Creator

Papers - Hello Sunshine collection - Nitwits

Ribbons and gems - Meiflower

You have until the end of the month to enter the challenge and be in with the chance of winning a £10 gift voucher to spend in store, so what are you waiting for?

Thanks for dropping in,

take care,

hugs,

Colette xx

So Casual

It's time for a new challenge over at The Paper Shelter and this time around our theme is...

Circles, Dots and Stripes

There are great prizes up for grabs! If you are our randomly selected winner and play with a TPS image then you have a chance of winning a $30 gift certificate, any other image and you will win three digis of your choice

I've coloured up the So Casual, So Beautiful digital stamp along with dotty and stripey papers, and also added a circular sentiment just for good measure.

Digital stamp - So Casual, So Beautiful - The Paper Shelter

Papers - Fiesta - Just So Scrappy

Arch Scallop border punch - EK success

Tonic layering circle dies set

Ribbon - Meiflower

Flowers and gems - Stash

Pop over to the Paper Shelter challenge blog and check out the fabulous inspiration from the rest of my teamies.

Thanks for stopping by,

hugs,

Colette xx

Time MARCHes on!

It really does, can you believe that we are at the beginning of March already, and that can only mean one thing here at Digiredoodah, a new Paper Creator monthly challenge. Our theme for March is...

All About Mums

pretty handy seeing as we have mother's day here in the UK towards the end of the month.

The challenge winner will receive a £10 store credit to spend in the Paper Creator store.

Paper Creator products are not essential, but you will gain an extra entry into the random draw if using them. The challenge runs for the whole of the month and the winner is announced at the start of the next month's challenge

I have used the gorgeous Flutterby Wishes 6x6 card kit, layering the elements up onto a blue card blank. The kit contains both a printed and blank sentiment panel so that you can add your own message if you prefer, which is exactly what I did, I also added ribbon across the top corner of the butterfly panel, with a bow, and shaped and layered up 3 of the flowers in the kit, to make a 3D flower, I finished off with gems in flower centre, at sides of sentiment and in a couple of the corners.

Flutterby Wishes 6x6 card kit - Paper Creator

ribbon and gems - Meiflower

Don't forget to pop over to the Paper Creator challenge blog and check out the fabulous inspiration from the rest of my teamies.

Thanks for stopping by,

hugs,

Colette xx