Ultramum's Blog Cardmaking etc

Over at Simon Says this weeks challenge is COFFEE and CREAM and at Spoonful of Sugar it is Birthday Wishes. I have just completed this card for a friend who commissioned it yesterday! It has the correct colours on it AND is two ladies enjoying a coffee together. The image is from Charmed Crafts. I’m

First up we have this week’s FairyDoodler combined with CPS 201 sketch and Crafty Purple Frog – which this week is distressing – love this image The paper is from a pack of My Mind’s Eye paper called Wild Asparagus, the sentiment is a left over from an old issue of LMC and I used [...]

Thought I’d go for something a little bit different to all the pastels etc etc for the Cup Cake Craft Challenge this week where the theme is weddings … I used a HOTP white heart brad with a bit of scrap paper and then used my bug to emboss divine swirls onto two contrasting pieces [...]

The challenge theme for DPDC5 over at Doodle Pantry Challenge blog is  to USE A DOODLE PANTRY IMAGE and at Pollycraft the challenge is to use pastel colors.  I have used this fab free sentiment from Doodle Pantry with a scrap of paper that had been knocking around for a bit (can’t remember the name

Over at Christmas Card Challenges challenge #7 is a sketch … and here’s my card – slightly different to the sketch as the background to the robin looked a bit silly with something sticking out at the side. The robin is recycled from one of our cards, as well as the sentiment Here’s the sketch [...]

This week’s challenge over at D2D was to use the ‘Love Ewe’ set of digital images. I experimented colouring the white sheep by just using my ‘dirty grey’ Whisper pen (not its official colour name but I know what I mean by it!) to just outline all the edges of the sheep’s wool in the [...]

The free image over at Fairydoodler’s den this week is just perfect for teenage male cards I printed off the black and white image and then went to cut it out with my new Nestie label dies. Discovered that it was ‘slightly’ too big an image so just had to trim a little bit off [...]

Got this gorgeous cupcake and roses from Designed2Delight digital stamps and have used it to enter both the challenge (using the digital stamp) at their Designed2Delight blog and the new Bearly Mine challenge blog‘s first ever challenge! Bearly Mine’s challenge is a sketch: I used papers downloaded

Here we have a three in one challenge entry … Simon Says time to party/celebrate, Cupcake Craft is white is white and finally the image I’ve used is a Fairy Doodler Friday freebie so I have entered it in their challenge of course! I used white pearlescent card, embossed via the cuttlebug and then ad