My very first Sketch! and Digital Tuesday and Bella Studio DT cards

This is gonna be a long post, so you might want to go get a cuppa first, or a cosy blanket and get snuggled up because it very well may put you to sleep! lol

It's my turn to host the challenge over at Digital Tuesday this week and we have Daphne from Bella Design Studio sponsoring, which if you are a regular to my blog, you will know that I am also on the design team for :) Daphne is offering 3 of her adorable images to the winner and she has just released some new cuties so there is loads to choose from.
I also have my DT card to show for yesterdays Bella Studio challenge and a card I made for one of the daily posts over on the Bella Challenge blog last week that I forgot to post here!

So first of all here's the sketch I made for Digital Tuesday. Now be gentle with me because this is the first time I have ever attempted doing my own sketch!

And here's the card I made with it.

I have used one of the new release images from Bella Studio, isn't it just the sweetest? I know I say that with every new image but this one really is my favourite:) It's called "Best Friends" and I coloured these pretty girls with Promarkers. The sentiment is also from bella Studio and is from the Gimme A Hug sentiment set.
The papers are new ones I picked up yesterday when I went to the Papeterie yesterday (it's a shop in  Aberdeen but they also have a website now which I have linked to). They are from Papermania's Summer Bloom pad.
I used my SU! punch for the flowers and added a rose from Wild Orchid Crafts. Some lace from my stash and I used an SU! border punch for the pink strip.

This is my card for the challeneg over at the Bella Studio challenge blog which I should of posted yesterday but I forgot to! The challenge over there is Distressing.

This is actually not a card, it's done on mountboard so I can make it into a wall hanger thing.
I used papers from Papermania and the image is called JillyBean (love that name lol) and I coloured her with my Promarker as usual. I cut her out and stuck her on a Sizzix Die Cut which I cut from mountboard and distressed (alot lol) with Distress inks. I also distressed the edges of my base paper, and added a mix of flowers, some pearls and ribbon from my stash.
I followed the sketch over at Sketch Saturday .

Now if I haven't put you to sleep yet, I have one more card to show. I made this one for colour scheme Thursday post on the Bella challeneg blog. I chose the colours blue and brown.

I used some papers from Sassafras, love these colours :) The image is called "Wish Pickle" and again I coloured her with Promarkers and added some Dazzling Diamonds glitter for her wings.
The flowers are all Primas and I added some spacers and brads from my stash. I added some clear gems which I was going to do a flourish kind of thing with but I ran out of the clear ones, so I done some mini swirls lol, and an old charm from my stash.

Now that was an overload of Bella images wasn't it!
And if you love these as much as I do, why not enter the Digital Tuesday or Bella challenge and you could win some of your own :)
You know yo can combine both challenges so you only have to make one card and you can enter both at once :)

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Bella Studio challenge

I can't believe the weekend is over already! I can't wait till after Friday because the kids will be off school for their Summer Holidays and I have a whole 6 weeks of not having to get buses to school! YAY!! Mind you I will have to put up with 3 kids 24 hours a day for 6 weeks though so maybe I won't be so happy by the time next Monday comes lol.

It's the start of a new challenge over at the Bella Studio challenge and Tammy wants to see us using the cute  "Dancin Chick" image.
I have went for a simple card this week and I am not sure that I like it very much but it's done now so here it is!

I used some more Nitwit papers from the same magazine as last weeks Bella card (I just love that mag, it has so many pretty papers in it!), and the flower and faux ribbon are from the magazine too.
The corner decoration is one I punched from some of the blue paper with a Mcgill decrative corner punch.
The cutie Dancin Chick is from the Little Furry range from Bella Studio was coloured with Promarkers and the sentiment is also from Bella Studio and is in the Celebration Sentiments set.

Daphne has been really busy and has loads of new images in store and new ones coming soon too, so why not hop over and see all the little cuties that Bella Studio has to offer. I promise you wil not be dissapointed, they are all super cute!


I am also entering this card into Stampin' For The Weekend challenge as I followed their sketch and they also wanted to see the colour combo of yellow and blue.


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Bella Studio challenge - Flowers and Pearls

It's a lovely day here in Aberdeen today and I have been stuck indoors at my girls school tidying up all the mess made after the Summer Fayre which was on Saturday!
We made loads of money and the kids all had a great time so it was well worth all the hard work we put in organising it :)

Over at the Bella Studio challenge blog, the new challenge has been posted and it's my turn to host this week, so I picked "Flowers and Pearls". I know that won't be a surprise to anyone lol.


So here's what I made.

Isn't this image great? This is Little Cheeky - Cupcake Girl and she is of course from Bella Design Studio. I couloured her with Promarkers, then painted over the image with distress crackle paint and dipped the edges in some glitter while the paint was still wet. You can't really see the crackle in this pic but I will try to takje another one later so you can see it better.
The papers and flowers are Nitwit papers which were free in a magazine! I stitched the edges of the papers by hand (because my sewing machine is broken!!) and I also used the crackle paint and glitter on the flowers. Oh and the heart that is peeking out from behind the image was from the same magazine.
The pearl spray and pin are from my stash.

I hope you can come join in with this weeks challenge!

Bella Studio Blog Hop and challenge

Good morning and thanks for stopping by!
Today is the Bella Studio blog hop and as well as some eye candy along the way, there will also be an oppurtunity to win some yummy candy too :)
First of all though I will show you my card for this weeks challenge which is to use a sentiment as as the focus on your card.
Now for anyone who visits my blog regularly, you will probably have noticed that I just don't do cards without an image, so I had to sneak one in lol.

Ok I know the sentiment is not really the only main focus on my card but that's as close as it will get from me lol. It's not tucked away in a corner somewhere so I think it counts right?
Anyway I just had to use this little cutie "Pickle" because she is so sweet. How could I make a card and not use her?
This little sweetie is available now at the Bella Studio store and she comes without the banner too and with plain and some printed dresses.
The sentiment is also from Bella Studio and I coloured both the sentiment and image with Promarkers.
The base paper is Papermania and the green and blue ones are Basic Grey. Flowers are from Wild Orchid crafts and I made the green and blue one, which by the way I made a little tutorial last week which you can also see over at the Bella Challenge blog.
Did I mention before that they have a post every weekday over there? We have techniques, sketches, embelishing and colour combos for you to try as well as our weekly challenge! See loads to go have a look at :)

Now for the hop , here's the rules for both the challenge and the hop (can you tell I am lazy and just cut and paste? lol)

How to play: To participate in the Weekly Challenge, please create a *new* project using any Bella Digi Image following the current week's theme. You must link to your project using the link tool at the bottom of the post on the main Bella Challenge Blog  A winner will be chosen via random.org and that person will receive the blog candy listed in the challenge post. In addition, the DT will choose their favorite three projects from all participants and ONE winner will be chosen to be the following week's Guest Designer. To be considered for the top three, you must have purchased an image from the shop (unless otherwise noted)...however, you don't have to use the purchased image in that week's challenge. During New Release Blog Hops a special blinkie will be embedded into one DT member's post. If you find that image, make sure you note it in your comment on that blog. One winner will be chosen at random to receive ONE new pre-selected image from that month's release.

Now you should hop over to see what lovelyness Dawn has to show you.
Remember to become a follower (if  you aren't already) and leave a comment on each blog to be in with a chance of winning.
Along the way you may find some extra goodies on some of the design teams blogs,  and remember to look out for that blinkie!


Here's a list of the order in which you need to go incase you lose your way.
Challenge Blog
Lora (you are here :))
Dawn
Colleen
Katie
Michelle
Tammylee

Thanks for stopping by, please remember to leave a comment and become a follower to be in with a chance of winning.