CD Sunday - Blue Christmas

Time for another challenge from CD Sunday and this time Christine has chosen the theme 'Beautiful Blue'.
So  - anything you like as long as it's mainly blue and has something from a CD on it somewhere.
For my card I've used a paper from the Artylicious Season's Greetings cd and then picked out the detail on the white with glamour dust. Both the forest and the sentiment stamp are by Serendipity - stamped with Adirondack Denim. Not a lot else to say about this one as it's quite a plain and simple card - but I may make a couple more for the box as I love these two stamps.
I hope you'll pop over to the main CD Challenge blog to see the work from my team mates and also join in if you can.
Thank you for visiting today.
Beryl xx

Autumn Colours

This is an 8 x 8 card - the bp is from a Bearly Mine cd, the next layer I made using several distress inks and then stamped the LOTV Grunge corners in Versafine Vintage Sepia. I used the same ink to stamp the tree (a Crafty Individuals Stamp). I did stamp the tree with a second stamping a couple of times too but this doesn't seem to show in the photo - probably the glare of the Cosmic Shimmer mist I used over it. The distress inks  I used were, Black Soot, Brushed Corduroy, Wild Honey, Dried Marigold and Aged Mahogany.
For the flowers I used a Nellie Snellen punch, the leaves behind and the swirl are both Cheery Lynne dies - cut in brown card. The sentiment is computer generated and mounted onto a Spellbinders label die cut.
I'm entering this card into the D.C.C and Friends challenge - Autumn to You

I think we are in for a chilly weekend so keep warm and dry if you can.
Thank you for visiting today.
Beryl xx

Lighting the way....

It's time for the 99th challenge from Sketch N Stash and this fortnight it's Kevin's sketch. The bp on my card is from the Artylicious Season's Greetings cd, the border across the centre is a very old Fiskars border punch and some cream grosgrain ribbon coloured to match with a Promarker. The WOJ image has been coloured with Promarkers too. The embossed piece is the neglected element - this Cuttlebug embossing folder hasn't been squeezed since the fist year I bought it - and the newest thing I have used is the tiny die for the sentiment. It's part of a set I bought at Port Sunlight but the die it's supposed to sit on was too big. I've sprayed the teal Co-ordinations card  used for the matting and the holly with glitter spray so IRL it's nice and sparkly. One more large card for the box which WON'T be going by Royal Mail.
Thanks very much for visiting today.
Beryl xx

Let sleeping mice lie...

Another week has flown by and another challenge from CD Sunday starts today. The autumn theme seemed very popular and I have enjoyed seeing all the different takes on the challenge. This week it's the turn of Carol to pick the theme - and she's chosen 'Poetry Corner'. Well I was stumped - the only poetry book I had - written by a friend many years ago - seems to have got lost in the move. I decided to use this little stamp from Crafter's Companion Cute Companions range as a starter - so of course - had to use a Cute Companions sleeping mouse stamp too.The image is printed from the co-ordinating CD and neither stamps nor CD have seen the light of day for a few Christmases now. The stamp did stamp very well but the focus on the camera seems to have blurred it a bit. There's also some glossy accents on the baubles, but that's not showing either. The bp is part of a stack of bp's sent to me by my friend Martha - who lives in the states. The ribbon is from my stash and the peel offs round the edge - yes peel offs - I've had for yonks.
I hope you'll join in this week - and if you do - don't forget to tell us which CD has been used as part (or all) of your creation.
Thank you for visiting.
Beryl xx

A touch of orange

Good morning and welcome to another challenge from CD Sunday. This time the theme has been chosen by fellow teamie Wendy (Purple Crazy) and she's chose 'Autumn Splendour'.
The bp on my card is from a Bearly Mine Extreme cd - the die cut is a Sissix big die and the sentiment is computer generated. The background for the image is an Impression Obsession stamp that has clouds and if you look closely a finer criss cross texture. I stamped it with Versamark and used Pan Pastels to colour it. Then I overstamped with a Chocolate Baroque stamp in Black Versafine.
I hope you'll pop across to see the great cards the rest of the team have made and also to join in this week - not forgetting to tell us which CD has been used in the making of our project.
Thank you for visiting today.
Beryl xx

Dear Santa....

This card was made following the current Sketch N Stash challenge. For the background papers I have used Caroline's Christmas Silhouettes 1 digi kit. The image is a Whiff of Joy stamp coloured with Promarkers, and my Cheery Lynne holly die gets another outing. The flowers have been made with an Xcut snowflake punch and a Martha Stewart water lily punch. The strip across the middle using an EK border punch. The strip separating the two colours, coloured using the same green Promarkers as on the the image.The sentiment is from a set of clear sentiment stamps - I'm afraid I've lost the original packaging, and some card candy to finish off. The 'old' stash I've used is some previously never used maroon good weight paper and the orange card for the nestie oval. This card is woodgrained - but I wouldn't want to see a fence that colour - not in my backyard!!It's been a couple of years since this stamp saw any ink too.
I'm also entering this card into this month's Sir Stampalot challenge - which is to use punches on your project.
Thanks very much for visiting today.
Beryl xx

A touch of blue

This week on the CD Sunday challenge we are being sponsored by Caroline of Caroline's Creative Stamps.
Caroline has her own range of rubber and digital stamps and is kindly giving away one of her Silhouette downloads kits for the winner. So this week's theme is 'Christmas'. I think I'm way behind this year with Christmas cards - but on the other hand - haven't worked out how many less I will actually need this year either. Our guest designer for this month is Sue of Sue's Crafty Corner. Sue joins in the challenge every week and I hope that you'll pop across to her blog to see the lovely work she does.
For my card I have used one of the digi kits that Caroline gave the team to work with -  Christmas Silhouettes 1. As you can guess this one is blue themed. I used Craft Artist to put the elements of the central image together and mounted it onto a silver mirri card nestie shape. The holly die peeking out from behind is a Cheery Lynne die - cut into several pieces to get it to go round the circle. The greeting is from Do Crafts Digital Designer Christmas Time CD, the bp is part of Caroline's digi kit too.
If you have the time to join in this week don't forget to mention which CD has been used - however small the CD element.
Thank you for visiting today.
Beryl xx