It's
time for another challenge over at Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge, and
this week the theme is use ribbon or twine - I chose to use some bakers twine that has been in my stash for some time!
There are two fabulous prizes this week, so pop on over to http://pennyschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ and join in:
Dr Digi - 2 digi images
Little Blue Button Stamps - $10 gift certificate
I am adding this card to the following:
Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes 28/07/15 - 03/08/15
Craft Your Passion Challenges - #272 Always Anything Goes
Materials Used:
Dr Digi - Two Fat Boys digi
Copics - E00, E01, E02, E43, E44, E51, C0, C2, C4, C6, Y17, R21, R22, R27, B91, B93, B95
Creative Expressions - bakers twine, primary colours pack
Die-namics - fishtail flag stax dies
Crafters Companion - black card
Hunkdory - white card blank
Its time
for a new challenge over at Lacy Sunshine, and for this challenge the
theme is Shabby Chic/Vintage/Steampunk. Now, I'm no expert at any of these, so a bit of a challenge here for me too - so here is my take on a shabby chic look, I hope you like it!
Please pop on
over to Lacy Sunshine and join in the fun for the random draw - there will be 2 winners: 1st prize - 5
digi images, 2nd prize - 3 digi images of choice from the Lacy Sunshine Crafters Candy Shoppe.
We have a gorgeous Challenge Digi for you, which you can get for a
special discounted price of $2.00 for the duration of the challenge from
the Lacy Sunshine Crafters Candy Shoppe, or for free if you used a Lacy Sunshine digi in Challenge #55 (see details on the Challenge Blog).
I am adding this card to the following:
Through The Craft Room Door - 07/04 - 13/04
Materials Used:
Lacy Sunsine - Azore Rainyshine Fairy Princess digi
Copics - E00. E01, E02, E41, E43, E44, E47, E51, E53, YG61, YG63, YG67, R81, R83, R85
Kanban - Cream Soda paper pad
Magnolia - dies (heart and butterfly not sure of the names)
Stampin' Up! - Whisper White ink pad
Creative Expressions - ivory lace
The Hobby House - pink pearls
Tim Holtz - distress tool
Core'DInations - pink card
Hunkydory - white card blank
Its time for a new challege over at Creative Fingers,and the
challenge theme as always is Anything Goes, so please pop on over and play along!
The sponsor this week is: Nikki Burnette and as one of the only things I was interested in during history lessons at school, and I love Egyptian dance, I chose this Cleopatra image to colour. I decided to keep the card prety simple, so I hope you like her - big blue eyeshadow and all!
Materials Used:
Nikki Burnette - Egyptian Stamp Cleopatra
Copics - E00, E01, E02, E50, E51, E53, E55, E57, R81, R83, R85, B12, B14, B15, YG61, YG63, YR21, YR23, YR24, YR27, C2, C4, C6, C8
Graph'Its - 9100, 9101, 9102
Core'Dinations - blue card
Hunkydory - white 5" x 7" card
Gems from stash
Its time for a new challege over at Creative Fingers,and the
challenge theme as always is Anything Goes, so please pop on over and play along!
The sponsor this week is: Rick St Dennis and I chose this pretty Piccot image to use as it reminded me of all the pink pierrot stuff that I had growing up in the 80s - duvet cover, mirror, curtains, lampshade - you name it, you would have probably found it in my room!
Materials Used:
Rick St Dennis - Piccot 2013 digi image
Copics - E41
Graph'Its - 4135, 8220, 8110, 9500
Poppies - Day #10! For this card I wanted to use some guilding flakes, along with one of my favourite poppy stamp sets, which is from IndigoBlu. I think I need a bit more practise stamping with the flitter glue to make sure I get a crisp image, and if I was feeling a bit braver I might even add some colour to the poppy - maybe I will do that and add an update!
The background was made using some glimmer sprays - I made a bit of a stash of them a while ago, so I am not sure if this is using a Creative Expressions or Tattered Angels spray - will have to see if I can figure it out!
You can't see the beautiful variation in colours in the guilding flakes in the photo above, but I think you can see it here.
I am adding this card to the following:
Allsorts Challenge Blog - Poppies/Remembrance
That Craft Place - Anything Goes
Materials Used:
IndigoBlu - Poppy Meadow A5 stamp set
Creative Expressions - mulled wine gilding flakes
Spellbinders - Matting basics A and B
Hunkydory - white 5" x 7" card blank, gold mirror card
Glimmer spray for the background - Creative Expression or Tattered Angel
Its
time for a new challenge over at Penny's Paper-Crafty
Challenge - and this week the theme is Polka Dots, so I created this tag with a dotty background!
There are two fabulous prizes this week, so pop on over to http://pennyschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ and join in:
Kenny K Downloads - 5 digi images
Crafty Sentiments Designs - 3 digi images
Materials Used:
Kenny K - Elf Queen digi image
Copics - E00, 01, 02, 41, 43, 44, 47, R83, R85, BG10, BG53, BG57
Serif - Craft Artist Professional 2 to create the background and tag
Creative Expressions - cream crochet ribbon
It's time for a new Kraftyhands Challenge!
For October its Tag-Tastic - so make a tag on any theme you like! Please pop on over to take a look and join
in!
I chose to use the Teacup Zoo CD, and of course had to pick my favourite - the panda!
Materials Used:
Kraftyhands - Teacup Zoo CD (topper, background paper, sentiment)
Creative Expressions - white crochet ribbon
Stampin Up! - Strawberry slush ribbon
White ribbon and pearls from stash
Exciting news! I have joined the Creative Fingers Design Team! So I hope you like my first project as part of the team!
The challenge is sponsored by the fantastic Oddball Art.
Its a texture challenge for the DT, so I used some translucent paste from Sweet Poppy Stencils and mixed in some Creative Expressions chalk paint to put through a stencil mask - its difficult to see in the photos but the texture is there I promise (will have to practise my photography skills)!
I am adding this card to the following:
Fan-Tastic Tuesday - #49 Anything Goes (square or rectangular)
Materials Used:
Odd Ball Art - Big Eye Girl Image No. 24 by Lizzy Love
Copics - E000, E00, E01, E02, E40, E41, E472, E43, E44, R83, R85, BG70, BG72, BG75
Creative Expressions - Shallow sea matt chalk paint, stencil mask
Ranger - gathered twigs distress ink
Brother Scan N Cut - to cut out the images
Sweet Poppy Stencils - translucent paste
Imagination Crafts - DL panel
Hunkydory - white DL card blank
Hi! Its time for a new challenge over at Penny's Paper-Crafty
Challenge, and this week its another Anything Goes challenge - we all love that one, so pop on over and join in!
There are two fabulous prizes this week, so pop on over to http://pennyschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ and join in:
Stitchy Bear Stamps - tbc
Bugaboo Stamps - 7 digi stamps
I am adding this card to:
Just Keep On Creating - July Anything Goes
Fan-Tastic Tuesday - #45 Anything Goes
Materials Used:
Stitchy Bear - Dream 3 sentiment
Creative Expressions - teal vintage seam binding, small circle dazzlers, Sue Wilson Spanish Collection dies
Graph'It - 7260 (to colour the pearls)
Core'Dinations - teal card
Hunkydory - white A5 card blank
Pearls from stash
I've been trying to use my electronic cutting machines more lately - after all we spend a lot of money on all these crafty toys, so we need to make sure we use them! I made this card with my Silhouette Cameo machine using a cut file from the online store.
I am adding this card to:
Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes
Just Keep on Creating - July Anything Goes
Materials Used:
Crafters Companion - Scruffy Little Cat pastel paper pad, kraft card, black card
All Occasion Dies / Rob Addams - Happy and Birthday
Ranger - Old paper Distress Ink
Creative Expressions - yellow/white bakers twine
String from stash
Silhouette Cameo - to cut all elements
A few weeks ago the fabulous Graph'It Challenge DT asked people to apply for a Guest Designer spot. I applied even though I am still very new to using GIs, so was uber excited to find they thought my colouring and card designs are good enough to get a GDT spot! Thank you team!
I get to share 2 projects with you (how cool is that!?), and my first is for Christmas!
I've
had a couple of advent calendar kits in my craft stash for quite some
time, and thought this would be an ideal opportunity to use one of them!
I chose an image and papers from the Studio 12 Picknix Gingerbread
Twist collection, and set to work with some GIs, some glittery embossing powders,
Distress Ink and crochet ribbon! Hope you like it, I'm really looking
forward to using it this Christmas - the drawers are quite large so I
can put something more than just a chocolate in it! :-)
I hope you will pop on over to the Graph'It Challenge to take a look at all the fab projects from the DT and join in the fun!
I am adding this to the following:
Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes
Just Keep on Creating - July Anything Goes
Creative Fingers Challenge - #43 Anything Goes
Polkadoodles - #28 Add Twinkle
ABC Christmas Challenge - N is for Numbers
Simply Create Too - #65 Christmas in July
Aud Sentiments - #110 Anything Goes
Fan-Tastic Tuesday - #43 Anything Goes (rectangular or square)
Materials Used:
Graph'Its - 8270, 8280, 4110, 9303,
3140, 3170, 3180, 5250, 5245, 5240
Polkadoodles - Studio 12 Picknix Gingerbread
Twist CD
Stamps Away - Advent calendar kit (I made it up differently to the instructions)
Tattered Lace - numbers die set
Ranger - brushed Corduroy distress ink
Creative Expressions - cream crochet ribbon, iced snow glitter jewels
Stampendous - shabby white embossing enamel
Brother Scan N Cut - to cut out the gingerbread skaters
Brads from stash
Hi! Its time for a new challenge over at Penny's Paper-Crafty
Challenge, and this week its Anything Goes - so craft your heart out and join in!
I chose this lovely Steampunk Cindy image by Heather Valentin (Lacy Sunshine) to play with, but apart from using browns on the card I decided not to go full on steampunk with cog embellishnments which I had originally thought about, instead I decided to use my new love the Brittania rose flower dies. Yes I know, I'm sorry I keep using them - I just can't help it! LOL! :-) And the "steampunky" version will be made soon I am sure!
There is one fabulous prize this week, so pop on over to http://pennyschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ and join in:
Lacy Sunshine - 3 digi images
I am adding this to the following:
Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes
Just Keep on Creating - July Anything Goes
Crafting At The Weekend - # 3 Anything Goes
Materials Used:
Lacy Sunshine -Steampunk Cindy To The Ball digi image
Copics - E00, E01, E02, E41, E42, E51, E55, E57, B93, B95, B97, R83, R85, C3, C5
Creative Expressions - Sue Wilson Finishing Touches faux quilled blooms die set for the leaves
Brittania - large and medium multi flower rose dies
Prima - Craftsman paper pad
Pebeo - rennaisance gold gilding wax
Core'Dinations - blue card
Hunkydory - 5" x 7" white card blank
It's
time for a new challenge over at Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge, and
this week its Embossing - heat or dry embossing, whichever is your favourite, you could even use both!
I chose to use dry embossing as I have a bit of a stash of embossing folders and I really don't use them often enough!
There are two great prizes up for grabs this week, so pop on over to http://pennyschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ and join in:
StampArt Design by Kathryne - 5 digi images
Sassy Studio Designs - 4 digi images
I am adding this to the following:
Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes 24/06 - 30/06
Materials Used:
StampArt Design by Kathryne - Mermaid Pearl that you can buy here
Copics - E000, E00, E01, E02, E31, E35, E50, E51, E53, BG70, BG72, BG75
Spellbinder - nautical frame and accents set
Brittania Dies - large and medium multiflower rose dies
Core'Dinations - blue card
The Hobby House - sea charm pearls
My Craft Studio - crystal glitter
Creative Expressions - Sue Wilson Art Deco Fanfare A4 embossing folder
Craftwork Cards - white square card blank, white card
Happy Easter! Hope the weather is better for you than it is here - grey and miserable and its been raining most of the day, which is a shame after the last few days which have been lovely! But a good excuse to stay indoors and have some more fun with the Kraftyhands What A Hoot CD - I added some bunting to this shaped card to make it into a quick Easter card.
I am adding this card to the following:
Just Keep On Creating - Anything Goes - April Link Up
Just B Creative Crazy - April Linky Party
Papertake Weekly - Happy Easter
Alphabet Challenge - E for Easter
Craftitude - Anything Goes or Spring/Easter
Materials Used:
Kraftyhands - What A Hoot CD
Brother Scan N Cut - to cut out all elements (except the bunting)
Tattered Lace - Alphabet Bunting die set
Creative Expressions - yellow and white twine
Its time for a new challenge
over at Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge, and this week the theme is use 2 or more patterned papers - so get that paper stash out and share it with us!
This week there are three prizes
up for grabs, so pop on over to
http://pennyschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ and join
in:
Sassy Studio Designs - 4 digi images
StampArt Designs - 5 digi images
Di's Digi Downloads - $12 gift certificate
I am adding this to:
Make It Monday - Linky Party #158
Materials Used:
StampArt Designs - Christmas Cardinal which you can find on Whimsy Stamps store here
Copics - C3, C4, C5, R22, R27, R29, 335, YG61, YG63, YG67
Spellbinders - labels 31
Artylicious/Chocolate Baroque - patterned papers
Core'Dinations - red card
Creative Expressions - white crochet ribbon
Its time for a new challenge
over at Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge, and this week the theme
is Spooled items - so ribbon, trim, twine, lace etc.
I had this pretty rose image from Bugaboo Stamps - a little different the fun characters that we are used to seeing from Bugaboo! But lovely all the same!This week there are two prizes
up for grabs, so pop on over to
http://pennyschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ and join
in:Bugaboo Stamps - 7 digi imagesDigi My World - $10 gift voucherI am adding this card to the
following:
Make It Monday - Linky Party #156
Materials Used:
Bugaboo Stamps - Faith block digi
Copics - YG61, YG63, YG67, R20, R21, R22
Creative Expressions - white crochet ribbon
Core'Dinations - pink card
Craftwork Cards - Vintage Rose paper pad, white square card blank
Hole punch,
embossing tool and mat - to make the "dotz"
How gorgeous is this Peace Angel from the new Polkadoodles Angelberry range! The very generous peeps at Polkadoodles are offering a free Angelberry digi image so that you can take part in this week's blog challenge - so I was very happy when she popped into my inbox! She is just beautiful!
I picked some backing papers from a couple of Polkadoodles CDs, coloured her in and then set to make the card. I tried so many different layouts, with die cut holly, stars and allsorts - but eventually I went for this simple design which is fast becoming one of my favourites (in fact you will see the same layout tomorrow on a DT challenge card).
I am adding this card to the following:
Polkadoodles - Week 35 Fairy Time
Make It Monday - Linky Party #156
Creative Creations Challenges - #18 Early Christmas Makes
Materials Used:
Polkadoodles - Angel Peace Angelberry digi, Here Comes Christmas CD, Studio 12 Picknix 2 Gingerbread Twist CD
Copics - Y18, Y21, R81, R83, R85, YG61, YG63, YG67, E000, E00, E01, E02, E50, E51, E53
Creative Expressions - white crochet ribbon
Core'Dinations - pink card
American Crafts - 0.5mm red precision pen
Happy Wednesday! And as its Wednesday its time for a new challenge over at Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge, and this week the
theme is Lace and/or Ribbon.
I chose this cute image from StampArt Design, and although I started off with a "traditional" red and green theme in mind, as you can see I ended up going for something completely different!
This week there are two prizes
up for grabs, so pop on over to
http://pennyschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ and join
in:
Fred She Said Designs - $15 gift certificate
StampArt Design by Kathryne - 5 digi images
I am adding this card to the
following:
Make It Monday - Linky Party #153
Materials Used:
StampArt Design - Gingerbread Joy available from Whimsy Stamps - click here
Copics - E000, E00, E01, E02, E08, E50, E51, E53, E57, E59, R05, YR23, YR27
Spellbinders - classic squares, captivating squares
Creative Expressions - White crochet ribbon
NitWit Collections - Cookin' Cookies paper collection
Craftwork Cards - white square card blank
Dr Digi - Two Fat Boys digi
