It's
Thursday (again!), and we are in the
second week of the latest challenge over at Aud Sentiments!
The challenges are always about having a sentiment on your
project - it may be a specific sentiment or a theme, and this
time we have a Bingo challenge for you - but don't forget the sentiment!
I chose the top line - ribbon, something pink and die cut. Though I'm not happy with the use of my ribbon - but I had stuck it down with double sided tape so had to go with it!
For this challenge we are all using images provided by My Artistic Adventure - and in addition we have paired up with Add a Little Dazzle for
this challenge. Our two sponsors are generously offering a prize for the winner of this challenge!!
This means that we will have TWO WINNERS!
Materials Used:
My Artistic Adventures - Shabby Chic Cupcakes Digital Collage sheet and Vintage Bingo cards Ivory Music Digital Collage sheet
Die-namics - Fish tail flag stax
Tattered Lace - mini cupcake die
Core'Dinations - pink and turqouise card
Hunkydory - 5" x 7" card
White ribbon from stash
Hi! Its time for a new challenge over at Penny's Paper-Crafty
Challenge - and this week its Children, Christmas or Criitters, so please 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:
Bugaboo Stamps - 7 digis
Robyns Fetish - tbc
I am adding this card to the following:
Fan-Tastic Tuesday - #49 Anything Goes (square or rectangular)
Materials Used:
Bugaboo Stamps - Mouse Ornaments digi
Copics - E40, E41, E42, E43, E44, E47
Graph'Its - 5215, 5220, 5120
Tattered Lace - button die
Die-Namics - fishtail flag stax
Spellbinders - matting basics A & B
Craftwork Cards - Kitsch paper pad
Core'Dinations - red card
Hunkydory - 7" x 5" white card blank
White thread from stash
It's time for a new Kraftyhands Challenge!
This month we have a sketch for you to play along with! So please pop on over to take a look and join in!
I decided to do something a little different for my card, so instead of feminine or floral that I might normally do, I chose the Man About Town CD to use, and I have to say I was quite pleased with the result!
I am adding this card to the following:
Fan-Tastic Tuesday - #47 Anything Goes (square or rectangular)
Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes
Materials Used:
Kraftyhands - Man About Town CD
Core'Dinations - dark blue card
Tattered Lace - Hat and Cane embellishment die set
Hunkydory - white square card blank
Gold organza ribbon from stash
Its time
for a new challenge over at Lacy Sunshine, and for this challenge the
theme is Flowers. So 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.
I am adding this project to:
Just Keep on Creating - July Anything Goes
Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes
Materials Used:
Lacy Sunshine - Seedling Bleeding Heart Flower pot pretties
Copics - E000, E00, E01, E02, YG61, YG63, YG67, E40, E42, E44, E47, E31, E34, E35, E37, R81, R85, R83, C0, C3, C4, B00
Crafters Companion - All My Love paper pad, centura pearl A3 card
Cricut - to cut the bag
Tattered Lace - Bloomsbury corner die
Spellbinder - classic oval die
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
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
I made a card for colleague who is leaving work tomorrow to have a baby, its A4 so that lots of people in the office can sign it to wish her well :-) I was inspired by several cards celebrating this occasion that I saw on the internet, and came up with this design. So I set to cutting out letters on my Brother SnC (a few attempts needed to get the size I thought I was selecting actually cutting out - seemed to work better if I did each letter individually...) Then added some small die cuts of buttons, birds and butterflies, oh and a couple of bows too!
We'll be presenting the card (along with a lovely gift of course) tomorrow, but I think I am pretty safe putting this on here today as most people about to have a baby will be far too busy to be looking at crafty blogs!
I am adding this to the following:
Just Keep On Creating - Anything Goes - April Link Up
Just B Creative Crazy - April Linky Party
Materials Used:
Hunkydory - Fairy Sweethearts paper pad
Brother Scan N Cut - to cut all the letters
Spellbinders - Buntings and Buttons set, bird and butterfly (still have to figure out which set they are from)
Tattered Lace - mini buttons
Lilac pearlescent card - I think its American Crafts, but there is nothing on the packaging to tell me!
The Hobby House - lilac and pale ivory pearls
Crafters Companion - snow white hint of gold centura pearl
Ribbon from stash
I downloaded this free Tatty Twinkle Easter download designed by Nikky Hall of Polkadoodles for Tattered Lace, and just had to have a play - isn't she cute!
This is the second stepper card I have made recently, I have a bit of a stash of them but generally hate having to try to cut out paper and card to fit. However, my Brother Scan N Cut has changed that as I was able to create 2 layers in the Canvas software to fit these cards, and now its easy peasy! How happy am I about that! :-) I also cut out all the digi images from the download on the machine, then coloured them in. It really does make it a breeze, you get all the fun colouring and putting the card together and none of the hassle of cutting it all out.
I am adding this to the following:
Just Keep On Creating - Anything Goes - April Link Up
Just B Creative Crazy - April Linky Party
Materials Used:
Tattered Lace - Tatty Twinkle Easter download from crafting.co.uk
GraphIt - 8110, 8240, 8250, 9102, 9103, 9104, 9106, 6120, 6140, 7105, 3110, 3140, 1250, 4115, 4135, 4145, 4155, 4170
Brother Scan N Cut - for the Tatty Twinkle images, the green card and pattered paper layers, and the grass
Core'Dinations - green card
Hunkydory - All Occasions paper pad
Craftwork Cards - scallop edged stepper card
Its time
for a new challenge over at Lacy Sunshine, and for this challenge the
theme is Make It Feminine. So anything girlie and perrty really!! 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.
I am adding this to the following:
Just Keep On Creating - Anything Goes - April Link Up
Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes
Just B Creative Crazy - April Linky Party
Materials Used:
Lacy Sunshine - Emily Spring Blossom Showers
Copics - E000, E00, E01, E02, E40, E41, E43, E44, E47, C3, C5, YG61, YG63, YG67, R81, R83, R85
Spellbinders - Card Creator matting basics A and B
Tattered Lace - small bow die
Crafters Companion - All My Love paper pad
Hunkydory - 5" x 7" white card blank
Small pearl from stash
Today's card is made entirely from Tattered Lace dies - and all based around their new hedgehog die. As soon as I saw it, I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it - make a wedding card, don't ask me why - it just came into my head!
So, I have been waiting patiently for it to arrive (well ok, so maybe not so patiently...), it came a couple of days ago and today I have had chance to play! I decided to set myself a challenge and use only Tattered Lace dies - this caused me some difficulties deciding what to put in the corners, but ended up choosing a die from the Oriental Embellishments set. I hope you like my Mr & Mrs Hedgie!
I am adding this to the following:
Just Keep On Creating - Anything Goes - April Link Up
Just B Creative Crazy - April Linky Party
Materials Used:
Tattered Lace - Hedgehog, Hat & Cane embellishments, Oriental embellishments, Ribbons, Sentiments 2014
My Craft Studio - crystal glitter
Stix2 - double sided sticky sheet
Crafters Companion - snow white gold pearlescent card
Pink pearlescent card - I think its American Crafts, I have had a stack of it for ages but there is nothing on the packaging to confirm!
Pearl from stash
Hi! Its time for a new challenge over
at Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge - and the theme this week is Buttons and Bows.
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 images
Meljen Designs - 4 black & white digi images
I am adding this card to:
Craftyhands Challeng Blog - #10 Buttons and Bows
Materials Used:
Meljen Designs - Kitty Fish Bowl
Copics - B21, B23, E51, E53, YR20, YR23, YR27, R81, R83, C0, C2, C4, C6
Kraftyhands - Miranda and Mo CD (backing papers)
Spellbinders -classic squares, lacy squares
Tattered Lace - mini buttons
DCWV - blue card
Its time for a new challenge over at Lacy Sunshine, and for this challenge the theme is Anything Goes! Now, we all love that theme so please pop on over to Lacy Sunshine and join in the fun as there 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.
I am adding this card to the following:
Through The Craftroom Door - Anything Goes
That's Crafty! - Anything Goes
Emerald Faeries Challenge - #53 Girly Pretty in Pink
Crafts Galore Encore Challenge - #3 Use a stamp or digi stamp
Digi Galore - Anything Goes
We have a really cute Challenge Digi for you - Wilkes Pirate and Whiskey Parrot 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. Read all about our loyalty program on the challenge blog, as you could receive a free image every new challenge!
Materials Used:
Lacy Sunshine - Cupcake Sticky Wings
Copics - E000, E00, E01, E02, E51, E53, YR20, YR23, YR27, YG61, YG63, YG67, V12, V15, R81, R83, R85
Graoh'It - white shake pen
Spellbinders - lacy ovals
EK Success - cupcake chain punch (I cut out the cupcakes)
Serif - Craft Artist Professional to make the background paper
Brother Scan N Cut - to cut the scalloped mats
Core'Dinations - pink card
Kanban - purple gems
Craftwork Cards - scallop edge white card blank
Pink ribbon from stash
Teacup Zoo CD Launch Day has arrived! Today I thought I would share a card with you that isn't a panda, but one of the other sets - so I chose this pretty bird for you!
I am adding this card to the following:
Make It Monday - Linky Party #182
Materials Used:
Kraftyhands - Teacup Zoo CD (topper, sentiment and backing papers)
Copics - B26 to edge the paper
Tonic - Verdant Vines die
Tattered Lace - Lacy Rose collection dies
Core'Dinations - blue card
Hunkydory - 7" x 7" white card blank
Hole punch, embossing tool and mat - to make the "dotz"
Happy Sunday! Today I have a card made using a brand new digi called "Wix - Cherry Blossom Moon" available in the Lacy Sunshine Crafters Candy Shoppe. She is so pretty, and I love cherry blossom so this was a must have to add to my digi stamp collection!
I am adding this card to:
Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes
Make It Monday - Linky Party #180
Materials Used:
Lacy Sunshine - Wix, Cherry Blossom Moon
Copics - E000, E00, E01, E02, E50, E51, E53, E57, E59, B91, B93, B95, G82, G85, G94, G99, R83, R85, V12, V15, V17
Tattered Lace - Oriental Embellishments die set (I used the corners and blossom)
Hunkydory - Eastern Promise paper pad, 7" x 7" white card blank
It's time for a new
challenge over at Lacy
Sunshine! The theme is Die Cuts/Punches -
so anything you like as long as you have some die cuts or punches on your project!
For my card I have used the
gorgeous Luna Moon Flower - Flower Pot Pretties, and chose blues and purples as my colour theme.
So, back to the challenge...
Anyone can enter, but your image must be hand coloured - the winners prize is 5
digi images of choice from the Lacy Sunshine Shop and a
winners blinkie for your blog. There will also be a Top Three who will each receive a
blinkie and 1 of Heather's digis.
There is also a new Loyalty
Program for Lacy Sunshine Challenges digis, information can be found in the
rules section of the Challenge
Blog.
I am adding this to:
Make It Monday - Linky Party #156
Materials Used:
Lacy Sunshine - Luna Moon Flower - Flower Pot Pretties digi
Copics - C1, C3, C5, C7, E000, E00, E01, E02, 50, E51, BV13, BV17, B91, B93, B95, B97, B99
Die-namics - leaf filled
flourish, large leaf filled flourish
Tattered Lace - Christmas florals die set
Spellbinder - card creator A2 matting basics A and B
Chocolate Baroque -
patterned paper
Hunkydory - lilac shimmer glitter
My Craft Studio - crystal glitter
Core'Dinations - purple
card
Hole punch, embossing tool and
mat - to make the "dotz"
It's time for a new challenge over at Lacy
Sunshine! The theme is Favourite Things - use your favourite things, and make sure you tell us what they are in your blog post.
For my card I have used one of my favourite characters in the Lacy Sunshine range - Coco, I think she is adorable, and I love her hair!
When I was thinking about making this card, it was going to be all pink, silver and sparkly - but while looking through my Chirstmas paper stash for some background papers I found this cute Cookin' Cookies paper from NitWit which I just had to use! So a completely different look than I had planned!
Anyone can enter the challange, but your image must be hand coloured and only
entries using a
Lacy Sunshine image will be eligible for the winner's prize -
a fabulous $30 voucher to spend in the Lacy Sunshine Shop where you will be able to
stock up on Heather's gorgeous digi images, and you get a winners blinkie for
your blog. There will also be a Top Three who will each receive a blinkie and 2
of Heather's digis.
There is also a new Loyalty Program for Lacy Sunshine Challenges digis, information can be found in the rules section of the Challenge Blog.
I am adding this card to:
Paper Playtime - #15 Use Pattern Paper
The Paper Shelter - #122 Anything Goes
Crafty Hazel Nuts Christmas Challenge - #136 Spread A Lttle Joy and Love (giving out all those cookies and coco!)
Crafty Hazel Nuts Christmas Challenge Extra - August - Anything Goes
Materials Used:
Lacy Sunshine - Coco - Cookies & Hot Chocolate for Santa digi
Copics - E000, E00, E01, E02, E31, E33, E35, E37, E39, YG61, YG63, YG67, YR20, R20, R22, R27, R29
NitWit - Cookin' Cookies paper collection
Hunkydory - Kraft paper
Lili of The Valley - Christmas Grungy Messages
Ranger Distress Ink - Barn Door
Kanban - gems
Memory Box - Precious Mittens
Tattered Lace - snowflake dies
Craftwork Cards - white 8 x 8 card blank
Hi! Its time for a new
challenge over at Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge, and this week the theme is
Think Pink.
Pink, pink, pink - me? Happy, Happy, Happy - as it does appear to be my favourite colour to make cards with! Though this doesn't help with the challenge I set myself recently to make less pink cards! LOL!
This week there are two prizes
up for grabs, so pop on over to http://pennyschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ and join
in:
Lili Of The Valley - £10 gift voucher
Digi My World - $10 gift voucher
I am
adding this card to the following:
Make It Monday - Linky Party #148
Materials Used:
Lili Of The Valley - The Charleston, For You Circular Sentiments
Copics - E000, E00, E01, E50, YT20, YR23, YR27, R22, R81, R83, R85, R89, C1, C3, C5
Tattered Lace - Ornamental Rose
Sizzix - instant frame
Spellbinders - classic circles
Core'Dinations - pink card
Quick Cards Made Easy - Parisian Dreams paper collection
Craftwork Cards - white card blank
Hole punch, embossing tool and
mat - to make the
dotz
