Good Morning Craft Challenge Reminder

Hello I am here with a reminder and my DT card of the challenge that started Thursday on Craft.
This week we would like you to come and join us in getting ready for CHRISTMAS
We have yet again some fab sponsors with some amazing prizes up for grabs. They are
Sponsor 1: Crafty Ribbons

Prize is a selection of ribbons or a store voucher.

Sponsor 2:The Paper Shelter

Prize is a $20 gift certificate for their store.

Sponsor 3: Crimson Cloud

The prize is a stamp set or diecut packs of choice from their shop.

Sponsor 4:  Flonzcraft 

They make and sell rubber and clear stamps at their online store, ebay and etsy.

Prize is a $20 voucher for their store. 

Sponsor Top3: Karen's Doodles

The prizes are as follows:

• 1st 3 digis of choice
• 2nd 2 digis of choice
• 3rd 1 digi of choice.

 So now onto my card which I have used Decemeber the 26th from The Paper Shelter. I have used one of their pre coloured images that comes with it. How brilliant are these images.

I did go over santas suit with a watered down glitter gelly roll pen sadly goesnt show up on the picture but gives him a slight glow. Used my labels from spellbinders and some fab organisa ribbon from Meiflower crafts. Dp is all from my stash and the sentiment is from K&Co

well that my card I hope you like a fairly quick make with the image precoloured. You have till Wednesday tea time to enter so still plenty of time

Thanks for popping by

St Patricks' or Lots of Green

 Good Morning What A Lovely Day We Are Having Here In Manchester. A  Little Cold Start But Nice And Sunny. Well Today Sees A New Challenge At Crafty Sentiments. Today We Are Celebrating St Patrick's Day With A GREEN Challenge. So Anything Goes As Long As Your Card Project Features Mostly Green. 

We Have Another Amazing Prize Of

Have You Noticed The New Banner At The Top Of My Blog. 

Yes We Are Having A Hop I Do Hope You Will Come And Join Us.

Now Onto My Card I Have Used This Cute Stamp Called Primrose- Garden Flowers  

Available From The Shop. 

I coloured my image with the usual Promarkers and the DP is Minds Eye. Die cut fence from Crafty Sentiments coloured with distressed ink. Nestie frame for the image and a Spellbinders Lattice die. The butterflies are cut from my new butterfly die and the sentiment is a Crafty Sentiments  mounted on a small scallop nestie.

Well I loved colouring this image and used colours on her I may not have done had it not been for the challenge but do like it. What do you think I would love to know.

So now it is over to you hop on over and checkout the rest of the amazing creations on the blog. Lots of inspiration to start you off and hope to see your entry. Remember to read the rules for extra entries into the draw for this voucher. Maybe you could buy one of the new stamps or a die or some digi images lots of choice to be had.

Thanks for popping by and enjoy your day.

Challenge
Fan tastic tuesday - anything goes
Cuttin and stamping challenge - st patricks day
Love Rubber stamps -shades of green
Papertake weekly - bingo ( 1st line)
Passion for promarkers - butterflies
Artistic inspiration - st pats green
Crafting from the heart - use dies
Crafty Boots - green
love to create - anything goes
Stamp and create - spring
amusing challenges - green
glitter and sparkle - anything goes
cut it up - green

Time to use your Scraps Up at Crafty Catz - Paper Piecing

Hello I am back with my 2nd post today and it is CRAFTY CATZ time and this week it is the lovely talented Jacs turn to pick our challenge. So what has she for us this week.

PAPER PIECING

Yes she would like you to paper piece your creation. 

We had a stunning number of entries last week so hope if you joined us last week you will join us again.

Sponsoring us this week is Bugaboo who is giving our winner 7 images of their choice

Also we have a new GDT this week so pop over and give her and the team some love. But before you do here is my card. I have used Stella and oh what is she up to now. My son would say that this is me in the morning. Hope you like the humour

I have paper pieced the cup. Used various leaf punches and Sizzix thinlet flower die. Some ribbon from Crafty Ribbons. Backing paper is Prima rondelle.  The Dp for the cup is a old pad i have had since i started crafting. I have used some fluffy stuff for the milk spilling over the cup

Well hope you like and see the funny side to this. Thanks for popping by and have a great weekend.
The crazy challenge - coffee and sweets
challenges for everybody - anything goe
ABC challenge- G is for girls
Bearly Mine - one for the girls
Cards and scraps - use dies
sisters act cards - anything goes
4 Krafty Girls - anything goes
crafty ribbon - anything goes

It is all about the Females at Craft - A Day With Daisys

Good mornng well they say the weather is getting better but we have a dull dark cold and damp day here. Guess I shouldnt complain we are much better than some areas in the country I do hope it drys out quickly for them. High teens they say end of next week.

Well today i am bringing the new challenge at CRAFT and they would like to see lots  FEMALE creations

We have another fab selection of sponsors with some brilliant prizes

A Day for Daisies

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps and More

QKR Stampede

Stitchy Bear Stamps

So onto my card I used a image from A Day for Daisies called Skirt of Flowers. I used my Promarkers and so loved colouring this. The sky was done with my distressed pads

DP is from a very old purple capsule pad from papermania. Lots of flowers made with various punches and lots of tiny gems for the centres there is also a memory box die hiding behind them. Both lace stripes are from stash and sentiment is from a old whispers stamp cut and rolled then coated with gloss to give a touch of strength. I made this for my step mums birthday yesterday and she loved it and wow that must have taken an age making those flowers.

Well with Mothers day not far away made be you could get a head but i am sure that you could find a female a card. Maybe just a hello thinking of you card for a friend.

Thanks for popping by have a great weekend what ever you are doing.

challenges

a day with daisies - anything goes

seize the birthday - anything goes

craftngbydesigns - anything goes

crafty creations - birthday

I love promarkers - girly

little red wagon - punches

paper shelter - anything goes

word art wednesday - anything goes

Divas by Design is celebrating Boys

Good evening I am here to share with you this weeks challenge for Divas by Design.

Yes they are celebrating the men so 

LET'S HERE IT FOR THE BOYS

So dig out those male papers and stamps and show use your make.

We are sponsored this week by

Craftie Charlie.

So on to my card I have used a Kenny K digital image. I made this for a friends brother who likes a good laugh and will be celebrating his 69th birthday. So inside I wrote to the oldest rocker in town

I coloured my image with promarkers, used star brads and a star die cut in Gold mirri card. 

Some scrim and Black card has been embossed with a clocks folder from Xcut. 

The paper is from stash and a Kraft card blank

Hope you like it is his birthday today and he phoned me to say how much he liked but I had forgotten to add some money to the card. Lol

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges

Fan-Tastic Tuesday - Anything goes 
Ladybug Crafts Ink - For the boys 
Papertake Weekly - Anything goes 
Paper Make-Up Stamps - Anything goes 
Eureka Stamps - Anything goes 

Speedy Fox & Friends - metal (star brads)

KennyK krafty Krew - Anything goes

ANYTHING GOES at Crafty catz

Good evening  have you seen that Crafty Catz is having a challenge that everyone can join in it is.

ANYTHING GOES

so what you waiting for come join us

We have 2 great sponsors this week

prize is 3 digi images of your choice

and

Bunnyzoe's craft 

We where allowed to play with some images from The Stamping Boutique and i picked this fab image of some Poppies which I coloured with my promarkers

I used some freebie papers from a mag and coloured some pearlised card to match the colours with my promarkers. The diecut is from a friend, lace from a local shop and ribbon from crafty ribbons and gems are from Meiflower Crafts.

Well you have till thursday 7pm to link up your creation and you can link up 3 entries too. So hope to see you over there. Thanks for popping by.

Craft is going to the Pictures

Good evening wow weekend here again. I have been looking after my poorly nephew he has a tummy bug so they wont let him in school. He keeps going but they have sent him home twice after a couple of hours. Well he isnt ill so have been wanting to do things so we have been paying board games.

Well that said I am here to share with you details of Crafts challenge.

This week we are going to the pictures and would like to creations

INSPIRED BY A FILM

our sponsors this week are

Inky Impressions

Doctor Digi House of Stamps

Sweet n Sassy

Yours and Mine Papercrafts

CraftsuPrint 

Ok so now onto y card and some inspiration. I am not very go at these because I can never think of a film watch a few but can never remember there name. So when I saw this image from Doctor Digi House of Stamps called Slam Dunk Duncan  It was easy peesy as i remember watching a film that was not a funny as it should have been. Lol. Called Slam Dunk Ernest

I have coloured it with my promarkers and used one of my new dies from Joanna Sheen. The ribbon and the Dp has been in my stash forever

So I hope that you like and maybe saw the film I love the image but not too sure about the film.

Hope you can come join us in the challenge cant wait to see what film you have been watching.

Thanks for popping  and have a great weekend.

Show Us Some Love at Crafty Sentiments

Good afternoon I am a little late with my DT card for Crafty Sentiments where is the week going. It will be Easter and warmer weather before we can blink at this rate. Warmer weather I cant wait for.

Well yesterday saw the start of a fab new challenge again at CRAFTY SENTIMENTS and this week we would like to see some LOVE on your creations

Did you enjoy the sneak peeps we did of the new stamps if you missed them then checkout the Inspiration blog as each day one of the projects will be featured along with details of how they where made.

Well back to the challenge the fab prize on offer to one luck person is 

just think you could get 2 of the fab stamps with this

So now let me show you my little card. 

I did a circle step card using Two Hearts coloured with my promarkers

I used some DP from my scrap pile pearls from meiflower, heart is a marianne die and some punched leaves. Ribbon is organza with some papermania glitter narrow ribbon. Flowers are from stash

So thats my card hope you like I enjoyed making it. So thanks for  popping by and why not hop on over and checkout the teams creations and show them some love.

Also today see the start of a new challenge a Divas which is 

Make it sparkle 

maybe you could combine the 2 challenges.

challenges are

Crafty Catz - Colour Challenge

Good evening i am here to share with you my DT card for Crafty Catz. This week it is Christines turn to pick the theme and she has come up with a colour theme.

So lets see creations with the colours of

GREEN, CREAM and 1 OTHER

Our sponsor this week is 

so onto my card I used a stamp from papermania which i had bought for me as a present (thanks Carol)


I used Pink as my extra colour and my base card is cream. I stamped directly onto the card and coloured the image with my promarkers. Added a few pink gems to finish it off. Embossed a line frame round for a CAS look. This isnt my usual style but enjoyed making it.
Thanks for popping by and hope to see you over at the challenge blog.

Time for a Recipe at CRAFT

Good evening I am here this evening with a quick post to share my DT card for CRAFT. We have a fab challenge for you this week A RECIPE to follow

 Yet again we have some fabulous sponsors with amazing prizes for our winners. 

These are

Crimson Cloud  

DRS Designs  

Crafty Ribbons

My Creative Classroom

So onto my card using a image from DRS Designs called Daffodil butterfly circle

I have used my promarkers to colour and my dies are cut circle and spellbinders scallop circle

Satin ribbon from stash, pearls from meiflower coloured with my promarkers

There is lots of glitter on the butterfly and also round the edge of the printed circle which i am not sure it have been caught on the picture, DP is from my stash and must be about at least 5 years old

Well that is my card hope you like and maybe you will get some time to join us, I do hope so.

Dont forget to pop along and checkout the rest of the girls creations and leave some love.

Thanks for popping by and i will be back tomorrow with another card for you.

Sneak Peep DAY 2 at CRAFTY SENTIMENTS New Release

Good morning are you ready for another sneak peep

Hi I am here today to show you a sneak peep of one of our fab new stamps being released on the 22nd of this month at CRAFTY SENTIMENTS. Head on over to the INSPIRATIONAL BLOG to see what the team have produced with the new stamps which are being snow cased over 3 days and today is day 2 so if you missed yesterdays then have a peeps and catch them. For my creation I have used the new stamp JUST FOR YOU and made a fab bag to hold some yummy chocolates.

Hi I have taken inspiration from my team mate Celine I guess you could say I Challenges

 her last months release here a stunning bag so here is mine.

This is the finished bag

So this is how I made my bag and the products I have used. 

The base is a 7cm box base made with a 3cm scored wall

Then I cut a sheet of vellum to measure 15cms x 30cms and with double sided tape i stuck the vellum to the base along the long side and up as in the picture below

I then coloured my image with my promarkers and cut it out here is a close up of it on the bag

Below i then got all the elements I needed to decorate the bag. some pink gingham ribbon , 2 small scallop circles, 1 xcut oval, 1 Tiffany frame from memory box & flowers from wild orchid

I folded the circles in half and glued to the top as the close and punched 2 holes in each which then is threaded with the satin ribbon and tied into a bow. I mounted the frame onto the oval which had been embossed with birds and swirls cuttlebug folder. I placed the image onto the right hand side and arranged the flowers on the left. Before adding this to the bag I attached the gingham ribbon to the base. Then placed the Image and frame to the centre of the bag to finish. All is left was to fill it with some yummy chocolates.
challenges
penny paper crafty - lots of layers
all crafts challenge - anything but a card
craft your passion - girlie
Lexi s creation - monochrone
trimboscrapmania - monochrone
2sister=embossing

Show Us your Rubber Stamps at Divas by design

Hello i am here to share my DT card for Divas By Design. 

This week we would like to see RUBBER STAMPS ONLY 

yes sorry that means no digi images allowed.

We are sponsored this week by 

So I am sharing with you a card i made with one of my christmas stamps from Lili of the valley. 

I used my Promarkers and lots of glitter for this one and think this will be one I wil reach for time and time again. The DP is from First edition and I used my spellbinder dies for the flowers on pearl and white glitter card Brown card to make the layers and ribbon is from a local shop. Pearls are Mei flowers and the snowflake is a Savvy die. 

Well i hope that you will dig out those rubber stamps and come and join the rest of us. I f you need more inspiration pop over to the challenge blog and checkout the rest of the teams amazing creations.

Thanks for popping by and i will be back  later with not 1 ut 2 cards my Craft DT card and my SNEAKY PEEP of Crafty Sentiments

challenges i would like to enter this card into are

ABC Christmas challenge - diecuts
addicted to stamps - holiday
dig stamps 4joy - diecuts
Paper shelter - punches & dies
penny paper crafty - lots of layers
Holly Jolly christmas - snow

luara loves prom dress book for reference

Laura Love

Hi Stampers! Today I have created a Faux Book Card or sometimes known as a Book Shadow Box. This is the first time I have ever created one of these and I love how it turned out :) 

If you want to create a Faux Book here are the instructions:

Cut the cardstock for your cover at 5 1/4" x 9 1/2" and then score it at 4 1/4" and 5 1/4"

The Designer Paper for the cover is cut at 4" x 5" 

The Designer Paper for the Spine and inside spine is cut at 3/4" x 5"

To create your book pages you will need to cut:

2 cardstock pieces that measure 4" x 10"

2 cardstock pieces that measure 5" x 10"

You are going to score all four of these every 1/2" to the very end.

To create the book pages - take each piece and accordion fold these back and forth - be sure

to use your bone folder between each fold to get nice, crisp folds.

After you have the piece all folded - sponge the edges with ink if you wish.

Then take one long piece and one short piece and "marry" them so they make a right angle, 

sliding them together so the pages alternate. Glue the outside flaps to hold the pages in place.

Add the other long and short end to create your book pages, gluing each outside flap together

until you have a full rectangle. 

Place your decorated insert onto the inside back cover and then glue your book pages over it.

To create the decorated top of the pages, just cut strips of cardstock and punch one edge.

Glue down on top of the book pages, miter the corners of the two top strips in you wish.

Then just decorate as you want!

Lady In Red at Crafty Catz & GDT Call

Wow where did that week go it is Friday already and we had great fun checking out all you love projects at CRAFTY CATZ. This week we have a great challenge set by our boss Carol and she would like to see 

Lady in Red

so that means ladies and Red as your main colour

Our sponsors for this weeks challenge is

MEI FLOWER CRAFT  & RICK ST DENNIS 

head on over to the blog for details of the prizes and inspiration from the team with images from Rick St Dennis also this week we are looking for March's GDT

 close up of the image coloured with my promarkers

Ribbon is also from our other sponsor Meiflower they have some amazing ribbon. Flowers from stash and brad is a Dovecraft with metal mesh behind to tie in with the mirri card. The Dp is Basic Grey sultry

Well now you can head on over and grab some inspiration from the challenge blog and do hope that we see your blog linked up there is 2 amazing prizes I wish I could enter. thanks for popping by and have a great weekend what ever you are doing. My son is off Sunday so think it will be a full house with his girlfriend and her son visiting. Bye for now and check back soon as Crafty Sentiments have a new release on the 22nd and we will be doing sneak peeps very soon.

challenges

sister art challenge - anything goes

paper pretties - red pink and white

Not Elvis it is Christmas - Craft Dt Card

Hi hope you all survived the winds without too much trouble. My son had a little accident with a tree and his car came off a lttle battered but not too bad so will see how much out of pocket it cost us. 

Well on a lighter note today is Thursday so see the start of a new challenge at CRAFT and this week it is our monthly CHRISTMAS challenge

So dig out your christmas papers stamps digi or rubber and come and join us.

Sponsors offering amazing prizes are

Flonzcraft , Lacy Sunshine Stamps, QKR Stampede, LEJ Designs

we where lucky to be given the chance to pick some images and i picked this fab fun image from QKR called  Need more Elves

 close up of image coloured with my promarkers

DP ,ribbon and mirri card from stashand a simple layout as the image takes centre stage. Stamp is a old stamp i have had since I started crafting

well that my card and now it is your turn hope to see you over there and with this cold weather a good excuse to stay warm and craft.

Thanks for popping by and stay safe where ever you live.

challenges
Crimbo crackers - santa
challenges 4 everybody - anything goes

Buttons OR Bows Bookmark - Crafty Sentiments

Good morning wow seems ages since I posted. My cold cough and tummy are a lot better and have managed to get my pens out so am here with my DT project for CRAFTY SENTIMENTS. Our challenge for you this week is a nice easy one that you can add to any project male or female so no excuse not to join us, it is .................... BUTTONS OR BOWS

so we are expecting lots of entries so come join us.

The prize on offer this week is

With the weather so bad here in the Uk I wanted to use some bright colours and maybe bring spring on a little quicker. So i have made a book mark using this fab stamp called A Good Book. Click on the name and it will hop you to the shop page with it on. 

The Dp is from a scrapbook pad i got from a local shop, The fab butterfly Die cut is my latest buy isnt it great i think i will be using it alot. Some fab yellow narrow satin ribbon accross the bookmark tied into a neat little bow. Just a few pearls and the words are from a Anna Griffin stamp set.

Well hope you like my project and can come and join us dont forget to read our rules to get extra entries into our prize. Thanks for popping by and stay safe and warm.

challenges i would like to enter this into are

crafty ribbon - anything goes
make itmonday - anything goes
come and get it - make it girlie
sisters act card - anything goes
stampin for the weekend - anything but a card

It is Recipe Time at CRAFTY SENTIMENTS

Good evening a quick post from me before I go back to my bed. Oh roll on February hopefully my health will improve I am now full of a cough and flu symptoms so am taking the beachams.

So having said that sorry for not visiting you but will do so asap.

Today sees a new challenge at Crafty Sentiments and thankfully i made this a few weeks ago. This week we have a RECIPE for you to follow

1 image

2 patterned papers

3 different embellishments

We have an amazing prize for one lucky entry this fab stamp

welcome little one

so onto my card I using Cheers

My Dp is fairytale. embellishments are lace, ribbon  & gems. Image coloured with my promarkers.

Well I hope you can come and join us this week and dont forget to add 3 after your name if you are a follower of the inspiration blog or use a crafty sentiments image or 6 if you do both.

Thanks for popping by and hopefully i will be back with you shortly.

Mid challenge reminder for Crafty catz with Delicious Doodles In monochrone chron

Good morning I am here with a quick reminder of our challenge at CRAFTY CATZ and my card for your inspiration. This week it is the lovely Naomi turn to host and pick the theme. So what does she have for you non other than

MONOCHRONE

yes you will be allowed to use hair and skin colours but the rest should be Monochrone.

So our sponsor for this challenge is the fab

DELICIOUS DOODLES 

who kindly allowed us to play with some of their images

so with that said here is my card for your inspiration I do hope you like and yes another christmas card for my box

 

I printed the image in blue and added lots of glitter not sure if it shows up so hard to take pictures of it. Added a touch of cream  on the post box to tie in with the cream pearl base card and my colours are blue and grey. Adding grey and blue pearls and blue and grey card

A simple layout to allow the image to take centre stage.

Well hope you like and will find time to join us you have till 7pm uk time thursday to link your card and you can even enter 3 cards in this is your thing.

Thanks for popping by and I will be back soon with some for your eyes.

Bye for now