CRAFTY SENTIMENTS SNEAK PEEP New Release - Lemonade Sunday

Good morning hope your day is filled with sunshine.

 Have you been following the Sneak Peeps from Crafty Sentiments well if you have missed any just checkout the Crafty Sentiments Inspirational Blog where you will find todays along with the last 2 days and links to all the team members posts for further information.

Today i am bring you my card I made with the fab new stamp LEMONADE SUNDAYwhich you will be able to buy along with all the rest tomorrow from our shop here

 sideview showing the shelf

 close up of the fab stamp

I am not too sure what you would call the card i sort of made it like a step card but wanted the image to stand proud but still fit the envelope. I call it a shelf card if you have seen something like this and it has a .name please share I am sure someone else will have made one like it before. The front folds flat and the top of the image lies in line with the top of the card when folded. I tend to stick the bottom down first and line the top up before sticking the front top.

The stamp has been coloured with my Promarkers and I wanted to use yellow to tie in with the Lemonade. The clouds have been done with distressed ink. The papers are first edition I so love these pads as most of the papers have gltter on them and are such good quality. The sentiment stamp is one i picked up from a craft fayre some time ago with no name. Some lovely wide yellow organza ribbon to finish off. The banner is a signature die from joanna sheen and i have cut 3 of them a base on and 2 in DP to lay onto the top. These papers are from the first CD which you can purchase at the shop.

Well I am sure you will agree that she is a cutie and checkout the rest over at the inspirational blog. I think this is one of my fave new releases and i think I want them all.

Dont forget you can buy the tomorrow

Thanks for popping by and see you tomorrow for another creation. leave me a comment so i know you have called. Have a great day.

challenges
A random fan - anything goes
papertake weekly - oh so cute
passion for promarkers -use your diecuts (banner cut 3 times, flower to mount the sentiment and a circle xcut for the sentiment
top tip tuesday - here comes summer (tip rub a glue stick along your double sided tape this allows you to move layers if not quite straight before drying)
cutie pie challenge - cute and bling ( papers have lots of glitter on)

Crafty Sentiments - Space Oddity - Inspired by a Song

Good morning we have a brilliant challenge for you this week set by the lovely Jac at Crafty Sentiments.
She would like to see creations
 INSPIRED BY A SONG

Our prize this week for one lucky person is

I have used this fab stamp called Space Walking which you will find in the store here. My song is by David Bowie Space Oddity his reminded me of the word Ground Control to Major Tom

 Here is a close up of the stamp coloured with Promarkers

I have used a embossing folder and then coloured it with my distress inks, mica gold spray and dylusions. The die cuts are a Joanna Sheen star burst die & an Xcut oval for the stamp. Star gems and some silver organza ribbon, Black, Blue and Mirri card. This is a 8x8inch card
Have you seen the fab new release checkout the inspirational blog as we will be showing the stamps over 3 days and they will be available to purchase on the 22nd . I think I dont just want them all I NEED them they are just the cutest and think are my fave so far.
I will be back tomorrow with my sneak peep so hope you will pop back tomorrow.
Also we are still taking pre orders till 27th for the next fab CD over at the shop

challenges i would like to enter this into are
artistic inspiration - punches and dies
crafting from the heart - anything goes
cutie pie challenge - cute & Bling
incy wincy designs - embossing and bling
the paper nest dolls challenge - anything goes
addicted to stamps - inspired by a song
challenges 4 everybody - anything goes
scribble and scrap - anything goes
stamping sensation - anything goes
the squirrel & fox - girls

Crafty Sentiments Sneak Peeps

Good morning folks I just wanted to let you know that Crafty Sentiments have sneak peeps on their Inspirational Blog for the next three days. So head on over and checkout the amazing creations and if you pop back here on 21st I will have mine. Remember you will be able to purchase them all from the 22nd.

Also we are taking pre orders till 27th for the next Cd over in the shop checkout it is all about the boys

It is all about Sports

Good evening so sorry i forgot to post my DT card for CRAFTY CATZ and have been making the most of the lovely Sunshine. My garden has had a haircut and even done some weeding and must say alot of my shrubs have been sorted and looking much better. If the weather holds i might even manage to paint the shed this week.

Well back to why i am posting. Friday was the start of a new challenge at CRAFTY CATZ and this week we are getting fit with SPORTS. So lets see lots of creations featuring sports.

Our sponsor for this challenge is the fab digital company KENNY K.

So fancy winning some fab images then just join in and you could be the winner. So onto my card which I have used a fab image from our sponsor

i used my promarkers to colour the image and used my dies to cut the letters to spell out the words Score and Goal in satin mirri which i then coloured with my promarkers which gave a lovely satin effect to them. The backing paper is from Dovecraft pad which had these fab squares and rectangles all with faux stitching.

Well thats it hope you like and come and play along with us this week.

Thanks for popping by
creative romance - one for the boys
left of centre creative challenge - card for male
Qkr stampade - use dies
Sisters act cards - anything goes
Wags n whiskers - one for the boys
Penny paper craft - anything goes
stampavie and more - boys

Christmas in May with Craft and my blog Hop winner

Good afternoon omg it is Friday where did Wednesday and Thursday go. Well as I am a little late ok what is new at the minute i will get onto it. Yesterday saw the start of a new challenge at CRAFT and also we announced the winners of the hop. So with that I will announce my winner first then get onto the challenge.

Winning 3 images of choice from her shop, the winner is:

Mags  

So Mags please get in touch with Jo details are on the challenge blog along with more of the winners from the rest of the team.

Now this week as my title says we are celebrating Christmas if you have been joining us you should be getting a few ready for the rush.

Our sponsors this week are

 Kenny K Downloads

Sweet Stamps

Sami Stamps

Digital Delights

checkout the blog for details of prizes

So now onto my card I used a image from Kenny K called Christmas Greeting and used Tradtional Colours for this one

 and a close up of the fab image coloured with promarkers

Dp is from last year think is papermania has a lovely glittered appearence. Ribbon from stash ivy die is for the corners are joanna sheen and a few gems to bling it up.

Well hope you like my card and can find time to come and join us in another fab challenge with lots to win.

Thanks for popping by

challenges

4 Krafty Girlz - anything goes
crafty ribbons - anything goes
Crimbo Cracker - festive red
penny paper craft - anything goes
ladybug crafts inks - anything goes
passion for promarkers - no sentiment

Anything BUT A Card how about Nappies

Good afternoon I am so late with this post life just gets in the way of our hobbies. Wednesday saw another challenge aT Divas By Designs and Rebekah has set us a cracker of a challenge

ANYTHING BUT A CARD

Our fab sponsor this week is..

Craft Bag

and there is a chance at a fab voucher from them to win!!!

Well a friend recently gave birth to a little boy 'Welcome Little Freddie'

So i decided I would make a Nappy Cake now I havent done one of these for about 5 years and wondered if i could remember how to do it

Just 1 packet of nappies, toys bottle, dummies,bibs, vests,blanket and muslin, nappy pins and anything else you can find to add to it.

well hope you like as much as my friend. She didnt know i had made it and when she got home from hospital was trilled to bits and refused to dismantle it till the family had seen it.

Well thanks for popping by checkout the rest of the teams creations
simple create too - anything but a card
sisterhood of crafters - babies
ladybug craft ink - anything goes

Colour Challenge & GDT CALL

Good morning from a very WET & Cold Manchester hope it dries up as dog has his legs crossed.
Well weekend is round the corner so that means time for another CRAFTY CATZ challenge and this week it is the lovely Nina's turn to pick our challenge and we also have a GDT call for June.
So what has Nina for us this week well a colour challenge of
BLACK WHITE & ONE OTHER COLOUR

Mei Flower are sponsoring us this week with a great giveaway. 

We  also have another fabulous sponsor Delicious Doodles

So what colour did I pick to add to my image from our sponsor Delicious Doodles. 

YELLOW

 close up of image coloured with promarkers

view of the card lay down hopefully you can see the glitter

Dp from my stash from many moons ago think might be dovecraft. Papermania ribbon and bow the ribbon with the sequins on is from hobbycraft. whispers stamp for sentiment. Die mount for the image and glitter in yellow/gold

Well that my little thank you card think it is always nice to have a stock thank you card.

Thanks for popping by checkout the teams creations and hope to see you entering. Don't forget the GDT call if you fancy joining us next month.

Have a great weekend. Off to walk the dog before it rains again 

CRAFT BIRTHDAY HOP

Happy Birthday To Us

Happy Birthday To Us

Happy Birthday Dear CRAFT Challenge

Happy Birthday To Us!

Can you believe it? CRAFT Challenge is already 5 years old. Originally started by Tracy from Just Tracy Crafts and with a DT mostly recruited from Trimcraft forum members (Hence the term CRAFT Challenge, which stood for Crafters Residing Are Friendly Trimmies. Or if you wished alternative meaning of Can't Remember A Flipping Thing) on the 4^th of May 2009.

We have now grown to be a large team of Design Team Members from all around the world, supplemented with lots of Guest Designers who join us for a month at a time.

We have always welcomed all kinds of craft, not just paper craft (unless specifically stated so in the challenge at the time) and are happy to have such a large group of faithful followers.

So, how are we going to celebrate this milestone?

Well, how else can we celebrate than to have our yearly Blogaversary Blog Hop?

We all feature one of our sponsors for this blog hop on our blogs and I have the honour of featuring and offering a prize from the following sponsor. You can win this prize by adding your name to Inlinkz at the end of this post. I would love to see your comments as well.

Lacy Sunshine Stamps

Prize is 3 images of choice from her shop.

How can you get to win any of the prizes provided by our sponsors?

That is easy! Just follow the route on our blog hop (you can also find that in our side banner), Our Blog Hop lasts for the duration of this challenge, which means a closing time of Wednesday 6pm GMT on the 14^th of May 2014.

And here are our little rules for this challenge/blog hop:

• Our challenge this week is Birthday
• Create something with this in mind
• Add your project to our Inlinkz below to be in with a chance of 3 digital stamps from Lacy Sunshine Stamps
• Follow the route of the Blog Hop
• Add your project to the Inlinkz at each of these stops to be in with a chance of winning the prize advertised on that blog
• Collect the words on this and the blogs on the blog hop
• Form a sentence with these words
• Return to our challenge blog and put your winning sentence in our comments under the post.
• We will choose a winner randomly from the correct answers entered, who will win a special Blog Hop pack by Trimgym's Digistamps and Images
• We will enable comment moderation for the duration of this challenge/blog hop to ensure there is no cheating, lol.
• And the main rule: HAVE FUN!

What can you win on our challenge blog?

1. The winner of the winning sentence wins

And here is my project for this week, hope you like it. I have used an image from Lacy Sunshine 

Daisy Delite from the pinup collection 

 close up of card

 Close up of gift bag

image coloured with promarkers,
 DP is K & Co, flowers are Paper Clay, Satin Ribbon , Gems

And now for our Blog Hop route:

CRAFT Challenge Blog (you should have started here)

Abby (you should have come from here)

Aunty Sue (you are here now)
Carol (you should go here next)

Deborah

Elisa

Helen

Jeanette

Jo
Marlene

Monica
Saskia

Silvi

Sparkle and Glitter

Sujin

CRAFT Challenge Blog (you should have returned here at the end of the hop)

And here is the word to be collected on this blog:  CHALLENGE

Your next stop is Carol's blog. Enjoy the rest of your hop! Don't forget to add your name to Inlinkz below to be in with a chance of winning the prize on my blog.

Mr Linky

crafty sentiments anything goes

Good evening hope you are having a good day the weather has been good here and been busy busy so i am sorry this is a little late but this morning we at CRAFTY SENTIMENTS  started a new challenge. Also we have 2 new members starting with us this week so please pop along and show them some love.

Well this week our challenge is every ones favourite

ANYTHING GOES

and look what a fab prize we have for one lucky person this cute stamp

So onto my card and i have also done the inside to co ordinate with the front. The image and papers are all from CD 1 which you can order from the shop.

The image is a pre coloured image and used these fab papers.

close up of the image with some glitter added round the image and a little gem for the flower centre

I  added some ribbon from a local shop and a little red rose

Kept the inside simple with just a Happy Birthday and the image in the corner

There is so much on the CD you will be spoilt for choice as to which to do first. We also have a 2nd Cd coming out really soon so checkout the website for further details.

So i hope you will come and join us in our ANYTHING GOES challenge and dont forget to read the rules on how to get extra entries with your creation.

Thanks for popping by and i will be back Thursday with another card and a blog hop

ANYTHING BUT SQUARE at Crafty Catz

Hi gosh where has the week gone and it is a short week next week with another Banks Holiday. We are a 3rd of the way through the year it will be Christmas before you know it. Well before I depress you anymore let me tell you about this weeks challenge at CRAFTY CATZ. 

This weeks challenge has been set by Naomi and she would like to see ANYTHING BUT SQUARE.

So dig out those shapes and come and join us.

This week we are sponsored by 

BUGABOO

So onto my card.

  and a close up of the image from the Sun bonnet collection

Image coloured with promarkers, First Edition papers, Base card has been cut with a Nestie. Sentiment is also from Bugaboo. Image has been cut with a scallop nestie and Xcut Circle. Flowers has been made with Martha Stewart Clay, Ribbon from stash.

Simple layout again to show off the image

Well thanks for popping by and hope to see you over at the challenge blog. Checkout our new GDT and give her a big welcome. Have a good weekend and Yeepee it is a long one.

7kids college fund -anything goes
crafting by design - anything goes
little red wagon - diy flowers (tiny flowers made with paperclay
paper shelter - ribbon
whimsey inspiration - anything goes
crafty ribbons - anything goes
milk coffee - bright colours

Make Your own Embellishment at CRAFT

Good evening I am here with a quick post before i go off to bed. Today saw the start of a fab challenge at CRAFT and this week we would like to see lots of handmade embellishments. So lets see lots of creativity.

Our sposnors for this challenge are

Wags n Whiskers

Sassy Studio Designs

 Stitchy Bear Stamps

LEJ Designs

Details of prizes are on the challenge blog along with lots of inspiration from the team

I was lucky enough to be able to pick a image from a sponsor and I picked 'Maxi Skirt Mamms2' by Sassy Studio Designs

 and a close up of my main embellishment i made a nappy for the new baby

Image coloured with promarkers, The papers are all downloads sorry not sure where from have had them from when i first started crafting, The die cut shapes are quickuts, the butterfly is metal mesh which i made and the dummy & ribbon is from meiflower. Sentiment is a clear stamp.

Well a simpe layout and hope you like. I do hope you can come and join us cant wait to see what embellishments you make. Thanks for popping by and dont forget to pop along and checkout the rest of the teams creations.

crafty ribbon - anything goes with ribbon
little miss muffet - anything goes
Sassy studio - bright
Crafting for all seasons - lots of layers
Handmade harbor - happy day
hobbybrook designer - add a sentimnet
inky impressions= anything goes

April Showers at Divas By Design

Good morning I am here to share with you my DT card for Divas By Design. This week our challenge is.....   

APRIL SHOWERS  

We are sponsored by 

So onto my Card I have gone with a old stamp from The Anya Set which I haven't used for some time which is a shame as it is a lovely set.

here is a close up of the image i coloured with my promarkers

I paper pieced the coat and umbrella  and also used the same paper behind the Martha Stewart and also the flowers and leaves i punched. I used a monochrome effect with my card. The flowers are Marianne die cuts . Dps are all from stash.Lace is from a local shop and the black narrow ribbon is velvet. Stampin up metal embellishment clip a few pearls for the flower centre and along the bottom. The layout is from Sketch n stash

Well hope you have enjoyed your visit and why not pop over to the blog and checkout the rest of the teams amazing creations for your inspiration and hope that you will find some time to join us this week.

Thanks for popping by

challenges

Sketch n stash - layout

Aurora wings - montochrone

The papernest doll = anything goes

brown sugar - anything goes

fussy and fancy - lace and pearls

graphic colour challenge - greys

CCEE Stampers - april showers

shellys images - april showers
Crafting By designs - anything goes
Natlie & amy - rubber stamping

Dayna's Birthday

Hello I am here today to show this little Birthday card.  

I made it with Dayna - Birthday from the April Release which you can find in the shop here
I have made this for the Inspirational Blog where each day one of the team shares one of their projects.
I wasnt able to join them in the Hop showing the April release and loved all the projects so jumped at making a card with this cute little elephant.

 Here is a close up of the image coloured with promarkers

Materials i have used are

A 6x6 inch card blank matted with blue card and Mirri card

The Designer Papers and Sentiment are both from the CD which you can find in the shop as well.

Finishing touches of Gems and Organza Ribbon,

Kept the layout simple to show off this cute image which I am sure you agree makes a fab birthday card.

Thanks for popping by. Why not pop along to the shop and checkout the rest of the cute images in our recent release and other collections we have for you including pre order this 2nd CD

 

challenges i would like to enter this into

Challenges 4 everybody - anything goes

Ditzie  digi designs - anything goes

Glitter & sparkle - Ribbon

Scribble & scrap- anything goes

Storyteller - birthday

A Gem of a challenge - cute and cuddly

Kitty Bee Designs - animals

Totally Gorjuss - cuddly

Brown Sugar - anything goes

QKR =card for a young boy