Eyes Down Look In

Happy Thursday well it has been so cold today here but the sun has now appeared so fingers crossed it will warm up slightly. I am here to share with you my DT card for CREATIVE INSPIRATIONS and this week it is 

BINGO

here is the grid so pick a line and add to your project and go link up

The winner will get the chance to work with us for the whole month of June so if you fancy having ago.

So here is my card and i have used the top line. PINK GLITTER & PEARLS

This was a commissioned card for a friend for her granddaughter who loves Pink and I was told it had to be pink girlie and NO flowers.

DP is first editions. Diecut letters. Viva Pearls. Sizzix die . Image Samping Bella coloured with promarkers. Xcut ovals, Feather and diecut parcel, Glitter on the dress

This is a 8x8 card and she liked it and now would like another for her neice but I might have to use a different image.

So with a bank holiday approaching fingers crossed you can grab a few hours to come and join our challenge. Link up and someone will be on there way.

Thanks for popping by I will be back shortly with my Craft challenge card.

Challenges
Sketch N Stash - layout
Passion for promarkers - anything goes

Flat Friends Friendship at Divas By Design

Good evening have you all had a good day the weather has been kind to us today. Wednesday so half way through the week and Monday is a Bank Holiday and the start of the childrens school holidays.

Well today sees the start of a new challenge at Divas for Designs.

It is not my week but as I wanted a card for a friend thought that had i not been on the team I would be entering the challenge so here it is.

Challenge theme is FRIENDSHIP

sponsored by Flat Friends who allowed us to use some of their images.

So now onto my card  for your inspiration.

I coloured the image with my promarkers. Made some buntings and the sentiment is a computer generated. The card stands by tucking the image under the brad. The meshing is from a friend. Dovecraft brads

 Now it is your turn I do hope that you will come and join us we are ready to pop along and have a eep.

Thanks fpr popping by
challenge-
Stamp and Create - Colour Challenge
Bearly Mine - anything goes
Passion for promarkers- anything goes

3 - 2 - 1 At Crafty Catz

Good morning to you all sending Cyber hugs to my Ex Team mate Jill who has hard a hard week and also Teamie and Crazy Lady Sassy who is struggling with her health so hope that this week coming is much brighter for you both.

Ok I am late with my DT card for Crafty Catz had a very busy week so apology for not getting round to see you all with try a little harder. Oh my son starts his new job on Monday so that will be fun as it is early starts for him from now so will be under my feet in the morning but will be home for his teas so guess i will have to go on a diet very soon.

This week we have a great challenge nearly as easy as anything goes it is

 3 - 2 - 1 

this was Jills turn to pick but as she left us recently with some personal problems after only a short stay with us and we miss her stunning creations we wanted to keep the challenge and celebrate her...

So make your creation with something on it that has 3 items and something else that has 2 items and lastly something else that is on its own

I picked 

3 buttons, 2 papers & 1 image

Our sponsor for this challenge is 

Crimson cloud with a fab prize of 3 packs of die cuts so that another 3

So here is my card for your inspiration I have to admit that this has been made for a while and i kept it for this challenge it is my Brothers Brithday card and i bought the stamp purely for the saying which came with it as this is his fave saying

Buttons are Papermania , sentiment circle is a whimsy stamp but the centre is another stamp that came with the stamp. The stamp is from  Lady Bug Crafts Inks coloured with my promarkers. Dp is Bo Bunny pad. gems from Mei Flower and the used my nesties label die. The card is from the papermill. 

Ok a nice easy challenge so i am hoping you can fit it into your busy lives.

Thanks for popping by I have my washer waiting for me to switch on but we have some black clouds so think it might be sitting waiting for a while.

I do hope the weather brightens up as one of my friends Jules from docrafts is going to her daughters wedding. Congrats to the happy couple.

Challenges i would like to enter this card into are as follows.

Christmas In May & Blog Hop Winner

Good evening yippee it is weekend have you got anything nice planned. Hope we get some nice weather need to get my grass cut in the back and do some weeding.

Well we had a nice time hopping over and checking out your blogs with our Challenge at Craft and hope you all enjoyed the hop. So before I tell you about this weeks challenge I would like to announce the winner of my Sponsors Prize of 2 images from

Jannette D 

Please pop over to the blog for details of how you can claim your prize and if you entered any of the blogs then pop along and checkout as we have tried to give the prizes out to all that entered.

The sentence was

A SPECTACULAR HOP

hint was should have gone to SPEC savers

Now onto this weeks challenge and it is that time of month again.

CHRISTMAS IN MAY

so grab those christmas stamps , papers and embellishments and get crafty.

Our sponsors for this challenge are

Sponsor 1:  Doodle Dragons

The prize for winner 1 is $10 download from their site.

Sponsor 2: Gingerloft

The prize for winner 2 is 3 images of choice from her shop.

Sponsor 3: Trimgym's Digistamps and Images 

The prize for winner 3 is their choice of either

• 3 digistamps OR 
• 2 easel card sheets/card kits OR
• 1 paperpack OR
• 2 3D decoupage sheets OR
• 1 box card kit of the winners choice from my digistamp blog.
  Sponsor 4: Eiglas

  
  The prize for winner 1 is any download from her site to a value of £10.00.

  
  

  
  

  Now onto my card for your inspiration

  (using 'Santa Choo Choo' by Doodle Dragons Studios)
  
  

    

  DP are from my stash and ribbon from Meiflower. Green Peel off sentiment, Gold mirri card

   Well now it is your turn I hope you can come and join us .

  Thanks for popping by. Dont forget to pop by the challenge blog and checkout the rest of the teams creations.

  
  

2 DT Challenges 1 card so lets get Shapey with Magnolia

Good evening hope you are all well and did you get chance to join the blog hop at Craft this week. 

Well as i am late posting this I will get quickly onto it. I have had a busy week and so I have combined both my DT challenges as they both went hand in hand. Maybe you could combine them with the chance of 2 great prizes that are up for grabs

Firstly this week at CREATIVE INSPIRATIONS we are going MAGNOLIA MAD as Caroline has asked us to use JUST MAGNOLIA IMAGES.

The sponsor of this challenge is and prize is 4 DIE CUT PACKS OF THE WINNERS CHOICE!

Then we have DIVAS FOR DESIGN and they would like to see 

SHAPE IT UP only shape cards are allowed

check out the challenge blogs for more details

So what did I do well I used this fab image of Tilda in her cowgirl outfit and re modeled this card to be a cowgirl boot which I think Tilda looks happy say on dont you.

close up of the image

I have used distressed ink of the hammer card to show off the grain in the card. Ribbon from a friend,wool, Wooden flower and leaf from the range coloured with inks. Eyelets, Gems and Happy Birthday Peel Off.
So now it is over to you hope you can come and play along with us this week. Remeber to call back tomorrow as we will have another challenge DT card for you.
Challenges

Anything Goes at Crafty Catz

Happy weekend hope the weather improves gosh what a difference last weekend we had lovely warm sunshine and now cold wind and rain.
Well what better time to join us at Crafty catz and our lovely birthday girl Sassy has picked our theme of Any Thing Goes for you. so no excuses not to link your creations up to our challenge.
Our sponsor this week is KennyK and we got to play with some of there fab digi images. checkout the rest of the teams creations to.

So knto my card for this week. I coloured it up with my promarkers.

the inside and now a close up of the image

I have used Basic Grey papers and ribbon from a local shop. liquid pearls. layout is from sketch n stash.
so now it is your turn you can enter just the once but can link to as many challenges as you like so i do hope to see you over there and maybe if you win you might pick this image as one of your prizes.
thanks for popping by and dont forget that Craft has there birthday hop on all this week. see my post below for details.
Challenges i would like to enter this into
Jellypark challenges - girly
Sister Art Card -Anything goes
Wags n Whiskers - girly birthday
Charisma cardz - black & white plus 1 - red
Paper crafting journey = anything goes
Whimsy stamps - anything goes
Sketch n stash - layout

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CRAFT & BLOG 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 4 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.

Saturated Canary

Prize: 2 images of choice from Saturated Canary

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 15^th of May 2013.

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 on our Challenge blog to be in with a chance of being one of our Top3 and win a prize from Karen's Doodles
• 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 letters on this and the blogs on the blog hop
• Form a sentence with these letters
• Return to our challenge blog and put your winning sentence in our comments under the post.
• 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 My Memories Suite 4, amazing software, for free.

Everyone else can also get this software with a $10 discount. Just follow the links to My Memories.com orMy Memories Suite 4 and use ourcode in the discount box on purchasing this software you get a fabulous $10 off this software. That is not to be sneezed at.

In order to get $10 off this great software, copy and paste our code

STMMMS98952

and enter it in the discount slot while purchasing this software. It will take it automatically off the purchase price. It is however only valid for this software and nothing else!

2. Our Top3 this week will win a prize from Karen's Doodles

• Top3, 1 : 3 images of choice
• Top3, 2 : 2 images of choice
• Top3, 3 : 1 image of choice

You should have come here from CRAFT Challenge Blog and as you can see your next stop is Carol's blog. The start and finish of this blog hop are at CRAFT Challenge Blog.

And here is my project for this week, hope you like it. I have used

 Close up of image

Ingredients

Dovecraft papers, image coloured with promarkers, silver miri card, Memory Box Star wreath die, computer generated sentiments.

List of challenges I would like to enter this into

Crafty Creations - something old(papers) something new(Die)
Penny's paper Crafty - punches & dies
Whimsy stamps - anything goes
Crafty Sentiments - use a sentiment
Papertake weekly - anything goes
Passion for promarkers - birthday
Lexi's creations - birthday
One stitch at a time - anything goes
Sketch Saturday - layout
Joanna sheen - music & lyrics

And now for our Blog Hop route:

CRAFT Challenge Blog

Aunty Sue (you are here)

Carol

Divya (GDT)

Evie

Hazel (from Rick St Dennis MFA)

Jeanette

Jo

Judy (GDT)

Lyndsay (from LEJ Designs)

Nikki

Rachel (GDT)

Rick St Dennis (yes the man himself!)

Saskia

Sharon

Sheryl

Sylvia

Trimgym's Digistamps and Images

Wenche (GDT)

CRAFT Challenge Blog

And here is the letter to be collected on this blog:

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.

Good Luck and thanks for popping by hope to see you over at the blog. There is lots to see for inspiration.

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Time for a Sketch - Creative Inspirations - Stamp fairy

Good evening half way though the week and it is a short week with the bank holiday hope you all had a lovely sunny time. Wednesday brings a new challenge for you at CREATIVE INSPIRATIONS and this week our Nat has one of her fab sketches for you to play with.

Our sponsor this week is The Stamp Fairy who kindly allowed us to play with some images. They are giving the winner a $10 gift certificate to there store which has some fab images waiting to be played with.

So here is the sketch remember you can flip re size but we must be able to see the sketch. I have flipped the sketch myself. So here is my card for your inspiration.

 close up of image coloured with promarkers

 close up of the black butterfly - memory box

Dp is K&Co, memory box butterfly die, pearl, gem brad, Black gems, 

Ribbon from stash, card from the papermill

Well now it is over to you hope that you can come and join us again this week. Thanks for popping by dont forget we have a Anything Goes which you could combine this with at Divas for Design and also tomorrow see the start of Craft Birthday Blog Hop. Links to thes challenges are on my sidebar.

Challenges I would like to enter this into are

It's My Party and I will cry if I want to

Good morning well just the birds are still singing and the washing is blowing nicely on the line. Oh it is Friday so that means we are about to start the weekend and hey ho it is a Bank Holiday here in the UK. Shame so many shops open so lots of people have to work them. Guess gone are the days when Bank Holidays meant spending the time with Family if nice maybe a picnic at the local park.

Well what ever you get up to maybe you have time for a challenge. If so CRAFTY CATZ challenge starts to day and the title of my post may look strange but it a song do you remember it. 

The lovely talented Nina got to pick and she would like you to create a card 

INSPIRED BY A SONG

We have 2 sponsors this week

 Lili of the Valley

and 

J & C Creations

2 great prizes up for grabs  so before you skip off to hum your song and dig out your images let me show you my card. I just love this song by Lesley Gore although I did have to look up her name could i think of it when I needed it but gosh I could sing the words. Ok I wont as we have sun and i dont want it raining.

I used one of my neglected Lili of the valley stamp but I do love the attitude this little one has. Dont people know that the party girl gets her way.

Close up of the image

I have used papermania paper. Coloured the image with promarkers and used distressed inks on the edge of the card. Diecut flowers. Ribbon from stash. Papermania sentiment.

Ok a nice and easy challenge one you can sing along to so pop on over and checkout
Crafty Ribbons
the other girls have been singing.

Thanks for popping by and have a wonderful weekend I am going visiting a friend so looking forward to a good natter.

Challenges
Crafting Musketeers - anything goes
Crafty Ribbons - anything with ribbons
Delightful challenges - add a ribbon
Fab n funky - lots of pink
Celebrate the occassion - anything goes

Craft DT Card - #205 STITCHING

Yes 2 quick post from me if you are looking for my creative inspirations it is the below with the details of this weeks Divas by Design challenge.

Well I am her to share with you my card for Craft this week. Yes the theme may be challenging it is STITCHING but before you pull out your hair as I did trying to get my machine to play ball so dont look to closely at the stitching you can do FAUX  or REAL STITCHING.

We have another fab set of sponsors for you so lots to win

LEJ Designs

The prize for winner 1 is 3 digis of choice from her site.

Stitchy Bear Stamps

The prize for winner 2 is a $10 USD Gift Voucher good on the three creators on our rotation this month  within the Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps Shop.

My Heart Pieces
IkesArt
Beary Dust Stamps  

 Trimgym's Digistamps and Images 

The prize for winners 3 and 4 is their choice of either

• 3 digistamps OR 
• 2 easel card sheets/card kits OR
• 1 paperpack OR
• 2 3D decoupage sheets OR
• 1 box card kit of the winners choice from my digistamp blog.
  
  
  Ok so now you know what you can win let me show you my card for your inspiration and dont forget to pop along to the challenge blog for lots of fab inspiration.
  I used a Stitchy Bear image coloured with my promarkers this is one of my fave images from them. He looks so cute with so much  cake mixture all over think this was me yesterday making a banana cake.
  
  
  
  Here is a close up of the image
  
  
  Dp is from Making Moments and Papermania. Ribbon from local shop. Whispers Birthday stamp, Candy Dots
  So now it is your turn to go and play and hope that you can find some time this weekend as it is a Bank Holiday here in the uk so maybe a extra day off.
  Thanks for popping by.
  Oh I see I won at Penny's with my 1st Dt card for Divas by Design. Must dash off to Costco and dog walk and be back for 3 will i do it if I dont hit traffic.
  Catch you later.
  Moving along with the times - one for the boys
• Sassy studio - its all about hats
• Penny Paper Crafts - animals
  
  Ruby's rainbow - furry friends
  Sisterhood of crafters - anything goes
  Crafty Sentiments the letter B- bear, baking, blue,bowl, birthday
  Cards for men - animals
  Sketch n stamp - layout

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US WE ARE 5

Good morning what a lovely start to the day we are having here in manchester. the Sun is shining and the birds are singing to the annoyance of my dog who thinks he can catch them  when will he learn they can fly.

Well who is US you may be thinking well. It is CREATIVE INSPIRATIONS 5TH BIRTHDAY

So what better way than to celebrate with our challenge. So our theme this week is BIRTHDAYS. Yes a nice easy one as we all know someone that will be having a birthday and if not a stock card is alway handy.

For my card I used a image from our sponsor and i picked this one because it has the correct number of candles on the cake. Wonder if he is going to share it with us. Looks like a nice yummy chocolate cake too.

I think the papers are all from a magazine on of those pads they where giving away as the front cover is missing but they are lovely quality. M.S round the page punch but just did a line. Whispers Stamp sentiment. New Memory Box star circle but only used a section. Satin Ribbon from a local shop. Candy dots. All card from Papermill.. 

So what can you win if you enter our challenge

Our sponsor for this challenge and prize is

                          THE PAPER SHELTER which is a $20 GIFT CERTIFICATE!

So fancy trying your luck as they say you cant win if your not in it.

Hope to see your name on the link list. Have fun and remember we allow up to and including ours you to enter 10 challenges with your card. Sadly Nat has mentioned she had to delete a fair few which we loved seeing but couldnt include in the draw.
Talking of entering other challenges this challenge would go nicely with this weeks challenge at
DIVAS BY DESIGN with our challenge of
ADD A NUMBER
So why not pop over to both Creative Inspirations & Divas by Design for some more inspiration

I would like to enter this into the following challenges

4 Crafty Chicks - stars
As you like it challenge - fave die or punch. ( my new stars for lads & my M.S. edge punch)
Crafty Ribbons - anything goes with ribbons
Delightful challenges - add a ribbon
Shellys images - kids theme
Penny paper crafts - animals
Stamp & Create - use a diecut
Sketch Saturday - layout