Crafty Catz challenge - ATG/ Optional fave colour combo & GDT Call

Good morning well I thought i had scheduled this and the answer was no i hadnt so as it is Friday the 13th i am hoping that is all that is going to go wrong.

Years ago the date wouldnt have worried me but i have had 2 really bad things that i wouldnt wish on anyone happen on this date. Wish me luck

Well back to my post

Today we have a new challenge at CRAFTY CATZ and also a GDT CALL for May.

I do hope some of you will try out we are a very friendly bunch and dont expect much just 1 make a week and 1 comment in 10 of our entries and you also get some fab sponsors images to play with. On top of that you get to be part of an amazing team for a whole month.

Not been on a DT dont worry we all have to start somewhere and it is a great insight as to what happens behind the screens.

Ok back to the challenge

ANYTHING GOES and Helen has picked our optional challenge

FAVE COLOUR COMBO

Our sponsor this week is 

THE PAPER SHELTER

For my card i have only used the Black & white line art but you get a coloured version and also some papers to go with it. Please check out their store as they have some wonderful sets. You can get this image HERE

 My image has been coloured with promarkers and the flower has had some promarkers added to them.

DP is Floral Ellegance and Lots of Roses think both from the works

Gems, brad for the flower centre Ribbon & twine from stash

paper Doily also coloured to match the yellow tones

Ok so thats my make loving Yellows and pinks I am hoping for the Spring weather well the sunshine.

Now it is your turn come and play along with us and why not try for the GDT spot we would love some new blood to inspire us. (no we dont bite lol)

Thanks for popping by have a great weekend

off to checkout the girls blogs

challenges

Crafty Friends Challenge Blog - Challenge #81 – To Use Your Favourite Colour

my favourite colour combo is Yellow & Pink

Creative Moments Challenge Blog – Challenge #140 – Anything Goes

Incy Wincy Designs - Nature and All Of It’s Beauty- TOP THREE

Love To Scrap Challenge Blog - LTSCB #108 – April Showers Bring May Flowers

Morgan's ArtWorld – March Challenge – Anything Goes

Pammie’s Inky Pinkies – PIP Challenge 1814 – Anything Goes

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog – Penny’s Challenge 375 – Anything Goes

Polkadoodles Craft Challenge – Week 14 Anything Goes

The Crafty Addicts Challenge Blog – Challenge 47 – Anything Goes

optional theme April Showers

my April showers have brought Spring Flowers

The Paper Shelter - Challenge #334 - Flowers

Through The Craft Room Door - TTCRD Anything Goes Challenge April 10-16 

Time Out Challenges – Challenge #107 - Spring – optional twist One Layer Card

Crafting From The Heart #201 ~ ATG
Inspiration Destination #148 ~ ATG (optional twist Real Stamp - sentiment is a real stamp)
Crafty Creations #364 ~ ATG
Crafty Girls Creations #46 ~ ATG
Catch the bug - ATG
Crafty Sentiments - Only for girls
Pause Dream Enjoy - W, E3, #15 - Anything Goes

Blooming Lovely New release - Blooming Lovely Balloons

Good morning hope your well.

Today i am waiting in for my new washer so fingers crossed they come and fit and remove my old one. Well it has served me well 18 years not sure this new one will last that long.

Well enough of my rambling i am here today to share with you a card i made with one of the recent new releases from Time For Tea Designs.

This one is called Blooming Lovely Balloons and is available from the shop HERE

Now we have a couple of great facebook pages with lots of news and inspiration. 

We would love you to share anything you make with Time For Tea Designs over there.

We also have a blog for those of you that dont Facebook and all the links you can find at the bottom of this post.

Back to my card a fairly CAS well for me that is.

Isnt she adorable.

Coloured with promarkers

Some doodling around the image and then glitter to fill.

DP is Blue Print

Some organza ribbon, a few pearls and a heart button to finish off

The sentiment is a stamp from my stash

Well hope you like and we look forward to seeing you over at our facebook pages

Here are the links i mentioned

Time For Tea Shopping

Time For Tea Community Facebook Group

Time For Tea Designs Facebook Page 

Time For Tea Blog

Time For Tea Insta Page

Thanks for stopping by and wish me luck with my Washer.

I would like to add this to the following challenges

Artistic Inspirations - 2W, E3, F - #197 ANYTHING GOES  

• Crafting from the Heart - W, E3, F - #201 ANYTHING GOES
• Pammie's Inky Pinkies Challenges - W, ATG except for Theme on 5th Monday of a month, E3 - ALWAYS ANYTHING GOES
• Scrapbook Stamp Society Challenge Blog - 2W, 3E - #138 ANYTHING GOES   (Week 2)
• Always Happy Birthday (M, P1, E4, must be birthday)- April - Birthday + option of Balloons
• Crafty Girls Creations Challenge (M, P1, E3, Top 3) #46 - Always Anything Goes
• Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper (M, P1) April - Anything Goes with Patterned Paper
• Do-Al(l) Kreatives (M, P1, E3, no pure digital projects) - #16 - Pastel Colours
• My Besties International Challenge (M P1, E1 unless My Besties image used, then E3) April - Anything Goes + option: Spring
• Dare 2B Artzy Challenges - M, 1st Sunday, E3 - (April) Pastel Colors
• Crafty Calendar M,3E April - Buttons and/or Bows
• Polkadoodles - W, C10 - No. 14 - ANYTHING GOES
• Ribbon girl Challenge - Anything Goes
• Pennys Paper crafty challenge - #375Anything Goes
• Catch the bug - ATG
• Crafty Sentiments - Only for girls
• Pause Dream Enjoy - W, E3, #15 - Anything Goes
• A Perfect time to craft - atg

Passion For Promarkers challenge - #439 - Blooming Days

Happy Tuesday and welcome to my blog. 

Today i am sharing my Dt card for Passion For Promarkers

We would really love you to come and play along with us.

Our theme this week has been set my  Marie and she would like to see some Flowers/ Blooms.

Now this could be within the image or embellishments or even your papers.

Remember you must use one of the mediums we list on our blog rules to play along.

Our sponsor for this challenge is

ALL DRESSED UP

and the lucky winner will receive 2 images of their choice.

My card features one of their images Pretty in Plaits and is available from the shop HERE

I have gone with a small card A6 which is much smaller than i normally do but enjoyed keeping it simple and letting the image stand out.

Image coloured with promarkers

Love this hat with the flowers

Cuttlebug Flower embossing folder

Lace flower and twine for embellishment and a gem

I added a little bit of doodling as the blue boarder looked bare. What do you think

Sentiment is from a mag freebie

Now my team mate Julie has used this image and boy does it look different.

So pop over and check it out along with the others. Lots of inspiration for you.

Well off to link it up to a few challenges and hope you have a fab day.

challenges 

• Crafting from the Heart - W, E3, F - #201 ANYTHING GOES
• Cutie Pie Challenge - M, 2nd Monday, must be cute - #122 DElIGHTFUL DIGIS
• Dream Valley Challenges - 2W, 3E, C10 - #176 DRY EMBOSSING (Week 2) 
• Get Creative Challenges - M, 1st Mon, E3 - #68 NO PATTERN PAPER
• All Dressed Up (2W, M, P15, E3, SIR) #79 -  Anything Goes
• Creatalicious Challenges (2W, P15/last day of the M) #136 - Anything Goes + Option: Friends / Friendship
• Love to Craft (M, P1, E5 , no completely digital projects)  #21 - Anything Goes
• Dragonfly Journeys - 2W, E5 - #115 Baker's Twine
• Stamping Sensations - M, 3E, Winner + Top 3, must use stamp (no pre-colored digis) Stamp must be focal point of project – (April) One for the Girls
• Sweet Stampin W, 2E, include stamping - Embossing (heat or dry)
• Pile it on challenge - Small (A6card )

Alicia Bel - Animals & Fantastic Beasts

Good evening. Did you have a good weekend?

Well today i made a card for The Wonderful World of Alicia Bel

ALicia has a facebook page which she runs some challenges and this month she has mixed it up.

We are required to join a team of 4 and pick a name.

Well my team has some wonderful well known bloggers in it so fingers crossed

Margaret Ashby, Lisa Jennaway and Bonnie Kohane

Our team is called The Eyes Have It 

The challenge is all to make something with a image from the store that fits the name of the challenge. then Alicia sends a clue and we have to guess what the image is from the store.

This can only be done when all 4 makes are done.

Now this only started yesterday and my 3 team mates have already completed theirs so i am bringing up the rear lol.

I have used this months cutie Happy Unicorn which is on special price so be quick HERE

I have take the picture from the side in the hope you can see the glitter I have added to the DP.

The DP is from Polkadoodles and I added the png of the Happy Unicorn then added a smaller one at the side, The Wishing You sentiment is computer generated.

Image coloured with promarkers.

I have added sparkle glitter to the tree and aded some white pain on the edges. 

Die cut silver mirri fence white banner and Tim Holts star edge die.

I matted the Dp with image onto some silver mirri

Then onto some Fushia and silver double sided paper which had been matted onto some pink pearl card All this was then placed on top some some pink spiders web onto a 8x8inch cream card base.

Added a happy birthday sentiment and job done.

close up of the image

Think this might be a 1st for me to add PNg to a Dp and then colour

I really enjoyed making this and hope you like too.

i just need a little girl with a birthday coming up.

Now if you fancy making up a team by joining 3 others we would love it there is another team and both teams are made of people that havent really worked together before.

i think it is a great way of getting to know people.

So why not come and play along you have a month to play and guess the digital image from your clues.. Thanks for popping by and hope to see some of you at the Facebook page.

i would like to enter this into the following challenges

• Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - 2W (1st & 3rd Sun) E3 Always Anything Goes
• The Corrosive Challenges - M, 3E - Always Anything Goes
• A Gem of a Challenge  2W   - #216 - Female Birthday with Sentiment 
• Catch The Bug  W,3E,SIO - Anything Goes
• The Fairy and The Unicorn M, 1st Sat, E3, Mythical and Mystical - April - Anything Goes
• Colour Crazy Challenge - W, 2E  - No.14 - ANYTHING GOES
• Crafting-With-Friends - 2W, 3E - No.64 - ALWAYS ANYTHING GOES
• Fussy and Fancy - 2W, E3, C10 - No. 209 - ADD A SENTIMENT
• QKR Stampede – W, 4E, SIO – No. 290 - ANYTHING GOES
• Cute Card Thursday W,C5 #524 Anything Goes
• Crafty Sentiment Designs W, 1E, SIO - Anything Goes
• Tuesday Throwdown W - #386 - Rainbow Colors
• Craftaholics R Us - W, #14 - Birthday Cards
• Crafty Gals Corner -  2W, E2, #162 - Anything Goes  
• The Crafty Addicts M, 3E, #47 - Anything Goes
• SheepSki Designs Challenges (M, P1, 3E, C10, SIO) #13 - Animal Magic

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Crafty Catz DT - Anything Goes with optional extra Colours of Spring

Good morning hope the sun is shinning where you are.

Well today i bring you my DT card for CRAFTY CATZ and this week

 Dianne has set our optional extra COLOURS OF SPRING. 

Well we can hope cant we, that Spring is with us.

Now as always you don't have to do our extra as we are now a ANYTHING GOES challenge.

Our wonderful and kind sponsor this week that allowed the team to play with some of her images is

LACY SUNSHINE 

So before you pop over the challenge blog to see the teams work and then the shop with all the fab goodies here is my card using 

RORY'S WISTERIA

Isnt she beautiful just love this collection.

Coloured with my promarkers

All DP is from a VERY VERY old pad think might be papermania

(so trying to use some older papers)

Dies are Tonic and a Cas-ual friday 

Some wide Satin ribbon and some Viva pearls to finish.

Ok now it is your turn come and share with us your creations.

May be try our optional extra for fun.

Dont forget to checkout our sponsors store

Thanks for popping by have a fab and fun weekend hope we get some nice weather.

Challenges i would like to enter are

Lacy sunshine facebook challenge

• Crafty Sentiment Designs W, 1E, SIO - Anything Goes
• Creates and Makes M, 3E, last Tue - #19 - Anything Goes
• Digi Choosday Challenge -W,E2, - #13 - Anything Goes
• Ike's World 4W, 1E - #107 Anything Goes with a twist: Spring Inspiration*
• Unicorn Challenge M, E3, No fully digital projects April - #31 - Use Some Ribbon 
• Crafting By Designs - W, F, 3E - Anything Goes
• Crafty Gals Corner -  2W, E2, #162 - Anything Goes
• Inspiration Destination - 2W, F - Always Anything Goes 
• Paper Shelter Challenge - W, 3E, SIO - Girl Power
• Pause Dream Enjoy - W, E3, #14 - Color it
• Classic Design Team Open Challenge (M, P1, E3, Must be a DT creation) Always Anything Goes 
• Love to Craft (M, P1, E5 , no completely digital projects)  #21 - Anything Goes
• Color Inspiration Monday - M 1st Monday, hand-colored images (Top 3, winner) - ALWAYS ANYTHING GOES WITH HAND-COLORED IMAGE
• Pammie's Inky Pinkies Challenges - W, ATG except for Theme on 5th Monday of a month, E3 - ALWAYS ANYTHING GOES
• Colour Crazy Challenge - W, 2E  - No.14 - ANYTHING GOES
• Jo's Scrap Shack - W, 3E  - No. 228- ANYTHING GOES
• QKR Stampede – W, 4E, SIO – No. 290 - ANYTHING GOES

Craft challenge - Get Well Soon

Good morning and time for a new challenge at CRAFT CHALLENGE

This week we have a challenge that is always handy to have in stock.

Get Well Soon.

Yes so we want to see lots of makes to cheer those poorly peeps up.

We are sponsored by

Digital Delights

and the winner will receive 

Now I have made my card for my Aunty who is  in hospital recovering from a Operation.

I have picked some of her fave colours  and the image is from Dr Digi House of Stamps

Recuperating Rita - Dr Digi

I have coloured the image with Promarkers

Kept is fairly simple with some Dp from my stash 

The yellow panel has been embossed

the sentiment is a old rubber stamp

and some think satin ribbon

I kept it fairly flat as it will have to go via post.

Well thats my card and hope that you can come and play along with us maybe a good challenge to stock up on just in case.

Pop over and check what the girls have made and have a lovely day.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges

• Crafty Sentiment Designs W, 1E, SIO - Anything Goes
• Digi Choosday Challenge -W,E2, - #13 - Anything Goes
• Unicorn Challenge M, E3, No fully digital projects April - #31 - Use Some Ribbon 
• Crafting By Designs - W, F, 3E - Anything Goes
• The Crafty Addicts M, 3E, #47 - Anything Goes
• Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper (M, P1) April - Anything Goes with Patterned Paper
• Creatalicious Challenges (2W, P15/last day of the M) #136 - Anything Goes + Option: Friends / Friendship
• Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - 2W (1st & 3rd Sun) E3 Always Anything Goes
• Colour Crazy Challenge - W, 2E  - No.13 - ANYTHING GOES
• Jo's Scrap Shack - W, 3E  - No. 226- ANYTHING GOES
• Crafting-With-Friends - 2W, 3E - No.64 - ALWAYS ANYTHING GOES (W2 of 2) 
• Crafting With An Attitude M,1st Thurs,3E Always Anything Goes
• Cute Card Thursday W,C5 #524 Anything Goes

Time for Tea Easter Treats

Good day have you checked out the new release at Time For Tea Yet!

Well did you see the cute Bunny Collection there too.

Well i just had to have a play and as it is my DT Day to share something with you what better than something with these Cuties.

Now I have used 2 of the images and as i said there is a collection with a great price but you can buy them individually too. Some of these would make cute Birthday or note cards.

I have made a little Easter card and also a Carrot which I filled with little eggs

Hope you like all details of where you can find these images and also links to our blog and facebook community is below.

This is a tiny card about 4 inches square and I used a Nestie die for the base 

DP is from my oddments box I love these tiny card for using up bits

The twine is from stash and the flower is from the recent Blooming Lovely collection

Image coloured with promarkers and some Fluffy stuff added to his tail

My carrot templete is a freebie off the internet

Some thin ribbon to tie closed

The image has been coloured with promarkers and fluffy stuff on the tail

Sentiment is from the Collection and i have used a stitched circle die and a scallop die

Here are the links i mentioned

Time For Tea Shopping

Time For Tea Community Facebook Group

Time For Tea Designs Facebook Page 

Time For Tea Blog

Time For Tea Insta Page

Well I do hope that you like my little projects I really enjoyed making and Christophers girlfriend was really taken with the Carrot.

Thanks for stopping by and hope to see you sharing with us at the facebook page.

Bye for now
challenges

• A Bit More Time to Craft (M, P1, E3) #65 - Anything Goes
• A Perfect Time To Craft (M, P1, E3) #4 - Always Anything Goes
• Animal Friends Challenge (M, P1, E3, must have an animal) #61 - On the Farm
• Card Mania (M, P1, E5) #103 - Spring
• Classic Design Team Open Challenge (M, P1, E3, Must be a DT creation) Always Anything Goes 
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• Crafty Animals (M P1, must have animals) #13 - Always Anything Goes
• Creative Craft Cottage Digi Creations (M, P3, E3) #91 - Include an Animal
• Sweet Stampers (M, P10, E3, use stamp or digi) #18 - Spring or Easter
• Crafty Cardmakers - 2W, C15 - #208  BUNNIES, CHICKS OR EGGS (Week 2) 
• Cutie Pie Challenge - M, 2nd Monday, must be cute - #121 SPRING CUTIES
• Pammie's Inky Pinkies Challenges - W, ATG except for Theme on 5th Monday of a month, E3 - ALWAYS ANYTHING GOES
• Use Your Stuff - W,  #305 easter 
• Dragonfly Journeys - 2W, E5 - #115 Baker's Twine 
• Alphabet Challenge - 2W, 1E - A IS FOR ANYTHING BUT A CARD- carrot
  
• Brown Sugar – M (First Friday of M), E2 - March - No. 276 - SPRING OR EASTER
• Kitty Bee Designs - 2W,2E, C10 - No.115- SPRING  
• QKR Stampede – W, 4E, SIO – No. 289 - ANTYHING GOES
• Ike's World 4W, 1E - #107 Anything Goes with a twist: Spring Inspiration* (week 1
• Papercraft Challenges 2W must stamp C5 -  #8 - Bunnies for Easter (week 2)