Monday 27 February 2017

Guest Designer Spot over at The Crazy Challenge

Having been picked as a Top 3 recently over at The Crazy Challenge I had the opportunity to be a guest designer for 2 of their challenges, well it would have been rude not to join in!  So this fortnight the challenge is 'We Love Animals' and it gave me a great opportunity to play with the Cricut, To You From Me cartridge and using Kraft cs and patterned Kraft Funday papers from MME I made this owl pillow box,  I think it's a cutie don't you?

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
Brown Sugar #239 ~ ATG
Creative Fingers #125 ~ ATG
Thanks for stopping by x

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge #183 ~ Go Green

Hi, I hope you have all had a good weekend, it's time for a brand new challenge over at Crafty Cardmakers and this week our host is Judy and she has chosen the theme 'Go Green' and wants to see your projects using mainly green or as it's nearly St Patrick's Day you could make a project to celebrate that.  

I recently bought the Cricut cartridge  'To You From Me' and a scoring tool so I've been busy playing with it and decided to make a gift card holder.  The paper is from First Edition 'Hideaway' then I added a punched butterfly, die cut sentiment, some gems, raffia string and wooden beads.  Can see me making a few of these they are such a great way to give gift cards.



I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
Crafty Gals Corner #111 ~ ATG
Craft Rocket #33 ~ ATG
Brown Sugar #239 ~ ATG
Thanks for stopping by x

Friday 24 February 2017

Crafty Catz Challenge #359 ~ Anything Goes

Oops, sorry running late this week with just about everything, except work!  I've even picked up an extra late shift today with a sleep in, oh well at least I'm on holiday for 2 weeks after that! LOL  Anyway it's Friday so it's time for a new challenge over at Crafty Catz and the theme is 'Anything Goes' and this week our wonderful Janette has set the DT with the extra twist of making something with 'thoughts of spring', lovely challenge and we have an awesome and generous sponsor this week too


prize...4 images of winners choice

The DT were very generously given some images to play along with.  I used the beautiful 'Dandelions and butterflies'.  As the twist was thoughts of spring I played around with the image in PS Elements 5 and changed the colour before printing out to a shade of green that worked with the papers I chose which are from Raspberry Road Designs 'Cherrylimeade'.  A little ribbon from my stash and then some yellow cs and used some new dies to cut the dandelions and the sentiment panel and there it is.  Really like how this one turned out.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Open Minded Crafting Fun #14 ~ Flowering in February
Sweet Stampin' ~ Flowers
Allsorts #403 ~ ATG
Cut It Up #116 ~ Birthday
Word Art Wednesday #270-271 ~ ATG 
Thanks for stopping by x

Monday 20 February 2017

Lucinda ~ Simply B Stamps

Just wanted to pop on and share the project I made for the Progressive Challenge over at Simply B Stamps Fan Page.  This months image is the beautiful 'Lucinda' and the challenge was 'pastel goth' colour scheme, so black and at least one pastel colour but can be more.   
Image may contain: shoes and text

I decided to make an insert panel for the hessian bag I use to take my meals to work in.  I have coloured 'Lucinda' with copics, chameleons and SN pencils, papers are from Raspberry Road Designs 'My Baby Love Girl' kit which I then teamed up with black mat and die cut accents.  Sentiment is cut on the Cricut and I finished off with some flowers and Card Candi from my stash.  A great challenge and I love how she turned out.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
Crafty Gals Corner #110 ~ Use your favourite things ~ Cricut, dies and markers
Crafty Creations #335 ~ ATG
Creative Inspirations #268 ~ ATG 
Craft Rocket #33 ~ ATG
Creative Fingers #125 ~ ATG
Allsorts #403 ~ ATG
Sweet Stampin' ~ Flowers
Thanks for stopping by x

Friday 17 February 2017

Crafty Catz Challenge #358 ~ Anything Goes

Good morning it's time for a new challenge over at Crafty Catz and the theme is 'Anything Goes' and this week and our wonderful Nick laid down the challenge to the DT of 'Occupations' and we have an awesome sponsor this week in the form of 



PRIZE
5 digi images of winners choice
Our very generous sponsors gave the DT some fabulous images to play along with and I have used 'Chef' coloured with copics and Chameleons, then I made a recipe box using the 'To You From Me' Cricut catridge which was a birthday treat so this was great fun to make as I didn't have to worry about all the measuring and cutting! I embossed with cupcakes and the Recipes was also on the cartridge.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Crafty Gals Corner #110 ~ Use your favourite things ~ my Cricut is certainly one of my favourite things along with my copics and Chameleons.
Crafty Creations #335 ~ ATG
Craft Rocket #33 ~ ATG
Thanks for stopping by x

Monday 13 February 2017

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge #182 ~ Add some texture

Hello, it's time for a new challenge over at Crafty Cardmakers and this fortnight Maike is hosting and the theme is Add Texture, now that can be wet or dry embossing, fabric, mixed media stuff, the options are huge, jut have fun with it.

For my card I have used a background paper from the Neroli pad which is fabric textured then I have added some red cs embossed with swiss dots, the image is an old one which is from The Greeting Farm which hasn't seen the light of day for a while! She is coloured with chameleons and SN pencils.  The speech bubble is embossed too as are the little leaves die cuts then finished of with 2 punched butterflies one from the backing paper and one from vellum these are then layered up and finished off with some blue gems.
I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Crafty Gals Corner #109 ~ Shades of red
Crafty Creations #334 ~ ATG
Creative Fingers #124 ~ ATG
A Gem of a Challenge #187 ~ Add a butterfly
Thanks for stopping by x

Friday 10 February 2017

Crafty Catz Challenge #357 ~ Anything Goes

Good morning, I hope you are all well, I have been dealing with a particularly irksome cold for over a week now and I just can't seem to shift it, hey ho that's the way it goes sometimes. Anyway you're not here to hear about my woes!  It's Friday so it's time for a new challenge over at Crafty Catz and the theme is Anything Goes with our fabulous Caz setting the DT twist of 3 designer papers.  We have a wonderful sponsor this week too

PRIZE...3 IMAGES FROM SHOP

The DT were given some fab images to play along with.  I have used an image from our sponsor that I won a while back called SkyLynn. I have coloured her with chameleons and SN sparkles and then digitally paper pieced her kimono using a paper from Raspberry Road Designs kit called Asian Dreams.  I then used 2 more papers from the kit and digitally cut away some of the cream background then overlaid that paper over the the other paper and added some dropped shadow before printing out.  I matted the image onto some gold mirriboard then cut out a fan and birdcage from the mirriboard and finished off with a little die cut bird and peel off sentiment.
I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Allsorts #501 ~ Paper piecing
Crafting From The Heart #145 ~ ATG
Crafty Sentiments ~ ATG
Creative Inspirations #268 ATG
Inspiration Destination #121 ~ ATG
Crafty Creations #334 ~ ATG
Thanks for stopping by x

Friday 3 February 2017

Crafty Catz Challenge #356 ~ Anything Goes

Good morning, well here we are at Friday again so time for a new challenge over at Crafty Catz.  The theme is 'Anything Goes' and this week our twist has been set by our wonderful Aunty Sue and she wants us to give our cards a male twist.  We are sponsored by 



Stores
www.zibbet.com/rick1949
www.etsy.com/shop/rickstdennis

PRIZE......3 IMAGES OF WINNERS CHOICE

The DT were very generously given some fabulous images to play along with.  I have used Archie and decided to put him in the lens of a camera cut on the Cricut.  The papers are Portobello Road and I've added some travel washi tape to the base layer and some ribbon to the camera. The sentiments are stamps.
I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Allsorts #400 ~ Let's Celebrate
Come & Get It ~ 3 or more layers
Crafting From The Heart #145 ~ ATG
Die Cuttin' Divas #302 ~ ATG
Crafty Sentiments ~ Lace and/or Ribbon
Inspiration Destination #121 ~ ATG
Crafty Girls Creations #33 ~ ATG
Thanks for stopping by x