Cowgirl Up Designs and Cowgirl's Sunday Stamp'en Challenge

Hi All,  I just wanted to let you know that Cowgirl Up Designs and Cowgirl's Sunday Stamp'en Challenge sites have been closed by the owner.  I had an e-mail yesterday to say they were closing.  Thank you to everyone who participated and if CJ decides to re-open I will let you know.  I was very proud when I was asked to be a member of the Posse and will still be using CJ's designs as they are some of my favourites.

Cowgirl Sunday Stamp'en Challenge - Bring on the BLING BLING

Hope everyone enjoyed the blog hop last week, the winner has been announced over on the Cowgirl Sunday Stamp'en Challenge blog, hop over and see if it is you.

This week we would like to see your cards over the top with BLING BLING and we have NEW RELEASES from CJ at Cowgirl Up Designs, all the new images have a fall theme.  There will be a discount on the new releases for more details hop over to the challenge.

My image is called FALL AFTERNOON.  It was a pleasure to colour and I really enjoyed colouring all the leaves in Autumn colours.  I used a cream base, coloured with Promarkers and Copics added bling with my gold Sakura Calligraphy pen, and gelly roll pen.  I then punched leaves out to form a border which I backed with shiny red paper and after all that effort you can't really see any of it on the photo.  The punched out leaves were coloured with gold pen and distressed ink and 3D randomly on the image.  I used the sketch from Friday Sketchers #126.

Our winners sponsor this week is Delicious Doodles hop over and take a look at Teri's great images

The winner will receive 3 images of choice

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The Winners Badge to display with pride

The TOP 3 will each receive 1 image of choice from Cowgirl Up Designs

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The TOP 3 Badge to display with pride

To see what the other Posse members have been upto go to the buttons at the top of my page and click it will give you the links or you could hop over to the Challenge and see all the Posses fantastic creations.

CHALLENGES
Friday Sketches #126 - sketch by Claudia
Crafty Creations #91 - Halloween or perhaps Autumn
Paperake Weekly - Bright and Sparkly (it does shine 'onest Guv)
Craft Your Passion #29 - Add glitter and sparkle
Simon Says Stamp - Punch 'em 

Cowgirl Sunday Stamp'en Challenge - HALLOWEEN BLOG HOP

Good morning everyone, This week is the Cowgirl Sunday Stamp'en BLOG HOP and it's a big one but the prizes are fantastic.  

If you arrived here from Marianne's blog you are on the right track if not please hop back to the challenge blog and start your incredible journey.  If you are on track you will need to hop over to Rosalien blog to continue.

The rules are simple you have to make a card for the challenge, leave a comment on all the Posse's blogs (we will be checking) and make a note of the Posse card you like the best and then leave a comment on the challenge blog with your choice. Here's mine

I drew a pumpkin template and cut my card accordingly, I then shaded it with distressed inks.  I wrote the sentiment on my computer.  The fantastic image is PUMPKIN SETTING  by CJ at Cowgirl Up Designs I coloured it with Promarkers.

There will be a special draw for a grab bag of goodies and images for anyone who uses a Cowgirl Up Designs image.

If you don't celebrate Halloween we would like to see you use an image from Cowgirl Up Designs and your name will be added to the special draw. (please see the challenge for full details)

Our Sponsor this week is Crafty Ribbons

The winner will receive a bundle of ribbons

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2 images from Cowgirl Up Designs

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Winners Badge to display with pride on their blog

Top 3 will each received 1 image from Cowgirl Up Designs

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TOP 3 Badge to display with pride on their blog

I hope you enjoy the BLOG HOP and I can't wait to see your fantastic creations.

Have a wonderful week.

CHALLENGES

Crafty Creations Challenge #90 - colour challenge - red, green & brown

Moving Along With The Times #69 - Anything goes - Letraset are sponsoring this weeks challenge and the prize is a set of Promarkers and fine liner pens

The Crazy Challenge #37 - Halloween

The Creative Cottage #25 - Halloween

Cowgirl Sunday Stamp'en Challenge - Flowers Galore using 3DP & 3 different flowers

This week at Cowgirl's Sunday Stamp'en Challenge we are asking you to use

3 DPs and 3 different types of flower.  

I decided to make a cupcake card this week as I have my CraftROBO back and I wanted to play.  I made the template myself and I really like the shape.  My image is from The Town Scrapper and the name is "Made with Love Lola" (hence the cupcake card) she is coloured with Copics and Promarkers.  My 3 DPs are from The Creative Cottage, who have a new store.  My 3 different flowers are punched from the papers, a rose I opened slightly and a charm.  The frame for Lola was cut with a large Nellie oval die.  All the edges were shaded with distessed inks.  

Our winner's Sponsor this week is

who are offering 5 images of choice to the winner

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The Winners Badge

and the TOP 3 is sponsored by

who are offering 1 image of choice

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1 image of choice from Cowgirl Up Designs

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The TOP 3 Badge

Hop over to the challenge and join in it's great fun.

To see the wonderful creations by the other posse members go to the buttons under my header and click.  You won't be disappointed they are a very talented bunch.

CHALLENGES

Anything Goes Challenge #17 - Cute (I think this is cute)

Digital Tuesday Challenge #77 - All about the girls + digi (what girl doesn't like cupcakes)

Charisma Cardz Challenge #38 - Anything Goes

A Spoon Full of Sugar #122 - Anything Goes

4 Challenges - Wooo Hooo

I am entering my card for 4 challenges today.

Sketch Saturday #112 - Sketch
My Time To Craft #100 - Check It Out - to use checks somewhere on your card
Dare U 2 Digi Stamp #42 - Stitching
Stamp, Scrap & Doodle Saturdays - Animals

This is my entry for the above 4 challenges.

I have used a Cowgirl Up image, coloured with Promarkers, and backing papers from CC's Mrs Tiggywinkle CD (love these ginghams).  I added my faux stitches with an Inkssentials opaque white pen and a black fine liner.  The mats were cut with my new oval Nellie die and the card candy was coloured with Promarkers to match the colours of the checked mats.  The edge of my image was distressed using pink ink.  (ZZZZzzzzzzz even I'm bored reading this sorry will try harder next time)

Just a reminder that the Cowgirl Sunday Stamp'en Challenge theme for this week is a sketch using the colours turqouise, pink or red. This weeks challenge is sponsored by Prairie Fairy the winner will get 5 Prairie Fairy images, 2 Cowgirl images, the Winners Badge and be the Guest Designer for the month of August.  There are also 3 x Top 3 badges up for grabs.

A new challenge will be starting on Sunday around mid-day GMT the sponsor is Michelle Perket.  Please hop on over and have a go I would love to see all your creations.

In the mean time hop over to see the rest of the posse Ang, Annette, Beccy, Elke, Jovita, Lorraine, Peggy, Rach, Sarah W, Sheng.

Happy crafting  :-) xx