Crafting When We Can Challenges 59 - Calendar/Countdown

The Challenge over at Crafting When We Can Challenges is running until 

 4th January 2014

So you have plenty of time to show us your Calendars/Countdown projects.

Our wonderful Sponsor for this Challenge is

Dilly Beans Stamps

My project is a Christmas Countdown.  I printed out my image 

#313 - Christmas Squares twice and colour with Spectrum Noir pens, used Viva pearl pen to fill in Santa's beard, hair etc. and Sparkly Gelly roll pens to add sparkle to the glove.  I can't find my clear glitter pen so the penguin is sparkly (yet).  I then cut out the image and 3d'd the image onto the cut out frame and made the 1 - 24 number grid in CraftArtist printed this out and stuck on the images.

Hop over and leave your Calendar/Countdown projects on the Challenge blog and have a look at the projects our wonderfully talented DT have made. 

Crafting When We Can Challenges #50 - Colour Combo - Lemon and Lime + DT call

I can't believe how quickly time is flying.  We've been in our temporary offices at work for 2 weeks while our office is having a complete refit.  It should be a lot more comfortable to work in when it's finished.  Hopefully we'll have air conditioning and a radiator or 2 instead of a window that only opens 6" and a coat and gloves.  Then we just have to merge 2 departments into 1 as well as learning a new system.  The following few months should be fun!!  

To add to this my printer still isn't completely well and my laptop keys seem to be sticking (this could be all the crumbs in the keyboard, OH is going to have a look at this for me in the next few days).  These problems are making doing any digital crafting quite difficult so as soon as I managed to get a print of my image I used some of the numerous pages of card I have in my stash.

We are having a DT call over at the CWWCC blog so hop over and leave a comment with a link to one of your projects so we can hop over and have a look.

Our wonderfully, talented Sponsor for 

Challenge 50 is

Dilly Beans Stamps

The image I was generously given to use is #555 - Paige.  I used some card I bought from Lidl.  There are 25 different colours at 270gsm and they cost about £1.99 so I bought 5 pads. It's really nice card and makes great card bases and punches like a dream with the punches I have.  My card is larger than I normally make it, it's 8" x 8".  I had to make it this size as I wanted to use my new punches that cut a 6" x 6" mat.  It is a Lucky 8 punches by We Are Memory Keepers.  The small pearls are from Home Bargains and the image was coloured with Copic Markers.  The little tag is from HOTP and says when life give you lemons make (don't know why they didn't finish the phrase but I assume they knew you would finish it in your head).  The colours are a lot more vibrant in real life than they are on this photo.  

Hop over to the Challenge blog and join in our wonderful Challenge or if you want to be considered for the DT leave us a comment so we can visit and see your work.

CHALLENGES
Papertake Weekly # 81 - Sketch #61
Cute Card Thursday 280 - Anything Goes
Crafty Calendar - Anything Goes
Paper Crafting Journey - Punches and/or Die Cuts
Ruby's Rainbow - Layer It Up

Crafting When We Can Challenges #44 - Colour Combo - Lime Green and Pink

I can't believe it's been 14 days since I last made a post, doesn't time fly.  I've been crocheting a little jacket for myself and sewing some mannequin pin cushions to sell at a local craft fair Lynne at Craft Den is organising for September.  I'm also trying to think up some other things to make and sell. 

Our Sponsor for Challenge 44 is the talented Megan at 

Dilly Beans Stamps

My image is Skellie with balloon.  I have used pearlised card so the photo is a bit reflective (my excuse for rubbish photography skills). I coloured it using flexmarkers and the papers are from my stash and I've had them years.  The little pearls are from Home Bargains.

Hop over to the Challenge Blog and leave your Lime Green and Pink creations and you could be in with a chance of winning our great prize.

CHALLENGES

Delightful Challenges - Stash It (all card used over 2 years old)

Crafty Creations Challenge 221 - Something old/something new (old card, new image)

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Our Creative Corner - Anything Goes

Pin and Tack (Spark your creativity now) - Anything Goes, May

Crafting When We Can Challenges 39 - Earth, Air, Fire & Water

I'm really enjoying my crafting at the moment.  My friend gave me a table for my son to use but until we have moved his bedroom around to accommodate it, it is sat in my bay window and I am using it as a craft table.  My son was as bit concerned when I filled the drawers with my craft stuff but I have assured him when his bedroom is ready he can have it back.  My OH has already said I can have my own table to replace it along with some drawers (maybe), can't wait.

Theme

Earth, Air, Fire, Water

Sponsor the talented Megan of

Dilly Beans

For my card this Challenge I have used a Dilly Bean image, which we were allowed to choose from Dilly Beans Stamps.  Unfortunately I can't show you the full card until after the 6th of March as this card is for my friend (I got the dates of the challenge mixed up and thought it was the weekend after her birthday).  To see the full card hop over to the Challenge blog and you will see it while you are entering your card.  For the recipient of the card (you know who you are) you are forbidden to look until after the 6th, when I will post the full card here on this post.

This card was designed and coloured using CraftArtist and then cut out and 3d mounted using Pinlflair Gel.  The base card and mats are from a Colossal colour card pack by Papermania and the embossing was done with my Hougie board.

**EDITTED**

As promised here is the completed card.  My friend now has it and so it is safe to show.

Crafting When We Can Challenges

CHALLENGES

Digital Tuesday #199 - Birthdays (a friends B'day on 6th March)

Cute Card Thursday 258 - Something old (coloured card aleast 6 years old)

Allsorts Challenges 196 - For a Lady (my friend is definitely a Lady, when she wants to be)

Catch the Bug Saturday Challenge - Anything Goes

My Time To Craft #211 - Embossing (picture of embossed lines above)

Crafting When We Can Challenges #34 - Sketch by Ang

This Challenge is the last of 2012 and I would like to thank everyone who participated in these enjoyable challenges and welcome everyone to join in next year.

The Challenge for this fortnight is a sketch by our DT Team Leader Ang

Our Sponsor this Challenge is 

Dilly Beans Stamps

We were offered an image to use and I chose Christmas Squares.  I made this card for my  Sister-in-Law and her family.  The card and papers were from my stash and I used Copics and Promarkers to colour the images.  I have also layered the images up using Pinflair glue gel.

The picture is rubbish as the mirror paper reflected blue (it's in the corner and the middle of the sticky out bits).

Hop over to the Challenge blog and join us for the last challenge of the year.

SEASONS GREETINGS