Crafting When We Can Challenges #56 - Make your own flower/s

The challenge over at Crafting When We Can Challenges is make your own flower/flowers and our wonderful sponsor is 

Lacy Sunshine

I used card and paper from my stash with a scrabby edge made with my scissors and matted onto gold card with a Craftworks sentiment.  The image was coloured with flexmarkers and the flower mat was cut with a Spellbinder die and embossed with a Tim Holtz wood embossing folder.  The flower was also made using the same die.  I coloured the flower paper with DI to give it a bit of depth.  

My image is Mitzi Gnome digi set.  

Hop over to the Challenge blog and show us your handmade flowers.

CHALLENGES

Papertake Weekly - Sketch 59

One Stitch at a Time 188 - Use a digi

Crafty Creations 246 - Make it yourself (flower)

Challenges 4 Everyone 32 - Anything Goes

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 Challenge 33 - BINGO!

So late this challenge but managed to get my project done for the 2nd week of the challenge.  Our Sponsor for this challenge is MilkCoffee.  The DT were given an image to work with and mine is Tiffany playing violin.  The bingo card is 

and I have chosen to go PEARLS ~ GIRLY ~ CAS

The card and pearls are from my stash and I've slightly coloured the white paper with Dusty Concord DI and cut out with a Spellbinder label die.  I used flexmarkers to colour my image.

CHALLENGES

House of Gilli #47 - Anything Goes

Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Special Occasion

Simon Says Stamp - What's your favourite ~ tool, stamp, product

favourite ~ Spellbinder die, flexmarkers, distress inks

Wags 'n Whiskers 94 - Anything Goes

Crafting When We Can Challenges #24 - CASE it

Didn't know what CASE was until I read the post on the Challenge blog.  Apparently you take something you like from a card and make your own.  If you hop over to CWWCC you can see the proper definition.

Our wonderful sponsor for this challenge is

The Stamping Boutique

They are offering the winner 3 images of their choice from The Stamping Boutique.

We were given given great images to use and I decided to make a side step card using Picket Fence.  First I printed the image and a sentiment onto the base card, then added the 2 side images which I cut from the main image.  It was then coloured with flexmarkers and organza ribbon (also coloured with flexmarkers) wrapped around the bottom.  The colours don't really show in the picture as I used a pearlised paper and then couldn't get a photo without it bleaching out.

Now all you have to do is hop over to the Challenge and show us you take on one of the DTs card.

CHALLENGES

Cute card Thursday 228 - Clean & Simple

Moving along with the Times 157 - Summer

Cupcake Craft Challenges 203 - The great outdoors

The Stamping Boutique #44 - Anything Goes

Stampavie and More #173 - Summer

Crafting When We Can Challenges #10 - Use something non crafty

The challenge over at Crafting When We Can Challenges is to use something you wouldn't usually use for crafting.

Our Sponsor this challenge is Trace over at 

Spesch Stamp Designs

I have used the Spring Fairy Design for my card, she is supposed to look like she is coming out of a fairy glade with the foliage and flowers but I made the fern leaves too dark and they blend in with the background.  My background is a piece of fancy corrugated card which they use at Ikea to put between some of their pot plant pots to stop them from smashing together.  I have spritzed it with Crafty Notion gold and silver spray and then gone over it with DI but it came out really dark and as there is no contrast between it and the leaves it gets lost.  It is also a rubbish picture and even though I took it under my daylight bulb it still looks dark to me.  I really like this image and will be having another go at making this card but trying to make the fern leaves lighter and that might show off the background better.  The flowers were made using K & Co papers, a spellbinder flower die and the Tim Holtz rose method and a few stickles to make them sparkle.  The leaves were cut on my Craftrobo.  I coloured the image with my Flexmarkers, which I bought myself for Christmas.

CHALLENGES

Colour Create #88 - Pink and Green with optional handmade flower (believe it or not her trousers are a very pastel flexmarker green)

Delightful Challenges - Distressed/vintage

Craft Your Days Aways #37 - Distressing

Crafty Purple Frog - Anything Goes