Crafting When We Can Challenges 132 - Circles

I forgot to post my card for this challenge so better late than never.  You still have until Saturday afternoon to enter your circle inspired projects.  It can contain 1 or more circles as long as we can see a circle.

Our wonderful sponsor for this challenge is the talented Caitlyn Crosfield of

Devil Cait Designs

Caitlyn very generously gave us images to use and I chose Tracy.  I really enjoyed working with this image I think I would like to use it to practice my colouring.  I love her hair.  I cut a circle stencil on the scan'n'cut and use distressed inks to colour through. I then made a mat with circles surrounding it and welded it together.  The ribbon threaded through was from some chocolates last Christmas and the stamped sentiment is one of my first stamps.  This was stamped onto one of the circles cut from the stencil.  The image was coloured with Spectrum Noir pens.

Hop over the the Challenge and show us your project including a circle or circles.

CHALLENGES

Sweet Stampin' challenges - Happy Birthday
addicted to stamps #136 - Die cuts/punches
Shopping our Stash #278 - Front and Centre
ribbon from last years chocolates, stamp from years ago, distress inks not used for months
Crafty Catz Challenge #347 - Anything Goes with optional red

Crafting When We Can Challenges 128 - Use your favourite medium ((pens, pencils, paint etc)

Over at Crafting When We Can Challenges we have the lovely Sarah from

Star Stampz

For my project I chose Spring Rain I wanted to use bright colours to counteract the grey skies and storms we've had this week.  My favourite medium is my Spectrum Noir pens, I also used my fiskar cutter, which I use everytime I craft and my Tonic dies and punches.  All the paper and card are from my stash and because I hate to waste papers I've gutted the card you can't see and now have loads of gold and red name dies (First Edition dies from Hobbycraft Female and Male titles Mum, Dad, Sister etc)  The flowers are various punches and the leaves were cut on the scan'n'cut.

Looks better in person.  Photo makes it look washed out and flat

Hop over to CWWCC and leave us your projects using your favourite medium.

CHALLENGES

Sketch Saturday #430 - Sketch by Debra

Addicted to Stamps#211 - Anything Goes

Creative Fingers #116 - Anything Goes

Inspiration Destination #103 - Anything Goes

Creatalicious Challenges #99 - Anything Goes with optional tune

(April Showers bring May Flowers - by Al Jolson) 

Crafting When We Can Challenges #127 - Happy Birthday

It's birthday time over at Crafting When We Can Challenges and was having probs with my blogger and totally forgot to post my card. So here it is (you have until next Saturday UK time to link you birthday creation).

This week we have the wonderful Cheri Shull of

Karleigh Sue Designs

Prize - choice of

1. choose any 2 digi's (value $5)

2. choose current color club (value $10)

Theme: Happy Birthday

To start with I created a frame of cupcakes to go around my image using the SVG function in CraftArtist and the Scan'n'Cut to cut the file. I then added an offset to mat the cupcakes using Create and Craft glitter card. The background papers are from a CWVC paper pad. The image and cupcakes were coloured using Spectrum noir pens. The image is It's my birthday. The sentiment is one from the scan'n'cut on board library.

Hop over to CWWCC and show us your 'Happy Birthday' projects.  It can be any form of project and as long as you follow the rules you will be in with a chance of winning the prize.

Crafting When We Can Challenges #107 - Pink and Lime Green

We are half way through the current challenge and this is just a reminder of what we are up to.   We have the wonderful Heather Valentin from

Lacy Sunshine

The prize is 3 images of choice from the store.

Theme is Pink and Lime Green

We were kindly given an image to use and I received Forever My Darling -Love Note Fariy.  I coloured her using my Spectrum noir pens and cut her out with a Tonic Trellis die.  I used distressed ink to dab through the die as a stencil and around the edge.  The gems were from a finger nail art set and the butterfly is a 3D x-cut die.  The "Thank you" die is from Die'sire.  All card from stash.

You have until Saturday afternoon to show us your Pink and Lime Green creations.  We accept any type of project as long as you follow the rules and theme so hop over and have a look at the DT's inspirational work.

CHALLENGES

Catch the Bug - Give Thanks

Crafty Creations #302 - Give Thanks

Simply Create Too #98 - Give Thanks

Crafty Catz #301 - Girly Only

Sketch Saturday #387 - Sketch by Vanessa

Challenge 106 - Distress it

For challenge 106 we have the talented Lizzy Love from

Oddball Art Co.

Prize: 3 images from the store

Theme: Distress it

We were generously given an image to work with and I got "Veggie Veronica".  As soon as I saw the image I knew what I wanted to do.  I used Craftartist to find some orange paper and put some bats all over it then scored it using my hougie board, love this board for scoring and it's big enough to work off too.  I made a little bag to hold some sweets and then made a tag to go on the front of it.  The tag is cut with my Tonic art nouveau laying dies and attached with a tiny purple brad. The image was coloured using spectrum noir pens.  The tag and the edges of the box were distressed with scissors and a nail file.  The words around the edge say "There's nothing more distressing than exercise, so please pass the treats".

Now you've seen my interpretation of the theme hop over to the challenge and show us your distressed projects.  It can be anything, have you distressed your drawers lately take a picture and show us.  

Crafting When We Can Challenges 104 - At the cinema

Over on Crafting When We Can Challenges we have the wonderful Amanda as our sponsor from

Faery Ink 

Winner prize:  3 images from store

Theme:  At the cinema

inspired by a film, song from film, quote

use your imagination

We were kindly given images to use and my image is Autumn Rose Boots and Bows.  As soon as I saw this image I thought of "Bridget Jones".  I really like the films and I think the Tonic sentiment "live the life you imagined" would be perfect for this image.  I used Tonic die Live the life you imagined and numbers from the tonic squeeze box and the Die'sire Happy Birthday die.  I coloured the shadow with my Spectrum Noir pens and also the image.  The backing paper was from Craftartist with a few more flowers added by me and embossed with a sizzix texturz plate.  The butterfly is a X-cut 3D die glittered by me. 

Now you've seen my creation hop over to the challenge and show us your wonderful creations. 

CHALLENGES

Chocolate, coffee, cards #100 - Celebration

Wags n Whiskers #162 - Glitter/sparkle

Paper Shelter #220 - Birthday with a sentiment

Little Miss Muffet #121 - Bingo

dies, sentiment, glitter

Challenge 103 - midway reminder

I'm late with my card for this challenge, family life and a stinking cold got in the way.  Caved after 3 days of trying to make this card in paper and went for a digital card instead. 

We are just over half way through challenge 103 which is a 

sketch by Ang

and we have a wonderful sponsor in

Robyn's Fetish

Image used Bride. I made this with a little girl in mind who likes to dress up in her bridesmaid dress all the time. 

I used CraftArtist 2 and I coloured the image with Spectum Noir pens.  Sorry no more description falling asleep.

Hop over to the challenge and show us your wonderful creations following Ang's fabulous sketch.

CWWCC 102 - Blog Hop and Anything Goes Challenge

This is a mid way reminder to hop over to our Challenge blog and join in the Blog Hop and Anything Goes Challenge.

I've been a busy bee for this challenge and I've managed to make 3 cards.  I will put each card and the challenges I've entered in order.  Please scroll down to find the card and challenge I've entered.

Card 1.  Robyn's Fetish - Cupcake with Stars

Coloured with Spectrum Noir pens and paper from stash, a spellbinder Get Well sentiment was used.

Challenges

Simon Wednesday Challenge - Make it bright

Clear it out Challenge - Anything Goes

Little Red Wagon - Clean and simple 

Card 2.  Kenny K - Val Ventura

Coloured with Spectrum Noir pens.  White paper coloured with Spectrum Noir pens and edged in a darker shade, silver paper from stash.

Challenges

Crafty Calender Challenge - Anything Goes

Sisters of Craft Challenge - Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly Challenge - Anything Goes

Crafty Catz Challenge - Anything Goes

Card 3.  Oddball Art Co. - Lucy

Coloured with Spectrum Noir pens, paper from stash, heart embossing folder Country Companions.

Challenges

Sketch Saturday #377 - Sketch by Debra

Allsorts Challenge - lots of layers

Digital Delights by Louby Loo - Anything Goes

The Paper Shelter - Embossing of any kind

Challenge 100 - Ribbon or twine or washi

The challenge over at CWWCC is sponsored by 

Lacy Sunshine

The prize is 3 images of choice from the store

and the theme is

Ribbon or twine or washi 

or a combination of all 3

We were kindly given images to use and the image I chose is Rory - Just a lil Pixie.  Spectum noir pencils were used to colour the image.  The pattern paper is from a DCWV paper pad and the purple is paper coloured with Spectrum Noir PL2.  I made a little spool and wrapped some thread round out.  The jewels are from my stash.  The words have been die cut from Die'sire classiques word dies, ribbon was from Lidl and coloured with SN PL2.

Hop over to the challenge and if you follow the simple rules you will be in with a chance of winning the wonderful prize from our sponsor.

CHALLENGES

Crazy 4 Challenges 297 - Must use the word "happy"

Sister Act Card Challenge #117 - Anything Goes

Crafts 4 Eternity 237 - Anything Goes

Sketch Saturday #372 - Sketch by Cathy

Sisters of craft - August Anything Goes

Crafting When We Can Challenges 94 - One for the kids

This challenge over at Crafting When We Can Challenges is sponsored by the wonderful Kenny K Stamps

Kenny K Downloads

Prize: 3 images of choice from store

Theme:  One for the kids

I used some background images from the XOXO digikit and used my CraftArtist software to print out both sides of an A4 sheet to make my card base.  I cut off the corners of the page and used my Hougie board to score 4 lines to make a turned back gatefold card (I don't know what else to call it) and coloured my image, Girl Gamer, with Spectrum Noir pens and glued her into the middle of my card.  I then cut the card down to make an A6 size card in length.  I printed off a sentiment and used an offcut of the printed card to back the words and stuck it diagonally across the front of my card.  This reminds me of my daughter, she would be this image if I let her.  I'm thinking of making her a big poster for her bedroom door.

Hop over to the challenge and leave your "Kid" projects for us to have a look at and if you've followed the theme and rules you may be in with a chance of winning 3 of Kenny's fabulous images.

CHALLENGES

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
Clear it Out - Anything Goes
A Gem of a Challenge - More than 1 fold
Crafty Catz - Clean and simple
Sister Act card challenge - Anything Goes

Challenge 86 - sketch by Ang

This week over at Crafting When We Can Challenges we have a new sponsor it is the wonderful

Aurora Wings

We were given a choice of images to use and I had Wedding Couple.  As we had a sketch to follow I used my image as the main focus and the sketch as my backgound.  I used Create and Craft glitter card that a friend gave me years ago for the background and Spectrum Noir pens to colour my image.  The yellow paper is nearer to the colour of the veil than it shows in the picture.  I have cut a bow from the paper and used a sentiment from Craftwork Cardz which I coloured the same colour as the dress.

I hope you have got some inspiration from my project.  In the spaces at the side I will put the peoples names.  When I find someone who is getting married.

Hop over to CWWCC and leave us your project based on Ang's fab sketch.

Challenge 85 - Anything but a card

I wish everyone a Happy New Year for 2015 

Over at Crafting When We Can Challenges we have the wonderful 

Fitztown

The winner will receive 3 images of their choice from the store.

We were kindly supplied with an image to use for this challenge and as soon as I saw this beautiful creature I knew just what I wanted to do with her.  I coloured her using Sprectrum noir pens and then scanned her into the computer so I could add her to my scrap page. I have also used my CraftArtist software and the digi kits Fantasy Medieval for the background, Fairy Garden for the ivy, Fantasy Fairies for the frame.

I have had this photograph for about 11 years and I always wanted to do a scrapbook page but could never think of anything to use with it.  This doorway is in the walled garden in Hillsborough Park in Sheffield.  When my children were young we spent a lot of happy hours in this garden along with about 15 other children and their mums.  There is a fountain with lots of snails and other creatures crawling in it.  All the seats were around the fountain and from there we could watch the children playing together like a big family.  There were never any arguments between friends (siblings yes but friends never).  It has such happy memories for me and I still love visiting whenever I can.  Hopefully our children's children can enjoy the same happy days there.  Just in case you wondered the door leads to nowhere because the other side is unsafe it is bricked up and you can't tell from the other side that the door is there.  It was always an enchanted door to another world and that is why it was overgrown to stop us getting through.

 Some of the many original photos of the walled garden.  A paradise for small children to play in.

I hope you've enjoyed seeing my project and it has given you some inspiration.  Hop over to the CWWCC and leave us your anything but a card project.

CHALLENGES

Catch the bug - Anything Goes

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

Crafty Catz - Anything Goes

Crafts Galore Challenges - Anything Goes

Sisters of Craft - Anything Goes 

Crafting When We Can Challenges 83 - Clean and Simple

We had a great response to our last challenge and hopefully we will have the same response to our next challenge no. 83.

Our wonderful sponsor is Sherry from

A Random Fan

Theme: Clean and Simple

For my card I used the image Snowman and Company.  This was such an easy image to use and I really enjoyed colouring it in and hopefully I managed to get my shading correct.  To keep it Clean and Simple I used my CraftArtist program to place a background on the card and then used the cutout studio to go around the image so I could place it on the background.  A sentiment was added using the styles in the program.  I coloured the image with my Spectrum Noir pens and added a little glitter to the snowflakes.  For the inside I will print out an insert and stick it so it covers the back of the front cover so the pen bleed does not show.  It took me about 1/2 an hour to complete from start to finish and no sticky glue to get everywhere.  My kind of crafting.

Now it's your turn to show us your Clear and Simple projects.  Hop over to the CWWCC and link up your projects and leave some love for my lovely, talented teamies.

Crafting When We Can Challenges 82 - Use your markers

Another wonderful challenge over at CWWCC.  This Challenge is sponsored by

Sassy Studio Designs

The winner gets to choose 4 images of their choice from the store.

Theme - Use your markers

We were given images to play with and I got Sock Hop Sweetie Sassy.  I enjoyed colouring this image, it was easy to colour.  I went for a block colour and didn't do any shading.  The glitter card I got from Home Bargains and the music background was printed from Season of Giving digikit.  I used blue and pink Spectrum Noir pens and made an ombre background with the colours, then sprayed with CC gold sparkle.  Cut 2 circles with a spellbinder die and used some old peeloffs for the numbers.  I can't remember where I got the ribbon, I've had it for ages.  A corner rounder was used on the (can you guess) corners.

CHALLENGES

Sketch Saturday #335 - Sketch by Debra

Stamp and Create - Ribbon or Lace

(ribbon)

MAWTT - Sparkle and/or Shine

(you can't see it very well but the background has CC gold sparkle on it)

Cute Card Thursday - Stripes

(the colours on the background)

Crafty Boots Challenge - Music

Hope you've enjoyed my card and it has inspired you to have a go with your markers.  Hop over to CWWCC and let us see your projects.

Crafting When We Can Challenges 81 - Black and White

House to my self, catching up on TV I missed and posting my project, oooh a lovely Sunday morning.  Over at CWWCC we have the wonderful Heather from

Lacy Sunshine

Theme - Black and White

Black and White for your main theme

We were generously given a free choice of image from the shop and I chose 1920's Winter Abby.  I really loved the look of Abby and I adore her clothes.

As our theme is black and white I knew the papers I wanted to use.  A Die Cut With A View paper pad stack 6 had just the right papers.  Wright colours and very elegant, perfect for Abby.  The white paper is just from my stash and I used IG1 and IG2 to colour the image and a black fine liner to edge the fur.  I used an A5 base card and followed the Sketch Saturday sketch.

old stuff approx ages:  card base over 2 years, designer papers probably 5 years, white card 3 years old, peel offs 8ish years, spectrum noir pens 1 year, DS tape 1 year, DD foam 2 years, image new

Hop over to the CWWCC page and show us your black and white projects.

CHALLENGES

Sketch Saturday 333 - Sketch by Vanessa

Papertake Weekly - black white and ...

grey/pink in flowers

Wags 'n Whiskers 140 - Stripes

Crazy Catz 252 - Thank you

Simply Create Too 73 - Shop in your craft room

Crafting When We Can Challenges 80 - Name It (personalise your project)

I'm very late with this post because something happened to my eye last week and it was weeping and very sore so I was not able to do my project.  Then my printer decided to play up and then the laptop had a wobble.   Thankfully everything is OK now.  Eye better, I don't know what caused the problem.  OH treated me to another printer and the laptop seems to be OK now.

Over at CWWCC 80 we have the

Theme - Name It 

we would like you to personalise your project

our fabulous Sponsor is

The Stamping Chef

 

We were given a choice of image and I chose The Artist and as soon as I saw it I knew what I wanted to make with it.  I have a friend who's an artist and she would have very curly hair if she didn't keep it short.  I'm also sure that in her time she would have painted in a costume like this.  I made a hanger for her craft room.  

I used a piece of thick grey board and covered it with Tim Holtz distressed inks.  I used all the orangy range of colours and built up the colours.  I also used my Craftrobo to cut out the letters and stuck on with glue.  The image was coloured with my spectrum noir pens and DIs used to create a frame around it.  I then mounted it on a pale orange glitter mount.  A gold pen was used to go around the letters after I stuck them on.  I made a purple spider because it's nearly Halloween and I liked the purple to break up all the orange.  A couple of eyelets using my Crop-o-dile, some orange ribbon for a hanger and the project was complete.

You still have a week to join us over at CWWCC with your personalised project.

CHALLENGES

Crafts for Eternity #198 - Creepy Crawlies.

Simply Create Too #72 - Halloween or Orange 

Sketch Saturday #332 - Sketch by Debra

Crafty Boots Challenge - Autumn or Halloween

I went for Autumn colour orange with a spider for Halloween

Crafting When We Can Challenges 77 - Borrow a Sketch (give credit to the place you borrowed from)

A week late but having trouble with blogger.  Sometime it lets me in sometimes it tells me I don't exist.  I do I have a stinking cold to prove it.

Anyhoo over at CWWCC we have the wonderful sponsor

Sassy Studio Designs

We were given 2 images to play with and I received Queen's Coronation Sassy.  I think she looks very regal.  I chose the papers first before I coloured her in.  I've had these papers for a while and didn't know what to do with them but as soon as I saw this image I knew I could use them, they are from Hot off the Press (Lemonade Stand).  Image and pearls are coloured with Spectrum Noir Pens.  I used a corner rounder to clip the square edges.  The flower are Petit petal pairs from Tonic.  I borrowed the sketch from Sketches by Carly.  Carly no longer runs the sketch challenges but she is designing images now at Imagine that Carly's Cuties.

Hop over to CWWCC and join in with your borrowed sketches (please credit the place you borrowed the sketch from).

CHALLENGES

Crafts for Eternity - Digital
Clear It Out Challenges - Anything Goes
4 Crafty Chicks - Stitching real or faux
Crafty Girls Challenges - Anything Goes
Sister Act Card Challenge - Anything Goes

Crafting When We Can Challenges 76 - Oodles or Doodles (doodles or writing on you projects)

Welcome back or Hello and welcome if you're new.  We have a new Challenge over at CWWCC and our wonderful Sponsor is Sherry from

A Random Fan

Sherry kindly gave us some images to use on our projects but I missed the e-mail about this so didn't get a new image.  Boo some might say but not I as the image I used I really like.  It is Pirate Adventure and for my project I actually made a paper scrapbook page.  WHAT! I hear you say no CraftArtist, well not quite I did use the software to size and printout my image but other than that I only used it to edit my image for the blog.  I know, I was having palpatations at not using some sort of technology to do my crafting so out came the Craftrobo.  I used this to cut my mats and title but I fussy cut the image and tore the blue paper for my water.  I also got my fingers inky by using a white ink pad to make the waves.  (My friend (only have 1 crafty friend) will be laughing when she reads this as she knows I hate to get messy.)  I used a white pen to edge the mats and doodles a little ship and its path the find the treasure on the skull shaped island.  The image was coloured using my Spectrum Noirs.

The picture is of my son and daughter dressed as pirate and princess pirate for a Halloween party at a garden centre.  My son is dressed in my favourite long coat and my belt, his Dad's shirt and his own trousers and my daughter is dressed in a favourite witch's dress that she thought looked princess piraty.  On the lead is her favourite cuddly toy Sarah.  She's had Sarah since she was 2 1/2 and she still takes her on holiday, my daughter is 15 1/2 now.

Anyhoo, it's time to hop over to the Challenge blog and show us your Oodles of doodles project.  As long as you follow the theme and rules you will be in with a chance of winning the Sponsors awesome prize.

CHALLENGES

Crafts 4 Eternity #189 - Something Old 

all the paper is over 5 years old

The Squirrel and The Fox #75 - Anything Goes

Crafty Girls Challenges 24 - Anything Goes

Stamp and Create (August) - Anything Goes

Little Miss Muffet (JFF) - Anything Goes

Crafting When We Can Challenges 75 - Bright Colours

Over at  CWWCC we have a wonderful Sponsor in Heather of 

Lacy Sunshine

The theme for this challenge is 

Bright Colours

I chose the image Bubble Country Gal.  I made a door plate using a background from CraftArtist (love this software) and coloured the image with Spectum Noir pens.  I edge the project with a gold calligraphy pen just to give it a lift.

Now you've seen my project hop over to the Challenge blog and see the wonderful creations by our fabulous DT and show us your projects using Bright Colours.

CHALLENGES

4 Crafty Chicks - Anything Goes

Crafty Girls Challenges - Anything Goes

Allsorts Challenges - Favourite Things

CraftArtist software, Spectrum Noir Pens, Digital Images

Carfty Calendar Challenge - Anything Goes

Crafting When We Can Challenges #73 - Friendship

I'm late with my DT post so you only have 6 days to enter over at Crafting When We Can Challenges.  

Our sponsor is the wonderful Christine from 

Penny Blossom

The prize on offer is a $20 gift certificate for the shop

Theme:  Friendship

I chose to use the freebie image Vigilante for my card.  I coloured her with Sprectum Noir pens and used my Craftrobo to cut out the card and mats.  The papers were from the digi kits by Vintaj.  I thought the sentiment fitted well with the image and theme as every friend should have your back.  The faux stitching was done using the sketch pens in the craftrobo.

Hop over to CWWCC and show us your take on Friendship.