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 74 - Make your own background

Late again, naughty girl I am.  I've was getting ready for my holiday and realised that it was the weekend for posting the next Challenge.  

Our wonderful Sponsor is

The Stamping Chef

I quickly made up the Challenge post but didn't get time to make my project.  I'm always last minute with my projects, anyhow I have just returned from my week in Norfolk and have put together the following page using a photo I took of my kids in the sea at Cromer.  I used the image Sirena.  I coloured her using CraftArtist 2  with materials from various digikits.  I then created a background by replicating the image and placing it over a faded paper from the kit.

I love how you can use digital images with your software.  I do alot of digital scrapbooking and love to use my images.  Sometimes I colour them and scan them in and other times I use the material as I have with this project.  The mermaid tail is a sequin material to give the impression of shiny scales, her hair is a cork looking material and the skin and lute are crumpled paper, eyebrow details are green crystals.

Now all you have to do is hop over to the Challenge blog and show us your backgrounds and why don't you have a look at the DT call we are having at present, it's a sticky post at the top. See you over there. 

Crafting When I Can Challenges 68 - Sketch

For the challenge over at Crafting When We Can Challenges we have a sketch by Ang and our wonderful sponsor is 

The Stamping Chef

 

The theme is a Sketch by Ang.

We were allowed to choose our image for this challenge and I chose Jolene.  I coloured her with my Spectrum Noir pens and used some ribbon I've had for about a year.  The papers were from a Trimcraft 6" pad, I embossed stars into the background paper.  All the edges of the paper and image mat were distressed with Vintage Photo DI.  I'm really pleased with her hair this time, I love the colours but forgot to write them down and now can't remember what they were.  I know there were 3 colours from the TN range.  The ribbon was from Craft Den Studios and the sentiment was from a K & Co pad.

Hop over to the Challenge and join in.

Crafting When We Can Challenges 62 - Food

For Challenge 62 we have a theme of 

Food

and our wonderful Sponsor is

The Stamping Chef 

For my image I used one I already had as I wanted to use my CraftArtist software to try something new but when I hopped over to The Stamping Chef shop I couldn't find it and site seems to have had a makeover, so I hope I have used the correct The Stamping Chef link.

I used Kiss the Cook image and I used my CraftArtist software to block and fill the png outline with colours and textures.  I then used Afternoon Tea digikit to make my backgroud.  I printed and cut out my Cook image and 3D it on to the front of the card.  Just need to make up a foody sentiment.  For the inside I used a Purple Ronnie verse. (the background seems to have printed out quite dark and wonky which I didn't notice when I photographed it).

Hop over to the Challenge and show us your Food related projects.

CHALLENGES

Catch The Bug - February Anything Goes

One Stitch At A Time - Anything Goes

Crafty Girls Challenges 10 - Anything Goes

4 Crafty Chicks 179 - Anything Goes

Crafty Catz 216 - Anything Goes

Challenge 57 - Neopolitan - red, white, brown

First I have printer problems and now blogger seems to be playing up, but I'll try and make this a quick post.

Our theme over at Crafting When We Can Challenges  is

Neopolitan - red, white, brown

Our Sponsor is

The Stamping Chef

Tamara kindly gave us images to use and I chose Sirena.  I wanted to do this as a proper paper scrapbook but I was having problems with my printer and it took nearly 40 mins to just print out the line image so I decided to go digital.  I coloured my image with spectum noir pens, used Craft Artist II to make my page.  Digikits used - Season of Giving, Classic.  The white mats are made from coloured shapes punched out.  

Close up of coloured image

Hop over to the Challenge blog and leave your Neopolitan themed projects.

Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes

Crafts 4 Everyone - Anything but a card

One Stitch at a Time - Holidays (annual holiday 2008)

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Penny's Challenge - Lots of layers (digital layers at least 3 per mat)

CWWCC #36 - mid way reminder

I really wanted to have a play with my CraftArtist 2 and this Fishy Bulb image from The Stamping Chef gave me the perfect opportunity.  I imported the image into the program and had a play with the cutout studio, punches and styles.  I have used several layers in the program to achieve this page and I printed it out and stuck it to some greyboard I then attached a big clip to the top.  I plan on using it as a place to put the letters etc I need to deal with.  I've pictured it nice and big in the hope you can see the effects on the light bulb.  A metal top, a smooth glass effect underneath the top and a glass effect with a ripple for the water.  I then had to make the fish into a punch so I could cut out the material I wanted and then put the image back over it.  I've still not quite got it right but I'm really please with the work.  

Here are some close ups I hope you can see the effects.

not quite got the fish righ but I will be working on this

Hope you all have a great weekend and don't forget to hop over to the Challenge and leave us your Strawberries and Cream (red and white) projects.

Crafting When We Can Challenge 36 - Strawberries and Cream (red and white)

The Challenge for this fortnight is Strawberries and Cream or red and white.  We were given images to use by our lovely sponsor who is 

The Stamping Chef

The image I chose to use is Maggie. She reminds me of the showgirls you see in the saloons in the old Western films.  I can see her on the stage of Deadwood (Calamity Jane reference).

I have cut my card into a diamond shape, not as easy as it looks for me, getting the right dimensions took some doing.  The base card and mats are are from Rymans it's 200gsm, cream, coated card and the DP is another sheet from my K and Co 12 x 12 pad.  Circles of the paper and card were inked with fired brick DI and rolled into flowers and stuck on with my glue gun.  Boy does that glue get everywhere.  The image was coloured with Copic markers.  I will choose a sentiment later when I find them all so I can choose the right one.

Now you've seen my project hop over to the Challenge blog and leave your Strawberries and Cream projects with the blue froggy and the DT will be over to leave you some love.

CHALLENGES

My Time to Craft #205 - Sketch (hope you can see it)

Allsorts Challenge 190 - Flower Power

Cute Card Thursday 252 - Diamonds are Forever (card & layer shape)

Simply Create Too #29 - Anything Goes

Digital Tuesday Challenge #193 - Flower Power