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 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 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 I Can Challenges 60 - Outside

Happy New Year to All

For the first Challenge of 2014 we have a theme of 

Outside

and our wonderful Sponsor is Heather Valentin from

Lacy Sunshine Stamps

We were able to choose our own stamps for this challenge and I chose 

Maggie Springtime Flowers from the retiring section.  I used my new Spectrum Noir pens.  I had been collecting the sets over the months and then treated myself to the sets I needed to complete the full set for Christmas and my MIL gave me some money towards the pen racks too so I now have a lovely, colourful set of pens to look at and hopefully use ;-).

I used an 8 x 8 card because I printed my image larger than I wanted but instead of worrying about it I went with the flow and used a bigger card base.  The green card I used for the base is from a Papermania pack, the mats are from DCWV Stack 6, the ribbon I bought about a year ago and never used until now.  All edges have been distressed with DI, Old Paper.  I've been trying to get more shading because I have all the SN pens and I like the dress but still can't get the hair but I think this image is a wonderful one which to practice shading on.

CHALLENGES

Sketch Saturday #291 - Sketch by Vanessa

Our Creative Corner - Shopping Sins (pink ribbon bought about a year ago and never used.  Mat paper bought 5 years ago still have loads left)

Creatalicious Challenges - Wishes (to spend less time worrying about what might happen and spend more time enjoying what is happening)

Allsorts Challenge 240 - Free and Easy

Challenges 4 Everyone #37 - Anything Goes

Crafting When We Can Challenges 45 - Die cuts and /or punches

Time again for another challenge over at CWWCC the theme for Challenge 45 is

Die Cuts and/or Punches

Our Sponsor is

Kenny K Downloads

My image is Happy Hour and I've used Promarkers and Copics to colour the image and DIs to colour the background.  The pearls are from Home Bargains and the sentiment stamp is from the Dovecraft cupcake boutique sets. I always seem to have difficulty in getting the ink not to pool on the clear stamp so I decided to use a diamond nail file on the surface and it worked great the ink stuck and gave a decent image for once.  I have used a Spellbinder labels 4 and a large corner rounder on the page and sentiment banner.  The dots were made with finger dobbers.

Hop over to the challenge and leave us your creations. We would love to see them.

I will post some of my sewing items over the next couple of weeks and you can let me know what you think.

Have a great weekend and happy bank holiday if you live in the UK.  :-) xx

CHALLENGES

Anything Goes Challenge - handmade background
Eureka Stamps - all white or NO designer paper
My Heart Pieces - Be sentimental (use a sentiment)
Shopping Our Stash - what's in your took shed.  (finger dobbers, corner rounder)
Joanna Sheen Challenge - Girls, Girls, Girls

Beccy's Challenge May 2013 - Anything Goes

Here is my entry for Beccy's Place May challenge.  I originally made this for the April challenge but forgot to post and enter it  so as May's challenge is anything goes this will work too.  The image is called Full Bloom and is perfect for layering up, as you can see on the 2nd picture.  The decoupage is about 2cm high. The image was coloured with copics and promarkers and then scanned and printed so I could layer them up.  The base card was embossed and coloured with DI and the mat was cut with a Nelly C die.

CHALLENGES

Beccy's Place  - Anything Goes

CraftnDen ATC swap March - bit late...

Because of life I'm a little late with my March ATC swap for Craft Den but I will be taking them down to Lynne on Tuesday.  If you want to join in hop over and see what the theme will be for April or even better become a follower of Lynne's blog and you'll never miss them or any of the wonderful classes she runs.

The theme for March was Birds of a feather. I was going to go with flying birds but I decided to go with the colloquial ones instead and add feathers.  All 5 are the same.  I've used an image from Dezinaworld and feathers from an old boa.  The stamp is from a set that came with a magazine, inked with DI.  The little pearl is from Home Bargains.

Hope you're having a great weekend.  Weather not too bad in Sheffield today.  Half past 7   in the evening and I'm sat looking a blue sky with scattered clouds.  Spring may just be arriving and about time too.

Beccy's Place - Birthday Challenge 2 - white on white

I've never done white on white, my white always ends up with a big smudgy fingermark or glue blob I've tried to rub off but this time I'm quite please with the results.  These 2 cards are made from white card from my stash and my own designs made up on the Craftrobo.  I've designed my own stamp edge base card and the lattices used as background texture too.  The butterflies are from a punch and the stamps are from Lindsay Mason designs and Docrafts.  The frame is embossed with the cuttlebug swiss dot folder and the stamping is seedless preserve DI.

This is my daughter's favourite

 This is my favourite even if I didn't notice the sentiment was off centre until I was putting the butterflies on.  The stamping is seedless preserve DI even though it looks black.

CHALLENGES

Beccy's Place B'day #2 - white on white

Simon says Stamp - white on white (I've used a cuttlebug swiss dot embossing folder for the frame)

Crafting When We Can Challenges #37 - Slugs and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails (cards for Boys)

Challenge 36 over at CWWCC was awesome.  The wonderful people who enter our Challenges are so talented and it is so difficult to choose a Winner and Top 3. 

Our Sponsor for this Challenge is the talented Kenny K from 

Kenny K Downloads

The DT were given the chance to choose their own image and I chose 

Need For Speed

I firstly made a tyre tread template using my Craftrobo.  I then inked this with DI to make a tyre track across my card.  I kept the design simple (it is for a male after all) by inserting my image onto a background from CraftArtist, using the beach digikit.  I then coloured in my image with Copics and Promarkers using an Inkssentials opaque pen for the white wall tyres and highlights on the car.  The sentiment is from Craftwork cards and the gold bling is actually a crystal one coloured with my Sakura Calligrapher gold pen as was the border on the mat for the image.  The smudge you can see on the image is my finger, I always have to stick my finger on things to see if they are dry, they never are.  My finger prints are all over my cards, anything wet or sticky will have a fingerprint in it, guaranteed. 

 Now it's your turn to show us your 'Slugs and Snails' project it can be anything as long as it follows our simple rules.

CHALLENGE #37 - Slugs and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails

CHALLENGES

OLLCB #122 - Wheely Good

Cards for Men 2 - Transport

Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Anything Goes

Crafty Boots Challenges - New (new card for base, new template for tracks, new image

Paper Pretties - Square Cards

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

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 #32 - Fairytales

This challenge we are sponsored by

Saturated Canary

Krista is giving away 2 images, to the Winner, from her wonderful store.  Krista was kind enough to let us choose our image for this challenge and I chose Pearl because I wanted to do The Little Mermaid (yes I went with the Disney version but I do love her hair).

I coloured my image with Distressed Inks and used a spellbinder die to cut it out as well as some swirls.  The ribbon is from Craft Den and the papers are from a 360 page pad by K and Co.  I never thought I would use paper but as soon as I saw this image I knew it would work.  The pearls were made with a Viva Pearl Pen and it only took me 2 goes to get it right.  The first lot I made I put my hand in, as usual but the second lot I managed to let dry without incident.  I also put some glaze drops in her hair.  

CHALLENGES

Sketch Saturday #235 - Sketch

Clear It Out - Ugly Sweater (use up old paper ~ I never thought I would be able to use this paper I've had it about 4 years)

Stampavie and more challenges #181 - Swirls and Pearls

House of Gillis #46 - Die Cuts

Papertake Weekly - Ribbons & Pearls 

Crafting When We Can Challenges #15 - Things with Wings

Phew, thought someone had pinched the formatting for blogger luckily I realised I was in HTML view.  What a wally I am sometimes, my OH is always saying I'm hilarious as I do things like this quite alot.  

Anyhoo, onto Challenge 15, this time it's 'Things with Wings' if it's got wings we want to see it.  Butterflies, fairies, unicorns if you follow the simple rules you have a chance of winning the wonderful prize we have on offer.

This challenge our sponsor is the wonderful

The Digi Garden

I made my card using Bazzill card and Papermania colour block card cut on my CraftRobo.  I ran out of the base card brown and had to substitute with another card but IRL it looks fine.  I have made a hexagon card shape to go with the 'On a Wing and a Prayer 003' image, kindly given to us by our sponsor, he's so cute.  I coloured him with Promarkers and used DI on  the card around the image to match with the yellow paper.  I typed up the sentiment and cut it out and popped it and the image layer up on 3d foam.

Sorry for the rubbish photos they were took on my phone at about 2am last night.  When OH gets back and I can find the camera I will take some better pictures.

The inside

I don't usually finish the inside but it seemed appropriate with this card. 

Now you've seen my interpretation of the theme let me see yours, hop over to the challenge and leave your wonderful work with the blue froggy.

CHALLENGES
One Stitch At A Time #107 - New
Simon Says Stamps - Anything Goes
Joanna Sheen Challenge - It's a man's world

Crafting When We Can Challenge #14 ~ One for the Boys

Once again we had a superb turnout for the challenge and once again the work was awesome, we have very talented entrants. 

For Challenge 14 our sponsor is the wonderful

Some Odd Girl

  

I don't know what the prize is but I'm sure it will be awesome.

The card I have made is using an old Some Odd Girl image of hang 10 Cody, this image doesn't seem to be in the shop but there are loads of other fab images to choose from.

I made my card using Papermania 12 x 12 coloured card, cut in half to make a 6 x 6 base, the DPs are from DCWV Stack 6.  I coloured my image with Copics and Promarkers and highlighted the waves with a white inkssential pen and die cut with a Spellbinder label. I've shaded with DI and made the faux buttons with a round punch and the swirly border is a MS punch.  The faux stitching was made with a black fine liner pen.

CHALLENGES

Saturday Sketch #199 - Sketch 

Craft Your Days Away #41 - Men/boys + buttons

Anything Goes Challenge 62 - Men to boys

OLLCB #100 - On the Move

Totally Paper Crafts #108 - Male card 

Crafting When We Can Challenges #11 - Valentine/Love

Once again all the entries were wonderful and I'm sure the DT member who has to choose the winner and top 3 will have a very difficult time.

This week we have been sponsored by the lovely Heather at 

Fresh Brewed Designs

The Winner will receive

3 images of their choice

from Fresh Brewed Designs

Heather gave us some images to use for this challenge but I really loved the previous image Heather gave us I've made 2 cards.

The card below was coloured with my Flex Markers and the mat was cut on my CraftRobo.  It was a design I made my self and I'm really pleased with it.  The plaque is a  Nellie die and the stamps I've had for years from QVC (a big wooden box of about 30 wood mounted stamps)

On this next card the lips are cut from my CraftRobo, so is the Dipped Strawberry. the design from FBD.  I took the image into the Robo software and made it into a cutting design (I hope this is OK with Heather).  I used some Anita's 3D clear gloss on the brown bit to make it look like shiny chocolate (but you can't see that on the picture) and I hand wrote the Mmmmmmm... (as if you couldn't tell). I also designed the fingers to hold the strawberry, as you can tell art really isn't my forte and the creases and fingernail could do with improving but for 11:30pm I don't think it looks bad.  I used Promarkers and Copics along with Tattered Rose DI.

Now all you have to do is hop over to the Challenge blog and enter your projects.

Due to unforseen circumstances the DT cards will be put on to the challenge page as and when they are received so there may only be a few when you visit.

CHALLENGES

Delicious Doodles #12 - All Loved Up

Stamp, Scrap & Doodle Saturday - Use die cut or punches

Allsort Challenge #140 - Free and Easy

Delightful Challenges - Punches and dies

Fresh Brewed Challenges - Love

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

Crafting When We Can Challenges #6 - Female Birthday

All the entries for the spooky/abc were great, we have some very talented people out there in blog land and the winners will be announced soon over on the challenge blog.

This fortnight over on Crafting When We Can Challenges we have a simple theme it's 'Female Birthday'.  You can use any image and create any project as long as it follows the theme.  

Our rules are simple 1, follow the theme 2, no backlinking 3, max enteries, 4, link to the challenge blog 5, max of 5 challenges.

Our Sponsor this challenge is Stretch n Bubbles.  There is a bio of Alison the owner over on the challenge blog.

I chose the image of Marcy holding a cupcake.  Her little ballet shoes reminded me of my daughter when she was little.  The buns she used to have looked enormous in her hands just like this one does on Marcy.  I coloured her with Whisper pens, cut out with a Nellie die and shaded with DI.  The cupcake and backing paper are from a 360 sheet pad by K & CO and the sparkles are free from a turny thing I bought from C&C.

 

CHALLENGES

My Partner in Crafting Crime #35 - Use a freebie (the image was a freebie from the sponsor)

Digital Tuesday Challenge #136 - Anything Goes

Crafts and Me Challenge #60 - Birthdays

Shelly's Images TTT - Show the inside of your card

Stampin with the Dragon - Food for thought

Creative Cowgirls Challenge #2 - Anything Goes

Wooo Hooo thank you to everyone who entered our first Creative Cowgirl Challenge.  If you pop over to Creative Cowgirls Challenge tomorrow you will find out who our first winner is.

This week we are having another ANYTHING GOES challenge.  

Our Sponsor this week is the talented Terry Oulboub at

Tellen's Place

and she is giving the winner a $10 coupon to spend in her great shop.

She is also giving the Top 3 1 image of their choice.

After all this I nearly forgot to post my card.  I used 12 x 12 Papermania card cut to a 6" square base with dotty paper from DCWV paperstack 6.  I coloured the image with Promarkers and shaded with distress inks.  Martha Stewart loop punch and Woodware flowers.

The thing I really like about Terry's image is the infectious smile.  I defy anyone to look at one of these images and not follow suit and smile.

Hop over to the Challenge and enter your fabulous creations.

CHALLENGES
Papertake Weekly Challenge #51 - sketch

Incy Wincy Designs Challenge #70 - recipe - 3 flowers, 2 papers, 1 image

IACCCB #11

For the last It's a Crafter's Companion Challenge Blog (the challenge blog is hopefully being revamped and should rise like a phoenix from the ashes), we were asked to recycle magazines/newspapers, use 3 buttons and glitter.  Here is my entry.  The picture looks a little washed out because the light wasn't too good.

I based the flower on a Youtube video.  It was cut from newspaper and the edges were coloured with distressed inks.  The buttons have a piece of paper ribbon (the type you use on presents to make the curly ribbons), and the sentiment is stamped using 'peeled paint' distressed ink.  The paper used if from a 6 x 6 K & Co paper pad Classic K.  I have used stickles to highlight around the flower and on the flower itself. As the flower is so deep I will have to make a box to put it in.