Sometimes I feel like the White Rabbit.......I'm late, I'm late

Here are my ATC swaps for the ATC Swappers.  They should have been there by now but I lost 1 and had to remake it.  It must be in the same place as my Nesties, hairband and camera lead.

Does anyone remember the film "Gaslight" (a black and white film that I remember from numerous showings on a Saturday afternoon when I was young).  The idea behind the film was the young wife's husband wanted her to be declared insane so he could have her money. (If she died it went to the sister or something).  He kept moving her things around and turning down the 'gaslight' in the rooms she was in.  Any hoo I'm not saying my OH is trying to send me insane but he denies ever seeing any of these things and doesn't know what I'm talking about.  If the lights start to go dim in our house I'll let you know.

The dragon and rocket images are from Dustin Pike, the Fairy in a balloon is Pollycraft Designs and the baby bear is by Anne Bodil.  The blue/grey background are in MS Draw and the pink background is from Bearly Mine. Some bits are glazed and some glittered.  The bling is from stash. All edged with a silver Sakura calligraphy pen.

I am entering these into the Lothian Crafts January Challenge - Anything Goes.

Creative Cowgirls Challenge #6 - Valentine Day Cards

This week over on the Creative Cowgirls Challenge we have the theme of Valentine Day Cards.

The Posse were lucky enough to receive an image from our sponsor Roberta at Prairie Fairy Designs.  My image was Roopid and I really enjoyed making this card I got to colour the image, cut out the circles on my Craftrobo and punch out the hearts and stickle the edges of everything.  The sentiment is mine.  All the card was from stash, dewdrops and stickles were purchased from Craft Den, small heart punches were purchased form Ideal World many years ago and the bigger hearts were embossed form my CC Ultimate board.

The sponsor this week is Prairie Fairy Designs

Roberta is giving the winner 3 images of their choice

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Winners Badge to display with pride on your blog

TOP 3 each get 1 Prairie Fairy image of their choice

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TOP 3 Badge to display with pride on your blog

Hop over to the Challenge and post your creation, we can't wait to see what gorgeous projects you have made.

CHALLENGES

The Creative Cottage #31 - shaped card

Scrappekammeret #23 - white + 1 other colour

Riley and Co. - a heart challenge

Gingerloft #10 - things that fly

Fairy Fun Friday #45 - for a sweetheart

Mark's Finest Papers #40 - Valentine card

Craft Your Days Away #12 - Love

Old scrapbook page

As I am trying to get back to making  more posts I have pulled out an old scrapbook page I made at one of Lynne's classes at Craft Den.  All the papers etc were from Craft Den and the picture was added afterwards.  I am entering it into the Anything Goes Challenge Brads & Eyelets, the eyelets are where the ribbon is crossed and the centres of the flowers are velvety brads.  ( I really just wanted to show of my cute little daughter in one of my favourite outfits).  We were at the Wrinkled Stocking Cafe in Holmfirth when this picture was taken.  They do delicious cream teas.

Quick post today.  Hope everyone had a great weekend.

Dezinaworld Spot Prize + Create4fun #77

Just a quick post this time.

I am entering the Dezinaworld Spot Prize.  The theme this week is Under The Ocean and I knew exactly what photo I wanted to use.  As I seem to have lost my mojo for making cards I have been doing some digital scrapbooking (all my nesties etc. have gone missing since Christmas, I think OH must have packed them away when we moved everything around to make way for the tree and I haven't found them yet).

All the backing mats are photos I have taken, I have played around with them in several programs as I know how to do some things in one program and other things in a different one.  I have used Paintshop to make the greyscale background and colour photo.  I made the mats greyscale to even out the colours of the different pebbles and sea which were all from different beaches.  MS Publisher to layer everthing up and MCS software to cut out the round shape.

CHALLENGES

Dezinaworld - Under the Ocean, the fish are from the ocean as are the pebbles

Create4fun Challenge #77 - a sketch by Willykk

I hope everyone is having a great weekend.

Creative Cowgirls Challenge #5 - Turqoise and black or brown

What a fantastic response we had to our last challenge, over 100 fantastic projects entered and I would like to say a big Thank You to each and every one of the talented people who entered them.

This week our sponsor is Tellen's Place.  Terry has such cheery images in her shop and they are a delight to work with but I know she also has some images she calls 'Dark digital images' which have a more macabre feel to them.

When I received my image for this challenge I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it.  I have digitally coloured it and added it to a scrapbook page.  I hope Terry won't mind I did have to add a line to the grass so I could colour it in digitally.  The photos are of my daughter and son walking in a wood called Padley Gorge (you would never have guessed by the title on the page).  It was a great day and the image reminded me of my daughter hence the colouring of the image which is not turquoise & black or brown but I did chose to use these colours as my background. 

I have used MS Publisher to design my LO and the background paper is from Tinker & Co.  The image is from Tellen's Place and make a striking addition and lift the page I think.

Our sponsor for this challenge is

 and the prize is 

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Winners Badge to display with pride

TOP 3 will each receive 1 image of their choice

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TOP 3 Badge to display on their blogs

To enter and see more of the Posses fantastic creations hop over to the challenge page and leave some love and an entry or two.

CHALLENGES

Paper Crafting Journey #1 - Let's get digital

Kaboodle Doodles #49 - Do it with digis

Papertake Weekly - Anything goes

Craft Your Days Away #11 - Anything goes

Pile It On #2 - All about the cute children (I think mine are cute)

Creative Cowgirls Challenge #4 - Something New

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL

I hope everyone had a fantastic New Year.

This fortnight over at Creative Cowgirls Challenge we are having a Something New Challenge.  Unfortunately this year I didn't get anything new for Christmas (what!! I hear you cry, When this was mentioned to OH he said "I didn't know you wanted craft stuff".  New Year Resolution - consider changing OH for newer model). 

For the Something New Challenge I have used stash that I have never used before (what's that you say, stash you bought and never used!!!) I know I admit it I was a naughty girl but I have used them now so I think I need to go and buy some new stash in case another challenge like this turns up (don't you agree?).

The sponsor for this challenge is Pollycraft who have kindly donated a voucher for the winner.  

The talented Paula over at Pollycraft has a variety of designs covering any occasion you could ever need.  There are fairies, bears and Maurice (who you can see on my card below) plus too many more to name here.  Most of her images can be bought separately or on special offer for the set.

The Winner will receive from Pollycraft the following voucher

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the Winners Badge to display with pride

the TOP 3 will each receive the 

TOP 3 Badge to display with pride

My card is using Maurice - ready for business he was such a joy to colour I have done 3 in different colours.  My daughter chose this colour way to go with the DCWV papers I have used.  The papers are from the DCWV 12 x 12 stack 6 and I have used a beige card from a Papermania card pack for the base card and mats.  The edges have been distressed with scissors and swiped with Frayed Burlap distress ink.  Maurice was coloured with Promarkers and his glasses glazed with Anita's 3D clear gloss finish.  The "Best Wishes" was stamped using stamps from Personal Impressions and the ring border from Scrappy Cat.

Hop over to the Challenge now and join in you have until 15th January to enter.

CHALLENGES

Mojo Monday #171 - Sketch by Julee Tilman

Incy Wincy Designs #74 - Distressing

My Time To Craft Challenge #121 - Brand, Spanking New

One Stitch At A Time #43 - Anything Goes

Still Time

Hi everyone, just to remind you, you still have time to enter the Creative Cowgirls Challenge #3 with a blog hop and candy.

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL.

Creative Cowgirls Challenge #3 - Christmas or Winter + Blog Hop + Candy

This week over at Creative Cowgirls Challenge we are having a Blog Hop with Candy to go with our Challenge this fortnight.

As everyone is really busy at this time of year we are keeping it short and sweet there are only 7 of the Posse to visit + Challenge blog.  There are a few rules but they will be easy to follow.

The Winner of the Hop Challenge will receive this box of fabulous Christmas ribbons from Crafty Ribbons, hop over and take a look they will have just the perfect ribbon for your needs.

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2 images of their choice from Prairie Fairy

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CANDY

Full deatils on the Creative Cowgirls Challenge.

The TOP 3 entries will also receive 1 image of their choice from Prairie Fairy.

RULES

You have to enter a card/papercraft project into the Challenge (Christmas/Winter), leave some love on ALL the blogs in the Hop + the Challenge Blog and place this badge on your post with your card/papercraft project so we can spread the word.  All the details are on the Creative Cowgirls Challenge Blog.

Here is my card (sorry it's a bit grotty but the light isn't very good).

I have used the cute image of Gillian, singing her heart out, which was provided by Roberta at Prairie Fairy.  Hop over and check out the other images there are plenty to suit every taste.

I have coloured her with purple and green Promarkers and used papers printed from a CC Cute Companions CD backed with silver mirror card.  The snowflakes were punched with my Martha Stewart punch and little green gems placed in the middle (you will have to use your imagination for this but it looks better in real life). The snow is Star Dust Stickles.

CHALLENGES

Create4fun Challenge #51 - Sketch by Anne-Marye

Allsort Challenge Blog #83 - Anything Goes

Moving Along With The Times - Let It Snow

Glitterbabes Challenge #25 - Snow and/or Snowflakes

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

Dezinaworld Everyone Wins Prize Give Away Challenge

I've finally made my card for Dezinaworlds Everyone Wins Challenge.  June is very kindly giving everyone who enters this challenge a prize.  You have to use one of June's images but she has loads of freebies in various styles.  I used this image for a wedding card.  My OH's cousin is getting married and I thought this would be perfect for them.  It used to have French writing at the bottom which said, Bonne Fete, which I think means Happy Birthday so I cut that off.  I have used various silver papers, which I got from 'Home Bargains' for 89p.  There is a holographic one which I used at matting and a mat silver with little glittery spots for the main mats.  I coloured the edge of the card with my silver Sakura pen.  I'm really pleased with how it turned out and I hope you like it too.  I will be adding a Wedding sentiment when I find one.  I've never made a wedding card for someone before.

CHALLENGES

Dezinaworld Everyone Wins - Use one of June's images

Friday Sketchers #130 - Sketch 

One Stitch at a Time #41 - Celebrate in Style, Bling It Up