Paper Pad Challenge #1 - Sketch

Pascale over at My Craft Heaven is starting a new Paper Pad Challenge.  As part of this challenge she is giving away 4 great freebie backing papers to use and a sketch to follow.  

Here is my contribution to the challenge.  I have lots of this type of photo and I thought the papers would look great with it.  I used CraftArtist (bet you couldn't have guessed) the leaves and font are from a digikit, Harvest Delights.

Hope you have all had a fantastic weekend. :-) xx

Dezinaworld Spot Prize Challenge - Autumn/Fall & Lace

Just a quick post to show off my entry into Dezinaworld's Spot Prize Challenge the theme is Autumn/Fall & Lace.  I used one of June's freebie backgrounds (gorgeous colours) and I knew what I wanted to scrap as soon as I saw it.  The photos are of my son and daughter's carved pumpkins from last year.  I think I should be OK with these pictures after all October is in Autumn.  The silhouettes, lace and frames are from the 'Spooktacular' digikit from Daisytrail.

REMINDER

Don't forget to hop over to the Crafting When We Can Challenges and enter our sketch and fairytale challenge.

CRAFTING WHEN WE CAN CHALLENGE #2 - SKETCH & FAIRYTALE

What a great response we had to our first challenge, nearly 300 entries.  Thank you to all that participated I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.

This week we were given the choice of fantastic images from

Spesch Designer Stamps

As long as we kept with the fairytale theme we could chose our own image so I chose Beauty and the Beast which I think is a lovely fairytale.  I have printed the image onto a background from CraftArtist (Haberdashery Christmas digikit) and coloured it with Promarkers and Copics.  I then used the sketch and layered the DPs from the Best of K&Co Too paper pad (360 papers :-O so many papers) matted with red papermania and red roses from my stash.

#2 - SKETCH & FAIRYTALE 

I think this would make a cool engagment/wedding/anniversary card.  "Will you be the Beauty to my Beast".  

Hop over to the challenge and link up your fantastic creations, please read the rules as we want everyone to be in with a chance to win the wonderful prizes on offer and while you're there hop over to the other DTs blogs and have a look around.  You won't be disappointed.

Hope you are all having a wonderful weekend, I'm off to do some more washing and hoping the little bit of sunshine and wind we have at the moment dries it.

CHALLENGES

Creative Inspiration #129 - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp - Song or Film title as inspiration

Crazy Amigos Challenge - Together
Die Cut Dreams #98 - Flowers (at least 6)
Cute Card Thursday #182 - Anything Goes

CRAFTING WHEN WE CAN CHALLENGE #1 - ANYTHING GOES

I hope you are all as excited as I am about our new challenge.  To make it nice and easy for the first challenge we are having an "Anything Goes" so I hope you will all hop over and link up your card.  

CRAFTING WHEN WE CAN CHALLENGE #1

We have 10 DT members 5 from the Creative Cowgirl Challenge and 5 new members and if you click here you can go the the page where all their blogs are listed. If you have time, sit with a coffee and explore the fantastic work they do.

This challenge we were given a fantastic image to use by our Sponsor

FRESH BREW DESIGNS

My image is called 'Hot Date' and I loved colouring this image in.

I printed the Fresh Brewed Design image, sentiment and background (from the Daisytrail digikit Modern Lace) using my Craftartist software (told you I love this software).  I then coloured the image with my copics.  I tried my best to use shading and I think it worked really well I love the way the greys have blended and the shaping I got on the bodice of the red dress (I hope the designer doesn't mind her image having boobs).  I designed this card with the intention of it being flat so it would be cheap to post and then forgot and put dewdrops on the corners.  I may take these off and swap for card candy which would be flatter.

I will be posting more now I have some incentive to craft, I have already made quite a few cards for a car boot sale my daughters Musical Group is having and I have already coloured the image for the next Crafting when we can challenge.  My OH has thrown out a load of stuff he didn't need and cleared me some space in the bedroom so I can have my Craftrobo and Big Shot out so I don't have to keep reaching on top of the bookcase to    get them down.  

Hopefully by the time you are reading this we will be at the cinema watching 'monkeys in trousers' for some reason my kids really want to see 'Rising of the Planet of the Apes'.

CHALLENGES


Charisma Cardz Challenges #35 - Anything Goes
Creative Card Crew - Anything Goes
Joyful Stamper - Inspire Me Fridays #22 - Anything Goes
Stamp Something - September Digi Day
 Card Making Mamas #28 - Use a digi image/paper

Sneak Peek for New Challenge on Sunday 4th September

I know I keep plugging this but I'm really excited about the new challenge and I want loads of you to join in.  

Here is a sneak peek of my card.

I can't wait to show you the full card.

Sunday 4th September

CRAFTING WHEN WE CAN CHALLENGES

Hop over, become a follower and you won't miss a single challenge.

having problems and a reminder

I hope everyone in the UK is having a great long weekend, and to those who have to work, a big THANK YOU.  I would just like to say I haven't been around much as I am having problems loading pages from the internet so I cannot see people blogs.  I am scheduling this page and hoping that it appears as I will be holding my OH's legs while he replaces the boards on the dormer window surrounds.  I offered to tie a rope around his neck to stop him falling but he politely declined this offer.  (I offered to tie it around his neck as I think this would give him the incentive to be very careful and not to fall out of the window).

I would also like to remind everyone that

 Sunday, 4th September 

will see the launch of the new challenge 

CRAFTING WHEN WE CAN CHALLENGES

I hope you will be able to join us, it will be lots of fun.

Happy Yuletide

Here is my first Christmas card.  I know it is digital but I think I may do a hybrid card, which means dissecting the items and printing them out separately and then putting them back together to make an actual physical card.  Or I may just try printing it out onto card and seeing how that looks or I may do both mmm thems choices!

The background is from Dezinaworld as is the gorgeous image which June is giving away as a 24hr freebie, there are 9 free images on the sheet and they will all make gorgeous Chrismas cards.  Hop over and grab the page before it disappears back into the shop.  The rest of the embellishments are from the CraftArtist package.

I hope you're having a great week and can't wait to hop around and see what you have created.

Don't forget Crafting When We Can Challenges are having a DT call.  Hop over and check it out we have some awesome sponsors lined up.

Daddy's Little Girl

I hope everyone is having a lovely weekend.  Mine's not been too bad so far, spent too much money but don't know what on (do you ever wonder where the money went when you empty your bags)  on the plus side my OH is finally decorating the bathroom (I won't tell you how long I've been waiting).  It has gloss white woodwork and it should have warm lilac walls when he's finished.  

Anyhoo onto my posting.  As I have already mentioned I have been practising with my CraftArtist program and am going to show you one of my favourite pages so far.  I had forgotten about this photo so when I found it I just had to scrap it.  My daughter is now 12½ and catching her on camera is very difficult I get plenty of hair and hands but not much face and I don't know why 'cause I think she's beautiful.  Here is a gorgeous photo of her and her Dad at Wentworth Gardens which is inside Wentworth Garden Centre, near Sheffield.  

It's very purple because I was practising with the colour catcher and used colours from her trousers and stripy top.

DON'T FORGET WE ARE HAVING A DT CALL OVER AT THE NEW CHALLENGE BLOG CRAFTING WHEN WE CAN HOP OVER AND CHECK IT OUT.

NEW CHALLENGE BLOG OPENING - 4TH SEPTEMBER

Great news for all the crafters out there.  A new Challenge blog is starting in September and they are having a DT call so I have put the details below. The Challenge is called

CRAFTING WHEN WE CAN

(It isn't me who is running it, the name is a pure coincidence)

Here are the details I have downloaded from the challenge page.  The challenges will be for   any project (scrapbook, altered art etc) not just cards.

Crafting When We Can is a fantastic new challenge blog that will be launching on the 4th September 2011. We will be a fortnightly/bi-weekly challenge blog, so you will have plenty of time to join our challenges. There are only 4 DT members at the moment and we're looking for a few more talented crafters to join us!

Commitments:
* Be able to work as part of a team.
* Meet deadlines.
* Post on your fellow DT's cards, and on an assigned number of entrants projects.
* Make a creation/project for every challenge, bare in mind this is one card every two weeks.
* Join in with any blog hops or other events running during your term.
* Commit to a 3 month period.
* Have a personal blog to post challenge information and to display your cards.
* Have fun!

In return:
* You will be a part of a fantastic team.
* Gain or add to you DT experience.
* Get some freebies from sponsors, if they are kind enough to provide them.
* Design Team Badge to display proudly on your blog.
* A link to your personal blog on the main challenge website.

If you are interested in entering our DT Call there are two simple steps to enter:
* Firstly publish a post on your personal blog with information about this DT Call and our launch. Including 3-5 samples of your favourite/best projects. Then link your post up in the linky tool below. * Secondly please e-mail a brief statement about yourself and any DT experience you have to craftingwhenwecan@gmail.com. If you do not have any DT experience please still enter! We welcome everyone to enter in this call. 

To leave your link you need to go to the crafting when we can challenge blog and leave your details with the link tool.  As I find out more details I will let you know.  I can't wait as I need a push to start physically crafting again as opposed to digital which I have been doing lately.  

Dezinaworld Spot Prize Challenge - GOLDEN

Another entry to June's Dezinaworld Spot Prize Challenge, this month the theme is GOLDEN.  This can be interpreted however you wish.  I have gone for 'Golden Moments'.  Any time my children are having fun together is a 'golden moment' I have digitally scrapped a time when the children were playing on a beach in North Norfolk near Cromer.  I know I don't have a picture of them together as they were digging holes in the sand.  I have used one of Dezinaworld's pictures in the middle of the pages because it reminds me of my kids and I think it suited the theme, you don't have to use any of Dezinaworld's images but if you do it makes June a very happy bunny.  I have used my Serif CraftArtist program.  I am really enjoying this software and I am in the process of adding some of my photos to make embellishments to go with my pages.  I've done loads of pages and when I have enough confidence in them I will post them here.