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

Dezinaworld Spot Prize Challenge is back - Yaaaahh!

June at Dezinaworld is starting up the Spot Prize Challenge again.  You don't have to use Dezinaworld images but June would be really happy if you did, and it doesn't have to be a digital project as long as it follows the theme which this month is 

BLACK AND LIME

I love doing the Spot Prize Challenge as it lets me play with my Serif CraftArtist.  I only wish I had half the talent of June and her DT  I find their work amazing and get great inspiration from them.  Anyhoo here is my project for BLACK and LIME

The image and background paper are from Dezinaworld and the lace and butterflies are from digi kits in the CraftArtist software.  I have played with the colours, material depth and feathering.  Don't really understand how they work but I like the effect.

Crafting When We Can Challenges #9 - Resolutions

I hope everyone had a great Christmas and a Happy New Year.  I had a good time off with my family, nearly 3 weeks in total, which is just what I needed.  

The Crafting When We Can Challenge this time is Resolutions.  It could be to get fitter, eat more healthy, take more time for yourself or if you're like me all the above.  This year I really need to make some changes in my lifestyle and hopefully the card I have made will remind me of this.

We have 2 sponsors this challenge 

Stamping Boutique who kindly gave the DT some great images to work with

and

Crafty Ribbons

I am going to be sticking my card next to where I craft and hopefully it will remind me to start taking care of myself.

The plain papers are from Papermania and the patterned paper is from K & Co the image was coloured in with Copics and Promarkers.  The image is Princess Jennifer Latte Work Out Digital Stamp. I don't have a treadmill to use, they give me vertigo, but I do have a glider which I am trying to find a permanent spot to leave it set up. 

CHALLENGES

Craft Your Days Away #36 - New Beginnings (a new me)

Lothian Crafts #22 - Die Cuts

Cute card Thursday #198 - Whats New (image)

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes 

Delicious Doodles #10 - All Things New (image)

Crafting When We Can Challenges #8 - Friendship

Once again Challenges #7 was full to the brim of wonderful enteries so a big thank you to all those who were able to join us.   

Challenge #8 over at CWWCC is open until 7th January so there is plenty of time to get your entry in. 

The theme this challenge is FRIENDSHIP

Our sponsor for challenge #8 is

Kenny K Downloads

Once again our sponsor allowed us to choose our own image and I chose EVA PEARL.  I thought she looked really good and I think I will get lots of use out of her.  I coloured here using Copics and Promarkers, popped her up on gold mirri card and punched the edges with a MS corner punch.  The background paper is from Free Paper Pad Challenges.  I made the sentiment myself using a new piece of equipment called Hot Foil Gun, it heats up and you can use it to write on things using different coloured foil.  It was my first time but I think it looks good and with practice I hope it will look really goo.  I also decided to make a bottle wrap to go around a bottle of wine to give to a Friend.

excuse the colours the printer ran out of ink and I didn't have time to do it again.

Now all you have to do is hop over to the Challenge and enter you project.  We accept any work as long as you follow the rules.  

Crafting When We Can Challenges #7

Thank you to those of you who joined in our Female Birthday challenge last time, the entries were gorgeous.  

Challenge #7 over at Crafting When We Can Challenges should be easy for you all to enter you have to choose a sketch from another challenge and use this.  You MUST credit the challenge you have taken the sketch from on your blog and then hop over to CWWCC and enter your card.

The sponsor generously let us choose any image we wanted off their site and I got 2 images and a sentiment and I only chose 1 image, how generous is that.  I won't keep you in suspense any longer our sponsor this challenge is...

TIDDLY INKS

The image I chose is 'Checking the List' I thought she was sooo cute checking her long, long list of nice children (and adults too!).  The sketch came from 'Sketch N Stash' their sponsor this week is Meljen Designs.

inside

I know brown isn't a usual colour for Christmas but I've had these papers for a couple of years now and have only used them a couple of times.  The image was coloured with Promarkers and Copics, Spellbinders for the mats, the papers are from Paper Cellar, the sentiment is from Craftwork Cards and the little gold parcels are from the tables at last years works Christmas Party the ribbon was around a box of Chocolates.  

CHALLENGES

Sketch n Stash #75 - Sketch - neglected papers and ribbon
Paper Creations Ink #13 - Christmas
Pollycraft Monday Challenge #120 - Christmas Fun (4wks challenge)
Shopping our Stash #27 - Christmas or Winter related
Truly Scrumptious #70 - Christmas Project with Pearls or Vintage

Free Paper Pad Challenge #8 - Vintage Papers

Here is my entry to Pascale's Free Paper Pad Challenges.  This week Pascale has given us some lovely vintage papers to play with.  I have scrapped a picture of our Christmas Tree as usual I have used CA.  

We only put the tree up 12 days before Christmas so the children know they don't have long to wait before they get their presents, nowadays they usually know what the main present will be as it is something they usually ask for but we always try to sneak in a few stocking fillers.  They have had their stockings since they were babies and we always have to put something in them, we also have to fill the tiny Thomas the Tank Engine stocking (it's about  6" long we can usually fit in a couple of bags of chocolate money).

REMINDER

You still have time to hop over to Crafting When We Can Challenges, the theme is  Female Birthday

just like buses, they come in 3s

The title alludes to the fact I seem to either don't post for ages or I have 3 things to post.  Today I am posting a card I made for Free Paper Pad Challenges.  Pascale gives a prize to anyone who enters as she offers wonderful free papers.  I didn't realise I had missed a week (time flies as they say) but I will still be using the papers as they are soooo different.  I'm thinking along the lines of a Scrap page so will have to have a think.  

Paper by Free Paper Pad Challenges and Christmas Pudding image by Pink Gem Designs, composed on CA and coloured with Copics, red pearls free with my turny thing from C&C.

I've just noticed I haven't coloured my currants, better get the card back out of the box and colour them in now.

AAAAGGGGHHHHHH only 40 days to Christmas!!!!

I've made this card using blue and white paper and and an image from Pink Gem Designs and I am entering it into the A Gem of a Challenge #34. and the backing paper is from the Paper Christmas kit from CA.  The image was coloured with Promarkers and snowflakes punched with a MS punch, sentiment from Craftworks.

If you look closely you will notice the blue and white card actually has butterflies on it but as I couldn't be bothered to change my glasses to the ones I use for close work I thought they were funky snowflakes, it wasn't until I was sticking it all together I noticed but hey ho I'm sticking to funky snowflakes if anyone asks.  I'm also trying to decorate the inside of my cards as well as using inserts.

Off to do some altering now, I'm helping out with the costumes for the Panto my daughter's in in December.  Yeah more pictures to scrap.  Have a great week and think Happy Thoughts.

REMINDER

Don't forget to hop over to Crafting When We Can Challenges and join in our 'Female Birthday'

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

Snowman Winter Wishes

Just remembered to post my card for Pascale's Paper Pad Challenge.  I have used the free Polka Dot papers for my background and 3 of Dustin Pikes images and they were coloured with Promarkers and Copics the white highlights with an Inksential pen.  The circular sentiment is from Craftworks.  I've printed the papers flat using my CAS and highlighted the edges with a Sakura silver pen.  The circle and images were popped up using foam pads.  I am also entering this card in to Lothian Crafts Challenge #20 - Christmas.

REMINDER

Don't forget to to hop over to Crafting When We Can Challenges to join in our Halloween or Anything But A Card Challenge.