Crafting When We Can Challenges #34 - Sketch by Ang

This Challenge is the last of 2012 and I would like to thank everyone who participated in these enjoyable challenges and welcome everyone to join in next year.

The Challenge for this fortnight is a sketch by our DT Team Leader Ang

Our Sponsor this Challenge is 

Dilly Beans Stamps

We were offered an image to use and I chose Christmas Squares.  I made this card for my  Sister-in-Law and her family.  The card and papers were from my stash and I used Copics and Promarkers to colour the images.  I have also layered the images up using Pinflair glue gel.

The picture is rubbish as the mirror paper reflected blue (it's in the corner and the middle of the sticky out bits).

Hop over to the Challenge blog and join us for the last challenge of the year.

SEASONS GREETINGS

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 31 - Ribbons & Skulls

The Challenge for this fortnight is 

Ribbons & Skulls

Our wonderful Sponsor is the fabulous 

Dilly Beans Digi Stamps

Megan is offering the Winner 3 images of their choice.

We also have a new DT member to introduce to you, so I would like to welcome Susan to our DT family.  To visit any of our wonderful DT you can either go to the page section at the top of my blog and click on Crafting When We Can Design Team and hop to any of the members pages or even better hop over to the challenge join in and leave them some love.

The image I chose from Dilly Beans is 415 - Pinkys skull bow and I really enjoyed colouring this and let go with several colours of brown on the hair.  I find this a hard thing to do as I always think it looks messy but this image just seemed to lend itself to the technique.  The papers and card are all from my stash as is the ribbon and gems.  I used Promarkers for the image and Uni Paint marker for the skulls and image background.

CHALLENGES

Catch the Bug (Stella says sketch - 123) - sketch

Simply Create Too #26 - use your stash 

(the paper/card and ribbon are at least 3 years old)

Little Red Wagon #158 - colouring

Papertake Weekly - anything goes

Creative Card Crew 23 - silver & blue

Crafting When We Can Challenges 30 - Choose a countries flag

As usual we had loads of fab entries for Challenge 29 and there seems to be lots of Winter Weddings in the offing going on the number of entries we had.

This fortnight the Challenge is choose a countries flag and use the colours from it for you colour scheme.  It can be a card, scrap page, alter art as long as it follows the theme and rules we don't mind.

Our wonderful sponsor for this Challenge is 

Sassy Studio Designs

and they are offering the Winner 4 images of their choice.

We were all given a choice of image from the store and I chose China Honey, once again it's for my daughter as she is in a production of Aladdin, which is set in China.  All the paper, flowers etc are from my stash, the die is a Nellie Snellen die and the image was coloured with Promarkers and Copics.  I used a gold Sakura pen to colour the flowers and Honey's top.

I've used shiny papers for my card and it takes a rubbish photo.  When I've time I might try taking another in daylight.  

To show us your creations just hop over to the Challenge and leave your entry with the froggy and we'll be over to leave you some love.  

Off to the seaside now so hope it doesn't rain.  Hats, scarves and gloves at the ready as it's freezing outside and I can only imagine it will be even colder at the coast.

CHALLENGES

Sketch Saturday #231 -  Sketch

Delightful Challenges - Stitching real or faux (around image)

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge #99 - Ribbon and or buttons

Truly Scrumptious #82- Flower power

House of Gilli #44 - Emboss it

Crafting When We Can Challenges #29 - Wedding Celebrations

Thank you to the people who entered our last Challenge, as usual the work was fantastic. The Winner and Top 3 have been announced on the Challenge Blog.

The Challenge this fortnight is

Wedding Celebrations

and our wonderful Sponsor is 

Some Odd Girl

As we didn't have an image to use this Challenge I have chosen a scrapbook/calendar page I made for my MIL and her brother and sisters for Christmas last year.  The pictures are of her Mother and Father and they were married in April 1924.  I put pictures of various family on 12 pages using CraftArtist and made a little calendar down the side of each page.  I then bound it using a bind it all. 

I have taken the names and date from the top right corner.

To join in with our Challenge this fortnight all you have to do is hop over and leave your work with the blue froggy.

Crafting When We Can Challenges #28 - Sketch by Ang

Thanks to all those that joined us for the last Challenge, your work was wonderful.  

The Challenge this fortnight is a Sketch by Ang.

Our Sponsor is the wonderful 

Fresh Brewed Designs

The image I chose is Little Mushrooms in a Row.  I coloured it with Copics and Promarkers, the papers were from a big 360 page pad from K & Co and I dusted over them with Tea Dye Distressed ink to make them a little more vintage looking and bring the  papers together.  I used a Nellie die to cut the circle out and dusted this too.

To join in this challenge just hop over here and leave your wonderful creations with the little Blue Froggy.  I'm also sure the DT would love it if you left a little love for them too.  Everyone likes a little love.  BIG HUGS :-) xx

CHALLENGES

Lil Red Wagon #152 - Photo inspiration
The Paper Shelter #83 - Anything goes
Paper Pretties #225 - Fall inspired
Tuesday Throwdown #117 - Fall colours
Catch the Bug - Harvest time (colour challenge) 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US...

It's our 1st Birthday over at Crafting When We Can Challenges and we've got some great things going on.  

As usual we have our fortnightly challenge with the theme of 

1st Birthdays or any birthday with a 1 in the number on your card. 

The we have 2 sponsors for this challenge the Winner will receive 5 images of their choice from

The Digi Garden

and each of the TOP 3 will receive 1 image from

Dilly Beans Digi Stamps

We are also having a BLOG HOP, you should have arrived here from the wonderful 

Martina's blog

 and when you've left a comment you need to jump to the fantastic 

Robin's blog 

to carry on the hop.  

If you've arrived in the middle of the hop go back to CWWCC and start at the top of the DT's project with Ang, right click on the name and leave a comment on the blog hop post, then come back to CWWCC and carry on like this down the list.  When you've finished leaving a comment on the DT's posts just leave a comment at the bottom of the Challenge page letting us know you've completed the hop.

Three commenter (who will be picked at random) will receive a prize from one of our 3 other sponsors!

Saturated Canary, Kenny K, Dude Time Doodles

So to win the great prizes on offer hop over to CWWCC

and enter your wonderful project into our Challenge and or follow our simple Blop Hop.

My card was made with card from stash embossed with a Sizzix texturz plate, purple & green paper from CA backgrounds, ribbon from Craft Den, bling from Poundland, sentiment from C & C goody bag.  The faboulous image is from The Digi Garden, Ursula's Teddy Bear

CHALLENGES

Sketches by Carly #65 - Sketch
Through the Craftroom Door #35 - Anything Goes

Allsorts Challenge 172 - Purple Passion
Dutch Dare Card Challenge #182 - Sugar and Spice

Crafting When We Can Challenges 26 - Recipe

The challenge over at Crafting When We Can Challenges is a recipe.  You will need 

1 x large image

2 x sentiments (different or the same)

3 x colours (excluding skin/hair colour)

and the wonderful sponsor is 

Crafty Ribbons

and the winner will get these amazing 

Keep  Calm and Carry On ribbons

My card is a landscape DL and the paper, image and sentiments are from the MCS Walking in Winter Wonderland CD.  I have printed each piece out and layered them up again.  I printed Snow on the ribbon along the bottom and wrapped a dotty ribbon around the middle border under the image.  No colouring this time around just plenty of double sided tape and foam pads.  The images were printed onto semi-glossy paper and there are stickles around the borders and on the tree.  They don't show up at all on the scan but believe me they do in real life.  My 3 colours are red, white and blue (with a tiny bit of green because I couldn't get rid of it on her arms).

CHALLENGES

Allsorts Challenge 170 - Anything but square (does DL still count?)

Creative Card Crew 18 - Christmas

Penny's Paper-Crafty 91 - Sparkle and Shine 

Crafting When We Can Challenges 25 - Rainbows

I'm late for this Challenge as I came back from holiday and completely forgot about the challenge on Sunday.  As I'm not a very organised person I didn't do my card before I went away so I had to do it yesterday and wouldn't you know it, I couldn't find the glue, the printer was playing up, the light disappeared so no good for taking photos, you get the picture.  But eventually my idea came to fruition and I'm really pleased with it.

The sponsor for Challenge 25 is 

Di's Digi Downloads

For my card I made the rainbow using CA then cut it out I attached another piece of card to the back and cut it into the same shape.  I then printed out an image from CJ Holifield who used to run Cowgirl Up Designs.  This is one of my favourite images and I can't place why but I just love it.  I used CA to decoupage it and coloured it in using Promarkers and Copics. 

Hop on over to the Challenge blog and leave your Rainbow creations with the blue froggy.

CHALLENGES

Moving Along with the Times - any thing but square

Creative Stamp Friends #58 - special card shape

Lollipop Crafts #87 - anything goes

My Craft Spot #67 - Splishy Splashy Summer

Just Some Lines - layers (4 layers of decoupage)