Food Stuffs

Hello everyone, hope you are well and enjoying 

crafting. Todfay at My Time To Craft - Janice has

chosen for the challenge Food Stuffs.

For more detail and to see the ideas by the DT

please pop over to the blog. 

These past warm days have had me remembering the 

wonderful days when we could go to the coast and

have a wonderful Knickerbocker Glory.

This is the best I thing at present.

Background papers from The Works - Wonderful Sweetness.

The stamps are by Creative Expressions - Sundae

Coloured with Promarkers and gems for the sprinklers.

Stay safe - stay well.

Happy Little Stampers - February Challenge

Hello, thank you for your visit. Today at Happy Little Stampers - ATC - the challenge is
........Fruity........ We look forward to seeing fruit on your ATCs. Please visit the main blog
to check the details and be sure not to miss the wonderful inspiration created by the
design team.

Here is my Fruity ATC

I enjoy playing around with ~ATC's. I started with the apple stamp,

covered it with a mask to create the background.

Blended the background with Scattered Straw Distress Ink. 

Stamped a few leaves and 'hessian' texture  with stamps 

from my stash. Stamped the word Apple.

The apple and word are from a Creative Expressions 

set - Fruit- an old set but it has lots of lovely fruit to use.

The apple was coloured usisng Promarker alcohol pens. 

Happy Little Stampers February Challenge

Hello, welcome to my blog, today at Happy Little Stampers we begin a new challenge
- Watercolour with the Optional plus - Bling, for February.
Please visit the blog to check out the few details and be sure not to miss the inspiration by the design team.

Here is my card.....

A little splashing, spraying and stamping to produce this card.

I used Distress Oxides Bone China and Lucky Clover.

Lightly used blue and green mica sprays  (Bling)

Stamped the butterfly - Creative Expressions ( old but good)

Coloured with a Crafter's Companion Green Sparkle pen ( Bling)

The sentiment -Smile -(new and love it) is also Crafter's Companion.

Raised the watercolour square on mounting foam.

L is for Lemon and Lime

Good morning,  we have a new challenge starting over

on Alphabet Challenges - Meg has chosen for

L - Lemon/Lime.

Please pop over to check the blog and to see the inspiration

from the design team.

I blended onto white card Dsistress inks Squeezed Lemonade

and Twisted Citron, embossed with Circle Illusions,

by Creative Expressions, then matted onto black card.

I usded a Honey Doo stamp Garden Peony, coloured with

the same inks as above, adding two other pen colours for

the shading. Matted onto black card and fussy cut.

Added to the card on dimensional pads. A small

dry air clay butterfly added and a birthday sentiment.

Black crystals added to one corner. 

Sew and Sew

Hi, welcome to my blog. Today we are starting a new

two week challenge at Cardz 4 Galz, chosen my me,

which is Sew and Sew.     

The DT have some super ideas waiting for you to see.

All the background papers and embellishment pieces are

from a Debbie Moore CD - Haberdashery Shabby Chic.

The two larger corsets are stamps from Creative Expressions-

Vintage Lingerie.

Other embellishments include Crafty Individuals stamped items.

I hope you have fun with your sew and sew project. 

Triple Mat Technique

Hello everyone, welcome to my blog. Today begins a new challenge

at Cardz 4 Guyz - Sue has chosen a technique for us. If your not sure 

about this you can find all the informtion and help here.

Triple Mat Technique

The Design Team have again blown me away, they have so many

different variations of the same theme, they are bound to inspire you.

For my card, I followed the above link, I used a nautical theme, with 

stamps from varied sources.

Stamps used - Sweet Dixie - Lighthouse Set

Tandastamps ( no longer with us) Pirates Set 2.

Creative Expressions Travel Set 1.

Distress Inks - Salty Ocean, Stormy Sky and Broken China

Twine and a fish charm added. 

In The Fall

Hello again, thanks for your visit. Today at Fantasy Stampers

we begin another two week challenge with

In The Fall

Once again the Design Team have produced some wonderful

inspiration, please pop over to see their projects.

I have, for once, gone fairly simple.

I created a rectangle shape template, then blended within the

rectangle with several autumnal colour  DI from Tim Holz

The stamps are from Creative Expressions -Fancy Foliage.

I blended several colours of the same inks as previously.

The stamps were then heat embossed, I stamped with Versafine

Black Ink and used Clear Embossing Powder. cut out, added to the page.

The sentiment is from Dare 2 B Artzy- Tangle Leaves.

Matted onto orange and black card.

Stitching Real or Faux

Hi Today sees the start of a two week challenge over at 

My Time To Craft (MTTC).

The challenge, chosen by Jo is 

Stitching - Real or Faux

Please check out the creations by the Design Team.

I, obviously have gone for Faux stitching, I have such 

problems these days with real stitching, which was once a great 

joy for me, so I have hand drawn all my stitches on this card. 

The two main corsets are from Creative Expressions  - 

Vintage Lingerie.

Other embellishments include stamps by Crafty Individuals and

Debbie Moore Shabby Chic Haberdashery CD.

All papers are leftovers in my stash.

Have fun in your crafting. 

Challenge # 25 Pink and Brown

Hi thanks for visiting my blog. I do appreciate you taking the time. 

Today we start Challenge # 25 at Cardz 4 Galz - which is 

Pink and Brown

I do like the colour challenges, I hope you too will enjoy this.

The DT have had a ball playing with pretty pink, why don't you pop to see them?

I started with a Kraft card.  With Picked Raspberry, I stamped a rose stamp

by Sheena Douglass from Creative Expressions around the edges of the card.

From my stash I found the gorgeous Santoro Mirabelle topper. 

I cut it down, placed on a pink piece of card, then onto brown card.

All tied off with some pretty organza pink ribbon. 

The sentiment is a stamp from Hobbycraft. 

No Images or Photos

Hello again, thanks for popping by.

 On CD Sunday Challenge Blog

their challenge for the next two weeks intrigued me. I'll go so far to say

I was truly challenged with 

'No Images or Photos' 

This challenge made me realise how much I depend upon a topper,

usually an image I have stamped and coloured. 

All of the above papers, including the flowers are from a CD,

I've had for ages, it was an old one when I bought it,  I've never

used it, but after today, I will be using it a lot more. There are some

gorgeous papers with fabulous colours. 

CD  by Kanban - Seasons Collection - Backgrounds and Extras.

The large die is by Sweet Dixie, the smaller circle is a Marianne die.

The verse is by Phill Martin - Birthday Verses 2

Purple gems added. 

Thanks for the challenge ladies, I really enjoyed doing something different.

Something Beginning with A

Hi, hope your well and have had an enjoyable Easter.

This week at Cardz 4 Guyz, we have one of my favourite challenges,

Something Beginning with A

We can go as far as our imagination takes us for the letter A.

The DT have certainly had fun with the theme, please take a look.

For my card, I have used a square Kraft card, matted with black card.

The cracked piece of card was created by blending several Distress Inks, 

When dry, I stamped the cracks with a Creative Expressions stamp.

The smaller piece was created by adding DI in a water colour pool, 

adding mica powders, blending the colours and placing your card

into the pool, allowing to dry.

I stamped the image with the Elephant Silhouette from

Little Claire.  The title is from a Sapphire Alphabet Die set. 

Embellished with 3 metal brads. 

January Blues

Hello, thanks for your visit. Today starts our monthly challenge

at Sparkles Monthly Challenges. Del has chosen 

Challenge #76

January Blues - (Monochromatic)

Please do pop over and check out the DT creations for inspiration.

For my card, again I have a white scallop edge card.

All the papers, including the flowers are from a Papermania 

paper pad - Capsule Collection - Blueberry Pie. 

I used Chipped Sapphire to edge all the card used for matting, 

including the edge of the Marianne die to mat the stamped verse.

Stamp - Verse 2 collection  - by Phil  Martin - Creative Expressions

Flowers stamped with Always Floral stamps by Sheena Douglass. 

Pearls added to flowers and card. 

Something Beginning with the letter S

Sea Shells, Stafish, Sentiment, String and Square card.

Hello again,  this week at Cardz 4 Guyz  we are giving you a break from Easter projects, unless of course you wish to make something for Easter, because you have SO much choice this week. The challenge chosen by Helen is Something beginning with the letter S. Please take a look at the Design Team's inspiration, it is amazing. For my project, I have chosen Sea Shells.  I used a bought   scalloped edged Kraft card, matted with pale blue and then white card. The main image was matted onto Kraft card. For the main image I used a piece of white card,  added and blended several Distress Inks, blues, a little yellow, pale brown. I  heat embossed second generation stamped shells using Gathered Twigs ink and clear embossing powder. I sprinkled and heated to melt, some blue and gold spinkles from Stampendous Frantage powders.  Added twine, tied with a bow securing a starfish charm.  I hope you are thinking of maybe taking up the challenge. See you at C4G. Have fun. Thanks for visiting and for any comments you may leave.
Stamps - Shells - Creative Expressions  and Sheena Douglass.
Sentiment - Kaisercraft

A is for Apples

Here we are at Alphabet Challenges beginning another trip through the alphabet, with the letter A - , didn't we all learn our ABC beginning with A is for Apple?  This being the  fifth turn of the alphabet I was surprised to read this is the first time we have gone for A is for Apple. For my main image, the apples, I went back to an early stamp from Creative Expressions, drawn by Sheena Douglass. The script stamp  is from a See D set of Oriental flowers. The hessian butterfly is from Poundland. I coloured the background with Disress inks. The apples were coloured with Promarkers. 

Time Flies

For the next two weeks at Fantasy Stampers the theme is Time Flies - so many ways you can interpret this challenge. Why don't you pop over to the blog, to see how the design team have been inspired with the title of Time Flies. I have chosen some old stamps from my collection. Old but gold stamps. 

I created the bckground blending several shades of Distress Ink blues, including the gorgeous Peacock Feathers. The background clock stamp is from Creative Expressions - Time set. The main image is from Clocks 1 Paperartsy, along with the lower sentiment. The Time Flies sentiment is part of a Stampendous stamp. I used  Spellbinders dies to mat the image, the outer coloured with Faded Jeans and Peacock Feathers. I am looking forward to seeing your creations, have fun. 

Halloween

Boo! Oh! I just love Halloween. Spooky! Ghouls! Witches! I love the colours, the whole thing. I know I'm grown up and shouldn't be so excited but Hey it's this type of wonderment which keeps the mind young. This week at My Time To Craft it was my turn to choose the theme, being the time of year we are going to see lots of Halloween projects, so I thought, Why Not!? Let us be among the first. It's fun. I was inspired to make this card by one I saw on Pinterest though I have obviously changed a lot in the design. The background has been embossed with a swirly pattern using Black Wow! embossing powder, as has the witch and around the edges of the added panel. . Unfortunately the shimmer and glittery look doesn't show in the picture. Strips of green, orange and black papers, green fibre,  shiny green and black ribbon and a green gingham bow  all added to enhance. The greeting was computer generated. have you spotted the bat in the top right corner, stamped in black onto orange card.? The swirly stamps are from Creative Expressions, the witch and bat are by Tandastamps. I am so much looking forward to seeing all of the forthcoming projects for Halloween. I am sure you will all have fun who venture into the scary world of ghosts and ghouls. He! He! He! 

Song Title

For the next week at Cardz 4 Guyz we are challenging you to make a project with the theme of a Song Title.  Please pop over to see the wonerful inspirational samples from the Design Team.  

The song of my choice is 'Sailing' by Rod Stewart. 

Stamps I used were:-

Background, globe, compass from  Creative Expressions - Sam Poole Nautical Journey

The ship image by Crafty Individuals -Discovery -  CI 295

live Life to the Full - Kaiser craft

Tim Holtz DI Ranger - Scattered Straw, Peeled Paint, Shabby Shutters, Faded Jeans, Broken Glass

Quickie Glue Pen - Glamour Dust - Crystal on part of the moon and sails. 

L is for Lace

For the letter L at Alphabet Challenges we are asking you to provide us with Lace, in any way you choose. We all have a little lace lying around somewhere, or a Lace stamp, or butterfly. this week both teams A and B are joining forces, so there are twice as many wonderful inspirational projects for you to view, so please do pop over to the blog to check them out.  I used a shaped card. Matted and layered card which I coloured with various Distress Inks. The stamps used are from Crafty Individuals - CI 328 and Creative Expressions - Antique Dressforms. A few pearls for embellishment. Have fun with your lace, I look forwardt to visiting you over the next two weeks.  

Nautical Challenge

We had lots of lovely entries last week at Cardz 4 Guyz, I hope this week's challenge will be as popular. 

Helen from the DT has chosen Nautical - of ships and the sea . Lots of options open for this one.  I decided to go a little grungy with my card, which is based on a Kraft card, with navy blue and red card for contrast. I stamped onto the same Kraft card with TH Distress ink Chipped Sapphire. 

Stamps used - Script , Anchor, Lighthouse -  Europe Map - Creative Expressions  various sets. 

I achieved the distressed edges by running a pair of open scissors along the edge of the card, messy but good fun. I hope you have fun creating your card. I look forward to seeing you over on the main blog, your project can be for any age group, but of course, must be for MALE gender. See you there. 

Rose Garden @ Fantasy Stampers

This week at Fantasy Stampers , Jan is wanting to see your projects with the theme of Rose Garden.  

Please pop over to the challenge blog to see the wonderful samples from the Design Team, for I am sure you will feel inspired to create a project for the challenge. I decided instead of having pink roses which I always seem to go for, I chose peach for a change, along with toning peach colours for the background paper.

White Card stock 

Peach paper for background

Rambling Rose stamp from Creative Expressions - designed by Sheena Douglas

Greeting stamp and die from Go - Kreate. 

Coloured with Promarkers.