Crafty Creations 1,2,3

Hello it's Wednesday and I'm back with the new challenge at Crafty Creations where this week the theme is Easy as 1, 2, 3 - 3 designer papers, 2 embellishments, 1 technique (stamping, distressing, sewing, etc.)

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I have used a new release digi stamp from Whimsie Doodles called Cotton Candy Leah, coloured her with Promarkers and added some Glossy Accents and ultra fine glitter on the cotton candy. My backing papers are from First Edition and the sentiment and little bird stamp are from Polka Doodles and were free with a recent craft magazine.

 

Entering these challenges:

Cupcake Craft - Lots of Layers

Incy Wincy Designs - Bright and Bold
Karens Doodles - Lots of Layers
Stamp with Fun - Birthday
There's Magic in the Air - Green, Yellow and Orange
Going Grey With Scrap-Creations - Digital Image
Ladybug Crafts Ink TLT Challenge  - Anything Goes

Keeping it simple

I love all of the gorgeous Teddy Bo images and could not resist buying a couple recently and this is the first I have coloured up. I wanted the images to really stand out so have kept the card very plain and simple, only adding a little designer paper, a spotted ribbon and a button to embellish. The image was coloured with Promarkers and Prismacolour pencils.

Entering the following challenges:
Make it Monday - Anything goes
Nettie G's Digital Gems - color your favorite digi
Craft Your Passion - You've been spotted (use dots)
Kenny K Krafty Girlz - Anything goes
Fussy and Fancy - Card for a child
Totally Stampalicious - Keep it simple

Busy week!

What a busy and fun week this week has been, firstly my sis Gillian and her husband Steve came to stay for a few days and we were quite active - yummy family lunch with my other sis Karen and her family, visiting Mum, shopping, visiting Lynsey in her new flat, more shopping, going to the pub, lunch in Ikea, walk along the prom at Portobello (Neil's old stomping ground). It was lovely to have them here and we enjoyed our few days. Then it was back to work and, on Friday, an interview for my old job at the library, a bit wierd as I was working on Friday and spent most of the day trying to suss out all the other candidates while they waited for their interviews, quite nervewracking! However I got the job so it was a big relief and a reason for a small celebration (couple of glasses of wine) on Friday night!

Today's card is a just for fun card, Gillian had brought a couple of new stamps from LOTV with her and let me stamp a few images for myself, thanks Gill, so I was dying to colour one up and make a card. I used my Promarkers to colour the image to work with the great backing papers which I had received in the post from my teamie at Creative Inspirations Corry who had a wee challenge recently and sent the participants something for taking part - thanks so much Cor it was a lovely surprise (will pay it forward too)! I made the roses myself by cutting circles of paper into spirals, glueing them into rose shapes then spritzing them with Tattered Angels mist, scrunching them then waiting for them to dry before opening them up. The sentiment is a rub down from Papermania.

Entering this in the following challenges:
By the Cute & Girly - Cute and Girly 
Freshly Brewed Monthly Challenge - Cute and Sweet  
Delicious Doodles  - All stitched up
Fabulous Friday - Homemade/handmade embellishment
Inspire Me Fridays - Anything goes
Let's Ink it Up - Show us your stitching

A Recipe

Our new challenge at Cardmadfairy's Digi Days is a recipe - 1 image, 2 patterned papers and 3 embellishments. I have used the Cardmadfairy digi stamp Flowers 1 available over here, which I coloured with Promarkers. The patterned papers are from 7 Gypsies and my 3 embellishments are ribbon, buttons and lace. Got to rush now - off for an interview at 9.30 - wish me luck!!

Entering my card in these challenges:
Cooking It Up With Katie - Recipe
Crafts and Me - Ribbon
Fab 'n' Funky - Spotty and dotty
The Paper Variety - Flowers
Your Next Stamp Challenge - Texture
Flourishes - Flowers, flowers everywhere
My Time To Craft - On the spot
Charisma Cardz - Use pink, black & green
Crafty Purple Frog - Texture & ribbon
Pixie Dust Studio - Say it out loud

Paper Piecing at Crafty Creations

It was my turn to choose the theme for this week's challenge at Crafty Creations so I chose a technique I enjoy doing - Paper Piecing! The image I have used is one of my own available here and I printed it out on white cardstock and on patterned paper from a First Edition set called Hideaway, love the glittered pages and the spring colours :o) I made the flower with punched flower shapes which I spritzed with water and crumpled before drying with my heat gun and inking the edges. The image was coloured with Promarkers, the sentiment was from a Buzzcraft set of unmounted stamps and the swirls are Sizzix die cuts.

Other challenges entered:
Anita Be Stampin' - Anything goes
Digital Tuesday - Female image on card/project
Karen's Doodles Netherlands - Anything goes
Promarker Challenge - Make your own embellishments
Top Tip Tuesday - Spring has sprung
Creative Stamp Friends - Swirls
Woodware USA - Anything goes
Crafty Pad - Spring
Paper Sundaes - Childhood Memories
Quirky Crafts - Sparkly, Punchy Easter/Spring 

Spotlight - Teen boy

Design team member Fiona has set a challenge for you this fortnight and that is to make a card for a TEENAGE BOY.  It's one we often dread - making male themed cards so face your fears with this one!

I chose the Mo Manning image because it reminded me of my 15 year old son, who spends a great deal of his time playing on his X-box, and coloured the image with Promarkers. Used K&Co recycled cardstock and ran one layer through a ribbler to add texture then distressed the edges and sanded the surface with an emery board. Used recycled twine to attach button and added a sentiment from Personal Impressions.

Challenges entered:

Paper Take Weekly - Anything Goes + Optional - Something New (image)
My Grafico - Anything goes
Aud Sentiments - Something for a child
Fussy and Fancy - Something for a child
Simon Says Stamp and Show... - distressing

Oops, I forgot!

Forgot it was Creative Inspirations challenge day today, we have family visitors at the moment and so I was a bit distracted! My card was made in time and was ready for the challenge blog, I just forgot to pop it on my own blog so here it now - better late than never :o)

Our challenge this time is Easter and we are sponsored both by Simon Says Stamp and by  Whiff Of Joy

I have used a Joanna Sheen Messy Rabbit stamp set, coloured with Promarkers, and papers from Papermania. I made a tag for the greeting and tucked it behind the image, the felt flowers and the ribbon were from my stash.

Entering it for the following challenges:
Craft your Days Away - Spots & stripes

Card Creations and more by C - Spring related

Little Claire's - Spring celebrations

Totally Gorjuss - Anything fluffy

Delicious Doodles - Ribbons for Easter

Digi's With Attitude! - Easter

Floweret  - Easter

Paper Cutz - Bunny, lamb, chicks or Easter eggs

Phindy’s Place - Easter

Stampin For The Weekend - Easter

Craft Us Crazy - Easter/ Spring

Gorgeous papers

I promised to share some quick cards I made using the same Stampin Up papers from a few posts ago so quickly - before I head out to today's craft fair - here they are:

All image stamps are from Stampin Up and the sentiments are Personal Imressions.

Off to the fair in a few minutes - wish me luck!

Crafty Creations - Rain Showers

Today's new challenge at Crafty Creations is Rain Showers which is pretty appropriate here in Scotland where it's chucking it down at the moment, looking forward to the weekend when we are expecting some sunnier weather :o)

Somehow I missed out on the chance of an image from our sponsors Some Odd Girl but my own digi stamp - April - available here seemed perfect for this challenge so I coloured her up with my Promarkers and added a matt/frame cut with a Nellie Snellen die. The papers from Paper Cellar were distressed around the edges using my scissors and I added Stickles and flat backed pearls to the swirls. Some organza ribbon and ribbon roses with a pearl pin to embellish and a sentiment from Woodware finish the card off. Have to get off to work now - wishing you all a great day - rainy or not!

Challenges entered:
Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Happy Birthday with lots of pearls
Craft Your Passion - Anything goes
Crazy Challenge - Just add flowers
Creative Craft Friends - Swirls
House of Gilli - Ribbon and pearls
Kaboodle Doodles - Lets get girly
Karens Doodles - Fancy & feminine
Stamping Scrapping Central - Sparkle
Anything Goes Challenge - Pearls
Going Grey With Scrap-Creations - Pick 3: Ribbons, flowers, pearls, glitter, button, charm.

A card for Haley

Today's project is a card my daughter asked me to make for 9 year old Haley who has been very poorly and has been in and out of hospital having various procedures and needs cheering up a bit. I saw this fabulous digi image when Donna used it for her entry to my Cardmadfairy's challenge and really loved it so had to go and buy it myself over here.

 

I have used Lime Rickey papers from Basic Grey, circles cut with nestability dies and flower dies from Marianne's Creatables. All was finished off with Stickles for sparkle and a sentiment from Stampin Up.

Entering the following challenges:

2 Sisters - Get well/Thinking of you
Allsorts - Blooming blossoms
Catch the Bug - Anything goes
Creations by Gill M - Pets (could be stretching this one a little but possibly a fairy would have a snail as a pet?!)
Dream Valley - Things with wings
I Did it Creations - Anything goes
Stampin' Sisters in Christ - Make a card/project for a child

'April showers....

.......bring forth May flowers'. 

Make of that what you will as that is the challenge this month at Crafty Calendar! I was happy for the opportunity to use this fab Sonny Honeycloud digi image from Pollycraft - I love colouring these images and this one was no exception. I coloured the image with my Promarkers to work with the gorgeous backing paper from Stampin Up - I have used this quite a lot recently and have several other cards to share later using the same paper! The sentiment was supplied by this month's sponsor Sentiments 4 You.

This also fits the challenges at:
Crafty Catz - April showers
Sketchy Colors - Colour
Digis with Attitude - Anything goes
Fairy Knoll - 'whatever'
Raise The Bar - April showers (or any kind of weather)
Stamp Something - Use something digital
My Graphico - Anything goes

Easter

Over at Cardmadfairy's Digi Days the theme of the new challenge is Easter so I have made a card using my digi stamped Dotty Blooms available here. I printed out two A4 pages of the flower shapes and cut them out, then I inked the edge of each one before layering them in threes and securing with mini brads.
I cut a cross shape from a piece of scrap cardstock then arranged the blooms on it. I used patterned paper from DCWV as a backing and finished the card off with a bit of cream seam binding ribbon and a computer generated sentiment.

Entering my card for the following challenges:
Craft Us Crazy - Easter/ Spring
Delightful Challenges - Flowers
Dutch Dare Card Challenge - Distressing
Little Miss Muffet Challenges - Stitching
The Rubber Cafe - Spring flowers
Amber's Crafts and Stuff - Use flowers
Your Next Stamp Challenge - Stitching
Ladybug Crafts Ink TLT Challenge - Handmade flowers
Partytime Tuesdays - Anything goes +  handmade flower
The Stamping Boutique - Hand made flowers