Dr Digi Funny Sentiments

Good morning, hope you all had a good weekend?

I spent a lovely afternoon in my craft room working on my next memory book.  Since doing my first book using Tonic Memory Book 2 these books have definitely hit the spot with me and I just love doing them.  

Well today we do start a lovely new challenge over at Crafting From The Heart.

As usual our theme is

'Always Anything Goes'

Our sponsor for this challenge is

Dr Digi House of Stamps

I have used a digi stamp set from Dr Digi House of Stamps called 'Funny Sentiments 2'.  The sheet of sentiments is substantial and I used two of them.

My card is A5 in size and I have designed it in Serif Craft Artist using a digi kit called 'BTS Pets'.

I also used one of the sentiments on the insert

To enter our challenge and to see other projects from our design team head over to the blog by following the link HERE.

Good Luck and thank you for visiting today.

Shaking for Christmas

Hi there, another week over and I just love Friday's although I have a busy day today so not much crafting done.  Tomorrow will be my crafting day.

A new challenge begins at Simply Create Too.  

Our theme for this month is

'Make a Shaker Card'

I have used a background I made sometime ago where I took some heat resistant acetate, covered it with dries clear glue and then sprinkled it with cosmic shimmer pixie powders, then put some tissue paper onto it and leave it to dry.  This technique is one I learnt from John Lockwood and Julia Watts.  

I also sprinkled some gold glitter into it before putting the tissue paper on.

The frame was cut from Sue Wilsons Peg Board die and the poinsettia I die cut from Dawn Bibby.

I finished off with a sentiment from Phill Martin's stamps.

Follow the link HERE to our challenge blog to enter your own shaker card and to see what other ideas our design team have been working on.

Thank you for visiting today.

Take care.

Christmas Candles

 Good morning all.  Hope you are well? Given it is now October I thought I had better make a start on Christmas.  So this is my first Christmas card and my first Christmas cake has been soaking for 7 days and was made yesterday ready for feeding.  My 2nd cake is soaking.

We start a new challenge at Get Creative Challenge today.

Our sponsors for this challenge are

Ike's Art

Wink Wink Ink

Angie's Digital Stamps

Our theme for this challenge is

'BINGO'

I chose to use 

flowers | use jewels | 2 or more brads.

My image is a digi stamp from our sponsor Ikes Art and is called 'Christmas Candles'.

After printing my image out I coloured it in using my sakura pens.  I do love a bit of sparkle at Christmas.  I matted it onto some green card.

My card base is a white A5 followed by a piece of green card as a mat.  My patterned paper was a freebie from either one of my Christmas magazines.

I then stamped the poinsettias using a stamp from Chloe's Creative Cards and Wow glitter powder called 'Rudolphs Nose' also from Chloe's Creative Cards.  I stamped onto vellum.

A green leaf brad in each corner and jewels in the centre of my poinsettias.  

Why not pop over to our challenge blog to enter your own project into the challenge, just remember to follow the theme of 'Bingo', pick any line and good luck.

Thank you for visiting today.

Take care.

40th Birthday

Good morning.  We have a new challenge beginning today at Crafty Girls Creations.

My card today is made around one of my backgrounds.  I have used the tissue paper technique which John Lockwood and Julia Watts have demoed.

I began with a piece of acetate which I covered using dries clear glue.  I then sprayed it with water and then tapped my pixie powders on.  Another reasonable spray with water and it is ready for my scrunched up tissue paper which I tap down with kitchen roll.  Then leave to dry.

The frame is made using Sue Wilsons Noble Double Pierced Rectangle dies and the corner sentiments are from Phill Martin.

I made the flowers using a stamp from Honeydoo Crafts which I have embossed with their white,white embossing powder.  The flourishes are from Sue Wilson and I finished off my flowers with gems in the centre.

Thank you for visiting today and if you want to enter the challenge follow the link HERE to the blog where you can also see what the rest of our design team have posted.

Good luck in the challenge.

Take care.

All It's Worth

Good morning crafters and followers.  How have you all been in this heat?  At least we had some rain, well we did in Birmingham and I had to admit this but it was nice. I normally hate the rain but we did need.

Well we start a new challenge this morning at Get Creative.

Challenge 72 has a theme of 'Make a Tag'.

Our sponsors for this challenge are

Ching-Chou Kuik

Dr Digi House of Stamps

QKR Stampede

For my tag I chose to use a sentiment from QKR Stampede called 'All its Worth' which I took into my Serif Craft Artist and designed my tag and card within that programme using a digi kit.

To enter your project into our challenge and to see other designs from our sponsors and design team follow the link HERE to our blog.

Thank you for visiting today and I hope to see you again soon. 

Good Luck in the challenge.

It's a Bookmark

Good morning folks.  Hope you are all well?  We have a new challenge beginning this morning at Simply Create Too.

Our theme for challenge 141 is

'Make a Bookmark'

Firstly I must apologise for the quality of the photograph.  

My bookmark was designed in Serif Craft Artist using a digi kit.

Why not visit our blog to see what the rest of our design team have posted and to enter your own bookmark into the challenge.  Just follow the link HERE.

Thank you for visiting today and I hope to see you again soon.

Flower Elf

Good morning, how are you all?  We start a lovely new challenge over at Crafting From The Heart today.  

Challenge 217 is sponsored by

Fabrika Fantasy

I have used a digi image called 'Flower Elf' which I coloured in using a mixture of graphmaster and copic sketch markers.

I have made a 8x8 white card blank and layered it first with a piece of white card pricked around the edged and then another piece of white card which I have embossed using a leaf A4 embossing folder from Sheena.  I also inked around the edges with distress ink - cracked pistachio.

The frame I die cut using Sue Wilson's double pierced round noble dies.  My flowers are stamped with cracked pistachio distress ink and the stamp I have used is a set of peony stamps from Creative Expressions.  The die cut leaves also Sue Wilson's of which I cut four, left two white and inked through the other two.  I then finished it and the flowers off with Tonic Nuvo pearl drops - Caribbean Ocean.

Along with the digi stamp I also received a coloured in version which I have taken into my Serif Craft Artist programme and designed the below with one of my digi kits.

Our design team have used more images from our sponsor and to see what they have designed why not follow the link HERE to the blog where you can also enter your own project.  Our theme is Always Anything Goes.

Thank you for visiting today and I do hope to see you again soon.

Take care.

Coffee & Friends

Good morning all we have a new challenge beginning at Crafting from the Heart.

Our sponsor is

DRS Designs

I have used a sentiment from our sponsor called 'Coffee & Friends Greeting'.

I actually started with a background.  I had been having an afternoon of playing. This background made using a stencil from Clarity with Creative Expressions clear texture paste and then the new Cosmic Shimmer Shimmer Shakers - dusky mink and delicate blossom.

I made the flowers using a stamp from Honey Doo Crafts called Spring Time Blooms which I stamped onto vellum using white white embossing powder also from Honey Doo.  I then inked the back with colour cloud - Frosted Blossom.  The leaves are the new dies from John Next Door which have been inked using Frosted Mink colour cloud.

Again I have only used white card. One of the layers I inked around the edges with Frosted Blossom colour cloud.  The frame was die cut using one of Sue Wilsons Noble Square Pierced Dies and embossed.

To see more designs from our design team follow the link HERE.  Why not enter your own project into the challenge too whilst you are visiting.

Thank you for stopping by today.  Do take care.

Wildflowers

Good morning all.  Hope you all had a good weekend.

We have a new challenge starting at Crafting from the Heart today.

Our sponsor is

Beccys Place

I have used a digi stamp from our sponsor called 'Wildflowers' which I coloured in using spectrum noir pencils.  

I decided to keep my card clean and simple so I used a vase stamp from Creative Expressions which I stamped using black versafine, clear embossed it and fussy cut it out.  The sentiment was also from a sentiment set by Creative Expressions.

The card is a 5x7 blank with them matting and layering being die cut using Spellbinders 5x7 set A & B layering dies.  I also used black colour cloud to ink around the edges of one of the mats.

To see more projects from our design team please follow the link HERE to our challenge blog where you can also enter your own project.

Thanks for visiting today. Hope to see you again soon.

Balloons & Icecream

Good morning.  A new challenge begins today over at Crafty Girls Creations.

Our July challenge is sponsored by

Star Stampz

The image I have used is called 'Balloons & Icecream'  a lovely image for any girl, young or old.

I have coloured her in using a mixture of copic sketch and graphmaster marker pens.

I decided to keep my card clean and simple so after die cutting a frame I stamped the sentiments using one of Phill Martins stamps in black versafine and clear embossed it.

If would you like to follow the link HERE to our challenge blog you will find other designs from our team and also you can enter your own project into the challenge.

Thank you for visiting today.

See you soon and take care

Just For You Pop Up

Good morning all.  We are starting a new challenge at Crafting from the Heart this morning.

As this challenge is 'Just for Fun' with no sponsor I decided to make a pop-up card having been reminded recently by the talented Julia Watts how lovely they are.

My card is an A5.  The pop-up was made using a die from Tonic and the side panels were also cut from a strip die from Tonic. The flower strips were die cut using plain white card and then coloured using Tim Holtz distress ink - picked raspberry.

For the front of the card I used a background which I had made using my pixie powders.  I then die cut a frame using Sue Wilsons Noble Double Pierced Rectangle Dies, coloured it again using picked raspberry distress ink and then double embossed it with clear embossing powder to get that glossy look.  The strip flower is also from Sue Wilson which I die cut twice so I could infill the flowers with glossy accents.  

Why not pop along to our blog by following the link HERE to enter your own project into the challenge and to see what our design team have been working on.

Thank you for visiting today.  Take care.

Coffee Break

Hi there folks.  Monday morning and we start a new challenge at Get Creative.

Challenge 70 will run until the end of the month and our theme is

Monochromatic

We have three sponsors this month too: -

Sheep Ski Designs

Limited Runs Stamps

The Paper Nest

I have used an image from Sheep Ski Designs called 'Coffee Break Image No 32'.

After printing out my image I coloured her in using cool greys from Graphmaster.

I die cut my image out using a spellbinders die and made a faux mat by drawing around the outside of the die and then cutting it out.

For the frame I have used Sue Wilsons Noble Double Pierced Squares and Noble Squared Squares which are absolutely delightful and so different.

The flowers have been made using Honey Doo Crafts stamps - Spring Time Blooms stamping onto vellum and them embossing with their White White embossing powder.  The leaves are from Sue Wilson Finishing Touches.

To see more designs from our design team please follow the link HERE. Don't forget to enter your own project into the Challenge.

Thank you for visiting today.  Hope to see you again soon.

Take care.

Flower Teapot

Good morning, a new challenge starts today at Crafting from the Heart.

Our challenge today is sponsored by

Bugaboo Stamps

The digi image I have used from Bugaboo Stamps is called 'Flower Teapot'.

A useful digi for lots of occasions.

I have coloured the image in using copic sketch markers as follows: -

G94 | 99

G20 | 21 | 24

YO4 | 00 | 08

YR20 | 21 | 23

I have used Sue Wilsons double pierced square dies for matting and layering together with her double pierced round dies for the aperture and round frame.

The sentiment are stamps from Phill Martin's Blossom Stamp Set.  I finished off with some crystal drops - Copper Penny - from Tonic Nuvo.

To see what designs the rest of our design team have been working with just follow the link HERE to the blog where you can also enter your own project into the challenge.

Thank you for visiting today.

Take care.

Bug JJ Wine

Good morning all.  Hope you had a good bank holiday weekend despite the weather.  I always try to look at the rain as a good time for crafting.

I must say I went away with my Mom the weekend before the bank holiday for our yearly 'mommy/daughter' break to Alvaston Hotel in Nantwich, Cheshire and we had the best weekend and the best weather so we definitely chose the right few days.

Well, onto some crafting and we start a new challenge at Crafty Girls Creations this morning which will run during the month of June.

Our sponsor for this challenge is

Bugaboo Stamps

I have chosen to use an image called 'Bug JJ Wine' which I thought was a brilliant image for girlfriends.

After printing the image out I coloured it in using copic sketch markers as follows: -

R89/85 | Y02/38 | G21/24

I then kept is really simple by diecutting my image using Sue Wilson Noble Rectangle dies.  I also use these dies to cut a frame out.  I finished off my card with some wine coloured pearls.

To see more designs from our design team and to enter your own project into the challenge please follow the link HERE to the blog.

Thank you for visiting today and I hope to see you again soon.  I would also like to thank you for your comments I do so love reading them.

For A Male

Good morning all.  We have a new challenge beginning today at Simply Create Too.

Challenge 139 has a theme of

For a Male

Products I have used for this card is as follows: -

7x7 cream card blank

2 x maroon card

2 x cream card

black versafine ink

clear embossing powder

Sue Wilson Double Stitched Hexagon Noble Dies

Sue Wilson Weaving Collection Classic Die (I cut 1 maroon and 1 cream)

Sue Wilson A4 Hexagon Embossing Folder

Tonic Nuvo Pearl Drops - Ivory Seashell

Phill Martin Chalkboard Stamps - Relatives & More Relatives

To see more samples from our design team follow the link HERE.  Don't forget to enter your own project into the challenge to showcase your work. Anything can be entered as long as you follow the theme.

Thanks for visiting today.