Crafty Cardmakers Challenge 89

Happy Monday everyone! 

It's time for our latest challenge over at Crafty Cardmakers, hosted by Carole who has chosen the theme 'Tag/Card with matching Gift Wrap, Bag or Box'

 Carole would like to see a card or a tag with a complimentary matching gift wrap, bag or box. Any style just as long as it matches! 

Please ensure your project has the two matching features to qualify for a winner or Top 5 slot. 

PLEASE BE SURE TO CHECK OUT THE RULES BEFORE ADDING YOUR CREATION AND CHECK IT MEETS THE CRITERIA AS LAID OUT ABOVE - ANY ENTRY NOT COMPLYING WILL UNFORTUNATELY BE REMOVED 

We are sponsored by

THE PAPER SHELTER 

with a $20 gift certificate for their fabulous store

 If you are looking for fun, cute and lovely digi stamps for your paper-crafting or web design projects, The Paper Shelter is your one-stop boutique! This growing catalog of high-quality digi stamps with many different kind of options offers a multitude of themes such as everyday items, holidays, special occasions, children, adorable characters and creatures. Stamps are available in standard black and white line art, as well as in pre-colored format. Images are wonderful for coloring and make perfect additions to greeting cards and scrapbook albums. In "The Paper Shelter" you'll also find great other resources for all crafts (or digital) projects, like Paper Packs, Printables, Accessory sheet, etc. 

and 
WOODWARE CRAFT COLLECTION

 with this fabulous prize:-

 

Woodware are a Yorkshire based family owned business, as well as distributing Dreamweaver Stencils and Stampendous Stamps we have a wonderful range of stamps designed for us by Francoise Read and Jane Gill. We also scour the world for new and innovative products for the crafty card maker, and have a great range of punches and tools of the trade, to find stockists in your area or to see the range visit the website www.woodware.co.uk.

Our design team are playing along with the challenge so check out our blog, which is there for inspiration at www.woodware.co.uk/blog.

Our prize is £12.00 to spend at your favourite Woodware Stockist, either in store or on line. 
Happy Crafting! 

So, here is my creation:

I have used 'The Most Adorable Easter Bunny' digital stamp from our sponsor The Paper Shelter and papers from their 'Enchanting Dancing' digital 6x6 paper pack to make an Easter basket and matching card. The images are coloured in soft pinks and browns with ProMarkers and edged with Distress Inks. The lacy border was made using an X-Cut punch.

Now, please pop over to the challenge and take a look at the fab work of my teamies. Whilst you are there, why not have a go yourself?

That's all for now, thanks for looking

Sharon x

Challenge 88 at Crafty Cardmakers

Happy Easter everyone!

Hope you are all enjoying the Easter break.

Our latest challenge over at Crafty Cardmakers, is hosted by Suze, who has chosen the theme of Humour. 

It's April Fool's Day, a day for fun and trickery! Suze would therefore like to see some humour in your project. Perhaps a funny image or sentiment, or you might just want to add some googly eyes. Remember, laughter is the best medicine - so have fun! 

PLEASE BE SURE TO CHECK OUT THE RULES BEFORE ADDING YOUR CREATION AND CHECK IT MEETS THE CRITERIA AS LAID OUT ABOVE - ANY ENTRY NOT COMPLYING WILL UNFORTUNATELY BE REMOVED 

We are sponsored by 

DI'S DIGI DOWNLOADS

 with a

$10 GIFT VOUCHER 

and 

HOBBY ART

with these two fabulous prizes:-

Mouse Power

Bubble Bath

So, here's my creation:

I have used the Just Keep Calm clear stamp set from JustRite - this set is fab, soo many phrases to mix and match with lots of tiny images to add detail. I made the card for a friend at work who loves to buy shoes, so the 'Buy Shoes' option in the set was perfect! I stamped in Versamark and used a clear embossing powder to create a resist, I then inked around with Distress Ink. The Image and base were cut using Spellbinder dies. The base was inked very lightly with the Distress ink and the tiny shoe image was stamped randomly all over. A ribbon, bow and hat pins were added to embellish.

The challenge runs for 2 weeks so why not head over to the challenge blog and see the fab creations of my team-mates, and whilst you're there why not have a go yourself?

That's all for today, thanks for looking

Sharon x

Challenge 87 at Crafty Cardmakers

Hi all, it's challenge time again over at Crafty Cardmakers! 

Our latest challenge is hosted by Yvonne who has chosen the theme 'Friendship'.

Yvonne would like to see the word 'Friend' or 'Friendship' included somewhere on your card/project.

Please ensure your card has one of the two words stated above to qualify for a winner or Top 5 slot. 

PLEASE BE SURE TO CHECK OUT THE RULES BEFORE ADDING YOUR CREATION AND CHECK IT MEETS THE CRITERIA AS LAID OUT ABOVE - ANY ENTRY NOT COMPLYING WILL UNFORTUNATELY BE REMOVED 

We are sponsored by SATURATED CANARY with 2 of their gorgeous digis and SIR STAMPALOT with these two fabulous prizes:- Hero Arts Fancy Friendship Stamp Sheet and 'Our Friendship' single stamp.

Now onto my inspiration for the challenge. I was quite excited about this challenge, I have been a fan of one of our sponsors, Krista Smith who designs the fabulous Saturated Canary images, for quite a while and love her work so couldn't wait to colour one of her images for my card.

Here is my card:

I have used the fab Harley and Haley image from Saturated Canary coloured with ProMarkers. I wanted to keep the card really simple to showcase the fab image. I die cut a card blank, inked around the edges with Distress Ink added the sentiment and some gems. The image was mounted onto the card with silicon glue to add a bit of dimension and I added some stickles for a touch of bling!

Please come and join in the challenge and take a look at the fab creations of my fellow team-mates.

That's all for today, thanks for looking.

Sharon x

Challenge 86 at Crafty Cardmakers

Hi everyone

It's challenge time again over at Crafty Cardmakers and our latest challenge is hosted by Rebecca who has chosen the theme 'Masculine Birthday' 

Rebecca would like to see a masculine birthday card that includes some technology or a gadget. The technology or gadget could be a computer, games console, rocket or car for example.

Please ensure that you do add the technology or gadget aspect to qualify for a Winner or Top 5 slot.

PLEASE BE SURE TO CHECK OUT THE RULES BEFORE ADDING YOUR CREATION AND CHECK IT MEETS THE CRITERIA AS LAID OUT ABOVE - ANY ENTRY NOT COMPLYING WILL UNFORTUNATELY BE REMOVED

We are sponsored by 
DI'S DIGI DOWNLOADS
with a $10 GIFT VOUCHER

and
THE STAMPMAN

 We are kindly sponsored for this challenge by The Stampman (and Lady of course!) who are ofering the winner a £10 voucher for their store, you can spend this online, in the shop or if you're lucky enough to see them at a show!  They have a ton of items in store, enough to tickle any crafty taste bud.

So, here is my take on the challenge:

I have used a Lili of the Valley rubber stamp, coloured with ProMarkers, die cut with a Spellbinders die and inked around the edge with Brilliance ink pad.

The background paper is from Papermania's new Chronology range. I have debossed the black card base for interest....actually I meant to emboss it but put the card in the embossing folder the wrong way round :o)!!

The bunting and 'boy' is die cut and the bunting is threaded with bakers twine.

Now it's time to pop over to the Challenge to see the creations of my fabulous team mates.

That's all for today, I'll be back again soon. Sharon x

Challenge 85 at Crafty Cardmakers

Hi everyone,

Sorry for MIA lately but I have been a little busy! I am now back and ready for the latest challenge over at Crafty Cardmakers which is hosted by Marie (MI), who has chosen the theme 'Blooming Images'.

Marie said 'I do love my flowers and this time I would like flower images to be the main focus of the card. No people, no landscapes. Just flower images. A single rose, a poinsettia, a daisy... you get it. Can be flowers in a vase or just the flowers. Of course you can still decorate with flowers, butterflies or what you feel like, but the image is a flower of some kind, NOT a tree and NOT a person holding a flower' 

Please ensure your card has only a flower/flowers as the main focus in order to qualify for the winner or Top 5 slot. 

PLEASE BE SURE TO CHECK OUT THE RULES BEFORE ADDING YOUR CREATION AND CHECK IT MEETS THE CRITERIA AS LAID OUT ABOVE - ANY ENTRY NOT COMPLYING WILL UNFORTUNATELY BE REMOVED

We are sponsored by CRAFTS AND ME with the choice of 3 digital stamps from their extensive range

So, on to my interpretation of the challenge:

I have used the lovely Hydrangea clear stamp from Inkylicious. The stamp was inked up with Brilliance inks and stamped onto white card. I cut out the image using a Spellbinders die and added some Distress Ink to give it a vintage look. The background paper is from one of the new Papermania sets 'Vintage Notes'. A large pink organza bow and pearls complete this simple card.

Now, go take a look at the challenge to see the creations of my fab team-mates. The challenge runs for the next fortnight so why not have a go yourself?

Thanks for looking, back soon

Sharon xx

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge 83 Belated Birthday

Hi everyone,

It's challenge time again over at Crafty Cardmakers and our challenge to you today is to create a card for a belated birthday, and is hosted by our lovely Kim. She had this to say about her challenge:-

As I am always notoriously late with sending my cards it seems appropriate for me to choose a Belated Birthday challenge. Any image, Stamped or Digi, will do but your card MUST include a sentiment indicating that the card is for a belated Birthday, for example - Sorry I missed it, Have a very Happy Unbirthday, Better late than never, Your birthday came, your birthday went, here's the card I should have sent!!

So see what you can come up with to amuse us, or just a straightforward belated birthday wishes will do, but remember it does need a sentiment as outlined above to qualify. 

I am sorry to nag again but a reminder is necessary I fear to also follow our general rules for our challenges which are over there >>>>>>>>> at the top of out right hand sidebar. 

Because sadly we are still getting people who do not follow the rules and it is unfair on those of our entrants who do I shall be deleting those that do not follow the general or particular challenge rules. 

ALSO from now on if any prize is not claimed by the Sunday before the next challenge goes live it will be forfeit. Because we are not a prize draw blog and because our Hostess works hard choosing the winner/winners we don't have the time to go back and do it all again, so any prize unclaimed by the end of the challenge after which it was announced will be lost. So you will have just under two weeks from when I make the winners post on the Monday to claim it. 

We are sponsored for this challenge by Milk, Coffee Digital Stamps

with 5 images for our winner

Milk Coffee Stamps is a digital image shop specialising in cute and girly images. We provide high quality digital images with high resolution so you could resize at a big enough size for your project. We have many different image styles; sophisticated lady, cute girl, whimsical image, cute stuff, fairytale creature, and many other varied themes so they can fit many different crafting styles.

and also by Sir Stampalot

So, onto my take on the challenge.

I have made a card for my best mate's son's 12th birthday....I normally have trouble with boy cards but this idea came to me quite easily for a change

I have made a pocket card to hold a gift card.

I have used an embossing folder for the background, inked over with Weathered Wood and Chipped Sapphire Distress Inks. The pocket was cut by hand, inked over with the distress inks and faux stitching added with a white gel pen. The pocket was attached to the main card with brads to look like rivets and the 'Belated Birthday Wishes' sentiment was attached behind the pocket.

That's all for now, why not take a look over at the challenge blog and see the creations of my fab team mates.

Thanks for looking, back again soon xx

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge 82 Fairytale Make a Scene

Happy New Year everyone!!

It's challenge time again over at Crafty Cardmakers and our challenge this fortnight is to create a fairytale scene:

THE STAMPMAN

 We are kindly sponsored for this challenge by The Stampman (and Lady of course!) who are ofering the winner a £10 voucher for their store, you can spend this online, in the shop or if you're lucky enough to see them at a show!  They have a ton of items in store, enough to tickle any crafty tastebud. 

DI'S DIGI DOWNLOADS

$10 GIFT VOUCHER

I have been drawing since a child and studied graphics at College many years ago, I now work as a Medical photographer part time but my love was always drawing. I started cardmaking about 4yrs ago when I bought my daughter a cardmaking kit which we did together, but I’m afraid I got the bug! My daughter preferred scrapbooking. I then started looking online at other blogs and this then became my passion and I loved sharing my cards with likeminded people.

I love stamping and loved finding images, but sometimes I could not find what I wanted so I started to draw myself. This then has become my second addiction and I have never looked back, I love thinking of new images, and its just fabulous to see others take them and make them into beautiful works of art. Long may it continue!

I have to confess to having a secret fascination with mermaids (hence the name of my blog) and so a card made for my good friend's daughter's 9th birthday fitted the challenge:

I have used a very cute Lili of the Valley image coloured with ProMarkers. The background is inked with distress inks to look like the sea. I have highlighted with stickles and embellished with shells cut using a Marianne die. The frame was die cut using a spellbinders die and embossed using a cuttlebug embossing folder. A pretty bow, sentiment and pearls complete this girlie card.

Hope you like it!

Please take a look at the challenge and maybe have a go yourself

That's all for now, back again soon  xx