DV 105 Recipe

Our challenge at Dream Valley this time is a Recipe. We want you to use 1 image, I sentiment, 3 papers and 3 embellishments. We are sponsored by Lacey Sunshine and I have used Emily Spring Blossom for my image.

I coloured Emily with copics to match the colours in my papers which are all from Kaisercraft’s Pink Gelato. My embellishments are a paper bow, single flower and parasol/umbrella charm, all from my stash.

I am entering this into:-

CMD Challenge – #20 Pastels
Come and Get It – Spring is in the Air
Eclectic Ellapu – April Showers/Spring
Lost Coast Designs – #11 Spring
My Artistic Adventures – #8 Spring Colours
Oddball Art Stamps – Spring
One Sweet Challenge – April: Spring Has Sprung
OSAAT – #235 Anything Goes with Daughters/Girls
Scribbles Designs – #28 Spring Has Sprung
Stamping Sensations – Pretty In Pink

CCM 137 Dots

Our challenge at Crafty Cardmakers this time around is to go dotty. NOT difficult for me as I am pretty sure I am more than half way there already!

I created my dotty background by stencilling through a Prima Bubbles stencil with three different mauve shades of Distress Inks over some Imagination Crafts patterned paper. My image from A Day of Daisies called Hepburn Dress was coloured with copics and then I dotted some sharpie pen over the skirt to add more dots to my card.

The ribbons are from my stash and the diecut is an Anja one from Marianne. I added a couple of gems in her hair where she might have a hairband or ribbon around her up do, and also one to the sentiment, all of which I coloured with the same copic I used for her dress.

I am entering this into:-

A Day For Daisies – #119 Anything Goes
Chocolate Coffee and Cards – #89 Use a Diecut
Crafty Calendar – Add A Sentiment
Crafty Catz – #275 It’s A Girl Thing
Crafty Creations – #287 Seeing Spots
Fun With Shapes and More – #180 Birthday
Hiding In My Craftroom – #196 Freestyle
If You Give a Crafter A Cookie – #16 Anything Goes
Inspired by Stamping – #93 Inspired by The Colour Challenge
Scrap & Craft – #7 Tie It Up: Use Ribbon or Twine
Stempelsonne – #139 Anything Goes
Suzi Bee’s Bloomin’ Challenge – #76 Anything Goes with a Twist of a Die

ABC H Happy Birthday

Our challenge today at ABC is H for Happy Birthday and we are sponsored by Di’s Digistamps.

I have used a Di’s Digistamp for my card which I coloured with my copics. The papers are from Nitwit Designs and the flowers are mainly from Wild Orchid Crafts. The bejewelled butterfly was from a hair clip.

I am entering this into the following:-

Addicted to Stamps – #102 Girly But no Pink
Artistic Inspirations – #129 Anything Goes with a Twist of Spring
Digi Choosday – Pearls and Gems (Pearls are in the floral arrangment as are the gems on the butterfly)
Digi Designs Challenge – Include an Animal
Glitter N Sparkle – #132 Include a Butterfly
House of Cards – April: Add a Butterfly
Melonheadz Friends – Two or More Designer Papers
My Creative Moments – #5 Colourful Creations
Oh La La Creations – #177 Spring
The Corrosive Challenge – #222 Floral Fantasy
The Crazy Challenge – #195 Springtime
The Paper Girls Challenge – #77 Pastel Eggstravaganza
Whoopsi Daisy – Throw on the Flowers

CCM 136 Wings

Our challenge at Crafty Cardmakers this time is Wings. We would like to see your projects with wings, birds, insects, planes, fairies… basically anything as long as it has wings.

I’ve created a tag using distress inks in Picked Raspberry, Squeezed Lemonade, Peacock Feathers, Cracked Pistachio and Dusty Concord. I then used a Memory Box stencil to create the sunrays with texture paste which I covered with Stampendous Stardust embossing powder and heat set. This has the weird effect of bubbling the texture paste slightly whilst the embossing powder melts.

My sentiment is from Paper Artsy, and the ‘Crowned Bunnies’, which I reckon are hares because of the length of their ears, are from Crafty Individuals. I coloured them with Maya Gold paint, and finally added wings diecut with a Spellbinder die. The little queen/crown charm was from my stash.

The sentiment speaks to me as I suffer with anxiety and would love to be brave and fear nothing. I reckon if you had wings you could just fly away so no situation would be too worrisome as you could just leave it far beneath you.

I have included the photo below because in the one above you cannot see the shimmer of the Maya Gold paint on the bunnies, and the charm was in the shade.

I am entering this into:-

Altered Eclectics – Anything Goes
Creative Corner – Animal Fun
Die Traumfabrik – #18 Chicken Run or Easter Bunny
Dragon’s Lair Designs – Add An Animal
Fairytale Stampers – #53 Things With Wings
Live and Love Crafts – Signs of Spring
Mixed Media World – #1 Anything Goes
Order of the Opus Gluei – #206 Hoppy Easter (things with bunnies)
Really Reasonable Ribbons – #115 Things With Wings
The Corrosive Challenge – #221 Hop Into Spring

ABC G for Go Digital

I can’t believe it’s April already, the year is flying by!

Our challenge at ABC today is G for Go Digital and we are sponsored by Aurora Wings.

I have taken the challenge quite literally as far as the image goes. I used ‘Rite of Spring’ from our Sponsor which I loaded into my graphics programme and then coloured her digitally before printing. Because I wasn’t very good at shading digitally I added white highlights with a sharpie poster paint pen, and also some glitter highlights. Her face was coloured by hand with my copics.

The diecut borders top and bottom of the image are from Joycraft and the gorgeous feather paper is from Craftwork Cards. The sentiment came with some feather stamps in a magazine freebie.

I am entering this into:-

Aurora Wings – #13 Anything Goes (Face is handcoloured, please yell out if this doesn’t qualify)
Craft Your Passion – #255 Anything Goes
Crafting By Designs – April: Anything Goes
Crafting From the Heart – #53 Anything Goes
Crafty Catz – #272 Whimsical Fantasy
Get Creative – #11 Must Use a Diecut
Die Cuttin’ Divas – #209 Anything Goes
Digitally Sweet – #133 Anything Goes (see above digitally coloured as well)
Doodle Pantry – #53 Anything Digital
Simply Papercraft – #1 Anything Goes
Through the Craft Room Door – Anything Goes