DV 116 Bingo

Our challenge today over at Dream Valley is a Bingo one.

We are sponsored by The Hobby House and by Crafts and Me.

I have gone across the centre, patterned paper, pink and stitching faux or real. My image is a pre printed panel from Wild Rose Studio from the Annabel’s Meadow range, as is the paper beneath it. The pink mat, and die cut corners are some lovely pink mirri card. The corners themselves are Sue Wilson dies.

I have glittered the flowers on the imge and added tiny beads to some of the other flowers.

I am entering this into:-

4 Crafty Chicks – #265 Sparkle and Shine – Glittered Accents and Pink Mirri card
Come and Get It – Clear It Out (Use a stash item) – My image and paper are old
Crafting With An Attitude – #7 Anything Goes
Crafty Gals Corner – #38 Sparkle and Glitter
Crafty Girls Creations – #5 Anything Goes
Creative Knockouts – #108 Glitter It Up
Ecclectic Ellapu – Sept: Purple Team Something from Stash older than 6 months, image and paper
House of Cards – Sept: Stitch It Up
Inspiration Destination – #52 Anything Goes
Mod Squad – Sprinkle Your Sparkle

CCM 148 Make It Sparkle

Our challenge today at Crafty Cardmakers is Make it Sparkle.

I thought it was the perfect challenge for my first Christmas Card of 2015. My image is called Silver Fairy by Wee Stamps, and I coloured her with copics, and then glittered her wings with glamour dust. I have glamour dusted my mats and the sentiment diecut as well.

The papers are Trimcraft’s First Edition Silent Night paper pad which I am pretty sure I have had for over two years now! I am determined not to buy any more papers for Christmas until I have used up the ones I already have…… that should take me a good few years!

My diecuts are ‘Tis The Season’ Penny Black… the Snowflake with the tree type points is from Marianne and the 7 pointed one is from Joy Crafts.

I am entering this into:-

Allsorts Challenge – #329 Sparkle
Aud Sentiments – #140 Anything Goes Plus a Sentiment
C.R.A.F.T. – #329 Add Some Bling
Chocolate, Coffee and Cards – #100 Celebration
Crafty Catz – #293 Special Occasion
Digitally Sweet – #142 Anything With Wings
Fussy and Fancy – #148 Fantasy
Just Add Ink – #128 Glimmer
Wags ‘n Whiskers – #162 Glitter/Sparkle
Winter Wonderland – A Christmas Fairy

ABC R Recipe

Our challenge today at ABC is Tic, Tac, Toe challenge, and we are sponsored by All Dressed Up.

I went down the centre line of the board for my card.

My image, from All Dressed Up is called ‘A Cuddle Makes It All Better’ and does come with a sentiment as part of the image saying exactly that, but before I printed the image I deleted the sentiment.

I have coloured her in with copics. My papers are from a magazine freebie from Wild Rose Studios called Bluebell, although I only had a limited set of papers in my freebie along with some decoupage. My diecuts are all Sue Wilson dies. The corner die is from the Dainty Lace Edger set, and the one surrounding the image is the Petite Arched Adornments die. The flower comes from my stash and I removed the centre, added a large blob of glue and then sprinkled with nail art micro beads which I got from Poundland!

I am entering this into:-

Aliciabel – #10 Anything Goes
Chocolate Coffee and Cards – #99 Fancy & Feminine
Crafting From the Heart – #77 Anything Goes
Dragonfly Dreams – Let’s Get Girly
DRS Designs – #191 A Real Cutie
Ecclectic Ellapu – Purple Team Stash 6 months or older (backing paper) and flower
Inky Impressions – #274 Fancy Corners
Moving Along With the Times – #3 Cute Animal
Paper Minutes – #400 Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly – Animal Magic

DV 115 Autumnal Colours

Our challenge today at Dream Valley is the colours of Autumn. We are sponsored by Robyn’s Fetish and I have used their cute scarecrow image in my project.

I went for the often fiery red and orange hues of autumn that you see in the hedgerows and trees as the leaves start to turn, and in some of the harvest fruits, and made a background with those hues from brushos on watercolour card.

My scarecrow was coloured with copics, and his white stitching added with a Sharpie paint marker.  The quote I found online, and the die, which I sort of hoped looked a little like a corn field at harvest time although I went a bit ott with the colour, is from Sheena Douglass’ perfect partners range.

I am entering this into:-

AAA – #48 Autumn Colours
Crafting For All Seasons – Tic, Tac, Toe (Centre line top to bottom, die cuts, digi image, sentiment)
Crafty Catz – #292 Autumn Colours
Crafty Friends – #14 B is for Brushos, Bright/Bold colours
Daring Cardmakers – Wonderful Watercolours
Digi Designs – Fabulous Fall Colours
My Sheri Crafts – #165 Thinking of Fall
Sisterhood of Crafters – Photo Inspiration – I was inspired by the gorgeous autumnal hues
The House That Stamps Built – DCC99 Falling For Fall
The Pencil Case – B is For Bright

CCM 147 Floral Embellishments

Our challenge at Crafty Cardmakers today is Flower Embellishments. Whilst we are happy to see floral images on your creations, these alone do not count. You need to add either pre-made, home made or diecut flowers to your project to qualify.

I started with making my own card blank from Centura Pearl Snow White card using a Go Kreate die. I also cut a smaller mat which I embossed.

The flowers themselves are stamped with Sheena Douglass’ Anenome stamps on a dotty patterned pearlised paper and then coloured with distress stains, Peacock Feathers for the Turquoise One. Picked Raspberry for the Pink One and Dusty Concord the lilac one. Have to say can’t wait to get my hands on Wilted Violet when it finally gets dispatched. I shaped them and having stuck them together added a mixture of tiny beads and Stampendous glitters. The tiny beads are in fact nail art from Poundland. I bought every pack they had in the shop!

The sentiment was printed from my pc with the addition of a Penny Black diecut word.

The mat between the embossed layer and the card back was cut from the same paper I had stamped onto and coloured with a more watered down version of Peacock Feathers to tone in. As was the ‘friends’ diecut.

I am entering this into:-

Card and Scrap – #102 Use Flowers
Card Mania – #72 Pastel Colours
CCC Digi Creations – #22 Include a Sentiment
CMD – #25 Flower Power
Craft for the Craic – Sept: Anything But a Square or Rectangle
Crafty Gals – #35 Embossing
Creative Moments – #76 Anything Goes/Use A Sentiment
My Time To Craft – #303 Flowers
Southern Girls – #118 Flower Power
The Paper Shelter – #217 Embossing of Any Kind

ABC Q for Queen of Hearts

Our challenge today is Q for Queen of Hearts and we are sponsored by Polkadoodles. The team were lucky enough to get some Polkadoodles images to use and I chose Odella Heart.

I coloured her in with copics, and then dotted a sharpie paint marker in her hair, and on the heart I drew some swirls. I also added wink of stella to the heart and to the blue dots on the ends of some of her hair.

The diecuts sentiments are all from Simon Says Stamp, and were cut from holographic metallic adhesive film, and the heart is from Memory Box, heart gems from my stash.

I am entering this into:-

Addicted to CAS – #71 Blue (I hope other colours are also allowed as it didn’t say monochromatic)
Alphabet Challenge – N for No Design Papers
Chocolate Coffee and Cards – #98 Use A Sentiment
Crafty Friends – #13 Use A Sentiment
Digi Designs – Include a Sentiment
Get Creative – #22 No Printed Paper
Robyn’s Fetish – Square Cards Only
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge – Trio of Colours (Pink, Blue and Purple)
Stamp and Create – Aug: One for the Girls
Stamping Sensations – Aug: Anything Goes With a Stamp and Die
Whoopsi Daisy – Aug: Make It Girly