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Thursday 28 June 2012

Craft challenge - Feathers / Birds


Good Morning All, 
I hope you are all fit and healthy. Today is the final challenge for June over at CRAFT challenge.
This week we would like to see feathers and/or birds in your projects.

Once again we have some amazing sponsors.


 This is my first card using Hat and Girl - Vintage from
Digi Doodle Shop who are our sponsors for Star of the Month.
I fell in love with this image as soon as I saw it.
Image coloured with Promarkers.
Goegeous, gorgeous paper from my favourite digital design Katie Pertiet over at Designer Digitals.
I could spend hours looking at and buying her beautiful paper sets.
This set in Oiselet Bleu

The beautiful charm, tiny feathers and pearl lace are both from ebay.
The ribbon is from stash and the rose from Wild Orchids.




My next card is again using an image from Digi Doodle Shop called 1800 Vintage Dress 6.

A tutorial for the style of this card can be found here Thank you to Stampartic for the inspiration.
Once again the papers are by Katie Pertiet - this time the set is called letter box birdwatcher.
Every paper in this set is just beautiful and will be used over again.
Vintage ribbon from Stash ( Create and Craft originally I think)
Sentiment again from Digi Doodle Shop
Marthar Stewart punch used for fancy edge.


I am entering this card into Fussy and Fancy challenge - fancy folds.


I have loved this challenge, hope you do too.
Enjoy your day


Monday 25 June 2012

Incy Wincy Anything goes

Good morning peeps,
I hope you all had a restful weekend. The weather here was awful - perfect crafting weather because nothing could be done in the garden so I didn't feel guilty.
Today over at INCY WINCY  we have a nice easy challenge.

Anything Goes.

Our Fantastic sponsor this week is Fantastic Ribbons
For my project this week I made this new home card. A friend at work asked me to make a card for her niece and nephew who are about to move into their first home. She chose the image from a selection I gave her which of course is from Meljen Designs.


The cute image is coloured with Promarkers and the gorgeous denim papers are from
Ribbon and lace from stash
Flower Wild Orchid Crafts.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges

Have fun with this challenge, we can't wait to come and visit and see all of your wonderful creations.





Thursday 21 June 2012

Craft Colour Challenge


Good morning all,
I hope that you have all survived the rain and the wind over the weekend. It was our festival here and all the floats were soaked and almost blown away. Its such a shame- all the effort that goes into decorating them and the weather is awful. 
Today over at CRAFT Challenge we have a colour challenge for you. Here is the palette.



As always we have several sponsors

I chose one of the images from the timeless beauties set by Stitchy Bear.
These images are just gorgeous and although the colour palette is bright I have managed to use all of the colours to create this vintage look card.
I have to say I loved making this card and its going to be one that I only give to someone special.


The image is coloured with Promarkers.
The papers are part of a digi set from Designhousedigitals by Angie Hinks called True Romantics.
Do check this site out, they have some amazing kits for free or just $1:00.
The doiley is cut from a Cheery Lynn die.
The sentiment is from Lili of The Valley
Swirl is memory box -  I think and the flowers are Wild Orchid Blooms.

I hope you love this as much as I do.

Enjoy the change and do hop over to the rest of the DT blogs.




Monday 18 June 2012

Incy Wincy Sketch

Good Morning all,
I hope everyone has survived the awful weekend weather. It has been awful here for days.
Anyway onto more cheerful things.
Today over at INCY WINCY we have a sketch for you to follow designed by our own lovely Samantha

Our generous sponsor this week is 





I have rotated the sketch and used this gorgeous Christmas Lantern image
The sweet pine cones are from ebay you get loads and are covered in glamour dust and glitter.
The little bell is from ebay too.
The image is coloured with Promarkers
And the gorgeous ribbon is from Fantastic Ribbons.

I hope you like it and that you enjoy the challenge.

(song  Light A Candle - Avalon)

Please visit my fellow teamies to see their gorgeous creations they really are breathtaking.






Thursday 14 June 2012

CRAFT Challenge - Fathers Day

Good Morning everyone,
 I trust you are all well and happy. It has been a very busy, long week at work and in spite of having a week off last week, I am exhausted!
                                                
                                                This week's CRAFT challenge is  Fathers' Day.
As usual we have a number of generous sponsors.


We have three daughter which means three cards. These are my two most recent cards for our girls.
We were lucky enough to get some sponsors images to play with and this first digi - 
'Gus no chocolate in heaven' is just perfect for my chocoholic husband!



The papers are freebies from craft downloads.
The image is coloured with Promarkers.
The tiny buttons and chocolate charm are both from e bay.

My second image is from Scrappers Delights and again is perfect for my guitar playing husband - who fancies himself as Hank Marvin of the Shadows - dream on!!!
The papers are again freebies from Craft downloads.
The sentiment was made on the computer using one of our very own Jo's label digis.

I am entering the first card into the following cgallenges 
Fabn funky - fathers day
Charisma cards - male
Crafty sentiments - fathers day
DUSU - male

Enjoy your day and the challenge.

Don't forget to stop by my fellow teamies blogs to see their gorgeous creations.


Monday 11 June 2012

An exploding box for the tooth fairy.

Good morning all, 
I do hope you had a good weekend in spite of the weather. Here the weather has been very wet which has held up our builders quite a bit this week. This is only stage one of our building and is mostly the outside.
I am dreading the inside part being done!

Anyway on to brighter things.
Today over at INCY WINCY Designs  our new challenge is sponsored by 


We would like you to use more than 1 image in your projects.

You can merge them or do as I and use several individual images.

I made this exploding box to hold a little bag for my friend's little girl to put her teeth into when they fall out.
I have put a gorgeous little necklace inside for her in the meantime which has a tube of toothpaste and toothbrush charm on it.
Hopefully she will treasure both the box and the necklace.

The papers are from Nitwit collection - Gratitude.
All the images are the tooth fairy images from Stamp Fairy - (four in total)
The lace is from stash, the flowers are from wild orchid crafts and the butterfly is from stash.
Pop over to my fellow teamies who are such a creative lot! They have some inspirational projects to get you started.



Thursday 7 June 2012

It's A Man Thing

Good Morning Everyone,
                                  I hope you all had a fab time celebrating over the holiday weekend. Its time for another CRAFT challenge - my how the weeks fly by!

Our challenge today is to make a 

Male Card

As usual we have several amazing sponsors


My card is a twisted Easel card using a Floppy Latte design.


The papers can be found here and are by Celeste Knight over at Design House Digital.
The sentiment was made on my computer.
This card is quite clean and simple- especially for me! Not an embellishment in sight.
I just think the papers are so gorgeous they are just perfect for this image.

I am entering this into the following challenges
Papertake weekly -Anything goes.
Creative Inspirations - card for a male.
Penny's Paper- Crafty Challenge - male card
Dis digi challenge - male card.
Enjoy your day and the challenge.



Monday 4 June 2012

Blue and Black with a Sentiment for a Man

Good morning all,
Happy Bank Holiday! I hope you are all enjoying the Diamond Jubilee Weekend. We hope you will be able to grab a little time for crafting and join in with the new challenge over at INCY WINCY Designs. 
Our sponsor this week  is Just Some Lines 
and I have to admit that I have really fallen in love with these nice clean images.

I actually used one of their gorgeous freebies to make this card for my Uncle's birthday. Don't you just adore this image - it's one I will use again and again.


The image was coloured with Promarkers.
The paper with text on it was from Stamping All Day .
The gorgeous Blue Paper is from the NitWit collection- Tails and Wags.
The sentiment was made on my computer.
The lovely button is from Totally buttons.

 I am entering the following chalenges with this card.
Catch the Bug - Anything goes.
Secret Crafter - Anything goes
Divas by design - Anything goes
Bearly Mine - Animal Kingdom

Enjoy the rest of the holiday and our challenge.