Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge - Guest Designer for October

Oh yes!!!!!! that is my exciting news!!!!!!

I was thrilled to bits to win on the Secret Crafter a couple of challenges ago and to recieve some amazing Manga images from the Secret Crafter, I used one of the images for the last WW Challenge DT card and I was mega impressed but due to the SCSC challenge theme and the WW theme I could not enter the SCSC  last week which was a shame.

So was so excited to receive a mail the other day from Jane asking me if I would like to be their Guest Designer for October, I of course replied quickly and accepted. 

So I set about creating the first required piece and throughly enjoyed creating it too, I got really carried away with the thread cutter and roughed up all the edges, I even tore and curled and then got the sponge and Tim Holtz vintage photo ink pad out and stained my fingers really bad.  You see the reason I got so messy was the theme

The Theme this week at the Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge is

DISTRESSING

This is what I created for my first Guest DT with Jane and the team.

 The base card is a pearlised coffee coloured paper and the top papers are all from the wonderful Papermania Silent Night collection.  I edged every layer with the thread cutter, until it looked most untidy, I then set about distressing with vintage photo all the edges.  I then added a little stickles to all the edges, all before I could actually put the whole thing together.

Here is a close up of the lush ribbon, I added a distressed looking gold snowflake (Hobby House) and a pearl to the centre of the bow knott (Hobby House)

 Here is a close up of the flowers, these were a dirty yellow colour and I made them a little more distressed too and then made them pretty with the stickles. (Wild Orchid) You can just see the music score that I used behind the torn and curled top right corner.

 Then there is the image, well I do use this quite a bit it is a Gillian Roberts clear stamp called Mistletoe and mice, the mistletoe has liquid applique on it for the berries, fluffed up with the heat gun. I coloured with my favorites those fabulous copics and used a gold glitter Atyou for her spots.

 Here is the inner return with the Whiff of Joy Sentiment, showing a close up of the gold pearls.

 Now I haven't tried this before I normally strenthen the back of the easel but decided to strengthen the front and make it tie in.

 

 If you love a bit of distressing then pop over and join in with this weeks challenge.

I am entering this card into the following challenges

Creative Card Crew - Bloomin Marvelous

Papertake Weekly Challenge - September 2010 Animal Magic

Bah Humbug - Cuties

Thank you to all of my visitors who pop by and especially to those that leave such lovely comments, I really love and appreciate them, and it allows me to pop over to see you too.

Have a Great crafting day

Hugs Kate xx

Winter Wonderland DT want us to Sketch It......................with your Xmas Cards this week!!!

Oh and don't you just love a Friday, when you get that Friday feeling, it is fabulous!.  Why? - as Friday is the Winter Wonderland new Challenge and the weekend is upon us......................

We had 30 amazing entries this week, the numbers just keep rising..... it is great and the WW teamies and I love hopping about to see all the beautiful creations and meeting some lovely people out there in the world of blog...

So this week the theme is Sketch it.............................

and here is the sketch, which is my first attempt, so my fingers are crossed that it goes down well. My teamies have really done it proud, as has Evi our Designer in the Spotlight this week.

and as it is the fourth Friday of the month, we are generously sponsored by our monthly sponsor

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who are providing a $15 certificate for the lucky winner to spend in their fabulous shop.

Oh I wish I could enter, I love shopping here :(

So onto my DT creation for this week, oh and I really had fun with this and a new purchase from the Hobby House too (see above where I shop)

The base card, is the deep purple foil card, and on top of this is the ever so amazing and very popular Papermania Capsule Collection, papers, I believe this one is the Heather range.  I then went mad with the scallop and circle nesties.  I made two circles one from another of the lighter papermania capsule papers and another for the image plate.  I stamped my favorite Gillian Roberts little cute mice on the image plate.  I then made a smaller circle for the sentiment which is a Whiff Of Joy sentiment.  Each of the circles was edged with some more of my new glitter from the Glitter Man, gorgeous glitter (totally addicted to it) I then used another lighter purple foil card, to create the frame of the main image using the scallop nestie and the original purple foil for the smaller sentiment, and a large scallop nestie, for the arc,  I removed the centre using a circle nestie.  I then used another smaller scallop nestie and the lighter purple to create the plate for the little bow. Large and small pearls to decorate.

I used the Marianne Design Creatables Christmas Poinsettia, purchased from the Hobby House to create this lovely home made flower using the two different coloured foils and covering the centre with glitter and finishing with a large pearl.  I curled the leaves for a little depth.

The image is Gillian Roberts and is one of my favorites as I said, I used some liquid applique for the mistletoe berries and they are sat on polar flower soft (snow to me) hope their little bottoms are not to cold.  I added the same glitter to the female mouses spots on her top.

Well as you know the Winter Wonderland Teamies and I love to encourage combo's and this week is no exception, although I never actually worked towards anything other than the sketch and my own preferences.  So I am lucky to be able to enter this creation into the following fabulous challenges.

One of my favorite Challenge is Totally Gorjuss who have a theme of Thinking of You, and although this is a Xmas card, I believe the sentiment shows that the sender is especially thinking of that special some one.

Another is Paper Sundaes - who have a theme this week of make your own flowers, was so excited to be able to enter my new purchases.

and how could I resist Papertake Weekly - Cutie Patootie, when all I want to do is cuddle these lovely little mice.

another favorite of mine the Stamp Something Challenge - with something flowery this week again love to be able to show off my new purchases :)

and finally but definitely a great themed challenge this week, The Creative Cottage Challenge Blog - whose theme is Touch Feely -lots of texture on your cards such as embossing, flowers, ribbon, fabric, sewing etc... so I have flowersoft, pearls, ribbon in the bow and the embossing on the poinsettia flowers as well as the puffed up liquid applique.  Great idea for a theme.

So nearly at the end.  I would like to welcome my new follower Karen to my little section of blog land, hi hun :)

Thank you all for the recent comments loving reading and returning the visit, and loved and smiled at all those fab comments.

Mr Blogger will be very kindly posting this for me this morning, as I will be on my way to York to meet a colleague, isn't he nice to do such a thing for me.  I will link when I get home, with hope that I will not be too late, as I need to go shopping, so that I can find some free time for crafting over the weekend.

Well hope your all looking forward to your weekend, as I am and hope you all have great crafty things planned.

Hugs Kate xx