Sweet Stampin' Challenge

Hello.

It's time for a new challenge at Sweet Stampin'.  

 Our theme this time is Tags.

I've been thinking of what to do for this for ages - like really ages, since I set the challenge.  Did I do anything about it? No.  Could I decide what to do? No. Did I remember that I needed to do one?  Yes.  At 9pm last night!

So here is Maya.  On a tag.

Maya - Stamping Bella

Script - Indigo Blu

Background Noise - AALL and Create

Copics/Promarkers/Flexmarkers

Distress Oxide Sprays - Salvaged Patina, Peacock Feather

Distress Oxide - Fozzilized Amber

Remember to drop by Sweet Stampin' and see what the rest of the Sweeties have been up to! Perhaps you could have a go yourself, don't forget to stamp now ;)

Fab N Funky Challenge

Hello again.

It's time for another challenge at Fab N Funky.

This time our theme is

Paper Piecing

I love paper piecing, I do it quite a lot! I've paper pieced the chair in this one which was a card my friend ordered for her daughter. Struck me as being a real teenage card with the laptop and listening to music and chilling.

Stamps
Danielle on the Laptop - Mo Manning
Facebook Post Sentiment -  Classy Bird Set (Indigo Blu)
Wonderful Daughter - ?! I really should write stuff down!!

Colouring Medium 
Copics

 Embellishments 
Card Candy

Dies
Stitched Rectangles - MFT

We're sponsored this week by Live and Love Crafts.

 Thanks for dropping by today. Drop by the Fab n Funky blog to see what the rest of Team Funky have been up to.

Computer Trouble

Hello.

Do you ever have as much trouble as James is having with his laptop. I imagine he's trying to think of a title for his blog post!!

This is the second of Andy's Father's Day cards and this is the one from Craig.

Stamps 

James and Laptop - LotV

Facebook - Classy Bird Set Indigo Blu

Awesome Dude - Visible Image

 Colouring Medium 

Copics

Paper

Kaisercraft

 Embellishments 

Card Candy

 Tools 

Stitched Rectangle Dies - MFT

Speech Bubble Die - Spellbinders

@ # Dad Dies - Crafters Companion

 Thanks for dropping by today.

Sweet Stampin' Challenge

Morning all, it's Saturday and that means it's time for a new challenge at Sweet Stampin'. 

This week our theme is

Black and White With A Pop of One Other

Our winner this week will win a SS goodie bag.

This is a card I made for a friend of mine. And there is a slight pop of colour. Honest! 

Stamps
Classy Bird Set - Indigo Blu

 Embellishments 
Red Pearls
White Gel Pen

 Thanks for dropping by today. 

Remember to drop by Sweet Stampin' and see what the rest of the Team Jacky Sweeties have been up to! Perhaps you could have a go yourself, don't forget to stamp now ;)

Moving Along With The Times Challenge

Morning all.

It's time for a new challenge at Moving Along With the Times.

This week our theme set by the lovely Jessie is

Birds or Feathers

I've used a new stamp set from Indigo Blu that I got for my birthday for this card! Enough said rea

Challenges I'd Like to Enter

Stamps
Classy Bird Set - Indigo Blu

  Embellishments 

Flowers
Pearls

 Tools 
Grand Circle Nesties - Spellbinders
Hexagon Embossing Folder

 Thanks for dropping by today. 

Remember to drop by MAWTT and see what the rest the DT have been up to. 

Dream Valley Challenges

Hello again!

It's time for a new challenge at Dream Valley Challenges

This fortnight our theme is

Monochrome

Our sponsor this fortnight is The Paper Shelter.

I've gone for a very simple card today. The main image stamp came free with a magazine a couple of months ago and I thought it would work perfectly for this challenge. I've used an Inkylicious sentiment stamp to go with it.

Challenges I'd Like to Enter

Stamps
Free Stamp set - Indigo Blu
Sentiment from Dandelion Wishes set - Inkylicious

 Thanks for dropping by today. 

Remember to drop by Dream Valley and see what the rest the DT have been up to. 

Dream Valley Challenges

Hello again.

Please scroll down for my Hobbycutz DT card.

It's time for a new challenge at Dream Valley Challenges

This fortnight our theme is

Clean and Simple

Our sponsor this fortnight is Crafty Ribbons.

I've gone for something a little different for me. I created an oval mask using a nestie and stamped the Indigo Blu Script stamp in Crumb Cake ink and then I stamped from the SU Just Believe and Silhouette Sentiments sets in Early Espresso ink and finally added a sentiment in the bottom corner. 

Challenges I'd Like to Enter

Stamps
Script Stamp - Indigo Blu
Just Believe and Silhouette Sentiments - Stampin' Up

Ink
Crumb Cake and Early Espresso - Stampin' Up

  Tools 
Oval Nesties
Big Shot

 Thanks for dropping by today. 

Remember to drop by Dream Valley and see what the rest the DT have been up to. 

That Craft Place Challenge

Morning all.

It's time for a new challenge at That Craft Place

This time our theme is

Sentiment

I have two things to share today - I made the first and then the lovely Lisa brought out her own range of stamps Ditzie Designs - available from That Craft Place so of course I had to create something else too!

So this first is a heart I bought - I was inspired by looking at some decopatch although I didn't actually want to do that! I simply painted with some acrylic paint and stamped the Visible Image sentiment with some contrasting blue ink and then stamped the Grunge Flourish round the outside of the heart.

Challenges I'd Like to Enter

Stamps
Grunge Flourish - Visible Image
Sentiment - Visible Image

  Ink 

White and Pale Blue Acrylic paint 

 Heart

And this is my second offering today - this is a frame I bought from Lisa's shop ages ago with the intention of doing something else with it and when I started off I was actually going to cover up the frame with some paper but I decided just to stamp round the edge of it because I thought it looked to pretty bare to cover up! I used the Grunge Flourish again.

Challenges I'd Like to Enter

Stamps
Life Sentiments Set - Ditzie Designs
Grunge Flourish - Visible Image
Netting stamp - Indigo Blu

 Cardstock
That Craft Place

Paper
Kaisercraft

 Ink 
Cocoa Brown - Memento

 Embellishments 
Butterfly - Hobbycutz

All items available (unless otherwise stated)

from That Craft Place - if Lisa and Danny don't have something in stock they'd be happy to order it for you.

 Thanks for dropping by today. 

Remember to drop by That Craft Place and see what the rest the DT have been up to. 

Come and join and us at That Craft Place, we're a friendly bunch and you can browse lots of lovely goodies in the Facebook group and show us your makes in the Chat group.

That Craft Place shop

That Craft Place Challenge Blog

That Craft Place Facebook Group

That Craft Place Facebook Chat Group

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Wingardium Leviosa

Morning all!

Nothing like a bit of Harry Potter on a Thursday morning eh?!

This is the birthday card I made for my friend's daughter last week - I was really trying to clear up all the cards I haven't shared yet - still some end of term ones and others earlier than that to go but I wanted to share this one with you.

Rachel is Harry Potter daft so it seemed fitting to do her a Harry Potter card (although Harry is wearing his invisibility cloak and can't be seen on the card) - Rachel is always Hermione when they play HP and Scott is always Ron so I thought I would use those two Bugaboo images.

However, I didn't just want to put the characters on the card and the outside of the card was born - this is the paper I used for Sunday's That Craft Place challenge card (Sunday's card was the leftovers from this card!)

Outside of card.

Stamps 

Steampunk Set - Inkadinkadoo

Script Stamp - Indigo Blu

 Cardstock

From stash

Paper 

Fairy Tale Stack - DCWV

Embellishments 

Bakers Twine

Tools

Book Die - Marianne Designs

Inside of card.

Challenges I'd Like to Enter
Sentimental Sundays - Happy Birthday
Make it Monday
Papertake - Anything Goes
Papercrafting Journey - Anything Goes
4CraftyGirlz - Anything Goes
Aud's Sentiments - Any Sentiment

Stamps 

Har Repotter The Wise One - Bugaboo

Har Repotter - The Sidekick - Bugaboo

 Colouring Medium 

Copics

Flexmarkers

Cardstock

From stash

 Thanks for dropping by today. 

 Susan 

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That Craft Place Challenge

Morning all.

It's time for a new challenge at That Craft Place

This time our theme is

Ribbons and Lace

Challenges I'd Like to Enter

Stamps
Heart - Indigo Blu

Cardstock
from stash

 Ink 
London Fog - Memento

 Embellishments 
Pearls
Ribbon
Lace Doiley

 Tools 
Floral Frenzy - DieSire

All products available from That Craft Place.

 Thanks for dropping by today. 

Remember to drop by That Craft Place and see what the rest the DT have been up to. 

 Susan 

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Little Miss Forgetful

Please scroll down to the next post if you're looking for my Totally Papercrafts DT card.

I have no idea if Little Miss Forgetful is one of the Roger Hargreaves characters but that's me...

It was crafty night last night and I had a plan in my head of what I was going to do. However, when I got to the cabin it completely went out my head and I did 3984 other things instead (that may be a *slight* exaggeration).

Anyway, what I was going to do was use the fab sketch at Sketch Saturday with my Max stamp from Visible Image... I'm telling you that now so that I might actually remember what I was going to do! So I was having a chat with Cathy earlier and she said - "you don't need to have a coloured image"... which set me thinking (and I have another idea too) so in a spare 10 minutes earlier, I came up with this. It's simple, but I love it :) - a bit of embossing, a sentiment, and some flowers with pearls (which I coloured with a Promarker as I wanted a wee hint of yellow)

Challenges I'd Like to Enter

Make it Monday

Totally Gorjuss - Embossing

Sketch Saturday

Stamps 

Enjoy Life Set - Indigo Blu

 Cardstock

 Diamond White - The Papeterie

Ink

Cocoa Brown - Memento

 Embellishments 

Flowers

Pearls (coloured with Pineapple Crush Promarker)

 Tools

Floral Embossing Folder - Cuttlebug

Swiss Dots Embossing Folder - Cuttlebug

Big Shot

Susan 

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Creative Craft Challenges

Morning all.

It's time for a new challenge at Creative Craft Challenges

This time our theme is

Alter It

Now I thought long and hard about this and came up with many different ideas some of which I have discarded and others are stored in my brain for use at another time... (yeah right, we all know I'll never remember any of the ideas!)

I decided, in the end, to go with this canvas which I bought about 2 years ago  and shoved in a drawer - so my crafty buddy Lorraine will be thrilled to see it making an appearance at last.

I inked the canvas with Evergreen Bough and Squeezed Lemonade DI and I was going to stamp the sentiment directly on the canvas but found my test piece that I was playing about with and decided I liked that better than stamping directly on the canvas.

I punched out some flowers and to make them look like daisies I coloured the pearls with a Summer Sun promarker. I added a wee path between the daisies using a Cocoa Promarker.

Challenges I'd Like to Enter
Make it Monday
Use it Tuesday - All About Spring (canvas has been in a drawer for nearly 2 years...) 
Visible Image - Get Stamping
Ladybug Crafts - Let's Leap Into Spring
Pile It On - Handmade Flowers

Stamps
Indigo Blu

  Ink 
Squeezed Lemonade Distress Ink
Evergreen Bough Distress Ink
Memento Cocoa Brown

 Embellishments 
Pearls coloured with Summer Sun Promarker

 Tools 
Flower Puches
Cocoa Promarker

 Thanks for dropping by today. 

Remember to drop by Creative Craft Challenges and see what the rest the DT have been up to. 

 Susan 

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Mid Month at Christmas at Sweet Stampin'

Morning all. 

Here we are, a day closer to the start of British Summer Time.....

It's time for some mid month inspiration at Christmas At Sweet Stampin'. 

Just a wee reminder that our this month our theme is

No Red or Green

Our sponsor this month is

Flatfriends

So when I started to think about what I would do for no red or green I immediately thought I would go with a WOW card, with maybe a bit of blue thrown in but..... look, no red, no green but no white or blue either. And not even a card!

I decided to have a bit of a play thanks to the lovely Cathy and this is what I ended up with. I'm quite pleased with it for a first attempt, I think. One thing is certain though, I'm doing this again. It was so much fun!

Challenges I'd Like to Enter

Make it Monday

Stamps
Baroque Motifs - Stampin Up
Poinsettia Stamps - Heartfelt Creations
Ticket Stamp - Tim Holtz
Script Stamp - Indigo Blu

Cardstock
Inkylicious Tag

 Ink 
Antique Linen DI
Vintage Photo DI
Frayed Burlap DI
Crumb Cake - Stampin Up

 Embellishments 
Pearls
Ribbon

 Tools 

 Thanks for dropping by today. 

Remember to drop by Christmas at Sweet Stampin' and see what the rest the Christmas Sweeties have been up to. 

And just remember, that's another Christmas card done, and another month nearer to Christmas!

 Susan 

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Love To Create Challenge

Morning all, the start of a new week and we're almost midway through March... it will be you know what before we know it ;)

It's time for a new challenge at Love to Create

This week our theme is

Lavender and Lace

Our sponsor this week is Sassy Studio who gave the DT some images to play with.

I have to be honest, I struggled a bit with this. You'll know delicate and pretty isn't really my thing and I'm still not sure about this but never mind.

I decided to make a tag this time rather than a card - just to be a wee bit different and to keep you on your toes. 

I inked round the edges of the tag (Inkylicious) with some Milled Lavender Distress Ink and also used the same DI on the cream doiley. I also stamped a script stamp on the DP using the ink and then I chucked some pearls at it.... sorry, Cathy, placed carefully.... and voila!

Challenges I'd Like to Enter
Make it Monday
Paper Playtime - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp and Show - Chic to be Shabby
Crafts and Me - Tag It

Stamps
Flapper - Sassy Studio

Script Stamp - Indigo Blu

 Colouring Medium 
Copics
Promarkers

Cardstock
from stash
Inkylicious Tag

Paper
Papermania

 Ink 
Milled Lavender DI

 Embellishments 
Flowers
Lace Doiley
Seam Binding Ribbon
Pearls

 Tools 

Lacy Oval Nesties
Big Shot

 Thanks for dropping by today. 

Remember to drop by Love to Create and see what the rest the DT have been up to. 

 Susan 

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Sweet Stampin' Challenge

Morning all. 

It's Saturday, the boys are on holiday until Thursday so just have to decide what to do with the little darlings to keep them entertained....

So, it's time for a new challenge at Sweet Stampin' and this week our theme is 

Pearls and Swirls

We're sponsored this week by Bunny Zoe who are offering a £10 voucher to the winner and our monthly sponsor is The Ribbon Girl who are also offering a £10 voucher to the winner.

Now I thought this would be easy... a coloured image, some swirls and pearls for decoration et voila... No matter what I did with the image though when I was at the Crafty Cabin, it didn't look right. 

Then, just as I was about to drop off to sleep on Thursday night I had a flash of inspiration.. AND I remembered what it was when I woke up! My friend Fiona said to me the other day "see what happens when you just switch off" and I think she's right!

It's something a little different from me but I have to say, I really love this card. I simply inked the cardstock with some DI and stamped the Indigo Blu sentiment in the middle and used the swirl from the Stampin Up Baroque Motifs set round the outside.

Challenges I'd Like To Enter

Anything Goes - Monochrome

Brown Sugar - Anything Goes

Stamps 

Sentiment - Indigo Blu

Swirls - Baroque Motifs, Stampin Up

Cardstock

Very Vanilla and Soft Suede - Stampin Up

Ink 

Brushed Corduroy DI

Antique Photo DI

Spiced Marmalade DI

Soft Suede - Stampin Up

Early Espresso - Stampin Up

Embellishments 

Pearls from stash

Remember to pop over to the Sweet Stampin' to see the what the rest of the Sweeties have been up to!

I will be back shortly with my One Stop Craft Challenge Card.

Susan xx

A Book at Bedtime...

Yes, I know, it may be a little early for bedtime but Wrynn is ready for bed... or maybe she's just a little like me and likes her pj's!

This is the birthday card (2nd attempt mind) I made for my lovely friend Cass. I thought of all sorts of things for titles for the book but ended up just leaving it blank! 

Challenges I'd like to enter

Come and Get It - Show Us Your Flowers

Cute Card Thursday - Show Us Your Bling

Dutch Dare - Bling It On

Divas By Design - Anything Goes

Creative Card Crew - Maps, Newsprint, Script (I've used a script stamp behind Wrynn)

Craft Your Passion - The Power of Three (Three Flowers)
Tuesday Alchemy - Back to School

Stamps 

Wrynn, Tiddly Inks Coloured with Promarkers

Script Stamp, IndigoBlu

Sentiment, Ladybug Crafts Ink

Cardstock/Paper 

From Stash

Embellishments 

Flowers and Pearls from stash

Tools 

Label Nesties, Spellbinders

Big Shot

Thanks for dropping by today. I'm away to hang some washing out in the hope that the rain stays away long enough to dry it. Enjoy what's left of the weekend.

Hugs. Susan xxx