Little lost fairy...

Good morning! hope you're enjoying a lovely restful Sunday! This is a scheduled post as I have two small guests this weekend and I have absolutely no idea how the morning will pan out! In an ideal world they will be sleeping in until about 9am., we'll have a leisurely, civilized breakfast and their parents will arrive to collect them at about 10.30...yeah, right...dream on!!!!
Anyway, this is the card I made for our new challenge at Hobbycutz. The theme this week is 'create a scene'. We're sponsored by the Stamping Chef, who very generously gave us some beautiful images to play with. I chose to use the beautiful 'lost fairy' image, which I coloured with copics and Perfect Pearl paints, glittered her wings and fussy cut her out. The fabulous tree is a wooden Hobbycutz laser cut which you can buy here. The background is white card, coloured with pan pastels and stamped, using various stamps, with black Stazon. There is quite a lot of black glitter added but it does'nt really show in the photo!
Pop by the Challenge blog to check out the fabulous creations from my teamies! We really hope that you'll be inspired to join us this week!
Have a lovely day!
Chris
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Rudolph with your nose so bright...

Good morning and welcome to the weekend! Our challenge this week at Sweet Stampin' is another easy one with loads of scope, to use black and white and just one other colour of your choice. How easy I hear you all cry as you reach for your red....., well that's what most of the DT seemed to do anyway!!!! - including me, as you can see from above!
This card was so lovely and easy to make as I just stamped the gorgeous image onto white card and glittered up his nose! A bit of matting, embossing and a die cut holly leaf- job done! The stamp is one I bought years ago and it's one of my favourites, it's by Hampton Art Stamps.
Please pop over to the challenge blog by clicking here and you'll see what my lovely and so-talented teamies have made! We're sponsored this week by My Mum's Craft Shop, and there's also a monthly prize from the Ribbon Girl.
Thanks for looking!
Have a lovely weekend!
Chris
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Challenges entered:
jellypark Christmas
stampinfortheweekend feeling festive
stempelsonne Merry Christmas
totallypapercrafts  ho ho holidays
4craftychicks Christmas
craftingbydesigns Christmas/ winter
fabnfunky cute critters
rheddandrosies Christmas

Too good to miss....

 

The current challenge at Hobbycutz has now been changed to everyone's favourite 'Anything Goes'! Don't miss your chance to win! To enter click here!
 Chris
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Die another day!

I'm here again with my second post for today, my DT card for our new challenge at Songbirds. The themes for our challenges are all inspired by song titles or lyrics and this one is 'Die Another Day' which was the theme song for a James Bond Movie! For our challenge all you need to do is add a die cut to your project, another easy-peasy one! We are sponsored this fortnight by Meljens Designs and were given a selection of lovely images to choose from, I chose to use this cute little fairy. I coloured her with my trusty copics, die cut the oval shape and mounted it onto a larger oval of red dotted paper. The pine needle border and the heart with bow are both Memory Box dies. You can see what delights the rest of the songbirds have made and join in the fun yourself by clicking  here.
Have a good week!
Chris
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Challenges entered:
lexiscreations Christmas
cutedaisymay things with wings
craftycalendar all things Christmas
craftyhazelnutschristmas for a child
rheddandrosies Christmas

Woolly wishes!

Good morning. Hasn't this past fortnight flown by !!!! It's time for a new challenge with the Lovely Ladybugs over at Ladybugs Crafts Ink! The theme this week is to use a blue and white colour combo, so lovely and simple! My GDT card is made using the so-cute Knitting Billie image. I' ve coloured him with copics, fussy cut him, and sat him on top of the greeting , which was cut on the Cricut- simples! Please pop over to the challenge blog to lovely creations the Ladybugs have made to inspire you! Why not join the fun yourself, with your own fabulous blue and white project. Thanks for calling by!
Chris
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Challenges entered:
 dreamvalley Clean and simple
comeandgetit  anything with a digi!
onestitchatatime bingo- blue, stickles (on the heart!) CAS

Come celebrate with Sweet Stampin'

It's time to celebrate... Sweet Stampin'  is 4 years old today, hooray!! We're inviting you all to join the party by entering this weeks challenge 'cause for celebration'.  It can be any kind of celebration, birthday, Christmas, new baby...whatever you like! There are loads of fabulous prizes to be won this week...£10 vouchers from Bunny Zoe, Wild Orchid, and Crafters Companion. There's also a £10 voucher from our monthly sponsor The Ribbon Girl, and an extra prize for a lucky entrant with a US shipping address! Wow!
I really enjoyed making my card, even though it didn't end up looking how I thought it would when I started! The gorgeous image (she's just so happy!!!) is of course by Mo Manning. She's coloured with copics. The balloons were part of a stamp which are again coloured with copics, then cut out and attached to twine. The papers are MME: On the bright side.

You can find a tutorial to make this card shape here. Thanks Norma , you are one very talented lady!

 

Now, why not pop over to Sweet Stampin' to see what the rest of the sweeties have made...there's loads of inspiration for you to enjoy this week!

Have a great weekend!

Chris

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Challenges entered:

totallypapercrafts add a bow

4craftychicks anything goes

asyoulikeit spots or stripes (spots, probably because I'm a bit dotty!!!)

addictedtostamps make your mark

ribboncarousel holidays/celebrations

stamps & fun digi

 

 

 

....just a quickie!

Good evening! Just a really quick post to share the card I made for this week's LIM challenge. I don't always have time to play along with this great challenge blog, but couldn't resist this week's, which is to use designer paper in a CAS way. As I'm sadly behind in the Christmas card department I made this. The holly leaves are paper pieced using the same paper as the green border. The extra berries in the corner are to hide a green inky smudge... why does that always happen to me!!! Thanks for looking!
Chris
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Challenges
 LIM use designer paper
deliciousdoodles CAS
MAWTT Furry friends
fitztown paper piecing