Crafty Catz #491 Optional twist- Favourite colours

 

Good morning, last day of January and time for a new challenge at Crafty Catz, this week our lovely host is Christine who has chosen the theme of 'Favourite colours'- optional as always! This week we are sponsored by Morgan's Artworld. 

 The sponsor generously gave the DT some sweet images to create with, I used Stardust Digi Stamp 2, couldn't resist the look on her face...now where have I seen that before?? Oh yes, 5 year old Emily whenever parents/grandparents are being unreasonable!

I coloured the fairy with copics, lots of sparkle on her wings and dress- fussy cut her and popped her onto my kinda CAS card.  The colours are better IRL...again could not get a good light to photograph. 

This little cutie has proved very popular with the team, please hop over to Crafty Catz to see what the've created for you this week! 

Thanks for stopping by, have a good day

xx
Challenge entries:
cardz4galz #114
thepapershelte #412
digichoosday #4

Anything but a card at Catch the Bug

                                                   

Good morning,  Monday is 'Anything But A Card Day at Catch the Bug -here are some little money holder tags I made at Christmas- they're a great way to use up scraps. I tie these tags to gifts of chocolate or toiletries for those 'hard to buy for' teens, they always appreciate cash!

featuring Snowman Block Set

Featuring Little Penguin Toque

Featuring Snowflake Penguin

and showing how the flap lifts to find the little pocket inside.

Thanks for visiting today, have a great week.

Chris

xx

Challenge entries:

shoppingourstash #412 

christmascardsallyearround January

creatalicious ~179 Add a snowflake

do-allkreatives #37

merrylittlechristmas #18

Rudolph Day - January

Crafty Catz Challenge #490 Optional Twist -Flower Power

Good morning, it's my turn to host the challenge over at Crafty Catz this week, which means I get to choose a theme for the DT to use (and anyone else who wants to of course!) I picked 'flower power' as our fabulous sponsor for this week is none other than BUGABOO-

-and I do love Jodie's beautiful floral images! 

I coloured up the gorgeous Sketchy Floral Teapot and matted it onto my simple layered design. , the sentiment is a stamp and I added a flower shaped button to finish. 

I used a sketch from Sweet Sketch Wednesday(Sketch 175)

The Crafty Catz girls have made some beautiful cards using Jodie's digis, so please do hop on over HERE to take a look- and to add your own gorgeous entries of course.

Thanks for stopping by today, hope you have a lovely weekend

xx

Challenge entries:
colourcrazy #2
audsentiments #243
sweetsketchwednesday (sketch 175)
jansdigistamps #6

A hug in a glass! Cheers!

Hi, back again with a very different card from earlier! This one is for Humour Me Wednesday at Catch the Bug. Yesterday, 21st January was Hugging Day (shame if you missed it) so I made this card to celebrate ...sounds like a great idea to me!

The featured image is Scarlette Wine A Hug In A Glass, I've coloured her with copics and added glossy accents to her glass. The two added wine glasses are made with a freebie stamp from a magazine,  coloured, fussy cut then stuck firmly down and covered with more glossy stuff.

'Liquid therapy' is a stamp, 'Cheers' a die cut which I've cut several times and layered together and again covered with the gloss. 

Apologies for the shadow on the bottom of the photo, didn't notice it until I finished writing this post!

Thanks for stopping by

x

Challenge entries:

incywincy (20/1-1/2)

avenue613 #229

allsorts #555

brownsugar #297

Add a doily at Fab'n' Funky

Good morning, hope your week is going well...mine is going fast! I don't seem to have done anything much (apart from normal boring housework and cooking!) and it's the middle of the week already. At least the weather's been dry, the fence is mended-hooray!- and I had a nice  walk in the sunshine down to the library yesterday. Our nearest library is closed for building work and refurbishment, which is good news- they can't be planning to close it, so I walked to the next nearest which is only about 2 miles...and it's downhill! Being an avid reader and not a fan of electronic reading devices, give me a real book anyday, I'd be lost without the libraries (or very poor!).

 Anyway onto today's card...over at Fab'n' Funky our lovely N-Eva has picked the theme of 'add a doily', have to admit it's not something I think of doing very often and I have loads of them! I made a little circular rocker card and tucked the doily between the layers. The sweet little fairy is Stamping Bella, she's coloured up with copics, loads of glitter on her wings. I attached two small bows with brads, added some tiny die cut flowers with pearl centres. The sentiment is stamped and embossed with white EP.

Well, if you're like me and have loads of doilies lurking around neglected, why not hop over to Fab'n' Funky and see how the team have used theirs. Hope you choose to play along and share your ideas too.

Thanks for visiting, I'll be back later today with another card.

xx

Challenge entries
tuesdaythrowdown #449
dragonflydreams -January Challenge
pennyblackatallsorts feminine
allsorts #555
thefairyandtheunicorn January Challenge

Best foot forward!

Good morning, hope your day started bright and sunny...we've been forecast some dry weather this week which will make a lovely change! I'm hoping that the next couple of days at least are dry so we can replace the fence panels that the wind last week removed for us! Fortunately, it was the end of the garden that's fenced off to stop Mathilda killing all the grass and trying to climb over to next door to sort out Edgar the pug, her arch enemy. Don't know what he says to her in dog language but she doesn't like one little bit! So fingers crossed for the dry weather.

Today we have a new challenge starting over at Sweet Stampin', we'd like to see albums, journals, frames, keepsakes etc. not cards! Some stamping to be included of course!

I was finding it hard to motivate myself after Christmas, too busy being lazy, and couldn't think what to make so I trawled through my stamps hoping for something to jump out and bite me! I found the gorgeous steampunk boot stamp and decided to make a journal page with it. I love a bit of steampunk...fabulous costumes, time travel, adventure, fantasy...but I know it's not to everyone's taste so don't make many cards with the theme. Have to say I found making this page so relaxing and enjoyable...stamping , masking, water colouring,stencilling, hand lettering -all on one page and the mistakes don't matter! Definitely going to do this more often!

So please take a look at what the Sweeties have been up to this week, then we'd love to have you play along and inspire us with your own creativity. If you've never tried journaling before give it a go, it's fun!

Thanks for visiting, enjoy the weekend.

xx
art-journal-journey- New (New journal,  New year)
stampotiquedesignerschallenge #339
welove2create #1

Catch the Bug Birthday Bash Day 7

It's Day seven of the Birthday Bash at Catch the Bug, the last day! Create something using the above photo for inspiration. As it's friday there's also a fun new Freebie up for grabs (you don't need to use it for this challenge though!)

Here's my card using the freebie

I have to say that we've had some fabulous entries for the Birthday Bash so far, glad I'm not having to pick the winners! 

Thanks for visiting and have a great weekend

x

Challenge entries;
craftysentiments. Jan 14 Challenge
jansdigistamps #5
pammiesinkypinkies #2002