Big hat!- Crafty Cats Challenge #461

Good morning,another week has come and gone and I'm here with my DT card for this week's challenge at Crafty Catz. 

This week the optional theme is 'Female' chosen by our lovely Zora who is hosting this week. Our sponsor for this is Sheepski Designs

The lucky DT were given some stunning images to play with ..usually I take ages choosing which to use but.as soon as I saw the gorgeous Emmy's Hat I knew what I wanted to do with it...it had to be paper pieced! I coloured her face and hair with my copics then paper pieced the hat, adding av little shading! It so reminds me of a hat I owned back in the day when 'hippie hats' were an essential part of any girl's wardrobe...along with a flowing maxi dress and platform shoes and long hair...those were the days my friends!

I hope you can find the time to hop over to Crafty Catz to enjoy the fabulous makes from my teamies...I think we all loved using these gorgeous images! Remember it's easy to play along...the theme is optional so anything goes!

Thanks for visiting , enjoy the weekend...let's hope for an improvement in the weather!

Chris

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Challenges entered:
pattiescreations #158
polkadoodle. #19
CRAFT #512
sheepski #26 (flowers on her hat!)
worldwideopenDTchallenge #4
ellibelles May Challenge

Christmas at Sweet Stampin' May Challenge

Good morning, it's time for our May Challenge at Sweet Stampin' Christmas Challenge, we have an optional theme of snowflakes this month. I made a very quick and easy card this time...an embossed background with 2 sparkly snowflakes and a die cut sentiment. The larger silver silver snowflake is recycled from one of last year's cards...too pretty to throw away! The card is very sparkly IRL! 

As always my teamies have been busy creating some beautiful projects, so for a variety of inspiration hop over to the Challenge Blog. It would be great to have you join us this month...no need to follow the theme if you prefer not...anything Christmas themed is welcome.

Thanks for visiting

Have a lovely day.

When is it going to get warm again????

Chris

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Challenges entered:
hollyandivy #49
craftycardmakers #233
( 3 die cuts, 2 snowflakes, 1 sentiment)
craftyfriends #109
MLCCB #10

When I grow up...

It's new release day at Catch the Bug, here's the card I made featuring this week's cute image-

 I kept my card CAS colouring the cute image with copics, adding a stamped sentiment and a spot of doodling around the edge. I  coloured a border in a camouflage pattern to complement the little soldier! 

There's loads more ideas using this sweet little guy over at Catch the Bug, so why not pay a visit?

Thanks for stopping by- have a happy day.

Chris

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Challenges entered:

alphabet c for CAS

qkrstampede  #346

craftingwithanattitude #51

May Challenge at Crafty Calendar

Hello, hope you're enjoying a lovely Sunday afternoon...whatever you are doing! This month's challenge is up and running over at Crafty Calendar, our May sponsor is Sheepski Designs

The theme for this month is Distressing.

I chose to use a beautiful image I already owned, Serenity, available HERE. I coloured with Copics and carefully fussy cut, not wanting any white edges. 

The background is created with Distress Oxides and D Is , a few stencils and a bit of stamping and some frantage. I did get a little distressed when I tried to add the glittery distress paste stuff, it's not very old, the lid was securely screwed on but it's gone all dry and crumbly...binned it and won't be buying that again! The sentiment is stamped, I added some bakers twine, flowers and brads, a leaf charm (recycled from an old bracelet) and a metal corner.

 I enjoyed making this, hope you like it!

Please hop over to Crafty Calendar for more inspiration from my lovely teamies and to add your own fabulous creations of course!

Thanks for stopping by

Chris

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Challenges entered:
creativefingers #162
audsentiments #226
southerngirls atg
classicdesignteam May Challenge
creatalicious #162
sheepski flwer power
watercooler #219

Crafty Catz Challenge # 460

Good morning, I'm back home after a lovely relaxing week enjoying the spectacular beauty of the New Forest at this time of year. Everything is so fresh and vibrant, the trees look amazing in their spring finery, the hedgerows are bursting with spring flowers and of course it's wonderful to see the animals roaming freely, it always makes me smile when they amble down the middle of the road, totally oblivious to the traffic! An added bonus was that everywhere was really quiet...probably because we picked the week between two bank holiday weekends, I'm sure it's a lot busier right now!

Anyway, back to business...I'm a day late with my DT card for this week's challenge at Crafty Catz which is hosted by our lovely Nick this week. The optional theme she has chosen is Bon Voyage/Travel.  We are lucky to have 2 fabulous sponsors this week-

Little Blue Button

and Crafty Ribbons

to make my card I used a cute image from Little Blue Button, Let's Go, coloured with copics and fussy cut. I printed the girl twice and used pinflair glue to glue the second image in place on the suitcase for a bit of dimension. The word panel behind the image is stamped with a magazine freebie stamp that I've had for years, DP from stash and I added a tag, ticket and travel bag charm. 

As always, my fabulous teamies have created some beautiful cards to inspire you and we're hoping you choose to join us this week...remember the theme is optional, anything goes at Crafty Catz

Thanks to all who were kind enough to visit my blog and leave comments while I was away...much appreciated, I'll be round to visit you all soon!

Chris

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Challenges entered:
inkspirational #186
colourcrazy #16
paperminutes #586
creativecrafters #15
abitmoretimetocraft #91

Guest Design for LeAnns World 101

Good morning, I was delighted to be invited to guest design for LeAnne's World 101 after winning a recent challenge. I made my card featuring the sweet Night Out digital stamp, which I've coloured with Copics and fussy cut. The dp made me think of nightclubs and disco lights( am I showing my age here!) and seemed perfect for the background. 

These images are fairly new to me and they're fabulous to colour, loads more available in the Etsy Shop, also there's a Blog Hop starting on 7th May, please visit the Challenge Blog for the details.

Thanks for stopping by , will be back from my hols later today and will catch up with you all soon.

Chris

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Challenges entered:
audsentiments #226
perfecttimetocraft May Challenge
craftycreations #389
digichoosday #18
papercraft #36

Boxes , bags and tags at Fab'n Funky Challenges.

Another scheduled post from me today with my creation for our challenge at Fab'n' Funky. The host this week is our lovely Wends who would like to see your boxes, bags and tags. 

I made a tag which I'll use for a bookmark. I used Distress Oxides to colour the background, then stamped my image, Indian Flourish, Lavinia Stamps with Warm Breeze Versafine Clair ink, I dried it and stamped the same image, slightly offset, with versamark and embossed with gold EP.  I also embossed around the edges with the same EP. I added some fibres and ribbon to make the tassel.

For some fabulous ideas and inspiration just hop over and take a look at the beautiful creations from the rest of Team Funky! Hope you choose to play along and inspire us with your own brilliant ideas!

Have a lovely day

Chris

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