Guest designer for Tuesday Throwdown

I was surprised and delighted to be asked to be a Guest Designer for Tuesday Throwdown for the month of August.

So this is my first card for them, for today's challenge 110 'On the move'. I was supplied with 'choochoocharlie', a digital image from Robyn's Fetish who are sponsoring the challenge. Please click on the link to the challenge to see the wonderful crafting of the team and join in.

I decided to make a moving 'waterfall' card, splitting the image up so that I could use it on the invididual squares, repeating one for the final one and adding a peel off sentiment (I meant to print the 'Happy Birthday' before putting the card together, but I forgot, so I rescued the situation with the peel off).

The printed pictures were coloured with copics. The background paper is Basic Grey Oh baby boy 'porter'. Because the card will be given to a youngster I deliberately didn't use brads to hold down the bar at the bottom, but used adhesive instead - this was fine because the card was wide enough to allow for this. I used some sticky ribbon that I've had for some time to add a bit more colour to the strip at the bottom and also to create a little pull tag.

Everything was then mounted on to a red card blank.

I'm also entering this into the following challenges:

DCC & friends 1: anything goes
Here comes the boys 33: boys toys
Sassy Cheryl 127: all about the boys
Hiding in my craftroom 51: masculine birthday
Basic grey 74: bright and bold (the background paper is BG Oh baby boy porter)
Going grey with Scrap-creations: D - for digital images and 'down' (the waterfall effect)
Desert island crafts 35: I chose: red, lots of layers, something that moves
PaperPlay 31: layer it up
Corrosive 155: they say it's your birthday
Fashionista 5: baby or birthday
Stampavie & more 173: birthday
Delightful: delightful birthday
DL.Art: happy birthday
Marker pop colouring challenge 4: bright colours
CCEE 1231: include red
Pink elephant 160: ribbon
Creative belli 149: vacation/travel - the ribbon and background paper were old and forgotten
Jackson's digital expressions 17
My heart pieces: use designer paper
Mema's crafts August: anything goes with a twist of red
Papertake: anything goes
No matter which 1: anything goes
Craft your passion 122: anything goes
2 sisters 103: anything goes
Challenge up your life 75: everything goes
Make it Monday 101

Inspire me Fridays 70
52 card pick up week 31
DL.ART Birthday Linky party

Solid as a rock

This is for the sketch for Cards und more 61:

I've only used solid colours, no patterned paper, for City crafter 120: solid as a rock. And all pieces came from my offcuts boxes (yes, I have 'boxes' - one for coloured solid cardstock and another for white) so this is another one for:

Pixie's crafty snippets 31
Squiggle stamps: stash attack - I used offcuts

I used a crafts too embossing folder for the raised spots for Crafty ribbons 25: seeing spots and dots. The stitched ribbon across the bottom and the Craftime sentiment are from stash.

The black bows with gems were from Hobbycraft and the blue buttons from Poundland - these are for:

Craft room: buttons and bows
Brown sugar 4: buttons & bows
Nutcrafters 23: butterflies and/or bows
Penny's 87: butterflies and/or bows
Digi doodle shops best 199: ribbons and bows

I chose the colours for:

Woodware UK week 63: black and white with a pop of blue
The house that stamps built DCC81: colour challenge - black and white plus one other colour
Crazy challenge 126: black, white & 1 other

I chose the Penny Black floral silhouette stamp for Gingerloft 45: silhouettes.

This is also for:

Paper-crafting journey: anything goes
DCC & friends 1: anything goes
Ribbon girl: select three items in a line - I chose flower, bow, buttons
Top tip Tuesday 82: focus on the ribbon
Really reasonable ribbon 53: bling with ribbon
Corrosive 155: they say it's your birthday
Fashionista 5: baby or birthday
Stampavie & more 173: birthday
Delightful: delightful birthday
DL.Art: happy birthday
Inky impressions: embossing
Card and scrap 36: use stamps on your contribution
No matter which 1: anything goes
Fashionable stamping 27: anything goes
Craft your passion 122: anything goes
Simply create too 19: anything goes
2 sisters 103: anything goes
Challenge up your life 75: everything goes
Make it Monday 101

Inspire me Fridays 70
52 card pick up week 31
DL.ART Birthday Linky party

More Christmas purple

This is another card for my CHNC challenge 84: favourite colour(s) - another purple one. I've used a pyramage oval from Kanban that had been put together some time ago and it's been waiting to be used on a card. The main background is an offcut from the previous purple card and the other piece is also an offcut. The sentiment is from an old Kanban kit.

Yesterday's facebook 'Sunday's with Santa' challenge was 'many layers', so this is also for that.

This is also for:

PaperPlay 31: layer it up
Creatalicious 36: Christmas in July
Pixie's crafty snippets 31
Squiggle stamps: stash attack - I used offcuts
Stamp n doodle: use your favourite colour
Totally papercrafts 128: monochrome
Hotshot 10: Kanban
Craft your passion 122: anything goes
Simply create too 19: anything goes
2 sisters 103: anything goes
Challenge up your life 75: everything goes
Make it Monday 101

Inspire me Fridays 70
52 card pick up week 31

DL.ART Birthday Linky party