CHNC challenge 85

Saturdays seem to come round quicker and quicker, so here we are again with another new challenge on my CHNC blog - today for challenge 85 I'm asking to see festive food or drink.

For my first card I've used the Bugaboo Stamps 'cupcake candycanes' image, kindly supplied by Bugaboo, who are sponsoring my CHNC challenge 85. The image was coloured with copics.

Papers are all from the K & Co Secret Santa collection - I used offcuts (it's a 12 x 12 collection of papers, so plenty of offcuts are left over once a paper is cut into), so this is for Pixie's crafty snippets 31 and Squiggle stamps: stash attack (the papers are old and need using!).

This is also for:

Tabitha's designs: Christmas in July
Creatalicious 36: Christmas in July
My mum's craft shop 69: Christmas in August
Stampin with the dragon: Christmas in August
Just keep on creating: Christmas is just around the corner
The lollipop ladies 51: strawberry & cream + layers
Lollipop crafts: monochromatic
Stampin' for the weekend 15: monochromatic
Creative Mondays (always crafting) 13: food
Card and scrap 36: use stamps (can be digi) on your contribution
Jackson's digital: anything goes 17
Catch the bug August anything goes
Crafts and me 96: use a digi
Crafting for all seasons 33: bright colours
Crafty catz 145: anything goes
Mad for markers August: anything goes
Papertake: anything goes
Challenge up your life 75: everything goes
Make it Monday 101

Inspire me Fridays 71
52 card pick up week 32
DL.ART Birthday Linky party
DCC & friends 1: anything goes

Rainbow and butterflies

The background is from a Publisher clipart picture and the butterflies were stamped using a Laura Ashley stamp and coloured with copics.

This is for Chocolate, coffee & cards 18: rainbows and butterflies.

The area in the middle isn't really speckled with white - it's the flash photo that's at fault.

This is also for:

Tanda teaser 200: CAS
Jackson's digital: anything goes 17
Catch the bug August anything goes
Crafts and me 96: use a digi
Crafting for all seasons 33: bright colours
Mad for markers August: anything goes
Papertake: 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
DCC & friends 1: anything goes

Miss Anya autumn

No, I certainly don't want to think of autumn yet, but that's the name of the Greetings Farm digital image that I've used for this card, coloured with copics, for Farm fresh Friday: can you digi it? It's also for Anyone for Anya: flower power and All that scraps Wednesday: anything goes.

I used the sketch for Just us girls 148:

Colours are for Color throwdown 204:

 I've used Basic Grey ambrosia papers and some Martha Stewart flowers.

This is also for:

Basic Grey 74: bright and bold
Cardmakin mamas 50: 1, 2, 3 - 1 image, 2 designer papers, 3 embellishments
Tammy scraping corner 22: show us your bling (the flowers)
Sentimental Sundays 114: fall
Oozak 5: fall themed
House of Gilli 38: fall colours
Jackson's digital: anything goes 17
Catch the bug August anything goes
Card and scrap 36: use stamps (or digis) on your contribution
Crafts and me 96: use a digi
Mema's crafts August: anything goes with a twist of red
Crafting for all seasons 33: bright colours
The cheerful stamp pad 49: coming up orange
Willow sketchie 9th August: warm colours
Divas by design 47: for a female
Freshly brewed 108: birthdays
Let's craft and create 51: let's make it pretty
Cardmadfairy's digi: go floral
Waste not Wednesdays 28
Squiggle stamps: stash attack (I've had the papers for ages)
Mad for markers August: anything goes
Papertake: 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
DCC & friends 1: anything goes

In the pink

'In the pink' is a new challenge blog that started today ... not surprisingly, we are being asked to make a 'fifty shades of pink' card for challenge 1, so here we go! It's also pink for Crafty catz 144.

The card is also for the sketch for Totally Gorjuss 143:

 Apart from the stitched ribbon - which is for Dilly Beans sewn challenge, everything else is from the Hunkydory tea party set.



This is also for:

Lollipop crafts: monochromatic
Shopping our stash 63: monochromatic
Totally papercrafts 128: monochrome
Incy wincy: sugar and spice and everything nice
Divas by design 47: for a female
Creative Mondays (always crafting) 13: food

WOYWW revisited on Thursday

I know that a lot of WOYWW visitors think that I'm always neat and tidy - well, I thought I'd show you the state of my work surface now - and the state of my fingers (the hand holding the camera is actually worse).

I hope Julia will forgive me for revisiting WOYWW 166.  My original WOYWW 166 post from yesterday is here (#99 on WOYWW 166).

With sympathy

While I'd got the Luminaire radiant rain bottles out I decided to use them to make an embellishment   die cut with a nestie, on to which I layered a couple of flowers that were dyed with the Luminaires and then just added a gem. I have very inky fingers now!

The sentiment stamp is from Hobbycraft.

This is for:

Less is more 79: blue and green
Perfect sentiments 44: clean and simple sympathy
Paper pretties Monday 51: use scallops
Little Miss Muffet 41: scallops
Try it on Tuesday: anything goes for July

Jaws!

Some time ago I bought a pack of fish shaped cards, but had only used one before because I couldn't really think what to do with them.

For this one, I've daubed Luminaire radiant rain colour concentrate in three different colours - rich cobalt, mallard and Mediterranean - these have a beautiful sheen to them which is quite difficult to pick up in a photo. I had to put plenty of paper between to protect the inside.

I've sort of used the blues and green in proportion for Playing in paradise 78 (although my green is a different shade):

This is for:

Craft punked 31: at the movies - Jaws!
CCEE 1232: shaped card
PaperPlay 32: shaped card
Card crafters circle 34: bend me, shape me
Di's digi: no squares allowed
Freshly brewed 108: birthdays
Come and get it: adult birthday card
Creative card crew 16: on the beach/under the sea
Party time Tuesday 80: by the sea

Belated birthday wishes

This is for Annabelle:

I've used a Faye Whittaker 'all our yesterdays' stamp (another that I bought a long while ago and have never used before today), coloured with copics.

I used the sketch for Clean & simple 201 (I hope I'll be forgiven that the image I've used is rather big):

This is also for:

Nightshift stamping 131: CAS
CAS-ual Friday 64: on cloud 9 - things you see in the sky
The stamping boutique 45: balloons
Tanda teaser 200: CAS
Do you stack up 84: four legged friends

The balloon seems to stand still in the air ...

... while the earth flies past underneath.

I've used this saying with a clipart picture from Publisher to make this simple card with a piece of Trimcraft Up up and away background paper.

This is for:

CAS-ual Friday 64: on cloud 9 - things you see in the sky
The stamping boutique 45: balloons
Tanda teaser 200: CAS
Daisy doodles 65: outdoors

Rejoice in the Lord

This card was prompted by the August colour challenge on Daring cardmakers where this lovely photo inspiration was given for A Mediterranean corner, featuring whitewashed walls, fresh green and hot pink, a dash of powder blue and a smidgeon of purple:

I used a piece of Basic Grey euphoria for the background, which included all the required colours, a couple of pieces of spotted ribbon and a picture of a lily pond downloaded free from the internet. The text from Psalm 33 was given with Word art Wednesday 40, so this is also for that.

This is also for:

CASology week 5: pond
Basic Grey 74: bright and bold
Tanda teaser 200: CAS
Papertake: 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
DCC & friends 1: anything goes

Up, up and away!

'Up, up and away' is the name of the background paper by Trimcraft for this card. The stamp by Faye Whittaker in the 'All our yesterdays' range is simply called 'kite' and is just right for CropStop 83: flying kites, coloured with copics.

I've kept the card simple because the paper needs some space of it's own and the area of the image is quite big - I just added the computer generated sentiment.

This is also for:

Squiggle stamps: stash attack (I've had the stamp for some time but it had never been inked till tonight)
Waste not Wednesdays 28
Mad for markers August: anything goes
Crafty sentiments: clean and simple
Tanda teaser 200: CAS
Lexi 71: sparkle and shine
Bearly mine: it's all sparkle & shine this week
Fashionable stamping 27: anything goes
Cards und more 62: anything goes
Pattie's 49: animals or insects
Great impressions August: a walk on the wild side (animals)
Take time for you 73: vintage
Sugar creek hollow 23: something old (the stamp), something new (the paper)
Craft a scene August: anything in the great outdoors
Here come the boys 33: boys' toys
PanPastel UK 30: summer fun
Timbro scrap mania 53: summer
Anything goes 73: summer days
Everybody art 201: summer
Whimsy 49: summer fun
Just Hanna and friends 151: summer
Moving along with the times 157: summer
Truly madly crafty August: summer fun
Creative Friday: summer, sun & holidays
Papertake: 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
DCC & friends 1: anything goes

WOYWW 166

I haven't taken part in WOYWW for a couple of weeks, but thought it was about time that I joined in again and showed the state of my workspace for WOYWW 166.

Thank you to all those WOYWWers who have recently left comments and wished me well. I still have some lingering effects of the shingles, but nothing like it was at its worst.

So here is my space today:

I've been asked what's in the crates towards the top of the shelves - unmounted stamps (just some of them - the rest are housed in boxes which sit on the unit the other side of the room).

So here is the view of the left of where I sit - mainly boxes that need to be put away - although there's probably little point because I'll probably only want them out again!

And to the right of me are piles of cards that I've made recently that need to have inserts put in and bagged and labelled. At the beginning of the year one on my crafty resolutions was to do this every Monday so that the job didn't get out of hand. Well, I didn't do any last Monday, so I think I need to get on and do them before the piles get much higher - but I'd far rather be crafting!

The little mesh box with Christmas toppers (decoupaged etc) ready to be used is still there, but I have used some of the pieces recently, so that's a bit of progress.

I look forward to getting round to see some of the workspaces of WOYWWers.

UPDATE:

I've actually entered some more photos as #138 at WOYWW 166 because I know that some of you think that I never get untidy!! You can also see them here.

Relax! It's your birthday!

Having made the previous two cards with some of the remains of the Kanban everyday essentials kit, I just had to make this one - mainly because I accidentally put adhesive on the back of the shaped piece that I've used for the middle when I was making the previous card - so I couldn't put it away. The only trouble was that I have very little of the kit left, so I've used bits and pieces of it to create this card - a true concoction made with snippets! (actually I still have one or two odd bits left, so I'll have to find other stuff to go with those to use them up - don't like to throw anything away!).

This is for:

Pixie's crafty snippets 31
Squiggle stamps: stash attack
Crafty sentiments: clean and simple
Cute card Thursday 228: clean & simple
Fashionista 5: baby or birthday
Papertake: 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

To mew from meow

This is another card using some of the remains of the Kanban everyday essentials kit from the 'pet' section.

The three ovals held in place by brads aren't glued down so they can move and swing. I was fortunate enough to be asked to be a Guest Designer on Tuesday Throwdown for the month of August,  so I've already shown a card for challenge 110: on the move (you can see it here), but I'm also submitting this card for the challenge.

This is also for:

Crafty sentiments: clean and simple
Cute card Thursday 228: clean & simple
Pile it on 32: add some metal
Crafty pad 182: show some metal (brads)
Fashionista 5: baby or birthday
Papertake: 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

Inspiration kitty

This is for Simon says 'inspiration kitty' challenge where this photo was given:

The striped paper is an offcut - another for Pixie's crafty snippets 31 and Squiggle stamps: stash attack. The spotted ribbon is from stash and the other components are from the Kanban everyday essentials kit.

This is also for:

Cutie pie 24: spots & stripes
Crafty ribbons 25: seeing spots and dots
Corrosive 155: they say it's your birthday
Fashionista 5: baby or birthday
Pink elephant 160: ribbon
Papertake: 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

Miss you

This card is for Stampotique 59: birds and buttons, using the lovely 'bird legs' stamp by Janet Klein, coloured with copics, adding two tiny buttons on to the shoes.

The papers are from my offcuts box, another card for Pixie's crafty snippets 31 and Squiggle stamps: stash attack. Flower ribbon and sentiment from stash.

This is also for:

Crafty mess 14: birds
That craft place: things with wings
Clearlyistamp 57: things with wings
Penny Black and more at Allsorts August: whiskers and/or wings
Cutie pie 24: spots & stripes
CCEE 1231: include red
Do you stack up 83: polka dots

Green with envy

Before I show my latest card I just want to thank those who visit my blog and leave comments - they are all very much appreciated. And thank you to all my followers - when I started this post I had reached 400 followers (how on earth did that happen?) and now I notice that there are 401 - thank you, everyone, for your interest in my little crafting corner of the internet.

This is for sketch for All kinds of cards 59:

I've chosen shades of green for Crafts and me 95: green with envy, also for Lollipop crafts: monochromatic and Totally papercrafts 128: monochrome.

I used all offcuts, so this is another for Pixie's crafty snippets 31 and Squiggle stamps: stash attack.

The stamp is from a Kanban set, ribbon, gems, flowers etc from stash.

This is also for:

Paper-crafting journey: anything goes
DCC & friends 1: anything goes
There's magic in the air magical Monday: decorate with doilies
It's all about the vintage and beauty 24: doilies
Creative stamp friends 57: scene stamp
Waste not Wednesdays 28 (although the stamp is old I confess that it had never been inked before)
Oldie but a goodie: friends (I used a stamp that is more than six months old)
Crafty sentiments 43: girlfriends
Little red wagon 144: girlfriends
Fairytale 47: friends
Crafter's companion August 27: best friends
Gingerloft 45: silhouettes
Tammy scraping corner 22: show us your bling
Victorine 40: bling
Emerald faerie garden 29: bling
Our creative corner: bling bling
Really reasonable ribbon 53: bling with ribbon
Lexi 71: sparkle and shine
Bearly mine: it's all sparkle & shine this week
The paper shelter 75: glitz and glimmer
Pink elephant 160: ribbon
Papertake: 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

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

When life gives you lemons ...

... make lemonade

I was asked to make another card with this saying. I found the lemonad picture and the clipart saying, put them together and mounted them on to a scrap piece of Papermania lemon sorbet paper. The background paper is from a pad by Raspberry Road papers. I cut into the design in three places to slot the checked paper into. With the addition of the flowers and the gems, the card was done.

Inspired by the yellow colours of the inspiration picture given for Alota 88:

This is for:

DCC & friends 1: anything goes
Stamp dreams 144: fruit/vegetable
By the cute and girly August: fruity
Crafty creations 181: cool summer treats
Divas by design 46: flowers
Squigglefly 3012: speak to me - add a saying to your card
Pixie's crafty snippets 31
Squiggle stamps: stash attack - I used offcuts and paper that had been supplied with a magazine
Our creative corner: bling bling
Simply create too 19: anything goes
Jackson's digital expressions: anything goes 16
Amusing challenges: anything goes
2 sisters 103: anything goes
Challenge up your life 75: everything goes
Critter 126: anything goes
Make it Monday 100

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