Christmas Card Challenge week 31

Hello and welcome to a new challenge over at Christmas Card Challenges.

Hope you have all been enjoying this lovely hot weather, I certainly have although it is not good for crafting as my craft room gets so hot and I have to draw the blinds to keep the sun out and then there is not enough daylight!!

Anyway onto the challenge

This week we have a colour challenge for you, and we would love you to create a card using these colours. 

I have used some stamps from inkylicious for this card, first stamping the buildings in black ink and then used a light grey Promarker to colour the sky.  I was going to use an ink pad and sponge but I could not find the right colour grey. Think it gives it a snowy look.

I then stamped my reindeer in black ink.  The sparkle trail is a stamp from the same set which i masked off some of it and then stamped in versamark before heat embossing in clear powder.

I have also gone over the buildings in clear Wink of Stella but you can not see it very well in the picture.

Happy Little Stamper Christmas Challenge July

I am sooooooooo excited this is the very first Happy Little Stamper Christmas Challenge, and I am so proud to be part of the DT.

 Each month on the 5th, there will be a new Christmas Challenge and a word for you to use on your projects.

here are  the rules for all the challenges

1. Your creation MUST be Christmas related. You MUST use the word we provide on your project.

2. Link back to your blog post and not your entire blog

3. Provide a link to HLS in your blog post

4. You may enter as many times as you like but each entry must be different

5. You may enter as many other challenges as you like

6. Have fun!

To make the card for my tree I started by putting some distress inks onto my craft mat and spritzing with some shimmer spray, before pressing some watercolour card into the inks then allowed to dry before stamping a tree using a stamp from Clearly Besotted Merry Little Christmas set, and die cutting it out. I created the frame using a square die from spellbinders.

  I went over all the lines in a glitter pen but it is not showing up in the picture which is a shame because it give the tree a lovely shimmer.

The sentiment is from a LOTV set and I have heat embossed in silver.

There rest of the DT have some wonderful creations to inspire, and you can find the link HERE

Moving along with the Times

Hello ......... 

This week it is my turn to host the challenge at Moving along with the times, and the theme this week is 

To the Happy Couple

You can create a wedding, engagement or anniversary card for example.

I decided to make a wedding card as I have a couple of weddings coming up in the next couple of months/

I used a digi image from Digi Stamp Boutique and just coloured a few bits with my promarkers, I then added some glamour dust to the dress and veil.

The paper is from Pink Petticoat and I used a die namics blue print die to create a frame.

The sequins are from Lucy's Cards folksy shop and she as some gorgeous colours and packs of sequins which you can find HERE

The sentiment is a stamp from Stampin up and the flower is a punch from Stampin up

look forward to seeing your gorgeous creations.

Creative Moments Challenge

It is time for another new challenge at Creative Moments, I can not believe that another 2 weeks as gone by.

For this challenge we would love you to create something for the man in your life, 

Fathers Day/ Masculine

We are sponsored by 

Deedee's Digis

and 

StitchyBear, Digital Stamps

for my card I have used a image from Deedee's Lazy Days, which is available Here

I was inspired by the current sketch challenge over at Happy Little Stampers

I printed my image onto white card twice, again onto brown card and then onto green card.

I cut the trees out of the brown card, the tree tops from the green card, and coloured the teddy and hammock with pencils before cutting him out. I created a mask and inked the sky and grass with distress inks then added my tree trunks, I propped the tree tops up with some foam pads and also the hammock.  The little sun is from lil inkers, and I just popped it behind the trees slightly.

I used a stamp from Stampin Up for my sentiment.

Just Sayin

Hello again...

This month Happy Little Stampers have a CAS challenge using sprays/mists.

 Less is More challenge is SUNSET, 

I thought I would create a card to combine both challenges.

I daubed some distress inks onto my craft mat and then sprayed with water and then spritzed with a shimmer spray and allowed to dry.

I die cut my panel using a blue print die, and adhered to my card with foam pads.

The butterfly die is from memory box but not sure what it is called will have to check and update my post.

I used a sentiment from a Stampin up set and highlighted it with some glitter pen.

exciting news

Good evening everyone......

First let me apologize for my lack of blogging of late, I just don't know where the time goes!!!!!!! and I will also be away on holiday for the next 2 weeks so will not get much chance for blogging because I am not sure if we will have any internet.

Anyway enough rambling and onto my exciting news...............

Last month I answered a DT call over at Happy Little Stampers, and to my amazement I have been picked for the brand spanking new Christmas Card Challenge DT.  I am so thrilled to be part of such a talented team of crafters.

Here is the new team

Happy Little Stampers already run two challenges each month a sketch challenge and a CAS challenge. from July they will be running a Christmas Card Challenge also, so watch this space for the date and my first DT card.

Christmas Card Challenge 27

Good morning.............

Hope you are all enjoying this lovely sunshine, we have been so busy this week trying to get our garden finished (we started last summer!!), we finally got the gravel down on Thursday, and we now have a relatively dog friendly garden, and can enjoy the lovely weather, just need to get the BBQ going now.

Anyway enough waffle, as its Sunday it is time for a new challenge over at Christmas Card Challenge, and this week we have a lovely Colour Challenge for you

I have tried to use as many colours as possible in my card and thought these papers from a Dovecraft back to basics pad would be ideal.

I used a christmas tree stamp from Clearly Besotted, onto paterned paper, and then die cut out. I used a glitter pen to highlight the inked edges. I used foam pads to mount onto a rectangle of white card, adding some blue button twine around the bottom, and tying a little tag from LOTV.

I added some striped paper to the side of my card base and then popped the white panel on top with foam pads.