All Dressed Up Christmas Penguins Christmas Card - Crafty Calendar December Challenge

Good morning, I hope you are keeping safe and well.  It's the first Saturday in December so we have a new challenge for you over at Crafty Calendar.

The theme this month is

'CHRISTMAS'

For my card I have used:

• Christmas Penguins digital stamp from All Dressed Up coloured with copics.
• The background is ink blended distress oxides in Cracked Pistachio and Salvaged Patina and then I stencilled some snowflakes over it using Distress Sparkle Texture Paste.
• The red striped background is Lumberjack Plaid Distress Oxide ink through the MFT Diagonal Stripes stencil.

For this challenge we are sponsored by:

All Dressed Up

Please pop over to Crafty Calendar and join us in this months Christmas challenge and also check out the gorgeous DT creations using other images from this months sponsor All Dressed Up.

Thanks for taking the time to visit my blog,  see you soon x

Crafty Calendar March Challenge - All Dressed Up Little Patch Puppy Card

Good morning, it is the first Saturday in March and we have a new challenge for you over at Crafty Calendar.  The theme this month is Buttons or Bows and for my card I decided to go with both.

Three of the flowers are buttons and I added a bow on the sentiment.

For my card I have used:

Little Patch Puppy from All Dressed Up coloured with copics.

The background is part of the Patchwork digital paper pack from DigitalPrintzGB over on Etsy.

I got my sewing machine out and have stitched the paper to the card all around the edge.   I tried to match the zig zag stitching around the edge to the zig zag design on the paper.

I added three buttons as flower heads and a bow to the sentiment banner.

We are sponsored for this challenge by

All Dressed Up

Please pop over to Crafty Calendar and join us in this months Buttons or Bows challenge and check out the gorgeous cards from the DT using other images from this months sponsor All Dressed Up.

Thanks for taking the time to visit by blog, see you soon x

Crafty Calendar June Challenge - All Dressed Up Summer Bird Card

Good morning and a happy jubilee weekend to you if you are in the UK.   I'm enjoying the long weekend, we've had some nice weather the last couple of days but it's a bit overcast at the moment, hopefully it will brighten up soon for any jubilee celebrations that are happening today.

It is the first Saturday in June so we have a new challenge over at Crafty Calendar and the theme this month is

'ANYTHING GOES'.

When my computer told me on the 31 May that it was World Parrot Day (didn't even know that that was a thing) I felt a parrot themed card was in order.

For my card I have used:

Summer Bird by All Dressed Up Stamps coloured with copics and polychromos pencils.

I die-cut some flowers and coloured those with copics and added them to the image with some clear crystal dewdrop embellishments.

The background is two toner sheets from the Gina K Designs Vibrant Vines foil-mates pack that have been foiled with Deco Foil Lime Green and Summer Rainbow.

We are sponsored for this challenge by:

All Dressed Up Stamps

Please pop over to Crafty Calendar and join us in this months Anything Goes Challenge and check out the gorgeous DT cards using other images from this months sponsor All Dressed Up Stamps.

Thanks for visiting my blog, see you soon. x

All Dressed Up Feed The Birds Birthday Card

Good morning.  I hope you are safe and well today after Storm Eunice yesterday.  I have a card to share today made using an discontinued digital stamp but couldn't resist using it.

The digital stamp is Feed the Birds from All Dressed Up layered on top of a birch tree background png file (not sure where the birch tree png was from) and then coloured with copics.

The sentiment is from the Spellbinders Tweet Sentiments stamp set

Thanks for taking the time to visit my blog.  I'll see you soon.

#staysafe

Crafty Calendar January Challenge - Little Skater from All Dressed Up Stamps

Good afternoon and a happy new year.   I hope you had a good Christmas.  After covid and then a busy December it was nice to have a two week break from work with no urgent jobs to do.

We have a new challenge over at Crafty Calendar today.  You may have spotted that it is not the first Saturday of January, the first Saturday was last week New Years Day so we decided to put the challenge back a week, give us time to recover from New Years Eve....

The theme this month is

ANYTHING GOES

I created a wintery birthday card, well it was snowing yesterday.....

I have used Little Skater from All Dressed Up Stamps coloured with polychromos pencils

The birthday sentiment is two layer chipboard,  The top layer has been embossed with white and the bottom layer coloured using a black copic marker

The DP's are from my stash.

We are sponsored for this challenge by:

All Dressed Up Stamps

Crafty Ribbons

Pop over to Crafty Calendar to join us in this months challenge and check out the gorgeous DT cards using other images from this months sponsor All Dressed Up Stamps.

Thanks for taking the time to visit my blog,

#staysafe

Busy Little Bee Birthday Card for Crafty Calendar August Challenge

Good morning.  I hope you are keeping safe and well.

It's the first Saturday in August so we have a new monthly challenge starting over Crafty Calendar and the theme is:

ANYTHING GOES

and I have another bee project to share.

I have used:

Busy Little Bee from All Dressed Up coloured with copics and polychromos pencils.

DP is from the Bees digital paper pack by My Cute Lobster over on Etsy.

The sentiment is from the Lee Holland From Me to You stamp set.

For this months challenge we are sponsored by:

All Dressed Up

Pop over to Crafty Calendar and share your projects in this months challenge and also check out the gorgeous DT creations using other images from this months sponsor All Dressed Up.

Thanks for taking the time to visit my blog.

See you soon.

Crafty Calendar January Challenge - All Dressed Up Christmas Skate Card

Good afternoon, I hope you are keeping safe and well.  Happy 2021 to you, let's hope that it's an improvement on 2020.   Here in the Midlands we've had a covering of snow for a few days now which inspired my card for this months challenge over at Crafty Calendar.

It's the first Saturday of the month and the theme of our first challenge in 2021 is 

'MAKE IT CUTE'

For my card I have used:

Christmas Skate digi stamp from All Dressed Up coloured with copics.  I printed it out in a pale colour to try to get a no line colouring sort of look,

The DP is from my stash.

We are sponsored for this challenge by:

All Dressed Up

Pop over to Crafty Calendar and join us in this months challenge and check out the gorgeous DT creations using other images from this months sponsor All Dressed Up.

Thanks for taking the time to visit my blog and I'll see you soon x

#staysafe

Crafty Calendar May Challenge - Things With Wings with All Dressed Up

Good morning all.  I hope you are having a good day,  The weather is improving slightly for the bank holiday weekend here in the UK, although I'll be missing it as I head to the airport in a couple of hours for a weeks holiday to Rhodes, hopefully the sun will be shining there as well.

It's the first Saturday in May and we have a new monthly challenge over

at Crafty Calendar.  Our theme for this month is

'Things With Wings'.

For my card I have used:

Flyaway Butterfly from All Dressed Up and this has been coloured with

watercolour pencils.

The DP's is from the Papermania Tilly Daydream paper pack.

Ribbon, butterflies and pearls from my stash.

We are sponsored for this challenge by:

All Dressed Up

and

Wild Orchid Crafts

Pop over to Crafty Calendar and share your Things With Wings projects and check out the gorgeous DT creations,

Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to read my blog.  I'm now off to the airport so I'll see you in a weeks time after a rest and relax.  x

Crafty Calendar May Challenge All Dressed Up Card

Good afternoon.  A little bit late posting today, weekends at the moment are taken up with sorting out all the things that need to be done after someone has passed away.....luckily my OH has given up valuable birdwatching time to help.....although he does keep telling me about all the rare birds that are turning up around the country that he isn't seeing and how it's key migration time....

It's the first Saturday in May so we have a new challenge over at Crafty Calendar

The theme for this month is

'Flowers'

so time to share your floral theme creations.

For my card I have used

All Dressed Up Little Flower Girl image coloured with copics.

The DP's are from my stash, the pink dotty paper is from the Forever Friends Kraft Stack but the flower paper is a random piece and I have no idea where it came from.

The sentiment is from Craftwork Cards

I printed the image in a light pink colour to give it a sort of no line effect when it was coloured.  First time that I tried the technique, I will try it again, but will give it a few weeks to get over this one first...

When I finished the card the hat didn't have dots and the paper flowers.  Before I had photographed the card I had a bit of an accident and had to try and salvage it.

I was messing with a calligraphy pen and red ink and somehow managed to splash the ink and I hadn't moved the card to a safe distance so it had dots of red ink on it.  To try and salvage it I added the dots on the hat and the flowers cut from the paper which cover red ink splashes.  I quite like the dots...they sort of match the paper.

Note to self in future when a card is finished don't leave it on the desk when you start messing with other things.

For this challenge we are sponsored by

All Dressed Up

Prize - 2 images of your choice

and

Lemon Shortbread

Prize 2 images of your choice.

Pop over to Crafty Calendar and share your flower themed projects and check out the gorgeous DT creations using images from All Dressed Up and Lemon Shortbread.

Also we are having a DT call over at Crafty Calendar see this post for further information

DT CALL POST

Now off to cook dinner so that I can settle down ready for Doctor Who.... I confess I am a bit of a geek....

Have a great day and I'll see you soon.....

Hugs x

Crafty Calendar October Challenge - Halloween

Good morning all.  It's the 1st October today and the first Saturday in the month so we have a new monthly challenge over at Crafty Calendar.

I'm current having a few days away enjoying the sights in Edinburgh so it will be a quick post today.

Our theme for this month is

Halloween

so time to share your spooky creations.

For my card I have used:

'Boo I Can See You' digital stamp from All Dressed Up coloured with copics.  The skirt has had a covering of clear Wink Of Stella so that it twinkles and sparkles but this isn't showing well on the photo.

The image has been cut using a stitched  die from the Die-namics Blueprint 14 and then mounted on orange and then black card.

The flags have been cut using the smallest die from the Die-namics Stitched Jumbo Fishtail Banner Stax

The greeting is from the Kraftin' Kimmie 'Too Cute to Spook 2' stamp set stamped with versamark ink and embossed with white powder.

We are sponsored by this challenge by:

All Dressed Up

who is offering two digital images to the winner

A short bio about All Dressed Up

Hi I am Wendy Burns I live in Nottingham UK with my husband and two children who have been the inspiration behind the characters,  in particular my daughter who has kept me up-to-date with blogging and trends.  I work predominantly within the textile children’s wear market, fashion and interiors.

I trained as a textile designer and although my work is digital based, I love to retain that hand drawn /sewn feel which I hope comes across in my artwork.

Digital stamps is a new challenge for me and the opportunity to work with the All Dressed Up Team and has been very exciting, in particular the creative way my characters have been given individual personalities by the designers .

All Dressed Up is a newly launched blog with an enthusiastic team who are passionate about stamping.  The coordinators Anne Lise and Bettina along with an amazing design team are also known as The Dressy Girls.

We have a friendly Facebook page, regular blog posts, tutorials, challenges and freebies .The stamps can be purchased from the Etsy shop which is updated on a monthly basis.

We really are friendly bunch and would love to see your creations so please feel free to contact us and visit the All Dressed Up Challenge Blog.

Pop over to Crafty Calendar this month and share with us your

Halloween

projects and while you're there check out the gorgeous DT creations.

Thanks for stopping by and I'll see you soon.

Hugs x

Crafty Calendar July Challenge - All Dessed Up use a Die or Punch card

Good afternoon.  I hope everyone is having a good day, a little bit late posting today but I had to wait until I'd got home from work.  It's been a few weeks since I posted a card because I had a little bit of an accident with my laptop and managed to smash it's screen (I put something on the keyboard and then forgot it was there and closed the lid....very silly) so it's taken a few weeks to get properly back online.

It's the first Saturday of July so that means we have a new monthly challenge over at Crafty Calendar.

Our theme for this month is

"USE PUNCHES AND/OR DIES".

For my card I have used:

'Smile it's your Birthday' digital image from All Dressed Up coloured with copics.

The DP's are from the Design by Dani Magical Memories digital paper pack.

The heart is cut using a Sizzix die and the film strip was cut using my Cricut Explore and a SVG file called 'Film Strip Frames' from My Scrap Chick 

We are sponsored for this challenge by:

All Dressed Up

who is offering 2 digital images to the lucky winner.

Pop over to Crafty Calendar and share your creations using a punch or die and don't forget to check out the gorgeous DT creations.

Now off to the Little Craft Room to try to escape the sport overload that going on in our house at the moment with Wimbledon and Euro Championship Football....

Thanks for stopping by and I'll see you all soon....

Hugs x

Crafty Calendar Mid Month Card - Anything Goes

Good afternoon, hope you're having a good day.  Can you believe the weather we're having today,I got up this morning and it was snowing!!! 

Just a quick post with another card for this months challenge over at Crafty Calendar.  The theme this month is "ANYTHING GOES" and is running until the 28th April so you still have plenty of time to enter.

For this card I have used:

Magical Woodland digital stamp from All Dressed Up printed on watercolour paper and coloured with Spectrum Aqua Pens,  (This was my fourth attempt at colouring this image with my Aqua Pens, I really need to practise). 

The DP's are from the Craft Asylum Hello Sunshine paper pack.

The toadstool/mushrooms border I cut with my cricut using an SVG file called Garden Borders from Studio Ilustrado.

We are sponsored for this challenge by

All Dressed Up

and 

Fabrika Fantasy

Thanks for stopping by and I'll see you soon.

Hugs x

Crafty Calendar April Challenge - Anything Goes

Good Morning all.  We're in April already and the weather is definitely showery today, come to think of it here in the UK the weather is always showery whatever the month.

It's the first Saturday of the month so we have a new challenge over at Crafty Calendar and the theme for this month is

ANYTHING GOES.

Any theme, any colours and any creations are welcome.

For my card I have used:

Love Spring Time digi stamp from All Dressed Up coloured with copics

The DP is from the Craft Asylum Meadow Sweet paper pack.

We are sponsored for this challenge by

All Dressed Up

and

Fabrika Fantasy

Pop over to Crafty Calendar to join this months Anything Goes challenge and check out the gorgeous DT creations,

See you soon

Hugs x

Crafty Calendar January Challenge - Something New

Good afternoon to all.  Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and here's wishing you a healthy and happy 2016,  I can't believe how quickly the years fly by, it only seems five minutes since the last new year.

We have our first challenge of the year over at Crafty Calendar and for January to celebrate the new year we want to see

SOMETHING NEW

on your creations this month.

For my card I have used:

Little Skater from All Dressed Up (new image) coloured with copics

and no DP's on this card, currently I'm into stamping or embossing backgrounds which has led me to have a sort out of my DP stash and I have managed to reduce this by quite about a third (some are too pretty to let go...).

I have stamped the background for this card using a stamp from Marianne Design called Ice Crystals in a contrasting blue memento ink.

Also loving tone on tone cards at the moment.

You can't really tell on the pictures but the dress has also been covered with clear Wink of Stella and then I have added Diamond Dust to the hems of all the ruffles so there's lots of sparkle going on.

We are sponsored for this challenge by

All Dressed Up

who are offering two images of your choice

and

Wild Orchid Crafts

who are offering a £10 gift voucher

Pop over to Crafty Calendar and share your something new in this months challenge and check out the gorgeous DT creations.

Thanks for stopping by.

See you soon.

Bev xx