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

Crafty Calendar April Challenge 'Add a Butterfly' Card

Good afternoon, I hope you are keeping safe and well and at home during this time.  The world is a very strange place at the moment.  I'm still going out to work so I don't have too much lockdown time to have fill but I have managed to up-cycle a Ikea toolbox into a sewing box which has been a pending project for a while.

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

'ADD A BUTTERFLY'

For my card I have quite a few butterflies.

I have used:

Butterfly Curl digi image from this months sponsor SheepSki Designs coloured with copics and polychromos pencils.

To try to get the butterfly colours as natural as possible I got my Collins 'How to Identify Butterflies'  book from the shelf and loosely based them on actual butterflies...Brimstone, Common Blue, Clouded Yellow, Small Copper and Large Blue, when I say loosely based I mean very loosely.

We are sponsored for this challenge by

SheepSki Designs

Pop over to Crafty Calendar and share your butterfly projects and while you are there check out the gorgeous DT projects using other images from this months sponsor Sheepski Designs.

Oh and here's my up-cycled sewing box lockdown project...

An Ikea Lustigt toolbox, @hobbycraft white chalk paint, @vivadecor_creative_color napkin glue and topcoat and a pack of paper napkins from my local @Sainsbury.

Thanks for taking the time to stop by my blog

Hugs

#staysafe

#stayhomesavelives

Christmas Card using Pure Innocence Winter Girl Image

Good morning all.  December is finally here, the weather is frosty, the Christmas tree is up (well nearly up), Alexa is playing some carols and door number one on the advent calendar is open.

My post today is a Christmas card using a gorgeous Pure Innocence image from Heather Ellis.

Pure Innocence 008 digital image from Heather Ellis coloured with polychromos pencils.

The background is stenciled polka dots and the snowflakes and sentiment were cut using my cricut.

Thanks for taking the time to visit my blog.  

I'll be back tomorrow for day number two of my Christmas card advent.

Crafty Calendar April Challenge 1 Ribbon and 2 or more Designer Papers with Oddball Art

Good morning.  Hope you are having a good day, the sun is shining so what do I decide to do....tidy up and reorganize the craft room,  it seems to be taking forever, I'm beginning to wish I hadn't started it.

It's the first Saturday of April so we have a new challenge over at Crafty Calendar and this month we have a recipe for you:

Projects must have 1 Ribbon and 2 or more Designer Papers

For my shaped card I have used:

Cute Easter Basket from Oddball Art Co  printed onto card and then scanned using the Scan'n'Cut to create a shaped card and then coloured with Faber Castell Polychromos Pencils.

The eggs are paper pieced using papers from the Echo Park Easter Paper Pack from Snap Click

We are sponsored for this challenge by

Oddball Art Co

who are offering a prize of a $10 gift card

Crafty Ribbons

who are offering a £15 voucher.

Pop over to Crafty Calendar and share your creations in this months recipe challenge and check out the gorgeous creations by the DT using images from this months sponsor Oddball Art Co

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

Crafty Calendar January Challenge - Make it Flowery with Sheepski Designs

Good afternoon.  I hope everyone has had a wonderful Christmas and a very happy new year to all.   I've been unwell for about three weeks but I tried not to let it spoil my Christmas and birthday (boxing day) and I received some gorgeous gifts.

We are now in January so we have a new monthly challenge over at Crafty Calendar and we start 2019 with the theme of

"Make it Flowery"

For my card I have used:

Tulip border digital stamp from Sheepski Designs coloured with Polychromos pencils.

The butterflies are stamped using Clearly Besotted Butterfly Wishes stamp set

The sentiment is from the Avery Elle Sentimental Too stamp set.

We are sponsored for this challenge by

Sheepski Designs

Pop over to Crafty Calendar and share your flowery creations and check out the gorgeous DT creations using other images from this months sponsor Sheepski Designs.

Now off to finish taking down all of the Christmas decorations as today is Twelfth Night so they need to be taken down.

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

Feel Better Soon card with Melonheadz Get Well Clip Art

Good morning all.  Happy Wednesday, I hope you are having a good one.  I have a card to share today that I made especially for my five year old niece who had a little accident last week when she fell over and broke her arm.  

I managed to find the perfect image for this card over at Melonheadz.

The image is Broken Arm Girl from the Get Well Clip Art Line Art Set which I coloured with Polychromos pencils.

My niece has an orange cast on her arm so the card started with the orange and pink chipboard frame and everything else was co-ordinated with this.

The Feel Better Soon sentiment is from the Lawn Fawn Chit Chat stamp set.

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

Crafty Calendar April Challenge - Buttons or Bows with A Day for Daisies

Good morning all.  Hope you are well and having good day.  I was a bit under the weather all over Easter but I'm just starting to feel a little better so hopefully all the germs are leaving me now.

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

Our theme for this month is:

BUTTONS and/or BOWS.

For my card I have used

Ducks in a Row digital stamp from A Day For Daisies.

I printed the image and sentiment using my laser printer and then added gold Decofoil by running the image and a sheet of foil through my laminator so that the gold foil adheres to the laser ink.

I coloured the image with polychromos pencils.

I mounted the image on card and added a chipboard flower and a button centre.

I was having so much trouble trying to get a photo that showed that the image was foiled but eventually this one shows that it is actually gold.

We are sponsored for this challenge by A Day For Daisies

A Day For Daisies

Pop over to Crafty Calendar and share your Buttons and/or Bows creations and also check out the gorgeous DT creations using other images from this months sponsor A Day For Daisies.

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

Happy Easter Card using Cottontail Cuties from Neat & Tangled

Good afternoon to all and a very happy Easter.

Have you got through all that chocolate yet?  I've resisted so far but may have to open an egg a bit later.

I have another Easter card to share today.  My first attempt of a slider card.  I did cheat a little by using an SVG file that I found on Lori Whitlock and my cricut.

I also made a little bunny gift bag with another SVG file...image and details below..

For my card I have used:

Cottontail Cuties stamp set from Neat & Tangled coloured with polychromos pencils and then cut with my Scan n Cut.

The card layout is an SVG file called Slider Card Easter Bunny from Lori Whitlock.  I just used the card layout sections & clouds from the SVG file and cut with my cricut,

I added the little girl image to the slider section  of the card and so when the tab is pulled she delivers an Easter carrot to the waiting bunny....

The Easter bunny box with goodies in for my niece was cut on my cricut using the Easter Bunny Tote SVG file from Lori Whitlock.

Thanks for taking the time to stop by my blog an I'll see you soon x

DigiStamp Boutique Easter Egg Bunny Easter Card

Good morning all.  I don't know what the weather is like where you are but here in the West Midlands it has been snowing!!!  

My card today is another Easter card, so although it still feels like winter I know spring is around the corner.

For todays card I have used:

Easter Egg Bunny from DigiStamp Boutique coloured with Faber Castell Polychromos

The eggs have all been covered with clear Wink of Stella so are nice and sparkly (although you can't tell on the photos)

The pink gingham paper is from Tiny Checks Brights paper pack from My Favorite Things.

The Hoppy Easter sentiment  stamped with versamark and embossed in white is from

the Simon Says Stamp Easter Greetings stamp set SSS101731

The paper flower border is from a paper frills pack by Doodlebug Design.

Have then just added pearls for the flower centres and a couple of sequins.

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

DigiStamp Boutique Easter Louie Easter Card

Good morning.  I hope everyone is having a good day.  Just a quick post today to share my first Easter card of the year.   I got a bit carried away with the colouring so he does look like his fur could do with a haircut.

For this card I have used:

DigiStamp Boutique 'Easter Louie' coloured with Faber Castell Polychromos pencils.

The blue gingham check paper is from the Me to You Easter paper pack and the pink Easter paper is from the Papermania Easter Themes paper pack.

The Happy Easter sentiment  stamped with versamark and embossed in white is from

the Simon Says Stamp Easter Greetings stamp set SSS101731

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

Crafty Calendar Mythical Creatures January Challenge

Good morning all.  First post of 2018.  A day later than it was supposed to be but yesterday after going to work and then spending the afternoon packing all the Christmas decorations away into the loft I just didn't get chance.

We have a new monthly challenge over at Crafty Calendar and this month the theme is

'MYTHICAL CREATURES'

so we'd like to see lots of fairies, goblins, dragons and the like on this months projects.

For my card I have used

'Sweet Dragon' digital stamp from A Day for Daisies coloured with Faber Castell Polychromos pencils.  I then cut the image out using my Brother Scan N Cut (new toy...loving it...)

The DP's are from the Tonic Studios Simply Blooms paper pack.

The sentiment is from the Woodware Wizardry stamp set

We are sponsored for this challenge by

A Day for Daisies

and 

Wild Orchid Crafts

Pop over to Crafty Calendar and share your projects in this months Mythical Creatures challenge, also check out the gorgeous DT creations.

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

Crafty Calender November Challenge - Autumn Colours

Good morning all.  Hope you are having a good day today.

I've had a couple of days of work so Friday was a shopping trip to Cheshire Oaks looking for bargains and on Thursday I went to the Birmingham NEC Stitching, Sewing & Hobbycrafts show.  I managed to pick up some crafty goodies and had a go at making a polymer clay Christmas decoration, my first time with polymer clay was okay but if I was doing it at home I would have taken a little more time over it.

Today is the first Saturday in the month so we have a new challenge over

at Crafty Calendar and our theme for this month is:

AUTUMN COLOURS

so time to find out those browns, reds and oranges for this months projects.

For my card I have used:

Three images from the Happy Hedgehogs stamp set by My Favorite Things coloured with Faber Castell Polychromos pencils.

The orange tartan paper is from the Craftwork Cards Contemporary Tartan 8 x 8 paper pack and the autumn leaves paper is from the Docrafts Tilly Daydream A4 paper pack.

The green leaf was cut using my Cricut and the fall leaves file from the Creativebug set.

Happy birthday sentiment is from the Lawn Fawn Scripty Sayings stamp set, stamped with versamark ink and then heat embossed with white embossing powder.

Other items from my stash.

No sponsor this month but we have a great craft stash surprise for one lucky winner.

Pop over to Crafty Calendar and share your AUTUMN COLOUR projects with us and while you are there check out the gorgeous DT creations.

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

My polymer clay Christmas owl

Mother days card for Crafty Calendar March Challenge

Good afternoon to everyone.  I hope that you're all well on the rainy Saturday afternoon. Today I got up and decided to sort my wardrobe out, do you ever wish you hadn't started doing a job because it then got more involved and took more time than anticipated.  At least it's finished now.

Today is the first Saturday in March so we have a new monthly challenge for you over at Crafty Calendar.  Here in the UK tomorrow is Mother's Day so our theme for this month is 

MUM's DAY or SPECIAL FEMALE.

For this challenge I have tried a different style of card.....

I have printed the image 'A Special Flower' from A Day for Daisies onto textured card then coloured with Faber-Castell polychromos. 

I cut the textured card to a 13.8cm square with my image in the bottom corner then printed the greeting 'Best Mom' from Digistamp Boutique.

I then stamped a few flowers and coloured them, doodled a wiggly border, added some perfect pearls onto the flowers and the butterfly is from the Butterfly Wishes III stamp set from Clearly Besotted.

It was going to be a one layer card but I couldn't resist adding the butterfly and then layering onto pink card before added it to the white 6" card blank.

We are sponsored for this challenge by:

A Day for Daisies

who are offering the winner 3 digis of their choice

and 

Wild Orchid Crafts

who are offering a £10 voucher to spend in store

Pop over to Crafty Calendar and share with us your creations for this months challenge and check out the gorgeous DT creations.

Now off to visit my Mom and deliver her card...hope she likes it.

See you soon

Hugs x

Love is in the Air Crafty Calendar Challenge Card

Good morning all.  Just a quick reminder that you still have time to enter our

'Love is in the Air' challenge over at Crafty Calendar.

I have a second DT card for this challenge and for this card I have used an image from one of our sponsors Robyns Fetish.

For this card I have used

Pussy Cat Luv from Robyns Fetish printed on kraft card and coloured with Faber Castell Polychromos pencils.

The DP is from the My Minds Eye Pretty Please paper pack.

The greeting is from an old Elzybells stamp set called Valentine Tags.

The challenge over at Crafty Calendar closes on Saturday so you still have a few days to share your creations over on the blog.

See you soon.

Hugs

xx