Crafty Calendar February Challenge - Add a heart Valentine Card

Good morning I hope you are well.  I'm a bit under the weather, I am suffering from a cold at the moment, Martyn was ill first and I thought I had dodged it but no it's arrived.

It's the first Saturday in February and we have a new challenge for you over at Crafty Calendar.

Love is in the air and the theme this week is

'ADD A HEART'

For my card I have used

Bob from Sheepski Designs coloured with copics,

It's a bit difficult to tell but the white background has embossed hearts on which was embossed using a heart stencil.

The pink & red background is ink blended using Distress Oxides in Kitsch Flamingo and Lumberjack Plaid.

I decided to add a heart aperture and made a shaker card filled with little heart embellishments from the heart sprinklets set by Buttons Galore.

We are sponsored for this challenge by:

Sheepski designs

Pop over to Crafty Calendar and join us in this months 'Add a Heart' challenge and check out the gorgeous DT cards using other images from this months sponsor Sheepski Designs.

Thanks for taking the time to visit my blog.

See you soon x

Crafty Calendar October Challenge - Sheepski Halloween Gnomes Card

Good afternoon I hope you are well.  I am suffering from covid at the moment, yes it is still a thing....so I'm feeling a bit under the weather but I'm on the road to recovery.  

It's the first Saturday in October (can you believe it!!!)  so we have a new challenge for you over at Crafty Calendar and the theme this month is HALLOWEEN but because not everyone celebrates the holiday we also have the secondary theme of AUTUMN COLOURS.

For my card I have used:

Trick or Treat digital stamp from Sheepski Designs coloured with copics.  I fussy cut three of them for a little trio of gnomes.

The background was created using the Mummy Wrap stencil from Pretty Pink Posh and distress oxides inks in Lost Shadow, Hickory Smoke and Black Soot.

The sentiment is from a MFT set called "Witch Way is the Candy"

The spiders were cut from black card using the Sizzix 666381 Big Frights thinlits die set by Tim Holtz.

We are sponsored for this challenge by:

Sheepski Designs.

Please pop over to Crafty Calendar and join us in this months Halloween/Autumn colours challenge and also check out the gorgeous DT cards using other images from this months sponsor Sheepski Designs.

Thanks for taking the time to visit my blog.

See you soon x

Crafty Calendar January Challenge - Sheepski Designs Wild Roses Birthday Card

Good morning and a happy new year.   I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and have a great new year.  It's the first Saturday in January so we have a new challenge for you over at Crafty Calendar.

The theme for this month is 'Add a Sentiment'

For my card I have used:

Wild Roses digital stamp from Sheepski Designs coloured with copics which has been fussy cut and added to the front of the card with foam pads.

The gold foiled background was created using the Spellbinders Dazzling Dots hot foil glimmer plate.

My sentiment is 'Happy Birthday'.

We are sponsored for this challenge by:

Sheepski Designs

Pop over to Crafty Calendar and join us in this months challenge and also check out the gorgeous DT cards using other images from this months sponsor Sheepski Designs.

Thanks for taking the time to visit my blog.

See you laters....

Crafty Calendar September Challenge - Sheepski Designs Snowboardin Snowman Card

Good afternoon, I hope you are keeping safe and well.  Wow can you believe it is September already.    I'm off to Paris for a few days tomorrow so I'm hoping the weather doesn't turn too cold or rainy.

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

'ANYTHING GOES'.

As it is September I felt it was sort of acceptable to do a Christmas themed card.  I don't normally start Christmas cards this early but I have made a couple already..

For my card I have used:

Snowboardin' digi stamp from Sheepski Designs coloured with copics.

The background is ink blended using Distress Oxides in Uncharted Mariner, Broken China and Salvaged Patina.

I then foiled the background using the Spellbinders Celestial Star Background hot foil plate

I'm not sure what you would call the card shape.  I've used this layout previously to create pop-up cards but have just used it as a card base this time and added my snowman snowboarding down the front snowy hill pop out section.

The sentiment is a piece of card coloured with copics so that it colour matched the snowman and I then added a hot foil greeting using one of the plates from the Spellbinders Holiday Sentiments Series 2 Set.

We are sponsored for this challenge by:

Sheepski Designs

Pop over to Crafty Calendar and share your creations in this months 'Anything Goes' challenge and check out the gorgeous DT cards using other images from this months sponsor Sheepski Designs.

Thanks for taking the time to visit my blog.

See you soon x

#staysafe

Crafty Calendar September Challenge - Sheepski Sno'worries Christmas Card

Good morning. I hope you are keeping safe and well.  I'm looking looking forward to a week off work and am heading off to East Yorkshire in a while for a little holiday.

Just enough time though to get this blog post done.

It is the first Saturday in the month so we have a new challenge over at Crafty Calendar.

For.my DT card........I know it's only September but it's a Christmas card......

For my card I have used:

Sno'Worries digital stamp from Sheepski Designs.  He has a paper pieced hat,  has been coloured with copics and different shades of blue FC Polychromos pencils for the sky.

The snow effect was created by flicking Picket Fence Distress Spray Stain across the image.

The DP is from the Echo Pack Lumberjack Christmas paper range

We are sponsored for this challenge by:.

Sheepski Designs

Crafty Ribbons

Pop over to Crafty Calendar and share your projects in this months Anything Goes challenge and also check out the gorgeous projects from the DT using other images from this months sponsor Sheepski Designs.

Thanks for taking the time to visit my blog.

See you soon x

Crafty Calendar March Challenge - Sheepski My Music Card

Good morning.  I hope you are keeping well.  March is here already and it's the first Saturday of the month so we have a new challenge for you over at Crafty Calendar.  The theme this month is

"Something Feminine"

For my card I have used:

My Music digital image from Sheepki Designs coloured with copics and distress inks.

The DP's are from the Forever Friends Pink Parfait A5 paper pack.

We are sponsored for this challenge by

Sheepski Designs

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

Thanks for taking the time to visit my blog

See you soon.

#staysafe

Crafty Calendar November Challenge - Sheepski Designs Christmas Card

Good afternoon, I hope you are all keeping safe and well.   Here in England we are just starting a four week lockdown so the plan is to have finished my Christmas shopping (working from home has advantages being able to receive those parcel deliveries) and make sure all of my Christmas cards are made.  Last lockdown I started making my Christmas cards so there shouldn't be that many left to do.

It's the first Saturday of November so we have a new monthly challenge over at Crafty Calendar and I have another Christmas card to add to my stash.

The theme this month is 'ANYTHING GOES'

My card is made using:

Garden Party digi stamp from Sheepski Designs coloured with copics.

The DP's are from my stash

We are sponsored for this challenge by:

 

Sheepski Designs

Pop over to Crafty Calendar to share your projects in this months

'ANYTHING GOES' challenge and also check out the gorgeous DT creations

using other images from this months sponsor Sheepski Designs.

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

#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

Crafty Calendar May Challenge - Distress It with Peonies from SheepSki Designs

Good morning.  I hope you are having a good day.  I'm a little late posting as I've been busy ironing and packing ready for going on holiday.  I like going away but hate the preparation leading up to it.

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

'DISTRESS IT'

 For my card I have used:

Peonies Image No.154 from SheepSki Designs coloured with Spectrum Sparkle Pens and then sprayed with water for the colour to bleed and spread,

I used Old Paper Distress ink to colour the edges of the paper and distressed the paper round the edges

I used Old Paper Distress Ink and a script stamp from the Hobby Art Becki's Background stamp set in a couple of  places and added a few splashes of watercolour paint.

Mounted onto black card and finished with a check ribbon, a few sequins and stamped sentiment.

We are sponsored for this challenge by:

SheepSki Designs

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Thanks for taking the time to stop by my blog and I'll see you when I'm back from my holibobs  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.

Crafty Calendar June Challenge - Sheepski Designs Three of Something

Good afternoon to all.  Hope you are having a great day, after some dodgy weather at the beginning of the week today hasn't turned out too bad.  It's been a couple of weeks since I posted.  I had a weeks holiday in Rhodes which was fab, but then it took me a couple of weeks to catch up with all of the jobs that needed doing.  All up to date for the moment.....

It's the first Saturday in June (Can someone tell me where the year has gone....how can it be June already) and we have a new challenge over at Crafty Calendar.

Our theme this month is

THREE OF SOMETHING.

For my card I have used an image from this months sponsor Sheepski Designs called Flower Bouquet but instead of using the whole image I just printed part of it onto a piece of 5"x5" paper using my Laser printer and then foiled it with green decofoil and my laminator.

The image was then coloured with copic markers

The greeting is an digi stamp that I have (I don't think the company I had it from is still trading) which I also foiled in green.

My three of something is the three dots of 3D liquid enamel.

We are sponsored for this challenge by

Sheepski Designs

Pop over to Crafty Calendar and join us in our THREE OF SOMETHING challenge and while you are there check out the gorgeous DT creations using other images from this months sponsor Sheepski Designs.

Now off to find something else to do while the England football match is on.

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

Crafty Calendar August Challenge - Shaped Cards

Good morning all.  Hope you are having a good day.  Today my friend is getting married so I'm off to a wedding, so I'm hoping for dry weather but it looking a bit cloudy at the moment.

Over at Crafty Calendar our August challenge starts today and the theme for this month is "SHAPED CARDS"

For this challenge I created a first for me, a pop up box card.......with a little help from my Cricut.

I have used:

Flump 'n' Tic digital image from Sheepski Designs coloured with copics

 Box card is a Cricut Cut File - Celebrate Box Card from the All Occasions Box Card Set

The greeting is from the Hero Arts Elephants Clear Stamp Set

We are sponsored for this challenge by:

Sheepski Designs

and

Crafty Ribbons

Pop over to Crafty Calendar and share your "Shaped Cards" in this months challenge and while you're there check out the gorgeous DT creations.

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