Moving Along With The Times 'Seeing Red' Challenge

Good afternoon all, really sorry this post should have been up this morning but it's here now!

This week at Moving Along With The Times Laurie set us the challenge of 'Seeing Red' so in other words use the colour red on your project, easy right!

The Crafty Pad are sponsoring us this week and gave us these lovely sentiments to play with.

As I haven't had chance to play with my Cameo I decided to make this super quick tag, the whole thing is all cut on the Cameo including the image and sentiment. I am pleased with it for a first go but can't wait to make something more detailed. 

Supplies:-

Card stock - Bazzill

Designer Papers - Dovercraft

Image - Cuddly Buddly

Sentiment - The Crafty Pad

Medium - Promarkers

Ribbon - Anita's

Stickles - Ranger

Promarkers Used (there weren't many):-

Bear - Caramel, Sandstone, Baby Pink & Pastel Blue

Hat & Scarf - Crimson & Berry Red

Holly - Holly & Pine

Challenges I would like to enter this into:-

The Paper Shelter - Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Whimsy Stamps - Anything Goes

The Emerald Fairies - Use A Tag

Bearly Mine - Add A Sentiment

Crazy Amigo - Not A Card

Creative Craft Challenges 2 - Anything Goes

Holly Jolly Christmas - Tags

Please pop over and see what the other girls have created, there creations are far better than mine!

My Time To Craft 'Transport' Challenge

Good morning all, well it isn't exactly a good morning at all with the weather we have had since Sunday. Cold, wind and rain all day oh what joy lol.

Anyhow onto today, this week at My Time To Craft Helen set the challenge of 'Transport' and I racked my brain (yes I do have one in there somewhere lol) to think of something I could use then I remembered Santa has his very own style of transport! 

Have you noticed I seem to be making a lot of Christmas cards just lately, well you will have to excuse them because I agreed to hold a stall in my village for charity and so need lots of cards to sell. 

My Silhouette Cameo finally arrived on Friday and then I ordered the Grand Calibur which arrived on Saturday but apart from doing a couple of test cuts on the Cameo I haven't had a chance to play yet so can you guess what I will be doing tomorrow lol.

Supplies:-

6" Scalloped Card Blank - Boyes

Card Stock - Bazzill

Image - Stitchy Bear 'Santa Sleigh Silhouette'

Card Candy - Craftwork Cards

Bell Ribbon - I can't remember so Stash.

Challenges I would like to enter this into:-

The Corrosive Challenge - Animal Companions

Christmas Crafting - Traditional Colours

Heck Of A Challenge - Anything Goes

Just Keep On Crafting - Christmas

Ladybug Crafts - Anything Goes

Mema's Crafts - Choose A Theme

Natalie & Amy's - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by on this awful day although I hope the weather is better where ever you are. Please pop by the challenge blog and take a peek at the other ladies creations.

Moving Along With The Times 'Girly Girly BUT Prim & Proper' Challenge

Good morning everyone, it is lovely to have you here. 

I am all excited as my new Silhouette Cameo should arrive today, I am so looking forward to being able to die cut what I want again and have been learning through you tube how to print and cut images too.

Today see's the start of a new challenge at Moving Along With The Times and Judith set us the challenge of Girly Girly BUT Prim and Proper. I just don't have any really elegant images and was stuck until I spoke to Shell and we came up with this image, sorry Judith it was the best I could do. Shell is not feeling her best at the moment so I am sending her huge cyber hugs.

I used Whiif of Joy's Willow Dressing Up and coloured her all pink and girly but gave her a different hair colour to normal and am not sure if I like it or not lol. I used my new Prima Rochelle papers and I placed a this feather I found in my stash behind my image and added this big flower that has also been in my stash forever!

Supplies:-

6" Card Blank - Boyes

Card stock - Bazzill

Designer Papers - Prima 'Rochelle'

Image - Whiff of Joy 'Willow Dressing Up'

Medium - Promarkers

Marabu Feather, Flower & Pearls - Stash

Bakers Twine - My Craft Spot

 Promarkers Used:-

Skin - Sunkissed Pink, Oatmeal & Blush

Hair - Walnut, Chestnut, Terracotta & Raw Sienna

Dress & Bracelet - Budding Rose, Pale Pink & Baby Pink

Shoes & Bracelet - Cool Grey 3 & 4 

Challenges I would like to enter this into:-

Sketch 'n' Stash - Sketch

Creative Craft Challenges 2 - Anything Goes

Dawn's Crafting - Breast Cancer Awareness Think Pink

Tammy's Scrapping Corner - Anything Goes

Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes

The Craft Place - Bling It On

The Crafty Pad - Breast Cancer Awareness Think Pink

Well that's all from me, I am off to stalk the postman he he but please pop over to the challenge blog and see what wonderful creations the other girlies have made.

My Time To Craft 'All White Except Image' Challenge

Good morning all, I hope you are all feeling well today?
Shh don't tell my hubby but I have been naughty this week and brought myself a Silhouette Cameo die cutting machine, I have had my Cricut for over 4 years and it is no longer cutting right. I decided this time to opt for a non cartridge based machine and as all my svg's I have work on this machine it won! I will probably put my cartridges, jukebox, design studio, cri-kit pens etc on ebay so at least I will get back part of the cost. 

Anyhow this week at My Time To Craft Wedgie set us the challenge of 'All white except the image' and I have to say that is not always as easy as it sounds, all that white space is hard to fill. I used this lovely image from Just Inklined and printed it quite big as I thought it should be the focal point.

Supplies:-

6" Square Scalloped Card Blank - Boyes

Card stock - Bazzill

Image - Just Inklined 'Robin on post'

Sentiment - Crafty Sentiments

Medium - Promarkers & Flexmarkers

Embossing - Provocraft 'Holly'

Die - Cheery Lynn 'Holly Flouirsh'

Stickles - Ranger

Glossy Accents - Ranger

Bobble Ribbon - Stash

Promarkers & Flexmarkers Used:-

Robin - Red, Raw Sienna, Burnt Sienna & Cinnamon

Post - April Showers & Blue Grey 1

Holly - Holly & Pine

Berries - Crimson, Berry Red & Poppy

Challenges I would like to enter this into:-

Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes

Gingerloft - Embossing

The Squirrel & The Fox - Anything Goes

Christmas Stamping All Year - Snowy

Pattie's Creations - Embossing

Simply Create Too - Anything Goes

Cute Card Thursday - Christmas In September

Moving Along With The Times 'Shrink Plastic' Challenge

Good morning all, I am so not enjoying this change of weather we are having.

Today see's a new challenge at Moving Along With The Times and Shell set us the challenge of 'Use Shrink Plastic' now this really was a challenge for me as you will see in the photo below and Shell's name was changed to something not so pleasant for setting this challenge lol, sorry Shell.

Here are my 5 attempts at making this charm for my card using the shrink plastic and then embossing it.

As you can see the first two never even got to the embossing part and then the next two got embossed but not very well until finally I managed to get one that resembled something of a charm!

Anyhow here is my card with the charm added using the sketch from Sunday Sketch & Stamp.

Supplies:-

6" Square Card Blank - Boyes

Card Stock - Bazzill

Designer Papers - Kaisercraft 'Tis The Season'

Image - Lili Of The Valley 'Three Little Angels'

Medium - Promarkers & Flexmarkers

Lace - Local Hardware Shop

Ribbon - Stash

Charm - Marianne Die, Shrink Plastic & Gold Embossing Powder

Promarkers & Flexmarkers Used:-

Skin - Sunkissed Pink, Coral & Blush

Hair - Walnut, Cinnamon, Tan & March Hare

Dresses - Olive Green, Marsh Green, Apple Cider, Caramel, Tan & March Hare

Wings - Satin, Ivory & Glitter

Clouds - Sky Blue, Arctic Blue & Glacier Blue

Challenges I would like to enter this into:-

Sunday Sketch & Stamp - Sketch (Rotated)

Anything Goes - Early Christmas

Bearly Mine - Anything Goes

Ladybugs Crafts - Christmas

Love To Create - Ribbon or Twine

Stamp & Create - Anything Goes

The Squirrel & The Fox - Anything Goes

365 Cards - DIY Embellishments

One Stop Crafts - No Floral Embellishments

Thanks for stopping by, please stop by the challenge blog to see that the rest of the dt had more success than I did.

My Time To Craft 'More Than 1 Fold, No Easel Cards' Challenge

Good afternoon everyone on this wet and windy day in Lincolnshire, what a change this weather is from the weekend of sunshine we had.

This week at My Time To Craft Sheila challenged us to 'More Than One Fold BUT No Easel Cards' and I apologise because this post should have been up yesterday but I have not been feeling to well so only just got my card finished today. 

I decided to make a gate fold card using this Cuddly Buddly image I have had for absolutely ages, I think it was one of their original freebies.

Here is another view showing the card open.

Supplies:-

5" x 7" card base - Bazzill Card Stock

Designer Papers - DCWV '

Card Stock - Paper Mill Shop

Image - Cuddly Buddly

Medium - Promarkers & Flexmarkers

Sentiment - Computer Generated

Pearls - Stash

Stickles - Ranger

Promarkers & Flexmarkers Used:-

Snowman - Blue Grey 1 & 2

Nose - Manderin & Bright Orange

Hat - Cool Grey 4, 3, 2 & 1

Hat Trim, Scarf & Jacket - Pink Lobster, Magenta, Carmine, Surf Blue, Duck Egg & Cool Aqua

Challenges I would like to enter it into:-

Anything Goes - Early Christmas

Party Time Tuesdays - More Than One Fold

Use It Tuesdays - Anything Goes

Robyn's Fetish - More Than One Fold

Thanks for stopping by.

Moving Along With The Times 'Christmas Gifts' Challenge

Good morning all, can you believe the weather we have had this week what a completely messed up summer it's been.

Now before I get to the challenge I just want to apologise to you all for not getting around to visiting, I will get there I am just a little behind!

This week at Moving Along With The Times it is my turn to choose the challenge and I chose 'Christmas Gifts' and let me tell you the design team have done a wonderful job. This week we are being sponsored by Digi My World who very generously gave us images to use on our creations.

I chose to make a tea light holder card, this is my first attempt at making one of these and two went in the bin before I got to this stage. I have used one of the images from the 'Elf Life' set available in the digi store.

The photo's have again been taken with my hubby's ipad but my new camera is on it's way yay.

This is it from the front.

Here it is from the side just to give you another view.

Supplies:-

6" Card Blanks - Boyes

Card stock - Bazzill

Designer Papers - Crafts House 'Winter Wonderland'

Image - Digi My World 'Elf Life'

Medium - Promarkers & Flexmarkers

Sentiment - Computer Generated

Tea Light Candles - Poundland

Dies - Spellbinder 'Classic & Scalloped Circles'

Promarkers & Flexmarkers Used:-

Skin - Oatmeal & Blush

Hair - Tawny Owl & Tan

Clothes - Soft Green, Tea Green, Honeydew, Baby Pink, Pale Pink, & Tea Rose

Boots - Slate

Letter - Ivory

Challenges I would like to enter this into:-

Totally Gorjuss - Sketch

Anything Goes - Early Christmas

Creative Card Crew - Christmas

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Party Time Tuesdays - Teacher's Gift

Through The Craftroom Door - Anything Goes

Created With Love - Christmas with a Die Cut

Just Keep On Crafting - Christmas

That's all from me, thanks for stopping by and I promise I will get to you I am off now to catch up on a few. 

My Time To Craft 'Black, White & One Other' Challenge

Good evening all, this post should have been up this morning so apologies for it's lateness.

 I was already late with it after forgetting we are now weekly and then we had a weekend of family and my new baby grandson Harley. It is the first time we have had our eldest two and their partners plus baby here at the same time and boy did it make us realise how small our new home is. Our old house was spread over four floors and our new one is just a bungalow so big difference, I was so thankful my youngest two didn't turn up with their partners, sorry boys. Thankfully the weather was great so most of our time was spent in the garden.

I finally got around to making it late afternoon Monday then when I came to photograph it my camera froze and will not do anything. More annoying is the fact that I took loads of photo's of Harley and the family and they are all gone, the card just says no image error grrrr.

Anyhow enough wittering this week Ann has challenged us at My Time To Craft to create using 'Black, White & One Other Colour'. Now I have used green (the embossed section) which you cannot really see it in the photo as I took the picture with my hubby's ipad after he remembered it had a camera! and neither of us cannot work out how to change the settings, what a pair lol. I added a little green to the tree's and then went over them with a glue pen which takes some of the colour out before adding a layer of snow to all the snowy parts. I am sorry this is a really poor photo but I didn't want to miss uploading it for the challenge.

Supplies:-

6" Scalloped Card Blank - Boyes

Card Stock - Bazzill

Embossing - Provocraft 'Holly'

Image - Just Ink Lined 'Little Church In The Snow'

Sentiment - Do Crafts

Medium - Promarkers

Snow - Baker Ross

Challenges I would like to enter:-

Paper Pretties - Create a square card

Just Keep On Crafting - Christmas

Ladybug Crafts - Anything Goes

Natalie & Amy - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by, please stop by the challenge blog to see all the other great creations from the design team.