Crafty Calendar 'Animal Antics' Challenge

Good morning again, talk about being like buses nothing for over a week and 3 posts in 2 days lol.

Well let's get straight to work, this month at Crafty Calendar Challenge our challenge is 'Animal Antics' and we have the fabulous sponsor Cuddly Buddly who not only gave us some gorgeous images to play with they have also donated a very worthy prize of £25 store credit.

For my card I used this super cute image called 'Toby Tumble I've Been Painting' and totally enjoyed colouring it, I added a little easel for my sentiment and a couple of paint pots and brush to finish it off.

Supplies:-

6" Card Blank - Natalie & Amy's

Card Stock - Bazzill

Designer Papers - We R Memory Keepers 'Travel Light'

Image - Cuddly Buddly 'Toby Tumble I've Been Painting'

Sentiment - Silhouette Cameo

Medium - Promarkers & Flexmarkers

Die Cuts - Silhouette Store Paint Set #8956 by Alaa K Studio and Easel #2908 by Silhouette.

Promarkers & Flexmarkers Used:-

Toby - Cappuccino, Sandstone & Light Fawn

Jeans & Paint - Hearthstone, Twilight Sky & Polar Blue

T Shirt - Burnt Orange, Spice & Ginger

Teddy - Warm Greys 1 - 4 & Light Fawn

Grass - Marsh Green & Apple Cider

Challenges I would like to enter this into:-

Chocolate, Coffee & Cards - Teddy Bears

Crafty Catz - Anything Goes

I love Promarkers - Die Cuts no punches

Well that is all from me for today so thanks for stopping by and have a good weekend.

One Shoe, One Card!

Good evening all, not very often I find myself with an evening post but wanted to get this done before I start on my dt work tomorrow. 

Having had a very busy few weeks I was determined not to do anything over the weekend and have time to just play with my craft stuff. I made two different items and neither of them for anything in particular other than my pleasure lol.

The first was this shoe that I made, some of you may of seen it on Facebook already. It was a free file from SVG Cuts that they gave away and if you made something with it and uploaded it to their page then you get a gift card worth $6.99 which is enough to buy another set of files. I really want the gorgeous bag's set they released a couple of months ago so thought why not make it, enjoy it and get what I want for free! 

The base of the shoe is quite fiddly to make but once that part is done the rest went together really quickly and all the embellishments were from my stash apart from the 3d rose on the front which was a Lori Whitlock file. 

I am really pleased with how this turned out and think it would make a lovely gift for someone, it is even big enough to put something inside of it. It measures 12cm tall, 18.5cm long & 4cm wide.

Here is the shoe from the side

 Here it is slightly turned so that you can see the front and inside detail better.

Supplies:-

Card Stock - Bazzill

Designer Paper - Craft Creations

Die Cut Files - Shoe - SVG Cuts & 3d Rose #46551 - Lori Whitlock

Black Bling Chain - Poundland

Feather, Brad, Ribbon & Red Bling - Stash

Challenges I would like to enter this into:-

Inspire Me Fridays - Anything Goes

Cardz TV - Seeing Red

Ok onto my second item which is a card I have made for the Elphine House Challenge. Most of my followers will know how much I love all of Elisabeth Bell's images but quite often when I saw challenge's I couldn't enter as I didn't have a suitable image for the challenge (in my mind). Well, over the last month I have received 18 new stamps as well as the new Simpler Times cd which is packed with images, papers and other goodies. So no excuses now, BUT when I saw this fortnights challenge I nearly chickened out lol. It is my worst nightmare 'Distressing'. 

I set to work with my new distressing tool I brought at the Doncaster show and that was still in the packaging along with my distress inks and panpastels. I used this lovely image called Bobby's Day from Sweetpea Stamps because in my mind distressing only works on male images lol. I coloured it with Promarkers and Flexmarkers, then masked it while I added some sky, mountains and greenery. I then distressed all layers before inking with Gathered Twigs Distress Ink. The end result I LOVED IT. 

Supplies:-

6" Square Card Blank - Natalie & Amy's

Card Stock - Bazzill

Designer Paper - We R Memory Keepers 'Travel Light'

Image - Sweetpea Stamps 'Bobby's Day'

Sentiment - Dandelion Goes Fishing Set

Medium - Promarkers & Flexmarkers

PanPastels - Turquoise, Turquoise Tint, Green Shade & Bright Yellow Green Shade from Natalie & Amy's

Distress Ink - Ranger Gathered Twigs from Natalie & Amy's

 Promarkers & Flexmarkers Used:-

Skin - Apricot, Oatmeal & Blush

Hair - Cinnamon, Nutmeg, Tan & March Hare

Dungaree's - Blue Lake, Polar BLue, Denim Blue & Dolphin Blue

Grass - Leaf Green, Green Shoot, Apple & Forest Green

Hankerchief - Denim Blue, Leaf Green & Green Shoot

Fishing Rod - Cinnamon, Tan & March Hare

Fishing Float - Orange

Bird - Yellow & Green Shoot

Challenges I would like to enter this into:-

Elphine House - Distressing

Here Comes The Boys - Only Square's

Pile It On - Outdoors

Totally Gorjuss - Hot, Hot, Hot

Crafts Too - Summer with twist Fun In The Sun

Totally Papercrafts - Summer Fun

2 Creative Chicks - For Kids

Wow that was a long post, thanks for sticking with me lol.