Harvest Festival Baskets

Good evening all, I am so sorry my post didn't publish yesterday for the Crafty Sentiments Challenge and I didn't even realise until just now when I came to do this post!!

As of yesterday all Crafty Sentiments Challenges will be start on Tuesday's and this week saw the release of a new Halloween image which I was not able to use as I was away. However just for you I have a picture of the image that is on sale NOW as a digital download.

Her name is Annabel isn;t she the cutest witch ever!! So dig out those Halloween images and join in the challenge.

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On Monday my godchildren called in to see me after school to show me their new uniforms and for the little one to tell me all about his first day at school which was so nice of them but there was a con!! 

My god daughter Thavisha asked 'Auntie Kim can you make me a basket to carry my acorns in for my church service play for Harvest Festival?' Of course I said yes and I was informed it needed tree's and had to be brown and orange or Autumn colours. 

So I designed this basket in the new Cricut Craftroom using Heritage and Plantin Schoolbook Cartridges and quite enjoyed making it. It was designed to fit a whole 12" x 12" sheet. The orange liner was made separately using Plantin Schoolbook and then just slotted into the basket. I used three different seam binding ribbons plated together to make the handle and I have just added some tissue paper inside for the photo.

I have just noticed in the photo that the two tree's have come unlinked, they were linked by extended an arm of the branch to stick behind the branch of the next tree. I can take another photo if needed.

Off trotted Thavisha to school this morning pleased as punch with her basket and when they called after school I immediately thought she had broken it and needed a repair but oh no that would of been so easy. 'Auntie Kim can I have 47 more of these baskets, my teacher has given me the card and some glue for you' well I nearly fell off my chair laughing, it is a good job I know her teacher, she used to be a colleague of mine in my teaching days and knew I couldn't say no if Thavisha asked!!

So if I don't reappear for the next week or so you know why lol.

Supplies:-

Cardstock - Bazzill

Cricut - Heritage & Plantin Schoolbook

Seam Binding Ribbon - Crafty Ribbons

Tissue Paper - Poundland

Challenges I would like to enter:-

Bitten By The Bug 2 - Use Heritage Curly Tree

Cricut Craftroom Challenge - Make A Basket

Totally Papercrafts - Not A Card

Wags 'n' Whiskers - Anything But A Card

Secret Crafter Saturday - Autumn Colours

Everybody Art - Autumn

Scrapalicious USA - Fall Theme

Crafty Calendar Challenges September Challenge

Good morning all I am really hoping blogger is playing nicely today as I am currently away from home and had to schedule this post.

This month our challenge at Crafty Calendar Challenges is:- 

'Let Sleeping Bear Lie', now you don't have to use a sleeping bear any bear will be fine. I have used Charlie Bear - Just Relax to make a new baby card.  

Supplies:-

6" Square Card Blank - Craft Superstore

Cardstock - Double Mates

Designer Papers - Cuddly Buddly

Image - Crafty Sentiments 'Charlie Bear Just Relax'

Sentiment - Computer Generated

Medium - Promarkers

Bubbles - Glossy Accents

Challenges I would like to enter this card into:-

Craft Your Passion - Sketch

The Crazy Challenge - New .....

Creative Card Crew - Anything goes

Party Time Tuesday - Anything Goes

The Paper Shelter - Anything Goes

I Love Promarkers - Anything Goes

Truly Scrumptious - Rocked up Pink

Thanks for stopping by and please don't forget to stop by the Crafty Calendar Challenge Blog to see all the other design team member's wonderful creations.

Raise The Bar Guest Design Team Challenge

Good morning all I am hoping blogger is playing nicely as I am away from home and had to leave him in charge!!

Last week I won the challenge over at Raise The Bar and was lucky enough to be asked if I would like to be this week's guest's designer and of course I jumps at the chance so I would also like to take this opportunity to thank the ladies over there for the invite.

This week their chance is 'Paper Piecing' and as they are being sponsored by Whimsie Doodles I was offered an image to use. I chose this little cutie called 'Diving Leah', I have paper pieced her rubber ring and her little flip flops.

Supplies:-

Card Base & All Cardstock - Bazzill 

Designer Papers - DCWV 'Adhesive Stack'

Image - Whimsie Doodles 'Diving Leah'

Sentiment - Crafty Sentiments 'Patches & Stitch'

Medium - Promarkers

Border Die - Nellie's Multi Frame 'MFD028'

Ric Rac - Unknown

Glasses Shine - Glossy Accents

Challenges I would like to enter this into:-

Fussy & Fancy - Sketch

Simon Says Stamp - Anything goes

Charisma Cardz - Anything Goes

Some Odd Girl - Paper Piecing

Secret Crafter - In The Sea

That's all from me today, please be sure to pop over to the Raise The Bar Challenge Blog and see the other design team creations.

A Birthday Card

Today is my daughter's 22nd birthday so Happy Birthday Vicki, wow well did all those years go!!

Here is the card I made for her, she loves pink and all things girlie so thought this image was perfect for her.

Supplies:-

6" Square Card Blank - Craft Superstore

Cardstock - Bazzill

Designer Papers - Nitwit Collections 'Pink Swear Kit'

Image - Teddy Bo 'Bea 'When You Wish Upon A Star'

Medium - Promarkers

Sentiment - Computer Generated

Shine - Ranger 'Glossy Accents'

Border Die - Nellie Multi Frame

Lace - Wild Orchid Crafts

Ribbon - Crafty Ribbons

Gems - Papermania 'Shimmer Dots'

Challenges I would like to enter this into:-

Simon Says Stamp - Sketch

Hooked On Crafts - Things With Wings

Stamps R Us - Anything goes

Passion For Promarkers - Anything Goes

Craft Us Crazy - Anything Goes

Card Makin' Mamas - Pink

Fussy & Fancy - Celebration

Totally Gorgeous - Anything Goes

Simply Sunday With K Andrew - Winged Things

Thanks for stopping by.

Crafty Sentiments Summer Of Fun Blog Hop & Ribbons & Bows Challenge.

Good morning all, have you been enjoying this week's previews of the Crafty Sentiments Summer Of Fun New Release? well the wait is over the stamps go on sale today but before that we have a blog hop for you.

You can be in with a chance of winning the 1 of the 4 New Main Summer of Fun Character stamps from us. They are amazing. Four of you will receive 1 each of the stamps. So you have a great chance of winning. 


If you arrived here from Jac's blog you are on the right track however if you just stumbled across my blog or you regularly pop in and want to start at the beginning of the blog hop please go HERE.

The Rules are simple. 

1 Post the Summer of Fun Banner on your sidebar with a Link to the Crafty Sentiments Store.

2. Comment on the Design Teams Cards Previewing the images for Thursday 25 August.

You have until Monday 29th 7pm GMT to complete the hop

 I decided as soon as I saw the image of Billy 'Lets Swim' that I was going to make a fish bowl, I had seen something similar on Tereesa's Up Late 2 Create blog some time ago and had been wanting to make one ever since and this seemed the perfect time. I also used some of the fish from the accessory set.

Today is also the start of this week's challenge which is 'Ribbons & Bows', now this wasn't easy to incorporate in my fish bowl and I made it even harder on myself by forgetting to add them until over half of the bowl had been put together. They are not the best and you probably can't see them that well but what I did was twist some seam binding and add it to make some of the reeds. If you click on the photo's to make them bigger you can see the ribbon more easily. I had to use brads at the top to hold it together temporarily as the large gromlets I ordered didn't arrive in time.

The fish bowl itself was cut out of acetate on my Cricut using the Everyday Paper Dolls Cartridge at 8.5" x 10" to give you an idea of the size. I then added various sea life from Pack Your Bags Cartridge. I embossed most of the cuts using various folders and added some faces to my cuts with the Peachy Keen Funshine Faces set. All of the cuts and images are attached with very fine fishing line, they then dangle and swing freely in the bowl. I used my Cri-Kit glitter pens in my Cricut to draw all the pieces before adding them as die cuts as they then look like shadows but unfortunately the camera hasn't picked this up. The bubbles all had glossy accents added to them.

My 4 year old god son came in just as I had finished this and asked what the little boy's name was, I told him Billy and he promptly informed me that Billy will be dead soon because he hasn't got a snorkel or regulator!! I guess that is what happens when your dad and uncle are Scuba Diving Instructor's lol. Way too old for his little years!!

This looks so much better in real life as it all moves.

I added this photo of a side angle to show how it goes together but it is not very clear, the jelly fish/octopus was very pleased to have another photo taken lol.

Supplies:-

Acetate - Local Craft Store

Cardstock - Bazzill & American Crafts

Image - Crafty Sentiments Billy 'Lets Swim' & Accessory Stamps

Medium - Promarkers

Peachy Keen PK-944 Funshine Face Parts

Brads - Papermania

Seam Binding Ribbon - Crafty Ribbons

Glossy Accents - Ranger

Embossing - Cuttlebug 'D'vine Swirls, Houndstooth, Swiss Dots, Tiny Bubbles)

Cricut - Everyday Paper Dolls & Pack Your Bags

Challenges I would like to enter this into:-

 As this is not a card I was not sure on a couple of challenges, if it is not allowed I apologise and please just delete my entry. Thanks

Bitten By The Bug 2 - Use A Stamp With Cricut Cuts

By The Cute & Girly - The Sea

Ooh La La - No Backing Paper 

Tuesday Throwdown - Dimension & Texture

Papertake Weekly - Dies To Die For

Passion For Promarkers - No Patterned Papers

The Paper Shelter - Die Cuts & Punches

Scapalicious USA - Anything But A Card

Craft Us Crazy - Anything Goes

Peachy Keen Face It - Use Animals

One Stop Crafts - Bold & Bright

Ok that is all from me and thanks for staying with me through this rather long post. You are now off to visit the wonderful Rebekah to see what she created for you but just in case you get lost, have problems with links or just want to start at the beginning here is the complete list of who is playing along.

Axa

Dora

Hazel

Heather

Jan

Jac

Kim

Rebekah

Shell

Tanya