My Time To Craft 'Tile Effect' Challenge

Good morning all, the weather has been a bit hit and miss this week but hoping it will be better next week.

So this week at My Time To Craft we are challenging you to the 'Tile Effect', this is something that I have never done before and didn't find the easiest to do due to the pieces being small and my hands not wanting to cooperate! I used a fairly big stamp thinking that would be easier. I stamped my image and then cut it into pieces on my Silhouette machine, next I did a small offset and cut that in blue card stock and another offset of all the pieces together to get the red mat. Imagine was coloured with Promarkers & Flexmarkers. A little baker's twine and ribbon finished it off.

Supplies:-

6" Scalloped Square Card Blank - Natalie & Amy's

Card Stock - Bazzill

Image - Crafter's Companion Popcorn Bear 'Smile'

Medium - Promarkers & Flexmarkers

Sentiment - Paper Pretties 'Birthday'

Baker's Twine - Echo Park

Ribbon - Local Haberdashery Store

Promarkers & Flexmarkers Used:-

Bear - Nutmeg, March Hare & Light Fawn

Balloons - Agean, Cyan, Celestial Blue, Sky Blue, Arctic Blue, Glacier Blue, Chilli Red, Poppy, Red Rooster, Antique Pink, Dusky Rose & Tea Rose

Blanket - Putty, Almond, Antique Linen, Agean, Cyan, Celestial Blue & Red Rooster

Challenges I would like to enter this into:-

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That's from me for today, please hop over to the challenge blog HERE to see all the other creations made by the team.

My Time To Craft 'All At Sea' Challenge

Good morning all, I hope you are all keeping well and the weather is the being kind to you.

It is time for another challenge at My Time To Craft and this week we are 'All At Sea' so anything that is related to the ocean, that means boats, fish, dolphins, lighthouses etc.  

For my card I used two stamps that I have had for years, I brought these plus many others from an artist in America to make cards for my husband's scuba diving students. They are really nice stamps made of the thick red rubber and attached to cling mount and every stamps gives such a beautiful clear image and they were really cheap even with the shipping. I did something with this card that I never normally do in that I stamped my two images, found my paper and cut my die cut then put it all together BEFORE I coloured my image. Normally I would stamp, find papers then colour before anything else and with this once I had done all the above I looked at it and thought I don't want to colour it I like it as it is. Another first for me and why, why, why didn't I think of this when I couldn't colour properly. It certainly made for a quick make card.

Supplies:-

6" Scalloped Card Blank - Natalie & Amy's

Card Stock - Bazzill

Designer Paper - DCWV 'Adhesive Stack'

Image - Unknown 

Sentiment - Paper Pretties 'Birthday Sentiments Clear'

Die Cut - Nellie Snellen 'Border Dies MFD023'

Bakers Twine - Echo Park 

Charm - Stash

Challenges I would like to enter it into:-

Crafty Catz - Animals

Polkadoodles - Animal Magic

Sister Act - Anything Goes

That's Crafty - You Spin Me Round

Time Out - Happy Birthday Plus Optional Male

Right I am off, see you all soon and have a wonderful weekend.

Silhouette Challenges 'Anything Holiday' Challenge

It's the eigth of the month again and time 

for the second helping of the Challenge here at

A blog dedicated to the Silhouette Cutting Machines.

You MUST use a Silhouette somehow in your project.

Ch# 7 Anything Holiday

Begins: Friday, November 1

Ends: Saturday, November 30

Sponsors this month are:

My Scrap Chick

Prize: $10.00 GC

My Crafting Channel

Prize: $15.00 Amazon GC

Little Scraps of Heaven Designs

$15..00 GC.

Good morning all, have many of you been to or going to the NEC? I have heard quite a lot of people saying they were disappointed by it but not sure why exactly! 

I am back today to share with you a really quick project I made for this month's Silhouette Challenge. I say quick as I had the wrong date in my head and had to make it in less than half an hour to be on time lol.

This month we are having a 'Anything Holiday' challenge and I made this hot chocolate holder, we four young girls that live in our village and they are always calling around to see if they can do anything for you and if you offer them anything for it they won't take it so I thought I would make them each one of these but with Malteser Hot Chocolate in and fancy it up with some candy canes, marshmallows etc as a thank you.

I used all Bazzill card stock and the hot chocolate holder was a file from the Silhouette Store by Megan Hardy and the tag I added is also from the store and by Echo Park. My ribbon looks wonky in the picture but it really isn't I promise. Not much more I can say about it.

Supplies:-

Card Stock - Bazzill

Die Cuts - Hot Chocolate Holder #34320 by Megan Hardy & Tag #48497 by Echo Park.

Ribbon - Anita's I think I've had it years

Twine - Let's Create

Hot Chocolate - My Cupboard!

I finally had the second part of my occupational therapy assessment today and they have agreed that I need a wet room so maybe by the end of 2014 I might have it in place going by the speed they work lol. 

Short and sweet again from me, I will try to get around to see a few more of you this week if my hands allow.