Saturday, 3 November 2012

My Time To Craft 'Pink & Brown' Challenge

Good morning from a cold, windy autumnal village in the UK, I hope it is better where you are.

This week at My Time To Craft we are challenged to create a project using the colours 'Pink & Brown' skin colours can also be used. Pink & Brown are one of my favourite colour combo's so this is the perfect challenge for me.

I dug out my few remaining pink and brown pieces from the First Edition 'Summer Breeze' pad and combined them with this adorable Sarah Kay image whichI have had for years and never used why? how bad is that especially as it is such a lovely image. I also used this lovely Prima ribbon trim that came in a gift set last Christmas (which is brown really, my son changed the settings on my camera yesterday and I obviously haven't put them back right lol) and pearls also from Prima and again brown!

Supplies:-
6" Card Blank - Boyes
Designer Papers - First Edition 'Summer Breeze'
Card Stock - Bazzill
Image - Sarah Kay 'Elodie In Her Garden'
Ribbon Trim & Pearls - Prima
Corner - Cameo Silhouette
Sentiment - Unknown Make


Promarkers & Flexmarkers Used:-
Skin - Oatmeal, Blush & Antique White
Hat & Patches - Dusky Rose, Budding Rose & Tea Rose
Trousers - Cinnamon, Tawny Owl & Tan
Watering Can - Soft Green, Tea Green & Honeydew

Challenges I would like to enter this into:-
Sketch & Stash - Sketch
C.R.A.F.T - Birthday
Paper Crafting Journey - Ribbon or Twine
Natalie & Amy's - Favourite Colour Combo
One Crazy Stamper - Anything Goes
Anything Goes - Anything Goes

That's all from me but I will be back shortly with my Crafty Calendar Challenges Project.

Thursday, 1 November 2012

Moving Along With The Times 'In Stitches' Challenge

Grr what is Mr Blogger upto, why will it not post my pre-scheduled posts.
Good morning, it is time for a new challenge over at Moving Along With The Times and this week Hazel has set us the challenge of 'In Stitches'. That means use stitching somewhere on what you create either real, faux or as I did on your ribbon.

I was lucky enough to win two of Jayne Nestorenko's new Christmas line stamps a couple of weeks ago and this is the first chance I have had to have a play with them. Isn't this a really pretty image? I stamped it four times, then cut and layered it with some foam dots as you can see in the second photo.

Supplies:-
6" Card Blank - Boyes
Card Stock - Boyes
Ribbon - Local Haberdashery Shop
Stickles - Ranger


Promarkers Used:-
Greens - Pine, Olive Green, Moss & Pear Green
Yellow - Sunshine Yellow
Reds - Burgundy, Crimson, Ruby, Berry Red, Poppy & Red
Browns - Walnut & Cinnamon

Challenges I would like to enter this into:-
I will be back later to edit.

Saturday, 27 October 2012

My Time To Craft 'Halloween' Challenge

Good afternoon all, sorry this post should of been up this morning but Mr Blogger was playing nicely and as I was out with My Time To Craft boss Shell I don't think I will be in too much trouble lol.

EDITED:- We met up in Lincoln so we could go and see the cathedral which really is spectacular but we must have chose the coldest day of the year to go. So after a quick bite to eat at the sausage fest which was also on in Lincoln Castle it was back to my house for tea to warm us all up. It was great to catch up with Shell again and finally meet her hubby Nige but I said to Shell beforehand it could be a mistake getting our hubbies together and yes I was right, those men are a pair alike knew just how to wind us girls up!! But hey they made us laugh and it was a lovely day plus they paid so not all bad.

This week at My Time To Craft we were challenged to make something for 'Halloween' and I decided to make one of three treat holders for my step grandchildren. This will be for Sophie who will be 6 next week, she loves all things Halloween and I thought she could keep her bits and pieces in this pumpkin basket after she has eaten the treats. I cut this out on my Cameo using a 12" mat and cut it as big as would fit on the sheet. You can also use this with a tea light candle inside.

Supplies:-
Card stock - American Crafts
Brads - Papermania
Pumpkin File - Silhouette Studio '3d Jack-O-Lantern'

Challenges I would like to enter this into:-
Craftymess - Halloween
4 Crafty Chicks - Halloween
DL.Art - Pumpkin

Thanks for stopping by.

Thursday, 18 October 2012

Moving Along With The Times 'Alice Inspired' Challenge

Good morning all, I hope the weather is being kind to you where ever you are.

Today see's the start of a new challenge over at Moving Along With The Times and this week Hazel set us the challenge of 'Alice Inspired' so that means anything to do with Alice In Wonderland, easy eh? Well I am sure it will be for some of you but I really struggled with it.  This week we are sponsored by Digi My World who gave us some great images to play with. 

I decided I wanted to go with the image of the White Rabbit and use it as a belated birthday card but I couldn't get it to come together. I know I have some paper somewhere with clocks on but can I find it, oh course I can't. So I had the idea to make my own, I used the pocket watch image and put several of them on the page and made a collage of them in all different directions. I then printed this onto a piece of backing paper that went with my other papers I am using. Once I had this the rest of the card all went together really quickly, in fact too quickly as I was going to ink the edges but stuck too bits of paper down before I remembered!!

Supplies:-
6" Card Blank - Boyes
Card Stock - Ebay
Designer Papers - Papermania 'Happy Days'
Medium - Letraset
Twine - My Craft Spot
Sentiment - Computer Generated

Promarkers & Flexmarkers Used:-
Rabbit - Tan, March Hare & Blender
Clothing - Red, Black, Celestial Blue, Arctic Blue, Khaki & Pastel Beige.

Challenges I would like to enter this into:-
Digi Stamps 4 Joy - Anything Goes + Masculine
I Love Promarkers - Anything Goes
Bearly Mine - Anything Goes
Card Mania - Happy Birthday
Lollipop Crafts - Happy Birthday

Take care all and please pop by the challenge blog for more inspiration from the other design team girlies who have all done a fabulous job.

Saturday, 13 October 2012

My Time To Craft 'Recipe' Challenge

Good morning all. Can you believe this weather it has been lovely here in Lincolnshire, I managed to get 2 loads of washing done, dried and ironed I haven't managed to do this in a while and I probably could of got more done but didn't want to tempt fate lol.

This week at My Time To Craft we have been set a recipe challenge and the recipe is '1 ribbon, 2 images and 3 papers'. I used a Personal Impression stamp set which I have had for years and I think this is the first time I have used the ornaments from it. I stamped the ornament stamp onto two different patterned papers and paper pieced them, cut them out and used baker's twine to string them so they look like they are hanging from my ribbon (well that was the idea but sure they look too real), I also added little gems to the ornaments but you cannot really see them in the photo.

Supplies:-
6" Card Blank - Boyes
Card Stock - Bazzill
Designer Papers - Dovercraft 'Merry Magic'
Stamps - Personal Impressions 'Christmas Set 1'
Gems - Papermania
Ribbon - Barnardo's Charity Shop
Twine - My Craft Spot

Challenges I would like to enter this into:-
Cute Card Thursday - Paper Piecing
Jingle Belles - Pink Christmas
Winter Wonderland - Photo Inspiration

Thanks for stopping by, I will be around to see you all shortly.