Crafty Cardmakers Challenge #216 Vacation or Holidays

                                      Julie is hosting today's challenge, Holidays/Vacation over at Crafty Cardmakers.

As usual anything you care to enter is fine, a card, scrap layout, mixed media piece, some home decor, as long as it meets the Holidays/Vacation theme.  

This wonderful image of a girl in a beach chair is from All Dressed Up and titled Summer Time.  I coloured the flesh with Copics and the rest with Prismacolor Markers. The designer paper was from a paperpack bought at Michael's titled Razzle Dazzle. The sentiment is from Stampin' Up. I made the flowers from different sized punches.

Challenges:
1. Crafty Calendar Challenge: July Challenge: Totally Girly
2. Colour Crazy Craft: Week 28 Anything Goes
3. Crafting with Friends Challenge #71Anything Goes
4. Crafty Catz Challenge: #425 Anything Goes
5. Creative Fingers Challenge #150 July Anything Goes
6. Jo's Scrap Shack: FFC #242 Anything Goes
7. Polkadoodles Challenge Week 28 Anything Goes

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge #215 -At Least Two Dies/Punches or One of Each

Birthday card for my grand nephew. Welcome to the family little guy!

Jackie is hosting today's challenge at Crafty Cardmakers, At least two dies/punches or one of each. As usual anything you care to enter is fine, a card, scrap layout, mixed media piece, some home decor, as long as it meets the challenge theme.

Card Details

Stamp: Mo Manning "Baby and Bunny" digital stamp
Dies: Spellbinders  Deckled Rectangles, Oval, Lattice Rectangles;  Heart Banner by La-La-land.
Paper. Stampin Up's
Other: embossing heart folder by Stampin Up, handmade blue bow

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge #214 Wet or Dry Embossing

Lin is hosting today's challenge, Wet or Dry Embossing

As usual anything you care to enter is fine, a card, scrap layout, mixed media piece, some home decor, as long as it meets the Wet or Dry Embossing theme.

I choose Dry as my choice of embossing for this fortnights  challenge of Wet or Dry Embossing. I used a embossing folder from Cuttlebug called Scrollwork for the main background and one called Swiss Dots for the oval background.This background was then framed with an oval from Spellbinders 'Elegant Ovals' die set and a smaller oval from their 'Classic Ovals' die set. (managed to get a lot oval words in there did I not :0). The flower image is from Doodle Pantry (no longer available).

Challenges:

1. Allsorts Challenge Blog:Week 472- Use at least 2 Dies
2.  Crafter's Castle Challenge#6 : Anything Goes
3.  Crafty Friends Challenge Challenge 86 Anything Goes 
4.  Crafts Galore Encore: it's June Challenge #52
5.  Crafty Girls Creations: Challenge #48  Anything Goes
6.  Creatalicious Challenges: #141 Anything Goes + optional flowers
7.  Create and Inspire: #78 Anything Goes 
8.  Creative Craft Cottage:  #108  Eileen's Challenge Anything Goes
9.  CCC Digi Designs #93 Eileen's Challenge Anything Goes
10. HLS June Anything Goes with Dies Challenge

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge # 213 Man/Boy

                                        Challenge # 213 Crafty Cardmakers:  Man/Boy!  

Maike is hosting today's challenge, For a Man/Boy

As usual anything you care to enter is fine, a card, scrap layout, mixed media piece, some home decor, as long as it meets the For a Man/Boy theme.

                    Do come and join the fun, share your  masculine creations with us

 I chose  a fun stamp by Art Impressions ,coloured him  with Copics, chalked in  some clouds,used some fancy woodland paper, added a few embellishments and it was done.The sentiment was created in word!

Won the Any Image Category AT QKR

Challenges
1. Crafting by Designs: For the Boys
2. Crafty Friends Challenge:#85 Happy Birthday
3. Colour Crazy Challenge Week 22 Anything Goes
4. Crafting with Friends Challenge #68  Anything Goes
5. QKR Stampede #298 Anything Goes Winner for the Any image
6. Simply papercraft #58 Anything Goes
7. Always Happy Birthday: June Challenge Birthday anything Goes

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge #212 Things with Wings

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge #212 Things With Wings  May 2018

 I am hosting this fortnights challenge, Things With Wings. We would like the winged thing to be the focal point of your creation.   

As usual anything you care to enter is fine, a card, scrap layout, mixed media piece, some home decor, as long as it meets the Things With Wings theme. 

Please head over to Crafty Cardmakers and take a peek at the lovely work of the multi talented Design Team!

Card Details:
Digital Stamp: Mo Manning - Ragged Angel
Sentiment: Stampin Up Craftyhazelnut
Dies: frame die,leaf die and half a snowflake die.
Other: rhinestones, dry embossed background

Challenges:
1. Crafty Calendar Challenge:May Challenge-Things With Wings
2. Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas CHNC #386
3. The Fairy and the Unicorn: Anything Goes
4. Crafting with Friends: #67 Anything Goes
5. Creative Fingers Challenge #147
6. Joe's Scrap Shack FFC#234 Anything Goes
7. Outlaw's  Festive Friday Challenge FF051818 (I picked Christmas as my theme)
8. Winter Wonderland: Christmas in the Snow
9. Christmas Crafts All Year Long: May Anything Goes

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge #211 No Patterned Paper

 Crafty Cardmakers challenge #211 'No Patterned Paper'  May 7th  2018.

 Jac is hosting this fortnight challenge.

Head on over to Crafty Cardmakers for the challenge details AND  take a peek at all the lovely work from the multi talented Design Team! 

I used a Bugaboo  image titled Silhouettes - Butterfly Flowers for the circled image and Stampin' Up's Gorgeous Grunge stamp set for the ink blots in the background. The sentiment is from  Stampin' Up's Party Pants stamp set and the two small butterflies are die cuts from Heartfelt Creations 'Garden Romance Die HCD723. The larger butterfly  is Memory Box's 'Vivienne Butterfly'.  

This card will go to a dear friend and neighbour who just lost her father.

Top 3 Pick at  Crafty Creations

Honourable Mention at Creative Moments

Challenges:

1. Crafting by Designs: Anything Goes May 

2. Creative Moments Challenge #142 Anything Goes   Honourable Mention

3. Sunny Day Crafting #18 Butterflies and other Garden Critters

4. Crafty Calendar Challenge: May Things with Wings

5. Crafty Creations: #365 Anything Goes Top 3 Pick

6. Crafting with an Attitude: #39 Anything Goes

7. Crafting with Friends: Challenge #66

Delicious Doodles May 2018

 I am happy to be the guest Designer for the Month of May 2018 at Delicious Doodles. The Challenge for the month of May is "FLOWERS", do check out their Blog  and join in the challenge. They also have great digital images  at their Delicious Doodle Etsy Shop with the art by Teri Sherman. She is a very talented artist and I love her work (newly discovered.)  I chose this delightful image "Flower Fairy' for my card. Is she not a beauty! I hand stamped the background using an image from Stampin' Up's Gorgeous Grunge stamp set. The butterflies are die cuts . The white rose border is from Wild Rose Studio.

Challenges
1. Lil Patch of Crafty Friends: #80 Anything Goes
2. Stamping Sensations: April Challenge One For The Girls
3. Festive Friday -The Outlaws Challenge- Spring Buds
4. Love to Create Challenge:#7 April Anything Goes
5. Crafty Friends Challenge #82 Flowers
6. Colour Crazy Challenge Week 17 Anything Goes
7. Creative Fingers Challenge #/145