Crafty Cardmakers Challenge #230 Someone Special

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge #230 That Someone Special.  Marlene is hosting today's challenge and you only have to make that someone special a card, scrap layout, mixed media piece or some home decor, the choice is yours.  Have fun!

I decided to make a card for a dear friend from high school.

Challenges
1. Cut it Up Challenge 170 Flowers  (my die cut is the swirly border die)
2. Kitty Bee Designs #139 In the Garden
3. Southern Girls Challenge: Someone Special with team Trace
4. Time Out Challenges: #131 
5. Dare2B Artzy: March Challenge
6. Dragonfly Dreams: For a Special Female

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge #229 Green

                      Crafty Cardmakers Challenge #229 Green

Marlene is hosting today's challenge and the theme is Green!

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 'green' theme.

I choose this delightful birdhouse image from 'Beccy's Place . I coloured the image with Prismacolor markers and made the flowers dimensional by cutting them out, colouring them and adhering them to the image with dimensional glue pads.  I then embellished the card with some die cut flowers (Fabulous Phlox by Memory Box) and a green ribbon. I used another die cut to frame the image.  Quite pleased with the result and do hope you join us in another fun challenge.

Challenges
1. Beccy' Place: March Challenge 
2. Crazy 4 Challenges -C4C474:  Include a flower or flowers
3. DigiDesigns Challenge Blog: TIC,TAC,TOE (green, embellishments,rectangle)
4. Jo's Scrap Shack:FFC#272Always Anything Goes 
5. QKR Stampede;Anything Goes Challenge #338
6. Crafts Galore Encore: #61 March ATG
7. Crafting with an Attitude: #49
8. Craft Rocket Challenge Challenge 57 March Flowers
9. Sasayaki Glitter  Stamps by Naz March Challenge Flowers
10. Southern Girlz Challenge: Flora and Fauna

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge #228 Flowers

                                        Crafty Cardmakers Challenge #228 - Flowers

                        Kim is hosting today's challenge and the theme is FLOWERS!

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 texture theme.

I used a rubber stamp from Rubbernecker titled 'Bold Daisy'. I have had this stamp for many years but a new version of it can be found here:  http://www.rubbernecker.com/product-p/506-05.htm. I made two of the flowers dimensional, added two corner die cuts to the bottom rectangle and used an embossed background from some older paper I had in my stash.

When I made this card we were in the midst of a deep freeze here in Alberta and it felt good to make a flower card, just to remind one's self that this too shall pass and life will return to the garden. Winter is beautiful but Lord I hate the cold.

On that note, have a great warm week!

Won a Top 5 Placement QKR Stampede

Challenges:
1. Crafty Catz: #450 ATG
2. Crafting with Friends:  Challenge #80 ATG
3.Creative Fingers; Challenge # 158 ATG
4. Jo's Scrap Shack: #270 ATG
5. QKR Stampede: #336 ATG   Won a Top 5 spot
6. Crafting with an Attitude: Challenge #48 ATG
7. A Bit More Time to Craft: # 86 ATG
8. Crafts Galore Encore #60 February ATG
9. Creatalicious Challenges: #157 ATG with the option of Girly

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge #227 Love, Love, Love

Welcome to another challenge at Crafty Cardmakers and Maike is hosting today's challenge # 227.
The theme of this weeks challenge is Love, Love, Love.  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 texture theme.

I choose to create a  card that would work for either a wedding or a valentines recipient.

Challenges
1. A Gem of a Challenge Wk 2 - Anything Goes
2. Di's Digidesign's Challenge - All About Love
3. Brown Sugar Challenge:#287 Feb.2019
4. Crafting with Friends: Challenge 79
5. Kitty Bee Designs:  #136 Love & Valentines
6. Aud Sentiments:#220 Love or valentines

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge #221- Explosion of Colour

Today's Crafty Cardmakers challenge is a fun one titled 'Explosion Of Colour'. Use your imagination and create, we would love to see your what you make. 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 explosion of colour theme.

I used a clear stamp from Inkadinkado titled 'Birds Galore' and coloured it with Copics and Prismacolor Markers. I did add some glitter to the image but hard to see in the photo. The large flowers were hand punched and sponged with ink. The leaves were die cut. The paper came from a friend and I do not know the name of the paper stack.

It has gotten slightly warmer here in northern Alberta and most of the leaves are gone. Spent a day racking them up and I see I now have to go rake up what was left. Should be the last rake though. Fall is pretty till the leaves are gone and then everything looks so naked. Nothing left to look forward to except the white stuff which does give beauty back to the countryside. Have a great week everyone.

Challenges.
1. Crafty Sentiments Design: Anything Goes
2. Week 43 Digi Choosday Crafting challenge: Anything Goes
3. Retarte130: Bugaboo Samps
4. Creative Moments: Challenge #155 ATG
5. The House that Stamps Built - 02418 ATG
6. QKR Stampede #319 ATG

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge #219 Lace or Ribbon

Kim is hosting the challenge this fortnight and the theme is Lace or Ribbon

As usual, anything you enter is fine, a card, scrap layout, mixed media piece, some home decor, as long as it meets the lace or ribbon criteria.

I had this gorgeous floral lace in my stash for a few years and this seemed the ideal time to use it. I loved it so much that I found it hard to use if you know what I mean. The image is 'Poppies' from Just Inklined,  and was coloured with Copic markers. The sentiment is from  Stampin' Up and I finished it off with rhinestones.

Challenges:

1. Alphabet- N is for Nature 
2. Colour Crazy Craft Challenge - Anything Goes Colouring Challenge 
3. Creative Fingers Challenge #152 
4. Jo's Scrap Shack #253 ATG 
5. Polkadoodles Week39 ATG 
6. QKR Stampede:#315 ATG 
7. Outlaws Festive Friday, Sept. 28/18

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 #201 Animal Magic

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge #201  Animal Magic
Kim is hosting our challenge this fortnight and  her challenge is 'Animal Magic' We would love to see your creations  based on an animal theme. Please make sure that your project has an animal big enough for us to see. We are excluding insects,  so no butterflies, bugs or bee's etc for this challenge.  Your project may still have them but not as your animal.

I choose a swan and her family for my 'animal'. A swan is from  the Kingdom of Animial so I thought it would suffice. Definitely not an insect.

I created the background by sponging  the sky and water with several shades of blue ink
. The swan and family are from a Flourishes stamp set called 'Swan Lake'.   I stamped the top shoreline  with a grass stamp from an old Kitty Kits stamp set and hand drew some of the foliage over the stamped image.  The bottom foliage is stamped from the same  Flourishes 'Swan Lake' stamp set. The leaves in the top left corner are from a Memory Box die set titled 'Fabulous Phlox'. The 'peaceful waters' letters are from an alphabet die set.

Won a Top # Placement at Heartfelt Stamping
Won Draw at Fashionable Stamping

Challenges
1 .Come and Get It Challenge :Animals
2. Fashionable Stamping Challenge :#129 Nature Random draw winner
3. Stamped Blessings Heartfelt StampinLg Challenge: Anything Goes plus a Stamp Top 3 Pick
4. Lil Patch of Crafty Friends: #70 Anything Goes
5. Pile it On:#136: Large Sentiments and /or Things with Wings
6. The Corrosive Challenge:#11 November Anything Goes
7. Scrappers Delight November  2017 Challenge Anything Goes
8. Crafting With Friends Challenge #55 Anything Goes
9. Morgan's Art World #23 Anything Goes
10. QKR Stampede: #271 Anythig Goes

BDay Strawberry Card

The fabulous strawberry stamp was bought years ago from Flourishes and this is only the  second time I have used it. So pretty.

I made a double bow and added  pearls for accents. The grass was from a Cherry Lynn Die Cut.  I stamped the image twice so I could make  some of the leaves, berries and flowers dimensional. The sentiment is Stampin' Up's. 

This one is going to one of my lovely step daughters.
Thanks for visiting.



Challenges:
1.Colouring in Scrapland: Challenge 10 Naughts & Crosses/Bingo - I used flowers, pearls and die cuts
2.Artistic InspirationsChallenge 155 Anything Goes
3.Craft-Dee-Bowz: April Challenge Anything Goes and Include a handmade Bow
4.Craft Your Passions:Challenge 309 Anything Goes
5.Love to Scrap:LTSCB#76 Anything Goes
6.Our Crafty Corner Challenge 8 Anything Goes
7.The Paper Nest Dolls Challenge 4 Anything Goes
8. Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge 32 Anything Goes
9. Outlaws Monday Challenge - must have a greeting on the front .  GCCO42516