Crafty Cardmakers Challenge # 217 All Creatures Great and Small

Welcome back to Crafty Cardmakers Challenges! Today's challenge is  #217 All Creatures Great and Small, all animals, and insects in the kingdom are acceptable. The creature you choose must be the focal point of the creation.  Marg is hosting challenge #217.

Looking forward to seeing all your wonderful creations!

Image: The Stamping Bazaar's digital stamp  'Josie in a Hat'.
Colour Medium: Prismacolor Markers
Flower: Recollections Flowers from Michaels
 Die Cuts: the leaves and  border

Challenges:
1. Bugaboo -Anything Goes Challenge:
2. Crafty Friends: #91 Animal/Birds
3. 2 Crafty Critters Sept. Challenge
4. Crafty Animals Challenge 18 ATG
5. QKR Stampede Challenge #311 ATG
6. Show us your Pussycats #33 Furrything Goes
7. Kitty Bee Designs#126 ATG/optional animals

DT Card for Lexi's Creations Challenge #61- Easter

My DT Card for Lexi's Creations    Challenge #61 - Easter

Wow, hard to believe Easter is just about here,  but so it is; therefore  our theme over the next two weeks  is   EASTER, a glorious  happy time of the year!

The challenge will run March.19th - March 31st,2012     Put on your creativity hats and come share with us  your special version of the theme. Can't wait to see what you come up with!

Sponsor: The Stamping Bazaar take a peek , you will love their stamps!

                                                      

Card details:
Stamp: 'Nancy with Bouquet' from
 the Stamping Bazaar
Sentiment::  freebie from Netty's Cards
Die Cuts: Spellbinders Nestabilities   Standard Circles, Scalloped Circles; Marianne Designs   for the background circle and the flourishes
Flower: Mulberry Paper roses
Punch: Martha Steward branch punch
Paper:  DP from The Glitter Stack by DCWV

Challenges:
1. Dream Valley Challenges: #28 - Easter
2.One Stitch at a Time:#105 Girly
3.PanPastel UK Challenge 10 - Add a flower
4. Allsorts Challenge Blog - Week 146 - Three in a Row
5.Secret CrafterSaturday Challenge:#177 - Doilies are not just for Cakes I have use a doily die cut for the circles behind my image circle.
6.Totally Gorgeous: #123 Spring
7.Craft us Crazy #23:  Religious/Easter or Something sweet - I have an Easter card
8.S J PaperCrafts: Monthly Challenge#3 (March/April): Theme 1,2,3 plus added extra use 3 of something:  I used for my Easter card 1 image, 2 flourishes and 3 flowers and for the added extra  - 3 dew drop type round stickers in pastel colours
9. Crafty Ann's Challenge Blog #61 Spring into Spring
10.Phindy's Friday Challenge Blog: #97 Spring has Sprung

DT Card for Lexi's Creations Challenge #59 -Monochromatic

 

It is challenge # 59 over at Lexi's Creations . The challenge will run Feb. 20th - March 3rd,2012    The theme this time around is 'Monochromatic '. Put on your creativity hats and come share with us  your special version of the theme. Can't wait to see what you come up with!

Sponsor: The Stamping Bazaar

                                                      
I made this card for a dear friend - Happy Birthday Kat!!
Update: placed in the top three for PaperPlayTimes  week7 challenge 'Critter'
Update: placed Top Three for Lia Stamps challenge #11 add a flower


Card details:
Stamp: 'Josie in a Hat' from
 the Stamping Bazaar
Sentiment::  'The Gift' from  Fairy Dust Crafts
Die Cuts: Spellbinders Nestabilities  'Fleur de Lis Squares'; Standard Circles, Scalloped Circles and from Marianne Designs  Creatables 'Forest Branch' and 'Frames and Swirls'
Flower: Marianne Designs 'Flower Dies'
Punch: Martha Steward branch punch


Challenges:

Creative inspirations paint: inspired by polka Dots:
PanPastel@UK Challenge Blog: challenge 6 Animals
Scrappy Frogs Challenge Blog - Die Cuts
Stamping Sisters in Christ: #27 2 Cor2:16b  image must be or include a flower - my little image  shows a kitty smelling a flower
CES Challenge #73 Spots and Dots  ( this is my 2nd entry)
Secret Crafter: #173 BINGO - I used Swirls, Flower and Pearls
Crafty Ribbons Challenge #13 Paws for Thoughts- can include paws, thought as well as animals - mine has a kitty with her paws in the air
DYSU Challenge Blog #59 - Layers
Paper Playtime- week 7 Critters
Lia Stamps: #11 Add a flower

DT Card for Lexi's Creations Challenge #57 - Fancy Folds

                                                                                        It is challenge #57  at 

Josie in a Hat

Lexi's Creations and number two for 2012. Challenge will run   Jan.16th - Jan.28th. The theme this time around is 'Fancy Folds'. Put on your creativity hats and come share with us  your special version of a fancy fold. Can't wait to see what you come up with!

Sponsor: The Stamping Bazaar

 Head on over to Lexi's Creations for all of the challenge details AND  take a peek at all the lovely work from the multi talented Design Team while there! 

 I choose the digital stamp 'Josie in a Hat' from the Stamping Bazaar for my image.  She is just such a delightful kitty, I have fallen quite in love with her:0) . To give her the frame she deserved I went with my old  favorite the circle easel card., spruced it up with some designer paper from DVWC called  'The Glitter Stack'. Added a few flourishes, some DIY flowers , a circle birthday sentiment,  a pearl type brad and she was done!


Stamp: The Stamping Bazaar
Sentiment: Doodle Pantry Rounded Wishes
Flourishes: Marianne  Designs, Whimsy  -vines
Die Cuts: Spellbinders Nestabilities: inverted circles, scalloped circles,   classic standard circles
Colour Medium: Prismacolor markers





Challenges Entered:

Dream Valley Challenges: #24 Animals

One Stitch at a Time:#87 Round & Round 

Pan Pastel UK Challenge Blog:#2 Use Two of Something -I used two Marianne design Flourishes on the top circle  and two Whimsey Vines on the bottom circle

Card caravan Challenge#11 - Punches and dies

The Squirrel and the Fox: #9 Critters

Pattie's Creations Design: #35 Fancy Folds

Phindys Place #89: Shaped cards

Raise the Bar:#88 Circles

Stampin with the Dragon:#2 Anything Goes

DT Card for Lexi's Creations Challenge #54- One for the Lads

DT call at Lexi's Creations, we are looking for a some new members for the Design Team. Just add DT to your name when posting  if you wish to be considered!!

New challenge over at  Lexi’s Creations   with the theme of  One for the Lads'; challenge will run from NOV 28th - DEC10th, 2011. Thanks to everyone who played along with us for the last challenge 'No Straight Edges'  and hope you will join us for this one - One for the Lads!  The little fellow  I used as the main image is from 'The Stamping Bazaar'  (our guest sponsor). Isn't he just grand, cute as a button. I coloured him with Prismacolor markers and attached him to a Triangle Treat Box I had made out of some Stampin' Up  Card Stock. I had no little treats for the pictures, but one of my stepdaughters was on hand with  Little Latte sweets. As the Triangle box will going to her grand child I promised to have different treats, not coffee related, in it come Christmas time :). I used twine in place of ribbon to  tie the top closed.

Stamps:

Marvin with Candy Cane  from the Stamping Bazaar  

Branches: MS punch  

Die Cuts: Spellbinders  Deckled Rectangles  and Classic Standard Circles

Ticket : Whimsy Stamps

Star/Snowflake: Stampin Up  'Serene Snowflakes': I stamped and cut out the snowflake and placed it on  top of two die cut snowflakes  to create the dimensional star on the top of the box  (Spellbinders 'Create a Flake or Two').

We have two sponsors this week:

Sponsor: FDC Fairy Dust Crafts 

 

Sponsor: The Stamping Bazaar

 Head on over to Lexi's Creations for all of the challenge details AND  take a peek at all the lovely work from the multi talented Design Team while there! 

Challenges entered:

1.2Sisters Challenge Blog:#67 Holidays 

2. Sweet Stampin Challenge: Punches or Dies - I used a MS Punch for the branches and die cuts for  the botton two layers of my snowflake, the round circle in the backgroun and  the rectangle behind the bat 

3.Fairy Tale Challenges: #29 Christmas  I have created a triangle Christmas box

4. Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge #50: Make a Gift, anything but a card

5. Inspire Me Fridays: #34 linky party

6. Jingle Bells: Candy Kisses  

7.OCL93: Cute Critters

8. Totally papercrafts: Challenge 94 Christmas: 

DT Card for Lexi's Creations Challenge #52 Charming

New challenge over at  Lexi’s Creations   with the theme of  'Charming'; challenge will run from Oct 31rd -Nov.12, 2011. I choose to make a Christmas card with a silver candy cane charm as an embellishment. The little fellow  I used as the main image is from 'The Stamping Bazaar' . Isn't he just grand, cute as a button. I coloured him with Prismacolor markers and added some fuzzy flock to his hat. The poinsettia is a digital image from Fairy Dust Crafts  and I loved working with it. It comes in three different section and you just put it together - wonderful! 

Stamps:

Marvin with Candy Cane  from the Stamping Bazaar and Poinsettia from Fairy Dust Design

Flourish: Tim Hotlz "Elegant Flourishes'

Die Cuts: Spellbinders  'Lacy Squares

Design Paper from Stampin Up'

We have two sponsors this week:

Sponsor: FDC Fairy Dust Crafts 

 

Sponsor: The Stamping Bazaar

 Head on over to Lexi's Creations for all of the challenge details AND  take a peek at all the lovely work from the multi talented Design Team while there! 

Challenges entered:

The Cutie Pie Challenge:  challenge#4 use a charm

Die Cut Dreams Challenge:  so charming

Forever Friends: bling.bling - must use animal

Pollycraft Monday Challenge: anything goes

Catered Crop Linking Party" recipe : I used stripes, Christmas theme, markers,, stripes,die cuts, flock on the hat trim colour green

Dream Valley Challenges: anything goes

One Stitch at a Time:  challenge #86 Christmas