Crafty Cardmakers Challenge #262 Things with Wings

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge #262 Things with Wings

Mary is hosting today's challenge and the theme is Things with Wings!  As usual, anything you enter is fine, a card, a scrap layout, a mixed medium piece,  some home decor,  as long as it meets the 'thing with wings' theme.

The image is a Whimsy stamp titled Mariposa Digital Stamp by Sylvia Zet  I love Sylvia's images, they make such wonderful children cards. I  used Stampin' Up cardstock, circle die cuts, a banner punch, and a 'love' stamp. The pink cardstock was wet embossed.

A Top Five pick at Allsorts WK 587

CHALLENGES

1.  Gem of a Challenge WK 18 Anything Goe 

2.  Lil Patch of Crafty Friends: CHG 140

3.  Allsorts Challenge Week 587 Going Around in Circles TOP 5 PICK

4.  All Fun Challenge #14

5.  Dare 2BArtzy August CHG Anything Goes

6.  Digi Designs:For the Girls Challenge

7. The Corrosive Challenge #8Anything Goes

8. Polkadoodles Craft  CHG Week 35 ATG

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge #253 Spring

Welcome to Crafty Cardmakers challenge #253 Spring. As usual, anything you care to enter is fine, a card, scrap layout, mixed media piece or some home decor. It must, however, meet the challenge theme.   
                  Judy is hosting the challenge.

What can be more exciting than the coming of spring, new growth, rain instead of snow, higher temperatures, longer days!  I know all countries do not have to go through a massive change in temperature but ask my aching bones from shovelling snow for 5 months, slipping along sidewalks, dressing in multiple layers and walking the dog no matter what. Spring is always so welcome.  On another note this spring has brought us something different, please take care out there and stay safe.

OK on to better things:

 Card Details;

Die Cuts were used to create the flower, the bow, the butterfly, the small heart, the tag and the  double-layered  background circle
Stamp: Whimsy Stamps: Sylvia Zet - Wee Stamps, Bonnie Rubber Cling Stamps

                               
Challenges:
1.Crafters Castle: March Challenge #27
2. Digidesign's Challenge  Embellish It Awesome
3. Colour Crazy  Craft Challenge: Anything Goes
4, Polkadoodles Craft Challenge: Week 12 Anything Goes
5. A Gem of a Challenge: Anything Goes
6. Allsorts Challenge week 564 Anything in the Animal Kingdom

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge #232 Dragons

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge #232 Dragons.  

Welcome to another challenge at Crafty Cardmakers. Lin is hosting today's challenge # 232
and the theme is 'Dragons and other Mystical Creatures'. It is St. George's day tomorrow, he died on  April 23rd in the year 303 so how appropriate to have the challenge in the same time frame.  If dragons are not your thing any mystical creature is welcomed. 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 theme.

I chose a Whimsy digital stamp (Freddie) and tried to keep the layout somewhat CAS. I added a corner flower and made the lone flower dimensional. Prismacolor markers were used in the colouring of the image. I also added a punched zig-zaggy layer to the bottom of the card.

Crafting with an Attitude Top Three placement

Challenges:
1. Bugaboo April  B-I-N-G-O Challenge (I used Sentiment, Players Choice and Stitching)
2. The Fairy and the Unicorn: April CHG Anything Goes/optionalEaster Rabbits
3. QKR StampedeChallenge#344 Anything Goes
4. Crafting with an Attitude: Challenge #50   Top Three placement
5. ITD Creative Playground Challenge 
6. Crafty Catz Challenge #458 Anything Goes
7. Creative Fingers Challenge #162

'tis the Season

Whimsy Stamps, Little Miss Muffet Stamps and Make it Crafty have joined together for a three company blog hop and challenge to celebrate their new releases this week. To catch all the fun go to the Three Company blog site.

Card recipe:
Make it Crafty:  Gift Way digital stamp
Little Miss Muffet: Saffron digital stamp
Whimsy Sentiment -ticket
I only had one Little Miss Muffet stamp and that was Saffron so I used her:O)

I merged the gift-way digital stamp with the Saffron stamp and obtained the above image of the girl (Saffron) standing in front of the presents and the way-signs. I stamped Warm and Wishes on the way sign and hand wrote 'winter' on the middle slat. Coloured the image with Prismacolor markers, added glitter glue to the snow on the sign and ground  and then to add interest to Saffron's hat and muff I used  white fuzzy flock . To finish the card off I added   flourishes from Marianne designs die cuts and a snowflake flower from Spellbinder die cuts. Punched out a few hearts to send some 'love' along the way.

Update: won at Digi Designs Challenge Blog
Update: won the grand prize at Three Company- Paris challenge - published in the Whimsy online magazine !!!

Challenges:
Three Company - Paris Challenge: Love
Little Miss Muffet Challenge:   Valentine's  or Love or anything goes if you have a Little Miss Muffet image
Winter Wonderland: A Christmas card- anything
Allsorts Challenge Blog: week 142 or anything goes
Digi Designs Challenge Blog: It's All About Snow!
My Sheri CRAFTS:#79 Warm Wishes- while  mine may not look warm it is wishing 'warm winter wishes',hope that counts!
The Stamp Man Challenge: Texture: I have an embossed background and lots of added details
Craft Us Crazy: #21 Favorite Colour /Favorite Embellishment   Green is my all time favourite colour and for embellishments I love anything that  is or resembles a flower. In this card i have made a snowflake flower:)
Shelly's Images-Terrifically Thrilling Thursday- Show us what You Got  (anything goes)

Kitten Thank You

I love this kitty from Whimsy Stamps Crissy Armstrong. He is so easy to work with and he looks different every time. This is another easel card; I am trying to get more proficient at making them!. I since found a challenge for one - yay!

Challenges entered:
Sunday with Crissy - Ribbons
Pixie Dust - Lets PlayTag 
Crazy for Challenges - Thank You Sentiment
Simply Create - use Punches
Stamp Something - Anything Goes
Winter Wonderland - Paws for Thought
Priscellastyles - The Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge - the top of the easel card is the match for the sketch and the botton is similar to the inside of a card. Hope that works(meets the criteria) as it is a great sketch.
Delightful Challenges: easel card
Fuzzy Wuzzy: Challenge #5, January- anything goes, but an animal must be the main focus
Lothian Crafts online challenge #10 - anything goes

Details:
Stamp: digital from Whimsy Stamps - Crissy Armstrong called Pebbles the Cat
Punches:  Butterflies - MS punch and Stampin Up's 'Beautiful Wings', Flowers -  punch from Michaels; border edging - MS
Sentiment: Stampin Up's punches and stamp
Paper:  Stampin Up - Chocolate Chip, Creamy Carmel, I made the background paper behind the tag and butterfly by sponging and brayering creamy carmel on white cardstock.
Markers: Prismacolors Buff, Parchment and Cinnamon Toast
Embossing folder:  Cuttlebug 'Forest Branches'