Color Me Creative - Gold/Cream/White

Good morning! Woah, one week to Christmas Day... how did that happen??! I am somewhat prepared for the holidays so I can take it easy this week... once I have the house cleaned, gifts distributed and teachers' gifts made/bought ;).

Color Me Creative's new challenge is ** HOLIDAY JOY--in Golds. Creams & Whites**

Show your holiday joy with sparkling colors of GOLD, CREAM & WHITE!

(you can use some other colors like hair/skin/etc but the majority of colors should be Gold, Cream & Whites)

We want to see you use YOUR COPICS, COPIC REFILLS OR COPIC AIRBRUSH SYSTEM (Or ProMarkers if you have them)

You can also use the Inspiration Pictures below if you need some extra inspiration to get those creative ideas going. 

 

Challenge Rules:

-Use any image you want BUT MAKE SURE YOU LINK BACK TO THE CMC CHALLENGE in your blog post!!

-ALL PROJECTS MUST BE NEW & NOT BACK-LINKED!!

-Image MUST be colored with Copics or ProMarkers or Colored Pencils!

UPLOAD YOUR ENTRIES to the Photo Gallery and TAG them with the word "SPARKLE" so they can be seen easily! **IF you post your project in your blog MAKE SURE TO LINK BACK TO THE CMC CHALLENGE **

Entries MUST be tagged and uploaded to the photo gallery by Jan. 5that 8:00 pm EST!

For this Challenge we have LOTS OF PRIZES!!

AND A WAY TO DONATE TO A WONDERFUL CHARITY - Reading is Fundamental

WHAT YOU CAN WIN:

-1 person will win a NEW Provocraft CRICUT MINI machine
-1 person will win a NEW KINDLE E-READER
-1 person will win a $50 Gift Cert. to SCACD
-1 person will win a $25 Gift Cert. to the Paper Temptress
-1 person will win 5 digis from Tiffany Doodles and a $15 Gift Cert to 7 Kids College Fund and a Gilli Gift Bag

HOW TO PLAY:
4 different ways to enter
-Enter up to (2) TWO projects into the link system below by Jan. 5th
-Enter (1) one project into the BookEndz Challenge
-Donate a $3-5 donation to the Charity below for 1 entry
-Donate anything over $10 to the Charity and get 2 entries

This challenge will run for one month, until January 5th!

Other Challenges

Cards und More - Monochrome Week

Creative Craft Challenges - Faux Or Real Stitching

Sweet Stampin -  Sparkle and Bling

Fussy and Fancy - Mono & Sparkle

  Glitter Geeks – Anything Goes

Inspire Me Fridays – Link Up Party

  

Catch up...

Good morning. Today I have a couple of cards to share. I was too ill last week to blog them, but thankfully I'm almost back to normal now.

Colo{u}r Me Creative's new challenge started on Friday night and we would love to see you create a Black & White OR Sepia project with a pop of one other colour.

Be sure to link up over on the CMC Copic Challenge for your chance to win a $20 gift certificate from Susana's Custom Art & Card Design.  Each challenge entry is entered into a monthly drawing for a $50 gift certificate to Oozak.com.  You have until Sept. 30th to enter. Remember this is a copic marker challenge so you MUST use your copics.

I used one of the new stamps from Tickled Pink Stamps and I've also used this card for my Tickled Pink DT card - yes, very naughty but I was ill, remember?! ;) The challenge set for us this week was to RIP something. You can interpret this as actually ripping something like your cardboard, paper, image etc. etc OR you can interpret this as R.I.P something. You must use an image from the Tickled Pink Stamps Line on your project to enter!!

Challenges - 

Card Cupids - Anything Goes

Gingerloft -  Vintage or Distressed

Here Come the Boys -Bingo* (Twine, Image, Squares)

 Scrappy Frogs -  Vintage

 

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My next card is for Basic Grey Challenges and we would love to see you use Pink & Brown on your projects. 

Of course I jumped right in as this is one of my favourite colour combos and when I was half way through I realised I was using My Mind's Eye papers so I had to dig into my stash and found some Basic Grey Sugared Rub-Ons that suited perfectly. . phew!! 

Challenges - 

Crafty Boots -  Wings

Kaboodle Doodles - Lots of Layers

Magnolia Monday Link Party - always Anything Goes
Make it Monday - always Anything Goes

Addicted to Stamps - Stitching

Magnolia Down Under Challenges - Picture Inspiration

Thanks for dropping by! Have a wonderful Tuesday. xx

Stampin' for the Weekend - Monochrome

Good morning. This week on Stampin' for the Weekend we have a monochromatic theme for you. I just love doing this type of card and almost always go with browns, my favourite!! 

The papers for this card are by Craftwork Cards and are from the Oh La La Collection. I've matted them with deep brown cardstock from The Paper Mill. This was my first attmept at machine stitching a circle.. a little bit wobbly in places but I'm getting the hang of it. 

I used the sketch from The Sugar Bowl and made an easel card to enter Sugar Nellie's Facebook challenge. 

 

I coloured my image using all Earth tone (E) copics. 

Hair -  44, 43, 42

Pants - 44, 43, 42, 41

Top/Hairband - 53, 51, 50

Skin - 51, 21, 00, 02

Letter - 42, 41

The flowers are all from Wild Orchid Crafts, as is the lace. My sentiment is from Lili of the Valley.

Challenges:

Paper Crafting Journey - Anything Goes

Stampin' B's - Monochromatic Card

Creative Cottage - Fabulous Florals

 Stampavie and More - Monochrome

Stampin' Royalty - Mark It Up - use markers

 Oldie But Goodie Challenge  - Add a heart (2 on my image)

Top Tip Tuesday  Stitching

Bunny Zoe's Crafts Spring - flowers Everywhere!

Ooh La La Creations  - For someone special

Thanks for popping in. Be sure to check out my teamies' blogs to see their Monochromatic creations. Have a wonderful Friday!!

Sandie

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Music Saves My Soul Saturday & Anyone for Anya? Challenge

Good morning. Something a little different to start off with today. Marcea from Marcea's Crafting Corner has resumed her Saturday music posting with a great name - Music Saves My Soul.

I love 80's music.. I was a teen child in the 80's and always loved music of any genre, depending on my mood at the time. I guess some things never change.... who wants to guess my mood today?? ;) 

To play along please post the picture of 'Music Saves My Soul' to your sidebar and link it to Marcea's blog to help spread the word. Then share your music video on your blog and link it up and Marcea will send a little candy to her favourite song each week. Fun or what??!! 

Now then, on to my Anyone for Anya? DT card and this week we want to see MONOCHROMATIC creations - which means different tones/shades of the one colour. 

The first thing that popped into my head when I read the challenge was Basic Grey Capella. Perfect!! I matted it with tan coloured cardstock. The border work was done with MS's Doily Lace Punch. 

I coloured my image with copics sketch markers - 

Skin: E21, 51, 00, 000, 02(blush)

Shoes, Coat & Hat: E44, 43, 42, E35(buttons)

Scarf & Flower: E50, 51, 53

Hair: E35, 33, 31

and I distressed the background with Brushed Cordoroy ink.

The yummy lace is one of ebay bargains - and that reminds me, I need to restock :D To embellish I added Wild Orchid flowers, 3mm self adhesive pearls and a Tim Holtz adage ticket. 

This week we are sponsored by Crafty Sentiments

and the prize is a fabby Christmas digi image. Be sure to hop over to the BLOG to check out both the prize and my teamies' wonderful work. 

Have a grrrreat Sunday!

Sandie

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