Stamp Something Delightfully Delicious & CHA Relay Day 4

Yay, another Friday and another challenge on Stamp Something!! 

This week we are sponsored by Digital Delights and Wendy has given the team some images to work with. In line with our theme this week, which is Delightfully Delicious, I chose Chef Luigi. 

I coloured my image using distress inks and shaded the background with Tattered Rose. I've had these PM Sweet Nothings papers forever, still not sure I like them but they suited my image. The flowers are Prima Hydrangeas and the sentiment is a Studio G.

The Greeting Farm CHA Rally

Day 4 - Prince Ian

Due to server overload that kept crashing the gallery the CHA Rally had to be terminated :(

However we did get Prince Ian to work with and he is a free download on TGF blog at the moment, so be quick if you want him.

Papers: Prima

Lace: Tabby Crafts

Tools: Cuttlebug, Nestabilities circle & curved rectangle, MS Punch

Distress inks, buttons & grungeboard crown.

PaperPlay Challenges with a Whiff of Joy & A spoonful of sugar :)

Good morning! A relatively quick post from me today as I have so much to do.. and so little time in which to do it.

Today's card is my PaperPlay Challenges DT project and my entry into Whiff of Joy's challenge which is a great sketch by Gio. I am also entering it into A Spoon Full of Sugar's Challenge which is 'Freestyle'

I used Willow with Flower Basket and she is coloured using distress inks. I've edged my papers, which are BG Porcelain, with Vintage Photo.

I used a selection of flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts and a litte pearl spray... no stickles this time :) The adage ticket is from Tim Holtz Idea-ology range.

OK, I'm off to get some work done so that I can play a little later. I have the 4th image from The Greeting Farm's CHA Challenge and need to get that done to move  onto the next round. I will get to visit some of your blogs a little later too!!

Have a great Thursday and Happy Crafting :)

TGF CHA Relay and an award

The Greeting Farm have a great competition going on while they are at CHA. Each day they are giving a free digi image to work with. You have to complete a project with the image, post it to their gallery by 6pm EST, and then link it on their blog to get the next image. All the details are HERE.

The first image was Mer Ian

Because I don't have the correct printer (roll on my birthday!!) I had to heat emboss the images before colouring them with distress inks.

On this card I made little circles with buttons to resemble waves/water. Ingenious idea, right?? .. Well it wasn't my idea, lol. My good friend Dee Dee used this last year on a commissioned mini album and when I saw Mer Ian it was the first thing that popped into my mind.  So thank you Dee2 for one of your many wonderful ideas :)

My papers are from the Planes and Trains collection by G.C.D Studios and I followed the sketch on Creative Inspirations. I printed out the sentiment. The twine and buttons are from my stash.

Monday's image was Charlotte

Ugh, I don't know what's up with my camera but this is dull, dull, dull compared to IRL. Maybe it needs to be cleaned.. hmmm.

 

These papers are from We R Memory Keepers "Madame Royale". I sanded the edges and then inked them with Vintage Photo. Did a little bit of ripping too. I added some pearls and cherry blossoms and finished with printing and embossing my sentiment.

This has been uploaded to TGF Gallery and have just recieved my 3rd image to work on :) Boy are they fast!!

I was given this lovely award by Heather and now have to share 10 things that give me pleasure with you all before passing it onto 10 other bloggers.

So here goes....

1. Being with my family
2. Enjoying the company of friends
3. Being a SAHM 
4. Seeing my kids smile
   
5. Crafting, especially colouring images. I find it sooooo theraputic
   
6. Blogging, and all the great friends I've made
   
7. Listening to music
8. Photographs -I love looking through people's photos
9. Going out 
10. Not having to get up early on weekend mornings!!!!!

And the 10 bloggers I'd like to pass it on to are

Dee Dee

Caz

Martine

Karen

Claire

Kellie

Kimmi

Kim

Julie M

Nancy

There are about 1000 other people I could give it to but the rules state 10.

Wow, I started this blog post over 4hrs ago and between tending to the kids and doing the school runs I am only now finishing it... yikes!! Have a great Tuesday - well what's left of it anyway :)

Crafty Angels DT-Magnolia Challenges & PTW again :)

Happy Monday!! I have to admit that I'm actually a fan of Mondays. The kids are back in school, the house has returned to some semblence of normality and I can finally get some down time :)

This past weekend was a very busy one. Saturday started off with an early wake up call from a very talkative 6yr old (I don't know where he gets it from!! :P ) He was excited about going to see Alvin & the Chipmunks. After last week's disappointment with it being sold out I pre-booked the tickets this week AND I invited his 2 cousins along. The movie was hilarious and they all had a fun time!!

Yesterday I travelled to Galway. Finally... after the floods, the weeks of sub zero temps and everything else Mother Nature threw at us I got to do my mini book class.... phew!! It was a long day but I totally enjoyed it. Pics to follow ;)

Sorry for waffling... onto the topic at hand.....

This week on Crafty Angels Laura has set us a challenge of Paperfolding. No pre-creased card allowed, we've got to make our own shaped card. So on to Splitcoast I went... and this is what I decided to make. A Joy Fold card.

Such a simple, yet wonderful idea. The instructions are HERE

I used BG Bittersweet papers with some pink and some brown card. My image is a very cute Valentine Tilda from my Winter Kit. She has been coloured using distress inks (my poor copics are feeling very neglected lately!). I distressed the background with Tattered Rose and edged all of my papers with Vintage Photo. The sentiment inside reads 'Sealed with a Loving Kiss'. The ribbon, placed slightly overlapping the top layer, keeps it all closed together and there is no need to open the ribbon, just slide is down a little.

This is also my entry for

Magnolia Down Under Challenges (Valentine),
Simon Says Stamp(Punch it)
Magnolia-licious Highlights (Pretty in Pink)
and ANOTHER entry for Papertake Weekly's Challenge (Pretty Pink Paptertake. I'm seriously thinking that I use too much pink!... NAH!! How could you have too much pink in your life??!! lol

Thanks for visiting my blog today and I hope you have a great Monday :) Please do check out Caz and Kate's blogs to see what they've created for this challenge.

Whiff of Joy meets Papertake Weekly & Simon Says

Hello and happy Saturday!! Since I'm here blogging it's safe to assume I'm NOT at CHA :(  Can't you just imagine what we're all missing??!!!

Anyhooo onto  my project which I made for the Whiff of Joy challenge. This week you have two choices 1) Use four PP, three bling & two flowers or 2) Use three PP, two bling and one flower.  I went with option 1

This is a flight ticket holder and inside I have put the booking form, confirmation letter, hotel/flight details, etc from my honeymoon (a long time ago!!). The stamp is from WOJ's new collection of Happy Mail images and  is called Charlotte riding Pidgeon & Sentiments. I have coloured my image with both distress inks and Twinkling H2Os.

For my three blings I have used a gem pin, a daisy head pin and some stickles on my flowers. The ticket is from Tim Holtz and I have distressed the edges with antique linen ink.

I am also entering this into the Papertake Weekly Challenge with their theme Pretty Pink Papertake and Simon Says Stamp Challenge "Punch It"

Tools used - Oval nestabilities, cuttlebug, MS Loops punch, McGill pine leaf punch

Papers - K&Company Sweet Talk

Ribbon - K&Company

Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts

Whiff of Joy GD call

Well as promised this morning I am back with another card that I made for the Whiff of Joy GD call.

Every 2 months on the 16th Katharina will be holding a Guest Designer Call. The call will be open for 1 week and from that 1-3 Guest Designers will be selected to create cards or papercraft projects with Whiff of Joy’s newest stamps for the next 2 months until the next Guest Designers are chosen.

Exciting stuff, huh??!! 

To enter the GD call all you have to do is create a project using the sketch that Katharina has provided on her blog and then provide a link to your entry using Mr. Linky.

So.. here is my take on the sketch..

I used one of the new Happy Mail stamps, which is called Charlotte with Large Letter, and I've coloured her using Twinkling H2O's and distress inks. I've also distressed all of my papers with Heidi Swapp edge distresser and both tattered rose & vintage photo inks. I love to stitch my papers when they are distressed.

I've sparkled up my flowers using star dust stickles and added some pearl spray and a WOJ daisy head pin. The cute heart pin is also a WOJ and was sent to me by my dear friend Sheila.

As always I finished off by adding some self adhesive flat-back pearls in various places around my card.

Best of luck to everyone who's entering, there are definitely some very talented crafters out there!!

Back tomorrow with yet another card I made this week, and got to finish off today as our internet was out, lol  :)

Oops!!

Happy Friday!!

This week on Stamp Something Challenges we'd like to see some Funny Somethings on your project.

Our sponsor is Sunshine & Giggles

I used a super-cute, super-funny image by Mo Manning called Sumpin's Up. I heat embossed and coloured it with distress inks. This is my first Digital Pencil digi and it certainly won't be my last. Laserjet printer on the list for my birthday :D

I also printed out the sentiment, made it into a tag and tied it on using string. The tag is up on pop dots which gives a 3D effect. I embellished with some buttons, a ribbon tab & pale green pearls.

My papers are Basic Grey Origins. I wasn't sure about these at all when I saw them online but IRL they are much nicer.. they do remind me somewhat of BG Mellow.

I am also entering this into Charisma Cards Challenge with their theme fruity colours (lemon & lime)

Tools used: Cuttlebug, Nestabilities Circle/Scallop Circle, Crop-a-dile. 

Don't forget to pop over to my very talented team member's blogs to see what they've made for this challenge. Links over there -->

Anyone for Anya??

There is a colour combo challenge over on Anyone for Anya? this week - Black & White +1. I chose pink :D

I used one of the new Miss Anya Love images and coloured her using distress inks. I added heart gems to the centre of the flowers and distressed the background with Antique Linen.

I made the cute charm using my patterned paper, glossy accents and Tim Holtz fragments. The trinket pin is also from the TH range. I added some pink scalloped lace and black satin ribbon, love how they went together!! Then finished my card by adding some more heart gems.

This card also fits the Papertake Weekly challenge, Pretty Pink Papertake, so I am entering it into that too.

I will be back later with another card.. I couldn't get online much for the past few days, but I have been busy crafting while running around like a headless chicken.... so I am cramming again, lol !!