Back to Challenges

Here is my first challenge for a while. It is for the BasicGrey Challenge which has a fab sketch this week. I've recently discovered needle felting so was desperate to try it out for some card embellishments. The free bobbles are needle felted wool onto brads and then I made some mini-bobbles needle felted directly onto the ribbon. What fun. I think I'm going to like this craft.


Materials:
Paper - Basic Grey Mellow
Ink - Distress ink Walnut stain
Other - Red wool tops; Felting needle; Ribbon; Lace; Brads

Blog Candy

Some lovely blog candy over at Desire's Doing Life blog
but you have to work for it :)

Kaboodle Doodle at the Fifth

This week it is challenge number Five at Kaboodle Doodle - can you believe it? There are some scrummy free papers to download and use in your creation for this week's challenge and here is what I did with them. A friend of mine wants a jewellary box for her birthday and I've been shopping around but they aren't very nice so I thought I might have a go at making one - hope she likes it :)


Materials:
Papers - Kaboodle Doodle
Other - recycled cardboard; PVA glue; Acrylic varnish; wire; beads

The Month of Ramadan

Ramadan is nearly at an end. The Festival of Breaking the Fast, Eid-ul-Fitr, is next week and many families will be celebrating with prayer, food and gifts. Here is a card I made for a friend to celebrate Eid last year and thought I would put it up as we are still in Ramadan.


Materials:
Cardstock - Bazzill various colours
Inks - Gold Versacolor
Other - Stickles Glitter glue

Kaboodle Doodle Goes Fourth

So the fourth Kaboodle Doodle challenge got my brain really whirling this week. It is all about using something not traditionally associated with crafting in your project. What fun. It is harder than you would think, lots of things have been 'adopted' by crafting already!

Well have a look at my card can you guess what I used (the answer is in the materials list)? You can take the little animal 'flags' off of the card and stick them in something else e.g. a planter perhaps.



Materials:
Papers - Kaboodle Doodle
Inks - Distress Inks Black
Other - Cutton Buds; Notepaper; Coffee cup holder

Sewing Pot Holders

So what do you think? Do you think that everyone would like to have a pot holder for Chrimbo? :)

Not a card today but some sewing. Really must get some more sewing done. I have just loads of projects in my head but a lot of them seem to just stay there. Do you have that problem too? I have recently joined an embroidery group which is kinda like a knitting stitch and bitch but with embroidery instead :) I am very, very new to embroidery - have an awful lot to learn but that is what makes it fun isn't it?

Christening Card

It is my OH's nephew's Christening this weekend and I've been racking my brain for the card all this week. This is what I finally went for, perhaps inspired by my wedding card earlier this week :)


Materials:
Papers - Kaboodle Doodle Blossom Berry Bright
Image - doodled by me
Colouring - watercolour pencils
Other - Shades of purple cardstock

Trio Patterns to a Card

A Card for the Sarah Kay Challenge blog which this week has a Trio of patterned papers as the theme, you are only allowed to use three patterned papers, no more no less. The papers are from Designs By Krista Flora kit.

Materials:
Stamp - Sarah Kay
Colouring - Caran D'Ache pencils
Papers - Designs by Krista
Other - Sepia Fine Marker

Blog Candy

Some fabby Candy to go check out:

Desire on Doing life has a fab guessing game running till the end of October

A Wedding Card

A card for a wedding today, using the lovely Blossom Berry Bright kit from Kaboodle Doodle, I love this kit, and a stamp from Elzybells Art Stamp. This one is using the fab sketch from this week's Friday Sketchers. You can't see it too well in the photo but I used co-ordinating glitter on the dress, flowers, hat, waistcoat and cravat.

AND get this - I was drawn in last week's draw on Friday Sketchers and won the fab Hero Arts background stamp. How lucky am I? It was quite a shock, I was just checking out the site for this week's sketch and saw my name - so was not expecting that :)


Materials:
Stamp - Elzybells Art Stamp
Paper - Kaboodle Doodle
Colouring - Letroset Promarkers
Inks -VersaFine Black
Other - Glitter; Shades of purple Bazzill cardstock; Cuttlebug and Dots embossing folder

Autumn falls and a missed Challenge

Oh bless me. I am, as my friends would say, being special :) I looked at the Papertake Challenge on Monday (yesterday) saw that it is had an Autumn theme and went off and made this card using the Tweet Kit from Designs by Krista and my favourite stamp at the moment which is from Whiff of Joy. Only to go back to the site and find that I was a week late and Autumn was last week's theme and this week there is a sketch - D'oh.


Materials:
Stamp - Whiff of Joy
Papers - Designs by Krista
Inks -VersaFine Black; Distress inks Walnut Stain
Other - Sepia finemarker; Cuttlebug and leaf dies

Tearing Thanks

Having enjoyed tearing up for the Kaboodle Doodle Challenge this week, I carried on tearing. Here is a thank you card using Designs By Krista's Bewitching kit. I absolutely adore this kit. I love the turquoise and ruby together with the black - yummy. Think you will be seeing some more of this kit.
Anyway the card isn't for any particular challenge I just wanted to do it. Tearing is fun :)


Materials:
Papers - Designs By Krista
Other - Pearl Brads; Ribbon

Kaboodle Doodle Third Challenge

Week number three for the Kaboodle Doodle Challenge blog and this week it is all about tearing. So go on rip it all to peices :)




Materials:
Papers - Kaboodle Doodle Berry Bright
Inks - VersaColor Amethyst
Other - Stickles Eucalyptus

Another Christmas Card

This one is for Friday Sketchers and uses some of Krista's papers but actually not a Christmas set but her gorgeous Cabana set which has more of a Summer feel to it.



Materials:
Stamp - snowflake homemade; Personal Impressions
Papers - Designs by Krista Cabana
Other - Acetate; Cuttlebug snowflake embossing folder; snowflake brad; cord; glitter; embossing glue; heat tool

Kaboodle Doodles Sponsors the ABC Challenge

Hi All, just to let you know that Kaboodle Doodle is sponsoring this week's challenge from ABC Challenge which this week is H for Holidays. The DT work is fab, go check it out.

Inchies, Two of Two

Second inchy of the day and there is an Autumn theme at Inch by Inch.



Materials:
Paper - basic grey; coloured vellum
Ink - versafine ink; distress ink walnut stain
Stamp - leaves Avec
Other - emboidery silk; cuttlebug mini tag die

Inchies, one of two

So some mini 'art' for you :) This one is for the Small World of Inchies blog which has a celestial theme.


Materials:
Paper - coloured vellum; handmade paper; origami paper

Candy

Some fab candy up on Scrap Bitz offered by Suzanne. She is celebrating 20,000 hits with a fab give away.

Some more fabulous candy up on Nikki's blog Bunny-Zoe.

And some fabby candy on Crissy's blog Crissy's Art and Heart.

New Basic Grey Challenge Blog

A new challenge blog comes our way and this one is for the lovely Basic Grey papers. This week their challenge is buttons. Here is a card that I have made for my amazing Granny, to hopefully cheer her up after an illness.



Materials:
Stamp - Sugar Nellie
Colouring - Letraset Promarkers
Ink - VersaFine Black
Papers - BasicGrey Mellow
Other - Cuttlebug, leaves die; Buttons; brads; embroidery silk; stickles glitter glue

Daring Strawberry

A sketch from Daring Cardmakers this week. From being in Autumn to a quick drop back into summer for this card :)


Edit - Katy, the Editor of the fab mag Craft Stamper, has started a new blog and is looking for samples of the cover stamps in use. She has very kindly sampled this card on the CS blog :) Thank you.

Materials:
Stamp - Free From Craft Stamper Mag
Colouring - Trinkies H2O
Ink - VersaFine black, versacraft white
Other - red and white card; Cuttlebug; American Craft ribbon