Magical Crafts Fortnightly Challenge #4

Thank you to everyone who took part in challenge #3 we hope you enjoyed the sketch, there were so many wonderful creations.

For our next challenge over on MCFC it is the theme of.....

TO SOMEONE SPECIAL or A SPECIAL OCCASSION

You can make a card or other project as long as it's for a special occassion or for someone special, feel free to make it christmassy or not as we are sure many of you maybe a bit sick of Christmas stuff now, but if you are yet to make a card or gift for that someone special this is the perfect opportunity. 

The DT have all been busy with their creations and all will be sure to give you some wonderful inspiration.

Here's mine.....

I am loving these easel style cards and this was a special xmas card I made for my mum and step-dad.

RECIPE

Digi Image - Chris Dark "Partirdge in a Pear Tree"

Papers - Dovecraft

Colouring Medium - Promarkers, Sakura Stardust (using a waterbrush)

Flowers - Prima

Other Embellishments - Ribbon and Gems from stash.

Ovals cut using nesties in the bug.

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We do hope you'll be able to join us for our latest challenge.  This is our last challenge before Christmas but we will be back with our next fortnightly challenge as normal on the 27th December.  In the meantime the MCFC team would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas.

xxx

Funky Fairys Challenge #36

Thank you toeveryone who took part in last weeks doodles challenge all such inspiring entries.

This week's theme over on Funky Fairy Challenges is...

'TRANSPORT'

We want to see your creations which show some form of transport on them.

We have a special prize for one lucky random winner a slot on the upcoming Funky Fairy's Workshop.

The DT have all been busy bee, wheezing away on their transport creations so be sure to check them out.  Here's mine...

As you can see my mode of transport is a motorbike.

We do hope you can join us for this week's challenge.

Recipe

* Digital Image - Sketching Stamper

* Papers - Funky Fairys 'Simply Brushed' and 'Slightly Spotty'

* Punched Border - Martha Stewart

* Embellishments - Card Candy and Black Funky Wool

* Colouring Medium - Promarkers, Copics and Sakura Silver Metallic

Thanks for stopping by!!

Joanne xx

Sketch & Stash Challenge # 10

Another fab sketch for the latest challenge over on Sketch & Stash.

The image is one of the new digi-stamps by Chris Dark available to download over on the Sketching Stamper Digi-Stamps. I'm a sucker for oriental so couldn't wait to get his one printed and coloured. Coloured with copics and blender with a touch of clear sakura stardust on some of the outlines. Inked the edges of the image then mounted onto silver mirror card. DP's are all K & Co, and the edges were inked. The plain deep purple paper is from my stash and embossed through the bug. Finished with some card candy.

I've flipped the sketch around to the opposite side, below is the sketch to follow.

Off to work in Emma's sandwich shop this morning and for those who have reminded me about being careful with the hotplate, I had a slight run in with it on Tuesday...lol, nothing major, but I'll definately be extra careful from now on. Enjoy your day!!

Stamptacular Sunday Challenge #5

WOW what a wonderful response to our challenge last week, all such beautiful creations and it was such a delight to visit your blogs, thank you to all who took part.

This week the theme is 'Mother's Day', I know for some of us this day has already passed but we can still celebrate mother's, so we would love to see your creations with mum's in mind be it a card or other project. Your creation just needs to include at least one stamped item or digi-stamp and be made exclusively for our challenge to be in with a chance of winning this weeks prize. The DT have come up trumps with some gorgeous inspiration for you, so please check out their work over on the Stamptacular Sunday Challenge Blog.

The prize this week is sponsered by the talented Chris Dark, and the winner will get a choice of SIX Digi-Stamps.


After yesterdays sneak peek I can now reveal the whole picture of my DT offering.

The image is one of Chris Dark's digi-stamp's called 'Daisy Crazy'. Coloured with copics and blender and the edges are chalked in orange. Base scalloped card is from Craftwork Cards, papers are Funky Fairys from the free 'Simply Swirly' set available on the Inspirational Blog. Ribbon from my craft stash then finished with card candy. 'Mum' has been handwritten on the bottom corner of the image. I do hope you'll join us for the challenge, looking forward to seeing your work.

Number Two For My Nan and Challenges

Here's the second card for my nan, which will be from my mum and step-dad.

I've used another of Chris Dark's gorgeous digi-stamps, as the flowers are just perfect for my nan, coloured with copics and blended. I've used the Tall Stories Keepsake Board for the card design, much the same as a bookatrix but portrait rather than landscape. Background layer is silver embossed card from Crafters Companion (won this on the One Stop Craft Challenge a few weeks ago), the middle layer is white hammer card and the top layer is paper from K & Co. The sentiment was done on the PC. Blue shimmer ribbon down the centre is from my scraps stash. Due to the patterns and textures I didn't want to over do the embellishments so just added some flat-backed heart and circle pearls. The turquoise/blue is my nan's favourite colour, so I'm sure she'll love this.

I'm so behind with challenges this week so just had a peak to see if this would fit any of the challenges and yipee there are two. The first is ABC Challenge which is 'H is for Hearts', I've used heart gems, so that should qualify. The second is Creative Card Crew which is 'Textures', the scalloped edges are all embossed and the silver card is also embossed, so hopefully this is OK.

Just need to make a box for it now!!

One For My Nan

It's my nan's 80th birthday on the 14th April, she is flying up to Scotland to visit my mum and step-dad for a couple of weeks this afternoon. As a surprise my mum is holding a little get together for her this coming Saturday, and as an extra surprise myself and my youngest brother are also going to be there. Well Steve and myself will actually be surprising her on Friday when we arrive at my mum's.

Anyway, I need to do two cards for her and here is the one from us.

The image is a gorgeous digi-stamp by Chris Dark, coloured with Twinkling H2O's and a waterbrush, I've also added a few dew drops using some 3D glaze.

Cut out image and gold matting using Labels '2' nesties then stenciled a gold rim around image and inked the edges in red. Sentiment was done on the PC and again cut-out using the label nesties.

Paper is K & Co and the red rose panel is organza type material with printed red roses, I bought this material in different colours and designs back last year and have only used recently. Added some gold ribbon going through the sentiment.

To finish I've stamped some swirls in red (though they look brown in the pic) to the top corners and added three tiny red gems.

Thank you for visiting and your coments are much appreciated. xx

A Spoon Full of Sugar Challenge #43

This week over on A Spoon Full of Sugar the theme is 'Little Gem'. They want to see gems on your creations.

The image I've used is 'Vicky' by the talented Chris Dark. Coloured using copics then inked and chalked the edges. The base card is leather effect black card I ran some blue sticky back plastic through my bug using the 'Script' folder, the picture doesn't really show the blue of the plastic, sorry. Flowers are from my crafting stash, punched some smaller flowers out of the black card then added a blue gem to the centres. Finished with some blue square gems.

Funky Fairys Challenge #5 ~ Swirls

WOW, we loved visiting all your blogs and looking at all the fab milk cartons you made for last weeks challenge, the winner and guest designer will be announced later.

LATEST NEWS

***The challenge for the milk carton last week has been extended for a further day, due to the word verification problems on blogger. a number of people have emailed Ria, saying they could not post their comment to enter the challenge. You will now be able to leave your comments, so please add your entry today. Therefore the winner and GD spot will not be announced until tomorrow. Thank You ***

This week we would like to see 'Swirls' on your creations, remember it doesn't have to be a card, you can make any creation for the challenge, all we ask is that you use at least one Funky Fairy Papercrafts item on your project.

I've used FF papers in orange from the Cherish collection. The daisy image is a digi stamp by the talented Chris Dark, coloured with watercolour pencils using a waterbrush then chalked the background. All ovals were cut using the nesties. Layered the image onto two offset scalloped ovals and inked all edges in brown. Used some lace across the card before mounting the image and sentiment. Sentiment was done on the PC, then chalked to bring in the colour match. To finish I've stamped swirls in each corner and added some prima flowers with brads. The flowers were white so have been daubed with brown ink.

We do hope you'll join us this week for the challenge, check out all the beautiful creations the rest of the DT have made over on the Funky Fairys Challenge Blog.

If you don't have any Funky Fairy Paprcraft items, and want to check out the quality of the papers, then there are some freebies available over on Funky Fairy Inspirations. You can also purchase individual sheets and kits from the Funky Fairy Papercrafts Shop, a new kit has been released this week 'Feelin Fruity - Shabby Style', which is gorgeous.

We look forward to seeing your creations.

I'm meeting up with Crafty Emma and Katy from the Glitter Garden today for some crafty chat, shopping and cake.

Enjoy your day everyone xxx

Sketch Saturday #38

I loved the sketch this week over on Sketch Saturday.




The image is a digi-stamp by the talented Chris Dark available from here. I've coloured using silver metallic and black stardust sakura pens applied with a waterbrush, and straight from the pen on some detail. Cut all the circles using Fiskars shapecutter. Inked up most of the edges including the base card with black. The background is plain black paper from my stash, the stripey paper I designed myself on the PC and the shimmering grey card is from my scraps stash and I've just creased some random lines down it using and lightly brushed over them with black ink. The sentiment was done on the PC. Added a button with black cord threaded through it, onto a disc of the stripey paper. Personalised the number plate with our nephew's name, his surname is Cross so the 'X' represents this, it's for his birthday in April from his nana. Below is this weeks sketch to follow:

One Stop Craft Challenge #16

The challenge this week over on One Stop Craft is a great sketch by Sharon.




My replacement CISS system for my printer came today, so hooray I have my printer back in working order, all chips are present this time....lol. So of course I had to give it a test drive in printing. The image is a digi-stamp by the lovely Chris Dark, coloured with copics, inked the edges in green and mounted onto red card from scraps stash. The papers are from Funky Fairys ' In With The Old'. I've inked all the edges of the papers. The rose lace is from a load of lace scraps which my nan collected for me. The sentiment is from Kanban and finished with three flat pearls in the bottom corner. Below is a close up of the rose buds image, and shows the dew drops I've added using 3D glaze.

Below is this weeks sketch to follow:

Papertake Weekly and a Fab Day

The challenge this week over on Papertake Weekly is to use hearts and/or flowers on your creation.

The image is one of Chris Dark's new digi-stamps available from Sketching Stamper Digi-Stamps. Coloured using watercolour pencils and a touch of clear sakura stardust in the flower centres, then lightly chalked the edges. Cut image using circle scalloped nesties then mounted onto green card cut into a hexagon. punched two holes at each point of hexagon then threaded orange organza ribbon finishing at the bottom with a bow. The background paper was a freebie from a magazine back from last spring. Added some tiny orange gems to the hexagon and green ones to each corner of card.

Had a fabulous day today, I met up with fellow blogger Emma from Crafty Emma for a coffee or two and a big slice of cake, with some naughty craft shopping too...lol, hope I wasn't a bad influence Emma. I bought quite a few goodies especially from the Range, and the little gems and ribbon in the above card are a very small portion of what I got. Thanks Emma for a great day, and hope to do it again soon xxx

Sketch Saturday #35

This week over on Sketch Saturday there is a fab sketch to follow.

The image is by Chris Dark called 'Daisy Crazy' and is available to download on Chris's new blog Sketching Stamper Digi-Stamps. I've coloured with watercolour pencils (you thought I was gonna say copics didn't you...lol). Lightly chalked the background and mounted onto green/gold shimmer card. The papers are PM Olivine Essence. Ribbon is from stash. Flowers cut in the bug using one of the dies from the 'Garden Creatures' set, using the green/gold shimmer card and the same paper as used for the scalloped panel. Sentiment is a stamp, which I've again lightly chalked and mounted onto the green/gold shimmer card. Below is the sketch followed:

Feeling loads better again today, still sniffling but feeling more myself. Steve's a bit better too today after lots of remedies, hotwater bottles, steaming and a good curry last night. His face is still swollen but not as much and he says the pain is virtually gone, but he has started with a cough through the night, which woke me up at 5 o'clock this morning, hence why I got two challenges done before 9 o'clock. Anyway, hope you all have a lovely day whatever your plans xx

A Spoon Full of Sugar Challenge #35

This week over on A Spoonful of Sugar the theme is 'Oh Baby'.

"create a card for a New Baby, Mum-to-be, New Mum or Pre-schooler".

This fab image is called 'Bearing Love' designed by the talented Chris Dark, you can now purchase this and other lovely images on Chris's new blog, Sketching Stamper Digi-Stamps. Coloured image with copics and added some sakura black glaze to the nose and eyes. The papers are from my scraps stash. The button is sewn on to the fabric flower and also with the thread I hung the 'Baby Girl' button from the flower. Used some pink lace from my crafting stash then finished with two pink flower buttons and a yellow heart button wth some pink thread tied through each.

Hope everyone's had a lovely day.