Totally Papercrafts Challenge #25 & Pollycraft 'Flash Those Freebies'

Good Morning All!!

My I'm a tad late this morning with my post for our next challenge over at Totally Papercrafts.  It's been all go for me over the past couple of days. Over the past couple of months I've been doing numerous tests, a telephone interview and then a face to face interview for a job at HSBC, alot of waiting gaps inbetween all of these too...lol.  My final interview was last Friday and finally late on Tuesday I got the job offer...woo-hoo!!  I'll have about a month to get myself organised before going back into full-time employment after a 4 year break.

Well thats my news now onto the TPC Challenge!!

Carol is your host this week and has a recipe for you...

1 IMAGE

1RIBBON

2 PAPERS

3 EMBELLISHMENTS

(it can be either just 3 embellies or 3 types of embellies)

We are thrilled to this week be sponsored by Elizabeth over at Soft Pencil, and the winner will get a $10 voucher to spend in her image store.  Elizabeth also provided us DT with some gorgeous images to work with.  So please check out my fellow DT buddies wonderful work and here is mine...

RECIPE

Digi-Image - Soft Pencil 'Japanese Girl'

Papers - Dovecraft

Colouring Mediums - Watercolour Pencils blended with Sansodor & Promarkers for the skin tones

Sentiment - PC Generated

Embellishments - Ribbon and Flower from my stash.  Pearls & Ribbon Slider from Crafty Emma's Store

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We do hope you will be able to jin us for our recipe challenge, we can't wait to see what you whisk up!!

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POLLYCRAFT

It is Friday but there is no new freebie for you today, unless you do a little work!!  Paula through this week has been running a little challenge called 'Flash Those Freebies', you'll find full details over on the Tales from Pollycraft Blog, taking part means you will get a freebie image emailed to you for the next part of the fun, but there are some strict rules so please read them carefully.  It's been running since Monday, so if you've not popped over and seen it yet you still have a few days left to take part.

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Just one more bit of news......

Some of you may have already seen on the Magical Crafts Challenge Blog that sadly it will be closing after the current challenge.  But don't worry, the MCFC DT and myself are working on a brand new fortnightly challenge blog to launch in August.  Please keep an eye out on the DT blogs next week for more info on the new challenge blog launch and there will be a chance to win some candy too.  So watch this space!!

OK, you can go now...lol, that's all my news for now.

Thanks for stopping by!!

Hugs

Joanne xxx

Magical Crafts Challenge #19 & Crafty Emma's Store is NOW OPEN!!

Good Morning.!!

I can't believe how quick 2 weeks goes, it's time for our next challenge for you over at Magical Crafts.

Well our 'Flower Power' challenge was very popular, a record breaking number of entries.  This time round we are cooling this warm summer weather down with a more festive challenge...

'CHRISTMAS IN JULY'

So we would like to see your festive creations, be it cards, gifts, decorations etc.. Like it or not many of us crafters have to think of Christmas around this time of year if not all year, so if you've not started yet here's the perfect opportunity to get you kick started.

We welcome back Stitchy Bear Stamps as our sponsor and the DT have used images by 2 featured artists Stitchy and Stampin Dragon.  So please check out all the DT's wonderful creations.  Here's mine...

RECIPE

Digi-Image - 'Penny Presents' Stitchy Stamps

Papers - From my scraps stash

Colouring Mediums - Copics and Promarkers

Ribbon, Card Candy and Sentiment - All from my stash

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We do hope you will be able to join us for our Xmas challenge, we can't wait to see your makes.

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I just want to do a quick shout out for my buddy Emma, she has entered into a new venture so...

Is now open for business!!

Now to help Emma spread the word about her new store she has a £10 voucher for her store up for grabs for one lucky winner.  So please go visit Emma's Blog to see how you can be in with a chance of winning.

Enjoy your Sunday everyone!!

Hugs

Joanne xx

Magical Crafts Challenge #18

Good Morning!!

What gorgeous weather we seem to be having across the UK, on Glastonbury weekend too, which is normally known for it's mud bath...lol.  Wonder how many will be having BBQ's today with the England match this afternoon, lets hope it will be a celebration!!

Anyway, it's time for a new challenge over on Magical Crafts.  We had well over 200 entries for our last challenge and I have a feeling our next challenge for you could end up being another high entry one, as it's a nice easy one.....

'FLOWER POWER'

We just want to see some flowers on your project, see nice and easy and for the majority of us we love to use flowers right?

The DT have come up with plenty of gorgeous flowery inspiration for you so please do take a moment to check them out.  We are being sponsored this time round by our wonderful monthly sponsor Simon Says Stamp and the winner will recieve a $10 spend in the Simon Says Store.

On a sad note our fellow DT member Steph is stepping down from the DT for personal reasons, she has been with us from the very beginning and is going to be awfully missed.  Thank you Steph for all your support and commitment to the team and I wish you all the very best hun for the coming months and beyond.

Right, here's my flowery project....

The blank frame was from The Range and I have covered it with some black netting material that has coloured flower detail on it, I found it amongst my material scrap stash.  I've made the flower by cutting out lots of circles of three sizes from some pink, blue and white organza, then layered and scrunched them together before securing by sewing them together in the centre.  I then pushed a pink gem brad with a spacer through the centre of the flower to finish off.  I found the feather amongst the scrap material so thought this looked great with the flower.  The stringed gems running around the edge of the frame I bought sometime ago from a local haberdashery store.  As you can see I took photo's of the frame both ways that it can stand to see which looked best but I think you'll agree it looks great either way so decided to show them both.

We do hope you'll join us for our latest challenge, we can't wait to see your flowery creations.

Hope everyone enjoys the remainder of their weekend, slap on that suncream and enjoy!!!

Hugs

Joanne xx

Magical Crafts Challenge #17

Good Morning Everyone!!

Well it's Sunday and I'm hoping that Mr Blogger has posted this scheduled post correctly as I should hopefully be enjoying a nice few days away down in Tewkesbury.

Thank you to everyone who took part in our last challenge over at Magical Crafts and it's now time for our next challenge.

SOMETHING FOR A MALE/FATHERS DAY

With Fathers Day fast approaching this would be a perfect time to create something for a dad.  However, you don't have to do something for a dad it could be anything for a male.

We welcome Stitchy Bear Stamps as our sponsor, they will be sponsoring us a few times over the coming months featuring different artists.  This time the featured artists are Crafty Chaos Designs & Stitchy Stamps.

The DT have all been busy with their amazing projects so please be sure to check them out.  Here's mine...

RECIPE

Digi Image - Stitchy Stamps 'Home On The Range' (available from Stitchy Bear Stamps)

Digi Papers - Crafty Chaos Designs 'Basic Black & White Paper Set' (available from Stitchy Bear Stamps)

Embellishments - Leather straps, buttons and card candy all from stash

Sentiment - Craftwork Cards

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We do hope you will be able to join us for our latest challenge, we can't wait to see your projects.

Hugs

Joanne xx

Magical Crafts Challenge #16

Good Morning!!

It's time for our next challenge over on Magical Crafts.  Firstly thank you to everyone who entered out last challenge, it was great to see so many colours to mix with black and white.

Challange #16

METAL MADNESS

This time round we would like to see some metal on your projects, so it could be metal embellishments, metallic colours or card or how about making something out of metal, or maybe altering something thats metal.  Lots of scope here for your imagination.  The DT have been putting their excellent talents into place to give you plenty of inspiration so please do check them out.  Here's mine....

RECIPE

Digi Image - Pollycraft 'Ronnie Relaxing' (Special charity image, please check out the top of my right hand side bar for details)

Card Stock - Kanban

Colouring Mediums - Watercolour Pencils blended with Sansodor

Sentiment - From stash

Bottle Tops - Put through the cuttlebug to flatten them out.

Brads - From stash

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We do hope you'll be able to join us for the challenge, we can't wait to see what you create.

Happy Sunday!!

Hugs

Joanne xx

Magical Crafts Challenge #13 and Introducing Our New DT Members!!

Good Morning Everyone!!  It's another gorgeous sunny start here, seems so strange to have such cloudless skies and no vapour trails from airplanes.  

Well it's Sunday and time for a new challenge over on Magical Crafts.  But firstly I would like to introduce our new DT members....

Lisa

Doreen

Sarah

Renate

Amanda

Lesley

Shelley

Mel

We are so delighted to welcome these ladies to the team, congratulations to you all!!  You will start to see these ladies work from our next challenge on the 2nd May.

There is also some very sad news too....Angel, the creator of the challenge blog, has decided to step down from the running of the challenges and DT due to personal reasons.  We are all saddened to see her go and thank her so much for setting up the challenge blog, and she should be so proud at achieving an ever growing popular challenge blog.  We wish you well hun xx.  The reins have now been handed over to me, so the challenge blog will continue to run as usual.

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Challenge #13

'SOMETHING FOR THE GIRLS'

 A nice easy challenge for you.

We are kindly being sponsored by The Stamping Boutique this time round and the prize offered to the winner is 3 images of the their choice.

Some of the DT have used images kindly given to us from The Stamping Boutique, so please check out all the fabby creations the DT have done to inspire you.  Here's mine...

RECIPE

Digi Iamge - The Stamping Boutique from the 'Princess Jennifer Latte' collection

Papers & Card - Kanban

Colouring Mediums - Copics & Promarkers

Labels - Nestabilities

Sentiment - Craftwork Cards

Embellishments - Ribbon and Brads from stash

Flower Punches - Woodware

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I don't normally put my challenge DT cards into other challenges, however I was inspired to make this card purse when stumbling across the Project Tuesday challenge blog this week, and they also provide a link to a tutorial for making one, so I think it's only fair I enter my card purse into their challenge this week.

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We do hope you'll be able to join us for the latest challenge, as always we look forward to seeing all your entries.  Enjoy your Sunday!!

Hugs

Joanne xx

Magical Crafts Challenge #12 and Critters & Cogs Final Preview Day

Good Morning Everyone and a Happy Easter to you all!!!

It's a gorgeous start to the day here today, so we are off to the local carboot and market in a bit before going to pick up MIL who is spending the day with us.  But before I nip off I best share with you the next challenge on Magical Crafts Fortnightly Challenges and the final preview for Pollycraft's 'Critters & Cogs'!!

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MAGICAL CRAFTS CHALLENGE #12

Thank you to everyone who joined in with our last challenge which was Spring/Easter, it was such a delight to see so many fresh spring colours and lots of bunnies and chicks, and again it was another record breaker for the number of entries.

Our next challenge for you over on Magical Crafts is.....

'ANIMAL ANTICS'

A fairly easy one really we just want to see you use animals on your projects whether they are cute, cuddly, furry, feathery, funny or just plain ugly...lol.  We welcome back our monthly sponsor Simon Says Stamp, the winner will win a $10 spend in their store!!

The DT loved this animal themed challenge and have come up as usual with some superb inspiration for you, so be sure to check them out on the challenge blog.  Here's mine.....

RECIPE

Stamp - House Mouse (a RAK from my SIL, so don't know the correct name for it)

Papers - Papermania and Artilicious

Colouring Medium - Watercolour Pencils and Sansodor

Flowers & Leaves - Punched from the papers using Flower punches from Woodware and MS Frond Leaf

Flower Doily Border - Martha Stewart

Other Embellishments - Dew Drops from stash, coloured with permanent markers

Raindrops - 3D effect using Diamond Glaze

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We do hope you will join us for our new challenge, remember we are a multi-craft challenge blog, so accept all kinds of crafts not just papercrafts as long as you stick to the challenge theme.

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CRITTERS & COGS FINAL PREVIEW DAY

Yep it's the final day of previews for the 'Critters & Cogs' and tomorrow the digital images and clear stamp sentiments will be released and available from the Pollycraft Shop.  So today is the preview for the final three images which remember you could be in with a chance of winning if you enter today's prize draw over on Tales from Pollycraft, and if you haven't yet entered the previous three day's draws then you still have time to enter those also.  As well as entering the draws you'll also be able to see all of the images and the awesome work from the DT, so make sure you hippty hop over to the Tales from Pollycraft blog, but before you do here's a little taster from me using one of todays previewed images....

This cute little cogcake is called 'Lovebot'

RECIPE

Digi Image - Pollycraft 'Critters & Cogs - Lovebot' (released 5th April)

Papers - Blonde Moments

Colouring Mediums - Copics, Promarkers and Sakura

Stamped Sentiments - Pollycraft 'Critters & Cogs Clear Stamp Sentiment Set (released 5th April)

Border Punch - Martha Stewart

Embellishments - Little cog buttons from stash

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Well we hope you have enjoyed the past 4 days of previews for the new 'Critters & Cogs' and remember they will all be released tomorrow (Monday 5th April) and available from the Pollycraft Shop, and don't forget that there is a new Pollycraft Challenge tomorrow also!!!

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Enjoy your Easter Sunday all, and don't be eating all those chocolate eggs at once...lol.

Hugs

Joanne xxx

Magical Crafts Challenge #11

Good Morning everyone, hopefully my scheduled post has posted on the correct date and time as at this moment I should be well on my way to Harrogate for the Great Northern Papercrafts Extravaganza.

Thank you to everyone who entered our last challenge over on Magical Crafts..WOW it was a record breaking number of entries.  We're guessing things with wings are popular with many of you...lol.

Challenge #11

Spring/Easter Theme

Well it's only a few more weeks until Easter and yesterday was the first day of spring, so what better theme to kick start the new season with.  We would like to see your Spring or Easter inspired projects.  Remember you can enter with any craft it doesn't have to be papercrafts, all you have to make sure is that you follow the set challenge.

This fortnight we are kindly being sponsored by Lexi's Doodles and the winner will win three images of Lexi's.  The DT were lucky enough to use the three images for our creations to help inspire you, please be sure to check out all of my fellow teamies work.  Here's mine........

I've decorated a papermache basket from Hobbycraft using paper from Papermania, the crochet flowers I made myself, this time last week I couldn't even really crochet, I spent many hours watching You Tube tutorials over and over...lol, so I'm quite proud of these, the buttons in the centre's are also Papermania.  The oversized ribbon was from my gorgeous mother's day bouquet from the girls and I have used Lexi's sweet 'Bella the Bunny' as a tag, this image is one of this challenge's prizes.

We do hope you will be able to join us for our challenge this time round, we can't wait to see your creations.

Thanks for stopping by!!

Hugs

Joanne xxx

Magical Crafts Challenge #9

Good Morning All

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the last challenge 'For The Kids', so many wonderful projects.

For challenge 9 over on Magical Crafts Fortnightly Challenge the theme is...

'SOMETHING FOR MUM'

Mother's day is fast approaching here in the UK, but we also understand that for some of you Mother's day is later in the year, so we would like to see projects with 'MUM' in mind, be it for Mother's day, birthday etc..

Remember we like to see all crafts over on Magical, so any crafting technique, be it knitting, woodwork, pottery, painting, papercrafts.....absolutely anything goes as long as you stick to the theme.

This week we are being sponsored by Sew Many Cards, and the winner will win 5 digi images of their choice from the SMC Store.

The DT were able to work with some SMC images and as always they have come up trumps with some inspiration for you, so be sure to check them out over on the challenge blog.  Here's mine.....

 

I've made this cute word book with my mum in mind.  Now my MIL being in her 80's is more the elegant flowery type of person and my mum, well I think she loves everything I do, but my dilemma was I know my mum is gonna be peeking....lol, Yes Mum, I know your looking!!!  So this is for me and I will be adding little pics and things about my mum to the pages and make it into a little keepsake for me.

RECIPE

Digi Image - Sew Many Cards 

Papers - K & Co

Colouring Medium -Copics

Ribbon from stash

Flowers punched from papers using Woodware Flower Punches

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We do hope you'll be able to join us for our latest challenge, we look forward to seeing your creations.

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Well I awoke this morning at 7:30 thanks to Mollie Mops and her barking at the poor paperboy.  When looking out of the window this is the scene I saw...

Yep...the snow is back!!  They forcasted that a light dusting of snow was likely, well I think this is a tad more than a light dusting...lol.  And it's still going strong now.  But as you'll see below, Mollie Mops just loves it...

 

Don't think we'll be going far today!!

Enjoy your Sunday and if you have the snow enjoy it, but please be careful if you need to go out in it.

Hugs

Joanne xx

Magical Crafts Fortnightly Challenge #8

Good Morning Everyone!!!

Thanks to everyone who played along with our Valentine's challenge, such gorgeous creations.

We are now on to Challenge 8 over on  MCFC can you believe!!

Our challenge for you this time round is.......

'SOMETHING FOR THE KIDS'

We would like to see your projects with a child in mind.  Remember we welcome any kind of crafts as long as you follow the theme.

This week we are being sponsored by

One lucky winner will get $10 to spend in the Simon Says Shop, and they are kindly going to pay your p&p so you will get the full $10 to spend.

My fellow DT buddies have really gone to town with this challenge, and you will find plenty to inspire you.  Here's mine for you...

 

I've altered this little gift bag with a little princess in mind, perfect for most little girls, I think.

RECIPE

Digi Image - Spiral Whispers (sadly currently no longer available)

Paper - From scraps

Colouring Mediums - Copics and Promarkers

Embellishments - Ribbon, Flowers, Gems and Charm all from stash

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We do hope you come on over and play along with our challenge for you, we are all looking forward to seeing your projects for a child.

Enjoy your Sunday

Hugs

Joanne xx

Magical Crafts Fortnightly Challenge #7

A Happy Sunday to you all!!

Gosh two weeks have flown by and it's time for our next challenge over on MCFC.  For Challenge #7 the theme is....

"Valentines"

Yes that's right Valentine's day will soon be here, so we would love to see your projects with Valentine's in mind.  We are kindly being sponsored for this challenge by Sunshine Stamps and the winner of this challenge will recieve THREE digi-images.  

The DT have come up with some fabulous creations to help inspire you this week using the images that someone will win, so please pop to the challenge blog to take  peek and I know they would love it if you also visited their blogs where you will find more details about their projects, you can find links to their blogs on my left hand side bar or you can just simply click their names above their creations on the challenge blog.  Here is my DT creation for you....

  RECIPE

Digi Image's - Sunshine Stamps 'Sealed With A Kiss' and 'Sweet Bee 4'

Papers - I think is Papermania, black card from stash

Colouring Mediums - Copics and Promarkers

Lettering - PC Generated

Embellishments - Card Candy

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We do hope you'll be able to come along and join us for our latest challenge, myself and the rest of the DT are looking forward to seeing your Valentine's projects.

Enjoy your Sunday!!

Hugs

Joanne xx


P.S. Please forgive the changes in text and the larger than normal gaps, I have tried to rectify this three times and it appears I'm just making it worse, don't understand what's going on...lol, hopefully it's just blogger and not me!!

Magical Crafts Forthnightly Challenge #6

Happy Sunday morning to you all and it's time for challenge #6 over on MCFC.  Thank you to everyone who took part in our last challenge, lovely to see so many new faces joining in and of course lovely to see all our regulars too. 

This time round we have the theme of...

VINTAGE

Anything goes as long as it has a vintage style, you don't have to use any images a good old bit of distressing is just as vintage.  We are kindly being sponsered for this challenge by June at Dezina World, when you are looking for things vintage this is the place to look and the lucky winner will recieve two images which you will have also been used by the Dt for their creations to help inspire you this week.  Please take a moment to check out all the DT works you can find links to their blogs on my left side bar or on the challenge blog.  Here is my DT creation for you....

 

RECIPE

Image - Dezina World

Papers - K & Co

Papermache Box - Hobbycraft

Embellishments - Ribbon, Flower and Lace from stash

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We do hope you will be able to join us for our latest challenge and we look forward to seeing your vintage creations.

Joanne xx

Magical Crafts Fortnightly Challenge #5

Hope everyone has had wonderful Christmas.

Thank you to everyone who took part in our last challenge, I must apologise for not getting around to visiting everyone's entry, there really hasn't been enough hours in the day lately.

Here at MCFC we decided for this year we wouldn't take a break for the xmas period so here's a chance for you to use some of those crafting goodies you might have recieved from santa.

Our theme for you this fortnight is.......

Thank You

Many of us need 'Thank You' cards after Christmas so this is another perfect opportunity.  You can use anything you like and do any craft, it could even be a thank you gift if you like.

This week we are being sponsered by 'Incy Wincy' a children's charity who do such wonderful work raising money for local children's charities in Australia.  They have a wonderful gallery of images to purchase and have very kindly donated TWO images for the winner of this challenge and the DT have been lucky enough to use these images on our projects also.  Please help support Incy Wincy by visiting their shop and there is also a fab weekly challenge also on their challenge blog. 

The DT as alwayshave come up with some wonderful projects to help inspire you and here is mine....

This is one of the gorgeous digi-images one lucky winner could win, it's so versatile and would be ideal for many occassions, as you can add your own text to the note paper, I have handwritten the text for this 'Thank You' card.  

RECIPE

Digi-Image - Incy Wincy Designs

Papers - Kaban

Colouring Medium - Promarkers

Embellishments - Flowers, Ribbon, Card Candy and Charm all from stash.

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We do hope you will be able to join us for the challenge and the MCFC DT would like to wish everyone a

Happy New Year and best wishes for 2010.

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.

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Magical Crafts Fortnightly Challenge #3

Good Morning All

I can't believe we are already on to challenge 3 over on MCFC.

Thank you to all who took part in our last challenge, such amazing creations.

This week we have a sketch for you to follow....

You can flip, rotate, resize and chamge shapes as long as your finished creation show resemblance to the sketch layout.  Feel free to use embellishments of your choice, the flowers are just examples.

This week we are thrilled to announce our first sponser

And the lucky winner will recieve 5 Digital Iamges.

The DT have been lucky enough to work with the 5 images so be sure to check them out all such inspiring creations and you'll see the sketch doesn't just work on cards.  Here's my DT piece for you.

I've used the sketch on a tag.

RECIPE

Digital Image - Digital Ink Co

Papers - Laura Ashley

Colouring Medium - Copics

Digital Sentiment - Pollycraft 'Love, Wish, Hope Roundabouts'

Embellishments - Ribbon from a RAK, Dew Drops and Flowers from stash.

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We do hope you will be able to join us for our latest challenge, we all look forward to visiting your blogs.

Enjoy your Sunday.

Hugs

Joanne xx

Magical Crafts Fortnightly Challenge #2

Good Morning to you all.

It's Sunday and time for our second challenge over on MCFC.

Thank you to everyone who entered our launch challenge, all such wonderful creations and a real delight to visit all of your blogs.  There are two winners for the launch challenge, is one of them you??

**CHALLENGE 2**

A Recipe

A Santa or Snowman Image (both if you like)

Something Sparkly

Ribbon

A Christmas Flower (includes Holly & Ivy)

You can create any project you like, and you will see the DT have come up with some wonderful varied projects.  All we ask is that your project includes all of the above recipe ingredients, feel free to add any other embellishments.  This weeks prize has been kindly donated by DT member Liz.

Here is my recipe creation...

This was the first easel card I ever made, I made it the same day as the other easel card which I showed you on here a few days ago, but this was the first one.

Recipe Elements...

Santa or Snowman Image - Basil the Snowman by Pollycraft.

Something Sparkly - The funky wool around the edge and also sakura stardust on the snowman image and sentiment plaque.

Ribbon - Pink ribbon running across the base with the sentiment.

Christmas Flower - The holly in the corner.

The papers used are Papermania 'Naughty & Nice', colouring mediums are Promarkers and Sakura Stardust and finally other embellishments are Card Candy.  Wooden Xmas sentiment plaque is from Hobbycraft.

We do hope you'll pop over and join us for our second challenge, we look forward to seeing your creations.

Enjoy your Sunday!!

Hugs

Joanne xx

Magical Crafts Fortnightly Challenge #1

Well the day is finally here for the new Magical Crafts Challenges launch.

Please come over and join us for our first challenge with some gorgeous prizes and a challenge with a few twists and turns.  The DT, Angel and myself are oh so excited and hope you will join us.

Our very first challenge for you is....

A Christmas Ornament/Decoration and/or a Matching Card

The twist is you must include the colours RED, GOLD & GREEN!!

We would like to see Christmas ornaments/decorations and cards, you can choose to make one or the other or you could make both.  If you do both you'll will get two entries into the draw for the prizes.  The colours used must include Red, Gold & Green, you can include other colours as long as the the accent colours are red, gold and green.

You'll have to check out the challenge blog to see all the wonderful DT projects, which we hope will inspire you and here's mine...

For my Christmas ornament/decoration I have made this fabby matchbox advent calender box using the Tracie Hudson tutorial over on Bubbly Funk.  I painted all the matchboxs with acrylic paint.  The card was made using the same papers and metallic card  as on the advent calender box.

Thanks for stopping by and please join us for our first challenge.

Hugs

Joanne xx

Date For Your Diary

It's just 1 week before the launch of the new Magical Crafts Fortnightly Challenge (Sunday 1st November).

If you haven't already popped over to the challenge blog, why not pop along and become a follower then you'll be able to keep up with all the goings on.  The DT are all getting really excited about the launch, and are so pleased for the support we have already recieved from so many of you wonderful bloggers.  So don't forget to put a mark on your calender or diary for the 1st November.

Joanne xx

Magical Crafts Christmas Card Challenge & DT News for the new Magical Crafts Fortnightly Challenge

It's another new Christmas challenge this week over on the Magical Crafts Forum and this week it is a recipe.

2 Papers

1 Image

1 Brad

And Some Sparkle

Here's my entry to the challenge....

RECIPE

Digital Image - Pollycraft (soon to be released)

Papers - DCWV

Colouring Medium - Copics, Promarkers, Sakura Stardust & Chalks

Embellishments - Snowflake Brad (Papermania), Chipboard Snowflake (Hobbycraft) glittered with Glamour Dust & Gems from stash.

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DT NEWS FOR MAGICAL CRAFTS FORTNIGHTLY CHALLENGE

Well it's only 2 weeks until the launch of the Magical Crafts Fortnightly Challenge on the 1st November and yesterday the DT Call closed.  What a difficult job it was, everyone deserved to be on the DT and the decision was so difficult that we have decided to give TWO DT slots instead of the one, but if we could we would have had everyone and then probably have the biggest DT in blogland...lol.

Our TWO new DT memebrs are (if they choose to accept)...

Donna - CRAFTHEADCASE

&

Rachel - The Owl House

Congratulations ladies, if you haven't already done so please can you visit the MCFC Blog to see what you need to do next.

  Thank you to everyone who did show interest in the DT, it was such a pleasure to viist your blogs and sorry to those of you who didn't make it through on this occassion.


Thanks for visiting.

Hugs


Joanne xx

Magical Crafts Fortnightly Challenges DT Call

My buddy Angel has been so busy the past few months setting up a wonderful Forum with lots of wonderful swaps and chats and now she's gone a step further with a brand new Challenge Blog.  I was thrilled to be asked to join her DT, thank you hun!!

If you would like to help us spread the word about the new challenge blog, please feel free to grab the above logo, thank you.

The challenge blog launches on Sunday 1st November, be sure to check out the Magical Crafts Challenge Blog and become a follower so you can keep up to date with the launch and future challenges.  Also we are looking for ONE other DT member to join the amazingly talented team already in place.  You do not need to have any prevoius DT experience, all we ask is that your produce a card or project for each fortnightly challenge, occassionally set a challenge, visit all challenge entries blogs and leave a comment, occassionally offer your project as a prize and lastly to just have fun.  All you need to do is pop over to the challenge blog, leave a comment on the DT call post saying you would like to be considered for the DT spot, and leave a link to your blog, you don't need to do a special card or project for us, we will just visit your blog and have a nosey around at your work.  But you have to hurry this call ends Sunday 18th October.

Good Luck!!!

Hugs

Joanne xx