Christmas Fun Challenge

Afternoon everyone,

I am here with my Christmas Fun DT hat on. The challenge had a few issues with Mr Linky over the last week so is going live a little late and as of this month it is now a monthly challenge. It will be anything goes with the optional extra of a theme each month. This month the theme is 'for a man', but you can still enter no matter what Christmas card you have made aslong as it is a CARD.

Along with the change to monthly there will no longer be a prize at the end of the year but a blog candy prize each month to try and encourage more entrants.

The candy available this month is

Here is what I made for the current challenge

Supplies:

CC Humphrey's corner stamp and sentiment stamp

water colour pencils

sizzex snowflake embossing flolder

Xcut nesting die

Silhouette ro cut the nesting snowflakes

card candy

Thanks for stopping by and I hope to see your entry in the challenge

Charisma meets DCC magazine and blog hop

Welcome to the Charisma Cardz Meets Die Cut Crazy Special Challenge Blog Hop. 

Our Wonderful design team have this week teamed up with the wonderful Magazine Die cut Crazy to bring you some wonderful inspiration from the world of Die Cutting and also a fab packed April Edition which is avalible for download on all IOS Apple Devices via the Newstand & in PDF format from the website! Our designers have made some wonderful Easter and Spring projects to inspire your own crafting with your die cuts.

This week at Charisma we have an ‘ANYTHING GOES’ Challenge where you can join in by linking or emailing charisma with your cards/designs and of course as always there are some fabuolous prizes to be won which the winners will be announced next week on the blog and featured in next months issue of Die Cut Crazy.

As well as this we have a fabulous blog hop show casing all the designers which you should have a look around! And for each comment you leave at each stop we’ll be drawing some random winners for prizes!

If you just joined our hop, be sure and go back to the Charisma Cardz Challenge Blog to start from the beginning!

 Supplies:

Super Smooth card from Anne Marie Designs
Silhouette portrait and Silhouette studio software
Ebosser
Crafters Companion Angelica 'Florence' stamp set
Crafters Companion Die'sire quilling small Sunflower dies
Neehna card stock
VersaMagic - midnight black ink pad
Amercian Crafts 12x12 paper pad My Girl
Co'ordinations
Die'sire Embossalicious Flower power 8x8 embossing folder
Xcut 4cm scalloped punch
Sakura Aquarell water colour pencils
Colall 3d glue gel
dew drops
Woodware large birthday sentiment stamp

 

Thanks for stopping by the Charisma Cardz Meets Die Cut Crazy Magazine Blog Hop & Challenge . I hope my project inspires you to create your own Spring/Easter project.  Please leave a comment to let me know you stopped by. Next up in the hop is Jo you can visit her blog HERE

If you just joined the hop, here is a list of designers so you don't miss any

Charisma
Carlyann

Emma Pountney

Sarah sw 

Mandy

ME

Jo 

Vee

Susan 

Die cut crazy facebook page

Lorraine

Emma

Tina 

Dianne Grayson

Anna Bradshaw 

Eemeli

Stacey

Natalie

 

Mid Month Inspiration for Just For Fun blog

Happy Monday folks,

I have had a nightmare with blogger over the last few days so I apologise that I am late with this post.

I am here to share with you my DT card for the Just For Fun Challenge Blog. This month the theme is ANYTHING GOES so we want to see all your creations no matter what they are.

There is some great projects on the blog so do pop over and leave some love for the other DTs.

Anyway onto what Ive made, my friend has just given birth to a little girl so i wanted to make a extra special card for her and this is what I came up with

 I decided I wanted a box rather than an envelop for the card to go in so that I could pop in the little outfit I had bought for her. I wrapped it all in tissue paper to make it that little bit more special.

Supplies:

Centura pearl card stock for the box

Pink Gem designs baby decoupage and backing papers

Xcut francy frame die set

ribbon and embellies from my stash

Challenges:

613 Avenue Create - AG

challenges 4 everyone - AG

Thanks for stopping by and I hope to see your creations over on the blog

Charisma Cardz - Birthday Girls challenge

Afternoon Bloggers,

I am here to share with you a card I have made for one of my DT's Charisma Cardz. This fortnight the challenge is Birthday Girl and it's team A's turn to showcase their creations. Hop on over to the blog to check out all the girls and maybe even leave them some love on their blogs too.

As usual we have some fantastic prizes up for grabs

Prize One

We'd like to give a huge big welcome back to our monthly sponsor!

One Lucky winner will receive a £10 Voucher from Digistamp Boutique!
Sally-Ann from Digistamp Boutique! Now i'm sure you've all seen her fabulous work???!? NO?! Well head on over to her Digi shop! there's a digi for everything her work is fantastic and at such a low price too! Sally-Ann is very talented! go on! have a peek!!

Prize Two:

 Our Brand New Sponsor Bugaboo are giving this week's winner...

Prize Three

We'd like to give a huge big welcome back to our monthly sponsor!

One Lucky winner will recieve Your Choice of SIX Digi's from Digistamp Boutique!
Sally-Ann from Digistamp Boutique! Now i'm sure you've all seen her fabulous work???!? NO?! Well head on over to her Digi shop! there's a digi for everything her work is fantastic and at such a low price too! Sally-Ann is very talented! go on! have a peek!!

 

So here's what I created

 

 

Supplies:

Image from Bugaboo

water colour pencils

My Girl 12x12 paper pad by American Crafts

Co'ordinations Tilly Dot

Sand It All tool

Do Crafts bakers twine

swirl cut on the Silhouette

Circa designs sentiment stamp

CC Sweet Treats 3d Bow template

Centura Pearl card base

Collal 3d glue gel

 

 

Challenges:

 

4 Krafty Girlz - AG 

Cute card Thursday - girls girls girls

7 Kids college fund - AG

Crafty Creations - Happy Birthday

Digi Chooseday - All about the girls 

Fan-Tastic Tuesday - AG

TTCRD - AG

MIM - AG (final MIM challenge :( sad )

Thanks for stopping by and i hope to see your creations over on the challenge blog

 

LEJ - Favourite die cuts challenge

Happy Friday folks,

I am here to tell you about a new challenge over at LEJ Designs challenge blog. This month the them is 'favourite die cuts' so we want to see your creations using your favourite die cuts, anything from nesties to flowers to flourishes we want to see them all. 

The winner wil receive 4 free digis from

 Pop over to the blog to see the fab DT and their creations but for now here is mine

I have used my favourite nested shapes dies from Xcut and also my favourite die cut floowers from Die'sire (small sunflower - although I have made them look like daisies).

Supplies:

Co'oridnations cardstock

Die'sire embossing folder beautiful bunting

Die'sire small sunflower quilling die

Xcut label nested die

LEJ Rapunzel digi image

Water colour pencils

Challenges:

4 Crafty Girls - AG
7 kids college fund - AG
Creative Moments - AG
Deep Ocean challenge - Just for a girl
Fan-Tastic Tuesday - AG
Papertake Weekly - AG
TTCRD - AG

Thank you for stopping by and I look forward to seeing your creations over on the challenge blog

Christmas Fun - Baubles and Bows

Good Morning again Bloggers,

I am here again this morning with a new challenge over at Christmas Fun challenge blog. The challenge this fortnight is Anything Goes or Baubles and Bows.

We have some fab DT cards over on the blog so do pop over and have a look through but here is my card.

I have used the spellbinders stamp set but as I dont have the matching die I just cut them out myself.

I stamped them in versmark onto vellum and then heat embossed them with white embossing powder, I love how they turned out. I have used Do Crafts bakers twine to give the impression the baubles are hanging and then just tied them off in a bow. I inked the background all over lightly then used some blending foam and tried to create a bauble shape by inking the corners darker. This is a technique I havent tried before but think I will give it another go as i enjoyed creating my own background.

Challenges:

Craftyhazelnuts christmas challenge - AG 
Sister Act challenge - AG

Thanks for stopping by and I hope to see your creations on

the challenge blog

Seemacrafts - 'Something for Mum' challenge

Good Morning bloggers, and happy 1st of the month.

Today see's a new challenge start over on the Seemacrafts challenge blog where we would like to see your projects 'For Mum'. There are a couple of prizes this month. Seema is entering into the world of Digi's so has offered 2 runners up 2 digis from her site Seemacrafts. 
Her neice also has a fab site where she sells her Wood Shapes and she has kindly donated a prize aswell. Do pop over and take alook at these 2 fab ladies creations. 

As you are aware it is Mother's Day here in the UK at the end of this month so I decided to make a set for my sister off of her 2 children.

I wanted to make something extra special and something my Sister would be able to keep so I decided to make a decorated candle and card gift set for her.

Please be aware there is lots of pictures lol

 I used a Tatty Ted image from the Do Crafts Spring Chic Cd rom for both the candle and the decoupage for the card. I also used my Crafters Companion sweet treats board to create the milk carton box.

 

This is just a small 6x6 card

 I printed the image onto white tissue paper and then used my heat tool to melt it onto the candle. (I found this technique on Youtube)

 I used the Do Crafts digital designer software to add the sentiment to the image before printing

 As my candle is a medium size (approx 5in) I had to make a slight amendment to the measurements when tracing from the sweet treats board as the large milk carton was too big and the smaller size was too small. I just made the box shorter so that the candle fitted in perfectly. The bow is made from the bow templates off the sweet treats cd. I cut an aperture from the front and added in some acertate so that it became a presentation box.

The papers are printed from the Tatty Ted cd and co'ordinate with the papers used on the card.

Extra Supplies include; CC boxer board to create the pin wheel, coloured inks, buttons and bling from my stash and centura pearl card for the milk carton base

Challenges:

Crafty Girls challenge - AG

7 Kids college fund - AG

Creative Moments - AG

TTCRD - AG

MIM - AG

Thanks for stopping by and I would love to hear your thoughts on my project so please do leave me a comment