Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes at We Love 2 Create

Good morning folks, I've made a sunny card for my DT project for our new challenge at We Love 2 Create, as ever it's so easy to enter as our theme is 'Anything Mixed Media/Creative Goes' and you don't even have to use our products to play along. We've got some lovely crafty goodies up for grabs  from the fabulous  Premium Craft Brands too! 

I've used some old scenic stamps and combined them with some of the fab new Tropical Stamps from Polkadoodles to make this card. i stamped the images with black Memento Ink and then added colour with PanPastels and a little definition with Lyra Polycolour pencils. The leaves were stamped with versamark and then  I applied my Pans over the top, The sentiment is also from Polkadoodles.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Addicted to Stamps and more: Holiday

Crazy for Challenges: Holidays

Creative fingers: Anything goes

Fantasy Stampers: Sunshine Colours

Simon Says Stamp: Hip to be square

Sweet Stampin: No designer papers

Thanks so much for visiting today, hope to see you again soon

Claire xx

PanPastel Turquoise Shade	PanPastel Turquoise Tint	PanPastel Phthalo Green	Bright Yellow Green Pan Pastel	Pan Pastel bright yellow green shade
PanPastel Permanent Green	Hansa Yellow	Diarylide Yellow PanPastel	Permanent Red Tint Pan Pastel

Anything goes or something beginning with F at Polkadoodles

Good morning folks, it's time for a new challenge over at Polkadoodles and this time around our theme is Something beginning with F or Anything Goes so there's no excuse not to play along for a chance to win a fabulous prize from the Polkadoodles store. My teamies have lots of fabulous inspiration so pop along and see what they've been busy creating.

I've made an acetate card using lots of precoloured embellies from the gorgeous Octavia Frosted Winter collection to make my F is for Frosty creation. I've added lots of sparkly 'snow', a pompom for his hat and some die cut icicles along the top of the card.

I've added a bow and a bell to the top to finish off.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Crafting By Designs: get ready for Christmas

Little Miss Muffet: anything goes

Sisterhood of Crafters: Anything goes

Tuesday Throwdown: make is sparkle

Thanks so much for visiting today, hope to see you again soon

Claire xx

Anything goes with Polkadoodles and Graph'It Markers

Good morning folks, I've got one project to share this morning but it's my DT offering for 2 challenges. Firsts of all Polkadoodles have an 'Anything Goes /Add Texture' theme and over at Colouring Crazy Challenge we've got an 'Anything Goes' theme sponsored by Polkadoodles ! So there are 2 chances to win a fabulous Polkadoodles Prize!! 

I've made a canvas using one of the digis from the Winnie in Wonderland Collection. I've coloured her with my Graph'It Markers (pop over to the Colour Crazy Challenge for a full list of colours) and layered her up over one of the beautiful papers and lots of embellies from the same collection (you can find it here as a CD or here as a download). I've added lots of texture with glossy accents on the embellies, black gesso around the edges, some stencilling using glassy gel medium mixed with red acrylic paint and a border made of glitter. I used red line tape to create the glittery border.

Here's a pic of the image, I just love the Winnie images, they are so cute and quirky!

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

Addicted to Stamps and More: Anything goes

Crafts Galore Encore: stamp/digi

Fab'n'Funky: Anything goes

Lemon Shortbread: Anything goes

Little Miss Muffet: Anything goes

Through the Purple Haze: Anything goes

Simon Says Stamp: make for the border

Thanks so much for popping by, hope to see you again soon

Claire xx

Chocolate Baroque Colour Challenge

Good morning folks, we've got a gorgeous colour palette to inspire you over at Chocolate Baroque Challenge blog and today I'm sharing the project I've made for inspiration.

The colour swatch is gorgeous and I thought it was a great excuse to use one of the beautiful new stamps from Chocolate Baroque, this lovely lady is called Summer Fair and she's gorgeous some beautiful sisters too , you can get the full set here.

I've used an Oval Basewood Plaque for the base of my project. After a coat of white gesso I created a crackle effect background by applying a coat of red acrylic paint, once that was dry I brushed on PVA glue and then a layer of cream paint. Once that was dry I applied a mixture of Maimeri Iridescent Paste and Gold acrylic paint through a stencil and again left it to dry. 

I coloured the focal image with Graph'It markers and cut her out before attaching her to the base. I've added raffia, dried flowers and a gingham bow topped with a paper poppy to finish off

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

A Bit more time to craft: anything goes

Country View Crafts: Hot summer days

Crafty Awesomeness: Anything goes with a coloured image

Pile it on: Make your own background

Really Reasonable Ribbon: anything but a card with ribbon/trim

Southern Ridge Trading Company: Anything Summer

World Wide Open DT Challenge: anything goes

Thanks so much for visiting today

Claire xx

Resist Stamping at Fashionable Stamping Challenges

Hello there folks, we've got a new challenge over at Fashionable Stamping Challenges and this month our theme is 'Resist Stamping' . As always my teamies have lots of inspiration for you and we've gto a lovely prize of a voucher to spend at Flonzcraft for our lucky winner so what are you waiting for?? We're a stamping challenge so no digistamps are allowed.

The ginormous  butterfly stamp is from Chocolate Baroque, stamped with versamark and embossed with clear embossing powder. Next I used a paintbrush to wet the background area and then lightly sprinkled on Brusho powders in shades of blue/green. I over stamped with a text stamp from Chocolate Baroque using white gesso and then back ink and doodles around the edges to give a faux stitched effect.

I painted the butterfly with distress inks and use Black Soot Distress ink well diluted to shade around the butterfly. The sentiment is also from Chocolate Baroque, for a change I stamped it randomly here and there.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:
Allsorts: Butterflies
Artistic Stampers: anything goes
Crafting when we Can: Things with wings
Penny Black and More: anything goes with a stamp
Sweet Stamping: your favourite things

Thanks so much for popping by, hope to see you again soon
Claire xx

Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes at We Love 2 Create

Good morning my lovelies, how's your weekend going? It's chaos here as usual with our 9 month old puppy Benji causing mayhem and destruction. He likes to help when I'm crafting too and sticks his nose in to whatever I'm making, yellow paint on paws is not a good idea lol. Anyway back to business and this morning I'm sharing a project for our new challenge over at We Love 2 Create where our theme is 'Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes'. You don't have to use our products to enter and we've got some lovely crafty goodies from Premium Craft Brands waiting for our lucky winner too!

I've altered an MDF Butterfly for this project, I began with a coat of white gesso and then applied Bright Yellow Green PanPastel. I used a Dutch Doobadoo stencil and added versamark with cut'n'dry foam before applying Bright Yellow Green and Yellow Green shade Pans. I cleaned the stencil and popped it back over to  use one of my favourite techniques for the background,.  I reapplied the stencil and them added Maimeri Glassy Gel Medium before removing the stencil and sprinkling over tiny microbeads

The flower and butterfly are both stamps from Stampendous, I used a sparkly EP and coloured with shades of Turquoise PanPAstels, adding little gems to the flower centres and layering them up with 3d foam pads. The sentiment is from Indigo Blu, stamped with Teal Zeal Memento Ink.

I added some gorgeous wired beads that I got in my January Craft Box

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

Allsorts: Butterflies

My Time to Craft: Embossing

Stamps and Stencils: time to take flight

Stempelgarten: Flowers/plants

That's Crafty: Zesty Zing

Thanks so much for visiting today, hope to see you again soon

Claire xx

Bright yellow green

Bright Yellow Green Shade

Turquoise Pan Pastel

PanPastel Turquoise Shade

PanPastel - Sofft Knives and Covers

Seashell Collage from Chocolate Baroque.

Good morning my lovelies, the weekend has whizzed by again and Monday is here but before I dash off to work, here's  a card made using one of my old favourite stamp sets, Seashell Collage from Chocolate Baroque. This month the DT are posting Summer themed projects using some of their old favourite stamps so it's well worth checking in to the Chocolate Baroque Blog when you have a minute.

I began by stamping and masking the focal image before creating the sea using a brayer that had been inked and rolled over crumpled paper. I removed the mask, coloured the images with my Graph'it markers and then inked in the sky using a mask. To create the impression of the posts through the water, just extend the colouring a little using slightly softer shades of brown.

I stamped the sentiment using archival ink and added some string and some embellishments that I d stamped and coloured.  The edges were inked with Vintage Photo distress ink and I've popped the topped on a kraft card blank.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:
Artistic Stamper: anything goes

Creative Artiste: Anything goes
Frilly and Funkie: By the sea

We Love Vintage: Sun/sea/beach
Worldwide Open DT Challenge: anything goes

Thanks so much for visiting today, hope to see you again soon

Claire xx

Anything Goes at Colouring Crazy Craft Challenge

Good morning folks, how's your week been? It's busy busy busy here with our manic new puppy settling in but lots of fun too. I'm very late with this post as I'm having to fight my son for my laptop at the minute lol.  It's time for a new challenge over at Colouring Crazy Craft Challenge and our theme is 'Anything Goes'! There are fabby prizes including Graph'It markers and a sponsor prize from Little Miss Muffet too.

For my DT project I've made a card using the beautiful Serana from our sponsor Little Miss Muffet, isn't she adorable! I've coloured her with my Graph'It markers, there's a list of the colours used over on the challenge blog. 

The papers and flowers are from Craftwork Cards and I've added a doily, pearls, ribbon and lace from my stash to finish off.

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

Crafty Ribbons: anything goes with ribbon

Hiding in my Craft Room: Pastels

Little Miss Muffet: anything goes

Paper Shelter: anything goes

Simply Papercraft: anything goes

Thanks so much for visiting today, hope to see you again soon

Claire xx

Floral at Eclectic Ellapu

Good morning folks, can you believe it's the 1st August already? That means it's time for our new challenge over at Eclectic Ellapu and this month the pink team have a theme of 'Floral' so there's lots of scope to play along. My teamies have got loads of inspiration for you so it's well worth a visit to the challenge blog if you have time.

I've used one of the beautiful stamps from Punky Flowers by Chocolate Baroque to make this card. I stamped the image, embossed with silver EP and painted with metallic paints. The background was made on my gelli plate, with a leftover background and a little added stencilling. I saw the lovely Lesley Wharton demonstrate this technique on the Craft Channel a few weeks ago and it's really fun, plus it cleans your gelli plate too so that's a bonus. You leave the paint until it's completely dry and then use parcel tape to life the background from the gelli plate, a genius idea and I love the effect.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Allsorts: A touch of sparkle

Creative Fingers: Anything goes

Creative Knockouts: Anything goes

Get Creative: Lots of blue

Left of Centre: Quirky/weird

Thanks so much for visiting today, hope to see you again soon

Claire xx