Anything goes at Colour Crazy Challenge

Good morning folks, it's time for a new challenge over at Colour Crazy Craft Challenge and it's a nice easy one for you as our theme is 'Anything Goes'. We've got lots of inspiration for you and a fab prize from Oddball Art Stamps for our lucky winner too.

I've used this adorable little guy to make a page in my art journal. He's called 

Hudson and you can find him here

I've coloured him with my Graph'It Markers and cut him out before using Slap-it on to glue him to my inky painty stencilled background. I've just added a 'Dream' sticker from my stash to finish off.

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

Colour Inspiration Monday: Anything goes

Crafting with an attitude: Anything goes

Crafty Creations: Anything goes

Lemon Shortbread: Anything goes

Little Miss Muffet: anything goes

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

Claire xx5rr5r

Anything Goes at Polkadoodles

Good morning folks, well it's nearly the weekend thank goodness and the weather is definitely feeling a little more like Spring! My project today is for our 'Anything Goes' challenge over at Polkadoodles where there is lots of inspiration from my lovely teamies and a fabulous prize up for grabs too!

 I've used one of the gorgeous Winnie Sugar Blossom stamps (you can preorder them here) and lots of lovely Polkadoodles dies (Elegant Lamplight and Gate, Flowers 1, Flower Branch Doublet Die Set, Bubblicious Frames for the roof and Versatile Door/Window/Flap die)

I began my using lilac and white paint and pva glue to create a crackle background. I made the roof with the Bubblicious Frame die, I love this one, it's so pretty! I just cut the die out twice using white card and trimmed one edge off each before inking them up and sticking them on as you can see in the pic below. The flowers were made using Nikky's dies and foamiran

Here's another pic, I've coloured up the beautiful Winnie with my Lyra pencils and used Polkadoodles dies to create the door and the fence around the little house. Hmmmm now I think I should have added the bird house to the top above the door - why do you only see these things later lol?

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

CRAFT: Create your own embellishments

Creative Knockouts: Anything goes

Deep Ocean: flowers everywhere

Inky Chicks: flowers

Simon Says Stamp: Anything goes

Southern Girls: Use a die cut

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

Claire xx

Spring Bird Daffodil from Chocolate Baroque

Good morning my lovelies, it's my turn to share a project over on the Chocolate Baroque DT blog today so I've got a bright and cheerful daffodil to remind us that Spring is nearly here.

The focal image is from Spring Bird Daffodil, coloured with Lyra Pencils and distressed with Gathered Twigs distress ink. The background was made with more distress inks,glimmer mists, a little stencilling and one of the smaller stamps from the same set, again coloured with lyra pencils.

I used one of the smaller stamps with Gathered Twigs ink around the edges and added some seam binding ribbon dyed with more distress ink, a little lace and a paper daffodil. As a finishing touch I made some raindrops here and there on the background with dots of glossy accents, dragged into a drop shape with a cocktail stick. 

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

Fussy and Fancy: Springtime

Ooh La La: Spring is in the air

Stamping Sensations: Close to nature

The Ribbon Girls: any image plus ribbon

Through the purple haze: Anything goes

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

Claire xx

Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes at We Love 2 Create

Good morning my lovelies, it feels much more like winter than spring here this morning but hopefully Spring isn't too far away. We've got a new challenge and a DT call over at We Love 2 Create so as well as a fab prize of crafty goodies up for grabs there's a chance to join our friendly little band of crafters too!! Pop over and find out all the details here

PanPastels are perfect for quick scenic cards and to make this one I began by blending in shade of Yellow Green PanPastel with Colourless Blender to create the hills and then used shades of blue for the sky. I stamped in the images and added a little colour with more PanPastels and Lyra Pencils. The butterflies were stamped and embossed on acetate. All the stamps used are from Chocolate Baroque. 

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Aud Sentiments: Easter or Spring with a sentiment

Fussy and Fancy: Springtime

Inky Chicks: Flowers

Ooh La La: Spring is in the air

Shopping our stash: luck of the Irish (mostly green)

Simon Says Stamp: bit o' green

Simply Create Too: lots of green

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

Claire xx

PanPastel Ultramarine Blue	Ultramarine Blue Tint	White Fine Pearl Medium for Pan Pastels	Bright Yellow Green Pan Pastel
Bright Yellow Green Shade	Diarylide Yellow PanPastel	Pan Pastel Colourless Blender

Chocolate Baroque Colour Challenge

Good morning folks, I'm a day late with this post  it's time for a new challenge over at Chocolate Baroque Challenge and as always we have a lovely colour palette to inspire you. I've used a mixture of the new stamps that were on Hochanda last month, Baroque Meadow with an old favourite called Patchwork Butterfly

Here's the colour palette for this months colour challenge

I've used one of the fabulous Pink Pig art journals which were also on Hochanda, this one has watercolour paper and I've been really impressed with the quality of the paper. I began with a mixture of gelatos in the challenge colours and then stencilled over the top with Magenta Shade and Magenta  Extra Dark PanPastel. Next I stamped the images with versamark and applied Gold PanPastel over the top, you can see it a bit better in this pic.

I added colour to the butterflies with more gelatos and used a black charcoal pencil around the edges to give them a bit more definition. I stamped the word inspire from Artistic Expressions to finish the page.

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

A Bit more Time to craft: Anything goes

Artistic Inspirations: Anything goes

Crafting when we Can: Mixed Media

Inspiration Destination: Anything goes

Wonderful Wednesdays: anything goes

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

Claire xx

Anything Goes at Polkadoodles

Hello again, my second post today and this vintage inspired card is my project for our Anything Goes Challenge at Polkadoodles. The DT were challenged to incorporate one of Nikky's fab design sheets for this challenge so I've used one of the beautiful Design Sheets from the Belle Papillon collection

I  cut out lots of the gorgeous vintage tags from the design sheet to decorate my card. I couldn't resist adding some of Nikky's beautiful die cuts too, they are from Birdcage and Bird Doublet Die, Butterfly 1 Doublet Die along with Belle Papillon A5 Clear Stamps. The paper is from the same collection, again overstamped with distress inks and Belle Papillon script stamp. I've added ribbon, lacfe , pears etc from my stash.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Crafty Creations: Anything goes

Creates and Makes: anything goes with a twist - vintage

Dream Valley: lots of layers

Ooh La La: embossing

Through the craft room door: Anything goes

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

Claire xx

Spring Bird Crocus from Chocolate Baroque

Good morning folks, it's my turn to share some artwork over on the Chocolate Baroque DT Blog and this one features Spring Bird Crocus which was recently on the Chocoalte Baroque Hochanda. I've used the beautifully detailed little bird stamp to make this project

For this first project I began by applying texture paste through a woodgrain stencil onto a little MDF bird house blank. Once that was dry I added some colour with acrylic paint, shimmer spray and distress ink

I stamped the bird and coloured the image with pencils before cutting out and layering the image up over some scraps of hessian, lace and ribbon from my stash. I topped the birdhouse with some raffia and a little wooden button. Here's a closer pic of the image:

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

Addicted to stamps and more: Make your mark

CRAFT: Easter or spring

Craft Rocket: no patterned paper

Frilly and Funkie: Spring

Stamps & Stencils: Birds

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

Claire xx

Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes at We Love 2 Create

Good morning my lovelies, I hope you're having a good weekend. This morning's card is my project for our new challenge over at We Love 2 Create where we're sticking with a nice easy theme of Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes. I've used two of my favourite colours in the PanPastel range and some beautiful stamps and dies from Polkadoodles.

I blended turquoise and bright yellow green PanPastel on white linen card and blended with a little White Pearlescent medium for a little shimmer. I overstamped with the text stamp from Belle Papillon (Polkadoodles) using Teal memento ink and then with the foliage stamp from Bella Fleur with versamark before embossing with white EP.

I stamped the flowers with memento tuxedo black and die cut them with the coordinating die and coloured them with the same PanPastels, adding a little definition with Lyra pencils.

I stamped the sentiment on the largest of the Elegant Next die cuts and added some dots of pearl glue and some die cut foliage.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

A bit more time to craft: Anything goes

Creative Sketchy Girls: use die cuts

Sweet Stampers: add a sentiment

Sweet Stampin: no designer papers

WOW Embossing Powder Challenge: Spring with WOW EP

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

Claire xx

Turquoise Pan Pastel

Bright Yellow Green Pan Pastel

White Fine Pearl Medium for Pan Pastels

Bella Fleur crafting kit

elegant nest set of 3 dies

Anything Goes at Colour Crazy Challenge

Good morning again my lovelies, my second post today and this time I'm sharing my project for our Anything Goes challenge at the Colour Crazy Challenge where we're sponsored by Bugaboo. You can use any medium to play along, just make sure you've used a hand coloured image and you could be the lucky winner of a lovely prize from Bugaboo!!

I've coloured this supercute mermaid and her little friends from Bugaboo ( you can find them here) with my Graph'It markers and create a background with PanPastels and Superthick Slap it on through a bubble stencil. Once the glossy paste was dry I added white highlights with a Graph'It shake pen and cut some extra bubbles out to layer up with 3d foam pads.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Artistic inspirations: Anything goes

Crafting by Designs: Anything goes

Crafty Sentiment Designs: Anything goes

Glitter'n'sparkle: anything goes

Wonderful Wednesdays: Anything goes

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

Claire xx

Anything Goes or Ribbons and Bows from Polkadoodles

Good morning folks, Friday at last so the weekend is nearly here! I hope you're going to join our 'Anything Goes' challenge over at Polkadoodles, we've got a fab prize and lots of inspiration from my lovely teamies too. The DT were challenged to use ribbons and bows so I've made a very girly card for my DT offering.

 I've made a card using some of Nikky's beautiful stamps and dies. The papers are from the Belle Papillon Collection and the flowers are stamps from the beautiful Bella Fleur A5 Stamp set . I've die cut the flowers using the Flower Bunch Doublet Die and layered them up with 3d foam pads over the gorgeous Elegant Nest die cuts

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Crafty Gals Corner: add ribbon

Creative Moments: anything goes

Dragonfly Journeys: Bodacious bows

Deep Ocean: Add lace

Incy Wincy: leather and/or lace

The Ribbon Girls: Any image

Thanks for popping by, hope to see you again soon

Claire xx

Spring Colours or Easter at Eclectic Ellapu

Hello my lovelies, how's your week going? I can't believe it's already 1st March, it only seems like 2 minutes since Christmas but hopefully March means longer days and warmer weather. It also means a new challenge over at Eclectic Ellapu where our theme this month is 'Spring Colours or Easter'.

I've made a card featuring a Spring scene using lots of different stamps. I began by stamping the dog (from Sheena Douglass) and masking with masking tissue. Then I used  a Clarity Stencil and some glimmer mists to create the blue sky and green hills. The clouds were made using a sponge and acrylic paint/ I stamped in the trees (from Chocolate Baroque). The foliage and mushrooms were stamped using Lavinia stamps and Memento inks. I coloured the dog with Lyra pencils and added some grass to bring the scene together. I used Gathered Twigs distress ink around the edges.

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

Addicted to Stamps and More: Anything goes

Crafty Cardmakers: go green

Paper Minutes: Spring

Paper Shelter: Animal Magic

The Crazy Challenge: We love animals

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

Claire xx