OTT Bling Bling at Cowgirl Up

Happy Halloween! I've had a really happy blogging week this week, I was over the moon to be featured on Inspirational Craft Blogs - what an honour, I'm still on cloud 9!! And I've also been in the top 3 at Moving Along with the Times AND Sir Stampalot!! I'll be doing a happy dance all day lol. Anyway todays card is my DT card for this weeks challenge from the posse at Cowgirl's Sunday Stamp'en Challenge, where our theme is 'Over the top BLING BLING!'

We have a fabulous sponsor again this week, Delicious Doodles, Teri's images are gorgeous and the winner will receive a fab prize from the Delicious Doodles store!!

The Top 3 will get a prize from CJ at Cowgirl Up Designs and of course the winner and top 3 will get the badges for their blogs too.

I was given a beautiful image from Delicious Doodles for my card this week, I love this image and although the theme is over the top bling I really wanted the image to be the focal point of this card. The image is coloured with promarkers and I added some irridescent yellow seed beads and a little glitter to the centre of the water lily. The sentiment is from Hero Arts, i stamped it directly onto the card and then drew the sqaure frame with a fine black marker and a ruler. To add some OTT Bling, I used some flat backed gems i got from the pound shop around the frame.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Craft your Passion: Glitter and Sparkles

Papertake: Sparkly and Bright

Aud Sentiments: Thank you

Fab'n'Funky: Clean and Simple

Paper Pretties: Make a square

Totally Papercrafts: Bling it on

Craft Your Days Away: All white (use colour only on main image)

Thanks for visiting, I'm looking forward to seeing you OTT Bling! I hope you remembered to put your clock back an hour if you're in the UK. Hubby altered ours but I forgot to alter my phone and bedside clock so I'm still a bit confused (but thats nothing new lol)

Claire xx

Halloween blog hop and Cowgirl Up!!

Hello, not only do we have a new challenge this week at Cowgirl's Sunday Stampen Challenge, we also have a really fun Halloween blog hop with prizes and candy too!!

If you've arrived from Chris' fabby blog, then you're on the right track, if not you need to hop on over to the challenge blog where the fun is starting!!

The winner will receive a fantastic prize from our sponsor Crafty Ribbons!! Not only will  the lucky winner receive these gorgeous ribbons, they'll also win 2 images from CJ at Cowgirl Designs Digital Stampen Ranch too !!

The  Top 3 will each receive one image from CJ and winners badge.

Winners must hop along the Posse Name list and comment to win. We will be checking :-)
To win the candy, you must leave a comment on the challenge blog stating which Posse card or project they liked best and why. 

There is also an extra prize!! Challengers that use any one of CJs images will be entered in a special drawing for a grab bag of goodies and images. We would like challengers to use Halloween Images for the hop, however not everyone has Halloween where they live or celebrates it so as long as you use one of CJs images you will be put inthe special draw :-)

Here's my card for the Halloween blog hop!! I haven't used a special Halloween image, I thought Cj's gorgeous image 'Jackie' would make a fun halloween card (you can find Jackie here in CJ's shop). Jackie is coloured with promarkers and attached to the background with 3d foam pads.  The circular background is coloured with promarkers and distressed with black and purple ink.

The bps are all from Raspberry Road Designs and I stamped spiders webs over the purple bp. The flowers are made from recycled packaging (I knew it would come in handy lol), the purple tissue was cut in circles, glimmer misted, scrunched up and then layerd overy some black shredded corrugated card (more recycled packaging lol). I added some irridescent seed beads to the flower centres.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Sketch and Stash: Sketch

Drunken Stampers: Halloween

Allsorts: Spots and Stripes

The Crazy Challenge: Halloween

Ooh La La: Scary Stuff

Paper Playtime: Pumpkins/Spiders webs

Craft your Passion: Orange Purple and Black

C.R.A.F.T: Spooky

Paper Cutz: Halloween + stars, circles, diamonds or crescents (I chose circles on my bp)

Thanks for hopping by today, your next stop on the Cowgirl Up Halloween blog hop is Elke's blog so hop on over and see her fabulous Halloween creation!!

Claire xx

A new challenge from Cowgirl's Sunday Stampen Challenge!!

Hi there, its time for a new challenge at Cowgirls Sunday stampen Challenge and this week our challenge is a sketch plus make your own background!! Thanks to the talented Alison for our fab sketch this week! I've really enjoyed making this card as I love sketch challenges and I love making backgrounds too!!

As usual there are some fab prizes on offer and this week we are sponsored by the lovely Michelle Perkett, who has some amazing digistamps so hop on over to the challenge blog and check out the goodies!

I've used this beautiful image Emilee from CJ at Cowgirl Up Designs and coloured her with promarkers and sakura stardust pens. I've made 2 background for this card, the first is directly behind Emilee and is clear embossing powder with versamark ink on black card (using a swirly stamp from Elusive Images) and then adding tiny dots of red stickles to the design. The main background was made by painting some card with pure gold ecogreen acrylic paint and once it was dry, stamping with a paisley stamp (from Elusive images) in black pigment ink. Once the ink was dry, I rubbed vaseline in patches over the design and then painted all over with black acrylic paint. Once the paint was dry, the vaseline rubs off leaving patches of the gold background showing through.

The gold swirls are  cut on my cricut, inked with versamark and embossed with gold EP and dotted with red stickles. I added a red rose from Wild Orchid crafts and a butterfly from my stash and added a few more dots of stickles for the butterflies trail

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Scrap it with a song: Vogue

Gingersnap Creations Spicy Supply Challenge GC 73: versamark

Simon Says : 3 types of embellies (diecuts, flower and butterfly) 2 dps (mmm do my homemade backgrounds count??) I image

Sisterhood of Crafters: Bling

Delightful Challenges: Metal Mania (my faux metal embellies)

Incy Wincy: Faux it up

Digi Doodle's Best: People

Stampin with the Dragon: You got ink

Daring Cardmakers: Welcome to the Dance

Thanks for calling by today. Have a good Sunday

Claire xx

Girly Girl at Cowgirl Up!!

Hi there, just a little heads up about the new challenge starting at Cowgirl's Sunday Stamp'en Challenge on Sunday - the posse have a fab theme for you again! We want to see your Girly Girl creations using pink and green or purple and some pearls!! We have a great prize as well - the winner will get a $10 voucher for Pollycraft and the top 3 will get an image from Cowgirl Up Designs!!

I've used CJ's gorgeous image 'BELLA' for this card, coloured her with promarkers and added some Judikins prisma glitter to her wings. I've used the sketch from the challenge over at Sketch and Stash and some pink, green and cream dps from my stash (I think they were a freebie from a magazine). I've added some glimmer misted paper flowers with pearls in the centres, some liquid pearls, pink organza ribbon and a pink brad.

I'm also entering Bella in the following challenges:

Colour Create: Pink, Green and Cream

A spoon full of sugar: Sparkle and Shine

Flutter by Wednesday: Open Challenge with a butterfly angel or fairy

Thanks for looking. I've really enjoyed using these colours, they are a real change from all the Autumn, Halloweeny stuff I seem to have been making lately

Claire xx

A new Halloween challenge at Cowgirl's Sunday Stamp'en challenge

We've got a new challenge over at Cowgirl's Sunday Stamp'en Challenge today, the theme is 'Anything Goes' but we'd love  to see lots of Orange and Black on your Halloween inspired creations. Over at Cowgirl Up Designs CJ is launching a load of new Halloween images today, I've used one, 'Cat'n'Witch' for this card. Isn't she fab? I really enjoyed colouring her. Our prize this week is from Cowgirl Up, the winner gets 4 of CJs images and the Top 3 also get 2 images - check out the challenge blog for more details!!

I don't really like Halloween to be honest but I love making Halloween cards for some reason. My friend's daughter has a Halloween birthday so I always make her a spooky card, this year she'll be 16 so I think this funky witch will be great for her card.

 I've coloured Cat'n'witch with promarkers and distressed the edges a little. The bp is from a kit kindly sent to me by my blogging buddy Jean, as are the little stickers in the corners. I added some tiny buttons (from the Stampman) to the bp. The rose is made from grungepaper coloured with brilliance ink, I also added a little black glitter. I've also used a creative acrylic tag, embossed the back with some sparkly orange EP and used a sentiment from Elusive Images on the front. I added some orange ribbon and black eyelash fibre to finish off.

I'm entering 'Cat'n'Witch' in the following challenges

Crafts and ME: something for a teenager

Aud Sentiments: Halloween Sentiment

Glitterbabe's Challenge: Embossing

Crafty Emma's Challenge: Get ahead, Get a hat

Baby Bud Challenge: Fall/Halloween

The Crafty Pad: Spooky

Thanks for looking, I hope you're going to join in our challenge this week

Claire xx

'Baby Love' from Cowgirl Up and a little heads up....

Hi everyone, hope you are having a good day. I've got a couple of days off work, the sun has been shining and I've spend most of the day crafting ... what more can a girl want lol?

This card is made using 'Baby Love' a supercute image from CJ at Cowgirl Up Designs Stamp'en Ranch. I love the little baby with butterfly wings and bleeding hearts are such gorgeous flowers. We have a new challenge starting on Sunday at Cowgirl's Sunday Stamp'en Challenge and our theme is going to be 'Flowers Galore'!! You still have time to enter our current challenge which is 'Hip not to be Square'

The image is coloured with promarkers and the wings are highlighted with sparkle EP. I added lots of tiny flowers to the baby's hat using a tiny flower punch and I punched the centres with my cropodile. The hat really made me giggle, it just reminds me of a swimming hat I had when I was a little girl, it was covered in great big multicoloured flowers - I haven't got a pic fortunately lol. The bps are from Joanna Sheens' Baby Love cd, punched with a MS Border punch. The ribbon and flowers are from my stash.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Crafty Emma's Challenge: Baby Bonanza

Allsorts challenge : Use at least 3 punches

Scrap it with a Song: Little wonder

A spoonfull of sugar: Anything goes

Scrapbook Sisters: Over the edge (this is a new challenge for me, love the theme

Thanks for calling by,

Claire xx

Anything Goes at Cowgirl's Sunday Stamp'en Challenge!!

We've got a really easy challenge for you this week at Cowgirls Sunday Stamp'en Challenge - Anything Goes!! It doesn't get much easier than that does it lol. We have a fab sponsor too, Michelle Perkett who is giving the winner of our challenge 3 of the wonderful images from her store

The top 3 will also receive a prize too - they get to choose one of CJs fab images from Cowgirl Designs Stamp'en Ranch. The winner and Top 3 also get a badge for their blogs too!!

My card is made using 2 of CJs beautiful images - Check Faery and Unicorn both available here). They are both coloured with promarkers and have glitter highlights but they aren't showing up too well on the pic. The background is made using stamps from Elusive Images and Non Sequitur stamped onto a bp from Raspberry Road designs. The moon and trees are stamped and embossed with silver ep and the trees all have little dots of stickles for their leaves.

I'm entering my card in the following challenges:

I love Promarkers: Myth and Magic

Crafty Cardmakers: glitter and sparkle

Craft Your Days Away: Girly and Glitter

Oh Alice: Sparkle and Shine

Thanks for calling by, I'm looking forward to seeing your creations for our 'Anything Goes' challenge at Cowgirl's Sunday Stampen Challenge. Don't forget we have a 'Coming Home Campaign' challenge for you next week so that CJ can collect loads of Christmas cards for soldiers to send home to their loved ones -  we have some amazing sponsors lined up so you won't want to miss it!!

Claire xx

A new challenge and blog hop at Cowgirl's Sunday Stamp'en Challenge!!

Wow, its all happening at Cowgirl's Sunday Stampen Challenge this week, we have a fab new challenge 'Handmade Flowers' and a blog hop too as we are celebrating a whole bunch of brand new images in CJ's store 'Cowgirl Up Designs Digital Stampen Ranch'. Bunch being the operative word as CJ is launching loads of new floral images and if you're quick there is 25% off!!!  We're also celebrating as this week we welcome lots of new ladies to the posse at Cowgirl's Sunday Stamp'en Challenge!!!!

As usual we have a wonderful sponsor, the lucky winner of this weeks challenge will win these gorgeous ribbons from Crafty Ribbons , 3 of CJ's fabulous images AND the winner's badge to display on their blog!!

How gorgoeus are those ribbons??? Pop over to the Crafty Ribbons blog too as there are some amazing tutorials for making ribbon flowers and lots of other things too. You don't have to make ribbon flowers to enter this weeks challenge, you could use your punches, diecuts, grungepaper, what ever you fancy... I can't wait to see what you can come up with!!
Don't forget the top 3 also get 2 of CJs images and the blog badge too!

Here's my card made with one of CJ's beautiful new images, coloured as usual with promarkers and then I added little white dots to the flower petals with a white gel pen. I stamped a floral flourish stamp in versamark around the edge and dusted it with orange cosmic shimmer powder. The orange gingham paper is from my stash. I made the flowers from dotty ribbons from Crafty Ribbons and added the centres which were made by flattening bottle tops in my cuttlebug and adding seed beads to the centres.

Before you go dashing off to enter the challenge, don't forget out fab blog hop - there is candy to be won so you don't want to miss out!!

All you have to do is start at April's fab blog and visit all the DT blogs, collect a letter on each blog and leave a little love on your way round. If you've arrived here from Carrie's lovely blog, then you are on the right track - the letter you need to collect from my blog is

E

The next stop on our blog hop is Elke's lovely blog so hop on over,check out Elke's gorgeous cards and collect a letter from her. Once you've collected all the letters, rearrange them in to a sentence and email your answer to raesweb@yahoo.com. You don't have to enter the blog hop to be eligible to win the challenge.

I'm entering my card in the following challenges:

For Fun: something made with ribbon or lace

Craft your Passion: Make your own flower

Dutch Dare: Vintage Summer

Allsorts: Park/garden inspiration

Thanks for calling by, hope you enjoy the hop and our new challenge.

Claire xx

Summertime feeling at Cowgirl's Sunday Stampen Challenge!!

Over at the ranch, the challenge from Cowgirl's Sunday Stampen Challenge is 'Summertime Feeling' and I've used 'Spoonful of Sugar' a gorgoeus image from the lovely CJ Holifield (available here) for this card. I love to see babies in little sunhats and aren't they cute when the play with their feet? I hope this card brings you a little sunshine today

I hope you are going to be able to join us with a Summer inspired creation, we have a fabulous sponsor again this week - the lucky winner will receive a $10 gift voucher from The Character Cafe

The Top 3 will also get one of CJs gorgeous images and the Top 3 badge for their blog!! You know what they say ... you've got to be in it to win it!!

Back to my card now. I've used bps from K&Co and cut a couple of frames on my cricut. The frames are painted with ecogreen paint (mulch and butternut) and then layered up. The image is coloured with promarkers and the honey has been triple embossed to give it some shine. I love this image, such a cute little angel with a real vintage feel. She is attached with 3d foam pads. To finish the card off, I've added some ribbon and pearls from my stash and a couple of lovely roses from Wild Orchid Crafts which have been highlighted with gold stickles.

I'm entering this little honey in the following challenges:

Stamp Something: something digi

Rainbow Lady's challenge : Paint it!

Order of The Opus Glueii: You've got to move it,move it (use your stash!) 

Polkadoodles: vintage

C.R.A.F.T: photo inspiration (I've taken 'sweet' as my inspiration)

Totally Papercrafts: Summer fun 

I hope you're going to have some summertime fun with us at Cowgirl's Sunday Stampen Challenge. We have lots of exciting stuff happening at the ranch over the next few weeks , starting off with a blog hop next week!!

Thanks for calling by,

Claire xx