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

Vintage Christmas at Flonzcraft Vintage Stamping Challenges

Good morning folks, we're feeling festive at Flonzcraft Vintage Stamping Challenges as our theme this month is 'Vintage Christmas'. It's hard to believe its November already so it certainly won't be long until Santa is here! As always we've got a $20 voucher  to spend at Flonzcraft up for grabs for our lucky winner but you do need to ink up those stamps to play along. We're a stamping challenge so no digi stamps are allowed.

I've used papers and die cuts from Craftwork cards along with some gorgeous Christmas stamps from Flonzcraft to make my card. I've cut some slits in the backing paper to pop my topper in - I didn't want to cover up the corners on this gorgeous paper lol. I've used kraft card to mat and layer everything and added lots of distressing with Gathered Twigs distress ink.

I've used three stamps from Christmas Songs (which you can find here) for this card. I stamped them with Memento Rich Cocoa ink onto dictionary paper and added some colour with Lyra Polycolour pencils. I've also highlighted the Christmas tree with lots of stickles and a little glamour dust too.

I've added red seambinding, some reindeer trim and a little brass charm. To finish off i've added lots of die cuts, a couple of sentiments and some card candi from Craftwork Cards.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Allsorts: Christmas

A Snowflakes Promise: anything winter/Christmas

Crazy 4 Challenges: Christmas

Fab'n'Funky: Christmas

The Crazy Challenge: Vintage

Winter Wonderland: Anything Christmas

Thanks for popping by today, 

Claire xx

Pink and Pretty at Graph'It Colouring Challenge

Good mornin folks, a very quick post from me today as i'm a busy bee this weekend! Its inspiration week at Graph'it colouring challenge and our theme is 'Pink and Pretty'. We've got gorgeous Graph'it goodies up for grabs plus some amazing digis from East Wind! She's called Lucy Loo star Struck, isn't she a beauty?

We're adding a twist to the challenge for DT members and to spice things up we're all working from a colour palette, here's mine for this card:

And here's a close up of Lucy Loo, for a full list of the colours i've used pop over to the challenge blog.

i've added some pretty papers from Craftwork cards, lots of die cuts, ribbon, lace ad pearls.

Thanks for popping by today

Claire xx

Glitz and Glamour and a celebration at Fashionable Stamping Challenges

Hi there folks and welcome Everyone To FSC's 100th Posting

To celebrate our success and to say a huge thanks to each and everyone of you fashionable crafters for joining us each fortnight (many from the very first challenge) we are starting this auspicious occasion with a 'Blog Hop'.  There will be prizes on offer to go along with this weeks theme which could only be ...

'Glitz & Glamour'

Even though this will be our first Blog Hop lots of you will already be familiar with the concept.  If not here's how it works, click on the the name below and Hop to the next blog and leave them a comment.  You keep hopping until you have left all the Design Team a comment.

Leaving them a comment is important as each DT member will be doing a draw from comments on their blog's for the chance for you to win their fabulous inspirational make.  As well as one lucky winner receiving the €20 voucher to spend at our sponsor's store. As always our regular sponsor is Flonzcraft 

and you get a lot of stamps for $20 so why not hop over and have a peep! 

Below is the name of the DT member where you will Hop to and leave your comment (don't forget to leave one for me lol). Keep scrolling down to the end of the post for your next stop but if you get lost you can always pop back to FSC and start over.

Here's my DT card which I'll be posting to one lucky commenter!!

I've used a backing paper from Craftwork Cards and one of my favourite stamps from Indigo Blu called 'Elizabeth Bennet' for this card. I've coloured the image with Graph'It markers. Everything has been distressed with Victorian Velvet Distress ink and liberally frantaged with Vintage Gold for some Glitz and Glamour lol.

The image has been layered up over some lovely pink lace and black velvet ribbon andI've added pearls, gems, paper flowers, and die cuts to finish off.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Allsorts: flower power

A Vintage Journey: Celebrations

Chocolate Coffee and Cards: pearls

Country View Crafts: shabby Chic

Frilly and Funkie: Monochromatic

Fussy and Fancy: distressed

Inky Chicks: Butterflies

In the pink: summer in pink

Penny's Paper Crafty: favourite embellishment (ribbon and lace for me)

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: for the love of plants

The Vintage Challenge: Script

Your next stop along is my lovely teamie Esther's blog, just click her name below to see her gorgeous project!!

ESTHER

We have more news for you.

Starting from today FSC is changing to monthly.  Each challenge will now be starting the second Sunday of the month.

Thanks so much for visiting today

don't forget to leave a comment to be in with a chance of winning this card!

Claire xx

Vintage Christmas at Eclectic Ellapu

Good morning folks, well its an exciting day for me  today as I'm making my debut over on Eclectic Ellapu as one of the pink ladies oooh how exciting! Its been a bit of a squeeze fitting in some crafting over the past few weeks but as the pink teams theme is 'Vintage Christmas' and its one of my all time favourite themes I managed to escape to my craft room and have a play :-). We've got lots of new teamies starting today so if you've got a minute do pop over and have peek at their gorgeous artwork!

I've  used some of my favourite Christmas papers, die cuts and sentiments, all from Christmas Post by Craftwork Cards, all distressed with a little vintage photo distress ink. The focal image is a stamp by Crafty Individuals, watercoloured with distress inks. I've added some white cosmic shimmer glue and glamour dust to the focal image and red stickles to the flowers. I've added a couple of red berries and some sparkly red wired bead trim from my stash to finish off.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

A crafty mess: anything goes

A Vintage journey: Birds of a feather
Deep Ocean: shabby chic
Milk Coffee: lots of embellishments
Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers: vintage
Treasured Times: anything goes

Well its time for me to scoot off to work, don't you hate these dark mornings. Its dark when I leave work too and I'm starting to feel like a bat lol.
Thanks so much for visiting today,
Claire ss

Fashion at Fashionable Stamping Challenges

Hi there folks, my first of three posts today as there are lots of fab new challenges starting. This card is my DT project for Fashionable Stamping Challenges where our theme is 'Fashion'. As always our lucky winner will receive a voucher from our generous sponsor Flonzcraft so you don't want to miss out on your chance to win. We are a stamping challenge though so make sure you make stamping the focus of your project, no digistamps allowed! 

I've used one of my favourite stamps from Flonzcraft for this card, I love these two elegant ladies. I've added colour with Graph'it markers and paper pieced the pink dress. The image has been die cut with spellbinders die and inked with Tattered Rose and Spun sugar distress inks. I've layered it up over a backing paper from Craftwork cards. The large background was made with an old sewing pattern from my stash, over stamped with a damask background stamp from Chocolate Baroque and pink acrylic paint. It doesn't show up very well in the photo but you can see it a bit better here

I've used some button and bobbin die cuts with a bit of thread. The buttons have been embossed with frantage powder in pink. I've added faux stitching, some ribbon, sparkly brads and some paper flowers from my stash to finish off. 

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

4 Crafty Chicks: sewing real or faux

Chocolate Coffee and Cards: vintage

Dream Valley: flowers

In the pink: button and bows

Moving along with the times: shaped cards

Sweet Pea Stampers: lots of layers

If you've got a minute pop over to the challenge blog as my DT sisters have created some gorgeous projects as always. Thanks for popping by, hope to see you again soon

Claire xx

Anything goes at Vintage Stamping Challenges

Hi, can you believe its September already? I think I must have blinked and missed August lol. Anyway September is here so its time for our new challenge at Vintage Stamping Challenges and this month its a nice easy one, 'Anything Goes'. You don't have to create a vintage project to enter but you do have to ink up those stamps, no digistamps allowed. There's a Flonzcraft voucher up for grabs for our lucky winner so pop over and find out all the details.

For my DT card I've used one of the lovely Gibson girls stamps from Flonzcraft, I've coloured her with Graph'It markers, die cut her with spellbinders labels 4 and inked around the edges with Spun Sugar distress ink before adding some faux stitching.

The bp is from Craftwork cards, distressed with a craft knife and Spun Sugar DI with some faux stitching around the edges. I've added some pink lace, black ribbon and some pretty black sequin trim. I've also added some die cut swirls and some flowers made from another bp die cut with Heartfelt Creations die. I've inked the edges with black soot distress ink and popped some card candi in the centres. To finish off i've stamped the sentiment (from Chocolate Baroque) with black ink, its always a bit scary when you stamp the sentiment on last isn't it? 

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Crafting at the weekend: anything goes

Crafty ribbons: birthday with ribbon

Creative Corner: anything goes

Paper pretties: birthday

Simon Says Stamp: anything goes

Treasured Times: anything goes

Thanks for visiting today, hope to see you again soon

Claire xx

Just for you at Flonzcraft Vintage Stamping challenges

Good morning (if a Monday morning can be good lol), I seem to have blinked and missed the weekend, I can't believe I'm back at work today. I'd much rather stay at home with my fur babies and craft but needs must I suppose. We've got a new challenge at Flonzcraft Vintage Stamping Challenges and I have chosen our theme this month, I picked 'Just for you' so its time to make something for yourself! We always seem to be making cards and stuff for other people so I thought this would be a fun challenge theme. As always our generous sponsor Flonzcraft have a generous $20 voucher for our lucky winner and of course there is always the honour of the 'Highly Desirables' badge so I do hope you're going to play along.

I've altered a little magnetic notebook for my DT project, I made one for my MIL at Christmas so this was a good excuse to make one for myself and to use some pretty spring colours too. The stamp is, of course from Flonzcraft, coloured with Graph'It Markers and I've paper pieced her dress. The papers and diecut flowers are all from Craftwork Cards, the papers have been distressed with a little vintage photo distress ink and a craft knife.

To finish off i've stamped some bunting using freebie stamps from a magazine and added die cuts, lace, ribbon and pearls

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

ABC: G is for girls

Addicted to stamps: lace and pearls

Allsorts: spring is coming

Country View Crafts: paper chase

Dream Valley: vintage

Eclectic Ellapu: vintage

Natalie and Amy's: Flowers

The Craft Garden: pastel colours

Thanks for popping by today, hope to see you again soon

Claire xx

In the holiday spirit at Fashionable Stamping Challenges

Hello there, can you believe its December 1st already? I definitely must be getting old as time seems to be whizzing by. Its time for a new challenge over at Fashionable Stamping Challenges and this time our theme has been chosen by my lovely DT sister Terry who wants us to get in the 'holiday spirit'. That doesn't have to be Christmas though, so there's lots of scope. As always we've got a great prize from our lovely sponsor Leo at Flonzcraft so ink up those stamps to be in with a chance to join us.

I've made a Christmas card using one of the gorgeous stamps from the Flonzcraft 'Christmas Songs' set which you can find here (a right bargain as you get about 10 stamps for less than £4!), I've added some colour with Graph'It markers and added some glitter to the snow on the tree. I've distressed the edges with antique linen DI and matted on some kraft card. The gorgeous bp is from Craftwork cards, as are the die cut snowflakes and matching candi which have a touch of platinum stickles here and there for a bit of sparkle. The ribbon and lace are from The Ribbon Girl and to finish off i've added a couple of buttons and some twine.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

A Creative Romance: vintage style

Addicted to stamps and more: holidays

Challenges and Candies: shabby chic

Craftitude: button up

Craft Room Challenge: vintage Christmas

Creative moments: vintage

Dream it up: holiday celebrations

Simon Says Stamp: anything goes

Sorry I'm not around visiting much at the min, work continues to be a huge headache and to add to the chaos my son is working 12 hour shifts so I'm trying to finish decorating the hall which is a total nightmare, hopefully its nearly finished (in my very own Mrs Bodger style lol) so I'll have a bit more time before long

Thanks for popping by

Claire xx

Guest Artist at Gecko Galz: Christmas post

Good morning folks, as you can see I had a blast creating my projects for my month as Guest Artist at Gecko Galz! I've used images from Altered Christmas for this card, I really enjoyed making it as I adore mail art so its was loads of fun to use so many different mail elements in this card.

I began by printing the image out on some of my treasured perforated postage paper, before I printed I masked the white lines with some fine masking tape. The image was layered up over some recycled brown paper and I decoupaged the little cuties on their sled and also the sentiment too. 

I found the perfect backing paper for this project, its from Christmas Post by CraftWork Cards, love it! The shaped  card is also from Craftwork cards. The paper has been edged with a gold krylon pen

I layered the image up over one of the post cards and some pompom trim and red seam binding ribbon. Next i added some of the cute little Christmas stamps from Altered Christmas and lastly a die cut flower and card candi also from Craftwork Cards.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Come and Get it: any faux technique (faux postage for me)

Craftitude: anything goes/beginning with S (my s is stamps)

Crimbo Crackers: Christmas birds

Winter Wonderland: wrap it up

thanks so much for visiting today, do nip over and check out all the new goodies from Gecko Galz, and don't forget to sign up to the monthly newsletter as you get a gorgeous image sheet as a freebie every month!

Claire xx