GDT At Frilly and Funkie

Good morning, ooooh what an exciting day it is!! I'm a very lucky crafter as I'm Guest Designer at Frilly and Funkie, one of my very favourite challenges. Even better the challenge theme is absolutely fabulous too! The theme is 'Case it' and the idea is to case one of Linda's amazing Christmas tags but with a summery twist. Now I adore Linda's Christmas tags they are always so full of techniques and inspiration but I didn't get chance to play along last year so this was a perfect opportunity to catch up I took my inspiration from this one of Linda's tags

I began with a sheet of mountboard, distressed with a craft knife and Burnt Umber PanPastel. I followed the layout of Linda's tag and the idea of textured panels down the sides. I wanted a much more summery feel though so I set to work with Squeezed Lemonade, Shabby Shutters and Gathered twigs distress ink and a viva decor flexible stencil to create the flower panels. I cleaned the stencils and then applied a layer of Maimeri Glassy Gel, removed the stencil and sprinkled on microbeads (I know, I just can't stop using them at the minute lol).  Once it was all dry I added some colour to the background with PanPastels

The centre panel was made using a distress ink background on a tag, I used stamps from Crafty Individuals coloured with Graph'It markers, adding a die cut birdcage, lace, ribbon, pearl trim and a bird cage charm which I attached to the stamped glassine envelope

Again, following Linda's tag design I cut some burlap squares and gave them a light coat of gesso before attaching the letters (die cuts embossed with vintage silver Frantage powder)

Last but not least I added some flowers made with some scraps of linen card coloured with Magenta tint PanPastel. They were die cut with tattered florals and I added some glittery centres.

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

Crafty Individuals: tag you're it

Die Cutting Diva's: thing with wings

Hobbycutz: anything goes

Rhedd and Rosie's: Anything goes

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: anything goes

Through the Purple Haze: anything goes

Thanks so much for popping by, do pop over and check out the gorgeous inspiration from the Frilly and Funkie DT as they such a lovely talented bunch of ladies!

Claire xx

Shabby Chic Christmas at Fashionable Stamping Challenges

Hellooooo, hope you're having a good weekend. The last two weeks have whizzed by in the blink of an eye again and its time for a new challenge at Fashionable Stamping Challenges and this time our theme is Shabby Chic Christmas, there's a fab prize from our generous sponsor Flonzcraft so ink up those stamps and join us. Apols for the very dodgy pics, my card is actually pale green and white so you'll have to use your imagination lol.

The focal image is of course a stamp by Flonzcraft, stamped on kraft card with versamark and embossed with Shabby White EP. I made a frame with spellbinders dies and gave it a coat of gesso and then added some flitter glu and gin and tonic gilding flakes

The background started life as a gorgeous backing paper from the Chocolate Baroque cd set Seasons Greetings, given the gesso treatment and overstamped with CB stamps and gilding flakes - i got a bit carried away at this point and nearly obliterated the paper lol. I've added some gorgeous lace from the Ribbon girl, some pretty holly leaf edged ribbon and white seambinding. Next came lots of snowflakes cut with an assortment of Marianne dies, some Memory Box Holly Vine die cuts and some little pearls and gems

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Bunny Zoe's: shabby chic/vintage

Charisma Cardz: vintage

Crafty Catz: anything but a square

Crafty Hands: vintage

Creative Corner: let it snow

Divas by Design: Snow

Fab'n'Funky: anything goes

Papertake Weekly: snow and ice

Shopping our Stash: use something already on your desk 

(mine is flitteglu which is always on my workdesk)

Stempelsonnen: Its snowing

Lots of snowy challenges there, we're forecast to have some snow this week, how exciting!! I just love snow :-)

thanks so much for visting, hope to see you again soon

Claire xx

Icy Fragment

Good morning folks,oooh  its an exciting day in our house today as my son starts his new job!! Unfortunately I've got to go to my old job but hey ho such is life. Today's card features some of the gorgeous new stamps from Chocolate Baroque, I've used one of the gorgeous images from Gothic Angels on a background made using one of the fab new stamps, Nature Fragments

I've used glossy card for the background and randomly applied tumbled glass, broken chine and a little shaded lilac distress inks and then overstamped with the icy fragment using the same colours. I've edged the background with tea dye distress ink and matted it on some kraft card. The main image was stamped on kraft card and embossed with sparkly white embossing powder. I stamped the image again on smooth white card and coloured with Graph'It Markers. Next I cut the image out and layered it up on the kraft card. I layered the image up over some cheesecloth, coloured with distress inks and added a little bow and some Marianne die cut snowflakes topped with little pearls.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

2 Sisters: Christmas Sparkle

A Creative Romance: Winter blues

Christmas Stamping all year long: winter warmth (use fabric)

Colour me Creative: Christmas frosty and cold

Crafty Little Fairies: Christmas

Marianne Design Divas: Christmas/winter

Sugar Creek Hollow: anything vintage goes

Top Tip Tuesday: Seasons

Thanks for popping by today

Claire xx

Traditional Christmas at Flonzcraft Vintage Stamping Challenges

Good morning, where did the weekend go? I can't believe its Monday already and its November too!! Eek it'll soon be Christmas and with that in mind we've got a Traditional Christmas theme at Flonzcraft Vintage Stamping Challenges. You don't have to make a vintage project, just a traditional Christmas project: a card,tag, altered art project ... what ever you fancy. As always my lovely teamies have created some amazing projects to inspire you and of course there is a fab prize of a $20 voucher from our sponsor Flonzcraft!

For my DT project I'ave made a little wall hanging using MDF hearts that I painted with pale blue acrylic paint . I stamped the images, both from Flonzcraft and the sentiment which is from Chocolate Baroque on whhite card using sepia versafine and glued them to the hearts, next I then smothered the hearts with Kroma Crackle. Once it was dry, I gave it a coat of Maimeri Matte Gel and sprinkled over a layer of glamour dust, the sparkle doesn't show up too well but you can see the gorgeous crackle better in this pic

I edged the hearts with tea dye distress ink and then a little treasure gold. I added lots of embellies, some glittered die cut snowflakes, ribbons, buttons, bows, die cut kraft holly vines, a kraft reindeer and some tattered pine cones too. Once everthing was dry I used my hot glue gun to fix the hearts together.

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

2 Sisters: Christmas no red or green

Allsorts: Christmas Cheer

Artistic Stamper: Christmas

Aud Sentiments: Christmas Sentiments

Crafty Calendar: all things Christmas

Crafty Ribbons: anything goes with ribbon

Really Reasonable Ribbon: Christmas/winter plus ribbon

Sugar Creek Hollow: anything vintage

Totally gorjuss: anything goes with snow

Winter Wonderland: blue and white

Well its time for me to go to work so thanks for visiting, have a good day 

Claire xx

Mixing it up at Premium Craft Brands PanPastel UK!

Good morning folks, hope you're enjoying your Sunday morning. Its my favourite time of the week, I love to potter around at home, walk to dogs, read the paper with a big mug of coffee while Sunday lunch is in the oven but of course Sunday morning means another fab challenge at Premium Craft Brands too and this week we're mixing it up with mediums. The DT have been challenged to play with the gorgeous Maimeri Mediums but for challenge entrants its 'Anything goes'!! As always there is a fab prize from our generous sponsor, the lovely Berni from Your Creativity Store so don't miss out. 

I've made a card for my DT project, using PanPastels to create the background, I adore turquoise PanPastel its such a gorgeous colour so I used it on white card and then created a background on my gelli plate using a Pronty Mask and Maimeri Iridescent medium for a frosty shimmer.

The focal image is a stamp from Lili of the Valley, coloured with Graph'It Markers. I've mixed up my own 'snow' by adding glitter, shaved ice, mica flakes etc to some Maimeri Glassy gel and I've used this around the edge of the image and around the background too. 

I've added ribbon, lace, faux pearls and die cut snowflakes, some from white card but I also made some by mixing Maimeri Glassy gel with glitter, spreading it out on my craft sheet to dry and then die cutting with Marianne snowflake dies.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

A&T Emerald Faeries: ribbon'lace and bling

Card Crafters Circle: cute cards

Crafts Too: vintage Christmas plus Monochromatic

Crafty Creations: make it yourself

Winter Wonderland: blue and white

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

Claire xx

Graph'It Colouring Challenge

Good  morning my lovelies, are you ready for  the weekend? This week seems to have flown by and so its time for a new challenge at Graph'It Colour Challenge and this time we've got a fun Tic Tac Toe challenge so pop over to the challenge blog and find out all the details,while you're there don't forget to check out my teamies fabulous projects and of course check out the fab prize as there are some gorgeous goodies up for grabs!!

For my DT card this week I've used a Sweet Pea Digi called Christmas Bird by Elaine Cox and coloured her with my beloved Graph'It Markers. I love them even more now you can get the brush nibs for them!

Colours used: Hair: 9503, 9505, 5280, 5130, 5125, 5115 and the gorgeous silver Glitter Shake 

Skin: 4180, 4155, 4150, 4115, 5120

Dress and wings: 5130, 5125, 5115 and blender to create the polka dots

Background: Warm greys, also used to add texture to the flocking on the trees for the texture

The line I've chosen is Pink Hair, Fluffy Stuff and polkadots. Its the first time I've ever coloured pink hair so it was a bit scary lol. I've added some sparkly highlights with the gorgeous Graph'It Glitter Shake pen in silver. The fluffy stuff is flocking on the treesand snowflakes and I've given it a bit more texture by adding  a little shading with my Graph'Its. I used the blender pen to create some white polkadots on her dress and wings,I love this technique!! 

 I've diecut the image and edged it with some tiny pompom trim from the Ribbon Girl,added some snowflakes made using Marianne dies,pearls, seambinding,little pins in pink and white and a snowflake charm. The bp is from the Polkadoodles CD  Home For Christmas

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Crimbo Crackers: Pinktober

Cute Card Thursday: sparkles

In the pink: Ribbons and bows

Marianne's Design Divas: winter/Christmas

Through the purple haze: for the girls

Well I'd better go and earn a crust, have a good day and thanks for popping by

Claire xx

Anything goes at PanPastel UK

Good morning my lovelies, I hope you're enjoying a lovely lazy Sunday morning. Its my favourite time of the week (well it is once the ironing is done lol) as I can potter around and don't have to think about rushing off to work. As its Sunday morning, we've got a new challenge starting at PanPastel UK and this week our theme is a nice easy one, 'Anything Goes'. As always there's a fab prize up for grabs from our lovely sponsor Berni at Your Creativity Store 

For my project i've made an 8x8 canvas (a real bargain from the Works). I've used PanPastels and one of the new masks which will be released very soon for the background. I've added a lots of die cut leaves,  and flowers coloured with PanPastels, I've used the new metallic Pans for this project but its so hard to get a decent pic of the lovely shimmer. I popped in some little red berries from the Ribbon Girl and then decided to add some ivy leaves to break up all the coppers and golds. I used a Marianne die to cut these and coloured with green PanPastels. The sentiment is from Chocolate Baroque and to finish off I've edged the canvas with gold acrylic paint and added a little die cut butterfly with a pearl body.

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

Aud Sentiments: autumn

Craft your Passion: autumn colours

Fab'n'Funky: Leaves

Lexis Creations: autumn colours

Mariannes Design Divas: anything goes

Oldie but Goodie: dies/punches

(my oldies are my dies)

Paper Crafting Journey: flowers

Paper Nest Dolls: autumn/fall

Thanks so much for visiting today,

Claire xx

PS Don't forget to check out my blog candy here

Anything goes at NMWC

Hello my lovelies, and a big warm welcome to my new followers :-) I hope you're having a good weekend and enjoying the sunshine. We've got a new challenge starting at No Matter Which Challenges and its a nice easy one for you, the theme is 'Anything goes' but sadly its our last challenge .



We're going out in style though as there is a fab prize for our lucky winner, a $10 gift certificate from our lovely sponsors at Sweet Stamps.

I've used an image and papers from the Cherryblossom Lane CD by Polka Doodles, I adore this cd! I've made quite a few cards and I had a heap of scraps so I used them to create the background and to make the roses. The image is coloured with Graph'it Markers.

Ive added a cute little ticket sentiment from the same cd and some die cut swirls, some little heart shaped pearls and some ribbon.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Addicted to stamps and more:colouring

CRAFT: Here comes the bride

Creative Fingers: anything goes

Divas by Design: cute

Incy Wincy: summer lovin

Stamp with fun: Celebrate

My teamies have come up with some gorgeous projects for our last challenge so do pop over and check them out. Thank so much for popping by today, 

Claire xx

Love and Romance at PanPastel UK

Good morning folks, how's your weekend going? We're having a nice quiet weekend and bracing ourselves for snow later today but it won't bother me too much as apart from walking the dogs i won't be going much further than my craft room. This mornings project is my DT project for PanPastel UK, i've created a little canvas with a romantic theme. 

I began by sticking a beautiful floral napkin to the canvas with Maimeri Matte Gel Medium, once that was dry I applied White and Magenta tint PanPastels to tone the colours down and then added a little Payes Grey. I used my favourite harlequin template from Crafters Workshop and mixed Maimeri Iridescent paste with some gold acrylic paint and popped some on the canvas. The 'love' sentiment is a Chocolate Baroque stamp, embossed with Gold EP onto a tissue, again i used Maimeri Matt Medium to adhere to the canvas. I made some little hearts from air dry clay and coloured them with Magenta tint PanPastel, then some gilding flakes. The lace, ribbon and beautiful little lace heart are all from The Funkie Junkie Boutique. I've added  die cut swirls, a little pearl buckle and a metal corner. The paper flower was made with a Chocolate Baroque stamp and coloured with Magenta PanPastel.

I'm entering this canvas in the following challenges:

Allsorts: Valentines

Frilly and Funkie: lacey, heartsy valentine project

In the pink: Valentines/Romance

Simon Says Stamp: Heart

Deep Ocean: love and lace

As always our lucky winner will receive a fab prize of a PanPastel Starter Set from our generous sponsor Berni at Your Creativity Store. If you are stuck for inspiration pop over and check out my teamies wonderful creations, they are such a lovely talented bunch of ladies!

Thanks for popping by today.

Have a happy Sunday

Claire xx

Nature at PanPastel UK

Good morning my lovelies, I do hope you're keeping warm in this cold snowy weather. We've got a good covering of snow and more forecast for later, how exciting! I haven't been far at all this weekend, except for a play in the park with the dogs. Isn't is bliss to have a really lazy weekend sometimes? Anyway back to business and my post today is my DT project for PanPastel UK where our theme is 'Nature' so I've combined blues, greens and whites for a fresh spring feel. As always our lucky winner will be in for a treat as they will receive a fab PanPastel Starter set from our regular sponsor Berni at Your Creativity Store! 

I began by stamping a Chocolate Baroque music stamp over an 8x8 card blank using versamark and then applied PanPastel is turquoise tint and yellow green. Next came a square of linen card punched with a MS punch around the page punch set and coloured with the same pans. Over this I added some embossed white card coloured again with the same pans and then inked with versamark and embossed with clear holographic EP. The bird cage die cut is a Marianne die, embossed with Gilded Ivory EP. The focal image is a gorgeous stamp by Crafty Individuals, coloured with promarkers, the image is layered up over a scrap of cheesecloth. I made a rose using a Paper Artsy stamp and added some tattered leaves - all coloured with turquoise tint and yellow green PanPastels. To finish off I've added a white seam binding bow and a little butterfly. The butterfly was a bit of an experiment - I wanted to try the Pebeo Fantasy paints with an embossed image - similar to Sheena's fantasy fusion technques but I'm rubbish with the lead stuff. I stamped the stampendous butterfly on acetate and embossed with white EP and then applied a generous layer of turquoise Fantasy paint, I was really pleased with the result although you have to be careful not to put too much on as the embossing is only slightly raised and if you put too much on it will flood. Hopefully you can see it a little better in this pic:

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Allsorts: Flower power

A gem of a challenge: Emboss it

Card Crafters Circle: layers

Frilly and Funky: anything goes

Totally Papercrafts: embossing

Well I don't know about you but I'm planning n spending the day in my craftroom, I've started a Christmas card (how organised am I????? lol) and I want to get it finished this morning. In fact as usual I seem to have quite a few things started and i've left myself a tiny square on my craft desk to work.  No doubt I'll spend most of the day peeking out of the window to see if its snowing, I'm such a big kid.

Have a lovely Sunday and thanks for popping by

Claire xx

Linda's Tag Challenge number 10

Hi there, this week is flying by isn't it? I'm starting to get all excited about Christmas, I can't wait to see Barney our lovely puppy with his presents lol. Anyway before I start rambling on, here's my 10th pennant for my festive bunting, inspired by the fabulous Funkie Junkie's 12 Tags of Christmas challenge. Do pop over to Linda's blog, you can see her 10th tag here and find out all the challenge deets here. The challenge is sponsored by the Funkie Junkie Boutique and there are some amazing prizes so its definitely not to be missed! 

I think this is my favourite tag so far although the photo isn't too good so you'll have to use your imagination a bit lol. I created the brick background using a Crafters Workshop mask and Maimeri Light modelling paste, once that was dry I added some colour with distress inks (Tea Dye and Vintage photo) and finised off with a coat of Maimeri Gloss Medium. The icicle border at the top is cream card, die cut with a Marianne die and liberally dusted with glamour dust. The die cut numbers are coloured with Fired Brick distress ink, attached with gold brads.

The bauble is made using a gorgeous freebie vintage image from Linda's blog (thank you Linda!!), I don't have a bauble die so I stamped a Chocolate Baroque bauble on some card, cut it out and then applied the image using Maimeri gloss medium. I gave the finished bauble a couple of coats of gloss medium and edged it with a gold krylon pen. The flower and foliage were made with Tattered pine cones die, laterd up over a scrap of cheesecloth. The other bits and bobs are from my stash.

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Craft Room Challenge: make a tag

Crafty Bloggers: Anything goes

Crazy Challenge: Christmas

One Stop Craft: Christmas friends

Ribbon girls: Christmas projects

Sugar Creek Hollow: Stencils or masks

Unstampabelles: Christmas no stamps

Well I've been full steam ahead trying to get all my pennants finished and hopefully I'm winning now, I think this one is my favourite so far, I love the vintage image and the brick effect too. Linda's tags have been such an inspiration, I'm thoroughly enjoying playing along

Thanks for popping by today

Claire xx

Frosty and Bright at PanPastel UK

Good morning all, Sunday morning so we've got another challenge at PanPastel UK for you. This week our theme is 'Frosty and Bright' and I've combined PanPastels with the fabby new Maimeri mediums available from Your Creativity Store. Apologies in advance for the decidedly dodgy photos, we don't seem to have seen daylight for weeks lol.

I've layered up assorted die cuts on my canvas, using Maimeri Matt gel to adhere them and then giving the whole thing s coat of Maimeri gesso. Once dry, i've used while, ultramarine blue and tint and some Raw Umber for a little shaddow. To add more texture I've used a couple of Crafters Workshop templates, the snowflake frame with Maimeri modelling paste and the mini mosaic with Maimeri iridescent medium (love love love this stuff!!!) Next came lots of rock candy glitter, faus pearls and some red acrylic paint applied in dots with the end of a paint brush. 

I stamped the focal image, Stampendous 'Snow Bird' on to the canvas with sepia versafine and also on some water colour paper. I coloured the image with distress markers and then cut out the bird and berries and popped them on to the canvas. I added white glue and glamour dust for some frosty sparkle

The sentiment is a clarity stamp, stamped on tissue paper and applied with more Maimeri Matt Gel

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

Crafty Creations: christmas is coming

Delicious Doodles: Something that flies

Fussy and Fancy: feeling blue 

Just keep on creating: Christmas

Little Claire's : Christmas

Sparkles Forum Christmas Challenge: contemporary colours

Tanda Stamps: Christmas

As always our lucky winner will receive a fabby prize of a PanPastel Starter courtesy of the lovely Berni from Your Creativity Store

I hope you're enjoying your weekend, I've got a few days off work lined up and loads of jobs that I should be doing. I say should as its very tempting to spend the day in my craft room lol.

thanks for popping by

Claire xx

Die cuts/punches at No Matter Which Challenges

Hi there, wow we were chuffed to bits to see so many gorgeous entries for our first challenge at

 No Matter Which Challenges, can you believe its September already so that means its time for a new challenge. This time we want to see die cuts and/or punches used on your projects. 

Suzanne has arranged some fab sponsors and this months winner certainly won't be disappointed as the prize up for grabs is a free place on one of the courses at My Creative Classroom! I've done quite a few of their courses and they are fab-u-lous :-)

Anyway back to my DT project, I've made a Christmas card (not long now eeeek) using one of my favourite Whiff of Joy stamps, watercoloured with distress markers and die cut with spellbinders. The backing paper was made with moonshadow inks and has a lovely shimmer in real life. I've added some scraps of backing papers from my Christmas box and some crinoline fabric (from Linda at The Funkie Junkie) stamped with a stampers anonymous music score stamp with walnut stain distress ink. You can see the image better in this pic:

I've added lots of die cuts (Marianne poinsettias and fir branch, tattered pine cones and foliage. To finish off I've added cotton lace, ribbon, a tiny brass bell, a little metal corner and some faux pearls in the corners.

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

A&T Emerald Faeries: Die cuts/punches

Amusing Challenge: anything goes

Crafty Hazelnuts' Christmas Challenge: Christmas bells

(mine is peeping out between the two pine cones)

Digi Doodle Shops best: Vintage

Fairy Tale: anything metal

Love to create: Handmade flowers

Polka Doodles: Flowers

Thanks for popping by, you've got plenty of time to play along with our new challenge as its open until 30th September. Do stop by my teamies blogs as their projects are stunning

Have a good weekend

Claire xx

A is for ......

Hi there, here I am again with my GDT card for CD Sunday where the theme is 'A is for ....' I've gone for A is for Aquamarine and Anniversary for this card and used a beautiful backing paper from the Essence of Nature cd by Artylicious

The bp wasn't quite the colour i wanted it to be so I applied a little turquoise panpastel and the overstamps the corners with a beautiful leafy corner stamp from Chocolate Baroque which I embossed with white EP. I made the butterflies using Marianne dies and a couple of scraps of the same backing papers, I used cosmic shimmer glue to create their pearly bodies. The bow in made from scrunched seam binding ribbon and the focal image was made using a Marianne Designable. I got this last weekend at the craft show and I love it, its so delicate with the embossed pattern and the little lacy cut out bits. I inked it up with tumbled glass distress ink, stamped the sentiment (again from Chocolate Baroque) and added more faux pearls and gems.

I'm entering this in the following challenges:

Always Something Creative: Butterflies

Card and Scrap: things with wings

Card Cupids: wings

Divas by Design: anything goes

Marianne Design Divas: Anything goes

Sparkles Forum: wedding or anniversary

Thanks for popping by, if you get a minute do pop over to CD Sunday and check out the DT's work, they really are a lovely talented bunch of ladies

Claire xx

Bright Colours at PanPastel UK

Hi again, time for a new challenge at PanPastel UK and this week our theme is 'Bright Colours'. PanPastels will be on Create and Craft at 3pm today so I've got my place booked on the sofa to watch :-). If you fancy trying out PanPastels, check out the bargains at Your Creativity Store as Berni has a fab 10% off deal at the minute!

I had a lot of fun making this tag, I've used Magenta and Diarylide yellow for the tag and then a little black through a Crafters Workshop Template. The sentiment is from the new Artistic Expressions themeplate by Chocolate Baroque.

To make the flowers I die cut some Clearly for Art film with my tattered florals die and gave the flowers a coat of multi medium. Once this was dry I coloured the flowers with PanPastels and added some rock candy crackle paint. Once this was dry I splashed on some drops of twinkling h2o's in yellow and hot pink. Once dry I overstamped with a large crackle stamp (again from Chocolate Baroque), I heated the Clearly for Art and shaped the flower petals  and layered them up. The smaller flower has a black button in the centre. The larger flower has a flattened bottlecap filled with Ranger black enamel accents, while this was wet I scraped some more PanPastel onto the surface and left it to dry. Once it was dry i added a layer of glossy accents to seal the PanPastel. 

To finish my tag off I  used some pink and black velvet ribbon, black lace, some dots of black enamel accents and some die cut swirls.

I'm entering my tag in the following challenges:

C.R.A.F.T: handmade flowers

Craft your passion: Just sentiments

Going Grey with scrap creations: flowers

Hotshot Crafts: Ribbon

Paper Pretties: New technique (the flowers)

As always our lucky winner will receive a fab prize of a PanPastel trial set from the lovely Berni at Your Creativity Store so I hope you're going to join us to be in with a chance of winning

thanks for popping by

Claire xx

Love is all around at Sarah Hurley's Challenge Blog

Hi there, my second post for today and this time its my DT project for Sarah Hurley's Challenge where my lovely teamie Emma has chosen the theme of 'Love is all around'. Perfect for this time of year as Valentine's Day is sneaking up on us at a rate of knots. 

I love to see Sue Wilson's cards on C&C, she really has  a way with die cuts and I've taken inspiration from her style for this card. The papers I've used are from Sarah Hurley's 'Oz' cd (you can find it here) and they are the most scumptious sugary pink. The image is a rubber stamp from Chocolate Baroque, stamped in Memento London Fog and die cut before being inked with Spun Sugar Distress ink. I've also added some corners made from one of the tags from Shapabilities Fancy tags 2. I've added some roses made with Spiral blossom 2 and more of Sarah's gorgeous papers. The leaves are die cut using Crealies dies and they are all matted on yet another of Sarah's papers cut with Nesties labels. The large butterfly is a marianne die and the smaller ones were made using an Anna Griffin punch. i've added glamour dust and pink stickles to the die cuts for a bit of sparkle. To finish off i've added pink satin ribbon and lace from my stash with a couple of die cut hearts embellished with pearls in the corners.

i'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Allsorts: one or more heart

Crafty Catz: Things with wings

Di's Digi Designs: Valentine

Hotshot Crafts: flowers

Marianne Design Diva's: In with the new 

(the Spiral blossom die is my new toy)

Simply Create too: love is in the air

Stempelsonnen: Valentine

Totally Papercrafts: Pearls and Lace

Wags'n'Whiskers: Valentine/Love

Thanks for calling by, don't forget to check out my teamies blogs to see their gorgeous projects

Claire xx

Challenge #17 at Christmas Challenges {with sketches}

Hi there, it our first challenge of 2012 at Christmas Challenges {with Sketches} and  this week its my turn to design the sketch so I hope you like it :-) 

For a bit of extra fun we're going to be adding a twist to some of our challenge and this week as well as using the sketch we'd like to see die cuts and/or punches too

This time around our challenge is sponsored by 'My Favourite Things' so don't forget to visit the challenge blog to see the sketch and to find out more about the prize on offer

The backing paper is from Raspberry Road Designs, distressed with a craft knife and matted on pink pearl card. I've created a panel using STampers Anonymous tree stamps and Memento Bamboo leaves ink, I inked the sky with Victorial Velvet distress ink. The circle frame is a Marianne Die cut, swiped with versamark and embossed with gold EP. The gorgeous angel  rubber stamp is by Chrissy Armstrong  from Whimsy STamps, she is coloued with promarkers. To finish off I've added some die cut filigree corners from Make it Crafty, some rolled ribbon roses and die cut leaves. The sentiment is from the same stamp set, its stamped on a creative acrylic tag.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges

Christmas Cards all year round: Non traditional Christmas colours

Craft your passion: anything goes plus distressing

Cupcake Craftroom: anything goes

52 Christmas Throwdown: anything goes

Incy Wincy: anything goes

Magical Monday: anything magical

Marianne Design Diva's : Its Christmas

My Craft Spot: winter wonderland

One Stop Craft Challenge: Winter wishes

Sentimental Sundays: anything goes

Sundays with Chrissy: Beat the winter blues (I hope my warm colours count) 

The Pink Elephant: anything goes

Thanks for visiting today. Make sure you pop over and check out my teamies blogs as they have made some stunning cards again. 

Claire xx

#184 A white Christmas for Rainbow Lady

Hi there, I'm back with another Christmas card, this one is my DT project for Rainbow Lady's Challenge where Cynthia wants to see projects inspired by the theme White Christmas. 

I've used some of my favourite stamps for this card, they are all from 'Snow is Falling' by Chocolate Baroque. It was a really quick card to make as I've just stamped the image on silk coated card using a big and juicy waterfall inkpad and added some Judikins prisma glitter, matted the image on card brayered with the same ink and then on a layer of white card. The background was made using snowflake stamps from the same themeplate and the same inkpad. I've added some lace, seambinding coloured with waterfall ink and a glittery snowflake made with a Marianne die and attached to the bow with a snowflake brad.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Addicted to Stamps: Snowflakes

Creative Inspirations Paint: The holidays

Christmas Card Challenges: Non traditional Christmas colours 

Lexi's creations: Untraditional Christmas colours

Stamps+fun =creativity: favourite material for cardmaking (mine is my brayer)

Top Tip Tuesday: Christmas

Thanks for popping by

hugs

Claire xx