St Patrick's Day at Rainbow Lady's Challenge

Hi there, we've got a St Patrick's Day theme for our new challenge at Rainbow Lady's Challenge blog this week, do pop over and check out my teamies gorgeous projects if you've got a min, they are such a lovely talented bunch. 

I've used a shaped card blank from Crafty Boots for my card and created the background with a Crafters Workshop template and distress inks and stains. The image is a lovely freebie from Waltzing Mouse, as is the sentiment. I coloured the image with promarkers and cut it out, matting it on a kraft die cut, made using one of my new spellbinders dies. I'm really loving these lattice dies at the minute. I added a little twine pinched from the garden shed lol and a little green button to finish off. It was only after I'd finished the card that I noticed it was upside down on the card blank eeeek, don't you hate it when that happens lol. 

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Cardmaking Mamas: green

Digistamps 4 joy: green

Fab'n'Funky: luck of the Irish

I love promarkers: anything goes

Make it Monday with kraft: Luck o' the Irish

Sentimental Sundays: go green or recycle

Sugar Creek Hollow: Monochrome green

Pop over and check out my lovely teamies projects if you get a min, they are such a talented bunch and have some beautiful projects to inspire you. Thanks for popping by today,

Claire xx

Coffee and Cream with a hint of dark chocolate

Hi there, we have a colour challenge over at Fashionable Stamping Challenges this time, we want to see 'Coffee and cream with a hint of dark chocolate'. I was a little confused and had to rack my brains for a while (not easy lol) as I usually use a lot of colour in my projects so sticking to a brown,cream and black colour palette foxed me for a start.

As always our challenge is sponsored by Marina from Cottage Crafts who has another fantabulous prize for our lucky winner.

I decided to make a fun halloween project, based on the idea of a witches brew (or perhaps I should say boo lol). The template for the cup and saucer is from 'Walzing Mouse', cut out of cream pearlescent card. Before I assembled the pieces I stamped them with Halloween stamps from Chocolate Baroque (using stamp sheets:Howling Moon, Boo, Halloween Raven and Halloween Candle - I adore the spooky eyes peeking from the toadstools on this stampsheet!!). I stamped all the images with versamark and embossed with mocha EP and then distressed everything lightly with Black soot distress ink. 

Next came the tricky bit, I have to say this isn't the easiest project to assemble and I struggled a little with the footer for the cup, it ended up a bit wonky so i added some brown and black fibres to cover the dodgy bits (ssshhhh don't tell lol)

I'm entering my Witches Brew in the following challenges:

Addicted to Stamps: Halloween

By the cute and girly: Anything goes

Crafting for all Seasons: Halloween

Corrosive Challenge : Flying things

Creative Card Crew: spooky fun

Delightful Challenges: Halloween

Divas by Design: something spooky

Hooked on Crafts: something spooky

Gingerloft: Halloween or Fall

I brake for Challenges: Halloween

Moving along with the times: Vintage

My Craft Spot: halloween 3d

The Crazy Challenge: Halloween

thanks for visiting today, I hope you're having a good weekend

If you need some more inspiration have a look at my teamies gorgeous projects, as always there are some gorgeous creations on the catwalk at Fashionable Stamping Challenges lol

Claire xx

Celebrating St Patrick's Day with Rainbow Lady

Hello, lovely to see you visiting today. I've got a couple of days annual leave which means a long weekend off work so I'm really looking forward to some 'me time' in my craft room although I should really tackle some spring cleaning. This weeks theme over at Rainbow Lady's Challenge is 'St Patrick's Day', we are also celebrating the birthday of none other than Cynthia, our Rainbow Lady herself!! This week we are lucky enough to be sponsored by

CRAFTY NOTIONS ... our lucky winner will recieve a fab mixture of goodies! I'm really jealous and the Crafty Notions shop is a real Aladdins Cave of crafty loveliness :-)

Anyway my card this week features a gorgeous shamrock image which is a freebie from Waltzing Mouse (as is the sentiment, you can find them here). The image is coloured with promarkers and cut out with one of my favourite nesties and distressed with antique linen distress ink. The image and sentiment are both matted on green mirri card edged with a gold krylon pen.

I made the background with starburst stains, I love using these inks they are so shimmery! I had to use 'Lucky Shamrock Green' and Golden dubloons for the background on a St Patrick's Day card lol. After a layer of lucky shamrock green I added random splodges of golden dubloons and sprinkled it with lots of sea salt. When you dust the salt off the dry background it give a really lovely mottled effect. Its hard to see on a photo but hopefully this shows it a little better

The swirly corner stamps are from Elusive Images and the green and gold  stripy ribbon is from Crafty Ribbons and the gold gems are from my stash.

I'm also entering this card in the following challenges:

Allsorts: Luck of the Irish

Alota Rubber Stamps: St Patrick's Day green

Alphabet challenge: Stripes

Crafty Cardmakers spotlight: Make your own designer paper

Crafty Ho's Challenge: gold, green and white

Creative Card Crew: Green

Delicious Doodles: green for St Patrick's Day

ECP challenges: Green

If the shoe fits: St Patrick's day

Inspiration Avenue: St Patrick's Day

Mamie Doodles: Monochomatic green with a bit of the Irish

Sentimental Sunday: Let's go green

Sisterhood of Crafters: St Patrick's Day

Stamp something: something cream and green

Tellen's Place: St Patrick's Day celebration

Thanks for visiting, I'm really looking forward to seeing your

St Patrick's Day inspired cards this week.

Claire xx