Paper Piecing at Fashionable Stamping Challenges

Hello folks, I hope you're keeping nice and warm in this horrible wintery weather, what on earth has happened to Spring? Still its just the weather to do some crafting so we shouldn't complain really lol. We've got a new challenge starting over at Fashionable Stamping Challenges and this time our theme is 'Paper Piecing', chosen by yours truly (goodness knows why as its not a technique i use a lot). Our lovely sponsor Leo from Flonzcraft has a fabby prize for our lucky winner so I hope you're going to ink up those stamps and join us.

For my card i've created a background using PanPastels, Maimeri iridescent medium through a prima mask and Stampers Anonymous stamps. I stamped the sentiment from Non sequitur with black stazon. 

The focal image is from Chocolate Baroque, I stamped and coloured her with Graph'It Markers and then stamped her again o some gorgeous Prima Firefly paper and embossed with black EP. I paper pieced her dressed and then stamped another dress from the same stamp set on some more prima paper, cut it out and popped it on a little beaded coat hanger.

To finish off i've added some seambinding, die cut swirls and a paper rose from Wild Orchid Crafts.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Brown Sugar: anything goes

Charisma: die cuts

Crafty Creations: embossing

Polkadoodles: embossing

Vickie's Challenge: anything goes

If you've got a minute, why not check out my lovely teamies beautiful projects. As always they've created some stunning artwork to inspire you

thanks for popping by and for your lovely comments

Claire xx

Travelling the World at Fashionable Stamping Challenges

Hi there,  how on earth did it get to be the week before Christmas?? I'm sure I'm in some kind of time warp as I'm still nowhere near ready for the big day. It may have had something to do with the fact that I spend far too much time at work and hiding away in my craft room lol. I hope you're better organised than I am :-)

Anyway back to the important stuff like crafting lol, today's project is my DT piece for Fashionable Stamping Challenges where we are 'Travelling the world' . I've opted for an Egyptian theme but there are some amazing creations from all corners of the globe so make sure you check out my teamies fab creations on the challenge blog. As ever the lovely Marina from Cottage Crafts is sponsoring our challenge so there will be a fab prize up for grabs! 

I've made a tag, altered a body butter container and made a beaded cabochon for my project. The tag uses stamps from Non Sequitur and Chocolate Baroque, with lots of embossing and glimmer misting. The gorgeous archway isn't particularly Egyptian but its my favourite stamp of the moment and I'm using it on everything lol. Its from Texture Fragments by Chocolate Baroque and I love it. I've added ribbon from my stash , a filigree corner and a sphinx charm.

The body butter container was a lovely deep rich red so I added some alcohol inks in raisin and cranberry with some gold mixative and stamped the bigscarab beetle and embossed with gold. I found a scrap of beaded gold braid in my stash and guess what, it was just the right length for the lid, don't you just love it when that happens??

The tissue was also coloured with glimmer mists. The beaded cabochon was made by stamping a gold lily on red card and attaching a 30mm flat backed glass nugget with glossy accents. Once it was dry I trimmed off the excess card and beaded around it in peyote stitch usng size 11 red seed beads and size 15 gold seed beads. I just can't get a decent pic of it at all though so apols for that, I'll try again if it brighens up and see if I have any luck. I love to make these although those size 15 seed beads are soooooooo fiddly to work with

I'm entering my project in the following challenges:

Chocolate Coffee and Cards: tag it

Fairy Tale: gift/gift packaging

Fabulous Friday: ribbon

Fussy and Fancy: mono and sparkle

Our Craft Lounge: Hand stamped gifts

Simon Says Stamp and show: thru the looking glass

Sweet Stampin: sparkle and bling

Thanks for calling by today,

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