Dude Time Doodles Challenge 21 - Sketch

It's time for another Dude Time Doodles challenge! As it is the first Wednesday of the month we have a sketch to follow - for more details on how to enter and to see the sketch (blogger is not playing nicely for me!) please visit the challenge blog.


I've used a new release image - Fanny Beach and coloured her with Promarkers and the obligatory glitter glue in her hair! She looks so fantastic!

Papers are from Funky Hand - Rainbow Polkadots and I've added a fimo heart button that I made myself! I found it when rummaging for something else - its amazing what I have when I look!

Good luck with the challenge!

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

Crafty Cardmakers: Summer Holiday Memories
Paper Pretties: Primary Colours
Crazy Challenge: Spots / Stripes
Corrosive Challenges: Funny / Punny

• Image: Fanny Beach, coloured with Promarkers
• Papers: Funky Hand - Rainbow Polkadots download
• Everything else: My stash - button by me!
  

Birthday and Back To School!

It's back to school day in our house and it's also Jacob's 6th Birthday! How time flies! So here is a picture of the boys all ready for school this morning and Jacob insisted on wearing his two Birthday badges too!


Jacob has pulled his trousers down from his waist as they are a little short in the leg already even though they were long on him when I bought them!!

Wonder how long their shoes will stay that shiny for......!!

Craft Juice Tuesday - Week 81

Welcome to another Craft Juice Tuesday! This week its all about Steampunk! I've never tried to make anything in this theme and I think if I tried it I'd love it - its just taking that step!

Apologies for the delay for this post - got a lot going on today - more about that in a later post!!

For more information about each item, please click on the photo where you will be taken to Craft Juice for more detail.

Wonderful pendant from The Watch Man
A Victorian styled pendant from Miss Bohemia

Or what about a wonderful bracelet from Tanith

See you next Tuesday for more!

Wedding

I'd been asked to make a Wedding card and what better image than to use this one from Lee Jacobs which I bought from here and to use the Sweet Sketch Wednesday sketch for inspiration!

The image has been coloured with Promarkers plus a little glitter glue on the glasses. Sentiment is computer generated and I've added embossed vellum (Cuttlebug D'vine swirls folder) panels behind the image.

I've used white grosgrain ribbon from my stash plus some very shiny silver card. Gems and prima flowers are from my stash.

Although you can't see it, I've added a silver gel pen dotted line around the image, sentiment and edge of the card.

I'd also like to enter the following challenges:

Quirky Crafts: Flourishes and Embossing
Designed 2 Delight: Wedding or Anniversary
Little Claire's Designs: Wedding or Anniversary
Rainbow Lady's Challenge: Embossing
Creative Belli: Acetate or Vellum
Fab n Funky: Embossing
CES Challenges: Raise Your Glass

• Image: Lee Jacobs, bought from CraftsuPrint, coloured with Promarkers
• Dies: Cuttlebug D'vine swirls embossing folder
• Sentiment: Computer generated
• Everything else: My stash
  

School is an Open Book

I've already made two School Good Luck cards and then last night I remembered I had another to make, so this will be late (along with her brother's Birthday card as it was last week!) I think the reason why I forgot that Lucy was starting school is that I still think of her as a baby and not nearly 5!!

Anyway, I was planning on using the free open digi book image from Tiddly Inks with something else, but last moment panic over as to what to do for Lucy was over when I saw that I still had some fab papers on my table that I could use as bunting.


The papers are from Cosmo Cricket - Togetherness digi paper pack which I bought from Jessica Sprague. I cut the triangles out then layered them onto the red and white flowered paper and then added the letters with a Letraset fineliner. The bunting lines are handrawn and I had to be careful that I could fit all the letters on (I got distracted watching Dr Who!) The word Lucy has been overwritten with glossy accents for extra definition.

I coloured the digi image with Aquamarkers and added a faux stitched border around the edge of the kraft card blank.

And I've missed the post today, so it will be even later!

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

Tiddly Inks: Reading Fun
Come and Get it Challenges: Back to School
Creative Inspirations Paints: Back to School
Crazy 4 Challenges: Back to School
If The Shoe Fits: Back to School

• Image: Tiddly Inks, freebie, coloured with Aquamarkers
• Papers: Cosmo Cricket digi Togetherness paper pack
  

Fetch A Sketch - Challenge 6

Its time for another Fetch A Sketch challenge! Jenny is the hostess this week and has set this wonderful sketch:


We also have a sponsor and one lucky entrant will win a £5 gift certificate to spend in the Jellypark store! Plus there is another prize on offer - pop over to the Fetch A Sketch blog to see what it is!

If you've not heard of Jellypark before then you are in for a treat! I'm lucky enough to be part of the design team and the images are wonderful to work with! For this challenge we've also been joined by some of the Jellypark design team and we have a Guest Designer for the whole of September!

For my card I've used the freebie snowman (you can find it here) which I've coloured with Aquamarkers. I've distressed the backing paper which is Dovecraft Let It Snow 12x12 paper stack and I've used my Nesties to cut the vellum backing which has been dotted around the edge with glitter glue.

The snowflake has been cut with a Sizzix die and I've added a glittered round thing (I've not got a clue what they are but they were a bargain!) plus some buttons and button twine through the centre. The ribbon is from my stash and is more of a linen edger than ribbon.

Good luck with our challenge the closing date is Sunday 18 September at 12noon GMT - for more details please go to the Fetch A Sketch challenge blog!

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge: No Sentiment
Crafty Ann's Challenge: All White on the Night (image only to be coloured)
Sweet n Sassy Digi Challenge: White on White (image only to be coloured)
Glitter Fairies: Christmas Cuties
For Fun Challenges: Christmas in August

• Image: Jellypark, coloured with Aquamarkers
• Papers: Dovecraft Let It Snow 12x12 paper stack
• Dies: Nestabilities and Sizzix Snowflake die
• Everything else: My stash
  

Candy Cane

I know, two Christmas cards in one day! I think I can get away with it as I didn't blog yesterday or Thursday - decided to have two evenings not crafting and I got major Christmas withdrawal symptoms! Plus I'm working on samples for Funky Hand - the new cd is due out very very soon and its such a wonderful cd that I can't help but use the papers, digi images and templates!

Anyway, this card is for the Dustin Pike challenge which is Yummy, Yummy in my Tummy! I think I may be sliding my the seat of my pants here as I've used a candy cane! The image is from the Christmas set that I bought a while ago - I'm still finding images that I've not noticed before as there are that many in the set!

I've used a Nesties to cut the shape after I'd coloured the image with Promarkers. I've dotted a blue gel pen line around the edge of the shape as I didn't fancy inking it.

The top paper is an offcut I found in my rather overflowing box of bits and the patterned paper is from an old Dovecraft Ho Ho Ho 8x8 paper stack. I found a small length of red ribbon in my stash (I really need to get some more grosgrain red!) and I've added some string that I found which originally came from the scrap store - making a double bow for extra interest.

I followed the Tuesday Morning Sketches for inspiration and I've added a faux stitched line around the edge plus three gems from my stash.

Can't promise that my next post will not be Christmas related.....!!

I'd also like to enter the following challenges:

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge: No Sentiment
Fun With Shapes and More: Anything Goes
ABC Christmas: R for Recycling, Ribbons and Rhinestones (the string is from the scrap store - reused and saved from unnecessary landfill site)
For Fun Challenges: Christmas in August

• Image: Dustin Pike, coloured with Promarkers
• Papers: From my stash and Dovecraft Ho Ho Ho 8x8 paper stack
• Everything else: My stash
  

Santa's List

I was lucky enough to come third in a recent Karen's Doodles challenge so I got to pick an image from the store as my prize and I picked this one!

This follows the current challenge which is a sketch. I've coloured the image with Aquamarkers and also the background of the sentiment with the a little glitter glue being added to the Christmas hat. I've used a nestie to cut the image and its been added to an offcut of Christmas paper - Dovecraft Noel 4.5 x 6.5 paper stack. I've layered it onto some dull gold card from my stash.

The sentiment is an acrylic Studio G stamp and that has been layered onto the gold card too. I've added some card candy and the organza ribbon is from my stash.

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

Our Daily Bread Designs: Spots or Dots
Sweet Stampin': Anything but Birthday
Card Makin' Mama's: Go Digi
Poodles Parlour: Animal Antics
Do You Stack Up? Friendly Critters

• Image: Karen's Doodles, coloured with Aquamarkers
• Paper: Dovecraft Noel 4.5 x 6.5 paper stack
• Sentiment: Studio G acrylic stamp
  
• Everything else: My stash
  

Simply Create Challenge 51 - Back To School

Welcome to the Simply Create challenge! We took an extra week as time off for good behaviour so we are a week later than anticipated! And our theme this fortnight is

Back To School

So however you interpret this, you can enter! For more details please pop over to the challenge blog.

My main image is one drawn especially for me by Claire from Jellypark - how lucky am I?! He's been coloured with Promarkers and I've added a computer generated sentiment to the board he is holding as its going to be sent to a friends little boy who will be starting school next week!

The background is from Tiddly Inks which comes as part of a bundle. The main image has been added with foam pads and all the other bits n bobs are from my stash.

Good luck with the challenge!

I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Pixie Dust Studio: School is Cool!
Stamp Insanity: Back to School
Fresh Brewed Designs: Feature A, B, C (the A is quite dark, but its there!)
Crazy Amigo Challenge: Back to School

• Image: Jellypark, coloured with Promarkers
• Background: Tiddly Inks
• Sentiment: Computer generated
• Everything else: My stash
  

Polkadoodle Challenge 45 - Autumn Leaves

Welcome to another Polkadoodle challenge! I think autumn is on its way only because we keep finding HUGE spiders that scuttle away really quickly in our house!! Its a sign that its getting colder outside. So to honour the theme (not the spiders!) the challenge this week is:

Autumn Leaves

I've cut out lots of leaves from Sundae of Seasons whilst watching The Da Vinci code (its a long film!) and added them onto two Nestie cut circles, layering and overlaping them as I went along - they are there you just can't really see them! The top layer has been added with foam pads for extra dimension.

I was going to add a sentiment but I didn't have one small enough as the wreath ended up being bigger than I anticipated!

Good luck with the challenge - its open until Sunday 11 September.

I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Craft Us Crazy: Autumn Colours
Creative Inspiration Paints: Lots of Layers
Robyns Fetish Challenges: Nature

• All elements: Polkadoodles - Sundae of Seasons