Challenge #209 - "Photo Inspiration" - The Paper Shelter

Good Morning Paper Shelter Followers, well we are now half way through the year can you believe it? and this weeks Challenge over on The Paper Shelter Challenge Blogspot is a card created from a the colours in this photo

And as always our sponsors are Veronica and Pedro of The Paper Shelter and they are offering a fabulous prize of $30 to spend on their website

but this is only if you have used one of their products on your card and that could be either a Image, Paper or Printable and you will find them here on their website.  But even if you do not use any of their products you will still receive 3 digi images of your own choice so you really cannot loose can you? Please dont forget that you are only allowed to enter our Challenges 3 times and at least one of the entries must have one of our products on it or they will be disallowed in the choice of a winner.
And here is the Card that I created for this Challenge, its a real fun one and I hope you like it as much as I do.

This image is called "Monkeys" for the obvious reason and you will find them here,  and I printed it onto white card then used my copic pens on it to colour and then cut out completely by hand.
The base card is a 6.50"x 6.50" white card with a first mount out of kraft card and I have used the backing paper that came with the "Monkeys" image and you will find them here, I then used a mixture of Cheery Lynn, Marianne and Tattered Lace dies to create the background of grass, leaves and monkeys and these were placed around the edges and the image was then stuck in the middle of the card and a sentiment was then stamped and mounted on a banner die across the top in the left hand corner.
Now that I have shown you my card I do hope that you will pay a visit to The Paper Shelter Challenge Blogspot and see what the rest of the very talented Design Team have created for your inspiration and hopefully you will want to take part in this "Photo Inspiration" Challenge.
This Card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://doodlepantryblog.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/DPDC 
http://fattastictuesday.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://stampartpapel.com/category/comunidad/ 
http://www.ttcrd.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://artisticinspirationschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://craftingfromtheheartchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://www.craftyourpassionchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://lovetoscrapchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://melonheadzfriends.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://notjustcardschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ 

A Card using the new Heartfelt Blazing Poppies Stamps and Dies

Good Morning Crafters, this is actually my third card using these gorgeous stamps and dies from Heartfelt designs, this latest set Blazing Poppies is one of my favourite sets. I created the flowers (shown at the top and either side of the vase) but stamping the image onto white card then coloured them with my inkpads, I then cut them out with the die that comes with these design set and formed the flowers and layered them up.
The vase and the flower behind it were complete stamps which I also stamped onto white card then used my copic pens to colour them both
afterwards I cut them out completely and in the centers of all the flowers I used a large black glitter and left them to dry.
The base card card is a 8"x 7.75" white card with a first mount out of red card and a second out of black, the backing paper is from the same design set as the poppies and has then been placed on top of the mounts.
I shaped the vase and the other cut out stamped piece and layered them up in the bottom left hand corner, I also placed two of the smaller poppies either side to created a bigger punch of flowers, and at the top of the paper there were a further two printed poppied and on top of these I placed the other 2 poppies that I created earlier. The final flourish is the sentiment also from the same design set cut it out and placed it on the pocket.
This Card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://avenue613.blogspot.co.uk/
http://ameliatworks.blogspot.co.uk/p/current-challenge.html
http://lacysunshine.blogspot.co.uk/
http://www.fairytalestamper.blogspot.de/
http://greatimpressionsstamps.blogspot.co.uk/
http://lilpatchofcraftyfriends.blogspot.com.au/
http://www.scribbleandscrapcrafts.blogspot.co.uk/
http://sirstampalotchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/
http://welove2create.blogspot.co.uk/

ABC Challenges - "L is for Lace"

Good Morning Crafters, well here we half way through June, its amazes me how quickly this year has already almost reached Mid-Summer and where is it? I know we have lighter evenings but the temperature hasnt been to good so far, I do hope that we shall get some soon dont you? Anyway we have reached the letter "L" over on ABC Challenges and for this one we want to see lots of Lace on your cards and Im sure if your anything like me you have lots of it in your stash.
This time our Sponsors are The Paper Shelter, who as you know Im on their Design Team so I have the choice of any of their images to play with, but Im getting ahead of myself.

The Paper Shelter are offering a fabulous prize of $20 to spend in their webshop

And here is the Card I created for this "L is for Lace" Challenge

I have used "Rhythm Everywhere" and you will find her here, I have printed her onto white card then used my copic pens to colour her, afterwards I cut her out with the oval Nestabilitie Die and stuck blue lace all around the edge.

I then cut a mount out of blue card with a fancy Nestabilitie Oval Die and stuck my image on to. The base card is a 6.50"x 6.50" white card with a first mount out of blue card the papers I have used are from "Sophie in the Country" digi paper set and you will find them here. I have used four of the papers and on three of the edges I have used the Martha Stewart Lace border punch and layered them up. I then laid a piece of spiderweb lace down the card and wrapped a piece of blue satin ribbon on top and attached them to the back of the first mount.

 Now that youve seen my Card I do hope that you will pay a visit to the ABC Challenge Blogspot and see what the rest of the very talented Design Team have created for your inspiration and hopefully you to will want to take part in this "L is for Lace" Challenge.

This Card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://avenue613.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://ameliatworks.blogspot.co.uk/p/current-challenge.html 
http://lacysunshine.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://eclecticellapu.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://glitternsparklechallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://greatimpressionsstamps.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Challenge 
http://lilpatchofcraftyfriends.blogspot.com.au/ 
http://www.scribbleandscrapcrafts.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://sirstampalotchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://thatcraftplaceblog.blogspot.co.uk/ 

Challenge #207 - "Anything but a Card" - The Paper Shelter

Good Morning Paper Shelter Followers well this week over at The Paper Shelter Challenge Blogspot we have something different and I do so hope that you will take part and show us what you can create.
 And this weeks Challenge as always is being sponsored by Veronica and Pedro of The Paper Shelter

and they are offering a fabulous prize of $30. to spend on their website but this is providing you have used one of their products and that could be either a Image, Backing Paper or even a Printable, but even if you have not they will still give you 3 digi images of your own choice to play with. So you really cannot loose can you? And the choice on their website The Paper Shelter is amazing they are always updating their library so the choices as fabulous and the price of them is really good to.
So here is what I created with one of the MDF books you can buy, its for my Great Grandson Jacob, its a Brag Book I hope you like it.

 Using Cutest Wizard

Using The Aviator

Using Brave and Cute Knight

Using World Champion

Using Adorable Fireman

Using Extreme

Using Little Cowboy

Using Mad about Video Games

All the images and papers are all linked so if you would like to click on them it will take you to The Paper Shelter page with the appropriate images and papers for sale. I sincerely hope you like the Brag Book and I look forward to seeing what you create for the "Anything but a Card" Challenge.

Now that youve seen my project I do hope that you will go and visit The Paper Shelter Challenge Blogspot and see what the rest of my very talented Design Team have created for your inspiration.

This Project is to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://biminimoose.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Chs 
http://cardz4guyz.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://www.craftysentiments.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://doodlepantryblog.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/DPDC 
http://fattastictuesday.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://www.ttcrd.blogspot.co.uk/ 

Pink Gem Designs - "Something Blue"

Good Morning Gemsters, well another two weeks have gone by for us over on Pink Gem Challenges, and this time its all about the colour "Blue" so we had to all shades of it on our cards.
As usual Janet of Pink Gem Designs is sponsoring our Challenge and please do go and visit her website and see what stunning and beautiful images and papers she has to sell for you to play with.

And here is the Card I created for the Challenge.

This beautiful Image is called "Birds in a Row" and you will find them here, I printed the image onto white card then used my copic pens to colour it, afterwards I cut it out with one of Nestabilitie Dies and a fancy one for the mount out of blue card.
The base card is 6.50"x 6.50" white card with a first mount out of blue card, the papers are also from Pink Gem Designs and you will find them here, they are called Dotty, for the obvious reason, I have used two papers in two shades of blue.
I then wrapped a blue ribbon around the card down ways and attached it to the back of the first mount. I then placed my mounted image in the center and die cut the sentiment in blue card and placed it down the right hand side. To finish of I have used blue pearls down the left hand side.
Now that youve seen my Card I do hope that you will pay a visit to Pink Gem Designs Challenge Blogspot and see what the rest of the very talented Design Team have created for your inspiration and hopefully you to will take part in this "Something Blue" Challenge.
This Card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://artbymiranchallenge.blogspot.ca/ 
http://brownsugarchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://creativefingerschallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://blog.docerelashop.com/ 
http://graphitmarkers.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://simplypapercraftsforalloccassions.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://sisteractcardchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://stempelsonne.blogspot.co.uk/ 

A Christmas Card for a Child - Sundays with Santa - Facebook Challenge

Good Morning Crafters, each week over on Facebooks Sundays with Santa we host a challenge for a Christmas Card and last weeks one was to create a Card for a Child. And as Im on the Pink Gem Designs Design Team I am lucky to be able to use any of Janets stunning images and designs to play with, and this one is from a new set of Toppers that she has just released for this Christmas coming

Pink Gem Designs

As you can see there are a lot to choose from, I printed the able image "Barclay Bear" onto photo paper, and then cut out the background and mounted it onto a piece of blue card. The Bear himself I cut out and then decoupaged him onto the main image on the background. I layered up the flowers in the three corners and the sentiment in the top right hand corner.

This Card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-

http://onelayerchristmas.blogspot.co.uk/

http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.co.uk/

http://doodlepantryblog.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/DPDC

http://www.ttcrd.blogspot.co.uk/

ABC Challenges - "K is for Kritters"

Good Morning Crafters, well we are almost half way through this 2015 can you believe it, its gone so quickly and so far we have only seen just a few gorgeous warm days and of course we have  had so much rain yet again, I do so hope that things improve soon as it makes Winter come so quickly otherwise. Anyway todays Challenge over on ABC Challenges is "K for Kritters" and this means we want to see Animals on your cards and we are being sponsored by

Sherri Baldy

And for my Card I used this cute image

Its certainly a rather large dog, and your will find it here, I printed it onto white card and then coloured it with my copic pens, afterwards I cut it out with my Nestabilitie Die and a fancy one for the mount.

The base card is a white one with a 6.50"x 6.50" and my found mount is a beige one, I then used three papers from the Sweetshoppes "I love my Dog" paper set, and then across the bottom I used a dog ribbon and attached it to the back of the first mount.

The Sentiment is one from the same paper set which was printed then cut out completely and I mount this onto a piece of the same brown card and the mount.

I then placed my mounted image towards the left and the sentiment  in the bottom right hand corner and to finish of I have used some dog buttons and placed them down the right hand side.

Now that youve seen my card I do hope that you will pay a visit to the ABC Challenge Blogspot and see what the rest of the very talented Design Team have created for your inspiration and hopefully you to will want to take part in this "K is for Kritters" Challenge.

This Card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://avenue613.blogspot.co.uk/
http://lacysunshine.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://glitternsparklechallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://lilpatchofcraftyfriends.blogspot.com.au/ 
http://www.scrapbookblessingsclub.com/ 
http://www.scribbleandscrapcrafts.blogspot.co.uk/ 
http://corrosivechallengesbyjanet.blogspot.com/2015/05/challenge-225-anything-goes.html
http://welove2create.blogspot.co.uk/