A colour challege at No Matter Which challenges

Good afternoon, I'm back with my second project of the day, this time my DT project for No Matter Which Challenges. This month we've got a colour challenge: Beige, Regal Rose and Pretty in Pink. 

We've got a fab prize up for grabs again this month: 

So do pop over to the challenge blog to find out more, and to check out my lovely teamies'  gorgeous creations .

Anyway back to my project, i've used a cute Bildmalarna (so hard to spell but such adorable stamps lol) stamp from Live and Love Crafts coloured with promarkers and cut with sizzix dies. 

I've made a door hanger using an MDF blank from Joanna Sheen, I created a brick effect background using a Crafters Workshop Template, Maimeri Light Modelling paste and my PanPastels. I painted the centre panel with acrylic paint and added the letters (cut with my Cricut). 

I've added some pretty pink braid, lace and some die cut leaves and little paper roses. Last but not least, I've used pink gingham ribbon to hang the project up.

I'm entering this project in the following challenge:

Happy Campers: flower power

Crafting for all seasons: floral delight

Crafts and Me: Spring flowers

I love promarkers: favourite colour (pink at the minute)

Papertake Weekly: anything goes

Sweet Stamps: spring pastels

I hope you're having a good weekend, I'm planning on an evening in front of the TV, Dr Who and The Voice, you don't get much better than that lol. I'm such a party animal :-)

Thanks so much for popping by

Claire xx

Spring is in the air at Chocolate Baroque

Hi  there, today's project features the lovely Spring Foliage stamps from Chocolate Baroque. My dresser was looking a little bare after the Christmas bunting was taken down so I decided to make some Spring bunting to brighten the place up.

The bunting pennants were from Chocolate Baroque, coloured with PanPastels, i used various colours from the tints range and blended with a sofft sponge, I used so many different colours I ended up covered in pastel colours as did Barney our puppy who loves to lie on my feet while I'm crafting lol.  I dusted my trusty cricut off to cut the letters out  and then stamped everything up. The images are all from Spring foliage, stamped with memento ink and coloured with promarkers

I coloured seam binding ribbon to match the buntig ad addded raffia, bows and then some little wooden buttons topped off with bakers twine bows. 

Here's a pic of the bunting in my dining room, I couldn't take a pic without my refletction in the glass lol.

I'm entering this project in the following challeges:

Creative Moments: buttons and bows

Eclectic Ellapu: Girly

Hotshot crafts: Anything but a card

Really Reasonable Ribbon: spring colours and ribbon

Simon Says Stamp and Show: something messy 

Spring was definitely in the air here yesterday, we had blue sky and sunshine most of the day and I even managed to have an hour tidying up in the garden. The snowdrops and hellebores are flowering and there are lots of little green shoots popping through the ground. I even managed to get some washing dried on the line. I'm enjoying a long weekend off work so its bliss to have some good weather to go with it.

Thanks for popping by today, have a great Saturday

Claire xx

Linda's tags number 2

Hi there, brrrrrrrrrrrr I don't know what happened to Autumn but it feels like winter has arrived here in my little corner of the UK, this morning we had a snow shower!!! Its a good job I'm getting ready for Christmas then lol. Here's my second project inspired by Linda's Christmas tags (pop over to Linda's blog to find out more, you can see Tag #2 here and find out the rules here, there are some fab prizes as the challenge is sponsored by Linda's shop The Funkie Junkie Boutique)

As I've decided to make bunting inspired by Linda's tags I've stuck to my gold colour palette but taken inspiration from the techniques Linda has used and the design of her gorgeous tag. I used the Riveted Patchwork techniqe for the background, coloured with espresso and gold alcohol inks. I just love this technique, its soooo much fun to do and I love the finished result

 I've used Crafty Secrets stamps for the centres of the cogs (which are embossed with antique linen distress EP) I die cut the letters on my cricut and embossed with a sparkly red embossing powder. 

The holly sprigs are Molly Blooms stamps, I embossed these onto Ranger foil with gold ep and coloured with Cranberry and Pesto alcohol inks. To finish off I've added a swirly holly die cut, embossed with a sparkly ivory EP.

I'm also entering this one in to the following challenges:

Anything goes: make your own embellishments

Do you stack up: embossing

Fussy and Fancy: anything goes

Holly Jolly: Here comes Santa

Hope you're having a good weekend, I've had a lovely crafty day and now I'm off to put my feet up and watch TV now, Strictly and Merlin tonight so I'm a happy bunny. Thanks for popping by

Claire xx

Decembers Digi Blog Hop

Hi, its time for another Digi Blog Hop!! If you've arrived her from the lovely Heather's blog then you're on the right track, if not you need to hop on over to the Digi Blog Hop where the fun begins!!

The letter you need to collect from my blog is

N

 You should have all your letters now so hop back to the Digi Blog Hop and leave a comment with your word/saying to be in with the chance of winning!!!

As usual us Hopetts had the choice of some gorgeous digistamps to use for our projects, I chose this supercute wintery image from Di's Digi Downloads for my card.

As usual the image is coloured with my trusty promarkers and I've added judikins prisma glitter and polar white flowersoft. The bp is from Dovecraft and I've added some pale blue velvet ribbon, snowflakes cut on my cricut, pale blue gems and matted the image on some Christmas tree acetate backed by white glitter card.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Digital Tuesday: Animals at Christmas

I love promarkers: Christmas trees (on the bp)

Paper Romance: Winter

Raise the bar: trees

Winter Wonderland: Penguins and Polar bears

Sew Many Cards: Snowflakes

Stamp'n'Doodle: anything goes with a winter theme

Thanks for visiting today, have fun if you're taking part in the digi blog hop and take care if you're venturing out in the snow this morning. I'm going to attempt to get in to work today as we've had a bit of a thaw although its freezing this morning, better get my thermals out lol

Claire xx

Christmas at Let's Ink It Up!!

Hi there, well we've certainly been having some Christmassy weather here in the UK, lots of snow and ice. Great inspiration for our challenge this time at Let's Ink It Up as our theme is

'Christmas' with a twist, add some sparkle!! Here's my DT project, a card, gift box and necklace.

We've got not one but 2 fantastic sponsors this time, one lucky winner will receive a gorgeous box of Christmas ribbons from Crafty Ribbons!!  

Our other lucky winner will receive this beautiful 'Jewel It Kit' work $20 from Outlines Rubber Stamp company

The inspiration for my project came from making some beads with my new melt pot, I used a tutorial from Leandra French to make 'Leandra beads' using some rich blue snowflake paper and lots of mica powders, the colours don't show up too well in the pic but I love this technique, its great fun and the beads look amazing.

I made the blue background for the card using Elusive images snowflake stamps, embossed with clear EP on white card and then sprayed with loads of Cosmic shimmer spray in Midnight blue and lots of silver firework ink. The flowers are made by mopping up the inky mess on my craftmat with tissue paper and then cutting lots of circles, crumple them up to dry and layer them to make the flowers.

The beautiful words are a stamp from Joanna Sheen, stamped on parchment and embossed with silver EP. I tried to create a snowy effect by dotting with my quickie glue pen and adding Judikins prisma glitter although its hard to see in the pic it looks really pretty in real life.

The main image is a stamp from Elusive Images, coloured with promarkers and glitter added to the pattern on her dress and the halos.

The gift bag was very quick and easy. i cut the shape with my cricut  and used the same stamps and inks as for the background on the card. I added some gorgeous royal blue ribbon from Crafty Ribbons and a velco fastener to finish it off.

I've made loads of these Leandra beads and to make the necklace I just attached them to a length of chain with jump rings and then used a pendant bail to attach them to the long silvery chain. 

I'm entering my projects in the following challenges:

Little Red Wagon: Christmas tag/bag

Artistic Stamper: Christmas

ai Factory: Winter

Paperplay: Monochrome

Paper Playtime: Inspired by a Carol (O Holy Night)

Creative inspirations: Christmas Gifts

Oh Alice: The flowers are talking! (make your own flowers)

Sweet Stampin Challenge: Make your own BP

Hope you're going to join us at LIIU this time, Christmas is a perfect time to add some sparkle!! The LIIU DT are all having a break over Christmas so this challenge will finish on 19th December.

Thanks for visiting today

Claire xx

Snowman with heart...

Hi, don't you just love the weekends? I've had a really busy week at work so I was well ready for a crafting fix and as Christmas is creeping up on us so quickly i thought i'd make another Christmas card. I won't be caught out this year though, Irene, Max and Ann at Bah Humbug have kept me in the Christmas spirit all year  and I've almost got all my cards made (its not like me to be such a goody two shoes lol) Anyway this weeks theme at Bah Humbug is fancy folds, so I've made this card using this cute 'Snowman with Heart' from Michelle Perkett (he has 20% off this week as he is in the spotlight at Michelle Perkett Studios!!)

I don't know what this kind of fold is called, I did know but can't remember anyway its one of the few fancy folds i can manage as I'm not good at fancy folds. The snowman is coloured with promarkers and then I added some swirls with a versamark pen and some Shasta Puff EP and some irridescent glitter. The icicle border is made using a Marianne die (from Linda at Jazzlins Designs) and the snowflakes are cut with my cricut. The snowflakes are cut from white card and then glittered with crushed glass glitter and some more irridescent glitter (which looks blue on the pic for some reason) and gems in the centres

I added a couple of white organza bows and the sentiment which comes with the supercute snowman.

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

My time to Craft challenge: Quick and cute

Simon Says: All White

ABC Christmas: Winter wonderland + white

Charisma Cardz: With love at Christmas

Polkadoodles: Quick and Easy Christmas

Top Tip Tuesday: Christmas Inspired

Thanks for calling by. Don't forget you still have time to enter this weeks 'Under the Sea' Challenge over at Michelle Perkett Studios.

Claire xx

A new challenge from Cowgirl's Sunday Stampen Challenge!!

Hi there, its time for a new challenge at Cowgirls Sunday stampen Challenge and this week our challenge is a sketch plus make your own background!! Thanks to the talented Alison for our fab sketch this week! I've really enjoyed making this card as I love sketch challenges and I love making backgrounds too!!

As usual there are some fab prizes on offer and this week we are sponsored by the lovely Michelle Perkett, who has some amazing digistamps so hop on over to the challenge blog and check out the goodies!

I've used this beautiful image Emilee from CJ at Cowgirl Up Designs and coloured her with promarkers and sakura stardust pens. I've made 2 background for this card, the first is directly behind Emilee and is clear embossing powder with versamark ink on black card (using a swirly stamp from Elusive Images) and then adding tiny dots of red stickles to the design. The main background was made by painting some card with pure gold ecogreen acrylic paint and once it was dry, stamping with a paisley stamp (from Elusive images) in black pigment ink. Once the ink was dry, I rubbed vaseline in patches over the design and then painted all over with black acrylic paint. Once the paint was dry, the vaseline rubs off leaving patches of the gold background showing through.

The gold swirls are  cut on my cricut, inked with versamark and embossed with gold EP and dotted with red stickles. I added a red rose from Wild Orchid crafts and a butterfly from my stash and added a few more dots of stickles for the butterflies trail

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Scrap it with a song: Vogue

Gingersnap Creations Spicy Supply Challenge GC 73: versamark

Simon Says : 3 types of embellies (diecuts, flower and butterfly) 2 dps (mmm do my homemade backgrounds count??) I image

Sisterhood of Crafters: Bling

Delightful Challenges: Metal Mania (my faux metal embellies)

Incy Wincy: Faux it up

Digi Doodle's Best: People

Stampin with the Dragon: You got ink

Daring Cardmakers: Welcome to the Dance

Thanks for calling by today. Have a good Sunday

Claire xx

This week's recipe from Cooking it with Katie!!

Hi everyone, its time for another challenge from Cooking it up with Katie!! This week are sponsored by Meljens and the DT were lucky enough to use one of Meljens supercute images for our cards. I've used  'Apple Angel' for this card, and our recipe which is: furry friends, buttons and patchwork.

The bps are from Joanna Sheen's Messy Rabbit Cdrom. The image is coloured with promarkers and the red apple is embossed with clear ep for a little shine. I cut the octagon shapes on my cricut and stuck them to some of the apple bp and stamped the faux stitching on with black  ink. The sentiment is also cut on my cricut. I added some tiny buttons on the corners of the image and a couple of paper flowers with a  larger button in the centre.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Fussy and Fancy: back to school

Stamp Something: back to school

Crafty Emma: anything goes

Incy Wincy: back to school

Passion for Promarkers: Teddy Bears Picnic

Thanks for calling by, I hope you're going to cook something up with our recipe this week

Claire xx

Its here!! The first challenge over at Let's ink it up

Its finally here, our first challenge at Let's Ink it Up and we have made it easy for you this time. The challenge is 'Anything Goes' but with a twist, you must use some yellow in your project, even if its just a tiny bit! Of course LIIU is all about rubber/clear stamping so the focal point of your card must be a rubber/clear stamped image. We have a great prize for the winner:

 Scrapbook Boutique are sponsoring the challenge and have generously donated a $20 voucher for the store

Here is my creation to (hopefully) inspire you to create with us at LIIU this time:

I've had this canvas in my head for ages and I've loved every messy minute of creating it. All the stamps used are from Elusive Images. I began by colouring the canvas with ecogreen paints in butternut and clamshell and then oversprayed with glimmer mists in daffodil and starfish. I tore strips from a roll of canvas and coloured them with the leftove painty inky mess on my craft mat. Once they were dry I rolled them into little roses and highlighted them with gold stickles.

The main image was created using by stamping leaves and plants from EI Autumn Hedgerow themeplate with versamark on coated cardstock, I wanted it too look a bit misty so I sponged some dye  inks on rather than brayering it for a change. I then stamped and embossed the tree and fairy with Ranger Queen's Gold EP. I used mother of pearl mica flakes to add foliage to the tree, i love the effect they've created so I'll probably be putting them on everything now lol. The toadstools and unicorn were embossed in the same EP on scraps of white card and coloured with promarkers before being attached to the main image with silicone glue.

I made the frame by cutting out on my cricut and painting with Ecogreen paints in pomegranate and clamshell. Once it was dry I embossed with gold EP and a swirl stamp from EI. I ran a versamark pen around the inside and outside edges and again embossed in gold. I arranged the canvas roses and added some vellum leaves (from EI Diamante Delights themeplate) and some grungeboard flourishes (again embossed with gold EP). To finish the canvas I attached some lace and pink velvet ribbon to the bottom.

I'm entering my canvas in the following challenges:

Sir Stampalot: Bring on the bling

Gingersnap Creations GC 67: Go 3D 

Oh Alice: Prizes for dodo

The Pink Elephant: ribbon and sparkles 

I hope you are going to get inky with us over at Let's Ink It Up, you have 2 weeks to wow us with your stamped creation so I can't wait to see what you come up with. Whether your style is cute, grungy, or whatever we want to see what you can do with your rubber!! Dont' forget to check out my teamies fabby blogs for more inspiration, they have really excelled themselves with their DT projects for our first challenge!

Claire xx

Dragons Dream Tag it on Wendy Vecci Style

Frankie's challenge over at Dragon's Dream Tag it On is 'Die cuts' and I've combined it with this weeks challenge at Simon Says Stamp and Show where the challenge is 'Wendy Vecci' style. I love Wendy's style but don't have ny of her stamps (yet!!) so I had to rummage through my stamps for something suitable and came up with a large flower from Elusive Images to use as the focal point.

I've cut the shapes on my cricut and then coloured them with distress inks in vintage photo, spiced marmalade and antique linen and stamped them with a Creative Expressions crackle stamp. The leaves are coloured with shabby shutters. I stamped the flower twice on some white card coloured with the same distress inks and embossed with black detail EP. I also stamped and embossed the flower on some glossy card coloured with ginger and lettuce alcohol inks. I decoupaged the layers of the  flower, added some lime stickles and attached it to the centre of the tag. The oval tags are coloured the same way and I stamped a quote from Sweet Pea stamps a bee from Artemio and added a punched butterfly.

I love working with beads and decided to add a beaded hanger and attach the oval with beads, thats when it all started to go horribly wrong lol. I made the beady bits (note the technical terminology lol) with wire, myuki drops and twisted bugle beadsThe two metal embellishments are earring blanks from the local scrap store which started off with little loops which I was going to use to attach the oval - BUT I managed to snap one! At that stage I thought it was destined for the bin but I managed to remove the earrings and stick them on further up, waste not want not as my grannie used to say ;-)

I thought it would be plain sailing to attach the beaded bits with eyelets and jump rings, WRONG! I didn't have any jump rings big enough so I had to bodge some from headpins (so don't look too closely lol). Added a little metal peg as a finishing touch (not sure if Wendy is into metal pegs lol).

I'm also entering this in the following challenges:

Craft your days away: With wings

One stop craft challenge: Not a card

Alphabet Challenge: Q is for quote 

Aud Sentiments: Anything goes

Just Scraps: Anything goes

Thanks for looking, sorry about the photo, I can't blame my dodgy camera any more as my photo's are just as bad with new my camera lol

Claire xx