All Things Girly at Incy Wincy

Good morning Monday has come round again so time for a new challenge at Incy Wincy this week we have a nice easy one for you All Things Girly. This week we have 2 sponsors Milk n Coffee & Stitchy Bear.

My card today is using an image from Milk n Coffee and later in the week I will have another card to show you using an image from Stitchy Bear. I coloured the image using promarkers and added glossy accents and stickles to it. The papers are from Dovecraft Back To Basics 3 and matted onto pale grey card. I added a sentiment from Craftwork Cards and some self adhesive pearls.

I would like to enter my card into he following challenges:
Digi Sketch Challenge - It's A Girl Thing
The Crazy Challenge - Three Of A Kind ( groups of 3 pearls)
Creative Craft Cottage - Things With Wings
Glitter & Sparkle - Use A Digi
Allsorts - Pretty In Pink

Cute Critters at Incy Wincy

Good morning today's card is for the new challenge over at Incy Wincy where this week we want to see Cute Critters. We have two fantastic sponsors for you this week Digital Delights and Scrappiness Designs.

I decided to get on with my Christmas cards this week and picked this cute penguin from Digi Stamp Boutique  which I teamed with these gorgeous Christmas papers from our sponsor Scrappiness Designs. I couloured the penguin with my pro-markers adding some glossy accents to his beak and star dust stickles to the hat.

Here's a couple of close ups of the papers to show them off better. The sentiment is a die from Marianne Designs which I again covered with sticlkes.

Just to let you know we had a few problems with Inlinkz last week so we have decided to keep last weeks challenge open for another week so you can all enter the theme last week was Balloons & Banners and also our DT call is still open all the details can be found here.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Allsorts - Early Christmas Makes

Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Extra - Anything Christmas

Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned Paper Challenge - Use Patterned Paper

Digi Stamp Boutique - September Challenge

Banners & Balloons at Incy Wincy

Good morning quick post from me to tell you about the start of a new challenge at Incy Wincy where this week we want to see Banners & Balloons on your projects. We are sponsored this week by the fantastic Bugaboo Stamps. A CAS card from me today as time is short as we had a fantastic few days with family staying last week and we are off out and about for a few days this week as both me and hubby are off work. I've used Mouse with Balloons from our sponsor coloured him with my pro markers adding glossy accents to the balloons. The paper is from an old Basic Grey pad and i cut the banner under the sentiment from some blue paper in the same pad. The candy buttons are also from Basic Grey not sure I like them dotted randomly, why is it they look great on other peoples cards dotted in a random pattern but they never look right on mine think it's cause I'm a bit OCD about everything balancing!

Don't forget we still have our DT call going we would love some of you to come and join our happy and relaxed team you can find all the details here.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Crazy 4 Challenges - Animal

The Crazy Challenge - Cute Little Animal

Graph'It Markers Colour Challenge - Transparency 

Wheels at Incy Wincy

Good morning time for another challenge at Incy Wincy this week we want to see wheels on your projects. Our sponsor this week is Doodle Pantry who kindly allowed the DT to pick an image each to work with, I choose this cute dumper truck with ants. I coloured the image with my pro markers and added some glossy accents to the ants. The paper and the sentiment come as part of the bundle with the image. Other than that I just added a couple of green brads to cover up a boo boo!

Don't forget we have a DT call going on at the moment if your interested in joining a fab team you can find all the details here

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

DT Call At Incy Wincy

CALLING all CRAFTY ladies and gents!!!! 

Incy Wincy Designs Challenge blog is looking for YOU!!!! 

We are searching for 4 or 5 talented people who love to create and would love to be part of our little family!!! 

Your term will be 6 months and you will be provided with images from our sponsors - you will be required to use the sponsor images in your creations, post the sponsors badge & a link to their store on your blog post.

Challenges run every Monday (post at 2:00 am MST). 

You will also be required to visit the participants blogs to view and comment on their cards according to the schedule we have set up. 

You will choose a Top 3 and a winner according to a rotation schedule.

You will be required to be the Blog Post Author on a rotating basis with the other team members. 

Open communication is VERY important! We are VERY flexible and understanding, and we like to laugh - a LOT!!!! 

 IF this interests you, we'd love to have you join our team!!!! 

Please send a little bit of information about yourself, a link to your blog, and TWO pictures of your favourite projects to: incywincychallenge@hotmail.com 

Design Team Call ENDS August 24 - we will let the lucky ducks know by August 31 and your term will start Sept. 8.

THANKS! 
We look forward to hearing from you!!!! 
 HUGS, Chris, Nikki & Hev

Colour Inspiration at Incy Wincy

Good morning today's post is for the new challenge at Incy Wincy which this week is sponsored by Meljen's and is a Colour Inspiration challenge, here's the colours we want to see on your projects.

I have used this cute image from our sponsor for my card I coloured the image with my pro markers adding stickles to the centre of the flowers. I printed an extra image so I could layer the flower on the pot. I added a few tiny yellow gems around the image. The paper is from an old pad sorry can't remember the name and layered onto some dark brown card.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Craft Your Passion - Bring Me Sunshine ( Add Yellow)

Paper Pretties - Thank You Card

S J Crafts August Challenge

Today's card is one I made for Aimee and her friend Ella May  to give to their friend at school who was going back to Korea to live. It also fits in with the new challenge which went live yesterday over at S J Crafts where this month we want to see projects with the theme of Holidays / Travel and also for you to use something new and something old.

 So for my card my something new was this cute digi from Zlatoena's Designs called Travel Bunny  I coloured him with promarkers adding some glossy accents to his googles. I decided to paper piece the plane slightly fiddly but worth it I think all the papers are from Prima Hello Pastel collection. I added a banner to the back of the plane with some paper twine. My something old was my Fiskers Threading water border punch which I think is the first border punch I got. 

I decided to make a cross over card so I could put a photo I took of the three of them playing in my garden a few days before she had to go home. On the reverse of the insert I printed a poem which I thought was fitted the occassion.

 " Our friendship with you is special

And we hope it never ends

Even though you'll be miles and miles away

Let's stay the best of friends."

 I haven't put a photo of the reverse of the insert as it has our address and Ella Mays address on it so that they can all keep in touch.

Don't forget to hop over to the blog a check out the rest of the DT fantastic projects.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Crafting For All Seasons - Feature A Creature

Mod Squad - Paper Piecing

Hanna And Friends - Animals

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterened Paper Challenge - Patterned Paper

Stempelgarten Challenge - Paper Piecing

Flowers at Totally Gorjuss

Good morning today's post is for the new challenge over at Totally Gorjuss where this week we want to see flowers on your project. My project this week is another one of the memo blocks I made as a thank you present for the teachers at school. I used Dusty Concord and Milled Lavender distress inks on this one and them stamped some flower stamps over the top in Dusty Concord adding some flat back gems to the centre of the flowers.

I would like to enter my box into the following challenges:

Fussy & Fancy - Words

Flat Friends Challenge - Say It With A Quote

Creatalicious Challenge - Monochrome

The ABC Challenge - Q is for Quote

Word Play at Country View Challenges

Whoops blogger strikes again this post was scheduled to go this morning at 6 but for some reason blogger decided not to post it perhaps it was having a lie in? Any way onto the reason for today's post last month I was lucky enough to be picked as the winner at Country View Challenges where I won a £20 voucher to spend on goodies from the shop and they also I asked me if I would like to be GDT this month, I said yes of course although I was a bit worried that my work wasn't good enough as the DT over their do some amazing things with inks and things. Here's my effort for the new challenge, Word Play  so anything that involves quotes, sayings etc but excluding sentiments such as 'Happy birthday', 'New home', 'Congratulations' and the like, which starts today.

I decided I would alter this Kraft notebook which I picked up at work for 50p in the recent sale, what i didn't think about was that at A5 size most of my papers would be to small whoops. After hunting through my very old stack of 12 x 12 papers I pulled out 3 sheets of Fancy Pants Dancing girl which I cut up to create my layers. I inked the edges of the polka dot piece slightly with Weathered Wood distress ink.

 I've used this cute owl again from The Stamping Chef and coloured him up with my pro-markers adding glossy accents to his glasses. I typed up this quote on the computer and put a squiggly frame around it and then printed it onto some of the DP. I fussy cut the frame out and then used a paper clip to attach it to the notebook. I added some pieces of ribbon the the spiral bind on the side of the book.

Don't forget to pop over to the challenge blog and have a look at some of amazing work for the DT and maybe join in yourselves.

I would like to enter my notebook into the following challenges:

The Stamping Chef Challenge - Anything Goes

City Crafter - Animal Magic

Try It On Tuesdays - Things With Wings

The Crafters Cafe - Use A Digi

Fab N Funky - Walk On The Wildside

I Love Promarkers - Ribbons

Wedding White On White With Gold at Incy Wincy

Good morning time for a new challenge over at Incy Wincy this week we want to see Wedding cards using the colour scheme of White On White with Gold. We are sponsored by Sassy Studio Designs this week. 

I kept my card quite simple this week using lots of die cuts and embossing folders. I die cut some hearts out of white and gold card and turned one into a groom in his suit jacket with a bow tie and the bride has a lovely embossed swirls dress with a pearl necklace. The background is embossed with a tiny hearts embossing folder from cuttlebug and I have run a piece of gold ribbon across the card and added a computer generated sentiment on the top of it. 

Sketch time at Incy Wincy

Running a bit late as I was still trying to get all the teachers presents and cards finished up last night and I forgot to schedule this post. I had one card left to do tonight but Aimee has come home to stay that that teacher isn't in school now untill September so no rush to get it finished now lol. 

This weeks challenge at Incy Wincy  is a sketch one the lovely Karen has drawn up this fabby sketch for us to use.

And we are sponsored by Digi Characters by Heather Ellis. I have used this cute image from her to make a thank you card for one of the teachers. I coloured the image with promarkers and gave her a little paper pieced cardigan. The papers are from MME Now & Then Mildred. Which I teamed with some Kraft card.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

A Gem of Challenge - Spots & Stripes

My Time To Craft - Paper Piecing

We Do Doobadoo - Spotty & Dotty

Robyn Fetish Challenge - Paper Piecing

Butterflies at Totally Gorjuss

Wow it's been a long week we have had stock take at work this week so I worked my day off to help get everything ready. As it's Saturday it's time for a new challenge over at Totally Gorjuss which this week is a nice easy one Butterflies. I have been busy making gifts for teachers this week and here is one I made for a friends little boy to give to his teacher. I was asked to incorporate butterflies into the present as that is what his class is called. I bought some plain black memo blocks from work in the sale recently for 50p each ( I think they thought I was mad at work as I bought 15 of the things lol but as a crafter I could see the potential of them!!). I started of by printing a verse onto some white card and then got my distress inks out to play on this one I have used Picked Raspberry and Peacock Feathers. The swirls are the Grunge Flourish stamp from Visible Image. The butterfly is a Martha Stewart punch which I embossed with the Divine Swirls folder in my cuttlebug and then inked.

Here's an angled photo so you can see the sides of the block as well sorry about the path I had a nightmare trying to take this photo's as the sun was really bright and all the others had terrible shadows on them. 

I would like to enter my memo block into the following challenges:

Visible Image Challenge - Anything Goes

Bloggers Challenge - Quotes 

Strings & Things At Incy Wincy

Good morning feels like a long time since I posted or crafted it's only been a week but feels much longer first of all I managed to whack my bad hand on the handle of the back door so couldn't do very much with it then on Tuesday morning I woke with a pain in my neck which got worse by the minute so off to the doctors I went and turns out my neck muscles had gone into spasm. Ouch didn't that hurt still aching now but I can at least keep my head upright and move without being in agony.

Onto the real reason I'm here today there is a new challenge over at Incy Wincy which this week is STRINGS & THINGS (ribbon, thread, string, fibre, etc.) and this week we are sponsored by the fantastic The Stamping Chef who very kindly gave the DT an image of their choice to work with I picked (Kn)OWL(edge) but only used half the image as I was having trouble colouring the whole thing.

I used my promarkers to colour him in and added glossy accents to his glasses. The paper is from MME Now & Then Mildred pad which I teamed with some Kraft card. I added some ribbon along the bottom of the card with a computer generated sentiment tag finished with a button and a twine bow. To fill the empty white space in the top right hand corner I added a couple of woodgrain enamel dots.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Make My Monday - End of Term

Crafting From The Heart - Anything Goes

Artistic Inspirations - Anything Goes

Divas by Design - Things With Wings

I Love Promarkers - Things With Wings

Chocolate Coffee & Cards - For The Birds

The Stamping Chef - Anything Goes

Make Us Laugh At Incy Wincy

Good morning Monday has flown round again which means it's time for a new challenge at Incy Wincy which this week is Make Us Laugh. We have two fantastic sponsors this week first up is Bugaboo Stamps ( who kindly gave the DT some images to use) and secondly My Creative Classroom.

I have used this fab Crabby Cathy image from Bugaboo to make this wall hanging I can so relate to this image as this has been me at work for the last few weeks somebody in their wisdom decided we needed new computer systems and we have had nothing but problems since. I coloured the image with my promarkers adding glossy accents to the start and heart. The paper is form a Bo Bunny pad I think.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Pink & Green at Totally Gorjuss

Good morning time for a new challenge at Totally Gorjuss where this week we want you to use Pink & Green. My card this week is for one of Aimee's teachers, her class is called Aliens so Aimee thought it would be a good idea to have an alien on the card so she looked through my digi's and found this alien / monster from Pollycraft which she thought was highly funny as he has pants on. I've coloured the image with promarkers adding some glossy accents to his eyes and toenails. The pink paper is from Dovecraft Back To Basics and the green paper is from a MME pad. I added some pink enamel dots under the stamped sentiment and die cut a couple of green stars which I then covered with stickles.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Crafty Boots Challenge - Thank You

CRAFT Challenge - Thank You

Aud Sentiments Challenge - 2 Word Sentiment