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

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

Black & Red

Here's a card I made for my daughters birthday using another one of the images I won at The Stamping Chef. I coloured the image with promarkers and added some sparkle with stickles. I mounted the image onto an oval of black card . The papers are from a Bo Bunny pad and I inked around the edges with black soot distress ink. I added some black lace and pearls from my stash. I didn't have any black flowers to go with my card so I coloured the rose with a water brush and distress ink.

Now don't let anyone say I don't put everything into my cards as I even included part of my finger and nail in this this one after forgetting to move it out of the way of the knife when I was cutting the paper down to size OUCH!!!

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

The Stamping Chef - Anything Goes

Deep Ocean Challenge - Lace & Pearls

Simon Says Stamp - Glitter It

The Crafters Cafe - Square Card

Pink & Green at Totally Gorjuss

Sorry for the lack of posts this week but it's been a busy one here with my eldest daughters birthday on Wednesday, costumes to make for world book day on Thursday and hubby's birthday today. Today's post is  for the new challenge over at Totally Gorjuss where this week we want to see your Pink & Green creations. Our sponsor this week is Crafters Companion.

I have used the fab Fairy Dust image from The Stamping Chef which I won a few weeks ago, she is coloured with promarkers and I used stickles on her wings and dust to make them sparkle. The papers are from Prima Hello Pastel pad. 

 The sentiment is one I created on the PC. I added some die cut stars covered an stickles and some Basic Grey Candy Buttons as embellishments.

And here's my youngest one all dressed up in her world book day costume her class had the theme The 3 Little Pigs so she went as a little pig in the straw house. Everyone loved her costume and she was so proud that she was featured in the school newsletter this week.

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

The Stamping Chef - Anything Goes

Totally Papercrafts - Female Birthday

Fussy & Fancy - Birthdays

Craftitude - Anything Goes or add a little green

Brown Sugar Challenge - Make it Sparkle

I Love Promarkers - One For The Girls

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - Mothers Day / Female

Colour Challenge at Incy Wincy

Good morning time for another challenge at Incy Wincy

this week our challenge is

' A Colour Challenge '

and we are sponsored by the fab

The Stamping Chef

This card was a bit of a challenge for me as it's for my DD boyfriend! I know it looks like a My Little Pony but I'm assured that this is one of the latest fads with teenage boys they call themselves Bronies ( she bought a t shirt and soft toy for his christmas present) so when I saw this image in our sponsors shop I knew it would be perfect, hopefully I've pulled it off and he will like it on his birthday next week. The image is called Sweet Treats and I have coloured her with my promarkers and I couldn't resist adding some sparkle to her with stickles. The papers are by Fancy Pants called Swagger, I matted them all onto brown card and added a couple of matt silver die cut stars. The piece of paper behind the image has been inked with Weathered Wood distress ink.

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

Dessert Island Crafts - use 3 items from their itinerary ( I used 1. Birthday, 5. Add some sparkle and 9. Favourite colour (turquoise/aqua) )
TSC Challenge - Anything goes
Fan -tastic Tuesday - Make it Cute / sweet