Sweet Pea Stamps Progressive Challenge Part 1 - Anything goes

It is time for another challenge over at the Sweet Pea Stamps Facebook Group.  If you enter Part 1 of the challenge you get a free image to use for the second part of the challenge.  You can still enter Part 2 without entering Part 1 but you would need to purchase the image that everyone is using from Sweet Pea Stamps.

For my Halloween card I have used the Sweet Pea Stamps image by Conie Fong called "Priscilla".  She is available as a digital stamp and a rubber stamp.  I have coloured my image in with my Promarkers and fussy cut around the edge.

For the trees background I used a Memory Box stencil called "Garden Birch Trees".  I secured the stencil and then used Dutch Doobadoo stencil paste through it, took the stencil off, sprinkled over some black glitter and left to dry.

The backing papers and card are from my stash.

I have finished the card off with some buttons, twin, scrunched up bat ribbon, sentiment from the computer, Tim Holtz Bigz die-cut flower (6 layers cut from a book and coloured with Tim Holtz's Spiced Marmalade and Black Soot distress ink and held together with a brad) and some Martha Stewart punched out bats.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Sweet Pea Stamps Progressive Challenge Part 1 - Anything goes

Aud Sentiments - Halloween sentiment

Moving Along with the Times - Halloween

Polkadoodles - Use a die-cut

Fussy and Fancy Friday - Colour choice - orange, purple or black (I have gone for orange and black)

Simply Create Too - Halloween colours

Chocolate, Coffee and Cards - Halloween

Glitter n Sparkle - Halloween (cute or spooky)

613 Avenue Create - Anything goes or optional twist to create your own challenge

Love to Create - Any mixed media/creative goes

A Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything goes

One Stitch at a Time - Anything goes with Halloween colours

Pile it On - Fabric, lace or ribbon

Eureka Stamps - Halloween

Get Creative - Halloween colours

Love to Scrap! - Anything goes

Craft Your Passion - Always anything goes

Cuttlebug Mania - Black and orange (I have used my Cuttlebug to cut the flower layers with my Tim Holtz Bigz die)

Fan-tastic Tuesday - Anything goes with a twist of using only orange and black

Passion for Promarkers - Lots of layers (I have used my Promarkers to colour my fussy cut image)

A Bit More Time to Craft - Anything goes

Not Just Cards - Anything goes
Deep Ocean Challenge - Halloween
Simon Says Challenge - Wrap it up
One Sweet Challenge - Use fall colours or All Souls Day
Crafty Gals Corner - Ribbons and/or flourishes
Penny's Paper Challenge - Anything goes
The Paper Shelter - Trick or treat
Create and Inspire - Anything goes
Inspiration Destination - Anything goes
Creative Inspirations - Anything goes and option of a sketch
Creative Craft Cottage - Anything goes

Sweet Pea Stamps Progressive Challenge Part 2 - September 2015

I took part in Part 1 of the Sweet Pea Stamps Progressive Challenge for September and therefore got the image called "How do I Look" by Gabriella Szabo free.  Obviously if you didn't take part in part one you can always purchase the image from Sweet Pea Stamps to take part in part two.

I decided to go with pastel pinks and blue with a touch of green.  I have coloured my image in with my Promarkers and chalked the background.

The backing papers are from my stash.

I have finished the card off with a die-cut sentiment, flowers made from the backing papers with brad centres, washi tape and Joanna Sheen confetti die-cut butterflies.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Sweet Pea Stamps Progressive Challenge Part Two - Anything goes using the image "How do I look" by Gabriella Szabo

Crafty Hazelnut Patterned Paper September Challenge - Anything goes

Cards and Scrap - Flowers

Crafty Calendar - Anything goes

Whoopsi Daisy - Add embellishments (flowers, brads, die-cut butterflies and washi tape)

Cuttlebug Mania - Anything goes (I have used Joanna Sheen's table confetti butterfly die and Marianne Designs Craftables Square (I haven't used the square but just one of the flower layers die-cut four times to make a dimensional flower)

Crafty Catz - Anything goes

Creative Fingers - Anything goes

Chocolate, Coffee and Cream - Fancy and feminine

Allsorts - Lots of layers

Glitter n Sparkle - Anything goes

613 Avenue Create - Anything goes with optional twist to create your own challenge

A Lil Patch of Craft Friends - Anything goes

Love to Scrap - Do a double take (I have used four different papers - a blue stripe, pink stripe, pink dots and blue dots)

Craft Your Passion - Always anything goes

Not Just Cards - Anything goes

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything goes

Creative Craft Cottage - Let's get spotty

Passion for Promarkers - Use a sentiment

Fan-tastic Tuesday - Anything goes with a twist to make it feminine

Inspiration Destination - Anything goes

Penny's Paper Challenge - Anything goes

Create and Inspire - Anything goes
Aud Sentiments - Anything goes and sentiment
4 Crafty Chicks - Birthday

Season's Greetings

Here is a Christmas card that I have made using a Sweet Pea Stamps image by Conie Fong called "Sally and Little Squirrel" and it is available as a digital stamp and a rubber stamp.  I have coloured the image in with Graph'it pens, chalked the background and added Stickles glitter glue to the fur on her clothes/boots and for some added sparkle to the tree/background.  I finally inked around the edge with Tim Holtz's Aged Mahogany distress ink.

The backing papers are from my stash and I have had for a quite a few years now.

I have finished the card off with punched flowers. die-cut holly, ribbon, Nuvo pearl drops (green) and a sentiment from my Creative Crafting World Perfect Companions Christmas CD.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Graph'it Challenge - Anything goes/backgrounds

Di's Digi Designs - Include a sentiment

613 Avenue Create - Anything goes with the option to make your own challenge

Robyn's Fetish - Square cards only

Craft Your Passion - Always anything goes

Artistic Inspirations - Anything goes/twist of school

Incy Wincy - Anything goes

Sparkles Christmas - Oh Christmas tree

Crafty Hazelnut Patterned Paper September Challenge - Anything goes

Crafty Hazelnut Christmas Challenge Extra - Anything goes

Creative Card Crew - Christmas

Papertake Weekly - Anything goes with an optional twist to recycle/upcycle (the ribbon came from a box of chocolates eaten a long time ago!!)

Creative Moments - Anything goes/use a sentiment

Crafting for all Seasons - Tic-tac-toe (I have used the middle horizontal row of ribbon, digi image and sparkle/bling (Stickles glitter glue)

ABC Christmas - Things beginning with "R" - red and ribbon

Simon Says - Make it colourful

Penny's Paper Challenge - Use a sentiment

Word Art Wednesday - Anything goes

Sweet Pea Stamps Progressive Challenge Part 1 - Anything goes
Julia Spiri Challenge - Anything goes with the optional twist of something new (wishing Julia and all her Design Team all the very best for their challenge blog starting)

To a Fabulous Friend

Here is a bright and cheery card I have made for a female friend using a Ching-Chou Kuik image available from Sweet Pea Stamps called "Dragonflies" and is available as a digital stamp.  I have coloured the image in with my Promarkers, added Stickles glitter glue to the wings, added some pearl dots, tore around the image for some texture and inked with a chalk ink pad.

The backing papers I have used are all from my scraps box.  To add some more texture I have put two pieces of card through a Crafter's Companion Textures hessian and distress embossing folder and inked one with my Tim Holtz Squeezed Lemonade distress ink and the other with my Mustard Seed distress ink.

I have then used some pages from books leftover from my bookfolding creations and cut them out with my Tim Holtz Tattered Florals die.  I have inked half of them with my Tim Holtz Spiced Marmalade Distress ink and the others with my Mustard Seed distress ink.  Instead of curling the petals I have used a pair of tweezers and folded each petal in half.  Yes it took a while to do as there were 8 flower layers but it gave a nice spiky effect flower.  I alternated the layers between the orange and yellow and held together with a brad.

I have finished the card off with a Craftwork Cards sentiment, grosgrain ribbon, satin ribbon and some lace.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Sweet Pea Stamps Progressive Challenge Part 1 - Anything goes
Fan-tastic Tuesday - Anything goes with a twist to make it feminine
Word Art Wednesday - Anything goes
Simon Says Challenge - Anything goes
Creative Inspirations - Flowers
Cute Card Thursday - Citrus (orange and lemon)
Brown Sugar Challenge - Animals
The Ribbon Girl - Card Challenge
Glitter n Sparkle - Anything goes
613 Avenue Create - Anything goes with option of happy birthday
Robyn's Fetish - Use kraft card stock on your card
A Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything goes

Sweet Pea Stamps Progressive Challenge Part 2

It is time for the Sweet Pea Stamps Progressive Challenge Part 2.  If you entered Part 1 of the challenge you will have got this Sweet Pea Stamps image by Sandra Caldwell called "Queen of Wonder".  If you didn't take part in Part 1 of the challenge you can always go to Sweet Pea Stamps and purchase this image to take part.

 I have to admit I struggled with what to make for this image but in the end I came up with a journal page.  I have coloured the image in with my Graph'it pens.

The backing papers and card embellishments I saved from somewhere over the years on my computer and it was before I used to do separate folders for each company so I apologise for not mentioning where these papers are from.

Bravely I wrote the sentiment out and edged with wiggly black lines and edged with a red Graph'it pen and then cut out.

I simply finished off this journal page with the cut out playing cards and some peel-off hearts as I need to keep the page quite flat in my journal book.

I am entering this journal page into the following challenges:

Sweet Pea Stamps Progressive Challenge Part 2 - Anything goes using the Sweet Pea Stamps image by Sandra Caldwell called "Queen of Wonder"

Inspiration Destination - Anything goes

Penny's Paper Challenge - Anything goes
Create and Inspire - Anything goes
Creative Inspirations - Let's colour
Aud Sentiments - Anything goes
Di's Digi Designs - Hand coloured image
613 Avenue Create - Anything goes with the optional twist to use a moon and/or stars
A Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything goes

Love to Scrap! - Anything goes
Craft Your Passion - Always anything goes
Artistic Inspirations - Anything goes

 

Sweet Pea Stamps Facebook Progressive Challenge Part 1

It is time for the Sweet Pea Stamps Facebook Progressive Challenge Part 1.  To take part in this you can use any Sweet Pea Stamps image and the topic of the challenge is "anything goes".

For my card I have used the Sweet Pea Stamps image by Enys Guerrero called "Steam Girl".  I have coloured the image in with Promarkers and then used a cog stamp from Visible Image with Versamark and added some blue frantage to add a bit of metal effect to coincide with the steampunk theme.

The backing papers I have used are from my stash and also some Wellington Bear papers I bought in the Colemans January sale 1.5 years ago.  I have used my Marianne Designs clock die and also my X-cut cog dies and cut out of some silver card so I apologise for the glare on the photos.  Underneath the image I have used a Tim Holtz cog embossing folder and inked over the edge the area with Tim Holtz's Stormy Sky distress ink.

The card has been finished off with some brads and a die-cut sentiment.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Sweet Pea Stamps Facebook Progressive Challenge Part 1 - Anything goes

Crafts Galore Encore - Use a stamp or digi anywhere on your project

Card Mania - Anything goes

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything goes

Robyn's Fetish - Anything goes

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything goes

That Craft Place - Anything goes mixed media

Craft Your Passion - Always anything goes

Artistic Inspirations - Anything goes or a twist of summer

Creative Card Crew - Die-cuts

Buckwells Crafty Challenge - Mid Month Inspiration Post - June 2015

The challenge topic for Buckwell's Crafty Challenge for June is "things with wings".

Our sponsor this month is Sweet Pea Stamps:

Over at Sweet Pea Stamps they have a wonderful array of digital stamps and rubber stamps.

For my card I have used the Sweet Pea Stamps image by Helena Reis called "Mushroom Fairy II".  It is available as a digital stamp and a rubber stamp.

I have coloured the image in with my Promarkers and used blue, pink, brown and yellow chalks along with the Coarse Medium Pan Pastel to add some sparkle.

The backing papers I have used are from my Creative Crafting World Perfect Papercrafting Companion CD.

I have finished the card off with some die-cuts (mount underneath the image and some butterflies which have had a pink chalk ink pad brushed over them), ribbon, lace, die-cut sentiment, flowers and brads.

Sadly it is my last card as part of the Buckwell's Crafty Challenge.
Lozzy has decided to close Buckwell's Crafty Challenge at the end of June.

I wish Lozzy and all the Design Team members all the very best and thank you for having me on the Design Team.

Thank you to everyone that has supported the challenge as well.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Creative Fingers - Anything goes
Sister Act Card Challenge - Anything goes
Graph'it - Pink and pretty
My Time to Craft - Fairies
Scribble and Scrap - Anything goes - sorry to hear that the Scribble and Scrap Challenge is closing.  I fully understand why and wish you all the very best
613 Avenue Create - Anything goes with optional twist to use the newest create a challenge chart
Craft Your Passion - Always anything goes
Ooh La La Creations - Happy birthday
Artistic Inspirations - Anything goes or an optional twist of odd
The Crazy Challenge - Spots and stripes (spots on the fairy's hat and stripes on the backing paper and flowers)
Incy Wincy - Anything goes
Ladybug Crafts - Use your dies
Crafty Hazelnut Patterned Paper June Challenge - Anything goes
One Sweet Challenge - Use die-cuts or punches
Simon Says Challenge - Anything goes
Crafty Gals Corner - Anything goes
Penny's Paper Challenge - Anything goes
Inky Impressions - Embellish it (brads, flowers, ribbon and lace)
Creative Moments - Anything goes with the optional twist of adding some wet or dry embossing
The Paper Shelter - Photo inspiration
I Love Promarkers - Things with wings
Word Art Wednesday - Anything goes
Inspiration Destination - Anything goes

Just a heads up.

Lozzy is starting a new Challenge Blog on 1 August 2015:

The Challenge Blog is called "A Little Bit More Time to Craft".

At the moment there is a DT call if you are interested.

Make sure you pop on over on 1 August 2015 to see the very first challenge and all the DT creations.

Sweet Pea Stamps Facebook Progressive Challenge Part 2

It is time for the Sweet Pea Stamps Facebook Progressive Challenge Part 2.  If you entered Part 1 you got the Sweet Pea Stamps image by Karen Middleton called "Mushroom Fairie" for free to use for the challenge.  If you didn't enter Part 1 you can always purchase the image yourself from Sweet Pea Stamps.

For my card I have gone mainly for the colour scheme of red, gold and black/grey.  I have coloured the image in with my Graph'it pens.  I used two different See D's stamps for the grass area and used various pearlescent chalks for the background.

The backing papers were from my stash.  The flowery backing paper had white flowers so I coloured them in with my red Graph'it pens.

I have finished the card off with some cheesecloth, die-cut flowers, die-cut sentiment and butterfly (free from a magazine), satin ribbon and Papermania Glitterations (for the centres of the flowers).

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Sweet Pea Stamps Progressive Facebook Challenge Part 2 - Anything goes using the image "Mushroom Fairie" by Karen Middleton

Whimsy Stamps - Use ribbon, lace or twine

Penny's Paper Challenge - Anything goes

The Paper Shelter - Make it digital (digital image)

Fab n Funky - Gorgeous girls

Word Art Wednesday - Anything goes

Create and Inspire - Anything goes

Inspiration Destination - Anything goes

Creative Fingers - Anything goes

Sister Act Card Challenge - Anything goes

My Time to Craft - Fairies

Scribble and Scrap - Anything goes - sorry to hear that the Scribble and Scrap Challenge is closing.  I fully understand why and wish you all the very best

613 Avenue Create - Anything goes with optional twist to use the newest create a challenge chart

Dream Valley - Girly

Craft Your Passion - Always anything goes

Artistic Inspirations - Anything goes or an optional twist of odd

Incy Wincy - Anything goes

Crafty Hazelnut Patterned Paper June Challenge - Anything goes

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything goes
Papertake Weekly - Trio-tastic (three die-cut flowers)

Buckwell's Crafty Challenge - June 2015 - Things with wings

Today is 1 June and therefore time for another challenge over at the "Buckwells Crafty Challenge".  The challenge topic is "things with wings".  Some suggestions are fairies, angels, butterflies, birds, planes etc.

Our sponsor this month is Sweet Pea Stamps:

Over at Sweet Pea Stamps they have a wonderful array of digital stamps and rubber stamps.

 I decided to make a twisted easel.  They are something different to make but I find a nightmare to photograph!!

For my card I have used the Sweet Pea Stamps digital image by Lemon Shortbread called "Bone Fairy".  It is also available as a rubber stamp.  Yes you can make it into a dark/Gothic style card but using different colours just shows you can make it into a very feminine card.  I have coloured the image in with my Promarkers and coloured the sky with two shades of blue, pink and yellow and pearlescent chalks.

The backing papers I have used are from my Creative Crafting World Perfect Papercrafting Companions CD and a freebie digital paper from Hunkydory.

I have finished the card off with die-cut sentiments, various die-cuts (swirls, butterflies (coloured with the same pearlescent chalks), birds and bird cage), raffia ribbon, some netting and some flowers made for me by a crafty friend in Canada.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Passion for Promarkers - Come fly with me
Tuesday Throwdown - Anything goes
Top Tip Tuesday - It's all about the hair colour
Inspiration Destination - Anything goes
Simon Says Challenge - Anything goes
Penny's Paper Challenge - Anything goes
Inky Impressions - Ribbon or lace
Creative Moments - Anything goes/inside out
The Paper Shelter - Flower power
Ruby's Rainbow - May blossoms and butterflies
4 Crafty Chicks - Summer
Brown Sugar - Ribbon and flowers
Sister Act Card Challenge - Anything goes
A Gem of a Challenge - Flowers
Pile it On - Focus on colouring
One Stitch at a Time - Anything goes with flowers
613 Avenue Create - Anything goes with optional twist to use subway art
Creative Craft Cottage Digi Creations - Layer it up
Crafts Galore - Anything goes
Paper Creator - Anything goes
Crafty Hazelnut Patterned Paper June Challenge - Anything goes
One Sweet Challenge - Dies and/or punches
Craft Your Passion - Always anything goes
Sweet Pea Stamps Facebook Progressive Challenge - Part 1 - Anything goes

Sweet Pea Stamps Facebook Progressive Challenge Part 2

It is time for the Sweet Pea Stamps Facebook Progressive Challenge Part 2.  If you took part in Part 1 you would get the image free to use for Part 2.  If you didn't take part you can always head on over to the Sweet Pea Stamps Shop and purchase the image yourself.

 

 I decided to use the free image this month that is by Sandra Caldwell and called "Steampunk Old Lady" and make it into a corner bookmark to highlight my next page to fold in my second book that I am bookfolding.

 I have coloured the image in with my Promarkers, inked around the edge with Tim Holtz's Vintage Photo distress ink and then went around the whole backing with my gold metallic Pan Pastel to add some shimmer.

 The backing papers were scraps from the scrap box.

I have finished the corner bookmark off with a tassel, brads and flowers from my Debbi Moore Steampunk  Double CD.

I am entering this corner bookmark into the following challenges:

Sweet Pea Stamps Facebook Progressive Challenge Part 2 - Anything goes using the image "Steampunk Old Lady" by Sandra Caldwell

Pile it On - Not cute

613 Avenue Create - Anything goes with the option of teacher/educator creation

Love to Scrap! - Anything goes

Passion for Promarkers - No sentiment - congratulations to all of those involved with the Passion for Promarkers Challenge on your 6th birthday

Creative Inspirations - Anything goes and option of a sketch

Inspiration Destination - Anything goes

Penny's Paper Challenge - Anything goes

Create and Inspire - Anything goes
Polkadoodles - Girly but no pink

Creative Fingers - Anything goes

Wishing you a Magical Day Journal Page

Over at the Sweet Pea Stamps Facebook Group, Fernanda the DT Colourist shared a video of how she coloured background of images with chalks and challenged those that watch to have a go.

 For my journal page I have used the Sweet Pea Stamps image by Karen Middleton called "Little Pink Fairie".  I have coloured my image in with Promarkers.  For the background I regularly use plain chalks, pearlescent chalks and Pan Pastels to make my backgrounds as I think they are more subtle than using inks/pens.  For my background I have used dark teal blue, teal blue, yellow and pink pearlescent chalks.  I prefer to blend my chalks in with a tiny corner of cotton wool pad to avoid oils from my hands or sometimes dirt from inks getting onto my project.

Here is a close-up of my image.  I used a clear sparkly Stickles glitter glue but can't understand why the wings have a bluey hue when it is a peachy colour below whereas the yellow/green butterfly still looks OK.

The backing papers I have used are Creative Crafting World Mix and Match CD.

I have finished the journal page off with some doilies coloured with the chalks, die-cut sentiment, washi tape, pearls and some die-cut butterflies with chalk on them.

I am entering this journal page into the following challenges:

Aud Sentiments - Things with wings

Crafty Calendar - Things with wings

Glitter n Sparkle - Anything goes

613 Avenue Create - Anything goes with the optional twist to create something feminine

Robyn's Fetish - Anything but a card

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything goes

Sweet Pea Stamps Facebook Group - Chalking background

Craft Your Passion - Anything goes

One Sweet Challenge - Things with wings

Sweet Pea Stamps Facebook Progressive Challenge Part 1 - Anything goes