Ski-ing on Ice at Craftalicious

Morning Peeps,

It's challenge time at Craftalicious and this fortnight was my turn to choose and I have made it real easy on you all, got a feeling I might regret it though as I am off tomorrow to Turkey for a week on business and think I will have a lot of catching up to do.  The challlenge this fortnight is............"Anything Goes".

We are being sponsored by Meljen's Designs, just the cutest digi stamps.  Here's my card.



Materials Used:-

Image from Meljen's

Medium - Copics

Pink paper is from Bearly Mine Craft CD

Circle is Marianne Design Die

Martha Stewart Punch Around the Edge Snowflake Die

Poinsetta and leaf is Mariane Design Die

Epoxy Buttons and Star Dust Stickles from Stash

Cuttlebug dots embossing folder

Holly Vellum

Little snowflake gems from Crafts and Me

I have entered this card into the following challenges:-

Sweet Stop - Sketch

Colour Create - Pink, Green & Cream

Sew Many Cards - Anything Goes

Stamp Something - Punches or dies

Ellephantastic - Anything Goes

Fab n Funky - Use a digi

Freshly Brewed - Anything Girly

Pennys Paper Crafty - Circles

AiFactory - Embossing

Cute Card Thursday - Make your own embellishments

Anything Goes - Christmas

Creative Card Crew  - Flowers

One Stitch At ATime - Use a digi

Right folks, you won't be hearing a lot from me as I am off on a business trip to Turkey for a week, but I will catch up with you all on my return.

Autumn Colours at Craftalicious

Afternoon Peeps,

I am having a chill-laxing day today.  We travelled to Fulham yesterday for the football match of Everton v Fulham, courtesty of a supplier of mine from work.  It was a good game, well sort of, Everton were all over Fulham but still couldn't manage to rattle the onion bag!  We got home at 7:15 and had to do a quick turnaround for the School Reunion party, but I figured they had waited 29 years so an extra half hour or so wouldn't do any harm, lol.  As it was, it turned out a good night and my boots couldn't do no more dancing after 2am, so we headed home and this morning I felt I deserved a lay in before tackling the housework,  hence my late post, I'm behind with everything.

Today is the first day of the new move of the Craftalicious Challenges to a Sunday, fortnightly.  This week's theme has been set by Jan, the creator of Craftalicious and is "Fall Colours".  Here's my attempt:-

We are being sponsored by Some Odd Girl and I have chosen Mae Day, as I thought the sunflowers would be a great choice to fit in with the colour scheme.  I have coloured Mae with copics, of course.

Ingredients Used:-

Image - Some Odd Girl

Papers are Crate Paper

Making Memories Distress Tool

Gold Stickles

Flowers were made using 3 different size retro punches, inked and then wet and scrunched.

Martha Stewart Frond Punch

Doily, Raffia, Trim, pearls from stash

I have entered this card into the following challenges:-

Friday Sketchers - Sketch

One Stitch at a time - Anything Goes

Stamptacular - Fall Colours

Delightful Sketches - sparkle

Charisma Cardz - Anything Goes

A spoonful of sugar - Anything Goes

Tuesday Morning Sketches - Make your own flowers

Paper Playtime - Autumn

Creative Card Crew - Autumn

Digital Tuesday - It's all about Girls

AiFactory - Anything Goes

Paper Romance - Handmade Flowers

Alphabet - V for Vintage

Stamp Something - Fall colours

Scrappy Frogs - Make your own flowers

Whoopsi Daisy - Flowers

Stamp It Crazy - Anything Goes

Still Funky at 50!

Morning Peeps,

I know I've been absent this week but I decided last week that my craft room needing sorting as everywhere I looked it just looked a real mess. So I purchased some A4 storage boxes and everything now has a home. I also filed all my stamps CD cases, popped a stamped image on the front of each CD and popped them into storage boxes on the shelfs too. So it looks tidy but kind of weird to work in, lol, and I'm sure I won't be able to find anything.

Anyway, enough of my waffling, today's card is my DT card for Craftalicious and the theme this week has been chosen by the fabulous Tasha and is "Green and Purple". Our sponsor this week is "Some Odd Girl" and the DT were fortunate to choose one of these really funky images. I have chosen 80's Kaylee as I had to do a birthday card for my SIL's 50th birthday and thought this would be ideal and she never really left the 80's, lol.  She's still grooving and still hitting the pubs! Let's hope she likes it and doesn't leave it in the pub!

Materials Used:-

Medium - Copics
Bazil cardstock
Swirls using a Marianne Design Die
Laceand handbag charm from local haberdashery
Sentiment is computer generated
Stickles

I have entered this card into the following challenges:-

Stamp with fun - Card for a Girl
Paper Sundaes - Sketch
The Shabby Tearoom - Metal
Create 4 Fun - Birthday Card
Delightful Sketches - Cute & Girly, Pearls & Lace
Hannah & Friends - Pearls & Swirls
CRAFT -  Milestone Birthdays

Swirls & Pearls at Craftalicious

Happy Friday Peeps,

I know I have been a bit absent recently which has been due to a little holiday and work commitments but hopefully I will be back at my crafting desk this weekend, well after the housework has been done of course!

Today, over at Craftalicious the lovely Mandy has chosen the challenge of "Swirls and Pearls", so I know there are alot of you out there that just love your swirls and pearls, so we'll be popping by to nick your ideas, lol.  We are being sponsored by "The Crafty Purple Frog" who provide digi sweet pea decoupage sheets.  Now, I haven't done decoupage in years and had forgotten how theraputic it is cutting out all the layers, which you can do in front of the TV and put it altogher later.  Here's my card using the "Green Dragonfly":-

I have used Basic Grey papers edged with Walnut Stain Distress Ink.  I have added lace at the bottom which also has sequins on, not captured too well in the photograph.

The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts and the different sized pearls were purchased on Ebay.  The flowers again have been distressed using Walnut Stain Distress Ink and I have added lots of stickles to the edges and also to the wings of the image and the two dragonflys, they really sparkle.

Here you can see the depth of the decoupage.

Please pop over to the Craftalicious Challenge Blog to see the beautiful creations that the Design Team have done and remember we have our first Guest Designer, Liz, who has done a beautiful card for us.  For Each challenge from now on a member of the design team will be choosing someone to guest design on the next challenge, so you never know, it could be you......but as they say, "You've got to be in it to win it", how corny is that?

I have entered this card into the following challenges:-

Mojo Monday - Sketch

Cupcake Craft - Lace

Incy Wincy - Use a bug on your creation (two dragonflys)

One Stitch At A Time - Mystical

Basic Grey - Pearls (papers are basic grey)

Paper Sundaes - Metal (charm attached to flowers, top rh corner)

Crafty Creations - Winged Things

Nutcrafters Nutshells - Free Choice

Raise The Bar - Pearls

Trimmies CRAFT - Insects

City Crafter - Use a heart (heart charm, top rh corner)

Digital Tuesday - Butterflies/Lace one or both - (Image is digi decoupage sheet, lace)

Simon Says Stamp and Show - Winged Things

Thanks for stopping by.

Make Your Own Flowers at Craftalicious

Happy Friday Peeps,

I'm extremely happy that it's Friday as this means that I will be going on a well earned holiday next week and won't be at work, yayyyyyyyyyyyyy!

This fortnight at Craftalicious  Gina has chosen the challenge of "making your own flowers", something we are probably all guilty of not doing enough of and when we do we think, "why don't I do that more often"?  Well now's your chance to get out all your stash and create some beautiful flowers so we can all visit your blogs and steal your ideas, lol!

This challenge is being sponsored by Stitchy Stamps and I have used the image "Sprite".  If you haven't visited Stitchy click HERE and take a good look around, there are some really fab images.  Please pop over to view the design teams creations at the Craftalicious Challenge Blog, but unfortunately a couple of members had computer problems and were unable on this ocassion to use the images provided but you won't be disappointed, believe me!  Anyway enough waffling, here's my card:-

Isn't she fab??? 

Materials Used:-

Coloured using copics

Felt to make the flowers

Design papers are Basic Grey

All panels are stitched using a sewing machine

Edges are distressed with Walnut Stain and added Diamond Stickles

Diamond stickles on the wings and flowers also,  lots of sparkle!

Sentiment is from TLC (fab, you must visit)

Martha Stewart Frond Punch

I have entered this card into the following challenges:-

Papertake Weekly - Sketch

Simon Says Stamp - Dotty, (basic grey paper and small pink dotty ribbon)

The Crafty Pad - Vintage

Bunny Zoe - Summer Days (fairy in the garden)

Digital Tuesday - Dazzle Me

Basic Grey - Stitching & Basic Grey Papers

Crazy 4 Challenges - Picture Inspiration (spots)

Create 4 Fun - Flowers

Craftalicious Launch and Blog Hop and Blog Candy, Woo Hoo!

Hoppy Friday Everyone,

Boy are all the Craftalicious Design Team excited today, with TODAY being our L.A.U.N.C.H, Woooooooo Hooooooo! Now not only is it our launch with a prize for this week's challenge theme, but we also have a BLOG HOP too and, yes could there be any more, yep, Blog Candy from each of the Design Team!  Woo Hoo again!  So don't disappear as details of the blog hop are at the end of this post.

Our very first challenge over at Craftalicious Challenges is an easy and fun one, we want to see your creations based on the theme of "NEW". You can enterpret this as you like, New Baby, Wedding/Engagement, House, New stash, New Teacher, anything you can think of featuring "New". Our very first sponsor is "Sew Many cards" and the design team have been fortunate enough to have been given a digi to work with. Here's my card, isn't she cute?

I have used Bo Bunny Design Papers, Fiskars Sunflower Border Punch, Nestabilities, ribbon and bow from stash.  Magnolia/Prima/Wild Orchid Crafts Flowers with star dust glitter and a little diamond glaze for dew drops.  The leaves are quickutz and the sentiment is from Whiff of Joy.

I have entered my card into the following challenges:-

Create for fun - Sketch

Stamp Challenges - Use a digital stamp

The Secret Crafter - Buttons and Blooms

City Crafter - Button and Bow

Creative Card Crew - Pink and Green

Everybody Art - Summer (love)

By The Cute and Girly - Something new (love)

Cupcake Craft - Summer delights (love)

Stampin Sisters - Use a heart

Paperplay - Flowers and sparkle

Shabby Tea Room - Dear to my heart

You have two weeks to get all your entries in and the design team are really looking forward to visiting you all on our very first challenge.

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BLOG HOP

Now onto the Blog Hop.  You have to visit all the Design Team members in the order listed below, so if you have arrived from Tasha's blog then your on the right track.  If not, you need to start at the beginning at Craftalicious Challenges.

Craftalicious Challenge Blog
Jan
Carly
Tasha
Tracy
Diana
Gina
Mandy
Return to the Craftalicious Site and email your completed sentence

Leave a comment on each of the design team cards and very importantly COLLECT a word.   All the words on the design team blogs will equate to a sentence, the word you are looking for could be in a different colour, mentioned once or several times, or may just say "this is my word", you will have to check on each blog.  You will then need to email  your sentence to the email address on the sidebar of the main Craftalicious Challenge site to be entered for the prizes.  Each design team member will have a little blog candy for you too which will be chosen by random org and here is my blog candy:-

Keeping in the lines of love/marriage my blog candy consists of:-

Two packs pink/blue Making Memories woven ribbon

An assortment of cabbage flowers in; fushia pink, baby pink, red, lemon, lilac,

rose coloured mini roses, cream bows with flower centre (approx 35 bows/flowers)

5 Exclusive Wedding Dress Die Cuts

5 Exclusive Groom Jacket Die Cuts

5 of each of  the words "Bride" and "Groom" (another Exclusive)

1 pack of Jolee white wedding gloves

The Blog Hop will run for ONE week.  Most of all we want you to enjoy the challenges and blog hop and have fun.

The prizes for the main blog hop will be as follows:-

2 Digital Stamps from Stitchy Stamps
2 Brand New Single Fhiona Stamps
A Crafters Companion Double CD
A Joanna Sheen Poppy Fairy Garden Collections Stamp

So come and join in the fun with the Craftalicious Challenge Girls.  Next on the hop is Diana, so hop on over to Diana to see what gorgeous creation she has made for you, find your word, and don't forget to leave a comment for the blog candy too.