Go Owls!

Another lovely week in London town, and another awesome Pins Challenge for you to take part in! We had an awesome response to our Halloween challenge, so let's go for the same response to this week's challenge!

Here's this week's challenge picture:

 

And this week's sponsor is:  Pink Cat Studio

 

Below is my creation - with use of our sponsor images:

I created a little treat bag with our sponsor image colouring this little owl character in Promarkers and decorating the front of the bag with 6 x 6 papers from We R Memory Keepers Travel Light collection. I love the cute owl!

So, if you're up for a sporting challenge this week, then get in at Pinspirational Challenges and join this week's challenge! The prize is 3 digis for the challenge winner! :)

Challenge starts from Tuesday 30th October to Monday 5th November 2012 (Newfoundland Time) Good Luck!

Tuesday in Fairyland :)

Hi there! Thanks for stopping by on this very cloudy Tuesday evening in the UK!

It's another week at the (Pin)spirational Challenges Blog. This week's inspiring image is this:

 

Our sponsor for this week's challenge is:

 

Doodle Dragon Studios

So with this week's inpsired image uploaded on our Challenge blog today, time to get those creative minds working and creating an awesome entry into our blog challenge this week!

My DT creation is below:

For this Fairy Card, I used the Prima Fairybelle collection (very apt and approrpiate I think!) and mounted this on white pearlescent cardstock as the base for the card. The image used is Dandelion Fairy from Some Odd Girl ansd this was coloured in with Promarkers: Blush for skin, Forest Green and Bright Green for the dress, Sky Blue and Amethyst for the wings, Tulip Yellow for the hair, Sky Blue for the Eyes, Blus for the Dandelion flecks, and more Amethyst for her shoes. The butterflies were used out of a Sizzlix butterfly die and a butterfly punch I had, the half pearls are from Paper Cellar.

I kept the card simple, only because I didn't want to overload it with a lot of embellishments and ribbon (you know I love my ribbon!) I only put a few butterfly embellishments on the card just to make it 'less boring', eyecatching and dimensional. Hope you guys all like it!

Visit the (Pin)spirational Challenges blog to check out the DT's creations as well as enter into this week's challenge and tell your fellow crafters and bloggers about our challenges on Pinspirational Challenges!

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(Pin)spirational Challenge 13 - Cuuuupcaaaakes!!!

Hi there, thanks for stopping by this week!

Today at Pinspirational Challenges we have been inspired by this picture below:

With our awesome sponsors: Melonheadz

So hopefully with the weather getting a little bit warmer, these cupcakes would be awesome for any Summer party! With this in mind, I've created this card below:

I used the Prima Madeline 6 x 6 collection, with beige / cream cardstock as the base. The image is from Tiddly Inks and she was coloured in using Promarkers and the following colours: Cocoa for the hair, Soft Green and Rose Pink for the dress, Caramel and Cocktail Pink for the cupcake, Poppy and Forest Green were used for the cherry on top, with Oatmeal for the face and hands.The buttons were from a stash that I had, and the butterfly was from the Sizzix Butterfly Sizzlits collection which I ran through my Sizzix Sidekick!

Give this weeks challenge a try and see what you can come up with and create from the inspired image! And if you get stuck for ideas, have a peek at our brilliant DT creations!

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Bingo! Aud Sentiments Challenge 57

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It's not what you think - when I said Bingo. Unless you're psychic and you can read my mind! Challenge 57 at Aud Sentiments has unleashed our very own 'Bingo' board - but this one has no numbers on it but creative options for you to create your entry with!

Here's our 'Bingo' board:

For this fortnight's challenge you will need to pick a row or column and use the three items to create your project. The sentiment you use for your project must contain the word or phrase in your chosen column or row, but you can add to this if you wish to. So, for exmaple if you choose the column containing: "Happy", Ribbon and Die Cut, then you can use 'Happy Birthday'.

So... I picked the middle column: Flowers, Embossing and 'Thinking of You' and created this card below:

I used pink cardstock as a card base and then used 6 x 6 papers from Prima's Madeline collection. I then embossed a 'ticket' shape that I handcut from red Papermania cardstock with the 'Floral Fantasy' embossing folder from Cuttlebug. I ran this through my Sizziz Texture Boutique.The same process was used for the smaller 'ticket' embossed with a 'Dots' embossing folder from Sizzix. I used some dark pink two-tone 25mm open roses from Wild Orchid Crafts and some small rose buds from my stash. The image used is The Greeting Farm's 'Sweet Anya coloured in with Promarkers: Walnut for hair, Antique Pink for the dress and Rose Pink for the shorts / trousers and hair clip, Oatmeal was used for her face, arms and feet. The sentiment is from Hero Arts Essential Sentiment set.

Our fortnight's challenge is sponsored by: Stamp and Create 

 And the prize is a very lovely $20 gift certificate to use on their website :) How awesome is that?!

So with that in mind and the different combination of creative options, embellishments and sentiments available on our Aud Sentiments Bingo Board, what are you waiting for? Get creating! Can't wait to see all your entries and projects you create for our challenge! Check out the DT's creations on our challenge blog to inspire you! Good Luck! :)

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(Pin)spirational Challenge #11 - Shells

This week at (Pin)spirational Challenges we've got Summer in the air with our inspired image for the week:

 

This week's (Pin)spirational Challenge is sponsored by Floppy Latte, below is a little bit about them:

"Hi From Floppy Latte’s Digital Designs. FLDD is a digital graphics shop supplying the digi and hybrid crafter with digital stamps, digital papers, and digital die cut files. Floppy Latte’s is your one stop source for all types of digi stamps for those great handcrafted cards and other projects. Started in 2010 by happy accident, FLDD has grown to over 400 images,a customer rewards program, an active blog with weekly freebie, weekly newsletter and challenge sponsor. Floppy Latte’s strives to be your go-to source for images at at great prices! Please take a moment and visit me at Floppy Latte’s Digital Designs or drop me an email at admin@floppylattedesigns.com with your questions, comments, image requests, or just to say hi! I am proud to sponsor challenge blogs such as this one and hope that you enjoy the images!" - Jessica

So what are you waiting for?! Enter into our challenge this week and get creative & inspired with our image! The prize is a $10 voucher to use at Floppy Latte. So.. spread the word and enter in our challenge!

Wish I was on a beach right now (not in rainy London, boo :( ) And with the image above being this week's inspiration, I thought I would go back to remembering times when I was younger (and sometimes even now) of picking up shells on the beach, whether that was on Brighton beach, Eastbourne or Bournemouth. So below I've created this card inspired by shells on the beach...

The image I used is 'Summer Mae' from Some Odd Girl, which I thought was perfect for this card, I coloured her in with some Promarkers: Oatmeal for the skin, Cinnamon for the hair, Cool Grey 4 & Black for the sunglasses and shoes, Azure for the shorts, Rose Pink & Forest Green for the top and either Raw Senna or Caramel for the bag. I totally gotta work more harder on my colouring!
I used a blue and green cardstock from my stash, and the background beach scene is a cartoon 'Summer Beach' from Wallcoo.com (random image through a Google.com search), the shells are from Iconeasy.com (also through a random search on Google.com) which I printed out, cut individually and adhered to the card with foam dots. I also used Prima's En Francais 6 x 6 collection for the emphemera pieces which I fussy cut from a page in that collection to add a bit more interest to the card.

So I hope that you all like my creation, and I hope it inspires you to enter into our (Pin)spirational Challenge this week! Also check out the other cards made by the Pins DT too!

I'm hoping my card with bring some sun to London town! :) Hope so! Thanks for visting! :)

Golden Jubilee Weekend

So it's the Queen's Golden Jubilee this year and this weekend has kicked celebrations off in style. The majority of the lovely British public will be lucky enough to have four days off for the Golden Jubilee, some will have to go back to work soon though (Boo!)

So in honour of her Majesty I've made my very own 'Jubilee' Card Set using the Greeting Farm Stamps and some patriotic blue and red colours!

The papers used were a mix from the Teddy Bo Collection and the Simply British Collection - free with the current editions of Simply Cards and Papercrafts and Simply Homemade magazines.

The stamp used was the Greeting Farm's Princess Anya 2, and the card size used were 4 x 4, the red & blue buttons were from my stash and the images were coloured in with Promarkers (Azure, Poppy, Sunflower, Gold, Blush, Oatmeal and Cool Grey 4)

The Golden Jubilee Set comes with 4 cards in blue and red sets of two (so you get two red set cards and two blue set cards) The red set background cards alternate with a Princess Anya in a blue dress and blue banner and the blue set vice versa (as in the images above). The set also come in a box with a perspex / plastic cover with greetings that you yourself can stick on the front with glue or double sided tape - these include 'Congrats', 'Best Wishes' 'Thank You', 'Hello' and 'Happy Birthday'. There are also 4 envelopes with the set too! I wonder if the Queen would like it?! :)

So if you're having some extra days off, having a few street parties or garden parties in the next few days, enjoy and I hope it doesn't rain where you are!

She's Leaving on a Jet Plane...

My friend Cheryl from our 'Secondary School Collective' - we go waaaaay back, like 15 years (I sound reeeaaally old!) is leaving the hum-drum-hustle-and-bustle of London town to move to Cheltenham :( and here's a little card I made for her to say: "Dooooon't gooooo!!!"

Cheryl and I went to Secondary School together in London, she was in 'L' and I was in 'C' (our registration / form class was named after letters!) and we shared some classes together, ('N' and 'O' - I know, more letters!) but more significantly and to a certain extent even now we share the same circle of friends, we also more recently, live near each other too.
Chez is moving to Cheltenham to live and work with her partner, Marcus whom she's been with for nearly six years now - so technically it was inevitable! :( But... although I am sad to see her leave the city in which she's lived, worked and studied all her life, I'm pretty chuffed for her, and she's a pretty awesome chick and I hope it all goes well for her! Next step - wedding bells... LOL.

So as with many ocassions, I made a card for her - as my friend Kayleigh would say: 'Mel has a card for EVERYTHING!' to wish Chez all the best for the future.
I used a Tiddly Inks image for the centre focus, coloured her in with some Promarkers (Oatmeal for skin, Cocoa for hair, Forest Green for dress, Rose Pink for stripey sleeves and Cool Grey 4 for shoes. The flowers were coloured in with Sunflower, I think) I tend not blend all my colours, because I can't quite work it out and me and blending and shading doesn't particularly work well - anything for a simple life! The 'Best Wishes' text is from a Lawn Fawn stamp I have and the papers were a mix of Glitz 6 x 6 Paper - Pretty in Pink and another piece from my stash (can't remember the paper collection, sorry!). The ribbon is from Anita's Arts and the tag is from K&Company, the buttons are from a stash I had, and the flat back pearls are from Paper Cellar.

Tiddly Inks is pretty much on my image hit list for colouring - look out for some more cards with Tiddly Inks inspiration! :)