My Hero!

It's a new challenge over at the Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog and this fortnight it's dedicated to the great men  and guys in our lives - whether they be your partner, husband, boyfriend, male friends or family member. So without further ado, here's your Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog task this fortnight:

We want to see a card or project for a man - with an appropriate sentiment

Our Sponsor this fortnight are Bugaboo

Here is a little bit about them...

"I have been designing graphics for 9 years, mostly for those who digitize, and now venturing into this new idea of digi stamps.   I love to draw and love to see where my designs go and how they are used.   I find making people smile with my graphics very rewarding!  For many many years I drew mostly cutesy kids graphics, a lot of which you’ll find on my site.  But my latest passion is my cranky old boots....

Stella ,Gus, Margaret and the Gals who came after them.
I just LOVE to create them and they seem to be a favorite!

What else can I say?
The name Bugaboo Stamps...how did I come up with it?
Well...... Bugaboo is a nickname i have for my kids sometimes."

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So here's my creation:

I picked this image from our sponsors because I thought it would make a great dedication to the lovely guys in my life - so in this my Dad (Hey Dad!!!) and my lovely guy mates (who are awesome and make me laugh uncontrollably! Thanks guys - you know who you are!) - they're all proper 'heroes' for putting up with me! :)

Craft Supplies Used:

- Crate Paper / Paper Heart 12 x 12 paper pad

- X-Cut Square Punch

- 3D Foam dots

- Red Ribbon

- Lawn Fawn Harold ABC Letters Stamps

- Memento Black Tuxedo Ink

- Promarkers (Azure, Ruby, Oatmeal, Henna and Gold)

So this image is actually depicted on a men's tie. So as I couldn't remember what a men's tie looks like when it's someone (I did used to have one at school! A LONG time ago though!) I copied a tie template and draw it onto white cardstock and then copied this onto red paper from the Crate Paper collection. I then cut this out, left a little tab on the top for the ribbon and then coloured, cut and layered my 'Superhero' image on the tie using various other papers from the paper collection and with 3D foam dots. I threaded the red ribbon at the top of the tie and hung this on a coat hanger, so it actually looks like a proper tie!

Hope you guys my little creation, make sure you enter in this fortnight's challenge at the Aud Sentiments Blog. Tell your friends, your followers and any of your crafty friends about our challenges! Join in and get inspired! Check out our DT creations on the blog and as always - Happy Crafting! :)

Challenge ends until Tuesday 23rd April 2013

Happy Birthday Pinspirational Challenges!!!

The blog was started a year ago and it is celebrating its first birthday! What an amazing year for the brilliant Deanne (who runs the blog) and of course the awesome Design Team Members! (Of whom I've had the pleasure of creating with past and present!) so wishing Deanne and the Pinspirational Challenges Blog a huge....

HAPPY BRTHDAY!!!!

Deanne has written up a special post here celebrating the Pins Blog's 1st Birthday, and as it's a special occasion, there's a special prize to one of you guys for entering in the Birthday Post!

Here's the Birthday prize you could win:

 

You can check out the full details and enter in the Happy Birthday giveaway post here on the Pinspirational Blog! Join in and you could win the birthday prize! :) Happy Birthday Pins!

Rainy Days! @ Pins HQ

Hi everyone, this will be my penultimate post as part of the Pins Team, so I will be savouring my last few weeks on the team. But the team are in safe hands with some great additional DT Crew Members and I know they'll be awesome! So I would like to welcome Hilary, Sheetal, Kitt, Anat and Lisa Grace to the amazing Pinspirational Challenges DT!

So without further ado, here's your Pinspirational image to get you creative this week:

 

This image reminds me of walking through Chinatown in Central London in the rain with my friend. And we were trying to find a place to eat and we ended up wandering around in the rain looking for somewhere, and as it was Chinese New Year in London and the celebrations were dying somewhat down - it was still a bit busy and walking through the rain in a busy city - is not an easy task! Hey it rains in London most of the time now, so I think we're getting used to it! :)

Our sponsor(s) this week are:

Teams 1 and 2

Bugaboo

  Prize: 7 digis

...and Di's Digi Downloads

Prize: $10 voucher

Team members used images from Bugaboo for this challenge

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Here's my creation:

Supplies I used:

- First Paper Edition Rose Garden 8 x 8 Paper Pad
- Sizzix Sizzlits Ticket Dies
- Pasrcel string
- Crop-o-dile & eyelets
- Spellbinders Labels Fourteen
- Die-namics Mini Doilies die
- Spellbinders Lacy Ovals die
- Promarkers

I've attached this little 'Save Up' sign to a container I put my pennies in or change for a 'Rainy Day' - which seems to occur a lot in London, so the jar is sometimes empty! :)
I did a lot of layering with the various papers from the First Edition Paper pad and die cut a few of the papers with the Spellbinders dies and the Die-namics doily dies. I coloured in one of the sponsors images with some Promarkers (Gold, Rose Pink, Bright Green, Forest Green, Antique Pink, Sky Blue, Oatmeal and Azure) I used a Crop-a-dile to put two eyelets in the top and threaded some parcel string in the top - attaching the finished sign on to my jar of pennies! :)

Hope you all will join in this week's Pins Challenge. Get your fellow crafters to take part in the challenge and you could win our weekly challenges! :)

Challenge ends Monday 15th April 2013, Midnight - Newfoundland Time

Flower Girl @ Pins HQ

So another fabulous week is here for Spring and what better way to start the week, then with a a lovely Pinspirational Challenge!

Here's your image this week to be inspired by:

 

Cute isn't she?

Our Sponsors this week are:

Team 1

A Day for Daisies

A Day For Daisies provides themed categories of over 1000 digital illustrations, including fairy tales and magical mermaids, cutie kids, vintage illustrations, sentiments and lovely designs for all occasions!

Prize: $12 gift card

and 

Team 2

Can You Digi It

 

Prize: $10 coupon

Great sponsors, amazing prizes!

Here's my creation:

Materials / Craft Supplies used:

- Caramel Linen Cardstock

- Rosette Trim (which I bought from a local London Craft store)

- White bows (from my local London market)

- Dovecraft Tea Doilies

- Fiskars Border Doily Punch

- Sizzix Sizzlit Ticket Die (Pack of 5 dies)

- First Paper Edition Rose Garden 8 x 8 pad

- Silver Gem stones (from my local £ store)

- Crop-a-dile and silver eyelet

- Parcel String

This simple tag was made from caramel cardstock, then layered with paper from the First Paper Edition Rose Garden paper pad. I used the Fiskars Doily border punch on one end of the tag, and then measured out where I would put the central image. The image is from one of our sponsors - CYDI and is coloured in using Promarkers (Ivory, Oatmeal, Forest Green, Bright Green, Rose Pink, Ice Grey 4 and Cocoa) and is die cut in a ticket shape from the Sizzix Sizzlit Ticket die. I added the eyelet with my Crop-a-dile after sticking the layers down with double-sided tape and threaded through parcel string, then added the silver gem stones and rosette trim at the bottom. I like the way it turned out! Very cute!

I hope this has inspired you to create some great projects and cards based on our weekly image. Enter in our challenge this week and you could win of our prizes! Get your followers and crafty friends to join in - we can't wait to see your creations and check out the amazing DT's creations too!

Challenge starts today Tuesday 2nd April 2013 to Monday 8th April 2013 at Midnight (Newfoundland Time)

Rock Star!

Another fortnightly challenge on Aud Sentiments has launched and this fortnight:

We want to see a card or project for a child WITH a sentiment! 

Check out our challenge blog to see our amazing DT creations!

Here's my creation:

Here's a list of materials and craft materials I used for this card:

- Papermania Silver & Pink Gems

- DCWV Blossoms and Butterflies 8 x 8 pad

- Cream cardstock

So I thought I would do a simple card for this challenge without too much flower power on it, or endless list of embellishments, I also as part of the 'Social Media' generation thought I would 'digitise' the image using a mobile application :)

So first of all I used a Social Media application on my phone (I have a Samsung Galaxy S2) called Lumie Light after downloading my chosen image on my phone. I added a star filter to the picture which you may not be able to see - as I used the lowest - medium setting on intensity - which highlighted mostly her clothes and mic. I then put a polaroid frame around the picture and printed this out. I then cut this picture, mounted this on two piece of paper from the DCWV collection pad, then added the sentiment 'Rock Star' in a hot pink colour and printed this out too. I added the various coloured gems from Papermania to add more sparkle and bling to an already 'star-studded' image! Simple and cool :) Hope you like!

For this challenge we have two sponsors:

Doodle Pantry

Hello, my name is Laurie.  I am a wife, mother of 2, crafter, and artist of many trades.  I'm just a regular Joe crafter.  I decided it would be FUN to put my images up at affordable prices for anyone to purchase and use for their personal crafting.  It is not my dream to be the biggest or the best or the most popular.  I truly enjoy what I do and enjoy sharing the creativity that God has given me in the hopes it will inspire others to create too.

Each doodle of mine has a special place in my life.  Even if they were done for a special customer request.  I drew it for a certain reason, maybe someone I know whom I had in mind to make a card for, or just someone that inspired me in some way, and sometimes it was just a random thought of a funny little critter doing something critter-ish that I thought would be cute. I have a variety of doodling styles and I like to keep a diverse selection at my hand for my personal creations.
I hope you enjoy creating to your hearts content with some of my doodles.  But if my images don't suit your personal tastes, I sincerely hope something here inspires you to go create something unique that then puts a smile on another's face

~ Laurie Wilson

 

...and

 

Digis by Kris

  Welcome to Imagine That!...digis by Kris™ and also home of Carly's Cuties™

  We're so glad you're here!!  We're a mother/daughter team bringing you our cutest hand-drawn digital images that you can resize, flip, recolor, print and use in your crafting creations!  This store is brand new and we hope to add lots more digis in the coming weeks/months, so please check back often!

 

So check out Design Team A's creations and stop by on the Aud Sentiments Challenge blog for more amazing creations by Team B!

 

Challenge ends Tuesday 9th April 2013 

Ele-phantastic @ Pinspirational Challenges!

A late post from my part - sorry everyone - and Elephants are taking over our challenge at Pinspirational Challenges for this week, so here's your picture to be inspired by:

 

Cute aren't they stacked on top of each other! :)

Here's creation for this week's challenge:

Here's a list of the materials / craft stuff I used for this card:
- Papermania Green Gems
- Green Twine from American Crafts
- First Paper Edition 6 x 6 Pad - New Leaf
- Caramel Linen Cardstock
- Lawn Fawn Hello Friend Stamp Set
- Momento Tuxedo Black Ink
- White card stock

I did a few bits of layering on top of the caramel linen cardstock, with the FPE New Leaf paper, the elephants are from a stash that I had from a project I did a few weeks back. The added green from the paper, the green twine and gems tie in the three mint green stacked elephants on the card and gives the card a simple and fun touch too :)

Our sponsors this week are:

BACK TO PAPER

  Prize: $10 Gift Certificate

and

 

PAPER CRAFTING WORLD

Prize: $10 worth of digis

 

Check out the blog for the amazing creations by our DT and make sure you get your blog followers, your friends and crafters to enter in our challenges and win our prizes!

 

Challenges starts: Tues 26th March and ends Monday Apr 1st at Midnight (Newfoundland Time)

 

We also have a Design Team Call of which all the details are available here - so come and join an amazing team! :)

Easter @ Pins HQ

It's Easter come early at Pinspirational Challenges this week, so lets get into that Easter feeling with this week's image! Here it is:

 

Our sponsor this week is: Paper Pretties

 

Prize: 6 digis to the winner

Our other sponsor this week is Totally Stampalicious

This site is closing down, so we have 1 clear stamp up for grabs for the winner. 

They currently have a sale on their website with all stamps $1! 

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Here's my creation for this week's challenge:

For this card I used cream coloured cardstock and layered this with paper from the K and Company's MxKenna 12 x 12 paper pad, as well as a strip of burlap from ebay, crochet lace from Wild Orchid Crafts and a tea doily from Dovecraft (though this is hidden because of the image! Ooops!) The image is from our sponsor at Ppare Pretties called Easter Eve and this was coloured in using Promarkers (Satin, Cool Grey 4, Black, Cinnamon, Forest Green, Bright Orange and Sunflower) The added embellishments are Curly Roses and Green leaves from Wild Orchid Crafts to tie in the with the colours of the easter eggs in the Pins image for this week! Plus a little colour goes a long way!

I hope you enjoyed this little easter card! Make sure you check our blog for inspiration from our Design Team members! And make sure you join in this week challenge and have some fun creating some great easter cards! :) Tell all your followers, friends and bloggers to join in with this week's challenge too!

Challenge starts today Tuesday 19th March and ends Monday 25th March, Midnight, Newfoundland Time

We also still have our Design Team Call. Details of which can be found here

Happy crafting!

Girly Sentiments @ Aud Sentiments

Another great fortnightly challenge has just begun on the Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog, so go and check that out on the blog! This challenge we're are looking for....

A card or project with the sentiment for a girl

This fortnight we are sponsored by The Paper Shelter.

Here's a little info about The Paper Shelter:

Paper Shelter produce high quality digital images. Here they explain how the process begins...  

It all starts in the traditional manner: With a pencil and a paper.

We always have a list of ideas for our drawings. Depending on our desires, depending of the season and taste of our customers, a new image is drawn.

Not all drawings always go to the second instance. Sometimes we left them archived until a better time. So, counting the drawings that were already traced and those that are pending, today, we have many folders full of images and projects :o) A truly "Paper Shelter"!

If you have the time - pop over to HERE to find out how the process continues - its fascinating!  Quite an education for anyone who has spent time using digi images but never realised all the hard work and love that goes into them!

The prize for this challenge is a $20 gift certificate which is awesome! Thank you so much!

So for this fortnight's challenge, I created this card below:

I created this card using my absolutely favourite cardstock - caramel linen cardstock and layered this with various paper from Dovecraft's Fairytale Princess 6 x 6 paper pad. I used white lace crochet from Wild Orchid Crafts just underneath the image and used some pink cotton lace on the card to use as curtains as the image is focused on a window setting. I used some white bows in the corner of the card and used the Sizzix lace border die sizzlit for the top of the curtains on the card. I used a doily lace border punch from Fiskars for a panel for the bottom of the card, and the sentiment Birthday Wishes was stamped using Lawn Fawn's Harold ABC stamp with Momento's Tuxedo Black ink. Very girly, I think - quite like the result!

So if you've been inspired, please have a look at the Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog and enter in our challenge to win our fantastic prize and share your awesome creativity with us! Let your crafty followers know about our challenge this fortnight and get them to join in too! And while you're on our blog - check out our amazing Design Team creations from Team A. Stop by next week for Team B creations too!

Challenge runs until Tuesday 26th March 2013

St Patrick's Day - Pinspiratonal Challenges

Another week of awesome entries at the Pins Blog has gone by and it's time to for guys to enter in this week's challenge too! This week we're saying a big farewell to Maggie, who is leaving us this week :( Wish you all the best Maggie, you've been a great member of the DT! So, we are looking to build up the DT again, so checkout the DT Team Call post here.

So without further ado, on to this week's picture - as It's near to St Patrick's Day, today's challenge pic for the week is this:

 

So here is my card below:

This mini 'Good Luck' card was created using the Good Luck Anya from the Greeting Farm, who's been coloured in with Promarkers (Forest Green, Bright Green, Apricot, Blush and Black). I layered her up on Spellbinders Lacy Ovals in K and Company's McKenna 12 x 12 paper pad, I used some burlap I purchased from Ebay to add some texture to the card, embossing the main card base (Caramel card stock - yep, using it all up until I've run out!) in Sizzix's Dots and Vines embossing folder. The 'Good Luck' sentiment was stamped in Lawn Fawn's Harold ABC alphabets stamp in Momento Tuxedo Black. Think it came out quite well, and very cute! :)

Our sponsors this week are:

Team 1: Bugaboo Stamps

 

Prize: 7 digis

and

Team 2: Crafty Sentiments

Prize: 3 digis

Check out our DT's amazing creations on our blog and make sure you join in as well as tell all your crafty friends and followers to enter in our challenge and you could win some great digis!

Challenge starts Tuesday 12th March and ends Monday 18th March, Midnight Newfoundland Time

Purple Yummyness at Pins HQ

Another awesome challenge started today at Pinspirational Challenges. Before I reveal the picture, I'd like to welcome our new Design Team member - Zella! Welcome to the team! :)

So without further a do - here's your picture:

 

Now, I don't know about you but this picture makes me feel very, very hungry!

This is my little creation:

I used my favourite caramel linen cardstock for the base and then used paper from the Gllitz Pretty in Pink paper pad and purple ppaper from 6 x 6 paper pad by Kate Knight which I got free from an issue of Cardmaking and Papercraft, which was ideal for this card - following the purple theme! I die cut two circles - Spellbrinders Eyelet Circles and Spellbinders Lacy Circles and layered this on top of a Tea Doily from Dovecraft. The crochet lace is from Wild Orchid Crafts and the image is from our sponsor - coloured in Promarkers - Amethyst, Bluebell and Indigo Blue.

Our sponsors this week are:

Team 1 - Robyn's Fetish 

Prize: 5 Digis  

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More, a division of I Did It Creations, was created and is owned by Robyn Weinrib.  Robyn offers a wonderful variety of digital stamps and digital papers, designed to meet the needs of all digital paper crafting addicts for every occasion.

and

Team 2 - Limited Runs

Prize: 3 Digis

Limited Runs has a LARGE calorie free sweet shoppe filled with over 120 different cupcakes. Something for almost every occasion too. From sweets to fun and even some darker images because I love Halloween and Christmas so there is lots to see and play with and almost all digi's are $2.00 each There are also sets and Mega Digi's for Scrapbookers. Plus I've always got hidden deals always going on. Stop by every Friday and pick up a Freebie but be quick as they are around for a Limited Time.

Limited Runs has a GREAT freebie that would be PERFECT for this week's challenge.Go see HERE!

So, come and join in the fun and enter in this week's challenge to win fabulous digis from our awesome sponsors! :) And please also check out our design team creations too! Happy Crafting!

Challenges Starts Tues 5th March and ends Monday 11th March 2013 @ Midnight New Foundland Time