Craft Us Crazy Challenge #2 - Winter Theme!

Good Morning! 

Today is the start of the second challenge at Craft Us Crazy!!

Before i tell you all about the theme for this fortnight i just want to say a massive thanks for all the entries for our first challenge!! We had 257 entries!! What a way to kick of our new challenge. Not only that, the standard of each project was so high...you guys are so talented! Thank you from all the Craft us crazy team for all the support!

Onto the new challenge...the theme this time is ....WINTER! We want to see all your winter projects, remember you can make anything you like, whether it be a card or a LO or what about a winter gift? You can also use any brand you have in your stash.

The sponsor for this challenge is the totally fab Meljen's Designs!! You will find all the info on Meljens Designs here or over on the Craft Us Crazy Challenge Blog. 

The winner will win 4 Meljens images of their choice! 

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We still have our monthly sponsors with us and will have a special Monthly Sponsor Prize in which all the Top3 picks will be entered into, that person will win that monthly prize!

Firstly we have The Cutting Cafe. The prize will be 3 stamp sets of your choice!! Again click on the link to take you there, you will be spoilt for choice!

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The second monthly sponsor is Stamps Alive who are giving away a set of spellbinders Nestabilities!! Go and have a look at the store, its just fab!

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Now onto my DT card.....

I made a step card this time and used my 2 matching hAnglar images in their winter clothes and cut the out to place back to back. They were coloured with Promarkers and the white bits on the clothes have been covered in Glossy Accents and Glamour Dust. I used my snowflake embossing folder to cover the main card base and right behind the images. The snowflakes are cut using my Pot-pourri Basket Cartridge and i have given them the Glossy Accents/Glamour Dust treatment. The sentiment was also a Cricut cut from the Wild Card Cartridge.

The ribbon and gems are just from my own stash.

I am going to enter this card into the following challenges;

Lovely Hanglar Only - Take Two (Use 2 Images)

Stampavie and more - Monochrome

Paper Take weekly - Putting on the Glitz (sorry the snowflakes and white areas on clothes dont show up the glamour dust very well)

Our Creative Corner - Cut It Out (images cut out)

Thats all for me tonight. Thanks for reading my rather large post and i hope to see you all with your super "Winter" projects over at the Craft Us Crazy Challenge blog! This challenge will be open until Wednesday 2nd March!

Feeling Blue?

Hiya, I am definitely feeling blue tonight...we have got more snow falling!! I am so fed up with it, hope it doesnt come to much and has gone by the morning. We still have a bit of snow still lying thats not melted from the last time.

Tonight i am entering this card into a lot of challenges so i will just list and link them all at the end.

The sketch i followed is from the Unscripted Sketches Challenge Blog. The challenge was "2010 Review" in which you are to choose a past sketch from the list. I picked this one......

My Tilda is coloured in used Promarkers, i love the sitting Tildas, they just look so cute sitting there with legs dangling! I have added glossy Accents and glitter to parts of her dress and bow. My roses were out my stash and i added the twine and leaves to them and added glitter. The paper I used in the background is a glittery one from the "Slice" paper pack. I really like the papers i got in that pack. I usually find i only like a some of the papers out a pack and then the rest get left to gather dust but i will use all the papers in this one!

My metal brad is one i have had for a long long time..i bought it on my very first craft supplies shopping spree but forgot all about it until i cleaned my drawer out! I did put a new brad in the centre of it as it had a white one in it and it didnt go with my cream card! My butterfly is punched from Vellum and rubbed to shape it slightly. My sentiment is cut from my Wild Card Cricut Cartridge and again coated with Glossy Accents and Glitter.

Here is the challenges i am entering into tonight...

Stamp Something - Glittery!

Our Creative Corner - A Thank You Recipe (Blue, Cream, Metal and Vellum)

Magnolia Stamp Lovers - Blues Challenge

Allsorts Challenge - Thank You

Unscripted Sketches - 2010 Review (Past Sketch)

Totally Tilda - Ribbons and Roses

Just Magnolia & hAnglar - Anything Goes

Thanks for having a look.

Hope you all have a good night!

Pink Tilda!

This is my card that i made for the Just Magnolia challenge which is a sketch by Dawny. I love her sketches, just right up my street and a dream to work with! The pink paper i used is a cut off from a paper that i had in my stash and the spotted one was i got in the sale at Hobbycraft for 25p, it has nothing on to say who is from. The image was coloured by promarkers. The square is embossed with the swirls folder using my cuttlebug. The ribbons, flowers, pins and pearls are from my stash and the sentiment is a Forever Friends stamp. 

The other challenges i am playing along with are the Totally Gorjuss Challenge and Our Creative corner challenge. The challenge at Our creative Corner was to use as many embellishments as you can. I used lots of pearls, 2 pins, lots of ribbon and flowers. I hope this is plenty!

Heres are the links to the three challenge blogs i have entered;

  http://justmagnolia.blogspot.com/ - A Sketch by Dawny

http://totallygorjuss.blogspot.com/ - Pink

http://ourcreativecorner6.blogspot.com/ - Embellishments - The More the Better!

Thanks for taking time out to look at my cards and leaving such nice comments!

Easel card!

Had a sleepless night as usual so was up making this card at 2am. I seem to be much more creative at that time of night! I also love the quietness..kids sleeping..just bliss!

 I love making easel cards, so simple but look great! I have also stuck to my favourite colours! I am entering the card into The Stamp Man challenge as the new challenge is easel cards. My image is from LOTV, one of my favourites and coloured with promarkers. I have embossed one of the layers under the image using my cuttlebug and floral folder, this fits with the challenge at "Our Creative corner".  I have used Acetate and made them stand out more by coating with Glossy Accents and sprinkled with MS Glitter and finished of with Pearls. The I love Promarkers challenge is Acetate so i am hoping the flowers will be enough to count! I really dont remember using acetate on cards since last Christmas, The DT cards over at I love Promarkers were amazing, gave me lots of ideas for next time! The challenges over at Flutter By Wednesday and Party Time Tuesday  is "Anything Goes". 

Heres the list of Challenges and links to them;

http://ourcreativecorner6.blogspot.com/ - Embossing.

http://partytimetuesdays.blogspot.com/ - Anything goes with Birthday sentiment.

http://ilovepromarkers.blogspot.com/ - Acetate.

http://flutterbywednesdays.blogspot.com/ - Anything Goes with Butterflies.

http://thestampmanchallenges.blogspot.com/ - Easel card.

Well Thanks for looking and i hope you enjoy the rest of the day. For me its a afternoon tackling the ironing pile! Not my Idea of fun, would rather me at my craft desk making cards!