Sisters of Craft "Anything Goes" December Challenge

1st December already !  Hard to believe, and it's so mild out too, not like the Decembers from years gone by....yet !

This time our Challenge is sponsored by Nikki Burnette

 

The prize is 3 stamps from her store.

 

 

I chose to use her image entitled "Riley".  I used a gaming theme and found some playing cards in a Hunkydory kit....I knew I had them but when I found them they were too big, so I cut the small ones from the inspiration sheet that came with the kit, they were just the right size !

 

 

I covered her jacket, hat-band and cat's hat with glitter left over from a previous card, a mixture of green, gold and purple, then I used my distress ink markers to colour her hat, hair, belt etc., and her cat. Her skin is coloured with an Ivory Promarker.  I used double sided tape covered with glitter as a sort of "sunburst" background, with a Tattered Lace pocket watch diecut and Tattered Lace corner flourish diecuts from gold mirri card.  I added a couple of hat feathers and a Hunkydory sentiment to finish off.  Hope you like her !

 

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Hobby House, Gorjuss and lots of sparkle

Here are three cards made by myself in the past few months.  I used Hobby House products for the first one..I just dusted around the edge of the topper with Spun Sugar distress ink, added some ribbon and punched out three little flowers...

 

 

For the second one I used some of the Santoro Gorjuss products which I bought ages ago and have never even opened !...the scalloped edges of paper are from another sheet of backing paper used on a previous card..waste not, want not !...

 





 

 

The third one is a fun card, made for a sparkly competition...I used double side tape, covered it with glitter, then added three sparkly flowers and added some gems...

 

Sisters of Craft "Anything Goes" November Challenge

Here we are on the 1st November, which means the start of another challenge !  This time our sponsor is Lemon Shortbread....

and the prize is 3 digis from the store.

I chose to use the "Owl on Branch" digi image.  I coloured it in using promarkers Pastel Pink, Cocoa, Tan, Yellow and Cool Grey 3, and added some Creative Expressions/Phill Martin Cosmic Shimmer Twinkles in Frosty Mink, a lovely colour in my opinion !

I found some pre punched leaves that I kept in a little pot and used them to add some autumn leaves to the tree, and the backing paper is one I bought from Little Claire, I am afraid the name eludes me, but it was perfect with all the little owls "hooting" in the background !  The card base is just a white 6 x 6 which I've used in a tent like fashion as opposed to the normal style.  I also used a sentiment from a Becky Seddon kit I recently bought.  Hope you like it.

Sisters of Craft "Anything Goes" October Challenge

September seems to have flown by, and here we are again with a new challenge at the start of October. 

Our sponsor this month is Julia Spiri, and the prize is two images from her store.

I used the "Girl on a Mushroom" image, and here is what I made.  I chose an autumn theme, and for a change I coloured her in with watercolour pencils, apart from the large leaf, ladybird and cherries, for which I used a sparkly gel pen.  I also used Stardust stickles on the mushroom.  I edged the image with Frayed Burlap distress ink.  The background paper is from a DCWV Posies stack, the autumn leaves, owl and bird embellishments all came from my stash, and I found a "Nature" sticker, which I thought went well with the theme.  Hope you like it.  (I also entered this into Julia Spiri's challenge as it's the first one of her images I have used, I think they are lovely !http://juliaspirichallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/challenge-03.html  )

 

 

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Summer Days

I made three cards recently to enter into a competition being held in a Facebook group I belong to.  The theme was simply "Summer".  Here's what I came up with using Faye Whittaker decoupage on the first one and then some of the Hunkydory products which I have accumulated over the years on the other two.

Sisters of Craft "Anything Goes" September Challenge

Well, after a very wet, windy and miserable Bank Holiday Monday yesterday, we now have blue sky and sunshine on the 1st September !  Isn't that just typical !  Many local events were ruined yesterday due to the bad weather, I bet the organisers aren't happy today looking out at how lovely it is.  Such a shame after all the hard work they put into things.

Of course the 1st of the month heralds a new challenge for us, and this time our sponsor is The Paper Nest Dolls.

 

 

The prize is a mystery $25 stamp package for those in the U.S., and for those outside it's 8 digis from the store.

 

Here is my card....Introducing "Hammock Owen"...

 

 



Firstly I dusted the digi with Faded Jeans Distress Ink, then coloured in with promarkers.    I used a piece of holiday themed backing paper by Krafty Hands, (I thought the palm trees went well with a hammock !), and edged the digi with a selection of my many buttons, tying a thread of  bakers twine in one of them.  I have a bit of a thing for buttons, and usually just look at them and put them away again, but I thought it was about time I used a few !  Then just for fun I added googley eyes to Owen and his dog, so they follow you around the room !  I found some epoxy stickers and used the "Enjoy" one in the corner.  Hope you like it.

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We also have a new Facebook group where you can share all your makes and join in various competitions, just look us up and pop by !  Here's the link ....https://www.facebook.com/groups/135585893441223/permalink/166952850304527/

Just Married

I entered a card competition recently in which the theme was "Wedding".  I don't make many cards of this nature so had to stop and think.  I like simple designs and remembered buying some embellishments a few years ago which I thought would fit the bill nicely.  Here's what I came up with.