Addicted to Stamps and More #93

Time for our 'Holiday' challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More and time for me to make another Christmas card! You can choose any hols you want to or even something that just reminds you of a holiday.

I have loved for a long time the snowflake stamps and dies from Uniko Studios so was very excited to use these for this challenge. And here is my card:

I had previously made another card for this challenge but changed my mind when I saw this photo at Festive Friday Challenge

The wood grain and red star inspired me immediately. I love the look of white card stock embossed with wood grain and that big red star inspired me to die cut my large snowflake die with glitter red card. I added the simple small sentiment not to distract from the snowflake and also as I thought this would be great for the 'Bright Sparks' challenge at Keep it Simple.

This week our DT have got some fab projects to inspire you and we are sponsored by A Random Fan-you could win 3 of their very cool digis!

I will also enter this into the 'glitter stash' challenge at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown and the 'Sparkle and Shimmer' challenge at CAS on Sunday

Marina my DT teamie at Inkspirational has challenges herself to make one Christmas card per week and asks us to join in and link up and I finally have a card to add to her fun!

Now it is your time to play along and have some fun x

Happy Birthday Cornelia!

We are having a little belated Birthday celebration for our teamie Cornelia at STAMPloarions. It was Cornelia's Birthday on the 19th April but she is away until the 26th and we thought we would surprise her with a homecoming celebration! So a very Happy Belated Birthday Cornelia.

And her is my card for you:

I have used the new to be released stamps from STAMPlorations...check out our sneak peek here. Keep you eyes open for our blog hop coming very soon!

This card was inspired by 2 photo inspiration challenges. 

The black and red colours in the photo at Cure For the Monday Blues had been playing on my mind all week but it wasn't until I saw the photo at Fusion this week that I had the idea of using these grunge stamps in place of the chevrons, that my card came together! I have actually used all the colours in the Fusion photo but based the card on red with the big black sentiment as a nod to Curing the Monday Blues!

I sure hope you like your card Cornelia and Happy Birthday again xx

     

Inkspirational and Addicted to CAS

Good Morning crafting friends,

Today I have combined 2 of my DT challenges and made one card.

At Inkspitational it is our colour challenge. Pink and Green are our colours for this challenge-you can use any shade and combine these with black, white and cream plus realistic colours for skin and hair.

At Addicted to CAS the lovely Kylie is our hostess and she has chosen this code word:

As many of you know I do love grunge but this week I challenged myself to make a grunge card using Inkspirational colours. I wanted to make a girly grunge card to show that grunge doesn't always have to for guys!

I used a mix of stamps from PTI and STAMPlorations. I really like the girly grunge look and think I will be doing this again!

At Inkspirational we have the fabulous Guest Designer Alycia, check out her card and the DT's creations here.

And at Addicted to CAS our Guest Designer is my very talented blogging friend Anita. You will see her CAS delight by visiting our blog here. Plus our DT have gone grunge crazy so don't forget to check out their cards! Bugaboo Stamps are sponsoring us at Addicted to CAS-you know how fab their store is!

I will enter this into the 'Birthday' challenge at Seize the Birthday

Have fun x

TIME OUT #4

Happy Friday Eve to all!

We had a record number of entries for our Theme challenge at TIME OUT challenges. I had so much fun visiting your blogs and struggled to choose my top picks. Thank you so much for supporting our new challenge and I hope you continue to enjoy our challenges. 

It is now time for our next challenge and this week it is our CASE challenge. We are very excited that today we have the super talented and a very big star in our crafting world, joining us....Virginia. I asked Virginia to join us when we were planning TIME OUT a while ago and was over the moon when she agreed. Virginia created a card especially for TIME OUT and today we are asking you to CASE this wonderful creation:

All you need to do is look at Virginia's card and see what inspires you about it and create a papercrafting project from this. It might be the lay out, the colour, the flower, the sentiment-there is so much here to be inspired by!

I loved this card and have followed Virginia's layout. I loved that panel of flowers and the funky looking thread. I tried to re-create this with some simple stamping and then added some embossing. I tried so hard to make my thread look just thrown together to create Virginia's look but I still haven't mastered this! Here is my CASE of Virginia's card:

Our DT have all CASEd this card and what a wonderful selection of cards we have to inspire you. Check then out here.

And don't forget if you win this challenge you will be joining us as our Guest Designer for our next challenge.

As my stamps are all from Paper Smooches I will enter this into their Anything Goes challenge at Paper Smooches Sparks

Time to take some TIME OUT and craft!

xx

Who doesn't love Snail Mail!!

Happy Wednesday my crafting friends,

I have been having a fun time over Easter as the lovely Kylie has been staying with me. Kylie runs the challenge blogs Addicted to Stamps and Addicted to CAS and this is how we met. We became friends very quickly and then we had the fab opportunity to meet IRL. She came all the way from Australia to London to visit and we had a fab time. We also got to meet more blogging friends on Monday. Kylie's blog here has a few photos of our time together...a very special time and one I will cherish forever. And Australia beware I will be there soon!!

Back to my card for today:

I couldn't resist making this card when I saw this very old snail stamp. I have no idea where it came from but I was looking for something else and saw this and had the idea for this card. It just made me giggle thinking about it and so I had to do a little stamp surgery to come up with this CAS card.

I thought it was so fun for the 'garden' challenge at CASology and I am so pleased as I didn't have any ideas except flowers until I saw my baby snail.

And also I thought as it is still making me smile, it would be good for the challenge at Less Is More-makes me smile.

And finally the one layer CAS challenge at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge

Tomorrow is our new challenge at TIME OUT Challenges so pop back and check what we have in store for you!!

And a picture of Kylie and me crafting in my dining room on Easter Sunday...yes I am messy!!

STAMPlorations Sketch #10

Its time for our bi-weekly sketch challenge at STAMPloratrions. And here is our sketch:

I found this a real tough one and played around for ages and to be honest I am not that happy with the finished result but here is what I came up with:

I have used the 'Holiday Artsy' stamp set from STAMPlorations and added some sparkle for a real celebration! 

For this challenge our Guest Designer is the very talented Carol. I have been following her blog for a while now and do love her creativity. If you don't know her then I urge you to visit her blog here and be inspired!

PRIZE
The sketch challenges are sponsored by our sister shop, All About Scrapping. The winner gets to pick 3 DIGITAL products from the shop — any combination of printable sheets, Photoshop templates, and digital paper packs. The winner will also be invited to be a Guest Designer in next month's sketch challenge.

And if you enter all 3 of our challenges this month we have a very special prize up for grabs-details on our blog here and while you are there check out what the design team have created to inspire you x

TIME OUT Winners and Challenge Reminder!

Today we are announcing our winners over at TIME OUT, so pop over and find out if you are one!

There is still time to join in our current challenge:

Happy Birthday with the optional twist if a Masculine Birthday

We have some fab prizes this week from our super sponsor Uniko Studios, check out the details here.

My card today is made to hopefully give you a little inspiration. This week I decided not to add the twist and make a girly card.

I have used the Uniko Studio stamps A Gift For You (love those faux sequins!)and Background Builder: Round in Circles and combined these with the sentiment from the 'Time to Celebrate' stamp set from Clearly Besotted Stamps which performed surgery on then gold heat embossed!

Why not take some time out and join in our Happy Birthday challenge at TIME OUT Challenges