Songbird Challenge

I have some great news this morning, there is a new challenge blog - SONGBIRD CHALLENGES and today is their first challenge.  Each challenge will be based on a song title or lyric and this one is - ANYTHING GOES - based on the musical of the same name.  I was delighted to be invited to Guest Design for this, their very first challenge and this is my card:

I used the fab image Candy Land Dreams from Meljen's Designs who are sponsoring the challenge.

The papers are Echo Park - Little Boy, I have purchased a digital copy of these papers now, so I'm not afraid to cut into them anymore!  I printed the image several times, in different sizes so that I could decoupage some of the lollipops and also use them as embellishments.  I have added lots of 3D Crystal Lacquer to the image and embellishments which, of course, doesn't show up in the photograph.  The sentiment is computer generated, I wanted something quite simple because I thought this card would be ideal for a child.

The inside of my card has been decorated to complement the front:

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Stampavie and More Challenge 173 - Birthday
The Corrosive Challenge 155 - They Say It's Your Birthday
Wags 'n Whiskers Challenge 85 - Birthdays
Delightful Challenges - Delightful Birthday
Hooked on Craft Challenge 23 - Let's Celebrate
Crafty Ann's Challenge 71 - Circles (I hope my lollipop's count as circles)
Party Time Tuesdays Challenge 79 - Anything Goes
Little Scrap Pieces Fun Friday Challenge - Happy Birthday
2 Sisters Challenge 103 - Anything Goes
The Craft Garden August Challenge - Colour Inspiration

Make sure you pop over to the SONGBIRD CHALLENGES BLOG and have a look at this great new challenge.

Thank you for your visit, please leave me a comment and let me know your thoughts.

Pauline
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Sweet Treat

Good afternoon, it's time for our new challenge at Crafting for all Seasons and Bianca our hostess this week has chosen the theme 'ICE CREAM'.

We have three great sponsors again this time:

Bugaboo  Prize - 7 digital images

Jani's Kreativwelt Digital Stamps  Prize - 3 images

and

Kenny K Downloads  Prize - 5 digital images

This is my second DT card for this challenge, I just couldn't resist using some of our very own Jani's fab images, make sure you pop over to her shop - Jani's Kreativwelt Digital Stamps - and check out her work.

I coloured my ice cream images with a combination of ProMarkers and FlexMarkers and added some Crystal Lacquer to the sundae glass.  I have mounted the images onto some red Core'dinations card stock and stamped a sentiment on another piece of white card that has also been mounted onto some red Core'dinations.

I have decorated the inside of my card to match the front and added another small ice cream image:

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Just Some Lines Challenge - Let's keep it Clean and Simple

Alphabet Challenge - K for Kitchen
Celebrate the Occasion Challenge 70 - Happy Birthday
Everybody Art Challenge 201 - Summer
Papertake Weekly Challenge - Strawberries and Cream
Sassy Cheryl's Challenge 123 - Summer Fun!
Crafty Creations Challenge 178 - Free For All
PanPastel Challenge 26 - Ice Cream Colours (Mint/Chocolate/Vanilla/Strawberry)
Fab 'n' Funky Challenge 129 - Summer Holiday

Inspired by Challenge 31 - I was inspired by the ice cream colours and the food connection

Make sure you pop over to the Crafting for all Seasons Challenge Blog and check out the DT inspiration, we would love for you to join us for our 'Ice Cream' challenge.

That's it from me for today, the Olympic Torch is coming to our town later this afternoon, so me and the boy's are going to watch, I do hope it doesn't rain!  Please come back and visit again soon.

Pauline
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Patch Flyilng

It's time for some inspiration over at the Crafty Pad today and Estelle and myself are showcasing a couple of Crafty Pad images.

I chose to make a card for a child, something I don't do nearly often enough, it was really fun to make and I am going to make sure I do it more often.

I chose the fab Crafty Pad image 'Patch Flying, I printed him out twice and cut out one image to decoupage him, I always like to have some dimension on my cards.  I inked the sky using a mask for the clouds and coloured him with a combination of ProMarkers and FlexMarkers.  Full details of everything I have used are listed below.

This is the inside of my card that I have decorated to match the front.

You can just about see the Crystal Lacquer that I have added to the little screen on the aeroplane in this photograph.

Card Recipe

Image:  The Crafty Pad - Patch Flying

Papers:  Bearly Mine Designs - green 'Mini Dots', Echo Park - Little Boy

Card Stock:  Core'dinations

Tools:  Spellbinders - Classic Square, Ribbler, Crystal Lacquer

Sentiment:  The Crafty Pad - Happy Birthday ticket 

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Crop Stop Challenge 77 - Let's hear it for the Children
Fussy and Fancy Challenge 65 - Boy Attitude
Just Us Girls Inspiration Challenge - Inspiration picture - I was inspired by the reds and yellows
Alphabet Challenge Blog - J for Journey
PanPastel Challenge 24 - Anything Goes
Totally Gorjuss Challenge 137 - Something Yellow
Stamping with the Dragon Challenge - Transportation
My Mum's Craft Shop Challenge 62 - About The Boys
Dream Valley Challenge 35 - Things with Wings (I hope an Aeroplane counts)
Craft Your Passion Challenge 116 - Things with Wings

Make sure you pop over to The Crafty Pad Shop and have a look at the wonderful digi images, papers and card downloads, there are usually some specials on offer so you might even grab yourself a bargain.

Thank you for stopping by today, I really do appreciate your company.

Pauline
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Crafting for all Seasons 1st Birthday Challenge and Blog Hop

It's Birthday time at Crafting for all Seasons, the challenge has been going for a whole year and to celebrate we are having a Blog Hop.  But first thank you to everyone who joined us for our Handmade Flowers challenge we had so many beautiful entries, I do hope you will all join us again this week for our Birthday Celebrations.  The challenge this week is 'It's a Celebration' with Buttons - we would like you to use some buttons on your project.  This is what I have made:

I wanted to do something a little bit different for our 1st Birthday so I made a 1st Birthday card and matching Gift Bag.  The image is from TeddyBo and the papers are Echo Park - Little Boy, they have been hiding in my ever growing paper stash for ages.

I coloured the image with ProMarkers and paper pieced the number one and added some Crystal Lacquer to it:

The border was cut using Spellbinders Edgeabilities Classic Ric Rac, I cut the sentiment from a Crafty Pad Ticket Sentiment and backed it on the same red Core'dinations card stock that I used throughout.  The buttons and thread are from my stash:

As usual, I have decorated the inside of my card to complement the front:

I used the same image, papers and layout for the gift bag:

and also decorated the back to complement the front:

I apologise for the number of photographs but I wanted to show everything, it took me so long to make it all I was nearly late for the challenge.

I would like to enter this card and gift bag into the following challenges:

Lollipop Crafts Challenge 80 - Just for Him
The Pink Elephant Challenge 148 - Polka Dots and Stripes
Sentimental Sundays Challenge 102 - Birthday - Buttons
Joanna Sheen Challenge - Happy Birthday
Cupcake Craftroom May Challenge - Photo Inspiration
Robyn's Fetish Challenge 107 - Paper Piecing
LEJ Designs Challenge 3 - Lots of Layers
Totally Papercrafts Challenge 116 - No Pesky Girls Allowed
Little Claire Monthly Challenge 21 - Male Theme
Desert Islands Crafters Challenge 31 - Angela's Itinerary (For a Boy/What's your number/Something Old - papers/Something Blue)

Now on to the Blog Hop - as it's our FIRST BIRTHDAY at Crafting for all Seasons we are having a blog hop to celebrate.  The hop begins and ends on the Crafting for all Seasons Challenge Blog.  If you've arrived from Lizy's blog you're on the right track, if you are just popping by to say hello you may want to pop over to the Challenge Blog to join in the whole hop.

At each of the DT's  blogs you will find a letter, once you have collected them all, leave a comment on the challenge post telling us which word the letters spell.  You must leave a comment on each DT blog as you hop and one commenter on each of the blogs will win a prize, my prize is:

A set of Kanban Damask Divas - Let's Go Shopping Clear Stamps

My letter is A, now all you need to do is pop back to the Challenge Blog and leave a comment telling us the word.  If you get lost along the way there is a full list for the hop on the Challenge Post.

Good Luck!  Make sure you pop over to the Crafting for all Seasons Challenge Blog and check out the DT inspiration, we would love for you to join us for our Birthday Celebrations.

That's it from me for today, I hope I haven't bored you to tears, see you again soon.

Pauline
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Guitar Hero

This is a card that I have made for my eldest son to give a friend.  The friend is the lead guitar player in the band that my son sings and plays guitar in called 'Talking to Amy', so his card had to have a guitar on it.

I have made two cards to give Matt a choice, this one is quite simple, all I have used is one sheet of Best Creation Inc 'Rock Star' 6x6 glitter paper for the front and a co-ordinating sheet for the inside.  The base card is some onyx Stardream card from Joanna Sheen and I also die cut the star with my X-Cut die from the same card stock.

I stamped the numbers with my Penny Black number set 'who's counting' onto some co-ordinating paper and coloured them with Pro-Markers.  After cutting them out I glossed them with 3D Crystal Laquer.

The larger star on the inside of the card was also cut from the Stardream card stock with my X-Cut die, the smaller star was cut with a smaller die on some co-ordinating paper.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Fab 'n' Funky Challenge 108 - Try Something New (I don't normally do simple cards)
Lollipop Crafts Challenge 68 - Anything Goes
Crafting When We Can Challenge 12 - Big Birthdays (I hope 16 qualifies)
Dream Valley Challenge 26 - Just for Men
Hotshot Craft Challenge 4 - One for the boys

Thank you for looking.

Pauline
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