Just Inspirational challenge.....

This weeks challenge is ....a stamped project either an ink or digi stamp, the sponser this week is Crafty Sentiments, I've used one of Suzettes designs......Snowmans gift, I think I'm in a crimbo phase at the moment, all that glitter...lol. The image was coloured with Promarkers watercolouring pens.....first time I've used them, added lots of sparkle in the form of stickles and glamour dust. Snowflake is from a Marianne die. Sentiment is from Pink gem, papers from Kars and Forever friends.

Challenges

Spoon full of Sugar.......winter wonderland.

Sweet Stampin'......Diamonds.

Die Cuts Christmas Club.....3 papers, 1 image and 2 embellishments.

Stamp something........punches.

Alphabet challenge .......X for xmas.

Friday sketchers......sketch.

thanks for taking a peek

your comments are greatly appreciated

hugs

Vintage

morning.....its raining so  that means crafting time at least I managed to tame the garden after the holiday as it was looking more like a jungle after I got back from my holls on Sunday, the washing and ironing done so I can steal myself away for some me time with my crafting bits n pieces. As you may be aware Rachel started a new challenge blog after Crafters Companion started their own called Just Inspirational, this is the third week and the challenge today is ......Vintage.....anything goes, so here is my card, I was going through and pink and soft brown period when I made this a few weeks back, the DI's I've used are tea dye and victorian velvet....two of my fave combos, the image was a download and I used rock candy crackles over the top to give it a more older look, the doily has been distressed and glimmer misted......you know me everything has to be glimmered. The lace was distressed and ribbon threaded through it, ticket from Tim Holtz.....as if you didn't know that...lol, gold textured flower was from Cuddly Buddly.

Challenges

Stampavie.......anything goes.

Totally Papercrafts.....pearls and swirls (swirls are on the doily)

Colour Createwarm pinks, chocolate and white.

Charisma........Pink

My Time To Craft

Today is the start of another challenge at My time to Craft, this week the theme is called Damask Delights so you can interpret this any way you like. For my DT card I went for a more traditional interpretation and used just damask designs for the card, using a cuttlebug folder for the main image which I then embossed and a damask stamp for the backgroung image again I embossed this. Have fun interpreting it and I look forward to seeing all your fantastic entries.

hugs from Daniele

New Design Team

 Yay.....I must say I'm over the moon....... I've been picked as this weeks winner at Crafty Companions challenge blog not only have I won a new design from Popcorn Bear....one from the new Romance range but I am also now on their design team, I love that cute lilttle bear and duck. I am looking forward to the challenges ahead, they have relaxed their rules so that you can join in the challenges with any stamped image now, but they would love it if you could use one of the many fab products available by Crafters Companion 

 This weeks challenge is........a colour challenge... use the colours Orange and yellow.

I am looking forward to visiting all of your wonderful entries

Hugs from Daniele x

Blue and Green

first time I've inked this one up but fancied a changed, stamp is from Lili of the Valley painted in Sakura pens papers are hopscotch by K&Ko, I followed the sketch from Moving along with the Times, altered it slightly as I put buttons in the corners of the image.......needed to tidy the corners up a little after punching the border for the frame, the colour challenge at Our Creative Corner is Blue and Green. Fancy edges or corners is the theme at One Stop Craft.

Crafters Companion Challenge

sketch that I drew and followed for this card

The challenge at Crafters Companion this week is to design a sketch and then make up the card. The image is Popcorn the bear and I have coloured it in using Sakura pens, the papers are Pink Parfait from Papermania......just loving the girlie pinks of these papers. I have used a hidden tag for the sentiment and I topped this off with a flower.

Hugs from Daniele x

Winter Birthday Card

Todays card is a winter birthday card which I have to admit I struggled with a bit as I had to come up with a DT card as well as, my mojo I think has had a day off. The stamped image is a Penny Black, the snowflake on the background of the image is from Crafty Individuals which I stamped in Broken china and embossed using holographic powder , the papers are from Basic Grey....Eskimo Kisses and the background plaid is from Paper Cellar, flowers are from the new capsule collection from Papermania. I recycled a christmas card using the glitter snowflake on the flowers and the glitter strips which are on the ribbon.

I have entered this card in the following challenges: Crazy4Challenges  which has the theme of a Birthday card, Basic Grey have a lovely image as inspiration to follow, Lots to Do have the title winter wonderland, I followed the sketch from Sketch Saturday, Polka Doodles have the challenge of using a song title....Cool for Cats by Squeeze, over at Crafty Angels you have to recycle a piece as do Rainbow lady.  Pink Elephant have the theme of a winter birthday card using two papers and three buttons...I kinda improvised here and used brads instead........ Hoping I'll be let off with my faux pas Polly Craft also have a challenge of doing a winter birthday card.Incy Wincy want you to add bling...I,ve got glitter and diamante brads. Pink Elephant has a birthday challenge, Stamp with fun challenge ths week is Snowflakes and Crafty Angels have the theme of texture, I've snowflakes to the flowers and sparkle to the ribbon.Another challenge that has snowflakes as the theme this week is Everybody Art

Hugs from Daniele x

My Time To Craft

Morning everyone today sees a new challenge at My Time To Craft the theme is Blue and Brown so dust off your stash and join in the fun

Papertake have the theme of new beginings.........baby
Creative card crew challenge this week is distressing

Valentine card for StampARTic

Had a little play again this afternoon using glimmer mists, sprayed the flower as well as stamping over the flower with a stamp from My Minds Eye in purple I used the free stamp in this months magazine and mounted the flower on a circular doiley which again had been spritzed in glimmer mist then kept the rest of the card simple, sentiment from Whiff Of Joy

Favourite card of 2009

I love this image and colourway so this has to be my favourite card for last year. At Quixotic this week they have some great candy on offer as well as picking your favourite card to enter the challenge.

New Year card

Happy New Year to everyone and here is my card didn't put new year as a sentiment but my card is about your dreams for 2010, the image is from Lili of the valley painted with sakura pens....these stamps are sooo sweet.

I have entered this card into the following challenges who have the theme of a new years card Everybody art,Stamp with funThe theme at Cupcake craft challengeis a time for celebration. Over at Rosie Dees they have a free theme as do Creative card crew they also have a DT call.The sketch I followed is fromCreate4fun.Lili of the Valley have the theme of new year as do Cute card Thursday

Just had to enter this card in the challenge at Charisma Cardz, they are celebrating their 1st Birthday today and they also have a blog hop on so........Happy 1st Birthday Charisma challenges and a happy new year to you all                                                                       

Hugs from Daniele x

StampARTic

The theme at StampARTic this week is to pick a favourite previous card to enter, I entered this one because of the colour scheme and the use of acetate for the embellishments....The  design was stamped in black on gold card cut up and mounted the acetate is stamped in black and embossed in gold and rather than using the embossed side up I turned them over so you get  a black line image with a gold outline doesn't show very well in the photo but looks good close up

Sepia Christmas Card

My first sepia card and definately not my last loved doing this, The design is a Sugar nellie and has been painted in Tea dye distress ink, after painting the design part of it has been layered up i.e bow, teddy and presents (doesn't show that well though) after I had finished painting I then spritzed the whole design in Glimmer mist to add the bling effect in the background the flowers were also spritzed

The card has been entered into the following challenges: Daring cardmakers who had the inspirational theme of sepia, Our Creative Corner has the theme of 12 days of Christmas.....Partridge in a pear tree, Cupcake have a christmas carol as an inspirational theme...not sure if the '12days of christmas' counts but heres hoping.Spoon full of sugar have the challenge of 'Monochrome', Papertake want christmas cards but NO red or green. The sketch for this design is over at Sketch Saturday

Xmas Foliage

close up of candle painted with Sakura pens

Went with a traditional red/green/gold christmas card as there are quite a few challenges with that theme and The challenge at My Time To Craft this week is Xmas Foliage, this card has been entered into the following challenges;http://www.create4fun-challenge  followed the sketch, http://papercutzchallenge/ .have the theme of a christmas card over at http://stampinfortheweekend.they/ have a colour theme Red/Green/Gold. http://simonsaysstampschallenge/ this week is to add a charm as does http://quixoticpaperie/. I coloured the tree charm and then added red and gold stickles for added detail.The theme at Stampavie is also christmas. Other challenge sites running similar themes are Everybody Art, Creative Card Crew and Pile It On

Winter Pals

This week at My Time To Craft we have the theme of Winter Pals, I thought I'd have a go at another easel card, quite like these so I followed the sketch from http://basicgreychallenges/ and used eskimo kisses papers as these papers are so pretty at http://allsortschallenge/. the theme this week is to use buttons....nice easy one and the theme at http://thepinkelephantchallenge/. is to use your favourite colouring medium well that has to be Sakura pens as everything at the moment has been coloured in with them.......just love the glittery and subtle effect you get with them. At http://polkadoodle/. the challenge this week is to use 3 papers and a stamp. Over at http://stampwithfun/. the theme is Christmas as is the challenge at http://pollycraftchallenge/ this week . Weather is to be incorporated into any style of card for the challenge at http://www.craftycalendarchallenge/. so being as this is a snowy scene with falling snow flakes thought I'd enter this one as well......Heres a late entry for http://aspoonfullofsugarchallenge/. they have the challenge of producing a christmas card using non traditional colours....

Hugs Daniele x

Chocolate card

Yum yum my kind of challenge at http://lotstodocallenges.blogspot.com/ the theme is favourite chocolate bar...now thats a daft question for a chocoholic but one of my favourites is Turkish Delight so hence the pink/chocolate colours. The ribbons are choccie coloured and crinkled for effect. The torn papers represent tearing into the bar and the sketch that I followed is from http://stampwithfun.blogspot.com/and the theme over at http://quixoticpaperie.blogspot.com/ is tearing

Hugs Daniele x

Very Vintage

Another week and another challenge..... this week sees the theme of Very Vintage at My Time To Craft so get out your distressing inks and tear it up and join us in a vintage challenge

Hugs Daniele x

vintage christmas card

I have used stamps from Crafty Individuals and distressed the edges of the background paper, the main image background was distressed and then it was spritzed with water to get the mottled effect, the card has also been entered in the following challenge: Incy Wincy who have the theme Anything Goesand Ink on my Finger who have the theme of Hollyand the Ivy.....sorry no Ivy but got the Holly, Everybody Art have the theme Christmas, Creative Card Crew have the theme of Favourite Things.....easy love christmas and fave technique at the moment is distressing, Spoon full of Sugar have a colour theme Brown with either blue or Pink, 365 cards ,theme this week is Tied up in Knots.....tag has 2, Lots to Do have a free theme going this week...nice and easy one, Daring card Makers challenge this week is to use something starting with your Name i.e. D for Daniele....D=distressing  oh I think that this may be a personnel record for me....lol

Hugs Daniele x

Candy cane

Another Tilda crimbo card.... the theme at Colour Create is Green,Red and White and the image for inspiration is a candy cane so hence Tilda carrying a candy cane and the choice in papers, I also added gold holly leaves on the left border to add additional interest, the ribbon is a red one laid on the top of a holly ribbon. The flowers were spritzed with cosmic shimmer and glitter addded for a bit of bling.The sketch I followed was from Charisma and Roses on Paper have the theme romance or Sweet.....I'm going with the sweet thing.

Lili of the Valley

Ohh I,m loving these sweet designs and I'm still loving Sakua pens the challenge with these are the lack of colours so you have to blend a couple together to get different shades....but thats the fun thing challenges for this card are Lili of the valley,Alphabet Challenge this weeks letter is F for Flowers......lovimg flowers