A BIT OF BEADING.

It's challenge #110 over at I ♥ PROMARKERS and this week the theme is 'Bead It'. We want to see beads on your projects. Not sticky back pearls (well, you can use those too) but proper beads of some sort. Our sponsor this week is the lovely Judy at DIGI DOODLE SHOP with a $10 spend for our winner.


I used the image from Digi Doodle Shop 'Girl Sewing' as I thought it would be perfect and I wanted to keep the colours to a minimum. I hand stitched magatama beads onto my image along her cloth and one near her fingers, and then used seed beads and magatamas along the ribbon too. The borders are punched with a M.S. punch, the corner flourish is a Memory Box die (with a sticky pearl on), computer generated greeting and my papers are K & Co's 'Julianne'.

Entering into:
DIGI DOODLE SHOP #101 - Friendship.
DO YOU STACK UP #65 - Sew it.
CRAFTY PURPLE FROG #37 - Anything goes.
SIMON SAYS STAMP - Anything goes.
PARTY TIME TUESDAYS #61 - Anything goes.
CREATIVE MONDAYS #4 - Anything goes.
LOLLIPOP CRAFTS #73 - Anything goes.
MAKE IT MONDAY #82 - Anything goes. FEATURED ENTRY

Grrrrrrrrrr!!!!

Blogger is really peeing me off. Error pages, timeouts when trying to post comments and my spanner/pencil has disappeared too so no quick edits for me. Gmail seems to have hijacked my normal email address too. NOT A HAPPY BUNNY HERE!!!!

PARIS NIGHTS

Challenge #109 over at I ♥ PROMARKERS this week is to use 3 different papers. Not too difficult as many of us use 3 papers regularly, so lets see lots of entries. We had an amazing turn out last week and it was great to see so many of you joining in.

Our sponsor is THE STAMP FAIRY with a $10 gift certificate as our prize and the DT all used a Stamp Fairy image.


My papers are from the GCD Paris Nights. I paper pieced her dress and coloured the rest with my PM's. A memory box die gave me a bit of contrast behind the image and I added 3 black gems and made a double bow from seam binding to finish it off.

Entering into:
MY MUM'S CRAFT SHOP - Use a digi.
THE PAPER SHELTER - Paper Piecing.
SCRAPBOOK SISTERS #76 - Anything Goes.
SISTERHOOD OF CRAFTERS - Birthdays.
WHIMSY STAMPS #31 - Anything goes.
EVERYBODY ART #185 - Friendship.
DAISY DOODLES #55 - Tie it Up.
LOVE TO CREATE #7 - Anything goes.
STAMP AND CREATE - Paper Piecing.

YAY!! TREASURE...

Wednesday again already!! I'm getting old too quick, lol. This weeks challenge #108 over at I ♥ PROMARKERS is Anything Goes and we are sponsored by the lovely JOANNA SHEEN with a £10 spend in her store for our winner. I didn't really have a plan for this card, but I was going through all my digi images and not having used these before settled on a pirate theme. The images - girl, map and chest are all from the fabulous MAKE IT CRAFTY and my background paper is from a K & Co pad I've had for absolute ages. After colouring the images with my Promarkers, I inked the background and the map with a walnut stain distress ink pad. I also used a Martha Stewart border punch and a Memory Box flourish corner die. I did my own computer generated sentiment.


Entering into:
TOTALLY PAPERCRAFTS #107 - My favourite things. (Dies and punches)
MAKE IT MONDAY #80 - Anything goes.
SIMON SAYS STAMP & SHOW - Anything goes.
THAT CRAFT PLACE - Anything goes.
FOREVER NIGHT #30 - Pirates. TOP 3
GINGERSNAP #142 - Border punches. (closes 8th April)
OSAAT #104 - Use a digi.

SLACK ALICE

I've been a slack Alice with my blogging again. I didn't post last weeks I ♥ Promarkers card with the theme ribbons and bows so gonna post it now. I've also made myself a box with compartments from scratch, which I have to say, I'm proper pleased with. It's now storing all my Tim Holtz Ideaology stuff, charms, laser cuts, keys and other stuff I use for altered art and ageing things. I did a tutorial for the box which you can find over on 'Make Something Nice' (link in sidebar) if you're interested.







Entering into:
CRAFT ROOM CHALLENGE - Shabby Vintage.
CREATIVE CARD CREW #6 - Vintage.
LADYBUG CRAFTS INK - Anything goes.
BUNNY ZOE'S #22- Vintage
CREATIVE MONDAYS #3 - Anything goes.

And, here's my card. Not, in my opinion, one of my best efforts lol but hey ho! The camera lit the gold up a bit too much too, it's not this bright really, in fact, it's a lovely fairly subtle gold card. Quite a difference in styles between this and the box I'd say, ha ha. The image is from Lili of the Valley. I cut a square doiley in half and added some die cuts.



Entering into:
THE STAMPING BOUTIQUE - Gold.
MY TIME TO CRAFT #175 - Doilies AND Flowers.

A THANK YOU, A BIRTHDAY AND A SKETCH...

I'm a bit late with my post this week, but never mind eh? Better late than never. First, I'd like to thank PARTY TIME TUESDAYS for picking me as a winner the other week. I got THIS lovely stamp as my prize from Stampendous today and I'm well chuffed.

Then I'd like to say Happy Birthday to my Oscar. He's a year old. :o)



Right, onto the sketch. It's challenge #106 over at I ♥ PROMARKERS and Karen has designed this sketch for us to follow. Our sponsor this week is the lovely Judy from DIGI DOODLE SHOP with a $10 spend for our winner.


For my card I used a couple of the Bodytot images and combined them in Photoshop. I tend to stick slavishly to sketches so there's not much more to this one at all. Actually, I'm quite pleased in a way 'cause there's not a flower or a flourish in sight, although I have so say, she doesn't look too pleased with his serenading lol.


Entering into:
PIXIE DUST STUDIOS#116 - Buttons.
SASSY STUDIOS #114 - Seeing Green.
SHELLY'S IMAGES - Seeing Spots.
DIVA'S BY DESIGN #24 - Spots and Stripes.
SCRAPALICIOUS - Anything Goes.
THE SISTERHOOD - Use a Digi.
CREATIVE CARD CREW #5 - Humour.
PARTY TIME TUESDAY #57 - Anything Goes.
SASSY CHERYL #104 - Seeing Spots.
SCRAPBOOKING QUEEN #6 - Anything goes with a bit of Green.
MAKE IT MONDAY #78 - Anything Goes.