So What!

Hi Guys,

Yesterday was like summer so warm, today's like winter it's bloomin freezing lol, just thought I'd pass on that useless bit of information !

Colour Create's challenge today is our lovely Julies choice and it's for 

Black,Pink and white with optional use of Tulle,

I've used a Lily of the Valley girl, had her ages but never used her before, smack my hand, but she just seemed to fit this challenge some how lol,

I've followed the fab sketch from CLP and used the Sizzix  dies as they seemed to go so well too, lol

She's coloured with Copics, the papers are Magnolia and Tim Holtz,

Challenges:

CLP ~ Fab Sketch

A Spoon full of Sugar ~ Tons of texture
Charisma cardz ~ wedding/ Anniversary

 The Paper Play  Challenge is

Critters Galore

use animal stamps on your projects,

I've used these adorable Digi stamps from Teddy BO,

love these,

It's my sisters wedding Anniversary later this year and I just couldn't resist them, 

again these are coloured with Copics,

the paers are BG from the Curio pad, yes I've used them again lol,

flowers are from various places, the hearts are made from a small punch the raffia was from The Range,

Martha Stewart Heart border punch was used too,

Aren't they so cute!

I used some small letter stamps I have, to stamp Love on the tags too,

Challenges

 The Crazy Challenge ~ Just add flowers

Timbroscrapmania ~ Tag and plaque

Look forward to your creations,
Have fun!
See you soon,
Hugs Liz xx

It's in the bag!

Hi Peeps,

Todays the day for Colour create, and Paper play challenges, for once I've combined the two as when I did this I was again full of a cold and felt really weary, gosh I bet your sick of hearing that aren't you, well the good news is I think it's gone yeah!

Colour creates challenge is:

Plum and white with the option of frames, our lovely Julie's choice this is and you should see the gorgeous card she's made too,

Paperplays challenge is our lovely  Mandys choice and it's for anything but a card and will run for two weeks, the new challenge starting on the 6th January 2011,

Here's Julie's inspirational picture,
I'm entering this into the following challenge,
Ellephantastic ~ Christmas/ winter

I chose to decorate a bag for my daughters Christmas present, she adores these colours so it fit in perfectly,

Ive sewn the edges of my papers and layered them up too, Tilda is coloured with copics, cut out and stuck on with pin flair glue,

The scalloped circle has a Magnolia stamped ring of snowflakes on that in RL sparkle only typically you can't see them very well here lol,

Hopefully you can make it out a bit more here, I used a moonlight  white brilliance inkpad then went over it with clear embossing powder and used my heat gun to set it,

Her fur trim is flower soft and her wings are Glamour dust,

I then finished it off with these domed stickers I've had for yonks, hidden in the bottom of a drawer and added toning ribbon for the handles,
Large snowflake is a Marianne Die, smaller ones quickcutz, white heart pins, stash and the lovely little charm from Susie at Die cut Dreams 
hope you enjoy our challenges, look forward to seeing your creations, 

It's Thursday

So that means it's time for the  Colour create and Paperplay challenges,

Over at Colour create this time the colour scheme is 

Grey, green  and white with the optional extra of Acetate or Silver, and was chosen by our lovely teamie Victoria who sadly has chosen to leave us,

We are being sponsored today by Michelles scrapbooking 

and the lovely Michelle has kindly given two prizes this week,

and one of our lovely DT has been given  one of the new gorgeous images to use, which is being shown first on the Colour create blog here and which will be available soon, and also another fantastic  image that's available now, so take a peek! These gorgeous new  images are our prizes this time,

Challenges:

Lots to do ~ Embossing

Stamp with fun ~ Advent

Stamping,scrapping, ~ Christmas

DCD Christmas club ~ Use a die cut on your creation

Image is of course a gorgeous Magnolia, coloured with copics, 

silver embossing on the corners and a little bit of silver ribbon finish to finish off,

thought I'd try the paper at an angle, what do you think?

Over at paper play the theme this time is Monochromatic and is chosen by our lovely Vera, 

and our lovely sponsor is Whimsy,

 we were lucky to be given some gorgeous images to show you to day and mine is called

 Little Christmas Angel,

Challenges:

Allsorts ~ Monochrome

I've kept this simple to show off the lovely image and because the postage costs are stupid!

In real life my bird is a different colour of blue from the Angel but of course the camera hasn't picked that up!

The sentiment stamp is a new one from Lily of the Valley, and I've glittered the Doo Hickey swirl for a hint of  sparkle, the background of the Angel is coloured with Chalk and the angel herself is done with copics and stickles glue,

My back's still sore and so I still can't sew the edges of my papers GRRRR!
We had a little snow yesterday, just enough to look wintery, I know some of you have too much so I hope your all ok and having fun!

Another two for you!

Well Thursday's here again and so it's time for the  colour create and paperplay challenges again,

Over at colour create this week we have a colour scheme chosen by our Mega talented Janiel,
and our fantastic sponsor is Bunny Zoe's, wish I could enter this too!

The colours are,

Robin egg blue, Sea foam Green and cream with the optional extra of winter,
I love these colours and love the bedding in the picture too lol,

Challenges,
A spoonful of Sugar ~ Distressing,
DCD Christmas challenge  ~ Snowflakes,
ABC Christmas challenge ~ X is for  Xmas

The middle paper is made up of two colours of Distress inks blended together then I've stamped with a script stamp added Heritage clear sparkle embossing powder to it, it is there honest and it does add a little sparkle in RL lol,

Sentiment stamp, flowers are  done with the  DI's only blended differently to make other colours, the scalloped circle is a Nestie die which I then ran threw the cutle bug dots embossing folder and highlighted the edges and the dots with Antique Linen Distress ink too,
The layered Arch is a new Martha Stewart punch and I love it!!!
Tilda is coloured with Copics,

Paperplay Challenge

Let it snow,Let it snow, Let it snow,
That's the challenge this week, chosen by our lovely talented Heather, so of course we want to see snow themed creations, check out the paperplay site for some gorgeous creations,
We are also being sponsored this week by the lovely Craft Brulee,
Challenges,
Creative Ispirations ~ Christmassy/ Winter
ABC ~ H is for Holidays,

This gorgeous image is designed by the fantastically talented DI available here and again the images have been coloured with copics,
This is one of the commissioned cards and I''ve not added many layers or added depth as I don't know if it's being posted, as I would have done the banner slightly bent forward other wise, the snow icicles are again a Martha Stewart punch which I've just edged the tips for icy shine,
Again my papers are distressed and sewn too,

The snow is Stickles Star dust and his fur trim is white flower soft mixed with a hint of Glamour Dust,
Look forward to seeing your gorgeous creations,

Just for you and Christmas too

Hi Peeps,

I'm writing this using my old over the counter glasses which work better than my prescription ones, where's the sense in that!! any way I've had a word with the optician who now says because my computer isn't low enough I'll need different glasses than the ones I've got,so I'm back to them on Friday for another measure, you'd think they would have asked where my screen was before they prescribed glasses if it's  a problem wouldn't you?

My first card is for Colour create and the colours this time are chosen by our lovely talented Sharon who's chosen

Purple,Aqua and white with the optional extra of swirls,

I'm entering this into the following challenge,

Copic creations ~ Colourless Blender Techniques, I've done her socks,

The swirl is a Doo Hickey die, Marianne  flower and circle die, Quickcutz Snowflakes die, Tilda image and Ticket Magnolia, Glamour Dust, white Pen for cheek highlights, A lovely gift from Cheryl, thanks hun,

My Paperplay Card is another colour combo for you this time it's

Blue, Orange and Olive Green,

 ABC Challenge  ~ F is for Flowers,

The gorgeous Magnolia image is another recent new stamp, isn't she so cute, again coloured with Copics, the  lacy ribbon is from Hobbycraft, the flower is made using three sizes of a scalloped circle nestie, wet, scrunched and layered together with a brad, the leaves are A Magnolia Doo Hickey die,  scalloped  edge die quickcutz, circle and scalloped circle nestability  dies,

Again I've not had much chance for visiting you or finding challenges due to my sore eyes but I hope the next time I get my glasses they will be right as these old ones are beginning to make them sore again, GRRRR,

Anyway I hope your all ok and having fun,