Crafty Calendar Challenge - All Things Spooky

Good morning.

It's the first Saturday of the month which means it's time for a new challenge over at Crafty Calendar Challenge.  This month our challenge is All Things Spooky with the optional extra of Recycle Something.

We get quite a few trick or treaters on Halloween so I decided to make a little gift bag and fill it with sweets.

I used the digi stamp 'Cherry Kisses Witch' from Pollycraft and coloured her with my Spectrum Noir pens.
I cut an oval mat from Core'dinations card to frame my image.
I printed the paper from Joanna Sheen's Cardmakers Year cd-rom onto a light weight card.
The ribbon is my 'Recycled item', this came wrapped around some pyjamas.

I think I'm going to make a few more of these in readiness!

My card is for the following challenges:

Stamp With Fun Challenge - Autumn

Heck of a Challenge - Spooktacular

Paper Pretties Blog - Fall/Autumn

Bearly-Mine Challenge - Halloween

Shopping Our Stash - Recycle (ribbon)

Crafty Creations Challenge - Colours of Autumn

Crafty Catz Challenge - Autumn

Alphabet Challenge - R for Recycle (ribbon)

The Cutie Pie Challenge - Use a Digi

Clear It Out Challenge - Use orange, purple or black, or all three.

Thank you for visiting my blog today.  Please do visit the challenge blog and take a look at the fabby creations my teamies have made.

Have a lovely weekend.

Teddy Bea is 4 Today

Good Afternoon

The current challenge over at Ready Teddy Go Challenge - is to make a card with a number on.  Here is my card:

I followed the sketch at Stamp With Fun to create my card.

6 x 6 card blank

Teddy Bea stamped in Memento cocoa ink and coloured with Spectrum Noirs

Nellie Snellen oval dies used, cut from cardstock from PaperMill

Backing paper and ribbon border came free in a magazine.

Butterfly from my stash (part of a blog prize I won)

Velour number also from my stash.

My card is also for the following challenges:

Teddy Bo Challenge - Anything Goes

Shopping Our Stash - Fur or Feathers

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Pile It On Challenge - Card for a Child

By The Sea

Over at Stamp With Fun there is a fab sketch to follow.  Here is my card:

6 x 6 card blank

Backing papers from Joanna Sheen's Faye Whittaker cd-roms, printed onto Satin Finish Printer Paper

Core'dinations cardstock embossed with a Darice clouds embossing folder and sanded slightly.

Hobbyart Scene-it Coastal stamps, stamped onto watercolour card with Versafine ink and watercoloured using Lyra aquacrayons.

Sentiment is a WOW stamp, stamped with Faded Jeans Distress Ink

My card is also for the following challenges:

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge - Oh I do like to be beside the seaside

Oh La La Creations - All At Sea

Crafty Creations Challenge - A Summer Scene

Sweet Stampin' Challenge - Inspired by a song(oh I do like to be beside the seaside)

Relax Teddy Bo

My card for today features one of my favourite bears, Teddy Bo, here he is relaxing on a Sunday afternoon.

8 x 8 card blank

Backing papers and cards all from my stash along with the silver 'mesh', bakers twine and button.

I printed Teddy Bo onto Neenah cardstock and coloured him using Spectrum Noirs in colours to tie in with the backing papers.

The mat the image is sat on is cut using a Spellbinders Labels 5 die, and I cut a faux nestie from bronze pearlescent card.

My card is for the following challenges:

Stamp With Fun - Sketch

The Teddy Bo Challenge - Masculine

Craft-room Challenge - Buttons and bows

Digi Doodle Shop Challenge - Ribbons and bows

Ready Teddy Go - Anything Goes

The Ribbon Girl Challenge - Bingo - I chose image, button, twine

A Walk In The Garden

Good Evening

I hope you are having a good weekend.  Rather typically, the Bank Holiday weather has been rubbish.  Thank goodness for crafting!

I am trying to make use of all my crafting purchases that haven't yet seen the light of day, and today's card is the first outing for this particular stamp set.  The card took me all afternoon to complete, but I am pleased with the result.

I followed the sketch over at Fussy and Fancy Challenge and the topic at The CD Sunday Challenge which this week is 'Just Because'.

All the stamps are from the same stamp plate from the Summer Adorables range by Jayne Nestorenko.  I stamped onto watercolour card using sepia versafine ink and coloured using Lyra Aquacolours.  The mat was created using a 'Get In Shape' template and I inked round the edges using Antique Linen distress ink.  The backing papers are printed from the Adorables cd-rom and all are matted onto silver mirri card.  The flower border is made using a spellbinders shapeabilities die carefully cut and then put together.  A gem is then added to the centres.  The flowers are cut using a die from the same set, layered up and then a gem added to the centre.

The inside of the card has been decorated to co-ordinate.

I would like to enter my card in the following challenges:

The CD Sunday Challenge  - Just Because

Fussy and Fancy Challenge - Sketch

Polka Doodles Challenge  - Spots and Dots

Stamps R Us Challenge  - Anything Goes

My Time To Craft Challenge - Here Come The Girls

Pile It On Challenge  - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

Stamp With Fun - Summer

Thanks for visiting my blog today, I'd love to know what you think of my card.

Jo x