Crafts4Eternity - silver and blue

Good morning everyone, boy its got a lot cooler today though it looks like it might be a bright day. This week at Crafts4Eternity we have a lovely sketch and recipe for you. The recipe is SILVER AND BLUE, nice colour combination:) The prize up for grabs this week is 25 stamped images!!

For my card I used one of the lovely new stamps from Crafty Sentiments, isn't she just cute and so lovely to colour. I also used one of their lovely digi sentiment circles just released this week.

Image, sentiment and papers are all from Crafty Sentiments. I coloured the image with promarkers, added lots of glitter and some doodling. I used my snowflake embossing folder for the silver and white papers.

We hope you get time to enter the challenge this week but be sure and drop by to check out the other design team ladies cards.

I would like to enter this into these challenges

Totally Papercrafts - snow/snowflakes

Alphabet Challenge Blog - doodling

Fussy and Fancy friday - Christmas with no red or green

Meljens Design Team - sparkle and shine

PaperPlay challenges - Let it snow

Stampin for the weekend - winter theme

Critter Challenge blog - texture

Creative Craft Challenge - starlight star bright

I believe in Santa

What a night we had last night! So stormy, wild winds and loads of rain but it has made a great job of removing lots of lingering leaves! Just the clean up to go now!! Anyway time for another challenge at Crafts4Eternity and this week we have another gorgeous sketch for you along with the recipe of USE A SANTA IMAGE. Now everyone has a Santa image I am sure so no excuses this week:) The prize up for grabs is 3 digital images from Crafts4Eternity Store!

For my card I used one of my new La Blanche Christmas stamps. They are so gorgeous!! I coloured the image very lightly using distress inks and some copics. I edged it with lots of glitter. The papers are from my last year's stash along with the little sentiment and tree circles. The ribbon is also from my last year's stash (finally got that Christmas box opened). I distressed all the edges to get that old feel to this card. The flower is a Marianne die.

I would like to enter this into these challenges

Aly's Sunday Challenge - music

Fab'n'Funky - circles (in the paper and sentiments)

The ABC challenge - H is for holidays

Christmas Card Challenge - photo inspiration

Scrapbook Sisiters - Christmas colours

Inktegrity - ribbons and flowers

Christmas Card Challenge - trees and ribbon

Christmas stampin all year long - use stripes on your card

Doodle Tastic

The challenge this week over at Crafts4Eternity is all about the sketch and DOODLING. Doesn't have to be a lot, just add some doodling somewhere on your project. The prize this week is 25 Stamped Images!! So go on give it a go. The sketch is a nice one with just a few layers.

For my card I used papers from a craft mag. The image is SNOWRAG available HERE. Isn't he cute? I coloured him with pencils and glitter and some copics. I set him on a little frame. My doodling is the border just behind him. I used a doodling template, coloured it and still don't like it:( but time got the better of me.

I would like to enter this card into these challenges:

Digital Tuesday - I've been framed

Tip Top Tuesday - Christmas inspired (my tip - do your own doodling lol)

Lexi's Creations - anything goes

Critter Sketch Challenge - Christmas

I got this lovely award from my friend CHERYL! Thanks so much Cheryl. If you have not popped over to Cheryl's blog before then please do, its full of inspiration. I have been following her blog for a long time now and have never been disappointed!

Now I have to name 3 things no one knows about me!

I used to be a typist for a newspaper company. Was pretty fast in my day too!!

I hate cooking, don't mind eating but hate cooking!

I would love to be able to earn a good wage from my crafting (crossing everything lol)

Crafts4Eternity - wacky weather!

The challenge this week at Crafts4Eternity is WACKY WEATHER so get out your snow stamps, umbrella stamps, sunshine stamps, windy day stamps...whatever the weather and come and play. The prize this week is a guest design team spot for November. The Design team have made some gorgeous cards and the guest designer for October is KATHLEEN and her card is absolutely stunning!! Don't forget to check out the C4E web-shop for all your crafty needs!

So here is the recipe for this week:

Follow the Sketch

Use a weather theme!

For my card I used a stamp from Pink Gem, The papers are from Nitwits collection. I edged them in white stitching, added a snowflake and lots of little gem stars. The image is coloured with copics and finished with glamour dust. So glad this recipe was for weather because my Christmas card box is practically empty!

I am entering this into these challenges:

Winter Wonderland - card for a male

One Stop Crafts - snowflakes in September

Charisma Cardz - Christmas crafting

Just Inspirational - make a Christmas card

Creative Inspirations - Christmas in September

Lollipop Crafts - Sparkle and gems

Want to add a special welcome to my newest follower MEREDITH. Thanks for following me!!

Lavender and Lace

Friday again! The challenge over at Crafts4Eternity is:

FOLLOW THE SKETCH, LAVENDER AND LACE! A nice one!

For my card I used Gingham papers, text papers, sticky lace, cream lace, dotty ribbon, gems, my sewing machine, sticky letters, hand made flower, and a lovely image from Lili of the Valley. (Everything but the kitchen sink on there I think, but it is an a4 size card).

There is a lovely prize of 25 stamped images up for grabs this week!!

I am entering my card into these challenges:

Practical Scrappers - ribbon

Cupcake Craft Challenge - transport

Stamp with fun - stuffed animals

A pocket full of posies - lavender and old lace

My Time to Craft - kids at play

Crafty Catz - stitching

Denzinaworld - lavender and any other colour

Lets Ink it Up - use fav stamp and a charm (my charm is the wooden butterfly which is dangling from a string behind the ribbon sentiment)

Hope you all get time to join in this week.

Autumn Harvest

The challenge at Crafts4Eternity is AUTUMN HARVEST. Michele wants you to use the sketch and autumnal colours! I absolutely adore the colours of autumn and when we were decorating during the summer I picked up some wallpaper samples and kept this particular one. Loved the colour of it and the texture! I stamped some leaf images in distress inks and cut them out. The image is from Robin's Fetish, called Fall fun, which I coloured with pencils. I finished the card with some green and orange ribbon. There are lots of challenges looking autumn colours this week so no excuses, its a nice simple sketch so I am really looking forward to seeing what you all come up with.

I am entering this into these challenges;

1. A Spoonful of Sugar - fall into autumn

2. Incy Wincy - autumn colours

3. Die Cut Dreams - sweet little girl (digi)

4. Allsorts - colours of autumn

5. Creative Card crew - Autumn/fall

6. Stamping Vacation - embellish it challenge

Peek-a-boo

My daughter arrived home this morning at 8am, she had a brilliant time, kept in touch all night and is now in bed exhausted lol. Phew thank goodness, now we have to go through it all again for her own formal/prom on the 30th of this month!

Michele has pushed us again this week at Crafts4Eternity with her brilliant sketch and recipe!

Follow the sketch

Make and aperture card

Doesn't sound so hard but it seemed to take me an age to get it right lol.

I used papers from a mag, the image is a Sarah Kay stamp from Stampavie which I have had for a long long time. The horse is a free colouring page.

I used my nestie to cut the aperture then covered front and back with matching papers and inserting a piece of acetate to create a window to stick my image.

Image - Sarah Kay

Medium - pencils, promarkers, gel pens, glitter

Papers - free with magazine

Embellishments - pink lace, faux stitching, cork letters

This week's prize is a choice of 3 digis from the C4E store!

Thankfully my card seems to fit these challenges:

1. Fab 'n' Funky - what 'eva'

2. creative Inspirations - lace and sparkle

3. Cooking it up with Katie - 3 papers, something clear and song (a horse with no name by America)

4. Oldie But Goodie - my Sarah Kay stamp (new beginnings - new year)

Angels and fairies

Back again as its Friday and that means time for another sketch and recipe challenge over at Crafts4Eternity. The sketch this one is just lovely, really enjoyed working with it and the recipe is to follow the sketch and use angels or fairies in your design! The prize this week is a Guest Design Team spot for the month of October!! Michele has a sale on the C4E Signature kits this week so pop over and pick yourself up some gorgeous papers! You can find it here.

Papers - imaginisce

Image - Ladybug Crafts Ink Cupcake Ruby

Medium - pencils, glitter

Embellishments - ribbon, gem crown stickers

I am entering this into the following challenges

1. Crafts and Me - gems and sparkle

2. Crafty Creations - white plus one

3. One Stitch at a Time - girlie and photo inspiration

4. Ellephantastic - pink and grey

When life gives you lemons....

Michele over at Crafts4Eternity has one brilliant sketch and recipe for you to follow this week, I certainly enjoyed playing along! This week's prize is a guest designer spot with the C4E team for the month of September! You will also receive C4E digital images! So please do enter, we love to get new teamies to work with. So what do you have to do , well follow the sketch which you can find here

lemon and lime...use the colours and or the fruit on your project!

For my card I used lovely lemon gingham, and lime card. The image is precious moments, I added some faux stitching and make the sentiment on the computer, printed on the lime card. The image is coloured with promarkers. I printed some lemons and cut round for an embellie and added a glass of lemonade chipboard embellishment.

I am entering this into these challenges:

1. My Time to Craft - eat cake or drink up

2. Penny's Challenge - anything goes

3. ABC - A is for August

4. Die Cut Dreams - gingham

5. City Crafter - Yum

6. Stamping with Dragon - yellow, blue and green

7. Daring Cardmakers - peridot (green)

Want to say a special welcome to my newest follower MARY J!

Marbling!

Time for another challenge over at Crafts4Eternity and this week Michele really pushed us! Or was it just me that felt pushed lol. The challenge this week is:
1. follow the sketch
2. include some marbling
3. make your own embellishment
Making my own embellishment was ok, I made a flower from different sized punches and then added some lilac sand for the centre of the flower. But when it came to marbling, well lets just say my form wasn't great and after three messy attempts using water and inks I gave up. Should have went for the shaving foam method but had ran out of steam. so I cheated and found some marbled paper in my stash (sshh don't tell Michele lol). The image is Sugar nellie and coloured with promarkers. The sketch is a lovely one really enjoyed punching the circles and turning them into buttons. The prize this week is a lovely digi from Crafty Sentiments so do try and get a card done for the challenge.
I am entering this into these challenges:
1. I Love ProMarkers - buttons
2. Totally Gorjuss - thinking of you

Strawberries and lace

We are off to an early start this week at Crafts4Eternity, poor Michele is chasing her tale again this weekend lol. But we do have a lovely challenge for you! This week we would like you to

1. Follow the sketch

2. Include strawberries somewhere on your card

3. Add some lace

Nice combination or what! And the prize this week is two digi stamps from Michele's store. I have used the lovely Tilda with strawberries, coloured with distress inks. The gingham paper is a digi, green paper is from patchwork pals and the strawberry papers are from Anna Griffins. I got the lovely little flowers as a gift from one of my bloggy friends. I added a strip of cream lace down the side and finished with a little cream butterfly. This card just reminds me of warm summer days indulging in strawberries and cream yum! Not sure how my IBS will cope this year though lol.

I am entering this into these challenges:

1. Our Creative Corner - summer inspiration

2. Allsorts - Photo inspiration from Brenda

3. Oh Alice - whats your muchness (mine is definitely magnolia)

Crafts4Eternity

This week at Crafts4Eternity Michele has a sketch for us but we were not to make a card using it!! She is such a slave driver lol. But think we were all up for the challenge and we hope you are too. So what do you need to do

1. Follow the sketch

2. Make anything but a card

3. Add some sequins

This week the prize is a lovely mini card kit from C4E.

For my card I used my new Whiff of Joy stamp, isn't he a cutie. I coloured him with distress inks. I made a little list on the computer of items for a cold suffer which is what I will put in the bag. The bag I got in a shop in Newry...3 for a £1 in different colours. They where just crying out to be decorated and I bought two packs, so watch this space lol. The die cuts are from the lovely Susie at Die Cut Dreams, a freebie with my recent order. I stamped thinking of you on the blue background paper. I finished with a sentiment circle and some sequins in the corners.

I am entering this into these challenges:

1. Saturday Challenge - No patterned paper

2. Simple Doodles - anything but a card

3. Crafty Creations - Use your favourite stamp (this is definitely a new fav of mine!)

4. Cute Card Thursday - No designer papers

Name the cutie!

Michele over at Crafts4Eternity has one gorgeous sketch and recipe for you to work with this week. I absolutely loved this one! The recipe this week is

Use the sketch

Include a food theme/image

use and gingham pattern

Michele also needs some help! She has this gorgeous little elephant digi but sadly it has no name! Can you help? if you have any suggestions post them on the C4E blog and you never know you could be taking this little fella or girly home with you!

He is also the prize for this week's challenge, so you have two chances to win him/her!

For my card I used the lovely magnolia image, coloured with distress inks. The papers is from Funky fairies. I had the little apple embellishment for ages and finally had somewhere to put it. The tiny rose paper is from Daisy Company. The swirls are from a sizzix die, flower from stash. Added a few pearls to the swirls and some glitter to the image and flower.

I am entering this into these challenges

1. Pixiedust challenge - add a pearl

2. Sew Many Challenges - anything goes

3. Crafty Anns - lots of colour (mine is pink)

4. A spoonful of sugar - cute and girly

Crafts4Eternity#33

Friday evening again so time to kick off the weekend with a challenge and recipe from Crafts4Eternity. This week Michele would like you to

Follow the sketch

Use Shades of blue
Add some beads

This week there is a lovely little digi bear call SAM up for grabs.

For my card I used papers from my stash, they are really beautiful papers with a lacy effect. The image is Sugar Nellie, for my beads I used some blue micro beads.

I added a layered flower and a metal butterfly.

She is coloured with promarkers and copics and I am not please with her hair at all, a right mess, think she should go back to the hairdressers and complain. That colour has not blended at all lol.

Hope you get time to join the fun this week, we would really appreciate your company.

I am entering this into these challenges;

1. Creative Craft Challenge - blue and brown

2. Stampin sisters in Christ - brown, blue and white

3. Cards and Things - colour challenge

4. Fab and Funky - metal mania

Knock knock?

Who's there? A bear of course lol. Its time for another challenge over at Crafts4Eternity. We have a lovely sketch for you to follow along with the recipe of Use ribbon and use a bear image, theme or embellishment! Oh my goodness you want to visit C4E, the DT have covered all the BEARnecessities and the inspiration is just gorgeous! This week Michele has a lovely little bear digi up for grabs along with TOP 3 BADGES for your blog so go on over and give this lovely little challenge a go. You can buy lots of other nice crafty goodies along with more digis here.
I used a variety of papers for my card, all from my stash so no names sorry. The bear is from an old kit from C&C. I stamped out the paw prints onto punched circles and added a handwritten Hi. The three ribbons at the top are sticky ribbons from the same kit. I am entering this into these challenges:
1. Crafty Catz - spots
2. Stampavie and more - distressing
3. Cards for men - monochromatic

The Graduate

Michele over at Crafts4Eternity has a really great challenge on offer this week, I just loved using the fab sketch and the recipe is use a film title and use some corrugated cardboard. The prize this week is a choice of 3 digi stamps! You can see all the digi stamps on offer here. Well I hope you can all guess what my film is.....The Graduate. When I showed this to my hubby and asked him what film it reminded him of he hadn't a clue, so I said just say what you see, he replied A mouse with a gown on! lol Glad I know some lovely crafters who will hopefully see this straight away lol. I used red card and punched holes along it to give a film effect. I embossed a piece of white card with my script folder. I found the off white corrugated card in my stash. The image is coloured with copics and promarkers and I used white peel offs for the sentiment. I hope you all get a chance to play this week. I am entering this into these challenges:

1. Paperplay - no patterned paper
2. Rosie-Dees - red and white
3. Paper sundaes - no people
4. Kaboodle - embossing
5. Cupcake Craft Challenge - red and white

Crafts4Eternity and a bit of news!

Morning visitors, and what a gorgeous morning. Just back from an hours walk round the lakes, so many people out there already lol. Today over at Crafts4Eternity we have lots of new faces and lots of gorgeous inspiration! Included in that is our special guest Crafty Chris who has produced a gorgeous card for this week, you need to drop over and have a peep. The week for recipe #23 you have to FOLLOW THE SKETCH, ADD A TICKET and USE A RIBBON. The prize this week is a spot as guest designer for the month of April! For my card I used papers from DCWV, the image is from C4E, a little robot by the name of RODDY, isn't he sweet? You can get him here. I coloured him with copics. The stamped ticket is from Clear Mini Stamps which I won in a challenge recently. My ribbon has a printed Happy Birthday, which I stapled to the card. Hope you all get time to join in. I am entering this into these challenges:

1. Daring Cardmakers - Aquamarine

2. Sweet Stampin Challenge - something for a child

3. Allsorts - just for men

Now onto my bit of news! The lovely Suzette from Crafty Sentiments has invited me to join their Design Team!!!! How cool is that? I will hopefully be ready to join in time for next Sunday's Challenge. I am so excited about being part of the team. I have been playing with these stamps from before Christmas and they are just adorable. If you are up for a sketch challenge then you should pop over. They are looking out for guest designers so you want to be taking part in the challenges to be in with a chance.

Pinky

Crafts4Eternity recipe#21

Time for recipe 21 over at Crafts4Eternity and its a gorgeous sketch this week. I really loved using this one and will definitely use it again. Now being a recipe you will need to know the ingredients so here they are

1. Follow the sketch

2. use colours Pink and Black

3. Use staples

Easy or what! no excuses this week. I want to see loads of you entering this one. For my card I used digi papers from funky fairies and the image was a rak from my lovely friend Crafty Chris. I just love her and will definitely have to get this stamp! I coloured her with copics and promarkers and attached her with staples. Added some faux stitching and a get well soon sentiment. I am entering this into these challenges:

1. Creative card Crew - Get Well

2. Stampavie - Get Well

3. Totally papercrafts - lots of spots

4. Humblepie - 1 type of embellishments (staples)

5. One Stitch At A Time - sewing (used faux stitching this time)

Pinky

Crafts4Eternity #19

Time for recipe 19 over at Crafts4Eternity and the sketch this week is a nice easy one. The recipe calls for 1. THE SKETCH 2. the colour RED 3. include a HEART(S). Easy. We are also welcoming 5 new members to the DT so I look forward to working with you all. For my card this week I used my fav papers from Funkyfairies in deep red paisley hearts and white with hearts. I embossed two pieces of white card with the hearts folder and matted onto gold mirri card.

When I stuck my paper down I stupidly used a wet glue and it showed through so to cover it I followed the marks with my glue pain and then covered in glitter, a happy accident, really like the effect it created lol. I cut out the hearts and matted on to gold mirri. The image is a rak from my lovely friend Christine, I coloured it using my distress inks and matted it onto gold. The text was computer generated. I am entering this into quite a lot of challenges, so many challenges have a love theme at the minute! Great for me lol.

1. Crazy 4 challenges - be my valentine

2. Crafty calendar - love and friendship

3. Stampin for the weekend - love is in the air

4. Humble Pie stamps - love is in the air

5. Stamp something - love somethings

6. Charisma Cardz - I love you

7. lili of the Valley - valentines

8. Creative Card Crew - valentines

9. Lexi's Creations - valentines

Our Guest DT member this month is the lovely Sandra from PapierGardens and she has generously put up the chance for an extra candy win. Pop over to her blog and see what you need to do.

Pinky

Crafts4Eternity recipe #18

Time for another lovely challenge and recipe over at C4E and this week the sketch is nice and simple. To join in just follow the sketch and include the recipe as well to be entered into the draw. The prize this week is a goody bag from ME. Right so here's the recipe;
THE SKETCH, USE SOMETHING CLEAR and USE INKING TECHNIQUE. for my card I used
papers from K & Company, punched the border with an MS punch, the circle is cut using my Nellies dies and I punched some hearts to use instead of ribbon. I inked round the circle, stamped Tilda and Edwin but masked off the rest of the stamp as I just wanted their heads in there. I coloured them with Distress inks. My something clear is an acetate heart. The flowers where punched and finished with a pink rosebud. Hope you get time to join in this week. I am entering this into the following challenges:
1. Just Magnolia - hearts and flowers
2. Fussy and Fancy - Hearts 3. Totally Papercrafts - Friends (this is their first challenge, so show them so love)
4. Stampavie and more - Love.
I appreciate all the lovely people who constantly leave me comments which really makes my day.
Pinky