City Crafter - Balloons

The challenge at City Crafter is to add a balloon to your project.

I hope my DT card reflects both the joy and hard work of a new baby! The baby in the basket is by Inky Doodles, the washing machine and detergent by Lawn Fawn, the balloon by Mama Elephant and the sentiment by Hero (I think).

I hope you'll come over to City Crafter and see what our Guest Designer, Suchi , and the rest of the DT have made, and enter your own creation.

I'd like to enter:
Creatalicious baby
Just Add Ink  Just add M ...masking and marker pens
Stamp Ink Paper  baby

Make My Monday - April Showers Bring May Flowers (Conquering Paper Mountain # 9)

'April Showers Bring May Flowers' is this week's challenge at Make My Monday .I stamped and coloured this old image (Woodware?) and paper-pieced it like crazy, thereby reducing my paper mountain. (Well, fractionally!)

I hope you'll join us with your projects featuring flowers, showers or both.

I'd like to enter:
Double D  April Showers (thanks for the tip-off Ros!)
A Snowflakes Promise  spring
Aloha  April showers

For a photographer

The latest challenge from my daughter...make a card for a photographer, featuring a black and silver camera.

The camera is a Silhouette cutting file and I embossed the black bits with a spotty embossing folder to add interest (doesn't show very well in the photo).

I'd like to enter:
Uniko metallic
Lets Craft and Create  card for a man
Paper Shelter  for the boys
The Challenge  photo

Inkspirational - Vehicles

Our new challenge at Inkspirational is to feature a vehicle.

For my DT project I made a very simple card, using a die-cut cut on the Silhouette with an alcohol ink background. The sentiment is Clearly Besotted.

I hope you'll come over to Inkspirational and see the work of the DT and our fabulous Guest Designer, Tanya - and link up your own creation.

I'd like to enter:
Time Out  celebrations/die cutting
Seize the Birthday anything goes
Paper Artsy  white space

Forever Friends

I had this layout, unfinished, waiting for some embellishment, when I saw the challenge at Shopping Our Stash , which is to use chipboard.

I do have quite a few bits of printed chipboard languishing in drawers. But actually, when I looked at it, I realised that the reason it is unused is that a lot of it is misprinted - the image/pattern is only partially on the chipboard- sometimes with a bit of another pattern at the bottom! This is even in well-known brands. Why didn't I complain at the time? Too late now - it is time to toss it!

Anyway, here I made some little clusters with some of the good chipboard.The papers I used are very old- Amy Butler for K and Company.

For You

Silhouette UK  have a weekly challenge to use the Silhouette free cutting file. I've been wanting to join in but I just haven't liked the free files for the last few weeks.  This week though, the freebie is both pretty and versatile, so I've had a go with it.

I ungrouped the file and deleted all except three flowers which I re-sized. Then I created a blank 'base' for each flower, which I coloured using spray inks. The sentiment was made using a freebie alphabet from a few weeks ago.

I'm not sure if it was a wise decision to use a black card base. I played around with different colours as a base and liked the slightly chalkboard effect of the die-cuts on the black. I used an embossing folder on the black to give a bit of texture, but it doesn't seem to show up in the photo.

I'd also like to enter the spring flowers challenge at Cut it Up 

Whatever the Weather

Okay, I confess ...having an already crammed craft room is not enough for me, I've been shopping....
This is my first play with Lindy's Stamp Gang magicals, used as watercolours over a heat embossed stamp.

The umbrella stamp is a very old one (over 12 years?) from Magenta and the two sentiments are Clearly Besottted and a magazine freebie. I also used a raindrops embossing folder from Taylored Expressions.

I made this last night and my fingers were dark blue when I went to work this morning. I can't believe no-one commented on it - at least to my face! - they were probably too polite!

I'd like to enter:
Retro Rubber  it's raining
Addicted to CAS rain
Little Red Wagon  April Showers
Ecletic Ellapu  April Showers

City Crafter - Blog Hop Winner

Last week we had a blog hop for City Crafter Challenge Blog's 6th birthday.

Thank you for all the lovely comments and blog-birthday wishes.

To choose a winner, I allocated a number to each comment in chronological order and used random.org.  (Don't forget to also check all the DT  blogs and the main challenge blog, if you also left comments there.)

The winner of my prize is :

Ellen 

Congratulations. Please contact me with your postal address. (My email is on the left hand sidebar, scroll down to 'About Me' and view my complete profile). 

City Crafter - "An Englishman's Home is his Castle"

This week, at City Crafter Challenge Blog, Ros asks us to be inspired by the saying 'an Englishman's home is his castle', and use a house or the word 'home' on our projects. 

hard to photograph! 

For my DT card I used my Silhouette Cameo to create the card front , and then made a stepper base out of patterned paper. The sentiment (at the back) is by Little Claire. 

I hope you'll come over to CCCB, see the work of the DT and also our wonderful Guest Designer Valentini  - and join in yourself.

I'd like to enter:
The Paper Girls fancy folds
ABC Challenge fancy folds 

Make My Monday - Butterflies

We've got a real crowd-pleaser challenge at Make My Monday this week - butterflies!

For my DT card I used stamps by Craft Asylum, Inky Doodles and Clearly Besotted, plus an embossing folder I got free from a magazine.

I hope you'll come and see what the rest of the DT have made and join in our challenge.

I'd like to enter:
Aloha living thing with wings
Crafty Boots use a sentiment
Simon Says Monday butterfly
Come and Get it wings
Creative with Stamps  butterfly