Sorry Cat

I recently bought a set of Katzelcraft cat stamps, that are full of personality. I also got some polaroid -style frames in a scrapbooking kit. So I decided to put them together for Shopping Our Stash's challenge, which is to 'create a polaroid scene'.
I'd also like to enter:
Craftycatz animal magic
Stamping Sensations feature a creature
Get Creative  bingo - black/ stamp/ sentiment

City Crafter - Let's go to the Beach

This week's challenge was chosen by Ros and she wants us to use a beach theme. My beach is NOT in England !

I made the background using distress inks. The surf board is an SVG electronic die cutting file from Miss Kate Cuttables  and the 'summer fun' e-die is by Juliana Michaels.  The flower and Aloha stamps are by Clearly Besotted.

Please come over to City Crafter and see the work of our Guest Designer Nicole Parmentier and our DT, and enter your own beach-themed project.

I'd like to enter:
Sisterhood of Crafters summer fun
Cute Card Thursday sport
4 Crafty Chicks vacation
Brown Sugar photo
Cut it Up  sun and surf

A Proper Cuppa

I'm sharing a scrapbook page I made for some challenges. Sorry about the lack of capital C in Copenhagen. Thank goodness none of my students will find me here!

I'd like to enter:
Shopping Our Stash   tea or coffee
KCC Layout Challenges about you
Challenge Up Your Life frame
Scrap it With a Song Staring at the Sun (from the lyrics - sun, distant town, good morning)

House

I made this card for Paper Artsy 'Our House' challenge and Time Out  photo challenge. I used stamps by Paper Artsy, Inkylicious and Bo Bunny(? I think - the word 'memories') and a brick stencil -the brick shapes are very blurry due to the amount of water I used.

This is the kind of card that I think would totally bewilder any non-crafter who received it!

City Crafter - City Scene

This week at City Crafter,Kirsty wants us to include a city scene or symbol of a city.

Here I used a Studio Calico digital city scene, coloured with alcohol markers, and stamped the sun (Hero Arts) behind it. The arc of hello words is also Studio Calico and the big 'hello' is Waffle Flower. I used Lindy's Stamp Gang spray for the background.

Our guest designer is Ellen  and I hope you will come over to City Crafter Challenge Blog and see what Ellen and the DT have made, and enter your own city-themed creation.

I'd like to enter:
Card Mania around the world
Time Out  photo
Artistic Inspirations  anything goes

It's all gone Star-shaped

Here I made a star-shaped card using the Silhouette. The mouse stamp is by Penny Black and the sentiment and additional star stamp are by Sarah Hurley.
I'd like to enter:
Sisterhood of Crafters shaped cards
The Craft Barn  stars
Crafting When we Can  stars
Die-Cutting Divas anything goes with a die-cut

Mop Up

My background here was made from a piece of watercolour card I used to mop up the spills from a previous project!

I actually used this sketch from Stamp Ink Paper 

Instead of having a front panel, I used text stamping (Finnibar) on the edges. I had intended to put the butterfly (Avery Elle)  inside the distressed circle  (Inkylicious) but it was too small and I didn't want to use a smaller butterfly, so stamped it offset from the top right wing.

As well as Stamp Ink Paper, I'd like to enter:
Crafty Catz add a butterfly
Crafty Boots butterflies and bees

Inkspirational Challenge - Word Prompt - Text

Our new challenge at Inkspirational  is:

For my DT card I used some paper I had leftover from a previous project - it is coloured with alcohol inks and has a Sarah Hurley text stamp randomly/ partially stamped on it. I stamped the boy, balloon, sentiment and string by Mama Elephant and paper-pieced the balloon, hat and coat. The text ob tge base card is a Hero Arts stamp. 

I hope you will come over to Inkspirational , see the work of the DT and our talented Guest Designer, Jen , and enter your own project.

I'd like to enter:
Shopping Our Stash  4 elelemnts - wind
4 Crafty Chicks masculine
Creative with Stamps masculine

Wind

If you think this card has a bit of a messy look, you should see my craft room! Honestly, no matter how long I spend cleaning it up, it only needs me to make one card before it looks as if a bomb has hit it.

Here I used a boy with kite stamp by Papermania, Magicals powders, Distress spray ink, markers and stamps by Claudine Hellmuth, Paper Artsy and Clearly Besotted (the sentiment).

I'd like to enter:
Shopping Our Stash  4 elements - wind
Fashionable Stamping Challenges  blots and splashes

Strong Man

Here I've combined some challenges and (wait for it) stamps from SIX different sets. (I hear you gasp in amazement!) The stamps are by Avery Elle, W plus9, Hero Arts, Katzelcraft, Waffle Flower and Stampin Up.

I'd like to enter:
Handstamped Sentiments mood board (below)
Cardz4Guyz beginning with z - zesty colours and zig zags (embossed chevron)
Brown Sugar speech bubbles
Naughty or Nice Man Up
Tuesday Throwdown proud of you