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There are 2 new challenge blogs this week, Magical Crafts Fortnightly Challenge Blog and Susie's Sassy Challenge. There might be more too lol! So many these days! Magical Crafts challenge is to make a Christmas card, and an ornament, using Green, Red and Gold. I made my card and little frame thingy using HOTP papers, a Stampington & Co. stamp, Distress Ink, and grungeboard and grungepaper embellishments painted gold with Adirondack Gold Dabber. Susie's challenge is to make a Christmas Card, so I am entering mine for this too. And the challenge on Something Completely Different is Holly and the Ivy - use Red, Green and Gold so I am entering these for this one as well.
well actually, on Linda's Alphabet Challenge Blog, D is for Decoupage this week. You might wonder where my decoupage is on my atc! I am making mine into a book, and I really really don't like doing decoupage! So I cheated a little this week, I made my atc and stamped and cut out some pieces and assembled them on the atc to photograph it for the challenge, then took them off again so my atc in my book will be what I wanted!!
So here is the 'decoupaged' version before I took the bits off again!!
I needed a birthday card for a friend, so got my Dusty Concord and Milled Lavender Distress Inks out and some flower stamps and made this one.
This week's challenge on My Time To Craft is So Many Scallops. I made a LO of our birds and aviary which we built this summer, using a kit I had won a while ago.
I was lucky enough to picked as the winner of last week's Christmas Card Challenge on Magical Crafts Forum and it is therefore my turn to choose the theme for this week's challenge. I chose Trees for Christmas and have made my card with a snowy woodland trees stamp. I am also entering this for the Anything Goes Challenge on Craft Swap Forum which this month is Chilly.
The challenge for October on Something Completely Different has been Inchies, and this week's theme is Halloween. I didn't have much small halloweeny stuff but found some images on a Joanna Sheen CD! I drew the spiders web in the background and edged it with Copper Krylon. It looks better IRL, but I needed the macro setting on the camera to get the detail!!
For Challenge 8 on Ready-Steady-STAMP, we were asked to use C for Christmas, Black, Silver and Lilac, Snowflakes, Crackle glaze of some sort and a skinny sized 2" x 4". As I like to make fat book pages for my challenges which are 4" x 4", I had to have a think about how to get a "2 x 4" on that would look OK. I hope I achieved that lol! I used a deer Inkadinkado stamp and HOTP snowflakes and greetings stamps. I used Dusty Concord Distress Ink for the backgrounds, spritzed with water and Silver Glimmer Mist which doesn't show up too well on the photo. The crackle glaze is on the black snowflakes and behind the large silver one which also doesn't show up too well!
This week on Linda's Alphabet Challenge Blog, we have C for Circles. I made an atc for my new A - Z ATC Book, using circles background paper, a clock and other circular embellishments!
Irene on Magical Crafts Forum gave us a sketch for this week's Christmas Card Challenge. I used my favourite Penny Black snowman stamp and some DCWV papers to make my card.
The challenge for the month of October on Something Completely Different has been Inchies, and the current challenge for this week is Faces. I made 2 inchies using Crafty Individuals stamps, stamped with Plum Archival Ink onto inchies inked with Aged Mahogany Distress Inks. I them mounted them onto a Moo I had stamped and embossed with gold, then edged everything with Gold Krylon!
The new challenge on My Time To Craft is Rip It Up. I have made a LO and done lots of ripping of my DCWV cardstock, which is fab for ripping as it is white core. The photos are of my granddaughter Louise seeing snow for the first time last winter!
I have been wanting to have a go at making one of these cards for ages, so after studying some tutorials on You Tube I had a go today! I am quite pleased with how it turned out, especially as I used some HOTP papers I have had for years too! I want to make some Christmas ones next.
Here is my 3rd Christmas House, in a different style than the last 2, for the Christmas House Swap I am hosting on Craft Swap Forum.
Bluebells! We are at B again this week on Linda's Alphabet Challenge Blog and the theme is Blue. I have made a blue atc with Linda's Bluebells stamp.
There is a Christmas Card challenge on the Magical Crafts Forum, and this week the recipe is to use 1 image, 2 papers, 1 brad and some sparkle. I used my new Patchwork Pals stamp for my card coloured in with Copics, and DCWV papers, some glitter glue and a snowflake brad.
The new challenge on My Time To Craft is Halloween Colours. I saw this image several times while blog hopping last week and thought it was really cute - it is a free digital image from Digital Delights. I downloaded him and used him for my card this week!
I am also entering this card for the Hallloween challenge on Tuesday Taggers.
The monthly theme on Something Completely Different is Inchies, and the current weekly theme is Black and White. I made 2 inchies using Inkakinkado stamps and mounted them onto a moo.
I have made another Christmas House in readiness for my swap. I have used a different shape and style this time. I rubbed it over with Vintage Photo and Fired Brick Distress Inks, and spritzed with a Gold Glimmer Mist, before stamping a Tim Holtz stamp on the main part and I used a snowflake Tapestry stamp for the roof. Finally I edged with a Gold Krylon.
... again! Yes we have gone back to the beginning of the alphabet for the second round of Linda's Alphabet Challenge. This time we had to make an A and decorate it and put it on our work, so I have made an atc and decorated my A with autumn acorns. I will be making an atc book again this time too!
Challenge 7 on Ready-Steady-STAMP is to use Autumn, Brown, cream and ochre, Staples, Hessian and Distress Inks on background. I used the nearest colours I could to make my fat page and used a PSX leaf stamp and Hero Arts alphabet stamps for the word Autumn. This was right up my street as I love doing nature type work! I enjoyed doing my background as I haven't done this technique for a while - I smudged Distress Inks onto a non stick mat and spritzed with water then blotted my card onto it several times to accumulate the ink effect.
