Happy New Year at the Crafters Cafe Challenge Blog

Hope you all had a lovely Christmas Day! Now to get cooking for Boxing Day - lots of visitors expected! But here's to the next thing - Happy New Year is the theme at the Crafters Cafe Challenge Blog this week if you have time to join us during this busy period. We are sponsored by Limited Runs and I just love their cupcake digis - lots to choose from - and I have used the Star Cupcake for my simple card today.

Sadly this will be my last post for the Crafters Cafe for a while. With lots of commitments I have had to let a couple of things go and unfortunately I will be taking a break from this DT for the time being.

I have used a 3d star embossing folder on some Green Core'dinations which I sanded using my emery board! This was mounted onto orange pearlescent paper and onto a white 6x6 card blank which I've embossed down the side with Christmas lights! The sentiment I printed from Word and edged with Dusty Concord distress ink. The image is coloured with Promarkers and Stickles in Orange and Lavender. Some gold star brads finish the card.

Thanks for looking, hope you are all enjoying the festivities!
Mo xxx

Monochrome at The Crafters Cafe Challenge Blog

It's Wednesday again and time for a new challenge at the Crafters Cafe Challenge Blog. This week the theme is Monochrome and we are sponsored by Fred She Said digi stamps. I have used their Ice Skating Elf stamp and gone with my favourite lilac and purples for my 'monochrome' colourway!

She is coloured with Promarkers and Star Dust stickles. The papers are from Echo Park and Hot off the Press and the sentiment and candi are from Craftwork Cards. A double seambinding bow finish the card.
 

I hope you will join us for this week's challenge, come on over and play!
Thanks for looking!
Mo xxx

Crafter's Cafe Challenge Blog #39 Anything Goes!

Wow, the year is nearly over, can you believe it!? Well, time for another challenge over at The Crafters Cafe Challenge Blog and this time its one of your favourites - Anything Goes!

Given that we're about to get into December I thought I'd go with a Christmas Card. This week's sponsor is Eureka Stamps and I had a fabulous holly square to play with and I've kept it very traditional. Lots of red and green, some swirly embossing and a sentiment from Craftwork Cards. I have coloured the image with Promarkers in various reds and greens and added a green satin ribbon and bow to finish.

I hope to see you all over at the Crafters Cafe and look forward to seeing what you have made!
Mo xxx

Rick St Dennis Sponsoring the Crafters Cafe Challenge Blog!

Hi folks, today's post is for the Crafters Cafe Challenge Blog and what a thrill, this week we are sponsored by the fabulous Rick St Dennis. The theme this week is 'You can never have too many embellishements'! This was a challenge for me, my style has always been very plain and simple and I find it hard to load on the embellies without the card looking like a riot!

I was working with the Creepmas Dark Angel Sauvage image and have made a 6x6 square card. I used Kaisercraft papers and an embossing folder to emboss some clocks onto the pearlescent black card to match the paper. I have added a black web type lace behind the image and some black lace ribbon down the left side of her. I've then layered up paper flowers with buttons, mulberry paper roses in purple and black, a seam binding bow and some black and crystal head pins. There are self adhesive black pearls in the corners also.

The image is coloured using promarkers and layered on black pearl paper. And the sentiment is Craftwork Cards with some dusty concord distress ink to match.

Thanks for looking!
Hope you will join our heavily embellished challenge this week, see you there!
Mo xxx

Birthday Celebrations at the Crafters Cafe Challenge Blog

Ok, so maybe Halloween isn't for you, well today we have a Birthday challenge at the Crafters Cafe Challenge Blog and this might be more your thing! We are sponsored by Eureka Stamps and I have been working with a pile of presents to show you today!

I have coloured the image with promarkers and added stickles in various matching colours and teamed the image with the new Craftwork Cards Vintage Boho paper and die cuts kit. I used a spellbinders die to cut a mat for the image and inked the edges with Peacock Feathers distress ink, mounted this onto a couple of doilies also with the DI on the edges.

I decided to make this an easel card just to be a bit different from my usual 6x6 sqaure! I covered the card base with papers from tehe Vintage Boho pad and layered up a sentiment to hold the easel in place.

I finished the card with more Peacock Feathers DI and Lagoon Stickles along with a couple of frilly flowers cut from strips of the paper.

Thanks for looking, hope you enjoyed the card and I hope to see you for some birthday celebrations at the Crafters Cafe!
Mo xxx

New Challenge at The Crafters Cafe Challenge Blog

Time for a new challenge today over at the Crafters Cafe Challenge Blog and this week we are sponsored by QKR Stampede. The theme this week is 'How adorable' and I have used the fabulous 'Ragdoll' digi stamp in my design.

The image is coloured using promarkers and I have used papers from K&Co called Hopscotch. I fussy cut one of the frames off the red paper and mounted it with 3D foam so it sits out from the card. The sentiment is from Craftwork Cards and coloured with Wild Honey distress ink. The blue ribbon is from my stash.

I hope you will pop over and join us for the challenge this week, thanks for looking!
Mo xxx

The Crafters Cafe Challenge #31 A Bit Out There...

Time for the latest weekly challenge at The Crafters Cafe Challenge Blog and this week we are sponsored by Rick St Dennis so the results might be a bit different from what you would normally expect at the Crafters Cafe! The theme is 'A bit out there' and I have gone with a Halloween theme - check out the rest of the design team for their take on it!

I had the privilege of working with the 'Warlock' image from Rick St Dennis which you can find in his Etsy shop and I have coloured mine using Promarkers finishing the image with some Vintage Photo distress ink around the edges to match the papers. I have used two papers from the My Mind's Eye 'Lost & Found Halloween' paper pad and some printable Halloween ephemera from Tsunami Rose Designs. The ribbon in the corner is actually a halloween hair bow that I took off its clip - this was a pack of four found in Pound World!

And a wee close up of the Warlock. I've backed everything with pearlescent black paper and finished the card with some black pearls. 

I will enter this card into the following challenges -
Cuttin and Stampin Challenges - Halloween
Creative Craft Challenges 2 - Anything Goes #20
2 Creative Chicks - October Halloween
Country View Crafts Challenge Blog - October Halloween
Emergency Crafters Challenge - Halloween
Seema Crafts Challenge - Fall Colours
The Cupboard Trilogy Challenges - Halloween/Fall
The Stamping Boutique - Challenge #66 Halloween
Haunted Design House - Dimensional Halloween
Created With Love Challenges - #60 Halloween


Thanks for looking! Why not join us for this week's challenge and show us what is 'a bit out there' for you!
Mo xxx

The Crafters Cafe Challenge #29 - Flowers

Its Team B's turn today over at the Crafters Cafe Challenge Blog and the theme for this week is Flowers. Our sponsor for this one is Fred She Said digi stamps and I had the pleasure of working with the Sentimental Flower Doodledallion this week.

I have coloured the images with promarkers and added some glitter to some of the edges, cut each layer out and used 3d foam to layer them all up with a Craftwork Cards sentiment in the centre and for the leaves. I mounted the image onto a CWC embossed shaped frame, added some distress ink around the edges, platinum stickles and platinum liquid pearls to finish. All mounted on a 6x6 kraft card base.

Well, the theme is flowers, why not have a go and show us your flowery creations!
Thanks for looking!
Mo xxx

The Crafter's Cafe Challenge #27 - 'Dude, that's Funny!'

Time for a new challenge over at the Crafter's Cafe Challenge Blog and this week the theme is 'Dude, that's Funny!' The sponsor for this week is Dr Digi's House of Stamps and I have been working with 'Duncan Disorderly' - here's my sample.

I have used the DCWV Rockstar Mat Stack for layering and some black pearlescent paper behind the sentiments that I printed out from the pc. I also added some black self adhesive pearls to finish the card.

The image was coloured with promarkers in warm greys to suit this old rocker!

Thanks for looking, I hope you'll join us for this week's challenge!
Mo xxx

The Crafter's Cafe Challenge #25 - Bling and Sparkly Things

Time for a new weekly challenge over at the Crafter's Cafe Challenge Blog. This week the theme is Bling and Sparkly things and we are sponsored by the fabulous Dr Digi.

I have had the pleasure of working with a comincal image called 'Headless' and decided to turn it into a good luck card!

I have coloured the image using promarkers and added Frosted Lace Stickles for the white bits and Midnight Black Stickles on his buttons. Some Platinum Stickles also on the buckles of his shoes. I have used some grey and white papers, black glitter paper and strips of red diamantes down the side.

The sentiment on the front is from Craftwork Cards and I have printed out a sentiment for the inside to link up the image!

For the most part I really, really, dislike the whole 'Keep Calm...' line of sayings and have never, ever used one on a project but for some reason, this is the comment that came to me while I was looking at the image! I have matted it onto more of the glitter paper and then the background paper on the inside.

Thanks for looking, why not some on over to the Crafter's Cafe and show us your sparkly, blingy projects!
Mo xxx

The Crafter's Cafe Challenge #23 Furry Friends &/or Friendship

Its time for another contribution from myself to the Crafter's Cafe Challenge Blog. This week the challenge is entitled Furry Friends and/or Friendship. I'm not particularly fond of animals in general and not really a pet person so thought I would go with friendship rather than furry friends.

The sponsor for this week's challenge is Lacy Sunshine and I have chosen a Lizabeth image with a heart shaped padlock. I wrote and cutout the sentiment by hand and coloured the image using promarkers and Platinum Stickles to accent.

The background uses Tattered Angels mica mists and a Sissix damask letterpress plate that I inked and used like a stamp to get a patchy image on the paper. I've used purple and black mulberry paper, some bling and seam binding ribbon to finish. 

Why not check out the Crafter's Cafe to see what the rest of the team have to offer and show us what you can do!

I will be entering this card into the following challenges -
Through the Craftroom Door - Anything Goes
Make it Monday - Anything Goes
Timeless Tuesday - Backgrounds
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
Party Time Tuesday - Friendship Cards
Digi Sketch Challenge - Anything Goes
Avenue 613 Create - Anything Goes/Use a Sentiment.

Thanks for looking!
Mo xxx

Crafter's Cafe Challenge #21 Anything Goes

It's time for a new challenge over at the Crafter's Cafe Challenge Blog and following the theme for the whole of July, we are looking at Anything Goes yet again. This week we are sponsored by Creative Bug Digis and I had the pleasure of working with some fabulous images.

My card this week has a very autumnal feel to it and its purely accidental! I coloured my image and then found papers to match which created this -

The papers and elements are all from an older paper stack from Hot Off the Press - it had a section for each of the four seasons and I just loved how the autumn papers worked with my coloured digi. I fussy cut out the leaves from a paper and layered them up with paper ribbon and lettering panels. The 'thankful' sentiment is also from the stack. 

She's not the best colouring i've done but I'm still quite new to colouring and working with digis so I'm pleased with the result.

I hope you will join us at the Crafter's Cafe and show us your work, you never know, you might be a winner!
Mo xxx