Crafts Galore Encore: Fornasetti Inspired Girls

 

 Hello

Today sees that start of a new challenge at Crafts Galore Encore. 

The theme is always 'Anything Goes' and you can enter up to 3 different projects.  The challenge runs all month until mid day (GMT) 29th April.

This month's challenge is kindly sponsored by WendyLynn's Paper Whims.

Here is what I made:

It's a mini book, made with images from WendyLynn's Paper Whims digital collage sheet called Fornasetti Inspired Ladies.

I die cut patterned paper for the pages and inked the edges in black. The Fornasetti ladies were fussy cut and adhered. I added black and white check ribbon to ground the images and made paper flowers as embellishments. I added black sticker sentiments and created the title on the front page with alpha stickers. The book is bound by metal snap rings.

Here are the individual pages:

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That's all for now.

Many thanks to WendyLynn's Paper Whims. for her generous prize of 3 digis for our random winner.

Please pop over to Crafts Galore Encore to see the DT's wonderful designs and to enter our challenge. 

We'd love to see your creations.

Remember the challenge is always 'Anything Goes' and so you can create any type of project - it doesn't have to be a card and you can enter up to 3 times.

Thanks for stopping by today!

xoxo

                                                                

I'd like to play along in these challenges:

Thanks for stopping by today.

xoxo

Path of Positivity: Batik Bag

 

Hello

 Today is the midway reminder for the March challenge at the Path of Positivity.

Our challenge is always Anything Goes with an optional theme. 

As this year we are looking at the UNEXPECTED  

the option for March is to 

Make something you wouldn't normally make

This is what I made:

It is a Batik canvas bag. 

I coloured the cream cotton bag with dyes using wax resist applied with a tjanting. 

Below is a close up of the pattern - the cream lines are where the wax was applied. I used a small paintbrush to apply the dyes. Once the dyes were dry, I placed sheets of paper over the bag and ironed over the wax to melt it. The paper absorbed the wax.

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That's all for now.

We would love to see your creations! 

Just make sure that your entry is positive, inspirational, motivational or encouraging in some way!

 The link up is here: Challenge #129 Path of Positivity.

Many thanks to Scribbles Designs for sponsoring the challenge.

I'll be back with a another Path of Positivity project in a couple of weeks time. 

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Thanks for stopping by today!

I'd like to play along in these challenges:

I read and appreciate all your comments. 

xoxo

Path of Positivity: Toadstool Jewellery and Card

Hello

 Today is the start of the March challenge at the Path of Positivity.

Our challenge is always Anything Goes with an optional theme. 

As this year we are looking at the UNEXPECTED  

the option for March is to 

Make something you wouldn't normally make

This is what I made:

I follow Emma Parrish on You Tube and love her Etsy Store full of remarkable printables. 

Last year she did a video where she made a set of jewellery and a pop up card. She even gave away the printable free of charge! She used a new-to-me-product called UV Resin. I had to have a go!

I made a toadstool necklace and a pair of toadstool earrings as well as a small gift card with a pop up toadstool. Glossy Accents was used to add texture to the pop up toadstool.

The UV Resin was very easy to use and dries under the lamp in 90 seconds. It is extremely hard and has a glass-like finish.

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That's all for now.

We would love to see your creations! 

Just make sure that your entry is positive, inspirational, motivational or encouraging in some way!

 The link up is here: Challenge #129 Path of Positivity.

Many thanks to Scribbles Designs for sponsoring the challenge.

I'll be back with a another Path of Positivity project in a couple of weeks time. 

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Thanks for stopping by today!

I'd like to play along in these challenges:

Ally's Angels #91 AG 15/03

Classic Design Challenge Feb?march AG 12/03

Crafters Cafe Challenge AG 12/03

I read and appreciate all your comments. 

xoxo

Conjurer of Dreams: Spring Time is Almost Here

Hello

Today I'm sharing some projects I made using Conjurer of Dreams images. I hope you'll pop over to the store and take a look at the Digital Art on sale for collage, scrapbooks, journals, cards and more.

We have an open, worldwide challenge at the Conjurer of Dreams Blog.

The challenge theme is always 'Anything Goes'.

We hope you'll share your projects with us.

We also have a friendly Facebook Group where we would love for you to share your Conjurer of Dream projects.

Here are my DT makes.

Stained Glass Tulips

I used the Stained Glass Tulips set to make a jewellery set and an arched shaped card..

The images in this set are gorgeous and so spring like :)

Pammies Inky Pinkies Challenges #2509 AG 09/03

The Four Seasons Challenge Spring 25/03

For the jewellery the images were reduced in size and printed. Each piece of jewellery has 2 images so that they can be attached back to back. They images were adhered  to black card, then adhered back to back. PVA glue was painted over the images to seal them. A small hole was poked through the top of each of the pieces. UV Resin was then applied and cured and the jewellery findings attached.

The result is like glass. 

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Moss Forest Fairy Card

 

Pinspirational Challenges #323 Spring Greens 31/03

The Moss Forest Fairy set of images are beautiful. I used one of them here to make a card. I made some die cut flowers and foliage and added a sticker sentiment.

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Rocking Chair Notecards

These lovely images of Rocking Chair are super for notecards or retirement cards. I added the images to embossed white card and chose a circle alpha die to make the sentiment.

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Alice in Dreamland Notebook

I altered the cover of a spiral bound Kraft notebook with 3D embossed brick card, coloured with Distress Oxide inks and a digitally combined image of Alice in Dreamland against a backdrop of a Stained Glass Fountain.

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Stained Glass Tulips Postcards

The tulips were fussy cut from the stained glass windows and adhered to textured white card with some washi tape to ground them. Black sticker sentiments were added.The card was popped onto distressed dotty paper  to frame the images.

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Blue Memories Digital Collage

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There is a free image give away on my DT post with Conjurer of Dreams today. 

The sample is below - please pop over to download  yours -----> free image here.

We have a new Free Image Challenge on the CoD blog - you can use any of the free images from January or February to make a project and upload them here. Come and join the fun!

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That's all for now.

Please visit the

Conjurer of Dreams Etsy Store

Conjurer of Dreams Inspiration Group on Facebook (freebies available)

Conjurer of Dreams Blog 

CoD Monthly Challenge always ANYTHING GOES

  Open worldwide to all participants, using any digis, stamping, mixed media etc

Free Image Challenge using images from Jan and Feb CoD DT blog Posts.

Please hop over, become a Blog Follower and join the fun.

Thanks for stopping by today.

xoxo

Crafts Galore Encore: Teacups & Books

 Hello

Today sees that start of a new challenge at Crafts Galore Encore. 

The theme is always 'Anything Goes' and you can enter up to 3 different projects.  The challenge runs all month until mid day (GMT) 30th March.

This month's challenge is kindly sponsored by Last Minute Manda.

Here is what I made:

I brayered green acrylic paints onto white card to make the background. Then I added white paint to a stencil, spritzed it and stamped it on top of the paint. Black spirals were stamped around the edges,  some text  was stamped and heat embossed in white, then some white splatters applied.

The Shabby Chic Cups and Books Colouring Pages image was printed onto watercolour card and coloured with Polychromo pencils and Inktense water colour pencils. The image was fussy cut and adhered to the background.

I made some die cut flower layers and some foliage and added them as embellishment.

A shop bought sentiment was added.

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That's all for now.

Many thanks to Last Minute Manda for her generous prize of 3 digis for our random winner.

Please pop over to Crafts Galore Encore to see the DT's wonderful designs and to enter our challenge. 

We'd love to see your creations.

Remember the challenge is always 'Anything Goes' and so you can create any type of project - it doesn't have to be a card and you can enter up to 3 times.

Thanks for stopping by today!

xoxo

                                                                

I'd like to play along in these challenges:

Creatalicious Challenges #286 AG?Use Green 14/03

Perfect Time to Craft March AG 28/03

Allsorts Challenge #818 AG 31/03

Thanks for stopping by today.

xoxo

Conjurer of Dreams: Free Images and Progressive Challenges

 Hello

At Conjurer of Dreams we have 3 challenges each month:

1. The main blog challenge which is always Anything Goes. Any company's digis and products can be used.

2. The Free Image Challenges using images freely available on the DT blog posts

3. The Monthly Progressive Challenge in the Facebook Group (up to 6 free images each month)

Here are my first three Progressive Challenge pieces:

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And here are my Free Image Challenge pieces.

We can use any of the free images (from the current month and the previous month) given away on each DT blog post on the CoD blog. That's a lot of free images to play with.

Here I used three of January's Ice Queens:

5th Jan , 19th Jan, 3rd Jan

Another Ice Queen (from 11th January):

And here I used February's Manga Romance (from 3rd February):

February's Manga Romance (from 5th February):

Thanks for stopping by today.

xoxo

Path of Positivity: Little Red

 

Hello

 Today is the midway reminder for the February challenge at the Path of Positivity.

Our challenge is always Anything Goes with an optional theme. 

This year we are looking at the UNEXPECTED. 

Have you ever received a Valentine's card from someone totally unexpected? If you have, you'll know the joy that receiving a card like that can bring. For this month's option, make and send a handmade Valentine card to someone who won't expect it. You have the power to brighten someone's day!

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Here is my card made for a friend. I don't normally send Valentine cards to anyone, other than my husband, so this would definitely have been unexpected.

I think the woman in this image is stunning and she looks so thoughtful, just like the person I am sending it to. The image is from a collage sheet from Conjurer of Dreams called 'Red and Friend'. I distresses the edges of the image and layered it onto red card which was also distressed. That was placed onto cream distressed card and finally placed onto a layer of red card. Some simple trim was added to the bottom of the image along with a felt heart and a tiny xoxo sticker was attached.

I made a bookmark with another image from the collage set. It's shape was ideal for making a bookmark, so I matted and layered it onto the same red and cream card and made an eyelet for the ribbon.

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That's all for now.

We would love to see your creations! 

Just make sure that your entry is positive, inspirational, motivational or encouraging in some way!

 The link up is here: Challenge #129 Path of Positivity.

Many thanks to Scribbles Designs for sponsoring the challenge.

I'll be back with a another Path of Positivity project in a couple of weeks time. 

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Thanks for stopping by today!

I'd like to play along in these challenges:

I read and appreciate all your comments. 

xoxo