Tuesday, 4 February 2025

Conjurer of Dreams: Love, Love, Love

 

Hello

At the Conjurer of Dreams Blog we have free digital images on every DT post. 

If you make a project with these you can enter the challenges either on the blog or in the Facebook Group or both for a chance to win prizes.

I used the free image on my CoD blog post (HERE) to make this:


The background paper is from Digital Scrapbooking. The frame and silver border are from Clean PNG and the Rose embellishments are from Raspberry Road.

We would love to see your projects made with the CoD free images. 

Head over to the blog to download yours.

That's all for now.

Please visit the
Conjurer of Dreams Inspiration Group on Facebook (freebies available)

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.

Crafters Cafe Jan AG 12/02
Try it on Tuesday Romance 16/02
A Place to Start Feb AG 28/02

xoxo



Monday, 3 February 2025

Path of Positivity: For You

 

Hello

 Today is the start of 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 for a good friend. I don't normally send Valentine cards to anyone, other than my husband, so this will definitely be unexpected.


I kept my card quite simple and used kraft card for a natural look.
I was inspired by Tracy Evans, and I used her stamp and stencil. 
The stencilled heart (SS12 Heart) is coloured with Polychromo white pencil and edged with HB graphite pencil, smudged slightly to create a shadow. The flower (TE32 Alpha Florals) is stamped in pale ink, Antique Linen, and also coloured with Polychromos - resulting (I hope) in a no-line colouring technique. Some Vintage Photo inking was added to the background along with white paint splatters. I edged the kraft card with Brilliance white ink and stamped the sentiment onto white card, then adhered and added a shadow.


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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 #128 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:

Dream Valley #329 Pink or Red 06/02

PIP Challenges #2505 AG 09/02

Try it on Tuesday Romance 16/02

Crafty Calendar  Hearts 28/02

Stencil Fun Feb Pinks/Reds 01/03

I read and appreciate all your comments. 
xoxo


Conjurer of Dreams: Romance

 

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', and this month's optional theme is 
'Gothic Romance'.
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.

Firstly, I made two cards using My Gothic Love images:


The beautiful, gothic image has a small bottle from Love Potions added to it along with a heart sentiment from My Gothic Valentine. The webs were outlined with a silver, sparkle pen. The image was then mounted onto black card and placed onto the red lacy frame. It was made into an easel card.
Challenges:
The Paper Players Love Is in the Air 07/02
613 Avenue Create Lots of Love

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The second image has a die cut, blac,k lacy frame mounted onto red satin-finish card.


Challenges:
The Crafting Challenge Love is Red 28/02

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Next I made a set of snarky Voodoo Doll ATCs.
 These make me smile!



For some reason, I found these images really cute ...
I used Red Silk background paper. Each doll has Glossy Accent eyes and hearts which adds texture to the image.


Some die cut, black lace was adhered along the right side with a gingham knot bow.


And I typed snarky sentiments and cut them into strips.



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Silly, Voodoo Doll Card



Brass corners add to the texture on this card along with black lace beneath the image and the red, gingham bow at the top. Red Silk papers are the background.


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Bunnies in the Snow

This is a greyscale image from Winter Rabbits that I coloured firstly with Polychromo pencils, but then I went back and used Inktense Watercolour Pencils to add more colour depth. I also added some glitter along the snowy tree branches and added white paint splatters to replicate snowfall. The lovely image is enough, so I simply matted it onto red card and placed it on a textured white card blank


Challenges

On the card below, also an image from Winter Rabbits, I coloured the greyscale image then fussy cut it. It is on top of a laser cut, birch tree background with dotty vellum below it and dark blue card beneath that.
I die cut a frame from white card, matted it onto red card and placed it on a textured white card base.


Challenges
Crafty Animals #91 AG 26/02

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And finally, this month's CoD Digital Pieces:
The sets I used are:

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers #259 L is for Love 28/02

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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 Inspiration Group on Facebook (freebies available)

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

Saturday, 1 February 2025

Conjurer of Dreams: Ice Queens

 

Hello

At the Conjurer of Dreams Challenge Blog we have a new monthly challenge, in addition to the main challenge. 

Kim gives away free images on each of the DT's blog posts, so we decided that we could make a challenge from using these free images.

This month, February,  you can use ANY FREE IMAGE from last month (that's where these Ice Queens are from) and also from this month.


Here is what I made with 3 of January's free images:

It is a set of ATC cards.
I made the backgrounds by smooshing, dipping and dabbing 2.5 x 3.5 inch cards in puddles of Faded Jeans Distress Ink. I then added some white heat embossing using stamped tiny hearts. The images were fussy cut, the edges inked and adhered to the card bases. 


Next I heat embossed all around the edges of the cards by swiping the edges through a Versafine ink pad and pushing the card edge into a little pile of white embossing powder - this gives a thicker, more enamelled appearance..


Finally I found some sentiments in one of my Tim Holtz Small Talk sticker books. As they are going on ATCs, I trimmed them down a little, then cut them into strips. Once adhered and dry, I went around the sentiments with a Uniball Eye fine pen.


Here's a final look:


That's all for now.

We hope you'll come and join our challenges:
Facebook Group for more challenges and free images.


(Paper digitals and sentiments fussy cut)

Crafts Galore Encore: Rabbit with Sunflower

 

 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) 27th February.

This month's challenge is kindly sponsored by Polkadoodles.

Here is what I made:


The DT were given images to make sample projects from. I used Rabbit with Sunflower which is a pre-coloured image. I decided to add a little extra colour to it with Polychromo pencils. I fussy cut it and adhered it to a stencil stamped inky background., using oxide inks I die cut the sentiment and used the same green textured card as a mat.

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That's all for now.

Many thanks to NIkky at Polkadoodles 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:

Allsorts Challenge #816 AG  14/02
Crafty Animals #91 AG 26/02
Mirtillamente Challenge #40 AG 27/02

Thanks for stopping by today.

xoxo


Gecko Galz: Guts, Glitz and Lipstick


Hello

It's a new month and we have a new customer challenge over at the Gecko Galz blog.  

The theme this month is Guts, Glitz and Lipstick.

As always, we have free images to download to make projects to enter the Card Challengethe Christmas Image Challenge, the Fantasy Challenge, an ATC challenge, a Steampunk Challenge and a Gothic Challenge,. The free images can be accessed by the tabs at the top of the main blog pageWe also have a quarterly challenge on the blog.

If that isn't enough challenges, we also have Facebook challenges each month.
We hope you can find some time to join in the fun.

The winner of the Customer challenge will get a $25 Gecko Galz Etsy Store voucher and the runner up a $12 voucher. There are plenty of free Gecko Galz images if you don't already own any. Each blog post has a free image to collect and, if you sign up for the monthly newsletter, there is the chance to claim a free collage set each month.  Also if you make any purchase of $2 or more you receive a free collage sheet.

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Here is what I made as inspiration for the Customer Challenge..

It's a rolodex mini book with a cowgirl theme:

I sandwiched together two die cut, brown gingham patterned rolodex cards with ivory lace in between. In all there are 5 double pages.
I used lots of different Gecko Galz collage sets, all listed at the end of this post, and I raided my stash of laces, trims and embellishments for suitable items.

Here are the pages in close up:











Products used:
Glam on the Range collage set
Ride Em Cowgirl Digital Craft Kit

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That's all for now!
I hope you'll join our 'Guts, Glitz and Lipstick' challenge where the winner will get a $25 shopping spree at the Gecko Galz shop.



The only rule is that you must use at least one Gecko Galz product (this can be one of the freebies or, of course, you can buy at the Etsy store!) Also if you sign up for the Gecko Galz newsletter, you'll be able to claim a free collage sheet each month.

Please pop over to the Gecko Galz blog to see the fabulous designs by the very talented DT.

We also have a friendly Facebook Group where there are 4 monthly challenges, each with a bespoke digital prize. 
Do come and join us!



I'll be back on the 10th February with more Gecko Galz projects.

Here's all the info you need:Current Challenge  "Guts, Glitz and Lipstick"

I'd like to enter these Challenges:

Creative Fingers #293 AG 07/02

Thanks for stopping by today.
xoxo

I'd really love some feedback :)      
I read and appreciate all your comments. 
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