Steampunk Sassy!

This month's Progressive Challenge over at SSD on Craft Planet has a wonderful steampunk sassy! I really had to think about the colours for this li'l lady and even took her on holiday with me to colour!
While I was away I got the most scumptious bundle of mulberry papers, all sorts of colours and styles and this blue was one of them

isn't it yummy? I added some hand torn dark grey metalised card that I embossed with an Xboss embossing board from the Chronology range. I added some dark grey chain and a little bling!

I coloured her with my usual Promarkers and used a little starlight gelly roller on her glasses.

I hope you like my version of this lovely sassy and why not jump over to Papercraft Planet and join in the fun!

Thanks for stopping by and I hope to see you again soon!
I would also like to enter this into:
http://corrosivechallengesbyjanet.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/challenge-181-steampunk.html

They Say Its My Birthday!

and they would be right!!!

It is also the start of a new challenge over at Penny's Paper Crafty and this week theme is:

Choose 3 different types of embellishments from the list below

Ribbon, lace, eyelets, brads, card candi, charms, flowers, feathers, Buttons, gems or pearls

We have two lovely sponsors this week, QKR Stampede and Sassy Studio Design. For my card I have used the Birthday Cake image from SSD - well I had to really, another birthday card won't hurt, lol!

I used lace, gems and flowers for my card, the papers are from different Nit Wits collections and the image is coloured with Promarkers!

So that's my card for my birthday - now why not come over to Penny's and join in this week's challenge!

Thanks for stopping by and I hope to see you again soon!

Back From My Travels!

It's very bittersweet coming back from your travels - on the one hand you want to carry on and see more places but on the other hand it's lovely to be back in your own home!
Tuesday, back to work for me and a new Color Challenge at the Outlawz! This week's challenge was chosen by Roxann and what yummy colours!

So for my card I have used another of the fabulous images we had to play with from DS4J - isn't she beautiful

I used a base card in grey and layered it up with some lime green paper and shades of coral card, then the image that I also coloured the background in lime. My grey ribbon I used across the corners and to follow the star theme through I added some lovely rhinestone stars.

I coloured the image with Promarkers.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you will find time to come over to the Outlawz and join us for this week's challenge - I'm hoping I'll see you there!

How Old Do You Feel?

Sometimes I feel ANCIENT!!! With that thought I decided that as it is my birthday this week the ideal choice for the new Eclectic Ellapu Pink challenge had to be:

Oldies Birthday

I would like to see your celebration of an oldies birthday! It doesn't have to be a card it can be any project that fits the theme!

For my card I used the wonderful image from Squigglefly 'the Old Sot'. I fell in love with this image the first time I saw it!

Now don't you think she looks so happy! The sentiment came with the image and is finished off inside the card:

I coloured the image with Promarkers and Spectrum Noir markers for her hair, I used some paper from Paper Cellar for  the background and inside. I heat embossed the Happy Birthday with some chocolate embossing powder. The sentiment was printed onto white card then coloured and inked to age it - its as simple as that!

I hope you have enjoyed my card today and you will come over to Eclectic Ellapu amd join us in this celebration of an old f--ts Birthday!

Thanks for stopping by and I hope to see you again soon!

It's that C Word Again!

Yes I keep making them and it's still summer honest!
Penny's Paper Crafty has a new challenge starting and we would like to see you use your die cuts or punches.
We have two fab sponsors this week - The Paper Shelter and Crafty Sentiments.
I have use an image from the Paper Shelter and how cute is this:

I used the pre coloured image and just added some colour to the background, I love the fact that you get a choice in TPS digi sets and most come with background paper as well!
For my background paper I used an 8 x 8 sheet that I cut a section out of the middle its such an ideal background for this image! I used an oval die cutter and a scalloped oval die cutter for the image and the surround. I have been having a clear up and sort out in the craft room and lo and behold I found my old Sizlets cutter so I pulled out the dies and used the candy canes and holly leaves (that you can hardly see, lol).
Sorry the photo is so dark but you can just about see all of it!
I hope you will find time to join us over at Penny's this week - can't wait to see what you make!

Thanks for stopping by and I hope to see you again soon!

A Little Bit of Sparkle!

Well Tuesday's rolled round again and that means it's the Color Challenge at the Outlawz!

This week it was my turn to pick the colour palette and here's my picture:

I took this photo at a National Trust property and the peacocks were all around the place, this good looking fella looked as though he was putting on his display for me but I looked behind me and there was the female!

Our sponsor this month is DS4J and one of the images we were given to play with was made for this challenge!!

Now isn't he a beauty! I had some bright blue card, its got a nice satin finish to it, so thought I would use it to set the image off. I used an oval die cut for the turquoise and to cut out the peacock, a scalloped oval die cut from cream added a nice frame. I finished with some lovely cream lace.

 I coloured him with Promarkers then added loads of glitter to his tail and a liberal sprinkle of gems!

I hope you like my version of this lovely digi but if you want to see some more interpretations call over to the Color Challenge and check out what the rest of the DT have made and if you would like this image you can find it here.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope to see you again soon!

Otto!

Quick post today as I'm trying hard to get ahead before I go away on Thursday - yipppeeeee!

This is a cute little image from Gerda Steiner for her freebie challenge - he's called Otto the Octopus.

I coloured him with Promarkers and cut out using a scalloped circle die, I then inked the edge out to give it some depth. I found the base card in my stash and it couldn't have been more perfect! The sentiment is mine created with Word.

Hope you like my little friend and why not pop over to Gerda's blog and join in the fun!
http://gerdasteinerdesigns.com/challenge2/

Thanks for stopping by and I hope to see you again soon!