Quirky Crafts Challenge 17 - Red Hat

New challenge time again and this time we have the challenge of Red Hat. You can make anything you like as long as there is a red hat there somewhere. He is my offering

I used the Red Hat digistamp provided by our sponsors Robyn's Fetish. I decided to enlarge the stamp to make a hat shaped card. The red and black flower paper is from a Summertime Designs digikit I downloaded for free ages ago, i traced the flower outlines with a glue pen and added black glitter. The ribbon section of the hat is also black glitter. The image has a flower on the hat already, but I wanted it to be more 3d, so I set about making one of Penny Duncan's Grunge roses from the file on her website. I think it sets the card off a treat.

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Quirky Crafts Challenge 16....numbers

Over on Quirky Crafts Challenge Blog our next challenge has just launched. The theme this time, chosen by Lyn is NUMBERS. We can do anything we like, as long as it has something to do with numbers.....ATC card, shaped card, scrapbook page....anything. Here is mine

The chef digistamp was kindly supplied by our sponsor for this challenge Digital Delights By Louby Loo. Check out the Quirky Challenge Blog for details of the challenge and the prizes on offer this time around. We would love to see your entries....

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Hello Everyone,

My desk is a bit of a mess today I am afraid, as you catch me desperately trying to finish a card for my friend's birthday today.

I also have to get my thinking cap on for a challenge dt card this weekend...no idea what I am going to do yet! Anyway...I will think about that one later. Here is the finished card

Pop over to Julia's blog to see lots of other workdesks snapped for prosperity today.

Quirky Crafts Challenge- 15...puzzle pieces

Another Two Weeks have flown by, and we had lots of entries to last weeks challenge of No Patterned Papers over at Quirky Crafts Challenge Blog. Now it is time for the new challenge. The new challenge is puzzle pieces, sponsored by The Stamping Boutique. Choosing a stamp to work with was easy, as I had already spotted the Candy Store Stamp in their new releases on the website. I love it, so 'oldy worldy'. I had fun making this birthday card with the stamp, and i actually used it twice to create the puzzle box lid and the part made puzzle itself. The cream mat ( which I wanted to look like a tablecloth under the puzzle) was cut on my Gazelle using a file from Monica. If you haven't seen her website and you have an electronic cutter, you really really should, she has some fantastic files there, and all for free. She is so talented. Hope you like it...

Do come over to the challenge blog and enter our challenge this fortnight......it is fun, and you could win yourself some digistamps!

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Better late than never!

Here is my desk today..

I am just finishing a card for my cousin, whose birthday is coming up soon, trying to get ahead of myself as I have been chasing my tail lately! You can also see a handbag card I have made for a challenge set over on the Make The Cut Forum. Angela decided it would be nice to set a challenge for the UK and Ireland users of Make The Cut Software. As it is an american based software there are not many Brits on there so we are trying to get together. The handbag was made using a template from my friend Sara's site...Cardmakingparadise. If anyone has checked her site before and has been put off by the annual membership (although it is great value) she has now decided to make her fantastic templates available singly and at a very reasonable cost too. I have been helping her by providing all the different cutting file formats she needed. 

If you zoom in and really nose around....it's ok, you are allowed....you will see my new Fiskars precision cutter/trimmer. I have to say that I have had many trimmers before, but this is by far the best I have had....just a shame it isnt big enough for 12x12"...oh well you cant have it all. I also have the new Fiskars stamp wheel, but haven't had chance to get it out of the box yet.

Oh well I think that's me for today..head on over to Julia's blog to nose at more desks.

Happy Days!