Challenge 1 of 2012 - Food Glorious Food

Happy New Year to everyone in Blogland. I hope it is a healthy and happy one for all. I must admit I am feeling much more positive about the up coming year, we have a few not so good ones on the trot and I figure it is about  time that changed.

Time for the first challenge of the year over at Quirky Crafts Challenge. I have the honor of kicking things off this year, and we are also honored to welcome aboard a new sponsor, Bugaboo Stamps.
                             

This is a refreshingly different range of digital stamps, please check them out...I think they are great!
I was trying to come up with the theme for this challenge whilst I was up to my neck cooking for Christmas. I was thinking how we would all be sick and tired of the site of food by the end of the festivities, so in my warped mind it seemed like the ideal theme, and there are some great digital stamps at Bugaboo that just fitted right in there....so that is it. I want to see a card, or any other crafting item, with the them of food glorious food. This should be an easy one after taxing you brains with the last challenge, so I hope to see lots of entries this time. Here is mine example. I chose the Bugaboo JJ Cook Stamp to work with, and there are a few in this series, with some great sentiments to compliment too. Hope you like my make...come on over to the challenge and join in. You could be lucky enough to win a bunch of digistamps for free!

Quirky Crafts Challenge- last one of 2011

Its is Cazzy's turn and she has decided Christmas or New Year with a twist...and her twist was Steampunk! A new thing for me completely. Our sponsors this time are StitchyBear Stamps and I chose the LiteBrite stamp to work with. I had a great piece of backing paper, a really dark red, that I have been saving for ages and I decided now the time was right to use it. I decided on an easel card, but I have printed the stamp onto acetate so I could create an acetate bubble/dome to the easel part of the card. I coloured the acetate on the reverse and then used a lovely festive ribbon as my stop.

I hope you like it. Please come along to The Quirky Crafts Challenge Blog, check out the challenge and have a go at winning the prizes......yes there are prizes!!
Have a good Christmas Everyone in Blogland...and a Happy and Healthy New Year to you all!

Quirky Crafts Challenge - 24 - Clean and Simple

The new challenge is set by Caro, who has decided on Clean and Simple. I love and admire this style of card, but find it really difficult not to over fuss thinks.  choose the Boo Boo Bunny stamp from our lovely sponsors, Digital Delights by Louby Lou. Coloured with promarkers, here is what I have come up with....

Challenge 23 - Attitude

Another fortnight has sped by and it is time for another challenge at Quirky Crafts. Cazzy has set this challenge and she chose Attitude. We were to use Digital Stamps from The Stamping Boutique who are our sponsors for this challenge. Click on the link to go to The quirky Crafts Challenge Blog for full details of the challenge and the prizes on offer. Please read carefully as we have decided to change the way that the prizes are awarded.

I chose a digital stamp from the Stamping Boutique called Max. He just screamed attitude to me the moment I saw him. i decided to create a stand card so that i could make it look like a stage. The centre part where you would normally attach the tag is where i have created the stage backdrop, and i mounted Max on to acetate so I could adhere him to the front section of the stand, making it look like he is on stage in a spotlight. Max is coloured with promarkers and decoupaged. I couldn't resist the blue streaked hair!
Come and check out the challenge....

Quirky Crafts Challenge 22 - Autumn colours and leaves

My turn to set the challenge this time, it is surprising how quickly my turn comes around again. Looking out my craftroom window gave me the inspiration. The trees have some beautiful colours at the moment, I love Autumn. SO my choice was easy this time. I want to see Autumn colours and I want to see Leaves. As always you can make whatever you like, it doesn't have to be a card...whatever takes your fancy. Here is mine

This challenge is sponsored by Stitchy Bear Stamps. There is a prize on offer of free digital stamps from the Stitchy Bear Store. The design team were given some stamps to play with. I chose the Snuggle Birds, they looked so cosy. Leaves were punched out and coloured with promarkers. Come and join the challenge.....