C.R.A.F.T Challenge Man's Best Friend

This week the challenge at C.R.A.F.T is Man's Best Friend. Our sponsor is Lauretta's Digital Stamps who kindly provided the DT with two images to use in our sample cards.


For my card I used Lauretta's image Scotty Dog, I coloured him with pencils and sakura pens.

The backing paper is Dovecraft's Funky Vintage, the lettering is from Polkadoodles Candy Doodles CD, and the sentiment is from Funky Hand. I knit the flower and added a little shell flower button to the centre.

To see what the rest of the DT have made, go and take a look at C.R.A.F.T, we look forward to seeing your creations!

Beer Mug Card

A Birthday card for a friend's father. The beer mug is a template from Anna Marie Designs CD volume 2, the brick background and bottle tops are from Polkadoodles Not For Girls CD. The 'froth' is pearlised paper embossed with the Cuttlebug divine swirls folder. The sentiment I printed off the computer, and finished it off with some blue knotted string.

Butterfly & Dragonfly Stitch Markers

A couple more sets of stitch markers that I've recently made.


I made them from glass pearl beads, seed beads and silver metal butterfly and dragonfly charms.

C.R.A.F.T Challenge Milestone Birthdays/Anything Goes & DT Call

Firstly, we have some news for you at C.R.A.F.T, we're sorry to say that Andrea, Eileen, Julie and Claire are leaving us, we're very sorry to see them go but wish them all the best of luck in whatever they do next.

This means that we need some new DT members and so are having a DT call, if you're interested in being part of our team, go over to C.R.A.F.T to see what you need to do.

Now onto our challenge, this week it's Milestone Birthdays/Anything Goes, and our sponsor is our DT member Claire (Hope Jacare).

The prize you could win is Claire's lovely Daisy rubber stamp, these and more of Claire's stamps are available from Polkadoodles, or in digi form at Stitchy Bear Stamps.

For my DT card I have used one of Claire's images, Scatty Cat with Ball. I have coloured him with Promarkers, and stamped around him with a small flower stamp. The backing paper is My Mind's Eye Bloom & Grow and the sentiment I printed off the computer. Finally some pale green organza ribbon and a crochet flower to finish off.

I would also like to enter this card into the following challenges:

The Polkadoodles colouring competition, they have a fantastic prize of a set of Aquamarkers which I'd love to win!

By The Cute & Girly challenge which is Animal Antics.

Thanks for looking :-)

C.R.A.F.T Challenge 63 - Photo Inspiration

This week at C.R.A.F.T we're using this this photo for inspiration:

Our sponsor this week is Donna's Den of Crafts and this is what you could win, a stack of lovely Christmas papers:

This is my interpretation of the picture. I've knitted some flowers and used organza ribbon for the stems. The orange flowery paper is Kate Knight Wild Blossom.




To see what the rest of the DT have created go over to C.R.A.F.T, we look forward to seeing what you make!

C.R.A.F.T Challenge 62 - Sketch

This week at C.R.A.F.T we have a sketch for you, by one of our DT, Ei

For my DT card I have used an image and backing paper from the Jayne Netley Mayhew collection CD, some Cuttlebug embossing, satin ribbon and Prima flowers.


Our sponsr this week is Your Special Delivery, for more details and to see the rest of the DT's projects, go and take a look at C.R.A.F.T.

C.R.A.F.T Challenge 61 - Hot & Spicy Colours

This week at C.R.A.F.T we want you to use Hot & Spicy colours in your work, you can create anything you want in any medium as long as the colours are Hot & Spicy.

For my card I have crochet a flower, and used plaited orange garden string to make the stem of the flower. I made the background with a small flower stamp and brown & magenta inks. I used my Cuttlebug to emboss the card behind the flower and to cut out and emboss the butterfly. The card base is double sided ice diamond lustre card.

This week's lucky winner will receive a prize from our sponsor Crab Apple Crafts:

For more details and to see the lovely creations from the rest of the DT go and have a look at C.R.A.F.T challenge!

C.R.A.F.T Challenge 60 - Out Of This World

This week's challenge at C.R.A.F.T is to use the theme 'Out Of This World', a great challenge to let your imagination run wild! Our sponsor is our DT member Ei, and the prize is £10.00 worth of digi images of your choice from her site Eiglassing, or if you prefer she will draw you your very own digi of whatever you like.

For this challenge I have knitted some aliens, I got the pattern from this wonderful and fun book, 20 To Make Knitted Aliens by Fiona McDonald:

They're knitted in double knitting and fluffy wool with tiny glass pearls for eyes. Their spaceship in the background used to belong to Action Man!


Do go and have a look at C.R.A.F.T to see the Out Of This World creations the rest of the DT have made, and we look forward to seeing what you make!

Another Woolly Jumper Card

Another of my woolly jumper cards, with a set of stitch markers attached. The backing paper is Kate Knight's Wild Blossom, the pink oval is printed off Polkadoodle's Candy Doodles CD and embossed with the Cuttlebug textile folder.

C.R.A.F.T Challenge 59 Babies/Children

This week at C.R.A.F.T the theme is babies or children, and we welcome back Angela of Toucan Scraps as our sponsor.

For my DT card all the papers I've used are from Angela's Dinosaurs digi papers pack, and the image is Jiggy in Crib by Stampin Dragon.

I coloured the image in pencils and added sparkly highlights with Sakura pens, the oval behind the image is cuttlebug embossed using the stars folder, the flowers are punched out and distressed by scrunching them up a few times, opening them up and dabbing an ink pad onto them. I wrapped garden string round a couple of times and tied in a bow.

C.R.A.F.T Challenge 58 - Cakes/Ice Cream

This week at C.R.A.F.T we want you to use cakes and/or ice cream in your projects! Our sponsor this week is The Crafty Pad, and this is what you could win, a set of clear cake stamps:

The Crafty Pad sell loads of stamps, in clear stamp form and digi stamps, and it's the digi stamp version of the cupcakes I've used in my DT card:
I've decoupaged the cakes and coloured them with sakura pens and added glitter glue for extra sparkle, the cupcakes backing paper is by Kirsty Wiseman. The pink paper behind the cupcakes is from Polkadoodle's Candy Doodles CD, embossed on the Cuttlebug with gems and organza ribbon added. Fabric flowers, brads and the sentiment is a stamp free with a magazine.

A Few More Stitch Markers

Here's some more stitch markers I've made for knitting.

C.R.A.F.T Challenge 57

This week at C.R.A.F.T challenge we have this photo as inspiration:

And here's my interpretation of it, a set of stitch markers, made from purple glass faceted beads, green Swarovski crystals and small green glass beads.


This is the prize you could win this week:


This week we say goodbye to DT member Magda, we're sorry to see her leave the DT but wish her the very best of luck in whatever she does.

C.R.A.F.T Challenge 56

Black, lime green and lilac is the challenge at C.R.A.F.T this week, and for my DT card I've used an image from our sponsor, Sassy Studio Designs:

I coloured the frogs with pencils and Sakura pens and added some googly eyes. The backing paper is the free wallflowers download from Polkadoodles.

To see what the rest of the DT have made go and have a look at C.R.A.F.T and good luck to all who enter our challenge this week!

C.R.A.F.T Challenge 55 - Ei's Sketch

This week at C.R.A.F.T we have another sketch from DT member Ei:

And here's my DT card. For the backing paper I scanned some knitting that I've done and printed it out. I knit the tiny jumper and made knitting needles from cocktail sticks and beads. The sentiment is a Polkadoodles stamp.


Our sponsor this week is our very own Claire, her lovely images can be bought at Stitchy Bear Stamps.

C.R.A.F.T Challenge 54

This week the challenge at C.R.A.F.T is to make a Fathers Day/men's card.

For my DT card I have used images and papers from Polkadoodles Not For Girls CD.

Our sponsor this week is Donna's Den of Crafts, and the prize is a Laurence Llewellyn Bowen Retro Rose decoupage kit and some embroidered brads.