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.

C.R.A.F.T Challenge 52 - Blue & Green

A big thanks to all of you who joined in our birthday blog hop last week! The winner at my stop is Sharon, for details of all the winners and how to claim your prizes go to the C.R.A.F.T challenge blog.

This week's challenge at C.R.A.F.T is to use the colour combo blue and green, and for my DT project I've made a pair of earrings.

Our sponsor this week is Your Special Delivery, who sell a lovely range of digital images by different artists.

We look forward to seeing your creations this week and good luck!

C.R.A.F.T Challenge 51 - It's Our Birthday!

This week it's a special occasion at C.R.A.F.T challenge, it's our first birthday and to celebrate we're having a blog hop in addition to our regular challenge. You should have arrived to me from Magda.

Our theme this week is Celebrations or Birthday, and the main prize is this collection of Papermania Henbury Lane papers and other goodies:

We have lots of lovely individual sponsors for our Blog Hop too!

It’s going to be a lot of fun with prizes and draws at each stop and a final winner at the end, so don’t be a square—be there! -and be in with a chance to win!

Our blog-hop order is this:-

1) You start on the C.R.A.F.T Challenge blog and you visit each Design Team Member’s personal blog and leave a comment.

2) At each stop there will be a RED word associated with crafting for you to collect

3) We’re staying with our customary alphabetical list for the team so Andrea is the next stop after the C.R.A.F.T Challenge blog. Andrea will give you the link to the next DTM and so on.

4) At the end, we want you to get back to C.R.A.F.T and leave us a comment with the nine words you pick up! If you can make a sentence so much the better!

Just to make it clear for you to follow - here is our DT in alphabetical order.

Andrea

Claire
Eileen
Enola
Jo
Magda
Rose - that's me
Suzi
Tigerlover

We're SO Looking forward to seeing who comes up with the correct sentence as we have a really fabulous new sponsor for that - QVC's Scrapbooking Expert, Rosemary Merry!

She is kindly having a good look through her stock at Crabapple Crafts to find something lovely for that clever crafter (who will be chosen from the correct answers by random generator) who gets the sentence right! Now how cool is THAT!

The sponsor for my stop is Stitchy Bear Stamps, who are kindly giving two images as the prize - Rub-a-Dub-Dub by Stitchy Bear Stamps and Napping by Beary Dust Stamps. To see these and the rest of their lovely range of digi stamps go and visit their shop - and throughout May they've got a sale on where's there's 50% off all their digi stamps!

For my DT card I've used Rub-A-Dub-Dub, coloured with pencils and Sakura pens. Other materials used are Cuttlebug Spots and Dots embossing folder, backing paper from my stash, sentiment stamp and embellishments free in magazines, garden twine and flowers from a bunch of artificial flowers secured with brads.



To be in with a chance of winning the two images at my stop, leave a comment on my blog and I will draw the winner by random.org next Wednesday evening, 26th May. And don't forget to find the red word hidden somewhere not too far away on my blog!

Now you need to go and visit Suzi's blog to take part in the next part of our blog hop.

Look forward to seeing what you make this week, and good luck!

C.R.A.F.T Challenge 50

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

For my card I've used an owl from Polkadoodles Back to Nature CD, and the woodgrain paper is from their Not For Girls CD. The leafy backing paper is from Crafter's Companion Flower Fairies CD.

I used die cut and punched leaves and punched out flowers with glitter added to the centre. The sentiment was free in a magazine.

The prize this week is a £15 voucher from our sponsor Kut 4 U to spend in their store, they sell a lovely range of charms, chipboard shapes and other stuff too.


I'm also entering this card into Polkadoodles Summer Blossoms challenge.

C.R.A.F.T Challenge 48 - Shaped Card

The challenge at C.R.A.F.T this week is to make a shaped card, and for my card I've used the beer mug template from Anna Marie Designs templates CD volume 2.

The 'froth' is made from bits of torn up pearl paper, the lettering is from Polkadoodle's Sugar Birdies CD, and for the handle and base of the mug is silver card ran through the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder and distressed with an emery board.

Our sponsor this week is Debbie from The Crafty Pad:

who are offering this lovely Anna At The Gate stamp as the prize:
Debbie is also joining us this week at C.R.A.F.T and made a lovely shaped card using the Anna stamp.

C.R.A.F.T Challenge 47 - Pink & Brown

This week at C.R.A.F.T the challenge is to use the colours pink and brown.

We're being sponsored this week by Stitchy Bear Stamps, they sell a huge range of digi stamps and other printables by different artists, and the C.R.A.F.T design team got to use four of their images, all of which are the prize this week.

For my card I used Spaniel Puppy by Stampin Dragon.

I coloured the image with pencils, the papers are My Mind's Eye and Funky Hand, the sentiment and pawprints are stamped and I Cuttlebug embossed the brown background card. fot the flowers I punched out the outer petals, and for the centres I cut circles from brown paper, scrunched them up, opened them out and dabbed them with ink.

To see the images that are this week's prize, go over to C.R.A.F.T and see the lovely cards that the rest of the DT have made.

I'd like to enter this card in these 2 challenges:

Polkadoodles - Animal Magic

Crafty Creations - Distressing

C.R.A.F.T Challenge 46 - Ei's Sketch

This week at C.R.A.F.T challenge we want you to work with this sketch, thought up by our DT member Ei:

And here's what you could win, this lovely stack of papers - Cosmo Cricket - Mini Deck - Garden Variety:
Here's my DT card, the pink backing paper and the paper I cut the bird out of is from Funky Hand's Funky Daze CD, and the paper I made the triangle out of is from their Shabby Saturday collection. I machine stitched around the edge and added a bow made from garden raffia.


For more inspiration go over to the C.R.A.F.T challenge blog and see the lovely projects the rest of the DT have made with the sketch!