Creative Colors Challenge#22

Welcome back! 

This Tuesday its time for Creative Colors Challenge#22 sponsored by Doodle Pantry Digital Doodles.

 

For this round we challenge you to use atleast three spool colors shown in the inspiration picture & lace in your card. Remember this is a card only challenge.

Pick 3 colors from the Spools PLUS use Lace. 

My daughter loves dream catchers & when I saw this digi by Doodle Pantry I knew I wanted to make a card for her!

Played around with distress ink, stamps & stencils to make the several layers of the background. The fussy cut digi is colored with distress markers. I love the sentiment - Dream a little dream!

Playing this at - 

Fitztown challenge#59 (2/11)

Craft creatoins (9/11)

TPE#274 (2/11)

Fairytale stamper#46 (15/11)

Brown sugar challenge#117 (29/10)

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Altered Spoon

Hello friends, welcome back, hope you all had a happy & joyous diwali. Best wishes! 

Another altered project today! Didn't I tell you I was on a roll altering items!

Any guesses what has been transformed here? 

Played around with gesso, acrylic paint & LSG spray to transform a soup spoon into a beautiful piece of decor for the kitchen!

The gorgeous blooms are handmade (Joy Craft die cut flowers)  & so is the nest beneath the metal nest charm.

Some dangling charms a tea pot & spoon..................perfect for the altered spoon!

Sharing this at - 
Delightful sketches#3s-not-crowd (29/10) - WINNER
Altered eclectics#Oct (31/10)
Decorate to celebrate#86 (28/10)
Imagination-crafts#Oct challenge (31/10)
Rhedds Creative Spirit# Oct  (31/10)
Inspiration Emporium (31/10)
SSS - (color of the twine is kraft) (29/10)
Pinspirational Challenge#126 (27/10) - TOP 3
Divas by design (28/10)

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Creative Colors Challenge # 21

Hi Friends!

Its time to have some fun at Creative Colors with Challenge #21 & the color palette this time is Orange + Brown + Ocean Green  along with die Cuts.

 

Our fabulous sponsors for this challenge are -

This is my inspiration using our sponsors' image - 

Colored the image with distress markers & added shimmer on it & the flutterby with my fav Wink of Stella (sorry the camera did not capture it!!!).

Please visit the challenge blog here for details & some more fabulous inspiration by our team. 

Playing this at - 

Fantastic Tuesday#57 (20/10)

Alphabet challenge (22/10)

Pile it on challenge (18/10)

Quirky crafts#21 (24/10)

Scribble and scrap crafts#29 (25/10)

House of cards#October (31/10)

Lawnscaping#patterned-paper (15/10)

Altered Book Box

Welcome back friends!

Another altered project today - a book box, the first one I made.

When I selected the DCWV Mariposa pattern paper for this box I was totally lost with regards to the embellishments that will go along with this!!!But I challenged myself! And the result............I think is totally adorable!

To highlight the chipboard laser cut from Itsy Bitsy I used white UTEE over it. This also added some dimension to make it stand out amongst the flowers. Used a large vintage key along with some dangling charms as a faux knob.

This is the spine of the book - colored the ornate chipboard letter with marker & embossed using clear EP. 

Sharing this at -

Sparkles forum challenge#60 (12/10)

The sisters of craft-october (31/10)

Craft creations (11/10)

Not just cards challenge#3 (12/10)

Imagination crafts challenge-october (31/10)

Dream valley challenge#92 (16/10)

Artistic inspirations challenge#112 (12/10)

Glitter n sparkle challenge#105  (10/10)

Avenue613#92 (11/10)

Craft my life#octobernovember (TOP 3)

TTCRD#October (13/10)

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Double Pocket Card

Hello friends & thank you for visiting me again. :-)

Over the past few days I have altered a couple of items & will share these soon. I have already posted a set of drawers here.

Today I have a double pocket card. You can find the tutorial for this card on the SCORPAL blog & a similar card I made here. I love adding tags to my cards, a fun way to add messages. The pattern paper is from the Lost & Found stack (My Mind's Eye) layered over a navy blue card base. I loved the busy pattern on the paper & decided to keep the embellishments minimal...............chipboard elements & a handmade flower.

 

This gorgeous bloom was made using Heartfelt Creations - Striped Sun Kissed Fleur stamp & co-ordinating SB die & distress inks -

 

These are the four tags - 

And one more glue to the inside - 

 

I truly loved the bright yet subtle look of this card. Would love to know if you too feel the same!!! 

This card is linked to the following challenges - 

Avenue613 #92 (11/10)

Catered crop - seeing red (11/10)

The fashionable stamping challenge#83  (21/10)

Fairytale stamper#45 (21/10)

Ribbongirls - October card challenge (11/10)

Crafting at theweekend#6 (27/10)

Crafting by designs - October challenge (28/10)

Crafty Calendar Challenge - bingo (flowers, sentiment, blue) (31/10)

Crafting with dragonflies#36 (14/10)

Crafting from the heart#39 (12/10)

Treasured times rubber stampschallenges#26 (17/10)

Pinspirational#125 (13/10)

Craftycatz weekly challenge#249 (9/10)

Daring cardmakers - October-colour combo dare (9/10)

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Have a crafty day!!

Creative Colors Challenge#20

Good evening friends!

Its Tuesday & we are back with another awesome color palette at Creative Colors Challenge#20. This time we require you to use the colors -  pink, blue, green & a pink bow/banner.

Samistamps is our fabulous sponsor this time around!  They have kindly offered  digis to the lucky player AND provided images to our DT to create with this week!

October is Breast Cancer Awareness month & our entire team has used digis from the Think Pink theme by Samistamps.

Please do not miss the inspiring cards by the DT..........................hop over to the challenge blog here.

Playing this at - 

Sisterhood of crafters (5/10)

Creative Moments#52 (5/10)

Altered Chest of Drawers

Hello friends!

I am here with a gorgeous girly altered project I made for my niece.

The 9 drawer chest is from Craftslane. Had a lot of fun with pattern papers  (co-ordinated papers from two packs here - Prima Fairy Rhyme & American Crafts - Lucky Charm).

The little frame here is a Kaisercraft embellishment colored with markers. The vintage image is fussy cut from the Prima - divine collection pack & covered with mod podge dimensional magic to give a faux glass effect.

 

The glass bottle have a cute lock & key charm set.

 

The MDF laser cuts on the side panels are colored with markers & heat embossed with clear EP for glossy finish. The key-charms are pretend pulls for the drawers.

Linking this to -

BGC#59 (30/9) - TOP 3

Simon Says Anything Goes#8 (1/10)

Decorate to Celebrate#84 (30/9)

Little Scrap Pieces#20 (27/9)

LTSCB#38(28/9)

Altered Eclectics - September (30/9) - TOP 5

Crafty Girlz#27 (1/10)

C.R.A.F.T#278 (30/9)

Creatilicious Challenge#67 (14/10)

Sugar Creek Hollow - word play (26/9)

Deep Ocean challenge#87 (5/10)
Lady Bug Crafts- September (30/9)

Creative Colors Challenge#19

Hello bloggers!
Tuesday evening & another challenge at Creative Colors!
This round we want to see polka dots & any three colors from the inspiration picture.

Please do  visit the challenge blog here for inspiration   by the design team using digis by our sponsors - 

As soon as I chose the digi I knew I wanted to make a bookmark card, so here it is - 

 I used distress markers to color the digital stamp. The card has a pocket which holds the bookmark. The little bag of flowers is so adorable!

You will find this card in the following challenges -  

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper September challenge (30/9)  

Creatilicious Challenge #67 - Flower Power (14/10)

DPDC#50 (24/9)

Imagination Crafts - September challenge (30/9)

The Crafting Cafe - September challenge (30/9)

Scribble and Scrapcrafts - challenge-27 (26/9)

Pile it on #37 (20/9)

Stamp and create - September challenge  (5/10)

Crafting from the heart #36 (21/9)

Craft Creations (27/9) 

LTSCB#38 (28/9)

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Decoupage

Hello bloggers & a happy Monday morning to all. 

I have some decoupage to share today.

First up is this tray in bright cheerful colors. Lovely, isn't it!

I love the Royal Rajasthan series of DP by Divya Thallap. This is my second tray in the same design. You must have seen a similar one here. The pearls along the inner edge add so much elegance to this design.

Lastly, I have a box to share. Once again this is my fav DP. I have made an altered hanging keepsake using the same paper here. The edges of the paper distressed using Vintage photo, the bloom is handmade (tattered florals - Tim Holtz alterations).

Linking this to -

Color my heart #110 (18/9)

Dragons lair Design Challenge - Anything(2/10)

Altered Eclectics - September Challenge (30/9)

4 Krafty Girlz Challenge-26 (17/9)

Suzy Bees  Bloomin - Challenge-46 (19/10)

DL Art - September Linky Challenge (1/10)

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Monochromatic tag

 Good Morning friends.........as promised yesterday here am with another tag. This one is almost entirely done in blue. 
Let me briefly take you through the steps -

• To begin I used TCW - birds of a feather stencil with texture paste (homemade)
  to create the base layer, let it dry & then colored over with salty ocean distress paint. 
• Then stamped the script (stampaddicts - pot pourii) in archival black.  Added some crackle paint (rock candy) to the branches. A dash of brown & green highlights the branches.
• Next to tone down the color I added a layer of watery gesso.............

 

Look at the awesome texture! Added a bit of shimmer to all the birds with my favorite Wink of Stella glitter brush pen. 

The little black butterfly is from shrink plastic! 

And the bird charm compliments the theme of the tag, don't you agree? 

The cages were highlighted using vintage photo DI.

The maroon bird escaping from the cage is a rub on & I think is perfect to break the monotony of blue in the tag. 

Next I splattered run down gesso randomly over the tag.

 Playing this at the following  challenges -
http://wordartwednesday.blogspot.in/2014/09/challenge-148-anything-goes.html
http://beyondgrey.blogspot.in/2014/09/bgc58-textured-tag.html - WINNER
http://www.sparklingblackrose-craftmylife.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/all-crafts-challenge-augustseptember.html
http://lovetoscrapchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/ltscb-37-lets-fly-away.html

http://craftcreatoins.blogspot.in/p/new-challenge.html
http://imagination-craftschallenges.blogspot.in/2014/09/september-challenge-anything-goes.html
http://www.craftybloggersnetwork.blogspot.in/2014/09/september-challenge-at-crafty-bloggers.html
http://www.craftindesertdivas.com/2014/09/craft-it-up-and-link-it-up-anything.html
http://artisticinspirationschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/challenge-108-anything-goes-make-it-go.html
http://cutedaisymay.blogspot.in/2014/09/throw-on-flowers-challenge.html
http://crazychallenge.blogspot.in/2014/09/cch-179-three-of-kind.html (three mulberry flowers, three cages)
http://acreativeneed.wordpress.com/join-in-the-monthly-challenge/- WINNER

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Tag in a tag

Good Evening!

The current challenge at Beyond Grey Challenges is to make a tag with textures. I surely wanted to play along because I just love textures.

Enjoyed playing along with texture paste (homemade) & Tim Holtz layering stencil (rays) to create the base. Blended distress inks (mustard seed, spiced marmalade, rusty hinge & fired brick) over this several times. I then placed the stencil over the tag again.............this time I placed the design between the textured rays & then misted water to create some more rays! Take a closer look between the textured rays & you will know what I mean. The script was stamped over this diagonally as if emerging from the rays & the sentiment stamped on another cardstock & glued with foam dots. A beach chair charm dangling over the awesome trim coordinates so well with the sentiment. The bottom of the tag with metal corners has a little vellum pocket for another tag which is made from shrink plastic!  You have to see this tag in person to admire the super shimmer of the wink of stella over the textured rays.

I enjoyed making this so much that I have already started with another tag & writing this post while the background dries! So please do stop by again tomorrow.

Also linking this to - 

http://paulaholifieldcrafts.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/albc-distress-it.html

http://pictureandscrap.blogspot.in/2014/08/udfordring-81-alt-er-tilladt.html

http://ladybugcrafts.blogspot.in/2014/09/september-challenge-july-winner.html

http://www.themirrorcrack1d.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/01-anything-mixed-media-goes.html

http://acreativeneed.wordpress.com/join-in-the-monthly-challenge/

http://brownsugarchallenge.blogspot.in/2014/09/challenge-110-use-lace.html

http://www.sparklingblackrose-craftmylife.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/all-crafts-challenge-augustseptember.html

 

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