Cool Colours

Hi Bloggers

Sorry it's a bit late but the new challenge at Charisma Cardz is

KEEP YOUR COOL

so cards made only using colours from the cool side of the colour spectrum. the fab sponsors this week are

and

Her's my card, not much I'm afraid as we had a death in the family, so seeing as I wasn't feeling very creative bit needed to make a card I thought it would be OK if I combined both things and made my DT card the condolence card too.

This is the first time I've used chalks on a card and I liked the results  I used them with one of my pro marker blender pens and was surprised how easy it was.

Anyway hope you will join the challenge this week.

Happy Crafting

Kate

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Recipe Challenge

Its Team Carly Challenge Week again at

Charisma Cardz Challenges

and this week its a recipe challenge

3 EMBELLISHMENTS/FLOWERS

2 BACKING PAPERS

1 STAMPED IMAGE/SENTIMENT

Here is my make for this week, and I have to confess to my slip up of using a stamped image and sentiment, sorry :(

I made this for a special friend who is such a fabulous person and always there for me. I loved making this mainly because I love ladybugs, black and red and I found the stamp really easy to colour, so think I may have found a new fave stamp company :)

I hope you will come along and join in the challenge this week, I look forward to seeing all your fab entries.

Happy Crafting

Kate

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CAS

Its time for another challenge at

Charisma Cardz

and this week the challenge is

CLEAN AND SIMPLE

Our fab sponsors are

and

here is what I made this time

isnt he a cutie 

I hope you will join us in this weeks challenge

Happy Crafting

Kate

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Here Come The Boys

Oh I am such a bad blogger, I totally forgot to let my teamies have a pic of my make for this weeks challenge at

Here Come The Boys

The challenge this week is 

EDWIN ONLY

nice and easy for all us maggie lovers

Here's my make

Superstar Edwin looks ready for action and ready to save the world lol

I hope you will join the challenge this week

Happy Crafting

Kate

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Badda Bing

That is the theme for Charisma Cardz Challenge this week

BADDA BING or SOMETHING SHINY

The fantastic sponsors this week are

and here is my make

I used a gorgeous Pink Cat Studio digi. My bling comes in the form of gems, metal corners, stickles and glossy accents.

I hope you will come along and join our challenge this week, nothing like a bit of sparkle to brighten every ones day and this challenge gives you an excuse to get glittery :)

Happy Crafting

Kate

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I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Black & White

Happy Sunday Folks

 

Its my 2nd go as guest DT at

 

Here Come The Boys

 

and this times challenge is

 

MONOCHROME

 

Here is my make

 

 

I stuck to black & white and decided on a circle theme, kept it very simple withcard candi, twine and circles cut from paper.

 

I hope you will come along and join in the challenge this week.

 

Happy Crafting

Kate

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Whoops!! A Little Late

Whoopsie I am a little late with my post today, I forgot to schedule it last night, so very sorry but its here now, or at least it will be when I've finished typing it.

The challenge at Charisma Cardz this week is

THINGS WITH WINGS

and we have 2 fab sponsors

the prize of 4 single stamps or 1 stamp set

AND

$10 voucher to spend in their online store

So here is my make

All pretty and summery even though the weather here at the moment is anything but summery, one day nice one day rain, wish it would just decide on one and stick to it :)

Anyway I used 2 of my fab new punches that I chose with my £100 winnings to spend on tonic items, I'm not much of a butterfly person but just had to get the butterfly punch and the butterfly border punch as they are so cute. I used a light green pearlescent paper for the border strip and the bottom layer of the butterflies, and then used a glitter card in the same colour green for the top layer of the butterflies and finished off with teeny weeny pink flat back pearls. 

The gorgeous image, which is from stamp fairy, was coloured with pro markers and I added glossy accents to the love hearts and his nose. I believe the backing paper was from a paper stack free with a magazine a while back, but don't quote me on it lol

Well that's it from me today, again sorry my post was a little late, and I hope you will pop over to the main blog and check out my fellow DT girls work.

Happy Crafting

Kate

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I would like to enter this into these challenges:

1st GDT For HERE COME THE BOYS

Yep you read it right, I was asked a few weeks ago if I would like to be a Guest Design Team member at 

Here Come The Boys

and I jumped at the chance. I don't make many male cards and really enjoyed the challenge of making my GDT cards.

This weeks challenge is a

RECIPE

3 Papers

2 Brads or Buttons

1 Image

Here is what I came up with

I have quite a few fishing enthusiasts in my family so this will come in handy. For the 3 papers I used a plain pearlescent blue as the base paper, I embossed a more turquoise blue thin card for the 2nd layer and then used a scrap of patterned paper that I found lurking in my paper oddments file. I thought it fitted in well with it having wave like shapes on it.

I decided not to use normal buttons but to go for something a bit different and used these 2 buttons that you can thread ribbon through and i used a piece of twine through them, every fisherman has the odd bit of twine or string in their pockets don't they. Finally the image is coloured with promarkers.

I hope you will nip along to the blog here and join in this weeks challenge.

Happy Crafting

Kate

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I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

http://www.blog2.ourcraftlounge.com/?p=7998

http://pattiescreationschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/challenge-52-theme-is-embossing-must.html

http://simplycreatetoo.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/challenge-22-anything-goes.html

http://mymumscraftshopchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/challenge-74-buttons-mini-dt-call.html

Fab Candy

I've just seen this and wanted to share with you all

 

The Craft Barn

 

has an amazing blog candy up for grabs worth over £150!!!!!

 

Look at all this yumminess

 

 

 

 

Quickly nip over the their blog and follow the instructions on how to enter and fingers crossed one of my blogging friends will win these goodies

 

Happy Crafting

Kate

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Crafty Stash For Sale

Hello Blogland People

I just thought I would share with you my little auction of crafty wares that I am having on my facebook page. Pop along and see if you can grab a bargain, or if you see something you definitely want and its got no bids on it make me an offer and you can buy it straight away :D

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.375964472475017.85364.186189631452503&type=1

Just Inspirational Challenges

Its time for another challenge at

Just Inspirational Challenges

and this time we have a beautiful inspirational photo for you

and our fantastic sponsor for this week is

Papelitos has a etsy shop here where you can find the brilliant digi's.

So here is my make for this challenge

I used the digi ARI as I wanted to  use something not all sweet and soft and girly to do a pink card with, I think it worked ok and I am very happy with how this turned out.

I hope you will come along and join our challenge this time and pop over to the JIC blog or facebook page for the other DT members makes.

Happy Crafting

Kate

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Lovely Lace

Thats the theme for this weeks challenge at

Charisma Cardz

and the sponsors this time are

and here is my make for this week

I hope you will all play along with this challenge, pop over to the challenge blog and see the other DT lladies makes this week.

Happy Crafting

Kate 

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Summertime

Well it's meant to be summertime anyway, and our inspirational pic for this times challenge is very summery

Isn't it lovely

We are sponsored this time by

StampArt Design by Kathryne

Here is what I made this week

Please come along to

Just Inspirational Challenges

and join us in our summer challenge.

Happy Crafting

Kate

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Flora & Fauna

Thats the challenge this week at Charisma Cardz 

and our fab sponsor this week is

The Stamping Boutique

Here is my take on this weeks theme

I hope you will come along and join us this week.

Happy Crafting

Kate

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Scrappers Delights

Hi peeps

Just thought I would give you all a gentle reminder about the fab sketch challenge taking place at Scrappers Delights this week.

I love working with a sketch as half the thought of making a card has been done for me :)

So this is the sketch

and you still have a few more days to enter the challenge to win some fab digi images.

Happy Crafting

Kate

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Scrappers Delights

Hi Bloggers

Today is the start of a new challenge at Scrappers Delights

and its my first challenge as part of their design team, sooooooo exciting .

The challenge this time is a sketch

and here is my take on the sketch

I used Dragonfly Pixie Digi 3 and she is gorgeous to colour.

I hope you will come and join our challenge this time, cant wait to see what you all come up with.

Happy Crafting

Kate

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Monochrome

Good Morning Bloggers

Its time for another challenge at Charisma Cardz, and todays challenge is

Monochrome

We are sponsored this week by

and

and here is my make

I decided to go for brown monochromatic and really like how this has turned out.

Please pop along to the challenge blog here and enter our challenge this week to be in with a chance of winning some amazing digi's from our lovely sponsors.

Happy Crafting

Kate

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Olympic Fever

Only 1 day to go until it all kicks off in London

and here at Just inspirational Challenges this week we are all excited and as such our challenge this week is

OLYMPIC FEVER

with this inspirational sporty photo

Our lovely sponsor this week is

There are some fab digi's over on Mayzy Art

So here is my make for this week

I have lots of smash*book friends all over the world so this week i made my own postcards with an Olympic colour theme, the snail mail digi is sooooooo cute and perfect for postcards.

I hope you will come along and join in our challenge this week 

Happy Crafting

Kate

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Christmas

Yeah I know, I know, its only July but before you know it, Chrimbo-time will be here again.

Over on the Teddy-Bo blog they are having a 'Chjristmas In July' challenge so after someone in a facebook group mentioned it I decided I would have a go. I've not done many Teddy Bo cards before and even less Christmas cards ready for this year (in fact only the 1, well 2 now if you count this 1) so here's my card

Now its not that I'm not a fan of traditional Chrimbo colours, I am, but I normally like to do a lot of various colours of cards and thought this lovely Christmas paper would be great to go along with Teddy Bea in her fairy costume.

Teddy Bea is coloured with pro markers and I don't know if you can see it or not but her wings and star wand have been glammed up with frosted lace stickles.

The paper was from a paper stack that came as a magazine freebie, I believe it might be a Kate Knight paper but not 100%, ribbon from my stash and thank goodness for the trusty bow maker as I am useless at getting nice bows by myself, card candi, and 2 clear stamps used to make the sentiment.

I hope you like my take on Christmas In July

Happy Crafting

Kate

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I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

http://teddybo-and-co.blogspot.co.uk/

http://www.creativeinspirationspaint.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/ci-paints-inspired-by-christmas-in-july.html

http://www.platypuscreekdigitals.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/challenge-11-things-with-wings.html

http://thatcraftplaceblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/anything-goes.html

http://sendasmile4kidschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/christmas-in-july-challenge.html

http://cardcrafterscircle.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/challenge-31-christmas-in-july.html

http://jellyparkchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/christmas-in-july.html

http://divasbydesignchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/challenge-43-christmas-in-july.html

http://stampwithsarahkay.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/challenge-172-christmas-in-summer.html

New Just Inspirational Challenge

Hello Bloggers 

Its time for another challenge at Just Inspirational Challenges and this week we have lots of reasons for you to have a go at the challenge.

Firstly we have not 1 but 2 lovely sponsors this week, both offering a prize. 

They are

and

and as a special thank you to everyone who takes part in the challenge this week, I have made some sentiment circles and oval to give away to you all. All you have to do is upload your make to the challenge blog and remember your entry number on Mr.Linky, email me at chicedwards@ntlworld.com telling me your email and entry number and I will email you the sheet of sentiments.

Please do not share these, they are for you own personal use only and must not be sold on or given away. If you know of anyone who would like them, please direct them to the JIC blog and get them to enter the challenge then they can get them emailed to use too.

OK so time for my creations. This week we have this scrummy inspirational pic

and these are my makes

Firstly using a beautiful Stamp'n'Doodle digi

and then my card with the stunning Scrappers Delights digi

I hope you like both my cards this week, pop along to my fellow DT's blogs and take a peek at what they made this week, then have a go at the challenge. Dont forget to email me for your sentiments and get your friends to join the challenge too.

Happy Crafting

Kate

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Ready, Steady, Recycle !!!

Nope Ive not lost my marbles, thats the theme for this weeks challenge at Charisma Cardz

RECYCLE

and we are sponsored this week by

three fantastic sponsors

Here's my card for you this week

I used the gorgeous Meljens digi 'Candy Land Dreams' coloured with pro markers and stickles for a bit of sparkle. The recycled parts of my card are the blue backing paper, its actually the inside of a large white envelope i received some mail in, and the pink heart button which was on a keyring my daughter gave me to see if i wanted to reuse anything.

I hope you like is, pop over to Charisa Cardz and take a peek at what my fellow DT have created this week, get your thinking caps on and join us in our Recycle challenge.

Happy Crafting

Kate 

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