Black Orange and Choice Fab n Funky Challenge

Its time for a new challenge at Fab n Funky and this week our host is Jackie who inspired by our brilliant sponsor for this week 

Pink Cat Studio

has chosen the theme

BLACK ORANGE and ONE OTHER

and lucky us we got to play wit some of the cute Pink Cat images.

I chose Frankenstein Billy and Witch Lily  and made a halloween  treat pot.

cant wait to see what you guys come up with for the challenge.

Challenges
Papertake Weekly - Fright Night
Shopping our stash - trick or treat
Simon Says - Eerie Inspiration

Beccy x

Fab n Funky DT

Hi Everybody

Well here it is my first card for the Fab n Funky Challenge and our challenge this week is one of my all time favourite challenges  VINTAGE.

We have a truly amazing sponsor for the challenge this week is

Flonzcraft

who are offering $20 voucher and free shipping to the winner and also giving a 12% discount to all entrants. 

For my card I used this gorgeous stamp from the Stampsmith 'Hamlets' 'Ophelia'  isnt she lovely.

Recipe
Vintage Photo Distress Ink
Wild Orchid Flowers
Lace and Ribbon from stash
Spellbinders Oval Nesties
Swirl Die
My Minds Eye 'Paris & Co' Papers

Challenges
Wild Orchid Challenge - Anything Goes
Simon Says - Dies or Punches
ABC Anything Goes
Te Crafty Pad - Vintage

Exquisite Princess

Had a play with some gorgeous images from Make It Crafty today and some of the New Memory dies that I got from Ally Pally.

I used Enchanted Unicorn from the Fantasy collection and Exquisite Princess from the Fairytale collection.

I merged the images together so she was sat upon the unicorn in a My Craft Studio programme. I coloured her with Copic pens and kept the unicorn real simple by just adding a few shadows  with some glitter pen highlights on his mane and tail.

Hope you like

Challenges
Cards Galore - Anything Goes
Lollipop Crafts - Something Old Something New (new Memory Box Dies old Paper and Spellbinder Dies)
Paperplay Challenges - Shine On
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Beccy

Some News

Just wanted to let you all know that I got a big surprise this week when I was asked to join the 

FAB N FUNKY DT. How cool is that :-)  

 fab n funkychallenges

My first official challenge will be on the 17th October and it will be doing one of my all time favourite challenges!!!!!!!! Hope you will all join me then.

Oh and just to let you know Donna has an amazing blog candy celebrating her birthday, def a candy that you will want to keep your fingers crossed for specially if your in the UK. For those that dont know Donna she does the most gorgeous digi papers, well worth popping over to have a look at her Bearly Mine blog.

Angelline Ballerine

Hi everyone thought it was about time I ventured back into blogland - haven't being doing too much crafting of late, decorating the house has taken precedent but the bad weather has arrived, did I say arrived not too sure it ever left here in Blighty lol. So back to the craft table for me (dinner table to the rest of the family).

This little cutie is Angelline Ballerine by Stampavie which I got at the Craft Barn, where I have been doing a few classes, havent got around to taking any photos of what I have done yet but will post in the coming weeks.

Challenges
Stampin for the Weekend Flowers
charisma cardz Things with Wings

Blonde Hair

It was my turn to post on the Make It Crafty store Blog and I chose the in house challenge of blonde hair. I wanted to have a bit of an experiment with different colours for a medium look blonde hair.

This is one of my first attempts and I was quite pleased with the colour combination except the highlighted area is not very distinct. So had another go with same combination.

Def more the look I was aiming for. having the two piccies now what better way to use them than on a bag yep still loving making them and card to match.

on a roll I carried on the theme and changed the colours that I was using slightly for the nest pics

thought I would try little bit darker for this cute little Frenchie Leon

and as things seemed to be going quite well and who am I to stop a creative roll I carried on and completed the last piccie in the Frenchie set. Again I changed the colour of the hair slightly.

I added some of the gorgeous chippies from make it crafty to these, which I coloured with copics and then sprayed with Crafters Companion silver glitter spray.

Make It Crafty Products Used
Butterflies and Leaves
Frenchie Claudine
Frenchie Leon
Frenchie Valerie

If you want to know what colours I used for the hair pop over to the Make It Crafty Store Blog where you will see some amazing creations by my teamies.

Challenges
Fab n Funky Go Green Who are having a DT call! (I applied lol)
Moving Along with the Times Anything but a card
Delightful Challenges Fun in the Sun
Stampin for the Weekend Bugs and Butterflies



Beccy x

Were at The Movies blog hop

Oh wow what can I say but soo sorry every one just got in from work to discover that my post did not publish which is real annoying as I was up at 2:00 am this morning adding the finishing touches - hopefully better late than never!!!!!!!!!!!


Make it Crafty and Simply Betty Stamps are really excited to be bringing you the combined Hollywood Release!

Simply Betty Stamps has a range of characters from Betty Monroe, through to Action Chris the movie director!!

Make it Crafty has a range of background scenes perfect to switch and match with your famous characters!!

Of course we are going to have heaps of fun with this theme and June 1st & June 2nd we will be showcasing our stuff and then June 3rd we're bringing you a fun guessing game... Will you be able to guess the movie?? We'll be giving you some clues to help!!

Join us for the two inspiration days and leave a comment along the way for your chance to win a selection of new images.
There will be FOUR winners each day receiving a surprise character with matching background digi stamps.

Then on June 3rd, guess 6 out of 12 movies correctly and you will have a chance to win:

Grand Prize

A DVD Movie of your choice
PLUS the whole collection of MiC & SBS digi stamp Hollywood release images.

Second Prize
The whole collection of MiC & SBS digi stamp Hollywood release!

Can't wait?!!
But we know some of you just can't wait so both Betty and Zoe are offering you 25% off
their Hollywood collections between June 1st and June 3rd!

Click Here for Simply Betty Stamps & Click Here for Make it Crafty!

We hope you have lots of fun with us this weekend!!!



How are you enjoying the hop so far - arent these images fantastic? I am just loving these great characters from Simply Betty Stamps. Hopefully you will have made your way here from the talented Suzi's blog and your already feeling inspired. If you didnt then hop right over to the start which you will find is at the incredibly talented Barbara'sBlog.



I got too play with the adorable Lady Lola and what better place for her to be than on the Make It Crafty background of the red carpet.

(Which is soo fitting for me cos I am writing this suffering from a slight hangover, having been lucky enough to attend the Glamour Awards yesterday (Tuesday), yep I got to mingle with the stars for the night and walk on the red carpet and even though I was there working it was an amazing experience.)

Oops back to my project which is why your here really. LoL

Yep I am still on a bag kick really loving doing these! this one is a bit bigger than the others I had so made my image a bit bigger than normal, so I have used both Copics and Prisma Pencils to colour.

I have used flowers from Wild Orchid, feathers and paper that I seem to have had for ages, but cant remember where from.
I hope this has inspired you in some small way and now you are of to see the fantastic creation made by the Green Godess herself Leila
Have fun and enjoy the rest of the hop.

Beccy x

Indian Warrior

Managed to have a littl play and make something just because I can today (well thats my opinion anyway). I'm not really good at making cards for boys and men, which is soo not good when you have three sons and two grandsons, but I just fell in love with this cute little Indian Warrior by Nellie Snellen, and have been waiting for a chance to ink him up.

he's been coloured with Copics, the papers are by Whiff of Joy which I have had for ages and totally forgot about! I am soo going to have to ban myself from bying any more papers or printing any till I have used some of my stash up!!!!!!



Challenges
Pink Gem Challenge Sketch
Delightful Challenges Distressing
Totally Papercrafts No Pesky Girls Allowed

Gift Bag 2

Decided to have another go at a gift bag and didnt have quite so many disasters this time lol, bit dissappointed with the wings though had to use a new quickie glue and it really came out thick and fast, so glitter is not as delicate as I would have liked.

Image is from Lili of the Valley coloured with Copics

Flowers are Wild Orchid

Papers Pink Parfait Forever Friends

Ribbon coloured with copic pen

Left the back plain as soo much going on in front.
Challenges
Lili's Lil Fairies Anything Goes

Gift Bag

Finally got around to using the gift bags that I got at Ally Pally this weekend, this is the first one that I tried and you so would not believe the amount of disasters that I had making it, by rights it should be in the bin, but I persevered and am now really pleased with how it turned out.

Image is from Whiff of Joy.

Coloured with Copics

Papers are called Isabelle by Sparky & Marie

Flowers are from Wild Orchid

Ribbon was white but I got the exact match by colouring with Spiced Marmalade distress inks then dipping it in water and drying with heat gun.

A bit of decoration on back and bobs your uncle done - wish it was that easy lol!

Am entering into the WOJ Challenge which is bingo I have gone for Punch/Flowers/Pearl

Challenges

Whiff of Joy Bingo

Creative Card Crew Ribbon

ABC Orange

Rainbows - Make It Colourful

Hiya

A new challenge starts today at the MIC Clubhouse - Todays Challenge is R A I N B O W S.


I soo loved the new images Zoes's just bought out I just had to have a little play with them you can find all the new images here at the  Make It Crafty store

I have used the three Mermaids and combined them with stamps from Chocolate Baroque, which by the way Zoe is quite happy for you to combine her images with other peoples but not all artists are so please be careful which images you put together!

And where is my Rainbow? Yep my mermaids are my interpretation of the theme! I am soo  looking forward to seeing what your interpretation is going to be!

I have triple embossed all the images which has made them look a bit washed out ummmm not a godd idea when using copic paper I guess!

Backgound done with China Blue distress inks and silver buff and added some seed beads

Oh and if you want to see some more of these images and get some real great ideas pop over to make it crafty where the girls have got an amazing blog hop going!

Colour The Dark Side

 The challenge at Make it Crafty this week is to colour the dark side!

What we want you to do is to take an image and colour it normally then recolour it dark.

For this challenge I have used Annabelle to start with I used the BV's 0000, 000, 01, 02 04 and YG93, 95 and 97

and for her darker side I used N7, 5, 3,1, 0 and C7,5,3,2,1,0 with a splash of R17 This is the first time I have tried colouring an image just using the dark greys only and was really pleased how it came out I was a bit worried that I wouldnt be able to get the shading right (not that I ever get it totally right lol) but I dont think they came out too bad.

Dont forget that the great thing about the Make it Colourful challenges are they are all about the colouring so dont worry if you havent had time to finish a project as long as you have coloured the image yourself using your preferred medium and this even includes comuter graphics then you can enter it for your chance to win a $20 gift voucher for the amazing Make it Crafty Store and if you use a make it crafty image you also get a chance to win 2 digi images. So get those colours out and bring out your dark side.

hugs Beccy

Colouring Movement - Make it Crafty

The fortnightly challenge at Make it Crafty this is time is to colour movement and oh wow I found this challenge real hard.

My very poor attempt is of Lulu swinging I wanted to give the impression that the swing was moving so using the My Craft Studio programme I copied the picture three times, I changed the density of 2 so that they were a lot lighter and twisted them slightly I then layered the back on top of each other.

I used Derwent Pencils for the image and tried to keep the movement images real pale didnt quite succeed with the shoes though. Still thats the great thing about the Make it Crafty challenges they get you to try things that you never did before and experiment.

If you want to join in and have a try at the challenge pop over to the Make it Crafty Gallery and see what the rest of the team have done.

Mothers Day

With Mothers day just round corner thought I'd better get my backside into gear and make something for my mun - I didnt have any typical mothers day words and hubby was hogging the computer so I couldnt print some, but I found these cute words which I think are perfect for Mothers Day and whats more suited to the occassion that one of the cute little girls from the Lily of the Valley.

I've coloured her with copics and derwent pencils. The sentiment is also from LOTV.

Challenges
Sketch Saturday Sketch
Simon Says Mothers Day
Totally Papercrafts Favourite things (LOTV Stamp; Flourishes; Ribbon)
One Stop Craft Mothers Day/Ribbon
Lily of the Valley Ribbon and Lace

Colour with Green - Make it Crafty

 Its time for another challenge over at

Make it Colourful and this time we want to see your green colouring.


This week I chose to colour this gorgeous image from Sweet Pea Stamps, which I have had for over a year and its never seen ink lol.

The sentiment I stamped onto shrink plastic and coloured with Glitter spray.

Copics used

Hair

YG97; 95; 93; 91

Dress

YG63; 67; 82; N5; RV93; 95; 91

The gorgeous flourishes from Make it Crafty are coloured with YG99 you can get these and other great designs Here

Challenges
Papertake Weekly Anything Goes Shrink Plastic Option
Stamp with Fun Pink and Green

Purple Passion

Hi everyone, just a quick post to share today. made this card for my DIL birthday, the image is

Lizzie with Gift<./a> from Make it Crafty.

Flowers and swirls are  marianne design

Used Copics to colour her and the ribbon.

Challenges

Stamptacular Sunday Challenge Photo Inspiration.

Autumn Colours - Make It Colourful DT

 Copics on the chair, Distress Inks balanced precariously on the cutter,  papers on the table, stamps everywhere, glue and scissors in the pot and glitter in me hair, yep I'm BACK.

Dont worry I'm not gonna bore you with why I have been MIA for so long, just want to say im glad to be back and the best bit is that I am still designing with the most amazingly talented DT in Blogland, which is of course the Make It colourful girls.

The new fortnightly challenge starting today is to colour using Autumn Colours.

Great challenge for me cos I love the autumn colours, I know it means that winter is just round the corner but Mother Nature sure knows how to say goodbye to the good weather. the colours at this time of year are amazing and luckily I live quite close to Epping forest so get to see the trees at their best.

And for my first project in such a long time it had to be a card using some of the fab new digis from the PARIS COLLECTION at Make It Crafty.

For my design I used elements from the Balcony Doors and Windows set, the Creeping Ivy set and Daphne Princess

For my design I would like to say I was inspired by the pre made scene that Zoe has done for those that don't want to merge images together, but the truth is I copied it unashamedly lol. I did start of merging the images but then decided it was such a great 3D scene it deserved a bit more than that.

I printed each element seperately and coloured them in as I couldnt decide which colouring medium to go for I have used a bit of everything lol.

The balcony door and railings are coloured in Copics. Daphne in Derwent pencils. Ivy in Big and Juicy and Brick Backgound with Distress Inks,

Once I had coloured all the images I cut them all out, including all the white from the railings. I then moulded each piece and assembled them onto the brick background, which is a sissix folder.

I have ended up with a true 3D scene of Daphne on the balcony all dressed up with I hope somewhere great to go. Im thinking she is looking to see where her prince charming has got to!

Colours Used
Daphne Princess Dress

Derwent Pencils: Pimento C450; Deep Red C130; Persion Grey C660
Balcony Door
Copics: E41; E40; E31; E70; E71; Y11; C1
Balcony
Copics: N3; N1; N0
Ivy
Big and Juicy Stamp Pad: Spice
Brick Background
Distress Inks: Fired Brick; Tea Dye

New Year

HAPPY NEW YEAR - to all my lovely crafting buddies

Havent been around for what seems like forever, and have missed visiting you all soo much.
 Havent been able to craft for ages and am really looking forward to getting back into it.
Off on holidays real soon so will be back with a vengence after that.
Am looking forward to some of the AMAZING challenges ZOE has got lined up for the coming year at Make It Colourful!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hope to see you all real soon

Beccy

Blog Hop Winner and new challenge

We have a new challenge starting today over at Make it Colourful which works soo well with the fabulous new release at  http://www.makeitcrafty.com.au/ of some fabulous new winter scenes.
We want to see you colour snow. You can use whatever medium you like ase long as the snow is coloured.

Would love to show you what I created for the challenge but in my usual last minute rush to get something done I spilt water over my project its more slush than snow now lol. Never mind we have almost two weeks to get something ready so will try again at the weekend.

Ohhhh and dont forget the monthly challenge has also started this month fits in with Halloween and were asking you to do a scary sky.

Okay now on to the real important news the Blog Hop Winner of my candy!

I used Random.org to choose my winner and that was

True Random Number Generator




Min: 1

Max: 78

Result:

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JO of It's my Creative World.
 
Congratulations hun if you wanna drop me an email with your snail mail I will get your prize of to you.




Thanx to everyone who joined in our hop and helped to make Zoe's birthday a little bit special.



 
Hugs Beecy

Sheer Clothing - Make It Colourful DT

Were changing things slightly at Make It Colourful - so that you get more time to experiment with your colouring for the challenges were going over to fortnightly challenges. The Challenges will now be posted on the Friday so that you get all weekend to play and then you will have until the Wednesday of the second week to upload your project into our Challenge Gallery. (Dont worry this is a colouring challenge so if you haven't made your colouring into anything, it is still acceptable) 

(and yep I know it is now Sunday and I am only just posting, but had a bit of a week hubby has just had a pacemaker fitted, so been backwards and forwards to the hospital, he's all home now and recovering well) luckily the Make It Colourful team have a real understanding Boss in Zoe who knows that for a lot of these challenges it is our first time trying them as well so she doesnt mind us being a little late.

This fortnights challenge was most definetly a first time for me and I am going to say it my self just in case no one else does lol - I am real pleased with how it turned out. (Six months ago I wouldnt have even attempted this, lol, thanks Zoe for pushing us)

I used Angelica Prays from the new Christmas Collection.

Hopefully I have managed to keep her modesty with my Sheer dress! I wasnt to sure how to tackle this challenge until I watched the 'you tube' video the link is on the Make It Colourful Challenge Site.

I first coloured her body with Copics and then did the dress using a red Derwent Pencil and Sansador. The hardest part was working out which way the folds went in order to get the shading in the righ places, not saying that what I have done here is right, but I think I have the right idea.

Hope you give this a try.

Challenges
Scrap CreationsIts a Girl Thing
Flutter By Wednesday Open


Beccy