LET THE CELEBRATION BEGIN

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAKE IT CRAFTY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!

Yep Make it Crafty is celebrating being one this month and you can join in the celebrations too.
We are excited today to be sharing this celebration with Quixotic Paperie, who were the very first company to take on the Make it Crafty line of stamps, laser cut embellishments and now the Make it Colour blending card.
Quixotic Paperie are celebrating too! It has been their two year anniversary celebrations for the month of June!
To celebrate we thought, rather than a blog hop we would set a CHALLENGE using Make it Crafty products!!
To get inspired, hop on over to the Make it Colourful challenge blog where you will see the amazing creations the fabulous DT’s have created for this event! PLUS find out all the details on how you can play along!
OF COURSE THERE ARE PRIZES!!

There are FIVE challenge categories and there will be FIVE GRAND WINNERS!
PLUS, PLUS, PLUS

There will be random winners throughout the whole month. The numbers have been pre-selected and as soon as an entry is added that matches that number they WIN! Winners will be announced soon after entry on the sidebar of Make it Colourful.
PLUS there’s MORE!!

Quixotic Paperie have a little something for you too!! Make sure you pop on over to HERE to enter your name for a chance at MORE Make it Crafty Goodies!!


PLUS THERE’S MORE!!!

Zoe, the owner of Make it Crafty has a super duper HUGE Candy give away – choc-a-block FULL of Make it Crafty goodies!! AND I have heard a whisper that she is planning on having random giveaways on her blog throughout the month of July! All you need to do is leave her some love as she’ll randomly be choosing people who have commented on her posts throughout the last year!!
PLUS THERE’S EVEN MORE!!!

You’ll also receive a set of steak knives when you... hahaa ONLY Joking BUT... for THREE DAYS ONLY you’ll be able to get 40% off Make it Crafty Digi Stamps when you enter the coupon code: CELEBRATE
(Ends June 28th)

So I do hope you will celebrate with us this month and get into the Make it Crafty spirit of FUN!!

So what are the challenges

Well there is

 MERGE AS MANY IMAGES AS YOU CAN

 I managed to merge SEVEN images for this picture

Mushroom House

Daffodil Dell

Cici

Fifi

Notti

Toto

Vixie



 

I coloured the images with Derwent Coloursoft Pencils, because these new digi  images are soo cute I kept the card layout real simple and just added some of Zoe's gorgeous laser cut chipboard corners. 

If you dont like the idea of merging images then perhaps you will like the next challenge better.

Your mission if you are prepared to accept it is

CHIPBOARD ONLY

yep we dont want to see any images on your creation OMG you know what that means

NO COLOURING!!!!!!!!!!!

 I went the for the clean and simple look for this easel card, Zoe's lasercut chipboard is soo intricate and lovely in all honesty they really dont need to much to make them look stunning. All I have done is paint them with Silver Eco Acrylic Paint and used Silver Mirri Board for Matting.


These are all from the Butterfly Swirls Set

 Added a Text and more chipboard on the inside Job done! One real quick easy card which if I have to say so myself I think looks real classy.

Now if that challenge doesnt appeal pop on over to the challenge site and see what the rest of the challenges are and of course get inspired by the Make It Colourful design team, who have some Jaw Dropping inspiration for you.

Challenges

Papertake Weekly Here comes the Sun

Fab n Funky Summer Loving

Charisma Cardz White and one other

Moving along with the Times  Clean and Simple (not sure if this qualifies, lots of white space but have used embellishments lol)

Little Miss Muffet Guest DT

If Blogger is behaving then this post is coming to you on Thursday, when its time for a new challenge at Little Miss Muffet Challenges. This week we want you to chase this gloomy summer away (for those in the UK anyway) and show us some WARM colours, yep we want to see your creations using RED YELLOW and ORANGE. I have used Coriander  which you can get at Little Miss Muffet Stamps, coriander is cooking up a storm  and what better thing than to cook up a friendhip so I have  paired her with the Friendship Recipe from Lily of the Valley.

Marianne and Spellbinders Dies, Wild Orchid Flowers and Copics were the ingredients that I used for this card.
Hope this inspires you to join in with the challenge.

Challenges

A Spoonful of Sugar
Sew Many Challenges Punch It


Beccy x

Wedding Bliss

 Some not very good photos of the card I have made for a friends wedding, I tried to take a photo with out the flash as the papers are pearlescent but the colours are oh so WRONG LOL.

 This is with the flash and the colour is a bit better but the ribbon looks orange when in fact it is a mixture of Spun Sugar and Antique Linen Distress Stains and is a real nice of pink colour. The image is Lily of The Valley as is the music sheet.

Flowers are mainly Wild Orchid, the heart is from a cake decorating shop and the charn I have had for ages cant remenber where from

I coloured the image with Copics and sprayed her dress with Pearl Glimmer mist for added sheen.

Challenges
Lily of the Valley Bring on the Music
The Ribbon GirlPink and Cream
ABC Wedding
Prarie Fairy Weddings

Little Miss Muffet - Sneak Peak

Isn't she pretty I just love the softness of the dress of this little fairy Adela with her dog Dida. This is one of the new digi images from Little Miss Muffet Stamps due for release on Friday. This image also comes merged with a flower, which I didnt use as I just wanted the focus on the fairy.

This is the first time I have made an acetate card and I am really pleased with the result. I used my new die cuts from The Craft Barn to cut the acetate in my grand Calibur and then used a flourish stamp and purple Stazon to decorate.
The matting is made with  Marianne dies, and the image is coloured with copics and then I sprayed the wings with Silver Glitter Spray from Crafters Companion. I printed the fairy a couple of times and cut some extra wings to add more dimension.

This is probably one of the simplest cards I have made in a long time and I really love it.

Challenges
The Craft Barn

No Milk Today

 I soo love this fab chillaxin cow by Nana Vic, isnt she priceless? You can get her and loads of other fun images from Nana Vics Digitals. Sipping her cocktail which I am pretty sure isnt made of milk lol I knew she was just perfect to pair up with Island Hideaway from Make It Crafty

I coloured her with Copics yeah I know big surprise lol.

The gorgeous flourishes are from Make it Crafty too and I have coloured them with Eco friendly paint.

Challenges
Paperplay Challenges At the Beach
Totally PapercraftsSummer

Underwater

 Had a play with a few more of my unstamped elusive design underwater images. Used the resst of the papers that I made, coloured all the pics with copics and then triple embossed with UTEE.

The corners and Flourishes are from the lovely Zoe and you can get yours at Make it Crafty or for those in Blighty Quxotic Paperie

Our Very Own Tim!!!!!!!!!!

I know how many of you adore Sir Tim but I met the next best thing, our very own English version of Tim,  Neil, he was one of the demonstrators at the Craft Barn Extravaganza last weekend and had some really brilliant tips.

So for once I thought I would give one a go before I forget how to do it LOL. Neil showed us how to make some backing papers with Distress Stains, which I don't have so thought I would try with Distress Re-inkers it kinda worked but only having four colours I was a bit limited on what to put together and used loads of ink. I then went down the mister route and put a few drops of Faded Jeans re-inker into a mister with water and used that, it came out quite well really although I think I NEED those Distress Stains.

I also had a bit of a problem with mu UTEE, and am wondering if it has a use by date cause instead of drying clear it dried really cloudy with a bit of a silvery hue! Very Strange! Still I added Silver Buff anyway so I guess that didnt really matter too much. I then added Bedazzle Beads to finish the paper off.

Looking at the paper, it just had to be a water scene of some description so got out some of the stamps that I got from the Paradise Retreat Weekend that haven't seen ink yet!!!!!!!

This Seadragon is an Elusive Image Design isnt it gorgeous, you can get this at Chocolate Baroque Why haven't I inked it before me wonders! I coloured it with Copics and then triple embossed it.

The pearls I made myself too, they are literally clear glue dots that I blobbed onto my craft mat and left over night to dry, I was originally going to colour them with perfect pearls but thought they looked like air bubbles just plain.

If you go to Neil's Blog he has a tutorial on the paper up and some of his fab work for you to drool over.

And whilst your there you can be real envious cos i am going to go to two yep thats right two lessons with him at the Craft Barn. Gloat Gloat.

challenges

Papertake Weekly Anything Goes
Creative Card Crew,/a> Wings

Hugs Beccy

how to comment

Okay just left a post moaning I cant comment, but then was given the soloution to the eternal signing in loop. when you get to the sign in bit uncheck the keep me signed in box and hey presto you can comment and stay signed in. Hope this helps other frustrated bloggers.

Beccy

Little Miss Muffet Guest DT - Number Challenge

I couldn't wait to share with you all that I was asked by Barbara if I would like to be a guest designer for the Little Miss Muffet  Challenge for the month of June.

The challenge that has been set this week is a Number challenge and  as I had quite fallen in love with this ohh soooo cute little monster 'Monster Mission' from the 'Monster Mash Collection', I knew he had to be the first image I used. He can be purchased from Little Miss Muffet Stamps along with some other real great images, the nice thing about the Little Miss Muffet stamps are that they are digital so you can resize or flip to suit your project and there is a real assotment of images, something there for every taste.

I went totally different to my normal cards and went for a real dimensional card, not too sure about the end result, interested to hear what you think!

I used papers and planets from the Crafters Companion Boys CD and cut cloud shapes for the space theme (do you have clouds in space) the planets and spaceman are attached with wires so they move around.

I coloured the moster and rocket with copics, but because the background papers are pearlescent I couldnt get a real good photo. I added the 4 today to the planet in the My Craft Studio programme. I am thinking this will be a good card for my little monsters 4th birthday. 

 Heres a bit of a side view so you get some idea of the dimension, the little spaceman I have decoupaged before attaching to the wire. Monster Mission has been fixed down with Silicone.

Well if nothing else I hope it inspires you to pop over to the challenge site and see the gorgeous creations the rest of the girls have come up with and I look forward to visiting and seeing your creations.

Hugs Beccy

Dad

 This is one of the way too many stamps that I got from the LOTV Masterclass day, but who can resist those oh soo cute stanps of theirs lol.

Challenges
Sketch Saturday Sketch
Stampin for the Weekend,/a> button, blue and bling (Hoping glossy accents on the letters count as bling lol).
Craft your Days away dad
Totally gorjussStrings the thing

I believe in faries

This little cutie is called Dandelion Clock from Lily of the Valley, aint she cute. I coloured her with copics and prismapencils and added lots of diamond stickles. Papers  are Cottontail from Craftwork Cards. Lace is from the Ribbon Girl and flowers are Wild Orchid.

Challenges

Create 4 Fun Sketch

Lily of the Valley I believe in Fairies

Papertake Weekly Pretty Pastels

Totally Papercrafts Cute and Girlie

A spoonful of Sugar things with Wings

Well that all Im gonna have time for today this little monster has arrived for the weekend!

Treasure Where? Purple and Yellow

Yoohoo its the weekend and we got a bank holiday happy days. Hopefully I will be able to catch up with things and get a bit of quality craft time!

Of course being Saturday it means that we have a new challenge for you at Make It Colourful and this week we want to see the colours Purple and Yellow dont forget this is a colouring challenge so you must use those colours in your colouring NOT the papers.

 I had a problem with my printer this week, it decided not to print :-( after I had already coloured Alvida the pirate for my card I had nothing printed to go with her so decided to abandon her and go with another image that I had printed out on cheapo paper to check out the size, all things considered it didnt turn out too badly but found that the darker colours tended to sit on the paper to long. Had to keep the papers simple as have very few to go with the colour scheme so hopefully made up with it by the abundance of flowers and flourishes.


 For this card I have used
Miss Charlotte
and I have placed her on
Lonely Island
I also used some of my precious new flourishes
Fine Swirls
which I coloured with Purple Stickles with flowers from Wild Orchid, the little white roses I was lucky enough to win in a blog candy from
Deb's.

Copics
I used BV04, BV02, BV01, BV00, BV0000 for her top I used Y08, Y06, Y02, and for the sand I used
Y17, Y35, YR23, YR21

Hubby did manage to sort of get my printer working yesterday when I got home from work and so managed to print out some bits to finish my card with Alvida, who I think is the cutest little pirate ever.

Of course Alvida can be got from Make it Crafty in digital or rubber format, but for those in the UK you can now get the Make It Crafty rubber stamp range from Quixotic Paperie

 Pictures im afraid are not too good whether was really dark by the time I managed to get photos of these, but here is a close up Of Alvida in all her glory (hmmm that sounds like she should be nude lol) it doesnt show well but I have shaped her a little bit and mounted her on foam pads so she is dimensional I also raised the treasure chest so she could really stand on it.

 I tried a few different effects with the Map I started of using a tea Bag and dying it to get a real old effect, it looked great except the print ran and didnt leave her too many clues as to where to start digging lol. Oh for a laser printer! I next tried burning the edges which was okay till I went a bit far and almost set light to myself lol. So settled instead with good old Tea dye distress inks.

The sentiment got the same treatment.
Supplies used
Pirate Talk
Alvida

Treasure Map

I used the same copic colours as above.

Well if your still with me the best news about the challenge this week is our fabulous sponsor
So to be in with a chance to get a great prize from Magnolia-Licious you need to get those colours out!

Challenges
Copic Creations Yellow
Truly Scrumptious Anything goes
Creative Card Crew Anything Goes
ABC Violet
Creatalicious Challenges Flourishes

Colour a Water Scene - Make It Colourful DT

hi everyone, sorry havent been around much lately, work has been hectic and by the time im getting home all I really want to do is sit with my feet up, but I did get chance to play with some of the great new images at Make It Crafty, which tie in soo well with this weeks challenge at Make It Colourful Colour a Water Scene I got to play with Siren Lorelei isn't that hair just gorgeous! you can get her Here and I placed her on Lonely Island, You so need to go and check out some of the other digis in the new collection there is a little bit of something for everyone incuding pirate ships and hula girls.

And for those that love their rubber, Zoe has them too, but for those of you in the UK you can now get Zoe's fab rubber from Quixotic Paperie who is also our sponsor this week.

I kinda kept the card simple and just added some of Zoe's gorgeous laser cut swirls which I coloured with Shimmerz, with a few flowers from Wild Orchid.

Oh well better get off my butt and get some cleaning done cos I am off tomorrow to meet up with Jackie and Bev of Lili of the Valley fame for a fun day of colouring.

Challenges

Copic Creations Yellow
Totally Gorjuss Water Water

Sunshine and Smiles

 I just love this cute little Lily of the Valley girl, I reckon she really wanted a pony and nothing else is good enough LOL.

I coloured her with Copics to match the DP the orange papers are floral dreams by Foundations the green is card I have had in my stash for ever I think from the paperbox.
The swirls are Marianne designs die cuts and the Border is a Spellbinders Die.
I had already laid out my card when I found the perfect sentiment as I didnt have room for it on the outside I put on the inside and carried the theme through.

 Here's a close up of the sentiment LOL. I would have liked a Dont worry be happy but thought this was quite tongue in cheek.

The tag is spellbinders too and the sentiment is LOTV.

Challenges
Cute Card Thursday Sketch an old one or someone elses I used Papertake Weekly
Papertake weekly Sketch
ABC T is for Trouble

Black and a Splash of Red MIC DT

Wow first of all I have to say a huge thank you to all who took part in our Blog Hop last I hope that you all enjoyed it and were inspired to grab yourself some of the fabulous images to have a play with. I love the circus theme so much that I just couldnt resist making another card using the Circus Tent Digi from Make it Crafty for this weeks challenge Make it Colourful which is colouring with black and a splash of red.for this challenge I did wimp out a bit and used my Derwent Colouring Pencils and gamsol.

the backing card is coredinations which I have run through my cuttlebug with a Tim Holtz mask and then lightly sanded over. I kept it real simple as I want this card for my sons birthday on Monday, Yep he is so special he even has a bank holiday on his birthday or thats what he keeps telling me lol, so I just added some buttons and left it at that. Even though his name is Alan I called the card Jerry;s Circus cos I found the perfect stamp within my stash for a circus

Weight Lifting 

 Isn't he just the cutest? I have put him on the inside so that he pops up when you open the card.

 Here's a bit of a close up of Jerry

 and the tent.

Pencils used
Dove Grey, Persian Grey, Black, Scarlet.

Oh dah totally dont know where my head is you'll be wanting to know who our sponsor is this week.

Well you lucky folks you could be the winner of a prize from the fabulous Tiddly Inks

Challenges
Simon Says Anything Goes