Crafting Purple Crazy

Circle circus - MTTC DT

2012-02-28T12:00:00.002+01:00

Morning all, hey 2nd day of warm weather and gorgeous sunshine, I was able to get some much needed sunshine through the open window yesterday for a couple of hours, hope to get some more this afternoon, fresh air and sunshine oh so lovely. Now I just need to get rid of the invisible people sticking knives and twisting them in my ears, throat and chest, my goodness it's so painful and hurts so to breath, always amazes me how it can be so painful with all the daily pain meds I have to take anyway !!

I'm not quite sure why but I seem to have gained quite a few followers this week in the matter of a couple of days, very odd, but I welcome you and thank you so much for choosing to follow my little blog, just hope I don't bore you too much, I always welcome comments and constructive critiscm, like a lot of crafters I'm always full of self doubt about my work, often lack creative mojo.

Well it's time for another challenge over at My Time To Craft we would love to see your creations and some circles. My imgage and Bp's are all from the Humphrey Collection at Crafters Companion, I used nesties to cut my circles, edged my main paper with color box chalk ink and finished off with card candi. Hope to see your creation on the MTTC blog.

Challenges:

party time tuesdays - anyhting goes

theres magic in the air - creatures

that craft place - anything goes

all sorts - anything goes

dieing for a challenge - anything goes

crazy challenge - anything goes

2 sisters - anything goes

aud sentiments - happy

crafts and me - spring colours

crafty ribbons - paws

delightful challenges - papers

paper-crafting journey - cute

paper sundaes - circles

shellys images - triple

truly scrumptious - creatures
make it monday -anything goes

Recycled - CD Sunday DT

2012-02-26T10:00:00.017+01:00

Hi all, what a week, I've been in a lot more pain than the usual level, and really locked up joints, so I haven't done an much at all apart from some reading, luckily I've had my OH doing a bit more massaging than usual on my back/neck/shoulders and legs, so it's lifted a little, almost back to my normal level, ah well these things are sent to try us, must try and catch up on some commenting next.

Anyway enough of my boring stuff, this week we are looking for some recycling over at CD Sunday, instead of the usual card I decided to finish off some of my craft pots, not very exciting or blinged up i'm afraid more for practicality than pretty, i've used various papers from MCS Cd's and recoloured them in purple of course so they all matched colourwise, I also used some fabric and paper ribbons and MS punched borders. The pots/boxes are from Bisto, hot choc, cadburys mini eggs, sweetcorn tin, and some plastic containers that had lost their lids.

Whilst I was showing those, I thought I would show you my alchohol pen storage, that my OH made for me recently using plastic piping and some tongue and groove wood we had left over from another project.

Lastly for today, I emailed into C & C for the first time today when Joanna Sheen was on with her House Mouse Saturday program this afternoon and attached piccy's of my latest two HMD cards and I had it read out and my piccy's shown, quite a weird feeling seeing two things I've made on the the TV !!

Challenges:

anything goes challenge - anything but a card

delightful challenges - pattern papers
the crafty pad - recycling

Photo Inspiration - OLLCB DT

2012-02-20T10:00:00.024+01:00

Now where did that fortnight go ? It's time for a new challenge over at OLLCB, this time we had a photo for our inspiration and this is what I came up with. My images are from Carnival of Colour, I use some Hunky Dory embossed card and some flower beads I've had in a little pot for ever.

Challenges:
all sorts - anything goes
abc-challenge - jazz it up
crafty purple frog - flower power
pennys paper craft - anything goes
sj papercrafts - flowers pink
truly madly crafty - ribbon
robyns fetish - pretty in pink
Make it Monday
always crafting - anything goes
my grafico crafts - flowers

Wings & Legs - CD Sunday DT

2012-02-19T09:57:00.006+01:00

Morning, another Sunday is upon us already, at least it's warmer now, the temp's are staying a little above freezing, but a long way to go till summer.

This week at CD Sunday we want to see Wings and Legs, I chose to go with Flower Fairies from Crafters Companion for my card this week, it doesn't show on this piccy but the wings and dress have some glitter for a bit of sparkle.

Challenges:
card makin mamas - birthday
flutter by wednesdays - anything with wings
crafty catz - fav things
totally papercrafts- ribbon
cute card thursday - flower power
shellys images - anything goes
sj paper crafts - flowers
bunny zoes - celebrations
divas by design - wings
sparkles forum - wings
paper sundaes - birthday
crafters companion - anything goes

Bring on the Cake - MTTC DT

2012-02-14T11:30:00.054+01:00

Bring on the Cake - it's time to celebrate !! my cute little House Meeces are having a picnic with their cakes. Cake - such a versatile item of food, celebrations, combating the blues, or just because you feel like it, there's always a reason for cake, we actually just got above freezing yesterday, the first time in over 2 weeks, so my wish for warmer weather came true at last, not quite picnic weather yet.

So this time at MTTC we would like to see some cake on your creations, my BP's are from Artylicious and Ooh-La-La, ribbon, flowers and House Mouse Image are from Joanna Sheen and Centura Pearl base card from Crafters Companion. Hope to see your creation over at MTTC soon.

Challenges:

craft-room challenge - cute n cuddly

bunny zoes crafts - celebrate

make it monday - anything goes

truly madly crafty - ribbon and bling

alphabet challenge - animal antics

all sorts - free n easy feb

craft us crazy - anything goes

crafters companion - anything goes
house mouse-challenge - wishes
Moving Along with the Times - Cute Critters
the crafty pad - Letter B (bow or blue)

L for ?? - CD Sunday DT

2012-02-12T09:30:00.033+01:00

Morning all, still vvvverrry cold here -12C again last night and struggling to reach -4 in the daytime for the past couple of weeks !! A jolly good excuse to craft in the warm.

This week at CD Sunday we decided on the letter L for ?? this way you can do your lurve projects or if you're not into that it can be anything else beginning with L. I've already had my fill of valentines projects, so mine this week is L for Lighthouse. The main image is from JS Thomas Kincade and the BP's are from Artylicious and Embossibilities, layered onto gold mirri and centura pearl card.

Challenges:
marks finest papers
all sorts challenge
craft us crazy
digi doodle shops best
scrap book sisters
paper take weekly
divas by design
one stitch at a time

Be My Valentine - OLLCB DT

2012-02-06T10:00:00.059+01:00

Morning, goodness it's freezing, we had more snow yesterday, on top of the 10cm of snow we had a week ago, that hadn't melted because it's been so cold, the warmest day we've had this past week has been -4C, our nights have been hovering around -10C, it does look pretty but I hope it's going to warm up soon.

Well it's time for another challenge over at Ooh-La-La Creations and this time we want to see those Valentines Creations, my images and papers are from their Silhouettes CD, I made some punched edges with an MS Punch, used some felt hearts, and heart shaped gems which I've had forever in my stash, and finished off with a Memory box heart die and double bow made from organza ribbon.

There are so many challenges this time themed around love/valentines, I just picked a few of my favourites to enter or this post would take all day:

cooking it up with katie - heart/punch/emboss
crafty anns - love
creative belli - heart/love
daisy doodles - love
digi doodle shops best - love
dream valley - love
the paper shelter - love
pennys challenges - love
deep ocean challenge - love
i brake for challenges - love
joanna sheen - love
Crafters Companion - Anything goes
lexis creations - love

A La Mode - CD Sunday DT

2012-02-05T09:12:00.028+01:00

Goodness!! February already, and as it's the first challenge of the month it's a sponsored challenge over at CD Sunday, this month we are so lucky to have Ooh-La-La Creations back as our sponsor, who are offering a CD of your choice to the lucky winner, the DT were given some wonderful images from their latest CD - Shoes in Bloom 2 to work with.

My card this week is a waterfall card, they always look so difficult but they are actually very easy to do. I cut my shapes for my waterfalls using nesties dies, added a bit of layering, some ribbons and pearlsand there you have it.

Challenges:
Shelleys Images - all tied up
craft us crazy - anything goes
crafty sentiments- punches/dies
delightful challenges - punches/dies
divas by design - anything goes
do you stack up- anything goes
lollipop crafts - anything goes
paper pretties - ribbon
the crafty pad - spring colours
cupcake inspirations - photo inspiration

A for Adorable - My Time To Craft

2012-01-31T10:00:00.044+01:00

Yay!! i'm so excited it's my first posting as a DT member for My Time To Craft, like most grandparents I think my granchildren are adorable and I really need to catch up on some scrapbook pages, I have so many to do, so what better than to make this one, I seem to have used a bit of all sorts on it, no I didn't set myself a challenge to see how many of my fav bits I could use, but it does look like it !!. MS punch, nesties and Marianne dies, gems, ribbon and card candi.

Challenges:

marianne design divas.-something new

make it monday - anything goes

lollipop crafts - anything goes

scrappers delights papercrafts - anything goes

crazy challenge - flower

unstampabelles - anything goes
crafty sentiment Designs - anything goes
die cuttin divas - anything goes

Tag you're It - CD Sunday DT

2012-01-29T09:00:00.036+01:00

It's Sunday again already, so time for a new challenge over at CD Sunday, this weeks challenge is 'Tag you're it', easy really, we want to see a tag on your creation, mine is my first go and a steampunk style card, I recently bought the MCS Tinkering with Steampunk CD which I've used for the Tag and BP and also the sprocket dies from Spellbinders which I cut from matt gold card, I thought this would be ideal as a card for a fella or a child.

Challenges:

crazy 4 challenges - layers

ssds challenge - anything goes

cards for men - boys and toys

celebrate the occasion - masculine birthday

crafty anns challenge - what's new

digi doodle shops best - anything goes

simon says stamp - anything goes

stamping with dragon - anything goes

the stamping boutique - die cuts

truly madly crafty - anything goes

digi stamps 4 joy - for the boys

All change

2012-01-26T10:00:00.087+01:00

It's time to say farewell to one DT (boohoo)with my last project for Delightful Challenges as I've come to my last week, I can't believe the year went so quickly, it's been such fun with all their lovely images to work with.

But I did have some good news this week (yipee), that I'm really excited about, I'm joining the DT over at My Time To Craft, so it all fits in quite nicely for me, and will help to keep me occupied, my first project there will be on 31st Jan.

Our theme this week at Delightful Challenges is 'Valentines, but No Cards' my project is a pillow gift box with several embelishments, i've used the Cupid Ridley digi and given him a little 'just for you' ticket to hold, the digi's and BP are all available from Digital Delights by Louby Loo, he was coloured with promarkers and sakura glitter pens, my 3 hearts are made with my new memory box dies, and finished off with an organza ribbon bow and a little heart gem.

Our wonderful Sponsor this week is

Challenges:

anything goes challenge - to the one I love

crafters companion - to the one I love

crafty anns challenge - what's new (heart dies)

crafty creations - valentines but no cards, for kids

critter challenge - 3 embellies

cup cake craft - all you need is love

dream valley - animals

incy wincy designs - anything but a card

inky impressions - heart you

ladybugs crafts ink - bow

my grafico crafts - ticket

the stamping boutique - die cuts

tsg clearstamps - love is in the air
rubys rainbow - valentine
pixie dust studio - valentine
crafty ribbons - love is, red and black
craft us crazy - valentine
crafty purple frog - valentine

Seeing Double - OLLCB DT

2012-01-23T10:02:00.015+01:00

Monday morning gain already, where did the weekend go? This time over at Ooh-La-La Challenge we're seeing double, no not from too much falling down water !! we want to see your image twice, well I did mine three times, yeh I know trust me to be different, I decided to go Masculine this week, my images and BP this time are from 'Boys to Men' I thought there was a bit too much Blue/white and added some Marianne Creatables die cut flourishes they reminded of anchors and waves and I thought the red mirri gave a nice bright contrast.

Challenges:

make it monday

the crafty pad - Masculine
lexis creations - Fancy folds
hooked on craft challenges - Bright
patties creations - fancy folds
my time to craft - fav embellishments (die cuts flourishes)
i brake for challenges - fancy folds

Zodiac - CD Sunday DT

2012-01-22T10:00:00.021+01:00

Morning, gosh January is flying by where has the month gone already. Just wish the weather would brighten up, I'm so fed up with dismal foggy days, wind and rain, bring on some sunshine quick.

This week our theme over at CD Sunday is Zodiac, my card this week was a real quickie my elements/Bp's are from MCS Simply Silhouettes, Virgo star sign, layered onto lemon coloured card, some core d'inations card embossed and sanded, and some gems to finish off, hope you like it.

Challenges:
2 sisters - embossing
marks finest papers - birthday
alphabet challenge - you can choose
MAWTT - Things with wings
shellys images - anything goes

Haystacks Scarecrow - Delightful Challenges DT

2012-01-19T12:22:00.000+01:00

The challenge over at Delightful Challenges this week is Distressed/Vintage, it doesn't show very well, but the Haystacks digi which I coloured with Promarkers has tattered straw edges which I cut into several times and frayed them, the colouring is meant to look patchy in line with a distressed/faded look a scarecrow would have from being out in all weathers. My die cuts are by Marianne Creatable, BP is from Artylicious, and riboon from my stash.

This week our sponsor is

www.magnoliastamps.us

The winner will receive Sherwood Edwin and Tilda with apple Mini's

Challenges:

Make it Monday - Always anything goes

Anything Goes - Anything goes

Crafty Sentiments - Anything goes

I love promarkers - anything goes

paper play challenges - ribbon

One Stitch At A Time: Anything Goes

Little Scrap Pieces: Anything Goes

whimsical-designs - anything goes

scrap-creations - die cuts

paper minutes - anything goes

the stamping boutique challenge - die cuts

Enchantment - CD Sunday DT

2012-01-15T10:00:00.037+01:00

Morning all, another gloomy and cold day, I really could do with some sunshine even for just for a couple of hours, we seem to have been shrouded in fog for ages now and have had to have the lights on all day this past couple of weeks.

This week our challenge over at CD Sunday is enchantment, I thought this decoupaged Fairy from Debbi Moore seemed quite enchanted with the flower and butterfly and would suit the theme perfectly. The BP is also from Debbi Moore, printed onto Hammered card and the borders were made with an MS Punch.

Have a good week everyone and hope to see your entry over at CD Sunday.

Challenges:
abc-challenge - Happy Bithday
flutterby wednesdays- bright colours
catch the bug - Birthday
Winter wonderland - Birthday
card crafters circle - birthday
marks finest papers - border punch
Joanna Sheen - Celebration

Fabulous Fifties - Delightful Challenges DT

2012-01-12T09:30:00.012+01:00

It's new release time over at Digital Delights by Louby Loo, this month they have a fabulous set of digi's themed on the Fabulous Fifties. I used Rockaround Sue, Fifties DP's, 50's Music Set. I can't say that I've ever seen a pink and black spotty poodle ! but the idea amused me and then he matched his mistresses dress, yep I know I'm weird, but I've been this way for many years now and it's probably to late for me to change now.

So the challenge this week at Delightful Challenges is Pink, Black & Silver

Our sponsor this week

Scrapy Land is offering a $20 gift card to their store!!

New Beginnings - OLL DT

2012-01-09T10:00:00.002+01:00

Yay!! my first posting as a member of the DT over at Ooh-La-La Challenge, our challenge for this fortnight is New Beginnings, so for me it was good to make a calendar. My Ooh-La-La gorgeous image is from the Carnival of Colour CD, I took the image into a calendar making program that came with my printer, I layered onto dark green mirri and Centura Pearl card, my new corner embelishments and the butterflies which I have for ages are made from Marianne Creatable dies.

Ooh-La-La have recently launched their new CD called

Shoes In Bloom Part 2 and the winner this fortnight will receive this as their prize

Challenges:

crafty catz - New Beginnings

jelly park - Old/New (corner dies new, butterlies old)

paper cutz - brand new year

my mums craft shop - something new

whimsy inspiresiations - new beginnings

party time tuesdays - something new ( Corner dies)

by the cute and girly - new year

bling it on - new beginnings

cup cake craft room - anything goes

crazy 4 challenges - new year

craft your days away - new beginnings
dream valley - anything goes

Sea life - C D Sunday DT

2012-01-08T08:49:00.010+01:00

Morning all. This week our challenge over at CD Sunday is Sea Life, so a good excuse to use this image from Joanna Sheens' Jayne Netley Mayhew Set, I decided to keep it quite simple for me as it's such a lovely image, my BP is from an Embossibilities CD by Sharon Duncan, I also used a MS Punch and the swirly die which is so delicate is by Memory Box, although it doesn't show in the photo I also used a little glitter to make the water sparkle.

Challenges:

Crafts and me Challenge - Anything Goes

CES Challenge - Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly Challenge - Anything Goes
simply create too. - more than two layers
dream valley - anything goes
Through the Craftroom - Monochromatic
the craft garden - Monochromatic

Have a Heart - Delightful Challenges DT

2012-01-05T14:51:00.003+01:00

It's the first challenge of the year over at Delightful Challenges and the theme for this week is Have a Heart, thought mine would be a good anniversary card, I used Love Birds digi and Wedding Anniversary senti from digital Delights by Louby Loo, coloured with Spectrum Noir Alcohol Pens, the BP is from Artylicious and one of my lovely Marianne Creatbles dies to frame the image with a little inking whilst it was still in the die.

Our sponsor for this week is the lovely

Joanna Sheen is offering a £10 voucher for there store

Inky Impressions - anything goes

Simon Says Stamp - new something (heart gems)

Crafty Sentiments - Love & Romance

Heart Song Inspirations - Anything Goes

Incy Wincy Designs - Anything Goes

Paper Creations Ink - Die Cuts and/or Punches

The Pink Elephant - Anything Goes

My Time To Craft - Hugs & Kisses

Just Tracy Crafts - Love Is In The Air!

crafters companion challenge - love is in the air

the paper shelter - anything goes

pennys challenges. - birds

scrapbook sisters - anything goes

bearly mine-challenges. - anything goes

joanna sheen challenge - celebration

O for Olympics - CD Sunday DT

2012-01-01T09:34:00.030+01:00

A new year and a new challenge, so dig out those CD's and join us over at CD Sunday with your card, our sponsor this month is Sharon Duncan who kindly supplied the DT with four Embossibility papers to represent England, Wales , Scotland and Ireland. I thought my House Mouse Stamp was a good take on the trampoline event.

Prize this month is Embossibilities Elegance and Embossibilities Texture Prints CD

Recipe:

House mouse stamp from Joanna Sheen, Promarkers, Sakura glaze pens for pin heads, Embossibilities papers by Sharon Duncan, gold mirri card, Centura Pearl Card, MS Punch, Nestabilities.

Challenges:

Crafts And Me Challenge - Anything Goes

I Luv Promarkers Challenge - Anything Goes

Creative Inspirations - Anything Goes

Charisma cardz - Anything Goes

Bearly Mine Challenge : Anything goes
The rainbow ladys challenge : Your choice

I Did it Creations - Anything goes

pile it on challenge - anything goes

Sparkles Forum - Anything goes

top tip tuesday. - anything goes

Victorine -punches

my mums craft shop - anything goes

party time tuesdays - anything goes

polly craft challenge - anything goes

the secret crafter saturday - anything goes

stampin for the weekend.- anyhthing goes

aud sentiments - anything goes

cooking it up with katie - anything goes

the paper shelter - anything goes

card crafters circle - anything goes

simon says stamp - anything goes

Joanna Sheen - Celebration

Fifties Fun - CD Sunday DT

2011-12-18T09:30:00.023+01:00

This time our theme at CD Sunday is Fifties Fun, now I struggled with this one, just couldn't decide which direction to go in and kept changing my mind on what to do, finally settled on this one, it reminded me of being a kid in the fifties with image and frame from Joanna Sheen Nostalgia & backing paper from Chocolate Baroque Artylicious CD's and my latest favourite Memory Box Die.

Challenges:
OSAAT - Anything Goes
Sparkles Forum - Anything but Christmas
reasonable ribbon - anything goes & ribbon
corrosive challenges - Anything but Christmas
kenny k krafty girlz - anything goes
the crafty pad - anything goes but christmas

Party Bag - Delightful Challenges DT

2011-12-16T00:00:00.001+01:00

Ooohps, all behind, somewhere this week I seem to have lost a day, I thought today was Wednesday, so where has that day gone?, who stole it.

Your challenge this week over at Delightful Challenges is 'Anything Goes' a nice easy one for this busy time of year. So here is a hasitly a put together post now, I may well have to come back and edit it later on.

I was tasked with making party bags for one my grandaughters party in January, the theme being Princesses easy one for the little girls, but there are several little boys going to so I needed to come up with something else for them, I don't think they would appreciate the lovely pink princess, scalloped creations I came up with for them, so we decided similar size and shape without the scallops would be ok, and dragons, knights and castles would be good for the images, thank goodness for Digital Delights by Louby Loo I had all the right images, I know it's not all prettied up with loads of embellies and stuff, somehow I don't think the little boys would like that.

Great News

2011-12-12T17:38:00.000+01:00

Yipeeee !! I've been selected to join the DT over at ooh-la-la-creations challenges, my term doesn't start until January, but the new team members have already been announcesd today on their blog. I'm so looking forward to working with their lovely images. I have nothing new to show you today, so thought I would show you a selection of some cards I've made using their images in the past.

Little Princess - CD Sunday DT

2011-12-11T09:30:00.054+01:00

There's no a new challenge this week over at CD Sunday, as it's so close Christmas we are running our sponsored challenge for two weeks until next Saturday, as we are running the challenge over two weeks we have decided that there will be two draws, one on Sunday 11th (today) and then another one at the end of the challenge. So if you have been over to the web site of Elegant Inspiration and had a look and fancy getting your mitts on a copy without having the shell out any of your hard earned cash then come and join us. all entries will go into both draws apart from the winner of the first week.

http://www.elegantinspiration.co.uk/

All the DT have been busy making some gorgeous cards with elements from this Rachelle Anne Miller CD, my two cards are part of our showcase I hope you like them.

The 'Princess' card is for a certain young lady who is one of my garndaughters and is about to celebrate her 3rd birthday in January and thinks she is a princess, she's having a princess themed birthday party, just loves dressing up and already has her 'princess' dress ready to wear so the image seemed ideal for her, she's a proper little live wire and drives her mum mad.

Now why not pop over to my teamies blogs and have a peek at their cards too, and of course don't forget to enter the challenge to be in with the chance of winning your very own copy of this fab CD.

Challenges:

Totally Papercrafts - Anything but Christmas

Divas By Design - Anything Goes

Saturday Challenge - All Creatures Great and Small

cute card thursday - anything goes

inky impressions - ribbon

the paper shelter - celebration

crafty catz - anything goes

crazy challenge - anything goes

Inspire me Friday - anything goes

Blue Christmas - Delightful Challenges DT

2011-12-08T12:09:00.012+01:00

Oh dear, all behind today, where has the morning gone !! At least all my Christmas cards are made, written and ready to post. Despite my resolve last year to make smaller and lighter weight cards this year, I didn't do very well, they slowly got larger and heavier as the year went on, i am really not good at small and lighweight cards.

This week it's Blue Christmas over at Delightful Challenges. Having looked at my teamies cards it seems the Snowy night background was popular with us, no surprise really as it is rather lovely.

Recipe:
DD Stamps Used: Skiing snowie mcfee, skier slippy, merry christmas Senti
CS & Papers: Snowy Night BG, Centura Pearl, Papers - Stash
Acc & Embellies: MS Snowflake Punch, Ribbon, glitter
Colouring Medium: Promarkers, Sakura Glitter pens

We have a wonderful Sponsor again this week

You could win these festive ribbons from Crafty Ribbons

Challenges:

Cooking It Up With Katie- anything goes

Top Tip Tuesday- Let It Snow

come and get it challenges - Christmas

Make it Monday - always anything goes

pennys challenges - Merry Christmas

fresh brewed designs - Christmas

crafty creations challenges - sentiment

abc christmas - Yipee !

hooked on craft challenges - winter wonderland