Monday, 16 June 2008

Challenge 19: Buttons & Buckles


Hi everyone! Thankyou for taking part in last week's challenge, all your work was great! This week's theme is 'Buttons & Buckles'. The design team have made a few examples for you below. It's up to you what you create, Perhaps a Card, Tag, ATC, Skinny, Scrapbook page, Fatbook Page (4x4) Gothic Arch, Moo Mini card, Skinny, Inchie or Altered art. (Have fun!)









Congratulations to Den you have won last week's prize! Please email us your details and we will post you your prizes.



This week's Prize, supplied by one of our design team, Kate, is a selection of some stamped images. Everyone who takes part in this week's challenge by ( 10pm Monday 23rd of June GMT) will be entered into a prize draw and 1 lucky person's name will be selected at random, winning everything seen.




We will announce the winner next week,



Kate, Wendy, Lesley, Fifi, Becky & Jo


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Card
For my card I have used a K & Co striped paper, yellow card, pink card and pale grey card. The stamps are Elusive Images and they have been embossed in silver detail embossing powder. I have added buttons and twine to the centre of the flowers and attached 3D to the base card. I have embellished with a pink flower buckle and silver grey organza ribbon.
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Card

I coloured Tilda with distress inks and matted her on top of various patterned papers which I doodled around. I sewed buttons onto the card and also stitched the stem of the flower. The buckle is a chipboard sticker threaded through ribbon.
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Card
I stamped a Little Cotton Rabbit image and water coloured and Stickled her. I matted her onto my card, together with a Penny Black greeting, and some buttons and sparkly gems. I used peeloffs for the name, and some lilac grosgrain ribbon to go through the buckle, and finally added a large silver number 1!
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Card
I cut an oval of cream card and stamped Tilda with black archival ink in the centre. I paper pieced Tilda's dress & bow and coloured the rest of her with prisma pencils blended with sansodor and highlighted her with iridescent medium. I glued buttons around the edge of the oval. I stuck patterned paper to a 4x4 piece of mountboard and then glued the oval centrally. I doodled around the edge of the page and hand wrote 'for you' in brown felt tip pen.
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Card
I watercoloured a Hanglar image and used black, cream and blue card stock, as well as some K & co floral paper. I added some paper roses and a distressed a large paper flower with inks. I embellished with some adhesive pearls and then added a pearl button to the center of my flower. I then added a diamond buckle & gold ribbon. I finished off by drawing a leaf pattern and carefully glueing on some bronze beads.
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Card
I started by stamping the words and leaves and buttons with vintage sepia versafine. I then cut out the leaves. For the backing paper I used K & co button paper. I added glossy accents to random buttons on the paper. The card was finished of with cream ribbon and a gold buckle cut with the quickutz.
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Thanks to,
Nessy, OrangeDaisy, Pixie, RattyTatty
Kirsikan, Leilan, MardeMoomikan
Joanna, Kathleen, Kim
Anne, Anne S, Bev
Ceal, Dawne, Debbie
Tina, Wendy, Milli
Den, Jane
Rima, Richelle, Steph


Monday, 9 June 2008

Challenge 18: Birds



Hi everyone! Thanks for taking part last week. Thi
s week we've picked the theme 'Birds'. You can make a Card, Tag, ATC, Skinny, Scrapbook page, Fatbook Page (4x4) Gothic Arch, Moo Mini card, Skinny, Inchie or Altered art. Leave us a link to your blog or email your creations to mytimetocraftchallenge@hotmail.co.uk






Congratulations to Wendy and Linda you have won last week's prize! Please email us your details and we will post you your prizes.



This week's Prize, is supplied by Crop Til You Drop we have a selection of Birthday themed products. They currently have a 75% off clearance sale going on at the web store with lots more new lines being added several times per week.
Everyone who takes part in this week's challenge will be entered into a prize draw and 1 lucky peoples name will be selected at random winning all these crafting goodies!


We will announce the winner next week,


Kate, Wendy, Lesley, Fifi, Becky & Jo


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Card
For this weeks challenge I have stamped the bird image by Stampers Anonymous with black versafine, adding some detail with the glossy accents and added a blue gem to his eye. Then I stamped the Inkadinkado quote stamp in the same versafine ink and three of the gems were added - this was then mounted onto holographic silver card. I then layered up three different background papers and added a ribbon.
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Card
I stamped my Lily stamp "My Little Friend" and coloured her with distress inks and I also stamped and coloured some birds from a OneFourZero theme plate. The saying "A little birdie told me" was hand written and I added assorted papers, wire and flowers. I finally edged all of the panels with a brown marker for definition.
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Card
I have made my card using an Owl stamp of unknown origin and a set of stamps from Stampin Up called ' The Art of Life'. I have embossed images as I go along creating a scene. Inks have been sponged on in Adirondack Butterscotch, Terracotta, Ginger, Espresso and Black. Mounted 3D over coordinating card stock.
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Plaque
I painted a piece of card with gold ink and then cut out lots of squares in different shapes and sizes. I painted each one and then decorated with lots of beads and sequins. I printed out some words and distressed with ink. For my bird I used a clipart image and painted over the top.
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Card
I stamped the peacock image with turquoise ink onto white card then embossed it with turquoise sparkle powder. I then colour washed the background and highlighted the 'spots' with twinkling H2O's. I mounted the image onto co-ordinating cardstock. I scored a piece of A4 acetate to make an A5 base. I coloured 4 corner peel-off's with a turquoise permanent marker and placed these on each corner of the acetate base, then mounted the image in the centre. On the inside (with the colour facing out) I glued a piece of green pearl paper.
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Card
I stamped my image and watercoloured it in. I matted it onto co-ordinating paper and added a strip of patterned paper down the side. I punched out some flowers and added Copper Stickles to the centres, and printed out a message on the PC, and finally inked round the edge of my card with Distress Ink.
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Thanks to,
Lynne, Mardemoomikan,
Nessy, Raine, Rosie, Tina
Lulu
Angela, Angie, Beth
Cynthia, Dan
Denise, Fiona, Heidi, Hels
Hilda, Joanna, Kim
Krisikka, Lelia, Linda
Wendy, Susie, Sam

Monday, 2 June 2008

Challenge 17: Brads & Eyelets



Hi everyone! Time for another challenge. This week we've picked the theme 'Brads & Eyelets'- Use brads or eyelets or both! This week the design team were given some really cute Maggie Stamps to try out from Bootiful Stampz .
It's up to you what you make, perhaps: a Card, Tag, ATC, Skinny, Scrapbook page, Fatbook Page (4x4) Gothic Arch, Moo Mini card, Skinny, Inchie or Altered art. Leave us a link to your blog so we can all see all your hard work!







Congratulations to Peikkotyttö you have won last week's prize! Please email us your details and we will get your prize in the post to you!



This week's Prize, is supplied by Bootiful Stampz we have
2 Maggie stamps- Flower Top Maggie and Dungarees Maggie to give away. Everyone who takes part in this week's challenge will be entered and 2 lucky peoples names will be selected at random winning 1 stamp each!





We will announce the winner next week. (Good luck!)


Kate, Wendy, Lesley, Fifi, Becky & Jo

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Card
I stamped 'Dress & Bow Maggie' from 'Bootiful Stampz' with black stazon. Then watercoloured her in and added a gem to the flower in her hair. I then stamped the "once upon a time by Heidi Grace. Ribbon was then passed through two eyelets. And a large flower added with a checked brad.
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Bookmark
I stamped the gorgeous 'dungarees Maggie' from Bootiful Stampz our sponsor for this week onto white card with black archival ink. Maggie is coloured with prismacolor pencils and sansodor and a touch of red glitter, I then cut her out. I cut a strip of pearescent white card to size then embossed it with the CB hearts folder. I glued Maggie to the bottom of the card. Using red paper I die cut the letters. I cut out the heart from red paper and attached a gold heart brad to the centre. I arranged the letters onto the card. I laminated the strip of card and then attached an eyelet at the top and threaded this with red ribbon
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Card
I stamped 'Party Maggie' onto patterned paper and pieced her together. I then highlighted areas with distress inks and a white gel pen. I matted her onto patterned paper and surrounded her with 10 flowers using 8 brads and 2 eyelets! I finished the card with a hand written 'hippy chick' greeting.
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Card
I covered the card in backing paper, stamped the 'Maggie Heart T-Shirt' image and coloured her in, adding some Stickles to the heart and hair. I then attached the image with eyelets to a mat then added to the card. I stamped a Happy Birthday message, and finished off with some Primas with heart brads in the centres.
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Card
I made a circle shape card. I used this beautiful 'Flower top Maggie' stamp by Bootiful Stampz. I coloured her in with watercolours & distress inks. I drew a patten of hearts, swirls and flowers and stuck lots of silver beads on. The papers I used were purple card stock and Basic grey: Perhaps - Beatrice. I drew some stitching around the edges and used distress inks around the edges of my card. I embellished with white ribbon and paper flowers and some bronze brads.
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Card
This week we were given a stamp from the Bootiful Stampz range to use alongside the challenge of *Brads and/or Eyelets! * This was a fab stamp 'Red Riding Maggie' and I have had a look at some of the other images - I am definitely into 'cute' and my wish list has just got a lot longer! For my card I have used background papers from the Cute Companion CD and the JS Fashion Boutique CD. My image has been coloured with pens and I have embellished with white lace, Prima flowers, stamped leaves, gems and *Diamanté brads* adorn the photo corners.
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Thankyou to everyone who took part:
Ann, Cathy, Chrissie
Cynthia, Daisy, Den
Gwen, Heidi, Hilda, Jane
Andrea, Angela C, Angie C
Linda, Mardemoomikan, Milli
MuckyPup, Nessy
Orangedaisy, Sam, Sammee
Lauren, Kim, Jennifer,
Joanne, Joanna,
Schokofee, Sharon, Sam21
Tilly, Tina, Tinkerbell, Wendy