She's a Beauty....

I've missed entering some blog challenges recently...mind you I've had to trawl through so many, as a lot offer digi images and for me they are a complete waste of money, I rarely ever use them, plus I'm pretty rubbish at colouring.

5"x 5" Cardboard Plaque

I did manage to find a lovely challenge blog, one that I do follow but have yet to enter and it is "That's Crafty"  I have actually ordered craft goodies from them in the past and I can vouch for their service.

So the theme is "Black & White with a Splash of Colour" so this is my entry.

A piece of cardboard that is from the box my printer came in, it's really rigid. I ripped some of the backing off to reveal the corrugated bit...which I then painted in matt black acrylic paint.

Leaving that to dry I stamped my image and matted and layered it on to white and black card.

I managed to find a piece of white feather and with some white string pearls and my roses and applied them to my plaque.

The butterfly was stamped again on some spare card, which I then coloured with distress ink to match the flower...adding the same colour wire for the antennae, I adhered the butterfly to the image with a sticky pad.

You can find the challenge I am entering this plaque in to here at That's Crafty

Travel Tag

Another challenge has just been set over at CraftyHands Challenge Blog...as part of their design team it was my turn to choose the theme..."TRAVEL"
This is my design team piece for the blog....

I've used my lovely set of stamps from Artistic Outpost for my Tag. The images are all single layers that I created by masking.
Finally adding the sentiment that was matted and layered and applied with sticky pads.
There's a lovely prize on offer for this challenge too, some decoupaged sheets and stickers.

Why not pop over for a look, the design team have made some stunning samples for this theme too...

You can find the challenge HERE

Tag It...

A great theme going on over at Rhedd & Rosie's challenge blog this fortnight...as always you can make anything you want,but it must contain a Tag, not a greetings label or Tab...and it must be clearly visible.

For my design team piece I made a Tag on a Tag..

A set of Artistic Post Stamps is being offered for the winner of this challenge by our sponsors, the lovely Alison & Ian at

 Ali-Craft

So I hope you give yourself a chance to win these fabulous stamps by entering the challenge....aren't they lush....

A Little Trinket Box

My mojo just upped and left before I could add any more embellishing to my little trinket box...don't you just hate it when that happens!

This little box ( measures 4.5" x 4.5" )  is my design team piece for Rhedd & Rosie's Challenge that started today. I had stained the box with Barn Door distress ink then went over it with some gold gilding wax to antique it a bit.
The canvas insert in the lid I covered with lace and then gessoed it all over,once dry I used a light gold Glimmer Mist spray to colour it.I got as far as adding the flowers and old Mr Mojo just chose that moment to disappear...sob.
So all that was added were the corner pieces and the clock...I had ideas for a vintage image,but the more I played the more of a mess I made,so it was best to leave it as it was...hope you like it.

A fabulous prize for the winner of the challenge, which is sponsored by our lovely resident teamie MOIRA
                                                                                                             

Well worth entering the challenge for, why not pop over for a look....you can find the challenge HERE

A Pretty Bottle....

This is my first time at altering a bottle...this one was lovely and was crying out to be decorated. So I decided this would be my design team piece for my Altered Art Challenge Blog.
I covered the bottle using a beautiful cotton lace doily that was my mothers, I remember it being on her dressing table and if my memory serves me right it was made by her mother, my grandmother.
The trims were all from my stash and so were the lovely soft foam roses,which were just the right colour.

I would love to see you over at Rhedds Creative Spirit, its an Altered Art Blog and the challenges run monthly...with a prize for the winner each month, this is this months prize, a Tim Holtz Configuration Box...

Well worth entering the challenge for, you can find it here......Rhedd's Creative Spirit

I'm entering this altered bottle in to the challenge at  Altered Eclectics

Send in the Clowns

Not every one's cup of tea...but I have always loved clowns, met a few in my time and not all belonged to the circus, lol.
This is my Tag for the current challenge over at Tagalong....the backing paper is from my stash, then that was stamped with a collage style circus stamp by Artistic Outpost. The clown images are just fabulous and were all free from Rian.....not sure if they are actually available now,as I printed these quite a long time ago. Her designs are pretty amazing.
So I hope you like my Tag...you can find the challenge here at Tagalong

Shabby Chic Heart

Just thought I'd share my design team make for CraftyHands with you....

Love the shape of this heart, which I gessoed prior to covering in the fabby Graphic 45 papers. The images on the front I actually cut from some scraps I had left from another project,so that worked out perfectly in keeping with the theme. I added strips of the pearly lace and then added the roses with a couple of stick pins.
CraftyHands has a fabby prize for their winner of this challenge, why not pop over for a look and maybe enter. The theme is Shabby Chic and it can be found HERE

Guess who made a card?....

Well, I've not made one of these in a while,lol.....a card!

The new challenge has been set over at Rhedd and Rosies and the theme is "Trees/Wood"...such a great theme and the perfect excuse to use this rather large stamp,by Stampendous.

I've kept the colour palette simple to show the stamp off to it's best advantage, pleased that I did as it really does stand out.

Do pop over and have a look at the challenge, there's a fabulous prize on offer for the winner of the challenge...

You can find the challenge....HERE