Fairytales

Fairytales is the theme of our latest challenge at Crafting When we Can.  I have used  Whispy by Saturated Canary, and coloured the image with promarkers and spectrum noir pens.  The paper is from my stash, I have added some lace and some fabric net, prima flowers with pearl brad centres and punched leaves.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges

Incy Wincy designs   -  Square Cards

Papertake Weekly    -   use ribbons/pearls

Cute Card Thursday    -  Girly

Sweet Stampin Challenge   -  Flowers

Emergency Crafters  -  anything goes

Stampin for the weekend  - use some texture

Little miss Muffet Challenges   -  textiles




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Ribbons and Skulls

This fortnight the challenge over on crafting when we can is Ribbons and Skulls, and we are sponsored this week by Dilly Bean Stamps.  I have used  Sugar Skull framed image and coloured it using promarkers.  The purple background paper is from my stash and I have added some fine green net, some hand dyed silk ribbon and some pearls. 

I would like to enter this into 

One stop craft challenge   -  anything goes 

Crafty Catz             -  anything goes 

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Bonjour

Bonjour,  Our challenge this fortnight on Crafting When we can is countries, your challenge is make something using the colours of a countrys Flag.   We are sponsored this time by Sassy Design Studio and there are some digi images up for grabs for the winner.

I have used France Honey and have coloured her using my promarkers.  I have added an image of France showing the Flag.  I added a couple of sentiments from a set of stamps I have had for ages not sure who they are by and then added some candi which I have coloured in red and blue.

I would like to enter this into

Fashionista Challenge    -  anything goes

Challenges 4 Everybody    -  anything goes


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Weddings

This Fortnight the Challenge on Crafting When we Can is Weddings and we are sponsored this time by the brilliant Some Odd Girl.

I have used  a Lili of the Valley stamp and coloured the image with promarkers, the papers are Tim Holtz and Core ordinations.  The sentiment is also from Lili of the valley.  I have then used a mixture of a die cuts and a punch for the leaves and then added some pink and white roses from my stash.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges

A gem of a challenge    -   Flowers

Jelly park Friends        -  Pink it up

Passion for Promarkers   -  Shabby in Pink or Blue

Simon Says Stamp     -  Dies and/or Punches

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Sketch Challenge

The Sketch for the fortnight

This fortnight on Crafting when we can challenges we have this great sketch for you and we are sponsored by the fantastic Fresh brewed designs.

On my card I have used Little mushrooms in a row image.  The image has been coloured using Spectrum Noir pens (first time using them), and the background papers are all basic Grey and then a small amount of lace which has been dyed using cold tea.

I would also like to enter this into Moving along with the times whose challenge is Seeing Red


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Happy Birthday Blog Hop

Its Crafting When we Can Challenge blog first birthday and are welcoming you to our Birthday Blog Hop.  We have some great sponsors for this challenge, so please visit the other design team members blog and than pop over to Crafting When we can and leave a comment to say that you have been along. The Theme of this Birthday Challenge is 1, so ww would like to see your creations with the number 1 on them, can be 1, 10, 12, 21 as long as the number one is there.

I have used the image Edwards Tunes from The Digi Garden for my card, and I have coloured the image using promarkers. The papers are from a pad which I think was the Old English Paper Co, the sentiment is a stamp from Little Clairs.

The design team is :

Ang     -   Angels crafting journey

Poppet -  Crafting when I can 

Carol D  - CMDesign

Caz  -   PAC Handmade Charity Cards 

Jovita  -  Everyday Life in my Mind 

Martina  -  My Stamping Obsession 

Robin   -  Robins Reflections 

Crafting Vicky  - Crafting Vicky blogspot  

Vicky  - vickys Crafting Paradise 

So please pop on over and play along with the chance to win some digital images from some great companies.

I would like to enter this card into Cards for Men challenge -  going digital   

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Late Again

Late again with my post for this fortnights challenge on Crafting When We Can and the challenge this time is to use 1 x large image, 2 x sentiments and 3 x colours.  At the moment I am feeling very proud to be British with the amazing Olympic Games London put on and now the superb Paralympics that i went for the colour combo of Red White and Blue.  I have used a Kenny K image that I love and Tim Holtz adage tickets and the Union Flag is Papermania.  I have added 2 pieces of Ric Rac in Red and Blue as well. 

We are sponsored for this challenge by Crafty Ribbons and this is the prize.

So pop on over and have a play along.

I would like to enter this into this weeks Papertake Weekly challenge of anything goes 

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Crafting when we can

I' a day late in posting this but better late than not at all.  This is my card for our challenge this fortnight on Crafting When we Can and the theme this time is RAINBOWS, and we would like to see either rainbows or brightly coloured projects this time.  Mine has a hand drawn rainbow on it and also bright colours.

Pop on over to the blog and maybe you could win 5 digis from our sponsor this time which is

                                    

Summer Fun

This Fortnight on Crafting when we can the challenge is Summer Fun and we are sponsored this time by Milk coffee and Crafty Ribbons.

I have used Charlotte with flowers and Bird digi stamp  from milk coffee for my card.  I have coloured her with promarkers.  The paper is from a stack that came free with a magazine and I have mad a sun using yellow card and yellow ric rac, added 2 flower buttons and a sentiment.

I would like to enter this into these challenges

Cardmadfairys digi days challenge   -  Girly 

Joanna Sheen Challenge Blog - Summer Daze 

Emergency Crafters  - Summer sun     

Dutch Dare Card Challenge   - Summer Fun

Milk Coffee challenge  -  Summertime 

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Mint Chocolate Chip

This Fortnight the challenge over on Crafting when we can is a colour combo of Mint Chocolate Chip (mint green and brown) and we are sponsored by the amazing Kenny K so pop on over to join us and be in with the chance of winning 5 Kenny K digi images.

I have used troublemaker in my card and coloured the image with promarkers, added some memory box die cuts and a marianne corner, some flowers and that was my card made.

I would like to enter this into 

Allsorts challenge  which is Ice cream colours   - mint Choc chip 

Totally Gorjuss -  Sunshine (ice cream makes me think of sunshine)

Alphabet challenge - I is for Ice cream 

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Crafting When we can sketch

The new challenge over on Crafting when we can is a sketch, and this is my interpretation of it.  We are sponsored this fortnight by Tickled pink stamps and I have used LilLad Stefan for my card.

I coloured the image with promarkers, used some HOTP papers that I have had for ages, some blue card from my stash for the sea, sandpaper for the sand, added some Ric Rac and buttons and the sentiment was done on the Dymo.

I would like to enter this card into this fortnights Cards for men challenge which is to use texture, which i think I have succeeded in doing with this card.

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crafting when we can meets sketch saturday

The new challenge over on crafting when we can is Things with Wings and we are sponsored this time by the fantastic The Digi Garden and we were given some of their great images to create our cards with. I have used Fairy 001 for my card.

I decided to combine my DT card this week with the sketch from this weeks Sketch saturday challenge blog which is a great sketch. I have used the Digi garden image fairy 001, coloured the image with promarkers. The papers are all old papers from the English paper CO, the card is colour core-ordinations. The sentiment is an old papermania stamp. I added some lace and some foam flowers to finish.

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A day to celebrate

This fortnight over on Crafting when we can the theme is "one for the boys" and our lovely sponsor this time round is Some Odd Girl.

I have used a Kenny K download for my card, coloured with promarkers, used 2 new dies from, the picket fence and grass, used a fairground image for the backing and then added an Autumm leaves ticketed stamp for the sentiment.

I would also like to enter this into Cards for men - whose theme is cheeky chappy, well I think he looks cheeky, not sure if it quite fits the theme though.

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Crafting when we can

This fortnight on Crafting when we can the theme is animals and we are sponsored by the brilliant The Stamping Boutique. For my card I have used the image Patch, which has been coloured with promarkers. The papers and embellishments are Nitwits which came free with a magazine. Then sentiment is from Craftwork cards.

I used the sketch from Friday sketch challenge, as I thought it matched the theme I wanted to use which is patchwork.

So I would like to enter this into this weeks Friday sketch challenge.

Please pop over and play along with our theme of animals this week at crafting when we can.

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play time

Finally found some time to make cards just because I could, not because I had to, So I thought I would play along with some challenges. I have made this card using Lili of the Valley stamp, hanging around which I have had for ages and never used. I have coloured the image using promarkers and then mounted this onto a piece of Joanna Sheen backing paper from the Messy Rabbit set. The frame has been made out of card from an amazon box along with the heart. The paper is from a really old Hot off the press paper pack. The sentiment is computer generated and then I just added 3 craftwork candi.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges

Lilis little fairies - the theme this week is Oh Boy - a masculine card

Oldie but a Goodie - the theme is Have a Heart - must have a heart on your entry

Passion for promarkers - recycle something

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not intended for crafting

This fortnight the challenge on crafting when we can is to use something that is not intended for crafting and we are sponsored by the brilliant Spesch designer stamps.

I have used Max from Spesch stamps and have coloured the image using promarkers and my items not intended for crafting are the half a cd and the card that the sentiment is mounted onto is the inside of a toilet roll. The BP is from a basic grey pad.

I would like to enter this into

Cards for men - the challenge being boys and their toys, well headphones and music are their toys in my house

Passion for promarkers - the theme is humour, I think this is funny.

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Lyn

New Year

Hello everyone and a Happy New Year to you.

Today is the new challenge over on Crafting When we can and the challenge for this fortnight is

New Years Resolutions and we are sponsored by Crafty Ribbons and The stamping boutique this time.

I have used Princess Jennifer Latte Vanity digital stamp for my card, and one of my resolutions is to be a bit more girly so this image was very apt. The image has been coloured using promarkers, the backing paper is from Love Letters paper stack by first edition. The brown card is from my stash and has been embossed using the tiny bubbles embossing folder, then added some lace and craftwork candi and a sentiment from craftwork cards.

I followed the sketch over on Sketch Saturday for this card so would like to enter it into these challenges

Sketch Saturday - the sketch

Sweet Stampin' challenges - spots and dots

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Crafting When we Can

This week on crafting when we can the theme is Friendship, so I decided to make a card for my best friend - My Husband. we are sponsored this week by Kenny K Downloads and I choose to use Mrs Claus for my card.

The image has been coloured with promarkers, the sentiment was computer generated. I have used the Tim Holtz clock using weathered core ordination card, added some muslin and somr holly with berries and that was my card made.

I would like to enter this card into

Cards for men - use 2 ( i have used 2 sprigs of holly)

Cute card Thursday - anything goes

Moving along with the times - last minute Christmas

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WOW

Todays card is for the Penny Black saturday challenge and I've used the sketch from this weeks Sketch Saturday to make it.

Penny Black challenge wanted white on white this week with only the image to be coloured. I have used the Sweet Snowman stamp and coloured the image with promarkers. The white card has been embossed using cuttlebug folders, swiss dots, snowflakes and sledding. I have also used quickutz dies for the tree and the holly.

I would like to enter this into

Penny Black Saturday Challenge - White on White

Sketch Saturday - The sketch

Joanna Sheen challenge (the 1st one) - Christmas Wishes

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crafting when we can and Friday Sketch Challenge

This week on Crafting when we can it is Borrow a sketch fortnight, We would like to see cards made with sketches from challenge blogs and please link to whichever challenge blog you have used.

This fortnight we are sponsored by the fantastic Tiddly inks and we were allowed to choose which image we wanted to use so I went for Santas Helper, and I have used the sketch on this weeks Friday Sketch Challenge blog.

The papers used on my card are from a Trimcraft 12 x 12 pad which I have had for ages, the words are on a Sizzix die. The image has been coloured used promarkers.

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