The Bugaboo 5th Christmas in July Challenge - Day 6

Afternoon all, day 6 of the Bugaboo Christmas event and my penultimate card for the challenge! Today we are working from a photo for inspiration, so for me, cards couls have gone in one of two ways, beach or snowmen.

So guess what went on my card?

...Snowmen!

Today's design is a simple stepper using a Bugaboo image and Ooh La La papers again - I do like these snowflake sheets from the Shawn Jenkins Collection and if you hadn't already guessed, I love my stepper card die too!

Thursday Challenge - Photo Challenge - Day 6

Challenges;
Catch The Bug - Day 6
Come And Get It - Christmas
Papertake - Don't Be Square
Holly Jolly - Winter Wonderland Jx

The Bugaboo 5th Christmas in July Challenge - Day 5

Another rainy day here today - there's been a lot of them this summer and not much sun, not so good for topping up the tan but ideal for crafting in!

So today it's Day 5 of the Bugaboo Christmas in July Challenge and we are working from the bingo board below.

My card follows the diagonal line running left to right using a Bugaboo image, Players Choice - Kraft and Snowflake.  And the humor?  Well have you ever seen a real bird wearing a hat & scarf?

Wednesday Challenge - Humor Me Wednesday + Bingo - Day 5

Challenges;
Catch The Bug - Day 5
Christmas Cards All Year Round - Dots & Stripes
CHCCE - Christmas
Crafty Time - Punches & Dies - Snowflake punch & circle & fishtail dies
Live & Love Crafts - Christmas in July
One Sweet Challenge - Christmas in July Jx

The Bugaboo 5th Christmas in July Challenge - Day 4

How are all my fellow crafters doing today?  Any more of you joining in with the Bugaboo Christmas in July week long challenge?

That's us just over half way now and with a different theme each day, by the end of the week we should all have a nice varied selection of cards all ready for Christmas.

Today we are working with a recipe challenge which is to include, 3 embellishments, 2 design papers and 1 piece of either ribbon or twine.

So, bearing all this in mind, I went with, an old favourite of mine a Bugaboo Reindeer with Candy Cane. LOTV papers and tags and card candi embellishments.

Tuesay Challenge - Recipe - Day 4

Challenges;
Catch The Bug - Day 4 - Recipe
Christmas at Sweet Stampin - Oh Deer!
Passion For Promarkers - Candy Crush - Christmas candy cane
SSW2 - Sketch Jx

The Bugaboo 5th Christmas in July Challenge - Day 3

Day 3 already and I have now doubled my Christmas card total for the year - Thanks Bugaboo for getting me going on these!

Also, the party's growing! Buddies Sarah and Wendy have shown interest now and will hopefully jump on to the Bugaboo band wagon! Love it when all my friends join in - it's like DT friends re-united!  I wonder who else I can get involved!

Back now to the challenge and today it's colours - not really your traditional Christmas ones, but hey it's a challenge so we weren't really expecting reds and greens were we!  Instead we got,

Monday Challenge - Colour Challenge - Day 3

So, that got me stumped for a bit... but then I found an elf and a stack of presents and I got to action with my Promarkers.  And this is what I came up with;

So, for this little beauty, I went CAS.  Just brightly coloured and cut out my elf and popped him on top of a Merry Christmas die cut sentiment.  Obviously glossy accents and glamour dust were again involved...well it is for Christmas!

Challenges;
Catch The Bug - Day 3 - Colours
Sweet Stampin - Christmas
Digi Choosday - Christmas in July

The Bugaboo 5th Christmas in July Challenge - Day 2

Next, today and the Stella Say's Sketch Challenge, so here is the sketch;

And here is my card...

Another super Bugaboo selected, and great papers off my Shawn Jenkin's CD by Ooh LaLa.  To finish I added glossy accents - again! Gems and twine and then added flock to my snowflakes to make them fluffy!

Sunday Challenge - SSS - Day 2

Challenges;
Catch The Bug - Day 2 - SSS
CD Sunday - Add a stamp - A Bugaboo Digi & papers from OohLaLa The Shawn Jenkins Collection Jx

The Bugaboo 5th Christmas in July Challenge - Day 1

Well here we are again, the annual Bugaboo Christmas in July Event - & I love it!

I can't believe it's been a year since last time, but as always, I am up for the challenge and so have been busy Christmas crafting!

So, the fun began yesterday with the challenge set as "Jingle Bells."  So I dug out a circular sentiment stamp and then, as they say in McDonalds... "I went large!"  Kept my card simple, mostly white with lots of layers, stitching and embossing with the only colour popped on the image.  Finally, my favourite glossy accents decorated my holly leaves and berries and that was it! So...

Saturday Challenge - Jingle All The Way - Day 1

Challenges;
Catch The Bug - Day 1 - Jingle All The Way
4 Crafty Chicks - Christmas in July
Jingle Belles - Bells

As quite a few of you know, I'm a huge Bugaboo fan and so urge all of my crafty buddies to join in the fun this week.  So far I've got Hazel on board, but it would be great if more of my buddies joined us, so come on you lot - Join the Party!!!

Thank You

This is odd!!!

Every other Thursday is normally a card day for me as it see's a new challenge begin at MAWTT.  But we are on extended challenges over there to give the DT a summer rest so no card was required this week.  But I have been busy none the less!

Guess what?  I have another stepper card to show you - 3 actually, variations on a theme, all using a great new Bugaboo image and lovely Ooh La La papers off a variety of CD's.

The results, below;

Really pleased with these! Love the image, added my favourite glossy accents  and even did a bit of paper piecing!

Challenges;
Catch the Bug - Anything Goes
My Time to Craft - Paper piecing - the flowers
Fussy & Fancy - Fancy folds
Wags & Whiskers - More than one fold
Creative Card Crew - Die cuts - Stepper card die
Papertake - Anything goes
Fab n Funky - Inspired by a song - Thank you Very much by The Scaffold - knew the song, not the artists!Jx

All That Glitters

Welcome everyone to the latest Challenge over at Ooh La La, and it's a first time for hosting by the lovely Deborah.  She has gone with the lovely theme of

All That Glitters

So this one is wide open for both birthday and Christmas makes - in fact any sort of makes as long as they are glittery!

For me, I decided to make a start on Christmas cards - shamefully this is my first Christmas card of the year! I used a fantastic image form the CD Festive Funnies, layered it up them sprinkled with glamour dust.  The result...

and a close up,

Trust me, there was a lot of glitter on this one - perhaps more on me now, but it was added!

Challenges;

Crafty Calender - Christmas in July
CHCC - Include a sentiment
Crafty Catz - Anything Goes
Kitty Bee Designs - Christmas in July
Winter Wonderland - All That Glitters
4 Crafty Chicks - No stamping
Crafty Ribbons - Anything Goes Jx

Prize from Craftybren's Embroidered Embellishment

Retirement

Today's card was made for one of the doctors at my husbands work who retires today.  He is a keen cyclist and I'm sure will be cycling all the more once his stethoscope gets hung up for good.

Best wishes David for a long and happy retirement!

So for my card, I contacted Wendi at Ooh La La for help - I wanted a cyclist, but not a cartoon character one and so she sent me files from the Carnival of Colour CD - available here to work with.  Thank you so much Wendi, I love them - the image and papers are just perfect - and look, I even did a card insert!

Challenges;
Cardz 4 Guyz - B for bicycle
Crafty Cardmakers - Sentiment - Continued on the inside so it's kinda a feature!
Robyn's Fetish - Add lace Jx

Sewing

Today the MAWTT challenge is hosted for the very first time by Emily and she has chosen the theme of;

Sewing

For my card, I chose another All Dressed Up image, this time Purrfect Together, coloured with Promarkers then set on Ooh La La papers - these CD's come in handy for DP's too when you are looking for a colour match!  Finally, lots of dies in action, my stitched Simon Says rectangles along with my Magnolia tag - for a hidden greeting and my La La Land banner.

Challenges;
All Dressed Up - Anything Goes - Challenge 37
Cutie Pies - Cats & Dogs - but really just cats!!!
Stamping Sensations - Dies & Punches
Chocolate Coffee & Cards - Use pearls
Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
Papertake - Triotastic - 3 pearls
Crafting for all Seasons - Cute and summery - well defo cute! - Sorry to see you close. Jx

Happy Birthday

Today's challenge at Ooh La La is set by Avril and she has chosen the lovely easy one of

Happy Birthday.

Think we will have loads of entries this time so bear with us as we try to comment on all your cards!

For my card I have again used the Paula Oakley CD - can you tell I love this one already!  I've made an A5 card this time and decorated it with a ribbon flower.  I was so into making these last year and thought it was about time I fished out that tutorial from Bonnie and made another!

I even decorated the inside of this one, and that doesn't happen very often!

Challenges;
A Gem of a Challenge - Summertime - flowers in full bloom
Suzy Bee's Bloomin Challenge - Anything goes + blue
Frosted Designs - Summertime blues
Kitty Bee Designs - Birthday
Simply Papercraft - Anything goes Jx

Man's Best Friend

For clarification, man's best friend may well be the dog, but this woman's best friend is defo her cat!  I haven't mentioned the lovely Merlot in a while, so just in case you were wondering, he's still as lovely as ever.  He now has a fantastic Elvis styled lip curl which is more pronounced when he's on the attack and his favourite place remains to be on my lap sound asleep afer a day of cat action.  (I will not give details as he's a bit of a lad!)

Anyway, back to Bertie dog off the latest Ooh La La CD by Paula Oakley.  Isn't he lovely - he too looks like he has a lot of character and would be a fun guy to have around.

Challenges;
CD Sunday -Four Legs and a tail
Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Furry Friends Jx

Plain Jane

I've got a new toy - two actually all because of Sarah  (not Debs this time!!!)

It's a stepper card die used to make the card below only the die was too big for my big shot so I needed to buy the bigger plates - but plates are boring so I got the new teal coloured Grand Calibur instead and I love it!

So, back to the card - kept it simple with a few dies and paper piecing. The stamp is a beautiful All Dressed Up one which I love, well actually I love most of their stamps!  And the papers, LOVT Country Meadow.

As for what's new, well Colin is now back working at Mackie's Ice-Cream and Alan is loving working with the oil company Nexen - both just Summer jobs.  And as for me, well the phlebotomy went well last week, real blood has now been drawn and my training is ongoing.

Challenges;
All Dressed Up - Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly - Oh so Pretty
Passion for Promarkers - No squares allowed
Top Tip Tuesday - Cut it out
Crafting When We Can - Paper Piecing
Glitter n Sparkle - Include a die cut
Crafty Calender - Fancy Folds
Chocolate Coffee & Cards - Pearls
Crafty Catz - CAS
Stamping Sensations - Dies & Punches Jx

To The Happy Couple

Challenge time once more at MAWTT, and today Gail has chosen

To The Happy Couple

So that could be an engagement, a wedding or an anniversary card - it's up to you.

I went with anniversary, as my husband and I celebrated our 27th wedding anniversary last month.  I looked it up and apparently the appropriate gift for said occasion is a sculpture, so I'll keep you posted if one appears!  (Perhaps not!!!)

Anyway, back to my card and the stamp used, it's a Penny Black showing a lovely sun set, and it just reminded me of our honeymoon in St Lucia and the sun sets there.  I had never seen a sun set so quickly and was amazed that you could be on the beach sun bathing then about half an hour later the sky was black and it was night!

Challenges;
Sweet Stampin - Something Old  - PB Stamp, Something New - Tattered Lace borders from a die
Stamping Sensations - Dies & Punches - Corner & border dies
Without Words - Summer holidays
Addicted To Stamps - Summer Colours
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything goes
C4C289 - Sunshine  Jx

Here Comes Summer

I so hope the title of this post is correct, a nice spell of hot weather would be so welcome so fingers crossed! Not that I want it too hot, as I have a busy week ahead getting some practice in at phlebotomy (taking blood).  To date I've only practiced on dummys so I'm guessing I'll be hot enough with a real arm in front of me!

Anyway, enough of that and back to the latest challenge over at Ooh La La, where the theme is

"Here Comes Summer!"

Now for this one I just had to use my new Paula Oakley CD and a gorgeous deck chair image.  So reminds me of the prom at Brighton.  We spent so many hours down at the beach there, swimming in the sea and sun bathing and on sunny days the hire of deck chairs was big business!

Challenges;
Brown Sugar - Anything goes
Chocolate Coffee & Cards - Summer fun
Fussy & Fancy - Fun in the sun
Cute Card Thursday - Summer colours - well you only get a sea that colour in the summer!
Crafty Gals Corner - Summer Fun
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes Jx

Texture

Morning everyone and welcome to the latest challenge over at MAWTT, chosen this time by Mrs Duck. She's gone with the great theme of

Texture

So grab those embossing powders and folders, your charms and ribbons and anything else you can think would add texture to your work.

To add texture to my card, I went with die cuts and embossing folders.  I've gone for a simple colour scheme and a gorgeous Hannah Lynn image and finished my card off with a LOTV sentiment and ribbon.

Challenges;
Polkadoodles - Girly but no pink
Clear it Out - Girls and die cuts and stash items... Image printed and coloured months ago/ old ribbon.
Fan-tastic Tuesday - texture
TopTipTuesday- All about the hair
Make it Mon with Kraft - Emboss
Make my Mon - Kraft

And poor Mrs Duck is feeling poorly this week, hope you feel better soon and have learned your lesson, keep away from the chickens!!! Jx

Circles and Squares

It's almost the end of the month folks, May has all but been and gone, the garden is brightening up and the grass is growing like mad!  Things are going to plan in Aberdeen, Colin's flat is looking good but as with any property, there are always things to do!

Anyway, back to today, and Wynn's challenge over at OohLaLa.  This time we are looking for

Circles and Squares

So get your thinking caps on.  Be that a paper pattern, an image or dies, as long as we see both, you meet the challenge.

For my card, I went with a square base and circle decoupage.  This was a first for me and I must confess I did find it tricky lining up the dies on the image.  Any tips on this process would be much appreciated as several circles had to be binned cause they had either a white rim or when stacked my circle pyramid was wonky!!!

Who said DT members knew what they were doing???

Anyway, here is my card, it uses a lovely image off the Shaun Jenkins CD called Birdhouse.

Challenges;
A Gem of a Challenge - Flowers
Allsorts - Happy Birthday
Crafty Calender - Things with wings - Blue tit
Wags n Whiskers - Lots of Layers

Let's Get Fruity

Hi everyone, hope you're all well.  This is a scheduled post from me as we are currently in Aberdeen for a spell, sorting out a flat for Colin amongst other things.  Once I've got it to my liking I'll show you pics.  It's in the same block as Alan's which we are delighted about and will make visiting very straightforward.

Anyway back to today and the new challenge over at MAWTT, chosen by Carole, and it's

Let's Get Fruity

A nice fun challenge for this time of year and one that enabled me to use yet another gorgeous, hand painted image from the latest Ooh La La CD - The Paula Oakley collection.  So love this CD and have printed off loads of images to use in the coming weeks.

Challenges;
The Crafters Cafe - Feminine (Hope this is feminine enough with the doily & pearls?)
Creative Moments - Anything Goes
Party Time Tuesday - Anything Goes
Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes
Jx

Use A Pre-Coloured Image

Good morning everyone and welcome to the latest challenge over at Ooh La La... set by me!  As you can probably tell, I'm super excited to be at the helm and for my theme, I've chosen...

Use A Pre- Coloured Image

Hopefully a nice and easy one with lots of scope for using art pads, CD's or printed sheets.  Now with it being an Ooh La La Challenge, I obviously went with an Ooh La La CD - The Shawn Jenkins collection to be precise, and not only did the image come off the CD, but also the lovely matching papers, so all I needed was my charm, pearls & punch!

 As with many of the images on the CD, there was the option to go decoupage, so that's what I did!

Challenges;
Little Claires - Use kraft
Brown Sugar - Layers - decoupaged
Fussy and Fancy - Lots of flowers
Creative Moments - Anything goes
Fab n Funky - May Flowers Jx

Cat Challenge

Well Wynn, you certainly picked a theme that I'd jump at this week - there's no way I'd miss a cat challenge so as soon as I saw your CD Sunday post, I knew which CD I was headed for.  Yup, you guessed it, it's the latest Ooh La La CD, the Paula Oakley collection and without further ado, here's my card!

The decoupaged image and papers are all from the CD, all I did was add a diecut and pearls.

Challenges;
CD Sunday - Curious Cats although he's not too curious just now!
Make My Monday - Trees or leaves - hopefully the cat is lying on sufficient leaves
Glitter n Sparkle - Anything Goes
Natalie & Amy - Animals
Paper Creator Crafts - Animals Jx