Happy Halloween...

Yes I know it's only July, but look how cute this image is from Scrapper's Delight who are sponsoring our latest challenge at Aud Sentiments.

Recipe for Easel Card..

• image by Scrapper's Delight coloured using Promarkers
• Halloween corner cut out using Silhouette cutting file
• Sentiment stamp by Penny Black
• stickers at either side of sentiment from Poundland or similar
• basic black and lilac card for mat and layering

Challenges...

• Fab 'n' Funky - no patterned paper
• Crafty Girls Corner - use die cuts
• Crafting from the Heart - anything goes
• Craft your Passion - always anything goes

Have a great day everyone.

Annie xxx

Christmas in July...

Our challenge this fortnight at My Time to Craft is Christmas in July.   I know it's some way to go to Christmas, but entering these challenges in July is a fun way of getting ahead with your Christmas cards - it's certainly helping me this year as my stash of cards is really growing.  This is my latest one using a beautiful Sweet Pea stamp that I bought many years ago.  Some stamps never go out of favour and this is one of them that I think I will always love.  

I coloured the image using Promarkers and then stamped the image again onto vellum and cut out the candle glow which I then attached to the candles on the main image.  A bit fiddly but I wanted to get the colours lighter around the glow of the candle and thought this might be a good way to do it.  A good artist would have just coloured it well, but I have to use these little tricks to get the same effect.

The black background is glitter card and in real life it really sets the image off, but it's so hard to catch the effect of glitter in a photo.

Christmas in July Challenges...

• One Sweet Challenge
• Daring Cardmakers 
• C.R.A.F.T. Challenge

Have a great weekend everyone and maybe even though the sun is shining you'll find time to enter some of these great  Christmas challenges.

Annie xxx

A very happy day to teachers everywhere...

Last day of the summer term and then six whole weeks to recover - phew teachers all over England will be breathing a sigh of relief today.
Yesterday I created (at break neck speed) these gift cups for my grandson to give his nursery teachers.  As usual all very last minute, but thanks to a really simple cutting file from the Silhouette Store it didn't take long to make all five of them.  Eli put one of each of the goodies in each mug and then we put them in a cello bag so that nothing got lost. I think they turned out really cute and when I was teaching I would have been really thrilled to receive one of these.  Hope Eli's teachers are too.

Challenges...

• Two Creative Chicks - no cards but anything goes
• Creative Moments  anything goes monochromatic
• Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge  anything goes

Have a good day all and teachers out there get ready to chill big time.

Annie xxx