Tanda Teaser #125

This week's challenge from the Tanda Teaser Team is 'Musical Christmas'. I completely missed last week's challenge somehow - how time flies. The Christmas tree is a Creative Expressions stamp smothered in light green Stickles. The music (freebie from the internet) was printed onto parchment paper and then distressed with Walnut Distress ink. The red bp is from my stash and it's been edged with sticky tape and glittered. The ribbon is also from my stash.

Thanks very much for visiting.

Beryl xx

Rainbow Lady's Challenge # 80

It's challenge number 80 with Rainbow Lady already - and this time she wants to see some beads on our work - and feathers as an extra if we choose to.

The main image is from A Debbie Moore cd that I bought at the NEC earlier this month. It's printed onto acetate but the image wasn't as strong as I would have liked so I flipped it and then printed is again onto pink pearl card then fixed the two together with brads. It's mounted onto some fancy mirror card and then onto an A5 card. The pattern on the left was made with a rollergraph stamp and the ribbon and flowers are from my stash. The flowers have beads at the centre. She has feathers in her head dress so I hope that will count for them. I haven't decided yet whether or not to add glitter to the trailing bits on her dress. That was my original intention and I forgot. I may do it later.

Thanks very much for visiting.

Beryl xx

Sketch and Stash Challenge # 23

The image I have used for this card is a freebie kindly given by Wendy . Her digital doodling site has lots of lovely images and this one was given free once she had reached 200 followers. It's called Mrs Tilly Claus and I think it's gorgeous. I've used the sketch from Sketch and Stash challenge 23. I've coloured her with Promarkers and then glittered her cuffs and hem. The swirly piece is another of my backgrounds made with pearlescent glue and then Cuttlebugged. The bp is Graphicus and the peach coloured bit is from a set of coloured cards that I thought I would never use - so I decided to cut them up and use them as matting and layering bits. The flower/snowflake is made using my new Wizard snowflake die.

Thanks very much for calling by

Beryl xx

Crafty Ann's Challenge #2

 Thank you to all of you who joined in Crafty Ann's first challenge. The second one starts today so I do hope you'll either join us again or join us for the first time. This challenge is to use black, white and one other colour.

I have used Ann's bauble stamps, printed onto acetate and then glittered on the back. This was then mounted over a piece of copy paper which had been embossed with my swiss dots folder. In turn, this was mounted onto some turquoise pearl paper and then black. The black corners were cut with some fancy scissors and the cords for the baubles are some black peel offs from my stash.

Thanks very much for visiting and I look forward to seeing loads of entries on this theme.

Beryl xx

Keeping Dry?

I've seen lots of 'umbrella' cards over the last few days for the My Time to Craft Challenge 'Under My Umbrella'. I love this Whiff of Joy stamp so though I'd give her another outing with a cobbles stamp from Sir Stampalot. Coloured with Promarkers and backed onto some red card and spotty paper from my stash. My usual text (computer generated) for a get well card.
Thanks very much for visiting.
Beryl xx

Two colours - two challenges

The challenge from the Tander Teaser team this week is to use lilac and lemon. Following the sketch from Truly Scrumptious I've used a lilac paper from my Graphicus Guild pack and a lemon paper printed out from my Funky Fairies papers. I've overstamped the papers with an Elusive Images background stamp and layered onto the card. The image is a butterfly from the same set of Elusive Images stamps. The ribbon, flower and stick on pearls are all from my stash.

Thanks very much for visiting.

Beryl xx

Cute and Girly Reminder

Well it's halfway through the month already - where does the time go? - so I'm posting the other two bits I made for the Cute and Girly challenge, which runs for the whole of November on the theme of  'Winter Wonderland'.

The background for the card was made by splodging blue and white pearlescent glue about and then overstamping with a snowflake stamp when it was dry. The image of the skaters on the pond is a Sheena Douglass U Mount stamp and the trees and house in the background are Hobby Art clear stamps. The whole scene was oversprayed with Crafters Companion glitter spray.

The scrapbook page is something I've never done before. I did the whole thing in the Serif Daisy Trail scrapbook programme and the photos are some of the many I took of our last garden in Cambridgeshire.

Thanks very much for visiting.

Beryl xx

A Challenge and an Apology

I'm afraid life has been getting in the way a bit this last week or so which means I have had the chance to visit my usual haunts (blogwise). I hope to rectify this some time today (it's raining so I don't think I'll be in the garden digging or pruning). I'm well behind on my Christmas cards too so this card for the Tander Teaser this week is one more of the list. The challenge is to use metal of some sort and this snowflake (Wizard die) has been made using Debi Moore metal magic in silver and in gold. The background black card has been spritzed with a lovely white mica mist. All these ingredients were bought at the NEC last week. (There was quite a lot more in my bag too I confess.) The cross hatches in the corner were cut from a Cuttlebug alphabet set and the gold mesh at the top I've had for yonks and not got round to using before this.The ribbon was from my stash.
Thanks very much for visiting.
Beryl xx

Brand New Challenge From Crafty Ann

Well, today's the day. I'm sure most of you know Crafty Ann, (spiritofcreativity). Well, today is the launch of her very own challenge and I feel so privileged to have been asked to join the design team. It's going to be a fortnightly challenge so I do hope you will come and join in.

To celebrate our first challenge there will be a prize for one lucky person. The winner will receive any 5 digi stamps and and 5 backing paper collections of their choice. Currently there are 12 backing paper collections and 18 digi stamps – although there will most likely be more to choose from by the time the winner is announced. You can check out what you might win on the pages at the top of the blog, and they are available to purchase at Crafty Ann’s now. As a separate thing, we’ll have a new Guest Designer each month and if you would like to be considered for the January GDT spot, remember to put GDT in the title of your post for your challenge entry.

Ann has a lovely range of backing papers and digi stamps which we (the design team) will be showcasing in our challenge designs. For this first challenge - 'Celebrations' -I have used Ann's Circle frame digi stamp with flowers and two of her lovely backing papers - the red one from the Abstract collection and the green one from the Polished stone collection. My robin is a Crafter's Companion stamp and the pine cone and leaves are Tapestry stamps. The corner is made from the green bp and has been cut with a Cuttlebug corner die. I have also used a Martha Stewart doily punch and some ribbon from my stash.

I do hope you'll visit the challenge site and decide to join in.

Would you note that at the moment the links to the papers and stamps are not working (but I am working on it) but the challenge site link is and you will be able to go on from there.

Thank you for visiting today.

Beryl xx

DewDrop Craftz' Challenge

DewDrop Craftz have come back to Blogger so I hope some of you will pop across and hopefully join in with the current challenge :-

You are challenged to create a Christmas Gift..Your colour pallete this month must include a shade of BLUE..Your creation must also include a ribbon..Your creation must include a DewDrop Craftz image from either the clear stamps or Digiz ranges.

I've been lucky enough to win on this challenge - twice - so why not join in and try your luck. It's a monthly challange and this particular one is running till 10th November - so there's still time.

My 'gift' is a Xmas word book - MCS and the other bits and pieces are from my stash. The DewDrop Craftz element is the pixie stamp on the S.

Thanks for visiting.

Berylxx

Fiftieth Anniversary Toast

As Rainbow Lady has been celebrating her wedding anniversary this week she decided to make 'Anniversary' the theme for this week's Rainbow Lady challenge. There's not a lot to say about this card except that all elements are from My Craft Studio.

Thanks for visiting.

Beryl xx