You're a Hot Dog!

Good morning everyone!

I am having a couple of days off work, well-deserved if I do say so myself as I had a big deadline yesterday and made it, yay! Hubs is also off, so we are planning to take some day trips, weather permitting of course. It's looking fine now as I type this, but of course that doesn't necessarily have to last! We shall see :)

I wanted to share with you a card I made for the fresh Fab 'n Funky Challenge, the theme is For a Child. Lots of things you can do with this theme, perhaps a baby card, or a card for a boy or a girl. I went with the latter (more for a boy than a girl I think, but I'd like to stay open minded ;)) and made a fairly simple card. In my experience, children are not really into very elaborate card (which is great for me, as that's not my style anyway), but like something fun and clean. Say that's the style I went with for my card, using a cute Wiener dog. To add a bit of interest, I cut the buttom of the coloured paper and folded it back. I thought it was a fun technique, I am curious what you think! Anyway, come and join us if you can, we'd love to see your work!

Materials: 
* Kenny K Hot Diggity digi, coloured using Spectrum Noirs and Promarkers
* Hunkydory The Dog's Biscuits DPs
* Nellie Snellen's Multiframes Circles dies
* Marianne Design Eline's Vintage stamp
* Vintage Photo Distress Ink
* Around the Block Dog brad (It says: Go Fetch!)

Challenges: 
* Little Claire's (A Man's Birthday Card)
* Creative Moments (Anything Goes/Animals)
* Crafts 4 Eternity (Something Old) The papers were a gift many Christmases ago, the brads I once bought on a fair, but never used.
* Tuesday Throwdown (Furry Little Friends)
* Pinspirational Challenge (Inspirational Photo with a Dog and Cat)
* Crafty Creations (Dig Deep: Use Something from Your Stash)The papers were a gift many Christmases ago, the brads I once bought on a fair, but never used.
* Creatieve Zebra (Alles Mag)
* The Squirrel and the Fox (Anything Goes)
* Glittler 'n Sparkle (Use Something Metal) I've used a brad
* Creative Fingers (Anything Goes)

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About Faithful Friends; My Final Challenge @ Ooh La La

Hello everyone,

You must have noticed it has been a little bit quieter on the blog the last couple of weeks, as I have been really busy at work (again!) with many deadlines. I guess that's the life of a researcher, we all need the funding and acquiring it takes up a lot of time and energy, not to mention very strict and short deadlines! But I'm not complaining, it is really a great feeling when you can successfully complete a project submission :) However, not much time left to crafting I'm afraid and so I had to step down from a couple of DTs; first Treasured Times and today is going to be my last challenge as a DT member @ Ooh La La. I've had loads of fun, but it's time to give another talented crafter the opportunity to be part of this great team.

Anyway, this week's challenge theme is "Faithful Friends". When this theme was announced, I immediately thought of dogs. For those among you who have had dogs, I am sure you will agree. And since I hadn't had the opportunity to work with the Faithful Friends CD, I went looking for a cute image and boy did I find it! This one's adorable and reminds me of our dogs who loved to play with tennis balls too.

Cute, no? I continued the theme with some dog paws' DP and a lovely brad from a little bag that I bought ages ago but never had gotten round to use. I'm curious what you will come up with, so why not join the fun?

Materials:
* Ooh La La French Bull Pup image from the Faithful Friends CD
* Hunkydory The Dog's Biscuit & Graphic 45 Steampunk Spells Patterns and Solids DPs
* Star Border Punch
* Hunkydory The Cat's Meow sentiments
* Around the Block Heart Dog brads
* Black square accents and ribbon from stash

Challenges:
* Glitter 'n Sparkle (Add some Ribbon)
* Totally Gorjuss (Cuddly)
* Quirky Crafts (Something Beginning with S) Stars, Sentiment
* One Stitch at a Time (Anything Goes)
* Created with Love (In the Garden)
* Gem of a Challenge (Cute & Cuddly)
* Kitty Bee (Animals)
* The Male Room (Man's Best Friend)
* The Squirrel and the Fox (Punch or Diecut)
* Creative Inspirations (Cute Character)

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It's a Heat Wave!

Good morning all!

Well, the carnival festivities are over and that means normal life resumes once again here in the south of the Netherlands. That also means I'm expected back at work, so no more full days of crafting for me, boooooh! I love my work really, but it's just so nice playing around the crafty desk all day long once in a while that makes me a little reluctant to go back to work.

Anyway, Wednesday again, so that means another challenge @ Fab 'n Funky. Our lovely teamie Shirley has chosen the theme this week and it is "HEAT STROKE". So get out your hot and/or summery images and play along! We are sponsored this week by Doodle Pantry, who also allowed the DT to play with some of their images. I chose to use a pre-coloured image, Bird Bath Joy, but they also have the same image uncoloured. Such a wonderful image and after all, what's nicer during a hot summer's day then to cool off?

Materials:
* Doodle Pantry Bird Bath Joy, pre-coloured image
* Prima Prima Bella & Echo Park For the Record DPs
* Forest Moss Distress Ink
* Button and pearl from stash

Hope you like the theme and will get inspired by all the creations from the DT girls, have a look here to see for yourself!

Challenges:
* Card Makin' Mamas (Stack It Up)
* Pattie's Creations (Spots & Dots)
* Crafty Bloggers Network (Nature)
* Crafty Sentiments (Spots or Dots)
* Top Tip Tuesday (3, 5 or 7) 3 colours, 3 DPs, 3 pearls, 5 banners
* Allsorts (Spring is Coming)
* Jellypark Friends (Things with Wings)
* Created with Love (Think Spring)
* Oldie but a Goodie (Spring has Sprung)
* AnMa Creatief (Lente/Voorjaar/Pasen)

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Magnificent Men

Good morning everyone,

Another week is starting, are we ready? Well, to be honest, I could have done with a couple of hours more sleep, but never mind. The Ooh La La Challenge is starting today with the theme "Magnificent Men". Let's celebrate the men in your lives by creating some stunning cards for them! I made my card for my father, who has loved horses all his life. So this image was perfect for him! I started with the image and selected some muted brown, green and pink papers to compliment the lovely image, added some embellishments and voila!

Looking forward to seeing all your lovely projects, we really do love visiting your blogs and gawking at your creative makes :)

Materials:
* Ooh La La Stallion image from Yesterday's Memories CD (my absolute fave!)
* Papermania Birdsong & K&Co Ancestry DPs, distressed with TH distressing tool
* Robin's Nest Cowboy Sticker Sheet & dew drops
* Pearl and Ribbon from stash

Challenges:
* Paper Pretties (Distressing)
* Ruby's Rainbow Challenges (It's a Male Thing)
* Cute Card Thursday (Hip to be Square) Square card, image and embellishment
* The Squirrel and the Fox (It's Raining Men)
* Whimsy Stamps (Masculine cards)
* Unstampabelles (Use Scraps and/or Old Stash) All stash is more than a year old and were in my scrap box
* Crafty Catz (Boys/Men)
* Card & Scrap (Vintage/Shabby Chic)
* Color Throwdown (Colour Challenge)
* Polka Doodle (One for the Boys)

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Wild Panda?

Hi everyone,

July already, my birthday isn't far away now! This year, me and hubby put our birthday money together and bough a PS3 and some games and we have already had so much use out of it, perfect birthday gift :) I can't get enough of the Lego games, it's just too cute for words LOL.

Anyway, the beginning of a new month also marks a new release over @ Delightful Challenges. This month, the new images all have to do with wild animals. I already knew what DPs I wanted to use with my image, Jubbly Panda, and immediately set to work. Not until I almost finished the card did I realise that a panda's face it white......major fail! Still, I thought it looked pretty cute, so I decided to leave it as it is.

The challenge theme this week ties in with the new release, as it is themed "Into the Wild", so use a wild critter on your project. So let's see those Wild Critter projects :)

We are being sponsored by 

Offering a 15 dollar store certificate to the winner

Materials:
* Digital Delights Jubbly Panda, coloured with Promarkers & Spectrum Noirs
* DCWV The Photo Stack 2 & Green Stack plus K&Co Earth Tones Solid DPs
* Crafter's Companion Embossing Board
* Personal Impressions sentiment stamp, using Vintage Photo Distress Ink
* Peel off Vines & Pearls from Stash

Challenges:
* Southern Girls (Leaves)
* Sentimental Sundays (Anything Digital)
* Polka Doodles (Animals)
* Ladybug Crafts (Use Your Favourite Embellishment) Pearls
* Paper Nest Dolls (Animal Love)
* Challenges 4 Everybody (Anything Goes)
* Crafts and Me (Anything Goes)
* Lacey Sunshine (Anything Goes)
* ABC Challenges (Anything Goes)
* Papertake Weekly (Anything Goes)

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No Squares Allowed!

Good morning everyone!

Hope you are all having a good week? I had a great day yesterday, because I found out that my first research project is going to be funded! Yay me ;) Seriously though, it's great news and a really great opportunity to showcase myself and the project. So you can imagine I am in an extremely good mood :)

Our challenge theme this week over @ Fab 'n Funky is "Don't be Square", so use other shapes on your project than square. Great theme Angelique :) I decided to go for a circle card, as I hadn't done them in a while and they're always so cute. We are being sponsored by Digi Darla & Stampart by Katherine this week, so most of the DT is using one of their images. I think this Digi Darla cutie is originally a Christmas/Winter image, but I think it still works like this!

Materials:
* Digi Darla Snow Time Scottie 3, coloured with Promarkers & Spectrum Noirs
* DCWV Street Lace & K&Co Earth Tones Solid DPs
* MS Picket Fence Border & Scalloped Circle punches
* Peel off borders from stash

Challenges:
* Joanna Sheen (Don't be Square)
* Polka Doodles (Animals)
* Cupcake Crafts (Anything but Square)
* Whimsy (Shaped Cards)
* Flourishes (Going in Circles)
* Crealing (Not a Square)
* Crafty Boots (Anything but Square)
* Creative Creations (Shaped Cards)
* Bearly Mine (Anything Goes)
* One Stitch at a Time (Anything Goes)

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Birthday at the Beach

Hi all,

It's been a little quiet on my blog this last week, I missed a couple of deadlines because I really didn't feel like crafting and was running out of time, I'm sure you all have had such an episode at one point or another. But thankfully my crafty mojo and I am able to share a couple of projects again with you this week. The first one is a male birthday card for the Fab 'n Funky challenge, asking for projects using ANIMALS. I won this image a while back and it never had an outing before, so I decided this was the perfect moment for it. Hope you can join us!

Materials:
* Square base card
* Meljen's Design Seafaring Seagull Frame Digi, coloured with Promarkers & Spectrum Noirs
* My Mind's Eye Fine and Dandy True Blue & DCWV The Photo Stack 2 DPs
* Tim Holtz Distress Tool, Vintage Photo & Tumbled Glass Distress Inks
* Kars Gefeliciflapsteerd Sentiment Stamp Set & Inkadinkado Fun in the Sun Mini Stamp Set
* Gems from stash

Challenges:
* Crafting 4 All Seasons (One for the Guys)
* Crafty Sentiments (Fun in the Sun)
* Tip Top Tuesday (Masculine)
* Perfect Sentiments (Sun & Sand)
* Art Impressions (Masculine Cards)
* Tammy's Scrappin' Corner (Anything with Wings)
* Delicious Doodles (All Creatures Great and Small)
* Card & Scrap (Use a text/sentiment stamp)
* A Gem of a Challenge (Father's Day/Male)
* Dream Valley (Father's Day/Male Theme)

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Our Four Legged Friends

Happy Monday all!

This fortnight we are having a great challenge theme over at Ooh La La, namely "Our Four-legged Friends" . So make sure the creature that is on your project has four legs, if so you can join in :) Here is my make, using a lovely image with puppies, riding in style indeed. When I printed the image, it came out rather pale, but I have to admit I like the dreamy quality it gives so decided to use it for the card anyway. I can't wait how you interpret this challenge, hopefully you can join in the fun too!

Materials:
* Ooh La La Riding in Style image (You can find this image on the Boys to Men CD)
* Making Memories Paperie Rouge & Mocha and K&Co Ancestry.com Mat Pad DPs
* Memories Direct Flowers
* Personal Impressions Sentiment stamp
* Flower & Rounded Corner punches
* Gems & pearls from stash

Challenges:
* Digital Tuesdays (Birthday)
* Diva's by Design (Anything Goes)
* My Grafico (Anything Goes)
* Bunny Zoe (Flowers & Pearls)
* Craft Us Crazy (Anything Goes)
* Mema's Craft (Anything Goes)
* Inky Chicks (Mother's Day/Birthday)
* Paper Pretties (Punch)
* Bearly Mine (Anything Goes)
* Crafts & Me (Dies/Punches)

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Airy Puppy

Good Morning everyone!

I'm back with another challenge announcement @ Fab 'n Funky, this weeks it's "Animals" we want to see! Not too hard a theme, is it? So take your dog, cat, bear and other assorted animal images out and come have a play with us.

This week, the challenge is sponsored by Crimson Cloud and DigiDarla Designs and all the DT girls received some DigiDarla images to work with. I've chosen Puppies Up 2, such a cute little image and I had some cloudy DP that went perfectly with it. I was planning to make a gate fold card (yes again, I know), but I scored the wrong line and ended up with one flap wider then the other. So it's more of a fold-over this time. I kind of liked that though, so I'm still using it. Also, it did strike me that I could possibly use this a next time for making a handbag shaped card or a gift card holder. Sometimes mistakes are the start of a whole new set of crafty ideas :)

Materials:
* Create & Craft CS
* DigiDarla's Puppies Up 2 digi, coloured with Promarkers & Spectrum Noirs
* My Mind's Eye Fine and Dandy True Blue DPs
* Gold & Black Ink
* Kars Sentiment Stamp Set "Gefeliciflapsteerd"
* Eline Vintage Sentiment Stamp Set
* Pearls from stash

I hope you can join us this week, see you @ Fab 'n Funky!

Challenges:
* QKR Stampede (Animal Madness)
* Addicted to Stamps (Animal Friends)
* ABC Challenge (Zoo: Animal or Animal Print)
* One Stitch at a Time (Use a Digi)
* Pan Pastel (Animals)
* The Crafty Pad (Use an Animal)
* Cards Galore (Anything Goes)
* One Stop Craft Challenge (Anything Goes)
* Fussy & Fancy Friday (Anything Goes)
* Stamptacular Sunday (No Rules)

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Thanksgiving gift card

Hi everyone!

At PCD, we are already getting in the Thanksgiving mood with the new release this month. The set consists of a pilgrim boy and girl as well as the cute little turkey I've used for my make today. Have a look on the blog to see the set and more lovely examples from my fellow teamies!

I decided on a gift card I guess you could use for just about any gift. I wanted to use some leaves on the card and found some chipboard ones in my stash, but they were bright blue and pink and therefore not really that suitable. However, I just covered them with some orange & red scraps I still had, making them fit the theme perfectly. I then used Distress Ink and glossy varnish to give them some interest. Leaves aren't perfect after all :)

Materials:
* Platypus Creek Digi Thanksgiving Turkey, coloured with Spectrum Noirs
* Sakura Clear Glitter Pen on the turkey feathers and body
* Chipboard leaves + scraps
* Distress Ink Vintage Photo
* Clear Varnish
* Personal Impressions Sentiment stamp
* Ribbon from stash

Challenges:
* Scrapalicious USA (Welcoming Fall)
* Raise the Bar (Celebrate Fall)
* 2 Sisters (Fall)
* The Crafty Pad (It's Scraptastic)
* Polka Doodles (What's the Word Bird?)
* Creative Belli (Autumn)
* Clearly I Stamp (Leaves)
* Just Keep On Crafting (Anything Goes)
* Tammy's Scrapping Corner (Fall Inspiration)
* Gingerloft (Birds of a Feather)

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