It's a Man's World

Good morning everyone,

Monday again, where does the weekend go? I spent mine in my crafty room, doing some DT admin and also working on a couple of crafty projects. Our Challenge Theme this time is "It's a Man's Thing", so share your male projects with us! I used a lovely sea side image of the Boys to Men CD, it immediately caught my eye when I was looking through the CD content. I have had the button I used in my stash for ages and finally had a perfect project to use it on, kind of satisfying in a strange way. Anyway, here's my card, hope you can find the time to join us this fortnight!

Materials:
* Ooh La La Lighthouse 2 Pyramid Decoupage and DP, taken from the Boys to Men CD
* Festive Berries Card Candi
* Chipped Sapphire Distress Ink
* Digi Darla Circle Sentiment
* Button from stash

Challenges:
* Hobby Vision (Male Card)
* City Crafter (Inspired by a Song) The Lighthouse Tale by Nickel Creek
* Cute Card Thursday (Anything Goes)
* One Stop Craft (Anything Goes)
* My Grafico (Anything Goes)
* Tuesday Alchemy (Anything Goes)
* A Blog Named Hero (Free Style)
* ABC Challenge (Just as you Like)
* One Crazy Stamper (Anything Goes)
* Mema's Crafts (Anything Goes)

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Sparkly Christmas

Hi everyone,

It's Friday, almost the weekend! I have a busy weekend and week ahead of me with an enormous crafty project due at the end, I am looking forward to it but also feel a little daunted. Fingers crossed I make it in time!

As today is the first day of March, I am here to share my CCAYR DT make with you, this month the theme will be "Sparkle & Bling". Shouldn't be too hard to think of a creative way to use that theme for a Christmas card me thinks, we hope you can make the time to participate!

Materials:
* Studio Light Decoupage image, sprayed with Crafter's Companion Multicolour Glitter Spray
* Art Talent & Hely Coppledich Pepper's Christmas Party DPs
* Eline's Winterhuis Sentiment Stamps
* Joy Craft Flower Punch
* Tumbles Glass Distress Ink & Colour Box Black Ink
* Sakura Glitter Gel Pen
* Metallic thread from local store (Pipoos) & Sew Easy Quick Sand Floss
* Pearls from stash

Challenges:
* ABC Christmas Challenge (D for Designer Paper)
* Crafty Hazelnut (Use 1 Word)
* Allsorts (Animals)
* Come and Get It (Just add Water) Snow
* Glitter 'n Sparkle (Bling It On)
* Kaboodle Doodles (Any Bling)
* Crafty Sentiments (1 image/stamp,2 papers, 3 embellishments) 3 pearls, 3 flags, 3 types of embellishmenbt
* Flourishes Timeless Tuesday (All that Glitters)
* Ruby's Rainbow (In the Garden)
* Joanna Sheen (Layer It Up)

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Flower Power

Hi all!

I'm still a little under the weather, incredible how long this cold is lingering! I'm back at work though, as I had cabin fever after being cooped up in the house for an entire week. It did give me plenty of time to crafty though :) The card I am sharing with you today came about pretty quickly actually, I'm using it as an inspiration card for the new Fab 'n Funky's "Flower Power" Challenge. Our sponsors this week are Flonzcraft & Stampart Design by Katherine, offering some lovely prizes for you to win if you play along.

Materials:
* Studio Light Decoupage Image
* First Edition Hideaway DPs
* Spellbinders Shape CS
* Wooden Butterflies (Xenos) & Lace (Hema) from local stores
* Eline Vintage Sentiment Stamp set
* Victorian Velvet Distress Ink
* Pearls & Ribbon from stash

Challenges:
* Card & Scrap (Use Flowers)
* Crafty Cardmakers (Blooming Images)
* Created with Love (Things that Fly) Butterflies & Ladybug
* Incy Wincy (Pop It Up)
* Sparkles Forum (Lace it Up)
* Paper Playtime (Sentiment Stamp) Inside the card
* Stamps & Fun = Create (Lace)
* Sentimental Sundays (Lace & Pearls)
* QKR Stampede (Anything Goes)
* Allsorts (Things with Wings) Butterflies & Ladybug

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Bee My Valentine

Hello all!

I have so excellent news to share with you! You might remember I was asked to be a GDT for Ooh La La, well, they asked me to become a full DT member instead! Of course I said yes :) This is my first challenge as a DT member and it's a cracker: "LOVE STORY". I decided to use this challenge to make my husband's Valentine's card, I love this cute image! I've used the last layer of pyramage to decorate the inside. I hope you can join me and the other girls for this challenge, see you there :)

Materials:
* Create & Craft Pastel CS
* Ooh La La Bee My Valentine digital images & paper
* Echo Park A Walk in the Park DP scraps
* Vintage Photo Distress Ink
* Matt Gold paper
* Memories Direct Flowers
* Flower Brads and Bee & Heart Peel offs from my stash

Challenges:
* Happy Campers (Flowers & Use Something Digital)
* Hobby Vision (Valentine's Card)
* Gingerloft (Love is in the Air)
* Sassy Studio (Love is in the Air)
* Simply Create Too (Valentine's Day or Hearts)
* Ladybuy Crafts (Valentine's Day and/or Love)
* Visible Image (Love)
* Heck of a Challenge (Love & Flowers)
* Ready Teddy Go (Love is in the Air)
* Emerald Fairies (Love)

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It's All About You....eh.....Shoe!

Good morning everyone!

Wednesday signals another Fab 'n Funky Challenge and I absolutely love this week's theme, dreamed up by my DT buddy Rachel: "Include some kind of shoe on your project"! I certainly needed to put my thinking cap on for this one, but I love the whole process of going through my stash and coming up with some ideas as I go.

I fancied using up some of my enormous stash for this card and ended up deciding on some decoupage. I've tried to create a little scene of the flip flop with a pebble beach and sea, but am not sure I've completely pulled it off. Oh well, never mind, I still like the card :) Have a look on the challenge blog to see what all my teamies have done with the theme, I can guarantee you that there is a wide variety of interpretations and projects!

Materials:
* DL card
* DCWV The Photo Stack 2 DPs
* Studio Light images and sentiment
* Gems, brad & ribbon from stash

Challenges:
* Forever Friends (Birthdays)
* Challenges 4 Everybody (Anything Goes)
* Love to Create (Anything Goes with a Sentiment)
* Craft Your Passion (Colour Combo)
* Shelly's Images (1-2-3)
* Bunny Zoe (Anything Goes)
* Crafts 4 Eternity (TicTacToe) I've used circle (sentiment), ribbon, birthday
* Dutch Card Lovers (Use at least 5 colours from the inspiration sheet) My card has colours such as Tender Shoots, Monaco Blue, Poppy Red, Lemon Zest and Dusk Blue
* Robin's Fetish (Use Some Brads and Ribbon)
* Forever Friends (Use Ribbon or Lace)

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Anything Goes for Next Christmas

<<< For my Fab 'n Funky DT make, scroll down to the previous post of today!>>>

Hello again,

Another Christmas card today, as CCAYR opens 2013 with its first challenge: "Anything Goes". Nice and easy one to get you back into Christmas crafting, right? Don't worry, it will come back to you :)

I've used up a decoupaged image that had been lying on my craft desk waiting to be used, along with some scraps that seemed to go with it pretty well and so the card came together quite quickly and easily. I love the paper tearing here, as it resembles snow......well, in my mind at least :) Hope to see you and your lovely makes at the challenge!

Materials
* Studio Light Decoupage image
* Crafters Companion CS scraps
* Marianne Design Scandinavian Christmas DP scraps
* Assorted scraps from my scrappy shoebox
* Silver & Black Inks
* Scalloped circle, Star Border & Rounded Corner punches
* Eline's Winterhuis & Eline's Vintage Sentient Stamp Sets
* Gems, ribbons from stash

Challenges:
* ATC's with Attittude (Anything Goes/Celebrations)
* Card Mania (Winter Wonderland)
* Cards Galore (Anything Goes)
* Crafty Hazelnut (Any Christmas Card that doesn't feature Santa)
* Card Crafter's Circle (There's No Business Like Snow Business)
* Crimbo Crackers (Decoupage)
* Simply Create Too (Let it Snow)
* 2 Sisters (Anything Goes)
* Joanna Sheen (With Love at Christmas)
* Gingerloft (Christmas or Winter)

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Christmas Dreams

Good morning all!

I'm well and truly in Christmas card making mode now, it seems all the cards I make are Christmas-themed! I just need so many still! My card for today is no exception, I'm hoping to inspire you to join our challenge @ Fab 'n Funky this week, which is themed "Die-cuts/Punches". I went the punch route and used my gift box border and snow flake punches to create this card. I also used a rounded corner punch for the inside of the card. The base for this card was a lovely piece of glittery paper that I recently delved out of my stash, I forgot I even had it. I'm glad I found it though, as it's just so gorgeous and perfect for those holiday cards! Even though the dreamy image I used might not be obviously Christmas-themed, I think the total card is definitely festive.

Materials:
* Glitter paper & dark blue CS from stash
* Studio Light Decoupage image
* MS border punch 'Presents'
* Joy Crafts Flower punch (which I use for making snow flakes)
* Rounded corner punch
* Sentiment on the front from stash (perhaps from a Fairy Doodles die-cut sheet?)
* Eline's Winterhuis stamp set (sentiment inside)
* SEI Christmas Mint Vanilla Icing Accents
* Peel offs & gems from stash

Sponsoring us this week are Joanna Sheen & Stampart, have a look on the challenge blog to get the exact deets!

Challenges:
* Whimsy Stamps (All Things Sparkly)
* Southern Girls Challenge (Animal Crackers)
* Willow Sketchie Challenge (Sketch and/or Christmas in October) I used the theme only
* ABC Christmas Challenge (Vibrant Colours)
* Jingle Belles (Creature Feature)
* Crafty Ann's Challenge (Christmas in October)
* Winter Wonderland (Three Different Punches)
* Hot Shot Craft (Bling It On)
* Crafty Hazelnut (No Patterned Papers)
* 52 Christmas Card Throwdown (Die-cuts)

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Father's Day UK

Good evening everyone!

It's almost Father's day here and in the UK, so I have been busy making Father's Day cards this weekend. This is first I would like to share with you, the other card is likely to follow later in the week. This card is for my FIL, who regularly likes a glass of wine with his dinner:

I'm not quite sure what you would call this fold, but it certainly makes for a more unusual card I think! Most supplies are from a decoupage sheet, but I like to start with the sheet without the example and then make my own card with the supplies. Always fun to see what someone else did with the same supplies and compare cards! I'm curious to see what you guys think, I know there's not much decoupage out there (or perhaps I am looking in the wrong places), mostly digis or stamps, but I like using decoupage just as much as other techniques and don't feel it's inferior to anything I can make with a stamp or digi stamp. Just different. Perhaps you want to give it a try as well ;) Enjoy the rest of your weekend guys!

Materials:
* Studio Light (decoupage) images and DPs
* Line peel offs and silver mirror card from stash
* Computer-generated sentiment

Challenges:
* Delicious Doodles (For the Fellas)
* Card Makin' Mamas (Father's Day)
* Saturday Challenge (Father's Day)
* One Stop Challenge (Father's Day)
* Poodles Parlous (Father's Day)
* Simply Create Too (Father's Day)
* C.R.A.F.T. Challenge (Male Card)
* Dutch Dare Challenge (For Dad)
* Card for Men (Father's Day)
* Creative Inspirations (Cards for a Male)

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