#91 Pick Three Different Techniques READ POST FOR DETAILS

Welcome to our latest challenge, hosted by Sharon, who has chosen the theme 'Pick Three Different Techniques'

Sharon has  taken inspiration from her youngest daughter's recent 3rd birthday and therefore would like to see 3 different techniques on your card or project. Take your pick of 3 from the following list and be sure to state which 3 you've used:

• Embossing (wet or dry)
• Distressing
• Masking
• Making your own flowers
• Paper piecing/patchwork
• Shrink plastic 

  
  Please ensure your creation has three techniques from the list and that you tell us which three you have used to qualify for a winner or Top 5 slot. 
  
  PLEASE BE SURE TO CHECK OUT THE RULES BEFORE ADDING YOUR CREATION AND CHECK IT MEETS THE CRITERIA AS LAID OUT ABOVE - ANY ENTRY NOT COMPLYING WILL UNFORTUNATELY BE REMOVED 
  
  We are sponsored by
  
   MILK COFFEE DIGITAL STAMPS 
  

  WITH A PRIZE OF 5 DIGIS FROM THEIR STORE

  

Milk Coffee Stamps is a digital image shop specialising in cute and girly images. We provide high quality digital images with high resolution so you could resize at a big enough size for your project. We have many different image styles; sophisticated lady, cute girl, whimsical image, cute stuff, fairytale creature, and many other varied themes so they can fit many different crafting styles.

And also by

SIR STAMPALOT

Sir Stampalot is a retail shop and online website that specialises in stamps, die cutting and paper-crafting goodies.  We try to offer exceptional delivery times on your orders as well as keeping our stock fresh, new and exciting!  Our dedicated team of card makers means we have a wonderful, inspirational online card gallery with many more cards still to upload!  Sir Stampalot ships internationally as well as domestic so why not check us out if you haven’t already – www.sirstampalot.co.uk.
Happy Crafting!

with this fabulous prize:-

One Kit containing 5 small pots of the new Fran-tage Mica Fragments from Stampendous
Colours include:

• Pearlized
• Guilded
• Bronze
• Tarnished
• Tea Stained

Each pot contains 7.5grams

YUMMY!!

Here is how the team interpreted the challenge:- 

Sharon

I've used a very cute image from Wee Stamps. My 3 techniques are Distressing (inked edges and the scuffed edges on the background), Masking (I've used a mask and distress stains to create the background paper) and Shrink Plastic (the Happy Birthday sentiment is a Marianne die cut in shrink plastic...and shrunk!)

 Viv

  I used the lovely 'Michelle in Hot Air Balloon' from our sponsors. My 3 techniques are - Paper Piecing - (the balloon), embossing folder  for the background (from the Oriental set), Shrink Plastic - the two flowers on the trellis. And for good measure threw in a wee bit of 'distressing'!  

Mynnette

I chose dry embossing, distressing, and make your own flowers.

Betty

I chose dry embossing,make your own flower and paper piecing to create this wedding card

Josephine

I've used a sponsor (Milk Coffee) image, and my three techniques are embossing (dry and heat), I've used a mask to create the background, and I made my own flowers.

Fiona 

The three techniques that I have used are paper piecing, make your own flowers and dry embossing. I have paper pieced her clothes, used a Cheery Lin die to make the flowers and a Cuttlebug "Dotted Swiss" embossing folder on the border...then added stickles to the embossed dots.

Yvonne

The three techniques that I used for this card were  masking, dry embossing and distressing.

Lin

I have used embossing (Dry) behind the mainly white layer, distressing, all the edges and adding frantage (similar to that being offered by Sir Stampalot as one of our prizes this month) and shrink plastic (the Happy Birthday) whose idea I pinched from Sharon above! Sorry Sharon.

Doreen 

The three techniques I used were masking (the hearts), dry embossing and distressing.

Marie

We're having a baby boom in the family at the moment so why not making a baby card with a few different techniques. For this creation have I used both wet and dry embossing (the mid panel has some heart embossed to them in the dry technique and the butterfly (the big one) is wet embossed in white. All the edges is distressed with walnut stain and I have also made some little hearts in shrink plastic. Oh boy, it was a long time since I used that. LoL My image is from Bildmålarna, Sweden and coloured with distress inks. I did also make some flowers with some dies from Magnolia Sweden.

Elaine

The three techniques I used were dry embossing, distressing and make your own flowers.  The backing paper is vellum and I have embossed it using a my grand calibur and a A4 folder.  I distressed the vellum by tearing it round the edge and using distress ink.  The die cut and flowers were all cut using Marianne design dies and embossed.  The centers of the flowers are just flat backed pearls.

Jackie

For my card I have used crafters companion stamps and on of their new embossing folders.  My three techniques are dry embossing (base layer), distressing (around edge of stamped card) and shrink plastic (see the little lavendar sprigs tied in a bow...).

Rebecca

For my card I have dry embossed small dots into the corners of my card, distressed the edges with sandpaper and I masked the LOTV bear before stamping the bunting.  

Julie

The three techniques I have used on my card are, dry embossing for the tree, masking for the background and I made my own flowers.  The image is Milk Coffee 'Soya takes a nap'.

Suze

 

On my card I have used wet (heat) embossing, made my own own flowers and used shrink plastic ('love' tag).

Kimx

For my card I have used a combination of stamps available from our sponsor Sir Stampalot.  My three techniques are dry embossing (pink panel), masking (the main panel on the card) and make your own flowers.

Carole

For my project, I used a wooden heart as my base. My three techniques are make your own flowers, distressing - using Kroma crackle paste, and ultra thick embossing - using UTEE and my melt pot to create the embellishments and to glaze the flowers. 

Tracey

For my card, the 3 techniques I chose are Distressing (with edge distresser and ink), Making my own flowers (Boho Blossoms punch from Stampin' Up) and Masking for the very first time (Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist and Regal Glimmer Screens). I have also used an image from our sponsor, Milk Coffee called "Lisbeth at the Tree"

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#90 April Showers Bring May Flowers, Winners and Top 5

Thanks to everyone who played along with our April Showers bring May Flowers theme.

Tracey was our hostess for this challenge and she has chosen her Winners/Top 5 as follows:-

For the $10 Gift Voucher from

DI'S DIGI DOWNLOADS

No 11 Karen O

and for the £10 voucher from

THE STAMPMAN

 

No 16 Sandy's Stamping Scene

 

and Tracey's Top 5 are

No 5 Laurie


No 7 Sweetroses


No 10 Aartje


No 19 Jojo



No 22 Sarah



Congratulations to you all, please feel free to display our Winner’s badge or Top 5 badge on your blogs. Would the two winners please contact me at the address in the sidebar stating the number of the challenge, the title of the challenge and which prize they have won in the subject line.

The winners have until 26th May to claim their prize, after which time I am afraid the prize(s) will be forfeit. As we choose our winners, rather than having a random number thingy to pick them it's too difficult and time consuming to go back again and go through the entries to pick out new winners. Neither, sadly do we have time to chase the winners up.

Don’t forget to call back at 12 noon for our next challenge

#90 April Showers Bring May Flowers …….

Welcome to our latest challenge, hosted by Tracey, who has chosen the theme 'April Showers bring May Flowers'

Tracey said 'Hello friends. When I think of April, I am always reminded of the saying "April showers bring May flowers". For this challenge, I would like to see cards that include an image of something rain related and are embellished with at least2 flowers. Your image could be a child splashing in puddles, a person walking in the rain, ducks waddling through puddles, an umbrella, etc.'

Please ensure your creation has both something rain related, and a minimum of two flowers to qualify for a winner or Top 5 slot. 

PLEASE BE SURE TO CHECK OUT THE RULES BEFORE ADDING YOUR CREATION AND CHECK IT MEETS THE CRITERIA AS LAID OUT ABOVE - ANY ENTRY NOT COMPLYING WILL UNFORTUNATELY BE REMOVED 

We are sponsored by

DI'S DIGI DOWNLOADS
 with a

$10 GIFT VOUCHER

I have been drawing since a child and studied graphics at College many years ago, I now work as a Medical photographer part time but my love was always drawing. I started cardmaking about 4yrs ago when I bought my daughter a cardmaking kit which we did together, but I’m afraid I got the bug! My daughter preferred scrapbooking. I then started looking online at other blogs and this then became my passion and I loved sharing my cards with likeminded people.
I love stamping and loved finding images, but sometimes I could not find what I wanted so I started to draw myself.
This then has become my second addiction and I have never looked back, I love thinking of new images, and its just fabulous to see others take them and make them into beautiful works of art.
Long may it continue! 

and

THE STAMPMAN

 We are kindly sponsored for this challenge by The Stampman (and Lady of course!) who are ofering the winner a £10 voucher for their store, you can spend this online, in the shop or if you're lucky enough to see them at a show!  They have a ton of items in store, enough to tickle any crafty taste bud.

Here is how the team interpreted the challenge:-

Tracey

For this card I decided to avoid patterned paper in order to focus on the paper piecing I did. I cut my girl out 3 times in 3 different colours and then pieced various items to the brown base. The whole image was cut on my Cricut using "A Child's Year" cartridge.

Viv

 

I made  an umbrella shaped card from a template - the finished card measures 5" high. Was a bit fiddly as I cut out all the shapes by hand - but quite enjoyed making it!

Sharon

I have used a clear stamp from Pink Gem Designs coloured with Promarkers. The background paper is made using a mask and Distress Ink. I have used Marianne and Spellbinders dies for the doily, oval and flowers. A pretty ribbon, bow and pearls complete my girlie card.

Betty

I've used the stamp image from Inky Antics, and the flower doily used Memory Box.  The background used Martha Stewart Punch

 Lin

I used an image from Sassy Cheryl used my Happy Cut to cut out the outside frame and inside mat behind the image, also the frame on the inside of the card. I then ran all three through the Happy Cut using an 8" embossing folder with flowers on. I inked the embossed frames and mat with Peacock Feathers and Squeezed Lemonade DIs

Julie

  

I used an image from the Graphics Shoppe for the girl in the umbrella and coloured with Promarkers. The super sized umbrella and raindrop paper are by Lana Koopman.  I added the sentiment (which I saw in a garden centre) in word then cut out the umbrella and attached to the card with a lolly stick.

Josephine

I've used an image from Reece's Scrap Pieces (via the Stitchy Bear Digital shop) and coloured with Promarkers, adding a background in Distress Ink. I finished with some embossing, die cuts and punched flowers.

Fiona

For my card I have used a digi stamp from a cd that came free with a magazine a while ago (I think it is from Crafty Sentiments Designs) My sentiment is computer generated and my papers are from the Dovecraft Back to Basics IV pack.

Yvonne

This is a 4 x 4 inch fat page. I used an image from the Mabel Lucy Attwell CD, die cuts and a stamped background.

Suze

I've made a tag featuring Tim Holtz Umbrella Man, a rainbow of flowers and a quote from Dolly Parton!

Rebecca

I've built a little scene using a whole collection of different, little stamps. I've also add glitter glue to the clouds to give a "silver lining" effect.

Marie

This time I have done a "Magnolia card", have used a bunch of Magnolia stamps here; like the post stamps and of course the main image which has been in my "yet to be used" box with Magnolia stamps. The designer papers are an old pad from Kaiser Kraft called the Daisy Pad. Flowers are from Magnolia, Ribbon girls and Wild Orchid Craft. Some glossy accent is used on the rain and some crackle paint on the umbrella to make it look a bit wet.

Jackie

I struggled a bit with the colouring on this one - and I'm still not completely happy with it.. I used a SWALK stamp, a die'sire embossing folder and promarkers to colour the image, the backing paper and the ribbon bow and prima flowers from my stash.

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PLEASE READ THE PARA BELOW BEFORE ENTERING. WE ARE RECEIVING LOTS OF ENTRIES WITH EITHER FLOWERS AND NO RAIN RELATED IMAGE, OR IT MATCHES THE RAIN ELEMENT AND THERE ARE NO FLOWERS. YOU NEED BOTH TO QUALIFY.