Challenge 88 - Humour

Welcome to our latest challenge, hosted by Suze, who has chosen the theme of Humour.

It's April Fool's Day, a day for fun and trickery! Suze would therefore like to see some HUMOUR in your project. Perhaps a funny image or sentiment, or you might just want to add some googly eyes. Remember, laughter is the best medicine - so have fun!

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

Last time around I had to delete 24 entries from people who just didn’t read the rules/requirements before entering - Because of this all links will now be moderated, please be patient whilst I get the chance to check that your link meets the requirements before adding it to the blog. You will add your link as normal, it just won’t appear immediately. Sorry to have to do this to all our entrants who do take the time to read the rules/requirements before entering. If you are having issues with any other linking matter please mail me at the address in the side bar >>>>>>>

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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

HOBBY ART

with these two fabulous stamps:-

Mouse Power

Bubble Bath

As a family business we're a friendly, helpful, bunch at Hobby Art.  All our stamps are designed by us and manufactured in Britain.
Look at the gallery on my blog - jennymayes.com - for lots of card ideas using the Hobby Art range. 
We're pleased to sponsor the Crafty Cardmakers Challenge and look forward to seeing the entries.  
Good luck everyone.  Jenny and all. X

Here is how the team interpreted the challenge:-

Suze

  
I've made a CAS card using a dog stamp by Inkadinkadoo. I made up my own sentiment on the PC and mounted them onto Stampin' Up DP. (I've a couple more cards on my blog).
 
Viv

  I really struggled with this challenge! Humour is such a personal thing isn't it and what makes me laugh may make someone else look at me like I've lost what few marbles I've got left!!! I opted for a CAS style card, just stamped,matted and layered and 3 button embellishments.

Betty Chan

It's Cat's Birthday, guess who need to bring her present? .......................easy right 'The Mice'. The candle will rise up when the card is opened.

Jackie

I was recently asked to make a funny card for a man who was hitting the big 50.... he is a Yorkshire lad, so it occurred to me that a nice pint of yorkshire bitter was obviously on tap in this bar scene from the La Pashe CD rom.

Julie

I saw this gorgeous digi from Redonkulous Designs called 'Funny Face' a few weeks ago and saved her for this challenge. I also wanted to try pink hair as I have always stuck to traditional hair colours. I  have used a diecut from Cricut Ornamental Iron to frame her and a great sentiment from Gingers House.

Rebecca  

It was only when I came to make my card for this challenge I don't really have very many "funny" stamps in my stash- so I decided to go with the suggestion of googly eyes!

Fiona

For my card I have used a Karen's Doodles digi stamp. I found the quote online and typed it out into a font that I liked. I bet by the time this fisherman got home and told his friends about this fish it was about 3 foot long lol !!!

Mynnette

I've used a fabulous free digi from Melonheadz and a self made digi sentiment (You make me SQUEAL with delight) to create this pink and punny card.  Now who to give it to?

Sharon

I made this card for a friend at work who loves to buy shoes! I've used the Just Keep Calm stamp set by JustRite, clear embossing powder and Distress Inks.

Josephine

I've always thought this Stitchy Bear fairly looks like she won't brook any nonsense, and that's perfect for this card for my husband. His regular reply to almost anything these days is, 'Fair Enough,' which I think sounds like, 'Fairy Nuff,' hence the sentiment! I've left it very plain because my oh hates clutter of any kind!

Yvonne

The words here are  from an Indigo Blu stamp set, they will appeal to a friend who is reaching a certain age!  and would rather like to forget it.

Carole

I have made an easel card using the 'Margarita' digi stamp and sentiment from Whimsie Doodles. It's my first try with Promarkers - so was a bit of an experiment!

Lin

I chose a Bugaboo image because it went with the sentiment I had in mind, which I have adapted from a quote by Stephen Fry. Embossing folder from Crafters Companion. Hope my Sister doesn't slap my face when she sees it!

All links will now be moderated, please be patient whilst I get the chance to check that your link meets the requirements before adding it to the blog. You will add your link as normal, it just won’t appear immediately. Sorry to have to do this to all our entrants who do take the time to read the rules/requirements before entering. If you are having issues with any other linking matter please mail me at the address in the side bar >>>>>>>

Challenge 87 Friendship, Winners and Top 5

We had 74 entries last week, and out of those I have sadly had to remove 24, or almost one third.Three had exceeded the challenges allowed limit, but the other 21 didn’t have any of the required words on their project anywhere.

We are a prize challenge blog, so I have to be strict with the rules, because it is not fair on the people who actually read what we ask and comply with it, and it would also not be fair on our sponsors to award their prize to someone who doesn’t follow the challenge. I know that blogging and creating are meant to be fun and I hate to come across as an old misery, but PLEASE, PLEASE, read what we are asking before submitting your post in future. We don’t want to put you off coming, but equally we cannot just ignore those entries that do not comply with what we have asked. If we were to just ignore it, we might just as well be an ‘ always anything goes’ blog and have done with it. The team work really hard. Each member chooses a theme and what they want to see to match that theme and it’s heartbreaking when it just gets ignored.

So lecture over. To the business in hand.

Thanks to everyone who, followed the rules/requirements and played along with our ‘Friendship’ theme.Yvonne was our hostess for this challenge and she has chosen her Winners/Top 5 as follows:-

For the prize from

SATURATED CANARY
of 2 Fabulous Digis

 

No  43 ChristySogiato

  and for the gorgeous stamps from
SIR STAMPALOT

No  60 Laura

and Yvonne's Top 5 are

No 33 Kimbo
 

No 57 Catherine
 

No 6 Annette [Netty]
 

No 29 Lizy
 

No 46 Coops

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 Winner of the Sir Stampalot stamps will need to give me their home address so our prize co-ordinator can mail you out the stamps.

The winners have until 14th April 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

Challenge 87 Friendship

Welcome to our latest challenge, hosted by Yvonne who has chosen the theme 'Friendship'

Yvonne would like to see either the word 'Friend' 'Friends' or 'Friendship' included somewhere on your card/project.

Please ensure your card has one of the three words stated above 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

SATURATED CANARY

with

2 of their gorgeous digis

Hello!  My name is Krista Smith.  I draw characters and do a lot of crafting:).  I gather a lot of inspiration from my two kiddos...they are sweet and goofy.  I love to see how other people color my images...It is always exciting to watch the colors bring them to life!  You can check out my artwork and family tidbits on my blog, Saturated Canary. 
Thanks for having me this challenge! Good luck everyone! 

and
SIR STAMPALOT
with these two fabulous prizes:-

Hero Arts Fancy Friendship Stamp Sheet

and 'Our Friendship' single stamp

 

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!

Here is how the team interpreted the challenge:-

Yvonne

My friendship card has the quote, 'true friendship needs no words'.

Rebecca

I made my own card blank from textured card and stamped the stem and leaves from a PTI set (flower fusion #5). I die cut and stamped the flower and popped it on a foam pad before adding some pink gems and the sentiments.

Carole

I used the tag as a starting point for my card, and added the grey in with the pink to create my colour scheme. My flowers were cut with X-Cut dies.

Josephine

I used a lovely image 'Queenie and Princess' from our sponsor, Saturated Canary, and added a sentiment in Photoshop Elements before colouring with my Promarkers. Other than that, all I've used are various die cut layers using dies from Spellbinders and Marianne  in my Big Shot Pro.

Jackie

I used a shaped card base for this one, and stamped the image (coloured with promarkers) onto plain card which was cut with a spellbinder die.  The swirly stamps are (I believe) Personal Impressions and the sentiment came from a SWALK stampset.

Fiona

For my card I have used this adorable digi stamp called "Queenie and Princess" by Saturated Canary. As this image is so sweet I have kept the card quite plain and simply added a few WOC flowers and gems.

Feebsy

For my card I used this super cute digi stamp called "Pint Sized Love" from Saturated Canary. I've kept the design simple and coloured the image with Promarkers and coloured pencils.

Julie

For my card I used the Beautiful Harley & Haley from Saturated Canary, The sentiment is from LOTV.  I have coloured with my Promarkers and added some lace and flowers from WOC.

Marie

I used our sponsor's image 'Pint Sized Love'. She's coloured with my Letraset Markers and some Prisma pencils. Designer papers from Paper Mania. Sentiment in Swedish that says something like this "Good friends make good times better and hard time easier. Thanks for being you."

Suze

I punched out squares from some scrap DP then lightly glued them to a piece of copier paper.  I then  zig-zag stitched the seams and diecut with a large Sizzix heart. The sentiment is PC generated and I added some stitching to that too.

Elaine

I have used 'Pint Sized Love' from Saturated Canary and coloured her with pro markers.  Die cut border is Cheery Lynn,  image die cut is Nellie Snellen the sentiment is from craftworks cards. Paper is from my stash.

Kimx

I have used 'Poppy Tilda' for my card and papers and dies from SirStampalot one of our sponsors.

Sharon

I kept my card very simple to showcase the fab Harley & Hayley image from our sponsor Saturated Canary which I coloured with ProMarkers and added the Friendship sentiment.

Betty CH

"Friendship" is sharing the perfect moment with each other

 

Annette

I made a Mouse Trap Memo Holder... Using a LeLo Design Stamp" Snail " paint with copic.

 

Tracey

I used "Turtle Lurv" from Saturated Canary as well as papers from Jelly Bean Soup, and ink, ribbon, cardstock and flowers from Close To My Heart

 

Lin

I used the image 'Springtime' from our Sponsor Saturated Canary, together with some free paper that arrived in a magazine on Saturday. Safmat for the sentiment and a new die from Marianne.