LITTLE-APPLEFALLS: Cuttlebug

Friday, 15 February 2013

Paint the Town Red!

Hello, and welcome!

Have you had a good week? Doing anything nice over the weekend?

Ooooo.....I sound like a hairdresser.....hahaaa!

My friend once confessed that she made things up, specifically for her visits to the hair salon, because she felt her life was too boring to add any interest to the hairdresser's attempts at conversation......now, that's funny!

There's a challenge up at Card Crafter's Circle and it's one that you can really "go to town" on........oh, I'm good, hahaaa!

This week at Card Crafter's Circle we invite you to:

PAINT THE TOWN RED!

... with a RED colour challenge! We ask that your creations be predominantly red, or all red! We are excited to introduce a new this week, Digi Darlas Designs!!

One randomly drawn winner will receive their choice of five (5) digital images from Digi Darlas Designs! ... thank you for such a generous prize!

Just about any kind of image could be treated to a red colour palette, so it was a hard task to choose something from our fabby sponsor.....so many great images!......oh, life is just soooo hard, at times....hahaaaa!

My final choice was this little delight......Colorful Sailboat........

I love sailboats.....to look at......from far away.......but I don't like the sea, so you'll never get me on one, lol.......

Sandy coloured paper (K & Co) was used as the background, and I embossed two strips of red card with a Cuttlebug Swirl folder. The oh-so-pretty boat (ship?) was coloured with a mix of Promarkers and Spectrum Noirs and cut out with a Spellbinder's die........

The sweet sentiment is from Lilli of the Valley and was placed onto a small Nestie label.....two pieces of Card Candi helped to frame it...........and there you have it.......clean and simple!

See? That wasn't hard, was it? Pop over to the challenge blog to have a peek at what the Design Team came up with.....wonderful stuff!

hugs,

Anne-Marie x

Challenges:

http://tuesdaythrowdown.blogspot.co.uk/ Anything goes

http://charismacardz.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/challenge-6-anything-goes.html Anything goes

http://qkrstampede.blogspot.co.uk/ Anything goes

Wednesday, 6 February 2013

Colour of Love

Hello, and welcome!

I have some really exciting news.....well, I'm excited about it, anyway...hahaaa!

A few weeks ago, I was invited to become a Design Team member for one of my favourite challenge blogs

http://perfectsentimentschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/

Jennipher has a fabulously talented Team and I'm so looking forward to working with, and learning from them. They've already made me feel right at home......thank you, Ladies!

So....let's get right to the details of the Challenge........it's a very appropriate one for this time of year...heehee.....

PSC65: The Colour of Love

Create a card with a sentiment of love or anything appropriate for Valentine's Day. You must include your sentiment on the front of your card. Use Red and White for your colour scheme to design your card. You may incorporate black or any other neutral tones but your dominant colours must be red and white.

Nice one, eh?

I like that, as a DT member, I have the flexibility to choose an image from the sponsor, or go with something that fits the theme, from my own stash.

Our Sponsor

will award one lucky random winner 5 free digis of their choice!

I was ~~petrified~~ nervous about making this, my very first DT creation for this wonderful challenge blog......but, here goes........

I used a sweet Tatty Teddy stamp from "Me to You" that came as a freebie with a recent craft magazine.....the papers are from the same mag....and you know how I like my freebies, lol.....

I stamped the image using Archival Ink in black, then did a little colouring with my trusty Promarkers......the white card strip was embossed with a Cuttlebug folder and a strip of red grosgrain ribbon was placed along the bottom......

I twisted two lengths of this lovely red ric-rac together to make a little rosette, and added the die-cut leaves....

Have I mentioned that I am a sticker hoarder? Found this cutie on a very old sticker sheet.....am surprised it was still sticky, hahaa.......

I found the little felt flower in my stash.....I wonder who keeps puttin' all this stuff in there?....can't remember ever havin' seen this before......and topped it with a piece of Card Candi.......