Sparkle and lace with Tellen's Place

This week at Tellen's Place we want you to use sparkle and lace in your creations, and for my DT card I've chosen to use to beautiful Asia Diva, which you can find in the Tellen's Place store.
Here's a close-up of the glittery bits, so you can see the sparkle.

Here are the challenges I'd like to enter:
Pixie Cottage - sketch and paper piecing
Some Odd Girl - clean and simple
Crafts and Me - glitter
Creative Cottage - white space
Gingersnap Creations - #97 geishas
City Crafter - Get well or Thinking of you + something digi
Colour Create - pink black and white (blogger wasn't loading images when I looked at this challenge, so I've used entirely the wrong shade of pink, sorry)
Crafty Sentiments - glitter
Pixie Dust Studio - lace
2 Sisters Challenge - get well or thinking of you

DT call for Divas by Design

A new challenge blog is opening on May 4th, and they're having a DT call. Divas by Design will be having bi-weekly challenges set every other Wednesday at 9am GMT starting from Weds 4th May. They also have some fab candy on offer, so pop along and have a look, and don't forget to become a follower.
Now, for the DT call, you have to make a post that shows 3 of your favourite creations. I've been looking through my posts for a few days now and I'm still no closer to deciding on which three creations will increase my chances of neing picked, so I've decided to just go for three that show (I think) different styles.


Image is by Smudgetastic


Image is by StampInsanity.


Image is by Tiddly Inks.

I'm going to force myself to leave the post now before I change my mind AGAIN about which creations to include here, lol, I hope you like the ones I've chosen.

A bridal card, a la Tim Burton

I made this today, the image is by Simply Betty Stamps, the text behind the image is by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, everything else was done by me in PSP. Here are the challenges I made it for:
Fab n Funky - sketch
The Burtonesque Dolls - Burtonesque Brides
Craft Your Passion - anything goes
Charisma Cardz - weddings and anniversaries
Papertake Weekly - anything goes (the spiderwebs are also new)
Stamping Vacation - you name the challenge - use a text bg

Retro-mania!

We have a very fun challenge for you over at StampInsanity this week. We'd like you to "Get Your Groove On" and go retro, lol, I had such fun with this one :D The image is from the Easter Blessings set and the Groovy Girl is from the Birthday Maddie set, both available at StampInsanity.
These are the challenges I'd like to enter:
There She Goes - round and round (no straight lines or angles) Lol, I really went to town with this one, there's not a single straight line anywhere in the whole piece, even the text is curvy :P
The Crafty Pad - flowers
Magical Monday - flowers
Crazy Challenges - flowers
Kabbodle Doodles - girly
Allsorts - blooming blossoms
Make It Colourful - colour with bright colours
Fresh Brewed Designs - flowers
The Pixie Cottage - paper piecing

Clean and simple steampunk

A very short post as I'm heading to bed, but I just finished this for a few challenges.
Here are the challenges:
Clean and Simple Sunday - sketch
Jay Gee's Nook - I used the colours and the bike from the inspiration photos
Birthday Sundaes - anything goes birthday
Alphabet Challenges - V is for Vehicles
One Powerful Hour - birthday wishes (Happy Birthday Sarah!)
Papertake Weekly - anything goes
Totally Stampalicious - birthdays
Fairytale Challenges - birthdays

April showers?

We have a new challenge for you over at the Creative Card Crew blog, and this week we'd like to see your interpretation of "April Showers". What does the phrase bring to mind for you? Rainy weather? Spring colours? May flowers? Or a zombie holding an umbrella? :P We're sponsored by the fabulous Simon Says Stamp, so get your mojo up and running and enter our challenge for your chance to win!
My card uses one of the sah-weet Skelekinz images by Bugaboo, which I've altered slightly. In the original, she's holding a skull balloon, but I sweapped that for an umbrella and used the skull to make flowers across the bottom. Now, Bugaboo does have some wonderful Skelekinz images tat are holding umbrellas, but sadly funds won't allow any new purchases at the moment, so I had to alter one I already had.
Here are the challenges I'd like to enter:

Sketchy Colours - sketch
The Play Date Cafe - pink blue and silver (see photo)
Cupcake Craft Challenges - make us giggle
Take a Word - umbrella
Irish Teddy's - double matting
Sentimental Sundays - Let's get wet
ResQ Challenge - rounded corners
Raise the Bar - April showers or any kind of weather
Crafty Catz - April showers (water)
One Stop Crafts - spots and dots
So Artful - April showers bring May flowers. Well, nearly :P
Catch the Bug - anything goes
Crafty Calendar - April showers bring May flowers
Alota Eubber Stamps - something funnt
Stamping Vacation Name That Card - live in laughter. Hmmm, mine might be better described as "dead in laughter" :P
Phindy's Place - humour

Macabre Monday Magically Witchy

Yay, it's Monday again, which means it's time for another dose of Macabre Monday over at the Haunted Design House blog, and this week the challenge is Magically Witchy. Anything at all to do with witchcraft or magic, and we're sposnored by Stitchy Bear Stamps, who created the image I used, called Brite Eyes. Papers are from the Bittersweet set at Crafty Chaos Designs.
These are the challenges I'd like to enter:
Tuesday Morning Sketches - I'm too late for the challenge, but I followed sketch #87
I Did It Creations - anything goes
Stamp Something - use a digi
Papercrafting Journey - for the ladies in your life
Just for Fun - anything goes
Lexi's Creations - monochromatic
Craft Your Passion - anything goes
Paper Playtime - anything digi
My Partner in Crafting Crime - 3 or more layers
Pollycraft - old or neglected stamp. I've had this stamp for just over a year now and I've only used it twice, the last time being last september.

Shabby chic pastels

Or at least, the idea in my head at the start of this card was a shabby chic pastel project, I'm not too sure if it actually turned out that way, but whatever the categorisation, I like it! The image is by Beary Dust and the papers are some I created just for this card. This is my make for the Corrosive Challenge blog's new challenge, which is to use pastel colours. And it's the first challenge in a new month, so we also have a new sponsor for the month, Bugaboo Stamps, you just need to enter our challenges to be in with a chance of winning some loot!
Here are the challenges I'd like to enter:

Stamp with Fun - sketch
Color Q - pink, celery, kraft, espresso (see swatch)
Fab n Funky - shabby chic
Simon Says Stamp and Show - a hat
Shannon's sentiments - include an oval
One Stop Crafts - spots and dots

Too hot to handle!

Here's one I started last night and finished today. Image is by Kenny K, papers are by Crafty Chaos Designs.
I'd like to enter these challenges:
Kenny K Krafty Girls - aquamarine
Irish Teddy - glitz and glamour
Incy Wincy Designs - sparkle and shine
Whoopsie Daisy - glitz and glitter
Paper Pretties - bling
Cooking It Up with Katie - sparkle shine and shimmer
Charisma Cardz - bling and sparkle
Wags and Whiskers - ribbon and pearls
Frosted Designs - bling
The Burtonesque Dolls - CASE a DT card. Ths time I've used the gorgeous card Rebecca made as my inspiration.

No sentiment, lol, it's killing me :P

Here's a card I made tonight for a few of the challenges that are out there at the moment. The main image is by Simply Betty stamps and the papers are by Crafty Chaos Designs.
These are the challenges I'd like to enter:
The Burtonesque Dolls - CASE a DT card. I chose to be inspired by Tracey O's beautifully simple Iceflower card. I've used similar colours, and exactly the same layout, with a flower in the corner with wispy feathers behind it (I've never done that before, and I love the way it looks!) AND, the hardest thing of all for me to do . . .no sentiment! Oh the horror! :P
Fussy and Fancy - use a zipper or a feather (two wispy feathers behind my flower)
Crazy Amigos - your favourite stamp. Honestly, I would have had trouble picking out one stamp and saying "This is the one I love the most" so instead, I've gone for "This is the one I've used most often"
365 Cards - Day 30 Mix and match manufacturers. The paper is by Crafty Chaos Designs, the main image is by Simply Betty, the bats are by StampInsanity, the flower is originally by Dana Conditt (recoloured by me) and the flower centre and the feathers behind it are both by Juicy Scraps.
Stamp Something - use something digi
Stamping Vacation You Name the Challenge - no sentiment, lol, that's HARD for me :P

Embalming with Tellen's Place

This week at Tellen's Place we'd like to challenge you to try something a little different . . .embalming. Now don't be scared, it's easier than you think. You just need to take something dead (it doesn't even need to be human) and preserve it. You can wrap it in gauze, as the Egyptian mummies, or you can use some type of preserving fluid or any other method of preservation you desire. (Google for some great ideas)


Ok, ok, April Fool's! :P I didn't create the item above, I found it on Etsy and if you should wish, you can buy it HERE NO ANIMALS WERE KILLED OR HARMED TO CREATE THE ABOVE PIECE!

Our real challenge this week over at Tellen's Place is EMBOSSING! (Is that a collective sigh of relief I hear? Bet that seems so easy after the possibility of embalming, right? :P) I decided to use a mummy image, I think a few of us ended up with embalming on the brain :P The image is of course by Tellen's Place and the patterned paper is by Crafty Chaos Designs.

These are the challenges I'd like to enter:
Critter Sketch Challenge - sketch + buttons
Stamptacular Sunday - adult birthday
Everybody Art - pink and brown
Digi Doodles - birthdays
Paper Playtime - use a digi
There She Goes - no markers. I feel like a bit of a cheat entering this one as I now colour everything digitally, so "no markers" sn't really a challenge for me. Just count this as a "for fun" entry.
The Pixie Cottage - sketch and/or stitching
Belli Challenges - sewing
Little Miss Muffet - stitching
One Powerful Hour - birthday wishes
Just for Fun - anything goes
Sugar Creek Hollow - stitching
Simply Create - do it yourself. I created the embossed pattern myself, I quite recently worked out how to do this so I've been using it quite a bit, and I love it :)
Creative Friday - embossing
Your Next Stamp - stitching
Fairytale Challenges - happy birthday
Fashionista Friday - sewing
Phindy's Place - humour
Alota Rubber Stamps - use something funny
365 Cards - Day 32 April Fool's Day