Who's fabulous? I am!

We have a super easy challenge for this fortnight at the Creative Card Crew - anything goes! Yup, anything at all, and we're sponsored by the super-fabulous Kenny K, so get creating and enter your creation to be in with a chance of winning! I've used an image from their new line of Steampunk Burlesque, and I love this chick! The backing paper is from the Jezebel's Remains set at Crafty Chaos Designs, and the sentiment is from Graphicat Creations.

These are the challenges I'd like to enter:
Sketch Saturday - sketch 170
The Crafty Pad - distressing and tearing
Pile It On - girls just wanna have fun
Scrappy Frogs - bling
Stamptacular Sunday - DIVAtacular
Speedy the Cat's Friends - lace
Totally Gorjuss - as you like it
Our Creative Corner - grey and black with a pop of red
Crafty Catz - metal and lace
Delightful Sketches - digital paper
Crafts and Me - lace

Put your best foot forward!

It's time for another challenge at the Creative Card Crew, and this week's theme is "Put your best foot forward". Shoes, boots, feet, we want to see them, OR you could make a card encouraging someone to put their best foot forward. And we're also looking for a couple of new DT members, so check out the blog for details and email Mari if you'd like to be a member of this friendly, stress-free team :D
We're sponsored this week by the wonderful Simon Says Stamp, so I hope you all play along for your chance to win a $20 voucher to the store. My creation uses a digi by Kenny K, papers by Crafty Chaos Designs and a sentiment I created.



These are the challenges I'd like to enter:
Deconstructed Sketches - sketch #12
Sparkles Forum Challenge - one for the girls
Skrappekammeret Chamber Maids - just one patterned paper
Craft Your Passion - anything goes
Aud Sentiments - enjoy your day OR use a sentiment to make someone smile
Crazy Amigos - anything goes

Romance and bloodstains :P

This week's Macabre Monday challenge at the Haunted Design House blog is "Out, out damn spot!" and we want to see something that has drips or drops, splashes or splatters. Now it doesn't have to be blood, but hey, who can resist the red stuff? I made an ATC for this one, using a paper from the Jezebel's Remains set at Crafty Chaos Designs.
These are the challenges I'd like to enter:
Very Sketchy At Smeared & Smudged - July card sketch
Scrappekammeret - just one patterned paper
Sentimental Sundays - focus on the sentiment
Tuesday Throwdown - something metallic
Forever Night Mini Dark Art Mondays - skulltastic
Speedy the Cat's Friends' Challenge - 3 hearts
Make it Colourful - colour your own embellishments. I this piece I recoloured the gem hearts which were originally clear. Now since I work digitally, there is an automatic "Change Colour" button, but it works best on solid flat areas of colour and is a bit too "blocky" when used on something that has numerous spots of light and dark. I've found the best way to recolour embellishments is to open up the Brightness, Contrast, Hue and Saturation parameters and play with the numbers until you're happy with the result. I tend to work on Hue first, then Saturation, then Brightness and Contrast and then usually back to Hue and/or Saturation again for a few final changes.
Crafty Catz - no blue or pink
Fashionista Friday at If The Shoe Fits - ruby
Oh The Horror! - strips of paper and/or pumpkins
The Play Date Cafe - black and white with just a splash of one colour of your choice
Simon Says Stamp and Show - anything goes