I'm so excited I'm squealing! :P

I have my own little site for selling my papers and other digital stuff!
It's CraftyChaosDesigns.co.uk, what do you think? And here's the first card I've made that I can link to my own store, do you think this is how Marks & Spencer would have started if they'd been setting up now? :P
Anyway, this card uses one of my new paper sets called Sunday Afternoon and the image was a freebie from a children's colouring page site, but I've lost the link now and it's just called "Fairy 2" so there are no clues in the name :(
These are the challenges that I had in mind when I made the card:
Crafty Creations - sketch
Flutterby Wednesday - 3+ layers plus a fairy butterfly or angel
For Fun - your favourite colouring technique. Mine is digital, I just LOVE being able to zoom right in and being able to undo any mistakes ;)
Stamptacular Sunday - Ice cream colours. I've gone for neopolitan, strawberry chocolate and vanilla.
Inspiration Avenue - books
The Pink Elephant - brown
Lexi's Creations - stitching
Artful Inkables - stitching
Party Time Tuesdays - anything goes birthday
Craftalicious - birthdays
Pollycraft - Happy Birthday

Wayward Words!

This is my first piece created as one of the DT for the Haunted Design House Macabre Monday challenge, yay me!
The challenge this week is Wayward Words and we'd like to see a piece that focuses on the text. Remember, this challenge is specifically for all of the goth princesses out there who have a penchant for the dark, creepy and ghoulish. Do you have a dark side? We'd love it if you came and shared your creations with us :D
I made a postcard for this week, using the 3 Big Cats stamp from StampItCrazy. I made up the ditty to go with the cats and fir into the current Magic challenges, and the font is called A Lolita Scorned, available from DaFont.com
These are the challenges that I had in mind when creating this card:
Sunday Postcard Art - magic
The Burtonesque Dolls - black and white
Moving Along With The Times - sketch + animals
Dare U2 Digi Stamp - stitching
Stampin' B's Design Challenge - focus on the sentiment
Some Odd Girl - spots stripes and a big title
Stamp Something - go digital
Lots to Do - stitching
Stamp Scrap and Doodle - animals
Mami Doodles - anything goes

Baby powder plus water will NOT ceate a real baby :P

This card uses one of the fab new images from the Woman Roundies sheet at DezinaWorld, and don't forget that June has regular challenges freebies and special offers so it's well worth having a browse :)
These are the challenges that I made this one for:
Meljen's Place - We challenge you to create a LONG or TALL card! Business size = 4in x 9-1/4in
ColourQ - Pink passion, pretty on pink, black, grey, white.
KAH-Wink-E-Dink - funny or punny. Plus there's a very special freebie offer going on this week, you don't want to miss it!
Crafts and Me - black pink white. This is actually my second entry, so don't count it when you do the draw, I just wanted to share :)
Order of the Opus Gluei - make someone smile. And they have a wonderfully easy tutorial for dancing tissues that certainly made me smile :D
Pollycraft Challenge - bold and bright
Pixie Cottage 27 - use 3 of something
Lots to Do - people or places
Charisma Cardz - pink
TechnoStamper - followed the sketch. Except I didn't follow the correct sketch, oops :P
C.R.A.F.T. challenge - babies or children. Well, my baby in this is in powdered form, but it is there :P
Theme Thursday - something round
Off the Wall Craftiness - use the colours from this photo:

Stampin' B's Designs - use a sentiment as a focal point
AIFactory - flowers
Stamp Insanity - ribbons and gems
Your Next Stamp - flower power
Whoopsi Daisy - bright and vibrant

Non-family scrap page

I had a few scrapbook challenges that I wanted to combine, and one of them has the theme of Heritage, when we were meant to dig out our vintage family photos. Well, I don't have any, but I do have lots of vintage photographs, so I went with one of those instead. This beauty was a freebie from DezinaWorld, pop over and have a look at all the gorgeous images she has.
Challenges entered:
Scrapping with I Did It Creations - LO sketch
Lexi's Creations - real or faux stitching
Oops, I just discovered that I'm too late for the Heritage-themed challenge anyway :P
Think Ink - stitching
Tuesday Throwdown - stitching
Flutterby Wednesday - at least three layers + a butterfly fairy or angel
Paper Sundaes - lots of layers
My Time to Craft - Butterfly Bliss
Color Throwdown - Kiwi Kiss, Black, Kraft, Baja Breeze
Creative Cottage - no cards allowed
Create 4 Fun - anything but a card

Quirky Velvet Dragon

The dragon digi is by Outlaw by Design and the papers are from my Velvet Descent set.

Challenges I'm entering with this one:
Quirky Crafts - I followed the fab sketch by Lyn
Daisy Doodles - use 1 digital image, 2 patterned papers and 3 brads
Darkness Inspiration - monsters
Theme Thursday - animals
Aud Sentiments - no sentiment
Make Up for the Weekend - critters
Sweet Stampin' Challenge - things with wings

The art of being wise . . .

I had fun making this one, lol, you can always overlook things like mis-matched buttons and paint spills and just enjoy the overall effect ;) These are the challenges that I made it for:
Sentimental Sundays - I can see clearly (use clear embellishments), so I found some digital buttons and played with them to get the look you can see. It was harder than I was expecting, with digital stuff, clear can often end up as just being invisible, so I'm quite pleased with the effect of the buttons :)
Getting Crafty with Anne - anything goes
Crafty Hos - black white + one
Tuesday Morning Sketches - This blog is celebrating its first birthday, so they have a full list of all their past sketches and you can use any one of them. I love having such a choice all in one place, you really should give it a go. I've used sketch 2 for this, and I think this will be my second entry this week, if that's not allowed, just disinclude one of them :)
Crafty Creations - make your own button. I'm not sure if digi will count for this one, but I did actually alter the buttons you can see, they started out as a large red one.
Penny's Challenge - use 7 of something (buttons)
Wildflower Wednesday - grunge
Crafts and Me - black pink white
Stampin' B's Challenge - polka dots
Totally Gorjuss - Water. Another one where I'm not really sure if it will count. Do digital splashes count as wet enough?
Hedgehogs and Ladybirds - buttons
Incy Wincy Designs - distress it

Freedom, Honour, Courage

The theme for the challenge at OSAAT (One Stitch At A Time) this week Military. but your entry can of course be tangential if you're scratching your head for ideas :P
I've used the beautiful Aloria stamp by Lexi's Creations to make my piece, and you can buy it HERE. And don't forget that there's a massive 30% off sale going on at Stitchy Bear Stamps for the month of July, so you can pick up some bargains too :D
These are the other challenges that I had in mind when creating my card:
Mojo Monday - sketch 146 (turned on its side)
Craft Your Passion - stitches
Critter Challenge - use at least 4 stars (I'm not sure if you can see them in the small picture, but all the white bits on the unicorn are stars)
Friends Having Fun - vintage red, patriot blue, tattered white
Think Ink - stitches
Digital Tuesday - red white and blue
Riley & Co - use the colours of your flag (Union Jack and red white and blue in my case)
Theme Thursday - Animals
Make Up for the Weekend - critters

I hope I'm in time

This is another one of the new digital images from Stamp It Crazy, this one is called Missy. I'm really rushing because I think I may be late for a couple of the challenges and hubby wants the pc and Criminal Minds is on, olo, I may tidy this up later :P
I want to enter this into a few challenges, here they are:
Tuesday Morning Sketches - you have a whole list of sketches to choose from, as they're celebrating their first birthday. I've used the sketch from challenge #6
Haunted Design House - Wacko Jacko (Jack o' Lanterns) I spotted this one the other day, isn't it fab?)
C.R.A.F.T. - purple green and gems, with a photo inspiration. Doesn't the madam in the image look like she'd wear that ring? I bet even her dagger is bejewelled :P)
Theme Thursday - torn paper

Stressed? Me?

I realised tonight that I haven't made any scrap pages for a while, so I hubted up a few challenges, and here's the result. Thanks for looking :D
Scrapping with I Did It Creations - greens and browns
Yellow Umbrella - digital
A Crafty Little Place - LO sketch
The Crafty Pad - Animal Fun
Pile It On - my favourite things used here are: cats. digital crafting, making my own papers, and combining challenges :)
Craft Your Passion - stitching
Critter Challenges - use at least 4 stars
Papertake Weekly - in stitches
Fab n Funky - sew and sew
Simon Says Stamp - Check it out (use checks, plaid, gingham)

Wonda the witch

Barb over at Stamp It Crazy has gone digital! Woohoooooo! I love Barb's images but I'm really just dreadful at rubber stamping, so this is the first time I've been able to really get to grips with one. This one is called Wonda, isn't she fab?
And here are the challenges that I'm entering:
Totally Gorjuss - followed the sketch
Cowgirl Sunday challenge - scallops and/or embellishments
Fairy Fun Fridays - anything goes
Off the Wall Craftiness - Kim has chosen another fab photo for us to be inspired by and follow the colour scheme

Love your life!

Yay, what a wonderful sentiment, I hope you can all find something to love about your own life as you go through your day :)
I've used an image from the new Blue Moon set available at DezinaWorld today and gone for a red white and blue theme, which isn't usually a colour combo I enjoy but there are a few challenges I want to enter, and I must say I really like the end result :)
Here are the challenges I was working towards:
Sketch and Stash - I followed the sketch and my new stash is the image
Sentimental Sundays - encouragement or support
Curtain Call - red navy white kraft (I skipped the kraft, hope that's ok)
Crazy Challenges - make it in an hour. I just made this in under an hour, lol, it was 64 minutes but I made a cup of coffee in the middle, so I think it counts :P)
Stamp Insanity - red white and blue
AI Factory - red white and blue
Meljen's Designs - red white and blue
Pixie Dust Studio - red white and blue
Aud Sentiments - use the word "love"
Paper Cutz - 4th July (since I'm in the UK, I don't specifically celebrate the 4th July, but I hope the sentiment, colours and general Americana feel of this piece mean it counts
Raise the Bar - colours of your flag (Union Jack, red white and blue)
Frosted Designs - stars stripes, red white and blue
I Did It Creations - red white and blue