Colour me autumn

This is my design card for Fan-tastic Tuesday challenge 104: anything goes with a twist ... colour me autumn. Please click on the link to see the lovely autumnal designs of the rest of the team and we hope you will join in the challenge.

I used Di's Digi Downloads Henry's windfall image with offcuts of papers, including the piece of card with leaves which is upcycled from a Graze box. The material leaves were white originally - I coloured with alcohol pens.

This is also for:

Di's digi designs: fabulous fall colours
Make my Monday: nature
Use your stuff 192: fall theme
Scrapping4fun 50: spring/autumn
Oddball: fall is in the air
Really reasonable ribbon 126: orange you glad it's autumn
Recycle, re-purpose & re-invent September: anything goes (recycled card from Graze box used)

Christmas dinner

This is my design card for the Glory of Christmas challenge 68: Christmas dinner - please click on the link to see the yummy designs of the rest of the team and join in our challenge.

I don't really like Christmas pudding (only if I put so much brandy butter on it that I can't taste the pudding so much - lol!), but I decided to base my card on the traditional pudding for Christmas day, using a lovely Dotty image from a Charmed cards and crafts Christmas set - I love this image, but haven't actually used it for ages. Dotty was cut out and mounted on to an old Kanban frame and then on to an offcut of Christmas paper (no idea where it's from) with a snippet of ribbon down the side (Milo managed to get hold of a snippet of the ribbon and has been triumphantly running around with it in his mouth!).

This is also for:

Creative inspirations 327: your favourite occasion - Christmas
Penny's 245: use a bow and/or Christmas

Suzy Bee's Bloomin' challenge 98

This is my design card for Suzy Bee's Bloomin' challenge 98: anything goes with a twist ... vintage/shabby chic. Please click on the link to see the lovely designs by the rest of the team and join in our challenge.

I used a lovely image supplied by the sponsor, Dazzling Ace Designs, fading the edges and adding to a background with lilies and swirls added.

This is also for:

Deep ocean 112: shabby chic

Crafting Musketeers challenge 29

This is my design card for team B for Crafting Musketeers challenge 29: autumnal colours - please click on the link to see the designs of the rest of the team and join in the challenge here where you can see the designs created by team A. The challenge is being sponsored by Oak House Studio.

I used spectrum noir aqua tints to create the background randomly painted and then sprayed with water (technique that Sheena Douglass quite often shares on C & C), adding some spots of glossy accents here and there when the background was dry. The barrel of apples with the spotlighted area coloured with spectrum noir alcohol pens is one that I'd used on a card long ago (didn't like it on that card, so I lifted it for this one), with some glossy accents on the apples. The image is 'basket of apples' by Sparkle n Sprinkle. The felt leaves were from Lidl.

Inspired by Our creative corner September: shades of autumn:

This is also for:

CCEE 1537: swap ideas day - share a technique (using aqua tints and also spotlight technique)
V's sweet 38: technique  - new or favourite
We love 2 create 19: anything mixed media/creatuve/inky goes
Daring cardmakers: wonderful watercolours
Corrosive 233: mixed media
Simon says Monday challenge: love this technique - using the aqua tints to create a background, also spotlighting on an image
Lacy sunshine 67: winds of change (changing seasons)
Clear it out: autumn + leaves/foliage
Creative card crew 96: fall
Incy wincy: digi images only - no rubber stamps
Little Miss Muffet 120: anything goes
Stampartpaper retarte 60: anything goes

Bright and colourful

This is my design card for Fan-tastic Tuesday challenge 103: anything goes with a twist ... bright and colourful. Please click on the link and see the delightful bright and colourful designs of the rest and the team - and we would love you to join in the challenge.

My card is simply made up of a colourful background on which to layer the Bugaboo Stamps hey chickie kindly provided by the sponsor, adding the get well circle and the butterfly.

This is also for:

Quirky crafts 19: quirky animal magic
Incy wincy: digi images only - no rubber stamps
Tuesday throwdown 262: for a child

A touch of festive greenery

This is my card for my CHNC challenge 246 which is all about festive trees or greenery. As you can see from my CAS card, you don't have to show a lot of greenery if you don't want to ... as much or as little as you wish. I used Christmas ornaments 2 by CraftyGirl kindly given by StitchyBear's DIgi Outlet, one of the sponsors this week, colouring with a variety of spectrum noir reds/pinks and adding three green flowers with brad centres and a felt piece of holly on top of the rare outing of a Christmas peel off. I thought a DL card would make a change.

Just realised that the dark green flowers look almost deep blue on the photo.