Steampunk Sister

Happy Sisters day to all those fab sisters out there this sunday morning. Wow can you believe a whole week has gone in August already where does the time go?

Time for another challenge over at One Stitch at a Time and this time we have a new sponsor too Crimson cloud

"Crimson Cloud is a mother/daughter venture - a way to indulge our joint passion of cardmaking and crafting. We only sell products that we have tried, tested and love using. We have developed our own exclusive range of dies cuts, digital stamps, svg files and "Make Your Own Card" kits which reflect our styles of card making - and hopefully yours too!""Crimson Cloud is a mother/daughter venture - a way to indulge our joint passion of cardmaking and crafting. We only sell products that we have tried, tested and love using. We have developed our own exclusive range of dies cuts, digital stamps, svg files and "Make Your Own Card" kits which reflect our styles of card making - and hopefully yours too!"

Pop over and check them out  http://www.crimsoncloud.co.uk/

I was lucky enough to be given some of their Christmas diecuts to play with and had a fun time making my first Christmas card for this year, did feel odd though as the sun was shining at the time.I made my background by painting a wash with inks and then simply added the diecuts to form a scene.I was quite impressed with myself as I've never done anything like it before .

 I had to fiddle around to get the positioning of the folds in the right place so it would stand up and still give the 3D look and be able to see all the characters but I think I got it.

 I finished off by powder embossing a simple sentiment form the Darkroom in gold, think I might have to make an envelope for it though as it's just a bit too big for a standard envelop, but never mind there is still plenty of time for that nearer Christmas.

We also have another sponsor

 check them out too.

http://www.onestopcardcrafts.co.uk/

Hey I just realised all British sponsors this time round.

I was lucky enough this time to play with my choice of images from Teri and had a fun time with not 1 but 3 of her stamps that I used together . I used Tattoos and feathers,which you can find here, along with cogs corner piece and chain and cog frame think they work so well together. I coloured the tattoo girl using a mix of promarkers and sakura pens and used sakura glaze pens on the cogs and chains too. The Sister word is made using my bigshot and one of the alphabet dies I have with a brad for the dot on the I.

On the inside of the card I reprinted the image but this time just left it balck and white and used the cog image as corners.

 

Best tell you the challenge theme which is a real easy one again for you all 'Use a Digi' and don't forget if you use a Stitchy Bear stamp image you can enter our Pretty in Print competition too.

My last challenge as DT for CCC

Hi all and so many apologies for the lateness of this post but guess it shows my need to say a very sad farewell to all the fab guys at Creative craft challenges. Life has become rather hectic for me of late and for the near foreseeable future so after a long and very hard lot of thinking I decided it was unfair of me to continue as a design team member and sadly said goodbye to the team as I couldn't offer the commitment I felt they deserved.
I wish to thank Sandra and the girls for giving me all the opportunities they have and hope when life calms down a bit I might have some time to craft and maybe even enter some of their challenges too.

I can at least say that I leave on a high with a challenge that once again has some fab prizes from more wonderful sponsors, you really should go to the challenge blog and check them out.

We were given the chance to play with some fab images from 2 of our fabby sponsors, Rainbow craft studios and some odd girl too. Both my cards I coloured with promarkers and the papers on Popsicle Tobie from someodd girl are magazine freebies.

 The image from rainbow craft studios called 'a gift for you' I felt said it all and needed nothing extra as its such a fab image.

Once again thank you to all your wonderful comments and to the CCC team and I hope you as challenge entrants will continue to offer the blog and team your support and to the CCC team thank you for all your support and hope the challenge goes from strength to strength.

Keep a look out for the DT challenge too as I know Sandra will be putting one out in the future and I can recommend you give it a go as it is a fab team to work on. On a personal note I hope when I do make a blog post in future one of two of you will pop by to say hi too.