Dotties World Sunday Challenge - 'Charmed'

Juliet set the challenge this week... "Charmed - this week's challenge is to add a charm to your project. It can be anything as long as it dangles (oops sorry, does that sound too rude?) and, of course, include one of the Charmed downloads too!"

So here is my effort

As you can see, I have made a waterfall card. I chose the lovely Holly & Madison downloads . I raided my daughter's pen box and coloured them in with felt pens. I used card from my stash which I purchase from our local papermill shop. I used a prima flower from my stash. Unfortunately I did not have any charms, but luckily found an old pair of my daughter's trousers and found the heart dangling on the waistband, so I pinched it for the card! Well I do like to recycle!

Dottie's World Sunday Challenge - Christmas

Yes - you read it right! It was Karen's turn to set the challenge this week on Dottie's World. We have to make something christmassy and also add one of the downloads. On offer too is a fantastic prize to the lucky winner.


Well I suppose its never too early to start on your christmas cards! We usually give the nephews and nieces money wallets at christmas so that they can buy whatever they want. So I made a start. To make the money wallet, I folded a piece of A4 into three, which gives you the right size of pocket for a £20 note or smaller. I used this great image from the Rock 'N Roll downloads which I know Greg will love as he is a budding guitar player. It has been coloured in using prisma pencils. For the backing paper I used paper from Dovecraft. The sentiment was created on the computer.

Dotties World Sunday Challenge - Hand Made

Its was Nicola's turn to set the Challenge this week. She wanted this challenge to be out of most peoples' 'Comfort Zone'. Everything has to be hand made, meaning no bought backing papers and if we wanted to use embellishments, then they too had to be hand made. Of course we also had to add a Charmed Card and Crafts Download, available here.

Here is my attempt. I liked this challenge this week. I used an old template that I have had for ages. It was made by a very talented lady called Shirley. Please visit her site here for more available templates. I had to cut it out all by hand. The backing papers I made up myself using my Paint Shop Pro and an image of the Aberdeen Football Club Badge. I used football George and paper pieced on an Aberdeen Football top image. The rest of him was coloured in using Prisma pencils. The other embellishments were "googled" for and printed and cut out. All have been attached using foam pads to make them stand out from the card a little bit. Finally a tag which I cut on the cuttlebug was added and of course red and white ribbons to finish it off. As you may be able to guess, Rob is a fanatic Aberdeen FC fan, so hopefully he will love this card!

Dottie's World Sunday Challenge

It was Karen's turn to set the challenge this week and she gave us a sketch to follow.
The scalloped edge in the sketch did not have to be scallops but a fancy edge of some description. We also had to include one of the Charmed downloads. And there is a fantastic prize up for grabs too!



Here is my attempt. For the papers I have used downloads from Pink Petticoat. I think these are great as you have so many colours to choose from, so you are bound to get something to match your colour scheme, and I also thought that the image I was going for went well with the daisies on the paper.

For the image I chose Holly in the Garden from the many great downloads available from Charmed Cards & Crafts. She has been coloured in using prisma pencils in a lovely shade of violet to match the papers. I also used my cuttlebug to cut out two hearts from shimmer paper. For the fancy edge, I used daisy braid and coloured in the centres with a felt pen. The large daisies are Just Pots. The sentiment was computer generated.

Dottie's World Sunday Challenge - Blast From the Past!

Louise set the challenge this week... This week I want you to look through your photos of cards you've made in the past, find one you really like then recreate it using the exact same layout but with different papers and embellishments! Of course there must be a Charmed download image in there too!

So I thought I would be able to manage this one as there was no real thinking to do!! I loved the layout I used for the Chef George, so thought I would use it again. So, for the new card I used the wonderful Dottie image from the Rock 'n Roll collection. Coloured her in using Prismas and glittered her dress. For the papers I used the free download papers from Crafts By Carolyn. The ribbon is from Dovecraft, the flowers are 'Just Pots' with a gem glued in the centre. I have used the birthday sentiment which was another free download from Charmed, but I just changed the colour to suit.

And there is an extra special treat this week , EVERYONE who joins in will get there hands on an image from the next Holly and Madison collection way before it goes on sale! FOR FREE. ..... Holly in the USA..... from the upcoming Holly & Madison's World Tour.... Isn't she just gorgeous? I wonder where she will be travelling to and what lovely costumes she will be wearing?

Dottie's World Sunday Challenge - A Stitch in Time!

It was Adele's turn on Dottie's World to set the challenge this week and she loves to use texture on her cards. This week she wants to see stitching, hand or machine - but REAL stitching, no faux stitching . We must of course use one of more of the many, wonderful Charmed Downloads.

This card certainly was a challenge for me. I have never used a sewing machine before, so this was a first for me, I borrowed my mum's old sewing machine and got to work. After a few attempts I was happy enough to try it on the real paper. Please don't look too close as the stitching was not very straight!! I had plenty of fun trying though (maybe should have chosen a straight stitch to start off with). I used the download from the Holly and Madison collection. This one is Madison - so chic! Also another first for me was paper piecing. I used blue shimmer paper for the dress and hat and love the way it turned out. I used prisma pencils for the rest of the colouring. The flowers are made using nestabilities and I added Stickles to glam them up and a pearl in the middle of each one. The red and blue papers used were from Dovecraft and the other one was card which was embossed through the cuttlebug and then inked. Free sentiment circle from here, I just changed the colour to suit. Ribbon from my own stash.

Daring Card Makers Challenge

On DCM, this week's dare was set by Jozza and as its Fireworks week here in the UK she has gone all sparkly - so the brief was lots of bling!! They are sponsored this week by Louise Brigden (the designer of Dottie and George plus a whole host of other fabulous images) and Charmed cards and Crafts (the shop who sell the downloadable images). As it is a sponsored dare this week, they will choose a random winner who will win 2 download collections of their choice or the Dottie and George Christmas download. In addition to this fabulous prize, Karen who owns Charmed Cards and Crafts is going to put together a little something extra from her shop making it 2 prizes up for offer this week so it is going to be well worth taking them up on the dare to be in with a chance to win!

Here is my card. I have used one of the Dottie and George Rock Till You Drop Downloads and have coloured it in using Prisma Pencils. Dottie's skirt has been glittered and I have also added gems. The backing card is just plain holographic card and mirri board with extra large gems added.

QuicKutz Challenge 2 - Christmas

Challenge 2 from the Quickutz Challenge Blog, sponsored by Crafts U Love has been extended for another month. The draw will be done on 25th November.

The challenge... Now that the new Christmas releases are out we thought that Christmas would be a good challenge this month. So we look forward to seeing all your Christmassy creations. Good Luck!

This months challenge prize is an England Die Set worth £24.99. So lets see all your Christmas Creations. The Winner will be announced on the 25th October, so what are you waiting for.

As this is a new Challenge Blog we are still building it up and so we are extending Challenge 2 for another month. The draw will be done on 25th November.

And, here is my attempt.

I have made a Christmas Spring Card. I have used card from my own stash. The background card has been cuttlebugged and peeloffs added. I have used the Santas Sleigh and the Reindeer QuicKutz dies for the top "spring" part and using holly and berries die, added them to the bottom corners.

Dottie's World - Challenge

This week's challenge on Dottie's World was to create something which was to include one or more of the Charmed Download images and to be only 3 main colours. Black, white and one colour of your choice. You can use as many tones of grey and of your chosen colour and you can obviously use a skintone and haircolour but that's it.

I used Chef George and as you can see the other colour of my choice was red. The image was coloured in using Prisma pencils and my own background paper. The cards behind the image were cuttlebugged using the Swiss Dots folder and ribbons and sentiment added to finish off.

Everybody who enters this week’s challenge will get a lovely freebie Fairy Dottie image. So pop along to their Blog for your chance for this lovely freebie.

My First Challenge

Go along to Dottie's World and you will see the challenge for this week.
The challenge was to make something but not a card so Louise wrote:

"It's my week this week and I fancied a change so here's the challenge;Make something using a Charmed download but IT CAN'T BE A CARD!"

Well I have never done a challenge before so this is a first for me. So I thought I would start off with something easy.

Its a coaster which I have had lying about for ages and did not know what to do with. The picture is one of the Sporting Georges which I have coloured in using prisma pencils.