Brown Sugar Challenge #43

It's Friday again and it time for a new challenge from Brown Sugar Challenge Blog.

With my coursework finished now I have actually made this card with no deadline pressures and it felt good. I have to confess and say that I have enrolled in another course starting in September so I will enjoy the freedom for a few months.

The challenge today is

Father's Day

Here is my card

The size of this card is 5" x 5" and the base colour is black.  I used a cuttlebug embossing
folder on red co-ordinations card stock and sanded it back.  My image (28301 - river walk) is from
Eurekas Digi Stamps and is coloured in with promarkers.  I made the black frame
 with black utee using one of Martha Stewart moulds.  I have to thank Hels Sheridan
for my melt pot to resurface from the back of the cupboard. 

Our Sponsors this week is

Eureka Digi Stamps

Brown Sugar Challenge #41 - Angels and Fairies

Apologies everyone thought this blog post was up and running but I put in the wrong date.

Oh my goodness where has this week gone, I seem to be meeting myself this week, but hey ho.    

Here is my card for this weeks challenge.

The challenge this week is 

Angels and Fairies

On this card I used some paper I had in my stash and I coloured 

the image which is from Digi Darlas - baby angel with my promarkers.  I 

Cut round the little image and mounted it with foam pads to a

matted and layered square of  yellow, white and gold mirror card.

And our sponsor this week is

Digi Darla

And

Paper Nest Dolls

Brown Sugar Challenge #39

Hi Everyone

We have eventually got our bathroom finished after about 3 weeks fitting and unfitting toilets due to them leaking. We have now the expense of a new front door at the present one has cracked with the sun and is leaking water into the hall not so good for a new carpet which thankfully isn't fitted yet.  Right less of me wittering on and more about the challenge.

I have one card for my challenge this week for Brown Sugar Challenge.

Today is the start of a new challenge and the theme is 

"Bunnies"

On this card I used a image from QKR Stampede (link below) and 

coloured it with Promarkers.  The paper is from a paper pack which has

been in my stash for a while its called Papermania For Him and some orange card.

Embellishments were a few orange gems, a button threaded iwth bakers twine with

a little hammer and wrench charms.

Our sponsors this week are

QKR Stampede

I am going to use this card to enter into the

following challenges

Sunday Sketch & Stamp - Sketch

I love Promarkers - square card with something round on it

Pennys Challenges - Anything Goes 

Simon Says Stamps - Anything Goes

Sister Act Card Challenge - Anything Goes

Thank you for dropping by and be sure to stop and check out  

Brown Sugar Challenge Blog

and see the cards from the rest of the design teams.

Brown Sugar Challenge #37

I have two cards for my challenges this week for Brown Sugar Challenges

2nd Card

#37 Stepper Card

The digital image is from our sponsors
coloured in with my promarkers

Oz Sassy



The card is about 8" x 6".  I have used papers is from
Wild Rose Studio - Butterfly Garden
I used another one of my crotchet flowers and centre and
some bling from my stash

Thank you for dropping by and be sure to stop and check out 

Brown Sugar Challenge Blog

and see the cards from the rest of the design team.

Karen

xXx

Brown Sugar #37 Challenge

Hi Everyone

Its been a little hectic for me this fortnight with workmen in the house, kids off and trying to get caught up on coursework I didn't get much time to craft.

Now Easter is over and kids are back to school even my big kid is back to work, so hopefully back to normality or as near as where my household is concerned.  Now down to what playing I was able to get done.

I have two cards for my challenges this week for Brown Sugar Challenges

1st Card

#37 Easel Box Card

This is a little bit  more than just a card, it can be used to put a wee prezzie in as well.  I have made an easel card and attached it onto a little handmade drawer box.

The size of the drawer box is about 6" square

and the card is about 5 3/4" square.

I have used a digital image - Scene It - Easter

 from our sponsor

I have used papers from

Papermania Colossal Paper Pack - Easter Themes which has been 

in my stash for a little while.  Diecuts using spellbinders

and a piece of hessian ribbon, a little crotchet flower and centre both handmade by myself.

Lastly a few blingy gems.

You could use this afterwards to store jewellery, bling or just set it on your craft desk for storage.

Thank you for dropping by and be sure to stop and check out 

Brown Sugar Challenge Blog

and see the cards from the rest of the design team.

Karen

xXx

Brown Sugar Challenge 35 - Flowers

Hello and Welcome to my first post as being a Design Team Member for Brown Sugar Challenge

Today is the start of a new challenge and the theme is

"Flowers".

Digital Image is from QKR Stampede - Bear

I coloured the image in with my promarkers.

I also used Spellbinders dies, Stampin Up Ribbon,

flowers from Wild Orchard Crafts and

black swirls and pearls from Creative Expressions

Our Sponsors this week is 

Please have a look at the other design team blogs for inspiration on this challenge and be sure to stop at 

Brown Sugar Challenge

and join in on the challenge

Thanks for stopping by

Karen
xXx

News to share

I entered for a Design Team at Brown Sugar Challenge Bog and to my amazement I got picked.  I am a bit nervous as I never done anything like this and I don't want to mess it up.  This is way out of my comfort zone but I am looking forward to the challenge.

So if you have a few minutes run on over and check out their blog and have a go at some of the challenges.

The Ribbon Girls Colour Challenge

Happy Birthday - upbeat style

I thought I would enter this card for the colour challenge on The Ribbon Girl Blog using the colours green and white, run on over to see their blog and online store.

This card I made for my nephew's birthday.  Its made using some distress inks, ribbon, buttons.  I used background stamps from Creative Expressions - newsprint, bubble wrap, urban beats, urban life by Sam Poole and spellbinders labels 25.

Mother's Day

 Brown Sugar Design Team Call 

I thought I would try out for a design team call from brownsugarchallenge.blogspot.co.uk, the deadline in the 25th March.  This is a great blog to visit for challenges and ideas.

This is a picture of the card I made for my mum for Mother's Day, she just loved it and believe it or not it is still sitting on the mantle piece.

   

I folded a piece of cream card to the size of 5 ¾ x 7 ¼.  The red card is a piece of core color from coredinations and I embossed it with garden lattice and sanded it down using my sand it tool and I used my distress tool around the edges.   I cut another piece of cream card stock 4 x 61/4 and also die cut from decorative rectangles, stamped it with classic rose from stampendous, coloured it in and attached it to the cream card stock.  I embellished it with a piece of lace, a few paper flowers, adhesive pearls and pearl swirls.  I stamped a sentiment image onto kraft card stock and die cut it with lacey circles.

90th Birthday Card

I made this card for my Aunt who is 90 on her birthday in November.  I used spelbinders dies, Asian Motifs and flowers from www.wildorchidcrafts.com.  Paper is out of 6 x 6 pads which I got free with magazines, Prima Botanical collection and Webster's Pages petit designs, Western Romance and All About me, a few other bits and pieces from my stash.