#105 Brown Sugar Challenge

Hi everyone and welcome to my blog.

Its hard to believe that we are into a new month already, is it me or does anyone else think this year is flying by.  Well dear I say it, its Friday again and its time now for another challenge for Brown Sugar.

Our theme this week is Colour.

So here is my project -

The size of this card is not quite 6x6.  I am trying to use up what I've got in my stash so I apologise for not knowing the brand of the patterned paper I used and I thought it was the closet to the colour palette we had to used.  The image from our sponsors was coloured in with my promarkers and I attached yellow card candy to highlight the flower centres.  It was mounted onto a decorative circle from Spellbinders and then mounted onto blue card stock from my stash.  The flowers are from wild orchid crafts.

The kraft and blue flourishes are from a Spellbinders D-lites die - Corner Sprigs and the little flower in the bottom right had corner was made with Spellbinders D-lites die - Blooms 2 the centre is a blob of 3d collal glue with glitter over the top.  The birthday wishes stamp is from a freebie collection I received in a magazine stamped onto kraft card and punched out with a stampin up label punch.  The bling swirl is from a set I got out of Works bookshop ages ago and never used.

 Our Sponsors this week is

Robyn's Fetish

  Store - http://robynsfetish.com

Blog - http://www.robynsfetishchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/ 

Prize - 3 digi images of winners choice

Entered challenges -           Sister Act Card Challenge

Thank you for dropping by and for all your lovely comments,

 be sure to stop and check out the

Brown Sugar Challenge Blog

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

If you like what you see please press the join/follow button on the side above.

Karen Xxx

#103 - Brown Sugar Challenge - Sand and Sea

Hi everyone and welcome to my blog.

Its Friday and its time for another challenge from 

Brown Sugar Challenge Blog

By the time this is uploaded to the site I will probably be sitting in a lovely boring airport waiting to fly home from my holidays in tenerife.  The weather was fantastic and with limited wifi access I have eventually got this post wrote.

Our theme for this weeks challenge is

Sea & Sand

In this weeks card I used an image from our sponsors and coloured in with promarkers.  It was cut out with Spellbinders die and mounted onto blue card.  The pattern paper comes from a selection of DCWV papers I got through QVC embellished with some self adhesive stickers and gems, mounted onto kraft card stock.

Sponsors - Stitchy Bear Digi Outlet

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Brown Sugar Challenge Blog

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

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Karen Xxx

Wishing you well - Challenge #101 on Brown Sugar Challenge Blog

Hi everyone and welcome to my blog.

Well Its Friday again and wow we're into another new month, I do believe this year is going faster as each new month appears.

This week we have another new challenge on the 

Brown Sugar Blog

Our theme is - Anything Goes

List of crafty stash used to make this project

• Spellbinders dies - Di-lites Blooms and Foliage
• Tattered Lace - Corner foliage die
• Stampin up adhesive pearls
• Promarkers and flexmarkers - chartreuse, terracotta, burnt orange, aniseed, tan and caramel
• Distress Ink pads - stormy shy and mowed lawn
• Creative Expressions Vintage green bakers twine
• Faux round pearls from my stash 8, 6, 4 mm
• Card stock - green, yellow and brown from my stash and cream for my base card.
• Ribbon - creamy yellow in colour again from my stash
• Pattern Paper from a free collection I received in a magazine.

Our sponsors this week are

Robyn's Fetish

Shop - http://robynsfetish.com/

Blog - http://robynsfetishchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/

Thank you for dropping by and for all your lovely comments,

 be sure to stop and check out the

Brown Sugar Challenge Blog

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

If you like what you see please press the join/follow button on the side above.

Karen Xxx

Scrappers Delight DT call

Hi everyone and welcome back to my blog.

During last week I have a post pop up on my wall on Facebook regarding a design team call for

Scrapper's Delights Challenge    - Blog
Scrappers Delights            - Shop

Over this last few days I having been working on a card for this DT Call and it I came up with this card, I liked it so much that I used the same layout for my Dt post this week, hope you like it.

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Karen Xxx

Hi everyone

Its Friday again and oh my its been a hectic week, with work, getting our pre-schoolers ready for their graduation, and then my laptop crashing.  I have been using my ipad to do work, but I really missed my lappy, now I have it back and I think touch wood I will have no more problems.

Here is my card for

Brown Sugar Challenge  #99

Theme  - Dots and/or Stripes

I used and image from our sponsors and coloured it in with my promarkers.  The papers used were free from a Magazine I purchased and the flowers are from a Spellbinders Di-Lites Blooms 3 and Mini Blooms from Tattered Lace.

Store - http://lacysunshine.weebly.com/

Blog - http://www.lacysunshinechallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/

Prize - 3 Digi images of winners choice

Thank you for dropping by and for all your lovely comments,

 be sure to stop and check out the

Brown Sugar Challenge Blog

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

Karen Xxx

Brown Sugar Challenge #97 - Bookmark

Welcome to my blog, please stay and have a little look through my posts.

Its Friday and it means its time for another challenge from

Brown Sugar.

Our theme this week is BOOKMARK

Here is my project for this challenge

The materials I used to make this are

1mm gold wire 

jump rings

beads

shrink plastic digital image from our sponsors

To make the book mark I took a piece of wire and bent it over my fingers to make the hook to go over the edge and with the longer lenght I hammer it to flatten and this will also strengthen the wire.  At the short end of the wire I made a small loop at the end and attached a few jump rings and attached the beads into one of the jump rings.  I printed the image onto shrink plastic and coloured it in with my promarkers and used my heat gun to shrink it down.

I always maintain that if I had any sort of brain in my head I would be dangerous, lol.  If I was to admit my mistakes I had a card (see below) made with this image to start with,  When I was posting it onto the design team blog I realised that it should have been a bookmark I could have kicked myself, lol.  And I also have to admit that  this is my second book mark I have made for this post.  I had another one made and photographed ready to submit when I realised that it wasn't the right image let alone from the right sponsor, so I had to remake it again.

Our sponsor for this weeks project is

Robyns Fetish

Thank you for dropping by and for all your lovely comments,

 be sure to stop and check out the

Brown Sugar Challenge Blog

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

Karen Xxx

25th Anniversary Card

Hi everyone thank you for looking at my blog.

This is a card in which I made for my brother and his wife for their 25th Wedding Anniversary.  The colour scheme is Silver and white with a few pearls and gems.

I cut the sentiment and number with my cricut and I also used some of my spellbinders dies.

The flowers and leaves are also are Spellbinders with faux pearls for the centres and some bling ribbon.

It was well received and my sister-in-law loved it and that was my aim.

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Karen Xxx

Live every moment

Hello everyone

My blog post today is well out of my comfort zone I think but I must say I enjoyed doing it.  

I had an old cardboard box lying in my room so I cut it up and put it away thinking that I would use it, well I pulled it out again and turn it into what I think is not a bad effort.  I watch some videos on a few friends and think if only I could do that.  

In my project I used my free stamps from Indigo Blu which I got from a magazine I had bought, some archival black ink, misting inks and some gesso.

I have decided to enter this into the 

Indigo Blu Challenge

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Karen Xxx

My Besties UK Challenge

Hi Everyone 

Here is my card which I am entering into

 My Besties UK

Purple Challenge

Promarkers to colour image 

Spellbinders dies - A2 Fancy Postage Stamps, foliage, D-lites Blooms 3

Tonic dies - Deco frame - Emily

Paper - purple & white cardstock, 8x8 Dreamcatcher fromTrimcraft

Embellishments - Purple gems, Stickles glue

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Karen

Xxx

Sock Hop Sweetie Friday

Hi everyone

and welcome to my blog

Well its that Friday and my first week of my new job is nearly over, I can safely say I did enjoy it but a little tired.

Here is my card project of this weeks challenge over at 

Brown Sugar Challenge Blog

The Theme this week was - Pastel Colours

The card shape is made out of one sheet of A4 white card and made into a kind of stepper card.

This image I used for this was Sock Hop Sweetie My Besties available from our Sponsors below.  I coloured it in with my promarkers and cut it out with a Spellbinders Grand Decorative Oval and went round the edge of the die with a ink spot that I had in my stash, it was a nice light lilac colour.  I them made a faux oval by drawing round the inside of the next size and cut it out with my scissors.  I apologies I do not know the name of the paper design as I have it made years in my stash, I backed it with pink glitter card.  The border strips were cut from lilac card from my stash and the pink ribbon strips are from Red Hot Bed.  A company that appeared on Create and Craft years ago, demonstrator was Michelle Marsden at that time.  Clear gems were put into the middle of the little flowers.  The flowers I used on the front of the card were a mixture from Prima, Wild Orchard Crafts and artificial flowers I bought and took apart.  I used dew drops and flat backed pearls for the centres of the flowers.

Ours Sponsors this week are

Sassy Design Studios

Thank you for dropping by and for all your lovely comments,

 be sure to stop and check out the

Brown Sugar Challenge Blog

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

Karen Xxx