Fred She Said Favourites Blog Hop

Good Morning and welcome to a new Fred She Said Blog Hop!  This month we are hopping with the theme of Favourites.  You should have come to me from the lovely Michelle's blog, if not you're going to want to go back to the start, at the Fred She Said BLOG.  First of all, here's the info about the hop:

Fred She Said Favorites HOP - HOW TO ENTER
To ENTER, please leave a comment on each BLOG HOP POST.  There will be ONE winner.  A random hop post will be chosen and then a comment on that post will be chosen randomly to win.  BLOG HOP closes  Friday, JULY 29 midnight EDT so please leave your comments by then ;)  Commenting on ALL the hop stops is not necessary to WIN... BUT it definitely increases your chances of winning ;)  and spreads some LOVE!  Please make sure you leave your name in your comment!  NOTE: some DT members moderate their comments for evil spam so please be patient if you don't see your comment right away.

THE PRIZE:
£15 Gift Voucher to Bearly Mine Designs
$15 Prize Package of yummy goodies chosen by Judy from Pizzazz APlenty
$30 Gift Certificate to the Fred She Said Store

The WINNER will be announced Saturday morning July 30th on the Fred She Said Blog AND the FSS Challenge Blog. 
Now you have the info, I'd like to tell you a little about my favourite!  I looked through my FSS digis and I looked through the shop and I was completely unable to choose my favourite image, there are so many that I love!  So I've picked one of my favourite things, in one of my favourite images - yes - that would be chocolate lol!  The sentiments that come with the image are just perfect aren't they?  Better than Chocolate is a Valentine's Day set, but I think chocolate is for all year round, not just Valentine's Day:).

I've printed it off a few times and decoupaged it, the base layer has been cut with a Nestie, dry embossed with Swiss Dots and then inked with Distress Ink.  The chocolates have some Glossy Accents to give them a shine and there is a touch of Stickles on the rose on top of the box.  I hope you can see all the layers in the detail piccie below. The DP is Prima, I have only added a bow as the image is so beautiful it doesn't need lots of extra embellies.
Thanks for looking at my card, your next stop along the Hop is with  "Fred" herself, our talented Tracey at the CHALLENGE BLOG.

I've found a few challenges to enter my card in:
Pixie Cottage - fun with food
Creative Craft Challenges - 3D it
KB Cute Monday - use a digistamp

Little Lemon Bird

I think this image from A Day for Daisies looks like a fantasy goldfinch on a fantasy thistle plant, so that settled the colours as lilac and lemon, which fits both Simon Says and A Day for Daisies challenges for this week.  Pretty, isn't it?  I think it could also be a Christmas bird with a bit of tweaking of the colours...

The card is pretty clean and simple, image is coloured with Distress Inks, Copics and Glossy accents.  Sentiment is from Craftwork Cards, it is lilac though it doesn't look it in the photo.  Flowers are punched with Card Candy middles, DP is Crafty Individuals and Daisy Bucket, I used a Martha Stewart punch.

My card is for the following challenges:
Pixie Cottage - sketch
A Day for Daisies - pastels but no pink
Truly Scrumptious - things with wings
Simon Says - lemon and lavender
Digital Tuesday - flower power
Digi Design House - handmade flower
Forever Friends - birthday and animal
The Crafty Pad - soft pastels
Paper Sundaes - sundae bar, I picked purple and wings

Phindy's Place Challenge #54 - Embossing

 Good morning and welcome to this week's Phindy's Place Challenge, which is to use embossing, dry, heat or both on your card.  You don't have to use one of Phindy's images, but we love it when you do - and you get a second entry into the prize draw!  I used the adorable Kitty Cargo image for my card, colouring it with Copics and Distress Inks.  I've heat embossed my sentiment (Personal Impression stamps combined) and dry emobssed the wall at the top of the card.  The DP is more of that delicious Memory Box Brioche, ribbon came from my DT friend Kathy in a blog candy a while back, I have put eyelets in the corners.  The sketch is from this week's Pink Elephant Challenge.

 My card is for the following challenges:

 Pink Elephant - sketch 

Pixie Cottage - one for the boys 

Flourishes - for a child under 13 

Try it on Tuesday - something old (ribbon) something new (DP) 

Use it Tuesday - fasteners - brads 

Bunny Zoe - one for the boys 

Stamps R Us - masculine 

Woodware - blue, yellow, brown 

 

Phindy's Place Birthday Blog Hop and Paper Piecing Challenge

Good Morning and welcome to the Phindy's Place Challenge 1st Birthday Celebrations!   If you came here from the Challenge Blog you're in the right place, I'm first stop on the hop, otherwise please pop back to the challenge blog and check out all the details:).  Yes, it's one whole year  since we began posting challenges on the blog, I can't believe a year has gone so fast!  To celebrate we're holidng our weekly challenge as usual and we're also having a Blog Hop, I do hope you'll play along:)

Our challenge this week is paper piecing and the usual prizes are up for grabs, however we have a great bonus prize of  a $10 Voucher to use at Phindy's Place which will be won by one of out blog hoppers.  To win the prize you need to collect a word from each posting. When you've got the full sentence, please post it in the comments on the challenge blog (which will be hidden until the hop is over!  Blog Hop is open until midnight (GMT) 28 April.

Now, on to my card:  I made a fairly simple card for a little boy, the image is called Nap Time and he's almost entirely paper pieced. I've shaded the paper piecing with Copics, the papers are from an old Basic Grey pad called Recess.  The buttons are recycled from my old clothes button box, sentiment is a Joanna Sheen stamp and I've added some baker's twine as a masculine embellie:).

Thank you for visiting my blog, I hoped you liked my card.  Now it's time for you to continue hopping and visit the awesomely talented Ann English.  
Oh yes, you want a word from me lol!  My word is Phindy's  :)

I'm entering my card for the following challenges:
The Pixie Cottage - sketch
Aud Sentiments - anything goes
Meljen Designs - masculine
Bunny Zoe - one for the boys
Scrapbook Sisters - use buttons
Try it on Tuesday -recycle
Digi Design House - paper piecing
Creative Card Crew - recycle
Delightful Challenges - paper piercing or paper piecing

Phindy's Place Challenge #43 - Monochromatic

Good Morning and hooray it's Friday!  We are off for a long weekend in East Sussex, leaving Mum to hold the fort at home!   But first, here's my card for this week's Phindy's Place Challenge, which is to make a monochromatic project.  My card has a teenage boy image on it, called Connected Boy, so my card is not just monochromatic, it is most likely monosyllabic too lol!

His top looks brownish, but this was Warm Grey Copics rather than Cool or Toner, I used all my grey pens for this image I think, also Black Soot Distress Ink to edge it.  I based my card on a great sketch from the Pixie Cottage Challenge which is sketch and/or embossing this week.  The black square is Coredinations with a grey background, embossed with a Tim Holtz wall and then distressed, the DP is Stampin' Up.

Hope you like Grumpy George and his grey card:).

My card is for the following challenges:
Pixie Cottage Challenge - sketch and/or embossing
Claudia & Company - about a boy
Totally Papercrafts - do it with digis
Stampin' for the Weekend - monochrome

Life's just beachy

I love this image from Isabella's Sketchbook, I have a couple of these vintage-style beach ladies, this is how a trip to the seaside should be:). It's for Isabella's Challenge this week, which is based around Memorial Day for those who celebrate it and patriotic colours for those who don't. I've used the red, white and blue theme and, instead of Memorial Day, we have the Spring Bank Holiday which should be glorious sunshine and picnics. You'll note that I said should, LOL, it's grey and chilly here and all that you can say is that it's not raining - yet!

I've used a sketch from the Pixie Cottage Challenge for my card, haven't come across their site before. Charisma Cardz has a Going in Circles Challenge, Stamptacular Sunday has Life's a Beach as their theme this week, Cupcake Craft Challenges' theme is Summer Delights and Cute Card Thursday wants us to use no designer papers.

Image is coloured with Copics and cut out. The backgound is made from paper that has been Glimmer Misted. Sentiment is Elusive Images. I've set eyelets into the red circle - woo hoo - finally worked out how to use the setting tool, the white card is dry embossed with a CB folder.