Anything goes challenge at That craft place

It's a fab Anything Goes challenge at That Craft Place this fortnight. That's an easy one, right?

I made a cover for a little concertina book. I have NO idea what's going in the book, but I love the cover!

The Mad Hatter is a stamp from Octopode, and the funky flowers are Ditzie Design Digis. There's a background stamp honeycomb wire in there from That Craft Place as well as some fab gold skeleton leaves. It's well worth a pop over to see what they have in stock!

Right, on with the weekend, hope you're having a good one!

I'm also entering this into the Stamping Sensations challenge- Summer flowers.

Decorate a bag at That Craft Place

Hello everyone, hope you're having a good weekend! I'm completely absorbed by the Tour de France, as I am most years.

Anyway, it's time for another challenge at That Craft Place

We had some amazing Anything Goes entries for our last challenge, remember to check on the challenge bin next week to see who the winner and top 3 are, plus the winner of the Blog Hop :-)

My blog hop winner is #1 Jodpea- well done and I'll get your prize to you!

Now onto our new challenge which is hosted by our DT member Shell

Decorate a Bag

Team A will be showing lots of inspiration over on our That Craft Place Natter and Chatter Facebook Page but I'm Team B, so here's my bag.

It's a little sheer gift bag/pouch, and I've photographed it with white card in the middle so that you can see the design-I used a favourite Lavinia stamp and lots of stickles glitter :) The bag is a lovely soft peachy cream colour, so I went for a greyish lavender which hasn't really come out on the photo :(

Hope you join in and show us a decorated bag!

That Craft Place blog hop!

Come and join us on our blog hop for 

That Craft Place 

We are having a wonderful Blog hop to show case our amazing Design Team!

The theme is Anything goes so don't forget to enter into our challenge.

 TCP facebook Shop 

 TCP Natter and Chatter facebook page 

 Ditzie Digi Design's inspiration facebook page

 DItzie Digi Design Etsy store 

We give away freebies in the Ditzie Digi Design group once a month so please hop over and say Hi. 

Here's the prizes 

 1st £10 spend in That Craft Place

 2nd £10 DDD esty store 

 3rd £5 That Craft Place 

 4th £5 DDD etsy store 

Now to win you need to make sure you're a member of each group 

The amazing Design Team have some inspiration on their blogs and ( some of the DT ladies are giving away their creations to one lucky blogger ) so make sure you hop by and give them some love!!!

I've got two creations to show you today, and I'll give them both away to someone, so leave a comment to be in with a chance!

The first is a dinky little wooden plaque that I've turned into a magnet- the Visible Image stamps, plaque and star blank all came from That Craft Place. The background of the plaque is painted with acrylic paint, with the bird stamped in archival ink. The star is also painted, with Free heat embossed in white.  A little tip if your white embossing gets a little rough around the edges is to go round the words with a black Promarker to tidy it all up- works magic!

This is a hand doodled card with a Ditzie Digi Design as the main image. I love those little toadstool houses! Sooooo cute.

So- if you fancy me sending you a little package through the post, leave me a comment!

If you're blog hopping, you should have got here from Aurora's gorgeous blog

and you need to hop off to see Erin S's lovely blog.

If you want to start from the beginning, then you need to be on the challenge blog - That Craft Place 

Love and Hugs 

from me and all of us at 

That Craft Place 

Let me introduce you.......

Have you heard of That Craft Place? No? Well let me introduce you.....

It's a looooverly craft shop, with a couple of great pages on Facebook- the Natter and Chatter page is fun!!!

I'm in the Design Team B- and we're up for the next couple of months, providing inspiration for the challenge blog. So- my first challenge is Men! I've gone with face fungus.....

This is from the Indigo Blu set- Mr Fan-tash-tic. For some bizarre reason I decided to stamp in lots of colours.......love the effect, but it was a bit of a pain to do at first- I got into it though. 

So, I bet you've all got a male themed something to show us- pop over and get a-linking :)

Ooh, and if you like this and want to order one....... pop over to my Facebook selling page.

I'm entering this into the Simon Says Wednesday challenge- Father's Day/ Masculine

and the Crafting Musketeers challenge- Stamped image.

Child's play at A Little Bit Crafty

1st June so a new challenge at A Little Bit Crafty.

This month the theme is Child's Play.

The background is made with stickers- a little technique I picked up at a workshop- fab aren't they?

I'm entering this into the Allsorts challenge- For the guys

Poppy red

A gorgeous card to show you today that I made at an Indigo Blu workshop a few weeks ago. 

It's a gorgeous stamp! If you've got a flowery make this month, the challenge at A Little Bit Crafty is Flower Power- some great prizes as usual!

New DT, new card!

OK, so I looked at the quality of blogging going on by my new That Craft Place DT buddies and thought I'd better up my game! 

I spent this morning doodling and generally faffing around and made this.....

Paperarsty stamps, ooh how I love those little houses, use them A LOT! The background was a left over bit from something else, but made with Distress Inks and water and splodging (technical term there......). The hill and bubbles and bottom section are all doodled, which makes me happy!

So That Craft Place..... it's a shop physical and virtual, and a bit of a Facebook phenomenon for some of us!

If you fancy a look, try out........

 That Craft Place - the online shop

That Craft Place Challenge Blog

That Craft Place  facebook group

That Craft Place Natter and Chatter 

I'm in Team B, so we'll be lurking and chatting and posting on the Facebook Natter and Chatter group for a couple of months, and then taking over the challenge blog once the A Team have done their thing. Should be fun!!!!

Hope your Sunday has been treating you well, be happy!

You'll never guess what?

Something good's happened. Really, really good. I've been asked to join the design team for That Crafty Place. Look, I gots me my own banner and everything.

Exciting huh? I'm raring to get going! 

Check out the rest of my new team mates at That Craft Place blog!

Are we there yet? A Little Bit Craft DT time.

March? MARCH? Are you sure? Flippin' 'eck, this year's going a bit quickly, I haven't quite got used to writing 2014 yet, and here we are in March!!! It's true that time speeds up as you get older.

Anyhoo, if it's March, then the good news is that it's time for a new challenge at A Little Bit Crafty. Yippee! The theme this month is- Are we there yet? Ooh, a few ways of interpreting this one..... I went for a destination, a cityscape canvas.

I'm using the old masking fluid technique again, with a Stampotique cityscape stamp.  OK, that's working, now let's add lots of Dylusion spray inks- reds, orange, yellow, a spot of white and granite. Splodge it about with some bubble wrap for interest....... yay, my fingers are inky :)

Oops, that yellow bit looks like a sun, so let's add some stencilled circles in Distress Inks and emboss them gold.... While the heat gun is hot, might as well add some embossed white text.......

A couple of words from a text stamp- destination and place on tissue paper, with some glossy accents to make them pop out? Oh go on then......

A few choice phrases from Pride and prejudice to finish. Yup.

OK, I like it. Phew! 

There are some amazing prizes up for grabs this month, so get over to the blog and check out the fabulous Design Team inspiration.

Sunset or sunrise?

It's my second week of sharing lovely Stampotique goodness, ooh it's going a bit quickly, I enjoyed this week's theme of using perfect pairs, although I was a little bit of a cotton headed ninny muggins (an extra sparkly point if you can name the film that phrase is from!) when I chose 2 colours that were right out of my comfort zone, and didn't really go together.......

Yes, that well known combination of mauve/purple and yellow...... ah well, it turned out grand in the end!

I used Cityscape, masked and stamped a couple of times, and Daniel's hearts (yeah, I really over-use this stamp, but it's sooooo scrummy and I lurve it so there!) I then spent a day searching for my masking fluid, which was (obviously) sitting smugly right in front of me on my desk all along. After painting it over the images (it's smelly!), I used several coats of Glimmer Glam paints in Berry-licious and Golden Goddess to create the sky. Dontcha love it when things have delicious names!

Hopefully you can see the depth of shine I got on the sky, the paints are translucent and full of glitter, and shine!

I re-stamped the images in white onto black card and heat embossed with white powder, then used a few elements to pop out of the background for some depth. You might also spot a touch of crackle medium at the bottom, again painted with Glimmer Glam to give another texture.

My pairs were- 2 colours, 2 images, 2 texture (the shiny glaze and the crackle), 2 colours of embellishment (yellow and purple eyelets).

I totally wouldn't have gone there without the challenge, but I'm so glad I did! Your turn, show us your pairs ;)

Oh and I nearly forgot- sunset or sunrise

I'm entering this into the following challenges:

Simon Says Monday Challenge- We love stamps

Papertake weekly challenge- With a heart

A shabby challenge for A Little Bit Crafty

Wow, these months are knocking along quickly........

Time for a new challenge at A Little Bit Crafty. 

This month we'd like you to show us your shabby creations. I'm not sure I've cracked the shabby style- although this certainly isn't neat and tidy, lol.

It's another little notebook for my craft fair- I used the fab little ghost stamp from one of our sponsors this month- the fabulous Octopode Factory. I've got him in rubber, but he's available, along with oodles of Lily's other wonderful creations in the Octopode etsy shop. 

So, if you do shabby much better than me (not difficult.....), get on over to the challenge blog and show us your stuff!

I'm entering this into the Corrosive challenge- cute and creepy

A little bit crafty clean and simple challenge? Oh go on then.......

The challenge at A Little Bit Crafty this month is to show us something CAS- Clean and Simple.


I love clean and simple cards, not that I make them that often, but I do like the uncluttered look now and then, although looking at the state of my house since we got back off our holidays, cluttered is very much the word at the moment.......  

This made me laugh far too much. There's another in the series of "cake" cards..... I'll show you that another day.

Coloured using my ubiquitous watercolour pencils. The cake is from a Kanban set, and the cups are Stampotique. Can you spot the gloss on some of the circles?

Hope you like it, and hope you can join us at ALBC. There are some smashing prizes up for grabs, as ever.

A Little Bit Crafty- midway DT

Hello! Today I've got a midway reminder post for the A Little Bit Crafty challenge blog.

This month's challenge is Summer Sun. Well, as you never quite know when summer sun is going to turn into summer storms, I went for an ATC with summer flowers and wellies....

The welly is from a smashing Stampin' Up set with lots of boot stamps.

Righto, get those summer inspired projects blogged and enter the challenge, the prizes are fab, as usual!

A little bit crafty- Summer sun

Hello! Time for my August DT post for the A Little Bit Crafty challenge blog.

This month's challenge is Summer Sun. We've had a lovely few weeks, although the sun does seem to have disappeared this week- typical, just as I have time off work with my children!!! Ah well, more crafting time, right?

My DT piece this month is a picture made from lots of punched butterflies. This one is in purple and cream shades.

The edges of the butterflies are sparked, and there are little gems in the centre of each one.

And a pink one! Hope you like them, if you want to buy one, get in touch, I'm selling!

Over to you, come and say hi on the A Little Bit Crafty  challenge blog and show us some summer sunshine.

Dies challenge at A Little Bit Crafty

There's a new challenge at A Little Bit Crafty- my DT piece is ready to be shown! It's a bit of a different take to the rest of the DT, but, then when have I ever been the same as everyone else, lol!

I've used a fab clock from one of our sponsors for the month- It's about time from Smeared Ink, which I think fits perfectly with the gorgeous Lovely are the sound batboy from Stampotique, the little skulls on the clock face are kinda cute. The challenge this month is to use dies, so I've put some cogs onto my ink sprayed background.

Fancy having a go? The sponsors this month are Smeared ink, Saturated Canary and Cheery Lynn. Worth getting those dies out?

This piece is also my entry for the Stampotique Designers Challenge, which is new adventures. This is the first time I've done something "arty" with a digi stamp- I masked it and spray inked round it, then cut out the centre section from another print and layered it on. I've not been a digi fan really, but this time it really, really worked! That's my new adventure!

I'm also entering it into the Haunted Design House unlucky for some challenge- my 13 elements are..... 1.Black backing card, 2.Sprayed background 3,4,5,6.Cogs 7.Clock digi 8,9,10,11 ticks and tocks 12.Batboy stamp 13.Bookpage that batboy is stamped onto

A Little Bit Crafty DT- new challenge......Something Sweet!

Yay, time to show you my latest DT creation for the A Little Bit Crafty challenge blog. 

The theme is Something Sweet.......but I wasn't really feeling so very sweet yesterday....... so my card is kinda sweet, but kinda not....

As seems to be usual for me nowadays, the image is coloured with watercolour pencils.

The boy image is from Bugaboo- one of our sponsors this month.

As ever- any type of crafting goes, so whether you're a card maker, scrapbooker, knitter or jewellery maker, we'd like to see your creations!

I'm entering this into the Little Claire blog challenge- Open theme
and into the new Ali-Craft blog challenge- Open theme
and into the Artistic Stamper's challenge- Makes for men

A Little Bit Crafty- challenge 2......Kraft!

Wow, what an amazing response to the very first A Little Bit Crafty challenge. I know Paula and the rest of the DT were overwhelmed with the number of entries!!!

This month the challenge is Kraft. The sponsors are amazing!!!!

I'm going for a bit of Alice in Wonderland action on this one- Tweedledee and dum are Stampotique (betcha could've guessed that right? OK, so I'm obsessed......)

Quote from the twosome themselves.

The fab Sarah Hurley backing papers fit in great with the Scrabble tiles. I've overstamped with Stampotique splodges and a little paperclip stamp I've had forever.

Dum and Dee are coloured with watercolour pencils. I always seem to reach for my pencils nowadays- can't remember the last time I use a Promarker- I should wipe the dust off the box and put them to use again.

So, you've got a month to come up with a Krafty creation, then come over to the challenge blog and show us!