New Challenges not running

 Good Morning All

The challenges are NOT running this month.

First of the month means new challenges, but not sure if Diane is posting them as she has not been feeling too good, but here are my cards anyway.

Moving Along With The Times

The theme has been chosen by Jenny and it is

What is your Favourite Craft Item

Well mine is my corner punch, I use it all the time, infact it stays on my desk and never gets put away in the drawer.

For both challenges I used LOTV Toppers titles Spring Rabbits.

The papers are Barbs Faves from Clarity and a strip from their designer paper  pad too.

 I inked the edges of the topper with Oxide ink.

Matted the sentiment onto a piece of lace.

This is my corner punch with 3 sizes, I also have an X Cut one too.

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Now onto Crafty Friends Challenge where the theme is 

Here is my next LOTV  Spring Rabbits topper.

I made this into an Easter card for my Grandchildren in Southport.

xxxxxx

Wendy L

New Challenges

 Good Morning All

New Challenge time at Moving Along With The Times and Crafty Friends.

First is MAWTT and a theme of

chosen by Diane.

I used the same papers for both cards.

The floral topper and the Thank you tab, I have had in my stash from right at the start of my Card making  journey.

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Now onto Crafty Friends Challenge

And the theme is!!!!!

So even though the theme is the same I have made another card.

Have fun

xxxx

Wendy L

New Challenges

 Good Morning All

First Challenge is for Crafty Friends and the theme is

I made a 40th Anniversary card for one of my Craft Club ladies.

The 40 is actually buffed Mirri card, although it doesn't show up very well on the pic.

A lovely heart charm tied to the sentiment.

LOTV topper.

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Now on to Moving Along with The Times Challenge.

The theme is

Numbers.

 I used a Groovi Numbers plate, number 7 for one of my grandaughters.

Have fun if you join in with the challenges.

xxxx

Wendy L

Crafty Friends & MAWTT Challenges

 Good Morning All

Welcome to the New Year of Challenges with Crafty Friends and Moving Along With The Times.

I will kick off with Crafty Friends with a theme of

For me that means Baby cards and I have made two, one for a Boy and one for a Girl.

For this one I stenciled the background and added an LOTV topper cut with an Oval die from CE.

Again this is a topper from LOTV matted onto some lovely pink embossed card my friend gave me.

The sentiment banner I have had for years.

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Now onto Moving Along With The Times Challenge where the theme is

Use Kraft Card

 I made this card using a Stencil from Clarity stamp.

I didn't ink it I used a fine liner pen then I coloured using Nova Metallic  Markers.  Then I heat embossed the circle sentiment.

Please pop over to the challenge blogs to see the rest of the DT work.

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A nice, thought provoking quote I saw on Instagram.

HAPPY NEW YEAR.

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Wendy L

Christmas for Challenges

Good Morning All

Both challenges are Christmas this month.

Moving Along With The Times is just

Christmas

Chosen by me.

I use my Favourite ever Groovi plate and I managed to buy it when someone was destashing their Groovi plates.

I glittered parts of it and backed it onto pearlised green card.

Quite a quick card to make but I think, very effective.

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Next is Crafty Friends Challenge and their theme is 

Tradition Christmas Colours.

I chose Green & Gold for another CAS card.

Snowflake Embossing on Centura Pearl card and one of Johns sentiment diecuts.

Head on over to the challenge blogs and play along.

xxxx

Wendy L

MAWTT & Crafty Friends Challenges

  Good Morning All

As its the 1st of the month, it is time for  the challenges to start.

First is Crafty Friends which is

Christmas

I used some hessian as a backing which has gold stars on it.

The image is from my Junk Journal stash.

Now onto Moving Along With The Times Challenge and the theme has been chosen by Tinz

Bright on Dark

Now this was abit of a challenge for me but I went with a darker blue mat with black mesh on for the backing then chose a bird with a bright yellow breast for the topper.

I hope Tinz thinks it fits her theme OK.

I hope you will join in the challenges.

xxxx

Wendy L

MAWTT & Crafty Friends Challenge

 Good Morning All

As its the 1st of the month, it is time for  the challenges to start.

First is Crafty Friends which is

Use More Than One Die

I used two Picot edge dies from Clarity to cut the Red backing card and the Oval Parchment.

CE Hearts Emboss Folder

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Now on to Moving Along With The Times which is a sketch chosen by Diane.

This is the card I have made, mostly from scraps too.

I added Parchment flowers and leaves

We would love you to pop over to the challenge blogs and join in.

xxxx

Wendy L

Leaves or Trees for MAWTT & Fantasy for Crafty Friends

 Good Morning All

Moving Along With The Times  challenge this month is

  Leaves and / or Trees

chosen by Jenny.

I used a new stencil I bought from Clarity stamp.  They have some wonderful sales for members, upto 60% off sometimes.

I inked through the stencil with two different colours of Oxides and added a sentiment sticker from Clarity also.

Very plain and simple but I like it and it is flat for posting too.

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Now into Crafty Friends  challenge which is

Fairies or Fantasy.

I inked the background using my Oxides and the silhouette stamp looks great on it. I added some raindrop gems which just finish it off.

We would love you to pop over to both challenges to see what the rest of the DT have made.

xxxx

Wendy L

Crafty Friends & MAWTT Challenges

 Good Morning All

This month for Moving long With The Times Challenge we have a theme of Anything Goes.

Back in May, my friend in the UK sent me a birthday present of some silver heart shaped earrings and they were presented on a card.

So I cut the image out and covered the holes where the earrings were with hearts shaped gems.  I mounted it onto two different colours of blue card and punched the corners and added pearls and a butterfly.

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Crafty Friends Challenge this month is a chart of Summer Colours.

For My card, I recycled a card I received in my Clarity parcel back in June.  I cut the inky background and the sentiment from it.

I added one of my doodled flowers for the topper

So both these cards are recycled and I m happy with them.

Have fun if you join us in the challenges.

xxxx

Wendy L

Crafty Friends & MAWTT Challenges

 

Good Morning All

I shall start with Crafty Friends Challenge  which has a theme of

Embossing

I made two cards, very similar.

I used CE Mosaic Leaves EF.

The tag toppers came from one of my crafty friends.

I helped tidy her craft room, way back in March and she disposed of alot of stuff so I grabbed some bits and these were among them.

I rubbed over the embossing with Johns (Crafts Too) Mica Paints.

Added  a sentiment tag on each one.

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Now onto Moving Along With The Times Challenge

Which is Inky Backgrounds

I was playing with my Oxides and water, and had quite a selection to choose from but as I was doodling at the time too, I chose colours that matched the doodled flower.

Great fun to play with.

Enjoy the challenges this month.

xxxx

Wendy L

Crafty Friends & MAWTT Challenges

 Good Morning All

Both Crafty Friends Challenge and Moving Along With The Times Challenges fall on the 1st of the month

and this month they are the same theme, although Zoe at MAWTT said it could be Fathers Day.

So Crafty Friends theme is

Men / Boys

and MAWTT is

Masculine / Fathers Day

So I have combined the two and made this Groovi card featuring a picot cut car.

I stuck gems where the lights are as that is where I glued it on.

Added the embossed sentiment and afew embossed dots.

Pop along and join in the fun,

xxxxx

Wendy L

Birthday for MAWTT & Animals Birds for Crafty Friends & Challenge

 Good Morning All

Today is Moving Along With The Times Challenge and I am looking after this one and I chose the theme of

Birthday

because it is my Birthday this month.

I made this card a while ago but loved it and I am keeping it for a crafty friend.

I used the Groovi  Henry Grid from Clarity and used one of their Poppets too backed onto sparkly gold card.

I would like to enter the following challenges  --  

Crafting Happiness Challenge for May - AG

A Perfect Time To Craft - AG

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Crafty Friends  challenge Theme this month is 

Animals / Birds

I bought a couple of pop out decoupage sheets from the craft shop  as they were some lovely animal ones.

This Lioness is one of them.

I mounted onto embossed card coloured with Mica Magics.

I typed the sentiment out and added to yellow card to match the oval shape.

I hope you will pop over to both challenge blogs to see what all the other DT's  have made.

Challenges Entered  - 

Crafts Galore Encore 

Crafty Animals 

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I used the Lion card as my sketch card for my Craft Club challenge on Friday so here is the sketch.

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Onto last weeks challenge.

My two cards using Oxides and John Lockwoods stamps

Eve

Claire

Dawn

Denise

 

Val J

2 from Val C

The name drawn was Claire

The gifts I gave out were these bags I bought at an auction.  I thought they were handy for taking stuff to Craft club to keep flat and clean.

I use mine alot. They are  great for A4 size papers.

I rolled each one and tied with a  pipe cleaner.

Thanks for visiting and see you  soon.

xxxx

Wendy L

Baby Animals for MAWTT & Colour Chart Spring for Crafty Friends

 Good Morning All

Moving Along With The Times challenge is chosen by Tinz and she wants to see

 Baby Animals 

as animals are her passion.

I took this opportunity to make an Easter  card for some of the grandkids.

It's an LOTV topper and LOTV paper too.

Ribbons are from Crafty Ribbons HERE

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Now onto Crafty Friends where Diane has provided us with a Spring Colour Chart.

I chose mainly pinks for this sweet card using Humphrey images from Crafters Companion.

The backing card is from Hunkydory and I added afew gems to some of the dots.

Enjoy

xxxx

Wendy L