Colour Create 29 - Hot pink, Dusky Pink, Iced Chocolate

Hi everyone, another Colour Create Challenge card today and this time our colours are chosen by our very talented Di and are a gorgeous combo of hot pink, dusky pink and iced chocolate, so thanks Di, I loved working with them. The optional extras are pearls and swirls but as always these aren't compulsary. Our sponsor this time is Simon Says Stamp so you know that there'll be a great prize up for grabs too. Hope you can join us, there's some fantastic inspiration from my DT friends with these gorgeous colours as always.

I've used a sweet Hanglar girl for my card and she's water coloured and then cut out. The card blank is in the darker coloured pink and I've used a layer of brown swirl patterned paper by Pebbles next which I've edge distressed and then a layer of paler pink card which I've cut on the diagonal this is mounted with dimension tape. This is where I did more of the swirls element by stamping in chocolate ink around the edges with a couple of Personal Impressions swirl stamps and added a sentiment by Elzybells in the same ink. I added the pearls to some of the swirls and then finished off with some little bows that I made and some flowers which were white but I coloured with copics to match the paper. Hope you can bear with my while I'm changing my blog a bit and I hope everything is working ok, more work to do which I hope will be sorted soon. Have a good Thursday. Chris x

Colour Create Challenge 3

Hi everyone, hope your Valentine Day was romantic and you're ready for Colour Create Challenge 3. This week the colours are red, white and blue with an option of Holidays and Travel. There's some fantastic inspiration from my team mates and I hope you can join in.


My image is the luscious Primrose by Sandra Dry for Kadoodle Stamps, mmm I think that bikini is my size! I've coloured her with markers and cut out with a Nestability oval, matted on a scalloped oval of Navy Bazzil card. The little beach scene is various distressed, torn and embossed pieces of Bazzil card and some Nestability cut scalloped ovals cut in half, sponged and glittered for the clouds. The sentiment is Penny Black and the gorgeous twill deck chair style ribbon was from a blog candy I won recently, I'll have to find out where it came from I think it's gorgeous. Added some stardust stickles and a gem to finish. I've realised I can enter this also for the Cupcake challenge by the skin of my teeth as the challenge this week is a scene card. TFL. Chris

Colour Create Challenge Two - Peach and Aqua

Hi everyone, hope your weekend is going well and it's time for Colour Create Challenge Two.
Hope you can join in this week, there's some fantastic inspiration from the very talented Design Team and a lovely colour combination of Peach and Aqua with an option of DIY Flowers.

I've made a card with my Crazy Daisy digi-stamp which is marker coloured with added stickles for sparkle. Image is layered over peach card on the Bazzil pre-cut scalloped base and peach die cut swirl. The flowers were punched from a Raspberry Road digital paper print out with two sizes of retro flower punches which I shaped with a ball tool. These have been stickled too with little half pearls for the centres. The boxes and swirls were cut on my lovely friend Sandra's Cricut Expression (thank you Sandra x), scored, folded and stuck together. I've decorated these with more of the cricut swirls and a flower on top of the square box. There are some Martha Stewart Doily punched borders on the crayon style box which I finally managed to get from the lovely Tracey at Dies to Die For, great service, thanks Tracey and I love it! I finished off the decorating with stickles dots and ribbons in peach and aqua. TFL. Chris.

A New Challenge coming soon!

A fantastic new weekly challenge is being launched next Sunday 1st February which has been set up by my lovely friend Tara at Happily Ever Crafting. I was absolutely thrilled to be asked by Tara to be on her design team with seven other ultra talented and lovely ladies who I'm very much looking forward to being team mates with. I love Tara's clever and very different idea for Colour Create which will be to give everyone a new colour palette to work with each week along with an optional theme. It's great too that this challenge can be combined with any others as it isn't going to be sponsored, there will however be candy every now and again and a new guest designer randomly chosen each week. I hope you can pop over and have a look, check out the blogs of the other wonderfully talented design team members and become a follower so that you'll always know when something is happening. There will be candy to celebrate the launch challenge and I hope to see you there!