Big News is Here!

I AM A...

 

Just over a week ago I posted here that I had some big new coming...well this is it! You all know how I love using digital images in my crafting, welllll the digital scrapbook shop, The Digichick, has a sister site that specialised in just this, hybrid crafting, called The HybridChick! I have been receiving their newsletters for literally YEARS and I've wanted to be a part. They currently have a call to join the Hybrid Chick creative team, I applied and they picked me!!!!!!

I am soooo honoured to be a part because the current team is so amazingly awesome. I just hope I can make them proud. I'm picking out a digi kit to work with and figuring out a project to make. Oooooo I'm excited! I hope you all will also love looking at my projects I create for them.

If you love using digital goodies to craft with, then you can join as well! We are still looking for a few more crafters and would love to see your work! Below is the call info and how to apply.

 
Even if you don't want to join the team, why not just check out the site for some terrific crafty ideas? I'm just settling in over there and I hope to have a project ready for February, probably not Valentine-y but still fun...I hope! LOL

Thanks for reading and Happy Crafting!

Hugs,
Dorothy

Something's Coming...

Oh yes....I got the news tonight. I can't wait to get started. I've wanted to work with them for a looooong time. Can you guess what's coming? I am so happy they chose me!

Keep your eyes peeled here for my cool announcement next week. WOO HOO!!!

DSC #124 Anything but a Card or Layout

Happy Friday ya'll! Hope you had a good week and are ready for a new challenge over at Digitally Sweet Challenges. Our terrific sponsor this week is Lacy Sunshine and you could win some awesome images from her. All ya gotta do is enter a project using digital and it can be anything but a card or layout. I made a bookmark:

I don't have lots of embellishments on it as I wanted it to lay flat in a book. Yes I still read REAL books too...lol. I first coloured in the Lacy Sunshine image using Vintage Photo Distress Ink with a waterbrush. I also printed out some other papers from Far Far Hill. It's all matted on this matt gold mirri boaRD I found in my stash.  I added jute twine on the top and some frayed burlap under the image. I finished off with some dark brown card candies and some fabric tape that says "with love."

SUPPLIES USED:
Maddie Haddie Steampink Secret Window digi stamp - Lacy Sunshine Stamps
New York Times and Damask digital papers - Far Far Hill
Jute twine and Burlap - Poundland (UK)
Distress Ink - Vintage Photo

Gold mirri board, card candy, fabric tape - from my stash

#281 Something Old Something New

It's time for a new challenge at Crafty Creations Challenges! I like this type of theme as it gets me diggin through me stash. We hope you will join in the fun and enter. Use something new and something old on your crafty goodness and you could win goodies from our sponsor Fresh Brewed Designs!

Here is my Design Team project for this one:

Bright ain't it? LOL i used a cute little image provided by our lovely sponsor and created this A6 birthday card. I coloured in the printed image with my trusty Copic Ciaos and matted it on yellow and red. I created the sentiment myself in Photoshop. Now here is how I stuck to the theme Something Old Something New:

NEW
The image and the embossing folder I used on the yellow card background. I just bought a whole bunch of dies and embossing folder from the Sizzix.co.uk site as they were having a huge sale of up to 80% off!!! I ordere 10 items and they only came to just over £17.00. Regular price would have been almost £90. Amazing right? Yellow cardstock from a big pack of American Crafts cardstock I got a TK Maxx.

OLD
Lots of mouldy oldies here...lol. The blue card base I've had for over 7 years. The red swirl paper was bought when I first started scrapbooking...gosh almost 10 yrs ago! The butterfly gems and blue dotted ribbon again bought when I first started making cards about 7 yrs ago

SUPPLIES USED:
Image #20 Latte Party from Fresh Brewed Designs
Yellow Cardstock - American Crafts Big Card Pack (Tropical pack)
Embossing Folder - Sizzix Textured Impressions set of 2 A2 folders Trellis and Swirls (I used Swirls)
Spellbinders Dies in Regular Circles
Copic Ciao Markers
Ribbon by Craft Works in a 4 ribbon pack in blues.
Blue Card Base, Red Swirl paper, Butterfly gems are all from my stash

Thanks for looking and I do hope you will join us at Crafty Creations Challenges!

Happy Crafting,
Dorothy

DSC #123 Dance Like Nobody's Watching

I'm still trying to get back into the swing of things here but I finsally got into my craft room. it's still a mess, it still needs lots of reorganising but i made a little path for me to get in and make something. I had a hard time finding stuff (like my ATG gun which I still cannot find thanks to my daughter) but I found enough to make something for our challenge this week over at Digitally Sweet Challenges!

Our lovely sponsor this week is Lunagirl! I love love love her images and she let us have a few absolutely gorgeous dancing ladies to use for our projects. Here's my card:

I started with a premade card blank in white then added papers and embellies from my stash. I loved this theme and images as an ex-bellydancer...lol. Hope you like my card and will join us for this week's challenge at Digitally Sweet!

SUPPLIES USED:
Lady image from Lunagirl
Sentiment created myself in Word
White card blank from stash
Blue pattered paper and blue pearl paper from my stash
Ribbon Bow from stash
Distress Ink in Tumbled Glass
Fiskars border punch looped border
Impex Heart stickers
Trimits Paper Crafts blue glitter butterfly

Thanks for having a look!

HAPPY CRAFTING,
Dorothy

DSC #122 Layouts Only Week

Hi there everyone! I know I took a long break over Christmas but it was necessary...I'll leave it at that...lol. But welcome to 2015 and we have a new challenge up at Digitally Sweet Challenges so come check us out!

as a reminder, Digitally Sweet requires that you use some type of digital image in your crafting. We have a new sponsor so we decided to add a LAYOUTS ONLY challenge to our line up. You can only make some sort of digital scrapbooking layout, it can be a real life page or a digital one but you must use a digital image by either printing it out or doing the whole thing in some sort of program.

Our sponsor is the lovely Scrappiness Designs and here is what I created using her kit called "Happy Noel."

This is a Christmas photo of my hubby and our Christmas tree in 2013. The ole hubs has lost weight since then and we also have verticle blings on our glass door now. But it was a nice sunny winter's day...lol...a rare thing here in the UK.

I do hope you will join us for this week's challenge at Digially Sweet and thanks for visintg me.

Also...Have a HAPPY 2015!

Peace & Blessings, Dorothy

#278 Something to "Die" For Challenge

It's time for a new challenge at Crafty Creations Challenges! Our theme this fortnight is Something to "Die" For. To enter you will need to use some sort of die cuts on your project...who doesn't love dies?! Our lovely sponsor this week is Robyn's Fetish Stamps and you could winn some awesome digital images. I made a card for this DT project:

Just a simple winter time card as I just loved this digital stamp. I don't own a whole lot of dies yet but I did have one that looked kind of snowflake-like. I coloured the digi stamp with some plain coloured pencils as I wanted only a faint bit of colour. I toyed with leaving the stamp uncoloured but when it went together it really did need a little bit to tie it all in.

SUPPLIES USED:
In the Cold digi stamp - Robyn's Fetish Stamps
Backing paper - free gift from an old Papercreafter magazine, BoBunny paper set.
Snowflake dies - Spellbinders Ironwork Motifs Die
Pale blue twine - Papermania 3-Piece Capsule Collection Spots & Stripes Pastels Bakers Twine

Old Paper Distress Ink
White grosgrain ribbon bow - from stash
White scalled card base - from stash
Sentiment created by me

Hope you will join us for this challenge!

Happy Christmas Crafting!
Dorothy

Bearly Mine Sale Reminder

 The 50% Closing Down sale continues at Bearly Mine Designs:

You can save until the 31st December on all digital sets at Bearly Mine. Please show your support by having a visit and purchasing your favourite sets.It's such a shame too. Hopefully the EU will one day be able to determine between micro digital businesses and huge mega corporations.

DSC #117 Sentiment as Main Focus

It's time for this week's new challenge at Digitally Sweet Challenges! This time our theme is to use a sentiment as the focus of your project. Our awesome sponsor this week is Lacy Sunshine Stamps! Don't forget to use something digital in your creations. I did another digital image this week, a card front:

I whipped this up in Photoshop with the very cool snowglobe digi stamp form Lacy Sunshine and a cute digi kit freebie from Cinnamon Scraps. If you click on the link it takes you right to the page to download the scrap kit yourself.Have yourselves a fantastic day and hope you will join us at Digitally Sweet Challenges!

Happy Crafty Christmas!
Dorothy

December Challenge at Bearly Mine

Welcome to the very last challenge for Bearly Mine Challenges. As I mentioned in yesterday's post, Bearly Mine is closing their door because of new EU ruling starting 1st January. Our challenge for December is Christmas Decoration or Ornament (no cards.) So let's see some gorgeous Christmas project entered in our challenge this month! Here is what I made, pinecone ornaments:

I saw this video by Mari Hop and thought I would give it a go using Bearly Mine digital papers from the Christmas Traditions 2 pack. Here's what I did:

Supplies to make ONE pinecone:

Styrofoam Egg (I used 80 mm eggs but next time I will use smaller ones)
2 x A4 or Letter sized sheets of designer paper, 2 different designs that coordinate.
Paper trimmer
Tacky Glue
Stuff to decorate the top of you egg
Ribbon to hang egg
Long Eye pin and large jump ring for hanging.

Directions for this larger size pinecone:

-Take your designer paper of choice and I cut them into 1 1/4" inch pieces. Keep the pile of each design separate. (In fact for my large size eggs next time I'll be making the squares 1 1/2" or most likely 1 3/4")
-One one of the square pieces, take two of the corners and fold them in halfway to about a 45 degree angle so there is a point on one side and the regular square on the other. Do this to all of the little squares.
-Start at the narrow end of the styrofoam egg, use 4 of the folded in squares in one pattern and line up the points to cover the bottom of the egg, glue them on with tacky glue, if it's a good one you shoudn't have to hold them in place too long.
-Then using the other pattern, glue 4 more on the square end on the paper piece only and glue it on making sure the pointed bit goes INBETWEEN the first row.
-Continue doing this all the way up the egg to the top.Using my sizes it will take between 36 to 40 pieces in each of the two paper designs.

How to hang:

-Before I added my flowers and bows to the top of my pinecone, I took a long eye pin for making jewellry, added a large jump ring to the eye and pushed it into the top through the paper and styrofoam. It went in quite easily. I took it out again, added tacky glue to the length of the eye pin and pushed it back into the pinecone for added strength.
-I added ribbon through the jump ring and knotted. Then I went about adding flowers and string bows to the top of my pinecones. You could add leaves, flowers, artificial pine boughs, gems, pearls, foam, die cuts, etc.

Of course if you cannot understand my directions, the Mari Hop video will help you out alot so check it out. These ornaments are easy to make and also are very light. They won't fall off the tree because they are too heavy...lol. The pinecones are also fab children's projects great for school, boy scouts, church groups, etc. You could cut up all the little squares in advance out of anything, even newspaper, craft paper or printer paper. My next one if going to be out of old book pages with lots of cream lace!

Hope you enjoyed...and also hope you join us for this month's challenge at Bearly Mine Challenges!

Happy Christmas Crafting!
Dorothy