Final week of CCCB Father's or For a Male Challenge

This is the final week of The Crafter's Cafe Challenge Blog " Father's or For a Male" challenge.   We would love for you to take part in this challenge and you still have time.


One of our sponsors this month is Fred She Said.

I have used one of their lovely images for this card.

 

I have enjoyed my time as a DT member for The Crafter's Cafe Challenge Blog, but this post will be my last.  Due to family commitments and other things, I have decided not to continue in this role.  

The Crafter's Cafe Challenge Blog would love you to join them still and I hope to as well from time to time.  Next month they will introduce their DT team - some continuing and some new members.  Their challenges will also become weekly ones.  Please come back and visit them.

For those of you who have visited my blog and left comments, I greatly appreciate it.  Thank you.

Angela

 

CCCB - Fathers or For a Male Challenge

This is the second week of our challenge Fathers or For a Male at The Crafter's Cafe Challenge Blog.  You can create any project you like, card, ATC, tags, layouts, mixed–media, altered art, vintage, etc. and can use any products, images, mediums, etc... from any company.

Our sponsor this week is Limited Runs.  

Here is my creation using an image from Limited Runs.

We would love for you to take a look at some other great creations from our Design Team for week 1 and week 2.

We would love for you to take part in this monthly challenge.

Angela

The Crafter's Cafe Challenge Blog Design Team Call!

The Crafter's Cafe Challenge Blog (CCCB) has some exciting new changes coming up starting in July!  and they presently have a Design Team call.  There are only three days left, so if you would like to be considered please read the information below and don't delay.  It will be a six month commitment.  

 

Here are the details:

REQUIREMENTS:

1.  Must be able to post two cards per month

2.  Must be able to leave comments on 10% of the entries (a number will be assigned to you)

3.  Must be able to take very good pictures of your creations

4.  Must have a current blog that you post your creations to

5.  Must be able to use Yahoo Groups or be comfortable enough with a computer to find your way around

6.  Must not be one to start or stir up drama (this has never been an issue in the past)

7.  Must be able to speak and understand English well.

8.  Must know how to have fun!

BENEFITS:

1.  You will receive two images a month.  One from each of our sponsors for your weeks.

2.  You will have a link to your blog added to our challenge page.

3.  You will have a great group of crafters to work with and get/share ideas from/with.

THE PLAN:

We will start with a blog hop in July to introduce our new teams.  

THE BIGGEST CHANGE OF ALL:

We are going to become a WEEKLY challenge blog starting in July!!!

HOW TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THE NEW DT:

Leave us your name and a link to your blog in the Mr Linky link!  Once we have made our decisions we will contact you with an offer to join the team.  Please be sure your contact information is available some place where we can find it on your blog.

 

Come back later in the week and see my creation for our present challenge which is "Fathers of for a Male" Challenge 17.

 

Have a great week.

 

Angela

 

 

CCCB Challenge - For a Mom and/or For A Woman

It is now week 4 of The Crafter's Cafe Challenge Blog "Mom and/or For A Woman" - Challenge 16. 

We would love you to take part.  You have until midnight 31st May  to enter, so there's still plenty of time.

I have used the 3 Chimney Cottage image from Rick St. Dennis for my card.  I would like to thank Rick St Dennis for sponsoring us this month. 

Also would you like the opportunity to be a Guest Designer for TWO WEEKS next month?  If so add GDT next to your name.  More details on the blog.  

Have a great rest of the week and I hope we will see one of your creations in this month's challenge.

Angela

CCCB May Challenge - Mother's or for a Female

Our theme at The Crafter's Cafe Challenge Blog this month is Mother's or something for a Female.

You can create any project you like, card, ATC, tags, layouts, mixed–media, altered art, vintage, etc. and can use any products, images, mediums, etc... from any company.

  

Our wonderful sponsor this month is Rick St. Dennis.  Be sure to visit them and say thank you.

 

We would love for you to take part.  Remember to read the rules carefully. 

- You can enter up to THREE times.

- You need to stay with the current theme. 

- You MUST link your entry to your actual entry blog post or gallery, not your entire blog, with mention of and link to The Crafter’s Café Challenge Blog.

Here is my creation for week two of this month's theme.  I have used the 1940's hat image from Rick St Dennis. 

Here is my card:

 

I made a simple shaped card and coloured my image with pencils.  I added some faux stitching and added some embellishments.  

I hope that you will take part.  Remember that Mother's Day is this coming Sunday (here in New Zealand) and so this is an opportunity to make Mother's Day card and enter in this month's challenge.

Thanks for stopping by and for your comments.

Angela

TCCB - ATC or Fat Page Challenge - Week 4

This is the final week for The Crafter's Cafe Challenge Blog ATC or Fat Page Challenge.  We would love for you to take part.  

Before we had this challenge I had never made an ATC or a Fat Page before.  I wasn't quite sure what they were, but once I knew, I had lots of fun making them.  If you have never made one before, here is your chance to make one.

Here is what they are:

Fat Page (A simple explanation):  4 in x 4 in card that has about as much goodness as you can fit on it without it looking tacky...A great way to use up some scraps too!

ATC (A simple explanation):  about the size of a baseball card 2-1/2 in by 3-1/2 in creation that doesn't necessarily fold - a great way to show off your work with your information on the back side of the card.  You could do like you do with a fat page and add as much as you can without it looking tacky...A great way to use up some scraps too!

Our sponsors this month have been Fred, She Said and Limited Runs Digital Stamps.

              

This week I have made a Fat Page and used an image from Limited Runs. 

I coloured the image with Copic markers and Stampin' Up makers.  I then sponged the background to create a sky looking background and mounted onto brown card to make it 4x4".  Lastly I added various embellishments - flowers, gems, pearls, liquid pearls, butterflies, glitter  and glossy accents.

Thanks for stopping by and for your comments.  I gratefully appreciate all comments.

Angela 

TCCB - Week 2 ATC or Fat Page Challenge

It is now week 2 of The Crafter's Cafe Challenge Blog ATC or Fat Page Challenge.  We would love for you to take part.

This was the first time I have made an ATC and I didn't realise how much smaller than a card they are until I started creating mine.  I have used the Happy Flower digi from Fred She Says.

Here is my ATC.  

It is a fairly simple ATC. It involved printing the different aspects out, choosing the leaves and flowers I liked to add to the flower pot, some fussy cutting and then putting it all together.  I love the range of colours and flowers that were available with this digi image.  To finish it off I sponged the edges of the brown card, added some gems and lastly Glossy Accents to the middle of the flower and leaves.  

Thanks for dropping by.

I hope you will take the time to join our challenge.

Angela

The Crafter's Cafe Challenge Blog April Challenge - ATC or Fat Page

This month our theme is ATCs or Fat Pages - Challenge #15.  You can create any project you like, card, ATC, tags, layouts, mixed–media, altered art, vintage, etc. and can use any products, images, mediums, etc... from any company.

An ATC is an Artist Trading Card.  They are miniature works of art created on 2 ½" X 3 ½" or 64 X 89 mm card stock.

A Fat Page is is a 4 x 4 inch card basically filled with as many goodies as you can fit to make it "fat" and pretty

Our sponsor is Fred She Said.

 

You can see here the wonderful creations Team A have made.  Come back next week and I will have a creation for you.



Have a great weekend.


Angela

The Crafter's Cafe Challenge Blog - Week 4

This week is the final week of our Green and/or St. Patrick's Day theme.  We would like to thank our sponsor for this month, Rick St. Dennis.  There are some great images in his store, so please pop along and take a look.  My card this week features one of their images.

Here is my card.  It features the  Euro Girl Pauline image.  I have added a little pink with the green too.

Please drop by and see what the rest of our DT have created.  We would love for you to take part. 

Also, we have some exciting news and a chance for you too take part too.  Each month we will be picking a Guest DT  to join us for the following month!  This will start next month.  More details are on The Crafter's Cafe Challenge Blog, so please stop by and take a look. 

Thanks for stopping by and for your comments.

I hope you have a great Easter weekend and also take the time to remember why we celebrate Easter. 

God Bless,

Angela





 

CCCB March - Green / St Patricks Day

The theme for this month's challenge( #14) at The Crafter's Cafe Challenge Blog is Green or St Patrick's Day.  We'd like to thank our sponsor for this month, Rick St. Dennis.  

Here is the card I have made for this challenge.  




St Patrick's Day is not really something that I celebrate, so I thougth I would go with the green theme and make a card with one of the wonderful images from Rick St Dennis.

I sponged some white card with green and then stamped the background with a swirly stamp, but it could hardly been seen, so I then dry embossed it with a chervon embossing folder.  Now you can see the mixture of swirls and the cherovon lines.

We would love for you to take part in our challenge which goes for this month.  Click here to see the rules and to enter.

Thanks for dropping by and for your comments.

Angela

CCCB Love/Friendship Challenge - Week 4

The Crafter's Cafe Challenge Blog closes tonight.  With February being a short month I have just realised that today is the last chance to take part in this month's challenge - Love/Friendship sponsored by Whoopsi Daisy!

Here is my second card that I made for this challenge.

Sorry not the greatest photo.  The good news is my computer is finally working again, so I can finally take better photos with my camera rather than my mobile.

We hope to see you next Wednesday for our new challenge for March.

Thanks for stopping by.  Hope to see you again soon.

Angela

Hero Arts 90 minute scramble

It has been many months since I have been able to take part in the Hero Arts 90 minute scramble.  Paula in Australia hosted this scramble.  We had 90 minutes to create a card with a Celebrations/Congratulations theme.

Here is what I made.



Sorry the picture is not quite so good. It was taken with my mobile phone, rather than my camera.  We have had some computer issues.  Our computer has now been repaired, but I haven't been able to download all the programme I use with my camera yet.  Hopefully it will all be up and running again soon.

Supplies:
Stamps:  (From Hero Arts) 4 flowers CG290, Branch Background CG122, Little Greeting Happy Birthday stamp C5594 
Cardstock: Kraft and orange
Ink: Versafine black, Gumball Green (Stampin' Up)
Other:  DSP (for paper piercing the flowers), Bitty Butterfly Punch (Stampin' Up), Pearls

The scramble started at 8am New Zealand time.  It was a busy morning, getting breakfast for myself and my children, making my card and getting everyone ready for church for 10am, while my husband enjoyed a bit of a sleep in. I keep an eye on them all while I made my card at the dining room table.  My two year old, Amanda decided she wanted to join me too.   Here she is busy at work!



Thanks for dropping by and for your comments.

Angela

CCCB Week 2 Love/Friendship

It is now week 2 of our Love/Friendship theme from The Crafter's Cafe Challenge Blog.  We hope that you will visit and see the other wonderful creations the rest of the team has made.  We would also love for you to join us and take part in this challenge.

Here is my creation for this week as part of the DT - Team B.

The image is from our sponsor Whoopsi Daisy.  For this card I decided to make a side spring card.  If you would like to know how to make this style of card, click here.

Thanks for dropping by.

Enjoy the rest of your week..

Angela

CCCB February Challenge Love/Friendship

The Crafter's Cafe Challenge Blog theme for February is Love/Friendship - Challenge #13.  We would love for you to join us.  Please read the rules carefully when you participate as there unfortunately there were some that didn't last month.  We wouldn't want anyone to miss out on a prize because they didn't follow the rules!

Our sponsor for this month is Whoopsi Daisy and we have some of their lovely images that are featuring on our projects this month.

I am part of Team B so my cards will feature in week 2 & 4. I hope you will come back next week to see what I have created. 

Have a great week.

Angela

Anything Goes at CCCB - Week 4

This month's challenge at The Crafter's Cafe Challenge Blog is Anything Goes.  I have only just posted my card for week 2 as I didn't realise the post was sitting in my draft box.  It you missed it and would like to see what I made, click here.

We are now the final week of our challenge at and it is great to see so many people taking part.  If you would like to, there are a few days left. Here are the creations that were make by Team B for this final week. 

Here is my card:


Supplies:
Stamps: Bloomin' Marvelous (SAB), Itty Bitty Banners
Cardstock: Midnight Muse, Gumball Green, Whisper White
Other: Bitty Banner Framelit Dies, Midnight Muse 3/8" Stitched Sation Ribbon, Petal-a-Plenty Embossing Foler, Dimensionals

I hope you will join us in taking part.  Thanks for stopping by.

Angela

Anything Goes at The Crafter's Cafe Challenge Blog

Happy New Year!

So sorry this is late.  I thought I had posted it two weeks, but only when I was doing the post for week 4 tonight, did I discover it was still sitting in my draft box!  Oh dear.  So here it is.  

Welcome to Week 2 of The Crafter's Cafe Challenge Blog.  The theme this month is "Anything Goes", so this is a great opportunity for you to join us with any new creation you make.  Remember to stop by and see what the rest of the team has made.  You will also see the rule and guidelines for taking part. 

Our sponsor this month is QKR and my card features one of their cute images, Boy With Balloons.

Supplies:
Card: Light blue, white
DSP: Sorry can't remember where is is from
Stamp: Happy Birthday sentiment from Stampin' Up, Itty Bitty Banners (used with Framelit Dies)
Ink: Midnight Muse from Stampin' Up
Other: Eyelets (something I haven't used for quite a while!), Woodgrain embossing folder, Colouring pencils

You may have also recently heard that The Crafter's Cafe is closing.   This is separate from The Crafter's Cafe Challenge Blog, so this challenge blog will continue.  The good news is that it is looking more likely that The Crafter's Cafe will be able to remain open.


 Thanks so much for stopping by.  I do hope you will join us with this month's challenge.

Angela