CES Challenge - Seeing Red

Good Morning Everyone! I hope you are well and had a good week. Mine was busy and I am glad it is the weekend although I have a huge list of things to do! We have a great Challenge for you this week on the CES Challenge blog. The theme this week is 'Seeing Red' so we would like to see Projects using red as the dominant colour.


Red is synonymous with Christmas and it was also my favourite colour for shoes when I was a little girl, I still have a couple of pairs of red shoes and they still make me happy just by looking at them!
I have made a Christmas card using Season's Greetings Echo Park papers and a fab Santa stamp from The Octopode factory. I cut strips of different papers and distressed the edges before adding to the card and popped the Santa on top with foam pads. I added Snow writer to his beard and distress stickles to his hat.
Make sure you check out the Challenge blog for lots of inspiration from the DT and I hope you will be able to join in this week.

The lucky winner of this challenge will receive a £10 voucher (not incl P&P) from Crafty Emma's Store:

Have a great Saturday and make sure you pop back for my Sugar Nellie Blog Hop card!
Jane
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CES Challenge - Pretty girls

Good Morning Everyone! I hope you are all well, I am so ready for the weekend! Last week was not a good one for me! Saturday is CES Challenge day and this week the theme is:

Pretty Girls

We would like to see projects featuring gorgeous girly images.

I have chosen to use a Gorjuss girl Sugar Nellie Foxy image on my card and am following the Sugar Bowl sketch and theme of Autumn.

The papers I have used on my card are from the Darling Dear 6x6 pad available here from Crafty Emma's Store. Make sure you check out the Challenge blog for lots of inspiration from the DT and I hope you will be able to join in this week.

The lucky winner of this challenge will receive a £10 voucher (not incl P&P) from Crafty Emma's Store:

Have a great Saturday!
Jane
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CES Challenge - Recycle

Good Morning Everyone! I'm so happy it's finally Saturday! It's my Birthday today and I am going away for the night with my Hubby to Bournemouth! I have been looking forward to today for ages! Of course, Saturdays are CES Challenge day so we have a brand new Challenge for you this week. This week we are going green and would like you to......

Recycle!!!

We have been decorating our bedroom this week and my Dad fitted some new blinds for me so I used the offcuts we had to trim off to die cut with a Whiff of Joy flower die and make the flowers I have used on my tag.

After I had die cut them, I stamped them with a Hero arts Text stamp and added some distress stickles to make them sparkle. I have used a new Octopode Factory stamp I bought last weekend from the Sandown Craft show.
I hope you will be able to join us for this week's Challenge. The prize for one lucky winner is a £10 voucher (exc p&p) to spend over at Crafty Emma's Store.

Make sure you hop over to the Challenge blog for some inspiration from the design team...
Have a lovely weekend!
Jane
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CES Challenge - Embellish me more!

Hello Everyone! I hope you are all well, I apologise for my late post for this week's CES Challenge but I am preparing my room for decorating and have been very busy! The theme for this week' s Challenge chosen by our lovely teamie Claire is:

''Embellish Me More''

(Use at least 4 different embellishments)

I really enjoyed this them as I do like adding lots of embellishments to my cards! I have used some of the new Crate Paper Farmhouse papers, flowers and a lovely wooden button from Crafty Emma's store with some gorgeous ribbon and a pearl swirl from The Ribbon Girl.

I matted and layered papers to create lots of different layers which I sewed with my machine and topped with a some Odd Girl stamp which I coloured in with my Promarkers. The sentiment came with the image. I hope you will be able to join us for this week's Challenge.

The prize for one lucky winner is a £10 voucher (exc p&p) to spend over at Crafty Emma's Store.

I am also entering my card into the latest Some Odd Girl Challenge who would like to see some stitching!
Have a great weekend!
Jane
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CES Challenge - Make it Magical or Spooky

Good Morning Everyone! I hope you are well, I have been very busy already this morning and am going to watch some Rugby while crafting away this morning. I have lots of work in progress to finish and lots of new goodies to play with too so it is going to be a fun packed day!
It is Saturday which means it is CES Challenge day of course and we have a great theme for you this week....

''Make It Magical or Spooky''

This was the perfect opportunity for me to have a play with another one of the new images which were released this week at Pollycraft. I love the Cherry Kisses images and this one has become one of my favourites! She is so much fun to colour and I loved choosing the papers to base my colour scheme on.

The orange dotty paper and the spider web paper are from the Echo Park Apothecary paper pad which is available here . The green striped paper is from The Dots and Stripes Metropolitan Echo Park pad which is available here and the purple paper is from an older My Mind's Eye pad. I layered my papers onto black card and added lots of sewing with a lilac thread. The sentiment is an 'SRM' sticker and I accented it with a pearl. The twine is also from Crafty Emma's store and the charm was from my stash. I hope you will be able to join us for this week's Challenge. There is some fabulous inspiration on the Challenge blog and this week's prize is

a £10 voucher (exc p&p) to spend over at Crafty Emma's Store.

Have a great Saturday!
Jane
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CES Challenge - Raise your glasses

Hi Everyone! Apologies for my late post, for some reason my post didn't publish today! Saturday is CES Challenge day and this week's theme chosen by our lovely Donna is....

''Raise Your Glasses''

I racked my brains for ages trying to decide what image to use and then, luckily, remembered I had this image from Wild Rose Studio which fits the theme perfectly! I have used Basic Grey Oxford Papers, the colours are great for Men's cards!

The lovely little wooden star is available here from Crafty Emma's Store and I used gingham bias binding from The Ribbon Girl. I hope you will be able to join us for this week's Challenge.
The prize for one lucky winner is a £10 voucher (ex p&p) to spend over at Crafty Emma's Store.

The Design team have made some fab Projects to inspire you this week, please pop over to the blog to check them all out.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend.
Jane
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CES Challenge - Pink, Brown and Aqua

Good Morning Everyone, I am so happy the weekend has arrived! Last week was a long one and I felt terrible yesterday but am feeling a lot better today ready to enjoy the long weekend!
I am really excited as this week it is my turn to choose the Challenge theme for the CES Challenge blog.
I love colour Challenges so I have chosen one of my favourite combinations as my theme. This week I would like you to make projects using Pink, Brown and Aqua!


I have used papers fron several stack available from Crafty Emma's Store. Emma has some gorgeous papers in stock, please check out her selection here.


The image I have used will be released on Monday at Pollycraft. The DT girls have bee showcasing the new stamps in our hop. There is still time to take part and win some of the new digis you can find all the details on my post here.
I hope you will be able to join us for our Challenge this week for the chance to win a £10.00 voucher from Crafty Emma's Store.

Have a lovely Bank Holiday weekend!
Jane
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Whiff of Joy for the CES Banners and Flags Challenge

Good Morning Everyone, I hope you are well. I promised you some more Whiff of Joy Henry projects in my post yesterday and here is a card I maede for the latest Crafty Emma's store Challenge. The theme this week is

''Bunting, Banners or flags''

I have made a card using Whiff of Joy's Henry 'Which Direction?' and My Mind's Eye Rosy papers for my card which are available here at Crafty Emma's Store.

I coloured Henry with my Promarkers and cut him out with a Spellbinders and left the image in the die while I inked the edges. I love this effect! I then matted the image onto a larger circle and sewed around the edges, very carefully as I haven't done this for a while. I covered a bit that went a bit wrong with a felt star from my stash!
The papers were sewed too and I stamped a sentiment from the Adventure awaits sentiments set in the bottom right corner of the card. I cut a banner from Kraft using die and recut from patterned paper cutting out the flags and layering up the shapes. I added some pearls and a stunning green ribbon from the Ribbon Girl as a finishing touch it matches the papers perfectly!
I hope you will be able to join us for this week's Challenge for the chance to win a voucher to spend in Crafty Emma's Store. Make sure you check out the Challenge blog for all the details and lots of fab inspiration from the DT. Have a great Saturday! I am having lots of fun today crafting :-)
Jane
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CES Challenge - mix and match

Hi Everyone, I am so late with my card for this week's CES challenge! I suppose it is better late than never! This week's Challenge theme has been chosen by the lovely Julie and the theme this week is Mix and Match. We want to see your creations using papers from at least two different manufacturers. I have chosen 2 of my new paper pads to use which arrived while I was away on my holidays and a new stamp I ordered before I went.

The yellow spotty paper I used is from the My Mind's Eye Rosy pad which is available here from Crafty Emma's store, the grey and yellow papers are from the Authentique Blissful pad which is available here.

I layered the paper up onto a scalloped edge card blank and added stitching and then stamped one of the new Simply Sassy images called Team Spirit and coloured her in in shades to match the papers. I made some pom poms from Baker's twine and stuck them on the image with my glue gun. I cut the image out with some of the new Xcut dies. I love them as the ovals and rectangles are a great size for stamped images, I find my nesties are sometimes a bit small. I added a die cut label stamped with a mini sentiment and 2 crochet flowers I bought on holiday.
I hope you will be able to join us for this week's Challenge for the chance to win a voucher for Crafty Emma's store.

Make sure you check out the Challenge blog for lots of inspiration from the DT. Have a fab weekend!
Jane
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CES Challenge - Water it!

Morning Everyone! I hope you are having a good week. It's time for a new CES Challenge and the theme for this week is Water it. We would like to see Project this week with a Water theme! I have chosen to use of the new Gorjuss Girl stamps I bought in Newbury and some of the lovely Fancy Pants Baby Mine Papers.

I created a little scene for my image to stand in with my pinking shears to shape the grass and some of the lovely cloud paper from the pack. I stamped my image onto acetate, white card which I coloured in with Promarkers and one last time on striped paper for her wellies. The sentiment is by Personal impressions and I added a box tied from Ribbon Girl seam binding and topped with a Ribbon Girl button. I added some mini blossoms as a finishing touch. I hope you will be able to join us for this week's Challenge for the chance to win a voucher from Crafty Emma's Store.

You can check out all the details and some wonderful samples from the DT here.
Have a great Saturday!
Jane
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CES Challenge - Feeling the blues

Hello Everyone! It's finally Saturday and time for a new CES Challenge. The lovely Vicky has chosen our theme this week and it is 'Feeling the Blues' so we would like to see your cards and Projects featuring Blue as your main colour. I have used papers from the fabulous Baby Mine pad by Fancy Pants which is available here from Crafty Emma's store for my card with a gorgeous Simply Sassy image from Sugar Nellie.

I die cut and punched my paper and added sewing before wrapping the layers with Baker's twine and tying on a sentiment tag. I finished with a lovely gingham bow topped with a button and lots of flowers including some of the gorgeous Mini Blossoms which you can find here.
I hope you will be able to join us for this week's Challenge for the chance to win a voucher to spend over at Crafty Emma's Store.

Have a great Saturday and make sure you check out the Challenge blog for lots of inspiration from the DT!
Jane
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CES Challenge - Get Welly Soon!

Good Morning Everyone, I hope you are well. I am a bit late with my DT card for this week's CES Challenge as I have been busy finishing off some cards for a Commission and lost track of time. They are all done now so can relax a little! The theme for this week's Challenge chosen by the lovely Sue is: Humour/Funny

I have made a card using some My Mind's Eye papers and a stamp from Little Claire's which I have had for
ages!

I printed the sentiment on the PC and then cut it out using a Spellbinders label and finished the card with a Ribbon Girl Button. I hope you will be able to join us for this week's Challenge for the chance to win a £10 voucher (exc P&P) to spend over at Crafty Emma's Store.

Make sure you check out the Challenge blog for lots of inspiration from the DT! Have a great Saturday!
Jane
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CES Challenge meets Whiff of Joy DT for a Christmas themed challenge...

Good Morning Everyone! I cannot believe it is the weekend already, I am so glad it has arrived although I am not feeling very well today. I am still in bed which is very unusual for me at this time!
Saturday is CES Challenge day and the theme this week chosen by Emma is Christmas. It does seem strange making Christmas cards before I have even been on my Summer holiday but I always struggle making enough cards so I guess this may push me to be a bit more organised!

I used non Christmas themed papers to make my card. They are all by Echo Park and the kraft paper is from my stash and I embossed it with a snowflake folder which is still one of my favourites in my stash.
The adorable image stamp is by Whiff of Joy and can be found here and the sentiment is from this set.
I punched a strip of green card and wrapped it with gingham bias binding and twine from the Ribbon girl and then tied on a sentiment cut into a banner shape before adding a line of gems and my little image on top.
The snowflake is a Spellbinders shape cut from acetate and glittered with glitter glue after I had added it to the card with a pearl in the centre. I also added some glitter to the candy cane.
I hope you will be able to join us for this week's Challenge for the chance to win a £10 voucher (exc P&P) to spend over at Crafty Emma's Store.

**Check out all the pre-order's....20% of RRP and also new Candi and Sentiments now in stock**

Have a great Saturday and a fab weekend!
Jane
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CES Challenge - A Recipe and some special prizes

Good Morning Everyone! I hope you had a lovely week. It's CES Challenge day and we have a great Challenge theme for you this week. The lovely Jenny has set a Recipe Challenge, she would like you to use

1 image, 2 ribbon, lace or twine, 3 DP's

I have used some of the gorgeous new Basic Grey Sweet threads papers on my card with one of the gorgeous new Sugar Nellie images from the latest release.

The flowers are from my stash as is the button and the ribbon is from The Ribbon Girl. I tied the button on with some button twine. The sentiment was cut using a Spellbinders die from the banner set. It's a special week for us on CES Challenges as we are celebrating...it's Crafty Emma's Store 1st Birthday and the prize on offer for one lucky winner this week is a £20.00 voucher to spend in Crafty Emma's store.

There is also some gorgeous Candy up for grabs on the CES inspirational blog.

If you fancy winning all the gorgeous goodies above, click here to hop over to the Inspirational blog for all the details on how to enter. I hope you will be able to join us for this week's Challenge, make sure pop over to the blog for all the details and some fabulous inspiration from the DT!
Have a great Saturday!
Jane
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CES Challenge - Anything but a square

Good Morning Everyone! I hope you had a good week. I have been busy this week so I am glad the weekend is finally here. I have a day of crafting lined up today catching up on DT work and Magazine commissions then I am going out for a drink tonight with my lovely Hubby.
Saturday is CES Challenge day and the theme this week is ....'Anything but a square'. I love square cards but also love making shaped cards with my Nesties so I have used one of my new Spellbinders Grand Nesties to cut a large scalloped circle card.

I used Echo Park Metropolitan and Candy Shoppe papers to cover the card and then coloured in Poorly Chester from Pollycraft to match with my Promarkers. I stamped a Hero Arts Sentiment and cut it out with a Spellbinders labek die and added Chester and the sentiment to the card with foam pads before adding glossy accents to Chester's eyes. The finishing touch was a stripy bow made from ribbon from my stash.
I hope you will be able to join us for this week's Challenge for the chance to win a £10 voucher (not incl P&P) from Crafty Emma's Store:

Make sure you check out the Challenge blog for all the details and lots of inspiration from the DT!
Have a great Saturday!
Jane
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CAS for the CES Challenge

Morning Everyone! I hope you have had a good week. I am so glad it is the weekend! I just hope we have some lovely Sunny weather like we have had this week.
The Challenge theme this week on the CES blog is Clean and Simple, and I found this quite a hard theme! I have made a card with lots of white space and this adorable Whiff of Joy gnome. I think he is one of my favourites!


I stamped the image onto some canvas textured card and then coloured the image with Promarkers, added a sentiment from this General Sayings II set before cutting it out into a large square and sewing around the edges and adding it to a Kraft card base.
I added one of the gems to cover a smudge...and the other ones beacuse I wanted to!
I hope you will be able to join us for this week's Challenge for the chance win a voucher for Crafty Emma's Store.
Make sure you check out the blog for lots of inspiration from the DT as well!
Jane
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CES Challenge - Embossing

It's my turn to choose the Challenge theme this week on the CES Challenge blog and I have chosen...

Embossing

I love using my Embossing folders on my cards as they add so much texture so easily and are a great way to transform a piece of plain cardstock. I used one of my favourite dot folders on a piece of turquoise card to add to the centre of my card. The patterned paper is by Bobunny and is available here from Crafty Emma's Store.

I stamped a Hero Arts sentiment on to a strip of patterned paper and then stitched this on to a strip of Kraft Card and then stamped and coloured this gorgeous Leanne Ellis image and added this on to a Kraft luggage tag from Whsmiths. I threaded the tag with Vintage seam binding from The Ribbon girl and finished the card with stick on pearls and a gorgeous resin Prima flower.

I also decorated the inside of the card with more embossed turquoise card and more of the gorgeous Bobunny paper.
I hope you will be able to join us for this week's Challenge for the chance to win a voucher from Crafty Emma's store.

Make sure you check out the Challenge blog for all the details and lots of inspiration from the wonderful DT.
Have a great Saturday!
Jane
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CES Challenge - Embellish it!

Good Morning Everyone!It's the weekend! Yay! We have gone embellishment crazy this week at CES Challenges and we want you to pile on your embellishments this week using at least three embellishments on your Project.

My Parents In Law are celebrating a special Anniversary this weekend so I have made them an easel card using Prima Reflections papers in shades of red and cream.

I have embellished the card with lots of goodies from my stash, some roses, a Tim Holtz ticket, ribbon, buttons, gems. The image I have used is from Pollycraft from the Mini Doodles Mr and Mrs set and the sentiment is by my Pollycraft teamie Marit and is available free with lots of lovely other sentiments here.
I hope you will be able to join us for this week's Challenge for the chance to win a voucher for Crafty Emma's Store. Make sure you check out the blog for all the details and lots of inspiration from the DT!
Have a great Saturday!
Jane
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CES Challenges - Your favourite colour combo

Morning everyone! I hope you have had a good week. We have a brand new Challenge for you today on the CES Challenge blog. This week we would like you to make something using your favourite colour combo. I have so many it was hard to choose a favourite but I have gone for pink and yellow this time.


I have made a shaped card using my Grand Nestabilities and covered it with My Mind's Eye papers. I coloured my stamped image using Promarkers and added lots of glitter glue. I finished with a bow, a Craftwork cards sentiment, Prima letter stickers, a flower and lots of gems!
I hope you will be able to join us for this Challenge for the chance to win a voucher for Crafty Emma's store. Check out the blog for all the details and lots of inspiration from the DT.
Have a great Saturday!
Jane
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CES Challenge #33 - Spring Colours

It's Saturday and the sun is shining! I have been ironing since 6 this morning trying to kick start my mojo! I have commissions to finish and new ones to start, DT cards to make and some demo pieces to put together for a demo day I am doing in May (my first ever in a local craft shop!!eeeek!) but I have no inspiration right now! I am going to do a few more boring chores and take a trip to town to buy summer school polo shirts for my boys and hopefully I will be able to sit down and craft this afternoon...
As you know, Saturday is CES Challenge day and this week the lovely Sue has chosen the theme 'Spring Colours' which is perfect for the weather we are having and a good opportunity to finish off last minute Easter treats.


For my project this week, I have embellished a large egg box and filled it with yummy eggs. I used the Whiff of Joy 'Delivering my Heart to You', and added a little line in the middle of the heart to transform it into 2 eggs!

I used plain pink cardstock and Echo Park Springtime papers to decorate the box and coloured my stamped image with Promarkers. I added glossy accents to one of the eggs and glitter glue to the other one. I also added a few flowers from my stash, a heart shaped button and the tag is tied on with purple button twine from The Ribbon Girl.


I thought I would finish with a calorie free shot of the eggs! It has been torture for me making the Easter gifts this year as I am on a diet so no chocolate allowed!
I hope you will be able to join us for this Challenge for the chance to win a £10.00 voucher for Crafty Emma's store, make sure you check out the Challenge blog for all the details and some wonderful inspiration from the DT.
Have a lovely Saturday and a great Easter.
Jane
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