Craft US Crazy Challenge 13 - Anything Goes (Sorry it's late)

Oh I'm late again - set the post for scheduled posting and it didn't happen so sorry about that .
Anyway!!



This weeks challenge is everyones favorite...ANYTHING GOES!!!! That means anything your heart desires!! So lets see what you got..cards, altered projects, Christmas, Halloween, whatever you feel like creating...we want to see it!!!
We want all crafters to feel welcome, so if your crafting medium fits our challenge, then we welcome you to join! We hope you'll be joining us!!

Our sponsor for the first week of our challenge is the one and only.......

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and they're offering the following prize to our winner.....

 

So here is my card this week.

Ok so the stamp and sentiment are from the Tatty Button range available here .  Coloured with pro markers.  The papers are from Bo BUnny's Flutter Butter range.  The lace and pins are from my srash along with cream seam binding that I coloured with distress inks to match.  The circles etc were all cut with Spellbinders nesties.  Hope you like it and apologies for the quick post.
I'll be back soon Promise ;o)
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Finally ...

I have got around to draw a winner for the Humphrey stamp.  I'm sorry it has taken so long - my health has been worse than usual and I've had some crummy news from the doctor but I'm getting over i now so should be back to normal soon!  Anyway the winner is...


Frea.  Congratulations.  If you email me your address at; ladybugcrafts@btinternet.com I'll pop it in the post.

I have another stamp plate to give away so will be back later with details.
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Problems posting comments?

Is anyone else having problems posting comments?  I keep trying but it just keeps referring me to the sign in process and I can't get out of the loop.  It's really frustrating me now as I can't post comments from my design team commitments!  If anyone has a solution I'd be really grateful

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Some SWALK cards (Oh and a couple Humphrey cards too!)

Hello again, I am determined to blog more often and have lots of cards to make so will definitely share them here ;o)
Anyway here are a few SWALK cards and a couple of the 'Humphrey' range of cards by Crafter's Companion.
They were already in cellophane bags when I remembered to photograph them so I hope they show up ok.

Hope you like them

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Craft US Crazy challenge 8 - Vintage and/or Christmas

Hello all - where is the time going?  We're up to challenge 8 at CUC already!!
This week our challenge is... CHRISTMAS IN JULY AND/OR DISTRESSED/VINTAGE! So lets see what you can do with that theme!! Remember that you don't have to do both themes posted, you can do one or the other, but if you're feeling up to an extra challenge, try doing both!! Also don't forget that EVERYONE is welcome to play along with us!
This challenge we have two awesome sponsors!!! CROP CHOCOLATE and PEGGY LOVES VINTAGE!!
For the first part of our challenge..we have the one and only...

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I tried to do Christmas but just couldn't get the Christmas feeling (even though I must start my Xmas cards soon as I haveloads to make!) so I have gone with Vintage/distressed.  I have to thank the amazing Debbie Dolphin for the inspiration for mr project this time as her 'box card' that featured in the August issue of The Craft Stamper magazine amazed me so much that I just had to give it a go!  I took Debbie's measurements for the car etc and then gave it my own spin as I had some papers that I really wanted to try.  So here it is;

SO I made up the box parts and the cover and covered with papers from Raspberry Road.  Theses are from the Feathered Nest selection.  I just love Raspberry Road - the prices are great and you can print them out again and again an there are so many to choose from.  All the little extras like the butterflies, the little bird, the corners and the flowers are from the Feathered nest add on kit.  I have crackle accented them all and then distress inked over the top.  I inked everything to within an inch of is life (LOL) with Brushed Corduroy.  The stamps are also Tim Holtz from the Stampers Anonymous range.  The seam binding and brad were from my stash. Oh I added a hitch fastener as well but I added some fibre around the Book/box to keep it closed. I used a Martha Stewart lace edger punch for the borders.  The little Dragonfly on the front is made from a plastic that molds when you heat it up.  So thanks again to Debbie Dolphin for the brilliant inspiration  I hope you love it as much as I did.

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Well another fortnight has passed - I can't believe how fast this year is going.  I'm sorry my post is late - I am having problems with blogger including the fact that for some reason it won't llow me to comment on people's beautiful ards so I'm not sure how I am going to get this fixed. But rest assured I look at all the entries into the challenge and they are all just great.
So onto this eeks challenge.

Our theme for this week is RED, WHITE & BLUE AND/OR A SUMMER THEME..OR BOTH!! Whichever you'd like to work with, and whatever project you'd like to enter!! Can't wait to see what you end up entering!!!

Our sponsor for the first part of our challenge is LIMITED RUNS!!

We love to have Limited Runs with us and her adorable images...especially those yummy cupcakes! Anyways, our winner will win 3 Digital images of winners choice from Limited Runs, so lets learn a little bit about them....
When I started creating christmas cards for my friends I didn't realize how addictive it could be and it's slowly been getting larger. We all start somewhere and it's been growing.Creating Digi's just happened to be a blend of using my drawing and computer graphix together to create "Limited Runs"which is my digital stamp store. I've also started Freebie Fridays and will be doing this for a Limited time too. Each may be posted from 1 day to ??? (Limited Time Offer) May you all enjoy my digi's as much as I love to make them. So if your looking for some YUMMY cupcakes I've got over 70 Varieties to choose from and lots more with more always in the works Don't worry there are also others available too from Cute to a little scary pop by and you'll see what I mean!!! and Occassional Large seasonal Digi's for those who scrapbook digi's that are 8 By 8 Inches too these will pop up from time to time and be limited runs too

I have been trying to use my Spellbinders for my cards lately as I have sooo many of them and I really want to make use of them as they are quite expensive.  I am also hoping to make all of my Xmas cards with them so need the practice LOL.  So here is my card;

I'm afraid the pictures aren't great so don't show the vibrancy of the papers.  Everything I have used is from my stash.  I think the papers are Bo Bunny and for me nothing says summer like sunflowers!  The butterflies and insert are Spellbinders dies and I have added some distress inks, some beautiful olive green ribbon to pick out the green in the papers, a couple of hatpins and a gem swirl underneath.  There are alos a couple of Spellbinders swirls in brown underneath too and the little leaves in top left are also dies.
My husband really liked this card so I was pleased with it too ;o)
Hope you will join us in our challenge this week.
Oh and scroll down to my post below for a chance to win a Humphrey's corner stamp plate
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Another Little Giveaway ;o)

Hello everyone -sorry it's taken so long for me to get back!  Anyway I have another Humphrey's Corner stamp plate to give away.

This one is Friends forever - so cute ;o)

For a chance to win post a comment after this post. For extra chances leave a comment after the post at Ladybug Crafts store blog and at Ladybug Facebook page.

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