Crafts Galore Encore April 2020

It might be April 1st but I'm not sure April Fool's is appropriate today.

I hope everyone is coping with the current health challenges we are globally facing at the moment. Being isolated with a bored six year old is providing challenges of a different kind. Like balancing Netflix with schoolwork!

In the meantime, 

 yet another different kind of 

challenge ....

.... The challenge at  

Crafts Galore Encore Challenge Blog. 

Thank you to everyone who joined in with March's challenge. The winners have been announced on the challenge blog. This is a month long challenge and you can enter up to three times. There is a full list of rules on the challenge blog.

Our theme every month is the popular

"Anything Goes"

and our sponsor this month is:

Vera Lane Studio
who are offering a fabulous prize of 2 digi sets to our lucky winner.

I have made an 8"x 8" (20 x 20 cm) card to show you. I wanted to use bright colours as we all need some cheering up at the moment.

I used a brayer with watered Distress Oxides Squeezed Lemonade and Picked Raspberry onto watercolour paper for the background.

Once dry I then added texture paste through a dotty stencil and inked the edges of the base with Picked Raspberry DOX.

I chose to use the Contessa digi set which has two images and two sentiments. I resized one of the images several times and welded them together in a graphics program before printing them out a few times so I could decoupage the image.

I used the second image and one of the sentiments in the corner.

I finished the card with a couple of off cuts from my watercolour pad. I coloured them with the DOX and fixed them down the side.

Now please visit the  Crafts Galore Encore challenge blog where you can see the fabulous projects and cards created by our talented design team using Vera Lane images.

Grab some inspiration while you're there and enter your "Anything Goes" creations in the April challenge.
Stay safe everyone!

I have entered this card in the following challenges:

https://classicdesignchallenge.blogspot.com/2020/04/classic-design-challenge-4th-birthday.html x
https://aperfecttimetocraft.blogspot.com/2020/04/a-perfect-time-to-craft-challenge-for.html x
https://lovetoscrapchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2020/04/ltscb-132-for-girls.html x
http://craftycreationschallenges.blogspot.com/2020/04/april-challenge-408-anything-goes.html x
https://lovetocraftchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2020/04/ltccb-45-april-anything-goes.html x

Crafts Galore Encore June 2019

May was a lovely month with  two long weekends, a half term holiday and some really nice weather. I used the month to relax, spend precious time with the family and have fun crafting. I hope you managed to do the same. June is going to be very busy with demos every weekend and lots of birthdays to celebrate. But first I'm starting with ...

.... A new challenge at

Crafts Galore Encore Challenge Blog. 

Thank you to everyone who joined in with May's challenge. The winners have been announced on the challenge blog. This is a month long challenge and you can enter up to three times. There is a full list of rules on the challenge blog.

Our theme every month is the popular

"Anything Goes"
and our sponsor this month is:

Vera Lane Studio
who are offering a prize of  two digi sets.

I have made a fun fold out card to show you today.

I started by sticking two 6"x 6" (15 x 15 cm) card blanks together. I used Distress Oxides Broken China and Lucky Clover to cover the first three panels of the card and Vintage Photo on the final one.

The die-cuts are from an old X-cut set and the sentiments are computer generated.

The cute animal images are all from Vera Lane's Farm Animals Set 2. The set comes complete with animal noise words too. I used a graphics programme to group the individual animals and my Copics to colour them in before fixing them with foam pads to the card base.

Now please visit the  Crafts Galore Encore challenge blog where you can see the wonderful projects and cards created by our talented team using Vera Lane Studio images. Grab some inspiration while you're there and enter your "Anything Goes" creations in the June challenge.

I have entered this card in the following challenges:
https://classicdesignteamchallenge.blogspot.com/2019/06/classic-dt-open-challenge-june-6.html
https://lovetocraftchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2019/06/ltccb-35-june-anything-goes.html
https://creataliciouschallenges.blogspot.com/2019/05/challenge-164-anything-goes-with.html
https://2craftycrittercrazies.blogspot.com/2019/06/challenge-27-sponsored-by-rick-st-dennis.html
http://craftyanimals.blogspot.com/2019/06/challenge-27.html