April has a fun Challenge over A Place to Start - Ombre

Happy Spring everyone.

I am finally back crafting. I actually can climb the stairs to and from my craft room. I have been away for a few months due to some health issues. I sure missed everyone and my craft room.  

I was looking around blog land to an idea for a card for this month and  came across this idea over at A Place to Start. The optional Twist is Ombre' 

Ombre is not one specific colour, but rather a technique - meaning shapes. Not One specific colouriser , but rather a technique, shading.

I layered papers in similar colours, coloured sands, a Tim Holtz butterfly and sentiment to make my card. 

  Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week.

I am going to enter this card in the following challenges:

A Place to Start - Anything Goes Optional Twist - Omber 

Hugs Judy

A Place to Start - January, 2026 Anything Goes, Optional twist Rainbows (lots of Colours)

 Time for another great challenge over at A Place to Start.  The challenge as always is Anything Goes and this month's optional twist is Rainbows. Create a project using lots of colour. 

This is the card I made for our first challenge of 2026. The Unicorn image on this card is from a company found on Esty, https://pngtree.com/so/unicorn.

Along with the unicorn image I used butterflies , glitter paper, pens and Nuvo to give the card more colour, interest and texture. 

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week. I am looking forward to see you colourful creations this month. 

 Hope you will join us this month, just create your card and enter it here. Remember to pop over to our challenge blog to be inspired by our talented design team. 

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative month. 

A Place to Start November - Anything Goes with Optional Twist - Try Something New

 We have another great challenge happening at A Place to Start 

The theme of the project this month is Anything Goes with an Optional Twist of  "Something New"

I was looking through some of my Christmas craft supplies and found the Christmas tree rubber stamp by Poppy that I have used on this clip board that I also found in the box. This is not the only stamp I found in the Christmas box that had never been used. The paper I used for the tag was also in the box, I believe I purchased it at Michaels at the end of the season.

To make my Christmas Clip Board I also used 

Wooden Clip Board

Snowflake tape

Sentiments by Poppy

Distress Inks 

Ribbon 

Copics

My plan for the clip board is to add paper behind the Christmas scene and add my Christmas card list for up coming years. 

Thank you for Stopping by and have a creative week.

Remember to pop over to our challenge blog to be inspired by our talented design team.

A Place to Start - October - ANYTHING GOES w/OPTIONAL TWIST: USE THE COLOUR PINK

Time for another great challenge over at A Place to Start. As alway our challenges are anything goes or an optional twist.  This month's the twist is use the colour pink.

I made a box using a rubber stamp from Holly Berry House that I have had in my collection of rubber stamps for at least 10 years. I even remember where I bought it on a winter vacation in Arizona, in a little town called Cottonwood. The store was  the Art Glitter Company. check out both companies, they have some interesting products and art supplies. 

 

You can find the instructions for the treasure boxes here. I coloured the box with copics, glitter glue and Pearl EX.

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week. Hope you will joint us this month at A Place to Start.  Just create you project and enter it here. 

A Place to Start Challenge July - Anything Goes

 Time for another new challenge at A Place to Start. The theme this month is anything goes. I would like to see what you are working on this month.

This month I decided to make a simple card using some of my gelli plate papers and adding a a stamped octopus. Unfortunately I do not remember the name of the company creating the stamp. That is the unfortunate part of   stamps no longer on blocks. The good thing is the we have more room in our craft room for more product.

I added some clear Nuvo to parts of the octopus to give texture and dimension.  I also added a sentiment that consisted parts of different sentiment from my stash. 

Hope you will join us this month. Remember to stop by our challenge blog to be inspired by our talented design team. Have fun creating this month. 

A Place to Start Challenge, June 2024 - Anything Goes with optional twist - Anything but a Card

Time for another great challenge over at A Place to Start. The theme as always is anything goes. Our optional twist this month  is anything but a card.

Our generous sponsor this month is

I choose to create an art journal page for this challenge using our sponsor's image.

 

For the background of my art journal page I created it using my gel plate  and a stencil. I love the image of the the lady - part butterfly. 

The image I found on the internet and the author is unknown. I think it is a beautiful saying.

The extra butterflies on the page are rubber stamps from my collection of stamps. 

Thank you for stopping by and have a create month. Hope you will join us in this challenge. Remember to check out our challenge blog to be inspired by our talented design team. Remember to also check out Mirtillamente blog to see her beautiful designs. 

 

March Anything Goes Challenge at A Place to Start with Optional Twist/ It is Hip to be Square

 Time for another great challenge over at A Place to Start. The theme of the challenge is anything goes with an optional twist "It is Hip to be Square"

This is the card I made for this challenge, a birthday card for my youngest granddaughter who turns 5 in a couple of weeks. She just loves unicorns.

I  created this card using a digital image from my stash and colouring the image with Copics, pencil crayon, Gel pens,  Nuvo, sparkle pens, glitter and then adding a birthday sentiment and layers of paper. The background paper is from Graphic Paper.

I hope she enjoys the card. 

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative month. Hope you will join us this month, check out the beautiful cards of our talented design team over at A Place to Start. 

FEBRUARY 2024 - ANYTHING GOES w/Optional Twist: Color Challenge: Pick A Palette

Time for another challenge at A Place to Start. The theme for February is as always Anything Goes and the optional twist is pick a colour palette and create a monochrome  project.

I decided to create my card using the monochrome colour palette of grey and black.

This is my card. 

My Jazz Age card was created using a selection of rubber stamps from my stash along with several die cuts for the frame and music notes. The trumpet player I believe is an old rubber stamp from Rubberneckers.  I also used a rubber stamp for the record. I used Nuvo clear accents on the bubbles. 

I hope that you will join us this challenge. Create you card and enter it here. Have a creative month. 

A Place to Start - Anything Goes - Optional Twist - Something for a Child

Time for our November challenge over at A Place to Start. The challenge is anything goes with an optional twist of Something for a Child. 

I am playing the twist this week, something for a child and decided to make a paper lantern which can be used with a small battery operated light or it can be a box to hold Christmas candies. 

The snowman image I made this lattern with is by Pink Gems Design and is called Chilly Snowman.

To make the box shape I cut a piece of red card stock 12.5 inches by 5 1/4 inches and scored the 12.5 peice at 3, 6, 9, 12. ( 1/2 inch scored line is for attaching the side together. I used a rectangular cutting die to cut out the windows and added the cross papers that I cut out of scrap paper. I added a piece of acetate paper to the window pieces. 

Originally when I made my first tealight holder I used a pattern from the Whiff of Joy blog. The pattern I used I could no  longer found on their site but it does show how I attached the top and bottom small boxes for the lids. 

 

I basically made 2 small boxes that fit into the top and bottom of the the box. I then decorated the the top of the box making the shape of the top and adding my embellishments.

Once I had my lantern together I decorated the sides with my Chill snowman, added a sentiment, and Stamperia snow paste. 

Other views

For the top of the box I decorated it with a wooden flower, bead and pom pom ribbon. 

 Thank you for stopping by and I hope you will join us this month. Remeber to pop over to our challenge blog at A Place to Start to be insired by our talented design team. Have a creative month. 

A Place to Start - September 2023 - All that Glitters

 Time for another great challenge over at A Place to Start.  The theme this month is "All that Glitters". 

This is my project for the challenge, an altered eye glass case.

This is what I started with.

To create my project I painted my eye glass case with white gesso then sprayed the box with Kilz (primer/sealer) to seal the gesso. I dribbled a few different colours of alcohol inks over the box to create the colour effect I wanted.  I also used a small amount of white acrylic paint on the box in some areas.  When the ink was dried I sprayed the box with acrylic paint to give it some more shine.

 I added some sparkly gems and a butterfly. I used Nuvo sliver glitter to give the butterfly some sparkle. I glued the butterfly partly on to the top section on the opening so you could use the butterfly as a clasp.

Open box

back and side of box

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week. Pop over to our challenge blog to be inspired by our talented design team. Hope you will join us this month. 

A Place to Start - Anything Goes

Time for another great challenged at A Place to Start this month. As always the theme of this challenge is Anything Goes. 

Our generous sponsor : Conie Fong Art & Design.

I love this image of the elephant in the buggy and thought it would make 

make an interesting set for a baby shower.

This is the tag I make for a gift. 

this is the shower invitation I made

The tag and the invitation were coloured with Copics and pencil crayons. I added some embellishments to add more interest to the tag and invitation. 

The sentiments are from my staff along with the bling. 

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week. 

I am entering my card in the following challenges:

The Crafty Addicts anything goes

Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday - Anything Goes

Pattie's Creations -ANYTHING GOES  

Creative Fingers - ALWAYS ANYTHING GOES  

A Place to Start - FEBRUARY - ANYTHING GOES w/Optional Twist: Color Challenge: Pick A Palette

 Time for another great challenge at  A Place to Start.  The theme is: 

 ANYTHING GOES w/Optional Twist: Color Challenge: Pick A Palette

Here are the palettes:

These colors may be in your designer paper, embellishments, inks, stains, markers, sprays, etc.  

This is my project for this challenge, an altered wooden coffee cannister.

other views

I had fun making my altered box.  I love using old wooden canasters for my canvas. They are very reasonable to purchase at a thrift stores (most the time cheaper than a canvas).  The insides usually has a removable plastic liner, which allows you to use your decorated box for many uses.  This box will be used house a birthday gift for a dear friend. 

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week. 

A Place to Start -Anythings Goes/ optional twist use words of Thanks

Time for another great challenge over at A Place to Start. The challenge is as always anything goes but with an optional twist is to create a card with the words of thanks. 

This is my card I made for this challenge.

My card is just a simple thanks (die cut) , an alcohol ink panel, border layer and a flower (die cut). I also added some sparkle to the thanks and Wink of Stella to the flower.

Thank you for stopping by and have a fantastic creative week.  Hope you will join us this month for this challenge. Remember to pop over to the Place to Start to be inspired by our creative design team. 

A Place to Start September Challenge, Anything Goes/ Optional Twist Fantasy

Time for another great challenge over at A Place to Start, this months challenge is 

as usual Anything Goes with Optional Theme: Fantasy

Create a project using anything related to FANTASY:  Fairies, Gnomes, Fairy Tale Characters, etc.

Our fantastic sponsor this month is 

 SHEEPSKI DESIGNS:

This is the card I made for  this challenge using  Hello by Sheepskin Designs.

 To create my card I several die cuts including circle, corners and fish.  The images were coloured with Copic Marker, pencil crayons, Wink of Stella, distress ink and a bubbles stencil.

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week. Come join our challenge.  Remember to pop over to our challenge blog to be inspired by our creative design team. 

A Place to Start - Anything Goes with Optional Twist Balloons and Flowers

A Place to Start has a wonderful challenge this month, along as usually the challenge of anything goes the optional twist is  balloons and flowers.  Lots of possibilities.

     

Conie Fong Art and Design is our generous sponsor. 

This is one of my project I made using one of her images .  I love her selections of digital  images, so many to chose from that I actually made two cards with different images. 

The image I used for this card is called Dragon Bouquet Bundle

 This set from Conie Fong along with the images contains many sentiments.

This card I used using an image called Garden and Bootfil Bouquet

To make both of my  cards I coloured the images and balloon  with Copics Markers, gold leaf pen,  pencil crayons, Nuvo, geli pens and a Wink of Stella. I used an old  rubber stamp sentiment from my stash by  Rubber Stampede (1992) for the sentiment. 

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week.    Remember to stop by our challenge blog to see the inspiring projects of your design team. Conie Fong is also offering a discount on her digital images, check out the details on our challenge blog.

Check out Conie's Face Book group 

A Place to Start June - Anything Goes Optional Twist - Anything Related to Weddings or Graduations

 Time for another great challenge over at A Place to Start this month, as always the theme is Anything Goes.  This month the optional twist is anything related toWeddings or Graduations. 

This is my project for this month. I choose to do graduations theme because I have a friend's daughter who is graduating grade 12 next month and I love the saying of Thoreau.  Perfect for a graduate.

 

I used a digital image from the collection of images from Art by Miran digital stamps.

I coloured the image with Copics, gel pen and pencil crayon then added the verse and and the Congrats die cut.  

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week. 

Remember to pop over to our challenge blog to be inspired by our creative design team. Hope you will join in this month. 

Anything Goes Challenge at At a Place to Start - with Lilies and Lace (Flowers and Lacey),

Time for another great challenge at A Place to Start, as always we are a Anything Goes Challenge with an 

Optional Twists.  This month our optional twist is  Lilies and Lace (use flowers and lace). 

This is my card I made using theme Flowers and Lace. 

I used a large cling stamp from my stash but unfortunately I do not remember the company's name who made the stamp. 

I colored the stamp with my Distress Ink Pens and die cut the image out with a rectangular die that had a lacey bordered edge.

I added a lacey bow, a sentiment, and a butterfly to complete the card. 

Closer Look

 

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week  ,  Hope you will join us this month. 

Remember to visit our challenge blog to be inspired by our talented design team.

 

Anything Goes Challenge at A Place to Start w/Optional Twist : My Fauna Valentine (include a critter.)

Hello Crafters.  This is my card I made for this month's Anything Goes Challenge at A Place to Start.  The optional twist this month is to incude a critter on your Valentine card.

 

I chose to make a card with this cute dog image for my youngest grandson for Valentines day. The image call is from a company called Patties Creations, Pattie's digital stamps can be found on Esty. The image is called Puppy Love. 

In my stash of digital papers I had this paper I thought was cute for this card but unfortunantly I cannot remember the company that makes this dog paper pattern. I fussy cut out the image (decided not to use the hearts incuded on the image because of the paper used for the background. 

I added some bones to the card from Tim Holtz's Crazy Dog Collection to repeat the pattern of the digital paper. I also added a sentiment that I created in word and the hearts. 

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week.  Hope you will join our challenge this month.  

I am entering this card in the following challenges

Patties Creations - Any Thing Goes

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Always Anything Goes 

Simon Says stamp Challenges  –  With Love

Paper Funday – ATG w/Opt. hugs & kisses

Make the Cards  - Valentine

A Place to Start - ANYTHING GOES W/OPTIONAL THEME: A BLUE CHRISTMAS

Time for another great challenge over at A Place to Start. The theme as anything goes as always.  Our optional twist is Blue Christmas.

I chose to use our optional twist theme this month of Blue Christmas. This is the card I created for the project.

And this is the Gift Box I made to go with the card.

Closer Look at the card.

I used the following products on my card and gift box:

Several different green and blue spray inks from my stash. 

Gesso

Watercolour paper

Tim Holtz Poinsettia dies

Tim Holtz Thinlits - Holiday Greens

Christmas sentiment from Just Rite Stamps

Gems

Glamour Dust - Fine Glitter Paint by DecoArt

White Gel Pen

My box before I altered it

Closer look

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week. Pop  over to our challenge blog to be inspired by our talented design team.  Hope you will join us this month. 

Have a safe and Happy Holidays.

See you back here again in 2022.