I love... at Allsorts Challenge #714

 Hi Crafters,

Yay! The weekend is here, not that I'm doing anything special but it has seemed a long week and I'm glad it's Saturday.

It's a new challenge at Allsorts too and we'd like to see your ANYTHING GOES projects with an option of I LOVE...as a theme.

The Design Team have been busy again making some great projects to inspire you all. Take a look at them here.

As the DT have used the optional theme in their projects my I LOVE... is the colour Red and Die Cutting. I really love using red in most things and die cutting has become a main feature on my cards over the years. 

Recipe

Paper  Discovery Music Note Die

Cheery Lynn Frame Die

Britannia Word dies

Challenges I'd like to enter:

to be added

As regular visitors to our challenge blog will already know we are announcing the winners of each challenge once a month but are of course still selecting them from the weekly entrants.

Our prizes come from
WOWVOW, Craft Stash, AALL and Create and Ruth Hamilton Design 

these are for challenge #713, 714, 715 & 716 with winners being announced on Friday 24th February as noted on the logo below.

I hope you have fun and I'll see you again soon,

Lorraine

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Allsorts Challenge #664 - I Love....

 Hi Crafters,

Saturday again!

Where do these weeks go?

Another Allsorts challenge theme to join in with and this week and we would like to see your cards and projects depicting what you LOVE to do.

Although I spend most of my time cardmaking for customers and my stall at markets when I have the time I love.....to create mixed media art, in the form of ATC's, Journal Pages or 3D projects.

Here are a few pictures of a page that I created in my journal.

Using Distress Inks and Oxides with some stencils I created the background before adding stamping, die cuts and some more stencilling with texture paste.

I had a polaroid stamp that I've been wanting to incorporate on a page and so I cut out the centre portion and added some mirror cardstock behind, this acts as a mirror showing the viewer a reflection of their own face which fits in nicely with the Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous tall stamp down the spine.

Another Stamper Anonymous Heart stamp with a die cut word underneath following the theme.

Here you can see my camera in the reflective polaroid panel.....

...and a close up of the quote stamp and texture on the page.

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Creative Fingers - #225 ATG

Crafting Happiness - #120 ATG

Art Journey Design - #131 Hearts

We Love Stamping - Anything Stamped opt. Stencilling

Creative Artiste Challenge - #79 ATG Mixed Media

The Crafters Cafe - #282 Make Your Own Background

Creatalicious Challenge - #229 ATG opt. Make Your Own Background

River of Creativity - #10 ATG

We Love 2 Create - #2 ATG Mixed Media

This week we have two prizes from Oakwood Archer a bundle of craft goodies and a craft stencil.

We only have a few rules - no backlinking, link to the challenge blog in your post, follow the theme and a maximum of 3 entries per person - so please adhere to them if you want to be in with a chance at winning a prize.

The DT are looking forward to visiting your blogs and seeing what you have created.

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Sorry if I have been MIA this week but it was my youngest daughters Wedding on Tuesday so my time has been taken up in preparation for the Big Day. The weather could have been kinder but we all enjoyed a lovely celebration of the day which was so welcomed after being cancelled several times since last year due to the pandemic.

I'll leave you with a snapshot of the happy occasion.

Lorraine

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Allsorts Challenge #644 - I Love.....

 Hi Crafters,

The weekend has arrived and I'm so glad, it's been a full week and I'm ready for a slower pace.

It's also time to share my DT card for the new challenge at Allsorts.

Lynn has chosen the theme of

I LOVE.....

'I love'.....making ART so I'm sharing a set of ATC's that I created recently for a swap. The image and sentiment were stamped using a Woodware stamp set called 'Follow Your Art', coloured with Distress Inks and details added with Polychromos. The background was created by applying Distress Oxide Inks in patches on the ATC and then inking over the areas with the same colour ink through a stencil which gives a watermark effect. I then used some texture paste through a grid stencil that I've had for ages.

A bit of doodling around the edges and we're done. 

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Crafting happiness - #115 ATG

Our prizes this week are a £15 voucher from Helping Hands Craft

and a Tim Holtz On The Edge Pennants Die

Please take a look at the creativeness of the design team for lots of inspiration for your own makes HERE. I'm looking forward to visiting your blogs and seeing what you love....

Lorraine

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