My Besties challenge

Once again it is my teams turn to host the My Besties challenge and this time around the theme is

Use a Background stamp

or

Anything Goes (using a Bestie Image)

You must use a My Besties image on your challenge card.

There is a grand prize of 5 My Besties digital images for the winner who follows the theme, and runner up prizes too.

IMAGE- My Besties Winter Wonderland Reindeer Angel of Joy - coloured in Photoshop

Christmas tree background digi stamp from Tis the Season to be Pretty Set - Amber Ink

PAPERS - Brrrr digital scrap kit - Just So Scrappy

DIE - Winter Wishes Ice Crystal 2 - Joy Crafts

Ribbon, Jingle bells and gems - Meiflower

If you are lucky enough to live in the US then you can find the first of the My Besties "Bee Attitudes" Doll Collection HERE

Pop over to the Besties challenge blog and check out the fabulous inspiration from the rest of my Teamies.

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look,

hugs,

Colette xx

Cherry Blossom Geisha

It's time for another challenge at My Besties this week, and this time around the theme is...

Anything Goes

If you want to play along, just show us any creation containing a My Bestie image, the winner gets to choose five My Besties digital images, we also have a runners up prize and the DT favourite also wins themselves three My Besties images.

This is one of my favourite images, she was such a joy to colour, I love anything oriental, and really enjoyed putting this card together.

Cherry Blossom Geisha - My Besties - Coloured in Photoshop

Digital papers and lanterns - Sakura Garden - Mindy Terasawa (no longer available)

Tree branch - hand cut

Leaves - Cheery Lyn Flourish Leaf strip

Cherry Blossoms - Memory Box die

Tiny blossoms on tree - Crystal sequin blossoms - Meiflower

(I also added tiny stick on gems in the centres)

Pop over to the My Besties challenge blog and check out the fabulous inspiration from the rest of my teamies, and don't forget it you are going to enter the challenge you must use a My Besties image.

Thanks for looking,

hugs,

Colette xx

Princess Twinkle toes

Hi there, it's time for another challenge over at My Besties, this week it is my teams turn, but before I tell you this weeks theme I want to let you know about a few changes to the challenge.

You can now choose to do either - anything goes or follow the theme -  you still have to use a My Besties image for whichever part of the challenge you are following, and if you enter an anything goes card you won't be in the draw to win 5 My Besties Digi images (only cards that follow the theme than do that) but you will still be in the draw for one of the two runners up prizes of 3 My Besties Digi images. 

Another new feature is that  from now on we will also be having a DT favourite, so each week one member of the DT gets to pick their favourite card from all the entries and that person will win 3 digi images, there is also a special blinkie for the DT favourite.

We would love to see your creations using either the

Anything Goes theme

 or Use Purple/Lavender

Digital stamp - My Besties Princess Twinkle toes img 668 - coloured in Photoshop

Digital papers - Glorious Day - Just So Scrappy

Circle die - Lifestyle nesting circles

Doily die - Marietta Buckle - Memory Box

Metallic edged ribbon, purple stick on pearls and 2mm stick on gems (crown) - Meiflower

Don't forget to pop over to the challenge blog and check out the fabulous creations from the rest of my teamies.

Thanks for dropping in and taking a look,

hugs,

Colette xx

Anything but a Card

The new challenge over on the My Besties blog today is

Anything but a Card

So if you would like to be in with a chance of winning $30 to spend on My Besties digi images, then just pop over to the challenge blog and link up your fabulous creations using a My Bestie image.

My anything but a card make was inspired by this post HERE, I loved the idea of turning a pillow box into a little handbag.

I made my pillow box almost A5 size, so it would be the perfect packaging for a scarf and gloves, or some make-up or jewellery.

Image - My Besties img837 - Coloured in Photoshop

Papers - It's Snow Fun - Just So Scrappy

Die for "handle" - local craft shop own make

Spellbinders Oval die

Nellie Snellen MFD007 Ovals

X-cut Border punch - Scallop

X-cut snowflake punch

Couture Creations embossing folder - Intrinsic

Ribbon, gems and diamante ribbon slider - Meiflower

Also a quick reminder that you can now buy the My Besties figurine, with a portion of the money raised from the sale going to Breast Cancer research and awareness

More details HERE

Don't forget to pop over to the challenge blog and check out the fabulous creations from the rest of my teamies.

Thanks for stopping by,

hugs,

Colette xx

Wedding Invitation #10

We are more than half way through the invitations now, only another six to go and we are done. 

Today we have a pocket style invitation, I used the end of a die to cut the fancy opening and die cut a heart shaped window for the names to show through.

Lavender pearl card - The Range

Ribbon and Diamante Ribbon Slider - Meiflower

Lifestyle Nesting Hearts die

Lifestyle nesting frame #10

Also if you love the Besties then you might like to know that you can now buy them as figurine statues, from the Hamilton collection

 "The Hamilton Collection"

 Sherri Baldy~ Besties Of Hope!  

"Hope Grows With Love Figurine"

Isn't she cute!

Thanks for taking a look,

hugs,

Colette xx

A new Bestie challenge

It's Team A's turn to host the challenge over at My Besties this week and our theme is 

Include an animal

so to win $30 to spend in store just pop over to the challenge blog and link up your creation using a My Besties image and an animal.

I used a gorgeous image called Fifi and bubbles

Couture Creations Embossing Folder - Drink Me

Squeaky Clean digital papers - Just So Scrappy

Lifestyle nesting circles die

Sentiment - computer generated

Pearls - Meiflower

Flowers - Stash

Hop over to the challenge blog and check out the fabulous inspiration from the rest of my teamies.

Thanks for dropping in,

hugs,

Colette xx

Bow Crazy

It's time for another challenge over on the My Besties challenge blog, this time around it's Team A's turn and our theme is

Bow Crazy

so show us your creations using a My Besties image and Bows to be in with the chance of winning $30 to spend in store.

I was playing around with a square piece of card and thought I'd use a corner die in each corner and see what it would look like, then I decided to cut a fancy shape from the middle, I was quite happy with the effect, but then it occurred to me that I could cut a shape from each of the areas between the corners, so out came a heart die ,the hearts were die cut and I was left with a quite ornate frame.

My Besties img693 - coloured in Photoshop
Background paper - Heartstrings - Crazy 4 Monograms

Marianne Creatables - LR0200 Anja's corner
Lifestyle Nesting Frames 10
Lifestyle nesting hearts
LeCrea Multi Die - Flower 002
Leabilities - Little Birds
Marianne Creatables - Anja's Leaves 1 and 2
Marianne Creatables - Anja vintage swirls
Gems and silver bows - Meiflower

Don't forget to pop over to the Besties challenge blog and check out the fabulous creations from the rest of my teamies, and the Besties of Oz challenge still has another week or so to run and the top prize for that challenge is a whopping $100 cash!

Thanks for dropping in,
hugs,
Colette xx

Black, white and one other colour

Hi there, welcome to a beautiful sunny Monday morning, and a new challenge over at My Besties and this week the theme for our challenge is

Black, White and One other colour

to be in with the chance of winning 10 digi images or one of the many runner up prizes make a card or project using a My Besties image and following our theme and then pop over to the challenge blog and link it up. We would love for you to play along.

Image - img730 Banana Pie (coloured in Photoshop)

Digital Papers - Daisy Chain- Just So Scrappy

Lifestyle Nesting Doily Circles

Lifestyle Nesting Circles

Spellbinders - Labels 11

Die-namics - Upsy Daisies Die

Organza ribbon - Meiflower

As she was called Banana Pie I thought it would be a good idea to make my one other colour yellow, it's a bit brighter than a banana yellow but with all the glorious sunshine we are having at the moment a bright sunny yellow seemed more appropriate.

Don't forget to take a look at the fabulous inspiration from the rest of my teamies over on the challenge blog.

Also a quick mention about the month long Besties of Oz challenge that is running alongside the regular weekly challenges, use one of the Besties of Oz images on your project and play along with the challenge to be in with the chance of winning a massive $100 cash prize.

Thanks for looking,

hugs,

Colette xx

Shabby Chic?

Welcome to another My Besties Challenge, this time around the theme is

Shabby Chic

to be honest I never quite know how to do shabby, and usually end up just rubbing the edges of the papers with a brown ink pad, which is exactly what I've done this time LOL! although I've also used a creamy ink pad this time too and crumpled up the paper I used to make the rolled roses before die cutting them, I rubbed a white metallic paint over the corners to give them a slightly metallic look, which unfortunately doesn't show up so well in the photo.  Hopefully that will be shabby enough, as for the chic part - I don't have a chic bone in my body hehe!

Image - My Besties - img765 Milly Mae (coloured in Photoshop)

All digital papers - Glorious Day - Just So Scrappy

Corners - Lea'bilities Leane 006 Border/corner curve

Roses - Marianne Creatabilities LR016

Bunting - Nellie Snellen MFD011 and spellbinders circles

Stick on Gems, satin ribbon and teeny diamante circle ribbon slider - Meiflower

Don't forget to pop over to the challenge blog and check out the fabulous inspiration from the rest of my teamies.

Thanks for stopping by to take a look,

hugs,

Colette xx

Make a Splash!

Here's a card I made for the recent My Besties Newsletter. I made a side stepper card, with an extra "step" at the front, as I wanted my Bestie to look like she was floating along on her inflatable tyre ring (something I wouldn't need if I wanted to float, as I have my own built in spare tyre! Hehe!)

Image - img830 - My Besties (coloured in Photoshop)

Papers and splash - Pool Party - Just so Scrappy

Fish - Nitwits Collections - From the Sea

Wording - computer Generated

Shells - Marianne Creatables LR0230 

Mother of pearl card and jute - from stash

I printed out the wave paper and cut along the wave design, then added a bit of glamour dust to the edge of the top wave on each section. The back section containing the image is made up of three layers of  'waves' added with foam pads to give dimension, the image, fish and splash sentiment have also been fixed into place using foam pads.

I am entering this card into the following challenges

Aud Sentiments Challenge - Summer
Charisma Cardz -  #25 Recipe card 1, 2, 3 Recipe ( 3 shells, 2 fish, 1 image)

MilkCoffee Challenge - Summer fun
Paper Crafting Journey -  Anything but a Square
LEJ Designs  - #59 The Sun Has Got His Hat On

Thanks for stopping by,

hugs,

Colette xx

My Besties Pearls and Lace challenge

It hardly seems like 5 minutes since I posted my teams last challenge and here we are a fortnight later and it's our turn again. This time around the theme is 

Pearls and Lace

If you want to be in with the chance of winning $30 worth of digi images, then show us your Pearl and Lace creations using a My Besties image.

There are so many gorgeous images to choose from I always find it difficult to pick which image I want to use, but this time around I decided to go with the beautiful Daffodilla, but as it is now summer (well at least it's supposed to be) instead of Spring I used my artistic licence (bought cheaply at a local car boot sale, as you can probably tell LOL!) to colour the daffodils as sunflowers.

My Besties Image  -Img660 Daffodilla - coloured in Photoshop

Papers and butterfly - Just So Scrappy - Denim and Daisies Scrap Kit

Lifestyle Die - Doily Circle

Lace and pearl string - Stash

Ribbon and stick on pearls - Meiflower

The right hand edge of the card front follows the shape of the gingham border (comes in kit ) and is shorter than the card back, so the green curvy strip at the end is actually part of the card inside. I cut all the little scallops around the front card edge by hand, firstly out of the printed paper, then once the paper was stuck to the card front, I cut around them again, very time consuming, but I like the effect it gives.

Pop over to the challenge blog and check out the fabulous creations from the rest of my teamies.

613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes

Hobby House - Anything Goes

Digi Haven - Anything Goes with a Digi

Pennys Paper Crafty - 1 Image, 2 Papers, 3 Embellishments

Alphabet Challenge - I for Image

Glitter N Sparkle - 3 of Something (pearls in groups of 3 around die cut)
Sister act card Challenge - Anything goes

Challenges 4 Everybody -Anything goes

I would also like to take this opportunity to wish my gorgeous niece Nicola a very happy 21st birthday today, and a big congrats on your First with Honours in your Art and Fashion degree - being chosen to show off your collection at Graduate Fashion Week in London and being one of the 10 designers chosen by Victoria Beckham at Fashion week, to meet and have a chat with her, way to go Nic!

Thanks for stopping by,

hugs,

Colette xx

My Besties Challenge, Blog Candy winner and a freebie

Did you enjoy the blog hop, I certainly did, so many beautiful creations from both team A and team B and a fabulous selection of blog candy prizes.

Thank you so much for all your lovely comments and a big welcome to all my new followers.

The randomly drawn winner of my Blog Candy is

Natalie Z. *Paselska*

Congratulations!

Please contact me via my email address in my profile and put Blog Candy winner as the subject and I will sort out getting your prize to you.

The theme for this weeks challenge is

Birthday

and we would love to see your fabulous birthday creations using a My Bestie image.

The winner receives a massive $30 gift certificate to spend in store.

Image - Sweet Mary Lou - Coloured in Photoshop

Digital Papers - Flowers after the rain - Sweet shoppe Designs

Marianne Creatable - Anja's leaves 3

X cut - Vintage notes doily

Sentiment by me (freebie below)

Flower - scalloped circle dies

Ribbons, diamanté ribbon slider, gems - Meiflower

The flower is made from tissue paper, I folded a piece of tissue paper up until there were nine layers then used the 3 smallest scalloped circle dies to cut it out (cuts through all nine layers at once, so quick and easy). I layered these up from largest to smallest and pushed a brad through the centre. I then scrunched every layer, one by one, around the centre brad (this takes a bit of time), and then opened them out again to make the flower. I was trying to make something similar to the flowers on her headband and waistband, and was quite pleased with the result as it does look similar.

I also changed the colour of the digi stamp to a medium brown then darkened around the eyes and the eyelashes (every girl needs lashings of mascara).

You can find lots of gorgeous Bestie images in store HERE

and don't forget to pop over to the challenge blog and check out the rest of my teamies fabulous creations.

You can snag the sentiment circles by clicking on each one to make it larger, then right click and "save as"

Thanks for stopping by,

have a lovely day,

hugs,

Colette xx