Category Archives: Challenge

Bottled with Happiness Simple Flowers

Posted on April 20, 2022 by admin

Each month Stampin’ Up! challenge demonstrators to create basic “simple stamping” cards to help inspire people who are new to stamping who don’t own 30 years worth of accumulated craft products! So this month the criteria for the card was … Continue reading →

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Christmas Card Challenge 2022

Posted on March 11, 2022 by admin

The Christmas Card Challenge is something I used to run in a past life ie well over 20 years ago and I think things got busy and I stopped, but this year I’m reviving it! The awesome thing is that … Continue reading →

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Happy Holly-Days Card sketch

Posted on October 28, 2021 by admin

So each month I set my team a challenge – some months it’s to simply send out a card, others it’s card sketch or a theme or just something random…..I excel at random! This month is was a sketch challenge… … Continue reading →

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Word Card Sending Week 2019

Posted on November 10, 2019 by admin

So this year instead of just partaking in World Card Making Day which came about in 2006 by Paper Craft Magazine and is celebrated annually on the first Saturday in October, as a way to encourage crafters to get a … Continue reading →

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Handmade Card Challenge 2016

Posted on January 25, 2016 by admin

So the very lovely Shannon West started a challenge recently to reduce the FaceBook or SMS message for birthdays and reinstate the awesome handmade greeting card that arrives in your mail box. The old fashioned way the lets someone know that … Continue reading →

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Gorgeous Grunge Colour Challenge

Posted on March 8, 2015 by admin

I joined in a colour challenge recently and I really struggled with the choice of colours (hence why it would be called a challenge right!). However not to be daunted I crafted on regardless…..ohh and if you are wondering what … Continue reading →

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More April birthday cards………..

Posted on May 10, 2013 by admin

Here are the rest of the gorgeous birthday cards that people shared images of with me during April, the first lot were here. Love the flowers and delicate edges to this card – made by Sue. Here is another made … Continue reading →

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Bloomin’ Marvelous Flowers

Posted on December 31, 2012 by admin

So I like entering sketch challenges, this month I saw one over on Craft Project Central that I thought I’d enter and 30 days later I still hadn’t made anything so with 56minutes to go I decided instead of making dinner … Continue reading →

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From My Heart Thank You Card

Posted on October 17, 2012 by admin

I saw a lovely sketch recently on Creating Pretty Cards and decided to break out some of my new stamp sets to join in the fun! This was the sketch: I admit for me it looked like a lot of … Continue reading →

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Tool Time Scrapbook Layout

Posted on September 2, 2012 by admin

Happy Father’s Day! My boys are totally into tools, the workshop/shed and building things, hence my need to create a tool themed scrapbook layout. By chance it also fitted the theme of the Only Scrapbooking challenge this month!   The … Continue reading →

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