No Paper? That's gotta be Quirky!

There's another Quirky Craft's Challenge starting over on the Quirky Blog as I type, not really, I typed this,yesterday! after doing my very sneaky peek, as I'm out in the sunshine and doing other things, like, bungee jumping and sky diving... actually no, just dog sitting and gardening... Anyway!! It's now Sunday!! It's our first challenge for July and our 14th Challenge of the year. Our sponsor is... STITCHY BEAR DIGITAL STAMPS which means the design team winner will win a $10 gift voucher to spend in the Stitchy Bear Store.

It's Caro's turn to set the challenge and seeing Caro just louves messing about with inks and stamps she thought it would be a great idea to make...

"...Your own backgrounds!"

This means you are NOT allowed to use any shop bought patterned papers or the ones you can download etc. Your own background papers can be as simple as dry embossed plain card or made using inks, stamps, paints, a mosaic of other plain papers, or anything else you can think of! Okay, what have I done? (well, at the time of typing this, nothing at all! ahhhh!! So your guess is as good as mine!)
So...fast forward to Sunday again.... I started with some green leather look card and using a punched out fish shape as a stencil, I dabbed on clear embossing ink and then clear powder and heat set. Wasn't sure I liked that, so covered one side with... the stuff they use on rugs to stop them from slipping, (only it doesn't work, but makes a great addition to my crafty stash!!) I used the 'The Big One' digi from our sponsors, printed out twice, 3D-ed and coloured with ProMarkers. I don't have any of those fancy inks and dabber thingies but I do have a couple of the Tim Holtz distress inks and a make-up sponge, so this is what I did... after embossing one image and cutting it out with a deckled-edged Nestie, I smudged over it with my make-up sponge (pretty awful but better than nothing!) cut out the second image (minus fish, pocket, and part of the fishing rod reel and fixed it over the top with silicone glue, then attached the whole thing to some black card. Rubbed over a yellow piece of card with the same ink (TH Vintage Photo) and punched out the fish with a Woodware punch. The little dangley chain is a real thingy used in fishing. (very cheep! loads for about £1!) Added card candi and white gel pen faux stitching.
The font is a freebie, it's called Mother Whale and you can download it HERE (along with some other usual fonts!!) or even HERE. Thanks for stopping by!!

Challenges.
One stitch at a time-use digi (Won Top Three!)
Ccmonthlychallenge-one for the boys
digi doodle-anything goes
4craftychicks-stitching
Stamp Something-digi day
aud sentimentschallenge-food and drink (fish!?!)
Papercreatorscrafts-special occasion (60th Birthday)
Allsortschallenge-free and easy
Paper-craftingjourney-anything goes
Craft your Passion- anything goes

Plainly or Not, it's a Quirky Peek

Very quick, coz it's hot hot hot outside and I wanna go and play!! The Quirky Craft's Challenge starts round about 6ish tomorrow evening. Caro is setting the challenge this time, so it could be anything!! Here's my sneaky peek just to get you guessing!
New Follower Hi and a big {{wave}}} to Kathleen Saunders but no link, yet! Oh yes I have!! Through Twitter!! Kathteabellys !! (I reconized that tea mug! Thanks for popping by!

Iceland Map

July1st!! It's not just the hours, days and weeks that are zooming by, it's the months as well! It'll be Christmas this time next week!! I've just popped in, coz I'm a tiny bit chuffed. The Iceland Map I made a few weeks ago was sold at auction today to raise money for a charity, and the final bid was £75 pounds!
New Followers (Out the back and in the dark!) Big {{{wave}}} The Sergent@frontier dot com, BunnyzBae and AnkeE, all with no links.

This Month Spyder has Spyed....

...a few of my digi's on some fabulous cards! I missed last month so I thought I'd combine May into June's, seeing it's nearly July! You may have spotted some of these cards already in my didi digi store, Spyder's Other Corner, but I thought they needed a mention too, as this 'Spyder Has Spyed' thingy is still fairly new. Now, when I go blog hunting, I sometimes forget to add a link to where I found the cards, and so forget who made them. If you spy your card or cards here let me know, there's a Free Digi for every card seen here. (even if you've already received one via a Spyder Challenge some time back) Email me at dragonsmoore at googlemail dot com and let me know which digi you'd like and I'll email it back to you!!

Happy St Patricks Day was made by
Gales Stamping Corner!

Sugar Buzz! by
Sue Kment

Intruderlady

dianesplacetowaste

Our little inspirations


Kimbo's Cats & Cards


Dianesplacetowaste


Paperpapier

saved as für Kartursel is this yours?


Paperdreams by karin

Paula has made George look so Clue!!


Jenny's fabulous Clock over on
Dragonllew

Kimbo Cats & Cards


Made by Lorien's Workshop!!

Sorry Stephanie I've lost your link


Tealight card by
claudiaskaarten.blogspot.com

Made By Deborah from Deb's Gems

Sue at Scooby's Stuff

KurlyGirl

marikocreations

New Followers Hi and a big {{wave}} to suzARTe who has a fabulous Blog Give-Away going on at the moment, pop over and join in! Then there's Tracy from Crafts, Cats and Chooks! hop over and say hi! Thanks for stopping by!

WoYwW? My PiF's Arrived!

Hi Peoples!! Happy WOYWW! Not here, but I've managed a freebie for you in this post this week and!!!! My PiF has arrived all the way from Australia! It's fabulous, I really love the rubbery flower on the front and the papers are gorgeous!

It's a fabby Note Book and a really lovely card too, made by Alicia. Inside there's pockets and pages to write or doodle on. I really have to get me one of those binders!! Thank You Alicia!

Pop over to Alicia's lovely blog to see some far better pictures as these were taken at midnight and are a bit gloomy! Her card is here too
My craft room is very messy this week, I wasn't going to show it to you, but...okay here it is!!
See... told you!! I seems the more space I have, the more mess I create!! Pop over to Julia's Blog, the Queen of all bloggyness and join in!! Bye for now.

This Weeks Freebie is a Sea Horse.

Sorry! You've missed this one. But he'llbe in the store very soon!
I did a head of a sea horse for that Iceland Map last week, so thought I'd do a full sized seahorse for you this week. I'd love to 'sea' anything you make.

I just had to share this lovely card made by Kimberly from Just Wordz flipped the other way, that seahorse rocks! Fabulous colours. Thank you Kimberly! Thanks for stopping by!

Two New Digi's in the Digi Store.

Sorry no blogging lately, been busy busy busy!!! But! I've managed to doodle two new digi's for my didi Digi store Dragonsmoore, Spyder's Other Corner Cool Cat on the Beach and Cool Cat chilling out! Hope you like them!

Blogging is for Sharing Give Away! CLOSED

Blog over to Zuzurt. Blogspot for a fabulous 'Blogging is for Sharing give-away!!" Become a follower if you want to, add some tips, a favourite read, blog, a tutorial or a link to a favourite make, either your own or someone else's!! Enter as many times as you like to be in with a chance to win...

Click the link to find out more!You have to be in it to win it!!!

Happy Birthday Mum-in-Law

It's John's mum's birthday today. Happy Birthday June! She's eee.... nah I won't tell! She wasn't feeling too well, so I hope my little card cheered her up. (Along with the Chocies, flowers and anti-wrinkle cream!) I've had this cute Pepper and Friends image sitting on my shelves for ages now. I coloured it using my Promarkers of course! I was going to use brown and cream papers, but I think my favourite PinkPetticoat, pink and blue Vintage Rose papers go quite well, althought the photo doesn't do them justice. I've used my Nesties, Woodware and two Martha Stewart punches. This card would fit into my Challenge over on the Quirky Craft's Challenge blog, as I've embossed the image, (dry and heat) used a stamped image, a ribbon, five flowers, pink and blue colouring, three backing papers (at least!) and there's paper lace too. There's nine recipe boxes to choose from so come and join in! The font on the outside, is called Amazone BT and you can download it HERE The inside font is also a freebie, it's called akaFrivolity and you can download that here. New Follower, thank you and a big (((Wave)) to Mary Beth, with a fab new blog called Scrap Bug Studios, pop over and say hi, love your 'Kenny' cards! I'd love to enter this card into a few....

Challenges

Pileitonchallenge-show me some metal (the dragonfly brad) Makeitmonday- anything goes Stamp Something-pretty papers I Love Promarkers-anything goes Totallypapercrafts.-die cuts and punches Foreverfriends monthly challenge-use three papers Not a good photo, but there is three papers here!