The Male Room - Tartan & Plaid

New month brings a great new challenge 

at The Male Room

Just love this theme, so I made 2 cards.

Fist one with Magnolia image,

colored with watercolors.

and a second one using a ready image

from my stash (maybe LOTV image?)

I'd like to enter my dragon card to these challenges:

Crafty Creation - AG

Through the Craft Room Door - AG

Craft Galore Encore - AG

A Bit More time to Craft - AG

QKR - AG

and my winter fun card to these challenges:

C.R.A.F.T. - Winter

Fab n Funky - Winter Wonderland

Cardz 4 Guys - traditional Christmas

Ike's world - w for Xmas/ AG

Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge - AG

Sparkles Christmas - non traditional Christmas colors

SheepSki Designs : Feature a creature

We have a awesome theme at

SheepSki Designs challenge blog :

Feature a creature

In the middle of the Christmas card season

I made something full of summer spirit.

I have used the Poppies image twice here, 

in different size and flipped the other image.

I colored the image with Prismacolors and added

a sticker butterfly and some pearls.

I'd like to enter to these challenges:

The Crafters Cafe - AG

Crafts Galore Encore - AG

Creative Crafting Uncles - Poppy day

Creative Fingers - AG

Penny's - AG

Through the Craft Room Door - AG

Creative Moments - AG

You have two ways to play along with SheepSki Designs!

BLOG ... Where you can use any hand colored image for a chance to win 3 images ... 

BUT, if you use a SheepSki Designs image and are the winner, 

you get an additional image choice

or

FACEBOOK ... Where you must use a SheepSki Designs Image 

for a chance to win 3 images

As a bonus, if you go shopping in the STORE, 

using a code SKIANDREA10 at check out

you will receive a 10% discount off your purchased!

Pink Christmas

I bought a new die and with it I got these

beautiful piece of paper, sentiment and a "button".

Very non traditional Christmas color, but oh so pretty.

I'd like to enter to these challenges:

Sweet Sketch Wednesday - 

Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge - Christmas

Through the Craft Room Door - AG

Aud Sentiment - Winter animals + sentiment

Creative Knockouts - snow much fun

Penny's - AG

Cute Card Thursday - Wintry

Creative Fingers - AG

Summer feelings

In the middle of the Christmas card season it is 

fun to make something totally different.

Warm and sunny.

I'd like to enter to these challenges:

The Crafter's Cafe - AG

613 Avenue - AG / Cute Critters

Creative Moments - AG

A Bit More Time to Craft - AG

Try Stampin on Tuesday - 

Benny Black Saturday Challenge - Bingo

(sparkle&shine + BB stamped image + die cut)

Silent Night

A very quick card, just embossing

this gorgeous Stampendous stamp on vellum and

adding Hunkydory cardstock and few gems.

I'd like to enter to these challenges:

Rainbow Card Challenge -

Cute Card Thursday - AG

Creative Craft Cottage - Christmas / Winter

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas challenge - AG

Creative Moments - AG

Inkspirational - 

AAA challenge GDT; Sketch with the optional twist of Use Primary Colours

I'm so happy to be a GDT at 

AAA Cards challenge #178

with a wonderful sketch and optional twist

I made a fun and a bit spooky Birthday card

using Whimsy Stamps  Dracula stamp set

Mainly stamping but also coloring just so much,

that I'm taking the twist also.

And I liked the sketch and theme so much I 

made another card:

This time very cute one using Mama Elephant stamps.

Such a great sketch!

Let us see your take on it at AAA Cards challenge blog,

I know we'd love to see it!

Blue wild berries

This is a second Christmas card using

awesome Wild Berries stamp from Blank Page Muse.

(you can see the red version here)

I embossed the image to vellum,

then used blue copic to color the berries.

I'd like to enter to these challenges:

Through the Craft Room Door - AG

Creative Knockouts - Fav color combo

(blue and white)

Cute card Thursday - AG

Creative Craft Cottage - Christmas/Winter

Creative Moments- AG

Wild red berries

Just love this Wild Berries stamp from

Blank Page muse.

I embossed the image to vellum with white powder

and then colored the berries with copic from other side of vellum.

I'd like to enter to these challenges:

Craft Galore - AG

Paper Shelter - Christmas is coming

Through the Craft room door - AG

Cute Card Thursday - AG

Sweet Stamping - use red

Crafty Hazelnut Christmas challenge - Chritmas

The Male Room: Toys

 It's time for a new awesome challenge at

the Male Room:

Isn't that a fun theme?

I went to my stash and found this old 

image and even older papers.

Stash is a nice thing to have, LOL

I colored the image with watercolors and 

love the warm sunny feeling the card gives.

I'd like to enter to these challenges:

Incy Wincy - color challenge

(I have all colors: yellow, green, red and blue)

The Corrosive challenge - AG

QKR - AG

Allsorts Challenge - For children or teens

Fusion - taking the sketch

SheepSki Designs: Christmas and/or Sprakle

It's about time to get some

Christmas crafting on, so this months theme at 

SheepSki Designs challenge blog is perfect:

Christmas and/or Sparkle

I took both themes and made this

card using cute new image: Sno' worries,

colored with watercolors and Prismacolors.

Sentiment says: Happy Christmas time

I'd like to enter to these challenges:

Aud Sentiment - AG + sentiment

Cute Card Thursday - sparkles

Penny's - AG

Creative Fingers - AG

Sketch Saturday - past sketch

A bit more time to craft - AG

Crafts Galore Encore - AG

You have two ways to play along with SheepSki Designs!

BLOG ... Where you can use any hand colored image for a chance to win 3 images ... 

BUT, if you use a SheepSki Designs image and are the winner, 

you get an additional image choice

or

FACEBOOK ... Where you must use a SheepSki Designs Image 

for a chance to win 3 images

As a bonus, if you go shopping in the STORE, 

using a code SKIANDREA10 at check out

you will receive a 10% discount off your purchased!

Macrame, II

Here's another card using

 a Macrame die from Impression Obsession. 

This time I made a big bold white bow 

and added a felt snowflake sticker.

I'd like to enter to these challenges:

Time Out - 

Crafty Hazelnuts Chritmas challenge - AG

Simon says Wednesday - AG

Just us Girls - 

Creative Fingers - AG

Macrame

I was fortune to win a voucher to 

123 stitch, and I used it to this very nice

Macrame die from Impression Obsession.

And since it is time to make some Christmas cards,

I made a big bold bow and added a felt snowflake sticker.

I'd like to enter to these challenges:

Digi Choosday - AG

Time Out - 

Through the Craft Room Door - AG

Crafty Hazelnuts Chritmas challenge - AG

Simon says Wednesday - AG

Just us Girls - 

Cup of coffee

To start a weekend crafting I made this

super simple and CAS coffee card.

Just a card base and some dies.

I'd like to enter to some challenges:

Day of the Month challenge -International Coffee Day

(and yes, Finland is a big Coffee country, LOL)

AAA Cards - 

Shopping Our Stash - drinks for cold nights

Fusion - taking the sketch and the image

Through the Craft Room Door - AG

Simon Says Wednesday - AG

Creative Fingers - AG

Foxy Fall

Yet another Fall card before moving on to a winter / X-mas -cards.

Image is from Gecko Galz, embossing folder from Sixxiz 

Frame die cut from Whimsy stamp and 

leaves are from old stash.

I'd like to enter to these challenges:

Crafty Friends challenge - embossing

Shopping Our Stash - Happy Fall Y'all

Cardz 4 Guyz - Colours of Fall

Tuesday Morning Sketches - 

Double D challenges - October, what it means to you

(all the fabulous colors in nature, perfect season to 

walk in to woods, fresh windy air)

Use your stuff - Fall

Let's Squash it - 

Halloween night -tag

A little tag using 

Gecko Gaz monthly image challenge image

- I wonder what she's holding, hmmm

I'd like to enter to these challenges:

Tag Tuesday - All Hallow's Eve

As you like it - favourite color with blue

( I think the color varies, depending on the shade of

blue, but with dark blue I love bright red, it just 

brightens the dark shade of blue)

Gecko Galz - Monthly image

Gecko Galz - Happy Haunting

Cooking ATC

Wonder what kind of soup these

3 are making, LOL

Embossing, paints, mini pearls, 

ATC base and the skull from Calico Craft Parts,

and image from Gecko Galz.

I'd like to enter to these challenges:

Incy Wincy - Halloween

If you give a crafter a cookie - 

Creative Craft Cottage - Spooky 

Try it on Tuesday - Halloween

Paper Shelter - Halloween

Di's digi challenge - Halloween

Inkspirational - 

Gecko Galz - 

Halloween ATC

I had fun making this ATC,

embossing, painting and some crackle and ink

-and of course great image from Gecko Galz.

I'd like to enter to these challenges:

Try it on Tuesday - Halloween

Paper Shelter - Halloween

Alphabet Challenge - O is for old folk

Di's Digi Designs challenge - Halloween

Inkspirational - 

Gecko Galz - 

Never More Designs - image challenge

Peek-a-boo

I got this fun die for making "flaps".

So here's a peek-a-boo card using

  dies, pretty DP and gnome image from Gecko Galz.

I'd like to enter to these challenges:

Fab n Funky - Christmas

Through the Craft Room Door - AG

Creative Moments - AG

Creative Fingers - AG

Crafty Hazelnut's - Christmas

Pink Halloween

A pit of a different Halloween card,

using stamps from 3 different AALL stamp sets.

I took a DP and die cut it, colored with DO Worn Lipstick ink,

took some ink of with splashes of water,

the fence and the dogie are colored with copics and then

I added some Spektrum Noir sparkle.

I'd like to enter to some challenges:

613 Avenue - AG / Winged things

Creative Crafting Uncles - males go feminine

Aud Sentiments - Halloween

Cute Card Thrursday - Halloween

Incy Wincy Design - Halloween

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers -

The Crafter's Cafe - Use Pink

Through the Craft Room - AG

I put a spell on you

It's been a busy weekend but I wanted to 

made some crafting too, so I printed few images

from Gecko Galz took out my die and Big Shot

and also some silver, white and sparkling stuff to sprinkle.

Oh, yeas and some stickers too, :)

Very hard piece to take a photo ...

I'd like to enter to these challenges:

Try it on Tuesday -  Halloween 

Aud Sentiment - Halloween

Inkspirational - 

Country View - Halloween

Simon Says Monday - Spooky

Gecko Galz - 

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - AG