A Quirky fairy reminder

All you need to join in the challenge and win some digis is a Fairy or two, and one or more three items from Doris's fairy ring above. I used Fairy Constance (from our lovely sponsor - Crackerbox Palace) coloured with Promarkers, and from the fairy ring I picked Stars (also from Crackerbox Palace), a sentiment (by Cherry Pie Art Stamps) and sparkles, my sparkles are Flitter Flakes on the stars (first time I have used them and I need more practice), and the holographic silver layer behind the starry card. 

You can get a 10% discount at Crackerbox Palace just by entering our challenge! So what are you waiting for? We need some fairy fab makes now!

This card had twinkled into the following challenges:

Creative Fingers Challenge blog - anything goes (Fri)

Come and Get It - Fairy Fantasy (Sun)

Open Minded Crafting Fun - things with wings (28th June)

Charisma Cards - sparkle and shine (Thurs) 

My Time To Craft - DL it (27th June)

Fussy and Fancy - things with wings (monthly challenge winners 4th July)

The Craft Barn Alpha Challenge - N

The Alpha Challenge at The Craft Barn is on N, and I chose night in the English section of my dictionary. There was only one other option here for me and that is now glued down between pages! I don't think there was much in the French section either. See the stars at the top of the page? I wanted to stencil stars and the only stencil I had was sequin waste, and I used clear ink and holographic embossing powder which was heat set before applying distress inks to make my sky.

The owl on a branch, bats, sentiment and cat are by Cherry Pie Art stamps (and have featured before), the row of houses is a Hero Arts stamp, the branch on the right is Crafty Individuals and the moths are Paper Artsy, big moths don't you think, rather Dr Who like, the invasion of the giant moths!

I used various colours of Ranger Distress ink to create the sky, and finally I die cut a moon and stars from an Accucut Zipeslim die.

The Craft Barn Alpha Challenge - U for Upholstery

 Here is my first (and possibly only) entry to The Craft Barn Alpha Challenge letter U! I have spent ages on this, masking the page and stamping round the edge, which as I have covered the middle was unnecessary really! I used woven paper string carpet, freebie paper wallpaper, stamps by Chocolate Baroque, Santa Rosa, Unity, Crafty Individuals, Hero Arts (die cut with matching Sizzix dies) and Cherry Pie Art Stamps. Die cuts with Spellbinders dies. Images coloured with Promarkers. The curtains are lace ribbon on a cocktail stick rail.

Stamping as follows:
Chocolate Baroque stamp used round the edges of the page.
Crafty Individuals - scene outside the window.
Hero Arts - chandelier and black and white chair.
Santa Rosa - big armchair.
Cherry Pie Art Stamps - cat in picture.
Unity stamps - Smaller armchair and standard lamp.

I made hot strawberry souffles! It is the first time I have made souffle of any sort, and this was a Slimming World recipe which did include some sugar. They rose beautifully, I had to go buy some ramekins, I only got 4 and then I realised that I had 4 egg whites left from making cheese straws for the "boys" and the recipe called for 3, so how to seperate, well rather than wasting an egg I upped the sugar proportionally but I had to use a cup for a 5th souffle. I gave the cup one to Shaun as it was the biggest and he decided he didn't like it so left most of it. I love it. When it cooled down, as there were 3 left, they sank back down to maybe half the height they are here and I worried they would be no good but they still taste yummy today!

The Craft Barn Alpha Challenge - F for Felin (e)

F for Felin in the French section, which is Feline or Big Cat. So this is another attempt at The Craft Barn Alpha challenge because I realise I couldn't enter Face and should have done Femme!

Most of the stamps are by Cherry Pie Art Stamps, and the rest are Elzybells and Creative Expressions U Mount stamps. There is one cat on the right hand page top left that I am not sure about - it was stored on the Cherry Pie Art Stamps page with the others and the I heart cats sentiment.

The Craft Barn Alpha Challenge letter R for rediger = to write

The Craft Barn Alpha challenge continues with the letter R.

R for Rediger meaning "to write". I decided to do the history of writing from ancient Eqyptian, with Chinese, handwriting and typewriting.

This didn't go as well as I hoped, some of the Paperartsy stamps are finely detailed and those didn't really work on the gesso. The lady writing is by Inkadinkado, one I will be keeping because I love it. I see she is wearing a hat, and I was sure it was her hair last time - maybe I smudged it! There are lots of different stamps on here, some by Papermania Urban collection, Cherry Pie Art Stamps, Paper Artsy, Elusive Images? and more. It didn't look too bad until I decided to add ink blobs, and straight from the distress ink bottle, those drops were HUGE and I grabbed some kitchen paper towel to try and soak it up or it would have been much worse! (I almost didn't post this at all). On with the next word I think (I have a couple of words in mind, but one of them I thought I had stamps for and I don't so I either have to hand draw or forget it and the page is all prepared)!

Alpha Challenge H for Haunt

My next page for The Craft Barn Alpha Challenge is H for Haunt. I used Cherry Pie Gothic Halloween plate 47.  I stamped the tombstones in Memento London Fog so they are showing up faintly in the background and the other images in black. Everything stamped on the Gesso comes out textured.