First Through the Purple Haze Challenge for 2014

Good morning, and I hope your Monday is going well so far! We are having a beautiful (cold) sunny morning here in south east-ish Ireland. Hope you are having a calm and peaceful morning, wherever you are :)

This week over at Through the Purple Haze Challenges, our challenge is 'Anything Goes' and we are kindly sponsored by CRAFTY SENTIMENTS. Pop over and have a look at all the beautiful crafty goodies :)  They are offering 3 digis to the winner.

I got this beautiful digi to play with 'Sally having fun' and I made this card.

I decided for this digi, to paper piece some of the digi. I printed her onto cream paper and pink paper, and then carefully cut out the parts I wanted, in this instance her dress and ribbons in her hair.

I cut out the cream sheet in an oval with my X-Cut nested ovals dies (first time to use them!), and then used the larger die to cut it out with the same pink sheet, as per her dress and ribbon. I coloured with some pencils her hair, bag and runners.

I used some beautiful polka dotted paper for the background, and used a Martha Stewart punch for the bottom. I added some washi tape, and a flower and a button. This time I put no sentiment on, but could easily add one for any girly occasion!

I would like to take this opportunity to welcome all our new members on the DT, we have 5 new DT teamies joining us this year, check out their talented creations on their blogs.

Hope you enjoyed looking at my card, and thanks for dropping by. Why not head over and take part in the challenge?

I hope to enter this card in a few challenges.
Hobbycutz Challenge Blog - Something New (X-Cut Oval dies)
Artistic Inspirations - Challenge 74
Crafting from the Heart - Anything goes/pearls or buttons
Digi Sketch Challenge - Say it with Flowers
Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
Have a great Monday,
Eithne :)
xx

Anything Goes Challenge at Through the Purple Haze Challenges

Hello fellow bloggers :)

Hope you are having a great day. I recently had the privilege of meeting up with a crafty friend. I had tried several times to visit, but it just never worked out. On my way home I was buzzing with all the ideas I hope to work on - the inspiration I came away with that day was incredible. Being able to talk through and share ideas was such an uplifting and inspiring time, I can't wait to go back on another visit. 

This week at Through the Purple Haze Challenges, there is an Indigo Blu challenge, and an Anything Goes sponsored by Joanna Sheen.

Having come back recently from holidays, and having seen my friends beautiful scrapbooked pages, I was determined to start scrapbooking my memories. So this weeks alternative challenge at Through the Purple Haze Challenges of Anything Goes, couldn't have been a better week to start! Here's what I started with:

A Zutter Cover All 8x8 Flat Spine White

Some strips of coordinating paper, and some white paper with a border punched out.

This is it all stuck down.

Some embellishments and die cut numbers.

One of these beautiful papers had a large image of the ice-cream in the corner. I cut it out and layered it with some cerise pink cardboard.

I cut out part of a photo from our holidays and punched a slightly larger blue card with the beautiful Martha Stewart corner punch.

I stuck the layered paper onto the cover, and stuck on the layered ice-cream.

I then stuck on some letters to spell "summer" and "2013". I also put some washi tape down where I would put the photo, just to make it interesting! ;-)

Here it is with the layered photo in place:

I found some lovely embellishments that tied in well with the colours. Whatever colour I needed for an embellishment, if I did not have something suitable, I just punched out a flower in the same card as the letters.

Finished product:

 So why not pop over and check out the blog "Through the Purple Haze Challenges", the first two challenges go live today 15th July at 10am GMT. There are some fabulous prizes up for grabs - for the Anything Goes the prize is some lovely Joanna Sheen goodies, and the prize for the Indigo Blu challenge (you can see my entry here) is an Indigo Blue prize.
Well worth a check!
I am entering this project in the following challenges
Challenges for everybody - anything goes
Pile it on Challenges - water 
Heck of a challenge - The Sea (1/8/13)
Our Creative Corner - Captured Memories
Seema Crafts - Holiday/Vacation
A*Muse Studio Independent - Summer theme

Anyway, that is all from me. Hope you are enjoying the summer weather, and thanks for stopping by
xxx