Jonathan (Ultramum’s son) decided that none of us made enough alien cards, so he set a challenge on the Crafts Beautiful forum to encourage us. Here’s mine, which makes me laugh, which is all I need to make a project seem worthwhile. The ribbon is from Anita’s Crafting Cavern, the peel-offs were from ebay, the stars are handcut and I made the image in PaintShop using elements from Outlaw by Design
The theme this week at the My Time to Craft challenge blog is “coffee and cream” These aren’t colours I often go for, but I had fun with this one, thank you.
The Magnolia and Sarah Kay blogs have merged, to hopefully give Donna a little bit of time to herself, and of course to make things more convenient for those of us in blogland. 
So, here’s the new blog, Magnolia Vs Stampavie, and the first challenge is a sketch. I love sketches at the moment, and this one’s beautiful, here’s my take on it, sorry for the picture, I just can’t seem to get one that shows the colours properly:
There’s a great sketch this week over at the Friday Sketcher’s Challenge blog, and this is my take on it. I really tried to make the shape on the right an oval, but I don’t have anything that will cut or draw them professionally, and when I tried to do them by hand it all just looked dreadful. So, since I do have a compass, I hope it was ok to substitute circles.
The card is much more pink and sparkly in real life, but I just can’t get a photo that shows all the bits properly, because if the silver bits sparkle, the pink bits look black, and vice versa.
This is my first entry to the Basic Grey Challenge Blog, and it’s also my first Christmas card of the year. The challenge is to use shapes in your work, so I used a square, a circle, a triangle and two rectangles, one upright and one side-ways.
The large green background square and the purple circle are both from the Euphoria paper range, the pink triangle and the text rectangle are from DCWV Rose-Tinted Christmas range, and the purple stem is a scrap of paper I found in my box of cut-off bits, and I think it’s from K&Co Verbena and Peabody range.
I think I’m going to get something silver to put on it somewhere, but it will have to wait til payday and I’m not really sure what I want, so any suggestions will be gratefully received.
This pages in this layout are for two separate challenges over at Coordinates Collections.
Two of the pages are for a sketch challenge, and all of them follow the colour challenge guidelines. The photos were all taken of the coots at a local nature reserve.
The challenge this month at Anita’s Attic, over at the Creations by JJ forum is to make a project shaped like a cake. After an absolute disaster with a pop-up, I came up with this
The challenge this week over at the This Thursday Challenge blog is called “Thrown a Curve”, and this is my take. The papers are available free from Pink Petticoat via the This Thursday blog, and the chick image is also from Pink Petticoat, I just couldn’t resist
There is a great sketch at the Stamp Something blog this week, provided by the lovely Katharina from Whiff of Joy stamps
Here is a card I made last night using a stamp from Viva Las Vegas stamps and papers from K&Co. I used a square card, which threw the elements out a little, and I just couldn’t get the text to look right at the angle in the sketch, so I hope it’s ok that I tilted it the other way
There’s a great sketch this week over at 2 Sketches 4 You, pop on over and have a look. I made this anniversary card using K&Co Ashford paper. This is the first time I’ve made one of these flowers (I’m not sure if they’re called Circle flowers or lollipop flowers) and I’m quite pleased with the way it turned out
