Charmed To Join In With Dottie's World

Juliet set the challenge on Sunday on Dottie's World and said:

"Charmed - this week's challenge is to add a charm to your project. It can be anything as long as it dangles (oops sorry, does that sound too rude?) and, of course include one of the Charmed downloads too!"

So, I raided my charm box and found a flower. Having decided to make it into a phone charm, all I had to do was make a card to hang it from. One of the problems with this is that the card still needs to look right when the charm's taken off for use. I hope it worked. I've used an image from the Girls About Town collection, printed onto watercolour paper and coloured with my Prismacolour pencils.

Don't forget to hop over to Dottie's World to grab your invitation to the party next week.

Thanks for looking
Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxoxo

BIG BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS FOR DOTTIE'S WORLD

Where do I start? Would you believe Dottie's Wonderful World is nearly a year old? No, me either. To celebrate, there's loads going on for a week starting this Sunday (17th May). Bad news is that the site's closing for a couple of days this Friday to allow changes to happen. Sounds exciting doesn't it?

Blog candy (random draw taking place on Saturday 23rd May)

Here's my invitation, you need to go and get yours now.

DOTTIE'S WORLD ~ WHERE IT'S ALL GOING ON

All Things Bright And Beautiful

Juliet set the challenge at Dottie's World today and challenged us to make a project using 'bright and beautiful' colours along with at least one of Lou's downloads.

I've used the pre-coloured Rocker-Gothic Dottie from the Rock & Roll collection to make this card which looks much brighter IRL.

Thanks for looking

Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxo

You'd Better Shape Up

It was Lou's turn to set the challenge on Dottie's World on Sunday and she said,

"You might have spotted that I'm a bit addicted to making shaped cards so I've decided to go with what I love and challenge you all to make a shaped card using one of the Charmed digi stamps. When I say shaped I mean it can be any shape except the usual square or rectangle."

So, I went to Mirkwood templates and downloaded one for a hexagon petal card. After cutting it out using double-sided card stock, I punched a hole in each petal with my crop-a-dile and threaded ribbon through to enable me to tie it together.

I used a pre-coloured hippie Dottie from the Rock & Roll collection and stuck it inside with foam pads and added a sentiment that was a magazine freebie ages ago.

My message is written on gold glitter paper stuck on the back.

Everyone who enters will be put in a draw for some fab goodies :D

Thanks for looking

Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxo

Dottie's World Sketch Challenge

Karen set the challenge on Dotttie's World last Sunday and is giving away a fabulous prize too.

Here's the sketch she's told us to use:

and here's my take on it:

I used my new ROBO to design the scallops and cut the poppy paper, but had the paper the wrong way up. If you look hard enough you'll see that I've turned and flipped the sketch and elements a bit so that everything fits in.

The image from the Girls About Town Collection, has been coloured with Prismacolours. I got brave and tried them on a card I'm giving away. I need more practice, that's for sure.

Thanks for looking

Take care, love to you all

Sarah C xoxo

WOWeee Lou

Hop on over to Dottie's World to see what Lou's latest dowload collection is. It's just simply an amazing work of art. It's totally Back to Front. Go on then, what are you waiting for?

Dottie's World - Pure and Simple

Adele has challenged us on Dottie's World to keep it Pure and Simple. She said "No patterned papers, just clean, fresh and simple. I don't want any fuss on our creations this week."

So, heres what I did using builder George from Charmed.

My sister's O/H (Gav) is well known for his non-existent DIY skills, (if you're reading this Gav, you know you're great at lots, just not DIY), so the wording reads:

D.I.Y. - destroy it yourself

From the dictionary courtesy of Gav

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Tip#1 - Step away from the toolbox

Thanks for looking

Take care. Love and hugs,

Sarah C xoxo

Colour Me Silly

That's the theme for this week's challenge on Dottie's World set by Juliet. Here's my card and don't forget that Dottie, George and their friends are available for download at Charmed.

I've used Elvis George and water-coloured him and his background using my brush markers.

Thanks for looking

Take care
Love and hugs

Little Birdie

A little birdie told me there were more downloadable images by Lou and available from Charmed. So I had to go and take a peak and wow, they were amazing. Pop over to Dotties World for a look at more cards and images than I have to offer you here. I have made one card with these images so far and used the pre-coloured image titled 'little birdie'.


I have put a vellum envelope inside so that some money can be added. The tag is there so that the envelope will still have something in it once the money's been spent.

I used Stazon to stamp the image onto the vellum and back of the tag.

These are great to work with. Little Birdie is printed on photo paper and 3D'd onto brown paper. The card is covered with PP from Poundland.

Thanks for looking.

Love and hugs

B & W and One Colour Challenge

I've been busy today and have completed some internet challenges.

Over on Dottie's World, Adele set the Sunday challenge this week. Everyone who enters gets a fabulous fairy Dottie.

Adele says:

Right, I will tell you about this week's challenge which is;

Black, white and a splash of .........COLOUR!!!

I want your creations this week to include one or more of the Charmed Download images and to be only 3 main colours. Black, white and one colour of your choice. You can use as many tones of grey and of your chosen colour and you can obviously use a skintone and haircolour ( I am feeling generous! LOL )but that's it.

Here's my card


I watercoloured George (from the Rock & Roll collection available at Charmed) and the background using my brush markers. He's mounted onto black textured, sandy spotted and white photo paper. I covered the base card in the sandy spotted paper and added a piece of black spotty ribbon. I used foam pads to give the image some dimension.

Thanks for looking.

Love and hugs

Spotty Dottie

Karen set the Sunday challenge on Dottie's World titled 'Spotty Dottie' and said:

No I am not asking for a pubescent Dotty in need of a tube of Clearasil, but I would like to see some spots. Yep, today I am setting the challenge here on Dottie's World, and this is what I would like you to do:

SPOTTY DOTTIE

I want to see SPOTS. It doesn't have to be Dottie, you can of course use any of the downloads. BUT I don't just want to see a circle or two.

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So, what did I do? This:

In a Word document, I took Dottie and George from the Love and Marriage collection and the stage from the Christmas Collection and overlapped them before printing it as a whole picture onto safmat. I mounted this onto white cardstock, inked the edges and matted it onto some PP. I made the wording using Word Art and printed on SafMat, mounted on white cardstock and inked the edges. I covered a piece of white card in dotty paper, added 2 dotty brads and some ribbon. The main image and words are mounted using foam pads.

So, the dotty elements are: dotty background, dotty brads and George going dotty over Dottie.

Thanks for looking.

Love and hugs

NOT a Card

Lou set the weekly challenge on Dottie's World this week. She said:

"It's my week this week and I fancied a change so here's the challenge;
Make something using a Charmed download but IT CAN'T BE A CARD!"

Ok, thinking cap on. Do I do a LO? No, I fancy doing something else. So, my aim was a one layer exploding box to use as a gift box. I got the layer cut and folded then decided that I didn't want to do that so I cut some more card and made a proper box.

And here it is.

I had a pre-coloured Robin Dottie (available from Charmed) that I'd printed out earlier onto photo paper, so used that. I added green glitter glue to the leaves and diamond Stickles to her tummy. I put red ribbon round the edge and secured it with a red dotty brad. Notches I cut in the side were edged with cinammon Stickles.

I'm aiming to use this (if I make more) as alternative Christmas crackers or I may just use this as a traditional gift box.

Thanks for looking.

Love and hugs

xxx

A is for Acetate

Dottie's World challenge this week was set by Nicola. She said:

A is for Acetate with a hint of pink!!

It can be a whole acetate card,an aperture of acetate,an embelishment as long as Acetate is there some where & as October is Breast Cancer awareness month I'd like to see some pink!!!

I stamped some acetate and cut the letters and corners, then stuck them on by using my Xyron 150 sticker maker. I added pink ribbon, Imaginisce blooms, brads and ink round the edge and of course a Dottie and George image. I'm turning this into an A4 birthday postcard for someone next year.

Thanks for looking. Love and hugs,
xxx

Love Is ............. Dottie and George

Love most certainly is Dottie and George. And that is the theme to this week's challenge on Dottie's Wonderful World set by Juliet. Here's what she said:

"This week, I'd like you to create something on the theme 'Love is......' and I would like to see a message or journalling on the FRONT of your card. As usual, you must include one of the Dottie downloads too and we are all really looking forward to seeing your fabulous creations."

So, heres my creation (images available from Charmed and are from the love and marriage collection):

Front

Inside

Front showing acetate aperture that I've drawn a scallop border around

I've used SafMat for the wording and front image and I've used photo paper for the inside image. The hearts are holagraphic stickers that I've drawn scalloop borders round.

Thanks for looking. Take care, love

xxx

And Also ............

Nicola set the Sunday challenge on Dottie's Wonderful World. She said:

AND ALSO......I would like you to make a card or something,which of course is using a download/s from Charmed Cards AND ALSO.....something which can be removed from it,such as a tag,bookmark,notelets

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Lizzie set the latest challenge on 3C's and we had to make a card, LO and ATC using a sketch and added extra(s) of her choosing. For the card we had to add glitter and embossing.

I chose to combine these challenges and here's my take on them:

Dottie's World ~ The tag goes behind the image on the card and is a bookmark.

Lizzie's ~ hand-embossed notes in 2 corners and flowers in the other 2.


Thanks for looking. I will be back with more soon I'm sure. I really need to set aside some time for blogging.

Dottie's Been Tagged

Over on Dottie's World last Sunday (24th August), Adele set the Sunday challenge. Although I'm posting very early Sunday morning (3:30amish to be precise), I'm still officially on Saturday as I haven't been to bed yet. So, technically speaking, I'm still in time for this challenge :D LOL

Adele said:

This week I want to see a tag or tags of any shape or size. It could be tag shape toppers, gift tags, tag books....and because hubby and me have just celebrated our wedding anniversary....for an extra Dottie bonus I would love to see some hearts and flowers too!!!

My card is a 25th wedding anniversary acceptance card as I needed to get one to the couple by Wednesday 3rd September! Something else I've left until the last minute! I've used one of the fab pre-coloured images from the love and marriage collection and printed it onto Safmat. For the hearts, I used Papermania paper and the flowers (red and pink) are from Calico Crafts. I cut the card in the shape of a tag and added ribbon to the top of the front. I've also stamped a 'thank you' tag and added narrow ribbon to that too.

Challenge completed and as long as I get it in the post now, I can go to the ball.

Dottie's World Customer Thursday

How could I forget to tell you all my latest news? I've been featured on Dottie's World. Thank you so much Nicola for choosing me. I'm very humbled and pleased as punch