FREEBIE FRIDAY AT BUGABOO'S CATCH THE BUG BLOG

Another Friday, another Freebie!!!

I made a card with today's freebie:

I coloured the image, called Sock Monkey - Months,  using alcohol markers and a white gel pen:

Other supplies used to make this card:

Striped DP

embossed and distressed CS

Ribbon

Button

Card Candi legless brads

Click HERE to link to the Catch the Bug Blog where you can download your very own sock monkey to colour.

I would like to enter my card in the following challenges:

FUSSY AND FANCY, #70, ‘BACK TO SCHOOL’

QKR STAMPEDE, #3, ‘ANYTHING GOES’

4 CRAFTY CHICKS, CRAZY EGG CHALLENGE, ‘BACK TO SCHOOL’

CCEE, CCEE1235, ‘BACK TO SCHOOL’

DO YOU STACK UP,#87, ‘BACK TO SCHOOL’

 

luv'n huggz

Jen Leeflag

Durban

South Africa

REMINDER : DIGISTAMPS 4 JOY CHALLENGE, #49 : BACK TO SCHOOL

WE HAVE A DESIGN TEAM CALL THAT CLOSES ON 31 AUGUST 2012, AS WE ARE LOOKING FOR TWO ADDITIONAL DESIGNERS TO JOIN OUR TEAM

For more information, click HERE

You have just under a week left to enter our challenge

BACK TO SCHOOL

To inspire you I have made a card using 'Caught one!" from the Digistamps 4 Joy store.  

 I coloured the image using alcohol markers and a white gel pen.

Here is a better look at the image:

Other supplies I used to make the card are:

hessian/burlap

twine

buttons

textured Nepalese paper

dragonfly charm

kraft card

here is better view of the sentiment (my own) and the dragonfly charm:

Are you ready to create something fabulous?

By entering you could win one of these prizes:

DT'S CHOICE : $10 gift voucher from the store and a badge for your blog

RANDOM WINNER : 3 images of your choice from the store and a badge for your blog

and

2 runners up will win badges for their blogs

We have introduced an extra prize ....

... the chance to feature as a Guest Designer and earn a badge to add to your blog:

And how do you get to be a Guest Designer?

Easy-peasy - if you enter our challenge using a Digistamps 4 Joy image, you have a chance of being invited as a Guest Designer.   

Are you ready to create something fabulous?

Remember to link your post, not your blog, to the linky tool here.

And what if you don 't have a blog ... you can still enter by emailing the photograph of your entry to jencraft.jen[at]gmail[dot]com, with "DS4J CHALLENGE #48 EMAIL ENTRY" in the subject line.  Don 't forget to add your name in your email.

We have a few rules we'd like you to read ... check out the sidebar ->->->

Remember to add a link to this challenge in your blog post .. you wouldn't want to be disqualified from winning a prize just because you didn't!
   

Remember : you may enter up to three different entries per challenge, each from a separate entry on your blog.

We can't wait to see what you have for us!

You will find the challenge entry linky HERE.

luv'n huggz

Jen Leeflang

DURBAN

SOUTH AFRICA 

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

CRAZY AMIGOS CHALLENGE, ‘BACK TO SCHOOL’

FASHIONISTA CHALLENGE, #6, ‘CARD FOR A CHILD’

LOLLIPOP CRAFTS, #88, ‘BACK TO SCHOOL’

LEXI’S CREATIONS, #73, ‘BACK TO SCHOOL OR COLLEGE’

THE KRAFT JOURNAL, ‘BACK TO SCHOOL WITH KRAFT OUTLET’

CORROSIVE CHALLENGES, #156, ‘CUTE AS A BUTTON’

CREATIVE INSPIRATIONS, ‘INSPIRED BY BACK TO SCHOOL’

MY SHERI CRAFTS, #92, ‘BACK TO SCHOOL’

CDAC PROGRESSIVE FREEBIE CHALLENGES

The new series of Progressive Freebie Challenges at CDAC is called 

'YOU CAN BE THE STAR'

Members were invited to create a card with a freebie from Tiffany Doodles, in advance, and a 'Star' would be chosen to introduce the challenge to the rest of the members.  Five stars were chosen, and I am proud to announce that mine was one of them.

I printed the image directly onto pastel colouored DP and then coloured the postive space (the surfboards)  I left the negative spaces blank - a technique I developed called "Faux Paper Piecing".  I used a white gel pen to define some of the lines on the surboards.

Here is a closer look:

Living in a surfers paradise, (Durban South Africa) and in the same community as Heidi Palmboom, I chose to celebrate all the female surfers worldwide!  I have a husband who surfed as a younger man, and I watched Jordie Smith learning to ride his skateboard almost before he could walk (Jordie lived next door) and he attended the school where I worked.  

As you can see, I chose to make a girlie card, inspired by the surfer girls.  To complete the card I added a grosgrain ribbon with a blinged slider that I have had in my stash forever !LOL! and added a sentiment that I generated on the computer.

The details of the challenge can be viewed HERE.

I really am looking forward to the next round, which features a free image from Priscillastyles:

 

luv'n huggz

Jen Leeflang

Durban

South Africa 

I would like to add this card to the following challenges too:

 

BEARLY MINE CHALLENGES, #50, ‘ANYTHING THAT GLITTERS’ (My slider is sparkly)

CLEAR IT OUT CHALLENGE, ‘INSPIRATION AND STASH ITEM’ (slider and ribbon)

CRAFTY SENTIMENTS, ‘LET’S SPARKLE’ (slider)

EVERYBODY ART CHALLENGE, #202, ‘ANYTHING GOES’

PAPELITO’S, #9, ‘PRETTY IN PINK’

USE IT TUESDAY, #38, ‘USE THAT RIBBON’

CARD MANIA, #2, ‘ON THE BEACH’

CRAFTY CARDMAKERS, #73, ‘OH I DO LIKE TO BE BESIDE THE SEASIDE’

OOH LA LA CREATIONS, #112, ‘ALL AT SEA’

TRULY MADLY CRAFTY, AUGUST CHALLENGE, ‘SUMMER  FUN’

DARING CARDMAKERS, ‘BESIDE THE SEASIDE’

NEW RELEASE TUESDAY AT CATCH THE BUG

Yay!  A new release at Bugaboo Stamps and you can see projects made with this cutie here on the Catch the Bug blog.

I also created a Birthday card for a boy, in monochromatic blues, using alcohol markers and  a white gel pen.  Mr Bubbles' body was covered in Glossy Accents.

To put the rest of the card together I used :

embossed metallic paper

border punch

corner punch

stick on gems

satin ribbon

stick on birthday sentiment

I would like to add this card to the following challenges:

MAKE IT MONDAY, #104, ‘ANYTHING GOES’

QKR STAMPEDE, #2, ‘ANYTHING GOES’

Luv'n huggz

Jen leeflang

DURBAN

SOUTH AFRICA