HobbyCutz challenge

Its  time for  Hobbycutz challenge

The theme for this fortnight's challenge is Autumnal and we are spnosored by Robin's Fetish.

I coloured the image in using my pens, I love the swirling leaves on it.  I used my favourite autumnal [a[ers from Basic Grey, and simply added some ribbon,  bow and some gorgeous laser cut leaves. I am going to leave the sentiment for now - need to find a suitable one.

Supplies: 

Image: Robins Fetish Fall Fun

Sentiment: 

Colouring medium:copics

Papers: Basic Grey Mellow

Embellishments: ribbon, Hobycutz branches and leaves

Tools: 

Challenges: 

Hobbycutz Challenge

Its  time for  Hobbycutz challenge

The theme for this fortnight's challenge is Recycle.

I used this lovely Crafts and Me image Birth of Twilight and coloured her with my pens.  I wanted a really simple looking card, so I simply added the silver frantaged border and purple frantaged butterflies. The recycled element is the tassle from a box of chocolates we were given.

Supplies: 

Image: Crafts and Me Birth of Twilight

Sentiment: 

Colouring medium: Copics

Papers: Basic Grey Whats Up

Embellishments: Hobbycutz butterflies, border

Tools: 

Challenges: 

Hobbycutz challenge

Its  time for  Hobbycutz challenge

The theme for this fortnight's challenge is Masculine or Father's Day.

We don't really celebrate Father's Day, but my Dad's birthday is in June and he likes a bit of rally racing, so this seemed perfect fo him.  The car is a lasercut from Hobbycutz, and I simply created the background using a grunge check background and tyre marks stamps.  I added some TH film strip as Dad loves to photograph the cars as they come past his house, and stamped the sentiment.

Supplies: 

Image: Hobbycutz lasercut car
Visible Image grunge check background, tyre marks

Sentiment: grunge alphabet stamp set

Colouring medium:

Papers: 

Embellishments: 

Tools: 

Challenges: 

Love to Create - father's day/special guy

Anything goes - father's day

Creative Craft - for the fellas

Party time Tuesday - Happy Father's Day

Crafty Creations - 1 for the boys

Simon Says Stamp - Masculine/father's day

Papertake Weekly - anything goes
Crazy4 - Father's Day 
Glitter n Sparkle - father's day/male cards

Hobbycutz challenge

Its  time for  Hobbycutz challenge

The theme for this fortnight's challenge is flowers and roses.

Something very different from me - I thought i would have change from colouring and image in.  I used the fancy swirly doily circle from Hobbycutz and resisted the temptation to frantage it! Having stuck it to the cardstock I simply added the mix of flowers.

Supplies: 

Image: 

Sentiment: 

Colouring medium:

Papers: Cooredinations

Embellishments: Hobbycutz fancy swirly doily circle, mulberry flowers

Tools: 

Challenges: 

Whoopsi - May flowers
Everybody art - flowers

Hobbycutz challenge

Its  time for  Hobbycutz challenge

The theme for this fortnight's challenge is more than 1 fold.

I frantaged the large butterfly using aged aqua frantage and then created the stepper card (I have a tutorial HERE for it).  The dp is from Prima and I matted it onto kraft cardstock.  I added the little butterflies, adding teeny pearls to their centres and the border at the base of the card.  Finally I added some mulberry flowers.

Supplies: 

Image:

Sentiment: 

Papers: Prima Nature's garden

Embellishments: Hobbycutz butterfly, border, butterflies (mixed pack)

Tools: 

Challenges: 

Craft your passion - floral delights
Flutterby Wednesday - open
Make my Monday - anything that flies
Simon Says Stamp - things with wings

Basic Grey Challenge

Its time for another Basic Grey challenge and the theme this time is Basic Grey Mix and Match - so simply mix and match the different ranges and products.

I used Basic Grey What's Up, Porcelain and Infuse matted onto kraft cardstock.  The papers are distressed and stitched, before I added the lace and seam binding.  I added the gorgeous Hobbycutz bird cage and a bow, before adding a arrangement of flowers.  I have made this for my mum - hopefully she will like it as she doesn't really like my image cards much, or lots of fuss!!

As always, our wonderful sponsor, Simon Says Stamp is offering one lucky winner a fab $25 shopping spree in the Simon Says Superstore. 

(Please note: This is a voucher code that entitles the winner to a $25 saving off their order in Simon Says Stamp, P+P charges will still apply unless the conditions are met to earn free P+P, please check here if you would like to see these conditions)

Supplies: 

Image: Hobbycutz bird cage

Sentiment: 

Colouring medium:

Papers: Basic Grey Infuse, porcelain, what's up

Embellishments: seam binding, lace, flowers

Tools: 

 Challenges: 

Fab n Funky - lots of pink

Crafts and Me Floral Frenzy

Bearly mine - anything goes

Papertake Weekly - sketch

Crafty Creations - mothersday with flowers

Paper pretties - pink and green

Bearly mine - anything goes
Forever Friends  - use lots of flowers
Forever friends monthly challenge - anything goes
CRAFT - stitching
Crafty ribbons - anything goes with ribbon
Happy Campers collective - used lace
Card Crafters Circle - floral cards
Fuss n Fancy - anything goes
Simon Says Stamp - Happy Mail - just because
One Stop Craft - flower power

Hobbycutz challenge

Its  time for  Hobbycutz challenge

The theme for this fortnight's challenge is Mother's Day.

I coloured the image from Floppy Latte in using my pens and cut it out.  I simply matted some gingham dp onto cardstock and added green organza ribbon and a knot,and then the garden trellis. Finally I added the word Mum using the lasercut letters.

Supplies: 

Image: Floppy Latte Camilla

Sentiment: 

Colouring medium: promarkers and flex pens

Papers: Pink Petticoat

Embellishments:Hobbycutz garden trellis, letters, organza ribbon

Tools: 

Challenges: 

Clara and Edgar from Visible image

Today I am showing you the gorgeous Clara and Edgar from Visible Image Stamps.

I adore this steampunk couple, and having masked Clara and stamped Edgar next to her, I coloured them in with my pens.  The dp is Bo Bunny, and I distressed and stitched it.  The postcard is a LOTV stamp, and I stamped it onto kraft cardstock before distressing it.  I added lace and a ribbon and bow - not that it shows much after all the embellishments!!  I have a slight obsession with frantage, so the button and Hobbycutz lasercut fancy flourish have been frantaged in aged wine.  Finally a couple of Hobbycutz steampunk gears and some flowers and pearls, oh and stickles at the couple's feet.


 And for more inspiration don't forget to check out the Visible Image's facebook page, and the Visible Image blog where we have a monthly challenge.  ou just have a couple of days to get your enteries in for the Get Stamping theme.

Supplies:

Image: Visible image Clara, Visible image Edgar

Sentiment:

Colouring medium: copics and promarkers

Skin:coral sunkissed pink, blush, ivory, pastel pink

Hair: E50, E44,E47,E49

Clothes: E70,E71,E74,E77,E79
V17,V15,V12,V01
C9,7,5,3, W7,5,3,2,1

Papers: Bo bunny Market Place

Embellishments: Hobbycutz fancy flourish, Hobbycutz steampunk gears,
mulberry flowers, lace, ribbon, pearls, button

Tools: Paper distresser, sewig machine, heat gun, frantage

Challenges:

Everybody Art - 2 colours

Creative Inpsirations - ribbon and pearls

Simon Says Stamp -anything goes

Crafty Ribbons - anything goes with ribbon

DutchDare - buttons and bows

Fussy and Fancy - vintage

Totally papercrafts - lace and flowers

 

Ivory butterfly

 I used this beautiful lasercut butterfly from Hobbycutz and frantaged it using aged ivory frantage powder, beofre adding a pearl to its centre.  The cardstock is SU ccrumb cake and Core-dinations Vintage collection.  I embossed the coredinations cardstock using a flower folder and sanded it.  I added a banner cut using my fishtail stax die set, and added a couple of flower buttons with twine tied through them.

Supplies: 

Image: Hobbycutz butterfly

Sentiment: 

Colouring medium: 

Papers: SU Crumb cake, Coredinations vintage collection

 Embellishments: buttons, pearl, twine

Tools: Stampendous frantage, Dienamics Fishtail stax, embossing folder

Challenges: 

Sketch Saturday

Totally Gorguss - embossing

Cupcake Craft- monochromatic

Ribbon Girl - ivory/cream

Crafting for all seasons - no stamping allowed

Partytime Tuesday - bingo (button, twine, flower)

 

Crafty Sentiments Catwalk

 

I coloured Catwalk in using my pens.    I went for a shabby chic/vintage look with her as her dress is quite 1950s vintage.  I added muslin, lace and pearl string, and frantaged lasercut embellishments, before adding the sentiment.

Supplies: 

Image: Crafty Sentiments Catwalk

Sentiment: LOTV Everyday grunge messages

Colouring medium: promarkers and flex pens

Skin: coral, sunkissed pink, blush, ivory, pastel pink

Hair: caramel, sandstone, light fawn

Clothes:antique pink, dusky rose, pastel pin, denim blue, duck egg, cool aqua

Papers: First Edition Blank canvas, Summer Breeze,

Embellishments: Hobbycutz lasercut swirly corner and leaf, lace,
mulberry flowers, muslin, frantage

Tools: 

Challenges:

Fuss and Fancy - Vintage
Allsorts - a passion for flowers
ABC - l is for lovely lace

 

Hobbycutz challenge

Its  time for  Hobbycutz challenge.

The theme for this fortnight's challenge is monochrome, and we are being sponsored by Kenny K.

I coloured the image in using my pens and created a stippled background.  I matted the gingham dp onto blue cardstock and used a nestie to cut out the centre.  I stamped the music background onto the card blank using distress ink and then placed the dp over it.  I die cut the stars and coloured the Hobbycutz guitar in using blue metallic promarker.

Supplies: 

Image: Kenny K Star
Visible Image Music Background

Sentiment: 

Colouring medium: promarkers 

Skin: coral,sunkissed pink, blush, ivory, pastel pink

Hair: Egyptian blue, sapphire, azure, sky blue, arctic blue

Clothes:midnight blue, twilight blue, denim blue, grey green, pastel blue

Papers: Pink Petticoat gingham

Embellishments: Hobbycutz guitars

Tools: Spellbinders star die

Challenges:

 Stamp and Create - use at least one die cut

Forever Friends - diecuts/punches

Card Crafters Circle- dieing to impress you

Crazy4 - wooden accent

Kenny K - dies and punches

Hobbycutz Challenge

Its  time for a Hobbycutz challenge

The theme for this fortnight's challenge is Clean and Simple and a sketch.

I used one of the butterfly cut outs and aged it using aged wine and aged aqua frantage.  I went for a reasonably white on white card, creating the text background using the Bronte Border from Visible Image, and embossing white cardstock.  The sentiment is from Visible Image.

Supplies: 

Image: Hobbycutz Butterfly cut outs

Visible image Bronte Border
Sentiment: Visible Image More than Words set 7

Colouring medium: Frantage, Chipped sapphire distress ink

Papers: 

Embellishments: 

Tools: Frantage, Chipped sapphire distress ink

Challenges: 

DutchDare - CAS
Card making Mamas- no patterned papers

ABC challenge - Just as you like
Totally Gorguss - something blue

 

The Hobbycutz Challenge

 Welcome to another Hobbycutz challenge.

 

The theme for this fornight is Easter gift boxes.  I made a little basket to hold Easter eggs, or maybe something more grown up for my Mum!!!

 

The basket is really easy to make - it is simply a square scored, cut and folded!  I added some patterned paper and punched the pretty detail out of the handle, before adding ribbon.  The die cuts, Swirly decorative corners/borders and Scrapbooking butterflies were painteed with white acrylic paint and then sprayed with Tattered Angels Concorde chalkobard and pearl glimmer mist.  Finally I added some pearls.

 

Supplies: 

Papers: Basic Grey Oh Baby Girl

Embellishments: Hobbycutz Swirly decorative corners/borders, Scrapbooking butterflies

ribbon, pearls

Tools: Martha Stewart border punch, scoreboard

Challenges:
One Stop Craft - anything goes

The Paper Shelter - Easter

Stampavie - Easter

Bearly Mine - Easter

Flutterby Wednesday - any winged creature
Happy Campers craft collective - flutterby butterfly

My Mum's Craft Shop - Spring has Sprung
Creative Stamp friends - spring colours
Addicted to Stamps - bring on Spring 

Fuss n fancy  -flowers

Cute Card Thursday - anything goes

ABC challenge - just as you like it (anything goes) 

Sweet Stampin - easter
Simply Create - Easter/bunnies
Glitter n Sparkle - spring colours/Easter

 

laser cuts and WoW!!

I love these gorgeous laser cuts from Kobie's Hobbycutz shop - they are really good quality mdf laser cuts, and they smell gorgeous when they arrive (if you like the smell of wood, which I do!!).  You can stain or paint them as well as just use them as they come.  I sprayed the dotty flower with distress ink reinker and left it to dry.  The cardstock was embossed and I cut the banner out and layered it up.  The doily was scrunched to make it smaller and more posy like, and then I added the laser cut, and a pearl to its centre.  I added lace, ribbon, a bow and the cute laser cut butterfly, which I added pearls to.
 

Supplies:

 Image:

Sentiment: 

Colouring medium: Distress ink victorian velvet reinkerhttp://tuesdaythrowdown.blogspot.co.uk/

Embellishments:  Hobbycutz dotty flower, butterflies mixed pack, 

lace, organza ribbon, pearls, doily

Tools: Dienamics Fishtail stax, embossing folders

Challenges: 

Cards and More - lace and pearls

Creative Card Crew - ribbon

Everybody Art - butterflies

Tuesday Throwdown - lace and doillies

Papertake Weekly - anything goes

Crafty Ribbons - anything goes with ribbon 

Sweet Stampin' - embossing

My Time to Craft-  embossing

Ribbon Girl - ribbon or twine
FLutterby Wednesday - open
Paper pretties - texture

 

Charlotte

I coloured charlotte in using my pens, and the glamour dusted her wings.   I love the blue/yellow colour combination and these MME papers are perfectfor me!!  I added some pearls, ribbon and a bow, diecut flowers and the laser cut letters.

Supplies: 

Image: Sugar Nellie Charlotte

Sentiment: Hobbycutz laser cut letters

Colouring medium: promarkers and copics

Papers: MME Bluebell

Embellishments: ribbon, die cut flowers, pearls

Tools: Memory Box phlox flowers

 Challenges:

 Sketch Saturday - sketch

Cupcake Craft - sparkle

Creative Creations - Just for Mum

Creative Stamp friends - spring colours

Craft your passion - that's odd

Cutie pie - Magical

Cardmakers Circle  - make beleive

Addicted to Stamps - bring on Spring

2 Sisters - fairytales/make believe

The cupboard Trilogy - a mothers love
Allsorts- for a lady
One Stop Craft - mother's day
Glitter n Sparkle - Mothers day/ladies card

Songbird - Mama I love you

Paper playtime - anything goes
The Sugar Bowl - anything goes

 

The first Hobbycutz challenge and a blog hop

Hi and Welcome to the Launch of 

The HOBBYCUTZ CHALLENGE BLOG...

I was so excited when Kobie picked me to be part of this fab, new and exciting challenge blog.

 We will be running a bi-weekly challenge and we hope you will enjoy the creative projects we will showcase, and that we will inspire you all to come and take part in our challenges.

The Story:

  Kobie is the Owner and Designer of Hobbycutz Lasercutting & Designs.

She  grew up in a Crafty family, with a very creative Gran, Mum and even Dad...he was always into woodworking....

Kobie acquired a laser cutter early December last year after having her second child, which made it nearly impossible for her to return to work because of expensive child care, so she had to look for something she can do from home.

It was the biggest learning curve of her life and she never really realised what she was getting myself into until the machine arrived.

But anyway not going to bore you with the rest,Kobie is heree and we will have to see what the future holds.....

So to celebrate the launch of this new adventure we are having a blog hop and you have 2 weeks to join in the fun and try and win some prizes.
So I hope you arrived here from Lorraine

If not please go back to the Hobbycutz challenge blog and start the Hop there as You need to collect a letter from each member.
The rules of the hop are as follow:

 1. Leave a comment on each of the DT posts as you hop, this is a must to qualify for the prize.

2. Collect the letters from the DT's blog and email Kobie at  hobbycutz(at sign)gmail.com with the word you spell 

(ps the letters are mixed up and not everyone has one) 

3. Leave a comment on the Challenge blog letting us know which design from the website you like best

 4. Display our badge in your side bar to spread the word. 

 The winner of the hop will receive a £15 Voucher to spend on the website and two runner ups will receive each a £5.00 voucher to spend on the website.

Not only can you do the hop and win a prize .. but we also have First Challenge running which is

 ANYTHING GOES

The prize for the overall challenge which will be picked by the Random thingy will be

a £10 Voucher to spend on my website, and there will also be a £5.00 Voucher in every challenge for a Random winner using a 'HOBBYCUTZ' product.

Thank You for taking time to visit my blog. 

My Letter is ***  A ***,  

so  please hop on now to .....

***** Hobbycutz challenge blog *****

And now onto my creation for the Anything goes theme ...

I made a canvas for the girls' bedroonm door as we have just decorated it for them.  I got hubby (the technical one) to line up 4 photos of the girls and then printed them off, before sticking them behind the film strip. I painted the canvas with a coat of the blue emulsion that we have decorated the girls room in - their choice not mine!!  The I stamped their names on the heart plaque and the distressed round using worn lipstick distress inks.  I sprayed the butterflies and the scalloped heart border with tattered rose glimmer mist and then added pearls to the butterflies.  Finally I cut the flowers out of felt left over from the bunting I made for the room, and layered them up with pearl brads for the centres.

If you have got lost along the way, here is the order of the hop ...

Hobbycutz Challenge Blog

Hobbycutz Blog

Mags 

Kim  

Valou 

Chris 

Natali 

KathyK

The Cook

Wenche

Denise 

Lorraine

Cathy 

Hobbycutz Challenge Blog

Supplies: 

Stamps: IndigoBlu Circus alphabet

Embellishments: Film strip, swirly decorative border, heart, butterflies, felt flowers, pearls

Tools: Tim Holtz Tattered flowers die, distress ink, canvas

Challenges:

Challenges:

Hotshot - anything but a card

Tim Hotlz - tattered flowers challenge
Come and get it - anything but a card