Dragons Lair Challenge for March

It's the first Friday of the month and time for the start of a new challenge with Dragons Lair Designs. This month the theme is Anything Goes with an optional twist of Spring Flowers.



Materials used:Dragons Lair Designs - Spring Medley (not available in store)
Dragons Lair Designs - Pansy Stamp
15cm square card blank
X-Press It card
printer card
gold greetings sticker
Polychromo pencils

The background design is sized and printed out on printer card then the middle of the frame cut out with a craft knife.

The pansy digi stamp is printed on X-Press It card at the correct size to fit the appature and given a little hint of colour with the pencils before being attached behind the frame.

The topper is attached to the front of the card blank and the greeting sticker added.

So why not join us and have a go yourself. Here are all the details you need:

We are a challenge blog that pride ourselves on being open to all levels of crafters, which is why we alway pick our winner using a random number generator.

We are a monthly challenge and winners will be announced with the new challenge which
go live the first Friday of each month.

You may enter our challenge using any material you wish as long as you clearly follow the set theme.

You may enter our challenge with only 1 entry per month and
you must provide a direct link to the blog post showing your entry, as well as back link to the challenge blog within that entry post.

The prize for winning will be announced with each challenge.
A badge for your blog will go to the winner as well as the winning entry being highlighted on the challenge blog the following month.

Dragons Lair Designs March Challenge - Anything Goes/Spring Flowers - starts on 3rd March.

• Dragons Lair Designs Store - A fantastic range of digital downloads


• Dragons Lair Designs Inspiration Blog - Bookmark us and come back regularly for inspiration


• Dragons Lair Designs Challenge Blog - Challenges starting the 1st Friday of every month with different themes, please come along and take part


• Dragons Lair Designs Fan Group - Even more inspiration, challenges, freebies and fun activities


• Dragons Lair Designs Facebook Page - Please do pop over and "Like" our page


• Dragons Lair Designs Etsy Store  - Another location to get hold of our range of digital downloads


• Janette Padley's Creations on craftsUprint - Yet another location to get hold of our digital downloads


• Dragons Lair Designs Crafts Group - selling buttons and bits and bobs

We'd love to have you join us in our Facebook Fan Group and post up some pictures of any creations you make using any DLD items. For your information there is also a free stamp challenge there as well.

Thanks for dropping in. Take care.

I would like to enter the following challenges:Crafty Sentiments Designs - Anything Goes
Lemon Shortbread #36 - Anything Goes
Crafty Creations #336 - Anything Goes
Crafting By Designs March - Anything Goes
Inspiration Destination #123 - Anything Goes
A Bit More Time To Craft #39 - Anything Goes

Where did the days go?

I have just realised it is over a week since I last posted. I'd love to say that I have lots of projects finished and ready to share with you but that would not be quite true.  I do have a lot of projects but most of them are still in my head and the ones I have started are not ready to share!

I do have one thing I can share. I have been working on Create and Learn  Classes from Kit and Clowder. It sends me way out of my comfort zone for both the pencils and the markers but I am enjoying the challenge. My final pieces are no where near perfect but I do learn so much just giving them a go. So in the absence of any actual finished projects here are some pictures of the images I have been working on.



Both of these have been coloured with Polychromos.

If you are looking to learn more about colouring or improve your skills, have a look at the Kit and Clowder site. Alyce Keegan runs the 'company' and is a fantastic teacher. The advantage of doing a paid for course is that you get all the wonderful tips and help with feedback on your work. You can either go for a large techniques class or a smaller project class.

Thanks for dropping in. Hopefully there will be a finished project to tell you about over the weekend. Take care.

Pippa

Outlawz Progressive Digi Challenge

This month the digi image for the Outlawz challenge is a cheeky looking frog. Here is my card using that image.

Materials used:
Free Digi Stamp - Frog (sorry I cannot link it because I am not sure where it is from. If you are interested in getting it pop along to the Outlawz Challenges and they might be able to help)
Derwent Acadamy Sketching paper
Polychromo pencils
White, orange and brown card
circle dies

Method:
I printed out the image onto the Derwent paper and coloured it in with the polychromo pencils. I then cut it with the circle die and also cut two mats, increasing in size, from the orange and brown card. I layered all my circles up. I printed the greeting onto the white card before scoring and folding it into an A5 card blank. Finally I used foam pads to attach my image.

This is my first play with the polychromos so I am still very much at the beginner stage. I deliberately kept the sky and the grass colouring grainy so that the frog would stand out even more. The frog is coloured based on the Strawberry Poison Dart Frog. I had decided to do a tree frog because they have much more colour in them.

Thank you for dropping in. Take care.

Pippa

I would like to enter my card into:
The Outlawz Progressive Freebie Challenge - April
Word Art Wednesday Challenge 181 - Anything goes