Summertime

The theme for the challenge on the Crafting Muskateers' blog for the month of July is 'Summertime' and we are very lucky this month to be sponsored by the Hobby House and the prize is a £10 voucher to spend in their store.

and here is my contribution to our challenge.

I love pink and orange together so I thought I would go down that route for my new challenge card and it sets off the lovely Penny Blank stamped image perfectly.

Don't worry if you don't have a blog as you can upload your work onto our Facebook page. 

Thanks for dropping by :) x

Crafting Muskateers Challenge #14

Hi, crikey I can't believe we are on Challenge #14 already! Thanks to everyone who played along with us on the last challenge and congratulations to the winner and top 3, there were some amazing entries as always.

Sad news again in this post, we have said bye to Avril and Kathy-Jo who have both decided to step down from the team, we're going to miss you girls.

We have a couple of new ladies joining our team though and they are Nichola Welham and Cheremane Smith.. Cheremane is our GDT for this challenge and then joins us permanently in July. 

The theme for this month is "Stamped Image" (this can include a digi stamp) and it has been sponsored by the wonderful  www.polkadoodles.com The prize on offer is 4 Digi Images from the sponsor which the DT have used for their projects.

As well as the Polkadoodles image I have used backing paper from the "Words For Him" A4 paper pad #20846 by Aspire Crafts train and image are from the wonderful Clearly Besotted Stamps

If you don't have your own blog , you can join us on our Facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Crafting-Musketeers-Challenge-BLOG/320703981385124

Thanks for dropping by

Happy Birthday Mum

Thank you to everyone who took part in the February challenge over on the Crafting Muskateers challenge blog.

It was my lovely Mum-in Law's birthday on 23rd last month and I decided to make her birthday card for this challenge which is sponsored by Debbi Moore Designs. Debbi's was the first ever DT I was on way back and I actually designed for them for about 3 years altogether. The only reason I left was because I felt as though I was getting into a rut and needed to spread my wings a bit. I shall always be grateful to Debbi, Lynn and the team though :)

My card

I used a Pyramage topper from the Glitter & Glitz cd and added a bucket load of glitter and diamantes. The leaves are cut with a Joy Ccrafts die and the rolled flowers are from the Bebunni Love Collection from Crafters Companion

This is what is on offer to the winner this week 

Don't worry if you haven't got a blog of your own as we have a Facebook page and you can pop your card up there.

Good luck :) x

Kanban is back!

I, along with thousands of other fans will be absolutely elated at the news Karen and Keith have posted on the Aspire  Crafts web site today.

If you like Kanban and you want to keep up with all the latest news etc then why not join the OFFICIAL Kanban Facebook group.

Here's to a brilliant future. x

Free p and p

If you fancy investing in the gorgeous goodies I used for my Aspire Crafts design team cards then you can order any time this month and get free p and p on all orders to the UK mainland and Scotland. This usually only applies to orders of £20.00 and over, any orders below this are usually subject to a carriage charge of £4.99.

The Vintage Bloom goodies are worth getting your hands on as are the DekroMounts, in fact I'm doing my order as I write this post :)

If you hop over to the Aspiring Crafters' blog and the Aspiring Crafters' Facebook page, Fran is introducing the design team this week.

Thanks for dropping by. xx

New Challenge

After all the weeks and weeks of misery and hype we are finally  ready to play :) The Crafting Muskateers are here with a fabulous new challenge blog with some brilliant challenges and some gorgeous prizes from some lovely (and very generous) sponsors! We also have a Facebook page for you to follow especially if you don't have a blog, you can add your work to the page.

The Crafting Muskateers is borne from the old Kanban Design Team. When Kanban folded we were all gutted as to be expected and then we decided that, as we were a strong team, we wanted to stay together especially as some of us had been on the team together for over a year. There have been a few changes to the team however. Craig and Toni left then so did Emma and Karen. Sarah Wright came back to join us and the newest DT member is Nicole Bretherick I'm sure there will be a lot of Kanban stuff to be seen on our challenge projects but it's not necessary to use it, it just means that we have got loads of stuff left over lol.

The first challenge has been sponsored by Creata International owned by the lovely Carley Duff and what a prize we have up for grabs!

The theme for the first challenge is

Anything Goes

So now the rest is up to you....give us your best work and upload it to either our FB page or use Mr Linky on the challenge blog and keep your fingers crossed :) Don't forget to pop over to the blog to see what the wonderful DT have made and we would love you to comment even if yiu don't want to take part.

I suppose I should show yoiu my card (I forgot about that bit!)

Materials used:

8 x 8 card blank

900835 Gone Fishing b/g card

900806 Catch Of The Day topper

Card Candi

Craftwork Cards sentiment

Thanks for dropping by and I really hope that you will come and join us at 12 noon for our first challenge. :)

New challenge blog

It's good news time folks!

For all of you who have missed the old Kanban blog we have good news! The old DT have decided that as we all got along so well we were going to stay together if possible and bring on a super duper new challenge blog. So with Sharon and Fran doing all the hard work  at the helm here we are again, now known as the Crafting Muskateers! :) We have some fantastic challenges lined up for you and loads of fantastic sponsors offering wonderful goodies as prizes and we will go live on 2nd May. I'm really looking forward to the months ahead and working with the team again. We also have a Facebook page so you can pop over there and see what's happening, also if you don't have a blog you can still enter our challenges by posting your goodies over there.

See you on the 2nd May :) xx