Summer's Here - July's challenge

Hopefully wherever you are today there is a blue sky and lots of bright summers colours all around you. I always feel so much more alive and filled with energy when the sun is shining....

Thank you to everyone who took part in our challenge last month - what a fantastic bunch of projects you shared with us - very inspiring!

This month our challenge theme for you is
  'Summer's Here'....

 now it's over to you to get creative and then share it with us.....
 remember to link your blog onto this post so that we can pop on over and leave you some crafty love....
if this is the first time you have joined us - 'welcome x'

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This month our sponsor is the wonderfully talented Lindsay from

 LEJ Designs.

The Design Team have been working away with her designs creating projects

 to inspire you over the month.

The winner of this months challenge will get their choice of 4 digis from
Lindsay's wonderful collection.

Here are a few cards that I made for the challenge,
I used the same 'blossom' digi but achieved 3 totally different looks.

Now it's over to you!
Remember to keep popping back over the month as the
DT members will be stopping by to share their creations with you.

Happy crafting

Nikki x

So grateful summer's finally here!

'Summer's Here!' by Neil Burley

As I write this, the sun is shining, the heat is getting to me, and the weatherman isn't saying it'll be raining any time soon! That must mean this is summer? Last year there was no blossom on the cherry tree at my allotment, this year there was plenty, though I now only have one cherry ripening.

The fabulous 'Blossom' digistamp from LEJ Designs (our sponsor this month) was perfect for making a summer-themed thank you card. I printed the digistamp onto my favourite coated card and coloured with Pale Pink/Burgundy/Cardinal Red and Gold ProMarkers. I used an embossing tool from the reverse to emboss the branches, some of the flowers and the flower stems, before colouring a second copy and cutting out some of the open flowers and shaping them with the embossing tool before decoupaging them onto the image. The stamens are cotton thread tied in a bundle, trimmed, coloured with the Gold ProMarker at the tips and then stuck down with matt multi-medium. I used the thank you stamp from the Gratitude clear stamp set from WOW! Embossing Powders with Burgundy Versasmall ink pad, and then printed out the quote on a colour printer to match. Everything is mounted on Bazzil Brocade cardstock onto an ivory hammered effect card.

I hope the 3D elements come across in the photo, but if not, here's a close-up to try and show it better!

Hello Summer

Happy Friday everyone!

It's Ria here today :) I'm sharing my take in this month's ''Summer's Here'' challenge.

I used the Blossom digi image from LEJ Designs. I colored them with Promarkers and added a crochet ribbon strip that I already have in my stash to complement the flower colors. Summer has a bright fun colors so I used lively colors of the pallet.

There's still time to play along the challenge so go and have fun creating a card for summer.

Thanks for stopping by today. Enjoy the rest of the summer!

Summers Here - July Challnge

Hi everyone hope you are all well & enjoying all the creations 

that have been made by all our fab design team

You still have a week left to enter our challenge

& the theme is Summer`s Here

My card this month is made with this 

fantastic digi from our sponsor 

LEJ DESIGNS 

Many thanks for joining us, i look forward to seeing your creations

For more info on my card my blog is

http://debscraftycreations.blogspot.co.uk/

I would love you to visit 

Summer's Here By Sylvia

Hiya Sylvia here I hope you are enjoying the sunshine,

I certainly am,

I would like to show you my DT card for the crafting café.

I decided to do some paper piecing.

Items used.

Digi. http://www.lejdesigns.co.uk/

White cardstock.

Free background image.

Promarkers.

Shells (from my stash)

I look forward to reading your comments .

Lots of love, Sylvia x

Summer's Here - Dawn

Summer's Here!

Most definitely! I love all this sunshine, don't you?

I have used the image Beachy Fun from our lovely sponsor

LEJ Designs

If you haven't entered the challenge yet, there is still time,

you have until the end of the month! 

So go create!

The DT can't wait to visit your blog & leave some love!

Day 19 at The Crafting Cafe

Hi Folks

Mags here on Day 19 of our 'Summers Here' challenge at The Crafting Cafe.

I have used a super image from our sponsor LEJ Designs to create my Summer Themed card.  I created a little beach scene by using glitter paper, beach huts paper and some cut out palm trees.  

For more details of how I created my card just pop by my blog.

You have until the end of the month to enter the challenge.  So let's see those summer creations.  

Bye for now

Mags

xx