Black and White Challenge

This months challenge here at the Crafting Cafe is Black and White. So this time I have decided to do my card just black and white, so I have added no other colour at all. The image I have used is from this months sponsor. It is such a cute kitty it must be a little girl.

I have just used lots of layers of black and white papers and the image has been decoupaged. Then just a bit of ribbon and some gems.

Pop back and see the ideas that my fellow DT members come up with to inspire you. This will be the last month you can join in the challenge here on the blog, starting next month the challenge will be moving to our facebook page. So please join in we would love to see your creations.

May Winner & Top 3

Good morning all, Dawn here with the 

Winner & Top 3 for our last months challenge

Around The World

Not so many entries entries this time but those we had were all great!

We loved all the different intertpretations of the theme too!

Everone deserves a big pat on the back & I wish you could all have a prize but

there can only be one winner!

I asked Mr Random.Org  to give me a number & he chose

#14 Jessie

With this lovely little travel themed box

You have won our sponsor prize of 7 images of your choice from

Bugaboo Stamps

To claim your prize, please drop us an email to

craftingcafe@hotmail.co.uk 

Don't forget to grab your winners badge from below!

Now on to our Top 3 as chosen by our DT

#1 Ike

#8 Jackie T

#10 Helen

Grab your Top 3 badges from below ladies & wear them with pride on your blogs!

I hope you'll play along in this month's challenge here

May Challenge

Welcome to the new challenge here at

The Crafting Cafe

First of all we'd like to thank everyone who played in our

challenge last month. We had some great entries, so well done everyone!

The DT will have a tough job on their hands deciding on the Top 3

Check back in a few days to see who the lucky entries are!

On to the May Challenge!

Our theme this time is 

Around The World

We are sponsored this month by the wonderful

Bugaboo Stamps

Who are offering one lucky winner their choice of 7 images

We can't wait to see how you interpret this one!
In my minds eye I can see globes, circles, modes of transport, people from different
nations, food from foreign lands, national costumes,
animals from different countries...........
The list is endless!

Can we politely ask that you read our rules before you link up & please,
please, in the inteterest of fairness, only one entry per person!

Our DT Call is now closed & we'd like to thank
 everyone who showed an interest in joining our Design Team.
You really are a very talented bunch!
If you've been successful, we'll be in touch with you over this month.

Pop back over the month to see what the Design Team have been up to.
 They are all having great fun using images provided by  Bugaboo Stamps
  I can't wait to see their creations.

Happy crafting from all at
xxxThe Crafting Cafe xxx

An InLinkz Link-up

Iridescence with ProMarkers

It's a bit of a stretch of the 'Around The World' theme this month, but we're off to the Americas to where the hummingbirds do their amazing flying, hovering and most particularly their colour and iridescence. How to capture that on paper? This image from our sponsors this month, Bugaboo Stamps, needed bright colours, as well as delicate shading, and ProMarkers were my first choice. A light touch with some Star Dust Stickles added the iridescence that I wanted - it also helps to use more than one colour on the plumage.

Pens used:
Sky: Arctic Blue/Pastel Blue
Bird: Lavender (wings), Denim Blue/Turquoise/Bright Green
Flowers: Maroon/Magenta/Hot Pink/Carmine, Gold/Canary
Leaves: Pear Green/Bright Green

The sentiment is a die cut from Craftwork Cards.

Until next time, which will be my last time on this fabulous DT,

Neil

May - Around the World - Angelie

Hi Everyone

Hope you enjoyed the long weekend! I've decided to use this cute image for my DT project as it made me smile :) I've coloured it with promarkers and attached it to a little handmade gift box which would fit one or two posh chocolates.
Looking forward to seeing your makes before the end of the month

hugs
Angelie

Marlene

Inspiration by Sammy

Hi all, Sammy here with some more around the world inspiration for you featuring a fab image from our sponsor Bugaboo.

The sentiment is in Doric, a dialect spoken in North-East Scotland, and means "How are you?" (which I added to the bottom of the card, as you can see.) It's a bit of an in-joke, as my brother - the recipient - is becoming more and more intelligible every time we see him. I'm sure he's making half of it up! ;-)

There's still a week to enter this month, so I hope you'll come and play along!

Sammy-x