Today is a joint celebration! As you may be aware, this is the month that Quixotic Paperie turned TWO! What you may not know is that it is also the month in which Australian company Make it Crafty is turning ONE!

Quixotic Paperie have been stocking the fantastic Make it Crafty range of products (Rubber Stamps – Lasercut Chipboard – Make it Colour Blending Card) since April 2011, and are one of the first places you can find them outside of Australia! We are thrilled to be celebrating with Make it Crafty today.

To celebrate we thought that rather than a blog hop we would set a CHALLENGE using Make it Crafty products!!

To get inspired, hop on over to the Make it Colourful challenge blog where you will see the amazing creations our fabulous DT’s have created for this event! PLUS find out all the details on how you can play along!

Make it Crafty Stamps available at www.quixoticpaperie.co.uk

OF COURSE THERE ARE PRIZES!!

There are FIVE challenge categories and there will be FIVE GRAND WINNERS!

PLUS, PLUS, PLUS

There will be random winners throughout the whole month. The numbers have been pre-selected and as soon as an entry is added that matches that number they WIN! Winners will be announced soon after entry on the sidebar of Make it Colourful.

PLUS there’s MORE!!

Quixotic Paperie have a little something for you too!! Make sure you pop on over to HERE to enter your name for a chance at MORE Make it Crafty Goodies!!

PLUS THERE’S MORE!!!

Zoe, the owner of Make it Crafty has a super duper HUGE Candy give away – choc-a-block FULL of Make it Crafty goodies!! AND I have heard a whisper that she is planning on having random giveaways on her blog throughout the month of
July! All you need to do is leave her some love as she’ll randomly be choosing people who have commented on her posts throughout the last year!!

PLUS THERE’S EVEN MORE!!!

You’ll also receive a set of steak knives when you… hahaa ONLY Joking BUT… for THREE DAYS ONLY you’ll be able to get 40% off Make it Crafty Digi Stamps when you enter the coupon code: CELEBRATE (Ends June 28th)

So I do hope you will celebrate with us this month and get into the Make it Crafty spirit of FUN!!

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On to my card!  I went for the challenge to use a creative combination of images.  I knew I wanted to use the OPEN WINDOW stamp, and from there decided to use the adorable beach characters DYLAN, EBONY and SANDY to create a fun scene.  So, Dylan is no longer holding a shell in his hand, it’s a biscuit/cookie, and he’s watching from the window as his sisters/friends are about to start “landscaping” Mum & Dad’s garden. Haha!

My card also counts for the Rubber Stamps Only challenge, as all the images used are in lovely rubber, and the Merge Multiple Stamps challenge, as I have used four to create my scene!

Make it Crafty Stamps available at www.quixoticpaperie.co.uk

I had a lot of fun colouring this one, although next time I’d tackle the wall differently, maybe with some brickwork, and probably add some flowers/grass along the bottom of it.

Coloured with Copic Markers on MAKE IT COLOUR BLENDING CARD.  I kept the rest of the card very simple, and just layered some old Crate Paper I had in a drawer, with some red cardstock.  The scene does all the work!

Skin: E0000, E000, E00, E11, E95 Ebony Hair & Clothes Etc: E50, E53, E55, E57, YR0000, YR12, Yr15, YR18, BG70, BG72, BG75, BG78, R22, R24, R29 Sandy Hair & Clothes Etc: C4, C6, C9, B63, BG32, BG34, BG49, Y28, Y13, Y15, Y17, E97 Dylan Hair & Clothes Etc: C4, C6, C9, B63, R21, R22, R24, R29, E99, E71, E74, E77 Window Frame/Shutters: E34, E35, E37, Y21 Curtains: Y32, Y35, YR0000, E97 Window Box: E34, E35, E37, Y21, G0000, G82, G85, B21, B24, B27 Wall: E0000, E000, E81, E87 Grass: G20, G21, G24, BG96

Now, don’t forget!  Visit the Make it Colourful Blog to check out the challenge, the rest of the gorgeous cards etc and then pop over to the Quixotic Inspirations Blog to enter the giveaway I have over there!!