DOING LIFE

18 August 2018

ATG with CREATE WITH TLC: Challenge No.23 and WINNERS

CHALLENGE NO.23
{ends 17 September 2018}

Paulette from Create with TLC and I, {Doing Life} want to thank those who have taken the time to enter our previous challenge. Your creations are all so wonderfully creative.

Paulette posts regular freebies on her website and you can collect some of them here.

Also visit Create with TLC's Store here and have a look at the wonderful and versatile

Wordart and Image Sets available.

There are also beautiful vintage images designed by Paulette here and here are some of the latest images in the shop, so hop on over and have a look for yourself at Paulette's amazing vintage images, which are all so versatile for creative use:

How to Play

Enter your Paper Projects (ONE entry absolutely anything goes)
UNLIMITED entries should use a Create with TLC element on your creation.
Link up your entry(s) from a separate blog post) in Mr Linky below.
The Monthly Winner will receive a Create with TLC set (of their choice) and our Winners Badge.
Three Top Picks will also be chosen and can display our Top 3 badge with pride.
Please remember to link your POST and not your blog to the Link tool below.
Also, you must create a link on your blog back to this challenge post!

Unfortunately there has to be a few Rules

Become a Follower of Create with TLC's blog and Doing Life's blog via Google Friend Connect.
New challenges will be posted on the FIRST of every month at 8am (CAT/ GMT+2)
Your entry must be new. No backlinking to previous posts
Please link back to this blog {Doing Life} (http://desiref.blogspot.co.za/)
All themes are Anything Goes.
Use Inlinkz to link directly to your PROJECT only, please don't link to your entire blog
You may combine this challenge with other challenges
Enter your Paper Projects (ONE entry absolutely anything goes)
UNLIMITED entries should use a Create with TLC element on your creation.
A special request ... this is a 'family-friendly' site, please respect this and only enter projects that are child-friendly, and not satanic, demonic, gory, or dark! If we feel your entry does not respect this, we will delete your entry.

So before we get onto the next challenge, here are the Top 3 Entries

for Challenge 21. Huge congrats ladies. Right click on the Top 3 badge below and display it with pride on your blogs:

10. Donna

9. Shelly

28. Suze

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.... and well done and congrats to our WINNER who is

2. NanaConnie

Connie, please go and select a set of your choice from
CREATE WITH TLC here

and email your choice and the link from the store to Paulette at tlc4lo@ca.rr.com

Right click on the WINNER's badge below and display it with pride on your blog:

Here is a card using one of Create with TLC's
wonderful sentiments.

... and here is the Create with TLC Sentiment, I used on my card.

Just click on the sentiment first to open up in a new window, then right click on it and save it to your computer. Hope you will also have fun with it.

Cant wait to see your creations, HAVE FUN!!!

{Our apologies in advance, but we cannot comment on Google+ submissions.}

15 August 2018

A LITTLE { Reminder Project August 2018 Color It Create It Show It Off}

{A LITTLE ...}

My Besties
Colour It! Create It! Show It Off! Challenge

Here is my August 2018 REMINDER project for My Besties Colour It! Create It! Show It off! using this super adorable BATS IN THE BELFREY girl from Sherri Baldy which you can purchase HERE.

I have coloured her in Photoshop CS3.

The flower embellishmenst have been created with a folded paper squares. The buttons and design papers are from my stash and the crocheted buttons flowers have been made for me by me very special sister in law.

The sentiment is from Paulette {Create with TLC}.

Hop over to
My Besties
Colour It! Create It! Show It Off! Challenge
and enter your creations.

Once again I would love to try my hand at the following challenges with this creation:

Love to Craft - ATG
Worldwide Open Design Team Challenge - ATG if you are on a design team
Polkadoodles Crafting - ATG
Colour Crazy - ATG that is coloured
Friendship Challenge - ATG
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge
613 Avenue Create - ATG + Fantasy Option

Creative Fingers - ATG

Scrapbook Stamp Society - ATG + Summer option

Creative Moments - ATG + Cats Option

Word Art Wednesday - ATG + uplifting sentiment
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - ATG
Classic Design Team Open Challenge -
Scrapping4Fun - ATG

Pennys Paper Crafty - ATG

A Bit more Time to Craft - ATG
Jos Scrap Shack - ATG
Craft Rocket - ATG
Through the Craft Room Door - ATG
Brown Sugar - Fairies and Fantasy
Morgans Art World - ATG

Crafty Friends - ATG
Aud Sentiments - ATG + Sentiment
Digi Choosday Crafting - ATG
Lemon Shortbread - ATG
Crafting by Designs - ATG
My Besties Aussie - ATG + Bestie

My Besties Spanish Challenge - ATG

My Besties 3D and More - ATG

My Besties Dutch Girls - ATG
My Besties International - ATG or Boys

My Besties Brazil - ATG
My Besties Scandinavia - ATG and/or Magical
My Besties Art Spain - ATG and/or Black

Daisy Chain - ATG

Cute Card Thursday - Spots and Dots
Your Scrapbook Place - ATG
Crafty Creations - ATG
A Perfect Time to Craft - ATG
QKR - ATG
Always Happy Birthday - Birthday +
Creative Crafters - ATG
Dragonfly Journeys - Flower Power
Rabisco - ATG

I am signing off with my MANLY THROW CAL (crochet-a-long) project recently completed. You can find the step by step pattern I have written for it here.

12 August 2018

MANLY THROW CAL - PART 2

MANLY THROW with PUFF STITCH GRANNIES

Designed by: DESíRE FOURIE – www.desiref.blogspot.com

PART 2

Joining 36 Squares into 9 Squares of 4

{Repeat below creating another 8 big squares}

STITCHES USED

chain (ch)

standing single crochet (ssc)

slip stitch (sl st)

single crochet (sc)

(put hook in space pull up loop and pull through both loops on hook)

half double crochet (hdc) (put wool around, put hook in space pull up a loop and pull through all three loops on hook)

half double crochet (hdc)

(put wool around, put hook in space pull up a loop, pull through all 3 loops on hook)

double crochet (dc)

(put wool around, put hook in space pull up a loop, pull through first 2 loops on hook and then pull through last 2 loops on hook)

Fasten off (fo)

A) JOINING OF 4 SQUARES

1. Put 2 squares with wrong sides together.
2. Create a standing single crochet (ssc) and leave it to one side off the hook.
3. Put hook through corner spaces of front and back square.
4. Now put the ssc onto the hook and pull the ssc through the back and front square.
5. Pull the short end and the long end of the wool through the ssc now do 1ch just with the long end of the wool.

6. Do a sc in the top of the very first hidden stitch of the front and back squares together, catching both loops.

7. Continue doing single crochets through the top of the next 17 stitches of the front and back squares.

8. Do the 20th sc in the corner spaces of the front and back square.

9. Put another 2 squares with wrong sides together.

10. Continue by doing a sc in the corner space of the second set of front and back squares.

11. Then do a sc in the top of the very first hidden stitch of the second set of front and back squares.

12. Continue doing single crochets through the top of the next 17 stitches of the second set of front and back squares.

13. Do the 40th sc in the corner spaces of the front and back square.

14. Fasten off (fo).

15. Repeat 2 to 14 (omitting 9) above joining the second side in the same fashion.

Work away ends.

B) BORDER AROUND 4 JOINED SQUARES

1st Round (Solid Colour)

In any corner space, 2ch up and do a hdc+1ch+2hdc into the same space. Do a hdc into the top of the next 17 stitches. Do the 18th and 19th hdc into the corner spaces of joined squares and continue with the 20th to the 36th hdc into the top of the stitches. Do 2hdc+1ch+2hdc into the corner spaces and 36hdc on each side. (40 stitches per side).

Finishing with a slip stitch join between the 2ch up and first hdc.

2nd Round (Variegated Colour)

In any corner space, 2ch up and do a hdc+1ch+2hdc into the same space. Do a hdc into the next space between the two corner hdc of previous round.

ch1 and skip one space and do hdc into next space between stiches, continue and do a hdc into the space between the two corner hdc of previous round. 2hdc+1ch+2hdc into next corner space.

(20hdc and 19 ch1 spaces per side and 2hdc+1ch+2hdc in corners)

Finishing with a slip stitch join in the top of the 2ch up. DO NOT fasten off.

3rd Round (Variagated Colour)

Do another sl st into the ch1 corner space. 2ch up +1dc+1ch+2dc into the same corner space. 1dc into each of the next 2 spaces. 2dc into each ch1 space of previous round and end each side with 1dc in each of the two spaces before the corner.

(42dc per side and 2dc+1ch+2dc in corners)

Finishing with a slip stitch join in the top of the 2ch up. DO NOT fasten off.

4th Round (Variagated Colour)

Do another sl st into the ch1 corner space. 2ch up +1dc +1ch+2dc into the same corner space. 1dc into each of the next 2 spaces. Skip 2dc and do 2dc into next space. Continue skipping 2dc of previous round and do 2dc in between sets of 2dc from previous round and end each side with 1dc in each of the two spaces before the corner.

(44dc per side and 2dc+1ch+2dc in corners)

Finishing with a slip stitch join in the top of the 2ch up. DO NOT fasten off.

5th Round (Variagated Colour)

Do another sl st into the ch1 corner space. 2ch up +1dc+1ch+2dc into the same corner space. Skip one space and do 2dc into the next space. Continue skipping 2dc of previous round and do 2dc in between sets of 2dc from previous round and end each side with 2dc in corner space.

(46dc per side and 2dc+1ch+2dc in corners)

Finishing with a slip stitch join between the 2ch up and first dc. Fasten off.

6th Round (Solid Colour)

Join with solid colour in any corner space and do 2ch up+1hdc+1ch+2hdc in corner. Do a hdc into the top of the next 49 stitches on each side. **Do 2hdc+1ch+2hdc into the corner space and 49 hdc in the top of the next 49 stitches.** Repeat ** to ** twice more.

(49hdc per side and 2hdc+1ch+2hdc in corners)

Fasten off. Work away ends.

01 August 2018

HAPPY BIRTHDAY {DigiStamps4Joy August 2018 Challenge}

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Design Team Project for DS4J's challenge blog.
The theme for this month is
ANYTHING GOES + ADD A SENTIMENT/GREETING

I have used PATCHWORK COUNTY 1 for the main image which I coloured in PhotoShop CS3 and HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS a precoloured image for the sentiment background.

You can purchase the images here and here.

The sentiment is from CREATE WITH TLC .

The crochet flower has been made for me by a very special frined and the folder flower has been created with square punch-outs. The design papers, brad and buttons are from my stash.

Looking forward to seeing your creations. So hop on over to DS4J's challenge blog

and link your Creations to Challenge #151.

Once again I would love to try my hand at the following challenges with this creation:

Love to Craft - ATG
Worldwide Open Design Team Challenge - ATG if you are on a design team ?
Polkadoodles Crafting - ATG
The Crafty Addicts - ATG and/or boys
Colour Crazy - ATG that is coloured
Friendship Challenge - ATG
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge
613 Avenue Create - ATG + Fantasy Option

Creative Fingers - ATG

Scrapbook Stamp Society - ATG and/or stitching

Creative Moments - ATG + Cats Option

Word Art Wednesday - ATG + uplifting sentiment
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - ATG
Classic Design Team Open Challenge -
Scrapping4Fun - ATG

A Bit more Time to Craft - ATG

Jos Scrap Shack - ATG
Through the Craft Room Door - ATG
Crafty Gals Corner - ATG and/or Tropical Colours

Morgans Art World - ATG
Crafty Friends - ATG
Digi Choosday Crafting - ATG
Crafting by Designs - ATG
PDE Linky Party - ATG
Daisy Chain - ATG

Crafty Creations - ATG
A Perfect Time to Craft - ATG
QKR - ATG
Always Happy Birthday - Birthday + Water
Crafters Castle - ATG and/or Elegant Shabby ChicOption

Thank you for stopping by and all the wonderful uplifting love you leave behind.

A LOT OF HAPPY {Color It Create It Show It Off August 2018 Challenge}

{A LOT OF HAPPY...}

Can you believe it is already the month of August, and the year is running by at such a speed.
My Besties
Colour It! Create It! Show It Off! Challenge,

Here is my design team project for My Besties Colour It! Create It! Show It off! using this fun loving Fall days 3d Download girl, a pre-coloured image from Sherri Baldy which you can purchase HERE.

The folded flower has been created with flower punches.
The design papers, brad and buttons are from my stash. The crocheted flower has been made for me by a very special friend. I added the background to the image in PhotoShopCS3. Also added some gold stickles to the folded flower and the Chipboard netting is from CELEBR8.
The sentiment is from CREATE WITH TLC.