Birthdays Galore

This week has been a very busy week.  Lots of folks are having birthdays around me and one couple is getting married.  So congrats to everyone, no matter what the occasion.

My first card is for a friend who is 50 next week.  He is in a band, and obviously loves music .....

I made the trifold card from a piece of 12 x 12 cardstock.  The numbers were cut on the Cricut, using the shadow facility.  The papers and tags are all from Bo Bunny Et Cetera Range.  I love this range.  The stickers are also from it.  I have included three song lines/titles on the card .......... hope he likes it.  As always I used good old Timmy to distress the edges.

This is an order for a friend her Mil is gonna be 65.  This card is from the girls to their Nanny.  The brief was sunset/autumnal colours.  Again the card is a 12 x 12 piece from stock, the papers are a mixture of First Edition ......... Leaves, DCWV Marriposa, shimmer card and green card from stock.

The tag was hand cut, the peel offs are from Anitas, including the ones used to make the dimensional butterflies.  The Bows are all papermania and the heart button is from stash.

This card is for my daughter's friend Pia.  Her Mum is getting married and she asked me to make a special card.  I am totally in love with all things Steampunk at the moment and Pia also likes this style.  I have used a Kanban topper, and First Edition papers.  The papers and have been cut and punched using a Woodware punching system, then layered to create the effect.  Inside I have printed a verse and then matted and layered the hearts punched out to give the border down the page.

This gorgeous card and matching handmade envelope are for the same lady who is gonna be 65.  This is from her Son and Dil.  The letters were cute from Papermania cardstock and matted and layered using the shadow effect on the cricut.  They were then put together and the back of the card made at 13" plus hinge.  The letters were then applied to the front of the hinge and then acetate was added to strengthen the front.  The Decoupage is from Papermania Lucy Cromwell collection, as are the die cuts inside the card.  The papers are from Boofle.  

Hope you like these.

Lavenders Blue diddle diddle,

or so the nursery rhyme says.  This gorgeous colour is the inspiration for the challenge over on the Anything Goes Challenge Blog.  Add a bit of lace and you have a truly girly creation.  Something all us girlie girls love.

I used a fantastic Sweet Pea stamp that I have had for ages, isn't she gorgeous, and then one of the Spellbinders Nestability dies to cut her out.  She was coloured with Promarkers and I added a little bit of TH Stickles to make the flower sparkle.  The backing was cut using the same die in various shades of lavender, purple.  The beautiful papers are from First Edition and the lace is from my stash, as are the flowers, which I coloured with promarkers and the card candi.  The sentiment is a Tulip one.  

Beautiful Fairies and Flutterbys

Hi everyone, today's card is my DT card for the fantastic Anything Goes Challenge Blog.  Don't forget you can shop at the brilliant Craft Den - Lyn is always pleased to see her challenge entries popping up in the online shop.

Our theme this fortnight is Flutterby Butterfly.  Anything with wings ...........  I have sooo many gorgeous stamps and images of butterflys, fairies and birds that it took me ages to choose which image to use.  However the gorgeous fairy used is a digi image from Make it Crafty.  She of course is coloured with Promarkers.  The papers are all from First Edition - the Dreamcatcher and New Leaf collections.  The background paper has been stamped with a gorgeous tailors dummy and butterflies by Creative Creations.
I have layered the image onto black netting and added a black spotty ribbon bow finished with a butterfly charm.

I hope you like her.

It's Cutie Pie time again and Tim loves his cupcakes

Hi everyone, today's a great day, the sun is shining and I had a fantastic afternoon with my gorgeous son. We went shopping and finally managed to get him some "Skylander" characters.  Not to mention that at thirteen he already knows exactly how to order his coffee in Costa.  (A man after my own heart - lol)

Today's challenge over at the Cutie Pies has caused all of the DT a real headache.......... I mean .......... how can a girl possibly choose a single ................. yes a single favourite cute stamp.  JUST ONE ......... and only one..............  you have no idea how hard it was, but I am hoping that you soon will.........

Go on pop on over to the Cutie Pie Challenge and join in.   It's been great fun making this card for this challenge.  Anyway here's some detail about the challenge ...

We are sponsored by the lovely Gayle from Teddy Bo & Co, There are so many fantastic Digi Images, a growing collection of Die Cut Dies and lots more, so why not pay a visit to Teddy Bo Towers today!  Well one lucky Winner will bag 

a lovely Digi Prize from Teddy Bo & Co, 

so you need to get making asap!

CLICK HERE TO VISIT
Our Second sponsor is the wonderful Digital Delights and our luck Random Winner will win this prize!  Digital Delights has a huge collection of Digi images for every occassion, why not pop over and have a look through all the catagories and see if there's
something you fall in love with!

CLICK HERE TO VISIT

Anyway for my card I chose to use the fabulous Timmy Tiger with his cupcake for my friend's birthday card.  So here's timmy in all his splendour.....

Tim has of course been coloured with promarkers.  I then layered his onto squares nesties.  The card has been folded back on itself and I have added a home-made stick pin tied with a chiffon ribbon.  The badge was from a scrapbook kit I had for christmas.  The beads for the stick pin were from my stash.  The sentiment is from Kanban and the papers are First Edition.

I must confess that I had to have a cupcake after colouring this one in............ so go on pop on over to either Teddy Bo Towers or to Digital Delights and find yourself a new favourite, or you could recyle an old one.  All the DT are waiting to see what you come up with ........ who knows we may even discover some new fantastic stamp which could become our favourite.

Hugs for now.

Hi and it's cutie pie challenge time again.

Hi everyone.  It seems like ages since I have posted.  (Well it is a fortnight (lol) and that's eons in a crafters life!!!)

I hope each and everyone of my lovely crunchies are keeping well and that you are getting loads of crafting time in.  Sadly for me the last fortnight was spent moving into my lovely new house.  The kids and I are now settled and I have finally unpacked the craft stuff.  So I can get back to what I really enjoy doing!!

Anyway today's Monday so that means its time for another cute challenge over at The Cutie Pies.  This fortnight's challenge is a combination of pearls and swirls, well what girlie can resist pearls or swirls.  Anyway the fab design team have been hard at work creating some truly inspirational projects for you.

This is my DT card

The gorgeous image is from Wee Stamps who are sponsoring this challenge.  I think it's just too cute.  I have coloured my digi stamp with Promarkers and then used TH Stickles glitter to highlight the edges of the leaves.  The heart shape was cut using Spellbinders Nesties.    I made my stick pin from several old necklaces, which I have dismantled.  The swirls are of course the fab Tim Holtz, whilst the papers are from First Edition.  The sentiment is from Kanban.  

Hope you like it, and I have inspired you to pop on over to the Cutie Pies.

Crafty hugs to you all

Flower Power

Hi everyone

Well what a fortnight it's been. Firstly thanks to everyone who left comments for me and hugs on my Blue Valentine post.  -  I apologise for not posting much this week, but I am moving so things have been very busy.  I have a lovely new little house that I am sure the kids and I will be very happy in.

Anyway today's post is a card I made for my fantastic sister-in-law  for her birthday.  The card is also my DT card for the wonderful Cutie Pie challenge this fortnight.  The challenge is flower power.

I have used a Make it Crafty image for this card.  I love these - they are fab to colour and always look wonderful. The backing papers are first edition.  The sentiment is from the Tulip range by Papermania.  I have of course coloured her with promarkers.  The edges were inked with TH Distress Inks.   I kept it quite simple as I wanted the image to really stand out and the backing papers are really glitzy.

I hope that you'll pop on over and join in our fab challenge.

Hugs to everyone

Autumn is coming .............

Firstly I have a confession to make, it's been really hard to be indoors doing crafty bits, when the weather has been so brilliant.  Not like autumn at all really.  I have taken my colouring outside to the garden and used our trees as inspiration for this card.

The back layer is embossed Coredina'tions paper in a mustard colour.  I used a Cuttlebug flower embossing folder for this.  The rest of the papers are from Desert Blooms from First Edition.  The sentiment if from a Forever Friends embelishments pack.

Gorguss was coloured with my promarkers and the background was coloured using Dovecraft chalks in greens, greys and reds.  The spots on the mushrooms were coloured with a white gel pen.

I couldn't find a paper I wanted to use to match the floral paper, so I cut a small piece and then distressed it with dovecraft chalks, again using reds and browns.  To finish this card off I added a lovely handmade green bow.  This ribbon is fab and has crinkly edges.  

I am going to enter this card into the following challenges:

The Sugar Bowl - Autumn

Scrap Creations - Fall

Bows "n" Berries - Inspiration

The Shabby Tea Room - Inspiration

Craft Your Passion - Ribbons

Creative Stamp Friends - Autumn

Stamps R Us - Autumn

Scrap Affair - October Inspiration

CES Challenges - Totally Gorjuss

Friends and Ice Cream - 2 of my favourite things

On Monday my bestest friends came to visit from Cornwall.  I moved away in March and miss them terribly.  We had a great girlie day, it was lovely to spend time with them.  Unfortunately working in a tourist area they can't get away much during the season, so it was a long time since we had all caught up in person.

The previous blog post card was for my friend Julie, she purchased my yellow beetle from me and loves it  (I really miss it!!!)

This card is for my best mate "Pand" whom I miss every day.  It reminds me of our coffees out - normally involving a little cake as well of course.

I used First Edition Sweet Owl papers, Laura Ashley wallpaper, Coredinations and Tatty Ted paper to make this card.  The flowers were cut on the cricut and distressed, a mini button placed in each.  The image was coloured with promarkers and small Anitas gems stuck on for the cherrys.  The lace work was also cut on the cricut.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Sketch n Stash

Die Cut Dreams - Pink Brown and Cream

The Paper Shelter - For the girls

Bearly Mine - No 20

Crafts and Me No 54 Flowers

I love Promarkers - distressing

Everybody-Art Challenge - Pink/Brown

sugar nellie girl with butterfly

This is one of the "new to me" Sugar Nellie stamps that I won earlier this month.  I think she's really cute.  I love the detail in this stamp and of course the butterflies.

I have coloured her with promarkers and mounted her on pink mirricard.  I have also used coredinations   pink paper which was then embossed using a cuttlebug and then distressed.  The happy birthday paper is papermania. The stripes are First Edition Sweet Owl papers.  I made the flowers using the tim holtz tattered florals die, in Tim Holtz paper and Papermania Kraft cardstock, these were then distressed using TH distress inks.  The smaller roses were hand made from the papers used in the project.  

The sentiment inside is from the Tatty Ted Digital Designer CD.  The edge has been created using a Martha Stewart Die.

I then made a box for this card from Kraft Card and Cordinations Card.  The happy birthday was cut on the Cricut. The lid was finished with some card candi and three flower embelishments.

I am going to enter this into the following challenges:

• Sweet Stampin Challenge:  Flowers
• My Mum's craft shop challenges No 23
• Crafty Boots Challenges No 2 - Wings
• Make it Monday - no 55
• Cupcake Inspirations No 128 
• Die Cut Dreams Blogspot - Challenge 98 Flowers
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