Wishing you a furry Happy Birthday

I really love this little Forever Friends Bear... so versatile and great for practising my colouring!

Supplies:-
Image: "Daisy Bear" from Forever Friends, coloured with Promarkers
Paper: Cloisonne paper pack from GCD
Tools: Nellie die
Embellishments: checkered ribbon

Challenges:-
Passion for Promarkers #146 - Cut it out
Inky Impressions Challenge #55 - Happy Birthday
Crafter's Companion #23 - Four-legged Friends
Paper Sundaes #117 - Let's get cute
Creative Card Crew #9 - Ribbon

Sparkly Forever Friends!

A little Forever Friends card I made, and I thought I'd liven it up with some sparkle borders and on the flowers!

Supplies:
Image: Forever Friends "Christmas Gift", coloured with Promarkers.
Papers: Both from Pink Petticoat "Wild Blossoms" collection
Embellishments: Die cut sentiment, Glamour Dust

Challenges:
Crafter's Companion Monthly #15 - Glitter & Glitz
Stamp & Create August - Critters
Totally Gorjuss #95 - As you like it
A Spoon Full of Sugar #163 - Party Time
Creative Card Crew - Anything Goes
Passion for Promarkers #115 - Anything Goes
Oldie but a Goodie #26 - Lots of Sparkle

Wedding Box!

Here's the box I decorated for Rachel - I wanted to give her something to keep some of her wedding "memories" in, and also put a few little keepsakes in. I knew she had her something old, something new & something borrowed, but I thought she might need something blue (and a silver sixpence for her shoe)!

The flowers are handmade - a technique I learnt at a recent Trimcraft demo! Basically cutting some scalloped circles, wetting them, folding them/scrunching them, then securing with a brad.

 Supplies:
Basics: Papermania nested box, Artiste Pearl "Ice Blue" acrylic paint
Embellishments: Chipboard bookplate, peel off, pearl brads, ribbon, gems
Tools: Nesties blossoms (for the flowers)

Challenges:
Allsorts Challenge #116 - Anything But A Card
Creative Craft Challenges - Anything But A Card
Creative Card Crew - Hand made flowers
Papertake Weekly - Blooms, Pearls & Free (gems)
Crafts and Me #48 - Blues
Crafty Your Passion #71 - Anything But A Card

Forever Friends Twirly Ribbon Border

Thought I'd have a bit of a play with some fine ribbon on this card, twisting and gluing it to make a little border!

Supplies:
Image: Forever Friends "Christmas Gift" coloured with Promarkers
Paper: Spotted paper from Papermania "Sweet Nothings" pack.
Embellishments: Pink & blue ribbon, gems, peel-off sentiment.

Challenges:
Bizzy Bec's Store Blog Challenge July - Borders & Frames
Die Cut Dreams #94 - Animal Antics
Creative Card Crew - Animal Antics
Papertake Weekly  - Getting Cute
Totally Papercrafts #75 - Girly Girls
Stamptacular Sunday #120 - Animal Antics
I Did It Creations #64 - Animals
Fab N Funky #82 - Animal Magic
Crafty Creations Challenges #128 - Seeing Double

Summery Anya with Flowers

 Here' a card I've made for my cousin's wife. I thought I'd go for a nice summery girly card!

Supplies:

Image: "Anya with flowers" from The Greeting Farm, coloured with Promarkers.

Papers: Green striped & flowery papers from Papermania.

Tools: Nestabilities blossoms for image, Tim Holtz Tattered Florals die for flowers, Woodware leaf punch.

Embellishments: Gems for flower centres. Edge of card/ leaves were chalked. Sentiment is a topper from Dovecraft.

Challenges:

Sketch n Stash #62 - sketch. The Papermania papers have been lurking in the drawer for ages and I really wanted to try and use up some older stuff (as we have new things to put in the drawer!)

Creative Card Crew - Anything Goes 

Paperplay Challenges #21 - Blossoms & Blooms 

Crafty Catz #84 - Pink & Green 

Totally Papercrafts #68 - Pink & Girly

Relax....

Here's a card for a very hard worker!

Supplies:

Image: Forever Friends Decoupage (as is sentiment)

Paper: From FF Decoupage pack

Embellishments: Clear Zoomz

Challenges:

Forever Friends Challenge - Blog Candy

Creative Card Crew - No Stamps

Crafty Cardmakers Spotlight - Decoupage

Good Luck in Green!

Well, it's St. Patrick's Day tomorrow. Lliving near Cheltenham, home of the Gold Cup (aka Cheltenham Festival) I know there will be a lot of Guiness-drinking leprechauns around! Was hoping to go to the races myself, but didn't get around to finding a ticket in time, so I suppose I'll just watch it on the tv. I thought this card was perfect to celebrate!

Supplies:

Images: "Good Luck Frame" from Create with TLC (printed over the paper)

Paper: The green shamrock paper is from a Papercraft Inspirations download.

Embellishments: Chipboard shamrock, inked green & decorated with gems.

Challenges:

Sentimental Sundays #46 - Let's Go Green

One Stop Craft #122 - Clean & Simple

Allsorts Challenge #94 - Luck o' the Irish

Meljen's Designs #49 - Green

Inky Impressions - Monochromatic

Fab n Funky #64 - Going Green/St Patrick's Day

Papertake Weekly - Trio-tastic (three shamrocks)

Creative Card Crew - Green

Bee Crafty Challenge #18 - Festival

Creeper Crew Thursday!

Supplies:

Images: "Creeper Crew Thursday" from The Greeting Farm, coloured with Promarkers.

"Whatever it is... I didn't do it" from Raindrop Echo Designs (downloaded from the Sentimentals Sundays challenge blog)

Papers: The purple striped paper is from a magazine pack, the green flower/lace paper is Papermania Capsule Collection and then just some plain purple!

Embellishments: I've punched 3 purple flowers with the Tim Holtz Tattered Florals die, added 3 purple buttons tied with green cotton.

Challenges:

One Crazy Stamper March - Sketch

Creative Card Crew - Gothic
I Love Promarkers #55 - Green & Purple
Allsorts Challenge #93 - Card for a teenager
Paper Sundaes #59 - Stripes
Polkadoodles #9 - Flower Power

Forever Friends Baby

Another FF decoupage-style card from the free booklet - the paper (including washing line) is from that booklet too. The sentiment is from another FF pack that I've had for ages. I've added some ribbon, and

some bling!

Challenges:

Forever Friends Monthly - Bling

Creative Card Crew - Pink & Purple

Autumn Daisy!

Here's another card featuring Daisy. She's our only Sugar Nellie girl at the moment, so all my Sugar Bowl entries feature her! I've used Promarkers to colour her.

I've used pigment inks to colour the edge of my card (a bit of orange, yellow & green), and used some flower paper from a magazine freebie to go for an autumn colour theme. I'm not sure what the green net-string stuff is (if someone could enlighten me that would be great....), but I've added some of that as I found it lying in the bottom of the drawer and is seemed to fit. I've cut some Core Color card using nesties, and Daisy's sitting in the middle.

Challenges I'm entering:

The Sugar Bowl #44 - Sketch +/- Birthday

The Crafty Calendar - Birthday +/- autumn colours

Creative Card Crew - Bloomin' Marvellous

Simon Says Challenge - Autumn

Stamping for the Weekend #48 - Autumn colours

Craftalicious Challenge #9 - Autumn

Stamptacular Sunday #78 - Fall colours

C.R.A.F.T #70 - Fancy Floral

Anniversary in Pink!

A card I made for my cousin & his wife for their Wedding Anniversary. I've used some Kate Knight flower paper that came free with an issue of Cardmaking and Papercraft, and have added some pink plain paper to make my little flower frame and the punched edge. I've used a small rectangle of pink shiny Gemstones paper to mount my peel-off onto. Then some embellishing with gems & glamour dust glitter!!

Challenges I'm entering:
Creative Card Crew #57 - Sparkle & Shine
Moving Along with the Times #60 - Glitter
Paperplay #33 - Pink to make the boys wink
Easy Craft Projects #19 - Girly
Challenge Up Your Life #26 - Celebrations
The Crafty Pad #84 - Glitz & Glitter

Henbury Lane Collection Card!

We (Mum & I) went to a Docrafts demo at The Range in Cheltenham last Saturday, and couldn't resist buying the new goody bag!! It's full of the new Henbury Lane collection and other fab things!

The image is one of the new Henbury Lane stamps, coloured with Promarkers. The lovely flowery paper is also Henbury Lane (the stripy paper is from a magazine paper pack ages ago).

The lovely heart punch is a new one from Docraft's XCut (not in the goody bag but couldn't resist that either).

Challenges I'm entering:

Passion for Promarkers #53 - Anything Goes (2nd entry)

Creative Card Crew #51 - Pink & Green

Stamping for the Weekend #39 - Something to make someone smile

One Stitch At A Time #15 - Use something new

Flirty Thirty!!

Here's a girly card I made for one of my vet friends who is 30 this year! It was a bit of a rush as I hadn't really been in the mood for cardmaking, but I think it turned out ok!

I've used the Dovecraft Glamour prints paper, and then a Sizzlits handbag die (I cut 2 in different colours to add the detail). I also used the smaller nesties from our new set and embellished with gems and the peel off numbers!

Challenges I'm entering:
A Spoon Full of Sugar #100 - Happy Birthday
Creative Card Crew #48 - Happy Birthday
Stamp, Scrap & Doodle Saturdays #37 - Girly
Magical Crafts Fortnightly Challenge #13 - Something for the girls

Saying Thank You with Flowers!

I've just had a fab weekend up north staying with a vet friend - we met last May and only worked together for a month, but it was an eventful job for both of us, and we've kept in touch since! I made this card to thank her and her parents for having me!

The spotty dotty paper was free with a magazine - I just love the Spring theme at the moment so thought the colours would suit!
The image is a Little Claire's stamp (Flower pot with bow) which I stamped onto acetate using Staz-On ink. I then "coloured" it in with glitter! I've added a peel-off sentiment, some yellow ribbon and some flowers with little buttons from Papermania Capsule Collection!

Challenges I'm entering:
Creative Card Crew #46 - Going Dotty
Crafty Creations #59 - Spots & Dots
Totally Gorjuss #22 -Ribbon
Paperplay #11 - Thank You
Ooh La La Challenge #50 - Button, bow & bling

Let's Party with Karensdoodles!

Here's a card I made for the very first Karensdoodles US Challenge. I've used the image of Bigsby and the balloons, which was freebie for followers. Follow the links on the Karensdoodles blog to take him home yourself!!

The yellow stripy paper is from Papermania Basics Vibrant collection. I've added 3 eyelets & 3 brads, and also a chipboard sentiment!!

Challenges I'm entering:

Karensdoodles USA #1 - sketch

Flourishes Timeless Tuesday #57 (& Celebration Day 2) - Celebrations

Scrap the Art #2 - Joan Miro's Daybreak (I chose to use the colour scheme)

Creative Card Crew - It's a Celebration (2nd entry)

Bizzy Bec's Creatalicious Challenges #7 - "Create A Little Something" (mine's a little mouse!!)

Gingersnap Creations #45 - Celebrate!

Belli Challenge #86 - Eyelets

Congratulations and Celebrations

A bit of good news....my best friend Mel (another vet) has got herself a new job!! After 18mths in a job she didn't like she's finally got one - she applied during my lucky week (a few weeks ago now) and found out yesterday that she got it!! So I got straight to work and just posted this off...




She is especially good with rabbits, so I picked this little cutie from the Digi Shack (that I downloaded last year) as the main theme on my easel card. Coloured with Whispers and a bit of glamour dust here and there!
The paper is from a Daisy & Dandelion pack, with some punched flowers embellished with gems along 2 ribbons - lots of bling!! There's also a giant eyelet that came with my Cropadile. I made the wire "Congratulations" myself and am kicking myself as I just realise that looking at it I haven't dotted the "i" - tsk!
Best thing of all....Mel made her first cards last week!!! I bought her a FF kit for her Birthday last year, and she actually went to two other shops last Monday and bought some more stuff and made her first 4 cards all in one afternoon - job done!!

Challenges I'm entering:
Crafty Creations #56 - Cut it out, pop it up
C.R.A.F.T #39 - Ribbons & Sparkle
Creative Card Crew - Celebrations!
Pile It On #8 - Lucky Me
Lexi's Creations #8 - Anything Goes
Quirky Crafts Challenge #22 - Cute
Simon Says Challenge - Girly

Mystery card...is now here!!

Here is the Valentine's card:



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Well, I have finally finished a very special card, for a very special someone...

BUT... it's the Valentine's card I've made for my Dad to give to my Mum, and she might look on here so I'll just have to wait til Sunday after she's opened it!

It's got a special fold, and the papers are from Creative Cardmaking Issue 11 and Cardmaking & Papercraft Issue 57! Along with my first attempt at lace (incire) and a few punches and sparkly bits!

WATCH THIS SPACE....!

Challenges I will be entering on SUNDAY:
1) The Pink Elephant #53 - Valentine
2) Creative Craft #6 - Roses are Red
3) Creative Card Crew #44 - Valentine
4) Simon Says - What's love got to do with it?
5) Sassy Designs #8 - Hearts & Flowers
6) Rainbow Lady #90 - Have a Heart
7) Cute Card Thursday #99 - In the Name of Love
8) Polkadoodle # 6 - Hearts & Flowers
9) Dutch Dare #71 - Valentine's
10) Secret Crafter Saturday #70 - Multifold

Especially For You!!

I decided to have a go at a double stepper fold card I found the template for at The Paper Craft Tutor - FAB website with brilliant instructions on loads of different types of card!

Now, I love cardmaking and each card I make is different, no repeats and there are always some you like and some you're not so keen on.... BUT - I think this has to be my most favourite card of all the cards I've ever made. I'm a bit sad not to have a Valentine to send it to, but happy that I may keep it til the day I do!
I used the cute bunny freebie from the Digi Shack that I downloaded last year, but just re-discovered - coloured with Whispers. The backing paper is from DCWV Scrapbook kit in a stack (also used for the lettering). I've punching some hearts out of pink & polka dot paper & flowers, decorated with pearl gems. The hearts are Sizzix die-cuts. And of course some Glamour Dust (love that glitter)!
Challenges:
Corrosive Challenge #48 - Fancy Folds
Magical Crafts #7 - Valentine's
The Pink Elephant #51 - Polkadots, a bow & pink
Creative Card Crew #43 - Punch It
Crafty Catz #16 - Love
One Stop Craft #64 - Love & Kisses
Allsorts #36 - Hearts & Flowers
Crafty Creations #51 - Valentine's or Love
Lucy's Cards #4 - Glitter
Pile It On #3 - Warm Wishes

Creative Card Crew - Child's Play

Here's my entry for Challenge 13:

I've used some green cardstock with Glue Dots motifs & foil for the sentiment/balloons. The circle paper is from a Simply Cards & Papercraft freebie, then some glitter to make it sparkle! The photo hasn't quite come out properly (foil's a bit shiny I suppose!)

Challenge 7 - Round and Around

Here's my entry for Creative Card Crew Challenge 7 - the theme was "Round and Around".




I used some plain blue cardstock with polkadot paper. The circles are cut from Papermania Basics Vibrant paper, with Zoomz in the centre. Just added a few gems and a peel-off.