FlowerSoft - Thank You Bouquet

Here is the Thank You card I made for Rachel's parents, Helen & Duncan after the wedding.
I thought I'd have another go at a FlowerSoft bouquet as I hadn't done one for ages and had some new colours to play with!

Supplies:
Paper: Papermania Capsule Collection Lemon Sorbet
Embellishments: FlowerSoft Ultrafine Raspberry Fizz & Citrus Crush (plus the ribbon). Chipboard sentiment from a Cardmaking & Papercraft freebie.
Tools: Nestabilities Blossoms (for the aperture and cutting the tissue paper for the bouquet), Nesties deckled rectangles.

Challenges:
Allsorts #117 - You've Been Framed
Sir Stampalot August Challenge - Whatever You Fancy
Craft us Crazy #15 - Anything Goes
One Stop Craft #145 - Bold & Bright

Sweet Little Donkey!

It's my cousin's daughter's first Birthday next week, and I've made this little card for her!

Supplies:
Image: "Sweet Little Donkey" by Meljen's Designs, coloured with Promarkers
Paper: All three papers are from Smirk "Naughty but Nice" pack.
Embellishments: Peel off sentiment, brown ribbon, 3D butterfly from Papermania, gems, punched flower.

Challenges:
Crafty Emma's Store Challenge #30 - Children
One Stop Craft Challenge #125 - Spots & Dots
Sketch Saturday #149 - Sketch
Secret Crafter Saturday #128 - Butterflies
Allsorts Challenge #97 - Blooming Blossoms
Dream Valley #4 - Things with Wings
Paper Sundaes #63 - Spring Blossoms
The Crafty Pad #115 - Flowers
Paperplay Challenges #14 - Critters Galore
C.R.A.F.T Challenge #97 - Animals/Pets
By the Cute & Girly April - Cute & girly

Mother's Day Gift Box & Jewellery!

Mum's been asking me to make her some hair slides for AGES, and I have now done two different ones (although keep trying to distract her so that it's a surprise for Mother's Day)! I've also made her a bracelet, and having had some nesting boxes sitting on my desk for ages, thought that one would make a good jewellery box!

Supplies:

Image: "Wee Suzi" by Wee Stamps coloured with Promarkers. "Happy Mother's Day" from Delicious Doodles.

Paper: Pink Petticoat Vintage Rose Collection.

Embellishments: Chipboard flowers coloured with Promarkers.

Base: Nesting box from Papermania

Supplies: 80mm Hair barette, green bugle beads, acrylic flowers/leaves, 4mm pearls & nylon thread

Supplies: 80mm hair barette, 4mm red firepolish beads, 4mm red/black bicone crystals, red/black seed beads, nylon thread.

Supplies: Textured silver plate chain, black suede cord, silver plated head pins, Swarovski cubes, cord ends, lobster clasp.

Challenges:

Allsorts Challenge #95 - Make a gift box

Stamping for the weekend #6 - Mother's Day
Crafty Catz #74 - Mother's Day

Craft Your Days Away #16 - For Mum
One Stop Craft #123 - Diamonds are a girl's best friend

Secret Crafter Saturday #126 - Anything but a card
Dream Valley Challenge #3 - Mother's Day
Simon Says Challenge - Mother's Day
Papertake Weekly - It's a Mom thing
Ooh La La Challenge #76 - Mother's Day
Die Cut Dreams #85 - Mother's Day

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

Penny Black Springtime!

I'm back and crafting again after my shoulder surgery - it went well, the physio's really pleased and I just have to wait til next Monday to find out when the surgeon will do the left shoulder, and go from there! I've actually quite enjoyed the time to do a bit of blog-hopping and seeing what everyone else has been up to!

Here's a Spring-themed card using Penny Black's "Seeing your face" image of the cute little hedgehog with a daffodil! I've coloured it with Promarkers. The papers are new - they are from the Papermania Lemon Sorbet Capsule Collection (as are the spotted mini buttons), the ribbon/bow are from the Sunshine collection - all things from DoCrafts goody bags! My favourite effect at the moment is to ink around the edge of the page to make it stand out a little bit more! The sentiment is from Forever Friends Springtime die-cut greetings pack.

Challenges:

Penny Black at Allsorts - March - Welcome Spring

By the Cute & Girly - March - Springtime

Craft Your Days Away #14 - Sketch

Oldie But a Goodie #13 - Spring is in the air

Stamping for the Weekend #4 - Monochrome

One Stop Craft Challenge #120 - Spring Flowers

Colour Create #65 - 3 Fruits (Banana, coconut & apple!)

Papertake Weekly - New Beginnings

They are having a great Blog Hop over at Papertake Weekly to celebrate their 3rd Birthday! The challenge for this week is to choose a challenge from the last 3yrs....ANY challenge!

I've chosen "New Beginnings" from 5th Jan 2010 as I have a very good friend who has FINALLY moved into a new house with her fiance after a lot of waiting for the previous owner to get out!

The image is a digi stamp from Mo's Digital Pencil, called "Home Tweet Home", coloured with Promarkers. I've used brown spotted paper from a Daisy & Dandelion paper pack, and my Nellie Snellen multiframe circles.

Challenges I'm entering:

Papertake Weekly - New Beginnings

Pollycraft #64 - Anything Goes

Bee Crafty #39 - Furry/Fluffy friends (I hope feathery counts too)!

One Stop Craft #100 - Congratulations

CPS Challenge #187 - Sketch

Christmas Crafting!

I bought the Papermania Henbury Lane Poinsettia ultimate decoupage pack the other day, and here's  the easel card I've made with one of the decoupage scenes:

I've used the green, red & white spotted/striped paper from that collection, and the dark red leaf pattern paper, the strip of stars, and the sentiment. I punched some holly using a Dovecraft punch, and the snowflake charm is from Mad Cow Beads.

Challenges I'm entering:
Charisma Cardz #39 - Christmas Crafting
A Spoon Full of Sugar #123 - Spots & Stripes
ABC Challenge - E is for Easel cards
Creative Inspirations #80 - Christmas in September
Winter Wonderland - Holly, red & green
Card Patterns #83 - Sketch
One Stop Craft #99 - Snowflakes in September
Totally Gorjuss #49 - Christmas
Pile It On #38 - Cute & Charming

New spiral weave bracelet!

Here's something non-papercraft that I made for my Aunty - still learning the techniques, but I think it turned out ok!

Following a pattern from Bead magazine, I've used 3 different colours of seed bead, and a copper toggle clasp from Docrafts!!

Challenges i'm entering:
One Stop Craft Challenge #78 - Anything but a card

Vintage Man!

Here's a card I made for my football-loving cousin.

I've used some Papermania basics stripy paper, and the image is from the DoCrafts Creativity CD from a few issues ago. It says "Vintage" on the back of his jacket so perfect for the Ooh La La Challenge! I've folded the edge of the card for a different look, and used blue brads to hold it down (and DST as it was flapping a bit). Peel off to finish!

Challenges I'm entering:
Ooh La La Challenge #52 - Vintage Man
Caardvarks - Monochromatic
One Stop Craft #77 - Metallic
Polkadoodle #16 - Monochromatic
Cards For Men #9 - Monochromatic

Happy Easter!!

Wow - 3rd card today... not had such a productive crafty day for a while! So, I decided to have a go at a Spring-y Easter card!!

So, this sweet little die-cut image is from the freebie pack in the most recent Crafts Beautiful magazine. Then I've used 2 lots of freebie papers - spots and stripes, and then a printed sentiment (from Word)! There's one piece of ribbon (from Papermania Capsule collection) cut into six, and then a flower with a button, and 2 flowery eyelets!!

Challenges I'm entering:
Simon Says Challenge - Sketch
Susie's Sassy Challenge #10 - Easter
Totally Gorjuss #21 - Sweet
One Stop Craft Challenge #71 - Spots & Dots
One Stitch At A Time #4 - Recipe: 1 ribbon , 2 eyelets & 2 papers (my 2nd entry)
Incy Wincy Designs Challenge #33 - Green (at least 1/3 of the card)
The Pink Elephant #58 - Spring
By the Cute & Girly March Challenge - Spring is in the air
Cupcake Craft Challenges #82 - Going Green

Fishy Fishy!

This is a card I just made for my Aunty's partner, who is apparently into fishing (says Mum):

I've used 2 types of paper from the Dovecraft Masculine range, along with some glitter stripes (DST + Glamour dust), and a rub-on sentiment on a Sizzix bookplate, on a nestie die cut! I've no idea where my mum got the fish from, but I pinched it!

Challenges I'm entering:
Cute Card Thursday #98 - Spots & Dots
One Stop Craft #65 - Make it Personal

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