Me To You Anniversary Tag

I made this card for a wedding anniversary, and to try to use some of the things we had in a Docrafts goody bag.

Supplies:-
Image: Me To You Stickers
Paper: Me To You paper pack
Embellishments: Tag die cut from Me To You paper pack, eyelet, ink around edges.

Challenges:-
Pollycraft #112 - Tags/Bookmarks
Cute Card Thursday #184 - Animal Crackers

Happy House-Mouse Anniversary!

It was Aunty Marilyn & Brian's first wedding anniversary at the weekend, so I made them a little card. They found the HM image funny and were trying to decide who was which mouse!

Supplies:
Image: "Olive a Party" from House-Mouse Designs, coloured with Promarkers.
Paper: Pink Petticoat Vintage Rose Collection
Tools: XCut border punch system & glasses/heart punch
Embellishments: Ribbon (hand-tied bow) with curls stuck in place with glue. Sentiment from Forever Friends die-cut sheet. Glitter on tape underneath border punch for sparkly background!

Challenges:
Crafts & Me #37 - Punch It Out
Inky Impressions  #16 - Shine On
C.R.A.F.T #105 - Wedding/Love
Craft Us Crazy #9 - Love/Remembrance
Cupcake Craft #145 - Things with tails
Pollycraft Monday #96 - Love & Marriage
I Love Promarkers #68 - Sparkly Bling
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Umm, Spot the difference?

I made this card for my Grandad's Birthday, then on the day I was going to post it, my fab prize arrived from Papermaze, and it included these lovely letter stickers, which were just what I needed to finish it off! So there's my nice easel-photo-tent picture, then a quick snap as I was about to run off to the postbox!

Supplies:
Image: "Deckchair Dreaming" from Lili of the Valley coloured with Promarkers.
Paper: Spotty paper from DCWV Scrapbook kit in a stack, diamond pattern from Dovecraft Masculine pack. Plain blue/green paper  for layering.
Embellishments: Blue/white bakers twine, die-cut sentiment, October Afternoon letter stickers

Challenges:
Craft Your Days Away #21 - Father's Day/Special Man
Sketch Saturday #157 - Sketch
Totally Gorjuss #82 - String's the thing #
Dream Valley #8 - Stamp Something
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge #113 - Bugs or Boys
Fussy & Fancy Friday - Card for a man/boy
Simon Says Challenge - Father's Day/ Male
Creative Inspirations #114 - Cute Bears/Animals Only
Pollycraft Monday #95 - Be My Teddy Bear
Ooh La La Challenge #81 - Happy Birthday

Anya with flowers & some butterflies!

Supplies:

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

Paper: Blue with white dots from Daisy & Dandelion paper pack

Tools: Screen fold template, deckled rectangle nestabilities, XCut butterfly punch, MS scalloped border punch.

Embellishments: Gems

Challenges:

Farm Fresh Friday - Spring Break
Creative Inspirations #104 - No square cards
Fab n Funky Challenge #65 - "Do it more than once" (more than one fold)
Meljen's Challenge #51 - Get creative with punches

Crafty Emma's Store Challenge #29 - Die cut crazy
Pollycraft Challenge #86 - Friends
I Love Promarkers #58 - Go Dotty
Stamp Something - Spring
Polka Doodles #12 - Spring has sprung

A Magical Birthday for Mum!

It's Mum's Birthday on Monday, but I have had to be super-prepared this year as I go in for my shoulder surgery tomorrow so think my right arm will be un-useable for at least a few days. The presents are wrapped, I've made my card to Mum, and I'm currently making Dad's for her!
The image is "Wings of Hope" from Whimsy Stamps (a Crissy Armstrong creation)- a beautiful Pegasus carousel horse! I've coloured it with Promarkers, and glittered the wings and hooves. My sentiment is also from Whimsy Stamps (Raindrop Echo).
I've used some flourishy pink and spotted blue paper from Papermania's Henbury Lane collection, some blue vellum which has been stitched with silver thread, a ribbon with heart-shaped brad (that's been hanging around the drawer forever), and some die cut flowers with gems.

Challenges:
Ooh La La Creations #73 - For Someone Special
Pollycraft #80 - Special Birthday
Sketch & Stash #55 - Sketch & neglected heart ribbon brad, so old I forget where it's from!
Oldie But A Goodie #12 - Add a Heart
Papertake Weekly - Putting on the Glitz
Top Tip Tuesday #22 - All Stitched Up - My top tip for stitching by hand like this is to plan your stitches first before making holes, otherwise you may end up with your loose ends in the wrong place, or uneven stitching!
Charisma Cardz #6 - Mythical/Fantasy (2nd entry)
Cute Card Thursday #151 - Hearts & Flowers
Paperplay #6 - Hearts & Flowers but not Valentine's
Sundays with Crissy February - It's all about Love

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

Get Well Soon Mum!

A little update on Mum & Dad's holiday... Mum's knee gave way on Wednesday night, and she collapsed on the dancefloor (yes, I was wondering what tricky move she was trying that could cause such trouble). She hasn't been able to walk since...has been wheeled round the hotel in a wheelchair, although that last few days she has managed to get  onto the beach (somehow)!
They come home tomorrow, and we're going straight to the doctor to see if they can find out what's wrong & whether she needs to go for xrays etc. (Apparently the hotel medical person suspects tendon damage but can't be sure without xrays). So, here's a little card I made for her, and I'm off to the shop later for flowers.
The two papers are My Mind's Eye Summer pack, and the image is from the Daisy & Dandelion range, coloured with Promarkers. The die is Nellie Snellen mult frame circles, and I've added a little charm at the bottom.

Challenges I'm entering:
Simon Says Challenge - Move it (my little charm dangles!) You MUST go and watch the Madagascar movie clip!! It's awesome!!
ICS Challenge #83 - Sketch
Pile It On #37 - Red, yellow, brown & green
Pollycraft Monday #62 - Cute & Cuddly

Distressed Autumn

Well, I've just come back from having a lovely time in Derby at Mum's godson's wedding. The sun was shining, the bride was beautiful, and a good day was had by all! I stayed at my Aunty's overnight (as she and her husband looked after the dogs for me while I was at the wedding). So I didn't have time to show you the card I made on Saturday for my other Uncle's birthday... I had a go at distressing (after the arrival of my Making Memories edge scraper) but wasn't quite brave enough to use the one Tim Holtz distress ink I have (as I have no foam pad thingy), so I used a little bronze inkpad instead! I also used some old handmade paper (not by me, though), and ripped the edges of that. The image is from Joanna Sheen's Pamela West Collection CD-Rom, and perfect for the time of year we're approaching! The spotted & striped papers are from Dovecraft Masculine paper pack.

Challenges I'm entering:

Papertake Weekly Sketch #47 - Sketch

Sir Stampalot September - All Distressed

Creatalicious Challenges #13 - Vintage

Allsorts Challenge #69 - Colours of Autumn

Paperplay Challenge #36 - Autumn Is Coming

Pollycraft Challenge #61 - Autumn Colours

Beach Time Fun!!

Here's my first card made with my Simon Says Stamp blog candy win from Chris!! It's a House Mouse Gruffies stamp called "Beach Time Fun" and I've coloured it with my Promarkers!

I've used beach themed backing paper from Cardmaking & Papercraft magazine, and added 3 eyelets, 2 shells (hand-collected by Mum) and a ribbon.

Challenges I'm entering:
Bunny Zoe's Challenge #2 - Summer Days
Creatalicious Challenges #12 - Make it 3D
Sir Stampalot July Challenge - Lazy Hazy Days of Summer
House Mouse Monday #74 - The Letter "B" (Beach, ball, bear, bucket, brolly!!!)
Friday Sketchers #112 - Sketch
Craftalicious Challenges #4 - Birthdays
Crafty Catz Weekly #42 - Summertime
Pollycraft #53 - Happy Birthday

Uplifting Occasion!

Another new Penny Black card from me (finally got around to doing something with my images I'd coloured in)! It's a proper girly card, and if you look at the word under the picture you'll see the title of one of the best girl's night out tunes by Cyndi Lauper!! (And there's another song lyric above the image, but not one I'd expect to hear on a night out!)

The image is called "Uplifting Occasion" which I love!! Such a funny picture and I've coloured it with my Promarkers:

I've used five different papers overall (that must be a record for me)! The bottom layer of polkadot paper came with a Forever Friends decoupage kit, the butterfly/floral is Dovecraft Glamour pack, the text paper is DCWV Text Prints paper stack, and the pink paper on the base card is Papermania Sweet Nothings, and the grey piece is Dovecraft Charcoal Prints. I used the Xcut heart border punch to made the propping-up doodah on the base card. I've made the wire word myself as it's for one of my closest friends from school. Then just a few heart/star gems and a peel-off to finish.

Challenges I'm entering:
Penny Black Saturday #105 - Sketch
Bunny Zoe's Crafts #1 - Nice & Girly
Pollycraft Challenge #48 - Let's have a sing song
Passion for Promarkers #55 - Pink Birthday
Creative Cottage # 14 - Going Pink
Challenge Up Your Life #22 - Critters and Bling
KLSNS #34 - Girly Birthday

Tilda among the flowers!

I've finally got around to colouring one of the Tilda's I stamped in my little frenzy a few weeks ago, as I found her somewhere new to sit and watch the world go by! The flower pot is a fab die-cut from Susie and I have made the flowers myself using a punch, and distressed them with a nail file. The pink & green textured card is from DCWV scrapbook kit in a stack - I had no idea it would distress until I ripped a bit and it's got a white core! The blue paper is Papermania, the brown is Daisy & Dandelion. I also used my Sizzix flourishes sizzlit that I haven't used for AGES (if ever) for the stems and the little hearts.

Challenges I'm entering:
Creative Inspirations #31- 3 flowers, 2 papers, 1 ribbon
Die Cut Dreams #45 - Make your own flowers
Pollycraft #41 - Make your own flowers
Creative Cottage #7 - Going Green
Fab n Funky #20 - Get it all out (old stash)
S2G #53 - Flowers
Secret Crafter Saturday #80 - Distressing
CPS #164 - Sketch
One Stitch At A Time #10 - Flowers
Just Magnolia #52 - Anything Goes

Happy Hen Weekend!

I'm off up to Lancaster on Saturday for the hen weekend of a friend I've known all my life. We're going to a spa hotel so with a few of her friends, and her mum & sister. Should be good! It was only her birthday on Saturday, but I've just done a card for the weekend! I know she's had a busy time at work and the wedding is 3wks on Saturday so I thought I'd give her this card to tell her to enjoy herself and relax!

The image is, I believe, a Penny Black called "Primp" (I got it with my blog candy from Kate). I thought it was the perfect picture for a girls pampering weekend!! The main paper is from Daisy & Dandelion paper pack, and the gorgeous flowers were from my latest blog candy from Jude. I've used my nestie scalloped circles and deckled rectangles, some little gems and some pearl/metal brads (bought ages ago and only recently re-discovered).

Challenges I'm entering:

Sketch & Stash #33 - sketch

Pollycraft #39 - Pink AND brown plus yellow or green

The Pink Elephant # 62 - 1 image, 2 dies (nesties), 3 fave embellishments (flowers)

For Fun Challenges #8 - Encouraging card#

Quixotic Paperie #21 - Heavy Metal

Allsorts #47 - Petals & pearls

New Arrival!

Here's another baby card (a vet nurse friend is due in August, but I felt like making a card now - not sure if it's a boy or a girl).

The cute rocking horse image is from Pollycrafts and is perfect for a baby card!

I've used spotted paper  from the Papermania Sweet Nothings paperpack, and my nesties (lots of nesties in this card)!! 2 brads, some ribbon and a peel off!

Challenges I'm entering:
Caardvarks - New Baby
Crafty Angels #30 - My Favourite Things (at the moment these new nesties)
Cupcake Craft #86 - Childhood Memories (this reminds of the rocking horse my Grandad made me when I was little - it's up in the loft possibly waiting for a new jockey!)
Papertake Weekly - Cutie Pie
Cooking it up with Katie #15 - 1 digi image, a splash of purple & 3 of something (I have 3 nestie doubles)
Sketch Saturday #98 - Sketch
The Crafty Pad #66 - Some rainbow colours
Creative Belli #89 - Die cute shapes

More Wings of Hope

Completely forgot to post this card I made at the weekend! So here it is now:

I've used the Wings of Hope digital stamp (and made it small!!), coloured with Whispers pens. The paper is from a magazine pack, and I've just added some new flowers I received in a blog candy with a brad in the centre, some gems, and a rub-on sentiment!

Challenges I'm entering@
Sketch & Stash #32 - Sketch
Pollycraft Monday #38 - Anything Goes
Sir Stampalot April Challenge - Fantasy
Charisma Cardz #13 - Animal Magic (2nd entry)
Stamp, Scrap & Doodle #34 - Wings

Another little fairy!

After the lovely comments I received from my last fairy card (from Sliekje digi stamps) , I thought I'd do another - this time in blue!

I've used paper from the Daisy & Dandelion Picnic Patch collection, and the yellow strip of paper is from a magazine freebie. The sentiment is a die-cut and I have added little star punches with glamour dust!

Challenges I'm entering:

Inspirational Card Sketches #57 -Sketch

Cute Daisy May - Anything Goes

Pollycraft Challenge #36 - Sparkly Things

"Oh look!! A bumble-bee!!"

Any other Rhod Gilbert fans? The way he said that on Michael Macintyre's Comedy Roadshow with his awesome Welsh accent made me howl!

Anyway.... here's my bumble bee - in fact a free-bee (get it??) from Dustin Pike.

I coloured him with Whispers pens, but then decided to add a bit of gel pen to make the water look wet. Then some beads on the brolly, then some zoomz, then glitter on the wings. Got a bit carried away really!!
Followed the sketch from Moving Along With The Times, but the time moved along with me and I didn't finish in time to enter their challenge! Gutted!!
Challenges I'm entering:
Magical Crafts #8 - Something for the kids
Lucy's Challenge #5 - Polkadots
Pollycraft #33 - Things with Wings

Baby Love!

Here's another different take on the "love" theme:



The image is a freebie digi stamp from Pollycrafts - go and download it yourself here.
I've used the green "baby" paper from DCWV text prints paper stack, and the green and pink textured card is from DCWV scrapbook kit in a stack. I've used nesties and sizzix bookplates to "punch", with some hearts & gems to finish,
Challenges I'm entering:
Papertake Weekly #34 - Love Actually
Cooking it up with Katie #10 - Home/Family, punch & sticker
Paperplay Challenges #5 - Love Notes
Fussy & Fancy Friday #3 - Hearts
Bee Crafty #23 - Romantic or loving
Die Cut Dreams # 34 - Have a Heart