Use Those Dies!

It's time for a new challenge at Allsorts and our theme is 'Use Those Dies' hosted by the lovely Brenda. Our wonderful sponsors are Let's Create and Flonzcraft. 

I have made a vintage card using a silhouette stamp from our sponsor Flonzcraft. I have used one of my favourite dies from Spellbinders...

Supplies:

Image - Girl Reading Book from Flonzcraft

Paper - old MME 

Flowers - The Ribbon Girl and stash

Buttons - stash

Ribbon - Craftwork Cards

Other - Spellbinders Floral Oval die, Spellbinders oval die, brown chalk inkpad, kraft cardstock

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Divas by Design - Buttons & Bows

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes with Buttons

Crafty Ribbons - Ribbon & Buttons
Crafty Catz - Anything Goes

Please do come and join us over at Allsorts this week for our challenge x

Hope you have a lovely weekend and I hope you can join in with our challenge:-)

Happy Birthday Jack!

It's my number one son's birthday today, 10 today! We're at school/work today but going out for dinner tonight to celebrate (- no cooking or clearing up for moi is an added bonus!).

This is a Mother's Day card I made for a friend to give to her mum. The brief was 'gardening' and I found the perfect image at Digistamp Boutique...

 Apologies for the blurry image but this shows how I layered the little seed packet to add some dimension...

Supplies:
Image - In the Garden: Flowers coloured with Promarkers & Flexmarkers
Paper - sorry can't remember
Sentiment - Pink Petticoat
Seam binding - Crafty Ribbons
Flower & buttons - stash
Other - Spellbinders Floral Oval die, Spellbinders oval die, brown chalk inkpad, kraft cardstock, Star Dust Stickles

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Digistamp Boutique - March competition
Totally Gorjuss - Mum
My Time To Craft - Mother's Day/Special Lady
Craft Your Passion - Mother's Day/For The Ladies

Flower Power...

These are the Mother's Day cards I have made for my mum and mil. The images are from Digistamp Boutique and were fab to colour. As it's Mother's Day I've gone all pink and pretty...

Showing the tag behind the image...

This is basically the same design but using paler pinks...

Showing the tag behind the image...

Supplies:
Images - Rose Bouquet set coloured with Promarkers & Flexmarkers
Papers - old Prima & LOTV
Sentiments - Pink Petticoat & Digistamp Boutique (from the Duchess Cat set)
Ribbon, lace, doily & flowers - stash
Other - Spellbinders Perfectly Pierced Classic Hourglass die (tag), Spellbinders circle & scallop circle dies, fancy corner die (can't remember brand), brown chalk inkpad

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Digistamp Boutique - March competition
Totally Gorjuss - Mum
My Time To Craft - Mother's Day/Special Lady
Craft Your Passion - Mother's Day/For The Ladies

I will be spending my Mother's Day cheering Jack on in a rugby competition. Fingers crossed for decent weather! Talking of Jack, he will be 10 on Thursday :-) We are off to the cinema and for pizza on Saturday to celebrate with a couple of his friends.

All About The Boy

It's time for a new challenge at Allsorts and our theme is 'All About The Boy' hosted by the lovely Tracy. Our wonderful sponsor is Craft Fairy.

 

 

Now I don't make that many cards for boys/men but I do really enjoy making them, I know some people don't but I do enjoy the break from flowers and pretty bits and bobs ;-) A lovely friend of mine shared a gorgeous card on her blog several weeks ago and I just loved the Delicious Doodles image she used so I bought it myself and made this card for my uncle...

Supplies:

Image - A Scottish Castle coloured with Promarkers & Flexmarkers

Paper - from a really old Basic Grey pad, Marjolaine I think?

Sentiment - Craftwork Cards

Raffia & button - stash

Other - kraft card, brown chalk inkpad

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Fab n Funky - Boys To Men

Aud Sentiments - Anything Goes

Ruby's Rainbow - Happy Birthday

Brown Sugar - Anything Goes

Please do come and join us over at Allsorts this week for our challenge x

Hope you have a lovely weekend and I hope you can join in with our challenge:-)

Black and blue...

Good morning, the end of the week is in sight, yippee :-) Do you renember my tabby cat card from last week? Well this is sort of the same but a different colourway. Now, I don't often make cards where black is the dominant colour but I quite like how this turned out...

Supplies:

Image - Cat & Butterfly coloured with Promarkers & Flexmarkers

Papers - Sweet Shoppe by LilyBee Designs

Ribbon & buttons - stash

Sentiment - Craftwork Cards

Other - Spellbinders Perfectly Pierced Classic Hourglass die, Poppy Stamps Sitting Cat die, brown chalk inkpad, kraft card

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Happy New Home...

Morning lovelies, I am still chasing my tail this week! Counting the days down now till the Easter holidays :-) I made this card for lovely friends who moved house recently...

Supplies:
Image & sentiment - from the Simply Moving Home set by Digistamp Boutique coloured with Promarkers & Flexmarkers
Papers - RSVP by Basic Grey
Lace, pearls, key charm & buttons - stash
Other - Marianne Designs Home Sweet Home die, Spellbinders circle & scallop circle dies, brown chalk ink pad, Crafter's Companion kraft card

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Digistamp Boutique - March competition

Pretty In Pink

Good morning, apologies for being awol AGAIN this week but I've been snowed under with work and trying to keep up with day to day stuff. It's time for a new challenge at Allsorts and our theme is 'Pretty In Pink' hosted by me :-) Our wonderful sponsors are Nicecrane Designs and A Passion For Stamps. So 2 chances to win :-)

 

 

As it is my week to host I decided to make 2 cards! The first one is made with a beautiful bright seed pack image from our sponsor Nicecrane Designs that comes pre-coloured. I printed the image several times so I could layer up parts of the flowers. I also printed a mini version to attach under the bow...

 A close up of the layered petals...

Supplies:

Image -  Henderson's Giant Flowering Vol 2 set from Nicecrane Designs

Papers - from an old C'art Us pad

Ribbon, flowers, resin flower, charm - stash

Pink twirls - The Ribbon Girl

Pink doily - from a lovely friend x

Other - Memory Box Alphabet Soup die, brown chalk inkpad, kraft cardstock

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Oldie But A Goodie - Spring Has Sprung (my paper & charm are old)

Creative Card Crew - Charms

Simon Says Stamp - Mother's Day/Special Girl

Crafting For All Seasons - Spring Into Spring

Milk Coffee - Show Us Flowers

My 2nd card is made with softer pinks and a fab vintage image. I made this card for a lovely friend as the girl in the image looks very much like her daughter...

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Supplies:

Image -  from the Under The Blue Sky coloured with Promarkers & Flexmarkers

Papers - Amelia by Craftwork Cards

Flowers, resin flowers, ribbon & buttons - stash

Doily - from a lovely friend x

Sentiment - Craftwork Cards

Other - brown chalk inkpad, kraft cardstock

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

In The Pink - Mother's Day/For A Special Lady

Cute Card Thursday - Girls, Girls, Girls

Crafty Ribbons - Ribbons & Bows

Please do come and join us over at Allsorts this week for our challenge x

Hope you have a lovely weekend and I hope you can join in with our challenge:-)

Kitty cat...

Morning lovelies, it's Friday tomorrow, yippee! I've used a cute pussy cat image from Circa Designs on this card. I have tried with my colouring to make the fur look like a tabby cat, hope you like it...

Supplies:
Image - Cat & Butterfly coloured with Promarkers & Flexmarkers
Paper - old Prima design
Ribbon - The Ribbon Girl
Resin flower - My Mum's Craft Shop
Sentiment - Craftwork Cards
Other - Spellbinders Perfectly Pierced Classic Hourglass die, Memory Box Precious Daisies die, Poppy Stamps Sitting Cat die, brown chalk inkpad, kraft card

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

I ♥ Promarkers - Let's Get Spotty
Passion for Promarkers - Butterfly Kisses (the image)
Fab 'n' Funky - Animals

Bunny Love...

Morning peeps, I am still waaayyy behind catching up with blogs, please bear with me ;-) I had some fun making a super bright and zingy card for Easter...

 A pic to show the tag that peeks out behind the image...

Supplies:
Image - from the Easter Buffy set from Digistamp Boutique coloured with Promarkers & Flexmarkers
Paper - can't remember sorry
Sentiment - from the Tiny Easter Sentiments set from Pink Petticoat
Felt flower - gift from a lovely lady
Ribbon - Dovecraft
Buttons - stash
Other - Spellbinders Perfectly Pierced Classic Hourglass die (the tag), Spellbinders circle dies, brown chalk inkpad, kraft card

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:
Digistamp Boutique - March Competition
That Craft Place - Anything Goes
Corrosive Challenges - Animals
The Squirrel & The Fox - Autumn or Spring (I chose Spring)
Come & Get It - Ribbons & Bows 

Thanks for looking x