No Flowers Allowed!

Good morning, I for one am very glad it's Saturday. It's been such a busy week and I can now relax as I'm off work for just over 2 weeks :-) It's time for a new challenge at Allsorts and our theme is 'No Flowers' hosted by the lovely Helene. Our wonderful sponsors are Craft Fairy and Digistamp Boutique. 

 

 

offering a £15 voucher and

  

 

offering a £10 voucher

 

I initially broke into a cold sweat at the thought of not adding flowers as pretty much all my cards have flowers on them (apart from those for a male!). I then spied a fabulous cute cat image at Digistamp Boutique and had a flick through my paper stash and came up with this. I fussy cut the image to get rid of any white space...

Supplies:

Image - Duchess Cat by Digistamp Boutique coloured with Promarkers & Flexmarkers

Papers - RSVP by Basic Grey

Sentiment - Garden Vignettes by Barbara Anne Williams from Cuddly Buddly

Seam binding - Crafty Ribbons

Button & pearls - stash

Other - Marianne Designs Home Sweet Home die (for the heart shapes), Spellbinders circle & scallop circle dies, Star Dust Stickles, brown chalk inkpad, kraft cardstock

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

Chocolate, Coffee & Cards - Yipes, Stripes

Crafty Ribbons - Anything Goes with Ribbon

Crafting For All Seasons - Dies & Punches

Divas By Design - Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly - 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:-)

Nanna's Birthday

Good morning, only one more day at work after today then it's the Easter Holidays!!! This is a card I made for a friend who complained that you can't buy cards with the name Nanna on, it's always Nan or Nanny. I said I could help and made this using a fab vintage image from Nicecrane Designs...

 I love the image so much I added it to the inside too...

Supplies:
Image - from the set Enchanted Spring from Nicecrane Designs
Papers - sorry can't remember
Ribbon, charm, button - stash
Other - Fancy corner die, twine, brown chalk inkpad, kraft card

Flowers galore...

Happy 1st April everyone. 4 more days of work then it's just over 2 weeks for me :-) Here's another Mother's Day card I made for a friend. The brief was cats and flowers and this cute image combines the 2 perfectly...

 A close up of the cute cat...

Supplies:
Image - Duchess Cat coloured with Promarkers & Flexmarkers
Paper - can't remember sorry x
Sentiment - Pink Petticoat
Buttons & ribbon - stash
Flowers - The Ribbon Girl & stash
Other - Poppy Stamps Sitting Cat die, Spellbinders circle & scallop circle dies, brown chalk inkpad, kraft card, Star Dust Stickles

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

Crafts 4 Eternity - Special Mums

Glitter n Sparkle - Mother's Day

Dream Valley - Mothering Sunday

Pile It On - Floral Fantasy

That Craft Place - Buttons

Crafty Catz - Anything Goes

Bye x

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:-)