Friday again - where did the week go!!! I hope you're having better weather than we are up here - it's really horrible - wind, snow, rain etc etc!!!
This card is for two challenges.
The challenge on Just Cute Bears is to use a bear and lilac.
I have followed the sketch from Moving Along With The Times and also the theme which was to do a baby card. I've been needing to make a new baby card so this gave me the perfect inspiration!!
The bear is a stamp I bought years ago in Australia for my daughter to play with. This was before I was into card making. I found it in her craft stuff last year and pinched it back!!
Coloured with promarkers. Paper from Papermania.
On another note, I've just received two Martha Stewart border punches which I finally got round to ordering with my Christmas money (thanks Ann, if you're reading this!!). I've tried them out on some scrap paper and they are just fab, so I think I'll be using them a lot in the near future!!!
Thanks for looking!!
Hello everyone and Happy New Year!!
I can't beleive it's so long since I was on my blog - oops! I got so busy in the run up to Christmas it was the last thing on my mind. I did make a few challenge cards for birthdays but didn't get round to putting them on here. I'll add some pictures another time of the things I've been up to, just to show I wasn't sitting around with my feet up, honest!!
Well, I hope everyone had a good Christmas and New Year. We had a great time up here and the girls have loved all the snow and sledging but I'm quite glad that most of it is gone now. There is still thick ice on the school playground but other than that it is pretty clear.
Anyway, I thought I'd break myself back in gently with a sketch challenge. I made this for my daugher's 7th birthday (another year gone by - so scary!!).
This is for the current Truly Scrumptious challenge, with the added colour challenge to use pink, green & black.
The image is from the Beautiful Fairies stamp collection by Inkadinkado which I was lucky enough to win in a challenge before Christmas. I stamped in black ink and embossed with holographic powder. Coloured with promarkers.
The papers are from the new Forever Friends Pink Parfait paper pack.
Well, I'm off to get some lunch now. Thanks to anyone who stops to take a look after so long!! Now Christmas etc is all over it'll be nice to get back to some normal challenges & blogging!!
Well, another week has gone by and not gone as planned as I had my youngest daughter off school sick for a couple of days. I did get quite a few images stamped and coloured though and have now managed to finish my big batch of Christmas cards for my upcoming craft stall (I think I've done about 100!). Now I need to start on the non-Christmassy cards - I've got the images done, just need to assemble the cards.
On top of all that, my husband has been moved with his job and left today. He'll be back weekends when he can, but I have two quite sad little girls here tonight!!
Anyway, I've done this quick card for a friends little boy. His birthday is actually today so I'm a bit late.
The card is for this week's Spoon Full of Sugar challenge.
I used my favourite Sugar Nellie pirate stamp coloured with my promarkers. The backing papers are K & Co. Button from my stash, sparkly ribbon Papermania.
Thanks for looking!!
Well, firstly apologies at not blogging for ages. I've had a busy couple of weeks and haven't got many challenge cards done.
I've been asked to sell some cards and jewellery at a craft stall at the end of November which I'm very excited about so I've been planning for that. I've sorted out all my jewellery stash (and ordered some more of course!!!) and started doing batches of Christmas cards. I'll get some of it on here when I get a minute. Now I just hope I manage to sell some of it!!!
I'm planning on doing more cards this week (I'm thinking maybe some non-Christmas cards as well as end of November seems quite late to sell lots of Christmas cards - what do you think?), and then next week I'm hoping to get lots of jewellery made - so watch this space as it could all go horribly wrong!!!
Oh, I did get one card done last week for the competition in the last DoCrafts magazine - hopefully it got to them on time with the postal strike going on!!! I'll put that on here another time.
In the meantime, on to today's card (finally!!!).
I made this card for the current Sugar Bowl challenge. I followed the sketch and also the 'please include' to add lace.
When I made the card I was also planning of entering the Papertake Weekly current challenge of Spots and Stripes but I've just remembered that's not allowed under the rules of the Sugar Bowl challenge so I'll leave it off there (oops!).
The card is for a friend of mine who has just had a baby girl this week. I used the lovely Daisy with Pram from Sugar Nellie and I've coloured her in with promarkers.
The sentiment stamp is one of the See D's range which I haven't used in ages. The backing papers are from the Clare Curd Signature Range Big One paper pack.
The paper flowers are plain ones I got from Lakeland and then I've run them through my BigShot with the Divine Swirls folder - I do like the effect this has on them.
The lace is from my stash. Rafia from my local garden centre. Pink safety pin button from a baby buttons pack I bought ages ago.
Well, I have a couple of boy's birthdays coming up that I need to make cards for. I coloured in some images last night so hopefullly I'll get those done tomorrow as well.
Thanks for looking!!
