2 cards for you today.....

Another week has flown by without any postings but here are 2 cards I made last night. I needed to unwind last night so went and did some colouring with my copics, browsed through the current challenges and this is what I came up with....



I love this image from Funky Kits, a great one for male cards, added glossy accents to the glasses and guitar. The paper is from a K & Co pad I've had for ages. The musical stamp is a magazine freebie, cut out with an SU! punch as is the star that has been trimmed down from the flower punch. Sentiment from Craftwork Cards edged off with a bit of stickles, still not managed to add these evenly - practice practice practice I guess!!
The layout is from this week's challenge at Dutch Dare, the theme from Cute Card Thursday which is Music and/or Dance - reckon he's dancing here, what do you think? and hoping it qualified for Charisma Cardz challenge of using die cuts - the sentiment is die cut and hoping the punched out shapes count also?

The other card is for a lovely lady who works with my husband, I only found out last night it was her birthday today so it was a very quick make.... Happy Birthday Roni x



Paper from a Kay & Co paper stack, organza ribbon from stash. Sentiment from an SU! set which is often in use.

Day off today so off to catch up with some chores, hoping to fit a bit of cardmaking in later although with the sun out I may be in the garden!!

Just a birthday card.....

I hope you are all having a lovely Mothers Day, the weather has been gorgeous here and I've had a wonderful day. I had some lovely presents from the children and went out with my daughter to do a spot of craft shopping, managed to fit in a visit to Starbucks for a yummy vanilla latte.....while the boys went to football.

Here's a card I finished off yesterday during my tidy up.... I found some images already coloured, this is one I started last week at the demo at the local library.

Love this cute CC design stamp, and just had to bring out the MME Bloom & Grow papers seeing as the weather has been spring like here over the last couple of days. Prima flowers finished off with a matching pearl brad and a cute lil' bead cap I bought from a bead shop in Devon, must get some more of these. The layout is from the challenge at Just Christmas and Birthday cards. The edges are distressed with spiced marmalade distress ink, one of my favourites, sentiment from Cuddly Buddly and punched shaped made with SU! punches.

Am off now to enjoy a lovely roast dinner, have a great evening.

xx

Peace and quiet at last....

Day off today, got the house to myself, the sun is shining, could it get any better?
Thought I would start off with a card - before I tackle the chores:-(



This card is for 2 challenges, Just Magnolia which is to use handmade flowers (I really must buy the larger retro flower punch....) and Basic Grey which is a sketch that is great to work with - I even decorated the inside of the card!
I coloured the images with Distress Inks, and layered the Tilda using silicon glue just to ensure I got the correct positioning, I wanted to cover the strawberries at the top of the box.
I used some of Chocolate Box card, scrunched it up and used a sanding block to reveal the pink core, not tried this before, quite pleased with how it turned out although most of it is hidden under the upper layers!
Punches are from SU! except the lil' retro flower which is an X-Cut one.

I feel a few more challenges coming on but ought to put my washing out now and get some coffee and toast... have a great day whatever you are doing, hope to be back later.

Have a fairy nice day - Creative Card Crew challenge

The challenge this week at Creative Card Crew is
'Have a fairy nice day'



My first attempt went in the bin, the second attempt took some time to put together but I think that's because I was feeling guilty, Barry was painting the hallway and I should have been helping.... Anyway we got there in the end and I'm pretty pleased with the end result and it means one less card to make at Christmas!

Go on over to Creative Card Crew to check out the other DT members wonderful cards and the great prize that's on offer this week.

Stamps - image Sugar Nellie, sentiment Cuddly Buddly
Inks - Memento Tuxedo Black, Copic markers and Gelly roll pens
Papers - DCWV Rose Tinted Xmas paper stack
Tools - Stampin Up punches, CB embossing folder
All other items from stash

Manga Girl at The Sugar Bowl

Here's my entry for The Sugar Bowl sketch challenge this week.



I've been working at this all evening, with various images and distress inks, it just wasn't happening, so out came the copics and here we have it. I wanted to use papers from the Hopscotch pad by Kay & Co, so the colours for the image were dictated by that.

Stamps - Manga Girl 1 from Funky Kits, sentiment from SU!
Papers - DSP - Hopscotch, Kay & Co, blue card from stash
Colouring - copics and Memento ink pad Paris Dusk
Tools - MS border punch, SU! large oval & scalloped oval punches
Embellies - Gems from Papermania

Jackie, if you are reading this, yes I did get it finished, just in time!!

Another late night!

I've had a lovely relaxing day today, colouring some of the lazy summer magnolias with distress inks, postie delivered a couple more ink pads for me today so I had a bit more choice! None of the images have yet made it onto a card but I hope to do that tomorrow.



I also had a delivery from SU! today, so have been playing with some new stash this evening. I've got some birthday BBQ invites to make, (still got a few more to make tomorrow) I got the inspiration from one of my blogging buddies Sarah Jane, you can see her invite here, thanks Sarah Jane, just what I needed.
I had to have the Cheers stampin around which I inked onto white cardstock and coloured with various pens and accented the salt cellar and ice cubes with glossy accents. The wording on the front is from the Sincere Salutations set.
CS - Whisper White, Brilliant Blue
Ink - Basic Black, Brilliant Blue
Stamps - Sincere Salutations, Cheers stampin around roller, wording on inside of invite from a Royal & Langnickle set from the Paper Mill.
Tools - punches, 1" circle, scalloped oval & large oval.

Am off to bed now, can just about keep my eyes open as I finish this post.

Dies to Die for sketch challenge

Are you trying to get your hands on those hard to come by Miss Anya stamps? There's a sketch challenge on the Dies to Die for blog with 3 great prizes up for grabs, first prize being a set of Miss Anya stamps, closing date is 31st May so get your skates on to be in with a chance.....



Here's my card for the challenge, well I did say in my last post those papers were crying out to be used again, and they kept me up till 3am this morning!!
Another gorjuss girl stamp coloured with - you guessed it - PMs. I was really pleased with the colour matching here. Flower punch from SU and dry embossed to give a bit of dimension, first time I've tried this with this punch and pleased with the result, especially with the dot that fitted just perfectly in the centre!

Got everything crossed - I so NEED those Miss Anya stamps, here's hoping I get lucky, if not guess I'll have to wait till the next shipment comes in but 2 weeks
is such a loooooooong time to wait!

Gonna have a walk along the beach now, I quite fancy a whirly ice cream! Enjoy the sun whatever you are doing.....

1st Christmas card for 2009

Having watched a bit of QVC's Crafting for Christmas yesterday, I thought it was about time I made a start on my Christmas cards, I am often frantically making cards as late as Christms Eve!! Hope to change that this year....

I decided to use this week's sketch at Just Christmas and Birthday Cards and my new Edwin & Tilda stamp, just loved this stamp for ages and only recently got hold of it.



Out came my Xmas papers box, thought I would choose my papers first then the colours for the image, instead of the other way round as I usually do. Papers are from DCWV Xmas stack, edged with Cats Eyes Chalk Ink in blue. Loving my ever expanding collection of Promarkers, still need to practice with shading tho! I tried to pick out colours from the backing papers I had used. Parchment style paper from stash, embossed with D'vine Swirls CB embossing folder, sentiment from Best Yet, Level 1 hostess gift from Stampin' Up!, a very useful set as it contains sentiments for all occasions. Ovals cut with SU! punches. Pink ribbon from stash, just noticed I'm nearly running out of this colour, oh no, another craft shopping trip.

Didn't get much at Hobbycraft yesterday, some gorgeous Christmas buttons, trees, snowflakes, some scrummy glittery hearts and some lovely ribbon, so had to get online and ordered some MME Bloom & Grow papers from Crafts U Love, looks like I'll be stalking my postie this week...