Baby Sleeping Door Hanger

A while ago I got some door hangers from my blogging buddy Susie's shop Die Cut Dreams. I made one when I first got them but the other 2 have been buried on my desk, was beginning to think I would never see them again!! Anyway they resurfaced yesterday so thought I would decorate another one up....



Wasn't quite sure what I was going to put on this hanger when I spied the Bubbles and Squeak stamps poking out from a pile of stash. These stamps haven't been inked up in a while so thought it was about time. The door hanger was blue so that was another decision made. Image stamped in Memento Rich Cocoa, I love this colour, its not so harsh as black and just great for this bear image which I coloured with copics.
Background papers from a DCWV Nursery stack, love these, there's such a lot of glitter on this paper, not that you can see much of it here... Added ribbon from stash and a couple of die cuts I've had for ages. I wasn't sure how many s's you have in ssh, but didn't have space for any more or an exclamation mark.

Am off now to have a little tidy up, have lost one of my copics in the mess - oh no..... whats a girl to do?

Happy Birthday Dad

It's my Dad's birthday today, I always struggle for cards for him as he doesn't have any of the usual 'male' hobbies such as football, drinking, DIY.
I was browsing through some old magazines recently when I saw this design so thought I would give it a go.



The card is A5 folded in half. Paper is from a Papermania stack, cardstock at the top was run through CB embossing folder. DAD cut with Cricut, think it was Birthdays and Beyond cartridge, too lazy to go and look!



And this is how it looks when you flip the top back on its hinge - the hidden greeting. This design is very versatile, I can see lots of girlie cards made using this style with handbag or shoe toppers on!

Creative Card Crew - Ribbons and Gems

It my turn to set the challenge this week at Creative Card Crew......ribbons and gems sprang to mind with Christmas racing towards us!



I've had this blue ribbon in my stash since I started card making years ago, it has been much stroked but never cut and put onto a card until now! With my colour scheme set all I had to do was decide what stamp to use. I heard Maggie calling from the cupboard, the stars on her dress fit in pretty well with the stars on the ribbon so all I had to do then was pick my papers - mmmmm, so many papers but only 1 pack that would fit in nicely with my colours, last years Dovecraft Christmas pack. Image coloured with copics and gelly roll pens and MS punch used on some of the borders. Added a tag with greeting on, a few gems and there we have it!



Trying to keep on decorating the inside of my cards, so far so good, but you will have noticed that it has slowed down the number of cards I've made recently ROFL - most like brought it to a standstill!!!
I've just noticed that I haven't put a white panel inside this card for the greeting etc to be written, must do that before I seal it up.

The challenge this week is sponsored by The Creative Cottage, not sure what the prize is so you'll have to visit the CCC blog to find out more....

Adam's birthday card and the inside of my CCC DT card

Been catching up with some cardage today.... decorated the inside of quite a few cards. I am planning an open day at home soon to sell some of my cards, jewellery and Mum's patchwork, so really need to get a shift on the finish off all my UFOs (unfinished objects).

As promised in my earlier post is the card I made for my youngest son's birthday. I've been meaning to make one of these cards for ages but never seem to get round to completeing them.... some more UFOs!



As he is a footy fan I usually end up making him a football card but decided to buck the trend this year with this Manga boy image from Funky Kits and papers from Dovecraft. Image coloured with copics, stars cut from SU flower punch, trimmed off the curved edges and put through swiss dots CB embossing folder, really pleased with them now, they looked kinda flat before I embossed them.



Here is the inside of the Creative Card Crew DT card for this week, which I had hoped to finish for my posting earlier today....
Finished off with Basic Grey Wassail papers and snowflakes as before.

Need to go and tidy my workspace now, hope to get round to taking a photo for WOYWW??
Am off to a quilting shop with one of my crafting buddies who has also been bitten by the patchwork bug recently. Can feel a little spend coming on :-)

Catch up tomorrow....

Snowflakes on your card - Creative Card Crew

The challenge this week at Creative Card Crew is to use snowflakes on your card.
We are sponsored this week by Simon Says Stamp, there is a £20 gift certicate for one lucky crafter out there, so come on, lets see your snowflake cards....



I used the cheeky Charlie with snowballs image from Whiff of Joy for my card and Basic Grey Wassail papers. I coloured the image with copics, just loving these babies, need to get some sketch markers now ;-) The snowflakes are made with MS and Punch Bunch punches. You can just about see some snowflakes on one of the backing papers too. Loving these challenges, I have never had so many Christmas cards made so early....

I meant to decorate the inside of the card before I posted it but spend a couple of hours making my son's birthday card which we needed for today.... I will post a picture later.

Looking forward to seeing your snowflake cards.

AWOL

Sorry I've not been about much lately, been feeling a bit under the weather and things have been pretty busy here so I've not managed to fit in much crafting, when I've had the time I've not had the inclination, was beginning to think my mojo had gone walkabouts....

We've lots of birthdays at this time of year in our family, it was my daughter's birthday yesterday, here is the card I made for her.



This Miss Anya shopping image reminded me of Ellie the other day when she had been shopping so just had to use it on her card. I chose the colour scheme as it is a favourite of hers. The papers are from DCWV All Dressed Up stack, image coloured with copics.

I've got a DT card coming up tomorrow along with another birthday card.
I'm on half term holiday this week so hope to spend a bit more time making cards, catching up on your blogs, taking part in challenges and playing with my new sewing machine....

Robbie Walking......Card for a boy

The challenge this week at Creative Card Crew is to make a card for a child or baby.... I opted to make a card for a boy, when I came across a certain stamp in my stash.



This cute image of 'Robbie Walking' is from Cuddly Buddly, coloured with copics. The papers are a HOTP pad I bought recently, I just love the vivid colours. The stars are cut from a flower punch (SU! punch) and run through an embossing folder, then inked on the embossing and round the edges.

There is a fabby prize up for grabs again this week, go on over to Creative Card Crew to see what it is and the rest of the DT's take on this challenge.

I am going to enter this card into the Create 4 Fun and Charisma Cards challenges this week.

Last week at PfP

It's my last week as a guest designer at Passion for Promarkers awww....
The challenge this week is to use Poppy & Forest Green. Mmmm this shouted out Christmas to me, another opportunity to increase my stock of Christmas cards. I started colouring a Edwin & Tilda skating but it just wasn't happening so went for plan b - Miss Anya and my stash of DCWV papers - couple several Xmas stacks to chose from!

I embossed a strip of gold pearlescent card with the CB embossing folder, added a couple of snowflakes using my MS punch, sentiment and shapes punches from SU! and finally a bit of ribbon from stash. Another card sorted.

Creative Card Crew - Sharon's Scallop challenge

It's Sharon's turn to set the challenge at Creative Card Crew this week which is to include scallops on your cards.
Crafty Addicts are sponsoring the challenge this week, there's a fabby prize up for grabs, so get those cards coming.....



I coloured the Miss Anya image with copics chosing colours that went with the papers from DCWV Nanna's Nursery Baby Girl paper stack, which has been on my desk for a while as I need to make a card for a baby girl. I used the sketch from Truly Scrumptious and the card was nearly finished when I realised that I hadn't included any scallops..... so I added some lace, rik rak ribbon and the sentiment is matted onto a scalloped oval. There is a little heart charm dangling from the sentiment but its not too clear in the photo, sorry photography skills severely lacking!

Passion for Promarkers - 3rd week as Guest Designer

It's my third week as a guest design at Passion for Promarkers and what a great challenge it is..... It's Gina's turn to set the challenge and she has decided on a sketch challenge, go and check out the PfP blog to see the sketch and other DT members wonderful cards. The sponsor this week is Secret Crafter who are offering 6 Promarkers as the prize for the lucky winner this week.



I coloured Miss Anya with my Promarkers, can't remember which colours tho, sorry they got mixed up on my desk.... The pink sparkly paper and plain purple is from my stash, the purple patterned is from a DCWV stack. The sentiment and punches are from SU!

I'm looking forward to seeing your creations.....