Birthday card for a Dutch lady

Topper digi-image from Kirsty Wiseman

Enlarged & made into backing paper using My Craft Studio Back to Basics CD

Hope you like it and thank you for looking xxx

2 new cards

These 2 cards are for a set of adult twins so whilst I have not made identical cards, I have used the same theme. After a conversation on Twitter earlier this morning, I now can't believe I am going to put this, but both the images and backing papers are from the CupCake Crafting Potpourri Craft Cd

Hope you like it and thank you for looking xxx

Birthday card for a brother

Ingredients :-

Card Creations Sporting Classics CD

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Couple of requested birthday cards

Ingredients :-

Kanban topper matted onto handmade paper

K & Company "Amy Butler Belle" backing paper

Ingredients :-

Flowers from PolkaDoodles Back to Nature CD

Backing papers from Sharon Duncan Embossibilities CD

Labour of Love Mothers Day Card

Can't believe this has taken me so long but well worth the effort I think. Its for my mum for Mothers day as she likes gardening. Its an easel card and I've propped up the lady and the watering cans of foldable cubes so they stand on their own away from the easel section. I also used a white pen to colour her hair as my mums hair is pure white (wish I could use a pen on mine lol)

Hope you like it and thank you for looking xxx

SNR Bee Crafty challenge #24

Here is my card for the Bee Crafty "sew crafty" challenge on SNR forum. Made entirely with Digital Scrapbook Artist Software

Hope you like it and thank you for looking xxx

SNR squiggly fly colour challenge

Colour challenge was to use red, green & blue so using an image by Bunnikins I have made this xx

Hope you like it and thank you for looking xxx

Flower card inspired by Nikky Hall at PolkaDoodles

After watching lovely Nikky Hall on C & C and seeing the beautiful flower card she made, I just had to have a go. I cut the hearts out on the craft robo and edge them with a coffee bean brilliance ink pad. I imported the paper into MCS and added the flourishes to finish it off

Hope you like it and thank you for looking xxx

A spoon full of sugar Spring challenge #91

This week, we were asked to make a card with a SPRING feeling on A spoon Full Of Sugar so I used one of Joanna Sheen's cd's and one of Sharon Duncan's CD's and came up with this card

Hope you like it and thank you for looking xxx

I know - its a Xmas card :-)

I know, I can hear you all saying it "is she mad???" its a Xmas card and its only February.

Well here is my entry for Fab's Xmas card challenge blog 

Hope you like it and thank you for looking xxx

Birthday card for a son

Crafters companion Male Hobbies CD used throughout. The backing paper is one of the inserts with the wording added using the verse editor and then the blank part cut away.

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Couple of cards made this afternoon

Made this card for someone to say thank you (sentiment gives it away really !!!)

Used MCS Back to Basics Cd through and a shop bought quilled embellishment

This one is from MCS More than fur & feathers and its for a couple who are emigrating - hence how I

 HERD they were MOOOOOOVING

Hope you like it and thank you for looking xxx

Messing around with a canvas frame & embossing pwders

Had a small canvas frame lying around and after watching a craft show on Create & Craft last week where a lady decorated a wooden frame, I thought I'd get messy and have a go with the canvas frame. I literally just picked up the tubs of embossing powder and just kept throwing it on - then covered the whole thing in 3 layers if Ultra Thick embossing powder

Made a complete mess and there's embossing powder and glitter everywhere but what the heck. The dust will still be there tomorrow but that 1 moment where I smiled at my artwork only happens once

Hope you like it and thank you for looking xxx

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge #70 Multifold

Having never done a K card before, I was intrigued by the mechanism of the card itself so I took the template from the MCS Back to Basics cd and made this. I have done it "as is" so to speak as it was more of an experiment than anything else, but I like it for its simplicity and its one more to go into the collection box for the RAF cards :-)

I am also submitting it as my entry for this week "Multifold" challenge on Secret Crafters's blog 

Hope you like it and thank you for looking xxx

2 Valentines cards

Had a bit of a giggle to myself with these 2 cards as they are for the same household. The husband asked me to make a card for his wife and as I walked into another part of the house, the wife asked me to make a card for the husband :-)

This is for the wife to give to the husband. The image is from a CD by Bev Rochester - you can find a link to her beautiful blog over on the side panels under Bev R's Blog

and this is for the husband to give to the wife. The image is from the Popcorn Romance CD

Hope you like it and thank you for looking xxx

A spoon full of sugar recipe challenge #90

The challenge over on A spoon full of sugar is to come up with a card following the recipe given which is 

1 piece of patterned paper

1 button

1 piece of ribbon

some embossing

For mine, I used up some odds and ends from my box and used my Glitter Girls Framey board to add the embossing down the centre of the mirri card at the back

Hope you like it and thank you for looking xxx

Cup Cake Craft Challenge Red & White all over

Here is my card for the CupCake Crafting Red & White All over challenge this week. I used the red images from the Artylicious Butterfly CD 

Hope you like it and thank you for looking xxx

2S4Y challenge 8th Feb

If I had tried just a teeny weeny bit harder, I could have got into a real mess with this card today. I couldn't get the strip of paper ribbon the right size to thread through the butterfly punch so have 4 strips of aper left over now with no use (at the moment). I then used Crafters Companions Spray & Sparkle on the tag and out it down on my craft mat upside down to put foam pads on - BEFORE the spray had dried so have to get the glitter off my craft mat.

BUT now thats its all done, I am very happy with it and I'd like to present my entry for this weeks challenge over on 2 sketches for you.

The images and backing paper are all from MCS Flourishes 1

Hope you like it and thank you for looking xxx

Been having an ATC day and made 3 sets for 3 swaps - phew

These 1st three are my offerings for the Dunkers ATC swap and the theme is Spring Flowers

These next 4 are for the imag-e-nation swap and the theme is peel offs & ribbons

And last but not least are the 4 ATC's for the ATC Swappers organised by Paul where the theme for February was a triptych.

The backgrounds for all 3 were done with ma speedball brayer following hints & tips from Barbara Grey

Hope you like it and thank you for looking xxx

2 birthday cards

This first card is for a gentleman to give to his nephew. The images and backing paper are from Joanna Sheen's Jayne Netley Mayhew CD. I printed them onto photo paper, went over the images with versamark and embossed with clear embossing powder to achieve the glazed effect

This second card is my 1st attempt at an easel card and the image sheet has been designed by the wonderful Dee Paramour

Hope you like it and thank you for looking xxx

Nicknats Playday - great fun xxx

Results and efforts of todays playday at Nickys house xxx

Owl peel offs stuck onto acetate - coloured with sakura glaze pens (artistic license prevails)

We all had the same sheets and all came up with different designs. Here's my version

"Happy accident" with the mat & layering on this card. Skew-whiff but looks good in final card

This box is made from just 6 pieces of card cut out with nestabilities

Bev, Sheila & Nicknat (host) working hard on their loo rolls

Nicknat (host), Carol (not me) & Burnee also working hard on their loo rolls

We're going to make a book out of these ????

All covered with pretty papers ready to be crop-o-diled and eyeleted

Finished item - how cute xxx

We also made a plain never-ending card and despite them looking really difficult they are very easy to make.

All in all, a great day was had by all of us that attended and Nicky was, as always, the wonderful host and provided us with materials, tea and lunch.

And a big thank you to Dawn for the lift and banter on the way there and back x

Hope you like it and thank you for looking xxx