A Daughter's Wedding Day

This is the second card for this evening and then I'm off to bed.

I've made this card for the parents of the bride to send congratulations on their daughter's wedding. I started making cards in this vein a few years ago for parents of children on their wedding days and find they are always much appreciated.

This is a silhouette stamp by Kaycee which I've had a while and is so versatile. I've used it for many different types of cards. I've edged the white layer and the flowers in her hair with copic B60. The white flowers with pearls are from Crafty Emma's Store.

The dies are by Go Kreate available from Samuel Taylor.

I hope you like it and I'm entering it into the following challenges:-

Charisma Cardz #14 - Wedding or Anniversary
http://charismacardz.blogspot.com/2011/04/challenge-14-wedding.html
Oldie But A Goodie #16 - Wedding or Anniversary
http://oldiebutagoodiechallenge.blogspot.com/2011/04/challenge-16.html

It's A Try

Evening Peeps. This is my penultimate card for the next few days. Why is it when you're challenged to make a card for a teenager I always think of boys??? A card for a teen girl would have been so much simpler. Anyhow, it gave me a good excuse to use my new LOTV stamp which I coloured with copics:-
skin - E21, 93, promarker satin
hair - E31, 33, 35
ball - E43
boots - C5
kit - B24, 28, Y02, 08
ground - G21, 28, W1, 3, 5

The DP is partly 7 Gypsies and partly my stash, and the letters are from a 7 Gypsies pack. I have covered them with glossy accents to give some dimension.

Hope you like it and here are the links:-

Cute Card Thursday #157 - sketch
http://cutecardthursday.blogspot.com/2011/03/challenge-157-sketch-by-deb.html
Charisma Cardz #12 - Birthday for a Teen
http://charismacardz.blogspot.com/2011/03/challenge-12-birthday-for-teen.html
CES #29 - Die Cut Crazy
http://ceschallenges.blogspot.com/2011/03/challenge-29-die-cut-crazy.html

I am Sailing

OK Bloggers, this is a first for me and I would really appreciate your comments, constructive critisism, advice, whatever. I have drawn the sailing ship... This is from someone who hated art at school and has never been particularly crafty - goodness knows where the cardmaking etc came from, must have fell out of bed one day and bumped my head.  Anyhow, I'm gonna take a chance and enter it into some challenges so that a wider audience gets to see it and therefore more comments for me to act on. All because a friend asked me to make a birthday card with a sailing ship.......

This is not the original drawing. I tried to digitise it but I'm not good with the PC and I just couldn't get a decent image so I went back to the old favourite of tracing it and then rubbing on the back to transfer the image to my CS. Of course then I had a mirror image to play with which caused me all sorts of problems with my left/right co-ordination, lol, but this still leaves me with the original to play around with again.

I used copics in BG01, 05, 13, 93, C1, 3, W1, 3, 5 to colour the image and the sea, and then watercolour pencils for the sky.

The birds are stamped in stazon and I used a Tim Holtz compass mask dabbed with Broken China Distress Ink to keep in with the nautical theme. I used twine to imitate rigging and threaded an old naval button, and ric rak to imitate the waves. The die-cut is a Sissix vine leaves die.

I hope you like it and all comments will be much appreciated.

Here are the challenges :-

Charisma Cardz #11 - To die for
http://charismacardz.blogspot.com/2011/03/challenge-11-to-die-for.html
Simon Says - Happy Birthday
http://simonsaysstampschallenge.blogspot.com/2011/03/simon-sayshappy-birthday.html
CES #28 - Favourite song or inspired by a song (I am Sailing by Rod Stewart)
http://ceschallenges.blogspot.com/2011/03/challenge-28-your-favourite-song-or.html
Totally Papercrafts #58 - Add a Button
http://totallypapercrafts.blogspot.com/2011/03/challenge-58-add-buttons.html

Just 3 Squares

Good Evening. I hope everyone has benefitted from the beautiful sunshine today. I have been brave and booked a riding lesson tomorrow on the basis of the weather forecast. My first since before Christmas. If it chucks it down you'll know who to blame, lol.

Anyway, onto my card. This started off as a black card!!! Then I managed to adhere the squares wonky, so I cut them off, hence the black surround, and went for a white card instead. I'm trying to keep up with the Less Is More Challenges, and boy are they a challenge.

In terms of materials, fairly easy peasy, with the only bit of stamping being the sentiment. The DP are by Dovecraft 'a hint of pink'.

So, I'm entering it into the following challenges and I hope you like it, x

Less Is More wk4 - 3 squares
http://simplylessismoore.blogspot.com/2011/02/week-4-recipe-three-squares.html
Charisma Cardz wk 8 - Black, white and one colour
http://charismacardz.blogspot.com/2011/02/week-8-black-white-one-colour.html
Paper Sundaes #58 - Use a charm
http://papersundaes.blogspot.com/2011/02/paper-sundaes-challenge-58-how-charming.html
CES Challenge #25 - Flowers and Flutterbys (sorry its a dragonfly)
http://ceschallenges.blogspot.com/2011/02/challenge-25-flowers-flutterbys.html

Hopes, Dreams and Fantasy

Evening everyone. I hope you all had a lovely weekend. Wasn't the weather awful yesterday! Anyhow, a bit of sunshine today and everything seems so much better.

I've been playing about recently with 'map-fold' cards and this one is made using 12 x 12" cardstock. However, I have adapted one to fit on an A4 piece of card, more of that another time. My original inspiration came from a tutorial on the Whiff of Joy site. They are full of brilliant tutorials so go take a peek and learn some new skills.

So onto my card. The top picture is the front as the card is closed. I've used the current Truly Scrumptious sketch to base my design on. The doorway is from Lavinia Stamps and I've used copics to give it some colour : E40, 41, 43 and RV02 with blender. The curly gardenia flower is from Crafty Emma's Store as are the wonderful DP from a Prima pack called 'Sweet Fairy'.

This next piccie is the inside, again I've followed the Truly Scrumptious sketch for the middle section. The image is Sweet Pea, Blue Eye Fairy and I've coloured her with copics: E21, 93 Promarker Satin (skin), E50, 51, 53, 43 (hair), B02 (eyes) RV02, 06, Promarker Maroon (flowers and gems), BV02, 04 (choker and dress). I placed some skeleton leaves behind to represent her wings.

 This is a close up of the lovely verse I've included. Can't remember where I got it from but I really like it.

For the purpose of this next piccie I've laid the card on its back cos when it is stood upright the centre panel automatically flops down.

So as it is now, the top panel is the reverse of the middle section with the Sweet Pea fairy on. I've edged it with a mini fairy from Crafty Indivudals, and flower sprig by Bo Bunny.

Apologies but another verse that I can't remember its origin.

 

I'm entering this into the following  challenges:-

Truly Scrumptious #50 - sketch
http://trulyscrumptiouschallenges.blogspot.com/2011/02/challenge-50-sketch.html
Charisma Cardz wk6 - Mythical/Fantasy
http://charismacardz.blogspot.com/2011/02/challenge-week-6-mythical-fantasy.html
Moving Along With The Times - Photo Inspiration
http://movingalongwiththetimes.blogspot.com/2011/02/challenge-85-photo-inspiration.html

I hope you like it, x

Friendship

This was a really quick card put together with Crafty Indivduals papers that had been lying on my workspace waiting to be made into a tent fold card. When I saw them I realised they fitted perfectly with the current Play Date Cafe Colour Challenge.

I've left the card fairly plain and without embellishments so that I can also enter it into the current Charisma Cardz challenge, and finally Totally Papercrafts were asking for a 'Friendship' card.

The cute Elisabeth Bell image is coloured with copics :-
skin : E21, 93 and Promarker Satin
hair : E50, 51, 53, 31
clothes : V01, 01
This was my first attempt at really blonde hair although in hindsight I think brunette would have shown up better.

I hope you like it and the challenge links are below, x

http://theplaydatecafe.blogspot.com/2011/02/play-date-cafe-challenge-pdcc67.html
http://charismacardz.blogspot.com/2011/02/challenge-5-what-no-embellies.html
http://totallypapercrafts.blogspot.com/2011/02/wooooooooooooo-were-one-this-week.html

Just Magnolia #90; Charisma Cardz; Digi Doodle #43; Winter Wonderland

Hiya All, just realised I didn't blog yesterday although I did make this pretty little card yesterday evening. I've used the current Just Magnolia sketch with DP from Blonde Moments. Not sure what Dyan would make of a Tilda with Blonde Moments papers, lol. Anyway, I think the two suit each other quite well.

I've coloured Tilda with copics E08, 21, 31, 33, 35, 93, V12, 15, 17, RV34, BG10, 15, and Promarker in Satin. I've also added some sparkle to her hat.

The challenge over at Charisma Cardz is 'Magic Numbers' and I thought why not the 25th of December. Digi Doodles #43 Challenge is 'Anything Goes', and Winter Wonderland are asking for Pink and Purple.

I hope you like it and the links are below, x

http://justmagnolia.blogspot.com/2011/01/week-90-sketch-by-donalda.html

http://charismacardz.blogspot.com/2011/01/challenge-3-magic-numbers.html

http://digidoodleshopsbest.blogspot.com/2011/01/challenge-43-anything-goes.html

http://christmasblogchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/01/pink-and-purple-and-new-dt.html