How Many???

Evening Peeps. Another glorious day here in West Yorkshire. Managed to get a little gardening done but more importantly another day of pegging the washing out...how sad, lol

Only just realised I should have had this card in the post today for my Brother's birthday next week, not that he deserves a handmade card, but that's another story....

The mice image is another LOTV stamp I picked up at Harrogate and the cupcake is the Papermania one I used the other day. Again, I've paper pieced the icing. I used copics in the BG range to keep it a bit more masculine but also because the current Copic Creations challenge is to use blues.

The DP is by Papermania, Henbury Lane and the corner shapes were made with an EK punch.

I hope you like it and here come the challenge links:-

Sketch Saturday #147 - sketch

http://sketchsaturday.blogspot.com/2011/03/week-147-19th-march-sponsored-by-bunny.html

Copic Creations #46 - we've got the blues

http://copiccreations.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/challenge-no-46-weve-got-the-blues/

LOTV #89 - punch it

http://liliofthevalleythursdaychallenge.blogspot.com/2011/03/challenge-89-punch-it.html

Really Reasonable Ribbons #20 - one for the boys

http://reasonableribbon.blogspot.com/2011/03/challenge-20-one-for-boys-theme.html

Crafty Cardmakers - #42 - special birthday

http://craftycardmakers.blogspot.com/2011/03/challenge-42-special-birthdays.html

A Fairy Happy Weekend to You All

Good Morning Peeps. What a miserable day here in West Yorkshire. Its a right drizzly morning, you know, the sort of rain that gets you wet, lol. To top that, I'm off to IKEA in a minute to get DS his wardrobe:((( Not looking forward to the queues at the checkout. Fingers crossed everyone has stayed in bed when they saw the weather.

Anyhow, for this morning's card I have followed the Friday Sketchers sketch and some 'pink' challenges, just in case you hadn't worked that one out for yourselves, lol.

I've used a Lavinia fairy to incorporate the current Crafty Cardmakers challenge, which is also asking for punches. I stamped her in Adirondack slate to give her a softer outline and then used copics: E93, 21, Promaker Satin, C1, 3, 5, RV000, 02, 34, BG10.

The DP is Dovecraft 'Fantasy', perfect for those fairy and mythical cards. The circle DP was cut with a nestie and then edged with pearls and I put the pink vellum through my cuttlebug 'swiss dots' folder to take the blandness away. The sentiment is from a Papermania CS pack.

Now to the punches. I used a Woodware flower corner punch on my image. The butterflies are part of a small circle punch which I lined up to create a ribbon effect. The flower, right,  was created by punching lots of hearts in the vellum, DP and CS that I had used and overlayering them, finally finishing with a pearl brad.





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

Friday Sketchers #144 - sketch
http://fridaysketchersblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/sketch-144-sponsored-by-whiff-of-joy.html
Ooh La La Challenge #74 - pink, pink and more pink
http://ooh-la-la-creationschallenges.blogspot.com/2011/02/challenge-74.html
Crafty Cardmakers #40 - fairies and at least 2 punches
http://craftycardmakers.blogspot.com/2011/02/challenge-40-fairies-and-use-at-least-2.html
The ABC Challenge - 'P' is for pink
http://abc-challenge.blogspot.com/2011/03/p-is-for-pink.html

Crafty Cardmakers - Spotlight on Water

Woohoo!!! Just bin browsing and noticed I'd won the Crafty Cardmakers challenge of Spotlight on Water.

Hop on over to their blog for some brilliant challenges and loads of inspiration.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend, x

50 Wonderful Years

Good Evening Peeps from a very wet and blustery West Yorkshire. Oh Boy! It hasn't stopped now for 2 days and I swear I saw some large snowflakes this morning. Still I guess we should be thankful we're not in Queensland with the dreadful weather they've had down there.

This evening's card is one I've made for a special couple who will be celebrating their golden wedding anniversary next week. I can't remember where I got the rosebuds stamp from but I love it and was glad of an excuse to ink it up. Easy peasy to colour with just 4 copics: Y21, 26, 28, G21. The stems are longer than shown but I deliberately chopped them off for the purposes of this card. BTW, the sketch is for the Tuesday Morning Sketches and was designed by a 12 year old. Brilliant inspiration and its lovely to see the new talent coming up through the ranks.

The ribbon is actually a pale yellow overlaid with a gold ribbon, from my stash, along with the brads and flowers.

The DP is by 7 Gypsies and is both sides of a double sided sheet.

I'm also entering this into Crafty Cardmakers #38 which is 'Flowers' and Papertake Weekly which is 'Anything Goes + optional extra of flowers.

Hope you like it and the links are below, x

http://tuesdaymorningsketches.blogspot.com/2011/02/tuesday-morning-sketches-79.html

http://craftycardmakers.blogspot.com/2011/01/challenge-38-flubbers.html

http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/2011/02/anything-goes-flowers.html