A Garden Party

Evening Peeps, hope you've all had a good day. At least we've broken the back of the week now and it'll soon be the weekend.

My card this evening is made using the current Designed2Delight image 'Garden Party'. If you're into digital images and like a challenge this is worth following. Its a progressive challenge which if you enter enables you to get a free digi image to play along again the following week. Check out the link below for more details.

I've used copics to colour:-
G03, 07, Y11, 13, 17, C3, R00, 20, 37, RV34, E11, 15, 18

The DP is from a large scrapbooking pack from Costco. The flower ribbon is from Meiflower and the brads etc are from my stash.

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

Allsorts #98 - Anything but square
http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/2011/04/week-98-anything-but-square.html
Dream Valley #4 - Things with wings
http://dreamvalleychallenges.blogspot.com/2011/04/challenge-4-things-with-wings.html
Designed2Delight - Garden Party image
http://designed2delight.blogspot.com/2011/04/free-stamp-of-month-challenge-garden.html
Sketch Saturday #150 - sketch
http://sketchsaturday.blogspot.com/2011/04/week-150-9th-april-sponsored-by-simon.html

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

Its been snowing again...

Well it was for all of 5 minutes this morning. So much for Spring being on its way. Anyway to stay in keeping with the weather I've incorporated snowflakes in this next addition to my Christmas box. I've rotated the current sketch from Sketch Saturday and used DP by Basic Grey 'jovial' which you can get from Crafty Emma's Store. The base DP has been embossed with the cuttlebug Lace Tree folder and then I've rubbed a metallic rub-on to enhance the design.

Tilda and Edwin have been coloured with copics as follows:-
skin - E21, 93, promarker satin
hair (his) - E31, 33, 35
hair (hers) - E50, 51 53, 31
jeans - C3, 5, 7
jumper and hat - BG13, 15
her clothes - V12, 15, 17

I've added some rainbow stripe glitter to her cuffs and hem.

The pearls, peeloffs, glitter snowflakes, and sentiment are all from my stash.

Hope you like it and here are the challenge links, x

Sketch Saturday #145 - sketch
http://sketchsaturday.blogspot.com/2011/03/week-145-5th-march-2011-sponsored-by.html
Winter Wonderland - snowflakes
http://christmasblogchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/03/snowflakes.html
Bah Humbug #9 - embossing
http://bah-humbug-christmas.blogspot.com/2011/03/challenge-9embossing.html
Just Magnolia #96 - anything goes +/- glitter
http://justmagnolia.blogspot.com/2011/03/week-96-simon-says-stamp-special.html
ABC Christmas - 'E' for embossing and embellishments
http://abcchristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/2011/03/e-is-for-embossing-and-embellishments.html
Lets Ink It Up #10 - embossing
http://letsinkitup.blogspot.com/2011/03/challenge-10.html

Happy Birthday

Happy Thursday everyone. Its nearly the weekend, yayy!

I've made this card for one of my Son's carers. The brightly coloured shoes are just typical of him, anything quirky fits his bill.

The fab image is one of the older Sugar Nellie guys called Chef Hamish. I've coloured him with copics:-
skin - E21, 93 and Promarker Satin
clothes - B93, 95, C1, 3
shoes - BG13, 15
balloons - B93, 95, 97, C5, E27, 29

BTW. The balloons are part of a digi delights image that I dissected. Originally I had balloon brads but having slept on it I decided that it needed a bit more depth. So I got out my balloon punch and stamp and the stazon and oops!!! made a mess of it. So off came the brads, tricky once the papers were already stuck, and the new design was created. I hope I've pulled it off OK.

The DP are by MME 'Wild Asparagus', and the sentiment stamp is a Craft Stamper freebie.

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

Sketch Saturday #143 - sketch
http://sketchsaturday.blogspot.com/2011/02/week-143-19th-february-sponsored-by.html
One Stop Challenge #119 - Birthday card featuring a cake
http://onestopcraftchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/02/week-119-birthday-card.html
Paper Sundaes #57 - Masculine Colours
http://papersundaes.blogspot.com/2011/02/paper-sundaes-challenge-57-masculine.html
Cupcake Craft Challenge # 130 - Cake and/or ice-cream
http://cupcakecraftchallenges.blogspot.com/2011/02/cupcake-130cake-n-ice-cream.html
A Spoon Full of Sugar #140 - Birthday Wishes
http://aspoonfullofsugarchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/02/challenge-140-birthday-wishes.html

Vintage Beauty

Evening Peeps. I don't about you but it's turned blooming freezing here in West Yorkshire, hope it doesn't mean that there's more snow on the way.

Anyhow, it's a good excuse to stay in the warm crafting and this is the little creation I've made this afternoon.

I've stamped the 'vintage' lady in Versafine vintage sepia onto cream CS. I'm sorry but the image was a gift and I'm not sure who makes it. I have a few like this and they are all beautiful images. I've used my nesties to frame her.

The main DP is from my stash but I've run it through the Cuttlebug 'D'Vine Swirl' embossing plate before mounting it onto my CS.

The vellum (from my stash) has gold script on it. The plaid ribbon is by 'Portafolia' and the cream ribbon is from my stash.

Pearls from The Hobby House and the curly gardenia from Crafty Emma's Store (see my sidebar).

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

Sketch Saturday - Sketch
http://sketchsaturday.blogspot.com/2011/02/week-142-12th-february-sponsored-by.html
Pile It On #7 - Love Plaid
http://pileitonchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/02/pile-it-on-challenge-7-love-plaid.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PileItOn+%28Pile+It+On%29
ABC - 'O' for Old-Fashioned
http://abc-challenge.blogspot.com/2011/02/o-is-for.html
Stampin' For The Weekend #4 - Monochrome
http://stampinfortheweekend.blogspot.com/2011/02/challenge-4-monochrome.html

Text 4 U

Hiya. Hope you're all well today despite the return of the rain clouds. This little minx is by Digi's With Attitude! and is called Texting Tween. I've made it for my bessie friend's birthday cos we're always texting each other, that's when we're not speaking on the phone. We've know each other for over 25 years ever since I had a toddler in the buggy and another on the way.

I've used copics to colour (surprise! surprise!) as follows:-
E21, 93, 50, R22, 24, 27, 29, YG63, 67, C1, 3, 5, 7, 8, Promarker Satin and Copic 100 (black).

The DP is by Memory Box called Glitterati which I got from Crafty Emma's Store. Also the fabulously lush curly gardenia is from her store too.

I've created the 'TEXT 4 U' by using the negatives from peel-offs and sponging through them.

 The Happy Birthday text I've generated from the PC and used it, along with the gardenia, to create the stop.

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

Sketch Saturday #141 - Sketch
http://sketchsaturday.blogspot.com/2011/02/week-141-sponsored-by-tickled-pink.html
Digi's With Attitude! #16 - Red and White
http://digiswithattitudechallenges.blogspot.com/2011/02/challenge-16-color-challenge.html
One Stop Craft Challenge #117 - Numbers
http://onestopcraftchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/02/week-117-numbers.html
Crafts and Me - Red
http://craftsandmechallenges.blogspot.com/2011/02/its-red-at-crafts-and-me.html

The Baby Tree

Just a quickie this evening as I'm battling with a rotten headache that's refusing to shift. However, I needed to get another baby card made and this time I've used my new tree stamp from the weekend. Its by 'Judith' and I also bought some 'peg' stamps at the same time. The idea is that you stamp the bare tree and then decorate it with small images depending on your chosen theme. I guess the Tapestry stamps would work well here. So I stamped the tree in Versafine vintage sepia and then used a pink Tombo pen to ink up the mini images. I've then added some brads and voila!

All the other bits and pieces are from my stash.

I'm entering it in this week's Sketch Saturday Challenge. Hope you like it, x
http://sketchsaturday.blogspot.com/2011/01/week-140-29th-january-sponsored-by.html