Summer sun (wishful thinking!)

This card is for Saturday sketch 51:

It's also for:

365 cards day 52: Tuesday trio: 'brad, blossom and circle'
Keryn Campbell colour challenge 18: 'glorious green, summer sun, rose red and a neutral'
Creative Belli challenge 64: 'jumbo brad'

365 cards day 50: super sketch Sunday

This was the sketch for 365 cards day 50:

and this is my take on it - the label shape is chipboard:

Matchbook card

Day 46 on 365 cards was a challenge to make a matchbook card.

This is also good for ABC Challenge 'I for inside' (this is one that I missed - I've now caught up with every letter so far, except the current challenge).

I used a strip of DCVW textured pink card, tutti fruiti papers and some lovely rub ons that I've had for ages.

Closed:
Open:

It's hip to be square

'It's hip to be square' was the theme of day 81 on 365 cards and here's my take on it:

Matching card and envie

This card is for challenge 42 sketch on Cutie Sunday:

It's also good for a few other challenges:

Today (day 83) on 365 cards: 'make it match' (card and envelope)
Our Creative Corner color challenge: 'Regal Rose, Certainly Celery, Bashful Blue along with a neutral color'
Secret Crafter Saturday challenge 32: 'glitter'
Dutch Dare 49: 'bling-bling/glitter
CBCC094: 'all that glitters'
Lots to do 19 : 'stripes and/or lines' (late for that one - again!)

There is glitter on the rub on image and also in the centres of the flowers (turquoise stickles).

The outer flap of the envie is stripey like the card.

Twinchie

Copics colour challenge 14 this week is to use B14 bright blue, R27 Cadmium red and Y08 acid yellow (I had to replace B14 with B05).

I created a twinchie, using a stamp that usually has a border, but I cut that off. The challenge this week on Small world of inchies and twinchies is 'chairs' or anything that can be sat on, so I think this little girl qualifies as she's sitting on a stone step, cradling her cat.

A sporting chance?

I hope this card is sporty enough for Cute Card Thursday's challenge 61: 'a sporting chance'.

I've used the sketch on Card Patterns challenge 15:

I've used Junkitz Earth Madras for the background - which is good for 365 cards day 80: 'you're so plaid'. I've also used Junkitz Earth dots and some Maya Road stripey ribbon, as well as a piece of Docrafts sticky ribbon with the scalloped edge.

Birdie twinchies

These twinchies are for the first challenge on the new Something Completely Different blog. This is what the team says:

'The idea of "Something Completely Different" is to have a different challenge per month and a different theme each week - so, hopefully, you'll all have a go at something completely different to your nomal artwork....So, for the Month of May the challenge is "TWINCHIES" a Twinchie is 2" square so a lovely size to start with.
This weeks theme is "WINGS"'

I was going to do something with butterflies, but then I remembered a couple of cute Hero Arts stamps I have and decided to depict birdies instead.

The backgrounds of my twinchies were made with the shaving foam technique, as shown a few days ago.

I stamped with black versafine and clear embossed, coloured with copics and then swiped a versamark pad over them and heat embossed again with clear powder. The first one was inked round the edges with a copic pen and the second one with blue iris chalk pad (which is shown here to emphasise the size of the twinchies).

As the stamp on the left hand one is called 'fancy bird' I decided to colour in fancy colours; the other stamp is 'night owl'.

I'm also linking for UKStampers challenge 39: B for birds.

Thanks to the ladies on Something Completely Different for a great first challenge - looking forward to seeing what the new one is tomorrow.

Our Anniversary Card

I didn't do any crafting yesterday (we were up at Guy's for appointments for John) and this is the first I've done today. I've been deliberating for days on making a card for our anniversary next Monday. Why is it that 'special' cards for those near and dear are the hardest to make? And now that it's done I'm not really happy with it.

There were a few challenges this week that spurred me into action:

DCM: 'the sound of music'
Crafty Muse: 'May Day: love, flowers, romance'
A spoonful of sugar: challenge 52: 'celebration'
365 cards day 72: 'musical Monday'
Theme Thursday: 'dance and/or music'

I downloaded Mendelssohn's Wedding March from a free sheet music site and printed it on iridescent card - white with a hint of a lilac sheen to it - the rest is obvious - and not a piece of patterned paper in sight!

Petals - pink and green

The theme on Inspire Me Thursday this week is 'petals' and the current challenge on Created by hand is 'pink and green', so I've combined these, using one of my favourite stamps - it's very simple, but I love it - coloured with copics and mounted on Anna Griffin papers.

Come round for a cuppa

I bought a few 'tea time' stamps from Joanna Sheen a while back and this is the first time I've used any of them. They seemed just right for challenge 48 on Dutch Dare this week: 'blue, white and 1 other colour'. Stamping was done with Stazon ultramarine. On reflection, I think it might have been a better idea to have used a pigment ink and heat embossed - it would have given the china a bit of a glazed look - oh well, next time.

The gold surround is more even than it looks on this scan (I had to scan rather than photo because of flash glare on the pearlised card and gems).

Under the sea

A very simple card for Wednesday Stamper's 'under the sea' - the paper says it all, with the addition of a couple of die cuts and some stamped fish heat embossed with silver.

Dotty enough?

Challenge 7 this fortnight on Truly Scrumptious is to use this sketch, but also to 'go dotty' with spots, dots and circles:

I've made this card to the colour scheme on this week's Kwerner Design:

The background paper is DCWV pocket full of posies and various other bits and pieces (trying to use up some of the offcuts in my boxes - yes, boxes, not just one).

I hope that the use of the swiss dots cuttlebug embossing folder, the white pearl gems and the little piece of paper in the centre have enough dots/spots/circles to qualify for Truly Scrumptious.

It's Tilda again

For this card I'm using Maddy's sketch on this week's Copics Colour Challenge 13:

It's also for Color Throwdown challenge 42, to use these colours:

The background paper is BG ambrosia, the circles are Brenda Pinnick and the turquoise backing behind Tilda is DCVW pocket full of posies.

Inspirational Card Sketch 16

This card is for sketch 16 on Inspirational Card Sketches this week:

I purposely kept to the colour scheme lilac and lemon because I knew I'd seen a challenge somewhere this week for using those two colours - lol! when I found it (after I'd made the card) I realised the challenge was on Dare U 2 digi stamp and, of course, that required the use of a digi stamp - d'oh!!

However, as Tilda has blonde hair coloured with copics, this is good for challenge 4 on Copic Creations.

Nevermind, it's a nice colour scheme for this card. with a Tilda stamp coloured with copics:

What?

For day 60 on 365 cards the challenge was to say 'what!?' on a card, so mine says 'so what?'. The sentiment is a K & co one that I coloured with a green ink pad so it matched the BG sultry papers that I've used.

I could also have shown this for today's 'Monday's manufacturer' on 365, but I've just shown another BG card for that - so that's two BG cards in a row (well, I do love it).

Basic Grey Cake

Today on 365 cards is 'Monday's manufacturer' - choose our favourite - and I think mine has to be Basic Grey (although I have a lot of others I love too).

So this card has been made with components from Basic Grey cupcake range - the cake is chipboard and the sentiments are rub ons from the BG range.

As this incorporates a cake, it's also good for this week's Crazy Amigo challenge: 'cake'.

Digi art

This is the photo given for the photo challenge on Awfully Big Art Adventure for this month:

And this is the background given for challenge 26 on Art Creations Friday this week:

I decided to combine the two - played around with colours and filters and this is what I came up with:

BF NRC PP10 K for knitted

This is the last of the photo prompts, which, of course is K, which finishes off BUBBLYFUNK.

Ellie was allowed to come down from the top shelf to have her photo taken at a comfortable height - well, she is K for knitted!

Pop up Simpsons card

Kathy gave us the link to a You Tube demo of how to make a pop up card. I've been meaning to do one for a while now, especially as this was the challenge on 365 cards for day 47 (yes, I'm still playing catch-up).

I decided to use one of the Simpsons pictures that I've got (I made a couple earlier in the year for our great nephews birthdays), so this will do nicely too for challenge 61 on My Time to Craft: 'kids kards'.

It also uses the colours specified on today's challenge 16 on Colour Create: sky blue, tan and ecru, although I haven't used the option of glossy, unless you count the fact that the picture itself is glossy!

It's also another one for Cupcake Craft challenge 39: 'card for a man or boy', and also for Theme Thursday: masculine theme.

The papers on the base of the card are PM 'for him'.



This is what it folds down to:

BF NRC PP9 N for nature

The next prompt for BF NRC is N for nature - this one should give a lot of scope - flowers, birds, seaside, insects, animals ... the list is endless.

I know you've seen these before, but I've run out of time ...