Vintage ladies

This card is for Sketchy colors 61:

It's also for Soartful: three young ladies - I changed the picture to black and white.

The card is also for the recipe on Stamp it crazy: vintage lady challenge - to use the colours black, brown and white and a red ribbon.

The main paper is Bo Bunny flutter butter burst and the other papers are My mind's eye, distressed with fired brick and brushed corduroy DIs.

This is also for:

Crazy challenge 57: lovely ladies
Paperminutes 156: women
Spoon full of sugar 142: anything with a vintage/shabby theme
Theme Thursday: hats

Simply just for you

Today on 365 cards for day 12 the challenge is to keep it simple - Cover the front of the card with patterned paper, add a sentiment and one embellishment and that's it.

The paper is WeR memory keepers vintage blue bluebird (one quarter of a 12 x 12 paper with 4 different patterns).


This is also for:

Sarah Hurley 33: flowers
Little Claire 2: flowers
Paper romance 41: colour
One stop craft 122: Clean and simple
Wild orchid 18: anything goes
Papertake weekly: anything goes + option of something old - the flowers
Aly's: anything goes
Card cupids: anything goes
Craft your passion 48: anything goes
Simon says: anything goes

Simply thinking of you

For this card I used one of my large La Blanche foam stamps and coloured with copics, mounted on to a saffron coloured deckle edged cardblank, with just the addition of the little sentiment.

The colours are for 411 challenge 152:


This is also for:

Phindy's Friday 46: get well soon/thinking of you
Stampin' sisters in Christ 79: use a stamped flower image
Sarah Hurley 33: flowers
Bunny Zoe 9: spring flowers
One stop craft 122: Clean and simple
Stamp, scrap & doodle: spring has sprung
Wild orchid 18: anything goes
Papertake weekly: anything goes + option of something old - the stamp and the cardblank
Aly's: anything goes
Card cupids: anything goes
Craft your passion 48: anything goes
Simon says: anything goes

One layer - off the edge

This is for Less is more 6: one layer - off the edge.

I used my Stamps Happen keys to music stamp - this stamp is over 6 inches wide, so it's quite easy to use to stamp off the edge.

The sentiment is an Anna Griffin one stamped with blazing red stazon.

This is also for:

One stop craft 122: Clean and simple
Polka doodles 10: black and white + one colour
CES 27: men only (suitable for a man's birthday)
Moving along with the times 89: for a male
Aud sentiments 23: birthday cards
Top tip Tuesday 25: happy birthday

So much green

There's so much green about atm - in challenges, I mean. With St Patrick's Day coming up, lots of crafting challenge blogs are asking for someting to do with St P's Day or green in general.

I've based the card on Mandy's sketch on Sunday sketch & stamp 38:

and have incorporated lace and pearls for Sentimental Sundays 45, Totally Gorjuss 71, Creative stamp friends 20 (lace) and Digi doodle 50 (pearls). The lace is also for 365 day 10: trendy - there seems to be quite a trend atm to use lace in cardmaking - and vintage in general.

The background paper is from Funky Hand CD Dreams come true 'seaweed smiler'. The darker green paper is recycled from the inside of an envelope (another form of green!) and the image is Mami Doodles Paddy's frame (a freebie this week) and is for their challenge 21: make it monochromatic green and add a bit of Irish (optional).


So, these are the other 'green' challenges:

The CD Sunday challenge: luck of the Irish - the background paper is from a CD
Corrosive 106: going green
Crafty Ho's: St Patrick's day
Ann's creative nook 127: let's hear it for green
Karen's doodles 53: go green
Shabby tea rom 52: luck of the Irish - using green
Scrap-creations going grey: going green
Let's craft and create 14: St Patrick's day
Little red wagon: St Patty's day green
Penny's 48: going for the green
Sisterhood of crafters: St Patty's day
One powerful hour: green, green and more green
PaperPlay 10: shades of green
Cardmaking mamas 16: something green
Delicious doodles 16: use green for St Patrick's day
ECP 33: green
Fun at fairy knoll: St Patrick's day
My sheri 48: St Patrick's day
If the shoe fits 70: you feeling lucky?
Pattie's creations 17: go green in honour of St Patrick's day
Sew many challenges 46: St Patrick's day
Stampin with the dragon: St Patrick's day
Tellen's place: where's the leprechaun? or the green? - green and St Patrick's day
Allsorts 94: luck of the Irish
Wee memories 47: green theme

It's also for:

Simply create 39: monochromatic
Sunday with Crissy: stitching (faux stitching around the frame)
Flourish timeless 108: sew (faux stitching around the frame)
Wild orchid 18: anything goes
Papertake weekly: anything goes + option of something old - the lace
Aly's: anything goes
Card cupids: anything goes
Craft your passion 48: anything goes
Simon says: anything goes

Blue Christmas

This is for CPS 208:

and for 'It's a cool yule' on Jingle Belles:

I've used three patterned papers and three brads, so it's my first card for the March challenge on Christmas cards all year round. I think it also is OK for Irish teddies: recipe - 3 brads, tape and no flowers - I'm not sure about the 'tape' (google translation doesn't seem clear on this) - but I've interpreted it as 'ribbon' - hope that's OK.

Day 11 on 365 cards yesterday was 'repurposed' - find some paper in your stash that was intended for one holiday/season and give it a new life.

The main background paper is from the 'art deco ladies' Nancy Watt range, but I thought it combined well with the other papers - Nancy Watt decorative Christmas trees and a piece of English Paper Company paper behind the PM 3D stickers. The 'buttons' are brads. The 'art deco ladies' papers has stars on it, so I'm also linking for Die cut dreams Christmas 57: starlight, starbright.

This is also for:

Freshly brewed 38: 3 or more patterned papers
Iris' spot 14: buttons
Crafty creations 109: baby blue
CCEE 1110: monochromatic cards with the blues
Simply create 39: monochromatic
The crafty pad 111: use a ribbon
Paper pretties 144: ribbon
Creative card crew: no flowers
Wild orchid 18: anything goes
Papertake weekly: anything goes + option of something old - the papers
Aly's: anything goes
Card cupids: anything goes
Craft your passion 48: anything goes
Simon says: anything goes

And now I need to get back to making Easter cards and eventually other cards to fill the gaps ready for my Tearfund sales.

Simply for a new home

This is a CAS card made recently for a friend. I chose the English Paper Company paper by Vanessa Arbuthnott because she lives in a fairly rural setting. I simply stamped on to the paper with my favourite new home stamp from Blade Rubber, using blazing red stazon which matched perfectly with the paper - although it's called blazing red it always seems to have more of a deep pink look.

This is for:

One stop craft 122: clean and simple
Dream Valley 2: new beginnings
Cupcake 132: pink polka dots
Paper sundaes 59: stripes
Alphabet: S for stripes
Wild orchid 18: anything goes
Papertake weekly: anything goes + option of something old - the paper and the stamp
Aly's: anything goes
Card cupids: anything goes
Craft your passion 48: anything goes
Simon says: anything goes

CHNC challenge 11: go for gold

It's Saturday and that means there's a new challenge on my Christmas challenge blog - CHNC challenge 11 is 'go for gold' - - use gold in some way on your card - it can be a lot or a little - foiling, heat embossing, gold pen - whatever you like, as long as there is gold somewhere on your Christmas card. If you haven't yet discovered my Christmas blog, now's the time to start building up a collection of Christmas cards to ease the pressure that inevitably tends to mount up later in the year.

I like to support other Christmas challenge blogs - after all, we're all united in encouraging one another to make Christmas cards throughout the year. So my card for my CHNC challenge 11 is based on the sketch for Sparkle creations Christmas 2011 week 14:

It's also for ABC Christmas: E for embossing and embellishments - the background paper and the side panel were already embossed, but I've also added a line of trees embossed on gold using a border embossing folder with my cuttlebug. The three embellishments I've used are brads, a ribbon bow, and poinsettia flowers.

It's also for Fab's big Christmas March challenge to use a picture.

There is gold on every paper used and also on the image, which is from a pack by Red Line.


This is also for:

Wild orchid 18: anything goes
Papertake weekly: anything goes + option of something old - the background paper
Aly's: anything goes
Card cupids: anything goes
Craft your passion 48: anything goes
Simon says: anything goes