Fashions fade, style is eternal

'Fashions fade, style is eternal' (Yves Saint Laurent).

This card is very similar to the previous one.

This is for:

Colour create 78: kraft, red and white/cream

Crafty purple frog: hot ... red hot

Scrappy frogs: time for some bling

One stitch at a time 76: bling it up

Clear it out Tuesday: glitter it

Corrosive 130: girlie

My time to craft 154: here come the girls

Sentimental Sundays 69: birthday

Spoon full of sugar 162: happy birthday

Happileigh 36: girly girls

Ooh-la-la 87: no backing paper

Digi doodle 73: anything goes

Aud sentiments 35: anything goes

Paper crafting journey 17: anything goes

Lothian crafts 17: anything goes

AiFactory: August anything goes

Make it Monday 51

Inspire me Fridays 21

A woman should be two things ...

... classy & fabulous (Coco Channel) - that's what it says done the side of the card.

I've used Kanban toppers deoupaged. These have some red foiling on them that compliments the Craftime red glitter strip and the sentiment.

This is for:

Colour create 78: kraft, red and white/cream

Shopping our stash 14: red or ribbon or roses

Crafty purple frog: hot ... red hot

Scrappy frogs: time for some bling

Sarah Hurley 48: bling & sparkle

Clear it out Tuesday: glitter it

Charisma cardz 34: glitter it

Corrosive 130: girlie

My time to craft 154: here come the girls

Happileigh 36: girly girls

A relaxing birthday

It's a bit ironic making and showing this card because our bathroom still hasn't been completed - there have been lots of hitches along the way and we're still waiting for all the little finishing bits and pieces to be done. Our bath has been replaced with an enclosed shower unit ... but we can't use it yet!

Simply a Kanban embossed topper with sentiment, mounted on to a gold mirror mat, matted on to a shaped card.
This is for:

Sentimental Sundays 69: birthday

Spoon full of sugar 162: happy birthday

CCEE 1124: gold

Dezinaworld: golden

Mami doodles 32: shaped card

Squigglefly 112: waterworks

Fun with shapes and more 90: water

One stitch at a time 76: bling it up

Scrappy frogs: time for some bling

Papertake: dies to die for

The paper shelter 28: die cuts and punches

Jellypark friends: die cuts and/or punches

Ooh-la-la 87: no backing paper

Digi doodle 73: anything goes

Aud sentiments 35: anything goes

Paper crafting journey 17: anything goes

Lothian crafts 17: anything goes

AiFactory: August anything goes

Make it Monday 51

Inspire me Fridays 21

Commissioned diamond wedding card

One of the members of John's blind bowling club will be celebrating his diamond wedding anniversary soon, so I was commissioned to make a card. I recently bought some 8 x 8 cards, so thought I would use one of those.

The main background paper is a corner cut from a PM foil paper 'brown blue ornate' and I printed the sentiment on a piece of matching PM foil 'blue vintage floral', cutting this with a nestie and mounting on nestie mirror card mats.

This was one of those 'awkward to photo' cards because of the foiling, so the strip across the bottom doesn't show up as it really is - it has a copper foiling and then turquoise mirror card to match the nestie mat. Fortunately, I had some gems that were just the right colour, but I had to colour silver 60 with a turquoise copic - so this is for iCoic lover 44: use copic to colour embellishments.

Flowers are Craftime with Poundland gems.

This is for:

Paper pretties Monday: blue, brown and choice (white)

Everybody art: brown/blue

Scrappy frogs: time for some bling

Little Claire 12: wedding/anniversary

Paper creations ink 7: show us your flowers

Sarah Hurley 48: bling and sparkle

Papertake: dies to die for

The paper shelter 28: die cuts and punches

Jellypark friends: die cuts and/or punches

CHNC challenge 35: build it up

It's Saturday again, which means it's time for a new challenge on my Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge blog. For challenge 35 I'm asking you to 'build it up' - perhaps by using decoupage or pyramage, or just by making sure you can at least 3 layers on your card. If you haven't started making your Christmas cards yet, now would be a very good time to start, so why not go over to my CHNC blog and join in?

For my card I've used some Jolly Nation decoupage, a piece of DCWV backing paper and a recycled piece of card that features the star, wrapped with some fancy gold twine.

Colour scheme: Jay Gee's nook 10: photo inspiration:

I'm entering this into the following challenges:

Christmas crafting August: cute Christmas

Divas by design 9: Christmas in August

Crafts4eternity R34: theme recipe: Christmas projects

Paper and such: farm animal challenge
Crafty creations 133: show us your inner animal

Paper cutz 106: wish upon a star

Digi doodle 73: anything goes

Aud sentiments 35: anything goes

Paper crafting journey 17: anything goes

Paper playtime 53: anything goes

Lothian crafts 17: anything goes

AiFactory: August anything goes

Make it Monday 51

Inspire me Fridays 21

Update Friday 2 September: I've just discovered that having scheduled this post, I forgot to actually enter the card into the above challenges, most of which, of course, are now closed! - d'oh - what a prize idiot I am!!!