Girlie card

This girlie card is very similar to one I showed yesterday. The components are from my recently purchased QVC Kanban kit.


This is for:

Woodware USA 19: black, white and ???
Cupcake 134: monochromatic
Simply create 39: monochromatic
My Sheri 49: monochromatic
Simon says: happy birthday
Fun at fairy knoll: birthday or thank you
Everybody art 134: happy birthday
Freshly brewed 39: spots and dots
Meljen's 50: dots
Guylou's inimitability: I see dots
My time to craft 133: ladies day
Papertake: it's a mom thing (or just be girlie)
Paper cutz 83: your choice

Oval pop out card for man

Another Kanban put-together oval pop out card (OK once you've discovered how the pieces fold).




This is for:

Cupcake 134: monochromatic
Simply create 39: monochromatic
My Sheri 49: monochromatic
Simon says: happy birthday
Fun at fairy knoll: birthday or thank you
Everybody art 134: happy birthday
Creative sketches SC24T technique challenge: fancy folds, cuts or punches
Delicious doodles 17: 3 dimensional
Paper pretties 145: masculine card
One stitch at a time 54: something for the boys
Sentimental Sundays 47: let's get sentimental
Paper cutz 83: your choice

Diamond wedding card

Mum needed a diamond wedding anniversary card to send to some friends, so I came up with this simple, but, I hope, stylish card.

This is another card that was difficult to photograph - gave up trying to get it any better. Irl the white is much whiter and the silver is crisper. The inner shape, of course, fits the aperture when closed. The silver sentiment says 'happy anniversary'.

This is for:

Cupcake 134: monochromatic
Simply create 39: monochromatic
My Sheri 49: monochromatic
Craft us crazy 4: celebration
Paper cutz 83: your choice

Scarlet's letter birthday wishes

Having used a piece of BG scarlet's letter for this card the other day, I thought I would use similar for this black, white and red card.

Unfortunately, the photo doesn't make the card look as crisp and dark black as it is irl - so much sun streaming in today (not that I'm complaining - bring it on!).

I can't remember what the paper strip is with the glittered little circles - it'[s been in my scraps box for a long time. The chipboard flower and button was from Poundland.

This is for:

Woodware USA 19: black, white and ???
Simon says: happy birthday
Fun at fairy knoll: birthday or thank you
Everybody art 134: happy birthday
Totally Gorjuss 72: button it
Digital Tuesday 103: button up
Res-Q 74: be like a surgeon - stitching and buttons
Totally papercrafts 58: add buttons
Fiskarettes Monday challenge: flowers
Freshly brewed 39: spots and dots
Meljen's 50: dots
Guylou's inimitability: I see dots
Paper cutz 83: your choice

Buttons for my darling Bella

For this card I've used some of my favourite Bo Bunny paper 'my darling Bella', hence the title of the post. I love this against the deep pink of the background card and the varying shades of pink of the glittered flowers with the buttons (from Poundland) - just the addition of some stitched ribbon and sentiment and the card is done - the paper doesn't need anything else.

This is for:

Fairytale 11: green + pink
Little Claire 3: pink & green
Simon says: happy birthday
Fun at fairy knoll: birthday or thank you
Everybody art 134: happy birthday
Totally Gorjuss 72: button it
My partner in crafting crime 23: 3 or more buttons
Digital Tuesday 103: button up
Top tip Tuesday 26: show me those buttons
Res-Q 74: be like a surgeon - stitching and buttons
Totally papercrafts 58: add buttons
Fiskarettes Monday challenge: flowers
Paper playtime 41: pink & glitter
Lexi 36: ribbons but no bows or knots
Sundays with Crissy 15: stitching
Paper cutz 83: your choice

Shaped aperture card

It took me a while to figure out how to put this card together, but once I did it was easy - from the recently bought Kanban kit.



It's for:

Crazy challenge 59: any shaped card but no squares
Creative sketches SC24T technique challenge: fancy folds, cuts or punches
Just for fun: make something using a format you have not tried before
Delicious doodles 17: 3 dimensional
Pear tree designs 41: happy birthday
Simon says: happy birthday
Fun at fairy knoll: birthday or thank you
If the shoe fits 71: calm, serene, aquamarine
Paper cutz 83: your choice

Dressing up

This shaped aperture card was in the kit that I bought recently, as well as all the components I've used on it. The card was photographed slightly open, but when closed the inner circle fills the aperture.

This is for:

Crazy challenge 59: any shaped card but no squares
Freshly brewed 39: spots and dots
Meljen's 50: dots
Pear tree designs 41: happy birthday
Simon says: happy birthday
Fun at fairy knoll: birthday or thank you
Paper cutz 83: your choice
Sugar creek sensational Saturday: anything goes
365 cards day 21: ABC of crafting - C for circle

Spring ... thinking of you

A very similar card to the previous one, this time using some Bo Bunny double sided paper and a sentiment that matches one side (have had this for ages and found it just at the right time).

So this is another springtime card for:


Aly's: happy spring
Card cupids: spring inspired card
Cutie Sunday 136: spring colours/images
I did it 47: welcome spring
Inspiration Avenue: hello spring
Flourish timeless 109: butterflies
Creative cottage 35: spring has sprung
Wags n whiskers 50: spring
Mami doodles 22: celebrate spring

It's also for:

Iris' spot 15: glitter
Paper cutz 83: your choice
Sugar creek sensational Saturday: anything goes

Spring ... especially for you

Today is the first day of spring - and it has been a lovely day. I had to go to the GP's to pick up a prescription and then to the chemist and I walked there and back (just over half and hour each way) and it was lovely.

It's not surprising that atm there are a lot of cardmaking challenges that are concentrating on spring. This card isn't just for spring because it's a general 'especially for you' one, but it features lots of appropriate words for spring and also the lovely 3D PM flower and butterflies strip that is really springlike. There is lots of sparkle on the flowers and butterflies and the sentiment is gold foiled. The imaginisce paper is doubled sided, so the striped piece is from the reverse side - the striped are glossy.

So this is for:

Aly's: happy spring
Card cupids: spring inspired card
Cutie Sunday 136: spring colours/images
I did it 47: welcome spring
Inspiration Avenue: hello spring
Flourish timeless 109: butterflies
Creative cottage 35: spring has sprung
Wags n whiskers 50: spring
Mami doodles 22: celebrate spring

It's also for:

Iris' spot 15: glitter
Paper cutz 83: your choice
Sugar creek sensational Saturday: anything goes

Going postal

This is for today's (day 20) on 365 cards:

Papers are Daisybucket and the piece that's been stamped is Bo Bunny - stamped with part of a large Stamps Happen 'rose postcard' stamp, with just part of the flower and bud coloured with pale cherry pink copic - and some of the swirls enhanced a bit with the same colour.

I chose to use this stamp because it features a postage stamp, which is the theme for this week's Daring cardmakers 'going postal'.

This is also for:

Freshly brewed 39: spots and dots
Meljen's 50: dots
Guylou's inimitability: I see dots

Romance in Paris

Challenge 95 on Order of the opus gluei is 'Paris in springtime'. Well, it's said that Paris in the springtime is all about love, so I've used 7 gypsies baja 'amour' paper (the script has definitons such as dream, kiss, happiness, love etc) and Crafty Individuals pictures, together with silver embossed hearts and diamente gems.

I made 3 little cards, each 3" x 3", for 365 cards day 18: 3 x 3 times 3



It's also for:

One stop craft 123: diamonds are a girl's best friend - bling
Stamping vacation: getting geographical: Paris
Paper cutz 83: your choice

A crush?

This card is for Technostamper Monday sketch 165:

It's also for 365 cards day 19: Imagine this: a crush - not sure whether this card is on the right track - hope so!

The papers are BG sugar rush and the chipboard buttons are from Poundland, with the addition of a couple of sticky ribbons that have been in my box for ages. I stamped hearts on the plainer paper using a Dawn Bibby stamp with stazon blazing red.

The colours are for Paperminutes 157: red/yellow/green/blue

It's also for:

Moxie Tuesday trigger: button, button
Totally papercrafts 58: add buttons
Totally Gorjuss 72: button it
Paperake weekly: trio tastic - 3 buttons
Paper cutz 83: your choice

CHNC challenge 12: seasonal silver

It's Saturday and that means there's a new challenge on my Christmas challenge blog - CHNC challenge 12 is 'seasonal silver' - - use silver in some way on your card - it can be a lot or a little - foiling, heat embossing, silver pen - whatever you like, as long as there is silver 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.

For my card I've gone overboard with the silver - base card with silver mirri, overlayed with vellum, various bits and pieces added on the right, including the stamped and embossed snowflake greeting, a stamp from The Crafty Pad, stamped on to silver mirri with Brilliance starlight silver and heat embossed with detail silver. I was able to stick the embossed foiled vellum down under these pieces and then secure it on the left with the three silver charms held with brads, with the addition of a couple of silver glittered snowflakes.

I used the sketch from this week's Jingle Belles:



Although there is more glare on the next picture because of the flash photo, it gives a better idea of the silver:
If I can get a better picture in daylight then I'll replace it.

I am entering the card into some other Christmas challenge blogs:

Christmas stamping all year long: I can see right through that! - using vellum
Bah! humbug 11: metallics
Winter wonderland: embossing (heat embossing on the circular stamp)
Christmas cards all year round March: 3 patterned papers and 3 brads, eyelets or gems

It's also for:

Stampin' sisters in Christ 80: use something you treasure - I've been keeping these snowflake charms for a long time because I didn't want to use them and give them away!
Let's ink it up 10: show us your embossing
PaperPlay 11: embossing
Sarah Hurley 34: embossing
Iris' spot 15: glitter (the glittered snowflakes)
Stamping vacation embellish it challenge: glitter
Creative Belli 113: the letter C - C embellishments - charms
Crazy challenge 58: eyelets or brads (securing the snowflake charms in place)
Rubber cafe 9: monochromatic colour
There's magic in the air Magical Monday: monochromatic
Inky impressions: monochromatic challenge
Simply create 39: monochromatic
Shelly's terrifically thrilling Thursday: show us what you got
Aly's: anything goes
Paper cutz 83: your choice

Please don't forget to check out my Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge blog - and join in if you can - I'd love to see you there.

St Patrick's Day green

I know it's late in the day now, but Happy St Patrick's Day to any Irish readers of my blog.

Today's 365 cards challenge (day 17) is ad inspired, with this green picture:

For the last or two I've been making a variety of cards ready for selling for charity - too many to blog, but this is one of them - an A5 aperture card in green, with what I imagine Irish fields to look like (because I've never been to Ireland).

The first picture is a scan of the card to show it closed and the second one is a photo to show the picture on the inside.


As it's St Patrick's day there are a lot of challenges still celebrating the day, so I'm linking for:

Card cupids: green card
Sentimental Sundays 46: let's go green
Critter 56: monochromatic green
Created by hand: green/#4
Crafty Ho's: green, gold and white
Sisterhood of crafters: St Patty's day
ECP 33: green
My sheri 48: St Patrick's day
If the shoe fits 70: you feeling lucky?
Allsorts 94: luck of the Irish
Pear tree designs 40: St Patrick's day
Creative card crew: show us some green
Alota 55: St Patrick's day - include colour green
For fun: a bit of the green
Pixie cottage: green
Crafty purple frog: going green
Pixie dust studio 66: go green
Rainbow Lady 144: St Patrick's day - it's also happy birthday

It's also for:

Simon says: happy birthday
Ooh-la-la 75: it's a man thing
CES 27: men only
Paper pretties 145: masculine card
Aly's: anything goes

Salt: trust

It was my turn to choose the theme for today's Salt challenge - I won't repeat what I said because you can read it here on the Salt blog.

I based my LO on this lovely sketch designed by Jana Eubank for The paper variety challenge this week:

I used a mixture of Bo Bunny and My Mind's Eye papers plus a few scraps and some doggy paper from PDA that I've had for ages. I stamped the bunting with a stamp from the Forever Friends spring time collection - the beauty of clear stamps is that they are a bit flexible, so I was able to straighten out a bit of the bunting (it only had 6 flags on the stamp) to make a longer line.


The first picture is John with Oscar and the second one he is with Josey.

If you click on the picture you should be able to read the journaling, but, just in case, this is what it says:

'As someone who needed to be guided, John had to put his trust in his guide dog to lead him correctly. As Christians, that's exactly the relationship we should have with our Heavenly Father - put our trust in Him to lead and guide us through life.'

And the verses from Proverbs 3:5-6 at the bottom say: 'Trust in the Lord with all your hearts and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.'

Perhaps you'd like to create something for the theme of TRUST - please head over to our Salt blog and join in if you can - we would love to see your creations.

As I've used buttons, I'm linking this for:

The crafty pad 112: buttons
Moxie Tuesday trigger: button, button

And there's a lot of brown on here and I stamped the bunting, so I'm also showing this on Sunday stamper 145: brown eyed girl - use brown.

Black and white birthday buttons

This is one of the cards I made to boost my stock of birthday cards.

The background paper is BG scarlet's letter - one of the early Basic Grey ranges, but still one of my favourites. The chipboard buttons were from Poundland. It looks as if the ribbon has some green on it, but it's actually a holographic silver with the black.

This is for:

Theme Thursday: black and white
Craft your days away 15: black & white
There's magic in the air Magical Monday: monochromatic
Simon says: happy birthday
Creative belli 113: the letter C - C embellishments - chipboard (buttons)
The crafty pad 112: buttons
Moxie Tuesday trigger: button, button
Totally papercrafts 58: add buttons
Truly scrumptious 53: tag it! (I used a sentiment tag)
Aly's: anything goes

Balloon birthday wishes

I got sidetracked (once again!) into making a card for today's 365 cards (day 16): abstract art.

I tapped some squares of stormy sky and worn lipstick DIs on to my craft sheet and spritzed with water. Then I dabbed my piece of card randomly on it, repeating the process till I was happy with it, then spraying the card with water to blend the colours - so this is my attempt at 'abstract art'. Just for fun this week's challenge is ' try out a new tecnique' - I've done similar things with DIs before, but not quite like this.

As I've used the FF stamp (coloured with copic) this another entry for Forever Friends monthly challenge 3: no design papers.

I used the sketch for Teddy stampers 31:

I used cuttlebug embossing folders for the embossed pink strip and for the blue panel, which I then sanded and swiped with worn lipstick DI. The embossing is for Stamping royalty 63: texturise - dry embossing.

Just the addition of a few Poundland bling gems, a pink foiled sentiment and the glittery 3, all of which are more 'blingy' irl. The base card is stardream, so that too has a sparkle to it.

This is also for:

Cupcake 133: up in the air (no optional green this time)
Fun with shapes and more 78: happy birthday
Simon says: happy birthday
Cute card Thursday 155: happy 3rd birthday - card for 3 year old
Stampin' B 101: bling
One stitch at a time 53: glitter & gems
Fairytale 10: children - something for a child
Aly's: anything goes

Some bunny loves you

The Forever Friends monthly challenge 3 is 'no dessign papers'. I embossed down the side of the card with Docrafts 'woodland folk' embossing folder and scribbled with Caran d'ache pastels swiped with a baby wipe for the sky and the grass. The tree etc was coloured with copics as was the bear which is a stamp from Forever Friends spring time collection - and so are the two sentiments.

The butterflies look stranger here than irl because of the gold foiling.

I'm not that happy with the card, but it's done now - I'm aware of some bits that I could have done better, but, hey ho.

This is also for:

Crafty purple frog: fly away with us
Cupcake 133: up in the air with optional green
Delightful: delightful butteflies
Flourish timeless 109: butterflies
Crop stop 10: spring is in the air - butterflies and flowers
Flutter by Wednesday 146: green and/or sketch - I've included butterflies
Lexi 35: Easter
Cooking it up with Katie 53: it's a cute green Easter
Stampavie 133: spring or Easter
Pink elephant 95: spring time
Woodware USA 18: spring is coming
Stamp and create 19: spring break
Crafty calendar 18: spring
Stamp, scrap & doodle: spring has sprung
Crafty Ann 36: spring
Beary sweet 22: spring
Stamping royalty 63: texturise - dry embossing
Aly's: anything goes

Now I must get on with some quicker cards - asking myself why I've just spent far too long on this card?!

WOYWW 93

It's Wednesday again and time to show our workdesks and have a good snoop at others. If you don't know what I'm on about then hop over to Julia's blog and have a look at WOYWW 93 - and join in.

As I'm selling cards at our WEF at church Friday evening (and out most of the day tomorrow) I need to concentrate today on making as many cards as possible - that was the plan, until I remembered last night that I haven't done my Salt LO yet for tomorrow's challenge, which is my topic this time - two members of the team have theirs on the blog already and I haven't and I'm the one who chose the theme. So that's got to be first priority when I've finished this.

My workspace is organised, ready for doing as much as possible today. On the left you can see boxes of cards all ready (I did manage to bag up the piles I showed last Wednesday - such a boring, but necessary, job). Beside that you can see a box that includes lots of Easter stuff and then there's a pile of offcuts and bits that haven't yet found their way to my offcuts box - hoping to reduce this pile a bit today.

Looking to the right of me, I have a box of inserts and a couple of boxes of envies at the ready so I have no excuse not to complete the cards I make today.

And there are some stamps lurking up the corner - they need cleaning, but they will have to wait. And you can see some cards that need finishing off.

And today I'm also showing the windowill that is housing boxes that have stuff at the ready - including the purple box that contains all the cello bags - so no excuse for not finishing off bagging up what I make today. In the bottom corner you can just see the top of my paper bag that's sellotaped to the top of my trolley - it's handy for all those little bits of paper that need to go into the recycling bin.

So now I need to get on first with my Salt LO and then with more cards. So, if anyone sees me in blogland, please kick me off - gently though because my back is playing up atm.

Thanks for any comments that you leave me - I feel I am a bad WOYWWer because I just can't spend time atm getting round the blogs - hope you understand.

And when Friday evening's over, I have an 'at home' sale day for Tearfund on Saturday 26 March - which reminds me that's another job that needs doing today - to make and print the invites and send out a block email to friends. I'd better get on ....

Thinking of you with love

This card is very similar in construction to the previous card shown here.

This time it is for:

Phindy's Friday 46: get well soon/thinking of you
Ann's creative nook 128: you are in my thoughts

It's also for:

Totally papercrafts 57: shaped cards
Wags n whiskers 49: more than 1 fold
Aly's: anything goes
Simon says: anything goes

Girly card

I'm scraping in with this girly card for Fab n funky 63: make it girly.

Once again I've used components from the QVC Kanban kit, this time from the Ladies Fashion section.

The front of the card is folded back on itself.



This is also for:

Pollycraft 84: teen cards
Fun with shapes and more 78: happy birthday
Totally papercrafts 57: shaped cards
Wags n whiskers 49: more than 1 fold
Aly's: anything goes
Simon says: anything goes