CHNC challenge 120: wonderful wings

Can you believe that it's Saturday again?! Having blogged loads of cards in the last couple of weeks, I've had a couple of days break ... well, sometimes, life just takes over - lol!

So here I am with CHNC challenge 120: wonderful wings - the idea is to make a Christmas card that features wings in some way - perhaps an angel, a fairy, a bird, a butterfly ... or any other ideas.

I followed the sketch for Merry Monday 57 on Always playing with paper:

This was an opportunity to use one of the dies that I used for last week's CHNC card - I'm sue I'm going to be using these Die-namics fishtail dies again and again - use the largest one for this card. Papers are all offcuts, most of them left over from last week's card (double sides MME papers, so extra mileage out of them). The image is an angel one kindly given by Bugaboo Stamps who are sponsoring CHNC challenge 120. Everything was mounted on to a kraft card blank.

This is also for:

Facebook A card a day
Pixie's crafty snippets week 67
Hiding in my craftroom 93: super scraps Saturday
ABC Christmas: G for girl or guy - card for a girl
QKR stampede 34: for a child
CRAFT 202: Christmas
Moving along with the times: inspired by a song or film - Christmas carol 'Angels from the realms of glory'
Christmas at sweet stampin 5: krafty Christmas
Totally papercrafts 162: get krafty
Crafts 4 eternity R119: wonderful wings
Victorine 56: stripes & dots
Stamp and create April: use at least 1 die cut
Digistamps4Joy 64: anything goes
DL.ART thankful Thursday April linky: anything goes
Crafty emblies: anything goes
My Grafico 148: anything goes
Make it Monday 135
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Golden garden

This is a card blank with a gold foil edging on to which has been matted an invertage garden scene.

This is for:

Tuesday alchemy 54: garden gold
Crazy amigo: home sweet home
613 avenue 14: anything goes with spring fever
Joanna Sheen: spring into spring
My Sheri 107: spring has sprung
Scrappy frogs April: think spring
The pink elephant 194: use spring colours
Fab n funky 166: spring colours
The paper shelter 107: spring delights
Going grey with Scrap creations: flower power
Crafting by designs: spring flowers
Simon says: April showers and/or spring flowers
Divas by design: flowers
Di's digi designs: flower frenzy
2 sisters 138: anything goes
DL.ART thankful Thursday April linky: anything goes
Crafty emblies: anything goes
My Grafico 148: anything goes
Make it Monday 135
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New home card

New home card using decoupage upcycled from a card received. Before assembling the decoupage I printed the sentiment and then heat embossed it with clear powder because the ink was wet on the shiny card.

Colours are for The shabby tea room 161: shabby spring:

This for:

A and T 22: hearts
Crazy amigo: home sweet home
613 avenue 14: anything goes with spring fever
Joanna Sheen: spring into spring
My Sheri 107: spring has sprung
Scrappy frogs April: think spring
The pink elephant 194: use spring colours
Fab n funky 166: spring colours
The paper shelter 107: spring delights
Going grey with Scrap creations: flower power
Crafting by designs: spring flowers
Simon says: April showers and/or spring flowers
Divas by design: flowers
Di's digi designs: flower frenzy
Playing in paradise 111: embossing
Wow embossing April: alter or recycle something
2 sisters 138: anything goes
DL.ART thankful Thursday April linky: anything goes
Crafty emblies: anything goes
My Grafico 148: anything goes
Make it Monday 135
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Love hearts

These three CAS cards were made by upcycling some card from a folder. I love the quote I've printed for this first card:

These are for:

Perfect sentiments 74: sweet treats
Freshly brewed April: sweet treats
CRAFT 201: recycle
A and T 22: hearts
Creative inspirations 209: anything goes + option: hearts
Kaboodle 166: use any shade of pink
2 sisters 138: anything goes
DL.ART thankful Thursday April linky: anything goes
Crafty emblies: anything goes
My Grafico 148: anything goes
Make it Monday 135

Ruby wedding anniversary

I was asked to make a Ruby wedding anniversary card. I have to confess that I re-purposed some bits from a couple of cards I made long ago and didn't really like.

The spotted background was made with an embossing folder and the swirls with a stencil, using fired brick distress ink. The hearts were die cut using snippets and flowers from stash.

This is for:

Facebook A card a day
Pixie's crafty snippets week 67
CRAFT 201: recycle (recycled parts of two cards made before)
Playing in paradise 111: embossing
Whimsical designs: emboss it
Whoopsi Daisy: swirls
Sugar creek hollow vintage 56: fabulous flourishes
Eclectic ellapu: love is in the air
Forever friends 59: die cuts/punches
Card mania 18: punches and/or die cuts
A and T 22: hearts
Crafting by designs: spring flowers
Divas by design: flowers
Kaboodle 166: use any shade of pink
Rhedd and rosies 4: monochrome
Happy campers 14: flower power
Di's digi designs: flower frenzy
Order of the opus gluei 154: colour challenge - all bright or all pastel
2 sisters 138: anything goes
DL.ART thankful Thursday April linky: anything goes
Crafty emblies: anything goes
My Grafico 148: anything goes
Make it Monday 135
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Christening card

I was commissioned to make a Christening card with the request that it have lots of pink, the child's name and a Bible verse.

I've used double sided Fancy Pants 'heavenly' paper from their Key Lime Pie range.

The Bible book shapes were cut with a nestie die. I used a little strip of white teddies (had these for years) as the stopper and the Forever Friends bear and other elements.

Inside I stuck a couple of glittered hearts with gems and the 'on your special day' sentiment.

The scripture verse:

This is for:

Forever friends 59: die cuts/punches (used FF products)
Card mania 18: punches and/or die cuts
Twist of faith 32: getting in shape
Word art Wednesday 75: anything goes
Tuesday throwdown 142: fancy folds
Little Claire 31: cards with folds
A and T 22: hearts
Creative inspirations 209: anything goes + option: hearts
Ready teddy go 21: anything goes (featuring a bear)
Kaboodle 166: use any shade of pink

A life on the ocean wave

Similar card to the previous one, this time blue instead of pink.

This is for:

Emergency crafters: beat the blues - nautical with shades of blue
Gingerloft: for the guys
CASology 39: travel
Stuck on u: sea worthy (die cut ovals)
2 sisters 138: anything goes
DL.ART thankful Thursday April linky: anything goes
Crafty emblies: anything goes
My Grafico 148: anything goes
Make it Monday 135
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Manly pink and brown

Simple card for a man using Hunkydory card and a couple of ovals on to a brown card blank.

This is for:

Gingerloft: for the guys
CASology 39: travel
Polka doodles 14: pink and brown
Stuck on u: sea worthy (die cut ovals)
Kaboodle 166: use any shade of pink
2 sisters 138: anything goes
DL.ART thankful Thursday April linky: anything goes
My Grafico 148: anything goes
Make it Monday 135
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With sympathy

I've layered a piece of acetate with swirls and spots on to a picture of a flower, mounted on to white card and then on to the pink card blank, with the addition of the stamped sentiment.

This is for:

Charisma cardz 13: use acetate
Whoopsi daisy: swirls
Kaboodle 166: use any shade of pink
Great impressions April: pastel colours and/or polka dots
Happy campers 14: flower power
2 sisters 138: anything goes
DL.ART thankful Thursday April linky: anything goes
My Grafico 148: anything goes
Make it Monday 135
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On your engagement

This engagement card uses a ready patterned card blank from DCWV, on to which I matted an oval embossed with a Forever Friends folder, sanding to reveal the colouring (a core'dinations card) - the images are Forever Friends 3D stickers.

This is for:

Eclectic ellapu: love is in the air
Mayzy art 14: sparkle
Totally Gorjuss 178: anything goes with sparkle
Use it Tuesday 53: sticky situation (FF 3D stickers I've had for a long time)
Playing in paradise 111: embossing
Twisted Tuesday 47: animals and flowers
Crafting by designs: it's all about animals
Simple create too 34: animals
Pink gem 74: animals
Ready teddy go 21: anything goes
2 sisters 138: anything goes
DL.ART thankful Thursday April linky: anything goes
Let's craft and create 67: anything goes
Crafty emblies: anything goes
My Grafico 148: anything goes
Make it Monday 135
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Just for you

A simple card using a Forever Friends background paper, a 3D butterfly strip from Hobby craft and some lovely flowers from Create and Craft, finished off with a Craftwork cards sentiment.

Colours are for ABC 23: pink, green, blue:

Also for Soartful April: spring colour: green, pink, blue.

This is for:

Facebook A card a day
Joanna Sheen: spring into spring
Allsorts 201: spring has sprung
Crafts and me 127: spring flowers
My Sheri 107: spring has sprung
Card crafters circle 69: bugs (butterflies)
Country view crafts 2: butterflies
Emma's cards April 15: butterflies

Wishing you well in your new home

A new home card using card and elements from a kit (think it was Hunkydory - not sure) - the main image being decoupaged. It's a three fold DL card. Difficult to get good photos on a dull day - much more shiny and bright IRL.

As the front is opened the inner fold is revealed:

And as that is folded back you then see the inside:

This is for:

Crazy amigo: home sweet home
Tuesday throwdown 142: fancy folds
Delicious doodles 30: more than one fold
Little Claire 31: cards with folds
Victorine 56: stripes & dots
Great impressions April: pastel colours and/or polka dots
Craft your passion 157: water, water everywhere
613 avenue 14: anything goes with spring fever
Joanna Sheen: spring into spring
Allsorts 201: spring has sprung
Crafts and me 127: spring flowers
My Sheri 107: spring has sprung
Scrappy frogs: think spring
Bearly mine 81: anything goes
Through the craftroom door: anything goes
2 sisters 138: anything goes
DL.ART thankful Thursday April linky: anything goes
Let's craft and create 67: anything goes
Crafty emblies: anything goes
My Grafico 148: anything goes
Make it Monday 135
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Happy birthday

I used the front of a shaped card on to a card blank, die cuts from nestie labels, the middle one of which was embossed with a folder and swiped with a distress ink pad. The ribbon and flowers were rescued from a card received a few years ago.

Colours are for The shabby tea room 161: shabby spring:

This is for:

CRAFT 201: recycle
Loves rubber stamps 47: pop your image - 3D style
Card mania 18: punches and/ or die cuts
Forever friends 59: die cuts/punches
The ribbon girls April card challenge: flowers
LEJ 48: show us your ribbons
Crafty ribbons 42: anything goes with ribbon
House of gilli 51: anything goes with flowers and/or ribbons
Crafts and me 127: spring flowers
Happy campers 14: flower power
City crafter 154: birthday
So artful April: spring colours - green, pink, blue
Dream valley 54: happy birthday
More than favors wacky Wedneday 83: birthday theme
Ruby's rainbow 51: happy birthday
Playing in paradise 111: embossing
Bearly mine 81: anything goes
Through the craftroom door: anything goes
2 sisters 138: anything goes
DL.ART thankful Thursday April linky: anything goes
Let's craft and create 67: anything goes
Crafty emblies: anything goes
My Grafico 148: anything goes
Make it Monday 135
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Simply recycled

This is simply recycled (or should that be upcycled) - using the image from a card received, matted and layered on to a textured white card blank (white not showing up well in the photo):

This is for:

The paper players 140: theme recycled or re-purposed
Try it on Tuesday (Tuesday taggers): recycle it
CRAFT 201: recycle

Get well

A simple card made with a blue card blank mottled with some pinky purple. The panel on the left was created using alcohol inks - wild plum and stonewashed blue with some blending solution, then matted on to silver mirror card, with the addition of some flower stickers and a silver edged sentiment.

The bottom of the panel looks crooked, but it isn't, it's somehow the angle of the photo.

This is for:

Sentimental Sundays 149: get well
Make my Monday: create your own background (with the alcohol inks on the panel)
Bloggers challenge: backgrounds
2 sisters 138: anything goes
DL.ART thankful Thursday April linky: anything goes
Let's craft and create 67: anything goes
Crafty emblies: anything goes
My Grafico 148: anything goes
Make it Monday 135
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Tag cards

I found up five patterned card blanks that I had ages ago and also five tags that I'd cut from some spotted card using a Sizzix red die. I embossed this with the swiss dots embossing folder, added a few flowers, ribbons and sentiments - a quick batch of cards with tags on them. I inked around the edges of the tags, although you can't see that very clearly here.

These are for:

Playing in paradise 111: embossing
Fairytale 64: tags
Pink by design: thinking of you (the first card)
Great impressions April: pastel colours and/or polka dots
Dream valley 54: happy birthday (third and fourth cards)
More than favors wacky Wedneday 83: birthday theme (third and fourth cards)
Ruby's rainbow 51: happy birthday (third and fourth cards)
Crafty ribbons 42: anything goes with ribbons
House of gilli 51: anything goes with flowers and/or ribbon
2 sisters 138: anything goes
DL.ART thankful Thursday April linky: anything goes
Let's craft and create 67: anything goes
Crafty emblies: anything goes
My Grafico 148: anything goes
Make it Monday 135
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Thinking of you

Simple card to tell someone that I'm thinking of them. The fan was stamped and then masked, then the Lindsay Mason cherry blossom was stamped above and below, everything coloured with flexmakers. Three flowers layered to finish the card off with a Creata textured rub on sentiment.

This is for::

Facebook A card a day
Pink by design: thinking of you
Inky chicks 1: use a background/object stamp
Loves rubber stamps 46: anything goes
Kaboodle 166: use any shade of pink
Stamp-n-doodle: pretty in pink
Stampavie and more 190: pretty in pink
PanPastel UK 14: use a stamped image (the fan stamp had hardly been used before)
Stamp dreams 10: monochrome
Sweet stamps 111: spring pastels

Birthday cards

Two cards made with one fancy edged card blank - cut into two and mounted on to two square card blanks., on to which were added some glittery embossed stickers and sentiments.

These are for:

Dream valley 54: happy birthday
More than favors wacky Wedneday 83: birthday theme
Ruby's rainbow 51: happy birthday
One stop craft 223: birthdays
Allsorts 201: spring has sprung
Crafts and me 127: spring flowers
My Sheri 107: spring has sprung
Scrappy frogs: think spring
Joanna Sheen: spring into spring
Country view crafts 2: butterflies
Emma's 15: butterflies
613 avenue 14: anything goes with spring fever
Mayzy art 14: sparkle
Totally Gorjuss 178: anything goes with sparkle
Shelly's terrifically thrilling Thursday: use scallops
One stitch at a time 158: anything goes
Robyn's fetish 154: anything goes
2 sisters 138: anything goes
DL.ART thankful Thursday April linky: anything goes
Let's craft and create 67: anything goes
Crafty emblies: anything goes
My Grafico 148: anything goes
52 card pick-up 2.14

Lilac anniversary

I think I'm having a lilac phase today ... I just love crafting with lilacs and purples. This time, it's an Anniversary card, matting an embossed shape on to a card blank, adding a few embossed stickers, sentiment and prima sparkly spacers.

This is for:

Eclectic ellapu: love is in the air
Flutter by Wednesday 234: flowers + butterfly
613 avenue 14: anything goes with spring fever
Mayzy art 14: sparkle
Totally Gorjuss 178: anything goes with sparkle
Shelly's terrifically thrilling Thursday: use scallops
The  squirrel and the fox 41: inspired by a song: Remember when (Alan Jackson)
One stitch at a time 158: anything goes
Robyn's fetish 154: anything goes
2 sisters 138: anything goes
DL.ART thankful Thursday April linky: anything goes
Let's craft and create 67: anything goes
Crafty emblies: anything goes
My Grafico 148: anything goes
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Silver and lilac Christmas

It was Sylvie's turn to choose the theme for the Christmas Card Club challenge for today and she asked us to make a card with silver and one other colour.

I started off last night with three attempts that went into the bin, by which time our central heating boiler had packed up and I was getting cold. We had to get up early this morning as an engineer is booked to come between 8 and 5 today (no sign  of him yet ... hope he will come today and be able to put the boiler right). Anyway, I thought I'd have another go today and ... after one or two aborted attempts ... finished up with this card which I'm relatively happy with (at last!).

The background silver and lilac baubles card is a Kanban one that I've had for ages (originally part of a kit). I'd been unsuccessfully trying to stamp the lovely IndigoBlue Merry Christmas, Deer stamp on to a slightly textured card and getting rubbish results ... and silver embossing powder everybody.

While looking for some smooth lilac card to match the background card I found some lilac mottled paper that I don't even remember buying - it was just right. I inked up the stamp with versamark and heat embossed with detail silver powder, mounting this on a piece of silver mirror card. The snowflakes were cut with a punch I bought yesterday from Hobbycraft to replace the one I broke a while ago - with little lilac gems in the centres of all the snowflakes.

Who would have thought that a simple card like this could take so many attempts to get right ... got there in the end!

This is also another card for my own CHNC challenge 119 - use the word 'Christmas' on the front of the card - why not click on the link and join in?

Update: I started blogging this card this morning, but then it got left - thankfully, the boiler has now been fixed.

This is also for:

Facebook A card a day
Facebook Sunday's with Santa week 13: shiny sparkles
Christmas card challenge week 19: vintage (and the previous week's reindeer)
Jingle belles: jingle belles are bling-ing
Paper-crafting journey: monochromatic
Stamp dreams 10: monochrome
Playing in paradise 111: embossing
Mayzy art 14: sparkle
Totally Gorjuss 178: anything goes with sparkle
The  squirrel and the fox 41: inspired by a song: Rudolph, the red nosed reindeer
Creative stamp friends 74: stamping or punching (not sure which it is because of the translation - but the card includes both)
Lexi 87: use your punches and/or dies
Loves rubber stamps 46: anything goes
Little miss muffet 58: anything goes
One stitch at a time 158: anything goes
Robyn's fetish 154: anything goes
2 sisters 138: anything goes
DL.ART thankful Thursday April linky: anything goes
Let's craft and create 67: anything goes
Crafty emblies: anything goes
My Grafico 148: anything goes
52 card pick-up 2.14

Pink birthday girl

This card uses the front of a shaped card matted on to a square card blank. the image is CC Designs stamp 'Swiss lady bug Nora', with the circle die cut matted on to a scalloped one. With the addition of the resin flowers in the corners and Craftime sentiment, the card was done.

This is for:

Shelly's terrifically thrilling Thursday: use scallops
613 avenue create 13: anything goes with flowers
All that scraps Wednesday challenge: winged things (yes, Nora has wings)
CCEE 1314: things with wings
My heart pieces: angels or fairies
Stamp-n-doodle: pretty in pink
One stop craft 216: happy birthday
More than favors wacky Wednesday 83: birthday theme
Ruby's rainbow 51: happy birthday
Simon says: happy birthday
Totally papercrafts 161: birthday girl in pink
Bunny Zoe March: girly
Top tip Tuesday 98: girls and boys come out to plate - include a boy and/or girl
Aud sentiments 77: for a child
Inky impressions 104: for a child
Stamp and create April: use at least 1 die
Lexi 87: use your punches and/or dies
2 sisters 138: anything goes
DL.ART thankful Thursday April linky: anything goes
Let's craft and create 67: anything goes
Crafty emblies: anything goes
My Grafico 148: anything goes
Make it Monday 134
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