Crafting for all Seasons #9 Birthday

We saw some great entries into our last challenge over at CFAS but it's now time for a new one and this time the theme is Birthdays. We're being sponsored by Meljen's Designs and the design team got to work with some of her gorgeous images. I used Birthday Cup Mouse for my card:

The image is coloured with promarkers then it's been layered onto pink and green papermania cardstock. the green cardstock has been edged with a Martha Stewart punch. Backing paper is from the Fairy Flora stack. Card is finished with some ribbon, a pearl heart, pearls, a sentiment and a fancy flower.

Challenges entered:

Cute Thursday - a pinch and a punch

Stamp Something - digi day

Bee Crafty - beautiful borders/fantastic frames

Crafty Purple Frog - birthday card/gift

DYSU - friendly critters

Desert Island Crafts - itinery (flowers, sentiment, green)

Cupcake Craftroom - pink and green

Card Makin Mamas - digital

Ribbon Carousel - anything goes

Lady Bug Crafts Ink - anything goes

Stamp N Doodle - anything goes

My Mum's Craft Shop - layer it up

Carol x

Tag it

Only one to show you today - felt the need to do some housework today - I'm sure I'll feel better tomorrow though lol.

Using this gorgeous Teddy Bea image and some equally gorgeous backing papers from Bearly Mine, I used a PATP to make the matt and tag. The papers have all been resized to fit the project exactly. Card is finished with some matching flowers (also from Bearly Mine), ribbon, buttons and pearls.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Teddy Bo - Tag it

Shelleys Image Blog - Show us what you got

Bearly Mine - Inside out

DYSU - Use a Flower

Aud Sentiments - Anything goes

Creative Inspirations - Pets/Animals

Saturday Challenge - Stitching

Carol x



Springtime scallops

Joanna Sheens A Cardmakers Year was the Cd used for the image and the backing papers on this card. I've used another PATP punch to cut the outer matt and the topmost backing paper. Flower is from WOC and card is finished with a bow and some pearls.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Rainbow Lady's -Springtime

DYSU - Scallops

Aud Sentiments - Anything goes

Fresh Brewed Designs - Flowers
Fresh Brewed Designs - Cute and Sweet

Carol x

Tilda and butterfly

My gorgeous new stamp.......I just love her lol. Had a trip around Hobbycraft yesterday just for a nose and boy do they know how to charge! Picked up a few bits and bobs.........as you do.......then found a full set of 72 watercolour pencils for £50 - a set of 36 were priced at over £40 so decided they were a must buy along with a pack of two mini easels. Checked on the web and the pencils are priced generally over £70! So a worthwhile trip. I coloured Tilda in last night with my new watercolour pencils.

I followed the Sketch and Stash sketch for this card. The green backing paper is a free download from Pink Petticoat and is being aired for the first time, checked paper from Anna Griffin - from my bit box, sentiment from Madaboutcards. Card is finished with some swirls, a gingham bow, a rosebud and some gems.

I'm also entering this card into the following challenges:

My Time to Craft - On the Spot

Magnolia Mania - Checked

Magnolia-licious - Pink and Green

Stamptacular Sunday - Girls and Swirls

Creative Inspirations - Punches and Dies

A Spoonful of Sugar - All Creatures Great and Small

Fussy and Fancy - Card for a Child

My Partner in Crafting Crime - Layer it up

Simon says Stamp - Spring Colours/Easter
Magnolia-licious Easter-Spring Extravaganza
Magnolia Stamp Lovers - Easter

Carol x

Nautical

Hi everyone, hope you all enjoyed good weather today - hopefully it is going to last for a few days as our kids broke up for Easter today.  I've been away most of the day but managed to make 3 quick cards tonight.

I love these seascapes from Joanna Sheen's Thomas Kinkade CD which suit the Nautical theme at My Time to Craft perfectly.

A very simple card using Stardream card and papers and finished with a ribbon.

Carol x

Ribbon Weaving

I have spent most of the day making this card! I remembered why I had bought all the ribbons I found the other night - for ribbon weaving - and got to wondering how it would look on a card! This is the result:

I started making a 6x6 card but couldn't pull it all together so pulled it apart and made an 8x8 instead. Then I didn't like the image I'd used so did another one and just as I got it finished I realised I had been mixing two challenges up and was using the wrong brand of stamp altogether!!!!..............must be an age thing lol Anyway I finally got the right stamp coloured in and the card completed in time for bed!

The LOTV challenge is peach and green..........one of my favourite colour combinations :) The stamp is coloured with promarkers (I'd had plenty of practise by this time lol). The doiley is from Cheery Lynn Designs (if anyone has a sandwich for the wizard or grand calibur for these dies I'd be grateful - I only managed to diecut the outside scallops today), flowers are from Prima. Card is finished with some pearls and the little swirls were from the die which originally came with my Wizard and has hardly been used.

May try the ribbon weaving again with a Tilda stamp as I just received another one of the Butterfly Dreams collection today and a very kind Sheenie is sending me two she no longer uses..........so I've gone from one to six in 10 days.......oops how did that happen!!

As always, thanks for looking and commenting.

Carol x



Teddy Bo

I bought a couple of these digis yesterday so decided to enter the Teddy Bo challenge which is Punch It.

The backing papers are Anna Griffin (leftover bits from yesterdays card) and make for a very loud bathroom decor lol. Teddy Bea has been coloured with watercolour pencils. Card is finished with a bow and some gems. The sentiment is an Inkadinkado stamp.

I'm also entering this in the Cup Cake - Comedy Rocks challenge.

On a more serious note I was blog hopping earlier today on my laptop and picked up a Trojan virus when I clicked on the Spellbinders blog which appears to have wiped out my hard drive! Luckily I had downloaded all my photos onto an external hard drive last week and backed my files up......so watch what you are doing!

Carol x

Another Spring Tilda

The Just Magnolia challenge this week is Anything Goes plus buttons, Tilda is coloured with watercolour pencils, backing papers are from Milton & Co and card is finished with buttons, a butterfly and a bow.

I'm also entering the card in the following challenges:

Simon says Stamp - Easter/Spring

St Lukes Charity Card Challenge - Say it with Flowers

Saturday Challenge - Butterflies

Carol x

Spring Tilda

Had to go to Edinburgh this morning to return some stuff to M&S and visit Costco, didn't get the chance to buy anything crafty but when I got home the postie had been with three parcels! Included in one was this lovely Tilda from the Butterfly Dreams collection. I also got my first Promarkers but I need more practise before I show you my "skills or lack of" in that department.

Magnolia Mania's challenge this week is Easter, here is my card:

I followed the Sketch Saturday sketch. Tilda is coloured with watercolour pencils...all dressed in her pacey new with her Easter bonnet and spring flowers! Backing papers and card are from Anna Griffin.........I've had them for years but kept them for stroking lol. Card is finished with Prima flowers, a button, ribbon, pearls and a sentiment.

I'm also entering this card in the following challenges:

Kaboodle Doodles - Lets get Girly

Little Claires - Spring

Tonight whilst gathering the bits for this card I decided to get a piece of lace from a bag of wool/embroidery bits that's waiting to be sorted from our old loft......having found what I was looking for I dug a little deeper and found ten hanks of satin ribbon of varying widths and colours....they're gorgeous....I've used the pink across the middle of this card.

Carol x

Brown and Aqua

is the colour theme at Crafters Companion this month, I've managed to make this tonight. Spent the afternoon making a weekly chart for the challenges so I could keep up with myself!

I've used an image and backing paper from the Popcorn Bear Florals CD, brown card and aqua paper are from my stash. Card is finished with an aqua bow, some pearls and a Kanban sentiment.

I'm also entering this card in the following challenges:

CD Sunday - Someone Special

My Partner in Crime - 3 or more layers

 

Carol x

LOTV Spring

I hope everyone has enjoyed their Mother's Day.....I abandoned my family this morning and went off home to see my own Mum and had lunch with her, I then spent the rest of the afternoon in the craft room and left them to fend for themselves!!!

This weeks LOTV challenge is Spring, as I only have one stamp atm I'm rather limited to the cards I can make but I can feel a spend coming on.....

I have followed a sketch from Simon Says Stamp. The backing papers are from Dovecraft, stamp is coloured with watercolour pencils, card is finished with flowers, pearls,sticky ribbon, a bow, a sentiment and some peeloffs.

I'm also entering this card in the following challenges:

My Time to Craft - Mums the word

Crafty Sentiments - Mother's Day

Carol x



Busy Saturday

As I haven't made any cards for two days I decided to rectify matters today.......this is the first of five cards. Bearly Mine had a sketch which I have followed.

Backing papers are a free download from Bearly Mine and have been resized in a graphics program. Tilda has been coloured in with watercolour pencils. Card is finished with a poinsettia embellisment and gold pearls.

I'm also entering this in Magnolia - anything goes and CHNC - Christmas foliage or flowers.

Carol x

Think Pink

Made this one last night for The Sugar Bowl challenge - a sketch and the theme "think pink". I'm also entering it in the DYSU challenge "shine on".

Custard is stamped on stardream and coloured using water colour pencils. Backing paper from K&Co. Dies are all Spellbinders, punches are Martha Stewart, flowers from Flora Doodle. Finished with gems, pearls, buttons and ribbon from stash.

Carol x

Mimosa basket

Is the name of this cute little stamp from Bild malarna which I bought at the Secc.

I've coloured her with Aqua tone pencils. Backing papers from HOTP all mounted on magenta stardream card. Punches all Martha Stewart and diecuts are Spellbinders. Finished with buttons, pearls, a bow, a charm and a peel off.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Bling it on - Anything goes with a charm

Bunny Zoes - Happy Birthday with pearls

My Partner in Crafting - add 3 or more buttons

Simon says Stamp - Mother's day/Girlie

and since Mimosa is a spring flowering tree I'm also entering in:

By the Cute and Girly - Springtime

Carol x