Happy Birthday 8 today!!

Hi all

Well Yaseen is glued to his new present a Nintendo DSi so I have got a few minutes to blog and enter the card I made him into a few challenges! We are off bowling later on.



I followed the sketch on Basic Grey challenge blog and Midnight Madness(which are almost identical). The fab thing about the Midnight Madness blog is that you have a choice of 2 slight variations on the same sketch. Hopefully if I get chance later I will be able to use the other sketch too...

The background papers (from Daisy Bucket designs) are some I bought AGES ago and only found them rooting through whilst looking for something else haha typically I never found what I was looking for!!

The stamp is Party Dragon by Lelo Designs (Stampavie) and I have coloured him in using promarkers! I used my new Argyle Cuttlebug embossing folder. The number 8 and the balloons are Basic Grey as are the brads. The metal fastener I can't remember where that is from as once again it has been in my stash waiting to see the light of day for ages haha!!

Simon Says Challenge Blog is having a hop and challenge rolled into one, they have put a recipe together for the project. Preferably you need to use a Stampabilities stamp but if like poor lil me you have none you can follow this recipe anyway: 3 TYPES OF EMBELLISHMENTS (brads, fasteners and baloons), 2 PATTERNED PAPERS you can also use coordinating cardstock :-) 1 IMAGE

I am entering this into the following challenges:

Midnight Madness - Sketch
Cute Card Thursday - Metal Mania
Cards for Men - Green
Spoonful of Sugar - Spring is in the air
Stamp Something - Something cute
Basic Grey - Sketch
Color Throwdown - Light green, rust and burgundy

My first easel card

I keep seeing these easel cards around blogland and wanted to give it a try.
Love the pink and grey colour combo from Cute Card Thursday it is sooo pretty and girly and the layout is from a sketch C.R.A.F.T. which I rotated to the left. C.R.A.F.T. are looking for Guest designers!

My photography skills are rubbish, think I need to enroll onto a photography course haha!!

I am entering the card into the following challenges.

C.R.A.F.T Challenges - sketch
Cute Card Thursday - Pink and Grey
One Stop Craft Challenge - Fancy edges and borders
2 Red Bananas - Think round
Crafty Cardmakers - something new... this is my first Easel card!
Cupcake Craft Challenge - Going girly!!!
Humble Pie Stamps - at least 2 lots of bling
Bee crafty - Favourite colour combo
Charisma Cardz - Anything new (rhinestones are new and new card style








Products:
Cardstock - Bazzil Bling
Papers - papermania blueberry Hill and I can't remember the grey one!
Doily Martha Stewart punch
Prima flowers and some from stash
Pink strands and bead from a wedding favour which I have recycled!
Stamp Whiff of Joy willow with umberella coloured in with promarkers
Ribbon/lace and buckle from stash
Rhinestones - K & Company

Nephews birthday card - no it's not a Christmas card!

Hi all

I had to make a birthday card for my club penguin mad nephew so folowed a template for a step/stair card, it is the first time I have made one and it was easier than I thought it would be! I think it looks a bit like a Christmas card lol!!

I used some digi images coloured with watercolour pencils, felt for the "snow".







I am entering this into the following challenge:
Susie's Sassy - card for a boy with the added option of an animal

Yet another challenge card and some luck came my way!!

Hi all

Well after having a rough few weeks life has a funny way of turning around... I came home from work today to find out I won yesterdays Blog Candy from the lovely Jude at Crafts International, it is a large square Woodware punch.... whoo hoo how lucky am I??

Pop on over to to Judes blog to find out more about her fundraising for Alzheimer's (click the blinkie on my sidebar to take you to the post.

On to the card....

This card was made for the Stampin' for the Weekend challenge which was to use orange, teal and pink.



Not sure if I really like the outcome, I think it is a bit bright and busy for my taste, but hey ho time is not on my side AGAIN!! So I will have to live with it. I used the sketch from Sketch Saturday I had decided to submit a different card for the DT call but time was not my friend this weekend!! Oh well, wish me luck -)

2 Redbananas challenge this week is "Stripes and Dots", don't they look FAB together!



I used:

Whiff of Joy stamp coloured with Pro Markers
Free backing papers from a magazine
Ribbon and ric rac from stash
Sentiment stamp again free with a magazine