To "Ewe"

I have been busy making a few Christmas cards today and here is one of them.  My digi stamp from Bugaboo has been coloured with promarkers.  The papers are from Forever Friends and the lace from my stash.  I cut the sentiment out with a banner die and inked around the edge.  I also flipped the sketch.

Challenges

Catch The Bug (Day 2) - Sketch
Simon Says (Monday) - Flora & Fauna

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Retirement

A retirement card for a gentleman who likes a bit of summer gardening on his allotment.  The images are all Forever Friends stickers which I attached to card and then fussy cut.  The sentiment is from Hunkydory and the ribbon is from my stash.

Challenges

Fab 'N' Funky (310) - Boys/Men
Crafty Ribbons (157) - Summer
C.R.A.F.T. (369) - Animals

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How Does Your Garden Grow...

Another card I made a while back and didn't show.

The main image and vase of flowers are Forever Friends stickers.  The papers are from My Mind's Eye.  Can't remember where the stamped sentiment was from but the button and ribbon are from my stash.

Challenges

Daring Cardmakers - Man's Best Friend (Hope teddies count)
Digi Designs - Summer
Catch The Bug - Bingo (Ribbon/Animal/Player's Choice [Button])
Allsorts (368) - How Does Your Garden Grow
The Ribbon Girls - Any Image

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Mother's Day Gift

And this is what's inside...

Challenges

Creative Creations (5) - For Mum

Bearly Mine (76) - Mother's Day

Papertake - Anything Goes (Mother's Day)

Creative Craft2 (6) - Mother's Day

Joanna Sheen - Mum/Female

Today I want to show you how I decorated a little gift for my sister.  It is actually a sleeve so the chocs just slide out.  Hope you like it, thanks for looking.

Card Recipe

Image Sticker - Forever Friends

Paper - My Mind's Eye

Ribbon - Recycled From Bouquet

Brads - Stash



Bathtime Bubbles

Challenges

Stella Says Sketch (130) - Sketch

Crafty Ribbons (39) - Buttons

Card Crafters Circle (63) - Teddies

Allsorts (194) - Animals

Here we go with another Forever Friends Mother's Day card.  This time the little bear is enjoying a relaxing bubble bath.  The images and sentiment have all been attached with foam pads.  The borders have been punched and I have added a star button.  I also added a heart button to the sentiment.  Hope you like it, thanks for looking.

Card Recipe

Image Stickers - Forever Friends

Digi Sentiment - Sentiments 4 You

Digi Papers - Nitwits (Promises)

Buttons/Ribbon - Stash



Flowers For Mother's Day



Challenges

Sketchy (41) - Sketch

Cupcake Craft (230) - Lace

Incy Wincy - Pop It Up

Digital Tuesday (198) - Pink/White

Papertake - Bling

Oldie But Goodie - Bright Colours

Card Crafters Circle (63) - Teddies

Forever Friends (14) - Animals

It is so long since I made cards with these cute teddies but I recently found a load of their stickers in my stash, long forgotten about, along with some papers.  So many of them are suitable for Mother's Day so here's another one.

Following the great sketch I covered my base card with white cardstock and spotty paper.  Next I punched some strips and added some old paper lace and attached with d/s tape.  I stuck my main image sticker onto pink cardstock and layered onto a white panel cut with a nestie.  Once I cut the darker pink panel with a lace nestie I attached the image to it with foam pads to 'pop it up'.  I then attached the whole thing to my base card, again using foam pads, double pop up!  The smaller image has been layered and popped up with foam pads along with the sentiment.  The flowers have been cut from corresponding design paper and I have added gems to the centres.  Another gem added to the sentiment finishes the card.  Hope you like it, thanks for looking.

Card Recipe

Images/Papers - Forever Friends

Sentiment Digi - Lyndsay's Stamp Stuff

Paper Lace/Gems - Stash



Mother's Day Choccies

Challenges

Bearly Mine (74) - Ribbon

Creative Craft2 (4) - Sketch

Paper Shelter (102) - Celebrations

Forever Friends (14) - Animals

Today I want to show you a simlpe card for Mother's Day that I made with stickers.  I mounted the main image sticker onto panels cut with nesties.  I have done the same with the sentiment.  The box of choccies is a sticker simply stuck onto card and cut out.  Following the great sketch I layered the base card with paper covered panels and added some spotty ribbon.  Hope you like it, thanks for looking.

Card Recipe

Stickers/Papers - Forever Friends

Sentiment - Sentiments 4 You

Ribbon - Stampin Up



Forever In A Flap!!!

Challenges

M.A.W.T.T. (42) - Sketch
Paperplay (15) - Stickers
Daring Cardmakers - Getting In A Flap
Cupcake Craft (87) - Red & White
Forever Friends - Numbers
Doodle Palace - Choose From A List Of Challenges (Too many to list)
Fab 'N' Funky (20) - Get It All Out
A Gem Of A Challenge (3) - Special Birthdays

I have made this card for my nephew's birthday in June and managed to get it to fit quite a few challenges, a challenge in itself. I have followed the great sketch although I planned to use it for a totally different card (watch this space!). I turned the sketch so that I could make a 'tent' card and so that the Forever Friends stickers would fit. From the Doodle Palace list I have chosen Black, Red & Neutral/Letters & Numbers. My neglected stash are the FF Stickers/Peel-Offs and the Black Swivelly Things (don't know what they are called). For the 'Flap' I have made 'a card on a card' which opens up as you can see in the second picture. The corners were punched out using a small circle punch.

Card Recipe

Stickers - Forever Friends
Papers/Peel-Offs/Brads/Black Swivelly Things - Stash

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Anniversary

Challenges

Forever Friends - Sketch
Papertake (37) - Lilac & Lemon
Cute Card Thursday (104) - Happy Anniversary

Here's a little anniversary card made with Forever Friends stickers. It's a long time since I made a card with these cute little bears that I thought I ought to give one an airing. The flowers were part of a challenge prize and I just added the buttons.

Card Recipe

Image/Stamp - Forever Friends/PSX
Paper - Monti's Pixel Playground
Buttons/Flowers - Stash

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Forever Friends Challenge

This week's challenge is to follow a lovely sketch. I decided to make another Christmas card and used one of the FF stickers which I put onto white card and layered it with red card. I placed swirly paper onto the white base card and then added a stripey rectangle. I stamped and layered a greeting and to finish added some mistletoe stickers.

Card Recipe

Stickers - Forever Friends

Papers - Shabby Princess

Stamp - Inca Stamps

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Tenth Anniversary

Challenges

Moving Along With The Times (4) - Sketch + Wedding/Anniversary

Forever Friends - Celebration

These challenges combine nicely with my nephews forthcoming wedding anniversary. I can't believe it has been ten years since his wedding, it only seems a couple of years ago, how time flies these days. The numbers and flowers were cut on the cuttlebug. By the way, Forever Friends are giving away blog candy of an image folder to this week's winner so why not have a go.

Card Recipe

Image/Papers - Forever Friends

Celebration Ribbon - From a blog candy I won

Brads - Stash

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Charisma Cardz Challenge (27)

This week's challenge is to alter something, NOT a thing I usually do but thought I would have a go. I had a tube of chocolates so I just simply covered it with design paper and added lace threaded with ribbon top and bottom. Next it needed an image so I stamped a FF image and coloured it with promarkers and MLP pens and simply attached it. Not very inventive I know but it looks pretty enough. If you have any ideas how I could have improved it please leave me a comment, I would appereciate it. When I finished it and took the photo I realised I should have done a 'before' photo. Never mind, next time...

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Rainbow Lady Challenge (61)

This week's challenge is to make a black & white silhouette card. The images are stamped and embossed onto black card using a white Versamark ink pad and white EP and the flowers are punched out of card.

Card Recipe

Stamps - Forever Friends

Paper - Jak Heath

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Make A Wish

Challenges

Forever Friends - Sketch

A Spoonful Of Sugar (49) - Blue & Green

Crafty Creations (13) - Sweet & Yummy

Simon Says (3) - Recipe (2 papers/3 buttons/1 ribbon)

Paperplay (15) - A Stitch In Time

This is a very quick card as I am tired and just want to go to bed after a long working day. The image is watercoloured with my pencils and I have done some faux stitching around the edges and added a ribbon. I stamped the sentiment and added the buttons to finish it off. Nearly forgot, you probably can't see it but I used Diamond Glaze on the candle flames as well.

Card Recipe

Stamps - Forever Friends/Papermania

Papers - Papermania & Stash

Buttons & Ribbon - Stash

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Tote Bag & Nine Cards (Forever Friends Challenge)

The Complete Set

The Tote Bag

1 - 3

4 - 6

7 - 9

The challenge on Forever Friends this week is to 'make a gift for someone' so I am entering this set of cards. I made this little set about three weeks ago for a very special young lady in Malaysia who I have been told, was thrilled to receive them. I found the idea on a Stampin Up demonstrator's blog, her name is Rochelle and you can find the bag etc here, thank you Rochelle. The bag was very easy to make, as was the cards. I have tried to make the cards suitable for various occassions.

Card Recipe

Cardstock - Stampin Up

Papers - Funky Fairys

Stamps - Forever Friends

Ribbons/Gems/Brads/Flowers - Stash

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Papertake Challenge

This week's Papertake challenge is to make 'A Matching Set' so I thought I would enter this little set of cards I made as a than you to a friend recently.

As you can see all the cards are made in the same way with slight variations. I started by covering a piece of card with paper and adding a tied ribbon to the bottom, this was then attached to the base card with foam pads. Next I stamped and coloured the images and layered them with my Nesties (no suprise there then!!!) and again attached them with foam pads. I left them open so that they could be used for various occassions.

Card Recipe

Stamps - Forever Friends

Papers - Monti's Pixel Playground

Cardstock - My Scrapbox

Ribbons - My Stash

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Missed this one as well, duh!

Well! at this rate, I shall end up doing the challenges one or two weeks AFTER they are due ha!ha! This one WAS going to be for the Forever Friends ATC challenge but never mind, thought I would show you anyway. I don't as a rule make ATCs and I will probably end up using it as a topper on a card. I watercoloured the FF bears with my pencils and coloured the dragonflies wings with Sakura glitter pens.

Card Recipe

Cardstock - My scrapbox

Inks - Archival & Adirondack

Stamps - FF/Whimsey/Clarity & See D's

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Sketch Saturday (32)/Forever Friends Challenges

For this card I have used this week's sketch from Sketch Saturday and combined it with the challenge from Forever Friends which is 'Your Favourite Colour', bet you can't guess what my favourite colour is??? Yep! your right, it's PINK!

First I covered the card using Papermania papers. Then I stamped the image using an Archival inkpad onto pink CS and also the starry paper. I coloured the image on the CS with my watercolour pencils and the one on the paper with Marvy Le Plume pens. I layered the CS image using my nesties. With the paper one, I wrote a little greeting on the tag and coloured the ribbon using the pens. I then cut out the parcel and layered it onto the CS image using foampads to give a 3D effect. The four flowers were stamped using a Personal Impressions stamp and coloured with the pens. I added the brads from my stash to the middles and positioned them with foam pads.

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Sketch Saturday/Forever Friends

This week's challenge at Sketch Saturday was "Your Choice". I have chosen the sketch from challenge 27 for my card. As you can see I turned it and used FF stickers and a LOTV greeting. The cardstock is from my scrapbox and the backing paper is a free download. As I have used FF images it qualifies for the Forever Friends challenge which is "anything". Thanks for looking.

Santa came early...

WooHoo! Look what arrived today!

This cute little stamp is my prize from the Dutch Dare Cards Challenge that I won. (We had to make a card with scalloped edges which you can see above). Thank you ladies I look forward to playing with it. The beautiful card came with it and was made by the very talented Karin Hoeve. Why not pop over to her blog and see her wonderful creations, thank you Karin. Thanks for looking.

Merry Christmas Everyone!