Funky Friday

Welcome :)

Funky Friday has been and gone and I'm playing catch up again.....I don't suppose I would be me if I blogged every day without fail lol

Materials used:-                               

 6 x 6" scalloped card blank, Free Romance - Dreams Come True cd, Pleased To See Ya - Colour Me Happy, Just For Jen download, Silver Mirri card, Pink ribbon - Ribbon Oasis

All papers are from Funky Hand, a fabulous online store with some beautiful cds and downloads, one of my favourites being the Free Romance papers from the Dreams Come True cd. I'm still using papers from my scrap file and probably will be for the next 5 years LOl

Thanks for reading, back later after tea xx

Here's one I made earlier!!

Another scheduled post already, that's twice in one week. I have to take my youngest daughter up to Durham tomorrow to get a new passport. She used hers for ID in town and it has either been stolen or she has lost it. Apparently now the police have to send them straight back to Liverpool if any are handed in and if any of the regional passport offices get any handed in they are destroyed. They then sting you for £103 to fast track a new passport. She needs it urgently as she and a friend are going to a concert in Dublin in four weeks. I wouldn't mind but she has only had her (lost) passport for about 18 months :( Still, I suppose it gets me out of the house for a couple of hours and Durham is lovely. I haven't been for about 20 years so I suppose it will have changed a bit lol. My parents used to have a newsagents and tearoom in the town centre.

So more cards for you!

 I've had this Penny Black stamp for a long time and still use it quite a bit. I love the sentiment underneath it too.  

"A friend is like a good bra: hard to find, comfortable, supportive, always lifts you up, makes you look better, never lets you down or leaves you hanging, and always close to your heart."

Author: Unknown

 One of my favourite Lili Of The Valley images. Ribbon from Ribbon Oasis and finished with some small crystals.

 I didn't realise until I opened this that it was a Papermania card making kit, I thought it was just a decoupage kit. I will use all the elements separately though and get a few cards from the pack instead of just the one.

Another very quick and easy card to make. I bought this bassinet die cut years ago but haven't a clue where from. I think it was a pack of 10 and this might be the last one but I may come across others in my quest for organisation!! I put it all together onto a piece of white hammered card then mounted it onto a piece of the beautiful Kanban paper from the Sugar Buttons paper pad from Crafted By You. The ribbon, ric rac, teddy etc were all from my stock. I made this card for one of 'my couples' whose wedding stationery I made about two and a half years ago. Baby Alex is about 10 days old now....congratulations, Jo and Phil xx

That's it for now, I shall be back soon (unless I get kidnapped in Durham lol)

Sympathy cards

I had a few Deepest Sympathy cards to make for one family last month and it's a task I sometimes struggle with. I don't suppose anyone really likes making sympathy cards but having to make seven different ones for the same family is quite difficult. Anyway, I managed it and I posted a couple of them last month so I thought I would upload the rest of them as I'm sick of seeing them on my desk top lol I can now catalogue them.

I used a selection of materials from Basic Grey, Funky Hand, Pink Petticoat and Ribbon Oasis.


I'm off now to make a start on my 'to do' list which seems to be growing again already.
Thanks for looking :)

Daring Cardmakers

I make umpteen of these every year but only as they are ordered, the images are still as popular as they were when they first came out a couple of years ago.

I thought it was apt as the DCM challenge this week is

The theme for this week's cardmaking is
WATER
You could make a card with a watery theme (lakes, rivers, fishies, boats etc), or maybe you'll find a way to actually use some water in the making of your card eg colouring with watercolours.

I can remember my nana and grandad having a tin bath in front of the fire and my mum said that when she was young they had an oven like that too and they used to put their jamas in the oven in winter to warm them before they got changed!! I'm so glad that we have progressed since then lol

Materials used

Image, sentiment and backing sheet - La Pashe

Holly - Funky Hand

Ribbon - Ribbon Oasis

Charm & Christmas tree from stock

TFL

 

Papertake Weekly

Well, I did the dads a couple of posts ago so this one is for the lads, albeit little tiny ones :) I'm still in the process of stocking up the card stand (in between appointments and orders) and am actually beginning to see results now so as you see it is the turn of baby boy cards.

Images from Penny Black, and the sheep was a freebie from when I was on the DT at ICS
Papers from Pink Petticoat, Funky Hand,
Prima flowers
Promarkers
QK and Cuttlebug die cuts
Ribbons from Ribbon Oasis
Charms and brads from stash
Sentiments from the pc

Happy Mother's Day.....

to all the lovely mums in the UK. I hope your day is a bit more relaxing than any other day :) (I have been writing this post since about 10 this morning which is why my opening line may seem to be a little more ridiculous than usual :))

I have my last few Mother's Day cards to show and I was also going to update my Kids and Co page with new knits as I have another parcel ready to go off, but that may have to wait till tomorrow as I don't think it will be too long before I hit the sack!

I've used an assortment of materials including free stamps from magazine covers, Promarkers, papers and Card Candy from Craftwork Cards, paper flowers, lace, gem stones from my craft stack and fabby ribbons from Ribbon Oasis

I have another busy week coming up with orders so will probably have to work a couple of evenings. It make the days really long as I'm at my desk at the shop by 7.30 every morning, Monday to Saturday - it's a good job I love my work and it keeps me out of mischief. I must try to take part in a couple of challenges though as it seems such a long time since I entered any.

Thanks for reading and enjoy your week. :)

ICS challenge #87

It's 'inspiration' day again over on the ICS challenge blog and this week we are sponsored by Paper Romance and the winner will receive a $5.00 gift voucher to spend in their shop.

It's my mum and dad's 53rd wedding anniversary today and this is the card I made for them.
Ribbon - Ribbon Oasis
Flowers - Prima and from stock
Buckle - from stock
Square die - Nellie Snellen
Sentiment - pc

It's your turn now to join our challenge and let us know where to find your work.

Thanks for looking.

Birthday card

This card has been commissioned by one of hubby's collegues for her mum in law and my brief was.......something flowery!! lol but it had to be 8" x 8". My mum bought the House Mouse decoupage sheets ages ago from Create and Craft (I think) and decided to share them with me as there were so many (she bought two packs) Decoupage isn't something I do very often, I used to make loads especially when the Morehead sheets cam out but I don't think I've made a decoupage card for a couple of years now. Now I know why....what possesses the artists to put so many tiny bits on the sheets? It took ages to cut out and I chucked the really tiny bits in the bin lol I still got three good layers on it though and am pleased with the end result.

The lilac floral paper was a freebie from a magazine but I don't know which one as it was just in a drawer on it's own.
Image - House Mouse (also available from Joanna Sheen)
White DP - Stampin Up...I think it's the bride one
Sentiment - Craftwork Cards
Flowers- Prima and punched
MS punches
Ribbons - Ribbon Oasis
Gems - my stash

Thanks for looking xx

Daring Cardmakers

I haven't taken part in the Daring Carmaker's challenge for a while so thought I would give it a go. This week it is the turn of one of the new girls to set the dare and I will leave it to Nat to introduce it....."For this week's dare, I'm taking inspiration from the Card a Day book by Papercrafts. It's amazing just how many National xyz Days there are out there, some I never knew existed, but with August just around the corner, there are two very worthy celebrations ahead!

August 1st marks Girlfriend's day - a day to celebrate that very special friend in your life, and Sister's day just happens to fall on August 2nd.
So the choice is yours, you can make a lovely card to give to your best friend, or send something to your sister - or maybe your best friend is like a sister to you, she could even actually be your sister! ;o)

 

 

image - No Calorie Birthday Cake from Sassy Cheryl's Digital Stamps

Paper - Sweet Nothings by Papermania

Promarkers

Ribbon - Ribbon Oasis

Card Candy and sentiment - Craftwork Cards

Flowers - Prima

Thanks for looking :)

 

Papertake Weekly

Now we have a new baby in the family I thought I would make a couple of cards for the pround grandparents and the very proud great grandmother. I used my Promarkers to colour the picture so I decided to follow the
Papertake Weekly challenge

So onto our challenge for this week and it’s one we’ve had before but it’s one we all enjoy I think cos it is

In Stitches

So we just want to see some stitching somewhere on your card – that’s it!! It can be real or fake / faux / doodles. Tis up to you :)

This one is for DH's mum.

 

 The image is by Chris Dark and is available from the Sketching Stamper My image was coloured with Promarkers and my stitching was done with a fine tipped Berol pen. the ribbon is from Ribbon Oasis, flowers are Prima, Card Candy is from Craftwork Cards, charm from stash.

Tfl :)

Baby card

This week, the Inspirational Card Sketches challenge blog are being sponsored by

AesaLina owner of Pixie Petals is giving away a "Sweet Sample Pixiepacket" which is available to purchase in her shoppe right now. The fun thing about the "Sweet Sample Pixiepacket" is the winner of this challenge and anyone who purchases it will get to pick the color and styles of embellishments that come in it!

So all you have to do is follow the sketch. It's up to you how you interpret it...flip it, turn it upside down, whatever as long as we can still see the sketch

It's so simple, but very useable and I can see myself using it a lot! Here is my card

The image is another from last week's ICS challenge, Meljen Design. I printed him out twice in two different sizes, coloured it with Promarkers and decoupaged both dogs. Ribbon is from Ribbon Oasis and everything else is from my tip of a craft room!!! lol.......Cleaner required, apply within :)

Please join our challenge this week and let us know by leaving a comment so we can come and have a look. and don't forget the Inspiration by my very talented DT mates.

TFL

Strawberries & cream!

The Passion For Promarkers this week say "Our challenge this week has been set by Sue and she has chosen ‘strawberries & cream’, which can be interpreted either by using images that include strawberries or just the colour scheme, it’s entirely up to you.  Of course don’t forget you must use your promarkers to be eligible for our prize."

And this is what I came up with

 I googled Strawberry Shortcake and came up with dozens of colouring images. I chose this one and coloured her with Promarkers. The strawberry paper was a freebie in a magazine, flowers are Prima and the ribbon is from Ribbon Oasis (where else)

I'm having half an hour out now to update my blog fully before I go back to my dt work for the weekend :)

Stamp Something

Well peeps, I am so glad to see the back of April, it has been a rather 'wearing' month for us, what with 

• some kind soul running up the back end of our card (resulting in us having to go out today and buy a new one!), 
• my dad having his hip op and ending up quite poorly
• my mum and dad moving house and the new one needing decorating from top to bottom and
• my lap top going belly up on me

So May (and the rest of the year are going to be nice to us lol




This is the first Stamp Something challenge I've done in ages but I needed a card for DH to take to work with him so I decided to use the sketch.

Materials: image-Anita's, papers-Doodlebug and Stampin Up, ribbon-Ribbon Oasis, flowers-Prima and the gems are from my stash.

I've spent most of my evening searching the web for fonts which I've lost with my lap top breaking. I must have spent a fortune buying font!! Of course I can't remember everything I had but a good few of them have now been discontinued :(

Oh well!

Thanks for looking, enjoy the rest of the weekend whatever you might be up to.

Mini albums

Last week's work included two mini albums and boxes measuring 6 x 6" (one 60th birthday and a golden wedding anniversary) and a guest book so this post will be picture heavy :). 

 

 

and now, the guest book

Materials used: image-Hibiscus decoupage by Jak Heath, assorted paper offcuts including Pink Petticoat and K & Co, all ribbons from Ribbon Oasis, Prima flowers and everything else from stash.

Thanks for looking