Crafty assortment

...which covers the rest of my makes this week.

 The teddy card was a commission for a lady who owns one of the shops near me....she came in at about 12 o'clock for a 1st birthday card making but it had to be in the post before 2....we aim to please and I managed it and she liked it.

 I bought some of the Craftwork Cards goody bags before Christmas when they were on special offer at £5.00 each, what a bargain. Their stuff is such good quality and I find it really lovely to work with. Everything on the above cards came from the kits.

Image -  Lili of the Valley,
spotty paper - Funky Hand
Card Candy - Craftwork Cards
Sentiment - Papermania

I am entering the next card into the Allsorts challenge who are looking for male inspired cards.

Topper - Lili of the Valley (see above)
Papers - Making Cards magazine freebie
Sentiments - Papermania and Craftwork Cards

 

 The above cards were both made using

Toppers - Lili of the Valley

Papers (I can't remember but I will have a look when I get to work on Monday and let you know:))

Sentiments and Card Candy - Craftwork Cards

Stickles glitter glue

Glossy accents

Thanks for looking 

Another combination

This time I have combined the sketch from Sketch and Stash with last week's Papertake Weekly challenge which says "Well our theme is Shoe Time. So anything shoe-ey goes here ie a shoe shaped card, an image, a shoe sentiment, anything at all. Just think Imelda Marcos and away you go!!"

Papers are Bloom and Grow by My Mind's Eye
Image is from Chris at Sketching Stamper coloured with Coral ProMarker and Stickles
Flowers - Prima
Gems - Anita's
Ribbon - Ribbon Oasis
Brad from stash

TFL

PS I forgot to add that my "new" for this challenge is my new MS embossed scallop border punch which arrived this morning :)

2 sketches

Some of the cards I'm showing at the mo seem to have been on my desk top for ages as I haven't been very active in these parts recently!! I'm definitely suffering from withdrawal symptoms from blog hopping and forum visiting. I say that as though I'm some sort of internet junkie...........I only visit Crafts By Carolyn LOL

I made this card for my best friend's birthday, which was last Tuesday!



Papers are from the yummy Bloom and Grow from MME
Delish butterfly is from the equally delish Mrs Wiseman
Stickles, gems and sentiment from stash
Punched border using an MS punch

Nunu toolies

I visited Kazan's blog for the first time the other night and she has some wonderful work on there. She also had the following sketch which had been used in a Norwegian scrapbooking magazine so I decided to have a quick play with it.

Papers are My Mind's Eye (I love their papers) and K and Co
Image is a Smirk 3d (with added eyes!)
Flowers from ebay
Stickles
PC generated sentiment

I have a wedding fayre tomorrow so may not get any cards done as I really need to revamp my sample seating plans as they are definitely looking 'well thumbed'. I don't have much preparation to do for this one as it's ony two weeks since my last one, I just really need to put together a couple of new samples, sort my scruffy seating plans and get some paperwork printed then go through all my stuff and make sure I have everything I need.

So now the 'list' looks like this

DH's brother's birthday
70 Thank you cards
Wedding stationery samples
Got my new Debbi Moore design kit this morning so need to get them done too in progress
Seating plan
New wedding order
75 orders of service
75 place cards
Cards for April birthdays
Fill up my general card stocks

Enjoy your weekend and thanks for looking :)

Papertake Weekly

On a brighter note today, this challenge is for Dawny's Sketch #4 Another good one so thanks Dawny :)I stretched it slighly as I needed a large card! Supplies used are Cuttlebug Embossing Folder, Stickles, Irridescent glitter, Quickutz snowflake, navy card, blue ribbon and freebie paper (but I can't remember where from! *oops*

Sketch Saturday

Another great sketch and DT cards from the team at Sketch Saturday I'm pleased all these challenge blogs are here as they have been a big help in me sorting my Christmas orders. I haven't even made any of our personal ones yet so I really must get a shift on!

I just love this download from Sally-Ann at Grab-a-Doodle-Do I can't draw to save my life so having all these talented people doing the art work for me is great :) and they are very reasonably priced. Paper is Figgy Pudding by Basic Grey, image is a pre-coloured download (as mentioned) I've coloured his breast and hat with Sakura glitter pens and added Stickles to his hat brim, everything else is from my stash and the sentiment on the card is hand written. I don't usually write on my cards but I used a duff Papermania rub on, which didn't!! and just left a mark on the card so rather than chuck it and start again I went over it with a fine pen.

The Daring Mrs B

I was going to post these yesterday but it turned out to be a rather strange day. I was working away like billy o when I got a phone call from my friend saying that her hairdresser was going home poorly and could I go and watch the shop as she was at college. I chucked a load of work in my bag, got changed and toddled off and it was nearly 4.30 when I got home. I managed to get some jewellery priced and inserts folded though and got a few funny looks from people who came in to make appointments and I had to rummage under all my stuff to find the appointment book ;)

After tea I decided it was time to do 'that job', yes you've guessed it, 'inserting', bagging and pricing the cards I had made so far. I hate that job, it's takes hours. So by the time I had finished that and sorting out the gaps and what was going to which shop, it was 12.40 and I just couldn't be bothered to blog!!

Kathy from The Daring Cardmakers has set up a new Sketch File for her, yes you've guessed it........sketches and this is the latest one to be added.

I found it yesterday morning whilst I was having a nosey at Kathy's Waffle and whizzed off a few simple cards straight away.

This was a really quick card, not brilliant but quick :) More of those rub ons and a sentiment which was on my desk. Then I got a bit more adventurous!Snowman was from my RAK pack from a while ago, paper is from Lilli of the Valley and the silver dots are Jingle Bells from Craftwork Cards.

Another rub on for this card and a strip of Blonde Moments paper which was also on my desk. The dots this time are Vintage Berries, again from Craftwork Cards.

This is something I do very rarely...........decoupage! However, I got an email yesterday morning from Cuddly Buddly with their new products and this was one of them and I just had to have him! He is just so damn cute all I did was add some Stickles to the snow and hat brims. The dots are Jingle Bells as before.

So there we have it, one sketch and four very different cards, thanks Kathy. So now it's back to the onslaught of making more mess on my table...........sorry, I mean more Christmas cards :) I haven't even started on my own yet and I need to make some special ones as I'm doing a jewellery party on 27 th.

TFL