Kanban Thursday

Morning all, I know it's not Thursday but I'm here now with my Kanban DT cards I made for this week. It has been a very difficult week for all concerned and I for one am glad to see the back of it. I will be having my Kanban Thursday slot for (probably) the next couple of years and I have so much stock here still. Anyway, onto my makes for this week

 KB163

6 x 6 white card blank

901133 Sugar Buttons paper pad

900921 Sugar Buttons Princess Posies topper

PCT9235 Patch Sentiments – Pink

 KB168

A3220WH-25 A3 white card for card blank

MIR1300 in Blue

PCT9413 Hawaiian Chieftan Stacker

Clear Dew Drops

 KB169

5 x 5 square blank card

901558 Birth & Celebrations paper pad

901542 Baby Pink, Baby Blue toppers

900912 Pastel Bling 5mm - Pink

KB170 

5 x 5 square blank card

901558 Birth & Celebrations paper pad

901542 Baby Pink, Baby Blue toppers

900912 Pastel Bling 5mm - Blue

The Kanban DT have decided to stay together and there are wonderful plans afoot. Keep popping back as, as soon as it has been finalised I will be letting the world know.

The Facebook page, We Love Kanban is still open so please feel free to come over and join us, even if it's just for a chat :)

That's it for me for this post but I will be back straight away (almost) with my next post.

Thanks for dropping by. :)

Baby cards

More cards made with pieces from the paper mountain

I bought the pegs and some of the die cuts, and knitted the little bootees when I first started making cards about eight years ago and found them recently whilst sorting boxes to put back into my craft room after it was decorated.

Tfl

2 little boys had

.......2 little toys, (well actually they are easel cards) lol One of them has been commissioned and the other is for friends of ours who became grandparents for the second time last month.

Papers - Nancy Watt
Image - Going Fishing by Rachelle Anne Miller
Promarkers
Button, ribbons and brad from stash.

Papers and congrats ribbon - Pink Petticoat
Image as above
Everything else from stash

Back in a while with more work but for now my tum is telling me it's dinner time and if you saw it, it's not to argue with :)) !

Take care.

Baby cards and more!

I'm back and challenging!!! I've done the baby cards and started the thank you cards and I have really enjoyed being able to incorporate templates and challenges into my work, so here goes.......the first one up is a Page Plans sketchand here is the first of my baby cards

I think that the striped paper is Papermania but not 100% sure. I do know though that the green paper is from a Funky Hand cd. The charms are from my stash and the nappy (diaper) is hand cut.

The next template is from Di Hickman's blog. It is so long since I've had the time to take part in Di's challenge!

and the final challenge for now is the DCM Dare for today (it's ages since I've done this one too) and this is what's required We're having one of our wonderful Lucky Dips this week, because Anice has very generously offered a prize of a free set of "Shabby Saturday" downloads - all you need to do to have a chance of winning this fantastic prize is to join in with this dare, then come back and let us know where we can see your card. Everyone who joins in has an equal chance of winning, all the names go into the DCM "Virtual Hat" and a name is drawn at random - what more incentive do you need? hehehe

The papers are again from The Funky One cd, not sure where the ribbon is from but the flowers are from Papermania and Dunelm and are held together with a Doodlebug Sugar Coated brad.
The rest of the cards are baby cards

The papers on these two cards are from the packaging in the new Sweet Nothings acetates by Papermania, resourceful or what!?! Die cuts are Quickutz and Cuttlebug.

Paper on this one is Under The Boardwalk from Daisy Bucket and the stamp is by Anita's and is one of the first stamp I ever bought and I still love it.

Now for my favourite bit...................adding inserts and packaging the cards *yawn!*

Take care.

Baby cards

Good mornng.
DH reminded me last night that there were only two baby cards left in the box he takes to work and one of his collegues wife is due to have a baby any day so I st to and made some more. I finally finished them at 1.55 this morning!! and was up again at 7 so I am shattered.
If you're sitting comfortably I will begin!
Teddy is cut from self adhesive Vivelle using the Accucut Huggable, Loveable Bear and Sleepytime. Paper and card are from my offcut box (it isn't going down any!) Blue card is embossing using the Cuttlebug Paisley folder and the sentiment is a sticker from a MAMBI sheet. Ribbon is from Ribbon Oasis

As above but the greeting this time is a peel off. I found a new unused sheet amongst some papers so I have no idea where they came from as I can't remember where I got them. They are not something I usually use but these tiny ones are quite nice.

Paper is again from the offcut box but I believe it is from one of the 6x6 Making Memories pads. Flowers, ribbon and the feet are from my stash and the sentiment is computer generated.

Papers this time are K & Co and Doodlebug, ribbon from Ribbon Oasis and everything else is from my stash.

Recipe as above but this time I think the pink stripey paper might be Blonde Moments but I won't swear to it. ;)

Papers this time are Pink Petticoat

I think the stripey paper on this one is from an old Papermania mini album kit. Everything else is from my goody box (or should that be room)

This card is just using pale blue pearlescent card as the mount. everything else as above.

Thanks for taking the time to look. Back soon.

It's February already

How on earth did that happen? I'm sure someone has put the calendar on fast forward!!!

I actually managed a challenge from Just Bex yesterday morning. I had to make some baby cards for the shop and when I went to check out the forum, two of them fitted Nicky's brief!! Scalloped edges are SO very in, darling, so to cash in on the trend, for this challenge you need to make a card featuring a scalloped edge somewhere. You could use appropriate scissors, or scalloped punch, or any kind of die cutter, but if you haven't got any of those, you could always draw some scallops and cut round them (so no excuse for not entering.) I've just noticed that six of my cards fit the challenge :)

All my scallops were cut with punches, embossing was done using various Cuttlebug embossing folders, papers and card were from my offcuts box (so I've not idea what most of them are!) die cuts are a mix of Cuttlebug, Quickutz and Sizzix, flowers are Prima and the other bits were all from my stash :)

No more crafting till tomorrow evening (apart from finishing off a set of wedding stationery). I've just bought another Pink Petticoat cd which is urging me to use it so tomorrow I will play!

I have a couple of appointments today (but they are coming to me so I don't have to go out). I do need to go and get dressed though LOL

Tomorrow I have a wedding fayre at a new (to me) venue so if anyone is thinking of getting married and fancies an amble round a lovely hotel then we are at Hellaby Hall near Rotherham.

TTFN and thanks for looking :)

Isn't she lovely......

.....and you will soon see what I mean if you can stay awake till the end of this post.

I spent most of yesterday outside so only got round to making my card for Keryn's challenge over at the DCM blog and I only realised about an hour ago that I hadn't blogged it. Better late than never.

I know you've all got buttons stashed away somewhere, whether they've been purchased at a cardmaking store or you thriftily snipped them off DH's old shirt. I'd like you to find those buttons and use them somewhere on a card. They can be real buttons, craft shop buttons, die cut buttons, faux buttons or another type of button, surprise us all.

Papers are by K & Co, 'ric rac' is from the Paper Frills sets by Doodlebug, flowers are from a kit I bought from the Scrummy Stash Cafe, the button is by Papermania and the ribbon is from stash.

Ok so now to today's work. I am still playing catch up but think I must be almost there. The following card is on I made for DH to give to the couple whose wedding he is DJing at tonight.

The colours of their wedding was black, white and cerise and this is what I came up with.

So, onto more challenges from Just Bex

Friday Night Challenge 24th August -Monogram Madness

Your challenge is to make a card and include a monogram of any size. Remember 1 point will be awarded and team challengers are always on the lookout to award bonus points too Remember new work only ladies

Paper is from Pink Petticoat and K & Co, H is embossed using one of my new Cuttlebug embossing folders from Top Topper Shop ribbon is from Ribbon Oasis flowers are an assortment of Primas and Aunt Sarah's and gretting is rub ons by Doodlebug.

Challenge 15 - All Stitched Up

Your Challenge should you chose to accept it is to create a card or a layout using stitching...this can either be hand or machine but NO doodles!

This is a first for me. I have never ever machine stitched on a card before and it is only the second time I've used my sewing machine!
Paper is Swirly Doodle Pink by Kelly Panacci for Sandylion, It's a Girl and baby dress were cut on the Cricut and were an RAK from my friend Andrea and the little silver feet charm was from Crafts By Carolyn.
Challenge 12 - Easy as 1, 2, 3
we need you to make a CARD or a LO with BIG NUMBERS

Papers are Doodlebug and K & Co. I think there is a definite trend here :)

And my final one tonight is a challenge from Last month. I really wanted to do this one before we went away and printed the photo in readiness. It laid on my desk until this afternoon. I can't find the challenge it was from but I will post the page anyway!

Papers again are K & Co, ribbon is from Ribbon Oasis flowers are a mixture of Primas and Papermania and the pink pearl brad is by Papermania.

It is now past my bed time and I still need to upload my piccies onto the forum. I'm going to my mum and dad's tomorrow so please don't expect too much work wise.

Till next time xx

Cute cards!

The DCM have just announced the dare for this week and it has spurred me into using a new Cuttlebug embossing folder for the first time. I just loved this folder as soon as I saw it on the Oyster Stamps web site but when it came I wasn't sure what to do with it as it is C6 size. Anyway, back to the task in hand, the dare.....this is the instruction for this week:-

Well, this week the Design Team have come up with this idea for you to play with, we hope you'll enjoy it.
TEXT...
definition... the main body of matter in a book or manuscript. the actual wording of anything written or printed, short passage of scripture, etc
We'd like you to somehow incorporate text into your cards this week - not just one word.. but a portion of TEXT... like a poem, or newspaper print, Caligraphy, Even rip up an old text book and use some of the paper from it, there are masses of possibilities here, so let your imaginations run riot and let us see you texting to your heart's content!

and here are my cards, yep that's right, I made two :) (I always make baby cards in pairs, one boy and one girl, and sometimes a twins one too.)

The folder is embossed onto Bazzil card and mounted on a sheet from the Small Wonders mat pad by Brenda Walton. The silver ABC charms tied on the ribbon is from CBC the flowers were from ebay and the brad in the centre is a pink pearl brad by Papermania.

Again the embossed card is Bazzil mounted this time onto card from the Small Wonders Boy mat pad. The silver shoe charm, gingham ribbon and buttons are all from the Crafts By Carolyn shop.

If anyone is going abroad this weekend is there any chance you could fetch us some sunshine back please. This weather is so grim and depressing. We were so hacked off the other night, we booked our holiday for next year! We are going to Cornwall for two weeks on 2nd August and I have a sneaky feeling that we won't be spending much time on the beach!

Message for Kathy B......we have booked to go back to Zakynthos for two weeks from the 5th August next year. :))

New CJ

I didn't get the chance to blog yesterday as we had no internet connection all day. It finally came back at about 11 pm. We have cable broadband and apparently it was something to do with the flooding in the area. Bit of a pain in the bum really, especially when you run an internet based business from home!
I just thought I would add photos of my new Circle Journal which has now started doing it's rounds in the groups on the Just Bex forum I just love doing these. There are some awesome crafters out there and it is wonderfuls to see all the different interpretations on your subject. We have also done another one on the CBC forum That one actually comes home next week and I'm really looking forward to getting it back

Front and back coversMy welcome page and rules

My DLO
and finally my sign in pages.

Here are a couple of ordered cards from last week.

Bye for now.