Happy Birthday....

Crafting Muskateers. Another month has passed us by in a flash and it's May already! It's also time for the Crafting Muskateers new challenge and we are celebrating our first birthday....where has the last year gone!?!.So onto the challenge which this month is sponsored by Katie Sue Designs.
This is their prize for the winner 

For our birthday celebration , we will be doing our usual prize for the winner, but also there will be small mystery prizes for the top 3. 

The top 3 will also have the chance to be guest designers with us, with us along with the winner.

So, the challenge for this month is "anything but a square" and this is my card

 I used a Nestabilities Grand Decorative Oval die #1 for the card blank, Mr & Mrs stamps by Woodware, hand rolled flowers, silver mirri card and white satin ribbon. My card was part of an order and this is the matching keepsake box I made....

using the same hand rolled roses, die cut leaves and white satin ribbon. My client loved it. :)

I hope you are enjoying the lovely sunshine we are having in the UK at the moment. 

Back soon, take care xx

Passion

For Promarkers have 'pink birthdays' as their theme for this week and it just so happened that yesterday was the birthday of a very special friend of mine and I made her a pink card. I bought a kit from Create and Craft a couple of months ago, this being the first I've ever bought and is probably be the last. The quality of the card is lovely, as are the colours but I just can't get my head round using a kit...I feel a bit of a fraud lol This is what was in the kit, note that there are no envelopes!!!

 and this is what I did with it

My chocolate and strawberry cake image is from Sassy Cheryl and is coloured with Promarkers, the verse is one I've had for ages, the flowers are Prima, sentiment is from Craftwork Cards and the ribbon and gems are from my stash. I used a Martha Stewart punch to edge the 'support bar' at the bottom. Annette liked it and the little gift card with her prezzie :)

Thanks for looking, back soon.

ICS #57

Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me.....21 again and I don't look a day over 20 :)) I've had a hectic day (so what's new!) and have been to the all you can eat Chinese buffet for tea and am still stuffed lol

The ICS sketch is up this week and we are being sponsored be The Stamping Boutique 

 

with a fabulous prize of 3 of the rubber "Cynthia" stamps or 5 digis....the choice is yours. How great is that!

We were late getting the images this week so as most of us had already made cards, Dawn posted them both. Just how cool is that.

Image coloured with Promarkers, paper - Doodlebug and sentiment from Craftwork cards.

Image is from The Digi Stamp Boutique sentiment is a rub on, everything else is from my stash.

Thanks for looking :)

Rosie-Dee's

It's that time again....it doesn't seem two minutes since the last challenge yet it has been a fortnight! It's Brenda's turn this month to set the challenges and she has chosen "Think Spring" as her theme (and I am sat in the most brilliant sunshine while I'm writing this). The challenge this week is sponsored by Sir Stampalot.

Now for a sneaky peek at my project (I can't call it a card cos it isn't :)) which was commissioned for a lady's 80th birthday on Wednesday. She shares my birthday but she is ever so slightly older than me lol

So.....why not hop over to RosieDee's and take a look at the fabulous DT cards....and maybe join in and play with us :)

I'll be back later with some more of Carolyn's challenges

TFL

Di Hickman's

Can you tell I'm avoiding work? LOL I'm not really, I'm waiting for some bits to dry. I did have a couple of hours this morning though where I got the urge to make 'ordinary cards' so I thought I would have a little dabble with some challenges :) I started off with Di's Card sketch April #3

Papers used are Baby Bee by Crate, flowers by Prima finished with a gold birthday rub on.

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

Challenge 12

Sub title - Scissor sisters card challenge! Okay Ladies root around and dust off those scalloped or zig zag scissors...yep this challenge is to produce a card using your decorative edged scissors.