Card sketches

Challenge time again over on the ICS blog and we have another one of Dawn's great sketches.

I'm afraid I don't know where the image came from, but if you do then please let me know so I can credit the artist properly. I coloured the iomage with my trusty Promarkers and added gems to the centre of the flowers. Papers are from Stampin Up and my scrap box and the sentiment is a Crate Paper rub on. I really need to source more of these as I love them and my previous supplier has stopped selling them :(

I am working on a commissioned album at the moment and thought I would also use this week's sketch for one of the pages too. It's not something I've done before but am pleased with the page!

Papers are from Making Cards magazine (they seem to be lasting for ever as I used them on quite a few Father's Day cards too) and Pink Petticoat, the flowers are eline from Prima and the ribbon is from my stash.

Anyway, thanks for looking and I hope you take the time to join in with us this week :)

Sketch Saturday

sketch #63
Image - Skateboarding Ian from The Greeting Farm coloured with PMs
Papers - Daisy Bucket and Hot off the press
Card candy - Craftwork Cards
Sentiment - Rub on by Crate
Brads from stash

Dare you to...

....Digi Stamp is a relatively new Friday challenge blog but brand new to me. I found it last night via Sally-Ann's blog and as I had just printed off one of her downloads to make more Father's Day cards I thought I would enter. The Dare You team try to encourage the use of digi papers too, which I haven't used this time but as I've got hundreds ;) it won't be a problem! So here are three cards I made this morning

I also used the sketch from last week on two of my cards.

I've used an assortment of off cuts such as Crate Paper's Seaweed and Baby Bee, the wave paper is by Creative Imaginations. Ribbons are all from Ribbon Oasis and everything else is from my stash.

Kathy's Waffle

Sketch 2009 #8 lends itself perfectly to flowers or lollipops but I decided to do a mixture of both (just to be awkward) and made lollies that look like flowers :)
The daisy paper, on the large scalloped circle, is left over from the Patti Paper I used earlier in the week, the yellow card is from my scrap box, the green squiggle paper is left over from when I first printed a piece of Kirsty's last freebie and the main piece of green is the reverse of a sheet of stripey paper by Crate Paper. The stems/sticks are Doodlebug Paper Frills and the wording is a rub on by MSE. The Flollies ( x between flowers and lollies remember - just humour me LOL) were cut using my new circle Nesties.

Thanks for another lovely sketch Kathy :)

My card also fits in with the challenge on Stamp Something this week which is Now, on to another fun challenge! This week we want to see your Happy Easter Somethings. We realize that not everyone celebrates Easter, so please feel free to make just a Happy Something. Anything that says Happy or Happy Easter will do for this challenge!

TFL

Happy Birthday to me!!

...........and a lovely day it's been too. I got some new crocs and an A3 cutting mat off DH (and my trip to New York next week ;)), a craft tote off the kids, some fabby pressies of a very special friend, another good friend owns a hair and nail boutique and she did my hair for me this afternoon as my pressie and I got some lovely dosh which I am going to change into dollars to take to NY next week :) Have I mentioned we go to New York in 10 days? LOL We have also been for an 'All you can eat' Chinese buffet this evening and I am totally stuffed!!

Happy birthday also to Purplepenguin (my forum twinnie), Prince Edward and Sharon Stone.......you can see Ms Stone and I are twins just by looking at us although we're not quite identical, slightly different shaped. LOL

I just finished and posted my samples for Debbi Moore and used one of Kathy's sketches for a quick and simple card.
Materials used are as follows
green card from Crate and Bazzill Bling
Floral glitter card and stamp from Debbi Moore
Lace and gingham ribbon from stash

Rosie-Dee's

Challenge week 21 posted by Rosie

My challenge this week is to use up some scraps. I, for one, are in a real scrap splurge kind of mood at the mo, so I want to see what you can make with yours.

The pink and yellow card along with the Crate paper are all off cuts, the flowers, ribbon and diamantes as before and the sentiment is a rub on by MSE. The edge of the card was embossed again using one of the Cuttlebug border embossing folders.

Teen spirit!

These two cards have been ordered but I thought that they fitted nicely with Rachel's first dare over at the Daring Cardmaker's blog

Now, this week it's Rachel's first time to set the dare;"Well I thought we have had plenty of flowers and hearts and girly things so I would like some cards with some teen spirit please."Quite a first challenge ! Thanks Rachel !

I just love this paper! It is Zach's Life collection from the Little Yellow Bicycle. It was among my order from Craft Obsessions which arrived this morning. Great timing David, thank you! :) The image is one of the Paper Nation stamps coloured with paints from the Works, the ribbon is from Ribbon Oasis and the brads are from Crafts By Carolyn

The papers this time are by Pink Petticoat and Twirl by Crate Paper. The stamp is City Devine by Penny Black and the greeting is from a kit DH bought me for Christmas the year before last from Craftwork Cards......I lost them and then found them while I was tidying a drawer! Sound familiar? LOL

I'm off to bed now but will be back tomorrow. XX

Sunday, Sunday

It's been a really good today. I've made two cards, a box for one of them and also been out for lunch with all my family (parents, sister and brother etc). The weather was nice for us and the food was gorgeous.

Unfortunately one of the cards was a sympathy card. One of my friends husband lost his mum on Thursday evening so it was for them. She was ninety last August and until she went into hospital about five weeks ago she lived alone in her own house and looked after herself. Here is the card I made. I do try to stay away from black for sympathy cards unless it is specifically asked for.

The next card I made for a friend to give to a friend of hers. She will be 60 soon!!

It's difficult to show but it is actually an acetate card. If anyone has any tips on photographing acetate I will definately welcome them. I made the actual card from Crate Twirl collection (which I love)! I then fastened the card inside an acetate sleeve with Papermania pearl brads. The flowers are Prima, Papermania and the large one is from Dunelm. The front tucks into the flap at the bottom of the card. I cheated with the box............I put together a bought one and decorated it!I have two birthday club cards to make and 30 wedding invitations tomorrow so not too strenuous. Also tomorrow we are going for an all you can eat Chinese buffet. It is absolutely superb and at £4.99 a head it would be rude not to! LOL DD2 is cooking at school tomorrow, she is making a meat pie (Tuesday's tea) which means I don't have the dreaded task of thinking what to have for tea until Wednesday................I could get used to this!!!

Bye for now. xx

My song was...........

.........Baby It's Cold Outside by Tom Jones and Cerys Matthews! Well done Deb, if you would like to email me with your details, I will put together a little something as you were the only one to get it right!

It is just a quick one today as I am about to take DD2 to town (I hate town at the best of times but just before Christmas........bleugh!! lol)

This was the card I made hubby for our anniversary last week.

Sorry about the wonky scan! Papers and hearts were Je T'Aime by My Minds Eye (I just love this paper) and Crate Baby Bee, the heart were cut with a large Sizzix die, velvet ric rac is from Ribbon Oasis and the greetings were done on the PC. Fonts used were Marnie Regular and Stylistic SF.

BFN xx

Another LO

I'm getting into this scrapping lark big style. It's probably not a bad thing for two reasons. One is that I have so much stuff to use up it will help stock deplete a bit faster (then I can justify buying new stuff even more) and the second reason is that my wedding album might stand a bit more chance of getting more than three pages in it :))
These instuctions were for a new comp over at Just Bex. If you've got a spare couple of hours, why not pop over and say hello. You will made to feel very welcome :)
FOR this COMPETITION we need you to use all or part of this colour palette and create a SUPER LO I found some really pretty (well I think they are!) photos of my pretty flowers in my garden and these colours lend themselves really well to this project.

Materials used are as follows: backing card is from Crate Paper Baby Bee Collection, photos mounted onto small mat stack earth tones by DCWV, large flower ribbon slider brad from A Card 4 U yellow dotty ribbon from one of the mini kits by Ribbon Oasis, daisies from Mad About Cards, Primas from Craft Obsessions. Words cut with Curly Gurlie alphabet.

Enjoy the rest of your evening.