Funky Friday

I'm playing a little bit of catch up now having just spent a wonderful relaxing week in Cornwall (although it seems a long time ago) and we just got back last night. We were very lucky with the weather. We only had one really sunny day but we only had the rain overnight on Friday so we managed to get out and about every day, except for Monday when I stayed in to catch up with my accounts (sad or what!) This was last years accounts though so you can see why I had to get them done lol.


Anyway, on with my Funky Friday card.

The papers, Hey There Baby and Hey Baby Girl, and the images which are both digistamps on the cd, are all taken from the new Funky Hand cd, Wishes and Kisses and I just added a little bow to the hot water bottle and some pink pearls to the corners.


Don't forget that the Get Funky! challenge finishes today and the new one starts on Sunday with me as the host for July. I look forward to having you join in with us.


Thanks for looking.

Secret Crafter

have Get Well cards as their subject this week which is very handy as my dad isn't well :) He had a hip replacement on Wednesday and this is the card I made him

 The sketch is from Papertake Weekly, papers are from my box of bits and pieces and the images were sent to me by a friend so I'm not sure where it came from. It made him smile anyway :)
Thanks for looking :)

Papertake Weekly

Dawny's sketch #15 and another card for the Wet, Wet, Wet (who I have seen in concert about 6 times ;)) DCM challenge

I love this little duck stamp but only ever seem to use him on get well cards! I've had him for about three years now and think he came from Dimension Fourth. He is coloured with Promarkers and mounted onto yellow and dark green card. The brown spotty paper is another from Patti Picklicious.

An assortment

......of cards including a couple I made last week off my to do list.

This card is 8" x 8" and was for one of DH's collegues who is taking early retirement next month. The brief for this card had me a bit befuddled as I was told that 'he works for a rail company and is an avid collector of train sets, he collects stamps and has a silly sense of humour!' So....DH found the stamps, I found the Sooty and the train is Cuttlebug!!!

I love these images of the Flippin Men and Women. I don't have any women yet but I've had a few of these men for several months now and this is the first one I've used! I used the large X Cut oval to cut the aperture in the card and added the image to acetate before fixing it into the card. The wicket sentiment was part of the sheet and I just added the 'hill' saying, 50 and Quickutz stumps so it made for quite a quick card. The card was actually for BiL's birthday on Monday.

The patterned paper is again from Kirsty's freebies, I've had the image for years (it was stamped by a friend and I found it in a drawer!) and the card candy/jingle bells are from Craftwork Cards

Another Grab a Doodle Do download coloured with Promarkers.

More of Kirsty's paper! Image and sentiment as before but there's more deliciousness in my next post ;)).

2 Sketches 4 You

This week it was Kazan's turn to upload the sketch on the 2 Sketches blog last Monday (I know, I'm late again!)

The stamp was a freebie from a magazine stamped with black Versamark and coloured with ProMarkers. I added Diamond Glaze to his nose and heart to give it a bit of dimension! (This card also fits the new DCM dare but as I made it yesterday I shall be honest and make a new one. Not hard as I have to make some more Valentine cards for one of my shops!) The ribbon isn't striped it is a pice of red tied together with a piece of black. They are both from my stash. The strips of paper are Basic Grey paisley but I don't know which collection it's from!

A friend has had a foot op and is housebound for a while so I thought I would make her a card to cheer her up and this is what I came up with.

The scalloped card is from Craftwork Cards the 'pot and pouffe' were hand cut and took blooming ages :) I cut two rectangles for the pouffe and pleated the piece for the frill, attached it with DS tape and ran a piece of velvet ribbon across the middle to hide the join. The paper is K & Co. The 'pot' was made by cutting a foot from scrap card and wrapping it with strips of copier paper. I added a few diamantes for a bit of bling and the sentiment was printed directly onto the card.

I had better get some more catching up done now :)

Secret Crafter's

Saturday challenge #13 and my first one of the year.

I needed a get well card for my ex MIL as she had not one but 2 heart attacks last week!! (Ex's family are really going through the mill at the mo - it was Florence's funeral on Friday!)

Anyway, the template is another good one so I decided to give it a try :)

The striped paper is Je T'aime My Mind's Eye and has to be one of my all time favourite papers (so I only use bits at a time :)) The stamp is one from Imaginisce Snag 'Em stamps that I bought a couple of months ago but have only just showed it an ink pad LOL and the punched butterfly is using a beautiful glitter card from my latest design kit by Debbi Moore, take a look, it is gorgeous!!

I also needed a quick card on Friday as we made a donation to the hospital who looked after Florence and this is what I came up with, it was a very difficult card to make!

The stamp is again from my design kit and everything else was from my 'left overs' box-I am detemined to empty it this year!!!
I'm now finishing my DT cards so I can get them in the post tomorrow.

See you later :)