Bon voyage to a favourite teacher

My son has asked for a card for one of his business teachers , who is a favourite of his, as she is leaving at the end of term to go live in Canada where her husband originates from. He asked for a large card and intends taking it for all the class to sign, sound alot but I think theres only 6 or 8 of them in total, A level classes are much better sizes than O'level or whatever they call them these days.

He chose the image and asked for it to be done in Canadian flag colours, not sure if he knew what they were but he soon will. The image he chose was 'fly away' a Sassy stamp from Sugar Nellie, I think she may well be one of my favourites. I coloured her with Promarkers and added hihlights such as her eyes , sparkle on her skirt and buttons with sakura glaze pens.

The papers are stamped with a fab stamp from Rainbow craft studios and its called twirly daisy background. You can see it used more by the DT at Creative craft challenges along with another of their background stamps too. If you like whimsy twee and twirly pop along to their site , you'll love it.

Th ribbon is from my stash and I'm really proud of my cute hand tied bows which I attached with diamond glaze. The flowers are daisy punched from copy paper and the smaller coloured with the same promarker as the girls dress and the flat back pearls are from hobby craft.

The sentiment I had to hand write as my son wanted something I don't have in rubber and he asked me to leave the computer before I could print out a sentiment, I'm on a different computer without a printer, I really will have to get this one linked up (I really mean will have to ask hubby to). I took 3 different pics of the card as I'm not sure about adding a bow to the sentiment and if so what position so please let me know what you think as I do value all your opinions.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:-
The sugar bowl-layout optional summer
Just some lines-spotty dotty
Deep ocean-flowers
The cheerful stamp pad-thinks with wings
Cupcake inspirations-photo
for fun challenges-2 ribbons,2 colours,1 sentiment and 1 image
scrapbook sisters-anything goes
crafty sentiments-monochromatic
crafty purple frog-swirls and pearls(hope my swirly flower stems will count)
Charisma-white plus 1
Crafts and me-stitching (around my sentiment)
RRR-hand written sentiment
stampin for the weekend-my fav things-love sugar nellie sassy girls, and daisies are my all time fav flower.)

A commisioned card

Now most of my commisioned cards are actually for my mum so as I know most of the people she sends card to I actually find it fairly easy to make them as I can relate to the person the card is for. I never realised how hard I would find it making for someone else. Hubby came home and said one of his coloeagues wanted a card for a 21st for a male friend of one of their daughters. I asked if there was anything in particular that had been asked for and was told well he's into rock.

How hard did I find this. I started with an image I recently chose from a prize from the stamping boutique and as I had a DCWV rockstar paper pack figured that would be a good starting point. I chose which paper to use and took inspiration for the card shape from one of the other papers. I tried to keep to similar colours for my image which I coloured using Promarkers and sakura glaze pens , well a rock guitar has to be shiny. I also added dots of glitter glaze to the background and coloured the spotlight in glitter glaze too.

Now this is where I became unsure of myself the sentiment. I decided to keep with the star theme and cut one from silver card , mirri didn't look right it sort of stuck out like a sherriffs badge so went for matt. I stamped in blue ink and as I couldn't fit 'today' on cut that out separately. I embossed over the top of both with moonglow magic pearls powder and stuck onto the card with sticky pads. I think its ok and looks better from a distance. Just hope she likes it fingers crossed. Will let you know the verdict when hubby takes it in to work.

Edit;- hubby said the lady who ordered it thought it was great and said the boy on the card was just like the guy it was for, so I was really pleased, think hubby may have pocketed the pennies though, but never mind I'll just spend them on the internet.

I would like to enter this card into the folloing challenges:-
cards for men-stars
Kreative stempel friends-birthday
Crafty creations-letit shine
Little darlings-fav colour combo (I love blue and brown together)
I love Promarkers-anything goes
scrapbook sisters-anything goes
sisterhood of crafters-male themed anniversary/birthday

Fly the flag

Another wednesday brings another challenge from Penny's and as many of the team including our illustrious leader is based in the USA they are geering up for July 4th and so our theme this time is Red White and Blue.

Now it doesn't have to be a 4th July celebration card but just that colour scheme.

Another fab sponsor with Robin's Fetish and we were given some fab images to play with so please do check out the other DTY members cards you'll be stunned by what they came up with.

For my card I used the cute teddy and coloured with my promarkers. I decided to have a change and used some red textured card for my base and simply added some matching ribbon and buttons. I think it will make a fab card for one of my nephews.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:-
EAC-anything goes
Passion for promarkers-'park life' I think this ted will have fun sailing his boat in the park
Die cut dreams-red white and blue
Speedy cats friends-buttons
Meljen -red white and blue
Rainbow lady-I am sailing
scrappy frog-red
creative inspiration paint-bright colours
daisy doodles-stars and stripe
Happileigh scrappin-bright colours

Creative craft challenges and a new sponsor

Morning peeps and time for a supernew challenge at Creative Craft challenges and lets hope Mr Blogger lets us keep this one and doesn't celete it like many of our others.

On to the challenge well we have a super doozy for you all to get your teeth into this time,

MAKE YOUR OWN BACKING PAPERS.

Wow ... a bit like an open challenge but you have to be inventive too. Now loads of options here, you can stamp your opwn background, you could dry emboss it, you could paint it, you could do a tissue paper and glue sandwich, you could do encaustic so many to choose from the list is endless. Can't wait to see what you all choose to do.

Now onto our sponsors,

firstly we have some odd girl who are giving the lucky winner the chance to use some of their fab digi's for a taste of what you might win pop along here and have a nosey around the store. Some odd girl were also kind enough to let us have our choice of digi to play with.


An extra bonus this time too as Mr Blogger sort of messed up our last challenge, Sandra decided that she would carry over the crafty individuals prize from last time as an extra prize for this time too.

Our next sponsor is our newest sponsor and we are so pleased they have chosen to sponsor our challenge. They are

Rainbow craft Studios are a relatively new British company who make fab acrylic 'twee and twirly' design stamps. They are adding to their collection all the time and have quite a wide choice already. The company is run by two lovely ladies  Angela and Rachel, brought together by the blossoming romance of their 6 year old offspring and the rest as they say is history. If you haven't found them before please pop along and have a nosey well worth it. You can find them here. They also have free P+P on all UK orders so the price you see is what you pay no hidden extras.

Now rainbow craft studios let us have a play with a couple of their images in fact the same stamps that are the prize they have given us for the lucky winner, not one but 2 fab stamps.

The top 1 of the top 3 chosen by Sandra will get a wee goody bag from her.

Now I best tell and show you the things I made only fair .

My first card I made using the some odd girl image I was give Robo love well I think that's what it's called. I decided to have a play with the image and make my background paper from part of the image that I messed about with in photoshop. I thought the little heart was just so cute and would make the perfect backdrop for the cute robot. I coloured all in Promarkers and then added a computer printed sentiment. I think it would make a fab anniversary card or even thinking well in advance valentines card or even just because I love you card, fun anyway.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:-

Cupcake craft challenge-layout

I love promarkers-black white and 1 other

Ladybug challenge-use red

scrappy frog-use red

hooked on craft-anything goes

My second card I made with the fab stamps from Rainbow craft studios. Unfortunately I needed a sympathy card so I decided to use them for that but when you see the rest of the DT projects it will only show you the versatility of these fab background stamps. You'll never want to buy flowery paper again.

My card I stamped with versamark and powder embossed with obsidian violet moonglow powder. I simply mounted one on top of the other and added black ribbon and a bow. The card is edged with black promarker. The sentiment is from a set by the darkroom.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:-

There she goes-use 3 different stamps

Heart song inspiration-use a flower image/or handmade flowers
A spoonful of sugar-ribbon and bows
my time to craft-xtra images
whoopsi daisy-flowers
the crrosive challenge-ribbon and bows
House of gilli-ribbon and bows

The monster mash

Another 'not get well' but cheer you up card (see previous post for full explanation). This one I used a collection of monsters from a collection of designers and some that I'm not actually sure where they came from, but once I coloured them all in with a mix of promarkers and sakura glaze pens, and cut them out I'm sure they will resemble at least one of the teams of workers that will want to send their cheerful wishes. Can't really say get well wishes and not sure what else to call them.

The 'thinking of you I stamped using I think a papermania stamp set of individual letters using brilliance ink and infilled with sakura metallic pens.

Hope it does the trick and raises his spirits if only a little, I'm sure he will enjoy putting names to faces so to speak.

Here is a closer look at my monsters:-

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:-

Alphabet challenge-G for get well (hope this counts as the person its for can't get well but still needs cheering up)
2 sisters-for a guy
Just add ink-add some colouring
For fun challenges-summer fun or bright colours
Paper playtime -z fold card
Here come the boys-myth and magic
MAWTT-song inspired (the monster mash no idea who its by)
Crafty catz-fancy folds
Lollipop -inspired by a song

Anniversary magic

Hi all wow how time just flies by and that must mean another sunday challenge from the One Stitch at a Time team.

This time I suspect as many of us are making summery cards that we will have loads of entries as our challenge is THINGS WITH WINGS. I don't mean that your projects have to have bugs on but they could be birds, planes, fairies, bats (do you think batman would count) well you get the idea.

For my card I got to play with a fab Floppy Latte image which if you want to play with it too you can find here along with lots of other beauties too. The image is so strong it took me a while to decide what I would do with it, I hummed and arred about adding colour to the background like a sunset or dusk but wasn't sure I would do the image justice so in the end I simply went over it with clear sakura glaze pen and added some sparkle to the wings.

I used it to make an anniversary card for some friends and decided to keep to the monochrome with a touch of silver. The flowers are made from punched daisies with liquid pearl centres and the butterfly is 3 peel-offs stuck together for dimension. The sentiment is also a peel-off. I am really pleased at how it turned out, have to say I do love the simple look style.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:-
Simply Create-wings
St Lukes charity challenge-anything that flies
Sarah Hurley-handmade flowers
Paper pretties-single layer card
Stampavie and more-butterflies
One stop craft challenge-stickers
CES-sparkly flowers
Sweet stampin-things with wings
Totally gorjuss-pearls and swirls
Delicious doodles-things a flutter
Phindys place-black and white
The stampman-butterflies and dragonflies

Tender loving care

You will probably tell as you read this that I have sort of muddled up the order that I have put my posts in  but just adds to the fun of confusion.

This is the second of several I have been asked to make for a friend my hubby works with and whom my son spent alot of time with when on work experience a couple of years ago.He has been under the weather so to speak with lots of niggling symptoms that no-one added together until recently and last week was told he has an uncommon form of non hodgkins lymphoma which even when treated with chemo etc has a nasty habit of returning quickly and with greater aggressive resistence and severity. This means that he has effectively been given a time limit on his life and it is likely to be less than a couple of years, which as he is in his early 50's with 2 teenage children makes you think!

PLEASE SEE PREVIOUS POST IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO CHEER HIM ALONG.

My hubby has told all the departments that this very gentle man works with that I will make them a card for him, hubby thought it would be nicer to have several smaller cards than 1 large( so there will be more in the pipeline probably over the next few days) as they will brighten his hospital room which by all accounts he will be in a great deal of the time over the next 6 months. My dilema was and is what kind of card do you give to a man to cheer them up when they have this kind of prognosis, I could hardly put 'Get well soon' as this isn't going to happen so for all of them I have and will be using 'thinking of you' as I know his work colleagues and friends will be.

For the first card I have used this super cute dog called Macbeth from funky kits, although have to say I think if I gave him a pom-pom cotton wool tail he would make the cutest rabbit too. I think he looks so cute and caring giving his plant the tender loving protection of a hug as if he has grown something so beautiful from seed for the hazy days of summer.

I decided to go with a clean and simple style , lots of straight lines and sharpe angles and vivid colours for highlights. The image is coloured with promarkers and the plaid papers I printed from the boys to men cd from ooh lalal. The neon green paper is from my stash and the string is unravelled cotton garden twine which I thought appropriate.The sentiment is from a 'the darkroom' set and is stamped in bottle green dye ink and simply mounted on matt gold card.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:-
For fun challenges-summer
addicted to stamps-summertime
ECP-colour challenge
Deconstucted sketch-layout
Shellys-boys/men
4 crafty chicks-get well(I know its not get wellas such but hope you understand given the circumstances that its for the same reason)
Allways something creative-early summer
Crazy 4 challenges-use string ,twine or floss
By the cute and girly-in the garden
Timbroscrapmania-in the garden

Just a thought could you help CARD DRIVE?

Just decided to rewrite this post as I had a thought, I know there are always requests for cards to be sent to children with debilitating conditions and I whole heartedly try to send a card to each one though sometimes when there is a time limit I fail, and I also have sent cards to card cupids and pen pals and for the local children's hospice as I think they are all fab and after nursing children know what an affect a card can have even if from a total stranger. 

Here's my plee  please please please would anyone like to make a card and send it to this lovely man who is going to have an arduous time over the coming months in the fight to extend his life by a few months a couple of years at most.

If anyone could see there way to spending a few minutes well maybe a little more to making a card to help keep this lovely mans spirits up as apparently depression is very common with this type of cancer , not surprising really as it is a definite death sentence you can email me and I will send you his first name and my address and we can get the cards passed on to him. I'm sure he would be totally overwhelmed to know that there are many who care enough to send him a card as his personal family life has had more downs than up over the last few years and this must really seem like the last straw to him.

For any who don't regularly read my blog welcome and you can read my original post here or I'll give you a bit more info here. This friend and work colleague of my hubby's in his early 50's and has had many small health issues over the last couple of years all of which have been explained away as individual problems or due to stress (from his family situation). Recently after a full check up he was found to have mantel cell lymphoma stage 4 , you can find loads about it on the web if you want to know more. This man is so quiet and gentle in personality that you can imagine it is a real blow to know the prognosis he has and so this is why I thought the wonderful blogland crafters will help keep his spirits high. I will put a reminder on my sidebar and as I have updates on his condition I will let you know but there is no time limit to sending cards for him or restrictions on how many you can send either just anything to keep his spirits above depression.

I do understand that male cards many find hard and to make a card for someone you don't know is hard too along with you can't put get well on it as that is just not going to happen  just adds to the difficulty too, but I'm sure you will all rise to the challenge so to speak. I don't have anything to offer in return just my gratitude and the knowledge that you may be helping a very sick man stay positive and get through the treatments he will be enduring .

If you would like to send a card please just drop me an email and put 'cheerup card' in the subject box.

This is the last of the 3 hubby wanted for his colleague and this is the kind of nurse I really hope won't be on the ward he is on as she is enough to terrify everyone , I can only hope they are all the nice nurses returned from vacation.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:-

Stampinsanity-clean and simple
Southern girls challenge-anything goes
Top tip tuesday-open challenge
Whoopsi daisy-free and easy
creative inspiration-blue,green and 1 other (red)
if the shoe fits-for a man
Alphabet challenge-get well card
catch the bug-it's a mans world

Fab bag for a wee gift

My son didn't know what to get his Dad for father's day as he is the kind of man who if he wants something he goes and buys it.
My son decided under duress to have a walk around Hobby craft with me and he found a book on how to draw weapons and vehicles well must be a boy thing as he decided his dad would love it as he has bought himself a graphics tablet so my son says he will have some thing to practice drawing.

My prize for taking him to hobby craft mum I need a nice gift bag for it can you make one please.
Well I just so happen to have this Simply Sassy tutorial printed out for a cute wee gift bag and although I have already entered the tutorial challenge I think I might enter this bag too.

The tutorial is really easy to follow and I did change the colour scheme to make more masculine and used a sassy boy too The image is coloured with promarkers and the boy can be yours if you visit funky kits. The papers are all from my stash.

I would like to enter my bag into the following challenges:-
Simply Sassy tutorial challenge
Pear tree designs-fathers day
Papertake weekly-Dads and lads
Samual Taylors-male theme fab prize of

Fore!

Morning peeps, have to say I am expecting this morning to be a bit stressful as my son who loves the work at school but hates being bullied and being in his wheelchair all day , has to return after his Exam leave for another 4 weeks before breaking up for summer a week earlier than the rest of the school. He has already been saying for the past 3 days he is dreading it and we agreed he should practice getting up early, mum did son didn't, and yesterday was a struggle for 8:30 when he leaves for school at 8 am. Hopefully I am stressing about nothing and this morning will run like clockwork and have no stress.

Enough of my moaning sorry all not what you want to read especially so early in a morning, well early for me at 5:40am.
Quick update- worry about nothing once my son was up and the rain stopped and the sun tried to shine no stress thank goodness.

My card I share this morning with you I finished last night , another commission for a son who is into golf though apparently doesn't get to play that often, he has quite a lot of freckles so hopefully my colouring will do him justice, not tried freckles before.

I kept the card simple and used this fab Kenny K image which I coloured with my promarkers as usual. The golf ball is just a circle of copy paper which I used my fiskars shapeboss to add dimples to and the flag again is just copy paper coloured with Promarker and peel-offs added.The backing paper is from the boys to men CD I was lucky enough to win from Ooh La La a few weeks ago.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:-

Secret crafter-male card

Crazy 4 challenges-male card

CES- inspired by a movie (for some reason I think of 'the whole 9 yds'

DYSU-birthday

Craft us crazy-fathers day/or masculine colours or theme

Sew many challenges-male/fathers day

Paper play-fathers day/male card

Creative inspiration-fathers day/masculine

kenny K girls-favourite colours (I love teal, not sure if I can use male kenny K images if not let me know and I'll delete my entry)

The papervariety-male

Stampinsanity-male

Little Claires-cards for men

The sweet stop-layout

Sentimental sundays-fathers day/card for a man

creative sketches- colour challenge

Incy wincy-male card/ fathers day

Cupcake challenge#146-boy,oh boy, oh boy

Tag you're it!

Wow Sunday again and another fab challenge from OSAAT. Not quite as many entries but there is sure gonna be alot of celebration and fun this summer by the looks of the fab entries we had.
Pop over to the challenge site here and see if you were a lucky winner.

Now this week we are playing Tag! well not quite but I couldn't resit, the challebnge is called tag it and we want to see tags or projects with tags on or made from tags well you get the idea I'm sure.

Fab sponsor yet again the stamping boutique

and the lucky winner gets to choose 5 digi's of there choice and boy will you have a hard time choosing just 5.

Now back to the challenge, this time round I got to choose from Dezinaworld and decided I'd go vintage with one of these adorables which you can find here.
I decided to keep it simple and made a background from a daisy stamp, keyfan and some text, not that you can see much of them but it just softened the cream card. I added liquid pearls and bronze peel-offs to each corner and finished with beige satin ribbon. The image I distressed the edges and really wanted to focus on as it is so lovely and adorable .

I would like to enter this tag into the following challenges:-
Wee memories-anything goes
heart song inspired-anything goes/+ or use free digi
Shelly's images-show us what you got
EAC-distressing

scrunchy birthday

Morning all well it is as I start to write this post anyway, whether it will be when I publish is another matter.

I saw this fab tutorial on Sassy 's blog for scrunched flowers and decided to have a go, and I'm not sure it was meant to be but I did it anyway. Let me explain what I mean. The tutorial suggested you needed 3 different sized punch flowers, I had 2 different but went out and bought a third. I started to punch and all was well until I used one of my original punched the middle size and it broke , I tried all sorts but there is no way I could get it to punch so my flowers re made with large and very small flower punches, but I think they still look ok.

The flowers I randomly coloured with the same colour promarker I used for my sassy image boho chick which is available from funky kits, I know there is bits of white showing but I quite like it as I think it makes it look a bit tatty. They are held together with brads.

The rest of the card is fairly plain though I did use velvet ribbon and a small daisy ribbon for accents and an embossed happy birthday greeting as the card is for my niece from my mum, hope they both like it.


I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:-

Stamp something-use punches
Totally gorjuss-flower power
4 crafty chicks-handmade flowers
creative craft world-use 3 or more brads
Birthday sundaes-embossing wet or dry
sketch saturday-layout
simply sassy tutorial challenge-use one of the tutorials
passion for promarkers-pink and brown/blue and brown(does deep pink still count?)

Summer? what happened has it been and gone?

I know it's only the beginning of June and we need rain around here but where has summer gone and hail? Good job we can craft and have summer and there are so many summer challenges around too. This card is for one of my nieces and there will be more birthday cards to come as towards the end of June starts our birthday madness season in our family well one of them there's another towards the end of the year.

For this one I used one of my sassy girls that I've not yet inked up and she so reminds me of childhood summer days when we use to go bug hunting as a gang of children all with jam jars in hand, holes punched in the top so the bugs could breathe and fishing nets in hand, a competition to see who could catch most and never touch the wings or they'll die. Then at the end of the fun day all setting them free at once and if we were really lucky having at least a dozen or so butterflies to let go at once such a wonderful sight. Do kids still do things like that?

I decided to go with different colours ( like the huneysuckle I can see from my window) for me for a change just for fun and perhaps as the weather was dull too. The papers are from a kit I got from QVC not sure of the brand , the ribbon is from my stash as is the peel-off. The flowers were white but I coloured to match and thought gazinias would look perfect, well for the yellow/orange flowers the blue just because. The button centres are papermania and the butterfly I made from fantasy film. The image is coloured with promarkers of course.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:-
Auds sentiments-summer
Design dollies-colour challenge
crafts and me-stamp something
Little darlings-summer
The sugar bowl-layout
Creative card crew-wings
pile it on -summer heaven
crafty ho's-summer let the fun begin
cupcake inspirations-photo inspiration
the corrosive challenge-summer colours
creative cowgirls -summer fun
pear tree designs-summer delight
stamp and create-summer
paper pretties-summer

Hope its a good day for you all and thanks for popping by.

Boys will be boys ...

...whatever their age.

Good morning one and all and as I write the sky is clear blue and the sun is shining though we are forcast more heavy showers(that we really need) and my poor beautiful peonies are getting totally battered.

Another fortnight passed, where does time go, but that means time for another challenge at Penny's paper-crafty challenges. We had loads of entries for here comes summer, you are all so obviously looking forward to the sunshine we hope to get and Courtney is going to have one hard choice. Appologies to all those I didn't manage to comment on but blogger is still playing silly and on some I just go around in a sign in circle when trying to comment, funny on some there is an added option to sign in with name and URL but not all, no consistency but appologies anyway and just to say comment or not we do visit you all.

Our challenge this time is another goodie that you can all get your teeth into , so to speak we are celebrating 'best friend day'. Have to say I'm not sure if it's an official day world wide or just in the USA . If I look on the W.W.W. I find lots of answers today is best friend day but apparently the UN declared July 30th international day of friendship,  in many parts of india and other countries friendship day falls on the first sunday of august and in some spanish and portuguese speaking countries it is celebrated in april.Talk about confusing, but I guess if you have a special friend its good to celebrate that friendship several times a year so who cares what the official date is.

For my card I used a LOTV image well they are just so cute, my son saw me colouring it and asked if he could have it as a fathers day card for his granddad. I told him it was for best friends day and he said that was fine as the his granddad was his best friend (well one of them, the other is a girl called Becky) and he said the image reminded him of them sharing cookies and sweets, I suppose thinking about it they sometimes do look like these boys especially when they sit there whispering you just know they are up to something.

I coloured my image with promarkers and used a punch on the k and co papers for extra interest and added some candt to the corners, my son approved as he said they looked like extra cookies, though I never thought that myself. The sentiment is also LOTV which I stamped in blue ink. Quite a quick card to make and truth be known not my original DT card either. My internet being down all last week I made all my card and I put it somewhere really safe, so safe that when the internet came back I couldn't find it and had to make another one really quickly, and I still haven't found it yet, no doubt it will eventually turn up but still my son likes this one so at least it will get used.


I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:-

Ladybug-male theme
creative inspiartions paint-dad/special man
Totally gorjuss-layout
come and get it-dad's day
ECP-for dad
The stampman-boys and men
Simply create-fathers day
Fussy n fancy-for a male
frosted designs fabulous friday-friendship
The crafty pad-stripes
LOTV-punch it up

Celebration card

Time has a way of passing by and you not realising until something special to celebrate arrives and then you wonder where the years have disappeared to, children celebrating milestone birthdays, leaving home and siblings celebrating special wedding anniversaries or birthdays too.
This card is for my step brother and his wife who at the end of this month will be celbrating 25 years of marriage, and I decided I wanted to experiment with some punched flowers, I think it worked and hopefully they will like their card.

I used a forever friends image which I coloured with promarkers and cut out. The rest of my card I decided to keep white as I think it has a kind of elegance .

The card base I embossed using my fiskars shapeboss which hasn't seen the light of day for who knows how long, I 'found' it when I moved my craft room round a few weeks ago. The flowers and leaves are punched form copy paper and arranged corner to corner and the flower centres are liquid pearls. The truth is I actually made a big boo boo and embossed the wrong sides edges of my card as I did intend having the embossed daisy in the corners without flowers butgot it wrong so my punched flowers actually cover the embossed daisies but I quite like the little heart in the corner and bet you wouldn't have realised my error if I hadn't said, so I'll call it a happy accident. The sentiment is a mix of a peel-off and a sticker and that fills the other corner, small and not too intrusive.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:-
sweet stamps-anniversary/wedding( try again did too many combos for the last try,naughty me)
One stop craft-texture
Allsorts-all white
pollycraft-love and marriage
forever friends-punch it out
dream valley-stamp something

Creative craft challenges

Morning all and I never realised how much I missed the internet! Sad life but I did get a load of housework and gardening done as a distraction, so now when I'm surfing I won't feel as guilty about my chores not getting done.

Today brings another challenge over at Creative craft challenges, and we have a fab one this time for you to get your teeth into- 'moveable parts'.

We also have some fab sponsors yet again with loads of goodies the first is B-Craft-E who is offering one lucky person 3 templates,side slide, sleeve pop-up and fantasia from their fab kinetic cards. Take a look at what they have on offer here.

Crafty individuals are offering a stamp

and some digi's from Stitchy stamps too.

Stitchy very kindly gave us some images to play with so please pop across to the challenge blog to see the inspirational variety of moveable bits the Design Team came up with there are some very clever projects well worth a visit.

For my card I used this super cute image
 to make a silver anniversary card for my step brother and his wife as a commission from my mum. I'm not sure what the name of this style of card is but I think it is such a fun style. The image I coloured with Promarkers and stuck to greys to follow the silver theme. the papers I think are papermania and the bling on the card front comes from mirri card and peel-offs , well after 25 years there has to be hearts and love. Inside the front I powder and heat embossed a sentiment simple and staright forward congrats.

Sorry I went a bit mad with the pictures.


I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:-

Just some lines-monochromatic
Guyou's inimitability-monochromatic
The rubber cafe-wedding/anniversary
Craft us crazy-remeberence/love
Crafty sentiments-neutral colours
CRAFT-wedding/love
4 crafty chicks-anniversary
Allways something new-folding cards
I love promarkers-sparkly bling
Paper sundaes-get sentimental
Card cupids-lots of layers
Claudia and co-fancy folds
stampavie and more-more than 1 fold

Hooray we have internet back at last! and my OSAAT DT card.

I cannot believe it has taken almost a week for our internet connection to be repaired, and a 1000 appologies to my 3 the design teams and to all the challenge entries I have been unable to visit and comment on who enetred OSAAT, Creative craft challenges and Penny.
My internet link dropped last tueday morning at 8:24  the exact time I was told by Plusnet not that I knew I would have said around 25 past. I did all the usual things to no avail and then contacted plusnet. What a performance and they lack certain qualities especially in communication and customer care, I only seemed to find out what was going on if I rang them despite being told they would ring me and keep me up to date but eventually and miraculously when I rang yesturday late afternoon they were just doing a final check and I was back on line, then came the fight for the computer and as I had dinner to prepare I lost out, but now I'm back.


Now appologies made for this being so late but at leastI had my card all set to go for sunday so better late than never, OSAAT has a theme of graduation/schools out. Now I know here in the UK we have a way to go before this happens and I guess by the time our schools are out for summer and graduations start the US kids will be on there way back to school, wonder which kids get the best summer? I suppose the schools downunder  will be thinking more about summer break when we are thinking Christmas too.Anyway another fab prize too 5 Promarkers are on offer from

and don't forget to check out the Papercraft essentials mag on sale June 9th for Stitchy's fab add too.

We have some stunning inspiration for you all over on the challenge blog here so please do go check it out and play along and don't forget to put a #3 after your name if you use a stitchy image as you will be eligible for the top 3.

Right onto my card I got to play with Floppy Latte's fab grad cap and diploma which you can find here. Have to say I wasn't sure what colours to use, I know different degrees have different coloured gowns but as I don't know what they are I decided to use my sons schools colours, not that our schools have a graduation but hey ho.

I printed the image so it was full card width and made a DL size card,and for added interest I cut around the mitre, really easy and I hope you agree effective too.

Thanks for popping by and again apologies but there wasn't much I could do despite my son thinking otherwise.

My card :-

I would like to enter into the following challenges:-

Craft your passion- anything goes

Amber's craft and stuff-teen related

fab n funky- whateva'

for fun challenges-end of school

sassy studio designs-no patterned papers

MAWTT-no designer papers

stamp something-use a digi