Friday sketches #72

Well for this one again no square cards so I decided to turn my A6 card on its side along with turning the sketch layout on its side, hope you don't mind. Any way teddy is off sledging with his friend cat, from a magazine set of freebie stamps. I used sakura glaze pens for that bit of shine and some stickles for the sparkly snow. My hearts on the sketch turned magically into snowflakes, and heres my card.

stamp with fun monday challenge #26

Well I decided yesturday that I would spend some time making christmas cards and combine that with doing a few challenges and heres my first.

This one is for stamp with fun ,I found it on Crafty cardmakers, they have a list of challenges for each day of the week.Some of them I can't  do as I don't have the right brand of stamp due to them only being sold on sites that only use paypal which is something hubby won't let me use, but we won't go into that ,but this is one I could so here it is.

Challenge 26 is a sketch and although my sentiment isn't attached to my ribbon I think I managed to follow the sketch otherwise. I don't suppose it helped that I had run out of square cards and envelopes ,  I could have made a square card but I'm not hot on making matching envelopes in the right size and never lucky finding one that fits, so I used a n A6 card instead, which cut down on my ribbon hence my sentiment not being attached. Artistic lisence I think it's called. Anyway hope you like my card.

Magnolia candy

All the things I love has magnolia candy to give away why not pop along and see

Jak's amazing blog candy

Jak is giving one lucky person with a UK postal address the chance to win this fantastic machine why not pop over and take a look just click on tis link.http://crafterskitchen.blogspot.com/2009/09/amazing-blog-candy.html

more gradients for Moxie Fab world and ABC - E for embossing

Another card for the moxie fab world gradient challenge.I am also entering this into the ABC -E is for embossing challenge.

 For this one I stamped the christmas tree and wet embossed with bronze gold and silver to form the gradient, I was amazed how easy it was and I think very effective. I also put it on a piece of dry embossed gold card and just added a simple bow. Less is more?

 Hope you like it.

Let it snow

Well this card started out as an entry for the world card making day gradient competition, then as I found different challenges it sort of got manipulated to fulfill their needs too, in my own way, sort of. I'm sure you'll see what I mean. Anyway the gradient challenge I hope is obvious in that the background for my main image is graded from liliacy blue through mauvey pink to pink, just in case the pic hasn't turned out too well.

The Three Clovers challenge is having a think pink week so I am entering this for that too, as I'm really not a pretty pink kinda girl, even when I was little I was always under the car with my father and was forever getting into trouble when mum would get me dressed in a pretty dress to go out and I'd be climbing up a tree while I waited to go. I do like getting dressed up but I'm not a girly girl, so for me this card is quite pink. Hope its pink enough as it is for a good cause.

I also found the Christmas stampin challenge # 36 to make a christmas card using at least 2 sets of stamp, well I used 3 . The 'let it snow' stamp and 2 different sets of patchwork pals stamps.

Finally a spoonful of sugar just wanted a christmas creation and this is certainly that, so I will enter that challenge too.

I hope all these different challenge blogs don't mind me using one card for all their challenges, but they are all thought of in the planning of the card.

no stamps! moving along with the times challenge

Well when you can't use stamps it seems a little daunting and then you realise just how many other things you use that aren't stamps and then it just becomes confusing as you can't decide what to use as you have so many choices.

I decided that as I'd just got a freebie of some christmas stencils from one of the crafting mags I picked up in the supermarket yesturday I'd use one of these. The sketch was easy to follow until i had to add the 3 bits at the top nothing seemed to look right , I tried stars but that clashed with the stars on top of the trees , I thought about little jewel blingy bits but hadn't got any in the right colour and the same with brads. I tried gold and silver snowflakes they looked too much like the stars. In despiration I just drew 3 blobs of colour in the same pens , I'm still not sure they work but at least they are the right colours.Let me know what you think. Great challenge why not have a go yourself if you haven't already.

Doodle palace candy

Why not pop over to the doodle palace and see the fab candy they have on offer!Hit the link on the side bar you're only a hop away.

Red and Green

What is it they say 'red and green together should never be seen except on the head and stem of a flower' well I think they should have added and at christmas time too.

Well, made this card for Jude 's challenge at Doodle Palace and also, as its red and green I'll try to link it to Simon Says challenge. I seem to be on a roll this week, so much for my saying I'll enter at least one challenge a week. Can't see this lasting as I've not got that many birthdays next month that I've not made cards for yet, now november has at least 4 or I could just make christmas cards for all the challenges I enter... I'll have to see what comes up. I decided along time ago that whenever I make definite plans something else always comes up that has to take precidence so I prentend I don't know what I'm doing from one day to the next with the exception of hospital,physio and dental appointments etc and that usually works quite well until I plan something. Well anyway my card;-

Simon says red and green and my card is certainly that.

Jude was more complex 1ribbon, 2 papers, 3 brads and 4 flowers plus christmas and red and green. Tall order ,I had problems knowing where to use my 3rd brad but it adds a little something extra to my young mans topper. Hope you like the card.

High hope happy birthday challenge

I didn't even realise there was a high hopes blog site until I stumbled across it the other day, even worse I didn't realise I had some high hopes stamps until I was fumbling through my stamp drawer looking for a shoe stamp. I knew I'd got these lovely stamps just didn't realise they were high hopes. Anyway enough about my lack of brain cells I'd stamped this cutey and put the frame on it, it's from a board game we have that held some pieces that punched out and I liked the colour, never to waste, recycling's good right? Well I thought I'd try monotones and just used a blue watercolour pencil and of course a bit of sparkle on the water. The pearl card I dry embossed with a fiskers board, raindrops not that you can see this or the sparkle very well but they are there honest. Hope you like it, I didn't think such a beautiful image needed much more.

Jude's mega blog candy

Why not pop over to Judes at crafts international to see the lovely mega candy she has on offer for her daily alzheimers give away. This ones not a daily though it runs till 29th oct. but not suprising when theres so much in that tote bag and you'd get the bag too if you are the lucky winner .Just click on  the piccy in the side bar.

One card 2 challenges should have been 3

Well I made this card for my son to send to his auntie not that he knows yet and he hasn't had a say in the design either. I had an idea that these daisy and dandilion papers would look good as a focal point on a card and I found this sketch layout at Sunday sketch and stamp challenge #12 so I thought I'd follow that layout but unfortunately can't enter thier challenge as for once I didn't stamp anything..
I then stumbled across the pink elephant blog site and their challenge #34 is a tag ,puch and something dotty, well this card just fulfilled that bill too,what can I say.
I blog hopped some more and came across die cut dreams and their challenge  #16 ribbons and trims, well I certainly had used ribbons so I decided I would try and link this one card to all 3 challenges. I must say I hope this works like this in the future do all these wonderful blogs get together to help their fellow crafters enter all these brilliant challenges or was it just luck that my design idea and choice of papers and embellishments just happened to be what I needed. Hope the 3 challenges don't nmind sharing my one card.

cards and greetings birthday candy

Just found this fab candy so why not pop over tocards and greetings and help Sharon celebrate her birthday.

sixteenth birthday

Well my son decided he needed a card for his friend at school as he forgot to tell me last week and it was her 16th birthday yesturday so he would take it today and wish her a belated birthday. He always has set ideas about the cards he sends and sometimes will help to make them but was busy doing homework so I did this for him and he's taken it this morning. He didn't want one that said belated on it and he didn't want any soppy pictures so this is it and he said it was just what he imagined it to be. Brownie points for mum hope Leanne likes it so its brownie points for him too.

craftycardmakers 3D challenge

Well I was making this card for my sister in law, I've had these forever friends decoupage for awhile and I thought I'd held onto them for long enough and ought to start using them. I really am bad I buy lovely kits and papers and embellishments and then don't want to use them as they'll be gone , sad really at least with stamps you can repeat that image other bits you have to buy again. Well anyway here's my completed card I had trouble with some of my foam pads as there was no sticky on some of them when I took the paper off so had to add glue to them but it seems to have worked.

I then got on the computer while hubby and son were watching the grand prix and typed in craft challenge blogs and found another site  and this one had a 3D challenge just perfect so this is what I'm going to enter in their challenge . I sday I am if I can link it anyway. Hope you like my card and when I send it hope my sis in law will too.

No backing paper challenge

Well this card is for my sister in law from my mum. Originally I did make it with 2 challenges in mind this one and the winter wonderland which had a theme of hot chocolate but that ended yesturday and I didn't get around to uploading the piccy but well whats meant to be and all that. Well anyway it probably fits this challenge better C.R.A.F.T. challenge no backing paper. I have used this design with other stamps too but never with this one or these colours. The colours were from another challenge penny black I think and I thought they seemed an odd combo together so I thought I'd try them anyway and I'm still not sure if they work or not?

Anyway now son has gone to school despite telling me he has a chest infection starting ( docs appt made) I will get these pics up loaded before I start my daily chores. Hope you like the card and let me know what you think.

Secret crafters saturday challenge animal antics

Well for this one I thought I'd experiment and try something new and make a slider card. I decided this as while I was blog hopping I stumbled across an ad in someones side bar sorry to say I've been on that many blogs I can't remember whichone but it suggested that if the card you made wasn't for something specific you might like to send it to a child who is sick in hospital to brighten their day. I use to be a childrens nurse before leaving to care for my son and can tell you from experience that when a child is in hospital for more than a couple of days they feel very isolated and alone when there is no family with them and as we all know everyone like to get something nice in the post, so thats what I made my card for. If anyone is intrested the website is called postpals.co.uk.

I used a daisy and dandilion stamp from docrafts and stamped dandilion (I think)

along with butterflies and flowers and coloured with sakura pens. I drew the catapiller and again used sakura pens I do like their glossy effect and the metalic ones still have a sheen even when you waterbrush them. I cut a lot in some green card and fringed the edge to look like grass , added the slider mechanism its a bit like an elongated T that you fold back on itself to make aa bit to stick the catapiller on. I mounted this on some more green card and stuck it all on the blue so the ground meets the sky added my inquisative dog and bugs , pull and a direction arrow and hopefully it may make a young child smile when they recieve it in the post whilst in hospital.

Confidence growing

Oh I was dreading that last one with Mr Linky but help from the challenge site with brilliant instuctions I might even get the hang of this yet!

Simons says and Heidi's choice with hidden candy challenge

I don't only find the making of the card achallenge but adding the link is far more challenging, this one has a Mr Linky so I feel back to square one again anyway onward and try.

My card for this sketch challenge is christmas based it means I'll have one less to make and I grt to use my patchwork pals stamps. The papers are from last years Anita's from docrafts and the gold is a card mum had sent to her and I liked the posh embossed gold so aquired it on its way into the recycling bin. The flowers were a freebie from a magazine but I took off the felt centres and added a bit more bling well it is for christmas.

Sucess!

I found a little help on the moving along with the times site and it worked 1st link sucessful just whether I can remember how on other posts