Thursday 31 March 2011

Special Lady

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Challenge
Allsorts #96 - For a Special lady

For my lovely aunty for mothers day


A quick card using the free papers from Making Cards mag

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50th Birthday

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Challenges
The Shabby Tea Room  #55 - Flower Palette
The ABC Challenge - Roses
Colour Create # 67 - Pastels




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Golden Wedding

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An easel card for 50th Wedding Anniversary

Made with the following challenges in mind

Delightful Challenges - flowers
Dutch Dare #106 - distressing
Amber's Craft & Stuff #3 - flowers
Anything Goes - make your own embellishments - frame and flowers





The DP is by Eva Kipler
The stamped  words on the handmade  'frame' are from an unmounted rubber stamp with a hydrangea
Flowers are made from seam binding ribbon from My Wedding Party and have a gem centre
Words are computer generated

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I apologise for my lack of blog visiting and commenting - hopital visits to poorly family members is the priority at the moment

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Monday 28 March 2011

Baby Ruby...again

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Another card to celebrate the birth of baby Ruby. I have followed the BINGO challenge at
The Shabby Tea Room #54 - middle line down - lace, flowers, embossing



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Sunday 27 March 2011

Welcome Baby

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Challenges
Mojo Monday #183 sketch
A Gem of a Challenge #17 - anything but square 
Creatalicious #20 - 2 tone





 This is a real photo of baby Ruby Hope sent to me by her Grandma specially to make this card.....isn't she a sweetheart :-)



Papers -  Pink Petticoat vintage rose collection 
Lace, ribbon, flowers as usual from stash

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Friday 25 March 2011

CACB #37

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this time is
Be inspired by an Elvis song 
and Ann has kindly provided a link to a list  here  if you need one

My choice of song is  Indescribably Blue
Ann's beautiful Morning Glory digi fits this title a treat and I really enjoyed colouring it. I love the wording of the definition behind the flower. There are 3 different versions of this image and can be found here in the digi shop.


I used embossed dots and the lovely blue from the funky collection.


Simply finished with seam binding ribbon and a swirly peeloff.


Challenges
CES #28 - inspired by a song 
The Crafty Pad #113 - use adigi
A Gem of a Challenge #17 - anything but square


Do pop over to  Crafty Ann's Challenge Blog and you'll see the fabulous interpretations of the Elvis songs the design team have chosen.

There were such a lot of gorgeous entries for the last challenge and  I hope you will be able to join in with this one 

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Cheers me dears :-)

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Saturday 19 March 2011

21st Birthday

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Challenges
DYSU #11 - add a bow
Amber's Crafts & Stuff #1 - anything goes
Creatalicious #20 - two tone



I managed to use the lovely MS deep border punch again and of course the lovely seam binding ribbon.
Papers from my leftover stash - one unknown, the plain from Crafty Ann's digi shop
The corner peel-offs are the leftovers - the first time I've managed to do this - tis a good job I've not thrown out many of my used sheets...got loads I could do this with, lol





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Howay the Lads!

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Hello peeps :-)
A quick post of a card made for a friend of  youngest  g/son  whom he met on holiday last year and keeps in touch with on XBox.
As you might guess he is a Magpie fan - not the most exciting card but I have been assured he will appreciate it.

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Wednesday 16 March 2011

Flowery Fiftieth Fan

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Commissioned 5oth card.

An attempt at doing a larger piece in parchment and maybe a bit too ambitious for a beginner, methinks..... it took me an age....gave me a headache.....but am pleased with the result.....just hope the recipient is too.

I used Crafty Ann's  fan digi from her new Oriental Collection as the pattern for the blades.
The BP is from Crafty Ann's funky collection 3 and digitally added the corner spray and sentiment.
I was worried about sticking the fan on to the card and making a mess....no problem with paper but parchment.......? ...a challenge but I got there in the end.




The small punched flowers with a  pearl in the centre are representing the cherry blossom along with a blossom from Wild Orchid.


Any tips on PC will be greatly appreciated......I missed a local beginners workshop by a couple of weeks but will be enrolling for the next one....just hope it is sooooon...in the meantime I'll just keep practicing

A pearly button - local haberdashers
Vintage seam binding -  My Wedding Party
Tassel and pearls - Joanna Sheen

Challenges
Creatalicious #20 - Two tone/colours
CCC - Show us some green
Fab N Funky - Green
PaperPlay #10 - Shades of green/good luck


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Friday 11 March 2011

CACB #36

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and this time we have a sketch/theme challenge
  ~ Spring is in the Air ~
......I like sketch challenges.....and I like spring....so a perfect challenge



Here is my interpretation of the sketch and theme.  For my birthday my daughter got some tools to start me off with parchment craft and as I was itching to practice I  have done something for the challenge.
 I also had some gorgeous handmade cards.....thank you so much dear bloggy friends :-)

I used Ann's short petal flower and leaves as a template.....it reminds me of one of the hellebores just coming into flower in my garden.
I fixed it to a mat from the mottled stone collection 4 - this is layered on to some silver .mirri. The main BP is one of the funky collection 2.
The border on the other piece of parchment is an adaptation of a free border I found on the net. I am very pleased that some of Ann's digi's can be used for parchment craft.



Finished with a few stick on pearls.


I'd like to enter this for
Aly's Sunday Challenge  - Anything goes
The Pink Elephant #95 -  Spring time

Do pop over to the Crafty Ann's Challenge Blog and see the beautiful sketch/spring cards made by the DT.
It would be lovely if you can join us for this challenge.

 Thank you for stopping by
Cheers me dears


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Thursday 10 March 2011

50th Birthday

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Challenges
Oooh LaLa #75 - It's a man thing
Creative Card World - card for a male
CCC - no flowers
Simon Says - anything goes
Colour Create #66 - greens, brown, cream, black + leaves



Various papers from my leftover bits folder and freebies from Making Cards mag

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15th birthday

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 Some cards for granddaughter's boyfriend








Challenges
Allsorts #93 - card for a teenager
Aud Sentiments #23 - birthday
Creative Card Crew - no flowers

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Cheers me dears

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