18th Birthday

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This young lady is a dedicated and quite talented dancer and has ambitions to be a dance teacher.

Ballet shoes image - forget where this is from
Hand cut #18 sparkled up with glitter and popped up with foam pads.
Stick pin
Tulle
Muslin
Gorgeous silky ribbon bow
Handmade flower
BP free from craft mag

I'd like to enter
Polkadoodles #38 - candy colours
Crafty Ribbons #62 - anything with ribbon
4 Krafty Girlz #2 - anything goes
The Ribbon Reel #62 - pretty in pink
Cards Galore  - Sept Challenge - colour combo
RRR #80 - shabby chic with ribbon




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Cheers me dears :)



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18th Birthday

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Papers from Papermania Rose Garden
Hand cut numbers
Seam binding ribbon
Flower from WOC

Two little tags for the sentiment and name

Challenges
Aud Sentiments #61 - numbers up!
The Crazy Challenge #127 - anything goes
Papelitos #7 - celebrations
PCJ - happy birthday/celbrations


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18th Birthday

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Challenges

Aud Sentiments #59 - tag it

Unstampabelles #13 - celebrations

Paper Shelter #73 - anything goes

The Corrocive Challenge #153 - sentimentally yours

Here Come the Boys - tag on a card

This is part of the photo I was given.....hmmmm......cute pic... decided to go with a humerous theme.
I had a few ideas and ended up with the caption here.
I have an feeling that he won't be letting his mates see this, LOL.
The photo is matted on to silver mirri  and mounted with foam tape - the tag is raised at the top with a couple of foam pads .

BP - Nancy Watt
Tracing paper printed with various birthday words
Hand cut, distressed label with computer generated words

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The Last One

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Totally digital and using Crafty Ann's gorgeous gold border from the Sweet Sage collection, one of three scrapbook collections Ann has recently added to her digi shop. Ideal for cards as well as scrapbook's :-)

This is a poor pic taken in poor light and it is a shame it doesn't do the border justice. It is a marvellous bright gold IRL.

Challenge
Birthday Sundaes #40 - birthday wording on the front


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Another for Grandson

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Only one more to go :-)

This is a biggy - A4 size. Thought it gotta be BIG as it is from Mum & Dad.


The numbers and 'son' at the bottom were made in the same way as those in my previous post - only bigger!
I also used a sketch and then missed the deadline, duh

I heat embossed a copper border on the three pieces below. The main BP distressed with DI.
Sentiment computer generated.
The red striped panel and the numbers are fixed with foam tape/pads.

Challenges
Here Come the Boys #18 sketch - shame I missed the challenge, it is a nice sketch
Just Some Lines  - colour challenge - haberdashery hues
The Crafty Pad #154 - let's see something for the boys
Joanna Sheen - celebrations


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Cheers me dears


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Grandson's 18th

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One down - two to go.
We will have a family get together on Tues to celebrate the big day and again on Saturday at the local pub.
He doesn't like to be the centre of attention so he doesn't want a party.  He is saving hard for a car, which he could afford right now - BUT -  it is the insurance that is crippling.. With this in mind he will be getting money for his birthday ;-)
His first driving test is on Thursday so we are all keeping our fingers crossed for him. He has got next week off work so I hope he'll be able to get in some extra driving practice.

I printed the reversed numbers on the back of a piece of card,  then heat embossed on the front with silver EP.  I  put this  through the CB then cut the numbers out.  I used the metallic rub again to take off the shine then embossed the edges with verdigris EP.
Two oval mats here - corrugated card dabbed with a copper ink pad and a larger piece cut around with fancy scissors in a paper from the Papermania Aqua PP - a bargain buy at Colemans Wharehouse sale - £2.99 for 30 sheets :-)
The main BP is Gina Miller Boy Blues. I particularly like this deep turquoise colour and it is fortunate the two compliment each other. I forget where the lighter coloured paper is from. 

I have used the same BP for the inside

Additions
Burlap strip from Linda, The Funky Junkie
Brads embossed with verdigris EP - love how these turned out
Spellbinders Fleur de Lis Shapeailities


Challenges
CRAFT #138 - use numbers - happy to add that this was one of the winners for this challenge :)
Crafty Cardmakers #59 - no floral embellishments
Shopping our Stash #35 - create a border
The ABC challenge - H is for Happy Birthday
Gingerloft #31 - anything goes
OSAAT #96 - anything goes



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Cheers me dears


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18th Birthday

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A card for my cousins daughter - glittery, handcut #18,  on a mat embossed with a CB texture folder.
The fancy  trim is cushion trimming and the flowers are from a pretty hydrangea Christmas deco from Homebase with a large 'diamond' brad

Made with these challenges in mind

Mojo Monday - Sketch
The ABC challenge - G is for Glitter
CRAFT Challenge #75 - Dry embossing
Totally Papercrafts - 40 - Bling it on - oops missed it!

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18th Birthday

A5 size easel

I didn't expect I'd win the Floral Fantasies fab Big Shot prize....and didn't...well done to Emma, who did :-)
I didn't expect my freezer to conk out on Saturday night either...and it did :-(
Ooooo, just think of all the goodies I could have bought with the money I've had to dish out for a new one.

The good news is.....
Yippee...I have found a new crafty buddy, Teresa. I am hoping we can arrange some crafty afternoons together.
She is a friend of my daughter Jo's in-laws. I've met her a few times when she
pops in with her two little doggies and it happened that I'd taken the Kingfisher card for Jo to see and Teresa was quite impressed with the easel style, and found that she is a cardmaker too.

Now, how about this for a compliment.....even though she makes cards herself, she asked me to make her a card for her grandson's 18th.

He is a fan of Northampton Saints RFC so I've made this with the Saints badge as the BP.



The teams colours are green, gold and black so no worries about colour choice, but it was quite a fiddle to get the badge to fit the BP size.
The rugby ball is shaped and fixed with silicone to give it shape.

I followed the sketch at Cards for Men and missed the deadline....but the current challenge is 'Green'.... how fortunate is that
The theme at Charisma Cardz is Male so a fit here again too.

Thank you for stopping by and for all the lovely recent comments....I really appreciate them all. I hope to see you again soon :-)

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18th Card

My daughter asked for a card for her friends son's 18th birthday next weekend. The family moved to Spain six or seven years ago so I hope she gets it in the post tomorrow cos I don't know how long the mail takes to get there.

I used the sketch from Truly Scrumptious Challenge 13 as I am in need of a bit and a half of inspiration.




I changed the circle for a star and really had to get my thinking cap on choosing the BP's. The image and circles are fixed with foam tape/pads.



You may recognise the image as Charlie from Whiff of Joy. I am sad to say I do not own this stamp :-(
I borrowed it from a crafty friend and stamped myself a few. Cheers m' dear, if you look in and see this handsome chap. I've coloured him with copics - not a very good effort unfortunately, but, hey! you get to see it warts n all, lol.
Whoops, sorry Charlie, I didn't mean that you have warts, rofl!!



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