Just for You

I have made this card for the following challenges

Sketch & Stash 31 - sketch
Cute Daisy May - anything goes
C.R.A.F.T 41 - citrus





Image - Cute Daisy May
BP's - unknown - the front of the pad they are from is missing :-/
MS border punch
New orange ribbon and flowers from stash

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Pink 65th

Request from my neighbour - a 65th birthday card for a friend.
I do love doing the easel cards so persuaded her this was what she wanted, hee hee.

For the following challenges -

Cute Daisy May - Flowers
Friday Sketchers - Sketch
Spoonful of Sugar - Distress ink, pearls & glitter
Totally Gorgeous - Flower power
Simon Says - Vintage with flowers
Penny's Paper-crafty Challenge - Birthday
Tanda Teaser 135 - Riots of petals

This lovely image and the square are distressed around the edges with a tiny bit of TH vintage photo distress ink. Rouge ColorBox chalk was used on the rest.
There is a tiny bit of glitter on some of the flowers...but I can't see it in the pic.
Used fancy scissors to cut around the black mat and edged it with gold Pentouch.
I did some stitching around the square mat, made a stick pin and went overboard with the flowers.



I made a small flower from a piece of the main pink BP using one of
Crafty Ann's digi images. I do love this flower...so useful and quite easy to cut out.
There are 3 layers but I only cut out 2 for this
I added a very discreet No:65 peeloff to the centre



Paper - 'Classic' from the Crafty Secrets vintage collection bought aaages ago from Joanna Sheen
Colouring - Copics
MS border punch
Pearls, flowers, leaves etc. from stash

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Get Well

This card came together so easily, for a change...it is usually a matter of shuffling papers around for ages before I get going...but not this time :-)

I wanted to use one of the New images from sheet6 that I won from the Cute Daisy May Distressing challenge and the gorgeous free papers in the current Making Cards mag.

It is for my daughter to send to her friend in hospital at Oxford.
The poor girl broke her ankle last April and has had nothing but trouble since. Everything that could go wrong has, so we hope this latest operation she had yesterday will be the last and she can get on with her life.



A closer look at this pretty little lady.



It is made for the following challenges

Sketch - Sketch & Stash 29 - new items, papers, image and ink pad
Image - Cute Daisy May - Bright and Cheerful...not particularly 'bright' so I hope this qualifies
Recipe -Allsorts 39 - 3 flowers, 2 papers, 1 image/ribbon
Craft challenge - colouring Digi's

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In the Pink

I just had to play with this little darling again, she is so lovely.

It is made with these challenges in mind

Cute Card Thursday challenge 97 is 'Blooming Gorgeous'
Crazy 4 Challenges 21 is Pretty in Pink
Creative Inspirations - Feminine
My Time to Craft - Elegant Rose
The Pink Elephant 51 - Polka Dots, a bow and pink


I used one of Crafty Ann's digi frames, enlarged it to fit A5 size and with a bit of fiddling made it into a top fold card.
I isolated the bow, printed it out on the pink spotty paper and fixed it over the original bow with silicone to give it some shape.




A sideways view...the image circle is fixed with foam pads



Another poor close up...I am sure I've got the camera on the right setting but they all turn out the wrong colour...aaaaggghhh.



Digi image - Cute Daisy May
Papers - forgotten as they were printed a while ago
Flowers - Wild Orchid
Leaves - punched from green inked paper

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Cute Daisy May

I adore this image....what a good excuse to buy her specially for the current challenge...I am sure this will not be her one & only outing
Cute Daisy May - Vintage
I have used the sketch from
Mojo Monday 123 and although it is not exact I hope it is near enough to qualify
Rainbow Lady's challenges 87 & 88 for the next 2 weeks is Fur and/or feathers...my feather is only a little one in with the flowers
A Spoonful of Sugar 88 is Freestyle
Ooh-la-la challenge 46 is Distressing



Image coloured with copics



I tried a new way with the ribbon....I can't make up my mind if it is successful or not





Image - Cute Daisy May
Papers - Music one from Joanna Sheen, the other two unknown
Lace - dyed with cold tea
Organza ribbon, feather and flowers from stash

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Another Easel Card

My second easel card.

I have made this for
Crafty Ann's challenge 6 - Embossing

Cute Daisy May challenge - Flowers and Ribbon, (when I can get onto the blog....seems there is something wrong there at the moment)

I used the Allsorts sketch but missed the deadline for the challenge

I embossed the blue circle with Swiss Dots in my bug and heat embossed the border stamp with Seafoam white



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Blue & Green

Just a quick post as I am trying to get to grips with the new setings on my PC.

This is for two challenges.

Sketch Saturday

Cute Daisy May - Blue and green











Thanks for visiting, and for all the lovely comments you have left. They really do 'make my day' :-)

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A Lilac Birthday!

A5

I made this with three challenges in mind :-) and I may give it to my DIL for her birthday later in the month., but I guess I'll most likely make her another one before then.

Challenges

Cute Daisy May - Fantasy Floral

Bee Crafty - Adding Colour to Images

A Spoonful of Sugar - The sketch



I have used Daisy May images a few times before but this is the first time I have made a card that qualifies for a Daisy May Challenge.
This is such a gorgeous image, I fell in love with her right away. She is from sheet 50, but I see she is also on sheet 63 and now wish I'd bought that one instead.



I have not mastered colouring 'blonde hair' yet :-( so once again is a light brown coiffed young lady.



The circle is a small doily, lightly sponged with a Wisteria ColorBox chalk inkpad.
I made a few different flowers and ended up only using one of them in this little arrangement.
I used up some papers that I had left over from previous cards (trying to be thrifty!) and I couldn't help using the lovely MS border punch I got from Joanna Sheen recently. I just HAD to buy one as I keep trying to win one when they have generously been offered as blog candy and failed miserably, along with a few thousand others, lol.



Image - Cute Daisy May
Floral Paper - NRJ's La Belle Provence from Scrap Artist

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Carols Sketch Fun, Dare you 2 Digi Stamp and PIO

I have used this smashing sketch from Carol's Sketch Fun challenge 11
and the challenge at Dare you 2 Digi Stamp this week is Distressing, and I love distressing!!
The challenge at Pile it on it is to use at least 3 flowers and to combine with more than one challenge




The dark flourish is actually Gold mirri card, darn hard to photo!!
The little flowers are from a mixed pack of Flora Doodles that have been languishing amongst my stash for at least a year. The BP's are also from my stash printed off some time ago.
I have used the MS punch again. This might be a bit predictable on my cards for a while yet lol.



I love this Cute Daisy May image but the challenge over there this week is Ch*****as.
Yes I know I should be thinking about those cards already but I just can't bring myself to do it. The main reason being that we haven't had a summer holiday yet.
OK, poor excuse, lol.




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For a friend

I have made a card for a friend and found that it fits three challenges.
Now, some of you clever peeps do this all the time, but for me it is very unusual.


Colour Create 15 - blue and green
Creative Card Crew 9 - emboss
Sketch Saturday 50 - sketch





The image is from Cute Daisy May Designs and I think she is lovely.



The image is coloured with copics and is lifted with some foam tape.
I have added a little bit of sparkle to the flowers and the bow in her hair.
Two of the BP's have been embossed - the pale one with Swiss Dots and the patterned with swirls and this one has been lightly sanded.
The base paper is one of Nancy's from Making Cards mag.

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I do love reading them and they are really appreciated.

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