Mothers Day

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For my dear, lovely, special Aunty, my Mum's sister and a second mum to me since I was a baby and even more since my dear mum passed away 27 yrs ago.

Memory box dies - tessatina border, lavish branch, pipi butterfly
Frame - Spellbinders curved rectangles
New 'Happy' die from Joanna Sheen 
The pearls are dots of appli glue. I've had this for yonks and am just about getting the hang of making reasonable looking 'pearls' since I watered it down. I still need practice though, LOL.

Challenges I'd like to enter
My Time to Craft #240 - special lady/mothers day
CYP #206  - mothers day/for the ladies
A Gem of a Challenge #115- special lady/mothers day
The Crafters Cafe #55 - make a square card



Thank you for stopping by today :)
Cheers me dears


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Happy Memories

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Happy 20th Wedding Anniversary to my dear daughter and son in law

I used the lovely sketch from Cardabilities.  I think it is just right for this as it is not too fussy for a man's card.

I started with matt gold paper and stamped the floral branch, from an oriental set from Joanna Sheen and embossed with PM  Seafoam white EP to create the BG.
The white heart is painted with irridescent medium
- the banners handcut
- hessian/burlap ribbon from Linda's Funkie Junie Boutique
- gold cord bow.

Challenges
Cardabilities #78 - sketch
Docrafts- anything goes
Joanna Sheen - don't be square (rectangle :)
The Ribbon Girls - add a bow
LOC #9 - Sentiment on the front
Polkadoodles #27 - make your own background


Thank you for stopping by today and your lovely, much appreciated comments on previous posts

Cheers me dears :)


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The Rose

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Another card for DD. 
The stamp is from Joanna Sheen - have had it years so it is about time it surfaced - I had forgotten what a nice stamp it is.
Coloured with DI pads old paper and spun sugar with a water brush and given a bit of dimension with foam tape 

I coated the butterfly with 3D clear gloss, added wire antenna and a pearl .

Challenges
Creative Card Crew #30 - birthday
Crafty Cardmakers #85 - blooming images
Inky Chicks #4 - mothers day or birthday



Thank you for stopping by :)
Cheers me dears


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Two Challenges

Quick card - quick post.

This is for two challenges
Friday Sketchers  - the sketch
CD Sunday - Baby Talk

I don't have many CD's but fortunately I do have Baby Love by Joanna Sheen.
I think this is such a pretty image.

Thank you for visiting today :-)

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CD Sunday Challenge

This week Wendy's new CD SundayChallenge was launched and the first challenge is
'Wings & things!'

This is the opportunity to dust off some of your CD's and get creating.
I have a very limited number of CD's so it was a challenge in itself to find something suitable join in the fun and support Wendy in her new venture. The new design team have come up with some gorgeous creations.



The topper is from Oriental Dreams. I enlarged one of the white wisteria flowers, printed it twice and added them to the side of the main image with a good blob of silicone.
I've added a white feather and lovely pale blue organza ribbon.
Actually it looks quite nice IRL.

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Bleached flowers

The April challenge at the Joanna Sheen forum is bleaching.
This is the second time I have used this technique.
It took 23 attempts to get a decent image!!! But I think the problem was that I've only got thick bleach and am sure the thin variety is what you should use. It also took all afternoon to get the card finished - in between entertaining grandson.

I'll let you into a little secret here - I stuck front on to the base card upside down, so as you look at this the opening is on the left.



The blossom stamp is from a JS oriental collection that I won in the monthly competition a few years ago.
I have 'doodled' (very badly) some stamens in the centre of the flowers on the stamped image with a silver pen - not sure it adds anything to this though.



The papers are leftovers. Some prima flowers coloured with a green copic marker and some green organza ribbon finish it off.

Thank you for stopping by and for all the encouraging comments left recently - they areall so very much appreciated.

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The Holly & the Ivy?

Take 2

I hope I've got this right this time.

Rainbow Lady's Challenge 81 is to use a Christmas Carol as the theme and also use a black card base.
Lorraine says it also fits in with
Digital Tuesday's challenge - a Christmas Song...thanks Lorraine :-)
Crafty Catz is a colour challenge - red, green and silver
My Time to Craft is Christmas Foliage
The Pink Elephant - favourite Christmas colour combo



There is plenty of holly on this and I found the score and lyrics for carol but the ivy is very well hidden :-)



The image and BP is from Joanna Sheen's Victorian Christmas CD.
The lovely wide ribbon is from our new QD store, 70p for 'quite a lot'.
I made an oval frame for the image and cut around it with deckle scissors.
I then made a mat slightly larger in silver mirri card, and fixed it with foam tape and some tiny silver peel-offs around edge the BP
The greeting is from one of Jak's freebies, also fixed with foam tape.

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Christmas Card Challenge.....

135mm square

I made this tonight for the weekly Christmas Card Challege at Magical Crafts Forum

Guess who has the honour to choose the challenge this week .........meeeeeeeeee!!!
My card was chosen by Jackie, last weeks winner, (thank you Jackie) and DT member on the Magical Crafts Fortnightly Challenge.
Angel launches the new challenge on Sunday 1 November and I am looking forward to seeing what the new DT have in store for us.



Once again, I've used BP and image from Joanna Sheen's Victorian Christmas CD.
The image and greeting are matted on to sliver mirri card, although it doesn't show in the pic.

Thank you for stopping by and I will be delighted if you have time to leave a comment.

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My second Christmas card

A5

I know, I know, I'm so well behind all of you out there.....as the title says this is only the second Christmas card but I did want to join in some challenges and they are either Halloween or Christmas so I went with the weekly challenge on

Magical Crafts Forum - (a recipe) who are encouraging us to make a weekly Christmas card

Ooh-la-la Victorian Christmas No: 39 and used the sketch at

Friday Sketchers No:75







You might recognise the image and BP.....from Joanna Sheen's Victorian Christmas CD.

It is very rare that I use CD's but I have been feeling a bit crook for a couple of days so went with the easy option and it is another one for my box :-)


Thank you for being here and if you can leave a comment it will make my day :-)

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New Home

A5

I had to make this in a hurry this morning for my DD to give to the new family who have bought their house and moved in today.
Yesterday was DD and family's first night in their new home. I am really struggling to make a card for them. Lately I am having difficulty choosing BP's. Maybe it is because I have a lot of digi downloads and therefore too much choice.
I am making an effort to use up some of my stash instead of printing new each time.



The BP here is from a Joanna Sheen pack. The flower and leaf I found in my bit box. Must have been lurking there for years.
The image is from the free start up set from pcCrafter

Thank you for stopping by. Any comments you care to leave are greatly appreciated.

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Oriental Dreams, Get well and Gran

I was stumped when DIL asked for cards for her Mum's birthday so got out my Joanna Sheen Oriental Dreams CD.
My favourite section is Watercolour Garden and I chose this one.





This next one is for grandson to give to her.



The glam? nurse is for a friend who is to have surgery next week.




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The other 40th

I finished this this morning. I have made three cards for Louise's 40th and of course they all have to be different. I made the first one back in Sept. I'd forgotten when her birthday was and got ahead of myself.
It was the 40 number shape so I am satisfied that I have achieved my goal.
Daughter requested I personalise yesterdays card and will add a hand cut leaf with the birthday girl's name by the FD's near the tassle. Well that is the intention :-/



I used Joanna Sheen's lace paper for the background and the image is one I found googling. Image and sentiment layered on purple patterned paper and silver mirri. Hand cut nunmber, more FD's, pearls and finished with organza ribbon


Thank you for looking

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A5 Best Wishes

Last Saturday I went to Colemans, Rushden to see Joanna Sheen and Paul Church demo'ing.
What a delightful few hours that was and I also had the pleasure of meeting up with some lovely Sheenies.
As my PC was poorly, Joanna kindly gave me the backing papers and some images that went with her demo's.
Now how nice was that. What a nice lady.
I used some of it today and made this card.




The flower has just one added layer to give a little depth.

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