More for Son in Law

I had to get a wriggle on this morning to get these done for SIL's birthday tomorrow

This is for g/children





8inch Octogon from daughter





Ooops, I can see I took this pic before the glue dried.lol



From Son and family, just two fun images I have stored on my PC.





The insert



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Son in Law

A5

It is Son in Law's birthday on Sunday and I'll have 5 cards to make for him so I've used this sketch from Charisma Cardz challenge 31 as the basis for the card from us.
This sketch is something quite different and was keen to use it.






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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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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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For a Friend

150mm square

I haven't kept in touch with many colleagues from my former life in the world of work but I do like to share a little goss with Pat now and then. I always see her on her birthday which will be in 2wks time so am looking forward to that.

I had a look at some of my fave challenges and made this to fit five of them.

Spoonful of Sugar - Floral Fantasy
Simon Says Stamp - Buttons and Ribbons
Pollycraft Monday Challenge - Buttons and Bows
Penny's Challenges - Buttons - a new challenge blog, not just cards!
Friday Sketchers - lovely sketch





Making this card involved a lot of measuring and I cut the curved bits using 2 bowls
I tried the 'out of frame' technique with the image, but it turned out to be 'not very much out of frame'!! Never mind, it is lovely idea and will have another go sometime.

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Enjoy the weekend everyone, it looks as though it is summer today :-)

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Five Challenges

A5

My friend's birthday is not until Sunday but I made this last night because I'll be seeing her tonight and can give it to her then.

I made it to fit five challenges -

Rainbow Lady's Challenge - Four Corners
The Pink Elephant Recipe - 3 brads, 1 flower and designer paper
(Gina Miller,Larkspur & Linda Gil Billdal, Scrap Artist)
Our Creative Corner - Purple - the check paper looks blue but is actually purple!
Daring Cardmakers - Lots of bling
2 Sketches 4 You - The sketch







I'm entertaining 6yr old g/son today so I hope to grab a few minutes now to decorate and finish the inside while he is having his lunch and watching Indiana Jones.

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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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Bizzy Becs Challenge

A brand new challenge blog, Creatalicious Challenge Blog will be starting on August 15. This will be a monthly challenge so everyone will have plenty of time to join in.



To celebrate this new venture there is some delish candy up for grabs and
Becs is looking for two people to join the DT for 6 months.
There is a lovely sketch to follow and instructions on the site.



Well, I am taking the plunge and putting this forward. There are an awful lot of excellent entries already and don't expect a result, but hey, nothing lost :-)
I must admit a certain envy (a nice envy of course,lol) of all the talented people who share their gorgeous creations with us.

Shame it is not a very good pic. My 'photography skills' are getting worse daily or to be more precise 'nightly'. I shall have to take the pics in daylight in future.



I used my brand new beautiful MS punch recently acquired from Joanna Sheen. Such a joy not having to rely on my corner punch or Mum's pinking shears to fancy-up edges.



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Golden Wedding Anninversary

8inch square

Simon Says Challenge Blog is all about distressing this week.

I am very pleased with how this card turned out after spending an age deciding on a design and what papers to use. It actually looks very classy and am happy to say the lady I have made it for is delighted. It is her parents GWA tomorrow so I hope they like it too.
I think I spent nearly as long making the insert and the wrapper as I did the actual card.

The circle sentiment on the front is gold foiled and boy! what a job I had with it.
Anyone who has done foiling will know that it only works on text printed on a laser printer. Well, as I have only got an inkjet I had to go and use my DD's printer. The first attempt was patchy so another trip to DD's to do it again.
After that performance I decided to print the greeting on the front of the wrapper on my printer just using the gold colour.
The BP is from Audrey Jeanne's Victorian Rose collection a digital download possibly from Gina Miller. I forget cos I got it a long time ago.
The heart at the top is 'sparkled' with Glamour Dust and I made a hat pin to sit amongst the flowers lower down.
Some hand stitching, lots of flowers and a couple of corner peel-offs and taa-daa - done!!!



Some more pics





The wrapper





The insert



The DT cards for the Simon Says Challenge are gorgeous and I hope this card is acceptable.

Crikey, what a long post - I'm not usually so chopsy, lol.

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They are always very welcome and so cheering and encouraging :-)

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Another quick card

A5

Edit I have changed the card because it looked too flat. I changed the flowers and made two layers to give a bit more dimension. I also added another layer to the paper bow.
I think it looks much better now :-)


Another quick card tonight.

The Daring Cardmakers challenge this week is 'On the Edge' and this has scallops on the edge :-)

I have used the sketch from this weeks 2 sketches 4 you challenge.







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Quick card

135mm square

I've been feeling a bit out of sorts lately but have managed to do a quick card tonight and am pleased that it fits three challenges.
All the cards I made last week missed the deadlines, so I'm happy to get this one done in time.

I have used my new MS border punch that arrived last week from The Hobby House. I have longed for an MS punch for ages and now that I've got my first I want more!

1 I've used the MMSC11 sketch

2 Polkadots from the Creative Card Crew challenge

3 Colour Create challenge 23 is Blue and White



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Some birthday cards

I've made three cards this week. Two were for challenges and I've missed the deadline of both. How dozy is that, lol.

This one was for MMSC10 made for DIL's nephew. The choice was Kelly Brook again (as last year) or the Hollyoak Babes. Anyway he loved this one



This was for a lovely bloggy buddy and of course I couldn't put it here until after she had received it.
Happy birthday Lorraine. Pleased to hear you've had a smashing day and lots of lovely cards :-)

I used the sketch from Spoonful of Sugar



The third card is not a challenge sketch and for my little great nephew who is two today.




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50th birthday and MMSC9

A5

I have had a lot of 'special' birthday cards to do this year and this one for the wife of the steward of the club we go to every two weeks. She has had a serious health problem this year and fortunately, I'm happy to say, has made a good recovery.

I thought the MMSC9 sketch was perfect for this card and really enjoyed using it





Digi image is Madison from Charmed Cards and I have coloured her dress to match the BP as near as I could.
I really love this image for celebratory cards and am in danger of being boring by using it so many times.

I added a little bit of sparkle to the flowers and the shoes are coloured with gold Pentouch. The '50' is discretely hidden in one of the flowers, lol, and the colouring in this pic is maddeningly distorted. Darn'd camera!!



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Birthday wine

A5

I had a request for a card for a birthday 'boy' who likes red wine :-) and have used the this weeks Friday Sketchers challenge as inspiration.









I have swapped the circles on the sketch for tabs as I felt these looked better for this card, rather than circles. Don't know if he would appreciate flowers which would have been the right shape.
The BP's are from the Moss Landing collection by Traci Sims.
The image is courtesy of Google, matted on silver card as is the greeting and name. The big 'J' is also silver although it is hard to tell from the pic.

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Birthday wishes

A5

For a friend.



This fits two challenges

Daring Cardmakers - Blue and Green

Friday Sketchers

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New baby

My sister's eldest daughter gave birth to a beautiful baby boy last week.
He is named Ronnie after his Daddy's late father and he is a little darling.
I had the pleasure of meeting him last Friday.
His big brother is two tomorrow so it will be good that he will be getting a lot of fuss for his birthday so soon after the excitement of the new arrival.
My sister now has five grandsons. Isn't that lovely :-)



I have used this lovely baby image again just because I love it.

The challenge over at A Spoonful of Sugar this week is Hearts so I am putting this forward for that.

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Birthday wishes

This is to wish Happy Birthday to a very talented crafter.
Andrew makes the most wonderful cards as anyone lucky enough to receive one will testify.
Just in case you pop in for a deco Andrew, I'd like to say that I hope you had a very special day yesterday.



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The second Thank You card

An unusual occurrence - I made two cards today. This happened because I had to stay in all day.
Hubby paid a visit to the loo at 5.30am (ooops, maybe too much information, haha) and heard water running in the pipes. Had a look outside and the driveway and front garden were like a lake. Turned off the supply at the mains, so no water. Then we couldn't lock the back door!
The chappie came and fixed the door about 12.30 and the Homeserve men came about 3pm.
Decided we needed a nice cuppa tea and I dropped and broke the teapot lid.
Son popped in for a while after seeing the doc and has been signed off work for two weeks. He kneeled on a screw head at work and his leg is swollen from knee to ankle.
Quite an interesting day!

This card fits the following challenges

Colour Create - Grassy green, apple green, sunflower yellow, lemon and white

Pollycraft - Arrows

Crafty Goings On - Coloured stamped or digi download

MMSC challenge 8 - Sketch


A6

The cute young fella from Pollycraft digi downloads has made another appearance but I had to give him a different colour jumper for this one.
Coloured with Copics as the previous card. BP's are some of the oddments I am trying to use up.



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Thank you cards for Teachers

A6

This is the first of two I've made for 6yr old grandson.
He needs two as his teachers are job sharing.
Not such a task as last year when I had to do four



I followed the Carol's Sketch Fun challenge 9
I have got so used to doing 150mm square or A5 I find it difficult to do such small cards nowadays.
This cute young fella is from the Promise Collection by Pollycraft



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