Get Well

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Another card today....yipeeeee....I hope my days in the crafting doldrums are at an end lol.
 I was asked for a get well card a couple of weeks ago for someone who has had a hip replacement and it has taken me this long to get it done. Sometimes humourous cards come easy and then sometimes they don't.

I used the sketch at

Sketch Saturday #127 and the challenge at
Cards for Men  #22 - Anything as long as it is male
Papertake Weekly Challenge - Penny for the guy - a card for a man

There are two layers of this groovy ole geezer :-) I don't think he looks anything like the man who going to receive this and I hope he doesn't mind. I have been told he has a wicked sense of humour.

Thank you for stopping by and if you feel like leaving a comment it will be much appreciated -
Cheers me dears :-)

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Vintage Birthday

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I am still finding it hard to get back to cardmaking but I found this lovely lady and think she is perfect to go with these new  papers I bought on Saturday.

Challenges I'd like to enter

Kaboodle Doodles #43 - Make it Vintage
Lexi's Creations #26 - Anything goes
One Stop Craft Challenge #104 - Anything goes and blog hop

I had to join 2 together as the card blank is 8x6 and the papers are 6x6

The two ovals are matted on to my good old favourite silver mirri card and the one with the image fixed with foam pads.


Papers - K&Co
Flower - made from a truffle wrapper
Seam binding ribbon - My Wedding Party
MS border punch 
Sentiment - computer generated



Thank you for stopping by and if you have time to leave a comment you'll make my day :-)

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Crafty Ann's Challenge #26

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Gosh!! It was lovely to see soooo many wonderful entries for the last challenge and now it is time for

Crafty Ann's Challenge #26 

and this fortnight the theme is

Ribbon, Gems and embellishments made of 

paper or card

For my card I chose to use Ann's papers from the Mottled Stone collection - well distressed - and my paper embellishment is the Short Petal flower. The ribbon is vintage seam binding and the tassley trim, bought from a craft fair is actually cushion trimming - but I like it, lol, and it matched the colour of the BP. Finished off with lots of bling.

I printed the flower on to paper stamped with words and then spritzed it with Iridescent Gold glimmer mist.

The centre is Ice Crystal glitter jewels.

I would like to enter this in

Stampin Royalty Challenge #42 - Ribbon
Meljen's Challenge #30 - Anything goes
OCC Challenge - Embellishments - the more the merrier
OSAAT #35 - Embellish it!

I hope you will pop over to Crafty Ann's Challenge Blog to see the fabby creations from my lovely DT buddies and join in this fortnight. I'm  looking forward to visiting you and seeing your take on this challenge.

Remember: you don't have to use Crafty Ann's products to enter but you'll get two entries into the draw if you do.

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Daisy, daisy....

Since returning from holiday I am finding it a struggle to get back to card making and as my blog has been idle for 3 weeks I thought I'd better post something.
I have made this quick card using a download from CUP. Easy peasy, no skill required - just print cut and assemble.

The good thing with this is one is the only careful cutting needed was the bow and that was not all that difficult lol.

Thank you for stopping by

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Crafty Ann's Challenge #25

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Time again for a new challenge at Crafty Ann's and this fortnight you are invited to.....

....use a digi stamp and your favourite colouring medium
 Project to include at least one digi stamp and please tell us what colouring medium you've used.

When you read this I will be away on holiday and although I don't want to say it, Autumn is here and to be in keeping with the season I have used Ann's  sweet little squirrel digi stamp which I coloured with copics.

The backing papers are from the Mottled Stone & Woodgrain effect collections, all from Ann's Digi Shop. I needed an embellishment to finish it off and didn't think a flower, which I would normally use, was right for this card, so......I isolated and enlarged one of the leaves and an acorn to make the bunch at the top.

 

 This is the squirrel who visits our garden - when I snapped this pic he must have been sitting on his tail, lol

 

Do pop over to Ann's Challenge Blog  to see the excellent and varied work from the DT and come and join us this fortnight

 

Remember, you don't have to use Crafty Ann's products to enter but you'll get two entries into the draw if you do.

Thank you for stopping by ....

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Crafty Ann's Challenge #24

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The challenge over at Crafty Ann's Challenge Blog this fortnight is..........

 Anything but a Card!

 I have chosen to make a money wallet

I've used Ann's short petal flower printed on to paper from Funky Collection 3. I have layered two flowers and glittered the edges with glamour dust and mounted it on to a gold mirri Nellie circle. The sentiment in the centre is layered on to the smallest die from the Nellie set

The wallet itself is the pretty lilac Polished Stone with a MS border and peel-off corners.

I'd like to enter this in the following challenges.......

SCSC #101 - Anything goes
Charisma Cardz #38 - Anything goes
AiFactory #49 - Anything goes
Crafty Calendar Challenge #12 - Blue and flowers
Stampin Royalty #36 - Anything but a card


Do pop over to the challenge blog and see the the lovely creations from the design team. I hope you will be able to join in the challenge this time to make something other than a card.

You don't have to use Crafty Ann's products to enter but you'll get two entries into the draw if you do.

I will be away on me jollies for the fortnight so I'll have to wait til I get back to see your take on the challenge.

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16th Birthday and new Fancy Fold card

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Leann (Crafter's Companion) has posted instructions for a new fold here.
I had to have a go at this and here is the result - a card for our neighbour's daughter.

Side view to see the shape.

I love making easel cards but it is a nice challenge to do something different......
Thank you Leann xxxx


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40th Birthday - #3

I did my own thing here and made my own version of a word book. Not perfect, but it looks fairly impressive.
I learned a thing or two and will make a few changes if I ever do another, lol.

Paperplay Challenges #37 - All shapes and sizes - well, this is not entirely square
SCSC #101 - Anything goes
Totally Papercrafts #34 - Happy birthday
OSAAT #31 - Happy birthday


Thank you for stopping by and if you have time to leave a comment be sure it will be appreciated :-)

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40th Birthday #2

I'd like to enter this in the following challenges

The ABC Challenge - Distressing
A Pocketful of Posies #6 - Floral fantasy
A Spoonful of Sugar - Fall into Autumn colour challenge
Creative Stamp Friends #7 -  Distressing
Sir Stampalot - September challenge - All distressed

Computer generated sentiment
Digi DP - E Kipler from Sweet Shoppe
Flora Doodles - nearly down to my last of these :-(
Seam binding ribbon from Sam at  My Wedding Party 



Thank you for stopping by



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70th Birthday Easel Card for a Soap Fan

I am pleased to be back home again after spending 8 days at my daughter's looking after two teenagers  and a pup. I was looking after her business as well but fortunately I wasn't too overwhelmed with orders as she had contacted many of her customers before she went away.

I had a request for a 70th birthday card for a lady who loves the 'soaps'. I was happy with the result and the lady who commissioned it was delighted. This is what it is all about, isn't it, making a completely unique card.
Or maybe there are cards for Corrie & Emmerdale fans, I rarely browse the card shops these days, lol

I found an image of an old postcard and digitally added the Rovers and E/dale village. I blurred the edges to blend the two together. I also made up the signpost. The scroll has been distressed and roughed up a bit :-)

Flowers - from Crafty Ann's digi shop
Leaves - 1" Woodware punch.
MS border punch
Flower centres coloured with copic pen
The papers are from digi collections but I can't remember which.

I'd like to enter this  in
Our Creative Corner challenge - Fun with Folds
The ABC Challenge - D is for.......Distressing

Thank you for stopping by and the comments you leave are greatly appreciated

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Crafty Ann's Challenge #23

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This week Crafty Ann's Challenge is

Monochrome

and I chose green

I love this Cala Lily image from Crafty Ann's Shop and have given it a light colouring with a green copic.

The BP's are from the Polished Stone collection and the Embossed Hearts collection also from Ann's digi shop.

I used my new Nestie label toy for both the base and the layers and these have been edged with pentouch gold.

A pale green organza bow and voila!

I would also like to enter this in

Fab 'n' Funky # 39 - What'eva'
Crafty Cardmakers # 29 - Clean & Simples
Lexi's Creations #22 - Flower power

Please pop over to the Challenge Blog to see the DT's gorgeous samples

Thank you for stopping by and I  hope you will be able to join in the challenge this time and I look forward to seeing what you come up with.

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Wedding Card

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This will be winging it's way to Tasmania. The lady who commissioned this is not going to the wedding but will be visiting the happy couple next year, so I made a stronger box for it which I hope will survive the journey

Allsorts challenge #68 - new beginnings
Daring Cardmakers - Sapphires for September
Paperplay #35 - In stitches
Papertake Weekly - Just the one (colour blue)

Some stitching and distressing and a peeloff border around the heart

The box.....
This is an 8 inch square card and fortunately I have some A3 cardstock. It took quite a while to make a template for the box  to fit the card. The biggest problem was that it was too big to fit my guillotine and score board. Got there in the end though
I kept the embellishing simple as it is going in a jiffy bag although the silver panel is raised with foam pads

Papers - Bearly Mine and Nearly White, by Loreta Labarca
Flowers & pins - Wild Orchid
Ribbon - My Wedding Party
Sissix swirl -  glamour dusted
Handcut heart
Lace and gems

Thank you for stopping by and for your kind and greatly appreciated comments :-)

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Jingle Bells

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Weeeheee, my second Christmas card.

I've made this for the CD Sunday challenge when I should have been making a card for a little girl's 6th birthday.
I thought this card would be no problem, once I'd decided on the image and BP. Haha, how wrong was I!
I put the front on upside down.....twice......and then saw I had forgotten to fix the ribbon . Fortunately the base card is sorta pearly and I managed to lift the paper enough to get the ribbon underneath

Both the image and BP is from Joanna Sheen's Victorian Christmas CD.
The little tag says Jingle Bells ( it looks more like 'balls', oooer ) and is stamped with a red pigment ink and heat embossed with clear EP. I dabbed around the edge with gold Papermania  inkpad.

Thank you for stopping by today

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Get Well

A quick and simple get well card for an asian gentleman.

This week  Craft Your Days Away challenge #2 is - With wings

Not much to say about this........a rather nice pic of a handsome crane standing amongst some pretty irises, matted on to some plainish paper with a printed sentiment . Base card is silver mirri.
Sorry about the wonky photo, I tried to straighten it but as you can see I failed :-(

Thank you for stopping by and if you have time to leave a comment it will be treasured :-)

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Crafty Ann's Challenge #22 - DT card

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Crafty Ann's Challenge Blog 

click the link above to go  

Crafty Ann's challenge time again and this is the first challenge on the  

new blog  and there is a great sketch to follow.
I like sketches :-)

You can use any theme or colour way and you can turn it, flip it, twist it if you want to as long as we can still recongnise the sketch.

   

I've used Ann's digi mask for this one and papers from the polished stone collection, one from the brights and one from the pastels. I put the darker paper through my CB with the Swiss Dots embossing folder.
I coloured the mask digitally and then printed an extra copy on to photo paper and 3d'd it. I used gold pentouch around the edges.
Of course it is a rule that every mask has to have loads-a-bling... (OK, so I made that up)....there is glitter around the edge of the mask and lots of 'diamonds' as well as the base card being holographic mirri.

  

Close up of the bling

I am entering this in ........
Papertake Weekly Challenge   which is a recipe  1,2 3 - one image, two papers, 3 gems
Rainbow Lady's challenge #116 - Sparkle & Shine
Creative Card Crew - Sparkle & Shine

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I hope you will pop over to the new blog and see what gorgeousness the DT have come up with.

Of course I hope you will join in this first challenge on Ann's new blog and then I can come and visit to see your take on this

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Lexi's Creations Challenge #20

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DIL's dad's 70th so this is for g/son to give to him

Lexi's Creations #20 - Yellow and Orange     Edit: Oooops, missed it

Stripe DP  - Wild Honey from Gina Miller

Other one - I've forgotten

Computer generated sentiment

Thank you so much for stopping by :-) your comments are really appreciated.

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Sympathy

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Not the nicest sort of card to have to make, especially when it is a former work colleague who has passed away.

I used the colour challenge over at Colour Create #51 - Ivory, Duck Egg blue and one other colour from the inspiration picture.
Stamping for the Weekend #45 - is anything Goes

Image - Pink Petticoat
Paper - Bearly Mine
Plain ivory paper CB'd with swiss dots and brushed with green ink pad
MS border punch
Organza ribbon

Thank you so much for stopping by :-)

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Quick Birthday cards

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I had to make three quick cards last night for my son-in-law's birthday - today!!
I left it to the last minute cos I am in the crafting doldrums, a complete lack of mojo. I guess it will pass and just hope it will be soon.

Colour Create Challenge  #51 is - Ivory, duck egg blue and one other colour -  card three :-)
Cute Card Thursday # 125 is - Tree-mendous! - card one.
Daring Cardmakers is - is also Tree-mendous! - card one.
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge #35 is - Anything goes


This first card to be from the g/children is made entirely from the free papers in the current Making Cards mag. Just a topper and computer generated greeting matted on to holographic silver mirri card.

 The second one from me and hubs. Same as the first one with papers from the May edition of MC mag. Brown grosgrain ribbon from stash.

Third one for DD. BP's are from the Sprout collection from Shabby Shoppe. I cut the CB'd swirl in half and placed the Nellie frame and sentiment over the gap :-) I put a strip of plasterboard tape over the LH panel.

Actually they don't look too bad considering they were made in such a rush.

Thank you for stopping by today

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Crafty Ann's Challenge #21 - DT card

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The challenge at Crafty Ann's this fortnight is

Christmas in August

I have to tell you that I have never made a Chistmas card earlier than the beginning of December.....but.....hey! this is a  challenge after all, lol, and once I got 'psyched up'  I really enjoyed making this.  Might even do another in the next 3 months, lol.

I chose one of Ann's pretty Christmas Bauble digi's, coloured with copics. The centre's and tops have been embossed with detail gold EP and then I added 3D clear gloss over the green. for a lovely shine. These were been shaped before fixing with the usual blob of silicone and look nicely dimensional.

Bauble images - Crafty Ann's digi shop
BP - free from Making Cards mag
MS border punch
Nestie scalloped oval cut from gold mirri card
Gold thread, ribbon, peel off  from stash

I do hope you will be able to join us for Challenge #21 and I look forward to seeing your
Christmas in August cards.

Please do pop over to Crafty Ann's Challenge Blog and see the lovely festive cards the rest of the lovely DT have come up with.


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.................. is moving to a new home and here is a message from Ann to tell you all about it

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Hello to all of you who love a challenge! 

For a number of resaons I've decided that it's time for  
Crafty Ann's Challenge Blog to move home - and  
this is it!

The first challenge on this blog will be on Friday 27th August and in the meantime, I'm hoping you'll help me to spread the word. 

How about the opportunity to win some digis??????? This is all you need to do:

1. Become a follower to be included in the followers draw
2. Post about our move on your blog and add our challenge blinkie to your side bar then come and add your link on Inlinkz to be included in the Inlinkz draw

I'll draw 1 winner from the followers and 1 from Inlinkz this Saturday the 14th then I'll do the same thing on Friday the 20th and finally the day the first challenge goes live on here, Friday the 27th. That's 6 prizes on offer and as an added incentive to get in early, it means more opportunities to win if you do!

Each winner will receive 3 digis of their choice.

Our regular challenge will still happen on the Wordpress blog this Friday, the 13th so don't forget to join us there and don't forget to come back here on Saturday to see if you're one of the first two winners. :D

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