Pink and Swirls

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The last card for DD's birthday today.

Oooh, how very pink, lol.

The BP is a freebie from craft mag.
Garden Weave die d-lites, my favourite of the moment - shame there isn't a 'mirror' die with this so they would be nice as corners on a larger card.
I lightly coloured the flowers with spun sugar DI.
I made a scroll from parchment type paper and distressed the edges.

I had left this to the last minute and luckily I had made the flower some time ago. I used crinoline from Linda's, Funkie Junkie Boutique and some net cut with TH tattered flower garland die.  The centre is a large brad liberally covered with silver glitter.
There are a few gems on the swirls

Challenges
Ladybug - think pink
Eclectic Ellapu - photo inspiration - yippee, this was one of the top5!!!!
Fun With Shapes - greengate style
Let's Craft and Create  #64 - swirls



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Cheers me dears :)


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It's a Girl Thing at Crafty Ann's

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Crafty Ann's Challenge  #67

It's a Girl Thing 
 ~~ any project either for or about a woman or a girl ~~
 (card, scrapbook page, bookmark, box, ATC etc - anything as long as it's feminine.)

I immediately thought of using PINK for this challenge and have chosen elements from the Pretty in Pink    scrapbook collection and the backing paper is from Abstract Pastels - a nice match, dontcha think :)
I really like the border, it reminds me of a bracelet I once had.

 

We hope you will be able to play along with us for this girly challenge. There is plenty of delicious inspiration by the DT to be found over at CACB  if you care to pop in and have a look-see :) and add your own feminine, girly creations.

I'd also like to enter

CropStop #75 - monochromatic

MMM #52 - birthday card with pearls
4 Crafty Chicks #93 - monochromatic
Crafty Calendar - flowers in bloom + optional flourish
Digital Tuesday #163 - anything goes



Thank you for stopping by today :)
Cheers me dears

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Bold & Bright at Crafty Ann's

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Challenge #59

Bold and Bright

is this fortnight's challenge at Crafty Ann's

I have had major printer problems so the main part of this card was assembled digitally.  The BP, diamond shaped borders, flourishes and greeting were printed as one piece.

I made three layers for the flower and added three gold rimmed pearl buttons.

Simple really but it looks so nice IRL.

The main BP is from the funky collection -

Pre-coloured flower
Gold embossed effect diamond shaped border from Sweet Sage
White pearl in gold ring also from Sweet Sage...
....all available from Crafty Ann's Digi Shop
Flourishes - unknown

Be bold......be bright....and and come play with us.  As always there are some excellent samples for inspiration by the DT over at CACB - well worth popping over to see .

I'd also like to enter the following challenges
Allsorts #141 - free and easy February
Crafter's Companion #21 - anything goes
OSAAT#100 - anything goes
Penny's PCC #73 - anything goes



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Cheers me dears 


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Flower Frenzy - CACB #53

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Crafty Ann's Challenge #53

this fortnight is 

Floral Frenzy

For anyone who love flowers this is a super challenge and right up my street :-)

For the main BP I have used the pale brown  from the polished stone collection - I LOVE this colour :-)

The flowers are the short petal digi and are made from funky collection 1- and sooo easy to make. My way is to print the digi on to the back of your chosen paper, cut out, go around the edges with an ink pad, shape by curling the petals then layer together and put something pretty in the centre.

The frame is from Ann's metallic collection. I cut out the centre and layered it with silicone over the computer generated sentiment . All these can be found at Ann's digi shop here.

I've used three layers for the flowers and finished off by filling the centres with a liberal helping of cosmic shimmer glitter jewels - just a posh name for chunky glitter, lol.

I made a double bow with this pretty ribbon I found hiding at the bottom of the ribbon drawer. I needed a flourish so glamour dusted this one using the fab TH die. Distressed edges with vintage photo inkpad
Lace from my stash and a bit of bling and voila - a card for DD's friend's birthday tomorrow.

It will be great if you can join in and treat us to a Flower Frenzy because I'm looking forward to seeing your flowery creations.
If you are in need of inspiration go see my DT buddies super designs over at Crafty Ann's Challenge Blog 

 I'd also like to enter these challenges
The Corrosive Challenge #136 - with a flourish
Crafty Cardmakers #55 - colour combo - pink, brown, cream
Dream Valley #19 - anything goes
Papertake Weekly  - anything goes - plus a bit of bling
The Pink Elephant #123 - distressing




Thank you for stopping by and the lovely comments you've taken the time to leave on previous posts.
Cheers me dears :-)


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Last of the 60's

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Challenges
Mojo #204 - sketch
Fussy & Fancy - 1K followers celebration/ use the blog colours
Papertake - bingo - pearls, blooms, other = ribbon
CCC - hand made flowers
Bearly Mine #17 - bring on the bling

I've used my new TH mini flourish die:-)

Hand made UTEE'd flower - others from WO
Hand made sentiment
Purple velvet ribbon 
Pearls
Punched leaves
Corner peel-off mounted on to pearly card and then popped up with foam pads


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Cheers me dears

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Diamond Wedding

8" square

There is a lot of sparkle and bling on this Diamond Wedding Anniversary card.
I covered the Sissix flourish with glamour dust, the doily with glitter glue and the flowers, with irridescent gold glimmer mist.
The large curly rose is new from Wild Orchid.



The addition of a few 'diamonds', organza ribbon and a little peel-off butterfly finish it off.



The box is made of silver mirri card and the top edged with peel-offs. The Nellie Sneddon frame with the number on looked a bit bare on the front so I used a Spellbinder Fleur de Lys shape underneath.
I really struggle with these. They won't cut through my cardstock and when I use paper I have a right job to get the shape out of the die. Still, I shall persevere because I do like them.



A lace bow and some flowers - finished.



This is for the following challenges
Creative Inspirations - No stamped images
Daring Cardmakers - Diamond
Papertake - open theme

My apologies for lack of blog visiting.
I have been very busy since my last post but hardly enjoying myself.
Last w/end I was helping hubby and grandson concrete a base for his new shed.
Barrowing sand n gravel and mixing the odd load of concrete is not my idea of how to spend a Saturday.
Tuesday was our 47th wedding anniversary which was spent hedge cutting and gardening.
Thursday we had 2 new radiators put in and the shed was delivered...delivery chap left it in the driveway....getting the panels around the back was hard work.
Friday more panel shifting while bubby gave it a coat of preservative.
Today I've been a gofer while son did the heavy work putting the shed together.
I ache like billy-oh, must be old age or summat, hahaha.

Thank you for stopping by and for all the lovely encouraging comments left recently.
I appreciate every one.

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Vintage Lady 2

Truly Scrumptious challenge 21 is a lovely sketch this week, but have to admit it really stretched my imagination.




I wanted to do a side opening A5 and had a job to arrange the elements to fit this size.
I hope what I have done is acceptable for the challenge.



I made the decision re the BP's fairly quickly....for a change....but then wasn't satisfied with the image. First I printed it on a parchment type paper...no, didn't like it...next on to photo paper....decided this was too small...so printed a larger one. The 2 reject images are under this final one but I'll keep that a secret.
I spent ages last night making two scrunched flowers then didn't like them...so settled for these lovely blossoms from Wild Orchid.
I changed my mind re the ribbon as well...burgundy was my first choice but the card looked too drab so went for the green.

When it was finished I had a 'funny turn' and decided to make a bag thingy to put it in...it is going to be given to the birthday lady at her party tomorrow, so no posting involved.
It would have fitted in an envelope, albeit a lumpy fit...but NO, I do things the hard way. This must have taken over an hour to make. It is made from 2 sheets of silver mirri card so is actually shiny and not matt gray



The image is another from Art Creations that was posted for a challenge some time ago. The flourish I made last week and is glamour dusted.

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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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Colour Create - 16 - and Dutch Dare - 60th card

A5

What absolutely delicious colours they are for this week 16 of Colour Create challenge. Thank you Kim :-)

Over at the Dutch Dare the challenge is Glitter and Bling, yippee!




I was asked for another 60th birthday card and couldn't resist this colour combination.



Optional extras this week are to add gloss, glitter or glaze.
Surprise, surprise I chose glitter.

I love this image but can't remember where she came from.The BP's are from Gina Miller Sweet Pea collection.
Stitching, distressing and hand made flowers complete this, along with a die-cut swirl (glittered), punched leaves, organza bow and a large diamonte? brad.




The no:60 on the blue flower is under a Papermania dome sticker. I found these at the bottom of my 'bittybob' drawer. They have been hiding there for ages and have started to curl up.
The flowers have been Cuttlebugged, some with Devine Swirls, the others with Swiss Dots embossing folders. Everything is edged with ColorBox chalk inkpad - Azurite.



Thank you for looking in and for any comments, which are happily received :-)

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Get well

8" square

I have made an urgent get well card tonight.
Daughter's friend fell down the stairs yesterday and has broken her ankle in two places. Poor thing has had it pinned etc today and it seems she will be in hospital for a few days.



I have made a large card so that a few other friends can sign it if they wish.

I am not particularly happy with it but, it was made in rather a rush.

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They are always greatly appreciated

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First Holy Communion

I wonder if I can get away with this for The Pink Elephant challenge?
This is the card.............



and this is the sketch



BP's are from digi sets and I used my new Fiskars lace border punch. The lovely Melinda has Glamour Dust sparkled wings and has been lightly coloured with copics.
There is some more lace border and a matching flower on the insert with a prayer and the greeting. I had to add a little bit of real lace and some bling on the flower centres.





Thank you for your lovely comments, blogging buddies, you really make my day :-)

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40th birthday

Back again to 40th birthday cards!
This is the first of six (maybe even seven)I have to make in the next two weeks.
Fortunately they are for three different recipients.



Once again this is one of my hand-cut templates made on PM6.5 although the 'open' numbers are done in Word.

I think I may have overdone the Glamour Dust (a new aquisition,
have you guessed?).
I really got carried away and 'bling'ed'
anything not glued down :-)










I made another little stick pin and
placed it behind a flower.






I used various papers already printed, also some lace, organza ribbon and some pretty flowers from Artoz. Well, that's what it says on the box!

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One Stop Craft Challenge - 22

One Stop Craft Challenge this week is 'Bling Tastic'.
Who needs an excuse to use some bling? Not me!!!

This card is for Hubby's Aunt who will be 88 on Monday.



I have wanted to make some jewelley stick pins for some time but haven't had time to find a source for the pins so decided to use head pins. I bought some on Saturday (can't find the ones I thought I had) and added one of my efforts to the card.



We've been so busy at DD's new house it looks like cardmaking and blogging will be taking a back seat for a while.

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Spoonful of Sugar - Challenge 41

Torn edges are required this week.
Great!! as far as I'm concerned cos I love torn edges

More colouring with my copics and lace, flowers and ribbon - all my favourites


Close ups




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50th birthday

8inch square

I had a request for a card from DD's friend for a special card for her sister's 50th.
Her birthday is not until next month but she lives in Australia so I needed to make it in plenty of time.



You can tell I think it is extra special because I have again parted with TWO of the lovely Mulberry flowers. Greeting embossed with fine detail gold, hand cut leaf, flourish and 'Sister' and number cut in Azure font.
I actually did a bit of hand stitching on the 'torn' layer. My sewing machine is too big to get out just for a little bit like this. I'll have to look out for one of those little ones. I cut the middle out of a nestie label to make a frame and ran it through my CB using swiss dots embossing folder



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Big, huge 13th card

A4

Whew, this took a bit of doing!! I have done quite a few number cards but wanted to do something a bit more special for Grandaughter from her Mum & Dad. The initial idea seemed simple enough but it took an age to get the template just right, cut out and fixed together. The pics are not very good. I was in a rush to get it to DD this evening and didn't know that it was such a rubbish pic or would have tried again.



I have not cut the No:13 through to the back as I usually do. Instead I have left the back solid and lined it with a pale lilac paper.




Used a little bit of lace, organza ribbon and the lovely mulberry wild roses from Joanna Sheen, flourish in silver mirri-type card and bling


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Card for a friend

150mm square

This is for friend J who worked with me in another life.
It also fits the January challenge on Joanna Sheen's forum.
The challenge this month is to use a stamped background and this is the first time I have attempted masking. I used the script from the Hydrangea stamp from Joanna Sheen. Elusive Images, I think, but please someone put me right if I am wrong.
Other stamps used were a butterfly, an initial, my 'pretty lady' and a clear corner stamp and a flower.
I roughly cut a flower out of the original BP, inked edges and lightly painted it with copics. My favourite piece on this is the flourish cut with my brand new Sissix die, a Christmas pressie to myself. I added some dots of pearly Appli-glue that I have had for years and finished with a greeting tag, a bow, and pink gems that are actually for a mobile phone.





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