CACB #36

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Crafty Ann's Challenge #36

and this time we have a sketch/theme challenge

  ~ Spring is in the Air ~

......I like sketch challenges.....and I like spring....so a perfect challenge

Here is my interpretation of the sketch and theme.  For my birthday my daughter got some tools to start me off with parchment craft and as I was itching to practice I  have done something for the challenge.
 I also had some gorgeous handmade cards.....thank you so much dear bloggy friends :-)

I used Ann's short petal flower and leaves as a template.....it reminds me of one of the hellebores just coming into flower in my garden.
I fixed it to a mat from the mottled stone collection 4 - this is layered on to some silver .mirri. The main BP is one of the funky collection 2.
The border on the other piece of parchment is an adaptation of a free border I found on the net. I am very pleased that some of Ann's digi's can be used for parchment craft.

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Finished with a few stick on pearls.

I'd like to enter this for
Aly's Sunday Challenge  - Anything goes
The Pink Elephant #95 -  Spring time

Do pop over to the Crafty Ann's Challenge Blog and see the beautiful sketch/spring cards made by the DT.
It would be lovely if you can join us for this challenge.

 Thank you for stopping by
Cheers me dears


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50th Birthday

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Challenges
Oooh LaLa #75 - It's a man thing
Creative Card World - card for a male
CCC - no flowers
Simon Says - anything goes
Colour Create #66 - greens, brown, cream, black + leaves

Various papers from my leftover bits folder and freebies from Making Cards mag

Thank you for stopping by :-)
Cheers me dears

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15th birthday

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 Some cards for granddaughter's boyfriend

Challenges
Allsorts #93 - card for a teenager
Aud Sentiments #23 - birthday
Creative Card Crew - no flowers

Thank you for stopping by :-)
Cheers me dears

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New Baby Girl

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Commissioned New Baby card.

Challenges for this card

OLLCB #74 - Pink, pink and more pink!
Crazy 4 Challenges #76 - Flowers - only one! but there are flowers on the lace too
AiF #69 - Monochromatic
The Crazy Challenge #55 - Baby love
Pear Tree Designs #37 - One colour
Anything Goes CB - Distressing
My Partner in Crafting Crime #20 - All about baby

I made the image stightly transparent and printed it directly on to some DP along with the words. Distressed edges with my trusty steel ruler - I like one of those distressing thingys to make the job easier...sigh!

This sweet image again and I still don't remember where it is from.

Image - unknown
Papers - Sprout digi collection
Flowery lace - local haberdashers
Wide satin ribbon -  local haberdashers
Handcut, glamour dusted heart
String and flowers from stash


Thank you for stopping by and the lovely encouraging comments
Cheers me dears :-)


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Butterflies in Blue

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I've long admired those definition background stamps - among other things, lol, but the craft budget is somewhat restricted
So I found the definition of  'niece'  from the OED, (I've done friend as well) chose a brown colour and made my own.
It is printed on to canvas paper (an Aldi bargain last week) and aged with blending chalk and I'm real pleased with the result.

The butterflies are from Wings & Flowers CD. I love the content of this CD but do wish it was possible to export to a graphics prog. I managed in the end but it was a struggle to get the b/flies where I wanted.

One layer is printed directly on to the b/ground. I printed  the two large b/flies on to photo paper and shaped and layered these on top. The sentiment is printed directly on to the b/ground too.
The inspiration for this came from the 'Butterflies in Blue' article in last Sept Making Cards mag.

Challenge
Flutter by Wednesday #129 - Anything goes
Crafts & Me - Spread your wings
Do You Stack Up #8 - Anything goes
City Crafter #45 - Nothing to it - no bows, no lace, no flowers, no buttons.


Thank you for stopping by
Cheers me dears :-)


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60th Easel Card

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Inspirational Card Sketches #103 - Easel card
Craft Your Passion #46 - Male card
Lollypop Crafts #27 - Black, white and a pop of colour
Dutch Dare #100 - Sparkle, glitter, bling

For an Arsenal fan :-) and boy did I struggle with this.

I cut a star and covered it in fine black glitter - ooooh, what a messy job! - layered it on to a d'vine swirled mat. The number 60 is Sissix Azure alpha die and the BP is from the Papermania Mono pad.
I printed the 'happy birthday' strip and 'dear husband and layered that on to silver mirri. The sentiment is handcut with fancy scissors

 As I had to get something Arsenal in, I printed the logo on to photo paper and used it to hold down the ribbon.

Thank you for stoppping by
Cheers me dears :-)


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Sympathy

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For the sister and niece of a lady who loved freesia's

 Challenge
Totally Papercrafts #53 - Clean & Simple

Thank you for stopping by
Cheers me dears :-)

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The CD Sunday Challenge

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OH YES!!!   Swirls and Pearls at CD Sunday   this week and here is my entry.

Paper from Debbi Moore's Glitter & Glitz Magic Moments
A flourish cut from black card and glamour dusted
A flower made from crepe paper with pearl centre and glittered edges from the tutorial by Terri. My effort is not a patch on Terri's but still quite pretty.
This is the second outing for my MS border punch - tis funny that I longed for this for so long and now that I've got it I haven't made many cards to suit it.

Close up of crepe flower - but don't examine it too closely.

Thank you for stopping by
Cheers me dears

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8th and 9th Birthdays

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For my great nephew and Granson's friend and
Challenge
Pollycraft  #80 - Special birthdays

Both these cards are 'digital productions'.
For this first one I used Summer Driggs Boy oh Boy papers and elements. The stars and the number were made in PhotoPlus.

This one is for young g/son's friend. He had a bowel transplant last summer and has made a remarkable recovery. He spent much of his life from birth in hospital and it is good to see him with more energy and looking so much better. He  will have to learn to eat proper food now as he has always been fed by 'tube'.
This year he is keen on Bagucan!  This is new to me and makes a change from Star Wars or Pokemon :-)

Thank you for stopping by
Cheers me dears :-)


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The Last Valentine

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SOS from g/daughter this morning for a card for her boyfriend.

Challenges for this card
I used Crafty Ho's lovely sketch- actually a colour challenge Brown & Blue or just the sketch or both
Rainbow Lady #139 - It's all about love
Tanda Teaaser #164 - Share the love
Scrappy Frogs  - Love is in the air
Crafty Cardmakers #39 - Hearts
PixieDust #61 - be my Valentine
Let's Craft & Create #12 - Heart felt

Two BP's from the Papermania Mono pad and the red is a digital download from Gina  Miller's Cinnamon Apples collection

Handcut heart matted on to  black with 3 gems - I went over some of the flowers with 3D clear gloss and did the same with the homemade brads. I have a small heart punch...glittered it... and was happy to find that it fitted perfectly inside the pearl ribbon slider

Thank you for stopping by
Cheers me dears :-)


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Three Very Different Valentines

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Except for the sentiment panel all of this is made from the free papers from Febs Making cards mag.
I tried to make the same colour for the panel and it looked fine in artificial light but not here - oh well, not to worry.

The rose shapes given in the mag are similar to the roses I have made recently and I added one to the rose on the topper

Challenges
CYDA #13 - Photo inspiration
AiF #67 - Happy Valentines Day
ASFOS #138 - Let's see some love
Creatalicious #18 - Ribbon and love

This card is CASE'd from a video tutorial by Wendy Nasmith

This one is a CASE'd version of a card by Sharon  Cards n Greetings  who CASE'd the idea from Sarita
, but I liked the idea so thought I'd have a go :-)
I used a handmade heart template and the sentiment is embossed with detail gold EP
Could have done better so I'd advise looking at the original version :-)

Thank you for stopping by
Cheers me dears :-)

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Crafty Ann's Challenge #34

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The new challenge #34 at Crafty Ann's is  

Love Is All Around 

This could be interpreted as Valentines, anniversary, engagement, wedding

I have used Ann's new locket image from Love is all Around sheet 2 which can be found here
I printed it on to silver mirri cut out the centres and added the vintage images.
The BP is one of the pastels from the embossed hearts collection available from the shop.
I made a little banner and this is also topped with embossed hearts and I added some glitter.

I've added a glamour dusted heart a handmade flower with a pearl centre

Thank you for stopping by and hope you will join us in this fortnights challenge

Cheers me dears :-)


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Shadow Box

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Heather (Rica's Haven) has done a great tutorial on how to make a shadow box.
Here is my attempt. Heather's instructions are excellent and I am pleased with the result.
I have used a lovely border sheet from a K&Co pad to decorate the front. I have managed to line the inner sides and as this was quite a fiddle I would stick the paper on at the beginning 'when' I do another :-)

Image - Debbi Moore Designs - 100 Art Nouveau & Art Deco Images CD...is matted on to gold mirri.
A seam binding bow and a small bouquet to finish.
I am thinking of adding a sentiment/greeting bottom right and it will be perfect for my daughter's birthday.

I hope this qualifies as a fun fold for
Meljen'sChallenge #44
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Pixie Dust Studio Challenge # 60  is  - Say it with Roses
Top Tip Tuesday #21 - Frame it - I hope you think this looks like a frame

Thank you for stopping by and all those lovely comments on recent posts - so much appreciated :-)
Cheers me dears


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A Rose for 'Mrs Rose'

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A real quickie  in response to an  SOS from my daughter last night for a card for her MIL's birthday.
It is always tempting to use roses as their surname is Rose.

The striped paper is from the 'exclusive' PP Vintage Rose collection. The rose paper is from Papermania Rose Collection and I've cut around the large rose.

A printed greeting attached with foam pads, seam binding and an extra rose......job done!!

Challenges
Papertake Weekly - Anything goes + flowers
The Crazy Challenge #52 - Happy birthday....celebrating the blogs first birthday
Pear Tree Designs #34 - Flowers


Thank you for stopping by :-)
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Raise the Bar - Valentine

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Challenges
Raise the Bar - Hearts
Simon Says - Love is in the air

Last week I was one of the winners over at Raise the Bar Challenges so I have the honour to be  a guest Bartender for this weeks challenge.
The theme is Valentine and to incorporate a heart....to play safe I've used four hearts, lol.
The heart stamp is Penny Black and  I used embossed it with Seafoam white EP - same with the corner stamp. I printed the sentiments on  my PC and then overstamped with the same heart stamp and cut them out.
The large heart is a template I've had for ages and last used about 3 yrs ago for our 45th wedding anniversry card, eeek!!

Another homemade flower with roses and buds from WO + a couple of pearl stamens and a punched leaf.
There is a link here to Brenda's  tutorial on how to make the rose
The pearl embellishment in the centre of the seam binding is a button

Thank you for stopping by :-)
Cheers me dears


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75th Birthday

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Challenge
Alphabet  - M for men

BP - Papermania Mono collection pad
Handcut numbers embossed with gold EP
Computer generated sentiment and greeting
Gold straight peel-off border
Black glittered mat...... I noticed that there were a couple of gaps in the glitter so did some touching up with a black pen...sorted!!

Thank you for stopping by :-)
Cheers me dears


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New Baby

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Meet Oscar, isn't he a cutie!  Pictured here with proud 'Nana' Katie, my daughter's best friend.
She doesn't look anywhere near old enough to be a grandmother.....lucky girl.....and she will revel in her new role.

Sparkly heart given the glamour dust treatment, seam binding ribbon and WO blossom.

This is for the new parents and another pic of Oscar. I don't know how many hours old he was when this was taken but isn't he a darling......looks just like his daddy :-)
Did you notice how much he weighed!!

Seam binding ribbon and handmade flower and a close-up of Oscar :-)

Challenges for these cards
Crafty Calendar #16 - New beginnings
Crafty Catz #67 - Flowers
Craft your Passion #42  - Use two patterened papers
Delighful Challenges - Have a heart (card #1)
Tip Top Tuesday #19 -  Fabulous Flowers (either, but card #2 has a handmade flower)

Thank you for stopping by :-)
Cheers me dears



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Pretty Lady

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 I have  made this for the following challenges

Sketch and Stash #53 - Sketch
Crafty Sentiments - My favourite things - vintage, flowers, bling  and pretty paper
Kaboodle Doodles  #51 -  Bling it up
Penny's #45 - Anything goes

One of my saved vintage images and I merged her onto a frame which I have 'vintaged' with gold pentouch.
For a change there is a lot that is NEW on this card - the BP is from a new Paper Cellar pad bought at my local Dunelm which has just opened a little craft area.....whoopeee.
This is the first time I have used my NEW MS border punch and the BP is from Bearly Mine.
The middle flower I made the other evening..... along with a few others :-)
 Edit: Here is the link to Mandy's flower tutorial

Of course it needed some bling so I've added clear gems...quite generous for me, lol. Ooops don't forget the pearl in the centre of my lovely flower.

Thank you for visiting today

Cheers me dears :-)


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Crafty Ann's Challenge #33 - Golden Daffoldils

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Crafty Ann's Challenge #33

and the theme this fortnight has been chosen by Kym and is 

'Silver, Gold and White'

I chose to use one of Ann's pre-coloured images........these lovely daffodils.........hopefully we'll all be seeing the real thing soon.

I have decoupaged the flowers and they are mounted on to a doily which I 'coloured' with Pentouch silver pen. Underneath this is a circle of silver mirri to give the doily more substance as it was rather flimsy. There is just a tiny bit of  sparkle on the very edge of the doily.
I was reluctant to detract from the daffodils so I embossed plain white paper with the CB  textures folder.

The brad in the centre of the ribbon bow has been given the glamour dust treatment

Finished off with peel-off borders and pretty  corners. A Clean & simple look I think.

I hope you will join us this fortnight and if you want some inspiration pop over to the challenge blog and see the fabulous designs from my DT buddies.


Challenges
Crafty Cardmakers #38 -  Flowers
Crafty Ho's  - No designer paper - ooops, sorry girls ignore me - I backlinked :-( 
My Time to Craft #125 - Emboss, emboss, emboss!
Paperminutes #150 - Flowers

Thank you for stopping by :-)

Cheers me dears

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The CD Sunday Challenge

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I missed last weeks CD Sunday Challenge.  I liked the sketch but was busy with birthday cards for grandson and didn't get round to using it.

This week the theme is Waters Meet.
I chose to use this lovely old water scene - I can't acknowledge the origin....probably saved from one of the free vintage sites.

It is a bit of a  struggle  because I don't have many CD's for the challenge, so this week it had to be just BP and I  had a look in my limited MCS :-/
It is actually the Mildred square envelope from Deco Follies!! so underneath the boat scene is a lady in a rather fetching hat. Not a lot from a CD so I hope it is acceptable.

The 'net' strip is plasterboard tape and the embellishment is supposed to be seaweed..... you guessed that didn't you.

Thank you for stopping by and an extra thank you for all the lovely comments left recently...so very much appreciated

Cheers me dears :-)

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