New Baby

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I haven't done any colouring in for ages and it took me three attempts to colour this stamp. Also I've been soooo busy making cards I haven't had time to blog - AND I've got loads of emails in my inbox that need attention.

I used my NEW - and one and only - M-Bossabilities folder (Imperial ) for the background. This is such a bad pic but the best I could do. It is not much clearer even if you click the pic.
* New photo's - a bit better than the originals lol.

Another new aquisition is the lovely Floral Ovals die. I will be using this and the folder a lot :)
The sentiment circle was made in Publisher as usual.
Both of these are fixed with foam tape/pads

Finished with seam binding ribbon and bow and  flower.

Challenges
Card Crafter's Circle #35 - Oh baby!
Chocolate, Coffee & Cards  #19 - emboss
Crafty Catz #145 - anything goes
Creatalicious #37 - fantasy OR baby - the final challenge!
Fresh Brewed #109 - no digi's
Nutcrafters #24 - embossed backgrounds
The Paper Shelter #77 - clean & simple


Thank you for stopping by today and for the lovely comments on previous posts, everyone of them so very welcome and very much appreciated
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80th Birthday

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This is for my son in law's Dad from him and my daughter.
I am working on two more, one  for the grandchildren and one from us.

Papers are by Summer Driggs
I printed the light patterned paper on card, cut a hole in it and added gold 'string' and adhered with foam tape. The flourish was not planned but I accidentally made a smear of gold pen so had to cover it with something, lol.
The three sentiment circles are made in Publisher and also stuck on with foam tape.

My cutting out of the circle was quite neat but I went around it with a fine peel off to finish it off.

Challenges
Crafty Sentiments - use numbers
Alphabet Challenge - for men only
Bearly Mine  #46 - anything goes
Come and Get It - adult birthday card- chosen as one of the Top 3 :)
Kaboodle #130 - birthday or special day - missed it!
Hooked on Crafts #23 - let's celebrate


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Hubby's Birthday

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I don't know what you think but I thought it was quite witty - mabe just my warped sense of humour, lol.

He said he wanted to swap the numbers round for this birthday. Well he definitely wouldn't get away with that, but when you look at this in the mirror it reads  27 - that is as near as he is going to get, hahahaha.

It was a very cheap card to make. 

The BP is a freebie from my craft mag

The greeting and sentiment printed on to some scrap card and matted onto silver mirri

Numbers made in Word and cut from silver mirri fixed with foam tape

Challenge

Crafty Sentiments - numbers

* Proud to be one of the Top 3

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Circles at Crafty Ann's - Challenge #71

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Crafty Ann's Challenge #71

...and this fortnight's theme is...

Circles

~ there needs to be more than one on your project please ~.

The Olympics may give you some inspiration but I have, perhaps predictably, gone down the vintage route.

The main BP's are embossed dots and mottled stone, edges distressed with frayed burlap DI - the white frame and the bow are from the Tempting Turquoise digital scrapbook kit .  The  gold behind the frame is one of the metallic papers and the pearl - I added the sentiment digitally - is from the Cream Dream kit.  All can be found here in  the digi shop

The fashionable ladies image is from one of the free vintage digital sites, which one I forget.

I covered the join with this lovely lace and finished off with the flower and leaves

We hope you will be able to play along with us for this lovely circles challenge - Olympics or not - whatever you choose.
There is plenty of fabby inspiration by the DT to be found over at CACB  if you care to pop in and have a look-see :) and then add your own circle creations.

I'd also like to enter this into the following challenges
Bearly Mine #46 - anything goes
Fussy & Fancy #68 - vintage + distressing and lace
OLLCB #110 - recipe - 1 image, 2 dp's, 3 embellishments
OSAAT #124 - use a digi
PCJ - anything goes
Twisted Tuesday #17 - free for all


* I'm proud to say this was chosen as one of OLLCB's top three :)


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Silver Wedding Anniversary

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Commission

The main layer is scored with 1" diagonals and matted on to the base card with foam tape. There are three layers of ovals - the bottom layer is silver mirri card cut with fancy scissors (you can't see this too well in the pic). The 'fancy' oval layer was embossed with the CB texture EF and painted with iridescent medium. The greeting is computer generated and these top two layers adhered with foam tape.

The gorgeous lace is from Linda, Funkie Junkie's boutique and flowers bought at a craft fair last year.
The seam binding ribbon is Cadbury chocolate purple - it looks a bit dark here and is actually much lighter IRL.

Challenges
Alphabet Challenge - L for lace
Crafts and Me #93 - ribbon and a bow
Diva's by Design #44 - anything goes
PSC #41 - anything goes
Sparkles #34 - wedding
The ABC Challenge - T for two - two flowers
The Paper Shelter #73 - anything goes
Unstampabelles #13 - celebrations



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18th Birthday

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Challenges

Aud Sentiments #59 - tag it

Unstampabelles #13 - celebrations

Paper Shelter #73 - anything goes

The Corrocive Challenge #153 - sentimentally yours

Here Come the Boys - tag on a card

This is part of the photo I was given.....hmmmm......cute pic... decided to go with a humerous theme.
I had a few ideas and ended up with the caption here.
I have an feeling that he won't be letting his mates see this, LOL.
The photo is matted on to silver mirri  and mounted with foam tape - the tag is raised at the top with a couple of foam pads .

BP - Nancy Watt
Tracing paper printed with various birthday words
Hand cut, distressed label with computer generated words

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CACB #70 - Easel Cards

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Crafty Ann's Challenge #70

Easel Cards/Projects

I haven't made an easel card in quite a while and enjoyed making this one.

I love the Poinsettia with Script digi and the best thing is that it is pre-coloured - such a bonus if you are strapped for time.
I love the other colours too but went with this green border one for my card today.

This beautiful  backing paper is from the Traditional Christmas Scrapbook Kit.  It really is the most gorgeous red.
I finished the card simply, with just a red organza bow.

I hope you will join in this challenge with your easel cards.
The DT have some gorgeous designs for your inspiration over at Crafty Ann's so do pop over to see them.




I'd also like to enter
PaperPlay Challenge  #29 - Christmas in July
Christmas Card Challenge #33
Crafter's Companion #26 - ho ho ho Christmas
Creatalicious #36 - Christmas in July
Delightful Challenges - Christmas in July
Digital Tuesday  #169 - all tied up
Hooked on Crafts #22 - Christmas in July




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Friend

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I used ready printed papers by Nancy Watt - freebies in craft mag.

Bird image matted on to Spellbinders die cut with foam pads

 

Challenges

Sketch N Stash #91 - Gemma's sketch - missed deadline

Fun With Shapes #113 - summer birthday

Lexi's # 69   - for a friend

OSAAT # 122 - anything goes

Crafty Creations #178 - free for all

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Meerkat Greetings

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I've been having troubles but still have a few cards to post on the blog.

I am also struggling a little not being on my own computer!!

At the moment I am staying at my DD's and  minding the store for her while she has a break with her family. I don't help her out so often now and luckily for me I haven't been inundated with orders.......so far!!

A bit of fun for hubby's birthday from the grandchildren.

We all love the Meerkats ads and it is so kind of Aleksandr to loan me his photo for these cards.
I'm sure you'll guess that the words need to be read in Aleksandr's Russian accent, LOL.

 

 Challenge

TTT #117 - one for the men

Nutcrafters #22 - one for the boys

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For Dad

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Made for DD & SIL to give to hubby.

His favourite reading  subject is holiday brochures so this is quite fitting, LOL.

Challenges

Cards for Men #14 - happy birthday

Celebrate the Occasion #70 - happy birthday

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Anniversary

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Daughter and SIL were married on her Dad's birthday, July 10,  so I have anniversary cards as well as birthday cards from the family to make, usually 7 or 8 cards for the same day.

A last minute make for DD - 

Papers - Papermania

Heart -  cut from corrugated card packaging - painted with gold and white 

Computer generated sentiment, hand cut with fancy scissors matted on to another hand cut circle also painted with gold.

Embossed brad

Net

  

Challenge

Flourishes Timeless Tuesday #117 - sentimental

Unstampabelles #13 - celebeations

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Paper Peicing at Crafty Ann's

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Crafty Ann's Challenge #69

...and this fortnight it is...

Paper Piecing

Paper piecing is a new technique for me so I've gone for something CAS, something else I rarely do.

The image is the lovely morning glory printed directly on to cream coloured card. The flowers are pieced with the bright pink from the Polished Stone collection and the leaves with one of the Abstract collection from Crafty Ann's digi shop.

I hope you will join us for this challenge. 

The DT have some excellent examples for you to see over at CACB, so do pop in to check them out

I'd also like to enter
Creatalicious #35 - anything goes
Just Some Lines - let's keep it clean & simple
OSAAT #120 - use a digi
Papertake - anything goes

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Eleventh Birthday

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I've been soooo busy making wedding invitations for my niece and not got much else done lately..... but I did manage to find time to make this for her for her son's birthday on Wednesday.
It  provided a welcome break from diecutting.

Handcut numbers fixed with foam pads atop two stars cut from digital paper mounted on to silver holographic mirri card.

 

The main BP is homemade with a few peel off star stickers placed randomly in the dots 

Challenges 

AnythingGoes #70 - polka dots  birthday theme - (one of the Top 5 - whoooppee!!)

Charisma #25 - anything goes

Crafts & Me #90 - birthdays

Gingerloft #43 - red, white, blue

MAWTT- happy birthday

 Thank you for stopping by and the much appreciated comments on previous posts

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Wedding

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Commission - 8" square

I made the trellis pattern for the background using the MS score board.
The focal sentiment is edged with gold pentouch and double matted with foam tape. The trellis die cut has  been cut to fit the corner, edges distressed with DI and mounted with tiny foam pads.

Spellbinders Lattice Accents dies
Flowers - WOC
Silk ribbon and shabby rolled flower - Funkie Junkie Linda's Boutique
Stick pins from a craft day at Knuston last year.
Computer generated words.

The box - simply embellished with a bow of silk ribbon folded in half, a rose and pearls

Challenges
Allsorts #160 - any die will do
Bearly Mine #40 - flowers
Crafts and Me #89 - anything goes
Crafty Catz #138 - pastel colours
Creatalicious #35 - anything goes
Delightful Challenges - anything goes
Diva's by Design #40 - to die for
Just Some Lines # -  wedding
Papertake - bingo - ribbon,  pins, blooms


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Memories are Made of This

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Crafty Ann's Challenge #68

Memories are made of this. 

This can be interpreted in different ways. 

Vintage style which could be anything (card, atc, bookmark, tag, gothic arch etc - 

or you can go down the scrapbook page/mini album route with memories 

of any vintage - even yesterday!

It is my lovely daughter and wonderful son-in laws wedding anniversary next month so I used the challenge to make a card for them.

I chose Embossed Hearts for the main BP and Polished Stone as a mat for the pic which is popped up with foam pads. The frame around the pic is made from the gold lace digi in the Traditional Christmas collection.

I cut a heart from white corrugated card, painted it with iridescent medium and added some fine glitter powder.

The extravagant bow is deliciously soft silk ribbon with a pearl button from my local haberdashers.  My DD's dress was made of wild silk so I have been very generous and parted with some of this gorgeous silk ribbon from Funkie Junkie Linda's boutique - well, as they say...she's worth it,  LOL.
The tassle trim is a wonderful match for the ribbon,
The words computer generated.

It would have been nice if I'd used flowers a that were a closer match to the colour of those in her bouquet but these were the nearest I had.
I do have some left from when I did the wedding flowers,  but they are too big for this card. - 19 years ago, which proves what a hoarder I am.
The bouquet  took days to make but we were all happy with the result and I was very proud of it.

We hope you will share your memories with us for this challenge - you really must pop over to CACB and see what delights the DT have come up with.for this challenge.


I'd also like to enter this into the following challenges
Papertake Weekly - bingo - ribbon, free (tassle trim) blooms
The Ribbon Reel #30 - colour challenge - strawberries and cream + ribbon
The ABC Challenge - R is for romance
Craft Punked  #25 - strawberries and cream
Crafter's Companion #25 - time to embellish
Crafty Calendar - flowers in bloom
Crafts and Me #89 - anything goes




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Fathers Day part 2

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Again two the same but different.

Both my boys, son and son in law are keen fishermen so the only choice for Father's day is.........yup, you've guessed it.........fishing!"

This is for granddaughter to give to son in law.

Freebie papers from craft mag..

The corrugated circle was packaging and has been treated to a makeover with white paint, cheapo gold paint from Wilkinson's and a slight touch of iridescent medium.

This one is for grandson to give to his Dad. (son)
Freebie papers again. This circle more or less the same as the one above but with less gold and a smear of brown paint 

I know he'll appreciate the joke even though he's never been known to lose a fish, lol.

Burlap/hessian from Funkie Junkie Linda's Boutique.and garden twine, some small buttons and that's that

Challenges
CCC #12 - song inspired - gone fishin' 
TPE #152 - masculine
Cards for Men # 12 - father's day
Craft Punked #24 - father's day
Charisma #23 - male card
Crafts 4 Eternity #76 - dashing dads
Fab 'n' Funky #125 - father's day
Paperplay #23 - for a man (with twine)
OCC  -  buttons n burlap or bows



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Fathers Day

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These are the first of my Fathers Day efforts.

Two the same but different, hahaha
The papers I used for both these cards are freebies from craft mag - oh, yes, I'm being really thrifty :)
Handcut tag and letters all fixed with foam tape or pads.
I've used twine/string on this first one...

...and raffia here

Thank you for stopping by today
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Challenges
Charisma #23 - male cards
Craft Punked #24 - fathers day
Crafts 4 Eternity #76 - dashing dads
Fab 'n' Funky #125 - fathers day
Nutcrafters #20 - spots and/or stripes
PaperPlay #24 - for a man (with twine)


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40th Birthday

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Hello everyone and a big welcome to Andrea, a new follower :)

Commission - the brief was purple and yellow.

The gold centrepiece is a flattened piece of  a beer can, embossed with the textile EF and heat embossed  with gold EP.  I pasted the BP onto card and cut an oval in the centre and fixed it over the centrepiece with foam tape.
I made the oval sentiment in Publisher, cut around it with fancy scissors, edged with purple chalk pad and added that with foam pads to the gold centre.
Lots of flowers, ribbon and roses from WO and as it was a special card I parted with a fancy metal corner from Linda, Funky Junkie's Zibbet shop.
I made a box for this as it is rather bulky.

A closer look

Challenges
Craft Punked - happy birthday/celebrations
Wild Orchid #52 - anything goes
Lexi's #67 - happy birthday



Thank you for stopping by today and all the lovely comments you've left - you make my day :)
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Friends Anniversary

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I hope this has arrived in Maine, USA. 
Barbara and I have been friends since college - an amazing 54 years!! 
We haven't seen each other for a few years now but still keep in touch. She is married to a lovely man, Doug, who was a master sergeant in the US Air Force. 
It was 39 years ago that we had the pleasure of attending their wedding at RAF Chicksands, Bedfordshire.

~~~ Congratulations Barbara and Doug ~~~

The main BP (and the flower) from Papermania Rose Garden, again - I'm getting a lot of mileage from this pad :)
The other is a freebie in this months craft mag, a lovely match. Border cut with MS deep punch. Went round all the edges with french blue chalk pad.

I cut out a heart from corrugated card, spread some white acrylic paint on, then some DI and finally painted over with iridescent medium.

The flower is made with TH tattered floral garland die from Linda, Funky Junkie's Etsy shop. The pearl in the centre and the one on the bottom of the tag are made with petal pink liquid pearls - I sprinkled some sparkly dust on while they were still wet.

Challenges
Anything Goes #68 - anniversaries
Crafty Calendar - flowers in bloom
Crafter's Companion  - #25 - time to embellish
Die-ing for a Challenge - anything goes
RRR #49 - flowers and ribbon
The Ribbon Girl - use ribbon or lace
The Shabby Tea Room #117 - sweet summertime
Truly Scrumptious - flower power

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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



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