My Mums Mothers Day Card

Finally finished all my Mothers Day Handmade stuff. Visiting my parents and in-laws next weekend so wanted to get everything finished and ready to take. Made them both a card and decorated a book for them each as well as a little pressie.

Anyway, here's the book and card made for my Mum, sorry for the crooked photos. (Mum if are looking at this close your eyes now!!)

Image - digital doodling coloured in with Promarkers

Flowers - Prima and others

Ribbon - various, the ribbon on the card is from Papermania

Setiment and card candy- Craftwork cards

Glitter paper - Hobbycraft

Other card and paper and gems - stash

Book that I covered - Whsmiths

I'm entering the card into challenges at:

Friday Sketchers - week 91 - Sketch

C.R.A.F.T. - Challenge 39 - a recipe - ribbon and glitter

My Time to Craft - Challenge 80 - In the frame

Lexis Creations - Challenge 8 - Anything goes

First Tri-fold Card

I made my first ever Trifold card over the weekend after watching a video on Youtube. It wasn't as complicated as I was expecting it to be, took a bit of time, but it was worth the effort and hopefully my Dad will appreicate it, as made it for Fathers Day...yes I know it's a bit early!!

Blue card for card base - coredination

Stamp - Pepper and Friends, coloured in with Promarkers

Flowers - Prima and Papermania

Button - Papermania

Dad letter stickers - Doodlebug

Pawprint paper - Lili of the valley

Dog beads, heart metal embelishment, ribbon, sentiment - stash

I'm entering this into:

The Crafty Pad - Challenge 59 - Blue, Brown, White/cream

First Easter Card For 2010

This is my first Easter card made for this year. I used a Easter Magnolia stamp and followed the layout for this weeks challenge at Friday Sketchers.

Image - Magnolia Easter Tilda stamp coloured in with promarkers

Flowers - Prima

Background checked paper, ribbon and brad - Papemania capsule collection

Pink paper - My minds eye (magazine freebie)

Gems and pink and yellow card, easter rub on - stash

I'm entering this into:

Friday Sketchers, challenge 90 - sketch

Die Cut Dreams, Challenge 36 - Easter

Two more Tilda Sunflower cards

On a roll this week with making cards, made another two last night.

My hubby is away with work for a few days, he's back tonight, so thought I'd have fun playing with my new stash again, you should have seen the state of the living room last night!!

My First Card:

Image - Stamped Magnolia Tilda sunflower coloured with Promarkers

Flowers - Papermania (small flower), Prima (large flower)

Papers, 2 ribbons and gems - Papermania, capsule collection

Sentiment - Craftwork cards

I'm entering this into:

Die cut dreams Challenge 35 - Recipe

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge 38 - Sketch

http://trimmiescraftchallenge.blogspot.com/2010/02/challenge-38-sketch-challenge.html

My Second Card:

The stash I used for this card is the same as the first card

I'm entering this into:

I love Promarkers - challenge 2 - sketch

Sunflower Tilda

I made this card using one of my new Tilda stamps.

I can't wait for it to be summer again and to have sunflowers growing in the garden.

I followed the sketch for this weeks challenge over at The Crafty Pad.

Background papers, photo corners, brads and gems - Papermania

Sentiment - Craftwork Cards

Purple card, purple flowers - Stash

Image - Magnolia Stamp coloured in with Promarkers

I'm entering this into:

The Crafty Pad Challenge 58 - Sketch

Crafty Angels, week 22 - Fantastic flowers http://craftyangelsonline.blogspot.com/2010/02/week-22-fantastic-flowers.html

Tilda with balloon

I made another card using my valentines day pressie. This time I used the cute Tilda balloon stamp which I coloured in using Promarkers and a greeting from Craftwork cards.

I've been spending more money too........my order from the Glitter pot turned up today I ordered some Tilda stamps, Prima flowers and Craftwork card greetings. One of the stamps is an adorable Tilda with Easter egg and the others are Tilda with sunflower and with puppy. I've already stamped some images and I'm off to have a play now to see what I can create with them.

My Valentines Crafting Goodies........

My lovely hubby bought me a goody bag from docrafts for valentines day so I couldn't resist making a card using all my new stuff. The goody bag is fab this time as it has all co-ordinating items from the Papermania capsule sunshine collection, so lots of paper, ribbons, button, bow, flowers and the cute Daisy and Dandelion stamp. Everything on this card is from the goody bag except the Mum rub-on letters and the promarkers that I used to colour in the bear.

I followed this weeks sketch from Friday Sketchers

I'm entering this into the challenge 89 at Friday Sketchers

Chinese New year Card

I made this card for a girl at work to celebrate Chinese new year. I've never made a Chinese new year card before, but found some Oriental sprice papers from Papermania that I bought a few years ago and used the free digi image from Digital doodling website, that I coloured in with Promarkers. I was pleased with how it turned out in the end. I hope she likes it too.

I'm entering this into:

Challenge 37 at C.R.A.F.T. - Digi colouring
Challenge 14 at Crafty Cardmakers - Digital delights

Wedding card - 2

Here's another wedding card that I also made last night using the same paper pack and forever friends stickers as the first card.

Stickers - Forever friends

Striped paper - Craftwork Cards

Card candy - Craftwork cards

Flowers - Papermania

Ribbon - Hobbycraft

Sentiment - stash

I'd like to enter it into the following challenge:

Lexi's creations - challenge 7 - spotty or striped

Wedding card - 1

Here's a wedding card I made for a wedding I'm going to later this month. The bride is a very girly girl so with so much pink on the card she should like it.

Image and flowers - Forever friends stickers
Ribbon - Hobbycraft
Papers - Craftwork cards
Heart buttons and pearls - Stash

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:
Friday Sketchers challenge 88 - Layout

Crafty Pad challenge 57 - 2 hearts. 1 fancy edge, 3 papers

Paper Jewels challenge 1 - cute and girly

Little Girls Birthday Card

Digital doodling had another freebie a couple of weeks ago, that I've been desperate to try out. Made this card using the layout from Friday Sketchers.

Here's the result:

Patterned papers: DCWV - Blossoms and Butterflies stack
Pink card - Stash
Ribbon - Stash
Green card candy - Craftwork cards
Gems - Stash
Image - Digital doodling, coloured in with promarkers

Here's the challenges I've entered it into:

Friday sketchers - challenge 87 - Layout
http://fridaysketchersblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/friday-sketchers-87-sponsored-by.html

Stamp, Scrap and Doodle Saturdays - Week 25 - openhttp://ssdschallenge.blogspot.com/2010/01/ssds-week-25open.html

PaperPlay Challenge - Week 4 - Pink, White and Green

http://paperplaychallenges.blogspot.com/2010/01/week-4-pink-white-green.html

Birthday card - Paper piecing

Over on C.R.A.F.T. challenge this weeks challenge that ends tonight was paper piecing, so I thought I'd have a go as I've never tried this technique before. Really pleased with the result so I'll be trying it again. I stamped the girl image onto a piece of white card, plain pink and stripy paper and cut out her clothes from the pink and stripy paper and stuck them over the image on the white card. Her face, arms and hair were then coloured in with promarkers.

Here's the result:

The backing paper was from a paper stack from DCWV (Blossoms and butterflies), I used pink card candy (craftwork cards) and some ric rac and a birthday greeting and flowers to finish off the card. Not too sure where the stamp was from, it was from a stand at the Nov. NEC craft show, but I've thrown away the part of the packaging with the name on...... at a guess though it might have been from Stamposaurus.

Here's the link to the challenge: http://trimmiescraftchallenge.blogspot.com/2010/01/week-35-paper-piecing.html