Bob's Birthday

Today, I have to make a Birthday card for my friends husband who used to own a Morris Miner garage, and every year I make his card using the pick up in the Loads Of Love set.

With this in mind I looked around the challenge blogs for inspiration and came up with these.


Clean and Simple have this sketch ,

and CAS-ual Fridays  are looking for a song inspired project.

and ( I'm sorry, but it fits AGAIN ) the Addicted to Stamps challenge to Make Your Mark and use markers.



Here is my card

The song I chose is one of my favourites by Snow Patrol called "Chasing Cars" and has the lyrics.......

"Let's waste time, chasing cars, around our heads...."  and these aptly fit my pick up car.

The vehicle, presents, and bird cage were all stamped in black onto white card, and then I used my SU Write Markers to colour them blending the ink with an Aqua Painter. They were cut out and placed on 3D pads to give them some dimension. The brown road was done in the same way, and the sentiment was stamped in black.

I placed the bird cage on top of the presents, as Bob is a Twitcher and loves his garden birds! so this card is tailored personally for him, I hope he likes it.

Thanks for dropping by and I hope to be back soon

Male Birthday

Hello All !!,
Yes I am still here, but with an absent creative mojo and other problems, I've not been able to make anything for a while. However, it's my Step Dad's and Sisters birthday this week, so I've had to come up with something for them.

For my SD Dave's card, I've combined 2 challenges.



The first is Simply Stampin where they had this sketch

and ColourQ where they had this colour palette

 This is the card I made



I coloured the tree with SU write markers which took some time to do, so I had to huff and puff on the stamp to moisten the ink again before stamping on to white card.                                                        I used a border punch on the edges of the layered cards, and on a strip of brown underneath the tree that was raised on 3D pads. I also added green ribbon either side of the brown card.

Recipe :

Card = Whisper White, Chocolate Chip, Daffodil Delight, and white square card FMS

Stamp = Leaves of a Tree, and Basic Phrases

Inks = Chocolate Chip, Pear Pizzazz, and Adirondack Butterscotch ( the nearest I have to Mustard ) 

Tools = Martha Stewart punch

Extras = Ribbon

Thanks for dropping by today, and I'll show you the card for my Sister tomorrow if you'd like to come back then.

Bye for now



Watch the Birdie!!

My heating engineer has only just left ( 5.22pm ), thank goodness I didn't have anywhere important to be today!!

While waiting for him I had chance to do another card.


 It's for the Clean and Simple challenge where they have this sketch

and CAS-ual Fridays where they want to see feathered friends

 This is what I made

   

 I still had my blue and green inks and sponges on my desk so I sponged a label and layered it on a dark green one. I then stamped and coloured the dovecote on some white card, cut it out and stuck it on the label. I then stamped the white doves in grey ink, cut them out and added them to the picture, with the flying dove on 3D pads overhanging the scene. The sentiment was added, and the whole thing was added to some green card that had been embossed. Simples!!!

Here is a closer view of the white doves. I have softened them with an Aqua painter and some grey ink. I tried stamping them in black at first, but they looked too severe so I used the grey.





Recipe :

Card = Garden Green, Green Galore, Very Vanilla, Whisper White, and cream card base FMS

Stamps = Flower Soft and SU Basic Phrases

Inks = Pool Party, Bashful Blue, Certainly Celery, Sahara Sand, and Basic Black

Tools = Big Shot, Nestabilities, Budding Vine embossing folder, and Aqua Painter

Extras = 3D pads

That's it for today, Thanks for looking and I hope to be back tomorrow?



Baby Blossom Inchies

Today it's done nothing but rain here, so I had the choice of housework or craft!!, of course I decided to do the chores (Not ), but I had to move my craft stuff first, and accidentally a card got created.   

I will be entering in to the Mojo Monday challenge where they have this sketch   

Here is my card

The rosette was made by scoring a strip of DSP (which also lies as the matt under the tiles ) at even intervals and concertina folding it into a circle and then the top edge was flattened and secured in the centre.

I love pinks/reds and greens colour combo's. What do you think?

Recipe :

Card = Very Vanilla, Pear Pizzazz , and cream card base from my stash

Stamps = Baby Blossoms, and Basic Phrases

Inks = Calypso Coral, Melon Mambo, and Pear Pizzazz

Tools = Big Shot, Nestabilities, Stamp-a-ma-jig, Embossing board and tool, and Marianne die

Extras = SU DSP, and green ribbon from my stash.

Thanks for looking today, and Thank you to all you kind bloggers who leave me your lovely comments.

I'm back to "Mum sitting" tomorrow, and poor Angela starts Radiotherapy on Tuesday so I don't know when I'll get chance to craft again, so please bear with me, and I'll be back asap.

Friendship card

My card today is for two challenges


the first is the ColourQ challenge where they give us these colours


and next is Stampin' Royalty where they have this sketch

Here's what I came up with

The edges of the DSP were sponged with some gray ink to soften them. The daisy panel is raised on 3D pads for added dimension, and the finishing touches are white pearl gems in the centres of the flowers and black Lotus Pendant.

Recipe :

Card = Basic Black, Basic Gray, Whisper White, Crushed Curry ( I don't have More Mustard ), Dusty Durango, and white card base from my stash

Stamps = Upsy Daisy, and Basic Phrases

Inks = Crushed Curry, Dusty Durango, Sahara Sand, and Gray Pro Marker

Tools = Big Shot, Nestabilities, Lotus Pendant, Readicut flower punches, Martha Stewart border punch, and Stamp-a-ma-jig

Extras = SU DSP and White Pearl gems

I absolutely love the flowers in Upsy Daisy, they look great as silhouettes and even better in colours. What do you think?

 

The next 2 weeks are going to be a little busy for me, as I'm looking after my friend Rita's 91year old Mum, Angela,  so she can have a holiday. The way I feel at the moment I think Angela will be looking after me!!!!! so we'll see how things go.

I hope I get chance to do some crafting, so please bear with me AGAIN.

Simply Peachy

We're having another wet day here, but the birds are still singing their little hearts out! It also means that I can play with Nathan indoors and have time to get my challenge card on my blog.

Yesterday, I made a card for two challenges, and saved them as a draft until I had time to publish them today......well, guess what?....yes, one of them has ended!!! AAAAAAhhhhhh. Never mind I'll post it anyway.

The sketch was from Clean and Simple

and the colours from Stampin Royalty










Here is my card

The peachy card was embossed in a floral folder with a gap left for the white border, before being laid on a concord crush card base. The sentiment was stamped, and the stamped cut out flowers added, with the two largest being raised on 3D pads for dimension.



Recipe :

Card = Concord Crush, Peach Parfait, and Whisper White

Stamps = Vintage Vogue and Basic Phrases

Inks  = Concord Crush, Peach Parfait, and Blushing Bride

Tools = Big Shot, Cottage Floral embossing folder, embossing tool, and Stamp-a-ma-jig

Extras = 3D pads

I hope you like it.

I'll be back soon when us Super Heroes get some time to ourselves!!



Three Greens

Hello all, hope you're not feeling too sick after all your Easter eggs!!! I'm saving my egg for a rainy day..............which as it happens is today.Yaaaaaaaaay!!

Today, I've made a card for the Less is More challenge where Chrissie and Mandie want to see a project using     THREE SHADES of GREEN

I made this Pear Spotlight card, what do you think?

Choosing 3 greens was harder than I first thought as I have so many SU favourites, but in the end I decided on the ones that made the most of the coloured spotlight area. Using dark green I stamped the pears and leaves using the masking technique onto some white card, and then put it through the Big Shot with a label, and circle nestabilitie to cut the centre of the design out. I then used another green to colour all the pears in, but did a second coat of the two foreground pears to make them slightly darker ( so that's two greens), and then lastly, I coloured the leaf, the larger circle of card, and the larger label to mat and layer the design on. This was then placed on 3D pads onto a card stamped with the darker green sentiment.

Recipe :

Card = White card stock from my stash

Stamps = All Natural and Basic Phrases

Inks = Always Artichoke, Certainly Celery, and Lucky Limeade Write markers

Tools = Stamp-a-ma-jig, Post Its, Big Shot and Labels and circle nestabilities

Extras = 3D pads

 

Now the rain has stopped I really must go and mow my lawns, hope to be back soon.

Thanks for dropping by

Bunny Love

Well, would you believe it???? I went to Jacqueline's today, and..........amazingly I managed to do some crafting whilst chatting.

The card I made is for two challenges, the first is Clean and Simple where they had this sketch , and I have rotated it 90* so my semi circle is at the bottom,

and the second is CAS-ual Fridays where they are looking for                "SOMETHING YOU FIND IN AN EASTER BASKET"

 I don't have any Easter stamps, but I do have a rabbit called Candyfloss! She has hopped out of her basket to pick a flower. After stamping and cutting out the flower,  I have raised her paw up on a 3D pad so it looks like she's holding it, but its not been picked up by my camera angle, Sorry!

What do you think?

Recipe :

Card = Bashful Blue, Very Vanilla, Pear Pizzazz, and white card base from my stash

Stamps = Daisy and Dandelion (rabbit), Ornate Flowers, and Basic Phrases

Inks = Bashful Blue, Certainly Celery, Chocolate Chip, Crushed Curry, Bermuda Bay, Island Indigo, and Lucky Limeade

Tools = Stamp-a-ma-jig

Extras = SU DSP, 3D pad, and Brown and Pink pencils  

Tomorrow is my Super Hero day with Nathan and Sophie, but I hope to be back after that.

Thanks for dropping by