A wedding anniversary card

Good Morning all, can you believe it, two posts in two days I haven't done this in a while :) It is my mum and dads 29th Wedding anniversary today and on Thursday my Dad asked me to make him a card to give to my mum. I wanted to do something special using one of the new Lili of the valley stamps I bought at Ally Pally.

I have never made a vintage style card before but I don't think this is too bad for a first attempt. To begin with I sat there for about 30 minutes wondering what on earth i could use as I didn't really want any pattern on the background. In the end i ended up cutting up one of the cats food boxes and distressing the edges then inking it with Tim Holtz old photo distress ink. I did the same with a small piece of Kraft that I had left over from when I went to Stephs make and take last year. 

I coloured the image using copics - I think I need to get a few more colours for this sort of card so if anyone has any recommendations of colour groups that work well for this sort of colour please could you let me know :) 

The sentiment is actually a sticker that I had from an old sentiment set that has been in my craftbox for years, I knew it would come in handy at some point. And the string was bought from a £1 store. 

I made the little roses myself using the remainder of the Kraft card which I distressed and then added some stickles glitter glue to the edges. 

I am entering this card in to the following challenges; 

Lots to do challenge - Vintage
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge- Autumn colours

Busy card making

Hello ladies I hope you are all well. I have been very busy card making today I am going to show you a card I made a few days ago though. I have finally finished the wedding invites so have now moved on to my Christmas cards. 

I went along to Alexandra palace last weekend with my friend Fi and we had a wonder around. I have to say that although there was loads of lovely stalls and demos I actually found the whole day pretty stressful mainly because of the sheer amount of people there who kept barging in to me and Fiona and as Fiona is pregnant she had to stay away from a few of the stalls as she couldn't safely get near any, there was also no where to sit at lunch so we ended up sat on the floor like many other people. I did however get to the lili of the valley stall which I was very pleased with and bought two of the £12 stamp sheets and met Jacquei as she was demoing so that was really nice :) 

Here is a card I made using one of the stamps from the Christmas set and the sentiment also

 

I coloured the image with my copics and have cut out and coloured an extra foot, present and hat and stuck them on with foam pads to make it more 3D I think you can see that better in the picture below.

The papers are by Dovecraft from the let it snow collection I love these they are beautiful papers - they actually look better in person but I seem to have lost my nack when taking pictures recently. 

I used two different snowflake punches for the snowflakes and added some stikkles glitter glue to these :) 

I am entering this card in to the following challenges;

Creative inspirations - Christmas in September 

Crazy 4 challenges  - Bling

Charizma cards - Christmas Crafting

Winter Wonderland - A male Christmas card

On Stop craft - Snowflakes in September

A birthday card for a good friend

It is one of mine and my husbands birhtdays on on Wednesday and this is the card i have made for him. He has actually already had it as we celebrated his birthday yesterday :) The image is one I won from the Greeting Farm a little while back now I am really liking this little dude.

The paper is from the Basic Grey cupcake collection and the blue backing paper is from the paper cellar. The sentiment is hand stamped and then mounted on to the blue card stock. I have coloured the image with copic markers as always and have shaded around the outside of the image in C1 which i think although you can't see it brilliantly in this image, in real life really makes the image pop. 

I have used string to wrap around the card and make a little bow as I think this always looks a bit more appropriate for male cards :) we actually bought this for my cats to play with but I am sure they don't mind sharing. 

I hope you are all well out there in blogland. I have been busy making 2 more cards today and still have another 2 made that I haven't posted yet. I am hoping to post another one this week but at the moment most of my time is taken up training for the great eastern run on the 10th October. I am running the half marathon in aid of Sue Ryder Care if you would like to sponsor me please follow the link on my sidebar. Any sponsors are greatly appreciated and I know will really help push me through those 13.2 miles. 

I am entering this card in to the following challenges; 

Copic creations - Shading in and around the image

Daring Card makers - there's something in the air

The secret crafter - Anything goes

A late birthday card

It is my brother in laws birthday on Tuesday and this is the card I have made for him. He has actually away on holiday at the moment i was meant to get the card to him before he left but i completley forgot so I thought I would make a suitable card using this fab 'late' image from Mo Manning.

The papers are Wild Saffron by K&Co I have inked the edges of them using rusty hinge distress inks. The clocks were printed off on my pc and then inked using the distress inks and mounted on to card. I have popped a few of them up using foam pads. The tag was also computer generated and inked in the same way. 

I coloured the image using copic markers, here is a close up; 

I have been learning how to do folds in clothes recently, I think this is my best attempt so far. it took me ages but I am pleased with it. I have also been learning to colour fur so I have used this technique for this image too :) 

I hope you like my card I am entering it in to the following challenges; 

Mojo Monday - Sketch 

Digital tuesday challenge - dots and stripes - I have both of these in my background paper 

A card for my sister to give to her boyfriend

Hello all, i seem to be getting worse at this posting on my blog I have a few cards to post so am going to spread them out over the next few days. I made this card for my sister to give to her boyfriend, he is off to uni soon so they aren't going to be able to see each other as much and she wanted a card to give him.

 

I received this image in a swap aaaaaages ago it is perfect considering my sister asked me for a sad bear image :) I coloured him with copic markers using a tutorial from Susanne Dean.

Here is a close up of the bear 

I also made it so you can take the tag out and enter in a little message 

I am entering this card in to the following challenges; 

Creative inspirations - Autumn colors - design team call

Pile it on - Layers

Allsorts challenge - autumn colours

This is what has been keeping me busy

Hello ladies I hope you are all well first of all please let me apologies for being somewhat absent of late. I have been busy making my brothers wedding invitations and training for a half marathon I am running in October in aid of Sue Ryder Care. 

I have finally finished all of the day invites made 35 of these in the end. Still have the evening ones to go but they are a little simpler and just a square card. I think most of the work came with making the pocket folds and the embossing and distressing I am really pleased with them. 

Here is the front 

To begin i cut out all of the invitations from sheets of A1 snow white card and made the pocket folds using a template given to me by my good friend Fiona. Once I had them all cut and ready to go i hand stamped all of the little snowflakes and embossed them with white embossing powder. Following this i used my Tim Holtz Distress inks in Broken china to lay the base colour and then added a bit of stormy sky to give depth. this gave the base of the card. I also wanted to add a little sparkle so i used some diamantes in the centre of some of the snowflakes and added stickles clear glitter glue to the centres of all of the ones without a diamante. The your invited stamp was stamped using memento ink.

I then had to print out the snowy trees background on the computer followed by the wedding invite text which i printed on to vellum. I attached the vellum to the snow image using blue brads which i bought in bulk on ebay (I did find some of them to be very brittle but for the most part they were ok) I rally like this effect i think you will be able to see it better in the photo below. (I have removed all of the dates and times with photo shop) Once I had this done i mounted the information on to a light blue paper and then mounted that on to silver miri card.

 

In this image you can see the snow background a bit better. (again the information has been removed using photoshop which is why there are blotches everywhere)

Here is a close up of the pocket fold. I made 3 inserts - 1x menu, 1x gift list, 1x venue info and directions.these were all mounted on to blue paper and then silver miri card. 

I am seriously chuffed with how these turned out. Am working on getting the evening ones finished tomorrow so I can show you those soon too and I have made a stationery holder recently too which i have to show you :) 

Thank you all for looking xx 

I am entering these invites in to the following challenges; 

Sir Stampalot - Bring on the bling

ABC Challenge - B is for Blue

Stamping for the weekend - Anything goes

Challenge up your life - celebrations

my last DT card for Krens doodles :( so sad

Hello Ladies - it is my last day on the design team for Karens Doodles today I am so sad it has come to an end already it whent so quick. So can I just say a massive thank you to Karen for all the wonderful images and all of the ladies on the team who have made this so enjoyable xxxxxxx

Our challenge this week is white on white - the only cololur you can use is in your image. Here is the card I made

I coloured the image using copic markers as always. The papers are from my stash so I have no idea who they are by sorry.

Don't forget to enter the challenge there are loads of great prizes on offer. xxxx

Karens Doodles challenge 20

Good Morning ladies I hope you are all well today. It is that time again - challenge 20 over on Karens Doodles is now up and we are asking you to  make a birthday card this week - as simple as that and with all of the new images Karen has been adding to the site that should be easy:)

Isn't this image brilliant i love her can't wait to make some more cards with this one. The image is called Bovine beauty and I have coloured her with copic markers as always. The papers are a free digi download from Shabby Princess I love the papers on this site I can really see myself using them more and more. 

Ok ladies so what are you waiting for hop on over to the challenge blog and enter in a card yourselves. If you are new to digi stamping there is also a freebie on the site so you can try that if you like :) 

Good luck xx

I am entering this card in to the following challenges

Digital Tuesday Challenge - Birthdays

Sketch Saturday - Sketch

All sorts challenge - Summer days

A wedding card

Hello ladies hope you are all well. before I show this card I would like to say thank you to the ladies that sent me the wedding images I am going to stamp some up for you promise in fact I will do some tonight sorry I have been so rubbish and slow. 

This is the card I made for my manager he got married last Sunday. Would you believe the papers I used are digi ones from Gina K's site aren't they beautiful

I coloured the image with copic markers of course as follows; 

c7, c5, c3, c1 

y17, y15

e37, e35, e33, e31

The sentiment is from the making memories wedding collection. I got the white mesh stuff from a craft shop aaaaaaages ago but it has now closed down and am not sure where I can get it now so am hoping there will be some at the craft show in September. 

If any of you are going to to Ally Pally in September please let me know as I plan on going so it would be really nice to see some of you there. 

I am entering this card in to the following challenges; 

Crafty Angels - Shabby Chic

Creative inspirations - use the oldest thing in your stash - mine is the white mesh

ABC Challenge - You and me for Y

Stampin for the weekend - recipe challenge

A Card for you yaaaay

Hello ladies I hope you are all well it has been a while since I have posted a card on my blog that wasn't a DT card and guess what I have still used a Karens Doodles image I just love them I am so gutted that my time on the DT is up soon. 

I made this card for my niece who turned one on Wednesday she had her party on Saturday I can't believe it has come so fast. 

The image is Peekabo girl isn't she cute the papers are K and company Sugary sweet. I did follow a sketch for this one but I think I have missed the date to enter it now I seem to have done that a lot recently I have quite a few cards made and photographed but not on here (slapped wrist) I hand drew the one and cut it out then edged it with glitter I also edged the image with glitter as I didn't want to mount it with card. 

The gems in the corners are from the pound store I love these little things I have them in two different colours at the moment I am not sure if they do them in other colours. 

I have coloured the image with copic markers shown below; 

RV06,RV04,RV02

E00, E21

E35, E33

C1

I am entering this card in to the following challenges;

Stamp something - Something digital 

Stampavie - anything goes

Charisma cards - Pink

Stamptacular - favourite sundae challenge - mine has to be strawberry every time