7 Year old birthday Girl

 Hi Everyone, my card today is for my Great, Great Niece, who was 7 years earlier this month. She is a real little lady, so I thought I would do a very pink card for her, after finding a lovely paper pad in my stash.

I used a celebration number, cut with my Silhouette, it's the same alphabet as this card. I think it looks so different cut in a colour. A back layer was cut for the 7 in silver mirror card. Her name, Dorothy, was also added inside the top of the 7. 

I then hand cut 2 layers of different card to back the number, the lower layer has stars on it, although they can't be readily seen, the stars match the star on the number. I punched the corners to round them for a softer feel, I thought. 

The next layer has some pretty bows. I thought I would add a bow to the 7 to tie it all together. I love the 3 layer design of the bow, with cut centres to the top layer.

Sparkle pen was added to the number, which shows up in real life, but the camera doesn't pick it up. She is always thrilled with her cards and on a visit in August, was delighted to see where I make my cards for her and her siblings. 

 paper pad - Craft Sensations Kids

 number - Extraordinary Chaos

bow - Silhouette Design Store #352883 

This is a different view, I was hoping to show the sparkle on the number, but you can see the details better. 

 I touched on her siblings, earlier, this is her 2 year old baby sister Iris, playing with my eldest brother, her 88 year old very active, Great Grandfather, in August. I think it's extraordinary she should know him, let alone be able to play with him. He had been running around, playing ball with her too. Although, I suppose, not as rare as in my days, mine had long gone before I was born. Anyhow, here they are.

Autumn mid month WLSC

 Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for We Love Stamping. This month, we would love to see your cards with the theme from Emma of  

Autumn

   

 

More unused stamps used for this card, I went with this seed head stamp, (I thought it was seed heads!). I found some autumnal paper and decided to stamp on it. Then the seed heads were coloured with DI's, using oranges and yellows, although the oranges don't seem to have shown as well. I stamped a sentiment, knowing what a wicked sentiment I was adding onto the insert. I layered it onto die cut brown card.

It was then I decided to use a cream base card and bend the front in half. I added a ribbon which I thought matched and added the stamped layer to the rest of the half fold.

stamp - Woodware "Autumn Flowers"

ink - Memento black

sentiment stamp - magazine freebie

inks - Distress Inks, mustard seed, spiced marmalade, ripe persimon

paper - Nana's Digi Scraps 2012

ribbon - Dovecraft

insert sentiment stamps - Creative Craft Products

 

I cut the paper to size and attached it to the insert, then I went into fun mode, no idea why, that's how my mind works sometimes. I stamped the sentiments and then for more fun added the balloons. The black sentiment says "This Young".

 

Don't forget, your image must be hand coloured. We now require At least one stamped element on entries. Those of you like us, who love to stamp, we would still love you to enter your fully stamped entry.

Three prizes from AALL and Create, two of border stamps and third two stencils 

 

 Important - Please read the updated Rules of the Challenge here

Mid Month at the Christmas KickStart Challenge

  Hi Everyone, I'm honoured to be Guest Elf for October at the Christmas Kick-Start Challenge #91 -

 

 This month, Jo and I decided on this beautiful colour theme. Such a lovely combination.

 This is the link to my first card. Loving the colour mix so much, I had to do another for the mid month make. How about you, seeing what you can do with this mix?

I was looking through my embossing folders, for another project, and found this one, that had a plain rectangle centre. Then off I went looking for a Christmas stamp and found one I liked, I hadn't used it before, amongst others not used! Anyhow, I stamped the image and heat embossed in clear powder, then fussy cut it, thankfully a simple cut. I don't think I'll ever like fussy cutting. I coloured the image with DI's, although the photo doesn't give justice to the matching colours of the theme, I used.

Then I embossed the embossing folder as the background, and decided to paint the stars with gold paint. 

I found some bright blue card to layer the embossing on and attached it to the base card, then added the image and sentiment. 

car stamp - Chloe's Creative magazine freebies Simply Cards & Papercraft #249

sentiment - magazine freebie

inks - Distress Inks, mustard seed, spiced marmalade, ripe persimmon, stormy sky, weathered wood, broken china, faded jeans, candied apple

gold paint - Kuretake

sentiment die - Card Making Magic

embossing powder - Papermania Clear

gold ink - Kuretake 

embossing folder - Cuttlebug

I hope you join in and start, or even continue, your Christmas cards with Jo and me. The colour combination is so pretty to use on our Christmas cards.

A Super prize is in the offing for the Rudolphs random raffle