Belated

Hi Everyone, a card today that I did for a  friend, I keep forgetting her birthday as it's the 2nd of January, with all the Christmas things going on it passes me by. Anyhow I made this card for her, she is owl mad and collects anything to do with owls, so I hoped this would make up for my forgetfulness?

The owl image and the paper are magazine freebies

the ribbon - Dragons Lair Designs.

sentiment - computer generated

It's a one layer digital card designed in Photoshop, I added Spectrum Noir clear sparkle pen to the image and ribbon and Nuvo Crystal Droops to the "sorry".

I hoped you could see the raised word and gloss on the "sorry"

I haven't shown you photos for a while, so thought I would take this post as an opportunity to show you what the crazy weather we are having, is doing to our garden.

Daffodils flowering. Hubby planted them like soldiers on guard duty LOL.

hyacinths poking their heads through

even the roses have new growth and in the pot is a purple crocus, you may just be able to make it out on this photo.

 Lupins are well on their way

  

Fuschias are budding, but will be cut back in March!

LOVE your Men

Hi Everyone, a card that I'm late for at

https://themaleroomchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2019/02/challenge-104-love-your-men.html

I don't know where the time is going these days, I seem to have too much to do and not enough time to do it in. Anyhow, here is my LATE card for The Male Room, I had this card in my mind as soon as I saw the challenge. My hubby is the best and thought he should be told - Again! LOL

background paper and striped paper - DesignBundles 

frame - Dragons Lair Designs

font - Boller typeface

rock & shells - Studio 4

anchor - unknown freebie

mirror card - The Range

Rock, frame, anchor are all 3D'd

All cut out as print and cut or cut on the Silhouette Cameo, 

so much easier than by hand LOL. 

This is a before and after photo of the anchor, I cut it out of silver mirror card, then added Whisper pigment black ink (so very old). I added Dovecraft clear embossing powder to it and heat set, I love the effect it gives. I think it has a name to this technique but forget what - sorry. I cut the bottom chain to be able to link it to the anchor.

http://frame.bloglovin.com/?post=6787640995&blog=19629783&frame_type=none
https://thehappycraftchallenge.blogspot.com/

Boat!

Hi everyone, here's a scrapbook page I have done quickly, after a trip we did a couple of weeks ago.

Paper and elements - Dragons Lair designs "Seaside Retreat".

Wine

Hi Everyone, my card today is for another nephew, where are they all coming from this month LOL. They all age from 60ish to 10, but that is GNephews included! Anyhow this is for the eldest of them and I think it suits him to a T. LOL

image - Dragons Lair Designs

coloured in PS, with edges added to background

sentiment - Create with TLC

bottle opener - Font Bundles 

made into a cut file and cut on the Cameo

this is the insert, I forgot to take a photo of it.

Christmas Dragon

Hi Everyone, my card today is for the Outlawz sketch challenge, another not typical Christmas colours, but I love the papers with their frosty appearance so had to use them.

sentiment - Create with TLC

image was a freebie from the last progressive challenge at 

Dragons Lair designs, I'm so sorry to see Janette close, through ill health.

image coloured in PS

digital papers - WeR3 designs

scallop - cut on the Cameo

Dragon cut - Tattered Lace pin dot circle die

Glitter - Nuvo Pure Sheen

Strong Floral Lady

Hi Everyone, my card today is for the Dragons Lair Designs FB progressive challenge, the image we were given to play with is just beautiful and I had ideas how to colour her, but it didn't go that way.

I was looking for dp's in my files and came across a blog hop set of files, from DigiChick named "Playful" in it was a paint splatter and my card was born! This card is going to a friend who always has bad things happen to her big and small, but thankfully with lots of prayers, always comes out on top.

image - Dragon's Lair Designs
paint splatter - Alexis Design Studio

grey striped paper - Gina Cabrera

yellow paper - Sweet Caroline Studio

grey paper - Creative Victorian by Lonetta Avelar

die - Tattered Lace

glitter - Tonic Pure Sheen glitter

all printed and layered onto black paper

sentiment from the web

Also don't forget

  Create with TLC 

is holding a Blog Hop, with lots of freebies

Here's what she says -

Summer Fun Blog Hop~! ...........

YAY!  we haven't done a hop in a lonnnng time~!

For those of you that are familiar with our hops....there will be lots of freebies along the way.  A Freebie at each stop.  So get ready, empty out those folders....the hop starts Sunday, July 23nd (more details as we get closer)

LIFE IS BETTER IN SUMMER~!

Trees and apples!

Hi Everyone, today's card is for the Dragon's Lair FB progressive challenge, we had this lovely scene to play with, I added another image. I think the trees could be used as a background quite often.

both Dragon and trees images - Dragons Lair Designs

coloured digitally in PS

dp's and sentiment - Dawn by Design

dies - Tattered Lace

As this is a "garden card?" I decided to show you a plant we have that has such a fabulous name to show off it's fabulous show of flowers.

It's a "Salvia" who's name is "Hot Lips", isn't that a wonderful name. It's a wonderful plant too, flowers from now until the frost and stays about 3 feet high with pruning in March. I've done a closeup to show the "lips"

Lady & flourishes

Hi Everyone, my card today is for my Godsons' wife, I thought I would combine it with the Outlawz sketch challenge and DragonsLair Design FB progressive challenge.

Image Vintage Lady DragonsLair Designs

paper pieced and coloured in PS

DP flourish paper Summertime Designs, sadly no longer available.

die Johanna Sheen, freebie in her magazine

ribbon from stash

flower pearls from stash

gold paper from stash

Uni-ball gold pen on image flourishes

Chocolate Owl

Hi Everyone, I'm blogging more frequently as we are going away for a few days. This is one I made for the Dragon's Lair FB Progressive Challenge, I love this little owl. I coloured him in PS and added scalloped borders clipped to him to make feathers, well near enough LOL.

Image Dragon's Lair Designs

digitally coloured

Sentiment Create with TLC

DPs Delicious Scraps

small chocolates Gina Jane at DAISIE

half scalloped circles was cut on the Cameo

brown card Tonic 

ribbon from stash
added 3D gloss to his eyes and beak

Sssssnake card!

Hi Everyone, my card today is for the DragonsLair FB progressive challenge. I love this image, such a happy and friendly snake :)

Image DragonsLair Designs
coloured digitally.

Floral background, flower banner & border overlay - 

Marisa Lerin at Pixelscrapper

Tattered Lace pindot and plain circle die 

All layered onto black paper

When I had my birthday my Brother & Sil came for a few days and as she and I are "into" cards and the Cameo, we "play" whenever they visit, SiL and I learn from each other and this time it was about the Cameo. We did quite a few things and I shall add them when I remember LOL.

Here is a votive candle holder that I etched with

 a vinyl stencil cut out on
the Cameo and the effect when lit.

http://do-allkreatives.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/challenge-3-01-bis-31-marz-2017.html

Christmas card

Hi Everyone, my DT post today  -

It's time for the Monthly challenge at

 Digitally Sweet Challenges #157

Our fabulous sponsor is 

Dragons Lair Designs

The theme is

A Digital Christmas card
and here is mine
the stunning image is Winter Beauty 
I coloured her digitally
all papers are from the beautiful Holly Days kit
papers clipped to a page template, info below card
the verse is a combination of a couple I found on the web.

Apple Dragon

Hi Everyone, my card today uses the image Penny with Apples from Dragon's Lair Designs at the progressive challenge FB Fan Group  I love the image, she is so cute.

I coloured her digitally, placed her on apple background paper by Janet Scott

used an apple background and apple pin by Just So Scrappy

Sentiment from Create with TLC

gingham ribbon Docrafts

layered onto pearl paper.

The insert uses the same paper and a recipe I got HERE

Framed Christmas card

 Hi Everyone, I have done a Christmas card for the Outlawz Sketch challenge and the Dragons Lair Facebook Christmas in September challenge, for some reason I found this quite difficult, although it should have been easyish!

I cut the gold card frame on the Cameo  and cut the rest by hand. apart from the die cuts. I used red card for a change from the usual white I use. Well! it's a Christmas card LOL. I digitally coloured the insert image.

Papers and sentiment element, Dragon's Lair Designs
front and insert Sentiment and image Create with TLC
Die Tattered Lace

Thought I would add a couple of images from my walk today. After being sedentary for a few years, I am now making an effort to go walking most days as my blood sugars are not good, AND my flexibility is not good either and after a week of a little action, I already feel better, so onward and upward - hopefully.

 

Cows and a harvest collected

A lane that used to be a road, until it was cordoned off for pedestrians, now nearly grown into a path!

Top of the outlet from what used to be a waterfall that has been diverted and released lower down.

Different view of the river.

Dragonslair card

Hi Everyone my card today is made for Dragons Lair Designs Facebook Monthly Fan Challenge. The very pretty papers and elements are from the "Spring Medley" Freebie supplied to enter.   I followed a sketch and added the cherry blossom from our garden as a centre piece. I thought it suited the paper colours. 

Iris flowers

Hi Everyone, my card today is following a sketch for the challenge at Scrapbook.com I used a beautiful mini kit which had these beautiful images in it. I followed the sketch by printing and layering the images, adding a 3D raised in the middle border with a sentiment from Create with TLC.

Iris kit from Dragon Lair Designs

Sentiment Create with TLC

Here are photos of a young fox that wandered into our garden for a bit of sun bathing in the late afternoon.

Street Party

Hi Everyone, a card today that will be sent to an ex work colleague who lives in Spain, so she can see what she missed on the Queen's Birthday celebrations. I put together the card after seeing a challenge on Scrapbook.com where the challenge photo inspiration was red, white and blue with the USA flag prominent, so I thought OK, lets do a UK flag red white and blue and here is my entry into the challenge.

I made it a digital scrapbook page layout, I printed the layout and layered it onto blue card. I made it simple to avoid excess postage, and I didn't have to send (snail mail) lots of photos to my friend.

All elements added are from  CariocaDScrapbook-BlogTrainJun2015 at Pixelscrapper

T rose

Hi Everyone, I have a scrapbook page and a card today, one for each challenge I am entering, I am using different, but the same, by which I mean, both the same sketch, papers and elements, one challenge allows digital layouts and one doesn't, so did one of each.

The papers and elements are from Dragon Lair Designs monthly Fan Group challenge.

This is the digital layout with a rose from the garden, I love the quote on this which is so true.  I rolled the corner in PS, something I have just learned to do. Teachers report, could do better, but for my first try of doing it this way, I am happy.

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.977265119059705&type=1


This is a card following the same Outlawz sketch and the same papers, but with a ready coloured digi by Dearie Dolls, I changed her wellies to grey to match the papers. I went with the same garden theme. All fussy cut out and layered onto plain card instead of the patterned in the digi one, the corner being ripped, to match the digi ripped corner. Isn't it wonderful how adding different colours changes the look of a paper. Both quotes are from the web.

http://outlawzchallenges.ning.com/group/wednesday-sketch