I WON!

I entered a card on the Wag n Whiskers blog and guess what I WON, I am thrilled silly, I get to have one of their rubber stamps, I have chosen a beautiful stamp called "Say a Prayer" so look out for my attempts at rubber stamping LOL.

I am entering this card in to the Wags n Whiskars challenge for this week, well I HAD to didn't I? LOL.

I have done another card with the same image and background for a friends daughter as in my previous post, I love this image. Luckily I had it all set up on PS and just had to print it out, cut her out and then cut out the round shapes and Stickled and put them all together following Wags n Whiskars sketch. (I thought it strange that the sketch I followed on my last card a Fridays Sketches challenge was almost the same.)  Wags n Whiskers also has a recipe with the sketch, hope I'm near enough to it. 


Recipe........

I want to see

1. Something Blue
2. Something dimensional
3. Something patterned
 This is the link to the challenge
http://willowsketchiechallenge.blogspot.com/

The details are all the same as in my previous post, except I have added shaped gloss paper by Cuddly Buddly and silver card by Hobbycraft, (which is behind the pink and you can hardly see) and pink and blue ribbon from The Range.  I hope you don't mind me posting nearly the same card, but as I said I love this image and even all the colours.  I seem to be in a blue mood, I think the last few cards have been blue, I suppose it's the Piscean in me LOL

Hope Monday has been good to you :)

Back to School

I have used  DP's called Pink Surprise by Bearly Designs and Funky Fairy Free Blue Xmas, pink ribbon from stash and the beautiful Dance by Whoopsiedaisy Digi Stamps.  I have coloured her in PS and paer pieced her dress with another of Funky Hands Free Xmas paper and layered or decoupaged her whichever side of the Atlantic you are :). I then cut out, with the help of Fairycuts and my Cricut, Back to School and then stickled the words and her ribbon and frill.

I shall be entering the following challenges with her
http://wagsnwhiskersrubberstamps.blogspot.com Sparkly
http://priscillastyles.ning.com/#?= Freebie Challenge
http://meljensdesignsdt.blogspot.com/ Back to School

Pearl Anniversary

I have had an order for a Pearl anniversary card, which if possible I have to include - missing shorts, narrow boat captain, Proms in the Park , a Plaster jacket for the lady, a cottage in Solva (Llanelli), Picnic by the river, French bread/wine/mussells, Dolphins, and a caravan in France.  NOT much is it?

It has taken me all of Friday night, half of Saturday and most of Sunday, but I did it and the only things left off were the plastic jacket and the mussells. I didn't know what plastic jacket she meant and thought the mussells would be too small!!!!!.

The sketch I followed is named CS25H1

I have used a an A3 card in half, making the finished size A4, the shape I cut on my Cricut from the Straight from the Next cartridge, the grey celebration card I used for the back of the shape and the tags I have had for years, sorry don't know who by, the silver card is from Hobbycraft, the flowers are by Papermania, the ribbon was from PaperMill direct before they closed their shop, the pins are a win from Pink Paper Palace, the hearts are cut on the Cricut and embossed with the swirly folder by Cuttlebug, phew! that's a lot.

The "memories" are bits of digis I had from the net and from file, I have altered 2 slightly to fit the brief, the table and chairs, wine and bread are Frenchy by Olivia, man is Hunnybunny, I've hidden his pants underneath by making his shirt longer and the woman is Forgetful Freda both by Marlene at Squigglefly, the cottage is by Bird Cards.com, the caravan is one I have had for years, no name for it I'm afraid, with a background from PC HugBug.  Proms photos are from the BBC web site. Oh! yes and the pearls are from Papermania.  All coloured in PS.

I think that's all, if I have left anyone out, my apologies.  It has been, believe it or not a difficult card to work out and on.  I'm glad it's a one off!!!!!  now all I have to do is hope that she likes it.

Red letter Day

I was thrilled to be a winner on the CDAC challenge with LiaStampz, this is the badge I had, I'm now a Cookie" instead of eating them LOL.

 One of the winning stamps was catmail_liastampz, I chose him, 'cause he's so cute.  The card is made from pearlised card from Cuddly Buddly, the DP's are from Jannisscrap Designs, the envelopes are a "shape" in PS, the fonts are Fultoon and Gill Sans Ultra Bold.I decoupaged the mouse as you can see in the closeup.  I coloured it in PS.

 I shall be entering the following challenges with this card

http://cardmakinmamas.blogspot.com/ Birthday cards
http://glittergeeks.blogspot.com/ Furry and Feathery Friends
http://stampchallenges.blogspot.com/ Just use a Digi
http://stampingwithdragon.blogspot.com/ Red Green and White
http://frosteddesigns.blogspot.com/ Colouring
http://thepoodlesparlour.blogspot.com/ Round and Round The Garden
also putting it on to the CDAC gallery and LiaStampz gallery

Chef card

 Firstly I must thank everyone for their lovely comments on my recent fruit card.  It certainly makes a difference to hear what other "cardies" think of what's been done.

CDAC have got a challenge going where for entering the challenge you get 6 digi's for free, I love the artists there and have quite a few of their stamps.  This is a card I made last night, that will go in to the challenge, I will then make more (hopefully to enter another 2 of the 6 received). The link for the challenge is http://priscillastyles.ning.com .

My card is made up of different DP's and the hearts paper, must be one of the first I ever downloaded, so sorry I don't know from where I can tell you it includes fairy images and a few other papers as well. The stripe paper is by Summertime Designs, the plain blue background is called Australian Dubo Grass!! sorry again, don't know who by.  The little chef is by Digistamps4joy, I love him.  I coloured him in PS. and the blue check trousers I paper pieced is called "gingham light blue" sorry don't know who by.  The font is FultoonHmk I printed the plain blue background straight on to the card, a lovely pearlised from Cuddly Buddly, and the rest on card also from Cuddly Buddly.
(Just noticed that his left cheek in my lightening process has disappeared, I hadn't noticed before, so a little touch up is called for LOL.)

Fruit CAS

I have remade the card, why? well Diva Mandi wasn't that impressed and if it comes to it I wasn't either, I just wanted to get the card posted, so I redid it and made a "proper" Cas card  out of it.   I couldn't think of a sentiment so thought a basket of fruit, is usually given for celebration (OK this isn't a basket of fruit, but its mixed fruit!)  LOL
I hope our illustrious leaders will think this better and more in line with the CAS requirement and I actually thank Mandi for giving me the push to NOT accept the half hearted.

I shall be putting this on Priscilla Styles gallery too.

Fruit

These are the instuctions from our Illustrious Limette Leaders. 

Ok, so we have our 'Lucky Dip' week as it's the fifth Saturday of July.

The challenge is 

FEELING FRUITY

We would like to see fruit on your cards or fruit colours...easy peasy 'lemon' squeezy!

How do I do this - easy peasy 'lemon' squeezy!, well, I did a card the other week, posted earlier in my blog of a melon, so thought I would "cheat" and  copy it, then thought that wouldn't do for Chrissy and Mandi their standards are too high and they do say "no backlinks" so I thought as I had a lot to do I would copy it!!!! to make up the time I didn't have -  this is it.

I preferred the first melon thanks, so on Sunday I started looking for a suitable image I had, digis for me as you know :)  then found a Priscilla Styles "Fruit" that I had forgotten I had and decided to have a go at that, colouring on PS, sorry I can't do otherwise, I make such a mess.  I finished the colouring and printed it on Cuddly Buddly pearlised card, then decided to use Penny Duncan Shaplies on my Cricut to make a shape around the fruit, I edged it in purple with my Whispers ink pad, added another layer of purple and then cut the corners with my ribbon punch and threaded green ribbon through each corner.

I'm not sure what it's suitable for at the moment so will hold it back and see what happens.  I hope you like it. (them)  Sorry for the photo quality, but I photographed it at night.