Corset

Hello everyone, another dark dismal rainy day, when is this going to end? the weather men say tomorrow, and it will get colder for a couple of days, then the rain or even snow will come in for the weekend aarrrrrgggghhhh!

My mother would have been 100 this weekend (13/01/13).  My 4 brothers and their wives and myself and hubby are meeting at my youngest brother in the West country from different places of the UK.  A REALLY good excuse to get together, we haven't all been together for 2 years, so this will be a lovely and talk about old times about her. LOL.  SO it would be good for a little sunshine to shine on us for a change.

Anyhow, on to my card.

.The Less is More challenge - I am entering again, 2 weeks running after being MIA for so long.  The criteria being -

The beginning of a new year and the beginning of a new month means one thing at "Less is More" and that is a colour challenge and for this time we have chosen 

BLACK and WHITE 

with a touch or a splash, a hint or suggestion, a dab or a  patch of 

a colour of your choice!

I have done a card with maybe too much colour - nah! can't be, can it? Oh! well here it is.  The Victorian lady is off the web, why did I think of corsets? goodness only knows how my mind works sometimes, (maybe 'cause after Xmas I need one LOL) but I had to find a quote or something to go with it, plain Happy Birthday wouldn't do. I came across this one and a card was made, so to speak.  I coloured her corset in PS then 3D'd her on photo paper, I don't often use photo paper and had forgotten how much shine it gives, in this case the lady did seem to be off the card.  Hope you like it.

http://simplylessismoore.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/happy-new-year-101.html  B&W splash of colour

http://www.abcchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/  Clean and Simple card

http://kaboodledoodles.blogspot.co.uk/   Vintage

Baby by Bugaboo

I love my digi stamps, especially the humerous ones, so this baby card follows the humour.

The digi stamp came with the Bugaboo Feb Newslatter, last year I think, I have used it before but haven't blogged or even taken a photo of it for some reason.  Anyhow, here it is I used Pink Petticoat papers on the bottle and the card and coloured the rest in PS, I added a ribbon and stuck it so it was raised, something I have only done digitally in PS.  I may have raised it too high, but I do like the effect, so probably will do it again.  I used a quote from Create with TLC  which I think says it all LOL.   Hope you like it.

I'll enter the following challenges

http://catchthebugblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/january-anything-goes.html  Anything Goes

http://crazy4challenges.blogspot.co.uk/   Ribbons and Bows

http://robynsfetishchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/challenge-141-anything-goes-152013.html  Anything Goes

http://willowsketchiechallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/anything-goes-or-sonias-sketch-3rd.html  Anything Goes

Congratulations card

I have just had an email showing me the wonderful ShowCASe of 2012 cards from Less is More and realised I had not made a card for the challenge there in such a long time and as my resolution is to enter challenges this year, I felt I should enter and not just peek in and look as I usually do. 

The challenge is  -

This challenge will last for two weeks over the festivities and we have decided to start our Christmas celebrations with a whizz and have chosen

DRINKS 

as our recipe.

You can choose tea, coffee, water, sodas, alcohol of course if you wish, in fact any drink at all...

I have 4 hours to enter!!!!!! So I looked at what I have to do with drink, - a LOT - but felt as I know someone who is getting married I thought I would do something for them, I chose an Audrey Jean Roberts image which I love, I glittered it, although you probably can't see it as the photo was taken in the kitchen at 5.30pm today when it is pitch black and raining (again) outside.  The font, I love, is Aphrodite Text. 

Something old and Something New

One of my brother's has been sorting through his photographs and came across these of him and me in about 1959, I was thrilled as I don't think I had seen it before or so long ago I had forgotten about it.  I just love the car, it seems this particular model was known as the Doctor's coupe.  Now you know I haven't been a scrapper, but I have to admit I DO like doing the digi scrapping.  Just haven't thought of doing other things besides children, no grandchildren so haven't a great deal of opportunity to use kiddies, so used me instead LOL.

There are loads of blogs with freebies and beautiful kits for sale, I have used just one of them today.

I have used a template but sorry can't tell you who from, perhaps someone can help? this is it.

I have used papers and elements from "Pixel Scrapper Digital Scrapbooking" Here 

 http://liveandlovecrafts.blogspot.co.uk/  Something Old, - I think maybe the photos are old enough.

I shall also link to Pixel Scrapper Gallery when I can learn how to upload this LOL.

Back to Normal???

Hiya folkses, another wonderful day in Wales, dark, raining, miserable. BUT! I have taken All the decorations down, cleaned the house and now ready to do some creating, now that was the idea, but I have NO Mr Mojo around, I have to make a sympathy card for a close workmate as her Mum died last Friday, but even that I think will be a repeat of one I have done before, no matter, it was a lovely card and if I can get that done, then, maybe, Mr Mojo will pay a visit. Well we can hope can't we LOL.


I can post a card I did in December though,

this was a lovely card to do, made easier with elements and a cluster from DBB_Avezuir "Wishing You" kit from Digital Scrapbooking Studio, I used Snowflakes to add a background to it by Kimeric at Digichick. Added some glitter and that's all that was needed. I thought it looked like one of those expensive bought cards.

Well that's it for today, I hope you have all recovered your hangovers after the New Year parties.

Va Va Voom

Good Afternoon everyone, another dark, cloudy, raining day.  Just GREAT for crafting LOL.

A card for a friends daughter was needed, she was 20 on Christmas Eve. She wants her own personalised number plate, so I went and did one for her LOL.

The car was a drawing of a Clio (her car) downloaded from the web, which I coloured in PS to match the girl and elements from Julie C Designs Friends Forever kit, the girl looks just like my friends daughter, she has flowing red hair too and long legs.  I added the Va Va Voom cut on my Cricut, as it was in the old advert of the Clio on TV, hoped she liked it.

I shall enter the following challenges with this card 

http://stamp-n-doodle.blogspot.co.uk/  Anything Goes

http://myheartpiecesdigitalstampchallenge.blogspot.in/  Anything Goes

http://www.charismacardz.blogspot.co.uk/  Anything Goes

My New Year resolution is that, I will continue to enter challenges this year even though my style is not as clever as the fabulous cards that also enter.

Computer easel card

Hope you ALL had a lovely Christmas.

One of our IT men was leaving, he is the main man for our 'puter system, so don't know what we will do without him.  I thought a card would perhaps show him we did care about him leaving, so this is what I made.

I downloaded a clear 'puter screen keyboard and mouse, I then looked for some computer language to put on the screen adding "new job". I made an easel card, put the empty screen inside and made a fault message on the screen, added a verse 3D'd the keyboard and mouse.  The mouse meant the card 8 x 8 was then too big for the envelope aarrgghh! so I made an envelope to match the background paper, that took longer than the card, as I had to get the measurements right. I'm glad to say it was well received.