Bike ride

Hi Everyone, I was asked to do a 60th birthday card for a man who wears lycra, rides his bike fast and it had to be funny, so here it is! In fact she liked it so much I had to do another one, slightly different, for her husband, I will show you that again.

This is a VERY short post as I am going away for the weekend and I am scheduling this post, and I still have to iron a couple of things that I want to take with me. AND it's 9.30pm Friday already, where does the time go?

I used various DP's by Summer Driggs & ETC Danyale, Overlays by Carin Grobe, sketch by Digisketch, Wheels and 60, I cut out on my Cricut

http://ema-ginationstation.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/ag-no-20.html  Anything Goes

http://robynsfetishchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/challenge-251-square-cards-152015.html Square Cards        EDIT - I WON!

http://cagichallenge.blogspot.ca/2015/02/birthdays.html Birthdays

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It's time for a new challenge at

 Digitally Sweet Challenges

the Theme is 

Anything Goes with a Sketch

sponsored by   Scrappiness Designs

I've decided to go with a scrapbook page today, with elements and paper from the Make Me Smile kit from Scrappiness Designs  it's such a feminine kit, the sketch is by our own DT member  Denise Pustelniak  I added the elements from the kit as per the sketch, added shadows to each and did a little "erasing" to the ribbon so it looked like the twine was around it. The picture in the middle was taken in the garden during a particularly hard frost. The butterfly element on the tag was "played" with until I thought it looked like it was woven into the tag. All done in PS. 

Another birthday card

Hi Everyone, just popped in to let you see a birthday card I have done for my nephew in law. He's quite subdued, so of course, I had to be my normal loud self with this, to announce his birthday :) All done in PS. I placed everything and added shadows then printed and cut out an extra layer of Dr Digi's Mr Speaker to 3D him, hope you can see the layer in the second photo. I've also included the inside, the first part about the party was from the web.

I'm going to enter a couple of Anything Goes challenges with this card at

Digi Galore
http://notrealstamps.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/anything-goes-with-that-craft-place.html

My Craft Creations
http://craftcreatoins.blogspot.co.uk/p/new-challenge.html

Red Brick DP by Digi Dewi
Grey brick by AW
Newspaper by Dawn by Designs
Extra Extra by Penny Springmann

Teddy Inchies

My DT post today for Deedee's Digis uses her Teddy Frame, which is a "Try Before You Buy" I've used this a few times, so handy for different occasions.  

The Digi papers are also from Deedee and are from her Spring Chicks kit. I added an embossed piece of card behind the images, added buttons and a little heart. All layered and planned in PS first, printed and layered onto card.  This is for a Deedee's Digis sponsored challenge by Outlawz "Greeting Challenge"

The "Hello, Hello, Hello" reminds me of a TV programme from the 1950's, in my distant past LOL, maybe some of you Brits remember "Dixon of Dock Green". It was about a Police Constable, I suppose one of the first Police programmes on British TV. It was a loved series. In it "Dixon" used to say "Hello Hello Hello", a fact a bit surplus for here really, but that is what I remembered when doing this card.

I went to Google and sought information about the programme and found it ran from 1955 - 1976, it was a gentle look at life back then. Here is a story about the series.  

This is Jack Warner as Dixon

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It's time for a new challenge at

 Digitally Sweet Challenges

the Theme is 

"Colour Challenge"

sponsored by  Sparkle N Sprinkle

these are the colours to use

Taken from Design Seeds

We had a choice of digi stamps from Sparkle N Sprinkle and my choice is the gorgeous Vivian, as soon as I saw her, these colours came alive for her. She is also available as a rubber stamp.

My PS layered 

 Printed, layered, embossed and clock cut file with added sparkle by Glamour Dust - my Hybrid card.

I did the layout in PS as usual and just made shapes to match this sketch, I then used overlays, which gave me patterned paper, a great way to copy the colours exactly ay? AND have patterned paper. 

What do I mean by overlays? On the left is a folder that includes one of the overlays I used, ( the 3rd from the right) it's usually a black pattern that you place over your digi paper, "clip" it to the paper, use "overlay" blending options, it then takes on the colours of the paper in different hues! I know I blind most of you with Photoshop terms, but hope it helps the people who visit and understand what I am doing.

The clock is from Wilma4ever at Pixel Scrapper Blog Hop June 2014. The great sentiment is from Create with TLC

http://sparklensprinklecreativechallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/february-2015-challenge.html Anything Goes

Engagement card

Hi Everyone, I have been pro-craft-inating for over a week on an order for 2 engagement cards, you know when you are full of ideas, but when you put it together it doesn't look right, no matter what you do, well, that's what I have been like. Then this afternoon, I had a follower email from Vero and it clicked! I had been asked for modern and bright colours and here they were.

This is my card, I laid it out in PS and cut the sun ray out of a file by Wendy Bird Designs the heart was layered in PS and cut out by hand.

I added the sun ray template into PS and "clipped" a matching plain colour to it, then "clipped" 2 of the paint splatters to it as well, printed it all out and layered. I added the cut out image here , done on my Cricut.  A few transparent confetti and Voilà  - done in no time at all. phew! I'll show the other one at a later date. They are so completely different, but then so was the brief. The sentiment is as requested.

http://craftygalscornerchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/challenge-5-pinkalcious.html  Lots of pink

http://craftingforallseasons.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/challenge-95-have-heart.html  Have a heart

http://carabbiemomentsofcraft.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/challenge-61-anything-goeslove.html  Anything Goes - twist - Love

http://ema-ginationstation.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/ag-no-19.html  Anything Goes

Forever friends

Hi Everyone a new digi at Deedee's Digis My DT post today shows just one of the images in the kit, I also added one of the sentiments too, so handy not to have to think LOL.

I created a circle cut file, adding PS shapes to copy the tiger stripes, well near enough anyhow LOL.

 I added DP papers from SMD at Pixel Scrapper, black card to layer and Dreamcraft 3D pearl effect.  

http://digisketchchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/for-girls.html  for girls, well only girls would say something like this!

http://imagination-craftschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/february-challenge-imagination-crafts.html  Anything Goes

http://craftcreatoins.blogspot.co.uk/p/new-challenge.html  Anything Goes