Dog Cloud?

 Just popping in to show you some clouds I photographed the end of last week.
it reminded me of a dog walking out of the clouds!

We've had some fabulous fluffy clouds of late with beautiful blue skies. Rain last night, I suppose that means that was our Summer, it was good while it lasted LOL.

OK I have to confess -

the one abover is the original cloud and the first cloud had been Photoshopped by me adding a dog shape made into a cloud. If you want to do the same, HERE is where I learnt to do it.

I'm in a wicked mood LOL.

Ironing happiness!

Hi Everyone, I have made my card for 2 challenges today, the first is the Outlawz sketch and the other is Dragon Lair - Women at work! looking through my files I found an image I haven't used in the 10 years I have had it. It's from PC Hugware and no longer available. It's by Laurie Furnell. I changed the colours of the image slightly to match the paper.

I followed the sketch laying it all out in PS, printed and layered and used die cut flowers and glitter glue from Dovecraft for the centres. I found the sentiment on the web, it's sooooooooo true LOL. although hubby does mostly - I do it sometimes!!!!

I notice the glitter glue is drooping, I had only just put it on, so managed to get it back in shape LOL.

DP Fayette Designs

Flowers mini die Tattered Lace

http://stampingwithdragon.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/time-for-mays-challenge-at-dragons.html Women at work.

http://outlawzchallenges.ning.com/group/wednesday-sketch/forum/topics/wednesday-sketch-challenge-may-4  Wednesday sketch.

Dragon laugh!

HI Everyone, my post today is for Beccy's Blog Challenge It's been a long time since I entered and with her beautiful freebie this month I had to, I included the Dragon from last month as I had wanted to enter and time just went. Where does it go?

Anyhow on to my card, I laid it all out in PS as usual, printed and fussy cut the main images, 3D layered and added another layer of the flowers.

Short post today as I have lots to do, and as it's raining, instead of the beautiful sun they promised, it's craft time LOL. It's a long time since I have nothing scheduled or made, I have a "problem" commission, I've already had my life taken over with it and even told the lady who requested it I couldn't do it, she had made so many requests, I couldn't put it all together, I suppose that's my fault as always trying to make cards really personal. Oh! well back to it, nope she wouldn't let me give up!

Have a great weekend.

Images and papers  Beccy's Place

Nuvo drops Tonic

Sentiment Gingers House.

Dad's Garden!

Hi Everyone, my card today is for The Male Room Challenge. I saw it had reference to Shakespeare and as I had already done this card, it seemed to match in with the theme. 

Shakespeare had a lot to say about gardens and I thought this piece was relevant for the card. 

Here's flowers for you;
Hot lavender, mints, savoury, marjoram;
The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun
And with him rises weeping: these are flowers
Of middle summer, and I think they are given
To men of middle age.
The Winter's Tale (4.4.122-7)

I made it for hubby's birthday a couple of weeks ago, (although he's older than middle age LOL) my son was ill and couldn't go out to get one, he didn't want me to buy one for him, but wanted me to make one of his choice of images, sentiment and inside verse. I had hoped for him to be well enough to go out, and left it until the last minute! as you do LOL. I chose the simplest CAS card I could find in my sketches file. For some reason I have done a few CAS card recently. 

The image is Dr Digi's "Ted and his shed" which is funny as hubby's first name is Edward, although he never uses it.  I coloured the image in PS added a PS stroke effect and cut it out with a circle die. I made a mistake in the size of the underneath papers, but went ahead with it anyway and think it works OK. I embossed all the papers. I 3D glossed the wellies, you have to have shiny wellies don't you? (Wellington boots) and the tools. I added Nuvo drops to the chimney. I added SN marker to the windows as I had forgotten before printing.

I would loved to have added my name to the DT call, but most challenges want hand coloured and my preferred colouring is PS, it limits me a lot, but I love doing hybrid cards.

http://themaleroomchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/challenge-34-theme-dt-call.html Shakespeare 

http://cinspirations.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/challenge-250-for-boys-or-something.html Anyhting Goes.

http://thesisterhoodofcrafters.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/birthdays.html  Birthdays

Butterfly Wishes

Hi everyone, my card today is a late offering for the Art by Mi Ran FB Progressive challenge. Such a beautiful image.

I followed my routine of laying everything out in PS and printing the papers. I coloured her with a mix of my limited colours of Promarkers, except her skin, which I coloured with SN markers, I think they may be running out!!! I added gold glitter pen to the centre of the flowers and a little to the butterfly. I followed the sketch. I added die cut flowers with Nuvo drops in the middle,

DP's Paper Garden Projects
Flower Die Tattered Lace
Square dies My Favourite Things
Ribbon IKEA


The cloud was captured on 16 April at 8.15pm, I had to take a photo as it was so fluffy and orangey pink and beautiful.

Poppy girl

Hi Everyone, my card for you today is for my God Daughters daughter. She is 16 this month and this is the card I have made for her, it follows this weeks Outlawz sketch, I'm not sure if this is poppy overkill, but her name is Poppy (which I I love) and it's a special birthday so I decided to go with it.

I used poppylicious and poppy border by Tiddlyinks  and papers by Julie C Designs "Lest We Forget"

Below is how I laid things out in PS to print, saves a lot of waste ink and paper. I then layered onto black paper, the sentiment is by Imagine that! by Kris, The 16 has been 3D glossed, as has the poppy middles. I used Tonic Crystal drops to add the "bling". I forgot to colour her legs, so coloured them with my SN markers and went over the rest of her skin to match it up.

DSC May - Digital Card

It's time for the Monthly challenge at

 Digitally Sweet Challenges

the Theme is 

Make a Digital Card

sponsored by  Imagine That! by Kris

This month's theme is something I relish, you know me - digi digi digi.

I started by choosing a sketch, always the easiest way to start for me. I copied the shapes and put them into a rectangle, then pasted and clipped digi paper over the shapes. I added the Smiley Sun by Imagine That! by Kris from the Sunny Days kit, giving it a largish shadow to illustrate a 3D effect, lower shadows on the sentiment, bunting and buttons. The rays were "pillow" embossed to separate the rays. I did this in PS, but would imagine that you could do this card in any digital program even Word?

You also know that this is how I start my cards usually, but I came across this blog the other day, which gave me another way to use my digi cards, I thought it was a great idea, that is, to add your digi card to any Facebook birthdays of friends and families. I've done this a few times for my Niece and her family who live in China, where post is difficult, not even thinking of sharing the idea duh! - sorry! except I made the card and added it, when I could have easily just done the digi card. Something I will do next time.

Go on have a go and enter the challenge, you can print it out afterwards :) Use your CD's or Word or other photo editing program. You don't even need to print it out to enter.

Sun from the Sunny Days

Sketch I used

Digi Paper by Janet Scott Pixelscrapper
Bunting by Melo Vrijhof Pixelscrapper