You did it!

I made this card for a young lady who has worked extremely hard and has just qualified as a lawyer and has landed her first job in the form where she has been training after getting her law degree.  She really deserves her success.

Image - precoloured Elisabeth Bell topper from The Hobby House

Papers - Echo Park I love family

Bunting die - Lawn Fawn

Other - Congratulations die and enamel dots

I have several occasions in June and July which I need to make cards for so best get on with them this afternoon and evening whilst hubby is out.

Number One Ted

I bought this cute little LOTV stamp a while ago and finally got round to using him. I have been asked a few times for a general well done card so thought he would do perfectly. He has been coloured with Copics and die cut with Nesties. The papers are Prima Youth and suitable for male or female. I used some Xcut nesting dies and Spellbinders arrows along with some Crafty Ribbons nautical ribbon. Quite a simple card for me.

Challenges

Pollycraft Stars and Stripes 

Sketch Saturday Great sketch

A Gem Spots/stripes or both

We are having a day in the city today. Hubby has to go to the dentist and we are both having back massages. I still haven't seen the new Docrafts ranges yet so hoping to take a look at those and maybe make a little purchase. Have a feeing it is going to be unbearably hot. Once it gets over about 24 degrees I really don't like it much.

Computer guy

I think this is the first card on my blog coloured solely with Copics, what do you think? I am still practicing with my colour combinations especially as I have far less pens than I did Promarkers but I shall be building up my collection. The image is a great one from Ladybug Crafts Ink. Papers are Bo Bunny Timepiece and I added some PaperCellar embellies. This is a commissioned card for somebody's son who has just won a place at a top technical college in Europe. 

I would like to enter this into the intriguing challenge of An eye for details at Cute Card Thursday. No clues from the challenge, just use your own interpretation.  So mine is the fact that he is wearing glasses and also that you have to have an eye for detail when using a computer.

I had a very busy week last week, sorting through all the WW DT applications, sorting all my stuff for sale and then the printer issues. I love my new printer though so glad that is sorted. I also have several orders and card samples to make for Stamposaurus so sorry if I haven't visited. I do spend time every day commenting but there just never seems enough time as I would like. As for Pinterest I am not starting that otherwise I would never make anything!

You've Passed!

I've managed to make 15 cards in the last 2 days as I need to increase my stock ready for the 3 craft fairs I am doing over the next 5 weeks. I couldn't possible have made that many if I had stamped all the images so have been making some with decoupage and die cuts. I love these LOTV die cuts especially as some of them have images which are not available as stamps yet. I know this one is now but I must admit it saved me a lot of colouring, though that is something I love to do and find very relaxing. When you sell cards people don;t always appreciate how long it takes to colour in an image so these die cuts are great.

I wanted to make the card suitable for male or female and though these papers are Wild Rose For Men think they fit the bill. I used the MS simple scallop punch and added some card candi. The letter L had been cut in half to show they have passed and the sentiment is from the Tulip range from Docrafts.

I would like to enter this into the dies to die for (use die cuts) at Papertake, Primary Colours at Delightful and Bold and bright at One Stop Craft.

I was so pleased that my pirate card I posted on Monday using a Whoopsi Daisy image made top 5.

Three very different cards today

My cards are like buses today, none for 2 days and then 3 show up! As regular followers will know I am off work with labrynthitis and getting fed up with having it. It has been a week now but I am told it usually takes a couple of weeks to clear up. Graham took me out at the weekend. As much as I am enjoying being at home crafting and reading not being able to do much else isn't so good and it was nice to get out. Saturday we went to the garden centre and craft shop where I wanted to buy the new Henbury Lane paper. They had sold out of it so I bought some MME paper instead and some lace. Well I couldn't come out empty handed could I? Yesterday we went into Norwich as it is so much quieter on a Sunday and I needed some more library books. We had lunch and did a bit of shopping. Norwich is renowned for its shops but only has one store in the city centre which sells crafts and no Henbury Lane paper either but I did manage to get the last pack of Rose Garden. We wer going back to the car and I couldn't go another step. Went for coffee and hubby said my face was as white as the cup!

Well enough rambling on to the cards.

The first one is for The Sugar Bowl challenge. They always have such great sketches and an extra which was recycle. I used some silver ribbon which I cut off a top. I don't know about you but I can't bear having those ribbons inside a top to hang it up with so I take them off straight away and pop them in my ribbon box. Papers are my new Papermania Rose Garden and I used the same papers to punch out the flowers.

The next great sketch is from Creative Card Crew made using a Lili of the Valley stamp which Lynsey bought me when I left my last job. Papers are my new MME Wild Asparagus. I added some die cut swirls and gems rather than flowers so the card could be used for male or female. Charisma's challenge is sweet treats ie food or drink.

Lastly this fun image was a freebie from Bugaboo and is perfect for the challenge of make me laugh at Digital Tuesday. I used the fab sketch at CRAFT for this one. The ladybird foam stickers I bought in America and the sentiment was done on the PC.

A final word from me. I have 63 entries for my candy so far. If I reach 100 I will add a second prize so there will be 2 lucky winners so spread the word.

Wedding vow renewal

Some friends of ours are renewing their wedding vows after 20 years of marriage. I'm not sure if the day of the ceremony is also their wedding anniversary so I decided to go with congratulations as the sentiment. The cure couple are a CC designs image. I paperpieced her dress and added them to a swiss dots embossed circle. There's a touch of glitter on her dress and lots on the punched leaves. Flowers are Wild Orchid. papers are Papermania and DCWV.
Challenges
Sketch Saturday
Paper Sundaes photo inspiration (I used the colours)
Totally Gorjuss Hearts
Papertake open theme
Crafty Creations anything goes

Congratulations

I love these Forever Friends stamp and this one is so useful. The unusual sketch is from Friday Sketchers.

Ingredients
Stamp - Forever Friends
Coloured with Letraset Promarkers, highlighted with glitter pens
Paper - Forever Friends For Him, Dovecraft and from stash
Die cuts - Nestabilties, Cuttlebug Star Die
Embellishments - gems and heart from stash

Forever Friends Challenge

This challenge for
Forever Friends challenge really took me out of my comfort zone as it was to use citrus colours. I'm much more used to using pink and purple so found this really challenging.
Forever Friends stamp
Sizzix swirl
Cuttlebug star
Free papers from magazine