A Little Late

Where has this week gone, I've seemed to have been driving here there and everywhere this week and forgot all about my little place here.  I am a very lucky person in having a fab mother-in-law who loves the cards I make and this is the one I sent her.

The image I found on a brilliant site here called The Sum of All Crafts and you can find some amazing vintage style pictures that can be downloaded for free. I framed it very simply in a dull gold die cut. The background paper is from Kanban called Apricot Dreams and it's gorgeous apricot and grey designs.  The flower is a Rose Creation by Spellbinders with several coats of Glossy Accents.  The seam binding was coloured with a Promarker pen and I've used a self generated greeting mounted on a Spellbinders die.

I'd like to enter the following challenges:-

One Stop Craft Challenge #175 ~ Clean and Simple.
Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge #178 Shabby Chic/Vintage

Girly

Our theme this week over on the One Stitch at a Time Challenge blog here is 'Girly'.

I'm sure we all love making girly cards and my teamies this week are no exception, pop over to the blog and enter this beautiful challenge No:105 that Choccy has set.  Please leave us a comment, if you have time, it is always appreciated by everyone.

To win our fab sponsor's Bunny Zoe's Crafts wonderful prize of a £10 gift voucher you must use one of the gorgeous images that you can find at Stitchy Bears Stamps on-line shop.  It's so very easy to purchase and you will be spoilt for choice from the hundreds of images.

All other entries that do not use an image from the Stitchy Bear Stamps will be entered into a draw to win $3 to spend at the online store.  There are freebies available and a fantastic variety of images at  lovely prices and these change every month. You'll soon build up a library of images that you will use time and time again.

For my card I've used Angel Wing by Digi Blessings and it can be found right here.  I know I'm going to use this image again, it's so lovely.

The background paper is from Ella Blue (an all-time favourite) and with the image I've used Nestabilities Labels One. I've coloured the angels with a mixture of Promarkers and Copics.   The insertion lace across the middle is by Wild Orchid Crafts and I've topped it with some beautiful flower ribbon that my lovely friend Karen sent me.  Please pop over and have a look at her blog, she makes amazingly beautiful cards. I've used a Marianne swirl die and let the touching sentiment speak for itself.

Not well again!

One of my beautiful Red Hat friends is poorly again this year and I've sent her a little card.  The House Mouse stamp 'Monica with Blankey' always seems to fit, it has to be one of those stamps you always seem to reach for.  When we are feeling low I'm sure we would all like to snuggle up with our favourite blankey.

The background paper is my favourite of the moment, Isabel from First Edition and I've used the Lotus flower pendant die from Spellbinders to mount the image.  Some lovely Ballet Blue ribbon from SU, tulips and blossom flowers from Wild Orchid and some stash pearls to finish.

I'd like to enter the following:

Julie @ MSE Spring

Make My Monday - Week 39 Spring Flowers
Stamps and Fun = Creativity Challenge 89 - One Bow
The Pink Elephant TPE138 - Lets See those Layers
PanPastel Uk Challenge Blog #8 Use a Stamped Image
The Paper Players Challenge #85 - Spring Has Sprung

OSAAT Challenge #103

The challenge this week over at the  OSAAT Challenge blog is to 'Recycle/Reuse'.  Our fab sponsor this week is Creative Craft World who are offering a brilliant prize of some Promarkers.

For my DT card I chose the gorgeous Teapot from Hope Jacare Doodles. The Teapot has been coloured with Copic Pens and simply matted up with plain white card coloured with the pink pen used on the main image.The sentiment is from a freebie set from Paper Garden Projects and the flower is made us from little satin padded hearts, coloured again with a pink Copic pen. These have been in my stash from when I first started scrapping and topped with a little flower from Wild Orchid Crafts.  The gorgeous lace was part of a lovely pressie from Karen, please check out her very beautiful cards here.  All of the different parts of the card sit on a lovely paper from the first Editions Isabel pad.

Please stop by the challenge blog here and see all the gorgeous creations from my teamies.

I would like to enter the following:-

Craft Your Passion Challenge #100 - Anything Goes
Lollipop Crafts Challenge 70 - Clean and Simple
Stamp with fun - Challenge #151 Pink and Green
So Artful Challenge #3 - Time for Tea

Birthday wishes for Granddaughter No:4

It's our granddaughter Lacey's birthday on the 1st March and I hope she likes it.  I like the two little star fish with their black beady eyes. These were little star buttons I found in my stash but the one on the left hasn't got it's eyes lined up straight, never mind.

OSAAT Challenge #101 Digi or Don't

It's time for another challenge over at the OSAAT challenge blog and this time it is " Digi Or Don't" The choice is entirely yours.  Our super sponsor this week is:  There's a £10 voucher to win to spend in Joanna's fabulous website.

My choice for this weeks challenge is a gorgeous sentiment and flower designed April of Reeces Scrap Pieces and you can find it here in Stitchy Bear's shop.  It's called "Missing You" and I think we can all relate to this beautiful sentiment.

I used a piece of my all time favourite paper pad called Ella Blue by GDC and reversed the paper for the dark brown area.  It is decorated it with just ivory ribbon and a computer generated sentiment that has been cut with a Spellbinders die.   

Another quickie card

Oops! I had forgotten the Birthday of one of my Red Hat friends so put together this super quick card from another Hunkydory kit that was free with a magazine.  I like those !!!!

Just added a blue Spellbinders square mat, a couple of pearls and a floppy bow and job done!

Fridays card

A really quick Kanban kit card today, I had to get this done by today, just added some feathers and ribbon from stash.

Megan's 1st Birthday

It was my great niece's 1st birthday back in January and when I saw her at Christmas she was just starting to walk.  The image is from Mo's Digital Pencil and it is called Walker and reminds me so much of Christmas especially as Megan was wearing such pretty red shoes.

The front of the card has been cut out with a Spellbinders Labels 23. The flowers I cut with Spellbinders Rose Creations, Marianne's English Rose and I've added some Wild Orchid flowers from my stash.  I covered most of the flowers with a glaze to make them shine. The pink embossed paper is from First Editions Sweet Owl.

Our little Lucy

It's one of our gorgeous granddaughters, Lucy, whose birthday is next week and this is her card.  She is so grown up at eight years old that thought her card should match.  The image is her birth sign fairy from the Enchanted CD by the artist, Linda Ravenscroft.  It has such beautiful images on the CD  I just matted and layered it onto gold and pink pearlised card and just added some Wild Orchid flowers and a Craftwork Cards sentiment.  Loads of glitter added to the fairy's wings too.

I'd like to enter this card into the following:-

Everybody-Art-Challenge #180 ~ Kalender

Tiddly Inks Challenge #80 Sparkle It Up

Bunny Zoe's Crafts Challenge #21 ~ Celebrations

The Cheerful Stamp Pad Challenge #36 ~ Happy Birthday 

Make It Monday Challenge 76 ~ Anything Goes

My Crafty Spot Challenge # 44 ~ Girly Girl