Black & White Christmas Card.

One of my lovely sister-in-law's loves black and white and to tie in with the freebie that Tams gave us and for Karen's sketch  challenge on MSE for Winter Wonderland I've come up with this card. (three in one, not bad!)

The main tree image is from Tams, as above and printed and then cut with a plain circle nestability.  I backed the image onto black card from DCWV.  The design paper is from Pink Petticoat printed in silver.  Ribbon and lace from my stash and the droplets are part of a ribbon trim I've had for years and never known what to do with.  The sentiment is my own and both are cut with SU punches from Monica. Card candy from Craftwork Cards.

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

Craft Your Days Away  Challenge # 9 - Texture
Crafty Creations Challenge # 95  Christmas is Coming
Really Reasonable Ribbon's Ramblings Challenge #12 Christmas Theme
Paper Cutz Challenge #69 Anything Goes 
Top Tip Tuesday: Tip # 12 Anything Goes 
Christmas Stampin' All Year Long challenge #72 Anything Goes 

Scorpio Man

My eldest son is now 45, which is so scary as I remember the day he was born so well. Where does time go and why, when your children are grown up, does it go so quickly?

 The background paper is from SU's Elegant Soiree kit and I used some brown card to mount it on and the tape is by Stampin' Up as well.  I love the image I found on the internet of the scorpion's tail.

Bea's Birthday.

It's my youngest granddaughter's birthday this weekend.  Her mum came across her looking in the mirror and asked her what she was doing, She replied, "I'm making my eyebrows dance".  I love this digital image from Sassy Cheryl's   We've all pulled faces in front of the mirror, haven't we!! Haven't we?????

The paper is from the kit called Little Check by Pink Petticoat and I mounted the Promarker and Copic coloured image onto a Nestabilities Lacy Square. The gorgeous pink pearlised card is by Imag-e-nation  Bea's name and age were cut on the Cricut and I finished off with a real silk ribbon and some gems.

I also made her some party bag labels featuring Hello Kitty for the girls and a pirate for the boys, all cut with the Cricut. 

Happy Birthday, Bea

Hot Chocolate

I was inspired by MSE's very own Choccy (Oona) to create a card in pink, chocolate and cream.  The image must be a chocolate lover's dream, soaking in a tub of hot chocolate with your laptop by your side, it was given to me by the artist Kat Beyer which was really kind of her.  ( I hope you like it, Kat)

Thanksgiving.

Every year in November the theme for my card swap with US Red Hatters is Thanksgiving and I love the Autumn colours that are around.

Here's the card I made and now I only have 10 others to swap with now, a few more ladies joined and we were split into two lists which makes it easier on the purse.  The paper and image are from a kit from the  D.A.I.S.I.E. Company and are cut with the new Nestabilites dies, Lacy Squares and  the sentiment I generated on the computer and cut with SU oval and scallop punches from the fab Monica.

Playing catch-up

What with one thing and another I got very behind with my card swaps over on MSE and completely forgot about a swap with Niki.  I've had these pretty little Gladioli stems from Wild Orchid Crafts for a while  and they are so sweet.  The paper is a piece of Basic Greys Capella with a plain card printed with Pink Petticoat's willow green.

At long last, I'm back in blog land

After a very frustrating three weeks with a sickly computer I'm back in blogland.  Huge thank you's go out to my fab SIL who has fixed it for me and I've learnt a hard lesson in not backing up files.  Anyway with the help of a trusty external hard drive I'm saving everything now.

 I still haven't reloaded my camera editing software so this was done in Google's Picasa Picnik software.  I seemed to have lost some of the colour from the photo as it is a very pretty duck egg blue paper from Pink Petticoat that I've printed onto Centura Pearl cardstock, I've added a Spellbinders Lotus Pendant die cut and the side one is also a Spellbinders die.  This is for a Red Hat friend whose birthday we are celebrating with lunch on the River Crouch today.   We'll be Ladies Wot Lunch!

I would like to enter the following:

Digistamps4joy challenge #5 you spin me right round

Something different for another granddaughter

It's my second eldest grand-daughter's birthday and I thought I'd try something different again.  It's with a Sweet Pea image as before but I've cut some acetate as a wrap over a piece of beautiful and very pretty pink pearlised card I bought a couple of years ago. Coloured with a mix of Copics and Promarkers and I cut the the white pearlised card with a Spellbinders Lacey Squares die.  Ellie will be as beautiful as this when she grows up, she has the blond hair and blue eyes already.

Pearls and ribbon from my stash

Creepy Crawly - Halloween

Our theme for the month of October for my monthly card swap with other Red Hatters in the US was either Autumn Harvest or Halloween.  I've made harvest cards for the last couple of years so I decided to have a crack at producing the 19 cards as simply as possible.  The postage is horrendous so they have to be as light as possible. I used a Halloween paper from Pink Petticoat and cut the extra spiders out with a new Nestie set called Lacey Squares.  The best bit about this card run was getting inky fingers using the Tim Holtz Distress Inks, I really love these little ink pads.

The various ribbons are from my overstuffed ribbon stash box.  Its never fails to amuse me how I start out with an idea and change it when I get bored with the same thing.

A Grown-up Grand-daughter

Our eldest grand-daughter celebrated her birthday this month and it's amazing how quickly time has just flown by.  She is such a young lady now (ears pierced and beautiful highlights in her hair) that a more grown up card seemed fitting. 

This is my very first attempt at using a Sweet Pea stamp and sadly the light during the evening is not very good and casts shadows.

The lace was given to me and the flowers I've coloured with a Copic pen. The flourish was cut on the Cricut and I used a Martha Stewart punch on the purple edge.  The glitter on the moons and her wings and dress are looking a little subdued with the light that was available

A big THANKS! to Melissa for updating her challenge lists, it's so helpful.

I would like to enter this card into the following:

Incy Wincy Designs  Challenge 62 - Sparkly Glitter