Try Something New and Anything goes Challenges

This is my big sister's birthday card.  It was her birthday on Monday so it's safe to post pictures of it now.

I used a digital candyfloss image from Mo's Digital Pencil that I hadn't used before and coloured the image using using my new spectrum noir alchol pens from Crafters Companion and my some of my old trusty promarkers.  Its the first time Ive used my spectrum noirs and I've goto admit I'm really impressed with them, I've found them much easier to blend than my promarkers.  I think I can feel a need for some more colours :)

The papers I've used are from a fizzy moon paper set and I used the same papers to make the flowers to make the easel stand up.  The border in the middle is using one of my Mariane dies.  Pat said she liked it and hopefully you will agree with her.

I'm entring this into the DP2 Challenge for Try Someting New and also Paper crafting Journey's anything goes challenge.

Happy birthday Lisa

It's my niece's 22nd birthday on Tuesday so I thought I'd double up making her birthday card with a couple of challenges.  I have created an aperture card using my cuttlebug and stamped some flowers and a message on the inside.  The border is created using a docrafts border punch and adding some ribbon and gems.  I also die cut a mariane die in both black and white to give it 2 layers and used black stickles glue to highlight the body and the centres of the flowers on the inside.

I am entering this card into the cas-ualfridays challenge which is black and white (clean and simple) and also in the mymumscraftshopchallenges which is for favourite colour combos.

Thanks for looking.

Anniversary card for Hubs

It was my Hubs and I's anniversary of meeting earlier this month - 17 years.  I can't believe it!

To celebrate this I made him this card using a free stamp from this month's CraftStamper magazine.  I had been watching Sheena Douglas just before and decided to take inspiration from her use of h20s.  I made the background using my h20s and watercolouring them and used distress inks to shade around the edges and then used te lighter distess ink and a folourish stamp togive some background ineret.  I then triple embossed the heart in purple (unfortunaely I lost some of the definiton when I watercoloured, but I restamped using distress ink to give put the definition back in).  To finish it off I stamped my sentiment onto velum and wrapped it around the card and added some gems.  i then matted it all onto some white card that i had coloured the edges of using a matching promarker.

He loved it  

I thought I'd enter this in the WOW embossing powder January challenge which is based on love and also on simplycreatetoo challenge which has a theme of love is all around.

Thanks for looking x

Freshly made sketches challenge entry

Its been a quiet day today, lots of chilling and no cardmaking but here is a card I made on Friday night.  It is for my husband's nephew who's passion is rugby.  Its quite a simple card using a papermania stamp and some papers from my stash. 

I'm entering it in the sketch challenge over at Freshly made sketches

Thanks for popping over to have a look :)

"Make your own flowers" and "Think Pink" challenge card

This is a card I created using a BCE template and some Pergamano stamps, coloured with promarkers.  All the flowers were quilled, all the time I was sticking these on I was counting the amount of time it had taken to make the flowers, I reckon there are about 2 hours of quilling alone on this card.  (what can I say, I'm a slow quiller).  Im entering this on the http://disdigidesignschallenge.blogspot.com/ challenge which is for make your own flowers and also in http://sassycherylschallenge.blogspot.com/ challenge which is for thinking pink.

Art deco 50th card

Here's a card I made a little while ago for a friend's 50th birthday.  I used Debbi Moore artdeco paris cd and mariane dies for the flowers.