New Grandson

We finished a bit early from work tonight and as nobody was home I found a bit of time to make this card.  Emily has gone to see Dylan Moran, a comedian at the Manchester Opera House, Chris has gone around to his mums and Stewart is goodness knows where.

My card is for a lovely lady who has just become a Grandma to a gorgeous little grandson.

I am entering it into the following challenges:

The Sugar Bowl - Sketch
Cute Card Thursday - Birthstone (Turquoise)
Colour Create Challenge - Blue, Grey and White
Top Tip Tuesday - Open Challenge
Simon Says Stamp - Bingo (Shape, ribbon, sentiment)
Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge - Male Card

The stamp I have used is a Sugar Nellie 'Circle of life' and coloured with Promarkers.  The bunny backing paper is a free download called Hippity Hoppity and you can download it here.  I've run a piece of white card through my cuttlebug in the swiss dots folder.  Sentiment is Clare Curd stamp.  Added gems and ribbon from stash.

Nutcrafters Candy

Katie and Colette over at Nutcrafters are back to blogging after having their gorgeous babies earlier this year.  They have some fantastic new stamps in their store designed by Katie and some gorgeous flowers and embellishments.

To celebrate their return to blogging they have a yummy blog candy on offer until Saturday 18 June.

Check out their shop too as they have some new stamps and digi squares.  There are lots of bargains to be had too.

Pocket Gift Card Holder

Good Afternoon everyone, don't know what's up with me today but I feel absolutely shattered.  Think it will be an early night for me unless I get a second wind.

My card today is my weekly Christmas card.  The first challenge I'm entering has been set by the ladies at Bah Humbug.  This week they have asked for a card for a teenager.  I always find this age group the most difficult to buy presents for and usually end up giving them money or a voucher so I have made this pocket card which could hold either.

The backing paper has been printed directly onto both sides of white card.  It is a digi download I had saved but the site I got it from is no more I'm afraid.  The images are both from Meljen's Designs.  Frosty and Let it Snow.  You can download Frosty here.  I've coloured with Promarkers.  I've cut the mats and tag using my nesties and added ribbon from my stash.  I've added a few pearls and glamour dust to the swirls and a small blue brad to the tag.

I am also entering it into the following challenges:

Winter Wonderland - Pearls and Swirls
Tuesday Morning Sketches - The Sketch
Top Tip Tuesday - More than one fold
Crafty Sentiments - Sparkle

Daisy Birthday Card

Good Afternoon, hope you are all well. What a funny day its been weather wise, I pegged some washing out this morning and I've brought it in 3 times now.  Sunny one minute and chucking it down the next lol.  Been to hospital with mum this morning for a check up after her Bypass op in March.  The consultant is very happy with her and discharged her from Wythenshawe.  She just has to go to our local hospital now for another follow up in 4 months, so all good.

My card today is a birthday card for a lady at work.

I have used the cute 'Daisy' stamp by Sugar Nellie and coloured with Promarkers.  She has been discontinued at SN but did you know that she is being re-released by Elisabeth Bell as she has had so many people asking for her.  The papers are from Nitwit's So Berry collection. 

I am entering it into the following challenges:

The Sugar Bowl - Sketch

BunnyZoes Challenge - Lace

Passion for Promarkers - Pink/Brown

Cute Card Thursday - Embellish it

Crafty Catz - Circles

Cute and Girly - In the garden

Gingerbread Card

Well got home from Snowdon about an hour ago.  Me and Em got there about 3.15am and sat in the hotel waiting for the teams to get down.  Chris and his team finally arrived at 6 am which gave them a total time of 26 hours and 1 minute.  He was a bit disappointed because he knew they could have done it in 24 hours if they had had a bit of luck with the road travel.  They lost about an hour and half travelling from Scotland because the traffic was so bad around Glasgow and then on Snowdon one of the team was feeling poorly so they had to slow down for him.  I'm really proud of him though, they came 15th out of 36 teams and only 8 of them managed less than 24 hours.  Chris's team alone have made about £3000 for Action Medical Research, a children's charity.

Anyway back to the card I made yesterday.  The ladies over at Bah Humbug have set a fab challenge this week which is 'Surprise'.  I really enjoyed making this one as it was a new technique for me.  I made a wiper card, the instructions can be found here.

 Card Closed

 Card Opened and wiper pops up.

Closer look at the pop up wiper.

I have used 2 Kraft card blanks which I had in my stash drawers.  The backing papers are from the Cricut Celebrations paper pad matted onto cream and dark brown card.  The really cute gingerbread man is a digi stamp from Pink Gem Designs and I have paper pieced the hat, scarf and icing and the robin is from the Penny Black Jolly Friends set.   The snowflakes are furry stick ons from Paper Cellarand the ribbon is from my stash.  The sentiment is a SeeD.

The challenges I am entering are:

Bah Humbug - Surprise

Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Doodlebug ( I doodled the snowflakes, the white stitching and the zig zags on the icing)
Winter Wonderland - Food for Christmas

Southern Girls Challenge - Start of Winter Christmas

Paper Creations Ink - Ribbon or Lace

ABC Christmas Challenge - K is for kids/Kraft

No Camera

What a gorgeous day it has been. I am so glad as Chris is finally doing his Three Peaks Challenge today and we have been a bit worried about the weather.  The Challenge is to climb the 3 highest mountains in Scotland, England and Wales.  He drove up to Fort William yesterday and stayed in a B&B overnight.  Chris is in a team of 5 and there are 30 odd teams altogether.  They started climbing Ben Nevis one minute apart and Chris was team no 2 starting at 4.01 am this morning.  He phoned around 9 to say he had finished in 4hrs 46.  Not a bad time for him.  They should now be climbing Scafell Pike as they are allowed 5 and half hours driving time so his start time should be 2.17pm, hopefully the traffic wasn't too bad and they got there in time.

Me and Emily are driving down to Snowdon later to pick him up as the rest of the lads live down near Birmingham so it's the opposite direction to us in Manchester.  It's going to be silly o'clock as he should be getting back down around 4 am so I am going to try and get a couple of hours sleep soon.

I have made a card today but Chris has taken my camera.  I tried taking a pic with Stewart's Olympus but the memory card doesn't fit my computer so I'll have to take another tomorrow and post it then. 

Blue and White Christmas

Oh my gosh, 2 Christmas Cards in one weekend, whatever next.  I was supposed to be making a girly Birthday card but my brain just went dead so off I went to check out the blogs and decided to go with this instead hoping it would wake those brain cells up but nope, still got no idea.  Birthday is not until the end of June so I've got plenty of time. 

 I am entering it into the following challenges:

Winter Wonderland - Blue and White (There's also a blog hop to celebrate their 2nd birthday)
My Time to Craft - Use a Diecut
Sketch Saturday - The Sketch (Blog Hop to celebrate 3rd Blogaversary)
A Spoon Full of Sugar - Things with wings
Christmas Stampin' All year round - To Die For
PaperCrafting Journey - Anything Goes
Allsorts Challenge - Things with wings

I've used the cute Penguin image from Pink Petticoat's Have an Ice Christmas and coloured with Promarkers.  The backing paper is from the Lidl Art and Craft pad from about 2 years ago, not much left of it now.  I've run the blue card through the snowflake and swiss dots embossing folders.  The border is using Martha Stewart Arch Lattice punch.  I've glittered the snow and the glittery ribbon is made by glittering some thin DST.

Christmas Bells

Quick post tonight. Here's my entry for this week's Bah Humbug challenge which this week is to incorporate bells.
 

I have used this gorgeous digi stamp from Just Inklined and coloured with Promarkers.  The backing paper is another digi but sorry don't know where from.  If I find out I'll come back and edit my post.  The ribbon is from my stash.

I am also entering it into;
Creative Inspirations Challenge - Christmas in May
Crafty Hazelnuts Challenge - Use Ribbon

LOTV Dandelion

Good Afternoon, I wanted to get out in the garden today, but as usual the weather foiled my plans.  It looks like a jungle out there, everything has just shot up.  At least there is no room for the weeds.  I did manage to sort out some of the pots as I have a little lean to shed at the side of the house which protected me from the rain and gales.

So with the little bit of extra time I had I made this card for the LOTV challenge which this week is 'Here comes Summer'.

I have used my cute little Dandelion stamp and coloured her with Promarkers.  The wings have been painted with the shimmery paints from The Works and sprinkled with glamour dust.  The papers are My Minds Eye.

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

Sketch Saturday - The Sketch

Sweet Stampin - In the Garden

Paper Crafting Journey - Get Well Soon

Creative Card Crew - Cute and Girly

Simon Says Stamp - Sparkle and Shine

Truly Scrumptious - Anything Goes

Snow Juggler

ugWell I was so late with last week's Christmas card, I was determined to get this weeks made at the first opportunity.

After a quick tidy up and a cup of tea whilst wandering through blogland this morning (sorry I didn't have time to leave comments, I was on a mission lol, searching for ideas)  I got cracking.

The ladies over at Humbug Hall are challenging us to make a card that moves.  I searched through all my old tutorials and most of the moving cards involved pulling bits out, plastic bags and all kinds of things so decided they would take too long and just went with this suspended tag card.  The tag spins around to show the 2 sentiments.

I am entering it into the following challenges:

The Sugar Bowl - Sketch
Winter Wonderland - P is for   (Pink, Polka Dots, Punch)
Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge - Scallops

Right off to have a bit of lunch and another wander around the blogs.  I noticed this morning everyone was saying how lovely the weather is, well its not here in Manchester, its blooming perishing and looks like its about to rain :(.

Christmas Card #18

Oh I'm really late with my Christmas Card this week, was doing it late last night so don't look too closely at the colouring lol.

 
I have used one of my old Whiff of Joy stamps 'Santa Charlie' and coloured it with Promarkers.  The papers are Stamping Up and the snowflakes are die cuts.

I am entering it into the following challenges.

Bah Humbug - Snowflakes
Winter Wonderland - Christmas Presents
Sweet Sketch Wednesday - The Sketch

Pink Petticoat Wedding Card

Good Afternoon, another dull and dismal day here in Manchester.  Haven't been out today but got a lot of the dreaded h*******k and flattening of clothes done.  Only me and Emily home at the moment and she won't be back from college until 5 so had a lovely peaceful day to myself.  Chris flew out to the Czech Republic yesterday for work and won't be back until tomorrow. 

Debby at work has asked me to make a wedding card for friends of hers and this is what I have come up with.  She told me the words she wanted on the front, a wedding cake and the colour pink.

 I am entering it into the Less is More challenge.  This is the first time I have entered this challenge after seeing loads of fabulous cards.  The theme this week is a one layer card and embossing.  I have used a brass stencil to emboss the dots around the edge and the little hearts in the corners.  The cake is a digi image from Pink Petticoat.

I am also entering it into:
A Spoonful of Sugar - Anything Goes
Wags and Whiskers - Circles
Crafty Cardmakers - Embossing