Happy World Cardmaking Day!

I managed to squeeze an hour or two crafting today, with the excellent excuse that its World Card Making Day actually!!  Shame really, as it was a lovely day and I should really have been out sorting out my weed garden. Ha.

If you haven't hopped along with High Hopes new release, pop over to their blog for the running order .... there's candy to be won!

Sketch from CPS #285
Polka doodles #40 - wings and things (...wings of a plane!)
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge #96 - dies and punches (cloud dies, corner punch)
Papertake Weekly - anything goes
Simon Says Stamp celebrates World Card Making day

Love is like a butterfly

Can you tell we're having a last blast at summer with this card! The sun is shining (at the minute anyway Ha) though it's brrr chilly at night now.  We saw a meteor the other night fizzing down the sky in front of us, though there's a bit of debate as to whether it was a meteorite or space junk!  Either way, it was pretty amazing!

For this card I used my cute wee bunny from The Cats Pyjamas, coloured with copics.  Whimsy butterfly die.  Tab die from Die-namics.  Heart border from Taylored Expressions.

• Layout from Sweet Sketch Wednesday #172 
• My Mum's Craft Shop #75 - hearts and flowers
• Colour combo from Party Time Tuesday #86
• Charisma Cardz #37 - things with wings
• Polkadoodles #38 - inspired by a song .... Love is like a butterfly

ETA: Top 3 @ My Mum's Craft Shop!  I also won a prize at Party Time Tuesdays ... lucky me!

Xmas Card #08

I got this gorgeous snowflake die a while ago ... this mightn't be the best way to use it, but I was dying to give it a go!
Coloured my wee bunny with copics, clear gloss on his nose and blinged up my snowballs with some glitter.

• Sketch from TCP Tuesday TCPTUES215
• Divas by Design #40 - to 'die' for
• Papertake Weekly - Bingo - I used: die cut - free - glitter
• One Stop Craft #188 - Christmas in June

Come fly with me

Sorry, couldn't get a decent pic of this card - never mind that I managed to cover up my embossed clouds and vanished the sketch!   Our horrible drizzly damp weather disappeared today ... and instead we had lashing rain!  Hope the weather wises up soon as I'm off work all next week ... well if the Queen can celebrate for 4 days, I can have a whole week off work for my birthday! Ha!

• Sketch inspired by Taylored Expressions TESC161
• Charisma Cardz #22 - travel
• My Mum's Craft Shop #60 - bingo (I chose animal image / gems / die cuts)
• Papertake Weekly - anything goes
• Creative Card Crew #12 - inspired by a song .... Come fly with me (Michael Buble's version of course!)
• Crafts for Eternity r#75 - travel

And how's this for a bit of excitement ... we had some of the Olympic torch bearers in work so I got to hold a torch!  It's quite heavy but very impressive ... though yes, if it had been mine it would have been straight on e-bay after the official photo, and  I would be straight down to the travel agent! (Excuse the crappy work t-shirt and my rain-flattened hair LOL!)

PS Jenny has a surprise giveaway on her blog: Wee Memories
(...a crafty surprise, not an Olympic torch Hee!)

Catchin' flutterbies

Thought I'd get my cute TCP bunny out in an effort to get my mojo back.  I was going great guns ... loved the sketch and my gorgeous DP (recent purchase from the Belfast craft show) and then I went and stuck down my 'fence' in the wrong place and covered up the tails of my spotty DP strips. Doh!   Ah well, I still like it!

Fence die from Taylored Expressions; DP from We R Memory Keepers. Black sparkly peel off sentiment was a pressie from my lovely Mum.  Rediscovered a pack of faux buttons (Papermania) in my craft stash from a couple of years ago, not sure why I haven't used these as I love them!

• Sketch from Taylored Expressions #157
• Crazy 4 Challenges C4C134 - paper piecing
• Willow Sketchie Challenge theme - Things Outside
• Cute Card Thursday #214 - animal magic
• Simon Says Stamp - anything goes
• Try it on Tuesday - anything goes with something you can buy in the Craft Barn - I've used a Martha Stewart butterfly punch 
• Divas by Design #32 - buttons and/or bows
• Ribbon Carousel RCC50- anything goes
• Bunny Zoe's challenge #23 - ribbon or twine
• Tammy's Scrapin Corner #7 - anything goes twist critters

Escape with a book!

  

TCP challenge this week is ABC (Anything But a Card) so I thought I'd have a go at a wee page marker.
HERE's the link to the tutorial.
I used this fab airplane from The Cat's Pyjamas and some cloud dies, easy peasy!  Though a bit of ink mysteriously smudged on the bottom bit so I tried to distract from it by drawing in a bird.  Coloured with copics and clear gloss and glitter added to highlights on plane.

• Hotshot #4 - one for the boys
• Crazy for Challenges C4C125 - two layers
• Crafty Catz #121 - something beginning with B (Bunny)
• Fab 'n Funky #109 - green, white, blue (though a bit of brown sneaked in there with my bunny)
• icopic lover #70 - colour an animal
• Our Creative Corner - over the edge

Bunny and Butterflies

(Click HERE for details on this week's Dream Valley Challenge)

It's not very often I make a card that I really like, but I really, really LOVE how this wee card turned out!
Apart from the deliberate mistake when I stamped my butterflies on the centre panel upside down of course. Ha!
(image and sentiment from The Cats Pyjamas)

• I flipped the sketch from CPS Anniversary Day 8
• Stamp Scrap and Doodle Saturday - Die cuts / punches (I used a Martha Stewart butterfly punch and Die-namics border die)
• Craft your days away #38 - get stitchy with it
• Stampin for the Weekend #2 - embossing
• Simon Says ... animal antics
• Sir Stampalot Feb challenge - in the garden (though last year we had hardly any butterflies as our 'summer' weather was so pants!)

Dream Valley Challenge #25

Challenge time again at Dream Valley Challenges, and this time our theme is

Valentine!

We want to see your lovey dovey creations - doesn't have to be a card, make anything you like (max 3 entries)  There's a fab prize up for grabs from Joanna Sheen.  (You've a fortnight to play along)

My card uses this fab wee bunny from The Cats Pyjamas, I must confess I bought it because of the sentiment LOL!  I popped his little wings up at the top and added clear gloss and loads of glitter.  I've also discovered how much I love silicone glue, far quicker and handier than dimensional pads, though the nozzle on my glue is already clogged up and solidified!

Other challenges ... (love is definitely in the air in blogland!)

• Sketch from CPS Anniversary Day 6 
• Alota Rubber Stamps #76 - love + no red
• By the Cute and Girly - love is in the air
• Joanna Sheen Challenge: Love is in the air
• Sweet Stampin - the one I love
• Crafty Catz #118 - pink and white
• PolkaDoodles #5 - show some love with hearts
• Do You Stack Up #57- anything goes
• Simon Says ... animal antics
• Divas by Design #20 - anything goes

Love Bunny

Heee I LOVE this little TCP Valentine Bunny!  And the wicked sentiment really appealed to me too!  I ordered this so I could make Greg a non-soppy / funny Valentine ... don't think this one's for him, but we'll see!  
Popped my bunny up on dimensionals and gave him super-glittery wings and a shiny nose.  Marianne Design DP.

• Sketch from Sketch Saturday #192
• Allsorts - hearts
• Cupcake Craft #176 - all you need is love
• The Cats Pyjamas - Valentine
• Simon Says ... anything goes
• Crafty Catz #117 - things with wings
• The Stamp Man - embellish it
• Sweet Stampin - animals

Xmas card #03

Brrr its a cold chilly day today, just right for having a play with my new TCP stamps.  Poor wee bunny, looks like he's just about to get a face full of snow!  Though there's nothing better than a good snowball fight!
I popped the bottom row of snowballs up on dimensionals and added a wee bit of glitter to them all, so it's nice and sparkly IRL.  Echo Park DP and Paper Smooches sentiment.

• Sketch from CAS-ual Friday #CFC37
• Sweet Stampin - Animals
• Cute Card Thursday #201 - You're a Gem
• Simon Says Stamp ... anything goes
• Papertake Weekly - happy highlights (glitter on my snowballs)
• Creative Inspirations #147 - anything goes
• House of Gilli #25 - Winter

Happy Christmas

Wowee can you believe it's Christmas Eve already!  No white Christmas for us this year (...not that I'm complaining as it seems like no time since all the snow we had last year!)
Just a quickie post as we still have to give poor Ruby her Christmas bath, haven't mentioned it to her yet as she'll scarper to the bottom of the garden given half a chance!
Anyway, hope you all have a fab Christmas and that Santa is good to you!
Here's a wee pic of my crazy neighbour's houses ... there's a bit of a competition every year between them to get more and more lights!!

Card details: image from The Cats Pyjamas; Paper Smooches sentiment; clear gloss and glitter added to highlights on plane; misc DPs from scraps stash; coloured with promarkers.

• sketch from TCP Tuesday TCPTUES190
• Paper Sundaes #100 - celebrate
• Passion for Promarkers #129 - celebrations
• Creative Inspirations #143 - anything goes
• Simon Says stamp - bingo (I chose twine, glitter and gems)
• Colour combo inspired by The Play Date Cafe PDCC112

Bunny in flight!

I haven't played with my big eared bunnies for a while, so thought I'd stamp him up for this week's sketch challenge at Sketch Saturday.  Coloured him with promarkers and popped up on dimensionals.  I doodled a border and then added wee 'scratch' marks on my image and clouds to match.

• Sketch Saturday #183
• Stamp TV Free for all Friday - cut it out
• I Love Promarkers #93 - anything goes
• Penny Black at Allsorts November challenge - all creatures great and small

Bunny Birthday

Wow, I can't believe its Thursday already!  Nice short day in work tomorrow and then a supposed dry weekend, so I'm hoping to get my garden pots all cleared out and some winter pansies planted.  Well, that's the plan anyway!

This wee card uses a fab bunny from The Cats Pyjamas, popped him up on dimensionals and paper pieced his net.  I've only got a sheet or two of kraft paper left so I'm going to have to go shopping soon!
Sentiment is an oldie from Stampin Up.

• CRAFT #128 - cute
• Crafty Creations #143 - kraft, white + 1 other

• Sketch from Card Patterns #140
• Charisma Cardz #44 - cutsey
• Crafty Catz #107 - anything goes
• Penny Black and more at Allsorts (November) - all creatures great and small

Lucy's Birthday card

I promise to get these stamps off my table!  I've a couple of days off and am planning to paint my living room over the next couple of days, so you might get some peace from me anyway!

This card was made for my Aunt's Aunt!  I think she she's in her late 80's, but I don't see why she can't have a fun card! 
I must admit that I bought these stamps after seeing how Jen used them on her blog - I{heart}2stamp - if you've never visited her, you should pop over, she makes the most gorgeous creations!  (The way I've used my stamps on this card was directly inspired by Jen's card Here)

Popped my wee bunny up on dimensionals and added some clear gloss and glitter to his nose and tail.  Whimsey 'wish list' stamp.  Martha Stewart butterfly punch.  White embroidery thread.  Green gems.  Silver peel off sentiment and letters.

• I took loads of inspiration for this card from this week's Catered Crop Challenge FTR22: Colours (yellow, green); Medium (distress inks - I distressed round my yellow DP but it doesn't really show up in the photo); Embellies (gems, glitter, thread); Technique (tie a bow); Tools (rounded corner)
• Sketch from Sketch Saturday #176
• Sweet Stampin - stitching
• Totally Papercrafts #87 - anmials
• Papertake Weekly - anything goes (plus added option of something punched)
• Crafty Cardmakers #53 - anything goes
• By the Cute and Girly (October) - anything goes

Bunnies and Butterflies

ETA: Top 3 at Unscripted Sketches!

I must admit I was a bit stumped by Color Throwdown's challenge this week - blues and browns are my favourite colour combo but I've no dark brown paper so, after spending aaaaages trying to find some in my stash, I gave up and just coloured in a border round my image with a copic marker. I also couldn't find any of this bright blue, so had to go with a more duck egg blue tint.  Then I couldn't figure out how to get the pale yellow in, until I remembered this wee High Hopes sun.  So in the end, this simple wee card took such a long time to make, way more faffing about than crafting!

• Colour combo from Color Throwdown #162
• My Mum's Craft Shop - all creatures great and small
• One Stop Craft #152 - anything goes
• One Stitch at a Time #83 - anything goes
• Paper Sundaes #90 - favourite colour combo (blues and browns)
• Speedy the Cat's challenge #76 - no designer DP
• Sketch from Unscripted Sketches #127

Way to Go!

I had a lovely wee afternoon playing with my new stamps from The Cats Pyjamas, so apologies in advance for the usual Sunday blogger overload.

This wee card is nice and simple ... all I had to do was colour in my little aeroplane and pop it up on dimensionals.  Added some glitter to the white bits on the plane and clear gloss to his goggles.  Sentiment from Paper Smooches. 

• Bling it On (October) - no patterened DPs
• Try it On Tuesday - make it minimal
• Simon Says ... Sparkle and bling
• Stamp TV Free for All Friday - Get Krafty and Red
• Totally Papercrafts #87 - animals

Ryan's Birthday card #02!

This is the second card I've made for my nephew ... I made one weeks ago (for my Mum) and then faffed around and left it to the last minute to make my own!  But luckily the postie delivered these new stamps from The Cats Pyjamas this morning so it was the perfect excuse to get some ink on them!   

Coloured with promarkers and then lots of paper piecing done for the little plane.  DP from My Minds Eye (I think).  Clear gloss added to his goggles and nose, and orange stickles to the plane. Orange button and brown Baker's twine.

• Sketch from Mojo Monday #209
• Paper Sundaes #89 - lots of layers
• Divas by Design #12 - Button Up
• Simon Says ... sparkle and bling
• Papertake Weekly - anything goes
• Totally papercrafts #87 -animals