Birthday/Friday Sketchers Challenge card

Evening - well it's turned out to be a scorcher today but cooling down nicely now. Made this the other day for my lovely Italian friend at work and didn't want to post it until I was sure she had received it.

Nice, straightforward sketch to follow on Friday Sketchers although I have twisted it as the image was larger than I had intended making it. Hippy Chic is another great image from Sassy Studio Designs - cut her out which was a little fiddly round the hands and hair but at least I could put her onto a background dark enough to show her off. Coloured with promarkers and the papers are K&Co Sparkly Sweet. A few punched flowers and some glamour dust sprinked hither and thither and Happy Birthday in Italian.

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Birthday/Challenge card

Well it's the first day of my weeks holiday and I have 3 cards I need to make so I am trying to incorporate them into some of the challenges on the go. This one is for my sister who I know won't see it so that's ok. I'd like to enter this for the Stampin for the Weekend Challenge which is to use the colours pink, orange and teal.

Image is a digi download from Sassy Studio Designs - I thought she was so serene and peaceful that it would make my sister laugh as she definately is not! Cardstock is SU in teal, papers are Basic Grey and image coloured with Pros. Photo makes the teal look very dark but it's much lighter in real life.

Now onwards and upwards to get the other 2 I need to send off this week made.
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Cupcake Craft Challenge - Happy 1st Birthday

Fantastic challenge to celebrate the 1st birthday of the Cupcake Craft Challenge. There are some truly wonderful prizes to be won including very generous blog hop goodies from the DT. The brief was 'Something Sweet' and you could also include cupcakes if you wanted to.

Papers are Zoe Pearns Persimmon and the image is from CC Designs coloured with Promarkers. I was lucky enough to be given a Forever Friends cupcake stamp yesterday and decided to do the shrinky thing and fill my little fairys' wheelbarrow with them. I coloured them with Stardust pens hence the sparkle glare from the camera. It was fiddly but fun. A couple of buttons and some glitter on her wings and that's the lot. Haven't decided on the sentiment yet.

This was my first blog hop and I really enjoyed it so thanks to everyone for making it possible.
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Two Challenges Card

Afternoon - it's a beautiful day here, very warm with a nice breeze so why am I card making! This card hopefully covers two challenges - Sketch Saturday with a lovely design to follow and also the Penny Black Saturday Challenge which was to use the colours blue, tan and cream. The kitty is a PB stickeroo so I feel I've cheated a bit. Papers are called 'What a Feeling' by Doreen Stolz - you can buy these from Aimee Asher. Tan paper has been embossed with the CB Divine Swirl folder - punched flowers, a bit of ribbon and liquid pearls. Sentiment made in Word and that's it.



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Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge Card

Well it's a baking hot evening here - doesn't seem to be much breeze around so it's like a sauna up here in my bedroom. Thought I would continue my crafty streak while it's still lurking and so I've made this little gift card and triangle gift box for the SCSC. You have to have bugs somewhere on the items so I used my little Elzybells stamps - bees and the snail and also of course the sentiment. Dipped into my box of 12x12 papers and found this nice Crate paper which has a good weight to it and the box came together perfectly using it - thanks to Mandy for the inspiration for the box. A few little gems, a bit of ribbon and that's about it.

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Colour Create Challenge Card

This is the first time I've entered this challenge and I finished the card yesterday in the dark so had to wait until this morning to take the photo. The challenge was to use the colours pink, orange and green. Image is from CC Designs, papers are by Kay Miller (Springwingding). Flowers punched and coloured with Promarkers to match the image, some very pale green glitter on her wings and sentiment is Elzybells (don't know what I'd do without these!). Used liquid pearls on the flowers and looking at it now I think I may change the colour of the sentiment to pink - the orange looks a bit OTT to me.

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Penny Black Saturday Challenge - 61

What a lovely afternoon we're having here today. Warm and sunny and I'm sitting inside making cards! Anyway this is for the PBSC this week and it was a lovely sketch by Beth which was a pleasure to follow. I used my Catitude PB stamp which doesn't see the light of day very often but always makes me smile. Coloured with Promarkers as is the scalloped nestie and the flower.

Papers are Urban Kiwi from Shabby Princess and I've been waiting for a chance to use these. Photo makes them a lot darker and less green than they actually are. A bit of ribbon and black glittery brad from my stash and the sentiment is a button from the embellies in the Urban Kiwi set and I've just put the words on in Word.

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