2 challenges in one lol

I had such fun with the sketch I tried the other day that I decided to have a go at another sketch challenge. The sketch is from Daring Cardmakers the sponsor for this challenge is Anice at Funky Hand I do like Anice's designs, they are FAB!!

The challenge on Cute Card Thursday is "Hint of Pink" so decided to combine the sketch with pink papers.

I had great fun making this card, all in all last night was a great night, up until 1.30am crafting......haven't done that for ages....what bliss lol

marathon cardmaking sesh

Last night I started making a couple of cards for challenges and ended up finding some beaded toppers that I had made ages ago for Xmas cards, so while I was in the mood I made them up into cards! They are mounted onto 12x12cm cards (they were left over from the wedding invitations I made so were ready scored and cut.) I think I might do some more of the beaded snowflakes I like how they have come out :) There are 3 beaded and 2 stitched snowflakes, will show one of each here, the rest are on my photobucket here.

The next cards were again made using the 12x12cm card blanks. The papers are from my new Dovecraft retro floral pack, the papers came with a tub of chipboard embellishments which I am having fun using lol

I am really pleased with the left hand one, I stitched a few bits and did a bit of doodling to highlight certain areas plus a couple of gems. It was great fun using all my stash stuff :)

stitched roses

Stitching cards have brought out a set of patterns inspired by Charles Rennie Mackintosh's rose. I absolutely LOVE the rose image, always have especially after living in Glasgow for a year while I was at uni. So when I saw this set I HAD to make them lol. The smaller cards are just general note cards, but the tall cream one is a possible designn for wedding invitations I have to make next year (only 20 this time thankfully!!), it will probably have "wedding invitation" in the botton right corner, or possibly the word LOVE or something, I think it looks better simple. They were lovely to stitch too, I really enjoyed making them. :) There are a couple more small cards, have put them on my photobucket rather than show them all here.

papertake challenge

This is the first time I have used a sketch and I did enjoy it :) After doing virtually nothing but parchment craft for so long I had been having trouble getting back into the swing of starting with a pile of stuff and making a card without any kind of pattern! Using the sketch is a bit in the middle I suppose lol. The sketch is from papertake weekly. I had great fun with my new Retro floral papers.

I also made this card for my mum's birthday later this month, the paper, brad and chipboard flowers are also retro floral. My mum is a real fan of lime green hence the choice of paper!! Sadly with my rubbish photography the chipboard flowers haven't come out well in the pic but they are the same flowers that are on the paper.

amazing blog candy!!

One of the funky hand design team, Chris, has an amazing blog candy on offer here There are a couple of instructions but all in a worthy cause :)

Chris (as do many of us) has a pet peeve of word verification, here's what she says:

Everyone will have their own view, but in my case, I regard the removal of word verification as a basic courtesy to my visitors who are kind enough to take the time to leave comments. Being aware of their comments through comment moderation, but not hindering them with word verification is the very least I can do to reciprocate their courtesy to me.

Personally I can't stand word verification and didn't enable it when I started my blog, but I do understand why others feel the need to have it.

Good luck to anyone who enters the draw :)

playing with papers

Found some papers that were in a printed in a magazine, they are all matching so thought I would make a couple of simple cards to put it the card box :)

pandas and monsters!!

Had some fun today with some oriental stamps I had forgotten I had!! Made a couple of birthday cards, one of which is for my step dad's birthday on Monday. The monster card is made with an image from Tracy and Fred She Said the image was drawn by Tracy's son, who has certainly inherited Tracy's doodle genes!! The papers were free in a magazine and I am so gutted that I didn't line up the stripy paper properly.......talk about a cock up! Ah well ho hum such is life lol