Ava

Good morning all.

Thank you for your comments on my makes over the last few days...Lora definitely wouldn't appreciate the new look to her empty bottle so it's destined for my bedroom or bathroom me thinks!

Well the rain has held off most of the week here so far, though I think it is forecast for this afternoon. Thank goodness the temperature has gone up a little though!

A birthday card to share today for one of my sisters who has a birthday in November.

I've made a rocker card using my favourite grand fancy circles dies, which I haven't used for a while. Card is centura pearl from Crafter's Companion. My image is called  Ava from Saturated Canary and I've coloured her with promarkers and fussy cut. Papers are from KandCo (a several year old 12 x 12 pad) and First Edition. Fern and butterfly die are from Marianne Design, all other dies from Spellbinders. Sentiment from LOTV. Ribbons, flowers, gems and charm are mostly very old stash.

(Promarkers used: Cornflower and China Blue; Honeycomb, Saffron and Vanilla; Oatmeal, Mustard Buttercup and Eggnog)

Challenges entered:

Crafty Ribbon - birthday with ribbon

Delightful Challenges - layer it

Crafters Cafe - punches and dies

Digi Stamps 4 Joy - circles

Divas by Design - happy birthday

The House that Stamps Built - birthday

Inky Impressions - anything goes

Paper Pretties Wednesday - birthday

Loves Rubber Stamps - 2 or more patterned papers

Shopping our Stash - ABC (Ava, blue, circles)

Card Mania - butterflies and bows

Craft-Dee Bowz - anything goes with a handmade bow

Creative Corner - anything goes

Happy Birthday Mum

It was Mum's birthday on Sunday and this is the card I made her.

Using a Popcorn bear decoupage from the CD and paper from a K&Co pad which I've had for ages. Border punch from Martha Stewart, circle die from Spellbinders, flowers from Wild Orchid Craft, fronds die (behind floral display) from Marian Designs. Ribbon gems and pearls from my stash.

A side shot to show the dimension on the image. Inside was decorated to match.

Challenges entered:

Little Red Wagon - spring colours

CCEE - use 3 embellies (ribbon, flowers, pearls)

CD Sunday - ring a roses

Pile it On - pop it up

The Hybrid Chick Card Caravan - spring

Joanna Sheen - someone special

ABC DT - anything goes

Cards Galore - celebration

Marianne Design - swirls and pearls

St Lukes Charity - bling it on

Craft your Passion - die cuts and punches

Pollycraft Monday - cute critters

Lexi's Creations - punches and dies

My Craft Spot - make it pop

Crafty Boots - no girls allowed

Carol x

Aud Sentiments #38 Happy Birthday

Lovely to see all your Get Well cards posted for our last challenge. This time at Aud Sentiments we'd like to see all your Happy Birthday creations. We're being sponsored by Glitterbabes  and the DT got to work with some fab images. I chose Celebration Envie:

I've coloured the image with promarkers using these lovely warm fall colours and highlighted with a gelly roll pen, then matted onto two layers of Papermania card stock. Backing paper is from HOTP, this has also been matted onto Papermania card stock. I've done some faux blanket stitching around both the image and backing paper (my first attempt!) and finished the card off with a ribbon tied into a bow and a K&Co embellishment. The sentiment was also from Glitterbabes.

Please pop over to the challenge blog to see the delightful creations of my team mates, you'll not be disappointed.

Challenges entered:

Celebrate the Occasion - any occasion (use ribbon)

Paper Pretties - fall inspired

Lollipop Crafts - anything goes

Scrapalicious USA - anything goes

For Fun - warmth

Digistamps 4 Joy - anything goes

Stamps R us - birthday card

My Craft Spot - ribbon

Deep Ocean Challenge - Happy birthday

Paper and Such Design - recipe (ribbon, DP and flower)

Penny's Paper Crafty - anything goes

Carol x

One for the little boys

Image from Paper Nation stamped with memento and coloured with promarkers, then matted onto a deckled edge nestie. Backing paper from K&Co. Punch from Martha Stewart.

Challenges entered:

Crafty Sentiments - childrens cards

Carol x

Here comes Summer

LOTV die cut image is framed with a scalloped nestie and a PATP mat. Backing paper from K&Co. Card finished with primas flowers, organza flower, bow and pearls.

Challenges entered:

LOTV - here comes summer

Carol x



Think Pink

Made this one last night for The Sugar Bowl challenge - a sketch and the theme "think pink". I'm also entering it in the DYSU challenge "shine on".

Custard is stamped on stardream and coloured using water colour pencils. Backing paper from K&Co. Dies are all Spellbinders, punches are Martha Stewart, flowers from Flora Doodle. Finished with gems, pearls, buttons and ribbon from stash.

Carol x