One for the lads

Another card made, this time one for the lads.

I have followed the sketch over at Cupcake Craft. The image is a Karens Doodles digistamp which I have coloured in with Promarkers.
The papers are from a 6 x 6 pad by Dovecraft called Masculine. I have edged the star and strip papers with silver fine line peel offs. I have cut the circle and scalloped circle out with my nesties. I have used a round punch to snip off the corners on the image and then stuck onto blue card, I rounded off the corners with a corner rounder punch and stuck 4 clear gems in each corner. I have faux stitched around the circle and the image with a green and blue fine tipped end of a Marvey Le Plume pen.

I am entering this card into the following challenges
Karens Doodles Scandinavian Stitching
Cupcake Craft Sketch
Charisma Cardz For the boys
Paperplay Sunglasses
Our creative Corner Blues and Greens
One stitch at a time Stars and stripes
Papertake Weekly In stitches

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A card for Nick

I have made this concertina tag card for my Brother in Law Nick.

I have used half a piece of 12 x 12 green Bazzill card. I have used scraps of ribbon to tie around the hole in the tag. The images are from Karens Doodles Nick is very keen on fishing and has two young daughters so thought these images would suit the oaccasion. I have flipped the little girl digistamp in Photoshop Elements so I have two girls but with the fish shown in opposite directions. I have coloured the images with Promarkers and then cut around them. I have added glossy accents to the fish to make them look wet.

I used my nesties to cut out the ovals and scalloped ovals and stuck them to the card with 3D foam pads, I then stuck the images on to the ovals with Pinflair glue gel.

The sentiment is computer generated.

I am entering this card into the following challenges
Karens Doodles Tag It
Crafty Creations Let is shine - used glossy accents on the fish so they shine
Charisma Cardz One for the boys
Pixie Dust Use 2 or more images
Meljen Bookmarks or tags
Polka Doodles card for the boys
Sew many Anything goes
Paper Sundaes Birthdays

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An anniversary card for Ian and Christine

Here is a card I have made for my hubby's Aunt and Uncles 43rd Wedding Anniversary, which is this Wednesday. I hope they like it.

I have followed the sketch over at The Pixie Cottage. The image is a digistamp from Karens Doodles which I have coloured in with Promarkers. I have punched the corners with a heart punch and then mated onto red card. I then used a corner rounder on the corners of the red card.
I have printed off three red backing papers from a Cuddly Buddly Patchwork download and cut them into squares. I have then stuck three squares together in each line of three and stamped some stitching around the edges. I have added some heart velvet ribbon on top of the patchwork and then stuck the image and backing card on top using 3d foam tape. I have added a tiny red organza ribbon on the left hand side and added three paper flowers with red pearls in the centre on the top right hand corner. I have also added a couple of red punched out swirls to the top corners of the image.

I will be entering this card into the following challenges
Karens Doodles Netherlands Patchwork
Pixie Cottage Sketch
Fan n Funky Sew and Sew
Creative Cottage Pearls and swirls
Magical crafts Flower Power
Quirky Crafts Ribbons
Sew Many Anything goes

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A lilac Birthday Card

I've managed to get a card made today. I followed the sketch over at Karens Doodles USA. The image is a digistamp from Karens Doodles which I have coloured in with promarkers. I have cut the image and sentiment out with my nesties and also the scalloped borders. The flowers are Primas with lilac gems in the middle. There are also 3 gems above. I have printed the backing papers from one of my Pink Petticoat downloads and edged with silver fine line peel offs. I have done some faux stitching using the fine end of a Marvey Le Plume pen too. I have used 3d foam tape to raise the image and sentiment off the card.

I am entering this card into the following challenges
Karens Doodles USA Sketch
Simon Says You gotta have friends
Crafty Creations Shine, I have used shiny silver line peel offs and lilac gems
Fab n funky Sew and sew
Sew many Anything goes
Crafty Catz Lets go digital
Craftalicious Monotone
Delightful sketches Its all about summer
Bunnys Zoes Crafts Nice and girly

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Another win - this time 3rd place

Wow another challenge won, this time it was on Karens Doodles UK challenge blog and the challenge was "In the summertime" and this this was the card I had entered. I came third so won 1 of Karens fabulous images. I have chosen Camping bear as its a really great image. I will try and use it soon and get a photo of the card I make with it posted.

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A Wedding Card using one of my 3 won images from Karens Doodles

Last week I was lucky enough to win a challenge where my prize was 3 digi images from Karens Doodles the above wedding image is one of them.

I had made a card for my friend Sharon to give to her friend Nichola on the birth of her baby and she loved it so much she is going to frame it, Nichola wanted me to make something similar for her brother and his wife who have already got married so they could do the same with a wedding card.
Here is what I made this morning.

The image is coloured in with Promarkers and then cut out with my circle and scalloped circle nesties and matted onto burgundy card. The base card is cream which I have printed gold wording onto. I have added shiny gold circle peel offs around the image and thin shiny gold line peel offs down the right hand side.
I have added a burgundy ribbon and a double bow on the left hand side. The image has been stuck down with 3d foam pads to raise off the base card.

This is the first time Nichola has ordered a card from me so I am hoping she is going to be pleased with it when it arrives at her end tomorrow.

I am entering this card into the following challenges
Secret Crafter Weddings/anniversaries
Cupcake Craft Strawberries and cream - deep red and cream colour used
Craft Creations Let it shine - used shiny gold peel offs
S2G New - my new wedding digi image
Sew many Anything goes
Crafty Catz Lets go digital
Forever Friends Not forever friends
Creative Craft Stamp it up

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WOW I CAME FIRST IN ONE CHALLENGE AND IN THE TOP FIVE IN ANOTHER

I have been really lucky in the last week, I won Karens Doodles Scandinavian last Wednesday Challenge number 14 which was to follow a sketch. I won with the card I made for my dad for fathers day so I was pleased with that result as I got to choose 3 images or free. I think Karens Doodles are my favourite digi stamps ever, there is always so much detail on them and I love them all.

Today I see I made the top 5 in Tuesday morning sketches challenge 50 with the stair steop card I made for Olivia's 13th Birthday.

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Birthday summer barbeque card

This is another card from me today. I have followed the sketch over at sketch saturday, I thought this was a really nice layout. The image is a Karens Doodles stamp which I have coloured in with Promarkers. The backing paper is a digi download from Pink Petticoat. The circles have been cut out with my circle and scalloped circle nesties. The sentiment is computer generated. The buttons are from the 99p shop and the ribbons threaded through are both from Hobbycraft. I have raised the image with 3d foam and the same with the sentiment circle. I have stuck the buttons on with Pinflair glue.

I am entering this card into the following challenges
Karens Doodles Summertime
Sketch Saturday Sketch
simple doodles Fun in the sun
Rosie Dee's Something blue
Quirky Crafts Summer
Craftalicious Monotone
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Teenage boy Birthday Card

I decided to make a card for a teenage boy today as I never have any of those ready to send out at short notice so here it is.

I have followed the sketch over at Cute card Thursday this week. The image is a Karens Doodles digi stamp called Time to relax. I have coloured the image in with Promarkers and then matted and layered onto blue card. The patterned papers are both downloads from Pink Petticoat which I have matted and layered onto similar shade cardstock. I have stuck the image on with 3d foam pads to raise it up.

I am entering this card into the following challenges
Karens Doodles UK In the summertime
Creative Inspirations One for the boys
Cute card Thursday Sketch
stamp Something Something summer
Polka Doodles Male theme
Raise the bar What a special guy
Die cut dreams Green and blue for a teenage boy
One stop craft One for the boys

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A muslim wedding card

My friend Neelam asked me to make a wedding card for a muslim wedding. The bride always wears red with lots of gold jewellery and the groom wears black. They later have another ceremony where the bride wears blue if I remember correctly.

I have used my sizzix dies to create the bride and groom, and stuck on googly eyes. Its a computer generated the message on the front and on the insert inside using the deep gold colour. I have then put heart peel offs around the edge to create a border.

I am entering this card into the following challenges
Creative Craft World Weddings
Secret Crafter Weddings/anniversary
Tellens place Going to the chapel

Thanks for looking x