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

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Birthday card for Malcolm

Here is a card I have made for my neighbour Malcolm. Its his birthday tomorrow.

I have followed the sketches over at Passion for promarkers and allsorts this week. The image is a new Lofty cricket stamp from Joanna Sheen as I thought it was appropriate with summer eventually here, which I have coloured in with Promarkers. I have then done from faux stitching with the thin end of a Marvey Le Plume pen around the image. I have cut the circles and scalloped circles out with my nesties and added a brad to the computer generated sentiment circle. The backing paper is from a masculine Dovecraft 6 x 6 paper pack.

I am entering this card into the following challenges
A spoonful of sugar Enjoying the sunshine
Passion for Promarkers Sketch and male theme
Creative Inspirations One for the boys
Crafty Creations Its a stitch up
stamp Something Something summer
Polka Doodles Male theme
Raise the bar What a special guy
One stop craft One for the boys
Simple Doodles Fun in the sun
Allsorts Sketch
Magical Crafts Something for a male

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A birthday card for Olivia

Its my daughter Freya's best friend Olivia's 13th birthday this Saturday and this is the card I have come up with for her.
I have made a middle stepper card using one of my most favourite craft tools, my scor-pal. I have the metric and imperial versions.
The image is made using 2 Magnolia Tilda stamps which I have used the masking technique on to sit her in the swimming ring. I have coloured the image in with Promarkers. I have had these 2 stamps for ages but have never got around to using them.
I then punched the 4 corners with my Martha Stewart butterfly corner punch, and matted and layered onto pink card and stuck onto the blue stepper card.
The backing paper on both sides is from a 6 x 6 paper pad from the Forever Friends With love pad which I have matted and layered onto pink card.
The letters and numbers have been cut out using my Olivia Cuttlebug alphabet die set. The butterflies have been cut using the X-Cut butterfly punch and I have added 3 sparkly gems to each one and stuck onto the card with pinflair glue. I hope she likes it.

I will be entering this card into the following challenges
Stamp something Happy somethings
A spoonful of sugar Enjoying the sunshine
Papertake weekly Ice cream flavours - strawberry and bubblegum flavours
Tuesday morning sketches A step ladder card
Quirky Crafts Summer
Lexis creations Something old
Charisma Cardz Bling
Treehouse Tool time challenge
Paperplay Something old
S2G Something old

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