Here Come The Boys #1

 Hello everyone,
Today I have a very cute card to show you that I made for my little nephew Harry. I was still in the mood for making acetate cards and I could just see this idea because it reminds me of the little tike!
My  special nephew loves to get up to all sorts of trouble like climbing and swinging and he is a monkey!

As you can see the card base is in blue card and I cut away the front panel and stuck the thicker acetate in it's place, but I did leave a little folded over and cut it the shape of the tree top so I had something to stick the acetate to. I then cut some dark geen card to cover the tape and look like the tree top. The tree trunk was cut and embossed with a cuttlebug folder and I added some lime green card and sponged it to create grass. The boy is of course one of Lily of the Valley's coloured with Pro markers. The daisies were simply punched out and coloured with a yellow pro marker. I cut the number out on my cricut machine. 

As you can see I found a cute monkey digi image and coloured and cut him out putting him in the tree because I think he would be great friends with Harry. The Birthday banner was from a papermania stamp set but the words were a Dove Craft stamp set.

All in all I was quite pleased how it turned out. I am entering into

Here come the Boys Anything Goes

Cards For Men - Someone Special

I hope you like.

#9 - I Can See Clearly

Hello to you all,
Cor... isn't this weather great! I have been out in my garden doing all sorts of planting and digging. Also I have got myself a little part time job at a bakers. So I have been working too.

Anyway here is a little card I have just made for Lynnes new challenge over at

 Do It With Digis 

The theme is I Can See Clearly

I did have some fun as I haven't used acetate for ages in a card.

The digi images are from our sponsor - Whimsie Doodles

I used a thick acetate to create the folded card so it didn't go floppy. When sticking the tent image to the inside of the card I mounted it firstly to a piece of yellow card an stuck it to the card. Then cut a red piece a little bigger and turned the card over and stuck that to the back, thus stopping the tape showing through from the other side. I used my Promarkers to colour all the images. The sentiment is one of Lynnes which I just cut out with a 2" Woodware oval punch and coloured.

So go on.... and get your acetate out today and make a card for our challenge, the effect is great fun!  

I hope you like and have a go yourself.

Quick In-Law Birthday Card

Hiya

Even though I have lost my mojo lately, I have had fun making these cards in a rush.... story of my life really !
 Well not only did I make the last two cards on sunday morning in a rush....... I had to make another card for my Mother-in-laws birthday. So I made this one on Tuesday morning, two hours before delivering it.

I used this lovely Basic Grey Paper as a base then stamped the boy (Whiff Of Joy ) and masked him up. I then stamped the watering  ( Magnolia) can over the top. I coloured the images with my Promarkers keeping the colours simple to match the patterned paper... then used a blue wax pencil to shade around the outside and Odourless Spirit to blend. I think it gives a warmer feel and no need for a background. 
The sentiment is a digi from Sentiments 4 You distressed with Tim Holtz - Stormy Sky ink. I found some lovely buttons in my stash... so I threaded with string and added to the card. The image is stamped on Spellbindes Labels 10 and cutting out without cutting his head off.
Mum in law loved it and I love her.

Mothers Day 2

Morning Campers!
Today I have the second card I made for Mothers day which was for Hubby's Mum. I love my In-Laws although not alot of people can say that of theirs. So I did enjoy making this card for her.

As you can see I had a little problem with matching the Martha Stewart punch up down the side of the card but I think I got away with it! Some of my old friends would probably laugh and say " Ha Ha...she does make mistakes after all!" Anyway the background flowers are from a Penny Black stamp I have had for a long time and thought it went well with my magnolia as she was holding a basket of flowers that looked the same. I coloured them all with my Promarkers and then embossed the dots along the bottom with my cuttlebug. This was quite a simple but effective card to do and handy too considering I was making it just before going out the door to deliver it! Anyway Mother In-Law was thrilled with it and I don't think she noticed the mistake...or if she did she was a dear not to mension it!

What do you think?

Mothers Day

Helloooo
I have not been crafting properly for a little while now as I have lost my mojo. But saying that when I have got to do a birthday card or something I always manage to to muster up some energy. So as yesterday was Mothers day I got up very early and made one for my mum and one for Hubby's. Today I will show you the one I made for my mum. I am also entering it into

Creative Inspirations #56/ Mothers day/ Mum

FabnFunky Challenge #66 Shabby Chic

As I am the middle child of three girls I thought of using my gorgeous girl stamps to create that special card for my mum. I coloured them with my Promarkers.. cut them out and assembled them on another piece of card that I had distressed with Spun Sugar ink. I also used the same ink around the patterned paper and glittered. The sentiment is one of Lynnes digis from Sentiments 4 You.

I managed to get this and another card done just before delivering them so it didn't take too long to make. Mum loves it when I make her cards and I saw a tear in her eye as she read the words inside that I had made up from my Versa printer CD. 

 I hope you like and get a little inspiration yourself.

Background Challenge #7

Hello Bloggers
I had a DT challenge over at DO IT WITH DIGIS using backgrounds from our dear sponsor Di's Digi Downloads. We were lucky enough to get some lovely digis and had to also use a Tilda stamp. So I created this card. Go on and enter for yourself.

I used a combo of wax pencils with odourless spirit to colour the image and background image, then used Vintage Photo Distress Ink to blend the edge of the background card.
The sentiment is from one of Lynnes ticket sets. I used Stormy Sky Distress ink to co-ordinate the colours.

I hope you like.

Wild West

Good morning to you all,

I've been playing with my card stuff and come up with a card for Lynne over at Do It With Digis DT challenge. The theme is Wild West and we got to use digi images by Meljens Designs, check them out. Also the lovely sharon over at EWE2 CAN CRAFT gave us some of her wonderful charms to use.

Why don't you have a go at the Challenge

My DT Card

The theme this time is:

WILD WEST WITH THE OPTIONAL EXTRA OF CHARMS - YEE HAW!!!!!

We want to see your interpretation of the Wild West ... Cowboys and Cowgirls, Native American Indians ... you know what we mean :)

and we are offering 3 prizes this time!!!!

Our first sponsor is the fabulous MELJENS DESIGNS

Meljen's Designs is a lovely stamp company owned and illustrated by Melissa Jenkins. She illustrates whimsical rubber and digital images inspired by her kids and family. The Meljen's Designs store officially launched on April 1 and is steadily growing! Meljen's Designs has new releases along with a new challenge every Thursday, freebies every Monday and a Guest Designer each month at the Meljen's Designs Blog. Please visit the Meljen's Designs line of stamps at the WHIMSY STAMPS STORE to browse and enjoy Melissa's wonderful images!

Melissa is offering the winner 4 digis of their choice!!

Our second sponsor is our very own Digi Diva Sharon - for those of you who don't know Sharon has a web shop EWE 2 CAN CRAFT and Sharon is offering a gorgeous bundle of charms - check out her site she has lots and lots of goodies to tempt you :)

and as normal a winner will be picked from anyone who enters and uses one of my sentiments from SENTIMENTS 4 YOU - you will receive a $10.00 gift certificate to spend in my store

Dont' forget to use a digi image otherwise we can't accept your entry - and please let us know where it's from (if you can) as we love to give our Digi Artists out there some recognition :o)

This time we all got to play with some of Melissa's fantastic images - thank you :) - and we had so much fun with this theme and using Sharon's charms

Thanks for stopping by.