A Card for Sunday's with Santa - "Family"

Good Afternoon All, I do hope youve all had a good week and looking forward to this weekend, unfortunately the weather doesnt look as if its going to be particularly nice, but you can always live in hope. We are still having to take our dog to the vets every couple of days, as on Wednesday we found her limping and it turned out her leg had become swollen, so now she sports not only a collar but also a bandage boot on her left back leg, weve also been told it will probably be another week before she will be able to have the stitches out, which makes it almost 3 weeks since she had her operation,  not what we were expecting.
Anyway back to the card Ive posted today, this is for this weeks Sunday's with Santa on Faceboon Challenge and this week they want a "Family" one, and I decided this sweet LOV image was quite appropriate for it, Ive stamped it onto white card and coloured it with my copic pens, then used Nestabilitie die labels No.17 to cut it out and then drew around the die to create the mount. The sentiment is one of the Polka Doodles Xmas stamps that I got as a freebie with one of my craft magazines.
The base card is a 6"x 6" white card with a first mount of blue card, and the papers I have used are Nitwits "Frost n Flakes" digi paper set, the first paper is a snowflake design and I then used a sentiment paper and my large Memory Box Snowflake die and punched out two of them and stuck them to the first mount, then used a corner die from the same company and these were stuck in the two opposite corners. I then positioned my mounted image in the centre with the sentiment at the bottom on the right hand side.
This card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://abcchristmaschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/
http://atsblog.typepad.com/wednesdayschallenge/
http://justkeeponcreating.blogspot.com.au/
http://www.scrapbooksisters.blogspot.co.uk/
http://7kidschallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/

Sunday's with Santa "Anything Goes"

Good Morning Everyone, are you ready for a new week? well as always I seem to be getting behind with everything and that is why Ive not posted anything since last Wednesday, Ive been trying to get ahead with my DT work and so although youve not seen what Ive been making I have been a busy girl. Today I thought that it was time to post a card and this was one I created for last weeks "Sundays with Santa" its a facebook challenge started up by Pops and its to try and get together a good stock of Christmas cards for this December, and as last years lot of all gone I thought well why not so here we are.
This image is one of the LOV stamps and Ive coloured him with my copics then used Nestabilitie Die No.1 to cut him out, and then used the same die to create the mount, the sentiment is one that I got free in one of my craft magazines and have mounted it in the same way as the image.
The base card is a 6"x 6" white card with a mount of blue pearlescent card, and for my two papers I have used the Maja "Vintage Winter" designs, this was a present from a very special friend of mine, and they are gorgeous and lovely for a card for a male. I then wrapped a sentiment ribbon around the card and attached it to the back.
Then I positioned my mounted image in the middle with the sentiment at the bottom on the right. Ive not added anything else as I dont think men particulary like to many embellishments on their cards and I wanted to leave it simple.
This card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-
http://www.facebook.com/
http://dreamvalleychallenges.blogspot.com/
http://www.gettingcricky.com/
http://www.gingerloftchallenge.blogspot.com/
http://ceschallenges.blogspot.com/
http://ssdschallenge.blogspot.com/

A Card for LOV Challenge - "Roses"

Good Afternoon All, Im so sorry that Ive not been around for a week but life has been very busy here at Chalmers towers, Ive been busy not only with my DT work but also helping hubby remove ivy from our two Lilac trees, clever me thought it would be nice to see the varigated ivy growing through the tree but it wasnt as it choked it and made it very sparse in the centre, anyway with lots of climbing he eventually managed to clear them both yesterday, mind you our green wheely bin is full to the brim with the rubbish.

Anyway todays card has been created for this weeks LOV challenge and Ive used one of those freebies from one of the craft magazine and Ive coloured it with my copic and tria pens before cutting it out with my Nestabilitie Label 1 then used the die to create a faux mount by drawing around the edge of it and cutting it out with scissors.

The base card is a 6"x 6" white card with a first mount of a greeny blue card and one of three papers from the Kay Miller Digi Downloads, the first paper is a light green spot paper and then on top I have cut a 5" square and used one of the all around heart border punches on it from Martha Stewart, and for the third mount Ive used yet another piece of the same card and punched along one edge with the same border punch and put my last slip of paper by the side of it.

I then wrapped a green gauzy ribbon around the card and placed my mounted image in the centre, the sentiment is one of the LOV images and this has been mounted on a tag with yet a bit more of the ribbon threaded through the hole and this was then stuck at the bottom on the right hand side. I then created a rose spray in the top left hand corner with several different sizes of roses stuck to the card with silicone glue and on top of some punched out rose leaves. The final thing is the few pearl gems stuck at the top and bottom in the opposite corners to the roses and sentiment.

This card is to be entered in the following challenges:-

http://liliofthevalleythursdaychallenge.blogspot.com/

http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.com/

http://stampwithfun.blogspot.com/

http://robynsfetishchallengeblog.blogspot.com/

http://sentimentalsundays.blogspot.com/

http://sparklesforumchallenges.blogspot.com/

A Card for the LOV Challenge "A Sketch by Donalda"

Good Afternoon Everyone, I dont know about you I had awful trouble yesterday with Blogger and I had every intention of popping to visit you to leave you comments, and as one of you already know the ones that I did get to I probably left more than one comment as each time I clicked on publish comment it came up with the error page, so if you are one of those please forgive me and delete all the double up ones. Anyway I thought today that I would post a card that Ive just made for one of my neighbours who's just had her knee operated on and I suspect shes trying to excerise it, shes a very agile 83 year old and looks in her 60s. I dont know if you had a selection of LOV images that were part of one of craft magazines this month, but I was lucky enough to do so and have used this sweet image of a little girl with a bunch of flowers, Ive coloured her with my copic and tria pens before using the rectangle die from Nestabilities, Ive also used the deckled edged one for the mount. The sentiment is one of my stash and this has been stamped onto white card then mounted onto a piece of yellow card.

The base card is a 6"x 6" white card and then used a yellow piece of card for the first mount and on top Ive used one of four papers from the new Wild Rose Butterfly Paper set, a yellow background with yellow roses and pink butterflies on it, the second is pink butterfly paper, the third is a green leaf one and the fourth is a yellow roses paper. These were then mounted according to Donalda's sketch and then my mounted image on top in the centre with the sentiment at the bottom on the right.

I then created a flower spray with two different sized roses and a rose bud on top of some punched out rose and fern leaves, and with a couple of pearl pin have stuck it around the image at the bottom left hand corner. The final flourish is the three pearls stuck down the right hand side at the top.

This Card is to be entered in the following Challenges:- 

http://liliofthevalleythursdaychallenge.blogspot.com/ 

http://dreamvalleychallenges.blogspot.com/ 

http://onestitchatatimechallenge.blogspot.com/ 

http://scrappyfrogschallenge.blogspot.com/ 

http://crazy4challenges.blogspot.com/ 

http://thesecretcraftersaturdaychallenge.blogspot.com/ 

http://onestopcraftchallenge.blogspot.com/ 

Cards for Men - Challenge 4 - Receipe Challenge

Good Morning Ladies, well guess what we have already reached our 4th Challenge for Cards for Men this year, the weeks are really flying by. Well this fortnights challenge is "A Receipe" and I do so hope that you will take part, we had over 160 entries for the last one, and you certainly make it difficult for us to pick winners as they are all stunning, well done all of you.
Anyway this is the Receipe for this Challenge:
 3 Designer Backing Papers
 2 Embellishments                      

 1 Image  (or any combination of 3 things)

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And heres my Design Team card for this challenge

This time Ive used one of Phindy's images and printed him onto white card then used my copic pens to colour him, afterwards I used Nestabilitie label die No.1 to cut it out and then drew around the die to create the mount. The sentiment is one of the LOV circle stamps thats been stamped and cut out with a circle die.
The base card is a 6"x 6" white card with a first mount of green pearlescent card and one of three papers from the new Papermania "Woodland Babies" papers, the first a white base with lots of cute woodland images on, the second which Ive punched with my leaf all around punches from Marthat Stewart has been placed in the middle and the last paper another white based paper with trees and kites on, has been stuck in the top left hand corner.
I then arranged my mounted image in the middle and the sentiment at the bottom on the right, to finish of Ive stuck a kite and plane button at the top on the left hand side. I do so hope now that you will pop across to Cards for Men Blogspot  and see my fellow team members fabulous cards and Im sure they will inspire you to take part in this challenge
This card has been entered in the following Challenges:-
http://www.phindysplacechallenge.blogspot.com/

A Card for Three Challenges

Good Afternoon Ladies, Im so sorry for taking so long to post a card, but not only have I been beavouring away with DT cards I also went out for the day yesterday so Im really behind. Anyway todays card has been created for three Challenges, Lili of the Valleys "Dawny's Sketch, Cute Card Thursdays "Receipe" which is 3, 2 and 1, and Papertakes "Ribbons and Pearls" so Im saying that this card should cover all those three.

Ive used this new image from LOV and its called "Times to Treasure" its quite sweet really of these two children reading a book together, and Ive stamped it onto white card then coloured it with my copic pens, after which I cut them out with my Labels Nestabilitie Die No.1 then Ive drawn around the die to create the mount for it, the sentiment is also from the same stamp set and Ive used the small label die for this one.

The card is a 6"x 6" white card with a first layer of beige pearlescent card, and one of three papers from the new Papermania's "Bird Song" set of papers, this first one is a leaf pattern with birds on, the second is a orange paper with again birds and leaves on, and the third is a plain beige patterned paper in a linen look. Around the middle Ive wrapped a ribbon and created a bow for it on the right, its the new seam ribbon thats a real wow with us crafters at the moment, this one came from a supplier on Ebay, but I know Wild Orchid Crafts has it as well.

The card was created using the sketch and Ive positioned my mounted image in the middle and the sentiment to the bottom on the right, to finish of Ive created a two flower spray with some of the left over papers, these were punched out with two sizes of retro flower punches and moulded with my ball tool then stuck on the card with some silicone glue and punched out fern leaves and four pearl pins.

This card is to be entered in the following Challenges:-

http://liliofthevalleythursdaychallenge.blogspot.com/

http://www.cutecardthursday.blogspot.com/

http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/

http://stampchallenges.blogspot.com/