Butterfly Dream

I have been having a bit of a clear out in the craft room now that I think I have made enough Christmas cards for this year. As a result I made this card - all from the snippets and UFO box!

The butterfly was left over from a birthday present I made last February, the embossed background was a piece I had embossed and never used, and the pink paper and diecut sentiment were snippets.
Obviously I am taking this over to the Playground as I haven't been there for quite a while and it also fits the theme of "Things with Wings" at Always use Rubber. I'm delighted to say I won the October prize there.

                                                      

Reindeer at Cardz 4 Guyz

Its time for a new challenge at Cardz 4 Guyz and this week  it is Reindeer chosen by Julie. I had just got this new die which is a magazine freebie and was perfect for the challenge. So I have two very simple cards. The first onehas the die backed with some green glitter paper mounted onto an embossed card blank.

For thesecond card i cut the die out of red card and mounted it straight onto an embossed card blank.

These are so quick and easy to make they really lend themselves to batch making if you're running short of time! 

Always Use Rubber - Destinations

I was delighted to be picked for the Top 3 in the first challenge of Always Use Rubber. Unfortunately I missed the second challenge due to a very heavy cold, I had started the card but by the time I put it all together the challenge was closed!  So I was determined to enter the current challenge which is Destinations.

It gave me the perfect opportunity to use a NBUS stamp set of cityscapes from Altenwew. I embossed it in white on navy card and added some snow/stars with Nuvo Glossy White drops. Some small candy dots and sentiment added to the white panel, then I added the bow as I thought the pattern on the ribbon nicely echoed the widows on the buildings. But I'm not sure it added much to it!

Oh Christmas Tree at Cardz 4 Guyz

Well the sore throat I had at the end of last week eventually morphed into a streaming cold, so not much crafting was done.Fortunately I had already made my DT card for Cardz 4 Guyz

I stamped and embossed the trees and stars in gold then ran the edges of the card along the Versamark ink pad and dipped them in the embossing powder to give a distressed look. The sentiment was stamped and embossed on vellum and wrapped aroung the panel. Easy peasy!

Cardz 4 Guyz - Sympathy/Remembrance

It's time for a new challenge at Cardz 4 Guyz and this week the challenge chosen by Cyndi is sympathy/remembrance. i found it quite difficult to think of something to do for a masculine sympathy card as I would normally use a flower.

Then I decided to have a look at some books with sketches in after seeing Jane using some here.Mine is not the same book, its one ive had for a long time but don't think i've ever used it.! This is what I ended up with. I had a much nicer paper for the part circle, but unfortunately I cut the wrong side off it and it didn't look right on on the other side of the card(the pattern was upside down!) and I didn't have any more.

"The Wedding", Rudolph Day and Happy Little Stampers

Well we were so lucky to have great weather last Saturday for our wedding. Yep, I've finally gone and done it!  Just a few phone photos for you as I haven't got the official ones yet.

Signing the Register 

With some of the grand kids. From L-R Dylan (Roy's great nephew) Declan (my eldest Grandson) Pollly (Roy's great niece) and Jack (my other grandson. Missing is Daisy - Polly's sister who didn't want her photo taken and ran away!

Pretending to cut the cake which was quite small but looks positively minute in the picture!

And now here's my card for Rudolph Day and also Happy Little Stampers Christmas challenge which is to use embossing. I'm also hopping over to the Playground as the red card was a snippet. The die is from Memory Box and the EF is a retired  SU one.

Cardz 4 Guyz - A card with movement!!

I have to be quite honest and say that I found this weeks challenge at Cardz 4 Guyz  difficult! It was set by Sharon (former DT member). Shaker cards didn't seem to be very male orientated to me but I hope someone will prove me wrong! After browsing the web for inspiration I came across a tutorial on Splitcoast stampers for a slider card where the image changes from black and white to coloured when you pull it. A whole afternoon later I came up with this.

The colours are acually Pool Pary and Real Red but my photography skills seem to be a bit lacking.

A few snowflakes as embellishment and it was done.I have to sayt hough that I think it will have to be a prototype as it is far from perfect and I wouldn't give it to anybody, I suppose practise makes perfect but doubtful whether I will be doing that!

Cardz 4 Guyz Halloween

There a new challenge at  Cardz 4 Guyz and this week the challenge set by Joan is Boo (Halloween) or an Autumn Thank you card. Now I'm not big on halloween and rarely make anything for it. However decided I would make a card in the theme as I could send it to one of my grandsons, they usually dress up for it. And this is what I came up with. The image and paper are both from SU but are digital ones from MDS(no longer available!) I inked around the image and added the spider's webs and "eek!" The witch's face is coloured with copics.

Of course I had to make another one for my other grandson and used the same set of images but the paper is from a different digital set as MDS wouldn't let me change the colour of the paper. I think I must have been doing something wrong as it 's a long time since I've  used it.

This time I inked with Dusty Concord, added the spiders' webs and the spiders with the word "spooky".

Don't forget to check out the rest of th DTs cards. I'm also entering this into Craft your Passion and Crafting from the Heart where the challenges are always Anything Goes.

Dragonflies.

The Allsorts challenge this week is to use the colour pink as it is Pink October - in aid of breast cancer awareness.

I made the background with distress crayons just scribbled on the card, then moved around with a water brush. The flower is from SU Awesomely Artistic and the dragonflies I think are from Indigoblu. I added a few splatters of gold as a finishing touch. I am also joining in at Seize the Birthday where it is Anything Goes.

Black and White Cat

The challenge at Twofers has arisen from the ashes as Always Use Rubber . Their first challenge is "It's Not All Black and White" with a photo inspiration.



Well having a black and white cat I had to use that photo as mine. I had recently acquired this Inkylicious stamp called Toby which was perfect. But I have renamed it Cleo after my cat!

I must say it stamped beautifully! I often find that solid stamps give a less than perfect coverage but this one really was perfect. I'm also entering this into Use Your Stuff who are asking for Orange, Black and Neutral.