Quirky mid month

It's time for the mid month inspiration at Quirky Crafts.  Our sponsors are The Cutting Cafe who provided us with some lovely images to work with.

For the mid month inspiration I used the snail, coloured with Promarkers. I doodled in the frame to add a bit of extra interest. The background paper was plain so I added some stamped hearts from the Stampin' Up Confetti stamp. It still needed something extra so I added a strip of washi tape 

underneath the image.

Animal Antics @ Cardz 4 Guyz

Hello there, it's Tuesday and time for a new challenge over at Cardz 4 Guyz. The theme this week is Animal Antics chosen by Sian.

I have quite a few animal stamps but thought it would make a change to use something from a CD and the idea of a dog baking appealed to me. I mounted it onto some dark blue card, then instead of a yellow mat I put it at an angle underneath. The matching backing paper was also off the CD, which is a Joanna Sheen one - Pamela West.

Why don't you join us over at the challenge, just remember your card must be for a guy, young or old!

Easter Cards

It's a beautiful sunny day here today, and warm as well! Just right for some Easter cards. I don't make them as a rule but I've made some to send to my grandsons with some money to buy their Easter present. Chocolate eggs are just too difficult to post, and they get so many anyway that I thought they might prefer to buy themselves something.

I made these from last months Simon Says Stamp kit - I think the egg shaped bunny is so cute. I'm afraid I didn't have an original idea in my head at the time so they are cased from the idea sheet they put in the kit.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend and I'll be back on Tuesday with a new card for Cardz 4 Guyz.

So Many Pubs

It is my youngest's birthday on Saturday and I was running out of ideas for his card. In the past I've made  various football cards for him but I thought it was time to do something different, but nothing came to mind.  In fact I was going to buy him a funny card, but then I decided to have a play with Craft Artist which I haven't used in a long time.

And this is what I ended up with.  A one layer card with a sentiment I hope he agrees with! 

I am joining in the following challenges:

The Paper Shelter - Make It Digital

Crafting by Designs - Anything goes

Easter at Cardz 4 Guyz

The challenge at Cardz 4 Guyz this week is Easter or Spring. I recently bought the Presscut die to make this Z fold card and wanted to try it out. So I have made an Easter card for a young guy!

I used papers and stamps from Simon Says Stamp that were part of a kit last year. the die certainly made cutting all the pieces a lot easier!  I hope you can join us this week and look forward to seeing what you make.

April Showers at Make My Monday

It's time for a new challenge at Make My Monday. This week we want to see makes with a theme of April Showers. I'm afraid I'm a bit late with entry and I must apologise for the photo. I've taken it about half a dozen times and this is the best I could get. It looks very washed out, but IRL it does look better - honest!

The stampis from Little Claire, the paper from my stash of 6 x 6 - no idea what make as it was just lying loose in the box.  Do pop over and visit the rest of the team to see what they have made.

Quirky Craft Challenge - Quirky Pets!

I am delighted to now be a member of the Quirky Craft Challenge team! This is my first card for them. The sponsor is The Cutting Cafe who provided some fun digis for us to work with. I decided to go for a pink elephant! I decided that would be suitably quirky! I coloured him with Promarkers and also round the edge of the frame. Mounted the image onto a scrap of black card and set it at a jaunty angle. The backing paper was some from a Simon Says Stamp card kit last year, I thought the black and white doodles looked good against the pink.

Do try and join in the fun if you can - you could win a prize!

Rudolph Day - March

I'm just popping in at the very last minute with my Rudolph Day card. I've had it made for a couple of days but just not found the time to blog it.

I used the SU Sparkly Seasons stamp set and dies. When this set came out I wasn't very keen then someone gave me a card using it and I wished I'd bought it. Luckily I just found one on that well known auction site that had never been used. It's just a shame that the die set doesn't include one for the snowglobe base. I mounted it onto a snippet of Christmas paper. The red card and the white I stamped on all came out of the snippets box as well. So a trip to the Playground is called for as well.

In the Country - Cardz 4 Guyz

I am so glad that spring seems to have arrived at last! The last few days have been lovely - the down side is that I am going to have to cut the grass!

But enough of that it is time for a new challenge at Cardz 4 Guyz and it is my turn to choose the theme. I have gone with "In the Country", lots of choice there I hope.

I decide to dust off one of my Joanna Sheen CDs - Jayne Netley Mayhew and printed off this sweet picture of two mice stocking up for winter. I added some raffia and some leaves from my stash and mounted it all onto a side fold A2 kraft card blank.

I'm looking forward to seeing what you create, and as always there is more inspiration on the challenge blog.

 

Sunday Scrapbooking

I have been going through my draft posts and right down at the bottom were three more layouts which I made quite a while ago . So I have combined them into one post for you.

Have a good Sunday and Happy Mother's Day to my UK readers - hope you remembered to change the clocks as well!