I'm a bit behind this week, but this card is for Day 80 (using plaid) over at 365 Cards and using the sketch over at 2 Sketches 4 You.
The flower paper and matching ribbon are Bo Bunny and the Plaid paper and Mom sentiment are both DCWV, the flower gems are from my stash.
I see Mr. Linky seems to have broken down...again! If it was Mrs. Linky, I'll bet it would be lot more reliable!
Oh, well, I'll just have to hope I remember to link this up later!
The sketch is from Truly Scrumptious Challenges and the theme was: spots, circles and dots!
Using the sketch over at 365 Cards today and the colour challenge at The Pink Elephant, I started with a white base and used American Craft papers, then added lots of buttons.
I stamped and embossed the sentiment using Paper Mania stamps and added larger versions of the buttons to add dimension.
Yep, you've guessed it, it's another 365 challenge using DCWV Animal Crackers stack! This is my favourite stack, by a long way, it's ace!
I fancy cut the Mummy hippo out of a 12x12 and created the scallops using my Dovecraft corner rounder. The circle with the Baby hippo is chipboard from the same set. The final 2 requirements on 365 was the scallops and bling where I used pink flowers and oval pink gems. The buttons in the top right corner are actually 2 buttons mounted on top of each other, brown on the bottom and pink on top.
I'm a bit late posting this little number (number, get it?!), yes I really do need to laugh after what happened to me today!
So, I had my last dental appointment today (yay!). I was full of the joys of no more chair time and a spring was definitely in my step! Well I was a tad too bouncy and right in front of a full bus stop, I trip over absolutely nothing (by that I mean my own feet!) and it isn't one of these graceful lady falls, my lovely boyfriend tells me it was like watching a toddler going down: you can see it is going to happen and then all of a sudden they are in a heap on the floor and you just know the tears are coming! Boo hoo, I was that heap!
Now I have bruises absolutely everywhere (although, so does Simon as he had to practically carry me home!). Although at least I didn't bruise my right leg, the shiner I got from putting my foot through the bath hasn't quite gone from there yet! Don't even ask about that one!
Oooh I look back at what I have just written and it looks like I have been shouting with all those exclamation marks! There I go again! Okay, I will try and stop now.....
Anyway, back to the card, the reason I am late is I was trying to recover from my little trip (with bags of groceries I might add, I managed to break my fall on a Rolo desert). Again, back to the card, it is mostly papers from the sweet stack, which is pretty sweet.
Hopefully tomorrow I will be able to make it home without any incidents....
After yesterdays challenge when I knew exactly which papers to use, today was rather different! Think pink! I was spoiled for choice! I have made a few cards using these aperture card blanks and I haven't been too keen on them, but this one just works!
I was going to make it a Sorry! card because he looks like he has been naughty! Then I remembered a certain lady at work who absolutely LOVES cats! This is purrfect for her! Remember to click on the photo for a slightly larger view, you can barely see his cheeky smile in this one!
The papers are DCWV and the stamp has no name on it, nor do the kitty stickers, but I think I got it from Woolworths (before it closed). If I remember right the pack had a really scrummy looking ice-cream sundae sticker which I wanted to use in a scrapbook.
Yes, I am still using these DCWV scraps for the 3rd or 4th card this week! It seems to go so far! This one is for the challenge over at Cupcake Craft Challenges, which is to use a number in your design.
Well, I really was ahead of myself when I made this Mother's Day card 2 days ago! So this time I made a more generic one that can be used for a birthday or Mother's Day.
I finally got around to uploading some of our pictures from this weekend here. It really was a fun packed weekend, I have to say it has felt like being on holiday! I'm not sure if I'm ready to go back to work tomorrow! Mind you who looks forward to the first day back after a long weekend?!
A very quick post today, as I am on my way to bed, I am so tired! After yesterdays events we ended up going to Chessington's World of Adventures today, so I have had 2 very long non stop days! Not that I am complaining! It was very fun, and I will fill you all in on the details (and photos and videos) tomorrow at a more civilised hour!
Here's my 8+ blooms for the day, the paper, sticker and chipboard are DCWV and the ribbon is from my stash. This did start out as an octagon card but I put the double sided tape on the wrong side! I blame it on the tiredness! So I just chopped the edges off, to make a different but still interesting shape!
I started with a card from the DCWV Sweet mat stack. I layered this on matching brown card and used a light green card as the base. Then glittered the decoration at the bottom and added gems to the centre of the flowers. I then took another sheet from the same stack and scalloped the bottom edge and matted with the same brown card as before. Next I added the sentiment and the two dragonfly friends.
Yes! That's what I thought when I saw the challenge over at 365 Cards! The task was to include "What" either on or inside your card. I really had to think about this one. Initially I was think of a Piratey them with "What! No Rum! Walk the Plank!" or something like that, and I started and it just looked a little bit silly!
So then I had another think about it! This is what I came up with!
I started with a DCWV paper and added a sticker which I first raised on 3D foam. Next I added a flat sticker and stuck the large glittery W (also DCWV) on top of this and then continued with smaller letters around the flow of the curl on the paper. To match the glittery W I finally added glitter on each of the small letters too.
While browsing some other wonderfully creative blogs I also discovered this Challenge Blog: Mojo Monday!
With a sketchy challenge, this is what I came up with! I know I didn't tilt the top mat, but can I blame that on my Virgoan nature?
The challenge of the week over at Cupcake Craft Challenges was to create a card based on the above sketch. I am still very new to stamping and have to have quite a few trys before I get it right, so I am very pleased with my little creation.
The stamp I used was by Whispers and the papers and letters are DCWV.
Tuesday's Trio at 365 Cards was a brad, blossom and circle. I really wanted to keep using my new dress peel-offs so I created a birthday card for a little princess. It could also be due to the fact that I have been looking almost non-stop at Disney World brochures for the past few weeks! Yes, we finally booked 3 weeks in Orlando!
The circle was the pink gem in the crown, the brads are framing the acrylic princess ribbon slide and the blossoms are on the dress.
