creative card crew no 31 - its a celebration

Over at CCC the challenge for this week is called it a celebration, so as i had a card i needed to make for an order, i thought it was a perfect opportunity to enter this challenge, As you can see i chose to do a congrats on the birth of your baby card, its quite simple but im fairly pleased with how it looks,

To make this card;

• papermania collossal paper pack in pastels
• dovecraft basic baby diecut
• gem brads from dovecraft
• pale blue fibres from papermania
• baby stamp from kars
• coloured with promarkers
• a5 card blank hand folded
• blue sakura stardust for faux stitching
• blue stickles

I just hope the customer likes it lol,

i love promarkers no2

I missed the first challenge on i love promarkers as my laptop broke on me before i could upload my finished card, so i made sure i could enter this one lol, challenge 2 is a sketch,

Here is my card above,

To make this card i used;

• dcwv metallic stack
• image sugar nellie balloon boy dovecraft brads
• papermania stickers for the text
• ribbon from craft central
• promarkers in following colours pastel blue/cocoa/blush/dusky pink/cinnamon/shale/china blue/gold
• white sakura pen for edges

a card for 2 challenges

I have made this card for 2 blog challenges and for the challenge at my local craft club, and for a change i really like this one lol, the image was sent to me in a swap and i really like it,

The 2 challenges are;

1. Truly scrumptious-a sketch with beads
2. Creative card crew-polkadots

I made this card using:

• backing papers from stamping up and papermania collossal warm tones range
• image from a swap
• colouring with promarkers
• swiss dots cuttlebug folder
• flowers punched out of backing papers with my 2 daisy punches
• pink gems from pda
• card blank from tesco
• sentiment is from personal impressions stamp set
• pink sakura pen to doodle

What do you think?

stamp something meets pbsc

I used 2 challenges to make this card, i dont usually work with these colours together lol so not too sure i like the finished product but thought id put it on anyway....someone may like it lol

The challenges were;

1. PBSC - swirls
2. Stamp something - a colour combo......pink, green and yellow

To make this card i used the following;

• Penny black image
• coloured with ppromarkers
• cuttlebug embossing folders bloom dots and spots and dots
• pink velour ribbon from papermania
• sizzix swirls die cut with
• pink stickles
• pink gems bought from pound shop
• tag punched out with woodware punch

just magnolia sketch

This is my entry for this weeks just magnolia challenge week 11 which is a sketch by bev, ive also put the sketch on so you can see, i actually enjoyed making this card as i had my new backing papers to play with.

To make this card i used

• *NEW* papermania signature range they are called regency and i love them
• image given to me in a swap so not sure which tilda it is
• promarkers to colout in image
• white sakura gel pen for doodling
• prima flowers
• gem brads from dovecraft
• silver gems from own stash bought from PDA
• text is from a new stamp set i bought called personal impressions from hobbycraft
• ribbon lace i bought from a local sewing shop
• flamour dust for wings and around sentiment

fathers day card no'1

I have been so disorganised making my 3 fathers day cards this year, im not too fond of this one really but its too late to make another now lol and besides men dont seem too fussy when it comes to cards lol,

When i chose to do this one i used 2 challenges to combine;

1. Our creative corner -Stars
2. C.R.A.F.T - challenge 6 a sketch

To make this card i used;

• papermania mens range BP's
• sizzix die cut alphabet for the DAD
• circle punched out with woodware punch
• gems from ebay
• stars are peel-offs stuck on the same BP's and cut around
• ribbon from craft central
• whita sakura pen for doodling around edges
• greeting free hand and layered on holographic card

abc and colour create

Another card from 2 challenges here

1. Abc challenge- P is for pearls
2. Colour create- wk 17 lemon, pink sorbet and chocolate

this card was quite simple to make, i coloured the flowers to make them the right shade with my promarkers, the backing paper has a lovely shade of yellow in but you cant quite see it through my rubbish photography lol,

To make this card i used,

• simply elegant papermania backing papers
• mixture of flowers inc laura ashley
• pink pearls from stash (bought from ebay)
• pink brad from dovecraft
• sakura clear stardust pen used on the swirls on bp for glitter effect
• adhesive ribbon from anita's
• die cut greeting free from a magazine
  

minimal card for 3 challenges

This card was made using 3 different challenges:

1. creative card crew # 10 -minimal
2. just magnolia wk 4 -in stitches (pin pricked edges and faux stitches with white pen)
3. secret crafter saturday challenges # 31 -brads or eyelets

To make this card i used:

• Image is tilda with glasses, coloured in with brush pens
• backing paper is papermania amethyst infusions
• brush fine brush markers
• sakura stardust/souffle and fine liners
• papermania gem brads 8mm
• text stamped with see ds
• 5x5 in card blank
• free hand drawn thought bubble

Just ask if you want more details on how i made this card.

stamptacular sunday challenge #6

This card was made from the sketch above over at stamptacular sunday #6, i coloured the image in with my brush markers and water pen, the pink and black card is from my card stack that i bought from the readers union craft club, the card blank is from tesco and was a bargain as its quite thick.

What i used to make this card:

• image is from the claire curd papermanie range its called party
• backing papers are the dovecraft charcoal prints
• velvet ribbon from the smirk range
• text stamped from the see ds birthday and ladies fashion collection
• pens used are brushfine brush markers to colour image/sakura stardust to doodle edges and inks from hobbycraft to do edges of card blank.
• a 5x5 inch card blank from tesco

I made this card in about an hour an half as my little 6 week old boy kept crying so was a bit of a stop start attempt lol, what do you think??

ptw meets cct

This card was made from the sketch from papertake weekly above, and the challenge from cute card thursday #58 which was called mirror mirror,

I made this card using

• papermania for him colossal paper pack,
• magnolia bartender edwin stamp,
• see ds for the text,
• blue mirror card,
• blue gems from ebay,
• sakura stardust pen in blue and sakura white pen
• watermarkers for colouring in,
• hobbycraft inks.

I doodled around the edges of the papers and the card blank for a bit of an extra effect.