Totally Papercrafts - Friday Challenge #107 - My favourite Things.

I was asked to make a card for a friend's girlfriend and thought why not combine it with a challenge so here it is.  Totally Papercrafts challenge this Friday is called My Favourite Things and my most favourite crafting things ever (apart from my hubby who never moans at the amount I spend!) are my Penny Black stamps and my love of making cards which are a little different.  I love this stamp 'Duckling', it's so easy to colour and lends itself to decoupage too. I used Promarkers again and glossy accents on the decoupaged feet and bill.  I've mounted it on a Spellbinders die - Parisian Motifs.

The dp is from a set I got from DCWV.  This is an easel card set on a four drawer box which is covered with matching DCWV papers.  I used a border punch to decorate the base.  I thought my friend could put some little surprise pressies in the drawers!!

I'd like to enter it in Totally Papercrafts Challenge #107

Just For You!

A fun card for my PB friends!

A little card using:

Margaret Sherry image - free in Cardmaking and Papercrafts this month

Basic Grey dp -Euphoria

Cardcrafts sentiment strip

One card, two challenges.

Trying to keep up with at least one challenge every couple of weeks this year! I've made this card for my friend's daughter's birthday and would like to enter it into two challenges this week. It's a pop - out card (instructions here). The image is a Penny Black stamp called 'The Sensations' and I've used my Promarkers and some Papermania gems to decorate. The flowers are from Prima and the leaf punch is a Nellie Snellen Branch. I've used brads and ribbon from American crafts. The sentiments are from Craftwork Cards - I love those long thin ones. I didn't use any backing paper on this one, just Bazzill card.

I'd like to enter it for:

http://pennyblackatallsorts.blogspot.com/2011/02/february-challenge.html: Say it with Flowers

and

Cupcake Craft Challenges:Old McDonald had a Farm

Penny Black Birthday Bears

Here's a quickish card I made for my friend Debbie. I used my Penny Black bear stamps which I haven't had out for ages. I coloured them with Promarkers and stamped the letters using a set of Hampton Arts 'Studio G' 99p mini alphabet stamps which are just the right size. These delicious little stamps come in a range of different fonts too. I glittered the edges of these. The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts.

Penny Black Gossamer

Another birthday card for a PBFC member. I used a PB stamp called Gossamer, coloured it with Promarkers, cut and mounted it on a mat from a Marianne Creatable die and then embossed the whole thing with clear holographic powder. I've got some WOW embossing powders from this company. They are the best powders I've used and are worth a look, their colour range is superb. Nellie Snellen punched flowers, Brenda Pinnick paper and a Craftwork Cards sentiment finish it off.

Well that's all for tonight, off to watch some cricket now - let's hope we do better than yesterday!

And now some cards!!

A Penny Black card for a PBFC member. The flowers are made using my Nellie Snellen flower and embossing punches. Bp from Brenda Pinnick.

Two simple PB cards

You have to sit sideways to see this one - it's gone like this on it's own!!

Two really quick and simple cards using Penny Black stamps, Cuttlebug backgrounds and QVC flower punches.

Penny Black Easel Card

Easel card made from a Penny Black transparent stamp and Promarkers - can't remember which set (I have so many!!) mounted on rectangle nestabilities. The sentiment is cut on my cricut and the little flowers are my QVC punches. Paper from DCWV. Ribbon, pearls and stickles finish it off. I think this was Squirrel's birthday card!

Double Slider Card (Don't look Helen!) xxx

Although I'm on school holidays I haven't made that many cards! Here's one I made using instructions from Splitcoast Stampers. Mine doesn't slide out as far as theirs as I had to cut my slits by hand and as I hadn't made one before I wasn't sure how long to cut them. Mine were 1.5 inches long but could have been longer. I used my Docrafts See D morsels stamps for the flowery and dotty background. These are gorgeous little stamps which I've had for years and are really unfashionable now but I love them - I don't think you can buy them anymore although they are sometimes in the sale section of craft shops. They're similar to Tapestry peg stamps without the wooden peg! The image is from a Penny Black clear stamp set (Bubbly) coloured with Promarkers and decoupaged (the first image underneath went a bit wrong, the cat looked a little ill!) and the sentiments are both Penny Black too. I decorated it with punched flowers, stickles glitter and pearls.

xxsue

I like riding on my bike!

Here's the card I made for a PBFC friend's birthday- I love this jolly little hedgehog 'Hedge Delivery' from Penny Black. The bp is from Basic Grey and I cut the mount on my Cricut. I used a little flower punch to embellish it along with Prima hydrangea flowers. The image is coloured with Promarkers and glazed with glossy accents. The greeting is from Craftwork Cards.

Simple Easter cards!

This was my feeble effort for Easter. I made four cards, two others with a different pb stamp but I forgot to photograph them!! This one was simply made and coloured with Promarkers, the flower is my new Marianne Creatable flower die No 1. I'm looking forward to using it more often.

Charity Mother's Day Cards.

I've made 11 cards today for my school to use to raise funds for McMillan. They are basically the same design in different layouts. I made my own sentiment strips on the computer. You should (or maybe not!) see the mess I've made on the dining room table - off to clear up soon!

Charity Cards.

Here's some more pics of my charity cards. I must admit they came out better (the cards) than I thought they would!

xxsue

Squirrel's Challenge - at last!!

My good friend, Squirrel 10, I'm sure you must have visited her lovely blog, (if not pop over there now) challenged myself and a few friends to make a spring card in blue, pink and yellow with a Penny Black stamp, way back before Christmas!! Well, I've finally made one - sorry for the delay Squirrel!!

I cut an oval card with my Nesties, first time I've used them this way and used a Nellie Snellen die for the image which I've decoupaged. The stamp is called Easter Exchange. I finished it with a bow, flower and glossy accents.

Hope you like it Squirrel!

Thinking of You.

Sorry it's in the bag!

This is a card I was paid to make ( the best sort!!) for a friend whose close friend is in hospital (a sad time, though) She wanted something flowery so I used my new Penny Black 'Violets' stamp with Promarkers and Copics. I used the same corner stamps as the purple card and embossed them in gold and filled the images with Sakura gloss pens. The sentiment (chalked) is from Craftwork cards - I got 40 sentiment sheets on QVC for 18.00 which I thought was good value seeing as they're 3.99 for 4! I used a charm to decorate it along with flowers, pearls (I'm 'into' these at the moment - can't you tell!) ribbon and glitter. Unfortunately my friend's friend is very ill but she was able to see my card which made her happy so I was glad to be able to help.