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

More Cards!!

This is for my friend's birthday.  The stamp is from Imagination Crafts - Decoupage range. I stamped and coloured the image and then triple embossed it with clear powder to make a tile.  The large butterfly was then stamped and glittered on acetate.  The mat was cut on my Cricut.  I love this card and was proud to give it to my friend who is also a fellow crafter so it had to be a good one!! lol

A double easel card using my Cricut New Arrival cart.  The dp was from a really old CD I have from Bearly Mine.

 A quick and simple get well card for our school cleaner using a free set of stamps from Cards and Papercraft magazine.  I dug out my old Sakura pens to colour the flowers.  The border is a Clarity corner which was in their sale.

 

 Messing about with Sheena Douglass stamps and distress inks and my old H2O paints.  I saw Sheena show this technique of using the the paints directly onto the stamp for the background and then spritzing it with water.  The main image is embossed and painted directly with H2O's.

 Another simple card using a cuttlebug folder, gems and a Kanban greeting.

 

 This was a comission for my hubby's friend - using a Click, Print, Go, My Craft Studio CD.  I buy these and hardly ever use them!!  I used my Cricut for the name and numbers.

Back to basics on this one - it was a comission for a 60th Birthday and I was asked for pastel colours so I fetched out one of my under used medallion stamps.  I remember when these were really popular.  This one is so pretty though, it has a lovely rose design. I simply embossed it with gold wow powder.

A large A4 card for our school computer tech who is poorly at the moment.  I love this image as it's him to a 't'.  It's a Mo Manning digi called Computer Guy which I coloured with Promarkers.  Being a digi I could make it large enough to go on an A4 card.  I used my Cricut for the greeting.  I made the dp from our school logo using a Card Creations Master Card Builder CD.

Cricut and Sizzix come together for this comission for a friend's parent's anniversary. 

Another friend's birthday and another set of Imagination Crafts stamps, a Prima butterfly and Spellbinders dies.  The dp is embossed with gold flourishes and I added a trail of gems.

It's Card Time - Cards from the Past!! ( Well the past few months anyway!, lol)

Time to upload some card photos.  These are some of the cards which I've made over the last few months but never got round to adding to my blog.  I won't add all the details of how they were made otherwise I'll never get them on here, if you are interested just pop a message in a comment.

 Penny Black meets Clarity Stamps!

 These two were commissions.  I used some papers and embellishments which I had from QVC.

 50th Birthday for a chocoholic friend!  Inky Antics 'My Friend Ronnie Diet#1' stamps and Craftwork Cards embellishments. 

 Polka Doodles 'Paper Boutique' CD, LOTV Birthday Date stamp and loads of glitter!

 Cricut 'Pooh and Friends' cartridge

 LOTV stamp and Sentiment, Promarkers and a Daisy stamp from a wooden cube I have had for ages which came from Stamp Addicts.

Penny Black stamp - I still love these.

Well that's the first lot, there are loads more - got to go and make a couple of leaving to have a baby cards now so will add more later folks.

More Scrap pages.

Some more family pages from my brother's 8x8 album.  Can't wait to give it to him.

No Cards - Scrapbook Pages Instead!!

I haven't made a card this week, half term, but have been very busy digitally scrapping our old family photos for  an album for my brother's birthday next month.  When our parents passed away 5 years ago I was lucky enough to have all the family photos for safekeeping which meant my brother can't see them.  So I have been rather busy scanning them in so that they can all be saved and passed on digitally.  These are the 8x8 pages I have done so far. I really want an A3 printer now, so that I can go bigger!!

I have room for 20 pages and the hardest part is knowing which photos to leave out!!

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

Another Digi Scrap Page

 

Something to look at - I've been messing around with some holiday photos from 2010 tonight although I've made a little mistake (can you spot it?).  I've also made a little card for some of my PB friends but will have to wait until tomorrow to photograph it in daylight - my card photos are pretty rubbish at the best of times and at night they'll be even worse!!

Until tomorrow then,

Go Bananas!

I had so much fun making this 8inch square card at the weekend for my daughter's birthday today.  She's 23 but loves monkeys so I thought this image and sentiment from a set of Inky Antics stamps would be just the job!  He's coloured with Promarkers and glittered.  She is also a big fan of orange too.  I distressed all the edges and inked them with Wild Honey distress ink.  The monkey border and the flower were cut on my Cricut.  I made the flower from palm leaves!  The bananas are cut freehand.  The dp is from Basic Grey.

I'd like to enter this into several challenges just because I really like it!!  I'm glad it's staying in the family, you know, I sometimes hate having to part with my cards, they're like children!! lol  Are you like me, I stand them on the sideboard before they get sent so that I can see them, lol - (Or am I just dotty - you decide?!!)

I'd like to enter this in.....

Sketch Saturday #191

Secret Crafter - Food and Drink

and

Totally Papercrafts - Make your Own Flowers

That's all folks ........