Krafty Chicks challenge #753 - anything goes

Good morning lovely friends. I hope you're all doing ok and having a great week so far. It's time for a new challenge over at Krafty Chicks challenge and this week as it's a 5 week month our theme is 'anything goes' and our hostess is Leanne.  Feel free to create anything you like, the world is your oyster lol! We hope you will come over and join in the fun with us.

It was my sister and brother-in law's 1st wedding anniversary recently (even though they've been together for 35 year lol!) so I took the opportunity to make them a card and I even bought a new stamp set especially for them.  I hope you like it:

Here is my card:

A closer look at the image:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began by stamping the image onto alcohol marker friendly card with memento ink.  I coloured it with Promarkers and then created a mask so that I could ink blend around it using a kraft coloured ink.  As always I made a 5" x 7" card as it was a family card so I cut the panel to 4 1/2" x 6 1/2" and matted it onto a black panel with double sided tape.  I stamped the sister & brother in law sentiment onto a piece of white card and then die cut it using a heart shaped die.  I also stamped the happy anniversary sentiment onto scrap white card and die cut it with a rectangle die.  The 1st sentiment was stamped and cut out with a small heart die.  I inked all the edges of the die cuts with the kraft ink and added them to the panel with foam squares.  For a finishing touch I die cut some small hearts from glitter card and arranged them around the image with liquid glue.  The panel was then added to my card base with foam tape.  For the inside I cut a white panel 4 1/2" x 6 1/2" and matted it onto a black panel with double sided tape.  I stamped the sentiment in the centre with black ink and added two strips of the glitter card to the top and bottom with double sided tape.  The panel was then added to the card base with double sided tape.  I'm really happy with the finished result and my sister & BIL loved it thankfully.  

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Addicted to Stamps & More challenge - die cuts and/or stencils

Cardz 4 Galz challenge - anything but square

Creative Inspirations challenge - something old or something new (new to me stamp set)

Creative Knockouts challenge - something to say

Cut It Up challenge - something new (new to me stamp set)

Fab 'n' Funky challenge - include a stamped image

I Love Promarkers challenge - ATG or springtime

Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge - have a heart

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - ATG

I hope you will be able to join us for our 'anything goes' challenge and I cannot wait to see your creations in our linky. Please leave some love for my fellow chicks - Leanne, Diane and Lori.

Thank you so much for stopping by; I appreciate your lovely comments.

Love and hugs,

card ingredients:

Colorado Craft Company - lovely legs anniversary stamp set (currently oos)

Promarkers

Clearly Besotted Stamps - friends & family stamp set (retired)

Heffy Doodle - alcohol marker friendly card (store now closed)

Presscut - heart nesting dies

Gina K Designs - kraft ink pad

Memento - tuxedo black ink pad

Versafine - onyx black ink pad

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm silky smooth white card (currently not available but this 250gsm smooth white card is an alternative in stock here)

Hobbycraft - A4 black card

glitter card from stash

Krafty Chicks challenge #732 - Stamps

Good morning lovely friends.  I hope you're all doing ok and having a great week so far.  It's time for a new challenge over at Krafty Chicks challenge and this week it's Week 1 which means that Leanne is your hostess and our theme as always is 'Stamps', so grab your stamps or digital images and come join in the fun with us.  

I needed to make a card for hubby's sister & brother in law's anniversary so this challenge was perfect for me.  I used some cute polymer stamps that I've for a couple of months but not used yet.  My card is 5" x 7" in size.  

Here is my card:

a closer look at the cute bees:

I decorated the inside too:

I began by stamping the two cute bee images onto alcohol marker friendly card, coloured them with Promarkers and added a few white highlights.  There aren't any dies for these stamps so I used a heart die to cut them out.  I found a really old paper pad that I think I got from Joanna Sheen (some of you will remember her lovely store) and cut a piece 4 1/2" x 6 1/2"; I also cut a slightly larger black mat and adhered them with double sided tape.  I die cut the large happy word 3 times from black card and adhered them together with liquid glue.  I stamped the anniversary word in black ink and used a sentiment strip die to cut it out.  I also stamped the sister & brother-in-law sentiment in black ink and used my trimmer to cut a rectangle; again I cut a black mat and adhered them together with double sided tape.  Finally I die cut hearts in 2 different sizes from red card.  I added the large hearts and sentiments with foam squares and the happy word and smaller hearts with liquid glue.  The panel was added to my card base with double sided tape.  For the inside I cut the same size panels and stamped the sentiment in the centre with black ink.  I added a strip of the paper at the top of the panel and stamped another bee in the bottom left corner.  I again coloured him with Promarkers and finished off with a few red hearts.  I added the panel onto my card base with double sided tape.  A fun anniversary card and I hope you like it.  

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Addicted to Stamps & More challenge - make your mark

As You Like It challenge - layered or flat (I like to add dimension and layers to my cards)

Crafty Animals challenge - ATG but must include an animal

Critter Crazy challenge - ATG with a featured critter

I Love Promarkers challenge - ATG option autumn gold and browns

Scrapping4Fun challenge - ATG with a stamp

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - stamp it

Stamping Sensations challenge - ATG option animal magic

We Love Stamping challenge - hand coloured image

I hope you will be able to join us for our Stamps' challenge and I cannot wait to see your creations in our linky.  Please leave some love for my fellow chicks - Leanne, Diane and Lori and also our guest designer for September Wendy.    

Love and hugs, 

Card ingredients: 

LOTV - happy bees A5 polymer stamp set - stamp store is currently closed

Promarkers

Mama Elephant - happy everything stamp & happy script die

Presscut - heart nesting dies

MFT - tag builder blueprints 6 (for hearts)

Clearly Besotted Stamps - friends & family stamp - retired

Cardmaking Magic - verses for occasions (for inside sentiment) - currently oos

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm silky smooth white card - currently oos

Hobbycraft - A4 black card

Sakura - no 10. white gelly roll pen

red card from scraps bin

Heart shaped card

Lsst week my sister-in-law and brother-in-law celebrated their 18th wedding anniversary and this is the card I made for them.  I decided to make a heart shaped card (for obvious reasons) although I did have to straighten the point a little to enable the card to stand up.  

close up of the card:

I also made an envelope to match:

I began by die cutting 2 large hearts and scored one heart about half an inch from the top and glued the 2 hearts together.  I decided to go for a one-layer card so stamped the cute hedgie image and then masked them off so that I could stencil some clouds behind them and also stamp some random hearts (I was following last week's MFT sketch 504 challenge but left it too late to enter!!).  I coloured the image with Promarkers.  I added a large sentiment across the middle of the card and then added 'sister' and 'brother-in-law' to the balloons.  I think it turned out really cute and something a little different.  

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Penny Black Saturday challenge - anything goes (option fave colours)

Sweet Stampin' challenge - anything but a birthday card

Sweet Stampers challenge - outdoor fun

Allsorts challenge - hand coloured image

Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge - use your favourite stamp (for love/anniversary cards this is my go-to stamp)

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - stamp it in Stamptember 

Simon Says Stamp IG challenge - put a stamp on it

Krafty Chicks challenge - stamp act

I hope that returning to school/college went well for all your children (and teachers in the family).  Although the number of cases is increasing, thankfully the deaths are remaining low so let's hope that the second spike doesn't happen.  My son is working from home and has only left the house once since lockdown and he is still really nervous about going out.  I think it's the fear of the unknown as well isn't it.  

I hope you all have a great week and continue to stay safe and well.  

Card ingredients:

Penny Black - hedgehog kisses

Promarkers

MFT - make a wish (for the hearts)

MFT - mini cloud stencil

Distress oxide ink - tumbled glass

Heffy Doodle - everyday sentiment duos (for anniversary sentiment)

Clearly Besotted stamps - friends & family 

Presscut - heart nesting dies

Inkadinkado - stamping mask paper

Versafine onyx black ink

Memento tuxedo black ink

Distress ink mini - barn door (for hearts)