Krafty Chicks challenge #784 - Birthday

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 we are on Week 1; as always the theme is 'birthday' and Leanne is our hostess. It can't get any easier than this week's challenge so we hope you will come over and join in the fun with us.

It was my sister's birthday last week and today I'm sharing the card I made for my boys to give to their auntie.  I don't seem to use purple very often and I'm not sure why because I love it.  I used a fairly simple layout and the card size is 5" x 7".  I'm happy with this card and I think it turned out really pretty.  I hope you like it too. 

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, coloured it with Promarkers and cut it into a rectangle.  I matted it onto a gold layer with double sided tape; I also added some scrap white card behind this layer for some dimension without using foam tape.  I cut a piece of gorgeous patterned paper 4 1/2" x 6 1/2" and again matted it onto a gold layer with double sided tape.  I stamped the sentiment using black ink and used a sentiment strip die to cut it out; I again added a gold mat layer. I die cut some leafy branches from the gold card and adhered them to the top left and bottom right corners of the purple panel.  I then placed the image panel over top with double sided tape.  The sentiment was placed across the lower part of the image panel with foam squares.  The panel was then added to the card base with double sided tape.  I didn't add any extra embellishments as I loved it as it was.  For the inside I cut a white panel 4 1/2" x 6 1/2" and added a gold mat layer with double sided tape.  I adhered a strip of the patterned paper to the top and bottom of the panel with liquid glue and also added two more of the leafy branches in the left lower corner.  Finally I stamped a sentiment in the centre with black ink.  The panel was added to the card base with double sided tape.  

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

A Cut Above challenge - ATG with a die cut

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

Allsorts challenge - birthdays

As You Like It challenge - layered or flat (I love dimension and usually have at least one layer on my cards.  I love the look and even though it costs more to post I still have to do it)

Classic Design challenge - ATG optional twist happy birthday

Crafter's Cafe challenge - ATG optional use patterned paper

Die Cut Divas challenge - ATG must us at least one die cut

I Love Promarkers challenge - ATG or gnomes

Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge - stamp it in STAMPtember

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - stamp it

I hope you will be able to join us for our 'birthday' 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 supplies:

Stamping Bella - curvy girl can buy herself flowers stamp

Heffy Doodle - alcohol marker friendly card - store sadly closed

Promarkers

Uniko Stamps - floral vines stamp (for happy birthday)

Uniko Stamps - everyday family (for Auntie)

Gina K Designs - on the inside - birthday stamp (for inside sentiment)

Gina K Designs - large strip sentiments die

Gina K Designs - let's get started die set: intri-cut exclusive (for leafy branch)

Limetree Crafts - 280gsm silky smooth white card

Verafine Clair - nocturne ink pad

Memento - tuxedo black ink pad

paper pad from stash (can't remember where I bought it)

gold card from stash

Krafty Chicks challenge #779 - ATG

Good morning lovely friends; it's Thursday so that means it's time for a new challenge over at Krafty Chicks challenge.  We have a 5 week month so that means we have an extra 'Anything Goes' challenge this week and Diane is our hostess.  It can't get any easier than ATG so come and join in the fun with us. 

The world's your oyster this week, you can make anything you like.  I wanted to share the anniversary card I made for my hubby (which was a few weeks ago).  I love the fun image and sentiment and went for a bright and cheery colour combo.  The card is 7" x 7" in size.  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, coloured it with Promarkers and added some white gelly roll pen highlights.  I used the coordinating die to cut it out.  To create my card base I cut one piece of white card 8" x 7" and another piece 7" x 7"; on the larger piece I scored at 1" on the 8" side and used this 'tab' to attach the two panels together using double sided tape.  I cut a white panel 4 3/4" square and using a heart stencil and some light grey ink created a soft background for my images.  I matted this panel onto some gold mirri card with double sided tape.  I cut a piece of yellow patterned paper 5 3/4" square and again matted it onto the gold mirri card with double sided tape.  I then cut another white panel 6 3/4" square and matted it onto the gold mirri card again.  I adhered all the layers together with double sided tape.  I stamped the happy anniversary and husband words onto scrap white card and cut them out with a sentiment strip die.  I adhered the image into the centre of the stencilled panel using foam tape and stamped the 'me love you' sentiment in black ink below.  I added the other sentiments above the image with foam squares.  The whole panel was then adhered to the card base with double sided tape.  For a final finishing touch I die cut 5 hearts from the gold mirri card and added them around the image with liquid glue.  I kept the inside fairly simple this time; I cut I white panel 5 3/4" square and again added a gold mirri card mat.  I added a border of the patterned paper to the top and bottom with double sided tape and stamped the sentiment in the centre with black ink.  I added some more gold hearts in the left upper and right bottom corners.  The panel was adhered to the card base with double sided tape.  Quite a few layers and dimension on this card but I knew I wouldn't be posting it so it didn't matter.  

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

Christmas BINGO (or not) challenge - Line G - square card, free, frame

Crafty Catz challenge - ATG

Crafty Gals Corner challenge - our anniversary in July

Cut It Up challenge - monochrome

Little Red Wagon challenge - masculine (anniversary card for hubby)

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends challenge - ATG

Make My Monday challenge - masculine (anniversary card for hubby)

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - ATG

The Paper Funday challenge - ATG optional twist 'fun with stencils'

Tic Tac Toe challenge - any colour, free, sentiment

I hope you will be able to join us for our 'ATG' 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 supplies:

Stamping Bella - cave couple stamp & die

Uniko Stamps - everyday love sentiments stamp

Uniko Stamps - everyday family stamp

Gina K Designs - forever flowers stamp (for inside greeting)

Gina K Designs - large strip sentiment dies

Gina K Designs - soft stone ink pad

Time For Tea Designs - scattered hearts stencil

The Works - 12 x 12 paper pad - pastel basics

Limetree Crafts - 12 x 12 smooth white 250gsm card

Versafine - onyx black ink

Memento - tuxedo black ink pad

Sakura - white no. 10 gelly roll pen

MFT - tag builder blueprints 6

Heffy Doodle - alcohol marker friendly card - store now closed

gold mirri card from stash

Spring into Card Making IG Hop - Week 7

Hello crafty friends and happy Wednesday.  I hope your week has been good so far; we've had a great start to the week here in South Wales as the weather is decidedly spring like at the moment, which is a nice change.  Let's hope it lasts for a little while.  

I'm here today to share my card for the final week of the Spring Into Card Making IG Hop, which has been organised by my lovely friend Kelly.  Each week we will be sharing a themed card focusing on the joys of spring.  If our hop inspires you please use the hashtag #2024springintocardmakinghop to join in the fun.   

For Week 7 we are celebrating the Earth.  We know not everyone has earth/world stamps so grab something recycled or reuse something not intended for crafting and get creative.  I didn't have any earth stamps so decided to recycle a cereal box and made a decorative hanger for a friend.  I hope you like it.

Here is my hanger on the wall:

A closer look:

The sweet image in more detail:

I haven't decorated the back yet as I wanted to show the cereal box:

plus I made my own 'flowers' from different circles:

I began by stamping the image with memento ink onto alcohol marker friendly card, coloured it with Promarkers and added a few highlights with a white gel pen.  I took the cereal box and cut it out using a square die.  They were nesting dies but the increments between dies was quite large so for the smaller squares, which I cut from lemon lustre pearlescent card, pink card and patterned paper, I used my paper trimmer.  I adhered all of them together with double sided tape.  I punched two holes at the top with my Crop-a-dile (after dusting it off lol!) and used white brads that came with it.  I die cut a polaroid frame from white card and adhered the image behind with liquid glue (I sadly had to cut off their gorgeous long legs).  I stamped the beautiful sentiment in black ink at the bottom of the frame.  I made my 'flowers' by cutting 3 different circle shapes and before glueing them together I distressed them by scrunching them in my hand.  I used a dot of liquid glue to adhere them together.  I used the pearlescent card to cut out the hello word, the wings of the butterfly and used some of the cereal box to cut the body.  I attached the body to the wings with liquid glue.  The friend word was a pre-printed sentiment strip which I coloured with pink ink and cut with a sentiment strip die (although I did have to trim the sides a little smaller with my trimmer).  The polaroid frame was added with double sided tape, the hello and butterfly with liquid glue and the flowers and friend sentiment with foam squares.  I found some velvet type ribbon in my long forgotten ribbon jar which was the perfect pink colour so added that through the holes so that my hanger would um you know ...... hang!  I'm really happy with the finished result and it was just like making a card so not a big deal.  

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

Addicted to Stamps & More challenge - make your mark

As You Like It challenge - clean or fussy (I like both but today I was drawn to layers)

Classic Design challenge - ATG optional twist happy birthday

Colorful Options challenge - pastels

Cut It Up challenge - starts with B (besties, butterfly)

Dream Valley challenge - make it female

I Love Promarkers challenge - ATG option shapes

Inkspirational challenge - mood board (love the colours)

Inspired By challenge - rainbow pops (again love the colours)

My Time To Craft challenge - everything dies (die cuts)

Sweet Stampin' challenge - earth day or use something recycled (I used a cereal box)

Triple B challenge - use at least one bird, butterfly or bloom

Try It On Tuesday challenge - inspired by a song ('you got a friend in me' by Randy Newman)

I would love it if you would pop over to Instagram and see the amazing work by all the other crafters taking part in the hop.  Please use the hashtag #2024springintocardmakinghop to find us and also so that we can find your creation if you are inspired to take part.  

I'll be back again with you tomorrow with my card for the Krafty Chicks challenge so please pop by and check it out.  I wanted to say a quick hello to my new followers; it's lovely to have you join me and I hope you visit me often.  As always I appreciate the comments you leave and thank you so much for stopping by. 

Love and hugs, 

Card ingredients:

Stamping Bella - curvy girl - besties stamp

Tonic Studios - square layering die set

Spellbinders - simply perfect mix & match sentiment dies

Spellbinders - standard circles large dies

MFT - LLD insert it instaframe die (retired)

Memory Box - Pippi butterfly die (? retired)

Gina K Designs - birthday babble sentiment sheets

Gina K Designs - modern floral bundle (for the tiny sentiment die)

Gina K Designs - dusty rose ink pad (to colour the friend sentiment strip)

Tonic Studios - autumn maple 6 x 6 pearlescent card pack (discontinued)

Crafty Things - 6 x 6 creative paper pack (from Home Bargains)

Promarkers

Versafine - onyx black ink

Memento - tuxedo black ink 

Heffy Doodle - alcohol marker friendly card

Woodware - small circle punch

MFT - gerbera daisy die set (for the tiny circle) (retired)

Recycled bran flakes cereal box (other cereals are avaiable!)

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm silky smooth white card

Sakura - white no. 10 gelly roll pen

Spring Into Card Making IG Hop - Week 5

Hello friends; I hope you're having a great day.  I'm back to share this week's card for the Spring Into Card Making IG Hop, which has been organised by my lovely friend Kelly.  Each week we will be sharing a themed card focusing on the joys of spring.  If our hop inspires you please use the hashtag #2024springintocardmakinghop to join in the fun.  

This week our inspiration is 'tea party' so grab all your stamps and dies with a tea theme and join in the fun.  I love this image and have used it quite a few times before but it was perfect for this week's theme.  

Here is my card:

a close up of the image:

plus I decorated the inside:

I began by cutting a white panel 3 7/8" x 5 1/8" and using the fun teacup stencil and some yellow ink created my background.  I matted this onto a black panel cut to 4" x 5 1/4".  I stamped the girl image and coloured her with Promarkers (+ 1 tri-blend marker) before using the matching die to cut her out.  I added some white highlights with a gelly roll pen.  I used a die to cut a lacey oval from vellum and added my image on top with foam squares; this was then adhered to the panel with liquid glue (making sure to only add it behind the image so that it wouldn't show through the vellum).  I stamped the sentiment in the lower right corner in black ink.  I finished with a few pastel pearls.  For the inside I masked a small portion at the bottom of the white panel and used the same stencil and ink to create a coordinating border.  I stamped a sentiment in black ink in the centre.  Once again I matted the panel onto a black panel and added it to the card base with double sided tape.  A fairly simple, bright and colourful card.

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

Addicted to Stamps & More challenge - die cut and/or stencil (I used both)

Color Throwdown challenge - pink/green/yellow

Dragonfly Dreams challenge - use a die

Dream Valley challenge - spring colours

Fab 'n' Funky challenge - add a sentiment

Get Creative challenge - April Fool's Day (use a joke or punny sentiment)

I love Promarkers challenge - ATG option add a button

Inkspirational challenge - fold (I attempted to add folds to the dress)

Inspired By challenge - umbrellas (I was inspired by the colours)

Stamping Sensations challenge - spring mood board (inspired by the colours)

Stencil Fun challenge - must use a stencil option spring/flowers

Sweet Sketch Wednesday challenge - I used sketch #275

Tic Tac Toe challenge - spring colours/free/stencil

I would love it if you would pop over to Instagram and see the amazing work by all the other crafters taking part in the hop.  Please use the hashtag #2024springintocardmakinghop to find us and also so that we can find your creation if you are inspired to take part.  

I'll be back again with you tomorrow with my card for the Krafty Chicks challenge so please pop by and check it out.  As always I appreciate the comments you leave and thank you so much for stopping by. 

Love and hugs, 

Card ingredients:

Stamping Bella - curvy girl loves tea

Visible Image - tea party stencil

Spellbinders - lacey oval dies

Promarkers (+ 1 tri-blend marker)

Clearly Besotted Stamps - simply said birthday (for inside sentiment)

Gina K Designs - wild dandelion ink pad

Gina K Designs - pearl mix - rainbow

Stampin' Up! - card stock vellum

Versafine - onyx black ink pad

Sakura - white no. 10 gelly roll pen

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm silky smooth white card

Hobbycraft - A4 luxury black card

Heffy Doodle - alcohol marker friendly card

Memento - tuxedo black ink pad

Spring Into Card Making IG Hop - Week 3

Hello my lovely friends; I hope you've had a wonderful day so far.  It's Week 3 of the Spring Into Card Making IG Hop organised by my lovely friend Kelly and this time we are all about spring.  Each week we will be sharing a themed card focusing on the joys of spring.  If our hop inspires you please use the hashtag #2024springintocardmakinghop to join in the fun.  

This week we are making Easter or spring creations and as Easter is almost here I decided to make one more Easter card.  I used an older (but new to me) stamp.  Here is my card:

A close up of the cute image:

I decorated the inside:

I began by cutting a panel of alcohol marker friendly card to 3 3/4" x 5" and stamped the image towards the left of centre and coloured it with Promarkers (I also stamped a mask to use later).   After colouring the image I placed the mask overtop and lightly inked all around with a sea glass ink pad to give a slight halo effect to the image.  I then stamped the sentiment to the left of the image in black ink.  I cut a panel of kraft card slightly larger than my white panel and adhered them with double sided tape.  I then added this onto my card base with foam tape.  For the inside I cut the exact same panels as the front, stamped a sentiment in the centre with black ink and lightly ink blended the same sea glass ink around the edges.  I decided to stamp just the little eggs from the image into the left bottom corner three times and coloured them with Promarkers.  The panels were again adhered together with double sided tape and added to the card base with double sided tape also.  I finished with some white highlights using a gel pen and my card was complete.  

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

AAA Cards challenge - anything CAS goes option spring/spring colours

Allsorts challenge - keep it simple

CRAFT challenge - Easter/spring

I Love Promarkers challenge - ATG option use the rainbow

Papercraft challenges - Easter

Scrapping4Fun challenge - Easter/spring

Shopping Our Stash challenge - spring has spring (13 challenges total)

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - ATG

Stamping Sensations challenge - spring (3rd entry)

Sweet Stampin' challenge - Easter

The Cutie Pie challenge - Easter/Mother's Day

The Sisterhood of Crafters challenge - bunnies and or chicks (if my 'bunny' isn't appropriate please delete/ignore my entry)

Tic Tac Toe challenge - Easter eggs, yellow, free

I would love it if you would pop over to Instagram and see the amazing work by all the other crafters taking part in the hop.  Please use the hashtag #2024springintocardmakinghop to find us and also so that we can find your creation if you are inspired to take part.  

I'll be back again with you tomorrow with my card for the Krafty Chicks challenge so please pop by and check it out.  As always I appreciate the comments you leave and thank you so much for stopping by. 

Love and hugs, 

Card ingredients:

Stamping Bella - Valerie bunny stamp (retired)

Dovecraft - essential sentiments (for inside greeting)

Promarkers

Gina K Designs - masking magic sheets

Gina K Designs - sea glass ink pad

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm silky smooth white card 

Heffy Doodle - alcohol marker friendly card

Crafter's Companion - 280gsm kraft cardstock

Memento - tuxedo black ink

Versafine - onyx black ink

Sakura - no 10. white gelly roll pen

Auntie card

Hello friends and happy Monday to you.  I hope you're having a great day and enjoying the warm and sunny weather we're having - always the same when the kids are about to go back to school isn't it.  I'm not much for the sun but love seeing my washing blowing on the line in the sunshine (I'm weird I know lol!).  

I'm back to share the card I made for my sister from my boys.  They call her auntie but I only had a stamp that was spelt aunty but hey ho she didn't mind.  Here is my card:

a close up of the image:

I began by stamping the image and colouring it with Promarkers.  I did debate fussy cutting her but decided against it.  The image does come with sentiments but I wanted to personalise the card for my sister to stamped my own image into the sign with black ink.  I found this really pretty paper in my stash that had gold accents so used that along with some gold card for the mats.  I also cut some hearts from the gold card and also some gold glitter card.  I added the paper to the gold card with liquid glue and adhered it to my 6x6 card base.  The image panel was also added to gold card with liquid glue but this was then added to my card with foam tape.  The hearts were added around the image with liquid glue (I did add a small foam square to the larger hearts that overhung the image panel for stability).  I didn't feel the card needed anything else as it was busy enough.  I forgot to take a photo of the inside but I just added a couple of the hearts into the bottom corner.  

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

Use Your Stuff challenge - borders

Dragonfly Dreams challenge - happy birthday

Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge - stamp it

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - ATG

Allsorts challenge - ATG or sunflowers

Pearly Sparkles challenge - pink, pearls sparkle (use at least one) - my sparkly hearts

Simply Create Too challenge - use stamps

Addicted to Stamps and More challenge - birthdays

I really appreciate you stopping by and hope you enjoy the rest of your day. 

Love and hugs, 

card ingredients:

Stamping Bella - curvy girl with a sign

MFT - blueprints 6 tag builder (for the smaller heart)

MFT - hearts a plenty (for the larger heart)

Clearly Besotted Stamps - happy birthday all (retired)

Clearly Besotted Stamps - friends and family (retired)

Tonic Studios - Craft Perfect 6x6 pad - gold hearted

Home Bargains - 6x6 Creative Paper pad (no name)

Promarkers

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm smooth white card

Heffy Doodle - alcohol marker friendly card

Versafine onyx black ink

Memento tuxedo black ink

DT catch up post!!

** Warning  - this is going to be a really long post **

Grab a cuppa and a few biscuits to keep you going!

I’m really sorry I’ve been missing in action this week but I’ve hurt my back (again) and have been in considerable pain, so crafting has been a no-go (which is killing me lol!).  Anyway I thought I had better spend 5 minutes to catch up with my DT challenges this week.  Now for some of them I have managed to find a previously un-blogged card in my archives that I could share but for some I didn’t submit a card this week (boohoo!) 

Firstly this week’s theme over at stamp with fun challenge is “snow”.  Now I know some of you are sick of wintery cards but it’s the perfect excuse to get an early start on this year’s Christmas cards lol!  I’m sorry but I don’t have a card to share with you for this challenge but please pop over to the challenge blog to see the lovely cards the rest of the DT have made.  We have a sponsor and a prize for this week’s challenge so an extra reason to dig out those snowy images!

Our sponsor is Cute Stamps and Cards and the lucky winner will receive this gorgeous Belles & Whistles stamp. 

The next challenge is the cupcake craft challenge and it was my turn to set the theme this week and I chose “something new” which could mean new baby, new home or even new stash you had for Christmas!  I managed to find a new home card that I hadn’t shared with you that I made some time ago.  Here is my card using a super cute Stamping Bella image:

Our sponsor this week is Sassy Studio Designs and the lucky winner will receive 4 digis of their choice from their online store. 

Don’t forget we also have our “icing on the cupcake” prizes for January and we are spoiling you this month as we have 3 prizes up for grabs.  For full details check out the challenge blog.  The rest of the DT have created amazing cards this week so please pop over and check them out. 

I can also enter my card into the following challenges:

Fairy fun challenge – new beginnings

Really reasonable ribbon challenge – something new and ribbon

Winter wonderland challenge – let’s go dotty (doesn’t have to be Christmas)

Craft your days away challenge – anything goes

Stamp, scrap & doodle challenge – new beginnings

Crafty calendar challenge – new beginnings

Incy wincy designs challenge – go dotty

Ooh la la creations challenge – bling it on (my glittery dots)

Oldie but a goodie challenge – bright and cheerful

Top tip Tuesday challenge – anything goes

Crafty creations challenge – new beginnings

Creative cottage challenge – something new

Creative craft world challenge – anything goes

The pixie cottage challenge – sketch and/or fave colouring method (mine is promarkers)

Stampavie and more challenge – glitter (my glittery dots)

Meljen’s challenge – square or round cards only

Sassy studio designs challenge – use something you’ve had for at least a year (my image and papers lol!)

I’m not going to add an ingredient list as it will make my mega post even longer otherwise!

Lastly the theme over at passion for promarkers challenge this week is “baby cards” and again it was my turn to choose the theme.  I’m really disappointed that I don’t have a card to share as I really love making baby cards.  They are just so sweet aren’t they.  However the girls have done a brilliant job and Gro and Ida have even helped me out by making two cards this week – thanks girls! 

Our sponsor this week is Joanna Sheen and she is offering a £10.00 voucher to spend in her online shop. 

I apologise for the lack of cards this week but I hope that normal service will be resumed next week – fingers crossed.  I have lots of lovely new stash to play with and it’s just calling to me!

I will be back a little later with my DT card for this week’s Charisma Cardz challenge and I will also be announcing the lucky winner of my mini candy but until then have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by.