A Classy Birthday Card

Busy few weeks and back at school after the summer break so not much time to craft now.   Seems like the Summer flew past in a flash with me still waiting for it to get started.  I don't mind Autumn but feel cheated that we didn't get a good Summer with all the rain, and now we're racing headlong to Christmas. 

Between work and 'The Battle of the Slugs' I have managed to make a few cards, one of which I'm going to share today.  And no I didn't win the Battle, The Slug Gang and their allies The Snail Gang seem to think I'm running an 'All You Can Eat Buffet'

This card was made to order for a friend to give to her daughter.  She wanted something classy but left the design and colour up to me. It's A5 size and I decided on a subtle colour palette so used three papers in the same colour, with white, from Pink Petticoat and teamed them with silver, the image is also from Pink Petticoat.  Colouring this to match proved difficult so I printed a second image onto a solid colour, cut out the shoes and stuck them on.   The sentiments were created in Word and printed directly onto the paper, which was quite a challenge as  it took several attempts before I was happy with the curved writing.  White ribbon, a small silver coloured heart and a few crystal gems finish it off.

 

CHALLENGES ENTERED

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge #203 - MILESTONE BIRTHDAYS

Wild Orchid Challenge 58 - Layer It Up

Southern Girls Challenge 53 - It's Well Bling Bling 

Thanks for looking.

Lynn x

Wedding Hearts

'A personalised wedding card please', but no information about the happy couple other than their names, 'I'm sure you'll come up with something', was the request I had from a friend a few weeks ago.

I remembered seeing some cards around Blogland which used heart shapes to represent the bride and groom, so after a few attempts at drawing a suitable sized heart I came up with a template that I was happy with.  After that the card came together quite easily as I already had the 8"x8" (20cm x 20cm) scalloped card blank, a scrap of suitable paper and a length of matching ribbon.

The sentiment was made in Word Art and printed directly onto the card front.  Then some silver card for matting and a cuttlebug embossing folder to create the dress.  I used some flat back pearls to finish it off ... only it didn't look finished ... so I added part of a die cut that just happened to be hanging around (luckily in the same silver card)  from when I was trying out a new Memory Box Die called Honeysuckle Vine.

I'm entering the September Card Challenge on the Ribbon Girl Blog which is 'Just add pearls' 

Thanks for looking,

Hugs Lynn x

Baby Cakes

Not a card today, well not only a card.  This is the first time I've made 'Baby Cakes' for a new mum and I'm quite pleased with the result.

  Cake Box and Card

I wanted to get a small gift for the daughter of a colleague and remembered that I had two cakeboxes that I bought on a whim from Tesco a while back.  Obviously intended for a boy and girl as one was pink and the other blue.  The baby being a boy, I bought a pack of  'onsies' in blue and white to make the 'cakes' but when they were together the blue cakebox looked more greeny blue and not a good match.  So the colour scheme had to be blue, green and white; which suited me fine as my favourite colour is green.

I've used digital papers from Funky Hand, printed on paper and card to make the individual cake cases, card and tag and the image is from Pink Petticoat.

More Pictures

 

D.Papers - Funky Daze by Funky Hand (Son Day collection)

Image - Pink Petticoat

Embossing folder - Cuttlebug

Templates for tag and cake case - My own

Ribbon - Ribbon Oasis

Challenges Entered

Get Funky - Anything Goes

Allsorts Challenge Blog -  wk 169 - It's a gift

Craft Punked - Week 35 - New Baby

Sorry that the photos are a bit dark but I was taking them late at night and didn't get a chance to take anymore as the gift had been handed over.

Don't know what's going on with Mr Blogger as I've been trying to upload these photos for two days but 'he' keeps freezing when only half of a photo has loaded, grrrr!

Thanks for looking,

Lynn x

B I N G O at Catch The Bug Challenge

I love Bugaboo images and have loads of them - some bought, some won and others that were 'friday freebies'.  This image is one of the bought variety - had to have it because my son has three Guinea Pigs so I knew it would get used.  This card, for his birthday, was made to fit the August Challenge at Catch The Bug which is BINGO.  I've chosed the top line of BOLD AND BRIGHT - PEARL - SENTIMENT.  Now I was OK with two out of three but PEARL had me stuck until I found some small flat back pearl stones in my stash.  Stuck one on each star and the result looks OK and not at all girly.

The papers were free with a magazine - unknown
Image - Bugaboo
Colouring - Promarkers


Thanks for dropping in,

Hugs, Lynn xx

Less is More

Decided to have a go at the Less is More challenge, thinking that it would be a quick card to make.

Week 80 - ONE LAYER CARD

The subject to feature FUR or FEATHERS

Well no backing papers to choose but it still took me ages to decide which image to use.  Instead of a stamp I used a digital image so that I could resize it to fill more of the space and added a text box for a simple sentiment and a bit of embossing.   Not sure if I'm happy with the finished card but it's definately only one layer, lots of white space and the bird/stork/whatever satisfies the FEATHERS bit.

Image - Bugaboo

Colouring - Promarkers

Font - Cricket

OTHER CHALLENGES ENTERED
Top Tip Tuesday - Challenge 83 One Layer Card
The Paper Shelter Challenge Blog - #77 Clean and Simple
 Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Animal Antics!! (a bird is an animal isn't it?)

Thanks for looking,

Hugs,

Lynn x

CAS Square Card

A card for CAS-ual Fridays: CFC65

'Square Shaped Cards'

Image - Craftwork Cards
Embossing - Hougie Board


Thanks for looking,

Lynn x

Fabulous at 40

Last minute again for the 'Get Funky' challenge which this time is 'Just a number'.  The instructions ask for a large number, no images allowed but text is fine.

The idea for this card came together quite well but took time because I had to cut the large numbers by hand and the black layer took ages to get right.  The green paper was left over from another card and I thought that I would easily find a matching paper for the background - WRONG - I spent ages looking for just the right one and printed several before deciding that they weren't quite what I had in mind.  Eventually settling for this dotty one which is from one of my favourite CD's 'Funky Daze'.  The white base card is 20cm square and the text has been printed directly onto the background with a few black stars added to finish it off.

I do like to enter the challenges at Get Funky, partly to support Funky Hand because I love the designs but also because many of the cards I make do actually feature Funky Hand papers.  This one was made for the June challenge which was to follow a sketch.  Now I quite like having a sketch to follow as it takes away some of the decision making but I found it difficult incorporating the circular element.  However I came up with this card for a friend who was cellebrating her 60th birthday.  The papers are from the Winter Birthday collection on 'Happy Happy Birthday' and the image is by Bugaboo.

Sadly Mr Blogger had fallen out with me again, kept saying that my password had been changed, so I couldn't get into my blog and the challenge ended before I could enter it. Well I've forgiven him now so thought I would share the card anyway.

 

I'm entering it in Challenge #2 at Created With Love
which is sponsored by Bugaboo as the theme is 'Happy Birthday'



Thanks for looking.

Hugs, Lynn x