My Friend's Wedding today

We are off very shortly to celebrate a special wedding of a good friend. Here's the card I made for her. Jan has chosen a turquoise outfit so I made the card to match.

I decorated the inside and found a lovely message as I think this sums everything up in their lives.

Using My Favourite.

The challenge this week over at the OSAAT challenge blog is to 'Use Your Favourite' and our smashing sponsor for this weeks challenge is Creative Craft World with a prize of three Promarkers.

To win this brilliant prize you will need to use one of the hundreds of gorgeous images in the Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps store. If you use a non Stitchy Bear image you will be entered into a draw for a prize of a $3 gift coupon to spend in the store. Using a non Stitchy Bear image you may enter the challenge three times only.

 Why not pop along and check out the designs and be ready for our Stitchy Bear only Challenge in June, exciting stuff!

For my card I used Steampunk Fairy by Delicious Doodles.  I've flip her to face the other way and left her very plain except for some Diamond Sparkles so that she is looking into a mirror and seeing herself looking fabulous. The original image was shades of grey but I've given her a sepia tone  appearance. She only has to Make a Wish!

The background paper is from My Craft Studio's 'Tinkering with Steampunk' and the image of the girl in the mirror came from a CD I bought on Ebay.  I cut the frame with the help from a couple of Spellbinders dies and had great fun using some Debbie Moore's Metal Magic over it.  I covered some Spellbinders Sprockets with the Metal Magic too.  The stamped sentiment is from a stamp set by Katy Sue Designs called Wishes and Vines.

My favourite, well... definitely playing with the Metal Magic and using the Spellbinders dies, after all, I can't cut butter straight!

I would like to enter the following challenges:-

Bugaboo Stamps ~ Things with Wings

Crafty Calender Challenge ~ Things with Wings

CES Challenge Blog ~ Anything Goes

ATCs & Cards with Attitude ~ Anything Goes

Fat Pages & Cards with Attitude ~ Anything Goes

Fairy tale challengeblog ~ Anything with Wings 

Glitter Geeks Week 19 ~ Wings & things

Joyful Stamper Inspire me Fridays ~ Anything Goes

A Pink One

It's funny how you come across some really lovely people on the internet and I've met a few very special people on the MSE forum. It's was Margaret's birthday a few days ago and I completely forgot being so completely wrapped up in other things.  This is the card I made for her her.

A May Birthday Card

It was one of my great-nieces's birthday at the weekend (Me, a great-aunt!!! Heavens, it sounds old!) and this is her fairy card.  A lovely fairy image from LOTV, Memory Box die and some flowers and pearls from stash.

Happy Birthday, Maisie.

Another April Birthday Card.

A card made for one of our lovely chapter members. Thank you, Janet, for your card too, it does mean a lot to me.  A couple of Spellbinders mats, a beautiful topper from Hunkydory  (free with a magazine) a beautiful Memory Box die cut and some lovely lace from one of life's special people, aka Karen. Check her blog out 'cos it's beautiful.

Scrabble Card

I was asked to make a scrabble card by a lovely friend. After searching for letter tiles and cutting out separate tiles by hand I decided to look to see if I could find something else. Just by sheer chance I came across a scrabble font (light bulb moment here!).  I designed the greeting as requested in a graphics program and printed it out straight onto cream card. With a lick of an ivory Promarker, a few layers of clear glaze, ribbon, card candy and a couple of flourishes it was done.

OSAAT Challenge 111 - Here Comes Summer

It's challenge time on the One Stitch At A Time challenge blog and the theme this week is "Here Comes Summer". Our lovely sponsor this week is Creative Craft World who is offering the winner of this week's challenge three brilliant Promarkers.

To win this smashing prize you will need to use one of the hundreds of gorgeous images in the Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps store. If you use a non Stitchy Bear image you will be entered into a draw for a prize of a $3 gift coupon to spend in the store. Using a non Stitchy Bear image you may enter the challenge three times only.

 Why not pop along and check out the designs and be ready for our Stitchy Bear only Challenge in June, exciting stuff!

I chose an image from Stitchy and she's called short shorts.  I've used a paper from Polkadoodles and a piece of purple card from my stash for the background and cut her with an oval Spellbinders die.  I've added  three flowers from Wild Orchid and a Memory Box die cut.  The sentiments are computer generated with the lines from a song in the 50's by the Royal Teens.  There's a fascinating article in Wikipedia here  about the guys in this group and how they went on to join some world famous bands.  Apparently the song appears in the stage musical of the Jersey Boys.