356 Cards: 308 - Pretty Pairs

Three posts in a day, take note this will never happen again, lol.

It is Pretty Pairs Week over on 356 Cards and all week they will be combining a different color with a different patterns.

Todays pairing was - Blue and Polka Dots and here is my card:

Very very quickly put together using domestic goddess paper and toppers printed from the papercraft inspirations website and some ribbon from my stash.

Now I'm really done for the day! Honest!

Mojo Monday - 222

Two cards in one day - I will never keep up this level of posting, but I was on Mojo Monday - I love their sketches, I have a saved folder full of them for when I need some inspiration! - but I've never participated before.

This is the sketch:

This is my card:

For some reason my camera refuses to take decent pictures today *sigh* so the colours don't show as brightly as they actually are...

The papers are Papermania Birdsong, the sentiment comes from a free stamp set I got in a magazine, as does the butterfly... (different magazines), the flowers are Petaloo Color Me Crazy, coloured with promarkers and the ribbon and gems came from my stash.

356 Cards: Day 307 Super Sketch Sunday

Happy New Year everyone!

I'm determined to take part in more card challenges this year - and use this blog more! So in that spirit, the challenge yesterday on 356 Cards was a sketch - I got some new crafty supplies for Yule and immediately knew I wanted to put some of my new Petaloo Color Me Crazy flowers to use!

This is the sketch:

This is my card:

I used a pre-scored card base, some green cardstock from my scrap box, the paper is from the Papermania Birdsong pack, the flowers are Petaloo coloured with Promarkers and the sentiment is from a sticker sheet I've had in my stash for *ages*

Unfortunately no matter how many times I took the picture it just didn't take well, but this is certainly the best of the bunch!

Less is More - Just One Word

I have only a few presents left to wrap after the house goes dark tonight, so I procrastinate by making cards *g*

I visit "Less is More" fairly often but I've never participated, however this week it has a challenge for cards with 'Just One Word' and immediately I knew I wanted to do one that says 'Thanks' to send out after the holidays.

I got some new stamps this week from Cardmaking and Papercraft Magazine. The Floral Collection designed by Jenny Ellory. This gave me the excuse to immediately jump on the big flower stamp using it, so the flowery corner stamp and the butterfly both came from that set and 'thanks' is a stampin' up stamp, both stamped with a black papermania ink pad.

(and I congratulate myself on for once knowing where everything on my card came from!)

I did try it with a bit of colour on the butterflies wings but think it works better without really... and I being so easy it's the perfect card to be reproduced as many times as I need it!

Winter Holiday Cards 2011

December 23rd and all my various 'winter holiday' cards are finished, mostly on time! Here are just a few of the cards I did this year, there are far too many to post them all!

You're a Classic

So one of my very best friends husbands is 40 next week... he and I have a relationship where by we snark at each other until one of us gets speechless... this has been known to take hours... we then change the subject and snark some more. So in honour of his birthday - and off our usual snark fest, I made this card for him.

I don't often make cards for men, because there are really only a few men I know well enough to give cards too, but I found this image online at the papercraft inspirations site and coloured it with promarkers. The papers were also printed, but I have entirely forgotten where they came from! (I really need to learn to label things better when I save them!)

356 Challenge Day 243 - Imagine This: Starry Skies

So I haven't posted here in forever and a day. To be honest I hadn't done much in the way of crafts in nearly a year - real life sometimes is a bitch - but I decided to make my grandmothers 90th Birthday card in June and since then I've rediscovered my love of making cards.

Having been looking through various challenge blogs, I came across a new one that I just adore. 365 Cards, which has a new challenge every day and have been having some fun going back into their archives to find inspiration for some of my yule cards following a few old challenges, but then I saw the challenge for Saturday 29th October and I knew exactly what I'd want to do.

My 'honorary' nephew Ethan is 1 in a few weeks and the theme for the 365 Cards challenge was 'starry skies'. As a self confessed sci-fi/fantasy geek, who already got his brother (Kyle, who is 3) watching the important things (Doctor Who, Harry Potter, LotRs - we'll be starting on Stargate soon *g*) and fully intending to have Ethan doing the same thing in no time, a spaceman card is perfect the perfect place to start his education *g*

I got the papers free ages (reaaaaallly ages!) ago in a craft magazine. The image of the spaceman was printed from the computer - it's one I again had saved from ages ago, off some clip art site or another (I really must keep better track of these things!) and the stickers are from a Daisy and Dandelion sheet.