Daughter's 8X8 Bday card

God I feel so old - I can't believe my daughter Lynne will be 26 year old on 7th June!  Where have those years gone cos I don't know where?  She started her first Uni placement (she is doing Advanced Diploma in Nursing at Uni of Herts at Hatfield) this morning and loked very smart in her crisp royal blue uniform.  Wouldn't let me take any pics tho!! 
I am sorry for not being a good buddy this last week but someone banged into me at a very fast rate on Thursday and I had vertigo all afternoon and evening but ok now.  Then my big (and only) bro arrived with his fiancee from Holland on their way to Perth.  Had to laugh as his new Sat Nav took him from Dover all the way thru the Blackwall Tunnel and up thru Hackney, Stoke Newington and Tottenham then onto the A10 to get to ours when in truth he should have nipped onto the M25 and been here in a couple of hours instead of the 4 it took them!!  Same thing happened on their journey north to Scotland on Saturday....they ended up going thru Jedburgh as they were so fed up of the woman's voice of the darned thing!!

Anyways onto this card for Lynne............

Using this stunning image, I coloured her with PMs (details below) then mounted her onto pearlised brown then dry embossed gold mirri card.  The card is 8X8 and I have to say I have LOVED working with this size so gonna have to get some more for future projects.  The red and gold spotty card is from The Works that I bought ages ago - and it seems to breed in my stash!!  I followed a sketch and added decorated corners using red embossed card and the same brown card and added a gold coloured ribbon from my stash.  Onto the flowers which I made meself he he - chuffed to bits as they cale out exactly as I hoped for.  All I did was use my Bigshot and a Spellbindeer ans cut 8 of each size, spritzed them with water and allowed them to dry naturally - hence the curled up look - then stuck a fancy brad thru them both.  The sentiment I made on the PC - wanted to keep it simple so as not to distract the eye......sideways view show depth of card - or it is meant to he he........

This close up shows the glitter I added to her headpiece, her choker, her dress and her feathery behind!!

I am entering this into the following challenges:~

Dream Valley Flowers;

SketchNStash Sketch;

Creative Inspirations Glitzy and Bling;

Sentimental Sundaes Anything Goes;

Crafty Catz Give us a Quote/Sentiment;

Totally Papercrafts Recipe ~ 1 image/2 papers/3embs;

Birthday Sundaes Recipe ~ 3 embs/2 papers;

Sparkles Forum Challenge Recipe ~ 2 papers/1 ribbon/2 embs; and

Incy Wincy Girlie Creation.

Ingredients:~

Stamped image from Kanban (I think as it was a gift) coloured with PMs:

Ivory, Blush, Pastel Pink, Sandstone, Caramel, Cinnamon, Henna;

Papers and card from stash;

Ribbon, brads and faux rubies from stash;

Papermania Embossing Folder.

Wedding Challenge at Cardmadfairy's Digi Days!!

Update:~

For some reason this post did not post as scheduled on Friday so here it is now bloggers! 

Well it is a very special day for a very special Royal couple today and over at Cardmadfairy's Digi Days we are having a Wedding theme in our challenge this time......and we are sponsored this time by Whoopsi Daisy.

It is also a special day for me as Graham and I are off to Norfolk (after the wedding of course!!) til Monday.  It is the first break where I will be able to walk in comfort and do the things I want to do without being in pain.  For those of you who are interested I am now on NO painkillers at all - not even Paracetamols - tho I have them on me wherever we go.

Using Jenni's fabulous Button Heart Digi image, I created a background paper which I coloured parts of with Promarkers; this was mounted onto a very textured ruffly red paper.  The digi image I used is from Pink Petticoat and is a Lola Rose one; this too was coloured in parts with PMs then mounted onto the same red paper.  The silver ribbon was also mounted onto the red paper (difficult to see in the pic but it is so textured and I could stroke it all day and night!).  The sentiment was made in Word using an Autoshape in which I put text that I then cut around and once again put onto the red paper.

I glammed the whole thing up a wee bit by adding lovely pearl shapes. God knows how I managed to get them in the heart shape but I am rather impressed with my skill there, he he.

I love the Lola Rose images but they seem to have disappeared from the cardmaking scene but I wanted to let you crafters see how versatile Jenni's digi images are - you can see here how I used the Button Heart to creat my own paper; I could also have coloured it in Paint; resized, flipped, etc in various other software programs.  Hard to see but I actually fadded the edges of the paper square.

I am entering this one into the following challenges:~

Tip Top Tuesday Open Challenge;

Incy Wincy Designs Buttons and Bows.(too late for this one)

Ingredients:~

Backing paper made using Button Heart from Cardmadfairy's Creations;

PMs used ~ Blush, Ivory, Satin, Caramel, Sandstone, Marsh Green, Poppy, Ruby, Cool Grey 1, 2, 3 & 4;

Red textured paper from The Works;

Lola Rose digi stamp from Pink Petticoat;

Pearl gems and silver ribbon from stash.

Ooh La La!

Good afternoon happy bloggers and I hope you are enjoying the weather as much as I am.  In North London it was quite dull this morning but the sun is blazing now and it has gotten hot again - not warm but hot!!

You will likely know how over the moon I was to get my new Simply Sassy rubber stamps ttrhu my letter box the other day.  They have been inked and waiting to be coloured in so here is Ooh La La!  I just adore them all and want to get all the older ones too now!!



I coloured her using my PMs (hoping to get some colouring pencils to see how I get on with them but need advice on which ones to get you lovely ladies out there pls), mounted her onto pearlised blue paper that I embossed using a fab funky folder from Papermania, then mounted that onto a Nellie Snellen Oval Die embossed with the same folder.  The red backing paper is from The Works (a massive pack of handmade that I got ages ago for 99p) and the blue dotty is from my stash.

You can see that on top of her stamped rose I actually added a small red rose that was left over from my son's wedding stationary last year (knew they would come in handy at some time!!) and I think it looks fabulous!

The side-on view below shows the depth of that stunning blue spotty ribbon and the ruby red rose.

I am entering this one into the following challenges~

I Love Promarkers Anything Goes;

Tip Top Tuesday Open;

Ribbon Girl Red, White & Blue;

Simon Says Emboss It;

Sunday Sketch & Stamp and

Incy Wincy Designs Bright & Bold.

Ingredients:~

Ooh La La rubber stamp from Funky Kits;

PMs ~ Ivory, Blush, Dusky Pink, Pastel Pink, Caramel, Cinnamon, Sandstone, Pastel Blue, China Blue, Poppy, Ruby, Moss, Cool Grey 1 & 4;

Papers, ribbon & sentiment from stash;

Nellie Snellen Oval Die & Papermania Embossing folder used.