Charlie's First Birthday!

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We are all going to Charlie's First Birthday party on Sunday - he is my son's nephew on his wife's side and he is such a gorgeous friendly wee soul!

Here are the cards I have made for him -

 This one is using a fabulous Fifi Giraffe digi from SJ Musings - come coloured or outline - so I used my good old PMs to colour.  Isn't he just adorable?  DPS are all from Pink Petticoat.

 The second one is using Arthur from Sugar Nellie at Funky Kits. Again I think he is so sweet - am falling in love with ALL bears at the mo as just been browsing on Teddy Bo for some more of those!  Can my purse take the strain - why of  course!!

I am not entering these into any challenges - finding that looking for them and linking up etc is taking up far too much of my time that could be better used elsewhere - shopping, sleeping, reading, crafting, making baby clothes etc etc.  I know my choice will mean fewer visitors to my blog but hey ho!!
My daughter has her first midwife appt tomorrow so am going along with her for moral and motherly support. Can't believe how things have changed so drastically since I had my two nearly 30 years ago yuk!! I do feel old now!!  Perhaps that is only happening in London of course - not sure.

Will keep you guys updated on her pregnancy now that she is keeping a bit better.  Many thanks for your support so far for her. Much appreciated :)

Fairymoon Crafts DT card

Another year has arrived and I wish you all a very happy, healthy and prosperous 2011.

                                                          

Over at the fabulous Fairymoon Crafts this week we have got the stunning prize of a set of Bearly Mine papers for the lucky winner of this sketch.   Do pop along and see what they have on offer as their papers are stunning - the DT very kindly got to use them in our interpretations this week.               

                                                    

For my card, I used one of the papers from Bearly Mine, a doily and a beautiful digi image from the very talented SJ Musings.

After using plain papers I had in my stash for matting and layering, I very lightly inked the edges of my image, the doily and the Bearly Mine DP.  The digi image is the very pretty 'Caroline' from SJ over at SJ Musings and she is coloured using my Promarkers (details below). The sentiment is computer generated and, once again, matted and layered in the pink and beige paper from my stash.

I added faux diamonds(!!) and handmade (by me) flowers. The close-up below shows just how pretty 'Caroline' is - sitting there on her bunting.

Ingredients:~

Backing paper  ~  Bearly Mine;

Plain papers ~ stash;

Digi Image ~ 'Caroline' from SJ Musings coloured with PMs-

Blush, Ivory, Sandstone, Col Grey 2, Satin, Caramel, Pastel Pink & Dusky Pink;

Edges inked with Whispers Archival Ink in Chestnut;

Gems and doily from stash.

Cool Birthday Curtis

My second card for today is for MamiDoodles 'Boy with Red' Challenge. I was recently a winner in a Challenge on their site and won some fabulous digi images which I will try to post on here for you to see - but do go along and see her work - it is fabulous! I have used Curtis (a freebie from the fabulous SJ Musings. He is coloured with PMs and I have torn pearlised navy paper and red striped with my funky ruler (also inked the edges of the red with red). I wanted to keep this very simple and think I have achieved that.

Ingredients:~

Curtis Freebie from SJ Musings coloured with PMs~

Ivory, Satin & Blush for skin;

Ivory & Sandstone for hair;

Shael for his sunglasses;

Pastel Blue, Duck Egg & China Blue for shorts and Poppy & Ruby for shirt etc;

All papers from stash;

Inked edges with Whispers Cherry Red Archival Ink;

Sentiment made on PC.