Fathers Day Card.

Well, I had one more fathers day card to make - this is for my youngest to give to his dad. There was an offer on over at Nutcrafters that when you placed an order you got a free digi stamp - so whats a girl to do??? Well, I think you know - so a little bit of retail therapy later I got my stamp - and made my card.



Just incase you are wondering - 'Dad Bloke' - is Ians avatar on the wii and it is a bit of a family name.

I used the sizzix to die cut the letters, backing paper from Smirk range.

I would like to enter it in the following challenges:

Totally Gorgeous
Magical Crafts
Cupcake Craft
Cards for men.
Nutcrafters


Thanks for looking.

A bit of fun !

Angela over at Sparkly Cards, very kindly nominated me for this award:




Thanks Angela!! you have certainly made me think for this award you have to think of 6 lies and 1 truth about yourself or 7 truths and 1 lie , thank & link the person who nominated you, pop the award on your blog and nominate 7 others. So here are 7 things about me - truth or fiction - have a guess!!

1) On the first X Factor - I had an audition in front of Simon, Amanda & Piers.

2) I have a nut allergy.

3) I work with my husbands ex-wife.

4) I like going to the gym.

5) I am an excellent parallel parker.

6) I have given up wine.

7) I havent bought any magazines this month.

I would like to nominate:

Rainmac
Gemm
Craftygranny
The Wife
Rusty
Chocolate Orange
Melissa.

First ever embossing attempt!!

Well, as you may know from earlier posts Santa very kindly brought me a Big Shot for Christmas and to be honest I didn't really use it after I scared myself when it made a cracking noise and I also put a die in upside down - honestly I am so daft sometimes!! Anyway, at Harrogate in March I bought some scalloped circles and needed to use them so blew the dust off- and hurrah - everything is fine. So feeling brave I ordered an embossing folder and had a little go - yay no problems there either - so here is my first ever card made with my new embossing folder:




This is co-incidence honestly as not really into football! But it is red, white & blue with some little clear gems that I got with a Hero Arts stamp. I would like to enter this into the Crafty Catz embossing challenge. And cupcakecraft challenge -dazzle us.

Thanks for looking.

On a Roll!

Well I have been having another bit colour in - and I shouldn't really - you would think I had nothing else to do!! (such as a huge pile of ironing - ahem!).

I have used MME papers that were free with a magazine, ribbon that I got from the sale in Hobbycraft - and the image kindly sent to me by a friend. However, this time instead of going dst mad I have mainly used 3d sticky pads - I wasnt sure how it would work because the papers aren't particularly thick - but it seems ok.




I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Creative Card Crew - Thank you
Lili of the Valley - Sketch
Charisma Cardz - spots & stripes

Thank you for looking xx.

Another card for a challenge.

Hi, hope you are well and better than this bloomin weather - well I hope last week wasnt our summer!!!
Anyway, this morning I had a fabby time with Angela who has the blog Sparkly Cards, have a pop over to her blog - she has some lovely creations!!! Angela, very kindly gave me some promarker tips and let me pick her brains about all sorts of crafty things so with an image that I started this morning I have made the following:



I love this image - and the colours are quite different to what I would normally use - more pro-markers on my shopping list!!! I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Crafty Angels - my favourite stamp.
Die cut Dreams - angels.

Thank you for looking.

Busy Weekend.

Hello.... well had a busy weekend - cracking on with some cards - a couple are for birthdays coming up but mainly just having a little faff on, so though would share them with you:


Oh what a nightmare trying to cut this image out!! (also think I am going a little dotty - quite a few of the cards I have blogged recently have dots on - lol).


This next one is for my best friends son who is 4 next month - I would also like to enter this card into the following challenges:

The papers are part of the Smirk for men
Image - digi had stored in my downloads
Letters cut with Big Shot
Critter sketch blog (childs birthday card)
Daisy Doodles (fathers day/manly - hope as it is for a boy it will be classed as manly - but just let
me know if not)
Crafty Catz: red & black

Lastly.... for now:-) anyway:




I would like to enter this one for Totally papercrafts - more than one fold challenge - this is for my f-i-l who doesnt like anything too fussy and other than his garden doesnt really have any other hobbies not sure if it is a little plain??? I was really surprised at how easy this card was to do and would like to thank Rainmac for the inspiration.

Totally Gorjuss challenge entry.

Hi, just a quick post from me tonight. I would like to enter the card below for The Wings challenge over at Totally Gorjuss



Hope it is ok - afraid I dont really know about the image or papers as I was lucky enough to receive them - however the image has been coloured with promarkers (with inspiration from Card Oasis) and I have used Anitas 3d clear gloss finish to highlight the shoes and ladybug dots.