Decoupage.

There are a few challenges at the moment were I am able to enter a couple of cards that I have recently made. The first one is in the Cards for Men - decoupage challenge (no.17):


The decoupage and papers where part of a set (papermania) I think, I have added some cricket bats & red card candy where I have added gold pen for a stitched effect to make them look like cricket balls.

It was quite tricky cutting out the cricketer - I think I will stick with pre-cut decoupages next time - lol.

Thanks for looking x

Brother card.

Tonight, I was wanting to have a bit play and I have some images coloured but cant seem to get the right papers or the right layout. So I have put those away and done something different. I have made a card for my eldest to give to his little brother when it is his birthday in September. I love this image and dont use it as much as I could (or should!!). Its another one of those things that I just look at!!


I have backed the card with Bazzill and then used the remaining piece of 12x12 that I used on an earlier card but used my other new Martha Stewart Punch. The image has been coloured with promarkers. I have added stickers for the UR 7 but had to colour over them with red as they looked more orangey and the red star was part of a prize that I recently won over at MSE.

I would like to enter it into the following challenge:

Alphabet Challenge Blog: punches


Thanks for looking xx

Cherry on top!

The lovely Sarah over at Rainmacs place as chosen me as one of the nominees for the Cherry on Top award:


After getting the award you have to:
1) Thank the person who gave you the award.... Thank you Sarah!!
2) Post the award....done.
3) List 3 things you like about yourself: i) I am very silly and laugh at the stupidest things!!
ii) Can be brave when I really need to be.
iii) Am always on time. (I really cant be late)
4) Post a favourite photo:

My cheeky monkeys!!!
5) Pass it on to 5 people:

Angela at Sparkly cards.
Laura at Legweaks Handmade Cards
Sherie at my bubble
Marg at Marg the Hermits Crafts
Skiergirl at Snowy Peaks

(sorry but some may of already had this award!!)

Boy card.

Hi, well we are into the second week of the holidays and managing to get a little bit of crafting done when the boys are on the x-box!! I was having a rummage through my stamped images the other day and fancied doing a boys card for a change - I had forgotten I had this image that was kindly sent to me, so I set to colouring it in - although not having anything in mind for when it was coloured. The next day on Rainmacs blog, I spotted a post for a challenge that would be ideal. Now I knew what I was going to do with the image:


I have used red card stock from the papermill shop, I have cut the stripes off a sheet of Bugs in a Rug 12x12, used my new Martha Stewart star punch on mirricard and added a sentiment from stash and also backed the the image on blue bazzill card stock.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
Cards for Men - Going on an adventure
Secret Crafter - Hot Wheels.
Stamp Scrap & Doodle - Clean & Simple

Thanks for looking.

Playing with my new stamp.

I was recently lucky to win over at Incy Wincy designs and could choose stamps from Paper Jewels, this is one of the stamps I chose:


The other was a christmas stamp - which I am sure will use a lot, later on!!

I have used the free MME papers again and coloured with ProMarkers and added a flower and card candy from my stash. I would like to enter this into:

Donnas Den - Green
Passion for Promarkers - Green

Thanks for looking xx

Couple of makes.

Hi, hope you are all well and those with kids not too stressed out with the school holidays!!! They boys have been at sports camp this week, so have been able to do a bit of pottering around with cards:

I received this image a while ago from Sarah over at Rainmacs place and finally got round to using it (thank you Sarah)- I have kept it quite plain and not gone mad adding embellishments/ribbons etc and would like to enter it into the:
Just Cute Bears challenge - Bare necessity
Creative Inspiration - Animals

I also had a play with new Elzybells stamps that I have recently bought - a couple of friends/family are expecting so wanted to try something a little different (although will need to go back and do one in blue!!):
Flat:



Standing:

I have die cut the scalloped circle from the card blank then added Smirk papers to the inside and tied ribbon from stash & added card candy. I stamped the image and coloured with promarkers and then covered the back with pink card and hung with a small piece of cotton. Sorry for the poor photo it doesnt show the lovely sentiment of " A baby is a tiny piece of heaven" which I have stamped in pink at the bottom.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
Cowgirls Sunday - Anything goes
Allsorts Challenge- baby/child
Totally Gorjuss - Congratulations.

Thanks for looking x

Loving these free papers!!

I dont know if many of you have this months Cardmaking & Papercraft magazine but the free MME papers that came with it are gorgeous - I am loving the bright zinginess (is that a word???) of these.

Today, I received my free digi image from Pollycraft and wanted to play with it straight away - so had a little go at making a slightly different card:


And this is it standing up:




I really need to learn how to take better photos - it looks better in real life - lol.

I have made my own card blank and then trimmed off the bottom, and then when fixed the image on levelled it up with the base so that it stands on the image - does that make sense ?? Based on an idea I had seen on a blog or a magazine (but cant remember which!)

I have used MME papers.
Gingham ribbon & buttons from the local Boyes stores.
The image is fixed with 3d sticky fixes to Bazzill card stock.
Image has been coloured with Promarkers.

I would like to enter it into the following challenges:

Pollycraft - Happy Birthday
Stampavie - Anything goes
I love promarkers - buttons
Craftalicious - birthdays
The crafty pad - Inspirational photo


Thanks for looking xx