Wedding Card

The Lili of the Valley Challenge Blog has a sketch to follow for the week 58 challenge. As I bought my first LOTV rubber stamps recently and needed to make a Wedding Card I decided to enter for the first time. I bought 'Wedding Couple' especially for this card but added more just because I liked them.




The card is 19cm square and made from Pearl cardstock in ivory, the image is stamped on the same cardstock and coloured with Promarkers ... I wasn't sure if this would be suitable for colouring with Promarkers but it worked very well, then I added some Glamour Dust. The background paper is by HOTP, from a pad of Wedding themed papers that I have had for a long time - usually just look at them but not any more. I've used gold card for matting, ivory ribbon and pearls and made the paper flowers from plain old copy paper with card candy centers. I took loads of photographs - indoors near the window, on the window sill and outside in the garden - but non show the colours as good as the real thing. Indoors wasn't light enough but outdoors the colours look washed out - but these are the best of the bunch.

Thanks for looking and any comments are appreciated.

Lynn x

Merry Christmas from Snowy

I made this card to cover 3 challenges and it is my first Christmas card this year. I don't like to think of Christmas in July so never make my cards this early but I did enjoy making this one once I got started so I may carry on now and make some more.

Image - Penny Black coloured with Promarkers
Lime Green, Pear Green, Berry Red, Black & Cool Grey(1)
Glittered with 'Glamour Dust'

Papers - Paper Adventures
Red/Silver Card and Bauble - from stash

Tools used
Cuttlebug Embossing folder 'Snowflakes'
Nestabilities - clasic and scalloped circles
Snowflake punch (make unknown)
Sizzix 'Wingo Zingo' alphabet die

It's is going into the following challenges:-

Penny Black Saturday Challenge Week 111 - IT'S CHRISTMAS IN JULY
I Love Promarkers Challenge # 25 - Christmas in July
Passion For Promarkers week 62 Colour Challenge - Predominantly Green

Thanks for looking.

Lynn x

Get Funky Challenge - July

The Get Funky challenge for July is 'Something New', and whilst we were on holiday the daughter of some good friends of ours had a baby girl - so a new baby card was the ideal subject for my entry. I had already printed the Pink Petticoat image of a baby girl in a buggy so rustled this card up last night (and I do mean night and not evening) so that I could enter it in the challenge and deliver it today. Now I'm not a big fan of pink so I decided to go with a yellow theme and began my search for suitable papers by looking through the 'Funky Seasons' CD - I always seem to start with this one probably because it was the first Funky Hand CD that I bought. The yellow spotty paper chose itself but then I needed something plain to go with it as I wanted to use my baby themed embossing folder. I did like a peachy coloured paper that I thought would match the spots but when it was printed I wasn't quite right so I ended up with .... pink. Not a colour I would normaly choose but I'm really please with the combination ... it reminds me of ice-cream. I used two copies of the image, coloured with Promarkers, and decoupaged the buggy and parasol with Glue Gel to get a 3D effect. The finishing touch was the ribbon, which I had to colour to match, and a teddy bear charm.

The finished card

A closer view of the buggy

Personalised with baby's name

Supplies

Papers - Funky Hand 'Funky Seasons'
Image & sentiment - Pink Petticoat 'Li'l Baby Buggy'
coloured with Promarkers
Embossing folder - Cuttlebug
Die Cut Letters - Sizzix 'Wingo Zingo'
White ribbon from stash coloured with Promarkers
Teddy charm - Mei Flower

Thanks for looking,

Hugs Lynn x

Funky Hand DT call.

Anice at Funky Hand is looking for new members for her design team and as I love Funky Hand papers it was too good of an opportunity to miss. This post is to show some of my work. I had to make a hasty choice of cards to show what I can do so I came up with these, I'm not sure that they are my best however time is not on my side so they will have to do. The first three have been posted on my blog previously. First 'Footy Nut' which I made for my younger son to give to his dad on Father's Day - England's world cup chances were still alive then - but not for long!



This second was also for my husband on Father's Day, from my elder son this time, and I created the background with pieces of real newsprint (sports pages of course) which I inked, scrunched, inked again then flattened before sticking down.

This third card was made for my mum on Mother's Day and looks so much nicer in real life.


This trio of cards were made using the latest CD from Kirsty Wiseman 'Call of the Wild'. I was given the opportunity to use a selection of papers from one of the collections on the CD and these were the result. They were amongst the samples on display when she showcased the CD on Create and Craft TV on July 19th.




Thanks for looking and if you have the time please take a look around to see some of my other cards.


Lynn x

Give Us A Laugh ...

... is the Week 59 challenge at Passion for Promarkers. I hope that this card qualifies, it was made for a colleague to give to a golfing friend. She saw one that I made a few weeks ago using this image and said that it would be perfect for her friend who has been known to abuse his golf clubs when his game has been under par. It is A5 size and I used green card for the base as it was a good match for the patterned paper. The white and blue papers have been embosssed with Cuttlebug folders and the image coloured with Promarkers. The sentiments were created on the PC, as was the greeting inside which reads 'Have a TEE-rific Birthday!'

Promarkers Used-

Ivory, Blush,
Apple, Meadow Green, Mustard,
Pastel Blue, Cornflower, China Blue,
Cool Grey(1 & 3),
Shale, Cocoa & Black

Image - unknown
Patterned paper - from Dovecraft 'Masculine' pack
Green card from stash

Cuttlebug Embossing folders -
Argyle & Swiss Dots

Sentiments and greeting created on PC

Thanks for looking,
Hugs, Lynn x

Commissioned card for Aunty Joan.

I've not posted for a couple of weeks as I've not had much time to craft and therefore nothing to share. I did make a quick card for the Headteacher at school as her Aunty was soon to be 90 and she couldn't find a suitable card so asked me to make one. Flowers and pink (plus the number 90) was the brief so I used Whispers by Penny Black ... again ... with some papers from HOTP and silver mirry card. I printed the sentiment directly onto the smooth white card then found a nice verse for the inside and stamped the image again on the left of the insert. I did consider putting a ribbon bow on too but that would have made it too thick for a standard stamp and would have entailed a visit to the PO. I had to take a quick photo before school, as she needed to get it in the post, so it's not great but this was the best of the bunch.


I said a quick card but if I'm honest it wasn't that quick, they never are. Deciding on the stamp, papers and layout then making the card, finding a verse etc took me into the early hours. Still, she loved it and said that her Aunty would be thrilled to see her name on the front (and inside), I asked for £3 (it's A5 size by the way) but she gave me £5 and wouldn't take any change. It's so nice to have your creations appreciated, isn't it?

Lynn x